davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26
NEW YORK COTTON.

NEW YORK, February 28.-Cotton fu-
lures opened firm. March 9.33; May, 9.51;
June offered 9.61; July, 9.64; August, 0.69;
September, 9.6S; October. 907; December,
1905.
The cotton market opened firm, at an
advance of BALL points in response to bet
ter cables than looked for and reports that
March notices would be promptly stopped.
This view was promoted by active demand
for March during the early session, and
that position sold up to 9.3S thirteen
points net higher. and later months ad-
vanced 10 a net gain of about 11a13 points
on covering, and fresh buying for long
account attracted by the reports of an
active demand from trade interests in
Liverpool and rumorS rega riding the March
position, which some thought still con-
tanned large short interest. Notices were
said to be out representing about 10000
bales OF cotton but were evidently not a
depressing influence on the market. which,
after reacting three or four points from
the best, ruled pretty steady during the
middle of the morning.
The market during the late forenoon
held steady and moderately active. March
held around 9.34 or about nine points net
higher. and later positions were seven to
eight points net higher. Shorts were the
chief buyers. Spot quiet middling up
land. 100; middling gulf 11.25.
Estimated receipts at the ports today.
1886 last year. For the week. $50, 600
bales. against go, 03J last week and 1OS,-
9S5 last year. Today's receipts at New
Orleans, IL CTS bales, against 1922 last
year. and at Houston. Ii, 6s7 bales, against
1910 last year,
LIV ERPoOL. February 20 - Closing:
Cotton. spot moderate business done; prices
points higher: American middling fair
Cos; good middling 6.45; middiing, 600;
low mddling. 5.1T; good ordinary. SO:
ordinary. sos. The sales of the day were
5000 bales of which 500 were for specu-
lation and export. and included 1900 Amer
lean. Receipts 10000 bales, including 49,
800 American. Futures opened steady and
closed quiet. American middling g. o. c.,
February. 5.74ts: February and March. 5.6S:
March and April SGT; April and May,
6.63ia: July and August, SCI; August and
September, 5.5Sh: September and October
6.56l4: October and November. $50; Novem-
Der and December. 55211: December and
b.531z.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26
Closing Quotations.

Closing Quotations.
At the close of the stock market the fol-
lowing stocks had changed in price since
above quotations. there being no change in
balance os the closing prices:
American Car and Foundry, 441h
American Locomotive, TN.
American Smelling. 141B.
American Sugar, 1924.
Anaconda, 284h.
Atchison. Top. & s. Fe.. 1O1T.
Atlantic Coast Line, IT.
Baltimore & Ohio 1O9h
Brooklyn Rapid Transit, ~.
Canadian Pacific 1856.
Chesapeake and Ohio, 5Oh.
Chicago, Mil. & ST. Paul, 1451s
Chicago & N. W. 1907.
Colorado Fuel and Iron 44k
Colorado Southern, San.
Corn Products, 22S.
Delaware & Hudson 22A
Denver and Rio Grande. 81.
Distiliers Securities. 75h.
Erie, common, 34S.
Great Northern, pfd, 1914
Mo- Kansas & Tex, COM. PTS.
Mo, Kansas & Tex. pfd., 5S1k.
Missouri Pacific, 79A.
Northern Pacific, 147A.
Pacific Mail Steamship. 33A.
Pennsylvania r. R., 1291s
Republic Steel and Iron, 331s.
Rock Island, common, 24h.
Rock Island, pfd., 54A.
Southern Pacific, 91h
Southern Railway, 25N.
Texas Pacific. SO.
Union Pacific. 17OH.
U. s. Steel 44b.
U. S. Steel, pfd., 103%.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26
THE BALTIMORE MARKETS

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. Nd, February 2s.-wHEAT-
Firm; spot contract .sAa5s spot No; re red
May, So: steamer No. 2 red. 74Aa74h; receipts
,2SS bushels.
CORN-Steady; spot 51a51h February. 51a511s:
March, 5la5ls; April 5l&a51h; May. B2a52h
steamer mixed, 4SA a4sH; receipts. $50, 659 BUSH
els exports. $50 bushels; southern white corn
50a52; southern yellow corn 49a51.
OATS-Firmer; No white, Ash sales; No. 8
bushels.
RYE-Steady: No. 2 western domestic, T1a72;
choice, 75aI6; receipts $50 bushels.
HAY-Quiet, unchanged.
GRAIN FREIGHTS-Firm; steam to Liverpool
per bushel. 2Ad. March; Cork for orders, per
quarter, q. I'D. March.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26
Army Orders.

The following assignments to regiments
of officers recently promoted are an
nounced: Capts. John McClintoci1. 5th Cav
airy; Paul T. Hayne. jr., 18th Cavalry;
Fred E. Buchan. 9th Cavalry; Edward A.
Sturges. LIST Cavalry; First Lieuts. Irwin L.
Hunsaker, 9th Cavalry; Clifton r. Norton.
14th Cavalry: Eugene J. Ely, 9Th Cavalry.
Capt. Joseph T. Davidson, quarterniaster,
has been ordered to Egypt. Ga, for the
purpose of inspecting the method Of creo-
soting timber to be used In sea wall at
Fort Screyen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26
london Stock Market.

LONDON, February 26-American securi-
ties were dull at the opening today. South
ern Pacific and Chicago. Milwaukee and st.
Paul advanced Nan over yesterdays New
York closing. but the rest OF the list de-
clined Nah during the FIST hour Of business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26
Washington Stock Exchange.

Sales.-Regular call. IL o'clock noon-Columb1a
r. r. IS. 81 600 at l05. 40,
Washington Rwy. and Elec. As. 81 900 at S4X,
81, coo at S4N, $500 at S4B.
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone IS, $l;ooO AZ
1O4b. ~
20 at 1i3.
Washington Rwy. and Elec CON-, so at S9A.
Washington Rwy. and Elec pfd 100 at 50, 90
at s5k so at IS, so at So. 50 at IS, so at IS, 20
at SiB.. ~
Washington Gas. 100 at So (buyer CO.,. % at SIN.
Lanston Monotype. 100 at 1874.
After call-Capital Traction, at 143k, 20 at
LAB, 20 at 143, 20 at 143.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26
Grain and Provisions Summary.
CHICAGO. February 26.-provisions:
Liverpool Prices.

LIVERPOOL. February 26-Wheat: Spot
strong; No. red western winter. 6s ID;
futures easy: March. IS. 6hd.: May 6s.
57sd.; July. 6s 314d. Corn: Spot steady;
American mixed new. As. 3d.; American
mixed old, is. 1hd.: futures dull; March, As.
4a4d.; May. IS. SID.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26
CHICAGO GRAIN.

CHICAGO. February 23-The wheat mar
ket today was active May sold at 77M
Corn was dull. May sold a. 47Aa47h
Oats were firm at 42A.
Provisions were easier. May pork opened
at 1890. lard was at go and ribs at 9.15.
81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26

Bar silver, firm, 32d. per ounce.
Money 4Ha5 per cent.
The rate OF discount In the open market for short
bills is 15-16a5 per cent
The rate of discount in the omen market for three
months bills Is Is I6a4N per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26
CURB QUOTATIONS.

Furnished BY e. r. Chapman Co. "a. B. Chin.
man. manager). members New York stock exchange,
At n
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26
The World Of
Finance and Trade
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

and trokers. 140o + street, members New
York stock exchange. Washington stock En-
change and Chicago board Of trade
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26
Today's Cotton Summary.

Furnished by Dick Bros & Co.. 14l2 FL st. NV
Phones Main G440-6i4l.
NEW YORK COT TON
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26
Today's Government Receipts.

National bank notes received today Tor
redemption, $533649; government receipts
from internal revenue. S526,561; customs.
1925. SAL; miscellaneous, $123, 594; expendl-
lures, $1.730,OOO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26

NEW ORLEANS COTTON.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-02-15
"THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

On Friday of next week the Junior
College Glass of Fisk University will
present the Merchant of Venice" in
the Fisk Memorial Chapel, common
cling at 8 p. m Much care, time and
pains have been spent in preparation
and practice towards the end of max.
ing the play the huge success that in
dications show it would be. Among
the personnel are James A. Myers, of
Lexington, KY, in the role Of Antonio,
theS merchant, and William Arthur
Macintyre, Of Port of Spain, Trinidad,
B. N. l., as Bassanio, the friend and
born companion of Antonio.
The proceeds are to be devoted to
the endowment fund Of the Carnegie
Library, and it is hoped that this fact,
apart from the literary treat in store,
will draw a representative gathering of
the lovers of race progress.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-02-15
FISK UNIVERSITY PLACE.

1t is a truism as old as the hills that
if a man or a ace for that matter,
ever expects to be anything he or it
must own something. AS long as a
man has nothing to tie him to any
particular place his value rs a citizen
in a vast majority Of cases, is a negli-
gible quantity. But when he owns
something he Immediately takes up
that interest in the welfare of the
community which all good citizens
should feel.
The Negroes of Nashville for the
past few years have made remarkable
strides forward and are showing their
confidence in the city, displaying their
determination to remain here, and
manifesting their desire to be out of
the class who own nothing and are
forever under the power of the land
lord, by the investing of their in
comes in property. In most cases
these investments are not made for
speculative purposes but for the espe.
cial purposes of providing a home for
men and their families.
This home purchasing movement
has gone steadily forward and one
needs but to go in certain sections OF
the city and he will see places that q
few years since were to all interests
and purposes wild commons, now dot
ted with modest but coy cottages.
The demand for property has been
great; the desire even greater. The
one hindering cause that has pre-
vented many persons of modest means
from i~ndulging their desire to owr
something has been the fact thai
out of their meagre incomes it was
impossible to save sufficient money tC
make the first payment. Again, even
if this almost insurmountable bar
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-02-15

rier to owning something has been
overcome, the next trial to be faced
was the payments. To meet the regu-
lar demands made upon the bread-win-
ner as the head of a family and pay
upon property at the same time is
more than most men making only as
much as the average laborer can do.
But, as advertised in the columns of
The Globe last week, and as is an
nounced on another page of this issue,
a plan has been devolved whereby
any n can purchase a piece of land
and that, too, at terms so reasonable
that the poorest paid man in the city
can meet them.
This plan offered by the Company
is practicable and besides the property
offered for sale is desirable. The land
will form one Of the most desirable,
healthful and beautiful additions that
have ever been made to the city of
Nashville. The lay of the land is
such that it car be truly called high
and dry-free from the swampy
marshes so often found in land to be
sold.
The property is about three blocks
south from the end of Jefferson street.
1t begins with Mclaughlin avenue and
runs west to the crest of a hill about
one-fourth of a mile away. From al
most every lot in the tract the view of
Nashville is magnificent. In the fore
ground is Fisk University, with all the
classic beauty of each of the buildings
of this great institution shown in bold
relief; to the left stretches before the
eye the ever-growing North Nashville,
while in the distance beyond, to the
fore and to the right, may be seer the
Capitol and the other prominent
buildings of the city proper.
The property is truly an ideal spot
and the terms are so reasonable that
we feel no hesitancy in recommend
ing the sale to all who desire a home
site at reasonable terms.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-02-15

request to Postmaster -General Cortel-
you Ito know whether it is feasible to
bar from the mails the papers that
give the full disgusting details of the
Thaw case," is, after all, but an at
tempt to find If the accounts published
in the great dailies violate the Sec
ton of the United States Postal laws
which prohibits the publication Of lob
scene, lewd or lascivious work, pamph-
let, picture, print" etc., from the
mails. Upon the investigation of the
department and its decision as to what
is considered obscene, lewd, or las
civous' will depend the final actions
in the case.
President Roosevelt, the busy, i'm
pulsive man that he is, yet finds time
to read the disgusting details of the
lhaw trial. He is shocked! He is
disguised! The shock, the disgust,
does not, or should not, come from
the fact that the papers are giving the
dirty details of the trial, but because
there Is such a state of ~rottenness in
what might be called the upper classes
of white society.
The Thaw case, which resembles
the Feist case Of this city in that it
deals with the immortality of people
above the average, is an unusual one.
The wealth of the murderer, who is a
member Of n of the richest families
in Pennsylvania and had an excellent
social position in his home town, Pitts
burgh and London, and the great repu-
tation of the victim who was the great
est architect of his day, lend an inter-
est to the trial that Is not limited to
New York. Some of the best legal tai
ent in the country has been retained.
And as the lawyers probe into this
social ulcer to lay bare the disgust
ing details" of the iniquitcus life prac-
ticed by some of the bohemian bon
tons, the publicity given to their find
ings is helpful to the general public
rather than harmful.
That such putrescence exists among
the higher type of the greatest race
created, a race thousands of years re
moved from the rule Of the brute pas
sions of savagery, is indeed disgust
ing. But will the suppression Of the
facts tend to improve the morals Of
those who are interested in the case?
We think not. We are inclined to
agree with the opinion of a Provi-
dence, R. l., Baptist preacher, who
said: "The tenor of the testimony in
the Thaw trial is one Of the best indi-
cations in recent years of the easy
manner in which a young girl may be
led astray under such conditions as
exist in one of our large Cities" and
he thought it inadvisable to lose the
effects of the greatest moral lesson
of the age" by failing to make the de-
tails public.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-02-15
TO THE PUBLIC.

Any erroneous reflection upon the charac.
ter, standing or reputation of any person,
Arm Or corporation, which may appear IN the
be gladly corrected upon being brought to the
attention of the management
Send correspondence for publication so as
TO reach this Office Monday. No matter in
tended for current issue which arrives as late
as Thursday can appear in that number, as
Thursday is press day.
All news matter sent US for publication
must be written only on one side of the pa
per, and should he accompanied by the name
OF the contributor; not necessarily for publ
cation, but as an evidence of good faith.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-02-15
THE PUBLIC

The daily papers announced that
several of the city councilmen will op-
pose the recommendation made by the
Board of Education and the Superin.
tendent of the city schools, that money
be appropriated for the erection Of
two new schools for our children and
the repairing Of other schools. These
gentlemen take the position, which is
In no name unique, that a sufficient
sum is being spent for the education
Of Negroes and that the buildings are
ample. "A casual examination of the
school facilities offered our children
will show the fallacy of the council
mems contention.
! The children living in the section Of
the city between 10 Johnston avenue
and Broad street, to relieve whom n
Of the proposed schools is to be built,
must walk from ten to twenty blocks
to reach the nearest school. These
children, more often than otherwise
mere tots, as only the primary grades
are taught in the two nearest schools,
are forced to go this long distance in
all conditions Of weather and those at
tending Knowles School are constant
ly exposed to the danger of the grade
railroad crossings Of the N. G. & st.
L. Ry., and the Illinois Central Ry.
The latter is not even protected by the
usual gates. To force these children
to go such distances works a hardship
upon them and to constantly expose
them to the dangers of the grade
crossings is not far from criminality.
The crowded conditions which are met
on the inside Of the school seriously
handicap the efforts of the teachers, as
il almost every instance the colored
teacher has more children under his
supervision than is allotted to the
white.
We would not impugn the motives
of Councilman Marlin, who is sponsor
for the opposition movement, ever
though he lives in the ward which
has the largest white population o.
any in the city, according to the cen
u of 1900. 1t seems to us, however
that Nashville, with all Of her schools
of learning, can not afford to let the
common educational advantages pro
vided for our people deteriorate by no
increasing the facilities as the city
grows.
The inequality of the provisions
made for the white and black children
is too great at present, for those who
have the best interests of the tive
races at heart, to adopt a course o
of non-improvement for the colorec
schools. In most of the affairs of thu
South, "for the colored race" is syn
with inferior accommoda
lions. We hope that such will not b.
the case with the Nashville schools.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-02-15
LOSES HIS HOME.

Fire is very destructive when it
breaks out in a tender place. The
house owned and occupied by Brison
Venson, at 1853 Lafayette street, was
considerably damaged by fire Thurs
day morning about 3 o'clock. The fire
was well under way when the hose
company arrived. The fire is said to
have been caused by a defective flue.
The loss has been estimated at $1,000,
fully covered by insurance.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-02-15

Sheriff Ship, his deputies and some
Of the alleged lynchers of Chattanoo-
ga are now facing the commissioner
sent to that city by the Supreme Court
to investigate the Ed Johnson lynch.
ing. The white people of Chattanooga
have an excellent opportunity to take
some of the medicine that they so fire.
gently prescribe for their colored
brother by turning over to the civil
authorities the criminals who took
Johnson's life. But the opportunity
will be passed unless the Supreme
Court forces them to do so. We hope
the whole gang will feel the heavy
hand of the law in so far as the
present investigation is concerned and
that they will later be prosecuted
through a lower court for their crimi-
nal deeds.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-02-15

Alton B. Parker, the whilom leader
of what Wallace Irwin calls "the safe
insane" party, bobs up serenely semi
occasionally to get off some such ad-
vice as would be fitting the sage of
Esopus. His last address in which he
dealt with the race or Southern prob
lem, failed to arouse any more inter-
est in the Judge than did most Of his
speeches in 1904. By discussing some
of the problems before the American
people, however, Judge Parker keeps
the people from forgetting the name
of the man so ANONYMOUSLY defeated
by Roosevelt.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-02-15

February was the natal month Of
three OF Americas greatest men
George Washington, Abraham Lincoln
end Frederick Douglass. Douglass, in
an address concentrating the birth
day of Lincoln, told the following
which has a peculiar application at
the present time:
my mission to him was in regard
to the enlistment and the treatment Of
colored troops. = = y = = =
"On the point of promotion, he was
equally willing, but on retaliation he
asked, Where will it stop?' l could
see that there was a vista Of blood
opening to him from which his tender
heart shrank. He said, If l could get
hold Of the men that murdered your
troops, murdered our prisoners of war,
l would execute them, but l cannot
take men that may not have had any
thing to do with this numbering of
our soldiers and execute them. No,
Mr.. Douglass, l don't see where it
would stop; besides, l understand they
are beginning to treat our colored sol
diers as prisoners of war;"
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-02-15

paid a beautiful tribute to the ladies
of the Circle. He made an excellent
speech. He spoke of the good work
the ladies had done for the church
the past year. After Prof. Hardiman's
speech a program was rendered by
some of the best talent of the city.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-02-15

The War Department has ordered
that hereafter the chief musicians in
the bands connected with the colored
troops will be colored men providing
competent men can be secured. We
hope this is an interesting wedge for
Negro officers for Negro troops.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-02-15

Instead of s%uppressing the details
Of the Thaw trial, Mr.. Roosevelt ought
to limit its publication to one New
York paper. 1t would be sc much
cheaper for the common people to get
the whole story then.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-02-15
THE LADIES AID CIRCLE.

The Ladies' Aid Circle Of Clark Me-
mortal Church celebrated their first
anniversary, February II, at the home
of Mrs. Walter Shelby, 734 Tenth ave-
nue., South. Prof. Thos, Hardiman
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-02-15

The Globe is in receipt of a souvenir
program of the banquet rendered Reg
lister of the Treasury ". T. Vernon,
by some of the prominent citizens of
Washington, on January Goth.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-02-15

What would Teddy do if the court
martial should e~xonorate Maj. Pen
rose because it found that the "grea-
ser" policemen of Brownsville had
really shot up the town.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-02-15

Roosevelt is right. The New York
papers should be prohibited from pub
fishing the details of the Thaw case.
1t costs too much to buy them all.
nal deeds.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-02-15
THE THAW CASE.

What would at first seem an unpar-
alelled assumption Of authority by the
President Of the United States in his
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-02-15
ADVERTISING RATES FURNISHED
UPON APPLICATION.
READING MATTER

cents per line for each insertion.
8 cents per line for each insertion (black
fsce).
Contracts for 1000 lines to be taken in q
year, made at 3 cents per line.
Advertising copy should be in the Office
not later than Tuesday 9 a. m. of each week.