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The balance of the list did not claim
much of the time or the attention of the
members present. and what was done was
not of great importance.

The middle of the present month ia the
time fixed upon for the annual outing
of the fire underwriters of the District.
and it is expected the occasion this year,
when they will spend day along the
shores Of the river and eat planked shad
and other things, washed down with I'LL
tered Potomac water, will be quite az
much of a social affair as ever and quite
as enjoyable.
While the past year has been one of
good deal of independence of attitude to-
ward the board of fire underwriters, yet
the invitation of that body will be very
generally accepted, and the prospects
are that every one will have q good time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-02
THE GRAIN MARKETS.

CHICAGO. May 2.-Cold weather In
the southwest and q lively demand for
cash wheat at northwestern market; had
strengthening effect today on the local
wheat market. July opened 1saA to va
e higher at SSst to S9h and for a time
held within that range.
July corn opened a shade to Aaas higher
at 81 to 64k and sold at 644s.
July oats opened Il higher at 46as and
sold at 46&.
July provisions opened weak, pork 2111 to
SC lower at 1890 to 13.321z; lard of 2ha
&c at $40 and ribs 21sa5c lower at 7.11K
The wheat market held steady through
out the day. The close was firm with
July nc higher, at sos.
Corn: Prices ruled firm until the close
and held up despite considerable selling
for profit. The close was strong, with
July &c higher. at 64l4a64%.
Close-Wheat: May, 1881; July, S3N
September, 84saS5.
Corn-May. 6sa60h: July. 64Aa64as: Sep
TENDER. 62Aa62x.
Oats-May. old. 5sh; May. 50; July, old,
467sa47: July. 4J%.
Pork-May, $40: July. 1910; September,
l3.721z.
Lard-May, $50: July. s.45: September,
S.6OaS 621k.
Ribs-May. es71z: July. 7.221.; septem-
Der. 747lta7.5O.
Rye-Cash. 81.
Barley-Cash. 64a72.
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Liverpool Grain Prices.

LIVERPOOL. May 2.-Closing: Wheat
Spot firm: No. red western winter, Is
Sd; No. California, Is Cd. Futures quiet;
May, IS Sd; July, IS SD; September, Is
sd.
Corn: Spot firm; new American kiln
dried. IS 1Od: old American mixed, IS
1O1xd. Futures quiet; May. 5s 91zd
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CURB QUOTATIONS.

Quotations furnished BY z. +. Hutton L Co..
members New York Stock Exchange; G. Bowie
Chipuaan. manager. 1901 + st. NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-02
LOCAL FINANCIAL NEWS

Gas stock was easily the feature at the
meeting today Of the Stock Exchange. but
that is a distinction which in the present
state of business might not be regarded
as of much consequence. However. the
fact is the figures showed an upward
progress in this security that would have
been rather marked. even u a more &C.
tive state Of the market
The net gain in gas at the close of the
trading was over a point as compared
with the closing figures OF yesterday. The
stock sold up to 694 and while the buying
was not as general. being confined to
practically a couple of brokers, still the
selling was not much broader. Higher
figures are talked of for this stock, and
If there is no more to be taken care
than has been unearthed in recent days
the continuation Of the upward course
will not be marked by very extensive
buying.
There is nothing very definite in the
current gossip as to the cause of the
present movement. and naturally there
is not much heard as to its ultimate
point or what sort of market will be
found for it IL a counter movement
should set in.
New-York tribune., 1908-06-14
Drawings by J. v. McFall

was Just plain crazy. Girard himself said they
could take their choice-and he damned to 'em
So they did It That he was most iraScibe old
man could be proved by any that knew him,-his
valet by supreme preference.
As for outward appearance, anyone that chose
could Judge. He confessed to sixty. He was
stout, of a purplish complexion, with thin gray
hair, and strong features terminating in business
Jaw He had large, pale, protrldlng eyes and a
voice-when opposed that made him the envy OF
carriage callers Also. he was a widower. and,
to quote an ungallant speech. he expected to re-
main 50 unless welded under an anesthetic.
THE present party which he had brought to
England his yacht consisted of three women,
First there was his daughter Nada, slashng.
clean liTnbed specimen Of young American woman
hood possessing beauty, wit. taste, and a real
dress,naker. She was straight and tall. with pair
of big brown ewes that made her admirers happy
and uncomfortable at the same time. She might
not require an anesthetic to lead her TO the altar;
but no suitor Vet had felt entirely competent to
treat her case: therefore, she queened it, and was
ripe in the JOY OF life.
Next there was Aunt Mary Howard, Grard's
half-sster who confessed to no age whatever,
though she gave fifty-ive close shave. She was
tall and slender and stately but above all, placid
to an extent that rritated Girard to the point OF
frenzy Mary" he said on one occasion, at twelve
O'Clock on Judgment Day II bet YOU Il sniff placldIy
and say. Dear me! / believe | smell smoke!
Lastly. there was Polly Thurman, relative OF
Aunt Marv's. Just oosed from the cocoon of board
ing school She was tiny and plump, utterly IRE
sponsble very pretty and very conscious OF the
latter fact Her eyes big and blue. Her
voice was merry metallic, a quality that sand
papered the soul of Marcus Girard and was uncon-
iucive to the concentration OF business thought.
He once remarked that choice between PoliyS
shrill idiocv and Aunt Mary's cold blooded tran
auillitY would spell arsenic
As for this queer old mans private life his bsl-
New-York tribune., 1908-06-14


valet. IorkIns by name. silent and in
offensive by nature, lean. pale product OF British
serv.tude. who expected periodical Outbursts on
the part q his master but not his shoes At any
rate So astorished was Torkins by this unusual
eruption that he forgot to dodge. This un-
fortunate. His nose was large. His little rat eyes
were close together Therefore the mark Of the
shoe heel embraced least tothirds Of his servile
coJ,nteranCe. He made no personal comment on
his masters temper: but retired discreetly
his physical abrasion and a mental wound that
would far outlast the purple discoloration.
Now. the incidents leading to this unfortunate
affair occurred Just minutes before the open
Ing OF this narrative and consequently are lost
Let US then. set them down To nerves most
probable su-rrise in view OF the fact that several
hundred persons IN America and about the same
number in England desired ardently 10 know the
nature Of Glrard's personal business, and were
foed only by that mans unrernittlng care. though
the process caused the old fellows temper to crack
atce. the manner Of steam radiator
IT, begin with. he was q man OF considerable
wealth as attested by the ownership OF splen-
did two hurdrei-foot Yacht which he crossed the
Atlantic several times each year, and also by ms
passion for collecting curios and rare gems That
h, was q parsonage Of public and social Importance
sa shown by his intimacy with the highest oftlcal'
i- the capital Of Washington and similar footing
with certain. titles and honorables IN England
That his business weight was felt III the financial
world could be easily demonstrated by the fact
that his name figured frequently IN the London
Exchange and n Wall Street: but Just what part
h- took II money upheavals remained question
of the widest speculation. Some said he was
financial mediator between the money centers
uf he TWO nations and called attention to MS All
Street and English interests by way OF argument
Others dubbed him Il 'parochial diplomat, baSlng
-- ral~z- on his close communion with the high
7,-.r,e~s 9f Washington and his selfish disposition
II suppress interesting facts. Others stlI sad he
New-York tribune., 1908-06-14

The United States custom house officials had
once discovered in his luggage a package contain
ing about eighty thousand dollars worth of unde-
clared gems; but when the matter brought
to the owners attention, he easily explained 1t by
saving that he had entirely forgotten this addition
to his gem collection in the worry of more lmpor-
tant business Furthermore. he paid the duty
without a 1nurnur apologized for his Carelessness,
and the incident closed-that is, to all except
his daughter. On the next trip her honOred parent
again brought addition to his collection.
and once more forgot to declare it. although the
officials this time failed TO discover the Jewels or
their owners absent nndedness. This second lapse
of memory troubled Nalda for a time; yet, having
many interests in her happy, independent life, She
too forgot the incident Later she would be re-
minded Of it.
a T the present time however. it could not be
denied that Girard acting strangely and
had been for the last two weeks. In room IN his
suite of apartments in the Victoria Hotel, in Lon
don he was coseted all day with queer specimens
of humanity, from the thoroughbred to the mon
grel from swollen Lords to lean checked tinancers;
thus by dinner time he was no congenial
panon for three spirited that desired to
talk. Once, in answer to an innocent but raw
question: he almost sWore at Aunt Mary but man
fully Choked it down while nearly choking himself
with full glass OF port. Having no further use
for the empty glass, he cast it into the fireplace and
retired to his own apartment where Torkins CON
fidentially reported him to be = rampin hup
an down an profann something orribe!
At eleven-thrty he came out from his lair, en-
tered his daughters room, and sat down the
foot of her bed with his head in his hands Val.
he began composedly enough, for Gods sake do
Your old dad a favor by taking those two women
away from me and keeping EN- there
Very we'll" she answered dutifully. Where
do YOU suggest?
Take EN- to He paused in time, and COM
promised on Greenland as cheerfuIly distant abiding
New-York tribune., 1908-06-14
CHAPTER I.
The Temper of Marcus Girari

TIiE temper of old Marcus
Gi-ar- was astonishing, to
say the least. for i caused
h.m - hurl a low-quarter shoe At
The head q bis hitherto faIthful
New-York tribune., 1908-06-14

ness affairs were as much OF Il
mystery to his own immediate fam
lily as to the outer world; vet, even
with a secret profession, no calumny
had ever attached itself to the name
of Marcus Girard, and not single
newspaper scandal, beyond one
trifiing exception.
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THE PRODUCE MARKET.

NEW YORK. May 22.-Flour-Re-
ceipts. 3S,072; sales, 1000. Dull and un
changed.
Wheat-Receipts, $4,000; sales, $50,
900. Opening steady on foreign buy
ing, wheat later declined a under
heavy Argentine shipments, but raj
lied again on local covering. May,
1914; July, 1914 d991a.
Rye-Easy: No. 2 Western, SO nom.
inal f. o. b. New York.
Corn-Receipts, 10, $50; sales, none.
Realistically.
Pork-Firm: family, 17.00@1S.00.
Lard-Firm: Western, S.45@S.55.
Sugar-Raw easy; air refining, 3.H;
centrifugal 90 test. 4.24; molasses sugar,
3.49. Refined quiet; crushed, 6.10; pow
dered, $50; g~ranulated, $40.
Petroleum-Steady; refined, all ports
S.70@S.75 IS.
Coffee-Steady; No. I Rio, 6as; No
4 Santos, 8%.
Enthusiastically; New Orleans, 6
@42.
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ADVANCES
SOON WIPED OUT
As MARKET Says
Opening Shows Rising Ten
dency, but Reaction Sets
in and Prices Drop.

NEW YORK. May 22.-10 a. m.-The
opening prices for stocks showed the
advancing tendency, in force at the
close yesterday. still strongly in evil
Mail advanced 3. Missouri Pacific Ii,
and Reading, Erie first preferred and
American Smelling l.
II a. m.-Higher prices were record
ed before tine market reacted Union
Pacine and Reading were in excep-
tional demand. The advances scored
in the opening rise were practically
wiped out in the later decline, which
drove Amalgamated Copper 1% below
yesterdays closing, North American
~. and st. Paul and Northwestern 1.
Noon-Announcement of the Ming OF
the governments suit against the New
Haven for violation of the antitrust
law induced heavy selling of stocks in
all parts of the list. Declines of a
point or more from last nights level
became quite general. Prices rallied a
fraction at noon Bonds were heavy.
/ D.. ma recovery in the market
cancelled the forenoon losses in the Hill
and Hartman stocks, ST. Paul, Read
ing and American Smelling, but when
prices reached a parity with yester-
days closing the market weakened
again. Pacific Mail reacted to 12 be-
low last night on reports that the ship
subsidy measure had been defeated.
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BOARD AIMS TO
HOLD BUDGET At
THE MILLION MARK
Works Commission Tentatively
Approves Prospective Ex-
penditures of 100000.

The budget for the ensuing year,
amounting to $685. DOC, has been tenta-
lively approved by the Board of Works,
but a possible increase in the scaVenger
and street lighting items may a the
total 81, Ops, 900. The commissioners nope
to keep the budget below $1,0OO,OO
The items of the budget are:
Bridges. 81, 900; crosswalks, $4,000; pub
lie lighting, $685., 900; public baths, $40, :
600; repairs to asphalt, $55, 900; scaVen-
ger, S145, 900; sewers and drainage, $50, :
600; streets and highways, 1913 OO0'
sidewalks, $4,000; surveyors depart
ment, $S5, 900; executive department,
$2s, 900, and connections, $4,000.
The garbage contractors, l.. j. Buck
ley & Co, asked for an amended con-
tract increasing the per family cost OF
the work from fourteen to eighteen
cents. The city now pays fourteen
cents. The extra foul cents would in
crease the cost of the scavenger work
$48,0 900. The board will investigate the
claim of the contractors.
The Warren Brothers Company. OF
Boston,, the bitulithic pavement con-
Germ, wrote to the board that the lay
ing of bituminous pavement here In
rlnSeS on TOUR OF the company $ pat
ents. More than a dozen streets to be
paved by request of property-owners
will be held up until City Counse
Nugent investigates the company'f
claim.
The company also made a protest
against the board making it resurface
Clinton avenue, which the company
paved foul years ago under a ten-yeai
contract.
The following contracts were award
ed: Paving of Garden street with btu
minous concrete. the Bituminous Con-
crete Paving Company of Newark, for
IS, 6S1 so; paving of Hudson street with
brick, w. w. Medill. for $50, 766; paving
of Belmont avenue with brick, w. w
Medill, for $2S. 42S; sidewalk in Summer
place, Brown & Rushing. for $449.91;
paving of approaches to Clay street
bridge, j. r. Stanley, for S1,SS1.50.
The board adopted a resolution to
buy forty-eight acres of land, the Her.
man tract, near Charlottesburg, in the
Pequannock watershed, at a cost Of
$3.50. Mayor Haussling in his message
advocated the purchase of the entire
watershed.
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ON CAPITAL Of
$40 MAKE SPLURGE
AND OWE $4,000
Brothers Jersey Suitcase Com
pany Operated on the Frenzied
Finance Plan.

CAMDEN, May 22.-Starting with a
capital of $40, the Vega Suitcase and
Bag Company now has liabilities of
about $160, 900 Against this the assets
will not reach $780, 900. The story of
frenzied finance developed in a hearing
in this city before S. Conrad OFT. ref
cree in bankruptcy. The testimony was
given by officers of the company in the
presence of its creditors.
George F~alkenstein, one time the pres
ident, but now the treasurer of the con-
Germ, stated that he and his brother
Charles had began business with ex-
aetly SO apiece. But this was very
quickly increased when they voted
themselves stock in consideration of a
patent which was declared to be i'm
mensely valuable. 1t was admitted.
however, hat a proposition to sell this
patent for the American rights for
800, 900 fell through.
Additional testimony will be taken IN
next Wednesday.
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He SLEW SIX
AND TRIED To ADD
WIFE TO THE LIST
Indiana Police Arrest Man Upon
'Wife's Complaint, Startling
Charges Following.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. May 22.-James
Brimmingstall. aged 40, is under ar
rest in Dowagiac, Mich, ? miles from
South Bend, charged with six murders
The police say he has already con-
fessed to two of the murders. His ar
rest followed an alleged attempt to
make his wife his seventh victim. She
escaped and appealed to the police.
The list of Brimingstalis victims, &C
cording to the officers, is:
Man in Kansas (name not given
killed by Brimingstall when the muir
derer was only Is years old; railroad
mar in Missouri (name unknown,
killed seven years ago; two men sleep
ing in a tent in Missouri. names un-
known to officers; David Huff, Dowa-
giac, June, 1907; Smith Hortlum, Dowa-
giac, February. 1908.
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ORANGE JOINS
OPT|M|STS IN BIG
BUILDING BOOM
Village Energies Smilingly from
the Late Financial
Stringency.

That hard times are over and the
stringency in the money market little
effective in South Orange, where many
had been hard hit, is now evident by
the big boom the building trades is
enjoying in that village. There are in
all about thirty homes either completed
or in he course of erection.
N. S. Barlow has completed a large
brick residence in Tillou road.
John G. Gould's fine $4,000 home is
nearing completion at Irving and Charl-
ton avenues. in the Montrose section.
Thomas Burke's fine double house in
Second street has been completed.
Mrs. Hugh Conlan is having a three
property adjoining her store. at South
Orange avenue and Church street.
Former Village President Ira A. Kip,
jr, of Scotland road and Montrose ave
nue., who will leave June 1 for the
Thousand Islands, has contracted to
have the Brush house, in Irving avenue,
which he recently purchased, renovated
during his absence.
George w. MCGUIRE, of Milligan place,
is having his house remodeled into a
two-family house.
Mrs. George Decker is having a resi-
dence erected in Strathern avenue.
Mrs. Elmer Wilson is occupying her
new home, in Fourth street.
other houses being erected or COM
pleted are those of Carl Bauman, Cot
tage street; Arthur Van Steenburg,
Terrell street; J. S. Orben, Roland ave-
nue.; George A. Henkel, Turrell avenue;
r. E. Good, Ward place; A. d. Gray,
Raymond emu H. o. Ames, Tillou
road; Ludwig Bait, Third street; Kraus
Nor, South Orange avenue and a barn
for Ludwig Palmer, in Second street.
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BURGLARS RAID
TAILOR SHOPS; GET
BIG HAUL At ONE
Losing 500 Worth of Cloth
Looks Pretty Big to Ja-
cob Goldberg.

Burglars got into Jacob Goldberg's
custom tailor shop, 95 Central avenue,
last night, and carried away eight
large rolls of cloth, valued at 500.
Entrance was affected by forcing open
a door in the real part of the store
that leads into the hallway.
The slot cash box in the New York
public booth in the vestibule of tie
Globe building at Broad and Mechanic
streets was broken open last night and
rif1ed of the nickels and dimes dropped
into the box during the day for New
arkand outside calls. Nobody knows
how much money was in the slot box.
Samuel Cohen's grocery store. James
and Nessbitt streets, was entered last
night and robbed of forty packages of
cigarettes and tobacco.
1t Is believed that the same thieves
robbed Samuel Solomon's shoe store at
s Nessbitt street of five pairs of mems
and two pairs of women's shoes last
night also.
Other places which were robbed dur
ing the night were: The tailor shop of
Samuel Rosenberg, 460 Springfield ave-
nue., entered by window. A quantity of
clothing and SIS was missing today.
duncan Kinnon. of 100 Ellwood ave-
nue., told Captain Carroll today that
omeone had stolen a set of harness
from his stable at First street and
Heller parkway.
The latest victim of the bicycle thief
is Raymond Hammell, of 100 Sherman
avenue, whose new Crown wheel was
solen from him early today.
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DIED.

EROoKs-On May 81. 1908, John I.
Brooks, aged 10 years, at his late
residence, 500 Summer avenue.
ESSLINGER-At West New York, \.
], on Thursday. May q, 1908, Charles,
beloved husband of Annie E%sslinger,
in his 43rd year.
Funeral services will take place on
Sunday at 2 p. M. at his late home. 626
Seventeenth street, West New York,
thence to the Trinity Reformed
Church, at 2:S0 p. m. Relatives and
friends; also Sheep Butchers Union.
Local No. 10, are respectfully invited.
FEICK-Suddenly, on May %, 1908,
Regina Feick (nee OhD, beloved wife
of the late Nicholas Feick, aged II
years and 6 months.
Relatives and friends are kindly
invited to attend the funeral services
on Sunday, May oath, at 2 o'clock
p. m. at her late residence, IS Broad
street. Interment in Woodland Gene
terry.
FITZGERALD-On May 90, 1908.
Thomas F., beloved husband of Annie
C. Fitzgerald (nee Mccartney, and
son of the late Peter and Frances
Fitzgerald, of Mt, Kisco, N. Y.
Relatives and friends are invited
to attend the funeral from his late
residence, No. 213 West Kinney
street, on Saturday. May 23, at 8 a.
M. to st. Columba's Church, where a
High Mass Of Requiem will be offered
for the repose of his soul. Interment
in the Cemetery of the Holy Sep
ulchre.
-GALLACHER-On May 10, 1908,
Thomas, husband Of Margaret Gala
cher (nee Doyle).
Relatives and friends, the Holy
Name Society, Sacred Heart League
and Y. M. C. A, of St. Michaefs
Church; Y. M. C. A, of the Catholic
Institute; B. P. O.. Elks No. 81, Joel
Parker Association and officers and
directors of the Building Loan AS
sociations are kindly invited to at
tend the funeral from his late resi-
dence, No. SO Fourth avenue. on Sat
urday, May %, at S:45 a. m, to st.
Michaers Church, where a Solemn
High Mass of Requiem will be offered
for the repose of his soul. Interment
in the Cemetery of the Holy Sep
ulchre.
M'ARTHUR-On May 81, 1908, at the
residence of the grandfather, Hamil-
Ton EnleTklD, 2fU fNiuSe SlIcOti GiAo
Horstmann, daughter of Charles j.
and Nettie b. Macarthur, aged 6 years
II months q days.
RUF-On Wednesday, May 20, 1908,
Catherine Ruff, our beloved mother,
sister, mother-in-law and grand
mother, aged 20 years 9 months and 4
days.
fTURK-On Tuesday, May 10, 1908,
Charles William Turk, beloved son of
Katie Turk (nee KlippeD and the late
Philip Turk, aged p years / month
and ~ days.
Members of Wachung Tribe No.
ITO, Improved order Rec Men. will
meet at their wigwam, 842 Broad
street, Friday, May %, at 2 p. IN
sharp. to proceed in a body to his
late residence, PIT Camden street.
thence to Paramount Cemetery. where
funeral ervices will be held by the
tribal chiefs.
wALSE-On May 81. 1908. at his late
residence, % Lincoln avenue, Patrick
Walsh.
Relatives and friends of the family
are respectfully invited to attend his
funeral on Monday. May %, at $50
a. m, from his late residence, n 9
a. m. st. Michael's Church, where a
Solemn High Mass of Requiem will
be offered for the repose of his soul.
Interment in Cemetery of Holy Sep
ulchre.