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The Washington times., 1908-01-09
NEW YORK OPENS
BEDROOM Tunnel
Scramble to Ride on First
Train to Brooklyn
Under River.

NEW YORK. Jan. 9.-By the opening
Of the tunnel under the East River at
l2:45 o'clock this morning Brooklyn and
Manhattan have come within four min
utes of each other and 5000 INTERIOR
oughites may go back and forth be
meath the waves and boats and fishes Of
the stream every busy hour.
During the rush of this morning
trains we'll filled ran at intervals Of
three minutes. Many of the passen-
gers had for years been using the bridge
and their glad desertiou of that struc-
ture relieved IL Of much of its Jam.
The first west Farms and Brooklyn
express was crowded beyond the Wild
est dreams of a rapid transit official
The justly celebrated bridge crush was
outdone.
Crowds were waiting at the Bowling
Green station discussing the new rail-
road or the theaters they had been en-
joying, when a train bearing red and
green lights came booming down the
tube 1t stopped and its doors were be
sieged by men and women in mum bers
sufficient 10 nll two trains They got i'm
most OF them, but they started a good
humoTed riot TO do #. IN four minutes
they had crossed underneath the river
and reached the terminal in Brooklyn.
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MEDICAL CORPS BILL
FAVORABLY REPORTED

The Senate Committee on Military AZ
fairs considered a number Of important
matters this morning and reported IA
vorably the bill TO increase the eff
cheney OF the Medical Corps Of the army
It also decided 20 report favorablv
the nomination OF Col. w. w. Wother-
spoon 10 be bTigadier general. This
nomination has been held up for a con-
siderable time. Colonel WothersDOon was
advanced over the heads Of a number
of other officers when he was appointed
The committee having decided 10 rep0rt
favoTably on his nomination, the nomi-
nations of sixteen others that had been
sent in 10y the President but had been
blocked by the delay in confirming Col
onel WotheTspoons were also favOra bly,
reported upon
The committee held an informal dis
cussion on the Brownsville case. 1t was
decided 70 subpoena additional wit
nesses whom Senator Foraker wants ex-
alnined.
The analyses of bullets which the com
mittee asked for were submitted, bur
were no. made public They are under
stood to show that the bullets now
made for the magazine rife contain an
rImOuv, though not called for in the
specifications. and consequently the
chemical examination viii probably nos
shed as much light or the riotirg at
Brownsville. as was expected. The COM
ynittee viii meet again Wednesday 10
resume COnsideTa ton Of the Brownsville
IlILter.
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VITAL RECORDS
Births.

William a and Mary p Stein. boy.
John and Mary A. SChilling. Ooy.
Henry w and Catherine =. Ricks, boy.
Robert F. and Annie VI. Newell girl
Rufus ". and Wessie A Newton, boy.
AdOlph and Lille Minder. boy.
Edward 7. and Anna g. Lewis, girl
Louis and Fannie Gray. girl
Charles w and Alice r. Fenton, boy.
George p. and Ella n. Downey. boy.
Francesca and Rachella BaTbuttO, boy.
Harry 5. and Carrie 3. Bowman, boy.
Maurice l. and Minnie a. Belts. girl.
Frederick and Mary NJ. BTuninger, girl
Thomas ". and Catherine P. Bowles,
girl
Frederick and Ruth AOrudshein, boy.
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Died

SQUIRES-On Wednesday. January g. 1905
at 6:45 D. m. at her residence, SIS Fourth
street northeast. MARY ELLA. beloved
wife OF Joseph c. Squires-
Funeral Friday. January 10, 1908, at 2
O'CLOCK D. m. from ST. Joseph's Catholic
Church Second and G streets northeast.
Interment at Oak Hili Cemetery, 1t
BENDER-On Wednesday, January s, at s545
Tenth street northwest MARY E.,.Wife OF
Robert W. Bender.
Funeral services at her late residence
Friday, January 10. at 2. m. Interment
private.
burlington, n. J., papers please copy)
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Marriage Licenses.

Robert /. McLane. Richmond, Va, TO
Leila NJ Drew, Boston, Mass.
Joseph Z. Bastion. Pittsfeld, Mass, to
Edna Sheckles-
Clifford O. Wayland to George P.
BrisCOe. both Of Culpeper, Va.
George L Long to Ida L Childes. both
Of PenOla, Va
Ross W. Morrison to Nellie E. Morrison.
William A. McClelland to Margaret Z.
Meyers, both of Baltimore, Nd.
John &. Hauway, Greenville, Miss, TO
Etheldreda /. Eliot.
Francis T., Harrington to Mary L. Eliot.
Vincent De 2. y. Burch 10 Florence c.
Reg6n.
William &. Woods to Annie B. Lucas.
Lyle F HansbTough. Front Royal. Va,
TO Corrinne Miller
William T. Dunphy to Elizabeth p.
Miller.
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REPRESENTATIVE GARRETT
SPEAKS At ST. LOUIS

ST. LOUIS, Jan. Representative r.
J. Garrett, of Dresden, Tenn, was the
principal orator at the thirteenth annual
banquet of the St Louis Tennessee So
Ciety at the Marquette Hotel last night
which was attended by 200 persons, in
Guiding many ladies' HIS subject was
Some Governmental Tendencies OF the
Times"
Governor Joseph ". Folk a native OF
Tennessee, delivered the last address Of
the evening Congressman Garrett took
Il strong position for tariff revision. Lee
MeTiwether, of St Louis, was the other
speaker.
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Deaths.

Mary E. MacdanieI. 96 years, 1917 Six
teenth street northwest.
Caroline L. Rynex, S3 years, 436 G street
northwest,
Samuel D. Fornwald. s years. 1884 D
street southeast
William EIwood, 81 years, L. S. Soldiers
Home District of Columbia.
Joseph II. Towles. 81 years, 1880 Ecking-
ton place northeast.
John Fogarty, IS years, PIP Nineteenth
street northwest.
John William Freeman, years, go Ftf-
teenth street southeast.
Frances Zimmerman, 73 years. L. 3.
Soldiers Home, District OF Columbia
Edwin Walton. l month, 1921 X street
northwest, rear.
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BUSY DAY For TAFT

Secretary Taft was not at the War
Department today. but was literally UP
20 his neck in work at his home. Tie
Secretary will leave the city tomorrow
morning for New York, where he Will
Union.
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WAY OF THE MAID.

Bridget. I hope you're not thinking
at all Of leaving me / should lie very
lonesome without you"
Faith. and it's not lonely yen be
Most-like, III go Whin there's a house
ful o. company for luncheon or din
ner."-LippincOtts.
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IN THE HOUSE.

The House convened promptly at y
o'clock
Members Immediately began drawing
lots for their new Offices
Speaker Cannon appointed Representa-
tive Weeks (AIassachusetts} a member
of the Committee on Agriculture.
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COMPOSERS FIGHT
FOR THFID
Talking M ..- ia. .
Public ' =
other .nOn.

Literary lights and musical composers
who are hocking TO Washington to join
the ranks of lobbyists" are all ''aEin"
Representative Curriers' canned music
bill," that would authorize monographs
and automatic pianos to reproduce the
product OF composers brains without
The payment of royalties.
The manufacturers of monographs
and other sound-produCing instruments
bcse their objection TO the Senator
klttredgc bill, for the protection Of the
authors and composers. upon one
ground. They claim il this bill, allow
57g the composer royalty and control Of
the mechanical rights OF the product Of
is brain. be- passed, they viii be driven
cut OF business, as the author will sell
his rights To one firm only, giving this
firm complete monopoly. The alleged
monopoly, they claim is the result Of
contracts entered into IN 1902 between
certain music publishers and the Aeolian
company, giving To that corporation =
monopoly cf the manufacture of per
1orated music rolls. and that this mo-
nopcly would be aioe1 hy the enactment
If The bill referred 10 above.
Fight Against Royalties.
This cnarge is styled absurd on its
face" and the composers declare that
the fight is not against a monopoly. but
against the payment OF royalty or any
remuneration 10 the composer or
author.
The manufacturers declare said q
composer today, that if they are com
PEELED to pay royalty on their manufac-
lures Il viii cost the public 81 900 900
year. Just think of il; by their own
confession, they have been cheating the
no n aFHae-
uNbO00 a wear.
Now another point about this s.. .O00.-
600 They say that it viii cost the pub
Ic $l0oJ,000- BY their advertising liter
ature, which they distribute every year,
they acknowledge that their profits are
5j % per cent. and this is so arranged
that II viii never decrease, for By a
system of their own they keep up the
price. Is this monopoly?
Offer for Philanthrophists.
In spite Of this they are posing as
philanthropists and declaring that they
don't want to charge the dear public
any more than is necessary. If they
are really in earnest. the composers and
authors viii throw off their royalty;
chat is provided the talking machine
man will take of the G6 % per cont
profit he Is now charging. He ought to
jump ar this chance of being phiIan-
thropiC.
Now how can monopoly exist where
there is nothing TO mouopolize? All the
composers ask is that they ne given
justice. and no one ever heard Of "a
monopoly on brains The trust ques-
ton may affect every other issue. but
IT can't corner the mental and musical
material used in the authors and com
pOser's construction. Let the talking
machine people find a saner excuse than
TINS II they want to successfully wage
their warfare against paying a Just
debt 70 those who furnish their very
excuse for existing, for after all where
would their industry be were II not for
the men VINO supply the musical foun-
datiou upon which they build their
colossal fortunes
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PILES CURED IN 6 TO "a DAYS.

PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any
case OF Itching. Blind. Bleeding or ProtrudinG
Piles In 10 u days OF money refunded. soc,
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20 by without one word being eX-
changed. and when Josiah and his sis
ter tire Of the monotony of questioning
talesmen. they get up and leave WITH
out taking any notice of their slsleT-lh-
law or bidding her good-by,
Evelyn Thaw has watched The cross
examination OF talesmen even closer
than have her husbands attorneys, ana
Ii Is easy 20 follow by the play OF emo
tions on her face and the pursuing OF IleI
lips whether or not the candldate loi
jury duty satisfies her mind.
With the second Thaw trial but lhfee
days old, courtroom habitues are COM
mentirs- somewhat significantly on the
remarkable change in the attitude OF
counsel over the former trial At that
tim, Jerome and Delmas were al
swords points continually, and the re-
salt was frequent WTangles wnich ne
cesgitated judicial interference rms
year Iittletcn and Jerome are on the
best OF terms, so much so, IN fact tnaJ
were Il not known they were opposing
sttCrnevs in a rnonentcus criminal cpl
scde, the casual spectator could NOT
but believe they were fighting for the
same cause.
Jerome Aids Littleton.
Then Mr. Jerome has come to Mr..
Idttleton's assistance with the resul'
that ali Of the men now occupying seats
WlLhln tn6 Edlleu lllCio5uAt nave W.
well sChoo,ed in the State law defining
responsibility OF the insane. 1t is'knowT
that Mr.. Jerome has always contendeu
TEaw was insane, but has held that
he is not suffering from such de
fective reason as to prevent his know
ing the exact nature and quality Of hli
actions.
IIttIeton contends that he was not
morally responsible at the time OF the
killing. This means both men are not
far apart, and it will be a question OF
expert testimony to demonstrate which
is right II IS the hope of the defense tl
admit testimony TO effect Thaw's sanity
plea. If they do not succeed. this trial
like the previous one, IS certain 10 bt
interrupted while a lunacy commission
passes on the present mental status OF
ThaW.
ThaW and his counsel insist he Is nor
NAL mentally now and privately assert
they have no fears Of the outcome Of 9
commission inquiry.
The Washington times., 1908-01-09

Millinery
Clearance of Women's. Misses,
and Children's untrimmed and
reddy-tO-wear Hats of wool felt,
French felt. and velvet,
Values up TO SEQ. G, T. zoe
=
A few elegant Mink
Fur Hats, that sold for Sd 90
S6.9S. G.. T. P..............,.. r. > y
Trimmed Hats worth SO Or
$ to Il >
Trimmed Hats worth So OS
s. to S10.-................... y. , >
Trimmed Hats worth 81 0E
SO 10 So. 12..............-.....-. , ,
Ten exquisite Trimmed Hats that
sold from $50 to $50.
Black and cOlors- SIX M
=. y. ....................... - " "
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Special Notices.

GOOD EATING-Regular breakfast. .25c;
regular dinner, 35C. Lunch, special for
busy people, u 20 2. NEW CARLEION
CAtE, 4yl llth St nw. ja9-S0t
THE ANNUAL MEETING OF the stock
holders Of the Northern Liberty Market
Association VIII be held at the office OF
the company. Room 1s. HUtchins Build
ing, 937 l. 80 NV. Washington. y. C.. on
IT. ESDA4. JANUARY a. lSoo. at
O'CLOCK p. NJ, for the purpose OF
and transactiug such other business as
may properly come before the meeting
BY order Of the President WI. DANTE,
Secretary. ja6.9.13.ls,z
THE ANNUAL MEETING or THE
stockholders Of the BTightWOod Railway
Company for the purpose Of electlng
Board OF Directors to serve for the en-
suing year. and to Transact suck other
business as Will properly come before
the meeting. VIII ue held at the once
OF the Company, 14tb and East Cap!tOt
Streets n E, Washington, ID. 9, on
SATURDAY, JANUARY 18TH Ss5. be
tween the hours Of 100 and 2;99 = II
Z. !. WHITEHEAD
jaS-11t Secretary.
THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
stockholders OF the Georgetown and
TennallytoWn Railway Company, tor tne
purpose Of electiug a Board OF Directors
! 70 serve for tire ensuing year. ana Il
transact such other business as Will
properly come before the meeting WliL
| be held at the Office OF the Company,
l4th and East Capitol streets y E
/ Washington, D. c., on SATUHDAH'
/ JANUARY 18th, 1903, betV cen the
hours Of 100 and 200 p. n
+ J. WHITEHEAD.
jas-l1t Secretary.
OWING TO THE DISBANDING or A
| large Southern automobile company, L
nave for sale twelve twenty passenger
automobiles OF approved electric type.
They are made by the Electric Vehicle
Company and COS, originally &S.01O
apiece Also b-ye complete charging
panel and twelve rheOstats. " III sell az
an entirety or separately. Your price
VIII have careful consideration Ad-
| dress mo RDG 2EZ T-ma. nfEice- laL-tL
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Best Work Assured

when Bookbiuc-ng Is done al Hodges Big,
finely equipped boCkbindeTy-
Hodges Big BOOkbindery. 43J-2Z Ifth, next star
LEGAL ADVICE. ALL CASES. COL
lection, domestic troubles. estates set
tied. damage to person or property ad-
Justed; moderate charges CONFIDENTIAL
L. s. LEGAL CORP. SU7 Bond Bldg.
jai-30t
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HIGH-CLASS GENTS TAILORING
Mems suits TO order. SIS up. Trousers.
81 UD. Fit Guaranteed. GOODMAN,
TAILOR, s42 Z ST. NV deI-u
". S. TAPPAH, eos st. NV.
Jeweler and Optician. A fine stock OF
Watches, Jewelry, Cut Glass. &c. for ths
Holidays. Prices the lowest de17-2ot
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UNDERTAKERS

FUNERAL DEsIG-;S
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-11
New York.
NEW York. Sept. 5, 1908.

Business in the leaf market CORE
spends exactly to the commercial and
industrial situation of the entire country
and is no better and no worse than can
be expected, There is no need to view
the situation pessimistically nor permit
oneself to go off on rainbow chase of
optimism. Extreme views are always
baneful There is noticeable a slow but
steady recovery, and although the out
put of our cigar industry is still falling
somewhat heavily under the figures at
tained in the year before the panic, an
output OF eight thousand millions would
seem to still require a considerable sup
ply of leaf. This supply the market will
have to furnish and sooner or later the
activity will exert itself in moving the
stock on hand. But because OF this
prospect it would be unreasonable, if not
extravagant, to indulge in the flights Of
a possible BOOM From all indications
the country is not just now resuming its
normal footing in stimulating an ex-
banded consumption. And the proba-
bilities are that i will take US at least
another year to bring US back to the
prosperity which prevailed up to last
fall and for this period of time we have
al ample supply VI l6dL. hS lolS oo
manufacturers do not begin to exceed
their former output so long will they be
shy in stocking up to their full capacity.
And while this period lasts they will be
also on the lookout to underpay rather
than to overpay their supply of raw leaf.
Prices may be steady but they are un-
likely to bounce up in hurry.
The situation in the local cigar manu-
featuring industry is steadily though
slowly improving. The output for the
month of August, as shown by the Off
cial figures published in the present
issue, was good way behind that of the
corresponding month of last year, it is
true, but month by month the deficit is
being cut down, and there is good
grounds for hope that the output in the
fall will be up to the normal.-Journal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-11
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET.
EDGERToN, Wis, Sept. IL, 100

EDGERToN, Wis, Sept. IL, 1908.
The buying movement is dragging
along in the Vernon county district
where it is estimated that about % per
cent. of the new crop has been contract
ed for and represents the greater part
that appeals to buyers while standing in
the fields. Some movement is also noted
in other sections but nowhere is very
strong inclination developed towards
crowding the buying. The prices mem
toned are generally around the 10 cent
mark. About dozen crops in the vi
cinity of Poynette were purchased by a
GAINESVILLE buyer this week.
The har vest is going forward but the
rain needed for the development of the
late tobacco has not come and much
small leaf is being shielded. There can
be no escape from the conclusion that
the yield will be away short of expecta-
tions and the quality at this time hard
to predict.
The sale OF a 750 case lot of Equity
pooled low grades for the account of a
Detroit manufactures is reported, sub
ject to inspection tickets. Sampling is
becoming quite general and some good
sized transactions IN old leaf are under
consideration, we learn. A. Jenson &
Sons purchased SECS lot of '07 from u.
G. Miller.
The shipments out of storage reach
about 500 cases from this market to all
points for the week.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-11
Connecticut valley Tobacco Market.

The harvest OF the tobacco crop has
gone forward very fast during the past
week. Very little tobacco remains now
to be harvested. The crop, so far as it
has been harvested, shows very light
colors in the sheds, SO far as it has got
cured down, and barring the few holes
lin some instances) looks fine. and equal
to sixteen or eighteen cent value. The
growth was large and showy; finer
crop was never grown, and what was in
the sheds before the hail storm, and that
portion that was skipped by the storm.
should bring fancy price. We have
had two mornings that were rather cool,
with white frost appearing on boards in
some sections but nothing that shows on
the tobacco lssves, no frost appears on
high ground, only in low exposed spots.
/ think the crop will all be housed with
out showing any frost marks Cultiva-
tor
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-11
GAINESVILLE, WIS.

own as to price, however, these being the
same they have been the past month.
The weather lately has been favorable
to the growing tobacco. Probably a
fifth of the crop has been cut, and cut
ting is now in full swing. There will be
good many crops here and there, how
ever, which will not be cut much before
the end of Septemb Der, for some has not
yet been topped, and it takes about three
weeks before the plants can be cut after
topping. Taken altogether, 1t is be-
lieved this years crop viii be on q par
with last years as to quantity and quail
ity. For some reason a good many grow
ers have topped their tobacco high,
which will give. more leaves, but they
will be smaller than low-topped plants,
where the strength has gone to the fewer
leaves. Rains and warm days have
brought the plants out wonderfully,
lately, and the crop looks fine. 1t is es-
timated that about so per cent. will be
good, Is per cent. medium and per
cent. poor Even if there are no early
frosts, considerable tobacco will go dan
gerously near the normal season of frost
before being cut.-New Era.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-11
New YORK, Sept. 2, 1908

Several dealers have expressed them-
selves to the effect that last month was
the poorest August from the standpoint
of business done, in many, many years,
If not in the trades history. In spite of
the fact that during large part of the
month the market was overrun with vis-
itors, the actual transactions that took
place did not involve the transfer of
ownership of very much tobacco of any
kind. The buyers took their departure,
and most of them are expected back in
October. The manufacturers seem to
be only fairly busy, and during the last
few days Withdrawals from bond have
been quite heavy. Nevertheless, among
the leaf dealers the week was exceed
inglY auiet.-Leaf.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-11

The organ of the Society OF Equity in
this state is getting quite scockey" for
in late issue in self satisfactory man
ner it says: aThe American Society of
Equity in the state of Wisconsin is get
ting we'll along toward tie point where
it can feel quite independent over the
question of whether a farmer joins or
not The period of experiment to prove
the worth of the plans OF Equity have
been safely passed Heretofore, outside
of the tobacco pool, the lines have not
been closely drawn and many were ben
Gifted by Equity methods who did not
belong to the Society, but this will now
be cut out and only those who are mem
bers and help by the payment of mem
bership fees and dues to establish the
marketing system shall participate in
the profits therefrom. Therefore those
whc do not care for higher prices for
their farm products can stay out if they
choose, and those who do want more can
join if they choose. There are enough
already in to insure success if not an
other man joins
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-11
Lancaster.
LANcAsTER, Pa. Sept. /, 1908,

The past week was listless one in
the local leaf tobacco market. The pack
ers have ali along had fairly good trade
with cigar manufacturers, but the slump
in the cigar industry has lessened even
this trade to a material extent. No out
side sales we're reported for last week.
The same dullness prevailed for the 1907
holdings, though Charles w. Bitner
made one large purchase, $50 bales from
Weaver & Slocum of Kinzer. Both the
1906 and 1907 goods are holding their
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-11
MIAMIsBURG, O., Sept. 3, 1903.

The drouth in this vicinity has bad
effect on the growing tobacco, which
will hardly develop. The tobacco will
be short. There seems to be some in
quiry about tobacco, and buyers are pre-
pairing to go into the field q, 4 begin
early buying, il any one is ra-u enouz i
to set the ball rolling. News.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-11

NOTE BOOK SKETCHES

The continued dry weather during the
maturing season has certainly put its
brand upon the new tobacco crop. There
is no escaping the conclusion that the
1908 Wisconsin will be very largely g B"
crop yielding much smaller percentage
of serviceable binders than any previous
crop in some years. The early fields will
doubtless produce fair binder tobacco
but even these will lack the size SO much
desired; but the drouth has left its
pinching effects upon the great majority
of the crop and stunted heavy bodied
leaf is generally believedNto be the re-
suit. Il is unfortunate that the market
does not stand so much in need of /" b.
stock as it does binder leaf and this fact
in measure may account for the rush
of buyers to secure the more promising
early fields believing that the proper
ton of such tobacco would be much too
small. The market may as we'll conclude
first as last that it need not expect to
draw its supply of this state the coming
year without resoriing to the accumu-
lated stocks of old leaf and even this
may not be adequate for the demands of
the trade.