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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-06
EXPORTS.
CASH QUOTATIONS..
GENERAL MARKET REPORT.

View YORK. September =. l9l2
aRtI< -NUEAT-Af'er p slight advance
around the opening due 10 stcadv cables and
further rains IN canada. the market developed
decided weakness and declined 20 neU 10"
levels for the season. closing AZ = net loss "
ioti, Tho selling was general ana there
appeared 10 he disposition 20 dispose OF hong
wheat a. rapidly a. possible. An estimate by
q W. SNOW. placing rho total winter wheat
srop at ~. tsD. 900 bushels and the spring
wheat crop ~ 31J 600 60 bushels. had very
strong Influence on sentiment. Receipts were
again heavy. but tho cash demsnd was active,
and the question nov before the trade - now
long the demand from millers Will be able 10
absorb tho steadily Increasing receipts. TX.
porters engaged freight room FOR about y"
ioad. but tho export situation vas not very
promising owing 20 the steadily advancing
ocean freight rates and the scarcity OF room
Foreign markets we're steady. owing 70 un
settled weather abroad and prospects for srna J
Argentine shipments SPOT new No req
winter fp4tz. 1 . track. ana o ahoat q.
new No I Northern. 81 n shost CORN
Heavier receipts at interior points and crop
estimate pointing 70 a Weld OF .J25 Oo""p
bushels caused heavy selling and prices de
cliusd sharply. closing az r net decline or y.
dit,c Cash export corn, 0l1c. o b snoaJ
December 90 March. pATS-Ne~s was bear =
ish including crop estimate o. l4ta"'"V
bushels while IN the Dakotas Yields we're r
rortch a. high as 10 bushels 20 the acre. re
roiptE wera heavy, but the market showed re
-isianco 10 pressure and At ~" close vas
,bout STEADY. With decline Of 20 nc cash
market steady. new standard white. 39iac; 10
90 80 3 Sole No 4 8hc, new WHITE
clipped 4id43c all track. RYE STEADY No
. Western. SO Buffalo. BARLEY
Easy. mating GsG10c. ! Buffalo.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-06

Transactions for foreign account in this
market were about 1900 shares, mainly
purchases, with the principal dealings IN
Steel common and Amalgamated Copper
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-06
NEW YORK PRICES.
INTERIOR RECEIPTS.
sEABOARD CLEARANCES

FLOUR AND MEAie-Flour steady and
sales were fairly liberal. Spring pstents 20 10
ass 80: winter strsights. 81 5jnt 20, winter
patents 81 s0qS % spring clears. - 800
81 So. extra No winter. 50 2OnN 20: No :.
81 IOGsi -. Kansas stralghts. 81 3OnS 50:
fancy spring patents 81 9odt8 -. RYE
FLOUR-Steady. fair 10 good 81 s5us' choice
to fancy. 05as4 10. CORNMEAiS-Quiet
Kiln dried. s. rs RAG MEAL-Fine white
and yellow 81 70d>l IS; coarse, 81 65nsl 40
rFED-Western spring bran. S24 10; standard
mlddIing SIT 10; -four do, s3l 10. rod dog
s3a 10: city bran, s23 bulk. s24 10 sacks ma
ding soT 5OaSS3: red dog. S33 ~; hominy chop.
s2eGs27 bulk. 81 .0u SIS 20; sacks; oilmeai $50
NC0IFFE-Was again firm. closing AZ an
ADVANCE OF 6d16 points over tho final OF
Wcdnesday Reports from Brazil were again
pcssimistIc regarding the crop outlook. The
action of prices indicated that the advance OK
Iis6l2s points from week ago had DIS
countsd considerable damage 20 the crop, ano
there WAS a tendency to await details NJ the
ADVANCE the entire list Was above the lac
level or close TO the high records experienced
in April and June. and the undertone was
s,.aGy and sentiment bulish. Sales we're llO, .
200 hays Iavre closed at net gain OF 40
franc Hamburg was = pfennie lower 10 !.
nferfir higher and In Brazil prices were log
300 reis advance. Spot nrmer on the basis OF
II.c for Rio No I. Local contract prices
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-06

The Northern Ohio Traction and Light
Company reports for July and the seven
months from January 10 July 81 as fol-
lows.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-06

The Stock Exchange membership Of the
late George Darr has been posted for
transfer 10 David J. Gould
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-06

+. II. Howell. Son & Co have advanced
their list price for refined sugar 10 points
TO so cents a pound although continuing
10 take business on the former basis OF
SO cents.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-06

Application has been made TO the New
York Stock Exchange TO list 100000
thirty-year first mortgage per cent
bonds OF the Southern Bell Telephone
Company and 100000 per cent ten
twenty-year mortgage bonds OF the Mort
gage Bond Company OF New York.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-06

Tho Jones & T.aughlin steel Company
and the Phillips Sheet and Tin Plate
Company have advanced thor price for
tin plate g a ton, the new quotation being
So co lO0 pounds. Iron bars arc Officially
quoted at 81 - q 100 pounds at Pittsburgh.
an advance OF 81 ton over the price rul-
ing a week ago.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-06

y. D. Maher second vlce-president and
general manager Of the Norfolk & West
crn Railway Company. has been elected a
director Of the company. TO I'LL the Va
Cancy caused by the death Of Henry Fink.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-30
Caldwell as a Campaigner.

Former Congressman Ben F. Cald-
well Of Sangamon county brought his
boom for the democratic gubernato-
rial nomination to Rock Island today
and launched it. He will spend the
day and evening in the city and to-
morrow he will be in Moline. Mr..
Caldwell is a campaigner of the old
school. Vigorous and forceful, he i'm
presses one with his earnestness, his
sincerity and his honesty. He is the
! type Of thorough-going, clean-cut bust
ness man who makes the ideal rep
resentative Of the people in high
/ places.
/ He does not mince matters. IF l
am nominated | will be elected he
said, "and l believe / will be nomi-
mated. When I tackle any proposition
or problem do so to win. | have al
ways been successful, and have al
ways won by the employment of the
same policy-fearlessne business,
common sense, fairness with the peo-
pie and honesty. am not new to the
school of politics, and while | have
never failed of election where | have
been a candidate, / have never devi.
ated one iota from the principle of
being clean and honest with the PEG,
pie. Standing out always against
what is known as the machine in poll.
tics, | have gone direct to the people
with my candidacy, told them all
had TO say, pledged them business
judgment and honesty in handling
their affairs. and l have never been
afraid to 20 back 10 them. The re
suit has been that they have never
gone back on me. So We have all OF
us been satisfied"
Mr.. Caldwell holds up remarkably
for man Of his years. He is at
strong and energetic as a man q
years younger, and is a man who
wears well with all with whom b,
comes in contact.
Down in central Illinois he is re
EarGed as one OF the most remarkabl!
successful campaigners that has eve
gone out from that section of the stat'
which has produced some of the mos
famous men in the history of Ameri
can politics.
The people of Rock Island, regard
less of politics or political preference
are glad TO welcome a man of Nj
CaIdwell's type and to shake him b
the hand.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-30
The Rear brakeman.

The facts disclosed by the coroner's
inquiry into the Illinois Central wreck
at Kinmundy. H., put the chief re-
spousibility upon the brakeman OF
train No. %. the New Orleans express.
which stopped for water.
Il was his duty to flag train No. 8,
which he knew 70 be close behind. He
might have tagged It by throwing out
a fusee. or red light, which on a
straight track on a clear night can be
seen a distance OF several miles The
fusee is infinitely more powerful than
a headlight
II the fusee had been thrown out
the engineer on the Panama limited
would have seen It. He got no signal
until 100 feet OF the New Orleans ex
press, when It was too late. And the
signal he got then was the rear brake
mans lantern.
The accident illustrates that chain
Is no stronger than It's weakest link
and that the matter OF safety in rail
road operation, as in all life's activi
ties. is determined in the last analysis
by human fallibility.
The rear brakeman must be on the
Job.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-30

closed below the feet and the head
is covered with a red riding hood
cape, snug and close. Opening the lit
tie wrapper in front, baby is slipped in
and kept there with only the wee face
visible. The garment is sleeveless,
thus preventing the possibility Of
cold hands.
Dear Mrs. Thompson-Please tell
me what to make to give to a man
for birthday present. MYRTLE.
A fetching tobacco pouch crocheted
in two shades of coarse silk is suit
able gift and one easily made. Two
colors are necessary. The gentleman's
class colors may be used, these being
both appropriate and pleasing to the
recipient. The pouch is made in sim
pie crochet stitch and is begun at the
bottom like an opera bag with ring
of five stitches and widened as neces.
sary as the work progresses. The
pouch should be made in the darker
shade of silk with the decorations
placed on in cross stitch after the ar
ticle is complete. A lining of channels
or buckskin is also desirable, as it will
make the pouch air tight.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-30
The Threatened Potato Famine.

The Threatened Potato Famine.
The general failure Of the potato
crop last year is hitting the consumer
when he is down. Last years dry
weather has made a price of $3.50 per
bushel probable if indeed any pota-
toes at all are 10 be obtained
Under normal conditions, when a
bushel of potatoes weighing 60
pounds sells for rs cents, the price
Of cent and a quarter per pound is
about the cheapest Of any Of our pop
ular foods. The nutrition therein con.
tanned is thus far less costly than the
meats selling for 10 to 80 cents a
pound.
When potatoes are literally mixed
with q meat diet, the food values in
each supply the defects of the other.
furthermore, from the epicurean
view point appetite is better satisfied
to have a large element OF neutral
quality. All of our senses find their
highest pleasure when there are pleas
ing contrasts between the neutral eff.
fects and those more pronounced. The
eye enjoys the landscape or picture
in which there is q large element of
neutral tones to balance the high
| lights of color.
Just so, a diet in which meat is
over prominent is too clogging. Against
the neutral relish of the potato, the
appeuzing tang Of the meat receives
/ its highest emphasis.
| AS meat seems destined TO remain
at a high price. it is a matter of large
/ importance to the American people
/ that potatoes be produced abuIdantly
and cheaply. The statisucians figure
that about II per cent Of the diet OF
the average American family is made
up of potatoes.
Germany has carried potato culture
to a high point Of success. and many
OF our farmers have much 70 Learn
from their methods. One of theil
ideas is to plough very deeply, aaC
some of their soils are worked ovel
with a spade, one or two spade lengths
deep.
Furthermore, they work over the
soils thoroughly in the fall. so that the
processes OF freezing and thawins
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-30

telegraph lines in defiance Of decree
issued by President Taft that It is
disturbed by the manifest plot on the
part of an ex-president Of the United
States to seize again the presidency in
defiance Of third-term tradition which
has been hallowed by more than a cen
tury's Observance; that tits made anx-
ious by the part Of our own Veterans
association is playing in politics to the
tune of $3.50, 200, 900 a year to date and
S75, 100000 a year more in imminent
prospect; that It reprobates the grow
ing element which pooh-poohs our con-
stitution, denounces our judges, ridi-
cules our supreme court, advocates a
socialistic regulation of business and
champions initiatives, referendums and
recalls; that it disapproves OF a sen
ate which finds such difficulty in beliv.
ing any member TO be guilty Of cor
ruptly buying his seat, and a house
which purchases votes with Sherwood
bills and river and harbor slush funds
and that II views not altogether with
out perturbation a president who runs
and is elected on a promise to reduce
the tariff and then promptly signs a
bill in many respects increasing it.
THE government Of Cuba does moi
draw the conclusion: That the laws
intended to safeguard free republican
government shall be enforced and moi
defied is obviously essential to The
maintenance Of law, order and stabil
ity indispensable to the status of thu
republic of the United States, in thu
continued well-being Of which Cub;
has always evinced and cannot es
cape a vital interest
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-30

son. There are a number OF other
posts which, while not recommended
for abandonment, are declared not to
be located with a view of securing
economy of administration and supply,
or full measure of military effective
ness. Consequently their garrisons
ultimately will be withdrawn. These
posts include Robinson, Neb., and Mis-
soula, Mont. Secretary Stimson's
principal object is to dispose the pres
ent small army with reference to its
mission in case of war. This first in
wolves adequate forces for foreign gar
risons, which cannot be reinforced
from the United States after the out
break of hosilities. With the remain
der of the army a mobile force is to be
organized and distributed about eight
great strategical points in the United
States instead of scattered in AZ
points. By this concentration it is de-
clared the annual cost of maintenance
of the army would be reduced by about
s5,500,000 a year. The report declares
that succeeding secretaries of war
have been hampered in getting rid of
useless and expensive posts by local
and political influences. 1t is declared
that no less than $4,000, 900 has been
spent on such posts in the last 10
years, and every dollar so expended
became an argument against their
| abandonment
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-30
Intervention and What 1t MAY Mean

The New York World notes that
"the government of the United States
has warned the government of Cuba
that It is alarmed by the political IN
rest In the island. This disturbed
condition has been shown particularly
by the participation Of the officers Of
the army and rural guard in politics
in defiance OF a decree issued by Pres
ident Gomez and by their participation
in the political activities of the Vet
erans' association. II this condition of
affairs Is not remedied the United
States government threatens interven-
ton and Intervention is supposed this
time 10 mean permanent annexation
The government Of Cuba" the
World continues, has not warned the
government OF the United States that
81 is alarmed by the political unrest in
our country; that It Is worried by such
symptoms as the participation Of the
postmaster general in politics with
proposals for government ownership of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-30
Humor and
Philosophy
THE REAL THING.
- DUNCAN ~. SMITH

lid you ever meet a blizzard
Iceberg plated, snow bank lined,
One that ragged and raced and painted
As demon unconflned
And could fit the definition
Not the little baby kind
That comes cutting round the corners,
Giving life an added zest,
But the one that snorts and canters
Once In twenty years out west?
Bah on these ball bearing billiards.,
Every year we have a few
That are called the name by courtesy,
But as mild as summer dew
AS compared with man sized billiards
That arise and throw a fit,
Maybe two times IN 4 lifetime
Quite enough, you will admit
When the temperature Is going
Down until it never stops.
Some three hundred minus zero,
Taking after that new drops;
When the air is packed and solid
With a moving mass of snow
Going thirty miles a second
That's blizzard, you may know.
When you can but travel with 1t
II you happen to be out,
When it goes through seamless garments
That are new and thick and stout,
When your frozen range of vision
Is an inch before your nose,
That's a real, for certain blizzard,
As perhaps you may suppose.
When for three days. never ending.
You must stay inside your door,
While outside the storm, triumphant
Swells in never ending roar;
When your house is not a shelter,
pYfr q rAlo tn rx-H 4Nf In ST
That's a blizzard, oh, believe mel
You would know 1t any day.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-30

The ages Of men who are now
spoken Of as available presidential
timber range from g. 20 "A. Next
March Governor Judscu Harmon VIII
be ca: Speaker Clark will be G&; Gov
ernor Wilson, 81. Congressman I'm
derwood, 81, and Ex-Governor Folk. A..
President Taft will be sc, Senator La
Toilette, 5S; Senator Cummins, G3,
and Colonel Roosevelt, "a. The old
est successful candidates for president
have been William Henry Harrison,
who was GS years of age al his in
auguratlon. Zachary Taylor, at Ga, and
John Adams and Andrew Jackson,
each at 81. The youngest man to be-
come president was Roosevelt, when
he succeeded to the Office in 1901, at
the age OF ~. Grant was the next
youngest. at 46, and Cleveland the
next, at AZ.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-30
Quincy Pieless For a Day

bungholes. Every dram was as safe
and as mellow as ever.
But the saddest part of the story
is still to be told. The pie train was
wrecked! For a whole day Quincy
was pie-less. In the restaurant and at
the short order counter not a pie was
to be had Whisky there was a-plenty
but no pies. With your foot on the
rail your wish could be gratified. With
your body on a swinging stool you
called in vain.
For one day Quincy was pie-less
All because the fates are against re.
form. The whisky was saved but the
pie train was wrecked.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-30
Comment From Capital

found voting for special privilege in
any form, referred to the fact that
George B. Cortelyou, in the 1904 cam
paign, had held the position Of chair
man of the republican national COM
mittee While he was secretary of COM
merce and labor, and intimated that
Mr.. Cortelyou had taken advantage of
the secrets of corporations whose af-
fairs might be investigated under the
federal law, to hold them up for
campaign funds.
1T has been estimated" he said,
that the enormous and unconscion-
able sum of $11,0OO,O00 was raised and
probably expended that year by the
committee of which he was chairman
The very size and audacity of this
fund, if approximately correct, smacks
Of extortion, profigacy and corrup-
ton.
who contributed and where did it
come from"
DEMAND AN EXPLANATION.
Mr.. Culberson went into detail re.
garding the charge that the late E. H.
Hartman, on behalf of the big rail,
roads of the country, had raised a
fund of 100000, of which he himself
had contributed $4,000 in support OF
the republican ticket in 1904. He de-
clared there should be an inquiry to
answer these questions.
As the investigation Mr.. Culberson
desires would show republican politics
in 1904 and 1905 to have been largely
business transactions in which tariff
trusts, railroads and banks contrib
uted certain sums of money to obtain
or prevent special legislation, and as
the senate is still republican in com
plexion, the probability is that Mr.
Culberson's resolution will be chloro
formed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-30
TO ABANDON FORTS AND
SAVE MILLIONS A YEAR

Washington, Jan. 30.-Secretary OF
War Stimson. acting upon an exhaus-
tive report from the general stan. has
decided that 16, probably IS army
posts should be abandoned in order
to put an end to the extravaganza
and inefticiency resulting from i'm
proper distribution OF the mobile ar
my" Among the posts condemned
are: Brady, Michigan; Lincoln. y. D.;
Meade, S. D; and Wayne, Michigan.
OF Fort Apache it is said a possibility
Of Indian trouble still exists, and that
Fort Jay might be retained as head
quarters of the eastern division and as
the site OF the eastern military phi
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-30

shall be free to exert their utmost in
fiuence on the soil. Fields worked
over thus in the fall are said to yield
third more potatoes than those treat
ed precisely the same way in the
spring.
In England the improvement of po-
tato seed and increase of the crop has
excited so much attention during rec
ent years, that as much as $500 has
been paid for single potato, of some
new variety supposed to have a spec
ial value for seed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-30

Her Idea.
Browne must be getting pretty
prosperous"
why? I haven't seen any motor
cars or things Of that sort"
"They consider such a display as
that vulgar"
"What do they go in for?"
"Mrs. Browne has a nurse and spe-
cialist and has the best suit at an ex-
pensiye sanitarium."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-30

Mr.. Brandcis declares that stats
tics show TINT hours and working con
ditlons in The mills Of The steel trust
are far more oppressive than in mills
I'm England and other parts Of Europe.
This is interesting because for 40
years the American people have been
paying the oxorbitaut prices made
possible by the tariff, on the assur-
ance that IT. was all for the benefit of
the workman, lest he might be re-
duced TO the shocking levels Of Eu-
rCpp
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-30

The Mine Workers in the Indian
apolis convention have demanded an
Increase OF 10 cents per ton, and the
mine owners have demanded a reduc-
tion OF 10 cents, which would seem to
indicate that both sides have decided
10 continue the present scale.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-30
(Quincy Herald.)

How the rains fall upon the just
and the unjust! How the innocent
perish and the evil flourish!
A train of freight cars was wrecked
al the Soldiers Home yesterday morn
ing. The Herald contained an &C
count of the disaster but only a part
of the dreadful tale of the catastrophe
was told. A car load of whisky went
through the wreck unscathed. The
flames didn't touch the liquid and the
jar didn't loosen up the plugs in the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-30

Bashfui Joe.
81 am saving money to get married
on"
Gee whiz! I didn't know you meant
to get married. Who is the ladyT"
Don't know"
Don't know? How do you expect
to get married without girl?"
"You lobster, don't you know it's
leap yearT"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-30
Jan. 80 in American
History

1s35-Attempt to assassinate General
Andrew Jackson, president of the
United States.
1s3s-OsceoIa. famous Seminole chief,
died; born 1904.
1S97-General Andrew Jackson Smith,
L. S. A, retired, noted Federal
commander, died; born 1915.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-30

When the man who is afflicted with
the ROoseveltIan mania just now, sits
down later and reasons with himself,
don't you think he will feel a tribe
cheap, don't YOU really think so?