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New-York tribune., 1907-12-30
DIRECTORS
MONT tuyusf Retn,cr,t & e


AUGUST BELMONT. August Belmont Co.
r. w. BIOOMINGDaLE. Capitalist
ALFRED NJ BTL LII. kice-frest
D. CRAWFORD CLARK, Clark. Dodge & Co.
ELBERT III. GARY. Charm Board L. - steel Corpn
". III. HIGGINS. Harvey Fisk & Sons
HENRY Il. POMRGY. Pomroy Bras.
EDWIN A POTTER. Pres. s1nr Trust Sas- Bk-. Chi
HENRY w. DE FOREST. Attorney
NJ. PIERSON HAMILTON. J. r Morgan 4 Co
&C VAN BLaRGoM. Nat II. of Com in St Lcsis
IRVING a. STEaRNS Capitalist. Nilkes-Barre Pa.
FREDERICK ID. UNDERWOOD Pres. Eric r. r. Go.
ROBERT T.. PERKINS. Hartford Carpet Corp.
GEORGE CoFFTNG WARNER. Attorney
TINS Il. MARSHALL. President
OFFICERS
INNS r. MARSHALL President
VI. sice-fresident
u. L. Hs>kINS Cashier
Assist Cashier
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for any Iart of 25.0a0 Sugar" I-s:ant.
ly Sugar vas hurled at him from ali
sides of the crowd He was the onle
buyer Of the moment who had appear
ed since Sugar broke 1875. Parry Con
ant and his lieutenants had disaprcar-
ed like snowfakes at the opening of
the door of the fireboN of a locomo.
tive speeding through the storm. In
few seconds BOB had been sold az
the $4,000 he had bid for. Again his
voice rang out: so for 25.Oo0." The
sellers momentarily halted. He got
only few thousand of his 25. "S5 for
25.0OO." A few thousand more. 80 for
e25, 900" Still fewer thousands. His
bidding was beginning TO tell on the
mob. A cry ran through the room
into the crowds around the poles:
"Brownley has turned,"-and taking
renewed courage at the report. the
bulls rallied their forces and began
to bid for the different stocks. which
a moment before it had seemed that
no one wanted at any price.
In a chip of a minute the whole
sctfe CndnRe0- tnere was almost as
wild a panic on the up side as there
had been on the down. Rob Drownley
continued buying Sugar until he had
pushed it above 150 He then went
abount tallying up his trades. At the
end Of ten minutes calculation he re-
turned to the center and bought H.
900 shares more: coming out. his eve
caught mine
Jim. have You been here long ,"
An eternity. ] was here mt the
opening and ! pray God neve. 70 put
me through another two hours like
the past two. II seems q hideous
dream. q nightmare Bob in the
name Of God. what have you been
DOING"
He gave me a wild, awful look of
exufation. Sublime triumph shone
in those blazing brown orbs. triumph
svch as l had never seen in the ewes
Of man
Jim Randolph. have been giving
Wall street and its he'll 'system' a dose
OF ITS own poison. . good full-measure
dose. They planned by harvesting a
fresh crop OF human hearts and souls
On tho bull side to give Friday the
18th a new meaning Tradition saws
Friday the 18th is Pea Sai-rs car
! b~--~Te in nia:nt-. Mig old trssi
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- ssna<< a ~ erose as-er hAsssav
e1onM1AG ~ brs<f sssses hAnesa his
By D.ss.ao~s-scys cd esssnG e<asrs
E~ce4sea rssUse=ceEa.ats ~ H. torN
" seaessa aEaers from has pEsUcapsss.
M@ay os the faces aha; fssEasd sse
iaseF cs-cse os thai cross S~-e fright
fal 10 ls~s& HSsoE. sosUss ~es,s -
though just lifted iron hospital Psi
lsxE. o.hers red 10 the verge ~ apo
piexy-asl strained ss though esAis
IN. - coas.ss o' ths jury With .
life oE dessh verdict They Al kn~o
fhaf boA had sold nsore than hun
lrea Thousand shA-es of sugar HpSa
~hict the profits mus; be asorc sAAn
s. 90. .syo We.sld ne Resume selling.
o. wss he through Mas II short
stock. which mus; ee esagh; bacS. or
hong stock asd II loug whose oiock
wcre the insiders selling out on one
anoc her. or we're they al selling to-
Gcrher aad under cover ef Barry Con
ants movements were tanssmeyer
and standard fI cmpiyiag tseir
bag prepa. xtoTy to the slaughter OF
the Washington contingent All these
Questions we're rushing through the
heads Of thai crowd " brokers like
steam through boiler. nov hot, nov
cold. but always at high pressure. for
upon the correctness Of the answer de
pended the fortune of many who
breafhlessly awaited ths renewal or
the suspension of the contest. Even
Barry Coaants usually imPassive face
wore tiaxe of anxiety.
Indeed. Bob was the only one in
the center Of that throag that showed
no sign Of what was going ON behind
g. The same cynical smile that had
been there since the opening still
played around the corners of his
mouth as he squared himself in
front VI his opponent. All knee now
Thai he was not through. Barry Con
ant had evidently decided 10 force the
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s.a0 = - 60 A k.~s -
oasss. sser A~asd n . ssacG -
chAAOe. caitsAg sOr ~ ss0Soesry
ss~p~oassa II bussness Uhlb< ;hs ps~si
asns aaso~uce~ th< failure - soOs
use0ter o. house
NG0Gsos 0kAascAsAAo Q CO
Asasnaeo sAa vasv cSas9s 0sa
vhssr oss,0aao@A
This sss,euseat thai cee OF the old
css Aouses had been s~aUs~rd in the
cEssA Hob lad started caused further
fEaassc sesliaS Aad- ~ though esery
nseosber lad emsloycd the lall 10 re-
e,l has lrnss. . kosl arose thai v-eslcd
and vailed to the dos0s
l watched lob csosely. in fact.
Sas inyss~sibse for use 10 taAe my
eyes 81 hix. he seemed absolutely
uunsindfui ~ the aeoNizinS shricss
about hina. for the treGzsed brokers
we're no longer crying their bids ar
Offers. bat screaming them Tie still
continued reientiessly to hammer
Sugar. Offering 1t in thousands and
tens cf thousand lots.
Again and again the Savel fell. Aad
again and again an announcement Of
failure vas followed by bioed-curdling
hcwls. When Sugar struck ss-aot
$50. bat plain s"-it seemed that the
last day Of stock speculation Was at
hand. Announcements we're being
made every few minutes 81 the failure
of this bank. the closing of the doors
of that trust COMPANY Where would
IL end What power could stop this
Niagara OF molten dollars Suddenly
above the tamUlt rose B0b Ero~Bley's
voice He must have been standing
ON his tiptoes. Ills hands we're raised
aloft tie seemed 10 tower a head
above the mob. His Voice was still
clear and unimpaired by the terrible
strain Of the past two hours. To that
mob it must have sounded like the
trumpet Of the delivering angel 80
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f"s''r@ although more cautiously
& az before 81 tor a Thousand.
One of his lieu,enants bid 81 for 500,
noJ yet shown his intention of meet
ing their bids. 67 for different amounts
was heard all over the house. Bob
might have been tossing a metal coin
20 decide the advisabili,y of buying
back what he had sold; he might have
been adding up the bids as they we're
made. He said nothing fer a fraction
Of a minute. which to those tortured
men must have seemed like an age
Then with wave of his hand. as
though delivering a benediction. he
swept the circle with a cold -bIooded:
'Sold the lots. $500 in all
''Sixty-seven for . thousand
Barry Conants bid. Sold" 81 for
5,000" Sold" &c for a thousand"
sold" The drop from 5000 to loco
and a dollar share in Barry Conant's
bids was the mortally wounded but
still game generals Sound the Re-
treat" Bob heard It, Any part of
10000 at 65. GA. S2. 60" The din was
now as fierce as before. The entire
crowd. all but Barry Conant and his
lieutenants. seemed to have concluded
that Bob's renewal of attack meant
tina; he was the winning side. and
those who had been hanging on to
their stock hoping against hope. and
those who were short and had been
undecided whether to cover Or to hold
on and sell more for greater profits.
WED with one another in a frantic ef-
fort to sell. All could nov feel the
coming panic. All could see that il
vas a bad one. as the least informed
In the floor knew that there was a
tremendous amount Of Sugar stock in
the hands OF wasAinGton novices At
speculation and Of others who had
bought ii At high prices. Sugar was
now dropping two. three. five dollars
q share between trades. and the panic
vas spreading to the other poles. as
Is always the case. for when there are
sua4en large losses in one stock. the
lowers mast throw o-er the other
stocks they hold TO meet their loss
and thus the whole structure tumbles
like . house Of cards Sugar had jas.
crossed 11e when the load b1nS Of the
7-es3Aents sa-el rrs1u1 - through
he rosa- instantly there was 81
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svnoeAs.

CHAPrER l-DeA Drowniey creates .
ponic IN Wall street. He N Q friend Of
Jim Randolph Of Randolph q Randolph,
bankers and brokers. Brownley and Ran
aolph had gone t. college together ana
entered the employ Of Ra ndoiph's father
st the close Of college days. BrownbsI
70 . Nirsinian by birth. Beulah sands.
daughter of an old Virginia house. calls
IN Rrownley and tells him her father
has been practically ruined by the stock
operations of Reinhart. She hopes 10
utilize her own money In Wall street In
retrieving her fathers fortunes before
his condition becomes known. and asks
for employment In the Office that she may
have opportunity to better understand
how her money In invested. She does not
want II used in a purely Wall street
gamble. but in the buving and selling OF
legitimate securities. Brownley agrees -
hello her. and falls in love with her.
CHAPTER H-Brownley plunges IN
sugar stock. He uses the money Of Miss
Sands. his own and in addition in backed
heavily by the Randolph millions. His
coup seems successful. and he tells Misc
Sands that she has cleared o. ssO. .eO0 But
the market had not closed.
CHAPTER uI-Barry Conant. hsaA
broker for standard Oil and sugar In
terests. suddenly begins to sell sugar"
In the midst of a panic he breaks the
market and with its fall carries away
the earnings and much Of the capital Of
both Miss Sands and himeelf pretty
love scene occurs between the two At the
0eAce when Bob attempts 10 tell her the
terrible truth of their fall. Prownley
TAKES . trip to Virginia.
CHAPTER rv-Reulah and Rob become
cr.a-ca. F-THH'nh wants to loan her
F~-'.'- '7~ 'u"a. Ne oh'isttiHvs.
She refuses EoA -,1-rs or bow - ..ea.
Wan street at IT'S ,~n game Sugar ta&so
another sensational spurt upward. but
Brownley keeps out
CHAPTER v-The '-bulls' tee. sugar
to record breaking point. and the street
goes Wild Barry Conant. for the ''sys-
tenn pushes prices up and up. and =
WONDERFUL cleanup 10 promised when the
exchange cloeea. Thursday. NoveMkef Il
Sugar opens higher Frt1ay morning. 40
ve0ssr u. when the price had passed
al bounds Bro~nley steVs Into the Pit and
oeGfna to ell. Ne Sello every share -rhe
systems" brcke.S WtIl take and pounds
the Price down and AeWn until failures
are a 0so0entary occurrence and THE
eysteM" ~ loUt vsasltona Ne has made
0illicWs for Heulah aAnda and her fathee.
Thi. fascinatine story will x
coatinued from week to week in the
NsW-CAsapioa. 1t beg.a April
10. SD sor opening chapter. il
yUa aisasd them.
Gunnison news-champion., 1907-06-07

Clarence Adams
Furniture and Qaeensware. Tele-
phone No. Ga.
~*x'x.s::.:*;,;,;Sr s::.:*;,
O9A paYen 33e . AuoAreA
Gunnison news-champion., 1907-06-07

Thi. fascinatine story will e
coatiased from week to week in the
Ns~s-CAsap;oa. 1t bee.a April
10. Sod Sor opening chapters II
va oisasd them.
Gunnison news-champion., 1907-06-07

e1una - Z haze AAruaBAs1 sAstr GnoDO
iosasol I ssE ssN yos sksa = s0oD
su@. laa. bss ses ! nsH - kiesAao
oanAD. II. RsaapipA. I've saved ~
80 her fashes I've s.AAs sheE .
rouDA sAree Usillsoas and . ssEoaG
oDsea HsillsoEs frr usyssf
tke stnscss ycliee u - he rsshea
ssay ard sef- me daxed- sr.see~d
DoasenL and | came to. SoaeshiuG
u-Gso ne TO foilos hXE-
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olive FACE FOR an instant to turn paDa.
and give his voice q tell-tale uufvef.
Once more pealed forth rs for s. .oOo. .
That Bob saw the pAllor, that -
caught the CULVER, was evident 70 all.
for the instant his sold" rang ont -
followed 1t with 5000 At -. q, a.
20" Neither Barry Cosant nor sav
Of his lieutenants got IN q take n.
although whether they wanted "a ~
not was An open question rn,r Dob
allowed his voice TO DIVE Jus, 'lxe a
pendulum swing Of time on ~. "a
It was as II he were tantal,zir- ,h~w
into sticking by their guns. nv tie
time he paused. Barry Conant. ne-vs
vas hack, for his piercing Take ~
had linked TO It ''c0 for any mar, ~
$4,000" The bid Was yet on hi. Nm.
when Bob's deep voice rang ove
Sold" Any part Of 25.0oe al 10 1s.
Is. 10" Hell was nov loose. Rac&
and forth. up against the raf. .ruu,A
the room and back and around an4n.
TIE crowd sursed for Is Of the VIA -
crartest minutes In the history gf TIE
New York stock exchange. q h,secrv
repiete With records of Wild ana cv.sv
scenes.
Al last from sheer exhau~s,on ssr>
came ten nsnutes' iuil. which vss
useA IN comparing trades Al ,he ~
Ginning Of the respate Sugar VA. seN-
faG u 'Ss. for IN that qvarte- hc,r u
AeASess It had broken from ,1s 70
att. but when the ten minutes AAA
s>aVsed. the seock had worked No~H
- is7. Barry COSaat had again ,at~r
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on paxess 9se . AuDoreA
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-04-04

E,oR SALE Black walnut dining room set
soulre' North street. sit6
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no RINr.-Deslrable trnemcnts. ofices and
i stores. Possession TiNcr Immediately,
W.E navks. 16 Sorth N
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The price OF coal has not born icduc
cd In bennington as has been reported
Beginning April the dealers can buy
that date but cannot lower their price
10 consumers until the new supply
comes which IL likely 10 be several
weeks, A. frcights are so slow.
Rev Frank II Morris was In Rutland
Monday and Tuesday attending the
semI.annual meeting Of the Board Of
Trustees ~ the Vermont Baptist state
convention. The reports for six months
showed that one new church and one
new mission had been organized In
needy sections and 10000 had been
added 20 the conventions endowment
funds. 80. -
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List 81 letters remaining uncalled
for AZ the post Office: Alta n Relies.
John Bradley, II Graham. J T. Daiy,
Holden 4 Clark, Dutch Nation, Paoll
DlglnyAnni. william l. Smith, G Is
Wayland. Mrs Eva Rice lIaskins,
Miss LILLIAN McCask, Miss Oracia
Monroe. caro- Q n Rohorts.
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TO REM.

RIO REST-slngle house. nine rooms. bath.
Il electric lights, steam heat q "a stories
lockwood a Howe
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L. OksALE-OrgAn, saonmger make. Nearly
~ good A. new. Cost ESQ; will sell for
a. snap for someone. lockwood Howe
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DEnIsoToS a wooD-cosuaeior IN
So tstss
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And the first retail the new ededcang newly reconstructed
second and Redymade
marking beginning epochmakg lie that will
giving This hard labor
shall notable
retail that has occurred Bennington The lowest depend
without changing the
broad platform upon which
adding embhng and until the
briefly stated The
lying upon h this business stands sell always the lowest
possible completely
mistake that make this reliable trustworthy thorough
principles that everybody will feel and know purchase from
safety
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10 w. p R ! G E D
ADVERT ISL G.
WANTED.

yIJANTED-At onca, man who thoroughly
w understands driving well w. II Brown,
Box sa2, Bennington. 10
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I AsEs silk, contractor and builder. Aiso
u repairing. rebuilding ana sb0ofk shop on
Cniousfn~et.
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10 LET-Thrce UNFINISHED rooms. upstairs
front Privilege Of baths, lavAiofy and
tairi ~ housekeeping PRINTED inqnrc
~ North 81
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-11-07
The Sex Of Bones.

The sex OF bones has been much
discussed by anatomists and anthro-
poligists. DR.. Brinton some time ago
stated his belief that, with the excep-
tion Of the pelvis. sex could not be
determined from an examination OF
the bones. That is to say, if given
arm or leg bone or rib or skull or all
of the bones of skeleton except the
pelvis are found. the sex of the indi-
vidual cannot be decided with any
certainty. DR.. Thomas Dwight, of
the Harvard Medical School, who
has recently been investigating the
subject, agrees with DR.. Brinton's
conclusions in the main, but adds
that when the fresh bones with the
front cartilages in place are obtain
able, sex can be determined with
some certainty. In the male the
heads of the femur (high bone) and
the humerus upper ARM are regu.
larly larger than in the other joints.
BY careful examination of these ar
ticulatons the sex can be ascertain
ed in large number of cases. With
old skeletons this test is of course
not available.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-11-07
Hogs Keen Sense Of Hearing.

Hogs have much keener sense
OF hearing than most people seem to
think" said a man from the coun-
try. They can see well and at a
considerable distance. but the most
and eyes Of the hog must give first
place to the ears.
This is so, no doubt. because hear
ing Is probably the most useful of the
senses In the hog life, particularly at
that season Of the year when the hog
In the wild state must rely upon the
fruitage Of trees, in the main, for
food Even with this advantage It
is frequently fierce race to see
which hog can get there first. It
would be interesting to know Just
how far hog can hear an acorn fall
1t is remarkable how quickly they be-
come cognizant of the fact that an
acorn has been blown from it's outer
shell, and tumbling toward the
ground, and he seems to catch the
sound quicker when he knows COM
petitor Is near who will run him a
race for the nut. | have witnessed
some fierce and interesting races be-
tween hogs, with an acorn as the
stake.
Put hog within twenty yards Of
an oak and in nine cases out of ten
he will beat the acorn to the place.
In nine cases out of ten the hog will
be within few feet of where the
acorn strikes the ground. another
fact which argues superiority OF the
hogs hearing He can apparently
tell pretty well by the sound where
the acorn will fall. and he will rare.
ly miss It more than few feet. -
New Orleans Times-Democrat
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-11-07
RED TAPE IN THE ELEVATOR.
How II Binds in Washington, and
How II Annoys With It's Binding.

The tribulations of the conductors
on the elevators in the state, war and
navy building are many, says the
New York Sun. There Is as much
etiquette on one of these cars on
busy day as one would find at one of
the big dinners at the White House.
The approach of the Secretary Of
State, of War, Of the Navy in the
direction of one of these lifts" Is
signaled by peculiar clapping of the
hands by all the messengers or vet
Grams who guard the approaches to
the building.
So, at the sounds of three bells"
on tho push button Ca secretary
calD, no matter who Is on the eleva-
tor, he he an admiral or a general,
the lever is reversed down or up II
goes, as the indicator reads, and the
secretary is carried at once to the
floor OF HIS destination for there Is
no stopping at the floors to take on
or let off anybody else.
Now comes the time when the
keen discretion of the conductor
his remembrance of faces and his
knowledge of ranks of army and
navy officers and their precedence
IS brought into play.
For instance, on the day of the
funeral of a well known general, the
building was alive with officers In
full dress uniform on their way to
st. Johns church to attend the cere-
monies. "A major of cavalry from
Fort Myer, Va, having business at
the quartcrmaster's department, was
on the elevator and was being shot
up to the third floor, when three
bells" announced the Secretary of
War at the ground floor. Down went
the elevator. The secretary and the
major saluted and before the salu-
talon was over two bells" rang.
meaning that an officer of high rank
wished to ride in q jiffy.
The secretary, of course, was "it,"
and was first ushered out at the Sec
ond floor. Then up flew the elevator
TO the fourth floor, to answer the
two bells" to take on q brigadier
general who desired to descend to
the street floor. More saluting by
the major. Down shot the elevator.
The brigadier departed. and the ma
Jor. who had been carried past his
destination twice, now breathed
sigh of relief. but just then two
bells rang again on the second
floor, and this time the chief of staff,
with the rank of lieutenant general,
got aboard, and down the major
went again, salute and all.
After the chief of staff went. the
ever polite conductor, turning to the
Junior officer. and observing his rank
and insignia, said. Major. what
floor, please?"
THE third, please" replied the
belated officer. but the next time
want 1t I'll walk"