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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-17

Plain and fancy jelly. tumblers- and BOG dog. Rubber rings for jars-5c and 10c.
 Catsup bottles-75c dog. Fruit presses-9c to 20c. Strainers-5c to $1.25. I Chopping knives-25c to- 40c.
 Mixing spoons-5c to 25c Fruit funnels-5c to 75c. ,. Colanders-1Oc to 70c. ,,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-17

Schwartz Bros have the contract to build a frame house on Laurel avenue for Frank Murray.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-17
BUILDING NEWS
 FOR CURRENT WEEK
fCommerclal Record. }

From the plans of Architect .. T. Beardsley, IT,. the general contract for the erection of the proposed build ing in Southport for the Wakeman Memorial Association has been let to the Bowling & BettomIsy Co. The structure will be 56x5S feet, of brick, with limestone trimmings. The entire contract for building the fine residence for Charles G. Waldo at BrooklaWn has been let. The cost will be about s25.00o.
 The general contract for the cree tion of the new church for the St. Cyril and Methodius Society on Church street. has been awarded to the Granite Construction Co.
 From plans of Architect Joseph w. Northrop, the contract has. been extensive improvements to be made to the residence of Carl T. Siemon at the corner of Clinton and North ave nues.
 Schwartz Bros. have the contract to build a frame house on Laurel avenue for Frank Murray.
 From plans by Architect A. S. Meloy the house on Stratford avenue owned by M. S. Frank is to be extensively improved.
 From the plans of Architect William Schmidt the contracts have been Jet Park avenue for Ralph w. Barnes.
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-17

Fourth floor.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-17

The entire contract for building the fine residence for Charles G. Waldo at Brooklawn has been let. The cost will be about $25. .090.l
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CHICAGO PRODUCE.

CHICAGO, June 29.-Settlement of the
elevator controversy here acted as an off
set today to the hot weather in the north
west. In consequence, the wheat market
closed irregular. varying from q lower to
esal2 advance. Corn finished g down,
oats off lsaA to V. and provisions SUBJ
stantially the same as last night.
A decided break in the price of wheat
took place Immediately when announce
ment was made that storage concerns in
Chicago had all agreed to abide by the
board of trade regulations and the Illinois
state laws. July option suffered from
hedging sales of a new wheat to arrive
here from Nebraska and western Iowa.
During the session September ranged
from LOSS to 1.O6asa1 .O6ls with final
transactions 4 net higher at 1.Ot,a1 .o6.s.
Sentiment as to corn favored the bears.
September swung between 72ss and 7312,
closing easy at 73isa73A, a decline of 70
from twenty-four hours before.
Prospects Of new crop arrivals in the
near future wore down oats Outside
figures touched for September turned out
to be 4Oas and 397s. with the close Is to u
net lower at 4Oa40is.
In the provision pit most of the trade
consisted of changing July holdings to
September, carriers taking the nearby
month When the gong sounded. prices
stood within 2k either way from last
nights level.
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WINES OF OLD ROME.
Unfamiliar Names of the Tipple of
the Ancients.

from Tue ldeal Grocef.
Nearly fifty kinds of wine We're known
to the ancient Romans, including sew
eral varieties used for medicinal pur-
poses. Falernian was home wine re-
sembling the modern Madeira. and was
not commonly used until il was ten years
old. After it was twenty years old, 1t
affected the drinker unfa yorably. causing
headache.
Other wines We're foreign. Chan. also
called Ariusian, of which there were
three varieties-austere. sweet and inter-
mediate-and the Lesbian, considered TO
be diuretic, We're Of this kind
Some wines We're named after their
color. as white dark and red. The white
were thought to be the thinnest and least
heating; the dark colored and sweet the
most nourishing, the red the most heat
ing.
Some again were named after qualities,
Of age and the like. as old tvetus). new
(novuml. of the present year (hornuinD.
Of three years ttrimuml. mellow tmoile,
lene. vesustate edentulumD rough Jasper
uml, pure tmeruml, strong 1fortiusl.
Certain wines, named Myndian, Hail.
carnassian, Rhodian and Coan. were
made with salt water. They were con-
sidered not to be intoxicating. but TO
promote digestion. Two wines, Cnidfan
and Adrian. were also medicinal.
Mustum was a term applied to wine
newly made, or the fresh juice OF the
grape. Protropum was the juice which
runs from the grapes without pressing,
Mulsum was a mixture of wine and
honey. Sapa was mustum boiled down to
third. Defrutum was mustum reduced
to half, and Carenum was the same re-
duced to a third.
Passum was sweet wine. prepared
from grapes that had been dried in the
sun. Passum creticum. also a sweet
wine, is believed TO have been the same
as the wine which our forefathers called
Malmsey, the wine in which the Duke OF
Clarence. brother of Edward ", elected
to be drowned.
A wine called Murrhina has a curious
history. The Greeks had a wine of this
kind which consisted of pure wine per-
fumed with odorous substances. The
Romans had IL wine similarly named.
which is supposed to have been wine
mingled with myrrh. 1t was admins
tered TO those who were about to suffer
torture in order to intoxicate them and
to remove the sense OF suffering
These ancient wines retained their place
until tho end of the middle
ages. but there is no reliable evidence
upon this point. Very slowly the
names, rather than the wines, changed
The ancient wines. even those
in use in Shakespeare time, seem to
have been less charged with alcohol than
the wines of the present day Even
Malmsey, the strongest of them, con-
tanned only about l. per cent OF spirit
and Sack little more than half that
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COTTON MARKETS.
NEW YORK,

NEW YORK, June 29.-The cotton mar
ket was comparatively quiet today and
fluctuations were irregular, with the close
steady at a net decline Of one to five
points. The opening was steady at a
decline Of to 4 points in response to
lower cables than due and scattering
liquidation or realizing by recent local
buyers. Reports of continued unsettled
weather with showers in parts of the
eastern belt caused some uneasiness re-
garding the position of the crop, how
ever. and with the market receiving con-
siderable support from the same interests
who are credited with having taken the
bulk of July notices yesterday, prices soon
rallied. Covering for over the week end
helped the advance. and there was also
some buying here from New Orleans, but
prices eased off from the best under con-
tinued realizing. The close was a couple
of points under Fridays finals on new
crop months. Aside from the operations
OF bullish spot interests. the trading here
seemed to be chiefly in the way of even
ing up for over the week end and the
government report, which is to be pub
lished next Wednesday.
Cotton futures closed steady
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so, and to have actually gotten away
with over 100000 OF 1t.
High Prices of Coal.

The determination of the interstate
commerce commission to pry Into the
background Of the anthracite coal trust
Is somewhat Of q disturbing faclor. Ac-
cording to common app. aisement, be-
tween 81 and $1.5O per ton in excessive
profits finds its way into the pockets of
the anthracite insiders. an aggregate
which is between CSC, 100000 and $1OO. OOO.-
600 a year. The Interstate commerce
commissioners are possessed of the fool
tsh idea that consumers ought to save a
part or all OF this enormous sum, and
that IL the facts can be brought to light
fuel would undergo a very important re-
duction, enough SO to figure Eieasurably
In the household expense account. There
is an idea in and about Wall s.reet that
this time the commission may land the
goods.
Illinois Central directors declared q
quarterly dividend at the old per cent
rate, although admittedly the company
did not earn 1t in full. Illinois Central
has suffered extraordinary hardships and
losses this year, but the property is such
an immense Garner that the treasury can
stand a drain and make up the deficit
without self-injury The New York, New
of earning It's full per cent dividend this
yea, as it did last year and the year be-
fore. The Mellen policy. however. Is to
keep right on paying stockholders more
than the property earns, firm in the BELIEF
that conditions justify borrowing from
the treasury in order to keep It's stock
holders in a good humor. The stock is
paying dividends at the expense OF Main
tenance Of plant and equipment. This
policy prevails mainly in the west at this
writing.
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Woman After inner Speakers.

From HarperB Bazaar.
1t is always the plant of every genera
ton of diners that after-dinner speaking
is on the decline. In this day and gen.
Grafton. however, the eternal feminine
has come to the rescue. At recent din
ners, where both men and women have
spoken, it has been common comment
that Of the two the women were the
better speakers.
One clever man, after dinner in New
York, where the women carried off all
the postprandial honors. explained 1t
thus: 1.-The women are not such cyclists.
Every man felt himself the star Of the
evening. So he insisted on talking twenty
minutes and more, till the whole table
was weary Of him. The women had
sense. They got up. talked brilliantly
for just five minutes and then sat down,
leaving everybody anxious for more
Age-long training tells. For generations
the women in every normal family have
sat and listened to the favorite stories Of
their fathers, brothers and husbands
They have learned the long. irrelevant
preludes to an anecdote. the dreary de-
lays and advances up to its point; the
boresome. fiat epilogues.
They have been told patronizingly that
mo woman knows how to tell a good
story" And. meanwhile. in their gra-
cious, gentle role Of audience they have
laid to heart that precious knowledge
how not to do it, The result, while
temporarily astonishing to man, makes
woman smile and understand.
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COFFEE FUTURES.

NEW YORK, June 20-Coffee futures
opened quiet at unchanged prices to a de-
cline of l point and ruled steady during
the greater part of the morning on a little
scattered buying inspired by steady
European cables and the failure Of the
increasing receipts to cause any appar-
ent weakness in the Brazilian markets
Later. however. offerings increased and
the market oased off in the absence of
support. with the close quiet. to s points
net lower. Sales. 2O.25O bags July, ID co.
August. 1872: September. 1882: October
1885: November, 1894: December, 14O2:
January. 14.O3: February. 400: March.
H.l2; April. IA. ID: May and June. 14.15.
Havre unchanged to u higher. Hamburg
unchanged to 4 pfennig higher. Rio un-
changed. Santos steady and unchanged
Rio exchange on London. 1-64d lower at
Ii 7-3ad. Brazilian port receipts. 24,OO
bags, against 1900 last year. Jundiahy
receipts. 5000, against 1890.
Spot coffee quiet: Rio as, 142: Santos
IS, 1874. Mild coffee quiet; Cordova. 16a
1874 nominal.
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NEW ORLEANS.

NEW ORLEANS. June 29-Trading in
today's cotton market was narrow: there
was practically no trading in July, and
the closing prices were l point up to 4
down. compared with yesterdays closing.
Futures opened steady at decline a
3 to points on poor cables. Continued
rains in the eastern and central belts and
the promise of more moisture over Sun
day was a check on short selling. Soon
after the call the market became dull
and remained so during the remainder of
the session. The new crop months showed
range of only to = points. Both sides
evened up for over the week end and the
approaching bureau reports.
Spot cbtton-Quiet, unchanged; mid
ding. 124 sales on the spot, 81 bales,
to arrive, none.
Futures closed steady. July. l2.21
August, 1904; September. 11.S3: Octo-
ber 1852; December, 11.63; January,
1857; March, 11.74.
Cotton futures closed steady. / point
up to points down, after a steady
opening. at a decline of to points
or blRS.
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BERLIN.
new YORK BANKS.

| NEW YORK, June 29.-The statement
| Of the clearing house banks for the
week shows that the banks hold $21,-
| O74 $50 reserve in excess Of legal require
| in the proportionate cash reserve as COM
pared with last week.
The statement follows:
Loans. *a.665. e7oooo; increase. $685.
| 600.
Specie, $374.215, 600; decrease, $5,543. 600
! Legal tenders. $so,616.Ooo; decrease.
Ne Net deposits. s1.e5os77,ooo; increase
Circulation. $4s.42s.ooo; decrease, s22..
| Banks cash reserve in vault, $685., $780,
] 900.
Trust companies cash reserve in vault.
$74 176, 600.
Aggregate cash reserve. $459, s31 900.
| Excess lawful reserve. $21,074, $50; de-
crease, $8,165.OOO.
Trust companies reserve. with clearing
house members carrying % per cent cash
reserve, $40. 431 200.
Loans. SCOT .OA1.OOo; increase, $22.392,-
Specie, $36s. Oo0. coo; decrease, $12357 900
Legal s ga, tenders. ssS'Ses'ooo' decrease
;Nst deposits. $1,000. 52s'ooo: increase.
Circulation. $4e.4ss. 600; increase. $751;
coo.
Banks cash reserve in vault. $ss,3s7.-
GOO.
Trust companies cash reserve In vault,
ST., 966. 600.
Aggregate cash reserve, $453. 453 900.
Excess lawful reserve, ST., 545,S50. de-
crease SIG. 122, 900.
Trust companies reserve with clearing
house members carrying % per cent cash
reserve $12 7.l4, 900
Summary of state banks and trust COM
panies in Greater New York not reporting
to the New York clearing house:
Loans, sos, 535 900: increase $:}O4 800.
Specie $64, 3.y9 600. decrease $1,000
Legal tenders. Ss,1o4. 400; decrease. S2o3,
500
Total deposits, $685.. 1os,O 600; decrease
So sol 600.
The Financier will say:
A reduction in cash amounting to ST.
215.OO, accompanied by an increased re.
serve requirement of over $5,UpO.OO. due
to an expansion Of so, 422.OO in deposits
was responsible for decrease of $16,.
To-, 900 in the excess reserve OF the New
York clearing house banks for the week
ending June 70. the present surplus above
| the 20 per cent minimum standing al
Sl2.5i5.S5O. Loans expanded 1882 OO1
| owing largely to operations incident tC
| the July / interest and dividend period
! The banks gained cash from the interior
! but lost on account of operations will
| the subtreasury. The $4,Oop,00O Of golC
| exports, of course, affected the statement
| by the amount named. The weekly ex
/ hibit. based on the average system o.
J compilation. did not show the actual oper
| atoms of the latter part of the week ane
| the surplus cash reserve, according Il
! calculation on the average method, stand:
| at $21 ,O74. $50. At the close of the current
| half year the New York banks show
| compared with their first January state
| ment, an increase of 1856 zoo, 600 in loans
an increase of $192oOO,OD In deposits, anl
a gain of $3S. OO0.nU in cash. although the
| cash reserve today is smaller than 81,
/ months ago.
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otton futures closed steady.

July. 11.26a1l.1s; August, 11.27a11.24
September. 11.33a11.32; October. 11.47s
n.41; November, 11.49a11. 40; December
11.55a11.5O: January, 1I5Oa1145; March
11.5Sa11.53: May. 11.62a11.57.
The range of prices in the cotton ex-
change during the past week was small,
and the net change for the week was an
advance Of only ! TO Is points on the
most active months.
The July delivery alone displayed life.
It was forced higher on the declaration
If, longs that they wanted actual cotton
Tor their contracts.
Trading was restricted by the nearness
of the bureau reports on condition and
acreage. One private bureau report dur
ing the week put the condition at so per
cent of the normal, while another put the
condition at $50.
Although the weather was not alto
gether favorable. reports were that the
crop was making some progress. In
spots prices advanced Il of a cent.
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New York's Yiddish Theaters,
rom the Edison Monthly.

From the Edison Monthly.
These Yiddish theaters are open seven
nights in the week, while matinees are
given Saturdays and Sundays. Seldom
is there a performance at which the
house is not crowded. For each OF the
first four nights Of the week. those gen
orally conceded to be the poorest from a
business standpoint, the house is sold out
right to one Of the many East Side be-
nevolent societies, which in turn sells it's
tickets for what 1t can to its members
For the regular performance the best
seats sell for 81. while others can be had
for as little as 25 cents. All the plays
presented are written in or translated
into Yiddish and are presented in Yid-
dish to Yiddish audiences
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Many New Securities Out.

As previously pointed out in this re-
view the chief obstacle In the way OF
starting and maintaining new activity and
new strength in the stock market appears
IN the extraordinary output OF new securt-
ties Over quarter OF billion OF dol
lars of new issues were listed upon the
stock exchange one day this week. Many
OF these represent properties not hitherto
traded in in any market--one scent store
enterprise putting s6o.O0O.OO0 preferred
and common shares upon the stock ex-
Change. This may at least be regarded
as epochal.
Importance, and altogether on the en-
couraging side. appears In the attitude
OF the managers OF our bigger corpora
tions-notably among the controllers Of
the great railway systems They. seem
almost uniformly to have come to the
conclusion that hard times, which at
some periods seemed TO threaten, are
now at least out OF the range Of prob
aniiity' This fresh confidence Is Illus
trated in several ways. One phase OF It
shows in the liberal orders which are
being awarded for rails and equipment
ana even extensions. This represents
confidence upon the part OF operating de-
partments. There Is another phase which
reflects new found courage In the finan-
cial departments-exemplif this week,
Tor instance. by the Illinois Centrars
directorate Things have been going
wrong with the Illinois Central II finds
deficit. There had been large financial
errors" discovered. Moreover, the Mis-
sissippi floods imposed vast damage.
Professional Wall street could be excused
for expecting a reduction In the Illinois
Central dividend, even its Suspension.
Yet when Official action is taken there Is
agreement that what has been bad in
The past can be readily cured by what is
sure to be good in the future and there
fore. the regular dividend is declared. II
requires actual bravery for railway
hnancfers to do things like this: and
under the pressing conditions tina, are in
fuential In these critical times the action
that has been taken attests how sure and
confident directors must be of the in
coming OF better and better times
II Is quietly reported that Mr.. John D.
Rockefeller has Cancelled his trim To
Europe. What may this indicate?
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NEW YORK CATTLE.

NEW YORK, June 29.-Beeves-Re-
ce!pts. 6S2 head none on sale: feeling
nominally unchanged.
Calves-Receipts, 900 head: dull and
weak; common to fairly prime yeals,
100 to $50 per 100 pounds; culls $50
Sheep and lambs-Receipts, ., 40 head;
sheep steady: lambs, 80 to 30 cents lower.
sheep. 800 TO 40; culls, 200; lambs.
coo to SO; culls. eco.
Hogs-Receipts. lob head; none on
sale; feeling nomnaly firm.
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KANSAS CITY CATTLE.

KANSAS CITY. June 29.-Cattle-Re-
ceipts, 400, including 800 southerns: mar
ket steady; dressed beef and export
steers. S35a9.5O; fair to good. 6jOaS. -:
western steers 5.75a9OO: stockers and
feeders. 4.oOa675; southern steers, 525a
S.65; southern cows, 3.JOa6OO: native
cows, 3JOa7 90: native heifers. 5.5OaS. 90:
bulls. 3.75a575: calves. 4.OOa7.75
Hogs-Receipts. 1000: market &c higher;
bulk of sales, 7.J0a 7.65; heavy, 76Oa7. 40:
packers and butchers 75Oa765 lights,
7.4oa7.6O; pigs. 5.5Oa6.S0.
Sheep-Receipts. 500. market steady:
lambs. 650aS.jO: yearlings, 5.00a6.O0:
wethers. 4.OOa5.OO: ewes. 3.JOa4.a5; stock
ers and feeders, 3.OOa4OO.
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A Prisoner of St. Kilda.
From the London Chronicle.

FrOIn the CEfOnIcIr.
A romance of ST. kilda is the story OF
Lady Grange. Wife of an eighteenth
century Scottish lord of session, she was
for some mysterious reason seized and
carried off in the dark, she knew not
by whom. and conveyed by night Journeys
to the highland coast, and thence by sea
to ST. Kilda.
There among the few Inhabitants. she
remained for several years a prisoner
provided, however, with constant supply
OF food and a woman to wait upon her.
No inquiry was made for her, but at
last she conveyed letter to a friend by
the daughter of "a catechist. who hid 1t
in clue of yarn. A ship was sent to
rescue her, but her gaolers got wind o.
1t and transferred her to the island OF
Herries, where she died.
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CHICAGO CATTLE MARKET.

CHICAGO. June 29.-Cattle-Receipts
200 head; market steady: beeves. 575a
96O; Texas steers, 6OOa76O; western
steers, 6.3Oa7.s0: stockers and feeders.
4OOa66O; cows and heifers. 275aS.5O;
calves, 8. 5Oa8.5O.
Hogs-Receipts, 5000 head; market ac-
tive, generally &c higher: light, 7.25a7 80;
mixed, 7.2Oa7.65; heavy. 7.15a7.65; rough.
7.15a735; pigs, 5.35a7.05; bulk of sales.
7.15a7 Go
Sheep-Receipts. 800 head; market
steady: native, 3.OOa5O. western, 325a
500; yearlings, 4.75a6. rs; lambs, native
N75a7 49, western, 425a7.15; spring
lambs, 4.OOas.2o
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Spot cotton-Quiet, unchanged; mid
ding, 1919. Sales on the spot, IS bales
to arrive. none. Low ordinary, 11-16
nominal; ordinary, 9h, nominal; good
ordinary 10 1915; strict good ordinary,
IL 1916; low middling. II 5-16; strict
low middl;ng. IL; middling. 12A; strict
middling, 121e: good middling, 12A i;
strict good middling, IL 1915: middling
fair. 1871. nominal; middling, fair to fair.
1885. nominal: fair. IA. nominal. Re
ceipts, 1,719 bales; stock, 42.44a.
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FRUIT MARKET.

NEW YORK, June 29-Evaporated
apples-Quiet and unchanged; on the
spot fancy are quoted at 9hs10A
choice, 8a9; prime. 7ha7A Prunes.
firm, with an improved demand: quota
lions range from 3Aa91a for CALIFORNIA;
up to 30-40s and 61aa9la for Oregons.
Apricots, quiet and featureless; choice,
11t2a12. extra choice. l2a12k; fancy
13a14. Peaches. dull and nominal
choice. 7AaSA; extra choice, SaSh
fancy. Saa10. Raisins, inactive and
barely steady, loose muscatels, 5a6A
choice to fancy, seeded, 5a4a6a; seed
less, Il a612. London layers, 1.40a145.