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New-York tribune., 1909-09-14

A large proportion OF the floor traders on 5 tIlS
Consolidated Exchange favored lower prices, anu
they rut out short lines in the leading issues. AZ
the same time their selling was not PsrticuIdIly
aggressive OF Of large volume In indlNldnal c4seS
n, - s,1e1~,ent however TO impart relative soft
ness in the larger part OF the day. eonnpare1 WI
quotations on the Stock Exchange Union Pac'hc
va, a feature Of the dealings, n covering move
rep, in G., in the earIy afternoon causing II 10 touch
a high price OF eo5ls. against a high on the otneF
hoard OF 2O47s. with renewed sellinS late IN the
day breaking II 20 2o0Ss. against 20l- Ihe uarNSI
vas a fairly broad one, with total sales OF nearly
iO7 900 shares. distributed amonS ntty-tNo
issues BY far the heaviest volume centred. now
ever In four stocxs-Heading. Union Pacinc, Inited
states Steel common and AIlalgamated Copper-in
the order named. Reading touched high Tor the
day OF 164t- compared with 1873 on the otner
exchange Copper's high OF 7S2t was Il under the
stock Exchange top hgUre. while its low OF 1'it
was 1. above the other boards low Detailed opeT-
atious follow:
STOCKS.
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DOMESTIC EXCIIANGE.-Roston. 10 and I2I-c
iiscouut; Chicago. 20c discount: san Francisco
hght lc, teloeFaph Sc premium; New Orleans COM
mercial 81 discount. bank 81 premium: Charleston
buying Par. selling l-I0c premium: ST Louis 2oc
atfcount bid. Zoe jscoun; asked: Cincinnati rar:
Mlanespohs, Toe premium; Savannah. buying 3-lGc
discount. selling par.
lam +Lt-ARlHfIS- - New York. exchanges
ste-.soo,oS< balances ss.esb-6S5 Boston exchanges
fi'fS-'osS' haIshces AI-5sZtt4; Chicago exchanges
s4s,sGl, ,063. balances s4197 2s9: PHILADELPHIA eN
aEanges sls.13i.353 balances S2ls s035
FIN Tx MAlthftT.-Commerc bar silver, Sic
Mexican silver dollars. 43c Bar silver in London
srHsc 81 - Tiled. = decline Of I-led
'sytD PEEMIl Mn Madrid. ?; Lisbon. 1l.5O
MEXICAN EXCIIANGE-Me exchange ON
Nev oTk Is quoted 2.0Il..
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FEK di'ideDd

FOREIGN MONEY MARKET.-call money in
London lgqSs per cent; open market discount rate
for short bills, 5-l6qis cent; long bills 7lsO
Ia per cent Berlin discount rate. per cent
Paris discount rate ~ per cent. Paris exchange
London. 25 francs lsIz centimes Berlin exchange
On London. p marks siia Pfennigs. Bar gold. 77s
llkS
FOREIGN SI1cURTTI ES.-Briiish consols for
money, So sic per cent: for the account ssE,
French rentes. % francs 20 centimes.
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AMERICAN SECURITIES ABROAD

London, sept Il. ?. m.-The market for An1erj-
can securities was weak, under heavy selling
pressure. New York failed 10 send In supporting
orders, while active ssles were reported for Con-
tinentsl account. Last quotations follow:
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Financial Meetings.
THE DENVER AND RIO GRaNDE
RAILROAD COMPANY.
a nrEETTN.G
AgIlLE OF Annual MEEl lNN.
New York. September lith. 1909

NeW lork, septembeT IIth, IHVH.
Ia the Stockholders
The Denver and Rio (5rande Railroad Company:
The annual meeting OF the Stockholders Of The Den
Csrande Railroad Company will be held at
principal ONCE of Company in Denver. Colo
rado a II o'clock Tuesday. October 18th.
1sOa. The meeting viii be held the election OF
Directors snd for the transaction of other business
ertsning the Company that be properly brought
refore r.
The books for the transfer Of stock % COM
nsny. both Common Preferred. will closed
the purposes of the meeting three o'clock p.
Tuesday October 9Th 1909 and will he reopened ten
o'clock a m. day following the annual meet
nE the final adjournment thereof
STEPHEN LITTLE, Secretary.
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INACTIVE STOCKS.

closing quotations for stocks IN which there were
no transactions yesterday the New York Stock
Exchange.
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GOVERNMENT BONDS.

The following shows yesterdays closing quota
tions for government bonds. compared with sat
urday's:
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COBALT STOCKS.
Warren, GzoWski & Co,
Dnidcnd Notices.


AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE COMPANY
80 Church Street, New York. August ~ 1902
The Board Of Directors this day declared quarterly
dividend OF and threequarteTs per cent upon the
preferred capital stock payable October n. 1909 TO
preferred stockholders OF record at the close OF
business September 2l. 1909. Check viii be mailed
the OF this dividend. and Of the annual
election be held October ~. 1909 the transfer
hooks OF viii close p. n. september
81, 1909, and reopen october q. 1909
5. T. CALLAWAY. Secretary
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STRONGEST IN WORKING cApIT.-
Central Trust Company of New York
S4 WALL STREET
CAPITAL and SURPLUS Stsooo
Cof which $4,000. 900 has besn sarr.S, T.S,0'0
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AMERICAN TELEPHONE g. rELsesApu

The American Telephone & Telegraph Companv
'assoeiated operating companies,. not inculing the
ols ' distance lines reports for the month of july
pare follows:
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siTeff, NeV York and 80. i22 South Sab street
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AMERICAN CAN COMPANY.

quarterly dividend and one-ausrter per cent.
~ has been upon the Preferred stock OF
Company. payable october LIST. 1909. TO stock
holders record close OF business September
leth. Transfer books viii remain Checks
viii be mailed.
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mo. s922I
REPORT or THE CONDITION OF THE
Sherman National Bank

a N@'y forN IN ths stat- Of NeE Tors .. M. -.
business. September Is, 1909.
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sAsksd.
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where they were. and moment later
Jack Binns was tapping his key and send
ing out in all directions through the
ether, to be picked up by tho vessols
within radius of 200 miles, the iuforna-
tion that the Republic, disabled nd rnni-
ing help, was from fifteen t. seventeen
miles south Of Nantucket lirht~l.p 'll
that she would I've mighty Gldi l. 'hey
W ould hurry to that SPOT and give her a
helping hand,
Had the Republics anxious ravigetor-
been able to see the Nantucket liga; in.
stead Of hearing her submarine bell they
would not have known any more posi-.
lively where they were. The submarine
signal system in their dist ress played a.
important part as did that other inven-
tion-wireless telegraphy. 1t told them
accurately just where they were More.
over it0might have done more. Had the
Republic been equipped with tho SUBJ
marine sending apparatus as was the
hghtship. she could have by the same
marvellous system drawn the big Baltic
up to her as drowning man would put
ont his hand and draw to him the floating
spar which was to save his life
II was because the Republic did not
take advantage Of the chance she had Of
calling to the Baltic through the water
but used only the air as a medium for her
calls for help that il took her big sister
twelve hours to find her. In that time. ao-
cording TO the Baltic's captain, she trav-
elled 200 miles. and all within an area Of
ten square miles.
~ip 70, rat 1hy GaiA n
authority the other day, you can tell
tlks long way OF what has happened
~ you. but the trouble is If you're lost
In an impenetrable fog how are you GO
ing TO tell them where you are? The
electric current goes in all directions
and will not convey the definite position
OF a ship. SO far as locating you goes
all that your friends who hear you call
can he sure Of ia that you are somewhere
within say 200 miles, but in wha direc-
ton they don't know.
Il may want you to hreakf fast with
me, but II | can't tell you where | am
there isn't much Of a chance Of our having
breakfast together. and that's where the
wireless falls down With submarine sig
Mailing supplementing the wireless the
SDlNtu, IoT u y lhe CalllNg 10
your friend and a the same time showing
him a light 10 indicate 10 him where YOU
are, ana a ship using the two needn't
be bothered by fog, wind or waves in
summoning help"
H. 10 only within the last five years
that mariners have had their attention
called -forcibly to the value OF this new
means Of communication, but in that
t,me IL has already been the means Of
saving millions of dollars worth of prop
erty and probably scores Of lives despite
the tardy recognition it has received
from the Government. which has yet
% equip many Of the most dangerous
points on its coast line with this means
of protecting those placed in peril when
ever the fog curtain covers up the cosst
and the atmosphere plays tricks wish
the ajr signals
As a matter Of fact the subms rine
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signal has been developed side by side
with that other instrument for saving
lives at sea, the wireless telegraph.
Strangely enough. developed almost
simultaneously it has fallen to one to
supplement the other in life saving,
os was shown in the Republics case.
Developed still further It will do more,
for there yet remains the danger Of ships
colliding on the ocean highway. far
away from the coast. as two men might
run into each other IA a binding snow
storm
The wireless is unable TO tell them how
near they are to each other, the fog may
make il impossible for their skippers
to know their own location. and before
rockets can show through the mist or
the atmosphere can convey the sirens
sound without those curiohs reflections
which il imparts the ships may he upon
each other.
Now It. will I've possible. say the experts,
within fcw months at least for vessel
equipped with submarine bell at her bow
bell undisturbed by her bow waves.
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doing it's shnre. this i, whCt will prob9b BY
occIr with ships that PISS in the fog
DO you near my hclf-
-lcs. So Iorg. old chap. I've decided
to run away from you Glad you told
rae you wore coming"
That will be all there is TO it. Per
hrpS, however. = skipper may reed help.
- did tho Republic that morning OF Nan
ticket The message sent through the
ether thon will tell the other shippers
, TO got the bell and follow it. and by mean-
of those two little tanks they will be able
to put the prows of their vessels directly
toward the other ship and follow rs cattle
follow n bell COW
Up to now the difficulty has been in
getting bell on a moving vessel TO send
It's warning more than two miles dead
ahead. That distance. If ship is fast,
gives only three or four minutes warning.
But the experts. putting their heads
together, as announced the other day
by Col Higginson. head Of the Subma-
rinc Signal Company, have now got a
bell which is asserted can send its tones
seven miles ahead of vessel proceeding
at full speed, With all ships equipped
thus the sea will have been robbed of
one more terror
There is another problem the subma-
rine signal has solved. and that is the
evolution Of submarines. Until the in
vention Of this mode Of signalling there
was no way to communicate with moving
submarine. either from a ship on the sur
face Of the water or from another sub
marine scooting along the bottom.
Hence manBuvres by two or more sub
marines we're almost impossible
Some Of the latest submarines are
equipped not only with receivers but
also with the bells. A battleship on tho
surface can thus direct the operations
of one or more submarines by different
code signals on her bell, the bells taking
the place Of the flags used in operations
on the surface.
Despite the almost imperative need for
this signal system for submarine work the
Government has been rs slow to adopt the
system for naval Use as II has for the pro-
lection OF life. While most OF the foreign |
submarines turned out recently have such |
a system, only few Of our own have |
and the navy, generally speaking. Is yet |
without the system, despite the fact |
that TO equip a ship with these subna-
rine ears, which may mean her salvation,
Is said to cost only about 500. VI
Had the Yankee had the receiving
apparatus she would have picked up
the BELL Of the lghtship at the Hen and
Chickens, known instantly where she was.
and been afoat to-day The money
saved would have equipped most Of Uncle
Sans ships,
As matter Of fact it was the need Of |
such signal for naval purposes that
resulted in the present device. At the
time when all New England was seeking
Spanish cruisers Of the coast and blrying
its goods and cha,,els Arthur J. Mundy.
. Boston inventor, conceived the idea
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QUEEN VICTORIES TOMB.
The Mausoieum al Frogmore Opened on
Gals One Day OF the Year.

LONDON, Feb. l.. The memorial service
for Queen Victoria which is held yearly
on the anniversary of her death was at
tended 10y fewer members of the roya
family this year than ever before.
On the morning Of January % the doors
Of the great marlsoleum at Frogmore
almost Theoretically sealed at all other
times, are thrown open and a service
takes place which the King and his family
and some gentlemen and ladies Of the
court attend, Then the mausoleum is
open 10 the public for several hours.
Tho service il very beautiful A
special delegation of choir boys go down
to Windsor 70 furnish the musical part,
The finest voices are selected from the
various city churches and they are drilled
together for few weeks
This year owing To illness and absence
from the country the royal family was
represented only by King Edward and
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atlantic liners is lost in the fog of the
coast and absolutely unable to tell where
she is, this ia what the submarine signal
does for the anxious officers on her
bridge upon whom the safety Of 80 many
souls depends: With two receivers at his
ears the skipper may catch the strokes
OF the bell, faint perhaps but reverthe-
less audible from the port tsnk. He
knows at once by the number what light
ship is warning hun Of danger ano he
knows the location Of that lightship
The next thing he will probably do is
to turn his ship until he gets the same
sound from both tanks Then he knows
that he is head on to that lghtshp. All
thst he has then to do is TO look at his
compass and set his course accordingly
His troubles are solved as easily az though
he had caught the suns red ball through
his glass and it had told him where he
was on the surface Of the globe.
When the newest device is installed =
skipper will be able to push other vessels
away from him as 2 riEn would push his
W. through n crowd Bottled up ir
the fog hl"uket then. with the wireless
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he Prince and Princess Of Wales.

the Prince and Princess Of Wales.
The mausoleum stands close to Wind
sor Castle. but is only viewed from the
outside by tourists as no one is ever
allowed to enter it except on this one day
in the year The beautiful dome Of the
edifice is a conspicuous feature from the
Long Walk. 1t is directly under this
dome that the sarcophagi Of Queen Vic
toria rests.
The recumbent figure Of the Queen
in her full robes Of state and her crown
is carved in white marble and lies on the
top of the sarcophagps. Beside her is
the figure OF Prince Albert in his Field
Marshal's uniform and the mantle Of the
Order Of the Garter.
The sarcophagus itself is solid mass
of gray granite. Great angels in bronze
kneel at the corners Of the tomb Around
II. hanging from the archways. are lamps
of gold and bronze The mausoleum has
not been changed since Queen Victoria
had it built as a token of her love for her
dead husband and as a resting place
for them both.
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owing TO its uniform density. transmits
the sound OF these bells uniformly in every
direction and hence all that remains Ia for
a ship to pick them up just Gs II would
pick up light on p lear night.
Down in tho bowels OF a ship like the
Republic, clampei on to the vessels
skin three or four feet above the keel
on either side, there is a little tank OF
water about the size Of bird cage Sus.
pended in it is a microphone, an instru-
ment much like the transmitter of tele-
phone.
The sound waves coming through the
water hit the vesss's q side, rass on through
1t. through the water in the tank and
strike the microrhone. and from this
run the wires to the telephone re-eiv ers
up in the wheelhorise on the bridge.
The two little tanks are situated elui-
distant from the bow, back about eighty
feet. BY means of these port and star
board tanks the officer up in, tho wheel
house tells exactly the direction OF the
sound.
Suppose for instance, one OF the tIGns-
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MiRIELS ~ SALT.
Famous Mine Contains Chapels aud
Dancing Halls.

The most interesting sat mines in the
world are said to he those at Wia'iczkr
in Ga!icia, which form an underground
collection Of streets. houses churches and
monuments. Their history can be traced
back a thousand years and they a-e still
being worked.
Tourists are fitted out with miners
shirts and hoods and are conducted by
guides. one TO each three visitors. The
first stop is at st. Anthonys chape!. hewn
POO years ago by some unknown miner
from a single piece of rock salt.
The altar has twisted columns and there
are statues at each side. praying monks
knee!ing on the steps, and over the a.te-
the crucifxion and statue of the Virgin
Smaller affairs at the sides and the pulpit
are carved from pure salt spar. This
chapel was formerly used for religious
services. but they are now conducted
in the more modern chapel of St Cune-
gund.
Next comes a greet dancing hall hung
with chandeliers carved from crystal salt
in 1914 in honor Of the visit of the Car TO
the mine. There are statues Of salt here
too. handsome door and long gallery.
Visitors often dance here to the music
of an orchestra.
Next they go to the chapel Of st. Cune-
gund, opened in 1894. 1t is reached by a
The chapel itself is $50 feet long. forty-
five feet broad and thirty feet high. 1t
contains statues, a beautiful pulpit affairs
and chandeliers. all of salt,
The Michalowice hall is eighty.four
feet long. fifty.-four feet wide and los feet
high with a colossal chandelier seven feet
i'm diameter containing 200 candles. Pass-
ing through other beautiful halls one
reaches the Crown Prince Rudolph Grotto.
where the lights and white carvings ara
reflected in the water of an underground
lake. From the centre Of the water rises
a statuc-of salt, of course-s,irrounde
by fir trees and stalactites
The mines form an oval twenty-five
miles in length and half milo in CEN
tral width. The aggregate length OF the
galleries at present accessible is upward
Of sixty-five miles and that of mining rnil
ways twenty-five miles.
Enormous cavities amounting to LOG
OO0, 600 cubic feet have been produced
during the last century below the tow n
of Wieliczka by working the rock salt
and as these cavities up artiiciallv
by timbering-are continually increasing
the inhabitants Of Wieliczka some time
ago were fearing lest their town be ak
posed to the risk Of collapsing, and the
local building activity was therefore
temporarily confined to the erection of
wooden structures Present regulations
according to which those cavities have TO
be filed in, in due course gradually re-
moved that apprehension.
The mines are employing upward of
,0Oo permanent and a number of tenn
porary workmen. The working time ia
fixed at eight hours in the mines and
twelve hours above ground a day.
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comforting 10 him to-day 10 know tha
and o float that yoi'reHl trouble by means
of the wires over his mead.
The submarine signal Is simple do
vice, hut it has taken years TO work il
out. In fact, away back in the last cen
tury experiments wero Uade that showed
how rl"ch st'rer the water was in convey
iug your message than was the air. anc
quicker besiden Ring bell under waiel
and the sound will travel almost exact,
four times fastNr than the same soJ M
will carry through the air and what i,
more it's course will he straight. 1t viii
also go as far
VITA all the improvements made in
the steam sirens with which the world
has tried to protect its shipping when
the fog shuts out the lights there has
always remained that curious tendency
OF the air currents to defect sound
silent zcnes- the scientists have called
. the stretches on the sea wherein the sound
Of these sirens cannot be heard. though
they may he within mile.
Ships have stumbled around blindly
. III n lok WI it Slttfl VI llRllttIllD
and have almost bumped into it before
they have caught it This happened once
when Admiral Evans and his fleet were
going into Newport hsrbor Three miles
away one Of his vessels. the Iowa. ught
the shrek Of the harbor siren and tried to
head for it, Then the siren was lost until
she was l50 yards away, The result was
that the big battleship bumped into the
lightship.
A special commission appointed in 1894
tried to find out something about silent
zones. They sailed around a big steam
siren and drew marks on paper showing
that absolutely no law could be laid down
for the freaks Of the atmosphere in this
respect
Now 40 forty-three lghtships for the
guidance of mariners there hangs from a
dsvit big brass bell q ttached TO which is
some mechanism operated by compressed
air. Let fog roll in from the sea and down
goes this bell about twenty-five feet.
the mechanism is started and the bell
begins 10 give the code number of Is
lightship far below in the water.
There is a compressed air chamber
above the bsll.with thirty poundspressur
A little wheel is kept revolving aboard
the lightship and its teeth regulate an
additional supply Of air which opens n
valves the air chamber at the required
intervals to make the signal. The air
rushing out OF the chamber lifts the
clapper Of the bell
These bells have TO be nearly three
inches thick in order to convey the proper
amount Of sound 10 distance Of seven
teen miles, "a they do. They weigh 24o
pounds II is possible to operate them
not only on lightship but from the shore
as we'll
For instance there is one at Chebucto
Head on the coast Of Canada, suspended
on a trip cd 10 feet down and operated
by an electric current from the shore
five miles away. There are also bells
suspended on buoys and operated by the
action Of the waves. the old form of
bell buoy upside down. The water.
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of locating the approach Of the fleet
under water. He got together with
Prof. Gray, the telephone expert, and the
two worked out the present system of
submarine signalling.
Despite the fact that total OF 439 ships
belonging TO the various nations now are
equipped with submarine receivers 1t
has been hard to convince some people the
system has advanced beyond the expert
mental stage. In order to get the light
house board to take it up at all the
Submarine Signal Company was oom-
pclled to equip ten stations at its own
expense. That was three years ago.
The board after a series Of exhaustive
tests lasting sixty days in which the
bells were operated continuously then
approved OF the now system and started
in to install II at other stations.
Germany has practically a continuous
line OF submarine bells along its north
coast and there is hardly q German steamer
not equipped to receive their timely
warning 1t is probable that this year
Congress. with the Republics accident
still fresh in its mind, may decide to
appropriate sufficient money 10 complete
the chain of stations equipped with
submarine tclls
When that is done the man on the deck
of a liner nearing n fog bound coast
may be pretty nearly as certain of making
port in safety and without delay as though
the friendly beacons Of the shore were
flashing in his eyes Furthermore he
can he sure that il anything happens to
his ship there need be no game Of blind
mans buff in the mist such as happened
of Nantucket, but that within a short
time the ships within wireless call will
follow the direction of the submarine
bell and reach her side as quickly rs
thou gh guided by the glare of the rock cts
on a cleaf night at sea