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The Washington herald., 1911-06-28
WASHINGTON STOCK MARKET

saIes-ReVular call. Il O'Clock noon
City and Suburban Railroad s., 5000 at los.
ST. coo at l0
Potomac cons S. 5000 at lOI, 5000 at lCl. 81 OOC
at I0l
Capital Traction, S at ITS.
Washington Railway and Electric pfd., 10 at 80.
20 at So
Mergenthaler, at z27s. at "a, 8 at 2Z5H.
National Bank Of Washington, At n, 10 at
2lh
United States Trust 10 at 12Z4.
Merchants and Mechanics Savings Bank, 10 At
10.
Chaplin & Sacks, 10 at IFS, 10 at ITS.
After call-Washington Gas. 50 at s7h.
Following were the bid and asked prices posted
yesterday.
GAS BONDS
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Bank Stocks.

National Metropolitan Bank of Wash
ington sold at 271 for three shares, and
rose to 271 1-2 for ten shares. United
States Trust came out again and ten
shares sold at 122 1-2 Ten shares Of
Merchant and Mechanics Savings Bank
brought 10.
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Georre Getn Annointment.

The Commissioners yesterday appointed
John NJ. George, fifth assistant corpora
ton counsel. Mr.. George, who has for
ten years been a stenographer in the
once OF the corporation counsel. win
enter upon his duties July 1. at a salary
OF 81, 500 a year. Carl A. Mapes will take
Mr.. Georges place, and will be promoted
from $1,000 to LOO a year.
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ProbabIe Cost q Properfy.

The condemnation Of the Meridian I'M
property. which Is to be used for q PARK
and playground. probably win cost tho
District $4,000 This is believed to be
the approximate amount the board ef
appraisers. who have just nnished their
work. win report IS the value Of the
Land
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GOVERNMENT BONDS.
BALTIMORE GRAIN MARKET.

Baltimore. July z-wheat closed steady and
strong. Spot and June 90; July. soA; August sOA J;
September. e.
Corn closed steady and strong. Spot and Juns and
July, g.
Oats strong and hish1. No white. 81; stand
ard white 4SaAsk; No. 5 white ETKnH.
Egg market steady. Maryland. Virginia. Western,
and West Virginia, II; Southern. 6al6A.
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NEW YORK LIVE STOCK.

New Yok, Juns H.-In the live stock market
to-day besTes were almost nominal; feeling steady.
Dressed 6eef steady. salo Calves steady TO strong
YeaiA Tooas6o; oulls and thr0wcuts, kooaA5D; but
ternilks nominal; dressed calves firm: city dressed
veals. ual41s: cCantry dressed calves. sal2 Sheep
steady: lambs steady 70 strong. Sheep. 20oa3. 80;
lambs. 5.76a6l0; dressed mutton steady. 5a7h
dressed lambs nrm, tal5. HogS full steady, 65oa
G75; choice Light at 6.o.
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Ncu RniIdinr Proiectn.

Contractors are now busy figuring on
bids for one or more of the many new
these are he new laboratory for the
Bureau of Standards, the Hamlin apart
ment house, the Anacostia School build
ing, and the Normal School.
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Senator Rnr. Lnt.

Senator Porter ]. McCumber has bought
a lot in the Sheridan circle neighborhood.
near the property owned by Mr.. Justice
Hughes. <
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Typesetter Stocks,

Mergenthaler was the only member Of
this class that was dealt in, and It fig
ured in three sales. Five shares were
sold at 22S Is, FIVE at 224, and eight at
223 rs.
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Other Stocks.

Twenty shares OF Chapin-sacks brought
rs, and after calT' Washington Gas
sold for s71k, for fifty shares. The sale
of Chapin-Sacks was the first that this
security has made on Tire market.
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New $685. 600 Dwelling.

w. A. Dowd will build a three-story
brick dwelling at 1929 California ave-
nue. from plans prepared by A. H. Beers.
Cost is estimated at $S5, 900.
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Bond Sales.

The only representatives Of this class
were City and Suburban Railway IS. OF
which 5000 sold at 1O3, and Potomac
Electric Consolidated IS, of which 5000
sold at 101
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Tn Temporary auarters.

Pending completion Of the new build
ing next to Riggs National Bank, the
Arlington Fire Insurance Company is To-
Gated at 1898 G street northwest
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Cleveland Park sales continue, accord
ing to Moore & Hills report. One of
Harry A. Kites new bungalows in that
section was sold yesterday to Jesse H.
Hedges
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PAwNBR0KERs.
CHICAGO GRAIN.

ouotations fzznished b. ". 3. HEbos . Co.
nsmbsn Of ths Chicaeo Stock Exchanss. HiboA
Budding.
Chicago. Juns a.-wheGt sft9 az early slEmu
revived On hsaU buying and clOsed s-Uns. JulSs
Ws1; Sepombsr. ssi; Decemher. ssA-
Oon was strong on good buying. July, as1
September, 90; December 80.
Oats were strong % reports q crop damage
July. ~; ssptemba. AN; December. 4sk-
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ANACOsTIk FILES
COMP LIANT TO-DAY
AGAINST CARRIERS
Unjust Discrimination in the
Rates Is Charged.
ACTION EXPECTED SOON
Express and Telegraph Com
panies to Be Defendants.

Tired of Their Persistent Refusal
to Extend to Residents Same Priv
ileges Accorded Other Sections,
G. n. Burr, President of AnacOstia
Association, VIII Give Facts To-
day to Test COmmission's Power.
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Railway Stocks.

Five shares Of Capital Traction sold at
127 is, and total of 30 shares OF WASH
ington Railway and Electric, preferred.
brought SO.
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Sells s street House.


Albert C. West has sold the dwelling
9I7 S street northwest, to Benjamin Kidd
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FINANCE AND REALTY

Yesterdays buying on the Washington
Stock Exchange bore all the earmarks
Of investment Bonds and bank stocks
were the favorite securities dealt in.
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NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

Quotations furnished By W. B. Hibbs q Co, mem.
Sers Of the New York stock Exchange. Hib6s
Building
Can money: Open. ~; high, n; low, 1x; close, m
SALES OF SHARES BY HOURS
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Ocean stenmshfps.

New 1ork. June a.-Arrised: Funesia, from
Glasgow; Niagara. from HaFre; Ryndam. fs7m
BoulnEno-
sansd: Hamburg, for Nnples; ErUnprinzesSn
oscle. for Bremen: Rotterdam. tor Rottsrdam-
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seon to peran putia..

Charles Noble Gregory. OF the uni-
versity Of Iowa, arrived in washington
yestsrdsy preparatory to ASSUMING his
duties as dean Of the law school Of
George washington University. After q
few days surveying the field here and IN
conference with Admiral Stockton presi-
dent Of the university, at Blue Ridge. Va,
Mr. Gregory wiz return to the West for
the summer.
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CURB MARKET.

ouotAtions furnished by ". B. Hibos 3 Ca.
members Of ths NsE Yock Stock Exchanss. Hibes
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REAL ESTATE LOANS
Made at Lowest Rates OF Interest.
W. Il. WALKER, 729 18th st. NV
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WHOLESALE MARKET REPORT.

sEx dividend.
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distributing point for express matter and
baggage. We viii measure the distance
from the extreme limit of Anacostia;
we do not ask the companies to go up
Good Hope Hill or out into Hillsdale.
Now compare this distance that we ask
them to come with our paid parcels with
the distance that they willingly go to
Georgetown University or Aqueduct
Bridge. You see that the distance from
Union Station to Anacostia is only five-
sevenths of the distance from Union
Station to GEORGETOWN.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-03

trial specifically for the murder Of Chsr,~
NJ. Haggerty mschinist, whose boav
was found nearer than that OF any 9TH.
to tho spot where the dynamite was sun
posed to have been placed. Both men.
sentences we're set for December S. Sam.
ucl Gompers said: I'm astounded-I an
astounded beyond expression My credu.
lity has been imposed upon Detectiy.
. William j. Burns declared that the co,-
fcssion OF the Mcnamara brothers w,,
caused by the recent disclosures OF a..
tempted bribery Of jurors and by the fa.,
that tho prosecution had woven about m.
brothers an impenetrsblc net Of evidenc.
THE board OF survey which has bo.,
engaged with the raising OF the battleshI,
Maine finished it's inspection OF tho vess.
and there Is scant doubt that the result a.
the investigation will prove fully corroha.
rative Of the finding Of the Sampson boar.
Of inquiry that the destruction Of tho Main.
was due primarily to an exterior explosion
succeeded by partial explosions of the for.
ward magazines.
AN eleyen-car train, known as ths
Western Governors Special left for 4,
twenty-day trip to twenty-one cities OF N.
East and Middle West, the first time /,
the history Of this country such an enter.
prise has been undertaken. Nearly foy
thousand miles will be covered by the .p..
clal before it's return 10 ST. Paul IN.
Western Governors are coming with A
view to bringing the East and West int,
closer contact. There will be ten state ex.
hibits, and nine Governors will make the
New-York tribune., 1911-12-03

published what il termed an authoritative
statement of Colonel Roosevelts position
with reference to the Republican nomina-
ton and the campaign for the Presidency
i'm 1912 The statement was rclteration OF
the ex-President's declarations Of several
months ago. in which he made 1t plain that
he would not be a candidate in 1912; neither
would he lend his aid TO any prospective
candidate.
Attorney General Wickersham i'm his an
nual report stated that in the last hscai
wear a little more than $A000o0O in the
nature of fines was collected by his de-
partment, and that this more than paid its
expenses.
'The New York Republican State COM
mittee raised Sl16,oSO and spent Sllo,C9S at
the last election, while the Democratic
state Committees receipts were $35,553 and
its expenditures SSl0l9. according to state
ments filed with the Secretary Of State at
Albany.
AN OF the proposed amendments to the
state constitution which were presented to
the voters at the last election In this state
were lost. according to figures received by
the Republican state Committee
Governor Dix appointed Dr. Max q.
Schlapp to succeed DR.. Albert W. Ferris
as president Of the State Commission IN
IunacV
New-York tribune., 1911-12-03
ATTACK ON ROOSEVELT.

Wharton Barker. of Philadelphia. sur
prised the Senate Committee on Interstate
Commerce when he testified that a New
York banker. now dead. told him I'm 1901
that the financial interests would support
President Roosevelt for reelection because
he had made a bargain with them on the
railroad question Mr. Barker's statement
came in the course Of a vigorous attack on
the money trust i'm which he alleged also
that President Roosevelt had known OF the
impending panic of 1907 several months be-
fore it happened, but took no action 10 pre-
vent il. He declared that the Aidrich
monetary plan was not the work of eX-
Senator Aldrch. but of Mr.. Warburg, OF
Kuhn. Loeb e Co., of New York and that
fund of 81 10000 had been started TO in
sure its adoption.
Colonel Roosevelt. when asked to COM
ment on the testimony of Wharton Barker,
said: I would as soon discuss a pipe
dream with an out patient of Bedlam as TO
discuss such nonsense. This was the only
comment he would make. except to add:
i think they'll get my meaning
"Representative Martin W. Littleton. Of
New York. who is member of the House
Steel Trust investigating committee, de-
manded formally an investigation of the
charges that he IS retained by the Steel
Trust. Mr.. Stanley, after comforting with
Nessrs. Beall, of Texas, and McGillicuddy,
Of Maine. Democratic members of the COM
,nittee refused to grant Mr.. Littleton's re-
New-York tribune., 1911-12-03
PINCHoT OUT FOR LA TOILETTE.

Clifford Pmchot came out latfooted for
senator la Toilette as the man TO carry
the Progressive banner in the Presidential
campaign Of 1912.
George Peabody Wetmore. United States
Senator. will not be a candidate for re-
election when his present term expires.
next year. This announcement was made
in a letter by Senator Wetmore TO General
Charles A. Wilson head Of the Republican
state organization of Rhode Island.
William Barnes. jr., chairman Of the
Republican State Committee. need not tell
the Senate committee which is investigating
Albany city and county affairs what he paid
for his stock in the J. Il. Lyon Company
or produce the books OF the Albany Journal
Company. of which he is president, accord
ing 10 a decision Of the Appellate Division
of the Supreme Court. Third Department
reversing the order Of Justice Joseph 4.
kellogg OF Glens Falls, which directed MI
Barnes TO comply with the demands of the
committee or be committed TO Jail The
higher court held that Section $50 of the
code of Civil Procedure. under which the
proceedings were brought. is unconstitu-
tional. The court was divided, four to one.
The great insurgent and Democratic
uproar about the Alaskan scandal the
Dick TO Dick letter and the great Con
troller Bay grab was silenced when Louis
D. Brandeis and Amos Pinchot Joined in
advising Chairman Graham Of the House
Committee on Expenditure in the Interior
Department that there was nothing fur
ther TO investigate, and that the matter
had better be dropped.
The North American Of Philadelphia,
New-York tribune., 1911-12-03

clear: First. that the proposals which Ger
many made to France respecting Morocco
could not possibly have been accepted by
France: second that the German Ambassa-
dor I'm London kept the British government
for ten DAYS without any Information as 20
the intentions of Germany in regard TO
Morocco. and. third, that Mr.. Lloyd
Georges famous speech was made at the
request of the Cabinet Sir Edward Grey
frankly admitted that the position In July
and August was one of grave tension his
excuse for the whole course Of action ne
had taken was that he was most anxious
to avoid a deadlock, which might nave
brought war appreciably nearer.
"Dr. Won Bethmann- Hollweg, the Imperial
Chancellor. and Herr Won Kiderlen-Waech-
ter Foreign Secretary, will reply in the
Reichstag. in the course OF next week, 10
the speech en- the Moroccan situation made
in the House Of Commons by Sir Edward
Grey.
I'm the House OF Commons the Postmas-
fer General. Mr. Samuel. said that as the
result of negotiations with the United
States the rates on parcels to the United
States would be reduced on December 10 to
II pence on three pounds or less 2 pence
on parcels from three to seven POUNDS ana
90 pence on parcels from seven to eleven
pounds.
senior Don Pedro Nel OspIna. Minister
New-York tribune., 1911-12-03
RUSSIA AND SHUSTER.

"Russia's utimatum was delivered to
Persia. She demanded the instant dis
mssal of w. Morgan Shuster. the Ameri-
can Treasurer General OF Persia. whose
administration of the financial department
has resulted i'm the present complications
and an indemnity for the expenses incurred
in sending Russian troops to Persia.
"Shuster was reported as saying: Rus
sia's demand for my dismissal Is really
actuated by my refusal officially TO recog-
nize her so-called sphere or influence in
Northern Persia. To do so would be to be-
tray the people ] am serving. The Russian
bureaucracy is further embittered by the
unexpected repulse OF the eX-Shah and the
solidarity and energy Of the constitutional
government: also by my refusal to submit
10 official bullying regarding the coEtis-
Gated properties OF Persian reactionaries
protected by Russian officials against taxa
ton. Russian consuls have been so long
accustomed TO intimidating Persian officials
of all ranks they are unable to comprehend
any one desiring an impartial execution of
the laws
The police Of Teheran discovered several
bombs which. IL is alleged, had been pre-
pared for the assassination of w. Morgan
Shuster 1t is said that a similar conspir-
acy was uncovered some months ago, but
hushed up At the time it was stated that
a Persian who was implicated in the alleged
plot swore that Russian official in Persia
urged him TO assassinate Mr.. Shuster
The National Council rejected the Rus
sian ultimatum by a big majority. The
Foreign Minister resigned. In conse-
ouence Of the rejection. the Russian troops.
about four thousand strong, now concen-
trated at Resht, capital Of the Persian
province of Ghilan. sixteen miles from En-
zeli, on the Caspian Sea, were ordered TO
advance on Teheran.
The National Assembly Of China con-
vened at the request Of Yuan Shih-kai, the
Premier The Franco Belgian loan OF
S9O.OOOO0O which was negotiated by the
Japanese Baron Cottu, was approved. Re
ports were seriously circulated that Yuan
Shih-kai intends to assume the regency, If
not the throne. The last position OF the
imperial troops on Purple Hill. Nanking,
was captured by the revolutionists. In re-
venge for recent massacres by Manchus the
rebels at Wuchow beheaded sixty prisoners,
among them sons of aristocrats.
The Italian Premier said Italy was in
no hurry to end the war with Turkey in
Tripoi.'
New-York tribune., 1911-12-03

The trials Of the last two Of the five
Italians who made up the gang Of bandits
that visited the Griffen farmhouse at Cro-
ton Lake on November last and, after
holding up Miss Anna Griffen and Mrs.
Iobn s. Rae. stabbed Mrs. Mary Hall TO
death will be started before Supreme Court
Justice Tompkins at White Plains on
Monday
THE first prisoner TO be tried Will be
Santa Zanza, who is 10 be directly ac-
cuscd Of stabbing Mrs Hall TO death. Ac-
,ordiug TO Angelo Guisto, he confessed TO
holding Mrs Hall while Zanza stabbed her.
and il is believed that circumstantial evil
dcnce will bear out this contention OF Lee
Parsons Davis, Assistant District Attor-
nov Tho two alleged murdercrs will be
defended by James Dalton and William
Blakelv. of Yonkers, and they will try
TO prove that they were not in Mrs. Halls
room.
There appears to be little chance for the
men TO escape conviction, because the jew
elrv stolen from Mrs. Halls room was
found in a shed at Glendale camp seven
miles from the scene of the murder, which
bad been previously visited by Zanza and
Cuisto. following their arrest by Constable
Purdy. The jewelry was found in hand
kerchief which was later identified by one
of the prisoners as his own.
So far. three of the gang Of desperadoes
have been convicted Of murder in the first
degree, and If the other two meet the same
fate Justice Tompkins will sentence all
five 10 the electric chair on next Wednes-
day morning. This will be the first time
in the history Of the Empire State that five
convicted murderers have been sentenced
TO the death house at Sing Sing prison
at one time.
one OF the features OF the different trials
has been the special guard around the
courthouse and In the courtroom. consisting
of thirty of the aqueduct policemen. In
uniform and with night sticks and revoi-
vers hanging from their belts.
The work Of abOlishinB the different
grade crossings on the Harlem railroad be-
tween Mount Vernon and North White
Plains will be started at once. as the iron
work for the different bridges under which
the various streets are TO be lowered is
already on the ground. All the highways
!, b,cb the Harlem electric system nov
,yossss ~ grade will Re lowered beneath
tire tracks. and the overhead work OF the
n .,->AA zill be Of iron and steel,
New-York tribune., 1911-12-03
THE DEATH ROLL.

Did any persons Of importance die!
asked Busy Man.
"The well known socialist John La
Fargue and his wife committed suicide in
| Paris. Mrs. *. NJ Thayer. OF New York.
was instantly killed at Hot Springs. Va,
I'm n carriage accident Her brothers are
Charles Mallory. Of New York, and Henry
r. Mallory, OF Brooklyn, who are AT the
head OF the Mallory Steamship Line IRVING
! B. Dudley. Of Evanston, Ill, United states
/ Ambassador TO Brazil, died suddenly oi
| heart disease in Baltimore. Charles .
Francis. proprietor Of The Troy (N. ~
| Times and later Ambassador to Ausuia-
Hungary. died I'm that city Baron GustaVe
Samuel James de Rothschild died In PARIS
! lie was a partner Of the great oahh'"e
| firm of Rothschid Brothers and also acteu
| as consul general for Austria hungary Il'
Paris The Rev. DR.. Thomas g farhdi,
aged ninety-six years, rector emeritus Vi
ST. Mary's Episcopal Church, west fhI'd
delphia. died al his home there. he was
believed TO have been the Oldest clergyman
I'm tho United States. Bert *. Canheld a
wealthy artist. forty years old. died from
an attack Of hydrophobia at his home IN
Ravenna, Ohio. Garfield made animal
drawings his specially"
| Thomas f. Gilroy, Mayor Of New YORK
! for one term in 1898 and 1894, died sud
denly from apoplexy At his home, at Far
| Rockaway.'
What else happened that well IN
! formed citizen ought to remember asked
/ Busy Man.
| "The Navy Department received an oHer
! of s.. 100000 cash for the battleships INDIANA,
Iowa and Massachusetts and the protected
cruisers Columbia and Minneapolis. unoer
a United States statute no vessels of the
navy can be sold at private sale. All YES
J sells must be offered to the public through
/ the sealed proposal system
"John p. Powers, who was superintendent
of industries I'm Sing Sing prison Tor years
was removed from office by Warden Johh
( Kennedy after a hearing. He was ac-
cused among other things, OF dong OUTSIDE
printing with convict labor and then put
| ting union label on It,
"Nosca. the aviator. was killed While ac-
companying Lieutenant Nittner as pas
senger i'm a fight at Wiener -Neustadt IN
lower Austria. Something went wrong anu
| Mosca was thrown out of his seat anu Iel'
| to the ground. He was killed Instantly
Lieutenant Nittner was unhurt
lanes b. Mcnamara pleaded guilty 10
| murder i'm the first degree in Judge wal
fer Bordwelrs court i'm Los Angeles ms
. brother. John j. Mcnamara, secretary OF
the International Association Of Bridge
and structural Iron Workers, entered a
plea of guilty To having dynamited the
LlcweIlvn Iron Works in Los Angeles on
| christmas Day 1910. James b. McNa-
mara's confession clears up absolutely
the tragedy Of the explosion and fire
which wrecked the plant Of the Los An
gelcs Times and caused the death OF
twentv-one persons. For nineteen Oh
these deaths the Mcnamara brothers We're
indicted and j. b. Mcnamara was on
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of Interest

At Bronxville the village officials were
anxious to have the overhead crossings for
the streets and the lowering of the tracks
, beneath the street level. but the Public
Service Commission decided against this
! plan. a rehearing was asked for, but this
was denied, and now the company is going
ahead with the improvement
The aboishng Of grade crossings at
Mount Vernon. Bronxvle, Scarsdae.
Hartsdale and White Plains will do away
with many dangerous sections where gate
| tenders are on duty day and night. cspe-
cially at the crossing near the BronXville
| station, where hundreds of automobiles
daily cross the double tracks and where
number Of persons have been killed or in
jured during the last few years.
!. Prescott Sage, chairman Of the com
mittee on transportation along the Putnam
division OF the New York Central Railroad
Company, and w J.. Blackman. of New
Rochelle, chairman OF similar committee
along the New York, Westchester & Boston
Railroad Company's lines, have each made
report 10 the Westchester County Cham
ber OF Commerce. Mr.. Sage says, among
other things: The committee is now con.
sidering several important matters bear
ing upon the future action Of the company
relative TO securing double track and cleo
IRRIGATION Of this division. Our committee
at present comprises Alexander Stolz,
Walter w. Law, Richard T. Lingley, Will
lam T. Matthies and the writer. all being
actively interested in the welfare and early
improvement OF the Putnam division You
may assure the members of the chamber
that We shall use every possible effort I'm
securing the double tracking and elcctin-
cation Of this division"
Mr.. Blackman reports that the New York
Wsstchester < Boston road IL rapidly
nearing completion. His report says: The
roadbed construction is complete from the
transfer station at lS0th street, Borough Of
The Bronx, TO North avenue, New RO-
chelle. on both lines and from Quaker
Ridge to White Plains. with the exception
on a short strip in Pelham.
"Rollng stock is being delivered promptly
The cars will be Of steel. electric lighted.
double vestibule, with side doors. and the
franchise calls for electric power and none
other Mr. Miller expects that the road
will he in operation on about D. minute
headway. morning and evening. 10 North
avenue. New Rochelle on ar before Jan
uary l. The Port Chester branch Is rapidly