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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
RAIN IS CAUSE OF SLOW BUSINESS Receipts Heavy in Vegeta- bles and Fruits-Hay
 Getting Scarcer

Morris avenue was rather quiet yester- day on account of the rain. Receipts were heavy in vegetables and fruit The poultry market is over stocked, but hens are selling for 121s cents pound
 Hay is getting scareer every day and advanced considerably in price yester- day, The dry salt meat market is rapid y going up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
Imnnrts of Merchan ndise

New York, April 12.-Imports of mer- chandise and dry goods at the port of New York for the week ending April were valued at $21.115,456. Imports of specie for ths period were S52.172 silver and s609.354 gold Exports s706,- ss9 silver and s250100 gold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
Naval Stores

Savannah, Arfil 12.LTu-penti~e f--1. 45Ac; sales 3S1; receipts. sJ4; ship ments s66, stock, 16,2V2. Rosin ..-Ai, sales, 1o65. receipts, 973; shipments. 1446; stock, 49,397; quote: B, $50. D. ss.70: F, c, s7.131s H. $730; I. s7.35; K, G.4o; NJ, sL5oi N, s7.60; VIC. wv. AT 65
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
New Orleans Cotton Futures

New Orleans, April 12-Spot cotton firm, 1-l6c up;' sales. TOO; to arrive, s75. Middling, II 9-i6c; low ordinary shc or- dinary 15-16e; good ordinary, i0ssc: strict good ordinary. 10&c; low middling. Il l-l6c; strict low midding. II 5-16c: strict middling. 117se: good middling. 121sc; strict good middling, 12 5-16c; middling fair, 12Ssc nominal: middllng fair to fair, l3e nominal; fair, 139sc nominal Receipts, 35,S05: stock 11667S
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
LOCAL QUOTATIONS
Local Cottop
Pig Iron
Meats
(Corrected by Armour N (

tCorrected by Afnour Col
 Lard Il Soc; compound, 99gc; D. S. short ribs 12lsc; rib bellies, P .4Dc ham butts, l31aci Boston butts. He, pork loins, l6c; spare ribs. He; breakfast bacon. D022c. Star Reg. ham, lGe Star skinned ham, 17c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
Kansas CitY Grain

Kansas City. April 12.-Cash wheat, No. ? hard, $l .o5lkN1. Il; No. red $l o31a. Corn,
 mixed, No. 2 white. s21kaS3c Oats. No ? white. 59a591sc, No mixed, 5SIac. Close: Wheat May. $1.04Mc July. 9Ta4a971sc. September, 9s94d96Ae. Corn, May, soc;
 July. 7Sc September, 72AM725sc. Oats,
 May, 5ss4c; July, 52isc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
Poultry and Eggs

l fCuTTtcted by t'arreit Xs Hine1
 Hens SoQ50c; live, per pound. 1aa Be; large flyers, 15c h.; medium fry. kers. 22h per h.; small. 25c per Ib. ducks, 800 40c each; guineas, 25c; roost- CTS, a0c each; geese. 40tg 51c, live tur- Keys, Bql9c; dressed turkeys. 2Oc: eggs, 1 fresh. 19c; country butter, 20aSc lb.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
Weekly Cotton Statistics

Liverpool, April 12.-The following are the weekly cotton statistics. Imports of all kinds, 100000 bales; imports Ameri- can, 17S,00o bales; stock of all kinds. 1,SSs,- OO0 bales; stock American. 1253,000; Amer lean forwarded, 730o0. Total exports. sss- 6O0. .4
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
Dry Goods

New York. April 12.-Print cloth mar kets were active and strong again on a basis of 47sc for 3S-64x60s. Jobbers re- port moderate trade. Foreign wools and domestic have been sold in sizeable quaIs titles recently for future shipment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
Grain Receipts and Shipments

Kansas City, April 12.-Reeeipts. Whea., 26,eO0; corn, 2s,001; oats, 11G00.
 Shipments: Wheat, 46o0o; corn, 55,000. oats. 12,000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
Coffpa .rd cvra.
tUIIee WHu DUE Corrected by Franklin. Sfi

Corrected by Franklin. Stiles & frank. lin
 Coffee: Arbuckles. sesso per 100 lbs Luzanne. e7c ID. Sugar: Standard gran. ulated. 6N C lb.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

SOUTHERN GALWAY FOR ATLANTA;
 FIVE DAILY TRAINS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
LOCAL SECURITIES

rotai sales for the day, s4s,eo0 shares.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

Interior Cotton Movement Houston: Steady; middllng, 1issc; he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

ia 5ae bond market were
 e prominent issues de- gn. thy with stocks. Total f .ue, amounted to S2,H2,OOo. sa ates government bonds were sTes. on call.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
Daily Cotton Movement

son ............. 14,450.507 I1,154,o7i
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-01-17

Ter, Sam Langford, Sam McVey,
Frank Picato, George Unholz and
Dick Cullen. Several others are
preparing to join them.
The latest to make break for
the South Pacific are Buck
Grouse and his manager; Jimmy
Mason of Pittsburg, who. sail the
last ofthis month or early in Feb
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-01-17
AUSTRALIA VERY ATTRACTIVE TO AMERICAN BOXERS
SAYS TOM ANDREWS 4-

ANDREWS ~
ruary. They will be busy, for
there are several good middle
weights in Australia.
Grouse in the last six months
has beaten some of the best mid
dleweights in this country. He is
just past II and gaining strength.
daily. He won over Is battles last
year, 10 of them being kneckouts.:
His last victbry was over Leo
Houck and this ranks him with
the contenders for Ketchel's.
crown. r. ;fc5
Sid Smith and Billy Marchant,
clever English boxers, have at
last decided to come to this coun-,
try.
Last fall they started, but were
induced to return to box for the
Lonsdale belt. Smith won the
belt and the 115-pound champion
ship Of Great Britain. Will AmeS,z
manager, cables me they will ar
rive in New York Jan. 81. After.
a weeks rest they will meet all
corners in the bantam and feath-.
er-weight classes. Smith wants.
Johnny Coulon and Marehant
would meet Abe Attel, Johnny
Kilbane, Joe Rivers or Jack.
White.
Negotiations are on with Los.
Angeles, San Francisco and New
Orleans clubs now. New York
and Boston will probably see
them first in limited round bouts,
x
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-14
&c the Editor OF the Mall, London.

TIC the Editor OF the Mali, London.
Sir:-I desire, through your paper,
to convey to Mr.. w. Beach Thomas,
the author Of The Scandal OF the
Olympic games" which was published
in your issue of the 18th. July, the in
formation that Hawaii is a part Of the
United States, under United States
Laws, and. that its citizens enjoy the
same privileges Is citizens OF the main
land just as though Hawaii were con-
tigious territory thereto, and that the
committees, charged with selecting
the best our country had to offer did
not, at any time, feel called upon to
strain" American citizenship in get
ting together a list OF athletes who
were capable of doing credit to tneir
country. We probably have as many
more at home who, If called upon
could represent us equally a we'll as
those We now have I'm Stockholm.
The duke with resounding title" so
facetiously referred to, is young Ha-
waiian of excellent character making
no claim to title, tut answering to the
name of Duke Kahanamoku and, while
the author says Americans ARE not
expert swimmers | think / could
bring him about a dozen more almost
equal to Duke who can give good &C.
counts of themselves in any company.
tSigned) RAYMOND C. BROWN,
O. Hawaii 80
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-14
SUGAR CONCERN
DIS|yCORPORAIES

SAN FRANCISCO, August H..
Within the next few days application
for the disincorporation of the West
ern Sugar Refining Company viii be
made. That was admitted yesterday
at the San Francisco offices OF the
concern. That John ID. and Adolph
Spreckels wish to conduct their sugar
business as partnership and not as
a corporation with the binding of red
tape they claim is now surrounding
corporations is the reason given for
the disincorporation.
s. Some weeks ago application for the
disincorporation Of the California
Sugar Refinery Company was made
and final settlement of the affairs
of that corporation. which Is not an
active company, will be made August
22d.
w. II. Hannah. secretary OF the
Western Sugar Refining Company, adj
mitted yesterday that 1t had been de-
cided to disincorporate the concern.
He explained that John ID. and Adolph
Spreckels' had secured entire control
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-14
RAILROADS MAY
DELAY OPENING
OF PANAMA CANAL
Democrats in House Block
ing the Necessary Appropri-
! alton Bill

WASHINGTON, d. c.. Aug I'm
less Congress at this session pro-
vides for the operation of the Panama
canal, President Taft and Secretary
Stimson believe it will be practically
impossible for the army engineers 10
keep their promsie to open the big
ditch to the ships of the world next
year. =.
According to Information brought to
the White House yesterday, the pros
pect of action at this session is grow
ing DINNER.
Mr.. Stimson was understood to be-
the proposed administration and oper-
alton of the canal, but the questions
OF tolls and of railroad-owned steam
ships have stirred up controversy in
both houses and today neither the
President nor his Secretary Of War
was hopeful of settling 1t.
The Panama bill was put aside
again in the Senate yesterday after
Senator Brandegee, who is guiding II,
stated that adjournment probably
would be FASTENED If 1t were consid-
cred In the Senate, while the postof-
flee bill was in conference, but the
only ray of comfort that frittered
through to the White House was the
news that Representative Adamson of
Georgia, chairman of the house Com
mittee on Interstate Commerce, was
considering the introduction of joint
resolution Iproviding for, the machin-
cry of administration and operation of
the canal. =
Mr.. Adamson was understood to be
ready to bring In such a resolution
whenever it became apparent there is
no chance for a compromise.
Taft Much Concerned.
President Taft was much concerned
today over the prospect of delay in
the opening Of the canal. 4
In many speeches he. has predicted
that the Atlantic and the Pacific
would be joined at Panama in 1918 and
at one time the President believed he
would be able to steam through the
canal on the old battleship Oregon.
when the formal opening was celebra-|
ted during his present term in the
White House. When he broke ground
at San Francisco last October for the
Exposition he practi-
cally promised the people of the coast
to have the canal ready next year.
spoke Of the Oregon as the ship that
should first cleaye its water and
made. it clear that he would like to-
be on her bridge when the trip began.
So far the President has refused to
write a special message to Congress
on the subject of the canal. He told
visitors recently that he did not be-
lieVe 1t necessary for him further to-
advise Congress of his position.
Within the last few days, however,
members Of the house have notified
him they would oppose any legislation
in regard to the Panama canal that
did not settle all the matters involved.
Secretary Stimson has taken issue
with the Congressman, but the Presi-
dent has not made known his attitude.
1t was said last night he might send
m a special message.
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Lace blouses are worn. but they EN-
no longer yelled with chiffon. aII1o...
trimmings collars and roFell
chiffon, usually black, are allowed
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-14
OIL TRUST IN ALIF0RNlA
HAS $25, 600, 900 INCREASE

RICHMOND, Calf, July 30.-What
disposition viii be made of $25, O00, 900
to be derived from a new stock issue
voted by the Standard Oil Company
at the meeting In Richmond today Is
interesting oil men. s..
One of the first things will be the
payment of a dett Of $4,000 900 to the
New Jersey corporation. The rest Of
the proceeds will provide for the con-
tinued expansion og business, requir-
ing large construction Of plants and
equipment. ..&.-.-.... ~. Is. IL.
The debt to the New Jersey cor
poration was probably incurred at the,
first building =, of the plant j. in Kicn-
mond. It is said $10.000,000 will be
spent as fast as possible in increasing
its capacity. ~.
California will undoubtedly have in
the refinery the largest in the world
in few years, as it now has the larg
est oil-producing fields in the world. =.
1t is probable that fourth pipe line
will be constructed and that some yes
sells will be added to the feet of TWEEN.
ty-fve steam and sailing vessels and
tav craft.
From 81 100000 to 81 100000 will go
Into the smaller refinery at FL. Segun..
do and 100000 will be used in erect
ing a distributing and office building
in San Francisco A large of.se Is
also employed here,
In its last statement the corporation
put the value of it's Richmond plant,
probably including its fleet and pipe
lines at $30,000,900. But just what
amount of this is represented by the
refinery is not stated, but it is said
the investment in Richmond, where
works have been erected that are SUP
plying the Orient and the entire Pc
cific Coast with ITS different products
is $14,000,000.
More, than 100000 in enlarge
ments has been put in here in the last
two years, including new stills, an
asphalt plant and concrete and steel
machine shops and barrel and packing
houses.
The company has just ordered S.,
300, 900 brick of the Richmond plant
for more stalls and other works.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-14
FILBUSTER HALTS
DEFICIENCY BILL
Mann Prevents Passage Be.
cause of Hawaii Water
Power Site

WASHINGTON. D. c.. Aug. 6.-As
the result of a filibuster engineered
by Minority Leader Mann, the House
today was forced to adjourn without
passing the general deficiency bill, al
though 1t was on its way to final pas
sage. The filibuster was aimed at a
water power site amendment attach
ed under special rule to the meas
ure, and at times throughout the de-
bate the exchanges were acrimonious.
The rider empowered the Secretary
of War to grant and lease" to the
successful bidder the rights to sur
plus water of the Schofield Barracks,
on the Island of Oahu, Hawaii. Mann
asserted that it was an attempt to
give over valuable government prop
erty to a monopoly.
Mann charged that the special rule
fastening the rider was framed so that
a roll call could not be had on the
question and in order that its sup
porters could, dodge responsibility"
Representative Fitzgerald retorted
that the corporation now operating
the water privileges on the govern
ment reservation was paying nothing
for the privilege, which was worth
from $4,000 to $4,000 a year. He
said the legislation was for the pur-
pose of clearing up the situation and
compelling the company to pay its
just returns.
A series of sharp exchanges be-
tween Mann and Representatives
of Wyoming and Kahn of Cal
ifornia on the Republican side and
Representatives Fitzgerald and Shir-
ley of Kentucky. and Page of North
Carolina resulted finally in Represen-
tative Fitzgerald announcing his in
tention> to shut off all debate. -
The gentleman from New York
may knock me down and drag me
out" shouted Mann, but he won't do
1t with my yielding consent.
Raising the point of no quorum, the
minority leader followed that roll call
with a series Of parliamentary tao
t1cs. A few at time, the. Democrats
dwindled away to prepare for the
caucus at 8 o'clock. Watching his
Mann again raised the
point of no quorum, just as the
bill was about to be put to
4 vote. This forced adjournment.
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RAY {. BROWN
Continued from Fsgs y

Mail. The Mail, however has. seem
ingly, refused to g-oe II publicity as !
have waited since The 18th, the day
on which the article appeared and on
which my letter was written. and II
has not been run. Yesterday / sent
1t TO the Daily Telegraph with reques'
that they use 1t, Tut they, too, are
evidently much peeyed,' as | fail TO
find il in their columns. | am enclos-
inc herewith the article, together witt
a copy of my letter and another clip
ping written by a certain J. Welby
HauChton along about the same lines
a. the first article. A number of these
OF a similar nature. have appeared In
the English Press ever since America
began winning the events in Stock
holm, but ! have managed to keer
cool and swallow them until Hawaii
citizens were called strained Ameri-
cans. then ] felt called upon TO say
sCmething-or, rather, attempted to
say something"
Daily Mail Article.
The article in the Daily Mail which
angered Mr.. Brown said in part:
Most of the athletic spirit in Amer
lea Is not to be initiated. have been
investigating the after careers OF
American athletes. Quite a large
number win by their Olympic sue.
cesses paid posts as trainers and
what not. A man who wins in the
Stadium is a made man, in a small
way, and this prospect, Of course.
greatly adds to the serious energy Of
the competitor. He Is not profession
AL but he is making a profession.
The day | arrived at Stockholm ]
heard men In the. Stadium itself dis
cussing what are called track tao
tics" which consist not less In win
ming than in preventing others from
winning. The elaboration of the
game is excessive. A government
premium, a private guarantee Of 322.-
900, the hiring of q fine steamer to
convey the team, suggest more than
Greek extravaganza. The loud re-
sponses of their athletes to the deaf
trainer practising his man in corner
work" were not always agreeable on
preliminary days in the Stadium. The
very generosity and zeal OF the team
and its organizers created some con-
fusion between the parts of hosts and
guests, not always to the satisfaction
OF Sweden. .....,
Again, in their eagerness to miss
no victory that might win points, the
definition of American citizenship is
considerably strained. A native Of
Hawaii, which Is an island l do not
know how far from America, COM
peting as a duke with resounding ii.
tie, wins for ,the Americans. who
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-14

are not expert swimmers. one OF the
most notable victories in the games.
An Indian supplies the deficiency OF
Americans in distance running
South Africans Eligible.
On such a principle the South Az
ricans, who were in their smaller
way almost as successful as the
Americans, would have good reason
to be included in the British team.
or course the Americans are natur-
ally specialists and we are not In
the United States as many as $4,000
people will flock TO see an athletic
meeting In England 10000 is a big
gate" We play many games OF
many sorts. The Americans play few.
Our way, in my view al least, Is pref
cradle. II Is better doubtless to be
an aIl-round athlete than to be
forced into prominence at one sim
gle event. But this does not in the
least excuse a nation for going out
unprepared and ilEequipped into
competition on which the interest Of
more than half the world is conferred
II the team had been collected and
the competition organized by men as
well qualified as the Americans, who
had begun early enough, We should
have done well instead Of badly. The
classical Greeks used to train for
year. The Americans and the Firms
are not afraid of training for several
years 1t is better not to ask how
long preparation has been made by
nffnn
training has been broken even within
sight of the final race.
We lost because we deserved to
lose.
Another clipping to which Mr..
Brown refers is as follows:
Wall from Loser.
To the Editor of The Daily Mail.
Sir:-It makes the ordinary man
very indignant to hear all this abuse
OF English athletes. Because other
countries like to specialize their men
into machines, only capable OF doing
one thing well, it does not show that
they are in any way superior to our
men. This sort of thing produces
curiosities, not men.
A cat can De Taught 70 cIlHp lung
rope and then descend on parachute.
This does not improve her as a cat.
She is simply a curiosity.
We have quite enough specialists as
it is. Before q man can really be con-
sidered an athlete he ought to be able
to hold his own in half-a-dozen differ
emf events. I
"Gladiatorial shoAss" are generally
sign ofsdecadence. Yet
your correspondents seem to wish to
extend the system furthsr and make
all games into professionss and thus
ruin all sport except bettina
: j. WELBY HaUGHTON, 4. r. c. B.
Tannachie. Woodlane, falmouth.
Brown AnsWeres Slurs.. n
Mr.. Browns letter to the mail SAYS:
LONDON, July 18th, 1912,
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To prevent milk from curdlInE d.
q good pinch of carbonate 81 soda b.
each quart before putting Il on 70 10'
Minneapolis Tribune.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-14
BARK NUuANU NOT SOLD.

Inquiry at the office of Hind, Rolph
& Co. yields the information that the
bark Euuanu is not yet sold. There
having been overtures made to buy
the vessel, a. survey was held and
the report of it sent to San Fran.
cisco. A sale will possibly result,
but nothing further is known of the
matter at the local agency of the
Nuuanu. -.
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Il see where President Taft has
been asked to appoint a woman to the
Supreme Court vacancy"
Nonsense! Do you suppose any
normal woman is going to take a
place where she has to sit still and
let other people do all the arguing?"
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/. The last of the cargo for Honolulu
in the Matson Navigation steamer is
expected, will be discharged this even
ing and that vessel will be dispatched
for Island ports and San Francisco.
The Hyades brought lumber, feed,
forage and general merchandise to the
extent of several thousand tons.