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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-09-23

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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-09-23

lei IN reason keep getting To our store As
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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-09-23
Southern Railway

y. y. Foliowing schedule figures published As
information. and are not lCuaranteed
Schedule effective Aug sth. 1893.
Trains leave Washington from New Union
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-09-23

Also big lot of Factory Sample Gloves value no to 75c choice 2
od fah and winter gloves good many silk lined
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-01-01
Pennsylvania.
LANCASTER, Pa, Dee. %, 1903.

LANCASTER, PA, Dec. %, 1908.
There was decided lull in local to-
bacco markets the past week, breath
ing spell, as it were, following great
activity in the trade Most of the new
crop has left the growers hands, but
what remains can also be had if the
dealer will pay the price. Late sales
have run between 10a and IL certs a
pound, more going at II cents than at
the figure first named The dealers,
now that they have corralled most Of
the crop, do not hesitate to express the
opinion that it is very excellent tobac-
co, as the growers have said all along
it was. The prices at which the 1903
tobacco was sold pleased the growers
better than they did the packers, who
claim that in the present condition of
the market their profits will necessarily
be small, because of the high prices
they had to pay.
There was little doing in old tobacco
the past week, and no change in prices
took place Little if any 1906 goods
brought above IL cents pound actual
weight, and 1907 tobacco brought cent
or two less. New Era
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-01-01
New York.
New YORK, Dec. 26, 1908.
REVIEW OF EASTERN MARKETS.

REVIEW OF EASTERN MARKETS.
Nineteen hundred and eight, the
night-mare of the trade, is passing off .
1t will long be remembered long hard
ly, as living fast as we do we are
blessed also with short memories as a
year of depression in values and retro
gression in production. The trade is
likely to remember it even if it does
not heed its lessons because of the
losses it suffered from its prior invest
ments and in lesser degree from the
shrinkage Of the volume of it's business.
The year started in under as unfavor-
able auspices as it possibly could. The
country was in the throes of the finan-
cial upheaval which but few short
months before had arrested its general
and rising prosperity The prospects
looked dark and gloomy. The pessi-
nists were on top and anxiety and ner-
vousness held the country in their
clutches. Prices commenced to tumble
and the leaf market became a veritable
bargain counter. Filler types which
had but year ago reached their top
notch selling price of 20 and 22 cents
and binder grades which had gone even
higher, shrank suddenly one-third OF
their purchase figure. But even at such
bargain reductions the market remained
lifeless nearly throughout the entire
year; for the Internal Revenue returns
of our cigar industry told from month
to month harrassingly distressing
story Of continued falling off of the
cigar production. The steadily reduced
volume Of business did not encourage
cigar manufacturers to stock them
selves with advanced supplies. Quite
the contrary, it stimulated them to the
closest economy and to utilize and work
up every sprig of leaf on hand How
ever, the hard times were not the chief
restraint under which the leaf market
chafed. Our chief domestic wrapper
crop had gone wrong in many respects
and was turned down as resolutely as
previous crops Of the type had beer
eagerly craved for. The same misfor-
tune was shared by that portion of the
Cuban crop which is chiefly used in the
production of our clear Havana cigars.
A tremendous loss has been entailed or
that account aside Of the decreased vol
ume of business and the falling values
caused by the general depression.
Journal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-01-01
New YORK, Dec. %, 1908.
DOMESTIC CIGAR LEAF.

1t is useless to blink at the fact that
1903 was year of either small profits
or some loss to the leaf tobacco trade,
and with the exception OF a very few
cigar factories a year of curtailed bIsi-
ness and curtailed profits for cigar man
ufacturers. The panic of October a
year ago compelled the packers and i'm
porters of tobacco to carry their stocks
of high-priced goods into the new year,
and the policy adopted by the manu-
facturers of buying from hand to mouth
throughout the whole Of 1903 induced
price cutting among the competing
dealers to an unprecedented degree. It
is no exaggeration to say that the losses
on old stocks of Seed leaf In the hands
of packers amounted, on an average, to
twenty per cent But to the credit of
the trade, these losses were endured by
the owners of the goods, and no tobac-
co firm of great Importance has failed
to pay dollar for dollar for every obli-
cation incurred Of course, what was
a matter of small Importance to the
larger and stronger firms may have
been distressing experience for their
requires large capital, as the packers
anu Importers pay CdSH 1oI ali tHeIT
purchases and sell on credit; and those
firms which were not over-extended
simply met with curtailment of their
capital.
Of the domestic tobaccos, the New
England cropof 1906, which was carried
over, maintained its price, as did the
Zimmer Spanish in great measure.
Gebhardt, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and
New York, as rule, left losses to the
holders, but the losses have been made
up and the 1906 tobeccos of all types
have been pretty well sold out. To
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-01-01
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET.
EDGERToN, WIS. Jan. i. 1909.

EDGERToN, Wis, Jan. l, 1909.
The beginning of new year finds
the tobacco business moving along
rather quiet lines. While the new crop
is selling in moderate way, the move
ment does not gain much headway nor
does there appear to be any organized
effort on the part of the large operat,
ors at present to lift the balance
of the crop. Some of the better
crops are taken at from 8 to 1cc for
the wrapper and binder grades but by
far the greater number of sales run at
lower figures, from &c up. We learn
of the following sales:
Robert Smith, ga at 9&3c.
James Ward, "A at 9&2c.
Frank Heubner, IA at 53c.
Little can be said of the market for
old leaf. There is some movement
among packers of low grades and a
small trade to manufacturers orders,
but no transactions of any moment are
reported. w. T. Pomeroy & Co. have
purchased about 100 cases of export
goods during the week. We learn of
the sale of 117cs lot of Equity pooled
'07 grades at &c scale.
Warehouse handling of the new crop
will become more general the coming
week at several of the packing points,
when the work of the season will be
well under way.
The shipments out of storage reach
1888 cases from this market to all points
for the week. There has been received
"a car loads from outlying points for
warehouse handling.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-01-01
New England.

There is not much going on in the
market though few sales of broadleaf
have been reported from time to time
at about 20 cents per pound, while %
cents has occasionally been paid. Some
sales of the 1906 and 1907 crops have
been made, but, it is said, at lower
price than that offered Immediately
after the tobacco was cased. Pracuc-
ally all the tobacco is now down from
the poles and in the bundle and the
crop is described as above the average
IN quality and appearance with large
proportion of light wrappers. From Is
to 18 cents per pound seems to be about
the average price for Havana seed.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-01-01
McGIFFIN & BIRKENMEYER
Packers and Dealers in
Leaf obacco
GAINESVILLE, WIS.

make up for this, those houses that had
the capital and foresight to invest early
in 1907 Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio
(Gebhardt and Zimmer) and New York
State tobaccos at low prices have all
made very satisfactory profits and have
virtually disposed of their holdings,
which will, in a large measure, make
up for what they had lost on previous
crops. - Leaf.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-01-01

You will have to hurry If you want
any of the Is Little Photos for Is Lit
tie Cents. Love & Bishop, over Camp
BELLS harness shop. 5wl
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-01-01
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES

The year just closing will pass into
history as one of the most disastrous
ones the leaf tobacco trade has ever ex-
perienced, not only one devoid of profits
but in many cases one where losses and
shrinkage of capital have been sus-
tanned. The year was ushered in on
the heels of an acute financial panic
with credits curtailed and capital no.
where seeking investment. To those
of the trade who were struggling under
a heavy load of 1906 leaf the situation
became almost unbearable, and the
surprises of the year are that failures
have not been more frequent. Handl-
capped as the leaf trade was with high
priced leaf on hand and no outlet IN
sight, the 1907 crop went begging for
months Until matters adjusted then in
financial circles and capital could be Sc
cured to move the crop. But for the
American Tobacco Co. with its unlim-
tied resources, the crop might not have
moved during the year even at the low
prices at which it was bought. Cheap
as the '07 crop was secured, packers
find after deduction for an unusual
amount of damage has been made there
is little or no profit to be realized, for
the nightmare of the panic was pres
ent throughout the year. With the
sacrifices which have continually been
made in 1906 holdings, the cheaper 1907
crop and the damaged and off grades of
all years, the hand to mouth needs of
the manufacturing trade have been
supplied, but most unsatisfactory
business during the year.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-01-01

The period Of adjustment to lower
leaf prices coupled to the disturbances
of panic year has proved the most
trying one for the leaf trade. Neither
has the penalty for the mistakes of 1906
yet all been paid for not less than ten
thousand cases of that crop still remain
in packers hands in this state to be
disposed of. Whether the sacrifice of
from So to $40 a box must yet continue
will hinge upon the general condition of
trade The market is not overstocked
of good binder leaf and with revival
Of business partial recovery from
prospective losses may yet be realized.
The prices being paid for the new crop
yielding not much over so per cent. of
equal binder goods certainly puts the
cost much above the present market
price of the '06. So the holders con-
tinue to cherish the hope that the tide
may change in their favor. This view
is further strengthened by the fact that
the '07 Wisconsin crop yields smaller
percentage of desirable binder goods to
go upon the market than for some years
past, nor does the '08 crop promise to
prove so formidable competition either.
Altogether the position seems quite
tenable.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-01-01

And the tobacco growers have had
their share of troubles too during the
year. The low price at which the bulk
of the '07 sold brought little or no profit
to the farmer, and yet those growers
who declined to accept the going figures
and held their crops through the sweat
admittedly made a mistake, for damage
in the cure put them in the same class
with the packers regarding profits.
The same is also true of those who pat
ronized the Equity pools. The grower
who sold at the going figures had the
best end of the bargain The drouth
at the maturing end of the '08 crop is
another misfortune Of the year, pro-
ducing crop that must grade below
the average yield in the state Close
to half the crop has been sold, however,
to date at figures that yield the'grow-
ers fair profits. The yield per acre is
satisfactory, the crop sound and free
from imperfections and no trouble is
experienced in delivery. Those grow
ers who were fortunate in securing
early crops are able to realize nearly
an average money return for their to-
bacco which is yielding better than 800
per acre. 1t could be better and it has
been worse, so in writing down the
record the tobacco grower has probably
been as little hurt through the disas-
ters of panic year as anyone along
down the line.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-01-01

For the first time since the panic of
year ago the internal revenue returns
for the month of November show an in
crease in the output Of tobacco manu-
facturers over that of 1907. So it
looks as if the worst was over and is
the first bright spot that betokens re-
covery of the tobacco industries from a
long season of depression. It gives
additional hope that the coming year
has better things in store for all en-
gagged in the tobacco business dealer
and grower alike.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-12-06

900. purchase and maintenance OF motor
vehicle, 81. 400.
Street sweeping ofhce-One clerk. at
80, one inspector, at $1,000
Department Of insurance-Assista
examiner, at $1,000
Surveyors Office
Surveyors ofhce-One craftsman, in
creased from 500 10 $1,000; computer and
transit man. 1920; rodmau, $S25.
Free public library-Chief OF the or
der department, $500; chief Of the cata-
logue department, $3.50
Contingent expenses-For purchase
and maintenance OF motor vehicle for
use Of assistants to Engineer Commits
sioner, 81. 400; constructing conveyors,
engines. etc. az the District sand and
gravel walk. 5000; one book typewriter,
$50: Jurisdiction over reservation 1S5 Is
requested to be transferred for use as
n property yard from the chief of en-
,gineers 10 the Commissioners; fireproof
steel flecases for the office Of register
OF wills. $1,000: testing hreproof ma
teriaI $500: repairs 20 Western and
Georgetown markets and the old part Of
the Eastern market, $500
improvements and repairs-Replacing
sidewalks and curos. on the east and
north sides OF the Government Printing
office. 5000; new sidewalk and curbs
around Patent office, 81, 800; constructing
a subway and bridge TO carry Cedar
street under the tracks OF the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, $4,000.
Sewers-For beginning the extension
Of the Rock Greek main inteTCeptOr
from p street 20 the Military road testi-
mated cost SOS. 600. $4,000. for begin
ming the construction of the AnaCOStia
main interCeptOr along the AnacOStia
river between the Outfall sewer, sewage
disposal system at Poplar Point
and Benning ESTIMATED cost 500 300,
$4,000; for completing the construction
OF the east side interceptOr, sewage dis
posal system from the boundary 10
Brookland ESTIMATED cost $3l2 000). So
600; assessment and permit work, $4,000.
Streets-FOr the construction Of addi-
tiOnal swimming pools, one Tor COlOred
and one or white bathers. 5000; inn
prOvements ROsedale Fairgrounds, 5000,
one new public convenience station,
S22.5OO.
Washington AQueduct - Continuation
of parking grounds around Mcmillan
Park reservoir, $1,000.
The Public Schools.
Public Superintendent OF
properties. $500; central heating plant
for NJ Street High School, the Abby
Slmmins School,. and the Douglass
School, $50. GO; purchase Of motor de-
livery MdEbll anu AiAfllAlANAAtA-AhNF a-r-7-ff
laboratory apparatus i'm high schools.
s.. 900. contingent expenses, child labor
law $1,000: equipment OF extension TO
Business High School. SIS. 900: complete
equipment Of addition TO Western High
School. $4,000: complete equipment Of
the third extension to the Mckinley
Manual Training School So. 600, toward
the construction of a normal school
building on lots IS 10 1G, Columbia
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-12-06
HALF MILLION MORE
FOR THE DISTRICT
Total of S11,18O,628 Is
Wanted to Conduct
Government.
SCHOOLS IN LEAD
IN THE ESTIMATES
Governors Would Have Salaries
Increased From $4,000 to
$500 Per Year.
CONTINUED from First Page1

repairing streets. avenues, and alleys.
The total amount asked for to carry on
improvements and repairs is S1.076.10O
The Commissioners ask for SlO6,OOO for
the extension OF the water mains.
They estimate that the cost Of the
Cedar street subway and bridge viii be
$4,000. It is intended to spend $l50.GO
on tie county roads. $4,000 more than
during the present fiscal year. Other
estimates recommended are as follows:
Sewers, $780,. 500: streets. S573.2l5; cleo
trical department, t506,O95; Washing
ton aqueduct, $4,000: health depart
ment, S1s4,340; courts. $S2,S 500; interest
on sinking fund. 1915, 4oS: courts and
prisons. $3.50 0S0. charities and correc-
tons. S955.5S3; militia. $1,000. The total
estimates, exclusive Of the water de-
partment. aggregate S11.0l65f3. and in
elusive of the Water Department ST.
1S0.62S of which amount S5,523,2l Will
he payable from the District revenues
and a like amount from the United
States Treasury
List of Estimates.
The increases in the District estimates
over current appropriations are as fol-
lows:
Property division - Storekeeper, at
$1,000
Building inspection division - Chief
clerk. at 1900; clerk. at S1.200; clerk and
stenographer. $500, hire Of six horses and
luggies. at $50 a month.
Plumbing inspection division-Clerk
at $500: purchase and maintenance OF
motor cycle, $500.
Care of District buildinE-Clerk, STD
Auditors office-StatistiCian. $500.
Dusbursing offce-Clerk, at S1,2O0.
Corporation cOunsels offire - Law
clerk. at 1920; law books, $500.
Coroner's cffice-Hcstler and janitor,
$3.50.
Office Of sealer Of weights and meaus-
ures-Extra clerical services, 800
Engineers office - General foreman,
$500; three clerks, at $1,000 each Zone
additionally. one additional, at $1,000
(ncw employed on per diem rolD, in
crease OF one clerk TO $500 from 500:
increase Of one clerk from $3.50 TO $50;
increase to messenger from $40 10 800.
six messengers. at $50 each. three lab
oratOry assistants, at 500 each, an in
crease of s155 each; assistant inspector
OF gas ard meters $500.
Architects Caice.
Municipal architects offce-Chief in
spector of construction, 5000, being a
transfer OF an employee now paid $3.50
a day. chief craftsman from Sl,500 TO
Si.Go0; boss plumber. $500 (this man.
employed three years ago to do minor
repairs, formerly done by contract in
one year saved the District four times
his salary. He IS now employed on the
per diem roll at $50 a day.. COpyist. at
$1,000 NOW paid g a dav and employed
continuously; craftsman, AZ 81 ,0oJ Cnow
on per diem roll. at 50 a day). two
craftsmen. at $500 each NOW on roll at
3 per dayl; heating. venfilating. and
sanitary engineer, 5000 Cnow on roll
at IS per lay. one clerk increased from
Sd10 to $40; stenogr1phcr and type
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-12-06
CZARINA'S CONDITION
HELD TO BE CRITICAL
Consort of the Gar So I'll II Is
Feared She May Not
Recover.

ST. PETERSBURG. Dec. 6.-Empress
Alexandra. consort OF the Car. is today
in a critical condition at Llvadia one
OF the imperial estates on the Black
sea. near Yalta, and several members
of the imperial family have been sum
moned 10 her bedside In expectation Of
the fatal termination Of her illness.
The CZarina is suffering from a com
plication OF troubles. Her nervous
breakdown Is such that she Is hySteri-
cal most OF the time and tt Is believ11
that her mind is hopelessly deranged.
She has taken no active part in state
functions for more than a year. Those
who have seen her recently. say that
she Is the mere shadow OF her former
self
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-12-06

Heights. $4,000: construction Of q
twelve-room school building on site
north Of Spring road and west Of Thir-
teenth street, Sl05O0O: an addition to the
Armstrong Manual Training School
S65. 900; complete equipment OF this adj
dition, $4,000: purchase Of additional
ground, near Orr School, 5000, con
str, ction Of four-rOOm annex or addi-
tiOT to this school $4,000; purchase OF
site adjacent to the Ivy School OF S2,oU
square feet $1,000, construction or a
twelve-room building west Of Seventh
street and north Of Q street, 100000;
construction of an eight-rOom eXtenSl-
bic buildinE for Randall Highlands. ID.
c.. 70 be erected on a site donated to
the District, S64. 600; purchase OF ground
for school house west Of the Soldiers
Home grounds. east OF Sherman ave
nue. and New Hampshire avenue, south
Of Rock Creek road. and north Of
Glrard street. $4,000.
Fire Messenger at head
quarters. at $50; hoster in charge Of
department stable, $500; engine com
Dany I'm the northwest section in the
vicinity bounded by Ninth and Four
teenth and * and NJ streets, SIS, 900;
new engine company I'm the vicinity of
Rock Greek Church road I'D Georgia
avenue $4,000; one fire engine. $500:
chemical engine, $500.
Health Department.
Health Department-Two inspectors
Of diaries and dairy farms, at S1,1OO each ;
two sanitary and fooC inspectors at
SLIGO each: TWO sanitary and food in
spectors at $1,000 each: chemist in
creased from $3.50 to 5000: assistant
chemist. $1,000: equipment of chemical
laboratory, $1,000: maintenance OF Dis
tict Columbia laboratory, $500; bacteri-
ologist. $500: skilled laborer, $500;
equipment ard maintenance Of bacteri-
illogical library, $500: weed removal act
enforcement, 5000 Cthe Health officer
comments that this act should be gen
orally enforced or else repealed); repairs
10 pound. 800. three graduate nurses TO
CCUrts-Cne bailin in Juvenile Court,
at $500. ventilation, Police Court, $500,
file cases in Municipal Court, $500.
Washington Asylum - Electric wires
Home for the Aged and Innrm-One
dairyman, at $3.50; completing fire pro-
lection, S1,J00.
Medical cha rities-Repairs to Column
bia hospital, an Increase from 5000 10
5000. new boiler, $3.50: assistant cook,
tuberculosis Hospital. $3.50. mortuary,
5000
child caring institution - Accounting
clerk, board Of Children's guardians,
$500: erection Of suitable buildings for a
school for fecble-minded children, TO be
located on the tract of land al Blue
Plains, now owned by the District,
$4,000: nurse. Industrial Home for Col
ored Children, 500: Iaundress, same
place, 500; piano. 500: roads and side
walks, 500; residence for superintendent,
5000. Industrial Home School, new
boiler. $1,000
Extension OF water uains-ExtenslOn
Of trunk mains to Congress Heights and
Twiuing City, $780, 00o.
Water Department-Chief Inspector OF
valves, $500