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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-18
BUYS GROUP.

NEW YORK. May 1s.-It was an
nounced yesterday that the Inspira-
ton Copper Mining Company has ac-
CURED fun title to the Cordova group
of twelve mining claims adjoining the
Inspiration at Miami. Ariz.
The Inspiration has held a part in
terest in the claims. The price paid
for the remainder is stated as $4,000.
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LOST AND FOUND.

LosT-Ladies' gold watch, yesterday. on
Kearny car, from Harrison av., Harrison,
transferred to East Ferry st. car going east
at Broad and Market SITS, between 3 and $3.50
p. M; reward TO finder. f. GASSERT. 2S
Harrison av.s Harrison.
LOST-On Tuesday afternoon, lady'S gold
watch, open-face, initials on back "A. II.
s." and set with four diamonds; reward.
A. H. S., Box So, Star Office.
IF party who took money from my purse will
return same no questions Will be asked. and
it will be greatly appreciated. WILSON &
LONG, manicure parlors, So Halsey st.
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Only routine business was transacted
by Lehigh railroad directors at the
meeting in New York yesterday.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany's annual meeting will be held on
May 81.
The adjourned annual meeting of the
National Sugar Refining Company,
scheduled to be held in Jersey City
yesterday, was again adjourned until
October Is.
Stockholders of the American Union
Telegraph Company will hold their an
nual meeting at 1876 Broadway, New
York, on May 81.
The Gambler Bank. of Gambler, o.,
has been closed by the state bank ex-
aminer.
The Excelsior Fire Appliance Com
pany, of Pittsburg, has been incorpo-
rated in Delaware.
At the annual meeting of the Florida
East Coast Railway Company, j. c.
Salter was elected a director, in%creas-
ing the membership Of the board to
nine.
The assets of the Lexington and In
terurban Railway Company, of Phila-
delphia. were sold at auction yesterday
for $242. 600.
Hollins McKim. retired banker, Of
Baltimore, is dead. He was 10 years
old.
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AUCTION SALES.
New Jersey.

N~oTICE-on Wednesday. May "a, at 2;30 p.
m.,- a car of lumber shipped to Winterbot-
tom and Van Houten, Newark, n. j.. by T.
D. Peterson, Boston, Mass will be offered at
public auction at the Concrete Building Block
Yard, West Newark Branch, p. r. r. Co.
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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.

Following are the quotations Of the
days prices, as furnished through
Byrne & Mcdonnell, members of the
New York Stock Exchange:
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BARR-At Nutley, N. j., entered into
rest Tuesday. May Is, 1911, Mary Mac
Naught, wife of Andrew Barr, of "a
Grant avenue.
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LEONARD-At Railway, N. j., May
16, 1911, Mary A., widow of 1Silas P.
Leonard, aged GA years, AZ Pierce
street.
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Months Mind.

BENBLLE-A Months Mind High
Mass of Requiem will be offered for
the repose of the SOU of the late
Mary A. Benelle at Our Lady of Mt.
Carmel Church. on Friday. May 10,
at 8 a. M.
Relatives and friends are kindly in
yited to attend.
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BECK-Suddenly on May II, 1911. at
his home. 255 Ridge street. Louis
Rudolph, husband of Louise Beck,
aged 81 years.
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LOTT-Entered into rest. on May Is,
1911, Mary Elizabeth, beloved wife
of the late David Lott, aged IA years,
ISL North Seventh street.
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DOE-on May Is, 1911. Jane. Cudlipp,
widow of John Doe, agd 81 vars, %
Walnut street.
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ADAMY-Entered into rest on May 16,
1911. Raymond E., beloved son of
Adeline and the late Franklin P.
Adamy. aged Il years, of 4s Spruce
street.
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KNELL-At Orange, N. J., on Thurs
day, May Is, 1911, Mary, wife Will
lam f. Knell, residence. rs Liberty
street.
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WALKER-On Wednesday, May IL,
1911. Matilda Walker. beloved daugh-
ter of the late Joseph and Anna
Walker, aged rs years.
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sUMMERS-Mrs. Olive Summers, the
beloved wife of the Rev. Joseph Sum-
mers, departed this life Tuesday
morning, May 16, 1911, at 2 o'clock.
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REAL ESTATE,
TRANSFERS.

Forest Hill Co. TO Lewis L. Ward.
e $ Clifton av, 100 IT n fr Heller
parkway, S6x125
Marie A. Peiffer and hus to c. Vic
toria Peddie, " $ Silk st. 104 IT s
Fl Academy ST, 104x126.
Nathan Peyser to Bernhard Gluck,
e S Camden st, n fr Springfield av,
X
Bernhard Gluck to Jacob Ffschel.
same property
cob Fischel to Leo Stein, same
property .xr..,,..,."...............
William f. Headley to Webster De-
pew, n $ Marion av, 22 1T fr San
ford st, 50x100.
Frank Slavitt ct al to Luise Meis-
niger, W S Barclay st, $50 IT s fr
Waverly -pl, 25xl04. ..""...........
Glassner, Safer & SHERMAN Con-
~struction Co. to Vulcan Realty
Frank d. Holloway ct al to same,
same property
Fred Audrey to Henry j. Weber,
II e.s Roland av, 100 IT fr Valley
st. 70x47 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Henry Tannenberg to Antonetta Sa-
pienza, 9 S Halstead st, $50 TT fr
below W Parker st, 1856 ~ S fir
Delavan av, 56x100. ."..,...~....
Same TO I, Walter Veghte, W s Par
ker st, al IT fr Delavan av, 56x100.
David II. Tchenor to John f. J.
S%heehan, W S Isabella av, go 1T s
fr Monmouth pl, 25x1M. .............
Weequahic Park Land and Improve
ment Co. to Rubin Cretzky, e 8
Chadwick av, 397 IT fr Hawthorne
nv. 4UXlV4
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DOWNEY-On May II, Edward at his
late residence, 1856 Central venue
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BROWN-At East Orange, on Tuesday.
May is. Charles W., beloved husband
of Mabelle Alberta Brown (nee
Schmid).
Funeral from his late residence, Is
Watson avenue, on Friday, May 10,
at $50 a. M, to Our Lady Help of
Christians Church, where a High
Mass of Requiem will be offered for
the repose of his soul. Interment at
st. Johns Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.
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William Forth to Jennie D. Dewitt,
Bellevllle, W $ Dewitt av, 1872 IT
fr Jeralomon st, 3Sx170. ..........
Nutley Realty Co. to Charles e.
Starr. Nutley, Q S Weston st, $50
IT fr Grant av, Ox1@ .............
Same to Elsa K, Smith, Nutley, W
8 Wayne pl, $40 IT fr Grant av.
Henrietta p. King and hus to WIFE
lam Joyce, Montclair, n s Clare
mont av, S W cor Id Isabella Van
Houten, 50x1I2
Ernest A. Williamson to Domenico
Fungaroli, Nutley, lot %, blk 9,
map A. 5. Stager ..........,.....
Sarah #. Anderson to Peter c.
Woolley, e. Orange, n S Essex st,
$ cor Id Margaret Harrison. 25x95..
John Randall to Jaul ]. Kopp, jr.,
w. Orange, n s Park dr. s, 161 # "
fir Eagle Rock av, 33x9S ...........
William Harrigan (shffl to J. Fred
Gerstecher, IT,, W. Orange, e $
25x170: and other tract .....,.......
]. Fred Gerstecher, IT., to Mary e.
Gilluley, w. Orange, same property
Essex Realty Associates to Tri-
State Realty Co., Montclair, $ s
Macopin av, $50 IT W fr Park st.
Frank T. Clute to John D. Hazen,
Montclair, n S Macopin av. so IT
G fir Valley I'd, 60xl40 .....,..........
John d. HAGEN to Frank T. Clute,
Montclair, n e S Grove ter, s c S
Grove st, 45x135 ......y.............
Frank A. Leonard to Angelo Mon
tello, Caldwell, W $ Roseland av,
n cor lot Kittie Taylor, 25x262.,....
Same to Giuseppe Confetti, Caldwell,
W S Roseland av, n cor lot Kittie
Taylor, 25x245 A.."".,..............
Oscar Bushanski to John M~esser7
e schmitt, Caldwell, mid Great Piece
I'd and line Ids William Pierce
Charles Sauer to William F. Sexton,
Orange, W 5 Centre st.. 1876 IL 8 FIR
Henry st, 35x194 neutrality-suspicious..
Chauncey G. Parker to Jeanne 70.
Belcher, Belleville, Q S Beech st, 81
TT Fl Little st, 25x100 .........-....
Antonio Cascella to Henry Rubovitz,
Irvington, e $ Elmwood ter. go IT
s FIR Elmwood Nv, 25x100; and othe1
William Harrigan (shff) to Carrie j.
Gilbert, Bloomfield, e 8 Carteret
av, n W cor lot 234, 6Sxss; and other
tract
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M'GEARY-On Wednesday, May II,
1911, suddenly, in Jersey City, Thomas
James, husband of the late Sabina
Dornin McGeary, father of the Rev.
j. A. and DR.. It. j. McGeary.
Funeral from his late residence, los
Wilkinson avenue, on Friday morn
ing, May 10, thence to the Sacred
Heart Church, Bidwell avenue. A
Solemn High Mass of Requiem at 10
O'Clock. He is also survived by two
daughters, Mrs. William Howell and
Miss Josephine McGeary. Interment
at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery,
Newark.
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DE voURsNEY-on May is. 1911, at
Montclair, N. j.. Abraham P. De
Voursney, in his saith year., 446 Bloom
field avenue, Montclair.
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STEHLIN-Suddenly, on May 16, 1911,
in Easton, Pa, Theodore Stehlin, In
his 35th year.
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sANDT-on May 16, 1911, at the home
of her sister, Mrs. Grant Henry, rs
Lincoln avenue, Amelia B.. Sandt, in
her 50th year..
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WARD-At Railway, N. j., on May IT,
1911, Clarence D. Ward, in his both
year, 42S st. George avenue.
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HUNT-At Jersey City, on May 16,
1911, James, beloved son of the late
John and Mary Hunt (nee Fagan).
Relatives and friends are kindly in
vited to attend his funeral from
Cleary & Kane's funeral parlors, -
South Eleventh street, on Friday, May
10, at 7.3O a. m, thence to St. Rose of
Lima's Church, where a High Mass
of Requiem will be offered for the re-
pose of his soul. Interment in the
Cemetery of the Holy Sepulchre.
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CASsIDY-On May II, 1911, Bridget
Cassidy (nee Reilly, at her late resi-
dence, 65k Dawson street.
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The Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany's annual meeting will be held on
May 81.
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FINANCIAL NOTES.

Only routine business was transacted
by Lehigh railroad directors at the
meeting in New York yesterday.
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POWERS-At Bloomfield, N. j., on May
II. 1911, Andrew. eldest son of the
late Richard and Ellen Powers, age
AZ years, 500 Bloomfield avenue.
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HENDERSON-on May 16, 1911. Mary.
wife of Samuel Henderson, aged So
years, 453 Washington avenue, Belle
vile, n. j.
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HORTON-At Glen Ridge. n. j., on
May II. 1911. NJ, N. Horton, husband
OF Alkaline B.. Horton, age 81 years,
IS Essex avenue.
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EVANS-At South Orange, N. j., on
May II, 1911, Anna H. Evans, aged SO
years.
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HAYES--At B~elleville, N. j.. on May
is, 1911, Richard Hayes, beloved hus-
band of the late Mary Brennan
Hayes, 563 Washington avenue.
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Stockholders of the American Union
Telegraph Company will hold their an
nual meeting at 1876 Broadway, New
York, on May 81.
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INSTRUMENTATION, on Tuesday.
May 8, 1911, Hubert W., beloved hus-
band of Lillian Fessenden (nee Lor-
toni, at his home, Congers, N. Y,
aged 10 years.
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Unsatisfactory, at Orange, =. j..
Wednesday, May II, 1911, William
Gurden, eldest son of the late Jacob
L. Halsey, lis Centre street.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-10

The most valuable vacant spot in
Pensacola just now is the sixth floor Of
the cfty's half million dollar hotel
left unfinished when the remainder Of
the San Carlos was thrown open to
the public year and half ago.
H An entire floor, indeed, of the most
valuable kind Of room. is at present a
deadhead in the line of direct business
getting at the hotel, a condition which
exists. too, at time most critical.
Critical?
shall tell you why 1t is critical.
Now, through the presence of the
San Carlos hotel and It's management.
that Pensacola has been placed upon
the map for a great many more people
than any OF us would have thought
possible four or Ave or six years ago,
there is an entirely different kind of
season before the town than has been
the case before.
There are more people coming to
look US over, in fact, this winter, than
all those put together who have come
and gone in the many years that have
passed, and the necessity arises to take
good and proper care Of them.
Here is the argument in a nutshell.
Handle your first real tourist sea-
son right, accommodating all who may
come with the kind of hotel service
identified with the name "San Carlos"
and you Will be laying an unshakable
foundation for the business Of years to
fellow.
On the other hand. let the town pile
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-10

M with people who. because OF In
adequate hotel accommodations. may
not find the sort of comfortable places
in which to stay, and which they nave
a right to expect, and you nip the
whole proposition in the bud just at
the very beginning.
The completion of the sixth floor at
the San Carlos would mean the added
accommodation for more than nun
bred people.
There remains no reasonable argu-
ment against the fact that 1t should De
finished, and at once.
Success Warrants Expenditure.
The success Of the San Carlos hotel.
attended, as 1t is. witt huge expense,
has been beyond the expectations or
everyone, and quite satisfactory to
those most vitality interested.
The work of organization. systema-
tfzing and putting the great machinery
Of the really wonderful place into OPP
Grafton has been accomplished to the
admiration of everyone intimately in
terested in affairs at the San Carlos.
and the need Of more room Is but an
other proof that Pensacola's proudest
and best undertaking has proved the
success that all had hoped.
With the ropes down, as 1t were, and
indications pointing to a truly remark
able tourist season, all possible haste
should be made to handle the future
business of the place to the very best
advantage.
The idea, too. has impressed itself
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-10

v tn great many clear-headed, far
sighted business men Of the city.
The work which actually remains Is
TO put the honest convictions Of these
people to practical use.
And the sooner the better.
Tourists Cominc.
Do not let the doubt assaiI you for
one moment but that the tourists are
coming.
They are to be here In large num-
bers this season-the best kind OF tour
lists who benefit a town financially
when they visit it.
Correspondence received at the hotel
will show you that they are coming.
Meantime, the commercial trade will
have to be taken care of as usual
Business is steadily on the increase
in this quarter, and the hotel keeps
steadily on in its habit of creating this
kind Of business for itself. All this
will have to be taken care Of along
with the tourist trade to come
The only logical, reasonable and
business-like solution OF the whole
situation is the completion of the now
unfinished sixth f1oor-and work
should be commenced at once.
Looking the facts straight in the
face, you cannot but recognize a criti-
cal point in the progress OF the city
and the new hotel.
The sixth floor of the San Carlos, in
short, should be finished, and at once.
1t would indeed be business getting,
dollar cinching proposition.
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A Tale of Two Cities--anda Moral.

having failed, it is now recognized that
the only real remedy lies in a radical
Improvement OF the waterways leading
to the seaboard. It has already been
proposed that the towns interested
shall advance s5,o0o.o0o, without in
terest, to aid in the construction OF a
big canal.
The history of Manchester shows
that Birmingham could well afford to
advance much more than that. Thirty
years ago the condition OF Manchester
was far worse than that OF Birning-
ham today. The building of the Man.
chester ship canal was not undertaken
as a diversion; 1t was a case OF life or
death, and Manchester chose to live.
The total amount spent up to Deem
Der 81, 1910, in the construction of the
canal and the creation Of port facili-
ties, amounted to almost $4,000, 900. of
which the city Of Manchester sub
scribed $25,000,000. Manchester, which
up to seventeen years ago was an in
land city, is now the fourth port in
the United Kingdom. with a foreign
commerce greater than that of any
port in the United States except New
York City.
What Birmingham will do is for Bir-
mingham to say, but the moral of this
Tale Of Two Cities Is not hard to see.
More than natural resources, more
than the combination Of capital and
skill In manufactures, more than the
prestige of centuries of success, more
than any other factor, more, some
times, than all other factors combined.
the cost of transportation determines
the success or the failure, the pros
perity or the adversely, the growth or
tn decay of Industries and cities.
It is costly transportation that, like
a hidden cancer, is eating out the in
dustrial life of Birmingham; it is
cheap transportation, that, like a
mighty net, is drawing Industries and
population to Manchester; and the
cheapest of all transportation is water
transportation
S. A. THOMPSON,
Field Secretary,
National Rivers and Harbors Congress.
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V|SCOUNT GETS
PALTRY SALARY
NEW YORK AWAkES TO FIND
THAT 1T HAS BEEN EMPLOY
ING A REAL NoBLEMAN AS
NURSE AT $40 PER WEEK.
Special to The Journal

New York, Sept. 9.-Follow1ng on
the heels of the discovery of Sir. &C.
mile Brown Cave, a descendent
Of the Crusaders, soldier of fortune,
cowpuncher and bankrupt, at the
Brooklyn headquarters OF the Saliva
ton Army, where he is now working
as janitor at $3.50 a week and his
keep, New York has found that for
two years it has been employing a
gilt edged Austrian voscount as
nurse in Bellevue Hospital, the city's
principal medical institution, at $40 a
week.
The English baronet who is now AZ,
and has cut a wide swath since he
reached his majority says h. is ready
to settle down and apply his future
efforts to redeeming his past.
Il have fought every kind of men
In the world" he says, and the rest
of my life viii be devoted to fighting
the devil I have spent most of my
time trying to destroy the bodies of
men-including my own. I will now
try to save their souls.
The men of my name have, alone
OF all the families in England, the
right to fight beside the King himself
IN action. Sir Marnadike Cave won
it in the Civil War. But am fighting
beneath the standard of a greater
King now"
The viscount is Herman Rudolph
Won Eichwald, member of one of the
Oldest families in Emperor Francis
Joseph's realm. During his two years
employment in Bellevue, Won Eich-
wald, who is a handsome looking
young man, proved a model employee,
studious and industrious. 1t is re-
called now that he was practically
the only male nurse in the institution
who stood at his post on the recep-
ton of a leper there last year. Fear
full of contracting the dreaded disease
most Of his associates fed, leaving the
quiet, young Austrian alone to min
lister to the needs Of the afflicted man
until his death. Won Eichwald speaks,
German, French, italian, Spanish,
Hungarian, Yiddish and English flu
emily and has a workable knowledge
Of Latin and Greek
1t was not until he got his diploma
as gradute nurse the other day that
his identity became known. He says
he was disowned by his father, be-
cause he refused to enter the priest
hood and that he was literally kicked
out of the family home for his OBJ
stinancy. After travelling around the
WORLD be came here and took the po-
sition offered him as a nurse in Bell
evue. Now he proposes to study med
icine and become a physician. To
enable him to make his way through
college he will work at nursing in
the night and study by day.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-10

Recent consular reports reveal
startling contrast in the present condi-
lions and the future prospects of two
Of the chief manufacturing cities OF
England. They lie but 10 miles apart.
but the industries of the one are stead
lily expanding while those Of the other
are falling into decay.
No one knows how long ago the
smelling Of ores and working of metals
began at Birmingham, but years before
our Declaration of Independence was
signed her metal work was known
throughout the world. Today Bir-
rningham has q population Of more
TO conclude that her industrial posi-
tion had been established beyond the
possibility Of overthrow.
ON the contrary there is q serious
Crisis in the heavy branches Of the
iron and steel trade of Birmingham
and the surrounding country. A num-
ber of great iron plants have moved
to- the seaboard, others are preparing
70 follow, and still others have failed.
One such property was recently put
up at auction. The plant was as COM
plete as any In the country, but the
highest bid received was less than one
third the estimated value. Naturally
the people Of Birmingham are looking
for the cause and seeking for a remedy.
The iron and steel industry is the very
foundation Of their prosperity, and the
loss OF the foundation always means
the fall OF the superstructure.
conditions are far different in Man
chester. although 1t is not all sunshine
even there Most of the cotton mills
had to run on short time last year, but
that as due solely to the shortage in
the cotton crop of the world. The sig
nificant thing Is the steady increase in
the number and variety of new indus
tries On one great tract Of land,
called the Trafford Park estate. no less
than 7S firms or corporations have Sc
cured sites in recent years for the es-.
Enlistment of industries, many Of
them of immense size. Similar devel
opments are taking place on other
tracts of land. in and around Manches-
ter. Most significant of ALL especially
to Birmingham. is the purchase of go
acres of ground on which the erection
Of a great iron and steel works has
already begun. The addition of great
Industries means growth in population
and when the pending annexation of
the adjoining town OF Stafford has been
population Of more than 1000, 900 souls
The disastrous conditions in Bir-
mingham are due not to a general de-
pression in the iron and steel trade,
( for that did not, exist, but to high
freight rates. BirminghauB Is only
about 20 miles from Bristol and IS to
90 miles from Liverpool. but 1t Is mot
mileage but cost of commercial meas
ure of distance" Repeated efforts to
secure a reduction Of railway rates