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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
STUDY COURTS FOR CHINA
Three Officials of New Republic
To Look Into Coinage, Too.

Three representatives of the Republic Of
China. who are to spend a year in this
country studying American court pro-
cedure, finance and the coinage Of money,
arrived yesterday from Southampton on
the New York.
Shih Chen Hu is the senior clerk OF
The Ministry of Justice at Picking, Lo
Tong is chief Of the criminal department
Of the Ministry of Justice and Far 4.
Sun d member of the board of finance.
They will go TO Washington to-day,
where they will be the guests Of the
Chinese Legation. The Cinnamon said
hat they would study all forms of court
Procedure in various parts of the United
states. They were particularly interested
IN the night courts of this city, and will
visit them on their return TO New York.
Far T. Sung will spend several weeks
In the financial districts and inspect the
mints In San Francisco and Philadelphia.
Among the passengers on the New York
was Captain G. A. X. Bertun, Mrs. c. v.
King. Colonel and Mrs. Hugh r. Reed,
Roy Woodrow and Miss Helen Hunter.
Mss Hunter, who boarded the New York
at Cherbourg, went direct to Princeton
Yesterday. She made the trip from Paris
to attend the wedding Of Miss Jessie
Wilson, daughter of President Wilson.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
LARGEST FUEL CONSUMER.
Pittsburgh Uses 100000 Tons of
Coal and Coke Annually.

The Pittsburgh district of Pennsylvania
IS the largest consumer of fuel in the
world and in magnitude Of coal traffic il
is also pre-eminent. In population Pitts
burgh ranks fifth among the cities Of the
United States. having az Greater Pitts
burgh" only about one-siXth that or
greater New York, but in the consump-
ton of coal alone Pittsburgh nearly equals
that of the largest city in the country
IL is estimated mo accurate data being
available) that greater New YORK con-
sumes between 100000 and 2O,OOOOOO short
tons of coal annually.
The Pittsburgh district in 1912, accord
ing TO Edward w. Parker, of the United
States Geological Survey, consumed H.
72l 1888 tons of coal and about 100000 tons
of coke. or a total OF 6bout 22,700,000 short
tons. over 10 per cent more than al! the
boroughs of greater New York. More
over. Pittsburgh also consumes millions
of cubic feet of natural gas. The total
quantity of coal sent to New York Har-
bor ports for local consumption, for
bunker trade and for transshipment to
coastwise and foreign ports is between
r. 600. 900 and 100000 short tons. In 1872
the total coal business of the Pittsburgh
district including local consumption and
shipments East and West, amounted to
59,1JO,l7s short tons. The coke used and
handled was approximately 100000 tons,
making total of about 100000 tons.
or nearly twice as much as the coal CO.
ing TO New York Harbor.
The quantity of coal shipped by rail-
and water to Pittsburgh and through
Pittsburgh to points West in 1872 was
43,S0l,13i short tons, an increase OF
AGO 226 tons over 1911. All of this In
crease was in rail shipments, as those By
water fell off slightly. about 10000 tons
The shipments to Pittsburgh were, by
rail, 7,77S, $50 tons. and by water, 9'si5'SSS
tons. The shipments to points West or
Pittsburgh were. by rail, N2i,Os6Wl TONS
and by water, l,993,3j0 tons. The ship
ments from the Pittsburgh district TO
Eastern points, all rail, which do not go
through the city, amounted in 1912 to
u. 1905 tons, against 10, l69,S66 tons in
1911 The shipments OF coke in 1912 were.
TO Pittsburgh, 1882 O7 tons; TO points
West 1854 566 tons, and from the Pitts
burgh district to Eastern points 3'Z9i'o'o
tons.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
soMERsAULT BY AERoPLANE.

CAPTAIN Aubrey. OF the French army u
said TO have accomplished a complete
somersault while aboard an areopiahe
high above the earth. II was returning
after a thirty-fve minute flight the cap
tain said, facing a wind of about TWEEN
ty-two miles an hour. My altitude was
about $500 feet. AT the moment OF de-
scent series OF violent gusts struck the
machine.
AS | dipped the nose OF the machine
couple of quick gusts struck the top OF
the main planes and placed me IN
vertical position. While endeavorng 10
manipulate the elevator ] found the ma
chine had taken me in perfectly verucai
chute to less than 1,5o feet IL mere
adopted a horizontal attitude upside down
and proceeded to effect tail first vol
plane"
Continuing. he says: The machine theh
gradually took up the vertical positio''
again, describing a gigantic s. while do
ing so. Flattening out, new to spot
about two miles distant. Chicago News
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
MRS. THOMPSON RAISES
HARD TARIFF PROBLEM
Customs Court Must Decide
Status of Woman Who Mar
ries an American Abroad.

Washington, Nov. Mrs. May van
Alien THOMPSON. wife of banker VINO
recently was compelled TO pay duty on
articles of iewelry ard personal effects
which she brought into the United states
although she claimed foreign residence
and consequent exemption. has presented
IN the customs officials of the government
a knotty little problem, which is not like
10 IN be settled until it has been passed
,non NV the final arbiter in customs mat
+ors--the Court of Customs Appeals. The
nroblem is: Does a woman who marrles
folio the status Of her husband or Keep
hor own. so far as the tariff act is con-
cerned?
Mrs THOMPSON, as May Van Allen had
-, u,6ispIted foreign residence She mar
lid an American citizen abroad. Many
~ the articles which were subjected 10
1,,,,, on her recent arrival here she claims
uere brought in free on other trlps pe-
fore she married
Mrs Thompson has paid the duty APP
- retained as counsel James #. Cur
~. Assistant Secretary OF the Treas
ur,, who used to handle custoiils i''a''e''
for fine government, and Is "ai''"s 'o'
,ho poard of General Appraisers III Ne"
york to pass on the case. the next sup
will he an appeal to the court
Aho,t the only indication as to no" the
courts mind is running came WIZ"
decision i'm the case of Florence
Rocbe who protested that she was no'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
A FOREIGN ESTIMATE.

In the "Bache Review Of last week
there was d translation OF comment by
the Swiss Bankverein on the American
situation as follows:
With the solution OF the banking and
larif questions two elements Of uncer-
tainty will cease TO exercise perturo-
mS influence on American economic ac-
tNty. II Is evident that the definite
Summation OF these political contentious
vii relieve the business world Of great
weight. Nevertheless, IL would be pre-
nature 10 OF once expect 10 draw from
Ibis horoscope with regard 10 the
future, for American business conditions
cspend upon too complex factors TO make
Il possible 10 estimate with any chance OF
Nactness the consequence OF particular
happenings For instance, the petltion
Concerning the increase of the transpor-
nton tariff presented by ffty-two rail-
road companies has not yet received any
response II the answer given TO
should be favorable TO the railroads these
would experience a happy contre-coup'
" the prospect Of increased recelpts lheE
would be able TO make their appear "
ne market responsive and this "oulu
PERMIT them 10 begin expenditures mas
ensable TO improvements and TO enlarse-
Aents which have been reduced 10 MN
mum for some years and when "ouiu
iurhish them the opportunity to give
1oeral number Of new large orders 10 I'M
Nrtant industries. The great la"sui'
'galnst the Steel Trust Is stu III sus-
*nSe II hampers not only the marhe''
'ol also the general business world ohe
an Justly ask ones self whether con
"oering the reduction Of duties upon tho
main products Of this gigantic enterprise
the governments crusade should not
70" be completely abandoned because inc
"feign competition will now prevent
'Anlpulation Of prices from when the
Vtsumer might suffer Finally the
''ps do not promise at present To De as
satisfactory as previously expected. But
"e experience Of last year. when very
<orabe crops were not able U ac-
, t'eiate business Improvement mas
"eariy shown that agricultural results
ns not alone TO be depended upon !"
"auence the success OF affairs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
Stock Exchange Depressed by
Reports That Huerta Regime
Is in Bad Financial Shape.
OUTLOOK NOT CHEERFUL
November VIGOROUSLY a Bad
Month, Financially-Gold Ex-
pected from South Amer
lea and South Africa.
[Rr Cable TO The Tribune

London. Nov. Mooney was a little
,ooser in Lombard Street yesterday,
hut as a rule the banks were very shy
,ast week, and the recent pressure
brought to bear in the way OF curtail-
ing commitments produced a great
feeling Of unrest, because necessarily
companies and individuals were kept
on the anxious bench.
The Mexican situation, and especially
the cable dispatches to the effect that
the republic now under Huerta's regime
is in bad shape financially, as well as
The Berlin Bank position, had much in
suence on the markets, which were de-
pressed and in nowise cheerful.
November is VIGOROUSLY a bad
month in England on the stock mar
kets, and brokers seem to dread what
Is coming. Germany and France are
holding money tight. Some big COM
panies issued statements last week, one
reducing its capital and another saying
there would be an increase of ordinary
shares by about $20,000,o00 in order to
cover "a considerable amount of in
debtedness."
The Bank of England outlook showed
trife better as gold is expected from
South America and South Africa, and
the Egyptian and Indian demands have
been considerably lessened by sys-
tematic banking. For instance, only
Yesterday Egyptian unified coupons,
totalling about $40,0OOOOO, and South
African treasury bills of about 5000
OOO. both came up, but next week a big
shipment of gold is expected.
Discounts are still stiff, siXty-d
bills ruling at 1j-16 per cent, three
months bills at =, four-months' bills
at 1915 and six-months' bills at
4 1916 per cent. Call money renewals
were at AZ per cent and day-to-day
loans ruled at and 312 per cent.
The Bank Of England received from
abroad and from internal circulation
f2S3JOOO bullion. and against this in
crease there was d slight increase in
note circulation, but the reserve is S.
$1,000 higher. standing now at $135,-
$4,000 The proportion Of the reserve
to liabilities has given way nearly >
per cent, but still stands at J4ls per
cent, against 47$4 per cent this time
last year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
CROP MARKET REVIEW
Grains All Administration
OeCIineS-COffee Higher.

There has been a combination OF bull.
ish influences affecting the grain mar.
kets IN the last week and prices have
advanced all around. In wheat. Argen-
tina, Russia and India have contributed
their quota of crop damage stories, COM
plant has also come from Germany and
France has been in the market for large
quantities OF foreign wheat. At home
there have been lighter receipts, and
cOnsumptive channels have absorbed
fair amount of the grain. This has led
to a decrease in the visible supply OF
$4,000 bushels against an increase year
ago OF 2,57S,O00. While this statistical
change is partly due to a decrease i'm re-
ceipts, il has been aided by bad weather,
snow having checked thrashng opera
tons in some districts and low tempera-
lures in Texas, oklahoma and Western
Kansas all affecting the movement. There
was little reaction on Saturday. ac-
counted for by a feeling that the recent
advance had been sufficiently large TO
discount most Of the bullish features.
The firmer tendency i'm corn which
marked the first trading Of the week held
until Saturday, when there was n recess
sion. Short sellers were laboring under
difficulties. partly owing 10 bad weather
In the West and light country offerings.
Purchases Of Argentine corn to arrive
and an Improvement I'm weather condi-
tons checked the advance and the ten
sion slack ned The advance i'm prices
was against the technical position Of the
market as the available stock OF Ameri-
can corn is nearly 5OO0,C00 bushels larger
than at am time in the last two years,
and the contract stock i'm Chicago is
100000 bushels against 1.227OO0 a year
ago.
A peculiar feature of the oats market Is
that the prices have not been Influenced so
much as usual by the fluctuations in other
grades. They have gone up, like corn
in the face of heavy stocks Of American
and at times a pressure OF Canadian oats,
which have been sold to go to Chicago
The available supply of American oats IL
100000 bt shells, against l3,759,Oo0 a year
ago. and the Chicago stock IL 14.053, 900,
against 1,63300 a year ago In spite Of
this prices are higher than they were a
year ago.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
WARMER WEATHER AT HAND
Clear Skies Also Predicted for
the Next Few DAYS.

Washington. Nov. Clear skies and
moderate temperatures are promised by
the Weather Bureau TO practically the
entire country for the next few days
with the exception OF a little rain and
snow early In the week over the extreme
Northwest generally fair weather will
prevail.
I'm the Atlantic and Gulf states, the
Ohio Valley and the Southwest. fair
weather will continue Fair weather is
also indicated in the Northwest and ex-
IRENE West after the middle of the week
Temperatures will rise early III the
week over the central and the interior
Eastern portions Of the country, ana VIII
fall somewhat in the middle plateau put
no unusual extremes Of temperature are
indicated for any portion OF the country
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
RURAL SPORT IN ENGLAND.

From The London Express.
one OF the features Of the annual festival
which began on Saturday at Pewsey. Wits. Is
the ducking stool. The stool is suspended over
the stream which flows through the centre OF
the village. and is released by lever con-
nected with a target. The victim is fastened
In the stool. and his friends have seven SHES
at the target for sixpence. bulrs-eye means
a ducking
The man who scores most bulPs-eyes during
the week will win live calf, and the mar
who Is ducked oftenest a sack OF potatoes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03

resident OF the United States and that
She could not be compelled to pay duty
on personal effects. The general apprais-
ers held that she must pay and the court
upheld that decision. But Mrs. Bache
vas married In the United States to an
American. and that leaves the problem
Of Mrs. Thompson still one with at least
two possible solutions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
GOVERNORS BY PROMOTION.

From The Syracuse Post-Standard.
In the history of the state only SIX
Lieutenant Governors have become Gov
ernors-De Witt Clinton. Hamilton Fish,
David B. I'LL, Frank w. Higgins, Horace
White and Martin IA. Glynn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
Safer Sort Of Wager.

IL is much safer to wager that cur
rencv bill will not be ready for the Presi-
dents signature before January l than
n wager that il will be a law before the
close OF the extra session.
Ever since the tariff bill was passed
Congress has been keeping up the farce
OF being in session without quorum in
either house most OF the time to transact
business. Chautauqua fees have gone
begging. political fences are falling into
decay and affairs back home" are sadly
muddled. Hence the sadness with which
the disgruntled legislators watch the pass
ing OF the days and the approach OF win
ter. and the trembling hope that they
will be able to say: Il was right after
ALL"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
"Could Crush Every Competitor"

'If the International Harvester Com
pany were disposed to exercise the power
its enormous wealth gives, and it were
left unrestrained TO do so, II could drive
every competitor 1t now has from the
field" IL is charged.
AS to the character of the decree sought
by the government the brief says:
1--WE submit at this time a decree should
be entered adjudgng that all defendants
are parties to an unlawful combination
and monopoly; that the international
Harvester Company is in itself combi-
nation in restraint of trade, and that il
has acquired and holds monopoly Of
harvesting implements, all contrary to
the provisions of the statute. The con-
tinuance of the combination should be
enjoined.
THE decree should then provide that
unless the defendants submit to the court
a plan for restoring bona fide competitive
conditions and bringing about situation
in harmony with the true intent and pur-
pose OF the law within sixty days re-
ceiver shall be appointed To take posses
sion OF all the property and business of
the defendant corporations, VINO snail
bring about such results under direction
of the court.
'In order that the plan may establish a
condition i'm honest harmony with the
law IL is imperative that 1t shall disinte-
CRATE the business OF the principal de-
PENDANT in such a manner that no two OF
the disintegrated parts shall be acquired
nv or come under the control of COM
NAMES having common stockholders, or
compan MES otherwise under common con-
troll or influence"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
MarveIS Must Be Performed if
His Measure Is Reported to
Senate by November 10.
ONLY TWO POINTS DECIDED
Score or More Technical Prob
lens Still To Be Solved in
Committee and Long
Debate Must Follow.
[From The Tribune Bureau.l

Washington, Nov. Legislators in
Washington who have watched the sum-
mer fade and give way to the sere and
yellow foliage of autumn are awaiting
with much interest the result of the
struggle now going on in the Senate
Banking and Currency Committee to see
whether the programme Of the President
will be carried oct.
Ninety members of The House of Repre-
sentatives and handful of Senators, in
addition TO the members of the commit
tee, are all who are present to attest the
fact that Congress is in session. they do
not. view with complacency the swift
passage of the days that yield them no
promise in the way of a vacation. Some
of them would be almost satisfied II they
could say when the regular session be-
gins, 81 told you So" TO the currency
prophets who said that a bill would De
passed in the extra session.
The Senate committee has tentatively
decided two questions-the organization
of the Federal Board and the number or
regional banks. What promises to be the
biggest question of all-the organization
and control of the regional banks-re-
mains unanswered. The score or more OF
technical problems which are to be scru-
tinted by experts after the committee
has completed its labors-domestic eX-
change, foreign exchange, foreign branch
banks, charges for check collections and
the like-have not yet been touched upon.
Only Five Days Left.
The committee will not resume its Ia
bOrs until next Wednesday. The Presi-
dent some time ago. after consulting
Democratic members, made the prediction
that the bill would be agreed upon ana
reported to the Senate by November TO-
The committee, therefore, has just nNe
more working days to make good this
prediction, to solve the many technical
problems before ii, and to have its work
passed uron by experts to make certain
that it is proposing a scheme which Will
work.
Unless marvels are performed, IT is
more probable that the committee VIII
make its report on November Il or NO.
vember q, rather than on November ~
II this is the case, the regular session
will practically have begun by the time
the task of debating and passing the bill.
Differences of opinion threaten to MAKE
the currency debate anything but brief.
Democratic Senators are already making
predictions that the Senate will blue PEN
ell the work of the Banking and Cur
rency Committee, and make the measure
conform more nearly t. the House Dill
and what the President regards as the
fundamentals of currency reform-which
means controversy and delay. There are
no indications that an attempt VIII De
made to accomplish this result through
the medium of Democratic caucus.
II the House provision giving the bank
ers control over the regional banks is re-
tanned the Progressives will unlimber
their guns and pour hot shot into the MAJ
iority camp and the administration for
inveighing against banking control on the
stump and putting it into effective opera
ton in Congress
Il
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
Cotton Prices Down.

The slump in cotton prices early i'm thu
week, which continued until Fridays
opening, amounted to about 70 points from
the high Of last Saturday on October
with 81 points off on December and 80 to
53 on later deliveries At the low of the
week, reached late Thursday afternoon.
the slump was checked by spot house
buying, spinners agents coming back
into the market, and covering by shorts
the result being a recovery on Friday Of
20 to % points from the low. On Satur-
day the market was wabby and showed
a slight decline at the close. Questions
of crop condition have been eliminated
by the freezing weather, which has prac-
tically wiped out the top crop yet there
seems to be a strong opinion that the
damage reports have been exaggerated
Estimates of the yield vary from 1j,OoO.O0l
TO 100000 or less, with the consumption
reckoned at 10000 TO 100000 over the
smaller figure.
The Southern correspondents of prom
inent local spot house on Saturday esti.
mated ginning TO October 81 at S,7S7, lSi
bales. The Census Bureau made the gin
ming to this date last year $3.50, 22l, against
S,SO@OS two years ago The figures pub
lished Saturday would indicate rather a
small ginning for the period since Octo-
Der IS, but would be reconciled with large
views Of the yield by reference to the un-
favorable weather In many parts Of In.
South. Latest mail advices estimate the
Russian crop at 10 per cent in excess Of
last year. 1t is not believed that the
government crop estimate. due December
T. which will be in running bales of so
pounds each. without linters will make
the crop as much al 10, 10000 bales.