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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-02

but to look at the character of her
stores and the quality OF their wares
to appreciate that they have more
than kept pace with the citys growth
and development. With these pres
ent conditions and with the most re-
markable era of freedom from tinan%
ciu delinquencies and commercial
failures, there must be an assurance
that the future holds much In store.
The building OF bridges across
James river; the acquisition of more
territory, so much needed the plans
now Being worked on by the Chamber
of Commerce for more economical
and better houses Tor wage carriers
and small-salaried men: the enlarge
ments which 1t Is understood will be
immediately put Nm effect by several
railroads of their terminal and freight
facilities; the active operation of the
trade extension bureau of the Cham
Der of Commences. the opening of the
Manufacturers exhibit, which viii he
done on the completion OF the Cham
Der of Commerce and Manufacturers
building; the recent establishment
here OF a great automobile manu-
featuring establishment: the develop
ment of a candy industry, which is
not, only a good advertiser, but
good advertisement Of our city--all
should conspire to Agive a faith and
confidence in our city's commercial
future. And back of all this pros
perity. and no doubt to very great.
degree, the cause thereof, is a CO.
operative spirit that has been brought
into existence by the various COM
mercial organizations organized for
special purposes, which, with the
Chamber of Commerce standing for,
and backing UP, every individual and
every organization in every movement
for the eity's good, there has come a
high civic purpose and a freedom
from petty jealousies that have given
and will more and more give con-
tidence and an Inspiration to every
movement for our city's material and
civic welfare.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-02

birth and growth OF sixty-six addi-
tional manufacturing plants 1t has
seen the capital engaged in mannfac-
lures increase by more than ", 6oo.0 600
and their annual sales increase $i5,-
SIS, 900. It has seen more than $780,
600 added to the capital employed in
the tobbing trade, and the annual
sales OF such establishments increase
by more than s10,000.000.
1t has seen the creation and opera
ton of the Juvenile court with its
own rooms. clerk, probation officers,
etc, in which are tried all cases In
volving offenders under the age of
seventeen years. They are not treated
as criminals, but the object OF this
work LIS to treat them, and care for
them. If necessary. SO as to prevent
them from becoming such. This court
has been in existence nine months.
and has had 469 Of such offenders
before it, about half of which were
for serious offences.
Civic Welfare.
But the. biggest and best thing The
Virginian has seen In this community
has been the change that has come
oyer our people in their attitude \ 0
things concerning the citys welfa- :.
The spirit of cooperation, community
spirit, has been born and IL fast TAX
ing the place of the old individuaiism
and the sectional prejudices and ami
mosities, and ! verify believe thRt
much OF our material advancement
herein recorded is a direct effect of
that cause. Every day sees more
people willing to engage in general
welfare movements, without stopping
to figure out a special benefit to them
selves. In an address delivered at the
annual meeting OF the Chamber OF
Commerce held last Tuesday night
Bishop O'Connell said that on coming
back to Richmond, after an absence
of many years. the thing that i'm
pressed him most was that very
change he observed In the people. He
found, he said. new psychology. and
there could be no question in the
minds OF any. OF his hearers, that he
was glad he found 1t here. There can
not, or should not, be any doubt that
when that Psychology shall pervade
this whole community our spiritual,
mental. social and material progress
will be so great and fast that we shall
wonder how we accomplished SO little
in the period of which l have written
above.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-02
MARKET Is HEAVY,
FINALLY RECEIVERS
PREVIOUS LOSSES ARE RECLAIMED
~ THE FINAL HOUR OF
BUSINESS SESSION.
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!. RUMORS ARE DENIED
OFFICIAL DISCLAIMER or PENN
sYLvaNIA's INTENTION no Is
SIZE sfeo.oea,oeo OF NEW
STOCK.
RUMoRs ARE DENIED

NEW YORK Feb Perhaps be-
cs use of some adverse criticism, even
In not Justified, OF the American Can
e@Tnpany's issue of 6ebeUt}1re bonds,
isut more, In ali probability, heca use
of II continuation OF Fridays general
movement toward proht-faking, to-
days stock market was Inclined TO
hes4xIness in the first hour Of bust
hess. but in the last and final hour Of
tho stock exchange session previous
losses were ul-4e than reclaimed.
A story was circulated, which aid
not receive official denial untu short
ls' before the close of buancss. that
she Pennsylvania railroad proposed to
Issue slice, 009, GOO worth Of new STOCK.
There Is no doubt that this great rail-
road ere0niza .ion proposes TO do q
Sertaln amount OF financing during the
year The Pennsylvania earnings,
months Of December, as published,
showing an increase of sa.4o0,00G,
changed into q net decrease Of s9S.-
Gee, were held disappointing although
they were not SO properly considered
fractions Are Prominent.
There was general disposition to
ward the belief that no difficulty of
any moment had been confronted in
terminating relations between the
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
companies. and that plan Of this
arrangement might be announced
spon. In the recovery in the market
that took place, the Union Pacific,
Colorado Fuel and Iron and all the
different traction shares were specially
prominent
The weekly bank statement was
more favorab In it's average showing
than IN the actual figures. Ia the first
farim surplus reserves increased $685.
Gee. owing 10 a comparatively small
increase IN loans, and Of "a pretty near
Iy even balance in the cash item. In
the actual figures, however, the vol
urrie OF loans was doubled and cash
loss was reported of over S3,50o,o00.
Actual reserves, therefore, decreased
$3.50, coo Gold exports were, OF
course. the controlling influence In the
bank return
American Can Active.
The general improvement In the
stock market during the week was
partly due, Of course, to the effect
upon the minds Of professional specu-
Eatars in Wall Street Of the advance
i'm the American Can shares. The
movement in this quarter, which was,
of course, first criticised as being due
To mere pool manipulation" was
soon discovered to have substantial
foundation
Conferences between representa-
AdAtS VI tug Illi'sa I SNtAAN anu s7oueAi~
ern Pacific railroads are making ex-
realent progress, and there is every
reason to believe will result satisfac-
torily.
Railroad earnings continue to make
a splendid showing. Even If war
should break out again In the Bal
kans. II would doubtless assume the
nature of an assault upon the forti-
ftcations of Adrianopie, or the Turk
ssh lines. and would probably be short
lived.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-02
THREE YEARS
ADVANCEMENT
CONTINUED from First Page)


ton of 133,4ss, so that The virgiHian
has witnessed an increase in poula-
ton In its three years of life of nearly
1000 souls, one-half of which were
added by the annexation of Man.
chester. In the same time and in the
same manner one square mile has
been added to our territory. The year
of this papers birth saw the taxable
values of Richmond $10S,536, 1872,
whereas last year they amounted to
$l4S, 1858, 7S0~-an increase of more
than s4o,o00,000 During the same
time the city's annual budget has in
creased from 81, $4,000 to $500, $50
An increase of more than $S50.0O0.
The first year of the life of The
yirginian witnessed building opera
lions in the city of the value of. more
than $4,000, 900, its second year saw
an increase in such operations to the
amount of a little more than $4,000
600. and its third year saw total of
more than s6,250, o00--giving a total
of more than s16.250.0e0 for the PEE
Rod. The Virginian has seen the
value of public school property in
crease from $1,1S1, 900 to $3.50, 200,
and the enrolment of pupils increase
from 1850 to 1880. 1t has wit
messed the final completion and occu-
patton of John Marshall High School,
(which cost s575. 900, the completion
and occupation OF Madison school that
cost $4,000, the completion and &C.
cupatiou of William +. Fox school
that cost $4,000, the completion and
occupation of Buchanan school that
cost $4,000, the laying Of the corner
stone of Bellevue school that will cost
completed and equipped-$140 600,
and of sydney school that will cost
completed and equipped-s90,0 600.
1t witnessed the annexation of the
city of Manchester, which added q
square mile of territory and desir-
able population of 10000 people, since
which time real estate values in that
part of the city of Richmond are
estimated to have increased on the
average of so per cent. 1t saw the
beginning of the new Mayo's bridge in
the fall of 1911, and, although pro-
gress on that work has not been all
that might have been desired, Ii will
soon see the completion of a sub
stantial and ornamental structure in
place of the old wooden bridge: and
just here ii might be Well to say that
it will shortly see the beginning Of
operations to replace the old free
bridge with a stronger, safer and more
ornamental structure, though much
Of the details of that work--such as
abutments, approaches. character of
construction, etc, are yet to be de-
termined.
1t witnessed the completion of the
free municipal wharf, constructed at
a cost of $4,000.
1t has seen the expenditure by the
city of $1,560,00o on street improve
ments and sewed construction. 1t be-
gins the fourth year of its life with
the market value OF all property in
the city as follows:
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-02
Healthy Financial Growth.

The Virginian has seen strong and
healthy growth In our financial insti-
tutions. The capital. surplus and
profits of those institutions actually
engaged in business have Increased
S1,7S1,oG0 Their deposits have in
creased $S,486.000, their annual loans
have increased $13.s00. 00o and their
annual clearings have increased SEA-
100000 In addition to that several
other large financial institutions have
been organized and chartered and will
engage in business within the next
few months.
The Nirginian has witnessed the
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-02

pills. and al, AUTHORIZATION Of 81 0.1o0
from the city. to do the work for gen
eral improvement 6f apprentices.
which should be done by continuation
schools = fortunately fer the citp, the
Mechanics institute llas emphasized
many phases of work connected with
the trades. and thus. through night
courses. aecomplishes much good.
However, as yet the city has not pro-
vided for day vocational school.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-02
BANK STATEMENT.
RICHMOND'S
COMMERCIAL POSITION.
Continued from First Page.)

their reputation for the sturdy char
acteristics Of faithfulness, integrity
and loyalty asserted its influence. And
while in comparison. due to the prox-
Unity Of the raw material, our leading
industries were not as large: still they
more than held their own. and 70
these were added, many new enter
prises and many distinct increases
along every line
The great basic consideration of
freight rates, so safely guarded by
the great james river, more and more
asserted themselves, and by much
technical work the rates based on
wafef-borne traffic were established,
and this has been a very great factor
IN the building UP of our manufacture
ing and jobbing business, and nothing
more important should demand ct
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-02
PETERSBURG PEANUT MARKET.

80 s FetsrsbarEs va & Feb. /. ls18.
SPANISH MARK ET~--Firm.
Farmers Spanish. lao per bushei-
No. j sheiied Spanish, 71Ac per H.
No, q SHIELDED Spanish, &c per ID.
VIRGINIA MARKET~-Strong,
Fancy Jumbo. &c per lh.
Fancy hand-picked, 3&c per lh.
Extra prime, 3iac to 3asc per H.
Prime. 3A C per Id.
Machine picked. Sc 10 axe per lb
Smelling stock, &c to 212c par ID.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-02
NORMAL ACTIVITY N
REAL ESTATE CIRCLES

There were several interesting deals
in business property the past week,
too. w. M. Miller & Company. turn
ed over piece OF central business
property representing an outlay OF
$4,000. but mum was the word. The
deal was only closed late yesterday
afternoon. Pollard q Babgy sold 4
Broad street store In the 1900 block
for $4,000. and engineered the trans
fer Of q home OF Hanover avenue that
sold for $500.
Raab & Company sold to Charles
r. Stratus. Nos IL and ~ North
Eighteenth street for $11.000--oIAe Of
the best individual deals OF the week.
Robinson a Phillips put over some
good ones. too. They negotiated the
transfer Of No. SAIL Hanover avenue,
Tor which the purchaser paid $4.T60:
four fiats on Church Hill that netted
$4,000; 266 feet on Meadow street
sold for $4,000. and two houses on
West Main street brought $4,000.
One Removal Noted.
One of the most progressive OF the
younger real estate iirms OF Richmond
moved the past ,week--E, r. Schmidt
= Company. who have been located
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-02

Stock.
sales


400 American Beet Sugar. $500.
Allis-C Cham bers ......
Ailis- Chalmers, pfd. .....
6 200 Amaigamated Copper ......
~ zoe American Can -.,-........
2 eco American Can, pfd. .....
American Car and Foundry.
200 American Cotton Oil. .......
800 American Locomotive 1850.
American Locomotive, pfd..
j 100 American Smelling. 1900.
geo American Sugar ......
3 coo American Tel. and Tel. Co.
American Tobacco, com -.
100 American Tobacco, pfd .
eco Anaconda Copper ........
400 Atchison .s......
Atlantic Coast Line. .......
500 Baltimore and Ohio
500 Reealsirg Rapid Transit
200 Canadian Pacific ......
l0o Chesapeake and Ohio. ....,
Chicago Great Western,
100 Chicago, Nil, and st Paul.
Chicago and Nortfrw estcrff,
Clev., Gin. Chi. and st. Louis
100 Central Leather ...as-.~..
Z 600 Colorado Fuel and Iron -.
Colorado and Southern. ,...
Colorado and South, iat pfd.
Colorado and south, I'd pfd.
Consolidated Gas .........
Consolidated Gas ,.......
Delaware and Hudson. ,....
500 Denvrr and Rio Grande, com.
100 Distiilers' Sec. Cor. ..,
! eco Erie ....... ............
zoe Erie, 1st pfd. .......
General Electric, ......
200 Great Northern, pfd. ......
Great Northern Ore. Gifts.
Illinois Central .......t...
3 GOO Int. Metropolitan .......
3 500 Int. Metropolitan, pfd -.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-02
The Retail Trade.

Richmond's retail trade. there is no
doubt, has taken strides that win ex-
coed any other business In the city
There are no statistics obtainable to
make comparisons. but any one has
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-02

MARKET CONDITIONS.
Poultry~--Fowf of all kinds being
cleaned np promptly on arrival
Live Stoek--A1l live stock in de-
mand. Veais very scarce and market
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-02
RICHMOND AS AN
EDUCATIONAL CENTER

Continued from First Page)
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-02

TSta saI ss M 90 Ias SS s sharss
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-02

(Reported by Richard w. Maury 10l5
East Main street. Richmond, Na.(
Richmond. Wa, Feb. l. 1913.
STATE SECURITIES
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-02

schools three years ago was 200;
last session ii was 1882. The num-
Der of teachers three years ago was
295: last session there were 5I2 teach
ers In the public schools of Rich
mond
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-02
\ RacHaosp PRODUCE MARKET.

Richmond. Va, Feb. 4. 1919
FIVE aEgYFy .qsfSV
The Snowflake herald., 1913-07-25
YOUNG BOYS! OLD BOYS.

Last Monday Masters Willard
and Orson Pearce went buggy
going" in a hand propelled auto
to one of the stores in town.
Leaving their 'oil-less" machine
on the outside, they entered the
store to make some purchases.
While in the store some "older
boys" took the Silent machine"
and hung it in a tree. . On the
return of the younger boys" to
go a pushing and pulling" in
their "oil-less," they found it
not. After a still hunt they
found their machine "up a tree. I"
After many ordinations and re-
ordinations they rescued the
vehicle of joy" all of which
just carries the "older boys"
back to the younger boys"
days.
The Snowflake herald., 1913-07-25
Mrs. J. Lorenzo Hubbeu Dies a
Granada.

Mrs. J. Lorenzo Hubbell, wife
of the republican national COM
mitteeman for Arizona and a
prominent stockman and general
merchant at Granada, Ariz., died
there at 10:40 Sunday night, July
the 18th. The funeral was held
at Keam's Canyon, Ariz. on Tues
day afternoon July 18th.
Mrs. Hubbell had been in i'll
health for several years. She
formerly lived in Albuquerque,
where she was we'll known and
extremely popular. She is sur
vived by her husband, two sons,
Lorenzo and Roman Hubbell, and
two daughters, Mrs. Forest Par
ker and Mrs. Charles Goodwin.
The Snowflake herald., 1913-07-25
BUSINESS IN STATE AND
COUNTY AFFAIRS.

Why should not every town, county,
and state be run as business concern!
The business affairs of the nation,
the state and the municipality ought all
to be run by the same approved bust
ness methods that characterize sue
cessful private enterprise. Several
years ago, Ex-senator Aldrich asserted
that the federal government might re-
duce it's expenses about oone-third OF
$500, 600, 900 without injuring any public
interests, and the assertion was never
challenged or refuted. The exposure
of the Sulzer committee upon the ex-
travagance of expenditures in all the
departments in New York State is still
fresh in mind, while the Bureau OF
Municipal Research has made revela-
tions most startling concerning the
waste, incapacity, and graft, in the
administration of public affairs in
New York City.
1t is astonishing how taxpayers will
sit with folded hands, knowing that
their money is being wasted through
the incapacity or venality of public Of
fcials. Instead of enlarging the func-
tions of the government and govern
ment officials, the necessity of the hour
is to hold public officials to strict
business use of the functions and pow
,o,.c 4Lox, ,1oxxy or, inu
The Snowflake herald., 1913-07-25
Every Word Of it True.

A large and old time raiser and
dealer in livestock, and who has
had many years of close dealing
with packers and livestock rails
ers writes THE HERALD as fol-
lows:
The newspapers can do more
for the stockmen than any other
cause if they would only realize
it. Until | started the newspa-
pers into giving publicity to the
quotatations of the different
markets the only time when a
man learned what prices were
was by word of mouth from some
friend, and most frequently it
was distorted. The old time
buyers guard their prices like
something precious, but this has
changed and we are getting
about the same prices now, thanks
to the papers. Equality of price
and market knowledge make it
better for the stockman, and /
believe the stockman is the one
to be protected and not the pack
er.
The Snowflake herald., 1913-07-25

There is no happiness in mere
dollars. After they are acquir-
ed one can use but a moderate
amount. 1t is given a man to eat
so much, to wear SO much and
to have so much shelter, and
more he can not use. When
money has supplied these. it's
mission, so far as the individual
is concerned is fulfilled, and man
must look further and higher.
The greatest good a man can do is
to cultivate himself, develop his
powers, in order that men be
of greater service to humanity.
Marshall Field.
The Snowflake herald., 1913-07-25
THIS TOWN is LAGGING.

1t strikes us that Snowflake is lag
ging in one important particular and
that is that it has no live and enthusias-
tic business organization. IfSnowflake
had board of trade or a chamber of
commerce, or any organization of that
sort, it might be possible to do much
for the welfare of the town or get some
more people to locate here.
Some of the neighboring towns have
boosters clubs which are intensely act
i've in community developement; and, if
we do not awaken, we soon will be out
stripped by our neighbors. The time is
ripe for the citizens of this town to get
busy and do something worth while in
the promotion of its welfare.
The Snowflake herald., 1913-07-25
FLORIDA HAS
The IDEA

Florida is a smallish state in
some dimensions. In population
it ranked thirty-third at the last
census. It's manufactures are
trivial when compared with
Pennsylvania. 1t has no miles
underground. Time was, per-
haps, when it's ideas correspond
ed to it's statistical calibre. But
those who have not known the
South of late years do not know
it at all.
Florida has assets for exam
pie, a far larger area of swamp
and overflowed lands than any
other state. Formerly that was
considered a deficit. But the
states project to reclaim the Ev-
erglades by joint draining and
irrigation is nearing completion.
And if Florida's midwinter sun
shine were put into the statisti-
cal abstract it would have to be
expressed by such figures as as
tronomers use in stating the dis
tance to Saturn.
Clim ate means tourist and
winter residents soil and clim-
ate together mean fruit and veg
etables; and all of these han g
primarily upon transportation.
Some of the best public roads to
be found anywhere are in Florida;
but there is now a campaign for
a $50, 600, 600 bond issue to build
the finest system of state high
ways in the country. Not an
expense, but an investment" is
the slogan.
Fifty million dollars at a crack
for good roads would make any
northern state sit up and rub its
eyes. The idea is big enough to
offset any absence of iron or cop
per. Such a campaign means
that Florida believes in itself,
which is the first step in getting
other people of the same mind. =
Saturday Evening Post.
The Snowflake herald., 1913-07-25

duced, and the system otherwise
improved and extended.
The parcel post idea has taken
firm hold upon the people of the
United States, who have now had
an opportunity to judge from ex-
perience of it's practical advan-
tages. Perhaps no improvement
in government service ever met
with more determined and better
organized resistance. This op-
position, of course, was inspired
wholly by greed and selfishness
on the part of the big transporta-
ton and express companies, but
the subtle manner in which the
small country and village mer-
chant was put forward to fight
the battle of these interests was
tremendously effective, and de-
layed this needed advance for
many years.
| Everybody now knows that the
small merchant is not injured,
but is actually benefited by the
parcel post, and as the exploita-
ton of the American people by
the express companies and which
were enabled to pay fabulous
dividends on tri1ing capitaliza-
ton is just about at an end.
The statement of Postmaster
General Burleson that he expects
during his administration of the
office to see the limit of weight
raised to 100 pounds, and that in
his opinion the postal department
will carry practically all of the
small package transportation in
the United States within the next
fifteen or twenty years, is~an op-
timistic prediction which we sin
cerely hope will be fulfilled.
The Snowflake herald., 1913-07-25
SPEED THE PARCELS POST

THE HERALD had a small pack
age shipped from Kansas City, a
few days ago that measures 7x10
x7 inches and weighed less than
10 pounds that came by express
on which there was So. SO charges,
and one from Winslow, a small
cigar box full medicines, that
weighed some two ponnds on
which the charges was 30 cents
from Winslow to Holbrook. Is
it any wonder people are sending
7OO,OO0 packages by parcels post.
Swat the express companies. A
legitimate profit is all we'll and
just, but several hundred per cent
profit is just a little too much.