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New-York tribune., 1907-10-12
OUTSIDE SECURITIES.

Liquidation continued in the market for outside
securities. and much heavier scale than re-
Gently. Prices broke sharply all through the con-
per list, the losses ranging from Il to Ii5 In the
Goldfied issues declines of from TO 20 cents oc-
CURED. StaEda"d Oil fell and American Tobacco
10 points In the mining list Butte Coalition lost
iss, Boston "a United l. Nevada Consolidated M
ana Cumbsrland-Ely J. On the decline stop orders
we're reached and many low marks were estab-
hsled- Bonds were I'm light inquiry, with prices
generally lower. Adams Express As were down 2
points.
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SEVERE DECLINE In STOCKS.
TR1DING HEAVK And MANY NEW Low RECORDS
MADE
Partial Rally in Hour-CoH Money Eeser-faOrabc Ban"
Statement Indicated
MONEY AND EXCHANGE.

MONEY MARKET.-Money on call opened at .
per cent; highest. ) per cent; lowest, per cent
closing . per cent; last loan. per cent ruling
rate 4s1 per cent. Time money quoted at
per cent for sixty days and 61s per cent for all
periods from ninety days to six months. CONNER
cial paper was quoted at per cent for sixty TO
ninety days and four months. and 715la per cent
for others
FOREIGN EXCHANGE.-The foreign exchange
market opened firm, with up . points. to
4.S6SO0 S6S5 for cables 4.S605G4.S61 for demand
sterling and 4S230a4.S24O for sixty day bills Short
francs were quoted at 516Ts less 1-64 and short
rechsmarks at 81 15-l6 less l-64 The market
continued strong advancing 10 points further from
the opening level in the afternoon, when cables
We're quoted ct 4.S6S5G4 $500, demand sterling at
4S61004 $500 and sixty day bills at 4S240Gf4. S212.
Short francs 5.167s plus 1-32 and short reichs
marks 81 15-16G94 15-16 plus 1-32. Bills
again scarce. and there a good demand for
remittance. The further rise of the market, how
ever still left rates considerable distance from
the gold export level since the Bank of France
will not allow advances against the metal.
Rankers posted rates follows:
New-York tribune., 1907-10-12

Trading quiet in the stock department OF
the New York Produce Exchange yesterday and
price changes were unimportant The total trans
actions were 5615 shares distributed among six
stocks. follows 1000 Branch Mint. at ISiec and
15c. the latter buyer so days; 1900 Greater Ne
vada, at 2+l2c and 25c: $50 Beaver Superior at
73i2c: 500 Tramp Consolidated. at I7c; 500 Hanson
Consolidated Silver. at 175c. and 25 Franklin Mills
preferred lOOta.
a and cLaI yVico
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'Ex dividend.


FOREIGN MONEY MARKET-Can money in
London 2H2@t per cent. Open market discount
rate for short bills. per cent; long bills 4Ih04L,
per cent Berlin discount rate, 4s. per cent paris
discount rate. SlA per cent Paris exchange on Lon
don. % francs l2la centimes Bar gold, RS l0lkd
Berlin exchange on London, 20 marks 4S1l pfennigs
FOREIGN SECURITIES.-British consols for
money, 81 1116; for the account, SO 1916; French
rentes, 81 francs 221: centmes.
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Diuidend Notices.
Office OF
AMERICAN SMELLING &

Ofice
AMERICAN SMELLING & REFINING co.
Il Broadway. " Y. City. Sept. 4. 1907.
QUARTERLY COM STOCK DIVIDEND NO. 16.
The Directors OF the American Smelling and Re-
fnng Company have this day declared q Dividend OF
TWO (2eol PER CENT. the Common Capital Stock
Of the Company payable Oct H. 1907. stockhold-
OF record Sept q, 1907. The Books ot the Conf
for the transfer Of Common Stock Will be closed
three o'clock P. NJ. Sept 81, 1907. and will DE
-eopened Oct. 16. 1907
W. z. MERRISS. Secretary.
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Financial Meetings.
MANHATTAN RAILWAY COMPANY.

1876 Broadway,
New York October 9TH 1907.
The annual meeting Of shareholders Of the MAN
HAITIAN RAILWAY COMPANY will be held 81 the
tompanys Office 1875 Broadway, Manhattan Borough
New York City. on Wednesday. November 18TH al l.
O'Clock
Board of Directors for ensuing be elect
ed. three Inspectors Of Election
The transfer books viii be closed SATURDAY October
18th O'Clock noon, will be reopened on THURS
day. November 14th. at 10 o'clock A. NJ
GEORGE J. GOULD, President
.. W McwILLIAMS. Secretary.
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DOMESTIC EXCHANGE.-Boston. l0c discount;
Chicago, sc discount; st. Louis. l5c premium bid;
San Francisco, sight &c, telegraph 1oc premium; {;
New Orleans commercial 81 So discount bank 81
premium; Cincinnati. 12l4c premium: Savannah.
buying soc discount, selling 75c premium.
BANK CLEARINGS.-New York exchanges
$SOl 1913 S3S balances S0420S: Baltimore. exchanges
81 422 balances $72I 679: Chicago. exchanges $44
645O47 balances S2202. $50; Boston. exchanges s24
759,74S balances $7365u: Philadelphia exchanges
S24, ,S53414, balances $1.lS176O.
SILVER MARKET.-Bar silver. 63i4c. Mexican
silver dollars 49l4c. Bar silver in London closed
at 291ld. decline of I'D.
GOLD PREMIUM.-Iu Madrid, u: Lisbon. 40.
MEXICAN Observation-Disclosures exchange on
New York is quoted at 2003i.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS.-Customs receipts
reported from Washington, $l.0o2676 internal reve-
receipts ST. 235 936; miscellaneous receipts. $685.
7l5. Receipts for the day. S264532; expenditures.
S2510OOo Receipts for the month TO date. S22 94S Sol
expenditures. S2l6oCo) of receipts. $3O3 SCI.
Receipts for the year to date SlSS.5l5O9l; expend-
lures s9l 493 of expenditures, $3,ll5402
SUB-TREASURY.-The Sub-Treasury was debtor
to the Clearing House S527,9s7
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Missouri. Kansas & Texa. Railway Co.

Wall Street York. October 4. 1907.
The Board Of Directors this Jay declared a
serni-annual dividend Of Two (2Go1
Preferred Stock of this Company payable November g.
1907, stockholders OF record October 1907.
The transfer books OF the Preferred will
Il o'clock Noon October 1907 and will reopen
the morning OF November Q. 1907
c. G. HEDGE Vice President
New-York tribune., 1907-10-12
The FEDERAL TREASURY.

washington, Oct. 1.-THE condition Of the
Treasury at tiie beginning OF business TODAY vas
az follows:
RESERVE FUND
sSle cola sH6 bullion. .... s,-nooo ooo
TRUST FUNDS TO REDEEM OUTSTANDING; c,f:B.
rIFIcATEs
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'FRIsCO'S GOOD YEAR.
Handsome Gains in Net Earnings for
System and Frisco Proper.

The fGu pamphlet report OF the ST. Louis san
Francisco Railroad Company for the fiscal year
ended June 80. 1897 is AT nand The income account
Of the system. the Chicago & Eastern Illinois in
clUded. compares:
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IMPORTS OF DRYGooDs.

Imports and marketings OF drygoods this week
with comparisons follows:
This week. Las year
imports S3.+23.GOS $S O91,21a $5.ot5$6l
Total markengs...... 3.309.SS5 321s.366 2,929 3Is
New-York tribune., 1907-10-12
AMERICAN SECURITIES ABROAD.

London, Oct. H. p. m.-The market for Ameri
can securities we're lower Final prices follow:
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Closing prices of active bonds dealt In with
net changes follow:
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PRODUCE EXCHANGE STOCKS.

'Odd lots. tseus cents per share.
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GOVERNMENT BONDS.

The following shows yesterdays closing QUOTA
tons for government bonds, compared with Thurs
foH-'S
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BOSTON CURB STOCKS.
FURNISHED by j. Thomas Reinhard No IS Broad street
New York. and NO 10 Exchange Place Boston1
New-York tribune., 1907-10-12

AFTER payment Of per cent dividends the srst
PREFERRED stock and the preferred staex
or the Chicago Eastern Illinois Railroad COunuanv
20 stockholders other than s.. san Francsco
Railroad etc, the balance. 37T3ST equal - sr
cent the second preferred stock and an Additional
l@S per cent on the $4,000 GOO common s,oek
The income account OF the St Louis & san Fran-
COMPARES follows: - - 49,
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sse.0O4 Total sales for the unlisted tEx div 1a
cent.
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.hanges, follows.

enlisted lex dividend.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-06-21
A FRENCH HEROINE.
She Waded Through Icy Water to
Save Three Children.

This is story of heroine of
France:
At st. Vincent, near Lorient, in
Brittany, the River ARR was frozen
over. Some children ventured on the
ice, utterly needless of it's weakness
and the depth of the stream beneath.
Before they had gone many steps they
had fallen through and were in the
water. Mile. lie Commandeur, a girl of
nine, heard the cries of two women
who saw the accident from the river
bank some distance away.
She resolutely waded into the river.
making way for herself through
the broken ice, and with the water
sweeping over her shoulders she
reached the two elder children, one
aged ten and the other seven, who
were clinging to the edge of the ice,
and brought them to the river bank.
The third child, two-year-old baby,
she left balancing on the ice, thinking
that he had a better chance of STAY
ing above the water than the bigger
children. But before she reached him
he slipped and was washed into mid
stream and sank out of sight
The girl dived, caught the baby's
clothing and dragged him to the shore.
Rescued and rescuer were all put to
bed at once and none suffered any
bad result of the wetting and ex-
pOsure.
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rushed forward and clambered down
into the hold to see the results. The
stout buikhead had successfully resist
ed the force of the explosion, thanks
to the careful placing of the dynamite.
There were cracks here and there
through which the water was pouring,
but they were easily patched up. The
surgeons came aboard, inspected their
work and pronounced the operation a
complete success. There were congrat-
ulations all around and the wine room
was in the uninjured part of the ves-
sel.
A few hours more spent in making
necessary preparations, and the re.
mainins two-thirds of the Suevic turn.
ed her battered nose toward Plymouth.
Her own engines were at work, but
the surgeons insisted upon an ambu-
lance corps in the shape of a couple
of tugs, staying alongside to render as.
sistance if necessary. Before night
the Suevic was safe in the dock at
Plymouth Additional repairs were
there made and day or two later the
Suevic pulled out, and, having dis.
charged her surgeons and nurses,
made for Southampton, where she
now lies, waiting for a new nose to
be built.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-06-21
YOUNGEST SOLDIER.
French Boy Of Ten and How He Got
Into the Army.

The youngest soldier in France, and
probably in any other country, is lad
ten years old, named Pierre Lavell.
His mother is a poor widow living in
one of the garrison towns on the
Rhine. Pierre was a favorite with the
soldiers and was allowed to run about
the barracks and the fort A soldier
who had been punished made up his
mind to blow up the magazine in re-
venge. It contained 80 tons of powder
anrd an explosion would have been
followed by great loss of life and de-
struction
Little Pierre discovered the soldier
making his preparations and ran to
inform on him. He was arrested not
a moment too soon and after being
tried was sentenced to be shot. The
lad was enlisted as a grenadier and
will probably be a soldier all the rest
of his life. His pay is sufficient to
make his mother very comfortable.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-06-21
Boys Pleading Saves Dcq.

The pleading of an eight.year-old
boy so touched the heart of u Phila-
delphia hospital surgeon that he turn
ed veterinary for a while. He :eceiv-
ed fee, too, despite all his protests
that pay was unnecessary.
The boys pet spaniel had been run
over by a wagon and one OF it's legs
was broken. Picking the animal up
in his arms the lad ran all the way to
the hospital, where he begged SO hard
that the surgeon finally put the brok-
en- limb in splints as carefully as
though the patient was human.
Then the boy insisted on giving the
physician nickel, all mis- wealth, and.
when it was refused, he took his dog.
but at the door turned and rolled the
nickel back along the floor and then
rsn away. sz. Fl. -
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Two hymns were sung, the an

Two hymns were sung, the an
nouncement was repeated, and the
procession wended it's way down near
the leper bath, with natives bringin
up the rear. Another halt was made
and similar procedure was adopted;
and again. further up the village, a
third stand was made. This was a
short distance beyond where two ma
| tive stOry-tellers were entertaining
large crowds with sing-song recitals,
after the ancient custom The mis-
distance before singing, lest they
should disturb these audiences, but
they nevertheless got considerable
following from the fringes of the lat
ter. At slow pace, to accommo-
date the lame and the halt, the crowd
moved on to the appointed meeting
place, having created a sensation ia
the town.
A Fresh Sensation For the Jaded.
Curiosity, and the desire of the
blase for new sensation, was large
ly responsible for the attentive COM
pany of about so Japanese which gath
cred when the meeting opened Out
side the room, which, in the convenient
fashion of the land, was enlarged by
removing two of the walls, was a bor-
der of wondering women and children.
Inside were the men, sitting on their
knees, according to the native code of
politeness; after the Introductory ad-
dress, one of the auditors spoke up
and, with profoundest apologies for
the rudeness, asked if the men might
not be so impolite as to sit cross.
legged, the more comfortable posture,
since they were most of them invalids.
With many mutual bowings-to live in
Japan insures abundant exercise for
the muscles of the back-the request
was of course granted by the mission.
! aries. only half of whom. l noticed,
knew the art of sitting on their knees;
| found the ordeal of sitting cross
legged for more than an hour quite
severe enough.
The meeting was the first Christian
service ever held in that ancient CON-
munity, the official said, although |
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Il ~ D ! = - -
Lenox moor1ng-ancnors weighing IL
tons apiece will be used. The four
bridle-chains are 720 feet long, and
the main chains are made up Of
square links, each about four feet long
and weighing four hundredweight
apiece. The swivel connection shown
in the figure weighs 4,4S5 pounds, aud
each shackle weighs I'll pounds. The
links of the buoy-pendant are of Az
inch iron and weigh 243 pounds
apiece, while the end links, weighing
each 336 pounds, are of 5%inch
material"
This constitutes the heaviest work
ever done in the eliminating indus
try. The makers, we are told, sup.
piled the cables for the Great Eastern
in 1855
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-06-21
HOMEMADE DART.
Pins, Feathers and Old corks Are All
That Is Needed

You can make a lot of darts with
which you may have a good deal Of
fun at the cost of only few minutes
of time. All you need is some pins,
old corks and feathers
1csert the pin in the large end Of
the cork and shove it clear through so
that the point comes out on the other
end of the cork and the head of the
pin is buried. Now push the point Of
the feather into the cork beside the
pin, so that it goes half way through
the cork, and your dart is complete.
You can throw this dart consider
able distance, the feather keeping it
whirling round and round, but always
going point first through. the air. u
IL you make a small target you will
find that by little practice you can
come very near the bull 's-eye every
shot, for the whirlfng motion given by
the feather gives an unusual accuracy
to the dart, just as the rifling or
twist" IN the bore OF sa gun makes
the bullet fy straight to It's mark 81.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-06-21

bers and Jagged plates, suggesting the
front end of trolley car after head
on collision. Maine huntsmen delight
to tell of instances where bears, foxes
or "painters' have gnawed off leg to
escape from trap; but this is the
first really successful case on record
where ship left part Of herself in
rocky trap and got to port by her own
efforts.
The Seuvic, carrying 500 passengers,
of whom $50 were children mostly
babies, from Australian ports, was en-
tering the English channel. A dense
fog came up, and when near the Liz
ard Light the vessel, which had been
cropping her way along, ran on the
rocks.
With the first CLEAN of dawn Cap.
! tain Jones and his men made an in
spection of the vessel. They found
the sharp rocks bad pierced her bot
tom as far as the second bulkhead
This bulkhead being closed, the water
could not penetrate further; but there
was infinite danger of the ship being
torn apart by the power of the waves,
which were swaying the big vessel to
and fro while the rocks held her fast
by the nose"
It so happened that body of sea
surgeons were in the vicinity. The
| members were attached to a Liverpool
| company which makes a specially of
salving wrecks-sort of marine ghoul,
| as it were, which thrives on the mis-
| fortunes of vessels. These sea sur
geons went over and inspected the
Suevic. They found her heart-that
| is her engines-were intact, and be-
yond a few strained plates just aft of
the principal seats of injury, there
! was nothing to prevent the vessel
| from floating if she was separated
from that section held by the rocks.
Having decided in favor of the he
, roic remedy, the sea surgeons began
to prepare their huge patient for the
operation. Her cargo, consisting prin-
cipally of rabbits and mutton in cold
storage, was thrown overheard.
All being in readiness, several train
ed nurses in diving suits descended to
the hold forward Of the bulkhead and
| with saws and other implements pro-
ceeded to cut away as much as they
could Of the huge timbers and weaken
!. the plates beyond the protecting bulk.
!; head. Other men behind the partition
I worked with equal energy to brace
. the. walls Of the vessel to receive the
4 shock. This labor took the better part
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-06-21

, of 1S days. Several capsules of dyna-
mite were placed in orifces prepared
for them, electrical communication
was made and everybody withdrew to
the required safety distances. Cap
tain Jones and his men remained
aboard the Suevic, sheltered from dan
ger of flying fragments and ready to
rush forward after the explosion to
observe results.
At the signal the head surgeon
touched button. There was a tre.
mendous roar. and a cataract of water
shattered timbers, fragments of steel
plates and various articles of a ships
equipment shot in the air. The big
hulk of the vessel swayed and plung-
ed from the conclusions; then, as the
water in the vicinity began to sub
side, it was seen that she was sepa.
rated from the former part of herself
and was several rods away from the
rocks.
The men assigned for the purpose
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-06-21
A Great Marine Engineering Feat

Of all the odd, queer tales of the sea
and of those who go down to the sea
in ships, there is nothing more re-
markable than the marine surgical op-
GRAFTON which has been performed sue
cessfully on the 12,500-ton White Star
steamship Suevic. Caught in the
grasp of the treacherous Brandies
rocks, off the Lizard Light, at the
southernmost extremity of England,
the big vessel suffered the amputation
of nearly one-third her length for
ward, then, turning on her metaphori-
cal heel, waved a scornful adieu to
the former component part of herself,
and started for Southampton under
her own steam.
She was not pretty sight, it must
be admitted. Her once graceful Prov
was still fast on the rocks with a
large section of the hull attached. The
sea surgeons had patched up the SUBJ
stitute bow to the best of their ability,
but it was a shapeless mass of tim
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-06-21

their names and ages and occupations,
where they came from, whittier they
were going and how long they in
tended to stay. This is part of the
marvelOusly complete system whereby
the police department keeps a record
Of every foreigner within the borders
Of the empire. Soon the Japanese
teacher returned to say that the police,
while quite willing that the visitors
should hold preaching service in the
public square, advised that it be very
short and simple, lest there be trouble
with the rough element in town. Later,
there came second message, couched
in politest terms. suggesting that the
meeting be held in the hotel, where
the honorable gentlemen lodged, at
the upper end of the village
So it was arranged. Shortly after
eight o'clock, lighted by the conven-
tiOnal paper lanterns which the inn
supplied, we proceeded to the public
square, alongside of a steaming pool
whose sulphurous fumes suggested the
opposite of things heavenly. In fact.
/ Kusatsu itself is good place for
preaching. Its very existence is based
largely upon the consequences of i'm
morality. The permanent population
is about 1900 persons, all living off
the visitors, who number between
three and four thousand, more than a
score of whom are Europeans. These
hot sulphur baths, for centuries the
most famous in Japan, while efficacious
in rheumatism and gout, are more gen
orally used for the most loathsome
skin diseases. By far the largest num-
ber OF visitors go to Kusatsu as a
penalty for their own or their parents
; ;transgression of the moral law.
The Old and the New In Competition.
: But to return to the party of mis-
,sionary visitors in the center of the
Village. The simple presence of so
many foreigners, apparently in good
health, attracted attention. When the
older of the two Japanese preachers
announced, holding aloft his lantern
that the foreigners. would speak and
sing that night, heads began to ap
pear on all sides. Then the mission.
aries, all of whom speak Japanese
gathered about their one hymn book
and began to sing Japanese trans
lation of familiar hymn. In the
meantime the native evangelist was
busily accosting individuals, inviting
them to the service and giving them
txRcts. z% : ss.I.> III. 4. - q
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(Copyright 1906 by Joseph B. BOwles.

Copyright, 1906 by Joseph B. Bowles)
karuiZaWa, Japan.-EXact!y how a
missionary goes about introducing his
teachings to a ''heathen' community
which knows absolutely nothing about
Christianity is an interesting point
seldom made plain; now | have seen
1t done, and the procedure is worth
describing. This trip to large in
terror town. where missionaries and
cidents which befell by the way, was
the most interesting experience thus
far encountered N Japan.
In several features this particular
preaching expedition was abnormal
1t was made in connection with an
excursion to the famous hot springs
Of kusatSu by a party of mission
aries who are spending their vaca-
ton in karuizawa, the largest sum-
mer resort for foreigners in Japan.
There were eight young American mis-
SiOnaries, two Japanese teachers or
evangelists, and myself, in the party
which started early one morning for
Tue Lo-1llle Walk over lne mountains
to kusatsu. 1t was worth while to
get this intimate view of missionaries,
for three days of hard travel under
these conditions was enough to reveal
the inwardness of mans nature
Escaping from the five runners from
the one so-called European hotel, who
besieged us at various points along
the latter half of the journey, and de-
spite assurances from apparently dis
interested persons that all the native
inns were full, the party, by an ex-
ercise of it's Japanese speech and
western persistence, found an emf
'Hently satisfactory Japanese hotel.
where ell the missionaries were at
once at home, being quite accustomed
to eating and sleeping on the floor.
At once the native teachers set out
to arrange for religious service by
the foreigners.
The Preachers and the Police.
Soon the kindly paternalism of the
Japanese police was encountered I'M
mediately upon reaching their inn, the
foreigners had been obliged to register
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-06-21
Electric Steel Smeitinu,

It is claimed for the GrongalKjellin
electric induction furnace, which is
now under examination by exports at
Sheffield, England, that it solves the
problem of making very large steel in
gots, demanded by modern machinery,
because it is as easy to make two
ton ingot in this furnace as one of 60
pounds in a, crucible. But it is ad-
mitted that at present high-grade
steels can be made blythe electric fur
mace on a commercially successful
scale, only in places where power can
be obtained at an extremely low cost.
Laboratory experiments have indi-
Gated that a high-class steel can be
made by the electric process from in
ferior material, but for commercial
purposes this is not yet possible.