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FOREIGN MARKETS.

LONDON, : July 2.-The stock market
during the week has been dominated by
American rails, which. under the infiu-
ence Of adverse. crop news and the action
of the interstate commerce commission
regarding rates, became heavy and oc-
casionally demoralized and reached the
lowest level of the year. Today there
was a recovery of 81 to 50 on the state
ment that the interstate commerce COM
mission did not intend any drastic action
against railways. The final prices. how
ever, showed a nett loss of 81 to - for
the week Most of the selling has been
for Wall street account, but continental
operators liquidated freely and there also
was selling of mineSi and foreign securi-
ties in order to meetsthe losses In Amer
leans. Copper shares suffered with
Americans, and Canadian issues dropped
sharply on unfavoralble crop news and
labor troubles, but tine rest of the mar
ket finished steadier' under the lead of
investment securities (which were sup
ported on the cheap money outlook ana
the growing belief that the bank rate
would be reduced THURSDAY.
Money was plentiful and easy and dis
count rates were quiet hfOday.
The stock market e1sded the week
Quietly firm. with FRACTIONAL gains gen.
eral.
over parity and improved i.on President
Taft's interview with ChaErnan Knapp
of the interstate commerce scommiSSion
on the new railroad rate iaw1. Continen-
tai and local coverings madehthe closing
firm and from " to IA MISUNDERSTANDING
New York closing.
PARIS. July Prices on9the bourse
today were irregular.
BERLIN, July 2.-Prices on then bourse
opened weak, but later advanced with
Pennsylvania shares the featureVin the
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Tediousness in Conversation.


One tedium Of conversation that I wish
to deplore is the common habit Of retail
ing at more or less length a summary of
the plot of a novel play. The trouble Is,
the making OF a clear synopsis Of an in
volved story is very difficult thing to
do even for a professional author; yet
very few hesitate about jauntily setting
out on the enterprise. How often have
suffered from such a summarizingi All
goes well for the first minute or two.
Then in the full flood of narration some
such statement as this comes out:
SO you see this common sailor turned
out to be the count she met in Venice"
But what count do you mean?" / in
terrupt mildly.
''Oh, don't you remember? I told you
all about him, didn't I?-tne one she met
on the yacht. you KNOW" replies the mar
rator, with a shade of irritation in his
voice
Now, in nine cases out of ten II will
prove that he has not so much as men,
toned the count or the yacht before. Or
IL he has, II has been in such a casual
way. and in the midst of such a hodge
podge of names and Incidents that they
have merely gone in at the one ear and
out at the other.
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A Modern Proposal.
he Cleveland Plain DeaDer

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
He-You know. Celeste. what modern
living means. You read the papers, OF
course?
She-Yes. George. And / hear all about
it at home. Nothing but high> prices.
He-That's right. Everything\is up but
salaries and car fare.
Shell guess that's true. Mime. Gore
under s.
He-My mother and sister go ITO some
body else, but I'm sure they must be
all alike Anyway. father doess good
deal more kicking than he used tto do.
Shelves, and rents are way. up for
everything that's desirable.
Hell know. I've been around. It's
discouraging, isn't it?
She-Awfully.
He after a little pause-Of course. II
wouldn't be fair to you to ask You to
marry me.
she-And I'm sure it wouldn't betfair
to you il / accepted your offer.
He-By JOve. Celeste, you're an angel
for unselfshness.
She'll love you too well to be a
b-burden to you.
He-Copfound the consequences, Who
cares for high prices? Let's get married
anyway.
She-Y-yes, George.
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Mike Murphy, the trainer Of the
Olympic team of 1908. to coach them this
summer, and were willing to pay a good
~ sum for his services. They also tried
to get Mike Sweeney of Hill School, the
world champion high jumper. Failing to
get either of these men they employed
Ernest Hjertberg, the trainer of the Irish
American A. c., New York, and he has
already gone to remain with the Swedish
athletes for the next two years. There
is little doubt that the Swedes will profit
greatly under the coaching of Hjertberg.
They have some good athletes there now
and the sport is still in its infancy.
Sweden is not likely to win the next
Olympiad, but this sort of persistence will
certainly win the Swedes a gOOdly share
of nonors within the next few years.
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wear gold. jewels or costly apparel: but
with fine courtesy John Wesley knew
when to ignore breaches Of his own regu-
latiOns.
In visiting a house .one Of the preach
ers drew Wesley's attention to the hosts
daughter. who was ring several jew
eled rings, but instead of the rebuke
which his preacher sought to evoke Wes-
ley only gravely and gently remarked.
"A very beautiful handS'
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GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, July 2.-Butter steady: re-
ceipts, ., 1915 packages. Creamery specials
29A, process seconds to extras. 221sa25
imitation creamery, 24a26.
Cheese-Firm. unchanged. Receipts
1852 boxes; exports, none.
Eggs-Weak: state, Pennsylvania and
nearby gathered whites. 22a25; fresh
gathered, seconds, APrst-tO DIN DIN nj
14,513 cases.
PouItry-Alive quiet: western broilers
81: fowls, 17a171a; turkeys, 1Oa14. Dressed
quiet western broilers, 25a27; fowls, 161:
ais: turkeys, 15a1S.
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New York Cattle Market.

NEW YORK, July 2.-Beeves-Receipts,
1896: market quiet; common steers.
$50; bulls. 3S5. Feeling steady; dressed
beef quiet at last quota tions Exports to-
day, 1O5 cattle and 2.11j quarters Of beef
Calves-Receipts, 30; no trade of inn
portance; feeling steady. Dressed calves
steady: city dressed veals, 11kc to lac;
country dressed calves, to 12c.
Sheep and lambs-Receipts. 1850: sheep
setady; lamps. higher; sheep 3,OOa4. IS;
yearlings, $50; lambs, I.25aS 40; culls,
500.
Hogs--Receipts, 1898; market nominaliy
steady for medium and heavy, weak for
light.
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Manchester Cloth Market.

MANCHESTER, July 2-Business in
the cloth market WIS stagnant during
the week Lower prices of cotton SEEM
ed to encourage buyers in their waiting
policy, but manufacturers showed few
signs of relaxing their firm attitude.
The yarns were featureless and few
sales occurred in American and Egyptian
at late rates after considerable discus
sion.
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LONDON MARKET.

LONDON. July 2-American securi-
ties opened on the stock exchange here
today a fraction over parity, and i'm
proved on President Taft's interview
with Chairman Knapp of the interstate
commerce commission on the new rail-
road rate law. continental and local
covering made the closing firm, and
from Il to Ia above yesterdays New
York closing.
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Montana Bank Is Closed.

The First National Bank of Billings.
Mont, was closed yesterday by direction
of the controller Of the currency, the bank
having been reported by the examiner to
be insolvent. r. W. GOodhart has been
appointed receiver.
March %, the date Of the last report to
the controller of the currency. the bank
included among it's resources $685. 1894 in
loans and discounts and $134, 4O3 in cash
and cash items.
The liabilities included $150.OOO in cap
ital stock, $51,61S in surplus and undi-
vided profits and 81 500. 429 in deposits.
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PROTESTING AGAINST
HUDSON RIVER COURSE
Expert Bushnell Wants Inter.
collegiate Regatta Held
Elsewhere.
By Edward R. Bushnell.

There was probably less satisfaction
derived from the sixteenth annual re-
gatta of the intercollegiate Rowing Asso-
cation decided on the Hudson river a
week ago than from any of it's prede-
cessors. So keen was the disappointment
on the part Of the competing crews and
the spectators that everybody would
gladly welcome any feasible plan that
could be suggested for holding the re-
gatta elsewhere.
Nature seldom smiles on this regatta
and the writer does not recall any in
which everybody concerned went away
satisfied that all parties had an even
chance to win. Primarily the stewards
have to select the date Of the regatta
to harmonize with the tides and even
then they can give no guarantee that
the river will not be converted into a
choppy sea that will cause the light
shells to fill. That was what they en-
countered this year. Then, too, no one
Is ever satisfied with the drawing OF the
courses. If the river is smooth those
crews which are furthest out enjoy an
advantage variously estimated at several
lengths in a four-mile race. But should
the water be rough, as 1t was this weeX,
then the crews nearest the shore Dement,
and those out in the river have to row
mighty carefully to keep from sinking.
This year every condition seemed to
favor the Cornell victors. and the Penn
sylvanians, who finished in second place,
bat half 4 length in the rear. The Column
bia eight, generally picked as the only
one with a chance to defeat Cornell, was
far out in the river and the shell shipped
a great, deal of water. At the same time
it should not be imagined that Columbia
otherwise would have defeated Cornell or
even beaten out the Quakers. who rowed
in surprisingly good form, and. in fact,
COMPOUNDED all the river experts, who at
first placed Pennsylvania absolutely last
among the favoritSs and who later vouch-
safed her no better than third place. In
deed, had sthe Pennsylvania Oarsmen pos
sessed either the age and weight or the
racing experience of the Comedians they
would PROBABLY have won the race.
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Home for Working Girls.
Disnntch An The So

NORFOLK, Va, July 1.-The handsome
building and the lot on which 1t stands
at the corner of Boissevain and Colley
avenues were today conveyed to trustees
by Jesse IT. Bonney for use as a home
for working girls.
1t will be known as the Bonney Home
for Girls. The property is worth many
thousands of dollars. and to maintain 1t
MIR. Bonney will endow 1t to the extent Of
x1Un.VW
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Dry Goods Market.

NEW YORK, July 2.-The dry goods
primary markets were very quiet during
the day, as most OF the large houses were
closed for the holiday. Cotton goods clos
ed the week fairly steady. with a fair de-
mand reported for new spring cottons to
be made. Linens are quiet. and burlaps
seemed firmer.
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No Other Available Course.

It is unfortunate that there is no ac-
cessible course in the east which could
be substituted for that at Poughkeepsie
unless the collegians could overcome
their prejudice. against courses which are
not straight. In England straightaway
course is a thing unheard of. The four
mile course on the Thames, where OK
ford and Cambridge row every spring,
is as crooked as a rams horn and crews
almost require the assistance OF river
pilot TO stear a correct course. A falrly
good course of four miles, though not
absolutely straight, could be secured on
the Delaware river short distance aoose
Philadelphia Or If the crews could be
induced to shorten their race from four
to three miles plenty of good courses
could be found. Thesmo satisfactory at
this distance wouldf be the Schuylklli
river, Philadelphia. where very good
three-mtle course could be laid out. How
ever, like the Delaware. it would possess
the disadvantage that no observation
trains could follow the' races.
These are just a few of the dlfhcuitles
that the stewards willfencounter If they
attempt to remove thetregatta from the
mountabIe. Another suggestion made,
but not very enthusiastically received. is
that the association should have a week
Of racing very much like, that at deniey
on the Thames This suggestion also In
cluded that the various crews row eacii
other in heats of two screws each, the
winners to meet in the ffTsals. This idea
furthermore assumed thattthe rowing col
leges would arrange races3tor the single
scuIlers and other sorts ofvcrews. ROW
ing in this country has notNyet developer
sufficiently for such preteanious scnene,
hut the day is certainly coming when
rowing will have become popular enough
for such a program.
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LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL, Julys 2.-Close: Wheat
Spot firm; old American mixed, 5s 3'd
stock; futures firm: July, 6s cad; Octo-
Der, 6s Sad; December, Is 9%d. Corn
spot firm; old American mixed, 5s 31zd
via Galveston. IS 21zd; new Kindred. IS
Sd: futures dull; July nominal; Septem-
Der, As sid.
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MARKET IS CLEANED
Has Been I'm Need of What It
Got the Past Week.
SOME BIG POOLS BROKEN
Cliques Declared to Have Been Gun
ming for Each Other.
PRESSURE ON MANY ISSUES
Few Of the Market Leaders Escaped
Heavy Se1ling-Low Records
for Two Years.
PRESSURE ON MANY ISSUES

Special Correspondence of The Star.

special correspondence or The Star.
NEW YORK, July 2, 1910.
The market just had to have a clean
up" and that is what it got. Seven sue
cessive days of declining prices culmi-
mated Wednesday and Thursday with a
grand explosion and smash. When it
was over Wall street looked like q
slaughter house 1t was full of dead and
wounded, and the wreckage has not yet
all been carried away.
The break took prices down to the low
est point reached in two years and bet
ter, and the counters have not been so
full of bargains since the panic Of 1907.
This condition in the face of the fact
that the general business situation is
healthy and without sign of panic IS
very puzzling to most people. No ex-
PLANTATION that is satisfying to the ordi-
nary understanding has been advanced
to account for the heavy depreciation,
which has been going along with more
or less irregularity ever since last
autumn.
entirely lacking in leadership. 1t has been
there has been more or less jealousy in
many quarters. There has been no har-
mOny of action. 1t was every clan for
itself, and as a consequence, the street
was full of friction. During the later
stages of the decline there was a good
deal of talk about big interests cunning
for one another
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Swedes Engage a Trainer.

That the Swedes intend to figure con-
spicuously in the next Olympiad is shown
by their action in engaging trainer to
prepare their athletes. Prior to the Lon
don Olympiad they sent a number of
their best men to this. country for the
purpose of observing the ways OF the
Americans and their athletes profited ac
cordingly. This summer they have adj
yanced another step. They first invited
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WEEKS RANGE OF PRICES
Corrected to the Close of Business July at the
New York Stock Exchange.
Railway and Miscellaneous Shares.


Exchan
1909
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REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF the
District National Bank
RESOURCES.

OF WASHINGTON,
At Washington, in the District Of Columbia a
the close OF business June 80, 1910.
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Standard Oil Crowd Grouchy.

1t is undeniably true. however, that
the so-called Standard Oil crowd in the
stock market has been frowning and
grouchy for a good while. Its especial
sore point is the attitude of the federal
toward the Standard Oil Company and
its auxilia1ies. Its spokesman have
openly held that general business could
not improve permanently until the SUI
preme Court acted on the famous Stand
ard Oil case, and this attitude has not
changed in the least by reason Of the
mere delay ordered by the court. Pos
sibly exaggerated Importance is attached
to this case by the Standard Oil inter-
est, but there can be no doubt as to how
the leading men in that combination
feel.
If the Supreme Court decides against
the corporation and orders it's dissOlu-
ton the insiders connected with it and
in control Of the greatest banking combi-
nation in the United States have small
hope for the country. They talk as
though they really believe that the well
fare of the nation hinged on that de-
,cision, and that If the court holds ad-
Hand will have to go through the hard
lest period of their existence. Those
swho are not intimately associated with
this group of financiers try in vain to
argue CNcIu lUtO tHc DclleI lIdt tHey
are taking a mistaken view, and that the
country will survive the disaster sue
cessfully, as 1t has many other land
worse ones. This powerful interest has
clrnHg tenaciously to the attitude ex-
pressed above. and shows no signs of g
charge of opinion. They may take
this long decline in prices as vindica-
ton Of their position and hold Off from
further hostility. They are a relentless
partly however. and may not be salts
fed until still lower levels are reached
in the grand plan Of educating the
pub1icx" That kind of education is
very calstly, but in the minds OF the
teachersA 1t is necessary for the proper
disciplined of the popular mind.
Ama7gamated Copper Strong.
AmaIganated Copper. which is dis.
tinctly al William Rockefeller speciality
has beenEOne of the strongest issues or
the list. Measured by earnings and divi-
dends 1t ISL absurdly out Of line with the
rest Of they market. but that does not
seem to make any difference. 1t has
invited shoEtA selling. and that fact alone
Is probably Irresponsible for the marked
rigidity OF the stock. The weakness In
copper metaN has been pronounced and
the price is noHv down to within IL cents
of the cost of production in the Amalga
mated mines trhere have been sales OF
copper very close to IL cents, and leading
consumers at esome and abroad act as
though confidentithat the price will break
through that figure They continue to
buy from handsto: mouth, and widely adj
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BERLIN. July 2-Exchange on London,
81 marks 43 pfennigs for checks.
Money, ) per cent.
Private rate of discount, 3Is per cent.
The weekly statement of the Imperial
Bank OF Germany shows the following
changes:
marks
Loans increased $50 O41 $50 marks
Discounts increased $50, $50. 600 marks.
Treasury bills increased 1,17O,OO0
marks
marks
Deposits increased 3 2O5, 900 marks
Gold in hand decreased 125, 921 ,O00
marks.
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City of Washington District OF Columbia, S.:
l. T.. QUINCY SMITH. president Of the above
named bank. do solemnly swear that the shove
statement is true to the best Of my knowledge
and belief.
(Signedl r. QUINCY SMITH. President
Subscribed and sworn to before me this secop0
day OF July, 1910.
(SignedD C. ID. RADCLIFFE, Notary Public.
Correst-Attest:
HENRY j. GOODMAN.
JAMES SHARP.
GEORGE FULLY VAUGHN.
Directors.
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st. Paul a Weak Factor.

st. Paul has been conspicuously a weak
factor in the market situation. The ex-
pense of its Pacific extension has been a
great deal heavier than estimated and the
company has been obliged to do some big
financing under unfavorable conditions
and upon unfavorable terms. This fact
and the additional fact that the new
mileage is in strongly competitive ter
ritory have thrown doubts upon the
ability of the corporation to continue pay
ing Z per cent dividends. The manage
ment has Indignantly resented gossip sug-
costing the possibility of a cut in the
dividend rate from per cent to per
cent and possibly per cent. and more
than once William Rockefeller has stood
sponsor for the denials.
Nevertheless the decline in ST. Paul
from around 100 down below lis seems to
have discounted the cut indicated and In
a measure to have proved the accuracy OF
the forecast. From around 145 ST. Paul
has led the break in prices. The theory
has been entertained for good while that
William Rockefeller was really bearish
on the general market and he has been
charged by indignant bull spectators with
using ST. Paul as a club to pound down
the rest of the list. This is the kind OF
talk that is always INDUCED in on a
slumpy market, and Mr.. Rockefeller hap
pens to be the name that Is more often
on peoples lips than anybody elses on
this particular occasion.
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FOREIGN BANKS.

LONDON, July Bullion amounting to
ElS0O0 was taken into the Bank of Eng
land on balance today.
PARIS, July 2.-Closing: Three per cent
rentes. 91f 91iac for the account.
Exchange on London, Psf 1S12c for
checks.
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Tota, 81. 562 60a 20
Washington. District OF Columbia. SIS
+ ALBERT =. galley, cashier OF the above
ma med bank do soemny swear that the aocve
statement is true to the best OF my knowledge
and belief ALBERT s. galley. Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this %
day OF July. 1910 .,
tSeall FRANK T. kNOCh. Notary fuoue'
Correct-Attest:
r A Walker William r. GUIDE.
los Strasburrer Peter Iatterner.
N u Sulliyan s. Dana Lincoln,
Andrew Archer Lucas p Loving.
John w Rrawuer Patrick r Moran.
Robert Callahan Howard r. Norton.
F1oyd f. Davis Henry r. offterdingeR.
Robert A. Dore George &. Humphrey.
William F. Dowuey Samuel c. Rednian,
Richard J. Earnshaw q. Taylor Wade.
Directors.
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Various Groups Affected.

Color was given to some of these
stories by the action of stocks and groups
of stocks more or less identified with
known banking houses and capitalists.
The Morgan stocks were under pressure
at one time. then it was the Hartman
stocks, then the Hill stocks, then the
William Rockefeller group, and last but
by no means least, the Hawley stocks.
These latter issues were subjected to
heavier pressure at one time than any,
thing else on the list, and it was of COM
mon report that the chief of this compi-
nation was in for a drubbing. Whether
he got the licking or not is q disputed
point among the wiseacres. On one hand
it is claimed that he has been set back
and that hereafter his influence will not
be SO great as he tried to make it after
his acquisition of Chesapeake and Ohio
and Missouri, Kansas and Texas.
Another vigorously supported theory is
that he took bearish position in the
market two or three months ago, and
that instead of being trimmed. as general
ly supposed, he has made great killing
Which one Of these theories is right will
probably be shown by Mr.. Hawley's line
of action in the no distant future. If he
goes ahead with his ambitious plans Of
railroad consolidation it will be proof suf-
ffcient thatehe has weathered the storm,
and 1t might justify the notion that he
may have had a hand in helping to organ
lie the Storm
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PARIS. July Prices on9the bourse
today were irregular.

BERLIN, July 2.-Prices on theA bourse
opened weak, but later advanced with
Pennsylvania shares the featureyin the
inward movement