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New-York tribune., 1908-08-12
School Agencies.
To WhOm 1t MGy Concern.

SCPREME COURT. COUNTY OF NEW TOFK--REN-
- tartn NJ Whitlock. suing bis behalf ard en
oehar or all other stockholders and creditors of se
National Steel q Wire Company PLAINTIFF. against 90
tional Steel & Wire Company DISCRIMINATION the Or
der made in the above-entitled action bearing dae t
pth day OF January. 1897. appointing Homer WISE -
Harold Nathan ancillary receivers OF all the pIop
and assets OF the National Steel & Wire Company
uated within the State OF New York, and the
OF said Homer Wise and Harold Nathan. verified tne osA
day OF August 1905 and motion OF Emil Sodlsr1s
tiff. and the defendant and the Fidelity psp9sss.
Company OF Maryland, and all creditors an sfoct
erS OF the National Steel & Wire Company anG -
persons interested in the affairs OF said company -
held in and the County OF New York at tae
Court House. In the city OF New York, Boroush OF
haitian the l{th day OF August lSte. at lV"oV
IN the forenoon. thereafter as counsel
heard why the said anciary receivers should not %
receivers OF the Nations
4 Wire State OF COnnecticut Apps.-n
remaining IN the hands % so
anciliary receivers amounting 20 ths sum OF
deducting theresrOm the fees of the ~
the expenses OF this application. and all the 80
ancillary receivers should not be thereGpon "a
ali liability their bond cancelled and WY
other further different relief should not 20 s--ser
the court may seem proper. ana II - .-a-sx.a
ordered that copy OF this order and tns snnaa- snI-
petition be upon the attorneys for the
the attorneys for the defendant. the Fidelity D1Sx
Company of Maryland. and upon the following aNsttcsI
representing creditors stockholders OF the
Il Wire Company. namely Wilbur L Bal
Graham GasseT. ESD. Charles Gibson Bennett a
Rushmore. Bis6ee Rogers stern Esss. R,sss R,xcT,s-
aid Bostwiek. Esqs: and IL Is further oroer-a faw
copy OF this order be published In the New f s an.
Journal the New York Tribune on tee -.
10th and 18th days OF August. 1sos and that seS'
D~'''' -s~ John ". GoT,n
q
New-York tribune., 1908-08-12
STEAMERS AT FOREIGN PORTS.

ARRIVED
London Aug 1o-Minneapolis (Br). New York.
Liverpool, Aug 1O-Lusitania (Br). New York via
Queenstown
Rotterdam, Aug e-IEerrnione tBr( New York
Antwerp. 10-Chester (Dutch) New York.
Adelaide, Aug s-GIendhu (Br), New York via Cape
Bordeaux Aug Hero (Nor). New York; eth
Louisiana (Fr). New York for Dunkirk
Calais Aug 1o-Broadmayne (Br), New York
Genoa Aug s-Ancona Qtap, New York via Napies
Bayonno CGer). New York via Algiers, etc.
Lfbau. Aug 7-Estonia (Russ). New York via Rotter-
dam
SAILED.
Antwerp Aug e-New York Dutch tank) New York;
Andrew (Br), New York.
New York
Huelva, Aug 6-Pola (Br). New York.
Messina, 4-Caprera (Ital), New York
Swansea. Aug 10-Brooklyn City (Br) (from BristoD,
New York
PASSED.
Gibraltar. Aug list Patrick (Br). New York for
Alden. Singapore,
Scilly l1-Pennsylvana fGer). New York for
Plymouth. cherbourg Hamburg
Malta. Aug s-oceano tBr), Hong Kong, etc, fas
Boston and New York --z---~
New-York tribune., 1908-08-12
GIANTS eRANDsTAND TOO SMALL

Plans have been fled with the Buildings Depart
ment for enlarging the big grandstand of the New
York National Baseball Club at the Polo Grounds
erecting temporary addition 81 feet high 400 feet
long and 81 feet deep. It will be Of wood and
iron, with a balcony above the ground tier. The
addition Is to cost s0O according to the estimate
OF the architect, ". D. Hunter.
New-York tribune., 1908-08-12
SOME BRONX BOROUGH SALES.

Paul Bultmann has sold for a client Nos. ass. 457
and 459 East 1S5th st. three three-fa1nily fiat
houses plot 5ox1C0 feet
John Miller has sold the two-famiIy dwelling
house No. 1868 Eastburn ave. 10 Louis Hirsch.
Mrs. Meta Crusius has sold No. 213 Burnside
ave. TO John Montgomery.
New-York tribune., 1908-08-12

cabin and $50 passengers mails ana udse Ar
a at I
steamer Prnz August wilhelm Ger, Gerdes savan-
ula JuIy 20 Port Iimon August g. Colon Kingston
and Long Bay g. to Hamburg American Line. with e2
cabin passengers, mails and mdse Arrived at the
$40 n
Steamer Ocnulgee Webb Brunswick August 6. TO the
f3r7InsUick SIS Co with Left Quarantine at
Sandy Hook N J. Aug IL 9:so nl-Wnd south; light
breeze; fair weather; light sea-
SAILED
Steamers Kronprtnz Wilhelm (GeT). Bremen via
Plymouth Cherbourg; Rotterdam Dutch. Rotterdam
Bouogne Bernudian (Isr), BerTn1dai Cothds Guneo
delphia Kelvngrove (Br). Pernambuco Bahia, etc. Sal
vatore di Gorso (or Port Antonio; Sabine Tampa and
Mobile: Mama Hata BALTIMORE Buenos Ayres (Span)
Havana and Cruz: Hamilton. Norfolk and Jackson
OF Columbus Savannah; FL Eio Galveston.
New-York tribune., 1908-08-12
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
MINIATURE ALMANAC.

MINIATURE ALMANAC.
Sun rises 5:07 Sun sets - Moons IS
HIGH WATER.
AM-Ssndv Hook 73f Gov. Island S:oolFIe Gate 9:53
PM-Sandy Hook 90 Gov. Sis He'll Gate 1O:11
New-York tribune., 1908-08-12
WIRELESS REPORTS,

The Caronia reported ESQ miles Of Sandy Hoc
at $50 m yesterday. is expected dock about a
a N Thursday
New-York tribune., 1908-08-12

Proposals.
OFFICE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS,
~ Arsenal Buildins. Fifth avenue and sixty-fourth
stree: % Ems S ESSTTNI STF-S viii be received by
the PARK Board Office OF the Department OF
Parks until o'clock P. NJ,
THURSDAY. AUGUST 90. 1908.
Borough of Manhattan.
work and mat the execution OF the
rroacb work exterior building of the New York
Pubic Library, and Tilden foundations.
Fifth avenue. Fortieth and Forty second street.
For full particulars see City Record
HENRY SMITH.
President
JOSEPH I. BERRY.
MICHAEL J. KENNEDY.
Commissioners OF Parks.
Dated August 8. 1905
New-York tribune., 1908-08-12

S,EALED PROPOSALS IN DUPLICATE WILL BE RE
= caIyed OF Commissioner OF Immigration,
F5IIis Island n Y H. until 2:2O p NJ August Ia and
iulue thereafter for all labor and
tertals required the entire mechanical equipment
necessary 10 complete the Contagious Disease Hospital
Group except boilers and generators, at the T. s.
Immigrant Station. Ellis Island N Y II Particulars
as 10 the limitations and conditions governing
NAV be Obtained from ROBERT wATCHORN. Com
mis-
New-York tribune., 1908-08-12

CtTORM SASH. VEsTIBULES AND SCRBENS.-FORT
- wood n. Y. H, August II. 190S--Sealed pro-
posaIs in trpllcate for furnishing and placing storm
sash vestIhules and captains Grs.
al this post, received here until 10:45 A NJ.
September 10. 1908. and then opened Information
The C s the right
70 reject any or ali Envelopes should be marked
:@Proposas for storm and be addressed
VIM W. BESSELL. Constg. or. Mr
New-York tribune., 1908-08-12

DROPOSALS FOR TRUNK LOCKERS.-DEPOT
Quartermasters Office. SO Whitehall Street New York
Citv July 90 1eOS-Seaed proposals. in tripcats. sub
ect conditions will be received here and by
ilepot Quarter1nasters. Washington D. c. Philadelphia
and Pttsburg, Pa time. and by the
Tepot Quartermasters. Chicago. N.-and St Louis Mo-.
until IL o'clock time August 10. 1908. for supply
of 10 900 Trunk Lockers. Information be obtained
here or from Proposals should be in
dorsed proposals Lockers. and be addressed 10
WM s PATTEN. Depot Quarternnaster-
New-York tribune., 1908-08-12
VERMONT.

a., PT = REST B. w. Cammer. Prop. Leeds y Y
Fine location fresh fruits. vegetables; -. oooHLe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-20
Cost of Bread and Meat

Bread is 25 per cent higher than It was in May of last year, and meals are about per cent lower Packed provisions are selling about g per cent lower, but canned vegetables are higher because of unfayorable growing weather last summer. It is about q stand-off to the consumer, for while he should pay less for cotton goods and provisions he pays more for bread and canned vegetables.
 The truth is the consumer gets no benefits from the reductions that have heen made in staples, while he is made to pay more whenever any advance in commodities that he needs is es- tablished. The retailer needs all ad- vances and ignores all recessions. It would puzzle the consumer, for exam pie to put his finger on any saving that has come to him in the purchase of meats and cotton goods. Both are selling for less, but the average con- sumer does not get the benefit of the falling prices.
 It Is not easy to say that the cost of living has been decreased since March 1907, when prices for neces' saries were at the top. Bradstreet's index number plan shows that prices of staples have fallen in years time 1924 per cent, but the fall has filled the pockets of dealers instead of con- sumers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-20

Wilbur and Orvile c. Wright are the sons of Bishop Wright of the United Brethren church. When they were boys they became interested in aeronautics, and they began experimenting with aero planes for amusement, but subsequently, took up the subject a science and as a business. They have for some time past been considered by many persons the most successful of all the would-be flyers and their achievements are said to have been much more important since the construction of their new aeroplane in 1905.
 The Wright brothers have also taken the premium of secretiveness. They have made all their machines with their own hands They try all their experiments as much as possible in secret, evade the camera and scorn plans, pictures or yer bal descriptions. It is said that they have attempted to sell their invention to the governments of the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany, and have failed in every case because they ask to be paid several hundred thousand dollars without disclosing at all the na- ture of their invention or even giving any exhibition of it.
 This Is suggestive of doubts and ques- tionings and yet their statements have been credited by the Aero club and by Octave Chanute, who wrote a long letter under date of July IT, 1907. to the organ of the Aero Club of Belgium, describing all he was permitted to witness of the Wright brothers performances.
 It is almost impossible to overestimate the importance of the Wright brothers invention if it is what they represent it to be, but until their silence is broken concerning it the public can afford to preserve it's equanimity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-20
Taft and the '1IntereStS"

Whether it is a promise on the part of the republican leaders to pass next winter the Hepburn bill which amends the Sherman antitrust bill to the ex- tent permitting pooling by all corpora tions that bring themselves under na- tional supervision by means of regis tration-whether it Is this promise sanctioned alike by Roosevelt and by Taft. or whether a bargain with the New York banking and financial com munity has been arranged by Brother Charlie Taft, it is certain that an un- derstanding has been reached. For magnate after magnate announces that he will support Taft, and the stock market feels the change of front and prices are going up. A little later big flood of money will no doubt be poured into the Taft campaign fund.
 There is no reason why the fund which bought the election of 1896 should not be exceeded. A great deal is at stake. Loans can be f1oated and prices can be showed up if the interests can come to an agreement with the Taftites. They can make no such bar gain with MT. Bryan, but MT. Taft Is a horse of another color.
 Congress intentionally left the way open for another huge slush fund-one large enough to buy enough votes in the congested city districts to control contested and deciding states. It re- fused to pass any campaign publicity bill, and this refusal meant that an- ether national election is to be money.
 If the republic is to stand republic an end must be put to the use of money by concentrated wealth at the polls. The best blow that can be struck at this sort of debauchery and rotten ness consists in the defeat of the party that consistently refused to pass cam paign publicity bill. Elect in a word William Jennings Bryan, and the in- terests will stand beaten and con founded in their efforts to control an other election. Plutocracy and corrup- ton would be checked at any rate, and an intelligent people can be trusted to get for the good of all in this basic matter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-20
ScrambleS for Delegates

The scramble for the 9S0 delegates that are to set in the republican national convention at Chicago is ended. The convention is to meet on June IS, and no delegates can be se- 1ected in the closing 30 days, and the lightning calculators are engaged in ascertaining what the situation is.
 All of course turns upon the Taft vote. for it is Taft against the field. The Hitchcok-Vorys machine says Taft has secured 584 delegates to 227 for the field and 69 unpledged It admits, however, that 1S2 of the Taft votes are contested.
 The field presents a different set of figures. It gives Taft but 353 votes, while it claims for itself 231, leaving 228 uninstructed and TIA contested.
 In the effort to find where the truth lies one can turn to the New York Tribune, which is, however, a band wagon organ, looking favorably upon he Taft campaign. It gives Taft 531 votes. or 40 more than majority. It
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-20
WASTE OF COAL AND IRON

Among the remedies suggested to lessen the demands for iron is that more freight be transported by water, thus reducing the constantly increasing demand for iron with which to construct locomotives and steel cars. Mir. Carnegie figures that moving 1000 tons of heavy freight by rail requires an 80-ton locomotive and 25 20-tou steel cars leach of 40-ton capacity), CT 5So tons of iron and steel, with an aver age of say 10 miles of double track (with 90-pound rails), or BIT tons additional; SO that, including other incidentals, the car of metal.
 The same freight may be moved by water by means of 100 to 250 tons of metal, so that the substitution of water carriage for rail carriage would reduce the con- sumption of iron by three-fourths to seven-eighths in this department. At the same time the consumption of coal for motive power would be reduced 50 to 70 per cent, with a corresponding reduction In the coal required for smelling.
 This is a very practical suggestion, and MT. Cargenie is warranted in believing that no single step open to the country today would do more to cheek the dram OH iron and coal than the substitution ever practicable, and the careful adjust ment of the one to the other throughout the country
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-20
WHAT OUR GOLD WEALTH MEANS

From Leslie'S Weekly
 An eagle, a $1O gold piece is just about one inch in diameter. Imagine a glitter ing yellow ribbon of $10 gold pieces lying edge to edge, beginning at San Francisco and extending eastward through the Sac ramento Valley of California, across the lofty Sierra Nevada mountains, spanning the great American desert in Nevada and Utah, over the prairies of Wyoming and Nebra ska, across the green fields of Iowa and Illinois, over Indiana and Ohio through the hills of New York and Massachusetts and out into the Atlantic ocean half way to the British Isles ina zine this continuous string of golden eagles edge to edge, without break or interruption, over this vast stretch of land and sea--a distance which consumes at least eight days in the swiftest ex- press trains and ocean steamers-and you will be able to form some conception of the amount of gold that has been pro- duced in the United States
 The profits from the gold industry are magnificent They are greater than In any other department of commercial ac- tiyity. The figures of the worlds produc- ton are enormous. In 1907 the output of the gold mines of the earth amounted b nearly half a billion dollars. Of this vast sum about one-half, or more than $20o,000,- | GOO. was net profit. No other industry can make such a showing as this. This gold was found in America, in Mexico, m South Africa, in Australia and elsewhere. This huge sum of profits-more than $20o, o0O. .o00-was distributed to scores of thou | sands of people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-20
Why Gold Goes Out

After the Pennsylvania company had marketed in Europe s20,000,000 of it's bonds the export of gold ceased at once. The movement has, however, become active again, and the engage ments of gold to the present time az gregate $26,350,000.
 It is believed that the European bankers who took the Pennsylvania bonds at 96 or possibly a fraction less are sending them here in order to get the price offered for them at present in New York, about 102. No other ex- planation of the new movement in gold is apparent, unless it be the re- ductions in agricultural exports. The accumulation of money in the New York banks enters, however, into the case
 Our imports of emergency gold last fall and winter exceeded $100, ,000, and we can stand drain of that amount without being worse off than we were then. And this makes no &C., count of our production of gold or of the great decrease in imports. Pos sibly the movement will go on until s500o0. 900 has been sent away, and the country can spare that amount without commercial inconvenience.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-20
chattanooga's Prosperity.

chattanooga impresses me as one Of the most substantial and prosperous cities of the country" said w. J. Bryan, well known and popular young business man of Birmingham, who visited Chatta- nooga last week. That city, as every enc knows. is an important manufactur- ing center and it has large mercantile trade as we'll Like Birmingham, Chat tanooga has large mineral resources; and being on a river, it has the benefit of cheap transportation rates.
 Everybody in Chattanoosa>s seems busy and if the panic of last fall was felt there at all there is no trace of 1t to- day. I am not familiar with population statistics but from the way Chattanooga is growing 1t is sure to give good ac- count of itself in the next census
 While MT. Bryan of Birmingham has the initials of the great Nebraskan, he is not related to him, but, like millions of others is an sincere admirer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-20
End of Congress In Sight

Congress hopes to find adjournment feasible on Saturday next, May 23. The things 1t has not done would fill book. It has not revised the tariff to begin with. It has not attempted to put an end to the purchase of elec- tions by passing a campaign publicity bill. This is enough We must not go on down through the list of its acts of omission.
 What it has done consists almost all together in caring the title of billion dollar session, the first in the history of the country. The appropriation bills are not quite complete, but 1t is known that they reach the unprecedented az gregate of s1,026,o00,OoO as follows: sundry civil, s12o.ooO.OOo; legislative. executive and judicial, s39,000,000; army, $95,SS2 ,Oo0O; postofhce. $221,-
 
 765,0oO: pensions, s163,0o0 ,0oo; fortifi- cations, s11, ,5oO,0OO; agriculture. s11,- 642.000; District of Columbia, s11, ,500,- GOO; diplomatic and consular, $4,000,- GOO; naval, $122 1882 ,ooO; Indian, s9,- GOO 000; urgent deficiency, s1700o,000; military academy, new immigration station at Philadelphia, relief of cy- clone sufferers in the south, etc, $1,- 500,o0O; permanent annual appropria- tions, s154,Ooo,ooo.
 These appropriations are for use in the fiscal year beginning July 1 next, and they were made in the teeth of a deficit that will certainly be $125,- 100000, and that may go to $175,o0O,- 900. This would exhaust the surplus in the treasury and the first billion dollar session would have as its net accomplishment bond issue before July, 1909.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-20

admits. however. that s4 of the Taft seats are contested.
 It thus appears that Taft cannot be nominated on the first ballot unless the contested seats are largely allotted to him. It is pretty plain that there will be a considerable tussle at Chi cago before a nomination is made, and any contest in that convention is full of possibility of a stampede to the real choice of the republican party. Theodore Roosevelt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-20
CALLED DOWN.
rom the Philadelphia Ledger.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
 The middle-aged citizen standing in a crowded car glowered every time a merry widow hat sawed him.
 1T tell you," he grumbled to a fellow passenger. 1t isn't right It's an imposi- tion.''
 Just then the serrated edge of a lid of more than ordinarily enormous width rasped his Adams apple.
 "Confound it," he exclaimed to the wearer, whose back was toward him, If you were my daughter I'd throw that pestiferous cartwheel through the win- dow"
 The girl under the hat seemed amused. Throw ahead if you want to, dad," she said, "but you'll have to pay for an- other and goodness knows you made fuss enough over the bill for this one."
 As they left the car he was heard to say something in a suggestive way about not telling mother.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-20
Unique Decoration

Birmingham has not been in the habit of decorating on large scale for festive gatherings, but preparations are being made for a general festoon- ing in June when the Confederate re- union is to be held here It is hoped the city's gala dress will be in every way creditable. The veterans and other visitors who will come to the reunion have been used to seeing lav- iCh decorations ir Richmond, Atlanta, How Orle ms, Nashville and other cities and Birmi: -gham simply cannot afford to suffer by comparison
 The executive committee in charge of the reunion plans, and the members of all the sub-committees have been working hard to make the approaching event notable. And especial stress has been laid on the importance of decora- ton.
 The official decorator has designed a "court of honor" for Twentieth street to extend from First avenue to Capitol park. The scheme is at once unique and artistic and has been unan- imously approved by the executive committee. The design is not very OK.
 
 Twentieth street will only cooperate with the committee Birmingham will have at least one decorative feature that will surpass in beauty and origi- nality anything of the kind ever seen in southern city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-20
THE wRIeHT BROTHERS.

From the Chicago sRecord-Herald.
 Great interest has been manifested in the news from Manteo. N. C., concerning the performances of the Wright brothers with their aeroplane at Kill Devil Hill. A late dispatch represented that they made two flights on last Sunday-one of ? 7-16 miles in 3:o7 and the other of lis miles in 3:52.
 These attempts. however, are as noth. ing compared with previous perform ances, according to the testimony of the brothers themselves. Under date of March 12, 1906, they reported to the Aero Club of America the following flights made near Dayton in 1905:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-20
HER CHANGING VIEWS.

From the Philadelphia Press.
 ''It seems funny to hear her say she believes in long engagements"
 "Why?'
 ''She seems to believe more in short marriages; shes divorced, you know "Yes, but she's an actress now and that's why she favors long engagements
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-20
Effect on Business.

'',The rehabilita ton of the Southern Steel company. now in sight, will have a wonderfully good effect on the busi- ness situation" said prominent citizen The reorganization committee has work ed out a plan lthat will prove feasible and satisfactory to all interests and by the middle of June a newly organized company will pat the plants in shape for operation. This work will require only a few weeks at most and 1t is safe to say that by the middle of July, probably earlier. two or three of the blast fur naces, the steel mill at Alabama City and the wire and rod mill at Ensley will be in operation.
 'As the Tennessee company's steel plant at Ensley will resume June lo, the out look for wage workers is bright indeed. By midsummer there will be few idle men in the Birmingham district