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4isec and $50 MONEY
10 loan on approved city
real estate security.
JESSE l.. HEISKELL. 14u3 II ST. NV.

score of memberships are right now
pressing upon the market. seeking buyers.
at heavy concessions, because creditors
insist upon collections which can be pro-
vided by involved brokers only throug IA
the sacrifice of selling their memberships
out. 1t has ridiculous sound. measured
by records of recent years, but there are
prophets who believe themselves con-
servative In forecasting that stock ex-
change seats will be below $4,000, even
down around $1,000 before 1877; is past
From technical standpoint the present
market position is helpful TO those who
desire to advance quotations. There is
an extensive short interest. In somc
stocks this short interest is unWiedy. In
many parts of the market weakness has
been counted upon by speculative traders
who have been following the varied I'm
vestigations" that are able TO command
public attention. This is true i'm the coal
stocks. 1t Is true of the express stocks
Most of the metal issues are so situated
In steel trust shares there is probably
a fixed short interest that runs to figures
that would be big for a general market
ten times the size of that which now pre-
vails-for current transactions on the
stock exchange do not run beyond 20 per
cent of what is recognized as normal vol
ume-2D0,OO0 shares being average
days record now in contrast with the
million shares that are required for stock
exchange serenity
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NEW YORK PRODUCE.

NEW YORK. January 4.-Wheat-SpOt
firm; No. red, 10y nominal elevator
and LOS nominal fob afioat; No
northern Duluth. 9sh fob. afioat. The
light receipts and reports of export sales
Of twenty loads, closing 4 net higher
May. 971sa97 9-16. closed 81 9-16; July
closed 9514. Bonded wheat-January
96 7-I6; July closed 81. Receipts, 10000
bushels: shipments. 260GD0 bushels.
Corn-Spot firm; export. 55i4. spot, I. o. b
afioat. Receipts. 10000 bushels; ship
ments, 5000 bushels.
Oats--Spot steady; standard white. 3912
No. ), 5Sa39; No. 4, 3712a3Sia; natural
white. 37a39; white clipped, 3S1ea41. Re-
ceipts, 1900 bushels; shipments, 5000
bushels.
Flour-Quiet and unchanged; spring pat
ents. 4.40a465: winter straights. 4.45a4.55
winter patents. 4.65a5.O0: spring clears
4.15a4.45: winter extras No. 1. 4.0oa4.15
winter extras, No. ., 3.90a4.O5; Kansas
straights. 4.OOa4.10 Receipts. 1900 bar
rels; shipments. 700 barrels.
Rye flour-Quiet; fair to good, 3.60a3.S5
choice to fancy. 390a4W.
Buckwheat flour-Steady: 2.40 per 100
pounds.
.ornmeal-Steady; fine white and yell
low, 1.30a 30; coarse. liza 30 kiln dried
3.15.
Rye-Quiet; No = western 66a67. elf.
Buffalo.
Barley-Steady: feeding. J9l4 elf. New
York: mailing, tOa7O elf Buffalo.
Feed-Dull: western spring bran. 100
pound sacks, 24O0: standard middling,
1O0-pound sacks. 24.0o; city. 1o9-pound
sacks, 24.5O
Hay-Steady; standard. 1.O5; No. J.,
1.O7laa1. 10: No. 2. 1.OOa1O2 No. 3, sUas5.
Hops-Easy; state, common to choice.
1912, 23a32; 1911, 12a15; Pacific coast, 1872,
16a23; 1911, 13a16.
Hides-Steady; Central America, 27ia:
Bogota, 27a2S.
Leather-Firm; hemlock, firsts, 2sao9;
seconds, 27a2s: thirds. 24a25; rejects.
19a2O.
Pork-Steady: mess. 19OOa19.25: family,
%. OOa23.OO; short clear. 22.OOa24.OO.
Beef-Firm; mess, 20.OUa21.UO: family,
4.OOa25.O0; beef hams, 3O.OOa32.O0
Cut meats-Dull; picked bellies. 10 to
ii pounds, II; picked hams. 14a141a.
Lard-Firm; middle west. prime, 9S5a
9.95; refined quiet; continent, 1915; South
America, 11.2o: compound, 1aaS.
Tallow--Dull; prime city hogshead, 81;
special, Z; country, 6a6A.
Cottonseed Oil-Firm; prime crude south
east 5.O7a513; prime summer yellow.
6.25a6.35; January. 626: March, Cos; May.
63S
Petroleum Steady; refined. New York.
bbls.. $50: do, bulk. $50; Philadelphia,
bbls. $50; do. bulk, 40.
Wool-Steady; domestic fleece, Xxx Ohio,
S1a32
Rosin-steady; strained. common to
good. 5.75.
Turpentine-Firm: machine. bills, ~.
Rice-Steady; domestic, 3Aa6; Patna.
64a6a4.
Molasses-Firm; New Orleans open ket
tie 35a55.
Sugar-Raw, weak: muscovado, 50 test,
3.O5; centrifugal, 81 test. 3.55: molasses
sugar. 80 test, $50. Refined steady; cut
loaf, so; crushed, go: mold A, 5.2o;
cubes, 5.15: xxx powdered. sos; pow
dered. 500; granulated. fine, 400; dia-
mond A, 400; confectioners' q, AS; No.
l. 4.65; No. 2, AGO; No. B. 400; No. 4.
$50: No. ), AS: No. 6. 4.40; No. Z. 4.35;
No. 8. 40: No. 9. 4.25; No. 10. 40: No.
II, Ais: No. l., 40; No. 13, 4.O5; No.
Il. 4.O5.
PotatoeS-Unchanged
Cabbages-Unchanged.
Freights-Uuchanged.
Peanuts-Unchanged.
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Strong Showing by Banks.

\ strong showing was made by the
hanks in their weekly report. The re-
turn flow of money paid out al the OPEN
ing of the year was reflected in an eX-
pansion of over S;2,Gt0,U0 in deposits,
md the cash gain of nearly $15O0O.ON
!>aralleled with predictions. The loan in
crease was considerably smaller than in
tire first week Of Ia12. There was sub
stantial addition To the excess reserve
Foreign exchange rates were again
marked up today. and advance III the
last two weeks has now reached about
= cents.
Reports of the leading mercantile
agencies spoke of some letting up in gen.
eral trade since Christmas. Such a hull
occurs yearly, and ii was pointed out
that the change had been less marked
than usual this year. 1t is not unlikely.
however. that there will be a further
slackenlng as the time approaches for
revision of the tariff.
The bond market was steady, with some
widening of demand. Total sales, par
value, ST. 12I,OtO
United States IS. registered, declined 4
on call on the week.
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CHICAGO CATTLE MARKET.

CHICAGO. January 4-Cattle-Receipts.
500 head; market steady: beeves 5SlaJ ~:
Texas steers, 475a5.SO; western steers.
5.75a1.D: stockers and feeders, 4.2Ja7. o.:
cows and heifers. 2S5a7.GO: calves, 6.5Oa
1850.
Hogs-Receipts. 1900 head; market
steady to strong; light. 7.3Oa7 .52ls: mixed.
7.55a7 ,51l2; heavy. 7.30a76O: rough, 6.5Oa
1.65: pigs. 6.00a75O; bulk Of sales, 7.45a
10.
Sheep-Receipts. LOCO head: market
steady and strong: native. 435a5 40; west
ern. 4.4Oa5.5O: yearlings, s. loaf. 20; lambs,
native, d. 25aS.65; western. 64OaS.65.
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Quotations May Be Too High.

In some Of the stocks that have been
largely sold short the bear commitment is
warranted by statistics. Eventually-it
may be soon-it is possible, even probable.
that there will be disclosure of balance
sheets which will make present quotations
seem indisputably too high: but what IS
operating just now is the fact that the
investors of the country-the same in
vestors who are declining to buy more
stocks-are not to be shaken out of what
they already own. They refuse TO become
exercised over any depressing chronicle,
however hystercal. Scarecrows are no
longer able to do their former soaring.
Liquidation shows nowhere. AIanipu!a-
ton. however forceful and adroit. is UNI
able to upset the equanimity of those who
are the actual owners OF securities.
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new YORK CATTLE.

MN YORK, January 4-Beeves-Re
ceiptss l.3o1. head; none on sale. Feeling
nomiffally unchanged. Dressed beef SLOW
at 10 to 13Ie per pound for native sides
Texas beef. !? TO IUi..
(alyeS--Receipts. ~ head: steady.
vealis. 900 TO 12.J0 per 100 pounds: city
dressed veals hrnl at "A TO 10 per pound
country dressed, 81. TO 1JI..
sheep and lambs Receipts. $50 head
quiet: no sheep offered; yearlings sold at
500 =
Hogs-Rcceipts.' T.449 head: market lJc
higher. prime PENNSYLVANIA hogs sold al
9,2o per hundred pounds
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KANSAS CITY CATTLE.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-. January 4-Cattle
Receipts. 200 head. including 100 south
ems: market steady and unchanged
Hogs-ReceiptS. 1000 head; market
steady to &c lower: bulk of sales. 1.15a
Z 40: heavy. 1.35aI.4O; packers and butch
ers. 1.:5a7.40; light, 110a7.3O: pigs, eco
a6 ~.
No sheep.
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The World of Finance and Trade.
Washington; New York; London
LONDON STOCK MARKET
First Week of New Year Pro.
ductive of Buoyancy, With
Nervousness at Close.

LONDON. January 4.-The first week
of the new year on the stock exchange
was productive of buoyancy, followed by
nervousness and a reactionary tendency
at the closing. The satisfactory progress
in the peace negotiations early i'm the
week stimulated the markets here and
on the continent and practically all sec
tons responded vigorously. helped by
cheaper money. Dealers marked up in
vestment securities. especially gilt-edged
shares and Argentine and Russian bonds.
in anticipation of the reinvestment of
dividend moneys. The hitch in the peace
negotiations Friday made sentiment bear
ish. Paris sold rather freely. and with
local operators taking profits much of the
earlier gains disappeared.
However, the markets closed well above
the lowest on the belief that a lack Of
money will prevent a resumption Of the
war and that a way out of the present
deadlock will soon be found Copper
shares were active and strong on Ameri-
can advices and favorab BILE statistics, while
Marconi and Rubber shares were fea-
lures in the miscellaneous section.
American Securities Recover.
American securities more than recovered
early losses. but failed to maintain the
Improvement and closed showing few
changes for the week.
Money became considerably easier, with
the turn of the year. but moderate
stringency is expected for a time in con-
nection with repayments to the Bank of
England. and the commencement of the
tax collections
BERLIN,
BERLIN. Januery 4.-EXchanges on
London, 10 marks IS pfennigs for checks.
Money, 5la per cent Private rate of dis
count. Al per cent.
PARIS.
PARIS. January 4.-Three per cent
rentes. 30 francs 42la centimes for the
account. Exchange on London, % francs
1S1a centimes for checks. Private rate
Of discount, per cent
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NEW YORK METAL MARKETS

NEW YORK, January 4.-The metal
markets were quiet and practically nomi-
nal. Lake and electrolyuc copper, 1882
a17.S7k; casting. 17.25a17.37h. Iron un-
changed.
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DRY GOODS MARKET.

NEW YORK. January 4.--Cotton goods
markets were firm. but quiet. Yarns were
steady. Silks We're in light call. Jobbers
are anticipating an early resumption OF
the retail demand after the holidays.
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WEEKS RANGE OF PRICES
Corrected to the Close of Business January at
the New York Stock Exchange.

The following ana closing prices
year
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Expect Marked Improvement.

The year ahead is expected to witness
marked improvement In one feature of
railroad operations which will inure to
betterment in every way. And that is in
the improved efficiency of employees. In
their anxiety to compel the payment of
higher wages railroad labor organizations
have been interested mainly in strength
ening their powers in forgetfulness of
reciprocating responsibilties-in protect
ing their members against discipline from
the railroad managers they have unWlt-
tingly encouraged carelessness and in
subordination. with the result that the
chapter Of accidents has increased a.aim-
ingly within the last year or two. con-
certed movement has already been COM
menced which promises to have the ac-
tive cooperation of railroad labor leaders
intended to raise the standard of effic-
iency among those who have the actual
handling of the traffic machinery. The
movement contemplates the exercise of
greater care in the way of inside disci-
pline"-that is, the inspiring of ambition
among the employees to greater care in
the performance OF their duties The de-
mand Is to weed out and discourage in
competency among the employees and to
withhold the protection which has been
given union men, simply because they
were union men Labor leaders appre-
ciate the weakness Of unions in this re-
Spect and 1t Is be 1eVed that a higher
ideal will be cultivated among members
of railroad labor organizations looking to
an uplift in the standard Of personal eff
ficiency. This movement If carried to
success, means an enormous saving in
life and property and greater degree Of
confidence on the part Of the public. 1t
will also mean a great saving in opera
ton which is that much net to the stock
holders. The move is as yet in it's incip-
iency. but 1t is one Of those things that
is liable to 'go" with great rapidity and
effectiveness.
Experts who keep their hands on the
pulse of Industrial activities agree that
there is a slight reaction from the boom
period of late autumn. but the depression
does not appear to be important in any
quarter. Where there has been any no
ticeable decrease In the volume of new
business it is almost invariably the case
that the books are full up. with orders
for months ahead. The steel companies
in particular could very easily stand a
moderate setback. for they have enough
work ahead under contract to last them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-05
Gossip Proves Tommyrot.

To recount the good things that show
conspicuously in detailed reviews OF
American business progress through 1871.
is to warrant sublimate optimism.
Throughout all the year the pessimist
kept himself in evidence, doteful over
everything in every quarter Things were
bad, were going to be worse-the coun-
try bound toward the nadr of financial.
commercial and industrial distrust, dis
turbance and distress. 1t was noted in
every Wall street quarter-all OF which,
in the measurement of good sense, mere
ly accentuates the fact-that upon the
New York Stock Exchange the popular
gospel in recent times has been simple,
undiluted tommyrOt.
What is the matter with Wall street
is that the public is in suspicious mood
in a mood that is actually antagonistic,
aggressvely so. Quite apart from what
may or may not be the merits of the
case. there prevails (and through recent
times has been augmenting constantly
a general outside sentiment that the New
York Stock Exchange is an unfair insti-
tuition. that they who trust its agencies
are not sure of equitable treatment-that
In short, the stock exchange is i'm reality
inimical to profitable investment inter-
ests. Unfortunately true it is, too, that
specifically adjudged there have been
stock exchange instances whereof it
would not be easy to speak compliment
tarily.
The impression has gone abroad, in
deed, that the stock exchanges entire in
terest In what the public desires, what
the public does, what the public is en-
titled to- touches not single thing other
than the mere matter of what the stock
exchange can. through commissions and
otherwise. exploit out of the public Such
view-and it is to be feared that what
was originally but a mere impression has
grown into complete conviction-has un-
fortunate influences that have been
widening and widening. as do other
waves Meantime the stock exchange
perched upon it's own pinnacles, has as
sumed superiority to all comment or
critcism-has been content to echo i'm
crude fashion the doctrine aforetime at
tributed to William II. Vanderbilt: "rhe
country be-"
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Railroads Will Need Capital.

Railroads will be the leading and most
urgent candidate for the surplus capital
which will accumulate. and they are well
advanced with their plans. Whether these
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IS CHEERFUL
Stock Exchange Sentiment on
the Encouraging Side.
ASPECT IS SATISFACTORY
Industry Flourishes and Commercial
Enterprises Prosper.
BY II. ALLOWAY.

NEW YORK, January AT the be-
ginning of 1913 the Wall street DISPOSE
ton to be cheerful is undisguised-s
emphatic, even proclaimed. Stock eX-
change exhibits do not much respond. so
far; but even the virulent bearshas to
concede that sentiment forever the most
forceful of speculative factors) is on the
encouraging side.
What outside Of Wall street offices is
recognized is that practically without ex-
ceptipn every elemental business fact the
country over has satisfactory aspects.
Industry fiourishes, commercial enter
prises prosper. labor is beyond supply
with wage rewards at maximum, trans
portation systems show earnings bigger
and bigger continually-in all of the
branches of national trade the record is
one of progress and pecuniary satisfac-
tion
What the croakers have to bark upon
Is confined almost exclusively to politics
they worry over the coming extra ses-
sion Of Congress-. they are bowed down
over the banking inquisition; they trem-
BILE over American sequels to European
war losses. Their ghosts are abundant
and strutting. Yet no normally consti-
tuted human being can without immense
endeavor figure out a possibility of even
a fraction of a single one of their appre-
tensions ever coming to pass. Truth is
and beyond all doubt or bubble or any
queStlOnlflS-tTuth is tndt III ALMOST dDSo-
lutte uniformity what is known or can be
known in the American business world is
upon the right side.
General conditions, if they may be fair
ly SO summarized, ought to inspire not
merely confidence but enthusiasm-ought
to make it utterly Impossible in Wall
street or anywhere else to affect to be
blue. But there is a difference. and a diff
ference that is broad. between widespread
business prosperity and having this pros
perity echoed in stock exchange activity
and stock market quotations.
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plans will materialize as tentatively nro-

pans Will inaterialiZe as tentatively pro-
posed remains to be seen. If they do the
year ahead will be record breaking in the
amount OF money spent on railroad i'm
provements of track terminals and I'm in
creased equipment. That is the hope and
expectation OF the men intrusted with
the management of the great transporta-
lon systems, which represent more than
majority of mileage and traffic To
what extent tariff revision will interfere
with or interrupt business headway is a
problem upon which there is considerable
disagreement of opin on. and II Is undis-
putably a factor of decided market I'M
portance 1t Is habit among financiers
ana operators in the stock market to at
tempt to make light Of the tariff agita-
ton, but the great body of manufac-
turers and their financial intima les know
better than to treat the subject lightly or
from false viewpoint. They are prepar-
ing to meet developments as best they
may, and do not really anticipate heavy
losses. Their policy will be to meet the
situation fairly and squarely and read
Just themselves to changed conditions
with the least possible Inconvenience and
sacrifice. Political assurance from Wash
1ngton that the tariff will be revised with
the least possible disturbance is being
taken In entire good faith by the multi
are directly concerned. Scare talk will
be largely confined to agitators and that
element in the stock market which pre-
fers to play the bear side.
spirit of buoyancy pervades Wall
street which has not been felt there in
weeks. 1t is reflected i'm a vast majority
OF the offices of brokers and bankers. 1t
is felt by the army OF investors and
spectators. There is no disposition to fly
off the handle and plunge" in anticipa-
ton OF a spectacular boom. Rather. II is
q sense Of certainty that conditions favor
a gradual and healthy Improvement in
every direction movement which is
based on firm faith that we are all in
growing state, and that sensible people
can look forward with confidence to
continuation of healthy expansion. This
state Of mind is grateful to the profess
sional element. which makes it's money
on the generous cooperation Of the great
investing public The caution and de-
liberation with which investors and trad
ers have approached this situation is a
most encouraging factor. and is SO re-
garded by men of affairs as we'll as the
professional traders. 1t is very generally
regarded as a safe forecast of lively times
ahead in the financial district--not alone
in the stock market, but in every depart
ment and division of industry That
takes in everything, one might say.
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PARIS.

PARIS. January 4.-Three per cent
rentes. 80 francs 42la centimes for the
account. Exchange on London, % francs
ISL centimes for checks Private rate
of discount, per cent
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American Securities Recover.
BERLIN.

BERLIN. Januery 4.-ENchanges on
London, 10 marks IS pfennigs for checks
Money, 5la per cent. Private rate of dis
count, Al per cent
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PotatoeS-Unchanged.
Cabbages-Unchanged.
Freights-IIuchanged.
PeanutS-Cnchanged.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-22
Frosted Baskets for the Tree


A girl who made her own decora-
the coral baskets of our grand
mothers time to her purposes in a
very pretty way. On the tree hung
for each guest charming little
frosted white basket filled with a
tangerine, sprig of Malaga grapes
and some other small dry things, like
soft shelled almonds figs and pre-
served ginger.
The baskets had been made by taxi
ing a small goblet as pattern for
size and shape and making two rings
from ordinary picture wire, the first
the size of the top, the second the size
of the goblet one third of the way
from the bottom. Two longer pieces
of wire were then twisted together
at right angles at the bottom and
brought one UP each side, twisting
them around the rings to hold them
in place One OF these pieces was
sufficiently long to be bent over in
the shape Of a handle says the Wom-
mans Home Companion.
These wires were next wound with
narrow strips OF old cotton cloth
roughly torn and frayed at the edges
and immersed in a strong solution of
boiling alum. The frayed edges
caught the alum and gave the stalac-
lite appearance which we admired.
She said she could give no accurate
directions for the amount of alum to
use since she simply made q strong
solution. and II the baskets did not
seem stiff enough at first she dipped
them again until they were salts
factory.