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TO MAKE GAS TRUST
FRANCHISES NULL.
New York's Attorney-General's Action
Against Consolidated Company May
Facilitate Municipal Ownership.

NEW YORK. July 11.-Attorney-Genera
jackson has begun a new move in a suit
against the Consolidated Gas Company. OF
this city. This move Is one in which he,
ms attorney-generai, seeks to GUST the Con-
solidated from exercising franchises which
1t secured through the merging Of sub
sidiary companies. on the ground that these
franchises have expired. and that the
Consolidated in operating under them is
doing so unlawfully.
While no statement was made by the
attcrney-general as to what would be
gained should this action prove successful,
1t was stated at his office that the sue
cess of the suits would facilitate munic-
ipal ownership, should such a move on
the part of the people be decided on. In
other words. 1t was said by one in the
attorney-general's office. that with the
gas companies tied up through their fran
chises being void they would come to easy
and reasonable terms in dealing with the
city in the matter of disposing of their
plants. If, on the other hand, the COM
panies still held the right to operate UNI
der the franchises and municipal owner
ship was decided upon. the only procedure
would be condemnation. and the appraisal
of active properties would be so large that
the city would be practically unable to
take over the property.
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U. S. BUYS WELSH
COAL FOR WARSHIPS.
Denial That Lloyds Ask High Wal Risks
on Golfers Bound from England
to Philippines.

LONDON. July 1.-THE American
Government has placed large orders
for Welsh steam coal in this country.
according to a news agency report.
One order is said to amount to 10000
tons and, it is added, that the coal will
be dispatched in specially chartered
steamers to the Philippine Islands
and certain rendezvous on the west
coast of South America.
According to the same report the
underwriters at Lloyds' are asking 3e
to 60 per cent. to cover the war risks
of Golfers bound from England to Ma
Mia.
Regarding the latter statement in
quiries at Lloyds' fail to discover thai
any war risk business had been trans
acted. The officials ridiculed the sug-
gestion that the underwriters were In
the least uneasy. or regarded war as
a possibility, and remarked that tbs
rock bottom rates sufficiently refuted
the suggestion.
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MCREA ON STAND
.PENNSY ATTACKS 2-cENT
RATE LAW.
President of the Railroad Principal
Witness at Today's Hearing
in Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA. Pa. July l1.-Presi-
dent McCrea, of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road. was the principal witness today in
the equity proceedings instituted by that
company against the city and county of
philadelphia to restrain 1t from enfore-
ing the two-cent railroad fare law passed
bv tho last Legislature. The law goes into
effect October 1 and provides a penalty of
8. 900 for each violation of its provisions.
Most Of the railroads of the State have
started similar actions, and today's pro-
ceedings were regarded as a test case.
John g.. Johnson, Of counsel for the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad, in opening the
proceedings, said the commonwealth had
no constitutional right to iegislate rates
for the Pennsylvania Railroad under its
charter But. for the sake Of argument,
even II the law is constitutional the two
cent rate is unreasonable, and will not
return a fair profit for the capital in
vested.
CITY Solicitor Cendell. in his statement
to the court, said the county was made a
defendant because the penalty Tor VIOLA
ton of the law Is payable here. he
thought the proceedings should have oeen
brought against the Commonwealth, as It
ia a State matter. Nevertheless, he said,
the city. being n defendant. he would
guard its interests which In this case are
not great.
The first witness examined was Max
Riebenack. comptroller of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad. He presented a summary
of arning and expenses on Interstate
passenger business for the first three
months of TIE present year. This sum
mary showed that the average rate per
passenger per mile was 1907 cents.
Estimated figures for the entire year
1907, based on those OF the first three
months of the present year were submit
ted. ~
Mr.. Reioenack stepped aside to allow
Captain John P. Green. first vice-president
of the company to testify to the divt-
dends paid by the He said In
the last twenty-five years the dividends
of the company averaged a trifie less than
6 per cent.
"What is the proportion of water in the
stock? ~ asked Mr.. johnson.
There is not one drop of.water," was
the quick reply.
On cross-examination by City Solicitor
Gendell, Captain Green said that the divi-
dends included earnings of all its lines
In and out of Pennsylvania. He admitted
the percentage of earnings was greater
than 6 per cent, the surplus above 6 per
cent. being used for extraordinary expen-
ditures.
On redirect examination, Captain Green
said the last few years have been excep-
tionally prosperous.
Mr.. Reibenack was again called to the
stand and was examined at great length
on the financial affairs of the company.
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New Jersey Corporations.

TRENTON. July 11.-Certihcates of in
CORPORATION were yesterday granted to the
following companies:
Hudson Embroidery Company; registered
office, town of Union; agent. julius
Schwarz; capital stock, $780, 00: incor-
porators, Solomon Spingarn, Solomon Birn-
baum and julius Scnwarz; to manufacture
embroidery and laces.
The National Freezing Machine Com
pany registered office, Camden: agent.
Corporation Trust Company of New Jer-
sey; capital stock, $125,OO0; incorporators,
d. F. O'Brien. jr., Adam S. Dickinson and
H. Turner. to manufacture and sell ice.
United Brick and Sand Company; regis
tered Office, Camden; agent. Melvin NJ.
porators, Alyah L.. Colver, John N. Colver
and Peter Semon; to manufacture brick,
tile, etc.
Milton Snider- Company; registered office.
Newark; agent, John e. Gilrner; capital
stock. 100000; incorporators, Allen P, Hal
lett, William b. +. Rogers and Mark M.
Solomon. to manufacture grinding and
The Electric Company: registered
office, Spring Lake; agent. james D. Kirk
bride, capital stock. 500, 1000; incorporators,
Frederick @. Worrell, james d. Kirkbride
and Clayton Wilson; to manufacture cleo
trlcal appliances.
Manhattan Equipment Company; regis
tered office. Trenton; agent. Edward NJ.
Spear; capital stock, 100000 incorporators,
Hugh W. Kelly, Frances B. Lee and Ed
ward M. Spear; to do a general contract
ing business.
Brown: capital stock, 100000 incor-
porators, Joseph Aulino, Edward F. Brown,
Cesare Cont and Joseph A. Cont; to man
%ufacture airships.
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H IRON TRADE
Carnegie Plant to Help Remedy
Steel Conditions Record
Iron Ore Shipments.


NEW YORK. July 1.-THE Iron Age,
today says: The monthly returns Of
the manufacturers of pig iron show
that production in June was prac-
tically at the same rate as 1t was in
May. The output in the thirty days of
June was 2.2S1. 575 tors. or 1895 tons per
day. while it was 2. 295, sos tons in May, or
"A, 4S5 tons per day. When charcoal iron
Is included the total production of pig iron
during the first half of 1901 was 13.500,O0o
tons, against 12.675, 000 tons during the
second half of 1876. and 12,5S2,000 tons
during the first half Of 1906. AT the rate
of production at which the industry en-
tered the second half of 1907, mn even
larger output will be available. On July
l the active coke and anthracite furnaces
had a total capacity of 527 1880 tons per
week. the largest OH record. 1t must be
noted. however, that a good many of The
furnaces did not in Jun come up TO tneir
usual tonnage
Generally speaking. in the finished traces
new business is somewhat lighter. but the
pressure for deliveries is as heavy as ever.
In the lighter lines the wire and tube
trades are operating at the maximum rate,
and the outlook Is regarded as particularly
satisfactory.
June was a record breaker in the ship
ments OF iron ore from the lakes. The
total tonnage shipped from all the docks
was {, 433. 1863 tons.
1t appears that efforts will be made to
hold the copper market at &c. for electro
lytie for the third quarter. Whether con
sumption will justify that figure remains
TO be seen,
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THE JAPS IN FRISCO.
Troubles over the Little Brown Men
Have Only Begun.

Most people imagine, now that San
Francisco'a Oriental school problem has
ceased to be a nine days wonder to the
world, that her difficulties with the
Japanese are settled. This, however, is
far from being the case. OF San Fran
cisco's troubles over the little brown men
the keynote has only been sounded and
the future bids fair to prove prolific in
new phases of the Nipponese problem. A
bone of contention growing daily more i'm
portant as a casus belli, is the invasion
of San Francisco's "close-in' residence
districts by the Japanese merchant and
tr~ndesman, who are converting the abode
OF the American clerical. professional and
business man into shops, bazars, hotels
and other public establishments TO sucn
an extent that the men of the fiat and
furnished room In that vast area flankins
the business district are being rapidly
banished from their homes.
The Organization OF San Francisco had
inst begun when the fire of 1905 wiped out
ehe Nipponese colonies. Three month";
later. however, a police report. admittedly
Incomplete; made the following startiine
dition: Dwellers In hotels missions
etc, whose occupation was not obtain
able. 664; bazars. Ga; shoemakers, 81; house
cleaning companies, Is; ~estaurants. IN al,
difion to those connected with boardine
places, 80; several doctors; fruit stands
10; BARRIERS, %, groceries,. 81 banks, ~
taiIors q billiard npariors, " napT p
ployment offices. 2s; %laundries. y; "
stores, 8: florists, 8; jewelry stores, 3
lighthouses. 10; bakeries. u; carpenters
%; real estate dealers. 8, In all 1t wa
stimated that. aside from domestics
there were, In this district. more than 9
thousand Japanese There are now tel
thousand in the same territory, ana IN,
number of Japanese establishments ma:
moro than quadrupled since that time
Leslie's Weekly.
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F~REDERlcK's SWORD.
Taken Home by Napoleon, 1t Soon Dis
appeared Forever.

Nav II was the centenary of a remark
able incident in the relations between the
first Napoleon and Prussia. While that
kingdom was at his feet. after the battle
Of Jena. Bonaparte visited Potsdam. and
there he saw the sword of Frederick the
Great. He took possession Of it. saying:
II value this sword more than all the
treasures of Prussia" 1t was deposited at
the Invalides on May II. 1907, with mill
tarv poinp and TO the Immense
qualification Of the neople of Paris.
But there came the black days of 1874
and. with the allies on the point OF enter
ing the French capital. the Governor Of
the Invalides. Marshal Serruier. received
orders to take steps for the preservation
of the precious trophies there collected
especially the sword Of Frederick the
Great. Interpreting this instruction in a
peculiar fashion. the Governor took efSec-
tive measures for preventing them from
making a bonfire Of them. and II was said
that he threw Frederick's sword into the
flames.
This statement was confirmed as late
as was attcsted in 1890, wnen an official
inquiry was made into the matter-be-
flags and other memorials Of victory. The
ashes and remains were thrown into the
Seine. at the meuth If a sewer.
The sword could not, of course, have
been destroyed in the con1agration. but
1t was never seen again. 1t happened
thai in 1915 an engineer. having ascertained
the precise SPOT WneTe the uebffs from the
fire had been put into the river. made a
search and recovered from the bottom a
considerable number Of bronze and copper
articles. which were returned to the In
valides. But the sword Of Frederick was
not found.
One would like TO think that it was not
the fate of this historic weapon to rlst
away IN foul mud, but that It had under
gone the noble transformation of being
turned into some implement OF peaceful
industry. OF this. however. there Is nc
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. News.
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THE D MARKET.

NEW YORK, July 11-Flour-Receipts,
pose; sales. 1,500. Dull and barely steady.
Wheat-Reccipts, $4,000 bushels; sales,
100. 900 bushels. Good weather in the North
west with a less bullish feeling as 10 the
| government report occasioned a cent de-
cline in wheat this morning. Trading
quiet. July. I000100 3-16; September,
101Ad10f 1876: December. 1.04a401.047s
Rve-Dnll; No. ? Western, Ss1a (. o. b.
corngReceipts. s7.s25 bushels. Nominal.
Realistically.
Professionally; family, 19OO019.50.
I~ard-Quleti Western prime. S.70dS,O.
Sugar-Raw. steady: fair refining, 1881;
centrifugal. SO test, 1884,; molasses sugar.
3.0S1s. Refined, steady. crushed, $40;
powdered. $40: ~granulated. SOC.
Petrolenm-Firm, refined. all ports
S.40mS.45.
cofee-steadv; No. I Rio. eas; No. 4
Santos. IN.
ENTHUSIASTICALLY: New Orleans. 3fa4s.
Butter-Firm: receipts, 1854. Renovated,
common to extra. 17m23.
cheese-Steady. unchanged; receipts,
5.71s
F~ggs-Firm; receipts, 1854. State. Penn
s~vlvania and nearby fancy. selected. white,
%: choice. 20d21; brown and mixed extra.
20n21: FIRST 10 extra first. 17619; Western
flrsts. .161sat7; Official price, 16); seconds,
1415n16.
P~ouitry-Alfve. steady, Western spring
chickens. Is; fowls. 14~;sturkevs. IS. Dressed
Firm: Western broilcrs, 20624: turkeys.
10014; fowls, 1316.
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THE COTTON MARKET.

NEW YORK. July 1.-THE cotton mar
ket opened steady at a decline OF 2We
points In response to lower cables and good
weather in the South. The initial decline
caught some more stop-loss orders which
held the market down for the first few
mlnutes, hnt after these were executed
prices gradually stcadied ON covering OF
shorts and during the middle OF the morn
ing were about 112 points net higher.
Trading was rather less active and smaller
operators seemed to be confused by vari-
Gus and conflicting rumors regarding the
position Of reeert ball leaders.
After working UP 10 an advance of sal
points during the middle Of the morning on
reports OF heavy rains in Texas. the mar
ket eased off under a renewal OF liquida-
tlon and selling by recent bull leaders.
Prices at midday were Z to 8 points net
lower on the more active months,
Spot quiet; middling uplands, 1920; mid
ding gulf, 1S.45.
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Big AUTO FIRM TIED UP
Circuit Factory Is Closed by
$500, 900 Attachment.

ORANGE, Mass, July 1.-THE fac
tory of the Circuit Automobile Company
here has hut down for an indefinite
period and an attachment for 5000, 900
has been placed on the company's prop
erty as the preliminary step in an ac-
ton brought by w. L. Grout, of Green
field. who is a large stakeholder.
1t is said that the financial standing
of the company is in no way involved,
as business has been good and the COM
pany has been prosperous.
The Circuit Company is incorporated,
the principal stockholders being w. L..
Grout, of Greenfield; c. B. Grout and
x. A. Grout, of Orange. 1t is under
stood that recently the question of a re-
adjustment in connection with certain
stockholders came up and that the out
come was not satisfactory to w. l..
circuit.
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WALL STREET
FEvERIsHNESS CHARACTER.
lies STOCK TRADING.
Opening Depression Gradually Overcome
but Fluctuations Are Narrow and
Market Unsteady.

NEW YORK. July 1.-THE opening deal
iIgs in stocks were very dull aud the tone
IRE gular. FLUCTUATIONS were narrow and
mixed. Canadian Pacific and Pullman od-
yanced about a point and st. Paul. Great
Northern preferred and American Smelt-
ing large fractions.
Il n. m.-The depression shown at the
opening was gradually overcome. but the
market displayed feverishness. the ad-
vances were partly lest before the end OF
the hour. Union Pacific. Baltimore aud
Ohio. Toledo. st. Louis and Western pre-
ferred and Brooklyn Transit were marked
Up a point. st. Paul and Great Northern
preferred IA, Canadian Pacific 1as, Delas
ware and Hudson and Rock Island pre-
ferred Ia and New York Air Brake Ia,
Atchison preferred n American Tobacco
preferred yielded Ia Southern. Railway
preferred 2 and st. Louis and San Fran
cisco first preferred 2is.
Noon.-Small offerings came steadily
upon the market and dragged prices DOWN
wards. Some of the most prominent stocks
sold lower than at any time yesterday.
Hooking Valley receipts sold at a decline
OF I: Consolidated Gas, Sls; Pacific Mail,
.: Louisville and Nashville, Ia; Atlantic
Coast Line and Reading. IA, and Union
Pacific. Erie first preferred, Amalgamated
Copper. American Smelling. Anaconda,
Sugar and United States Express, 1.
Bonds were irregular.
l D. m.-Reading receded to 100ls before
sufficient support developed to check its
decline. Several other stocks also got a
trihe lower than at midday. but the entire
list s~tiffened sharply afterward. American
Tobacco preferred fell "a, northwestern
gained a point.
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A man horseback rider receives from $50
TO ta125 a week. and his career rs n prin-
cfpai rider lasts about ten years It Is
short. not so much because these men get
stiff and lose their agility, as because they
lose their nerve. Nearly all circus folks
marry young. and with their added respon-
sibilities come a lively sense Of constant
danger which they ignored In younger
days. A man rider who cannot turn 4
soraersarlt on a horse cannot command
more than $50 q week. A woman rider
who can perform his feat gets from $15u
10 500 q week If she is a finished rider.
This Isn't much when all the disadvan-
tages Of the calling are taken into consid-
eration, but 1t should be remembered that
oil the expenses are paid. including the
care. feeding, and Of course the trans
portatlon Of their horses All they have 60
provide Is their own clothing. For the
men riders clothes do not constitute much
of a factor. and the women nearly always
make their own except those provided by
the management THE Aristocracy Of the
Circus" IN E~verybody's.
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WON'T ENJOlM PUTTING
IN EFFECT 2-CENT RATE.
Application of Stockholders Of Iowa
Central Railroad Denied by
Federal Court Judge.

DIES MONIES. Ia, July 11.--Judge
Mcpherson, of the Federal Court, today
denied the application of two stock
holders of the Iowa Central and the
Minneapolis and st. Louis for an order
restraining the directors of the roads
from putting into effect the two-cent
passenger rate enacted by the Iowa
Legisla ture. The judge based his
action upon the ground that no injury
to the roads was shown that the COM
plant that the new rate would cut
down dividends was not proved; that
Increased passenger travel might in
crease receipts, and that no charge of
bad faith is made against the directors.
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HIGHER WAGES DEMANDED
IN POTTERY TRADE.
Saggermakers Want Clay Furnished tc
Them Free-Kilnmen Demand
Increase.

EAST LIVERPOOL. o.. July l1-Action
was taken yesterday by the national con-
vention Of the International Brotherhood
of Operative Potters, in session here, pro-
viding for a substantial Increase in the
pay Of two branches of the trade. The
saggermakers will demand that clay be
furnished them at their branches free of
charge, while the kllnmen WAL insist upon
an increase of 25 per cent. for placing ware
where flint is used.
Both propositions will be backed up by
the entire organization when the present
wage agreement with the manufacturers
expires, in October. 1t is understood n
number of other crafts connected with
the pottery industry and afnliated with the
national organization will receive benefits
ditions.
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ADOPTS 2-CENT FARE.
The Burlington Road to Make Rate
Regardless of State Laws.

OMAHA, July n.-Assistant General
Passenger Agent Buckingham, of the
Burlington, today announced that within
ten lays the Burlington would put in
operation a two-cent passenger rate
throughout that system, regardless of
whether the States have adopted the two
cent fare Law.
The Burlington traverses Montana, wy
oming, Colorado. Nebraska. Kansas. Mis-
souri,, Iowa. Illinois. Wisconsin, Minnesota
and South Dakota. Clerks are now work
ing on the new schedule, and the rate
will be placed in operation just as soon
as the tariff is completed
The action of the Burlington, 1t Is said,
will undoubtedly cause other roads in the
same territory to follow suit.
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Mr.. II. g. Wells and other nrown-ups
have had their merry gibes at Boston
but here is a little miss whose uncon-
scious irony puts their best efforts to
shame.
why asked Dorothy the other night
or going to bed; why cant we see ths
fairies2'
Because they do not live in the fields
md woods here any more replied her
nurse.
Where are they, then-In heaven?"
Perhaps So"
'Oh. I know said Dorothy. after {
moment Of silent thought. The angels
got tired of their old mansions in the
skies. so they let the fairies have then
and moved to Boston, Judge.
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RESPITE FOR STANDARD OIL
Gets Sixty Days Grace After
Fine Is Imposed.

CHICAGO. July 11.-Attorneys of the
STANDARD Oil Company have been al
lowed sixty days after the final entry
in the rebate cas- in which to file ex-
ceptions. This stipulation was made
by Judge Lands at the request of At
torney John S. Miller, who wishes to
pass his vacation in Europe.
AS the fine will be imposed August 3,
the agreement gives the defendants
lawyers until October 2 to file a bill of
exceptions.
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TO BUY HAVANA CENTRAL.

LONDON. July 11--At n meeting of the
United Railways of Havana here today
the shareholders unanimously approved
the scheme for the Increase of capital
necessary to acquire a controlling interest
in the Havana Central Railway Com
ANY,
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TOBACCO CONCERNS WILL
YIELD TO STRIKERS.
Havana Factories Likely to Resume
Operations Monday-Idleness Has
Cost So, 100000.

HAVANA, July 1.-THE tobacco fac
tories will probably open nex Monday.
Representatives of the trust and of
independent concerns met this after
noon and will probably yield to the
strikers demands.
The strikers have lost in wages since
last February $4.0 900, 900. and the trust
has lost 1000, 900 in wages of employees
carried on the payrolls during the
strike.
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BIG DIAMOND DIVIDEND.
DeBeers Consolidated Mines Declares One
of so Per Cent.

NEW YORK. uiy 1.-THE jewelry dis
trict Of Maiden Lane got word yesterday
from London of important develop
ments among the South African com
panies which supply the world with
diamonds. The DeBeers CONSOLIDATED
Mines. Limited. commonly known as
the diamond trust, has increased ~
mier Mining Company, the principal
independent concern, has passed II
dividends, but asserts that It -coulc
use the money in other Ways.
The -semi-annunl dividend deciaret
by the DeSeers Company on its pre-
ferred shares Is IS per cent. making
so per cent for the year ending with
June. The dividend for the preceding
year was 40 per cent. Tho preferred
stockholders get 40 per cent. each yea
less an income tax.