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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
COTTON SHOWS
GREATER STRENGTH
Prices Ease Off From Best
Under Realizing-ClOse
Is Steady

New York. May 24.-The cotton market
showed renewed strength during todays
trading and while prices eased off from
the best under realizing, the close was
steady and at l to points net higher.
Inc market opeend steady at an advance
or to s points in response to higher
cables than expected, rumors that the
report of the National Ginners' associa-
tloh would show a condition of 79S per
cent or barely equal to the 10 year av-
erage and an increase in acreage of 5
per cent and covering by some of yesfcr-
Gays late sellers. The market met
good deal of long cotton at an advance as
well as some selling encouraged by pros
poets Tor more favorable weather, but
after some hesitation prices were up to
an advance of from to points with
october contracts making new high
ground for the season. The publication
OF private crop report compiled by a
prominent Memphis authority for a local
urn making the condition s31 per cent
was partly offset by the fact that If
showed an acreage increase of less than
per cent, but seemed to inspire rather
heavier offerings after II o'clock and
ciosihs prices showed reactions of 5 or
points except in the case of May which
neid well up to the top. Private reports
from the eastern belt indicated further
rains and South Carolina adyices said
that the drought was now completely
broken. Complaints of low night tom
peratures were received from the central
oelt however, and continued nervous
ness as to the crop outlook was apparent
Notwithstanding the prospect for general
clear ana warmer weather over Sunday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
IMPROVEMENT
|NSTEEL ACTIVITY
The Railroads Have Placed
Larger Orders for
Equipment

New York, May pa decided i'm
provement was noted last week in new
orders booked for rolled steel products
but the increased activity in not a
few lines was accompanied by conces-
sions in prices for third quarter deliv-
cry. This was especially notable In
sheet and tin bars, billets and black
and galvanized sheets For early de-
livery. however, PRICES were much bet
ter sustained.
Although new business was larger in
volume. Specifications exceeded new or
ders largely and shipments were great
er than specifications. Railroads placed
larger orders for equipment.
The feature in steel building work
was the numerous small orders placed
for manufacturing plants. In the ag-
gregate the tonnage was encouraging.
about 81 900 tons. decline of from
25 to so cents for pig iron brought
some increase in business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
Hubbard Bros. & Co.'S Letter

New York, May tSpeeial)- Europe
again surprised the trade by advancing in
face of adverse market advces from this
side.
The realizing sales by few local hold
ers on the Improvement supplied the de-
mand, followed by the local trade. who
cannot understand why the market SHOULD
have advanced at all or why Europe
should buy when the rains came.
European spinners are selling goods
ahead, doing a very lurge business and
buying at least portion of their require
merts when the American markets are
weak
take up the July holdings.
Throughout Mississippi valley the
weather is abnormally cold.
Judging from the crop reports coming
to hand the Atlantic states and Alab
are but little better than last season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
Fruits and Produce

Apples. fancy A..~sap. S4.15Qs per bar
rel; Ben Davis apples. box s1.5O to sl75;
Roman Beauty apples, box s225: Yellow
Newton. $3.50; Florida Valencia oranges.
IS; California oranges. $3.50 box: lines.
sl.25 per hundred; Irish potatoes, 81 per
bushel; sweet potatoes. Dooley, 9Oc bushel:
Onions, red GLOBE, &c per pound: let
tuce, $1.50G2.50 per crate; strawber-
ries, H.50Q2.25; cucumbers. per crate.
$500; tomatoes, Florida, $500 to 49, so:
cabbage, Mobile, $17o12.00 crate: new
Texas onions. crate. $3.50; beans. DER
hamper, 1.5o@1 rs; peaches, S3.75 crate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
Flour and Breadstuff.

Sell Using flour, $6.1O; Tennessee
flour, S5.65; Oklahoma flour, s5.15:
Infallible, $3.50; pure wheat shorts
S29; pure wheat bran, $26 so;
per ton, s32; c. s. feed meal, per ton. s2s:
No. 1 timothy hay, -er ton. S22: mixed
alfalfa and johnson grass. per ton. 500.
sack, $3.50; alfalfa hay. per ton, S24: John.
son grass, per ION. SIS: mixed feed. ssi.
oats, 54c bus: born. SIC.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
Milestone and Monument

From TIt-BIts,
When Sir John Carr was at Glasgow.
i'm the year 1867, he was asked by the
magistrates to give his advice concern
ing the inscription TO be placed on Mel
sons monument then just completed. The
knight recommended this brief record :
Glasgow to Nelscn.'
True" said the others. ''and as there
is the town of Nelson near us. We might
add. Glasgow to Nelson nine miles, so
that the column might serve for the mile
stone and monument
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
LIVERPOOL Cotton Market

Liverpool, May 2f.-Cotton. spot dull;
prices steady: middling fair. 732d; good
middlng, G.9sd; midding, 67sd; low mid
ding, 664d; good ordinary. 6.3od. ordinary,
5.96d. Sales, 1000, including 400 for specu-
lation and export and 2s00 American Re-
ceipts, 5000, no American
Futures opened quiet and closed very
steady. May, 5.56d: May-June. 6.551sd
June-July. 6.521ad July August 6. 49d: Ai-
gust-September. 6.3S1sd: September-Octo-
Der. 62fsd; October November, 6.161Sd: !:
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IiyerDOOI Grain

Liverpool, May '24.-Wheat, spot steady;
No. Manitoba, Is 6i4d; No. 3 Manitoba,
rs 4d. Futures easy; May, rs 6lsd; July,
rs SID: October, rs 3Ad Corn, spot
steady; American mixed, new, 5s 11ad;
American mixed. new, kiln dried 5s 11ad;
American mixed. old, IS 1iad American
mixed, old, via Galveston, 5s Sd. Futures
quiet; July, LaPlata, As 115sd.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
Bonds
New York Money

New York, May 24.-Money ON call NOM
inal; no loans Time loans, steady. Sixty
day, 3is@4 per cent 80 days, 32.@4 per
cent; six months, 4l5Cd4s4 per cent. Prime
mercantile paper, 451a per cent. Sterling
exchange steady. with actual business In
bankers bills at $4.SS for 50 day bills
and at "a. $50 for demand. Commercial
bills, SiS2ls. Bar silver. 60Ac Mexican
dollars, 4Sc. Government bonds steady.
Railroad bonds firm
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
Kansas City Grain

Kansas City, May 24-Cash wheat No
hard, S719@91c; No. 2 red, 94q9sc. Corn
No. mixed, 601ac; No. white, 6Olsc
Oats, No. white, 39G3s1sc; No mixed
371a@3sc. Close: Wheat, May, S5lac: July
S5Ac; September, S51sc. Corn, May, sec
July, 57d571sc; September, 57Q57lsc. OATS
July, 3Sc; September 36Ssc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
London Stock Market

London. May 24.-The stock market was
dull and unnteresting today. American
securities ruled quiet and featureless
Prices opened unchanged and closed from
Il higher to a lower than yesterdays s
New York closing.
Consos for money, "A 1916: consols for
: account 747s; Illinois Central, 11S1a; Louis
vile and Nashville. 137; Southern railway,
25h, Bar silver steady, q 1S-16d per ounce.
Money, 2aQ3 per cent. Discount rates.
short bills, 39s per cent. Three months,
8 9-16QSss per cent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
Treasury Statement

Washington May 24.-The condition of
the United States treasury at the begin
ming of business today was: Working
balances, $50, ,273 1884, in banks and Philip
pine treasury SAG, 1885: total of general
funds. Sl32, ,20le71; receipts yesterday. So,
279,632: disbursements, $,0S7956; surplus
this fiscal year. $f.S47,S99. as against
deficit of $12260.S7S last year. The figures
for receipts. disbursements, etc, exclude
Panama canal and public debt transact
tions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
st. Louis Grain

St Louis. May 24--Cash wheat: Trac1
No. red 81 05; No. 2 hard. 93d951kc. Cash
corn: No. .. 6012c: No. white, 6O1a@I62c
Cash oats: No. .. 40@40d401ac; No. white
4e1@c. Wheat futures: July, $3.50; Sep
tember, SSssc. Corn futures: July, 57kc;
September 575sc. Oats futures: July, 37A@
37ssc; September. 37%@S77sc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
Creamery Products

Country butter, 2OG25c: fresh creamery
butter 331sc; cheese, 16lac; imported Swiss
cheese, 3lc; German brick cheese. zoe;
ii:.lburger cheese, 1Sc; imported roquefort
37c: Neufchatel cheese, per dozen. I5c:
Pimento cheese. 35c: process butter, aOc:
daisy cheese, 16hc per pownd.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
New Orleans Cotton Futures
open. High. Low. CT. Bd.

New Orleans, May 24.-Spot cotton quiet
and unchanged; middinG, u 7-16c. Sales
on the spot. 430: to arrive, 20S. Low ordi-
nary, 9 1-16c nominal. ordinary. 97sc nom
nal good ordinary, 111xc; strict good or-
dinary, l1Ac; low middlins, 12c: strict low
middling, 124c: niddling, II 7-l6c; strict
middlng, 129sc; good mddling, 12 1916;
strict good middling. 13c; middlng fair.
13 7-l6c nominal: middlng fair to fair.
13 13-l6e nominal; fair. IA 3-16c nominal.
Receipts, 1919; stock. 7i,759.
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Interior Cotton Movement

Houston Steady; middling, 12lsc; net
receipts, 1i43; gross receipts, 1913; ship
ments 2561; sales, S53; stock, I3,945.
Augusta Steady; middling, II 1-16c; net
receipts, 95; gross receipts 220; ship
ments S75; sales, SS4; stock, s., 135.
Memphis: Steady; middling. 121sc; net
receipts, SO; gross receipts, 552 shipments,
2321; sales, 1000; stock. 5s,227.
st. Louis Steady; middling, 12i4c; net
receipts, Is; gross receipts. i25; shipments,
552: sales, 157; stock, 1882.
Cincinnati: Net receipts, So, gross re-
ceipts, IS; shipments, 2S2; sales, 400; stock,
25,62S.
Little Rock: Quiet; middling, 115sc; net
receipts. %: gross receipts y; shipments,
502; stock. 23,S6S.
Greenvlle: Quiet: middling. 11s4c.
Total today: Net receipts, 1752; gross
receipts, 2747 shipments, 1899; sales, 1894;
stock, 24i,9i5.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
Hubbard Bros. Il Co.

s'ottou Merchants. Hanover square. N.
snange, New Orleans Cotton Exchange.
New York. Produce Exchange Asso-
cla ton. Orders solicited for the pur.
chase and sale of Cotton and Cotton
Seed Oil for. future delivery. Special
attention and liberal terms given for
tJnsignments of spot cotton for Dc.
livery. Correspondence invited
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
Poultry and E~e.

Hens, 4oGo0c; live, per pound. 15c:
fryers, 1Q1H lbs average, 35c; fryers less
than pound and over, 1H pounds aver
age soc; ducks. lac pound guineas.
soc; roosters, soc; geese, 4O05Oc:
live turkeys, 10000; fresh eggs. case can
died. 1SQ19c; extra graded candled eggs.
2oc.
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Fish and Sea Foods

ers, &c in Dbl. lots; Spanish mackerel, 7M
Sc in bbls.; sun perch or Dream, Sc in
Dbl. lots; pompano, 20c; mixed fish. Sc
in Dbl. lots; crockers, sc in bbl lots: fresh
water perch. &c. mullet. 61sc in bbls'
small trout. &c; fresh water cat, dressed.
10c; salt water cat, SC.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
Dry Goods

New York, May 2f.-The, cotton goods
markets closed strong, with the demand
broad for convertibes, and cloths for the
manufacturing trades. Wool markets are
steady. Underwear and hosiery are IN
good demand for spot use.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
Seeking a Hapdicap

From the Louisville Herald
II wonder why it is that woman
like giantess marries man like a
pigmy?"
II don't know. unless it's because she's
too much of a woman to take a chance
on a fair fight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
New Orleans Rice Market

New Orleans, May 24.-Rice strong; re-
ceipts rough. $50; clean, 1850; milers, $50 !;
sales clean Honduras, 315 at 25sG5c; Japan
1889 az 3ls@3Ssc. Quotations. Rough Hon.
duras, 2.50q4. 4.25c; Japan, e.75@3.50c; clean
Honduras, 4l4Q59sc; Japan, 3h@4c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
St, Louis Produce

ST. Louis. May 24,-Flour quiet and un-
changed Hay steady. Receipts Flour,
5000; wheat, Al coo; corn, 1900; oats, 81 0CO;
Shipments: Flour, 1900; wheat, 47O00:
corn, 47,00O; oats 5000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
Coffee Market

New York. May 24.-Coffee futures
opened steady at unchanged prices to a
decline of points in response to rather
disa ppointing cables. Offerings were very
light. however, and the market steadied
up during the morning on little further
support from bullish sources or cover
ing OF shorts. A sale of June in the alb
sence of prompt buyers sent that posi-
ton off to loss of points at the close,
but the final tone was steady Sales,
q. $50 bags. May, 10 Csc; June. 10. sec; July,
II Gle; September, loo; October, 11.2lc;
December, IL 23c; January, 1.24c: March,
112Sc. Spot: Rio rs, 11asc; Santos ds 1890 !:
Mild quiet; Cordova, 14Gl17c pominal.
Havrc unchanged. Hamburg unchanged
to Il pfennig lower. Rio. % ieis higher
at 6sx 600. Santos. so res higher; As,
6s,75O Is, 5sx90o Brazilian port receipts
14,00o, against 1900 last year. Jundiahy
receipts 5000, against 5000 last year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
New Orleans Exports

New Orleans, May 24.-Weeks ex-
ports, wheat $4,000 bushels, European
ports; corn, none. Weeks arrival OF
coffee, Brazilian, sacks, none.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
French Exchange

) Paris, May 24-rhree per cent rentes.
S5 francs, 40 centimes for the account.
Exchange on London, 20 francs, 2115 CEN
times for checks. Private rate of dis
count SIS per cent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
Montgomery Market

montgomery, May 2i.-(Special y
Spot cotton was quoted in montgomery
as follows: Strict low middling. 11ssc:
middiing, IL 11-16c; strict middling
IL 7sc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
LOCAL QUOTATIONS
Pig Iror
Local Cotton
Meat

Lard, 13c; compound. 9ssc; dry salt
short ribs, 13 Zoe; bellies, IA 15c; ham
butts, 15.50c; Boston butts, 16c; pork
loins, lie; spare ribs, 13c: breakfas ST
bacon. 22@24c; smoked bacon, Ice: req
uiar ham, 19l4c skinned ham, 19%c,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
Galveston Exports

Galveston, May 24.-Exports of
breadstuffs for European ports for the
week ending today were as follows:
Wheat, $4,000 bushels; flour, 1882
sacks,
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Cotton Seed Oil

New York. May 2t.--Cotton seed oil
was fairly active. prices being firm on
demand of shorts and refiners and new
speculative buying Closing prices were
. to points net higher. Sales, 1O,5OO
barrels Prime crude. nominal; prime
summer yellow. lose bid: May, 71dc;
June. 715c: July 7.15c August. 7.24c:
September. 7..4c October. $3.50. Noven,-
her. 6.54c: December. s.43c prime win
ter yellow and summer white 7.l5c
bid.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
German Exchange

Berlin, May 24-Exchange on London,
20 marks. "A pfennigs for checks. Money.
Az per cent Private rate of discount,
5isM5H per cent.
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Bullion Taken In

London, May 2i.-Bullion amounting to
10000 was taken into the Bank of Eng
land on balance today.
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Coffee and Sugar

Coffee. Arbucllles. s22.77 per 100
pounds; Luzanne. 25c per pound. Sugar
Standard granulated. 4Nc per pound
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
Smoke ReflectOrS

From Popular Electricity.
The light reflected from an ncandes-
cent lamp is employed in the Eclipse
smoke indicator to tell the fireman
when the stack is smoking.
The lamp is placed at the breeching
of the boiler so that the smoke in pass
ing up the stack cuts off much or little
of the light. Rehectors are arranged
to take what light comes from the lamp
across the breeching and reflect ii to
a ground glass screen in convenient
location for the fireman to have 1t al
ways under observation. When the
stack is smoking badly little or no light
gets through the smoke and the glass
is dark. Thus at all times the ground
glass indica tes' the amount of smoke go
ing up the stack, and enables the fire.
man to stand at his boilers and find
out how to fire with the least amount
OF smoke and greatest efficiency.
November December 6.13d; December
January, 6.12d: January-February, G.111hd
February March, 6.12hd: March-Aplil
613hd Aprl-May, 61fAd; May-June,
6.15Md.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
Grain Receipts and Shipments

Kansas City, May 24.-Receipts: Wheat
s2.0Oo corn 260oO oats, 10000. Shipments:
Wheat, $4,000; corn, $4,000; oats, 1900.
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ceipts, 300, including 100 southerns; mar
ket steady. Dressed beef and export
steers, S7.75dS60; fair to good, $7.25977o;
southern steers. $5.75@7.5o; southern cows,
s45o@7 bulls, s5.7o@725; calves. $6.5oa1o.
Hogs: Receipts, 15t-; marekt weak
Bulk, IS. 45QIS. So; heavy $S.40@S.521a; pack
ers and butchers, $S.45aS.55; light, $500
S.5Tia; pigs, $7.25@I75.
l. Sheep: Receipts. none; market steady
to strong. Colorado lambsfi $7MS.6o; year
lngs, s5.50q7; wethers, $4.5o@6.5o; ewes,
S3M6.
st. Louis May 24-Cattle: Receipts,
$500, including 200 Texans; market steady;
choice to fine steers, $1,000; good to
choice steers s7.JO@S.5o; dressed and
butcher steers. $5.75@750; stockers and
feeders, s525a75O: bulls, $5@7; calves, Sc
975; Texas and Oklahoma, s5.257.75; cows
and heifers, s4@7
Hogs: Receipts. 5000; market lower;
pigs and lights, $7itS.65; mixed and butch
ers. ss.5OaS.65; good heavy, $S5o@s.o
Sheep: Receipts, 5000; market steady;
muttons. s5@775; yearlings, s62od6.7o;
lambs, $7a765.
Louisville, May 24.-Cattle: Receipts,
250 market quiet. Range, $2.5G@s.
Hogs: Receipts. 1885; market slow ana
weak, mostly sc lower. Range, $SOdS.4o.
Sheep Receipts. 600; sheep, SAC down.
Lambs slow, sac down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
Live Stock Market

Chicago. May 24.-Hogs: Receipts, 10000;
market steady. Bulk of sales. So. 55ofS. 60
light, SS.4GQfS62la; mixed, sS35@S.62is;
heavy, SS.O5mS. .57ls; rough, $S.05@S.20; pigs
SC.5O@S. 80.
Cattle: Receipts. 400; market slow.
Beeves, $7106IS. S.S5; Texas steers, s675GI7. 70; i;
stockeis and feeders, $5S0aS; cows and
heifers $3SO17.9D calves, $7.25G1O.
Sheep: Receipts, 1900; market slow and
prices steady. Native. S525n6; yearlinss,
s6T6.6O; lambs native, s5.75Q7.65.
kansas City. May 24-Catt,e: Re-
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Naval Stores

Savannah. May 2i.- Turpentine
firm, 81 @3I$4c: sales, sos: receipts,
1159 shipments, 6 stock. 22.6OS Rosin
firm; sales, none; receipts, 2592 ship
ments, 212: stock 76.063. Quote: p,
$4.o5 d. $3.50; r., s4.G5; F. $40; @,
s4.75: II, $3.50; T. $40; X. 1920 NJ,
$5.G5; N, s6.35; WG. $3.50: WV, $3.50.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
MEAL AND HULLs!

Selected quantity, prime cotton
seed meal. Feed meal. Fertili-
zer meal. Loose or sacked
hulls. Car lots only.
f.. w. BRoDE & CO.
Memphis Tenn. Established 1875
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Bank Statement

Ddnh ototOhSht
New York. May 24-The statement
of the actual condition of clearing
house banks and trust companies for
the week shows that they had S27,29S,
400 reserve In excess of legal require
ments. This is an increase OF $l,7l9,
600 from last week.
The statement follows.
Actual condition--Loans, $1,921 ,637,-
900; increase, $3,647,000.
Specie, $S4O,569,OO0; increase, ST.
900.
Legal tenders, sS4.S34,0oo; increase,
$21S,O00.
Net deposits, s1,771,s24,ooo; increase.
$4,99S,000.
Circulation, s4e,s42,ooo increase.
$4,000.
Banks cash reserve in vault, 1885,
$4,000.
Trust companies cash reserve in
vaults, s6S.S14,O00.
Aggregate cash reserve, 425,403, 900.
Excess lawful reserve, s27.29S, 400; in
crease. $1,719,O00.
Trust companies reserve with clear
ing house members carrying 25 per cent
cash reserve, s53,491.000.
Summary of state banks and trust
companies in Greater New York not in
cluded in clearing house statement:
Loans, s569.295,3O0; decrease. $685.
500.
Specie, S66,41S,1O0; increase. s45, 700.
Legal tenders. $S,5i9,000; increase.
$4S,90O.
Total deposits. s645.9ss. 400; decrease.
s1.672,500.
The Financier says today:
The statement of the clearing house
banks of the city of New York for the
week ending May "a was rather color
less in it's showings. The sale of S45,-
100000 city bands and the continued
gold exports We're regarded as certain
to affect the condition of the banks.
but the only changes of note were an
increase of $3,647,O00 in loans an in
crease of S2.140.000 in cash and an ex-
pansion of about $5,000.000 in deposits.
The result of tife operations named was
to increase excess reserve by S1,719, 900.
bringing the surplus above the required
% per cent minimum to $27,29S, 400,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
Metal Market

New York, May 24.-Metals dull and
nominal unchanged. Lake copper. SIG,
electrolytic, s15.s71aG16; casting, $l5 621a:
iron unchanged.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25

Seu. States Fire -. g.
traders Nat Bank -. . 165 1s0
Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-31
John karkutt Received Bad Cut in
 Head by Fall from Car,

As the result of a fall from a Gen.
 traI Village car Friday morning John
 Karkutt of g Fourteenth street is con
 fined to his home suffering from bad cut on the back of his head Mir. Kar
 kutt had been in Jewett City to consult Dr. Sweet of that place for an in-
 jured arm received some time ago and was returning home on the car due into the square at 11.45 o'clock when the accident happened. When the car reached Ninth street, in some unknown manner Mir Karkutt. who was stand ing on the rear platform lost his bal
 ance and fell out of the car, striking on the back of his head. The fall him and it was al first thought that the man was seriously hurt. Off, fcer Bray was at Sixth street when MT. Karkutt fell and he with others hurried to the scene. The injured man was picked up and placed on door step until medical aid arrived. Charles McNamara, who was driving by at the time, offered the use of his automo
 bile and Mr. Karkutt was placed in the car and taken to his home. Dr. Az new, who was called to attend the man found upon examination that a deep cut had been sustained showing that in all probability the man must have fallen directly on a sharp stone. Several stitches were required to close the wound. Mir. Karkutt did not fully recover his senses until afternoon.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-31
STOCKHOLDERS COMMITTEE
 OF FINISHING COMPANY
Meeting Held in Providence and In-
 specton Made of Plants.

The stockholders committee of the United States Finishing company, held a business conference Tuesday afternoon in the offices of the Rhode Island Hospital Trust company for the purpose of discussing the adjust ment of the affairs of the company. During the morning the committee members made a tour of inspection of the properties of the company in Prov idence and the surrounding towns. Nearly every member of the commit tee was in the city for the confer ence.
 The members of the stockholders committee are: Henry B. Thompson, ! president of the United States Finish ing company; Jesse H. Metcalf of the Wanslkuck company; Francis J. LeaV- ems, president of the Dime Savings bank of Norwich, and Andrew Mclean, pres ident of the Andrew Mclean com psny of Passaic. N. J. This committee was organized to act directly for the stockholders in fornu- lating and agreeing upon a plan of financing and reorganization, and is acting under power of attorney from stockholders.
 The committee of bank creditors had already prepared bank creditors
 a agreement which was signed by most
 of such creditors very promptly. This committee consisted of C. T..
 Baucher. New York: George S. Mum
 ford. Boston, and Herbert J Wells of
 the Rhode Island Hospital Trust com
 pany.
 The conference held in Providence
 following the inspection of local and
 neighboring plants of the United
 States Finishing company. was not the
 first conference. nor is 1t likely to be
 the last, according to one of the stock
 holders.
 Progress is being made. however, but
 member of the cre6ifOrS' PaY1rT7itfee
 said that nothing definite has yet been
 decided upon. and he could not tell
 in advance when decision was like
 ly to be reached.