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The Washington herald., 1912-09-20
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Eleventh Street Southeast near North Carolina Ave
nue-Maris L. ChcsIey et viz to Samuel B. and
Herman ). Robbin. lot Z square 9es SO
Mount PleasaGt-William j. Lee et uN. 10 Charles :.
Pollard. lots sO4 and sls sluare 81, SO
Cleveland Park-SOuth Boston Realty Company 70
sarah V. kenner. lot e. square at6, SO.
Nineteenth Street Northwest. between ID and Z
Streets-Harriet W. Kendall to Enoch L. White
lot :, block IN, SO
Cleveland Heights-Hariet W. Kendall to Enoch l.
White. lot ). block :. SO.
North Grounds Columbia Cniversity-Harriet W.
Kendall to Enoch L. White part lot Q. block y
SO.
Richmond Park-Northwest Washington Improve
ment Company to Mary Sullivan. lot 5. sIuar.
Tennessee Avenue Northeast, between and c
streets-Harry A Kite Ct to Thomas Z. and
Annie Z. Birckhead. lot y. square lG2, SO
Addition TO kenilworth-Hsrry L. Rust ct uI- to
Hiram W. johnson. lot Is. block 5. SO.
Kosciusko Place-Joseph Wahler ct Tx. to Roy b.
Holmes. lot 3. block 5. SO
Street Southeast, between Fourteenth and E1t-
tcnth Streets-Norman E. Ryan 10 Frank r.
Freeman. lot - square 1906 $40.
Petworth-Hattie b. kendrick ct yir to Amos
Cruunsc lot -. square 5G27 SO.
Le Droit Park-Harry 4. Kite ct to Leyerett N.
Kelley. lots Al to Is. square $50. SO.
Fifteenth Street Southeast. between
Streets-John T. Arms to Aaron 4. Townshend.
lots s. to 81. square 1868. So
Seventh Street Northeast, between and X Streets
Aaron Il. Townsherd ct ux. 20 Washington 4.
Berry. lots Is and ls square SIS. so.
Fifteenth Street Southeast. between and i
streets-Aaron X. Townshend ct uX. TO Wash
ington R. Berry, lots 50 and 60. square 1888. SO.
Fifteenth Street Southeast, between and b streets
Aaron Il. Townshcnd Ct ux. to J. Edward Giles.
lot IS. square 1O5s, SO.
La Druit Park-Harry A. Kite ct ux. to Edward
Carter. lot Sc, square 1850. SO.
Twenty Street Northwest. between p and q
Streets-Charles r. Riley eA ux. To Harry B.
Wilson. part original lot g. square g.. SO.
Columbia Heights-Ephraim c. Totten TO Margaret
Totten. lot "a. block %. SO.
Holmead Manor-Dayid J. Dunigan to Mary c.
Gruyes, lot rs block IS SO.
Fifteenth and d Streets Northeast-Harry P. Hud-
de5tou ct w. to Harry V. Bouic. lot =. SQUARE
1854, 81.
s,2 and sli New JeAey Avenue Northwest-Mary E.
Fleming to Lewis Holmes, lots and d. square
So. Sc.
Columbia Heights-Louse Taylor to Thomas G.
Steward, lot 81. block 2. So Thomas G. Stew
ard ct JrI. convey same property to Helen Kin
nier. SIC
r Street Northwest, between Eighteenth and Nine
teenth Streets-Annie T. johnson to Mary Ord
Preston lot 49, square ll SO.
d Street Southeast between Fifteenth and Six
teenth Streets-Harry A. Kite ct ux. TO Nettie
v. Mauans lot q. square lo74. SO.
Villa Park-David Huston ct ux. to Alvin T. En-
brey lot q. square $40. sl75
Dobbins Addition-William @. Arlard ct al. to Da-
vid A. and Ernestine NJ. Heyser. lot s., block 81.
SO.
Hishview-Hary wardman ct al. to Daniel x. and
Grace B. SmitherS lot 3. block .. SO.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-20
"OLD BILL" IS DEAD.
Post-odice Department Horse Wa
Thirty-seven Years of ARe.

The horse that did all the drayage OF
the Postofice Department for twenty
three years. and who retired on a PEN
sion five years ago. died Yesterday at
the venerab BILE equine age Of thirty-seven
years.
He became an employe OF the Depart
ment in 1884. and was the first horse used
there. When the work became too heavy
for one horse. a team mate was purchas-
ed for "Old Bill" but he was unable to
keep pace with the younger horse.
According to regulation he should have
been sold at auction, but a plea for him
was made by Caleb Cleveland. his driver,
who offered to care for him. Merritt o.
Chance. then chief clerk Of the Depart-
ment. and other officers became interest
ed. with the result that Bill was retired
on a pension.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-20
To Sell 500, 900, 900 Feet of Timber.

Negotiations for the sale OF 800. .ooo. 900
feet of timber in the Sierra National
Forest to California lumber company
were announced yesterday by Chief
Forester Graves. He is en- route to Call
fornia to close the deal-the largest ever
made by the Federal Forestry Service
The company was high bidder for the
timber, for which prices will be changed
every five years until all Is cut Forester
Graves says the national forests contain
0oOOO. 100000 feet of merchantable timber,
but that most of It Is too isolated for
sale.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-20
WOOLWORTHSTOCK
MAKES A RECORD.
American Can and United Cigar
Stores Also Move Briskly in
Wall Street.
MONEY FOR CROPS EASY

New York. Sept. 19.-American Can and
United Cigar Stores were the big things
in the market to-day, both moving briskly
to new high records. a high record was
made by Woolworth stock, which sold at
par. The general market was firm. and
with little business except in Steel and
Reading. Money on call did not get above
per cent. London reported that sl,0O0,-
900 of South African gold had been pur-
chased there for New York account. It
was reported from Washington that the
Treasury Department stands ready to de-
posit s2a, 600, 600 in Western banks for
crop-moving purposes the minute 1t is
wanted. No money is needed in New
York for any other purpose than moving
crops ard financing prosperity. There Is
no speculation in the stock market worth
the name.
The move in Can attracted much atten-
ton. because there was some doubt as
to its official character.
Expect Steel Advances.
Further advances in the price Of steel
are expected in the near future. Steel
shares were strong, near the best OF the
year. Copper stocks were all firm. Utah
Copper was picked up by bargain hunt
ers, as were Chino and Ray Consoli-
dated. The strike at the Utah properties
will be short-lived as a matter of busi-
Eess alone. but in addition to that the
Governor Of the State is taking vigorous
measures to quiet the men.
Owing to the heavy exports from the
United States that will be necessary to
supply Europe with food out Of Amer
ica's bounty, bank rates must be ad-
vanced soon to furnish funds TO finance
this business. The English and French
banks are in strong position, but Amer
lea viii! make such drfns on them that
It will not be long before the wiseacres
will be telling an astonished populace
how the governors of the Bank of Eng
land expect to rebuke Wall Street specu-
lators who have alvarced the discount
rate
The Washington herald., 1912-09-20
COTTON MARKET.

Quotations furnished by W. B. Hibbs 4 Co.
members Of the New York Stock Exchange. Hibbs
Building.
New Yort. Sept e-The market displayed a
reactionary tendency to-day, though the tone was
well preserved throughout the session Things
which were not important advanced the market
during the early trading. and later In the day
things which were really important appeared to
have effect in causing an advance Weather
news was fairly good and early cables from
Liverpool were strong enough to advance prices
though it soon became apparent that the buying
in the market represented nothing than
bitr1ry trading and before the close the selling in
New York was in sufficient volume to Offset other
bullish influences
Liverpool futures closed at about from To 5
points net gain for the day. Manchester quoted
yarns. fair business going; cloths firm. In ALL
1000 bales Of actual cotton sold in Liver
pool At points advance. to s2 pence for middling
The Washington herald., 1912-09-20
BALTIMORE GRAIN.

Baltimore. Md. Sept. ls.-wHEAT-Stock in ele-
rators. Es,s25 bushels: shipments from elevators.
5. rs bushels The Southern wheat market Is devoid
Of any particular activity at the moment as the
smallness Of daily receipts restricts trading. Bag
lots by sample. to quality and condition brought
soc per bushel. Foreign markets were irregular.
Contract to-day at the opening easier. with
September No. red slh. Spot No. red wheat
early was sih and No. 2 red Western. s. while Octo-
Der No red sold at tie same price and No. 2 No
rsrnber red at gh- December No red was ssis
The market at the 2:i5 call was arIner, with Sep
The Washington herald., 1912-09-20
wouId-be Suicide Improved.

The condition OF Joseph Mcmahon,
twenty-one years old. a bicycle repair
man. who attempted suicide at his home
2629 I Street Northwest, last Wednesday
night with a rifle. was reported I'm
proved at Emergency Hospital last
night.
The bullet grazed the heart. lodging
in his left lung. As soon as Mcmahon
permits an operation, a probe for the
bullet will be made
The Washington herald., 1912-09-20
Steel Company Head Resigns.

Philadelphia, Sept. l9.-At a meeting of
the board of directors OF the Cambria
Steel Company to-day the resignation Of
Charles S. Price as president was pre-
sented.
No action was taken, but at the sug-
gestion of Effingham B. Morris the mat
ter was referred to the executive COM
mittee with power to recommend to the
board such changes In organization of
the company as may DC required.
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dull. The inquiry for funds Is not quite 50 heavy.
while tlie supply Is small and scattered
Rates are 51a5E per cent for sixty days. N for
ninety days. 5sa54 for four months and "a for i've
and six months
Commercial paper in firm and quiet at per cent
for the best names.
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what the position of each one is.
Hard Work Necessary.
II is needless to spur some OF the work
ers on, for they are doing well. but some
are doing so much better than others
that this note of warning is dropped
that the end OF the contest and the cap
ture of one OF the big prizes will not
be easy. TO win means hard and per-
sistent work. and quite a number of the
contestants have grasped that essential
TO success and are forging ahead in a
manner that will be dangerous TO those
who are moving more leisurely.
The earnestness of all who have en-
tered the race and their evident inten-
tion to make a good showing are COM
mendable. The Advocate hopes that the
contest will be bravely fought and the
results close, for in that way the great
est satisfaction will be felt by all.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-20
NEW YORK MONEY.

New York Sept. la-Money on call at the Stock
Exchange to-day opened at s per cent; highest, S;
lowest, AZ; closing. S. MoA Of the days loans
were made at per cent.
Market remains unchanged with business very
The Washington herald., 1912-09-20

Votes are coming in rapidly In The
Washington Heralds 5000 contest. So
rapidly. indeed. that II keeps the new
force OF clerks busy recording them and
keeping the newly installed card index
up to the minute. The reason for having
the record complete and the card index
in shape, so that when any contestant
may call upon The Advocate TO ascertain
his exact position he may learn it at once
without undue waiting or putting upon
The Advocate the labor of search or
computation TO tell the actual results.
Another advantage OF this method is
that when the contest nears its close and
votes begin TO come in in reams. there
will be no trouble in entering upon the
cards the number deposited and in max
ing up the final count.
Already II is evident that there will be
fierce competition for the grand prize Of
the 5000 house and lot. Some of the
contestants are now running far ahead.
and they will soon gain such headway
that 1t will be a hard tussle for those
behind or those newly entering the race
TO overcome the lead. OF course the
Advocate or any one else has no Idea
who will be the winner OF the grand
prize. or OF any OF the lesser ones. but
II is interesting to watch from the inside
the speed with which the lists are grow
ing.
Advocate Watches Fight.
The Advocate cannot help watching the
contest closely and he would not be
human being II he did not warm up at
the success with which some OF the con-
testants are corraling the votes and
their records. There are some hustlers
out for the house, for one of the pianos,
or some other of the big prizes. and at
the present rate OF advance they are not
to he in the disappointed class.
1t is also interesting to watch the rec
ord and discover that a contestant who
has been behind in the race gets hold of
the sources OF votes, fattens up his rec
ord and finally distances some competi-
tor who a few days before had a good
lead. From a close study of the record
TO date II is apparent that those who
work steadily according to some carefully
method are going to win In
the end. Sporadic effort will not count
in the finals. 1t is the man or woman.
hoy or girl. who accumlates his or her
votes persistently day by day. adding
constantly to the aggregate by daily de-
posits with The Advocate that will have
the longest list at the close.
The Advocate is getting ready as fast
as possible, first to make public the
whole list of prizes so that all the con-
testants may know what is open to them.
A little later the names of the contest
ants, with the number of votes credited
to each will be made public, and then it
The Washington herald., 1912-09-20
WASHINGTON STOCK MARKET.

ssIes-Recilar c,n. O'Clock noon.
Capital Traction IS. 5000 at Ill
Potomac cons. S., 81 900 at loeS-
Capital Traction. at i2ih. at lsii1, at isih.
Washington Gas. at Sc.
Lanston % at e2is. % at ~.
Graphophone com, 8 at ~
After call:
Washington Railway & Electric com. at %.
5 Al 90
GAS BONDS
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BOSTON COPPER STOCK.

Quotations furnished By W. B. Hibbs & Co..
members Of the New York Stock Exchange, Hibbs
The Washington herald., 1912-09-20
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.
RAILROADS.

Quotations furnished by W p. Hibbs Co..
members Of the New York Stock Exchange. Hibbs
The Washington herald., 1912-09-20
CURB MARKET.

Quotations furnished by ". B. Hibbs 4 Co.. mem /,
5ers Of the New York Stock Exchange Hibbs Build.
mr.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-20
RACE GROWING KEEN
FOR CONTEST PRIZE
Advocate and His Office Force Swamped Under
an Avalanche of Votes-Competitors Are
Seesawine for the Lead.
Hard Work Necessary.

can be seen who is in the lead and just
what the position of each one is.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-02
WHAT PENSIONS HAVE COST.

A washington correspondent has
computed that the government of the
United States has disbursed s4,013.
o56,570 for pensions to soldiers and
veterans of the naval service. OF this
amount 1888, 4ss,171 has been spent
in forty-fve years on account of the
civil war. This is considerably more
than the entire debt incurred in carry
ing on that great conflict for saving
the union.
The entire amount expended in
pensions on account Of the revolution
airy war down to the last surviving
claimant is about s10,e00,000: on &C
count of the war of 1912 s45,S0S. 611:
for the war with Mexico s43.956, 169,
and for Indian warl s10,617,119. In
/ the last ten or twelve years s3a,I91,-
i725 has been s0ent upon veterans OF
the Spanish war and the Philippine
/ insurrection, or more than two-thirds
as much as for those who fought in
either the war of 1912 or that with
4 Mexico, by which territory was won
! that now constitutes several flourish
ling states. Pensions for the regular
army have amounted TO only s1S,50S,
lois. and s16.4s6091 stands on the
treasury books as ''unclassified
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-02

Quincy Saturday where she visited
her son, George Bowen, and brother,
George Reeves.
Mrs. May of Salem, Iowa, is visiting
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Sling
erland
Montrose can boast of a Stradivarius
violin one hundred and forty-four years
old. the property of David Wardlow.
Mrs. Robin LaMatty of Burlington
vas a guest OF Mrs. ADELAIDE LaMatty
and Mrs. VIM. Mccain "Wednesday.
Miss Therisa PETIT of TT. Madison
was looking after her stock of mil
linery in the Armentrout building
Thursday
The home of Ellsworth Crane and
Andrew Phelps of near Galland are
Guaranteed for diphtheria.
The mask ball will occur on Friday
evening, January 5, 1912, at city hall
Pemberton and Meister orchestra
will furnish the music.
Frank Allen has had sick little
child.
The house on the farm known as the
". G. Andrews farm was totally de-
stroyed by fire Christmas night, south
CT Montrose
Henry Hatton, travelling salesman
from Chicago. is a guest Of his pa
rents, w. B Hatton.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-02
McLEARy ON BANK REFORM.

James T. McCleary, formerly mem
Der of congress from Minnesota, and
second assistant postmaster general,
and now secretary of the American
Iron and Steel Institute, delivered an
address in Washington City few
evenings ago on The Reform of Our
Banking System
Mr.. .McCleary drew a distinction )
tween financial panic and, business
depression. declaring them to be fun
damentally unlike. with the single eS-
ception that both are troublesome
business experiences. He declared
that the United States is the only
country in the world that ever has a
serious financial panic, while business
depression is not at all uncommon. A
primary reason for this condition. he
said, is the fact that this is the only
country in the civilized world that has
series of banks instead of a sys-
tenn Of banks and the only one which
keeps the funds of the nation in a
rational treasury.
thS uAhCi envy oCtNSSh q
financial panic and business depres-
sion, Mr.. McCleary said:
''In 1890 a business house in New
York failed for s12.0oG.o 900. About the
same time in England the great in
lternational financial house of Barring
Brothers failed for $125,000,000, the
largest single commercial failure
known to history. In New York a
panic ensued, vast numbers of perfect
| ly solvent business houses were driven
to bankruptcy and the international
rate ran above 20 per cent. In London
a failure ten times as large was taken
care of promptly and efficiently
scarcely legitimate commercial fail
lure occurred. and every solvent bust
ness man was able to secure day by
lday all the bank accommodations to
(which he was entitled at rate nevei
! exceeding per cent, and as high as
that for only one week. In this coun
try scores of banks failed, in England
not one
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-02
A LOOK t.AEAp.

Some of the charges that the next
twelve months will bring about are
forecasted by the Iacomb Journal. 1t
foresees that year hence Taft will
have been elected President for the
second time, and congress will have
again become sensibly Republican
Democracy will still be wondering how
ii happened, and there won't be a
man in the United States who VIII
acknowledge that he was ever a kick
ing Republican that named himself
Progressive. Furthermore:
Uncle Joe Cannon will be back in
congress by bigger majority than
ever. Water will have been let into
Gautun excavation, and California
will be we'll on with getting ready to
celebrate the finished Panama canal.
The big dam at keokuk will be close
to it's completion and negotiations
under way for electric power from it
to drive the cars on the interurban
cars on the interurban railway we'll
under way in its construction through
Macomb."
Speed the day,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-02
DokNELLsoN.
. = - 80 = - = = : :

H. E. ogle spent Christmas in
Keokuk.
Mrs. John Wardlow and children re.
turned to Montrose "wednesday after
a visit of several days with Mr. and
Mrs. H. l.. Hentzel.
Mrs. Henry Temple and daughters
Anna and Lena returned to Keokuk
Wednesday
Misses Mable and Matte Holdefer
of Mt. Pleasant were in Donnellson
Monday and Tuesday.
Miss Mable Schmidt visited with
friends in Mt. Pleasant several days
of last week.
Mrs. Guy Casper returned from
Montrose Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Meinhardt and
son were in Charleston a few DAYS of
last week
Misses Kathryn Walter, Edna and
Leona Gibson We're shopping in Keo.
kuk Thursday.
Mrs. II. p. Ogle and son arrived from
Salem. Ind, Friday.
Mrs. Henry Trump visited with
Mrs. Otto Feikert in Fort Madison last
week.
Mrs. Dora E. Weigner and Miss
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-02

Anna left for Brookfield, Mo, Thurs
day for an indefinite visit with Mr..
and Mrs. P. A. Weigner.
Rev. and Mrs. Clark entertained a
number of Presbyterian young people
at dinner Friday
Miss Ava Carter came from Neile
Saturday morning for an over Sunday
visit with friends in Donnellson.
Mrs. w. A. Switzerland returned TO
her home in Elumeston Saturday.
Mrs J. o. iIoldefer went to Mt.
Pleasant Saturday enroute to her
former home in Indiana.
Irwin Sell Went to Mt Pleasant
Saturday evening.
Misses Alma Bank, Eta Tabor,
Beulah Meinhardt and Irma Holdefer
entertained number of their friends
at Miss lrma's home On Monday eve-
ing.
Miss Helwig OF Keokuk is visitor
at the home of DR.. Park.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-02
CRIME RAMPANT
IN NEW YORK
City Is Utterly Demora.ized - Polit.
'cal contro! and Wink. at
all Bad Things.

limited Press Leased Wiro Service.l
NEW YORK., Jan. 2.-"Big Tam.
many men are taking dirty money,
gambling houses are wide open for
price Illegal resorts are operating
everywhere, even in the most exclus-
I've residence districts, and the police
force, utterly demoralized By political
control, winks at crime
City Magistrate Corrigan, who stir
red the city to its depths year ago
when he openly denounced Mayor will
liam j. Gaynor from the bench, re.
turned to the attack today. In bit.
ter arraignment CT the mayor and
Police Commissioner Rhinelander
Waldo, he asserted that conditions
were worse now than a year ago.
Crime, he declared, is rampast, and
by establishing the fixed posts for
policemen, Waldo he claims. has only
robbed the outlying districts of needed
police.
Corrigan also intimated that even
the bench was not free from the faint
of graft and influence and asserted
that rome judges care more for their
political future than their oath Of Of
flee
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-02
RAILWAY MEMS VIEWS.

The Railway Age Gazette has takel.
the trouble to collect opinions of
leading railway managers throughout
the country on the business outlook
and it collects opinions enough to en-
able one to see that it is the railroad
idea the roads will go slow in max
ing any further expenditure than they
are required TO do in order to main
tain their roadways and rolling stock
in good condition.
Some hold that the general atti-
tude of government, both federal and
state, tends to render investment in
opportune, but such men as Mr.. Ed
son, head of the Kansas City South.
ern, admits that men in political pow
er In the past few months have indi-
Gated tendency toward sane control
| of corporate interest and their atti-
tude may restore confidence in bust
ness generally.
In summing up the matter the Buff
! falo News concludes from study of
these opinions that the fear of general
assault by government or public con
! troll. is fast passing away Confidence
in the ability, in the good judgment
land the sympathetic enforcement of
law on the part of the President, is
becoming conspicuous and conse
4 quence is a steady move toward res
toration of trade and of industry along
full lines.
There has been great deal of trou-
Bile not only between capital and la
bor but between LEGISLATORS and rail.
roads. also between officers of the
Law and corporations. including the
roads, and the News foresees that il
may naturally require little longer
time for them all to understand that
the head of the government is deter
mined to enforce the law, but to en-.
force it nationally and sensibly and
to enforce it only where it plainly
needs enforcement; that is, where
there is strong evidence OF its being
violated.
The idea of Mr. Taft is to protect
the citizen and at the same. time to
protect the common carrier, for they
have reciprocal rights as well as reel.
procal duties. The carrier has hac
the advantage of being in position to
do as he. might please, and has abus.
ed IT. No one doubts that. but such
/ abuses are passing away. They are