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The Washington herald., 1913-04-13
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

So $50 Its % 3e-ARDESSFR. Edw ct Clara
to Dan1 F Sullivan ct Agnes joint
tenants SO q
Q40S-IN5 Cap st mel
So EC7 Its % & q blk North Col Hts-BoSS, VIM
ct Alice p to Winfield Preston SO "a
(kansas ave bet Randolph * Sheppard nwl
So Z520 1t Is widows Mite 50 SD pt 1t II biz 10
Kalorama Hts--CALvER Frances ct rir Hem
y to Julia 4 Saunders $40
Tracy Pl bet ssf& Nth nwl
So eN 1t 9 blk 2 North Col Hts-DOYLE. Burton
tr in own right ct u Virginia to chari-
ton B Rout $40
kansas ave bet Randolph & shepperd nul
So 0D It 3 blk Petworth Add'n-GRUvER,
BENZ ct u Lizzie VI to Fred Taylor ct ux
Ethel joint tenants SO 80
Is Of Allison of Ga nw)
So s3 1t sLHETKELL. Jesse L surv u TO VIM
Merritt $500
"a r st nw1
ct ux Caroline to Josephine Humphrey SO re.
record Oct Is 1911 lib 6os fol 76
18th bet Savannah st & Nichols ave sci
So 100 1t "a l-3 int in-HILTON. j. Franklin ct TX
Frances to Jane NJ Burch $40
So ISIS 1t q blk s Iusicside-JOHNsoN. Gerald NJ
VIM trs to VIM l. Robins
OTIS Newton st nw)
So 1913 1t 2 blk Fairview Hts-MERRITT. VIM
to Josephine A Patten SO trust 500 3
idaho ave & Macomb SITS nw)
So 1901 1t q blk 2 North Col Hts-NICHOLSON
Hida to Winfield Preston SO trust 500
kansas ave bet Randolph & Shepperd nw)
So 14 west pt 1t dNPILLING. Walter ct ux
Eleanor T to Mary A Howard SIC !
(ff3l nw)
So 1877 1t SOC blk Fsirview Hts-PATTEN,
Josephine to VIM E II Merritt SlO
idaho ave & Macumb SITS nwl
Barbodoes & Scotland Enlarged pit tract described
on Bladensburg d-ROG ERS. J Harris to>
Fredk Lnger SO tr $1,000
So. aS3 Its 81 = g Richmond Pk-RICHMOND
PIX mp co Inc to Stanley Lynn SO
covenants
Quebec st bet 3th st Reno I'd nw)
Sq 1857 II ss Richmond Pk-Same to JAS W
Chafee SO covenants
PORTER bet Idaho & 18th nwl
So @U It q blk North Col Hts-ROUT, Char
ton B to Winfield Preston $40
kansas ave bet Randolph & Shepperd nw)
Azsdia ut tract described on Brandywine st.
SHOEMAKER, Louis p tr to Claude r Tillot-
son ST. 800 covenants
so m pts orr It's % 2-STONE Chas p es
NIX Emma s 4 Chas W Fairfax ct ux Lille
n to Michael NJ LYONS ct Margaret G Joint
tenants SO to $4,000 80
18th bet d & nw)
So $50 II Randle Highlands-THE q REALTY
co Inc to Homer L Ferguson - esssaants
q BIT rug I'd 81
The Washington herald., 1913-04-13
HASKELL NAMED DELEGATE.
Local Omcial Will Attend Weights
and Measures Conference.

The District Commissioners yesterday
announced the appointment of Col. W. c.
Haskell, superintendent of weights.
measures. and markets, as delegate to
the eighth annual conference on weights
and measures, which will be held in
Washington under the auspices of the
Bureau of Standard. May IA to II.
The object Of the conference is to work
for uniform laws on the subjects Of
weights and measures in the States and
Territories II also will seek to pro-
mote uniformity of practice in dealing
with weights and measures problems,
and to effect an exchange of ideas be-
tween the officials with a view of in
creasing the efficiency of weights and
measures Offices so that consumers and
merchants may be protected.
Twenty States have weights and meas
ures departments. They will be repre-
scented.
The Washington herald., 1913-04-13
MARKETS---FINANCE-- COMMERCE

gains of last year, now running under
10 per cent. The decrease. however. Is
not serious enough to found upon 1t an
argument that business in generally
poorer throughout the country.
Although final losses of the telephone
company because of the Western floods
have not been tabulated. it Is not likely
that the total will overrun s1.O0O0OO. This
is but about so per cent of what at first
seemed likely. All of this loss will be
absorbed in operation, and will not dis
turb the serenity of net figures when
the balance is struck on December 81
next
Buys a Home.
The Federal National Bank has pur-
chased the Small Building, now occupied
by it. for $4,000.
A new vault will be put in at once.
No other changes are contemplated.
The Federal National Bank Building
is a five-story, fireproof structure. on
one of the best corners i'm Washington.
Local Securities.
Washington Gas had the call on the
local market. There was but one buyer,
but he has been on the buying side
from the s45s of ten days ago, and yes
terday paid as high as $50: first sales
being S614. then S67s. and SSH. This
price was bid, with none offered under
So. at the close.
Lanston sold at s. and Mergenthaler
at 21Ss4a2l9.
The market for Railway shares, COM
mon and preferred, was very strong
and but little better than nominal. Ten
shares of preferred sold at 81 1-2, but the
bid price for stock was 81, with 81 IS
the asking figure. The common shares
were held at 90. with 81 bid.
Bonds were slow Railway As firm at
SS3s, with small bond at Sss.
RAILROAD GROSS EARNINGS
The Washington herald., 1913-04-13

An order for 100000 tons OF steel plates
and pipe material for delivery over the
remainder of the year has just been
placed with the United States Steel Cor
poration by the Standard Oil Company.
Ibis is the largest single order of the
kind ever placed by this interest.
An order for 5000 tons of standard
steel rails has been placed by the New
Foundation Foundry Company with the
United States Steel Products Company.
and the Canadian Northern is reported
to have purchased 10000 tons of rails.
The Grand Trunk Railroad has placed
contracts for 400 gondola and hopper
cars. 1t! is understood that the order
went to the Pressed Steel Car Company.
Canadian. Union Pacific. Reading, Lee
high, Erie, Copper. and Steel are bought
we'll Investment and protective support
are in New York Central. Pennsylvania,
st. Paul, and Interboro Metropolitan.
Active traders buy Brooklyn Rapid
Transit for short turns. Professionals
are bearish on the possibility Of unfa-
vorable Developments
Moler-Bankers late Friday expressed
the opinion there would be an abund-
ance of funds available for call loans
and thirty to sixty day time loans. With
the stock exchange closed from noon
yesterday until noon on Monday. and
the uncertainty whether the Supreme
Court decision in the Minnesota rate
case will be handed down then or not.
the feature of yesterdays trading was
the evening UP by the trading element.
Evans-Lnndon continues cheerful and
foreign buying gives the market here
it's main support at present, while liqui-
dalton is apparently going on in quiet
way for big interests. Nothing but a
trading market need be looked for for
some time, and purchases on weak spots
and sales on rallies for turns only are
apt to be profitable. AS the market
had quite a sinking spell Friday, pur-
chases around Friday nights close will
probably prove profitable, but in the
long run I think the market will work
lower.
1t is understood to be the belief in
investment circles that bearish OPERA
lions in stocks like Baltimore and Ohio,
per cent issue under par, will not
prove particularly successful.
Specialist sources are said to find con-
tinued investment absorption of Pennsyl-
vania around the rs level.
Important quarters are understood to
find no definite confirmation of the
rumor that Brooklyn Rapid Transit is
to go on per cent basis, although
it is considered that this might be done
to get rid of the convertible bonds.
II is estimated by reliable authority
that Northern Pacific will show some
100000 above dividend requirements for
the current fiscal year.
Floor gossip is to the effect that the
st. Paul dividend may not be increased
in July, owing to the increased fixed
charges.
Speculative circles are reported to con-
slider the declines in high-grade stocks
Chicago and Northwestern, ST. Paul
preferred, and Manhattan-as due to the
high interest bearing new security is
sues.
1t is stated that foreign copper trade
interests find consumption at high-water
mark. and look for large decrease in
the supplies of the metal
The Washington herald., 1913-04-13
Criminal suit Not Decided.

Attorney General McReynolds yester-
day said 1t Is not conclusive that be-
cause proceedings against the United
Fruit Company have been commenced
before the Federal grand jury of New
York, criminal suit will be filed against
the officers and directors of the concern
under the Sherman law. The purpose
Of the proceedings, he said, is to sup
plement the testimony taken by the
House of Representatives some time
The Washington herald., 1913-04-13
Treasurer Elliott Averett SAYS:


Corporation of United Cigar Store s
continued i'll existence until December
II. lSl2 when it was duly dissolved, and
us assets were acquired and it's liabii-
tiles assumed by this company, with the
result that the bonds of the corporation
or United Cigar Stores were duly retired
In the meantime. dividends were received
by Corporation of United Cigar Stores
upon stock whch il held, and a dividend
was paid by Corporation of United Cigar
Stores upon its stock which remained I'M
issued and outstanding
Upon taking over the assets and liabil-
tiles of Corporation of United Cigar
stores. there was charged OFF to profit
and loss. on reorganization and adjust
ment of capital accounts between COM
panies, the sum of SIPS in harmony
with the consolidated statement annexed
to the plan set forth in the circular t.
stockholders of Corporation Of United
Cigar Stores, dated July %. 1872
The Washington herald., 1913-04-13
NEW YORK MONEY.

New York, April l2-Nothing said in call money.
Time money for sixty days. ~ per cent for ninety
days, >4<a5; for four months, AZ for five months,
~; six months. ~: dull.
Foreign exchange market: Gables quoted at i.E:
demand sterling, 1850; francs. 5ls%: Marks, IS,
plus i-32
Foreign markets: Discounts London, 1915
per cent; Paris. ~: Berlin an
Exchange on London: Paris, 2a &c; Berlin.
2Qp 49, pig.
The Washington herald., 1913-04-13
ASKS RECEIVERS FOR READING.
Man Files Suit, Not
Receiving Interest on Bonds.

Trenton. n. j., April 12.-Application
has been made to the Court of Chancery
by Charles s. Hinchman, of Philadelphia,
for the appointment of receivers to take
over and operate the property of the
Philadelphia and Reading Company To-
Gated in New Jersey. Suit is brought
to enforce payment of interest of ST.
900 on $4,000 worth of bonds alleged to
have been in default since NAV l. 1897.
The Washington herald., 1913-04-13
NEW INHERITANCE BILL.
Representative La Toilette Intro
duceS Most Drastic Measure of All.

BY the terms of bill introduced by
Representative La Toilette of Washing
ton, the Federal government is author
lied to collect an inheritance tax rang
ing from one per cent on estates of less
than 5000, to fifty per cent on estates
of more than s15,o0o,OO0. The tax on j.
p. Morgan's estate. supposing it to be
500 100000 as reported. if the law were
in effect, would be Sl00.OO0.OGo
The Washington herald., 1913-04-13
WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE

Sales-Regular CALL Il o'clock noon.
Washington Railway G. Electric "a. 5000 at SIS.
81 900 at S3x
Capital Traction l at 122k.
Washington Gas. g at s6N g at ssh. at
ssh, Is at SSH, Is at Ssh 8 at ssh. IS at s6ls.
After Call
Lsnston, 10 at s., at s.. % at IS. 30 at 50.
Potomac Electric IS, 81 900 at l0l
Mergenthaler. 20 at 2ls&. 10 at 2lsH. 10 at As,
10 at 2ls
Washington Railway & Electric rfd.. 10 at elt.
Washington Railway & Electric is. 500 at si1s.
GOVERNMENT BONDS.
The Washington herald., 1913-04-13
NOVEL INQUIRY MADE.
Coast Resident Wants to Know
When a Chicken Is Game.

When q Chicken Is Game.
A perflexing question was put UP to
the Supreme Court yesterday in an in
formal manner by a resident of Point
Salmon, Wash, who wants TO know
when a chicken may be considered
game. His letter, which was sent to
the clerks office, is as follows:
THE United States Supreme Court:
Honorable Sir: VIII you please send
me a copy of the decision that poultry
Is considered a wild bird when in your
neighbours yard and 1t can be taken up
as SUCH"
The clerks ONCE was unable to find
such an opinion but referred the CORE
spondent to an opinion delivered several
years ago by Justice Brown. in which
1t vwas held that a mans property
rights in a dog were qualified and not
the same as property rights In a COW
or domestic animal.
The Washington herald., 1913-04-13
EnsliSh Engineers Strike.

Portsmouth, England. April 12.-Ensi-
neers employed in the Portsmouth dock
yard went on a strike today, because
they had been forced to work overtime.
The entire dockyard had to be closed
in consequence
The Washington herald., 1913-04-13

Salt Lake City. Utah. April IAN
earthquake. which lasted several sec
onds, shook Salt Lake City. the whole
Of Utah, and Southern Idaho early to-
day. No serious. damage was done here.
The Washington herald., 1913-04-13
REPORT MADE BY
CIGAR STORES co.
Condition Given Is Of December 81,
1912, Shows Good Surplus After
Dividends and Adjustment.

The United Cigar Stores Company of
America has issued it's first report, CIV
ing its condition as of December 81, 1872
The company was organized July a. 1912,
In New Jersey, to acquire the securities
or the Corporation of United Cigar
Stores, which latter company was dis
solved December 81, 1872
The profit and loss account of the
United Cigars Stores of America for the
period to December 81, 1912, follows:
Dividends received tless charSses) and net
surplus OF Corp. Of Unit Cigar Stores
acquired 81 g79 361
Deduct amount charged to profit and loss
on reorganization and adjustment of
captal accounts between companies 7l2659
Ifeierreu dividend uA%)................... 7e.l5l
Front and loss surplus Dec 81 1872 LOST $50
ASSETS
Stocks and bonds in other companies 80 Gas 81
oash Observation-Disclosures. 2l9 9s5
Lei ioabs $50, 600
Bills receivable ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. t7ls00O
Accounts receivable Observation-Disclosures. lsI
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock preferred ......... q ~ OOO
tdi9iai stock common Observation-Disclosures. q l62 900
Accounts payable. provisions &c............ Is 80
o"P'o' lO61, SOL
lotai So So, 6T
The Washington herald., 1913-04-13

Coal was used In England In the year
S.: in Belgium IN 11ss. and n China less
than century ago.
The Washington herald., 1913-04-13
ACTUAL CONDITION.
Outlook Excellent.

1t looks very much as if 1913 is des-
tined to be another prize twelvemonth
in point of gross expansion for the Bell
system. For the first quarter gross re-
ceipts increased over IL per cent. or at
the rate of almost s220OO,OO0 per annum.
II this rate of growth should hold for
the ensuing nine months, it would give
q gross income by December 81 next Of
over 500. 900, compared with $l99 IT,
154 for 1872, $179.4T,s9s in 1911. and s12s,-
57s 500 at the end of the 1907 year.
The only part of Bell Telephone earn
ings which are not up to levels are the
long distance receipts of the parent COM
pany. These are not showing quite the
The Washington herald., 1913-04-13
SATURDAYS GAINS.

SATURDAYS DECLINES.
Cen. LeRth. -. MMexican OIL
Denver ........ AiPitta- Coal
The Washington herald., 1913-04-13
WALL STREET GOSSIP

An order for 10000 tons OF steel plates
and pipe material for delivery over the
remainder of the year has just been
placed with the United States Steel Cor
poration by the Standard OIL Company.
This is the largest single order of the
kind ever placed by this interest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-24

the front in the cause Of his country.
This event, which was an incentive to
popular loyalty toward the crown, was
carefully concealed by the authorizes
who announced later that the prince hao
come to Toxic to report to the throne
about the campaign and died at the cap
ital Newspapers alleged that this pro-
cedure only served to dim the luster oi
the princes heroism at the front. Inc
practice should be abolished. they con-
tended, as an obnoxious old-tme custom
which is more or less ridiculous.
Reform Loses Champion.
In the death of Count Tadasu Hayashi.
former foreign minister, Japan lost an
earnest supporter of writing reform.
He considered the present system OIL
writing the Japanese language in COM
plicated Chinese ideographs serious par
10 national advancement, and advocated
the adoption of Roman letters.
The Chinese ideographs are not only
complicated in their constructions. but
each character has several different pro-
nunciations and meanings, from two TO
FIVE or more For instance the Chinese
ideopraphs for Count Hayashf' may be
pronounced Berlin meaning the cap
ital Of Germany.
In Japan before a person can De CON
sidered at all educated he or she has 70
learn nearly 1900 of these Chinese char
acters, committing to memory the COM
nlicated construction OF each fdeOgrapn
and learning the different pronunciations
and meanings as well as their proper
uses in addition to the art or cailgrapny.
All this is proving too heavy purge.
for the rising generation OF Japan Wnlcn
has to master one or two foreign IAN
ruaees as well as different branches OF
modern learning.
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OVERLAPPING U. S. CONSUL
SERVICE IN RUSSIAN CITIES
Alfred Gottschalk Reaches st. Pc
acknowledgements to
Tour Country.
Foreign Correspondence of The Star.

Foreign Correspondence Of The Star.
ST. PETERSBURG, August 10. 1918
Alfred Gottschalk. United States consul
general at large. has come to St. Peters
burg to overhaul the organization OF the
service here and In MOSCOW. He has
recently been similarly occupied at War
saw. after having undergone a two-month
cure near Vienna.
Gilbert II. Grosvenor, editor Of the
American National Geographic Maya
zine, now Is In st. Petersburg and with
his family will make tour through cen
trail and southern Russia Mr.. Grosvenor
has been able to get from the Russian
government a Photographic permit 10
take pictures wherever he may happen to
ha. This is the permit which was re-
fused to John III. Mears. the galiopins
reporter, WHO rushed through here a
short time ago in his fight for the speed
record round the world.
The Photographic restriction was mus
trared the other day when the body OK
Mr.. Kazansky. famous Russian actor
manager. was. brought from abroad Tor
burial in st. Petersburg. large crowd
of theatrical friends with wreaths as
sembled at the railway station AMI were
arranged around the coffin for the pur-
nose of a commemorative picture. The
railway gendarme officer. seeing Wnat
was being prepared. broke In AM ahso-
lutely forbade the photographer from set
ting to work. The party apps aiei IN
vain, pointing out the obviously harmless
character Of the photograph that would
no taken. hut they had no permit and had
to move off at once to the hearse. am
thence to the cemetery. where aga "a.
having no. permit. they were not aio"ed
to make any picture.
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The Commission Cities.

From the Outlook.
Twenty-eight Pennsylvania cities will go
on a commission government basis on the
first of next January as the result or the
passage. of the Clark bill by the Penn
sylvania legislature. Only thirteen votes
were cast against this measure In the
house. the Philadelphia members CO.
operating heartily with the representa-
tives of the second and third-ciass cities
i'm promoting the passage OF the Dill.
There is one important feature Oh tlils
which ia TO be noted with interest ana
satisfaction, in that it admits or the
abortion of the business manager
plan" In one-half Of the cities OF the
third class the bill as finally AMENDED
provides that the mayor shall receive
$500 per annum and each councilman
$50. In the twelve larger cities the
salaries Of the council are from $.Uco
to s. 500 each The salaries OF succeeding
councils may be fixed by ordinance. thus
providing for expert management without
adding largely to the cost or admllis.Ia
ton IL is possible under the provisions
of the bill affecting salaries 10 ad1uss
them SO as to admit of the Adoption oi
the business manager plan a.
The passage of the bill represents the
conclusion of a four-year camp algn III
which the league of third-class cities pore
a share, but the brunt of the burden was
borne by one man. A. NJ. Fuller OF Meau-
vile. who has worked indefatigapiy, anu
with great intelligence and persistency, to
promote the cause to which he mas uf.
reservedly devoted himself. If sunclen'
interest is aroused in the boroughs. Whicn
number 624 in Pennsylvania, and Wnci
range in population from 5O TO io'oV''
Mr. Fuller may continue the work SO az
to extend the commission government
plan to them If the Pennsylvania cities
go on a commission government tasis' II
will bring the nhrnber of such cGies IN
the United States up to over 3oo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-24
From the Chicago Inter Ocean.

HoA t1e SniC1SO lntcF oCek0.
Only the very great can afford to
neglect cultivating pose. Many even
or these cultivate one. They are prob
ably wise. for. despite the constant
depreciation Of the poseur. IL remains
the fact that pose, well maintained.
Is considerable factor in insuring
worldly success. Who OF us Is thor
oughly natural? Some. perhaps. but
few-very few. An afrectation. not too
patent. pose. a pretense Of greatness.
next to greatness itself, makes the best
impression upon the general run or
people. 1t takes a little greatness IL
self to distinguish true greatness
That 10 why the really great are fire.
their death. But whom q man. by his
manner. insists that he il great, the
world generally takes him at his own
estimate and accords him the honors
Of greatness.
The man who poses as righteous OBJ
tains reputation for righteousness.
Whether ne really deserves IL usually
does not matter. Tho man who poses
as profound obtains a reputation for
profundity. He may be as shallow an
rivulet. but the pose is apt to create
the impression he seeks to convey. We
all know the man who utters common
places with the orotundity OF the great
orator, with the air of an oracle. AFRO
eating to himself the honors of oriei-
nal discovery. We all know the inn
pressive appearance and rotund dec.a-
lawyers, lecturers and other forensic
speakers vast regulations which the
product of their brains utterly fails ~
Justify.
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ne would pun the papers on him. Here
they are and every one flrSt-termer.
This No4ng man with the rosy cheeks
and iron gray hair Is Judge Warren
Gard. who represents the third district
OF Ohio. and halls from Hamilton, which
city recently figured prominently in
the floods. At first sight Representative
Gard does not appear old enough to
have occupied "A real judicial bench with
white ice pitcher on it, and sWiveled
chair behind it. and many people wonder
why he is called Judge. But he came
by the title legitimately. He was judge
of the court of common pleas in the sec
ond judicial district of Ohio before he
came to Congress. In that capacity he
presided a part of the time over the
Juvenile branch of the court. Thus did
he come to love the unfortunate Riddles
that came before him. and he determin-
Ell to aid them morally and financially
whenever he could. And SO today. ii he
had S1,h00,hG9 he would keep just
enough to support himself comfortably
and the kiddies would get the rest.
Il think I should spend nay surplus
wealth in giving vocational training to