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Fruits and Produce

Wine sap apples, box, 8; Gano apples box $2.50; Missouri Pippin apples. box, $2.75. Lines, per 100. s1Q1. .25. Lemons. box 360. s. 50 Florida grapefruit. $4Q6 Califor- mia oranges, crate, $3.50. Pineapples. crate B. New Irish potatoes, $1.50 per ham. per: tomatoes, $2. 50Q3 crate; cabbage, 2he lb; celery. crate $2 50; squash, crate, g bananas, per bunch, $i .5OQ1 .75; peanuts No. 1, 7c lb.; new crop red and yellow onions, 4c lb; imported onions, crate, 50; watermelons Florida, s40@45 hundred cucumbcrs, per crate, $2; snap beans, s1.a crate; strawberries. 25O crate; black. berries. crate, $3.60.
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MORRIS AVENUE
 BUSINESS GOOD Lemons Becoming Scarce. Fish Market Is We'll
 Supplied

Business on Morris avenue continues
 good, with an excellent demand in most
 lines of produce and meat. Commission
 merchants are well stocked with produce,
 and large shipments of fruit are also be-
 ing received daily. Lemons are becoming scarce, however, and rise in quotations is expected this week. Lines are penti- full on the avenue and during the warm weather no wprevailing heavy sales are reported.
 The fish market is we'll supplied, with
 the exception of mackerel, which is not so plentiful. But a few shipments of this fish have been received recently, and the scarcity that was reported early in the week is somewhat relieved.
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Live Stock

Chicago, June 11.-Hogs: Receipts, IS, . 0OO market strong. Bulk of sales, SSdS.15; light. s7S5@S.15 mixed, s7SO@S.2O heavy, a75@S.15; rough, s775q7.9O; pigs s6.90a7. .65.
 Cattle: Receipts $500: market firm. Reeves, s7.25@9.30; steers, s6.s0dS10; stock CTS. $6.30QS.25; cows and heifers, $3.70d8 70; calves, $7.25d1050
 Sheep: Receipts, 1400O: market steady. Sheep, $5.50G635; lambs, $6.60QS. 65; {; springs, s7.25a975.
 Kansas City, June 11.-Hogs: Re- ceipts, 6500; higher. Bulk, s790@S.10; heavy, $805@S12 packers and butchers, $7.95@s.10; light, $7.s5@S,07; pigs. $7.25 @775.
 Cattle: Receipts. 270o; steady. Prime fled steers, $8.50 @ 800; dressed beef sters $7.30@S40; southern steers. $6.25 @S.25; cows, $4.0O@700; heifers, $6.25 @S.75; stockers, $6.00@7.75.
 Sheep. Receipts, 5000; lower. Lambs. $S.00@s.25 yearlings, s6.o0@6.S5; weth- CTS, $5.0O@ 5.90; ews, $425 @ 500; stock CTS and feeders, $250@7.00.
 St. Louis, June 11.-Hogs: Receipts, 9400: higher. Pigs and lights, s6.50@ S.10; mixed and butchers, $8.00@S S.15; good heavy, $805@S.15.
 Cattle: Receipts, 2S00; strong. Native beef steers, $7.5009.00; cows and heifers s4.25@ stockers. $5.00@S00; Texas and Indian steers. s5.75 @s.25; cows and heifers. $4.60@6.65; native calves $500 Q10.25.
 Sheep: Receipts. 4soo; steady. sheared
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HIGHEST LEVELS
 IN THE AT TERNOON Bullish Sentiment Makes Itself Felt = Continued
 DrOuth Over Belt

New Orleans, June 11.-Bullish senti- ment, fostered by continued drouth over a large portion of the cotton belt and unfavorable crop accounts, made itself felt in the cotton market today, although the net results of the sessions trading were gain of only points. The highest levels, a rise of 9 to IS points, were reached in the afternoon, but this advice invited realizing sales and offerings sud denly became so heavy that the market went into a quick reaction.
 The detailed weather reports indicated that practically no rain fell in the belt during the night, and the forecast prom ised little change in the situation. Tenn peratures were high. Crop news pointed to considerable abandonrhent of acreage. Bears pointed out that crops east of the Mississippi were clean and were fast be- ing cleaned in the west, but bearish ut terances received little consideration
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Liverpool Cotton Marked

Liverpool, June 11.-Spot cotton, firm:
 good middling. s43d; middling, 7s7d: low middling, 7.39d. Sales. 1000; speculation and export, 800; receipts, 5000 Futures very firm; June. 75l1xd; June-July, 7.331kd: : July-August, 7.S31kd; August-S September, 719d: October-November 6S61ad: Decem- ber-January. 6.771zd; January February. 677d; March-April, 6.7Sd.
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Hubbard Bros. & Co.

Boston Merchants, Hanover Square. N. ehange. New Orleans Cotton Exchange. New York. Produce Exchange. Asso- eiate Members Liverpool Cotton AssO- ciation Orders solicited for the pur- ehaee and sale of Cotton and Cotton Seed oil for future delivery. Special attention and liberal terms given for eonsignments of spot cotton for ao. livery. Cofrespondenoe invited
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Money on Call

New York, June 11.-Prime mercan- tile paper closed 31A@4 per cent; sterling exchange strong; 60 days. S4.S6.40; demand, $4.SS.90; commercial bills, $4.S6A; bar silver. 56Ac; Mex lean pesos, 44c; government bonds steady; railroad bonds irregular; money on call firmer, 17s Q2 per cent; ruling rate. per cent; closing bids, 1M@ per cent; time loans stronger; 60 days 2A per cent; 90 days, 21s per cent; six months, S@3A per cent
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Interior Movement

Houston; Middling. 137sc; receipts. s64: shipments, 1866; stock, 61 1881.
 Memphis: Middling, 13Ac; receipts 4g0: shipments, 35s; sales. GOO; stock, s1.71s. Augusta; Middling, 141zc; receipts. no: shipments. 5S7; sales, 376; stock, 20, ,495 St. Louis: Middling, 135sc; receipts s17. shipments, 713; stock, 222, ,0S6. Cincinnati: Receipts, 294; shipments. 50: stock, 1S099.
 Little Rock: Middling, 1SAc; receipts. 229; shipments. 1043; stock 25,6S4.
 Total today: Receipts. 26O4; shipments, 4617; stock, 179, 463.
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Metal Market

New York, June 11.--Leat quiet, $3.S5 @3.95; London, f19 los; spelter quiet, s5O.50 5O55; London, f21 Is Cd; cop per steady; electrolytic, S13S7@14; lake nominal; coastwise castings, S13.75 CHEST; tin firm; spot, $31@31.25; Au- gust, $31.15@ .50; iron quiet and un- changed; London copper quiet: spot. f61 17s Cd; futures, f62 los; tin quiet; spot. f14l; futures, HAP 17s Cd; iron, Cleve- land warrants, 51s 3d.
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Coffee Market

New York, June 11.-Steadier European cables were followed by an opening ad- vance of to 4 points in coffee today, but there was little demand and prices sagged off under scattered selling. The close was l to 3 points net lower. Sales 26.000. June, SS5c; July S92c; August, 9.01c; September, 9.11c; october, 9.20c; December, 9.3Sc; Jan uary 9.40c; March. 9.45c; April. 9.45c; May, 9.46c. Spot quiet Rio, No. 2, 91kc; San tos, No. 4, 12AG12ssc. Mild dull; Cordo- va, 121fG16c nominal. Havre unchanged to Ac lower; Hamburg A@h pfg. higher. Rio. 50 lower at 5sx250 Brazilian receipts, 21,0c0; Jundiahy, 10000 Santos cables quoted As at 5sxS50. Futures 25 higher.
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Flour and Breadstuffs

Self rising flour, $5.25; Tennessee dour s5; pure wheat shorts, $34; pure whsai bran, $s3; c. s. meal. 7h per cent, 50: C feed meal. per ton, $28; c. s. hulls, q; ton; No 1 timothy hay, per ton, S24 mixed alfalfa and Johnson grass, per ton s22. c. S. hul1s. SIS ton: Johnson grass, per ton, SIS; mixed feed. $34; oats. 57c bu.: corn 97c; cornmeal. s1.s5 per S6 lbs. New crop alfalfa. $23.
 has prevailed over that section of the cot
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London, June u-Weekly statement of the Bank of England Reserve decreased f1,242,0O0; circulation decreased a2ss. .OOo: bullion increased f943, ,169; other securities decreased f2,47s.000: other deposits de- creased. f6SS,0O0; public deposits decreased f549,0O0 notes reserve increased R1.271 .Oo0. government securities unchanged. Propor. tion of banks reserve to liability 45. .4s per cent.
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LOCAL QUOTATIONS
The Iron Market
Local Cotton
Poultry and Eggs

Hens, per pound, 141zc; flyers, 1N@ i1h lbs. average, BOG; ducks. 15c ib. i; guineas, BOG; roosters, BOG: geese, 40c to 45c each; live turkeys. 20c b.; dressed tur- keys, 24c; eggs, fresh country receipts, 19c; candled. 200; extra graded candled carton eggs, 23c.
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included Mrs. Jesse Chantz, Mrs. R. w Brogan. Mrs. George Maxwell, Mrs. c. T
 Helton, Mrs. M. Parker. Mrs. George Dunn. Mrs. J. H. Snyder, Mrs. Charles Logan, Mrs. Walter Teague. Mrs. Will Rue, Mrs D. w. Finck. Mrs. W. Bradley, Mrs c. Beavers. Mrs ]. K. Bailey.
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Rank of France Statement

Paris. June 11.--Weekly statement,
 Bank of France: Gold. increased 40,- 996,000 francs silver. increased 10,- 593, 900: circulation, decreased 1S0,924,
 900; treasury deposits, decreased 2,530,-
 900; general deposits, increased 177,- 3s6, ,OO0; bills discounted. decreased 204 OH ,000; advances increased &C., 955.00O
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New Orleans Rice Market

New Orleans, June 11.-Rough Hondu- ras and Japan rice steady, clean Hondu- ras and Japan strong, Japan advancing. Quote: Rough Honduras, 1.50n4.50; Ja- pan, 1.5O@9.25; clean Honduras, 41hq6hc; Japan, 2S@31ac. Rice: Polished, per ton, S266e7; bran, per ton. s17@1S. Receipts: Rough, 300; millers, 300; clean, S53. Sales; 100 pockets clean Honduras at 1A@Gsc; 3So pockets Japan at 3is0p3 9-16c.
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Dry Goods Market

New York, June 11.-Cotton good mar- kets were firm today and mills declined business because of low prices Bleached goods sold were moderately taken. Raw silk was easier. Lightweight serges were withdrawn preparatory to an advance.
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Cotton Seed Oil

New York, June 11.-Cotton seed oil was higher today on covering of July shorts and new investment buying, inspired by the strength in cotton, reports of broad ening compound business, and profess sional support Final prices were to 5 points net higher Sales, 5000 barrels. The cotton seed oil market closed steady; spot, 7.S7@7. .42c; June. 7.3S@7. .42c; July, 742 or. 43c; August, 7.52d754c: September, 76l @7 63c; October. 7.4s@7 50c; November, 71O Ollie: December, 70s@7.lSc; January, 7O9@7.11c. Total sales, 5000.
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ENJOYABLE PARTY
 GIVEN IN ROYLES

MT. Morris Nails and Mir. Porter Err win were hosts at the home of Mrs. B. D. Erwin, last evening in Boyles when they entertained about 25 friends.
 The house was tastefully decorated with ferns and cut flowers and the evening was passed with games. music and light re- treatments.
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Dairy Car at Anniston

Anniston. June 11-tspecial)--T South- ern Railway company's dairy car will
 be in this city for it's second annual trip next Friday. The car Is in charge of J. Roland Turner. who started his work as a writer on agricultural topics for local daily. He has rise rapidly in agricultural service, having for several years been connected with the government.
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Society
tContinued from Page Six,

Nell Duncan, Annie DeShazo, Odell Thomas, Marjorie Smith, Marjorie Pearce, Mildred Crunk Aubrey Yancey. Fletcher Yancey, Raymond Rounds, Louis Moore, Reese Thomas, Hill Pearce, William Crunk, G. M. Jones, Harry Daniels and Lee Barton.
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Meat

Lard, 12Kc; compound. 9Nc; dry salt short ribs, 13.45c; bellies, 14c ham butts. 15.ooc; Boston butts, 171hc; pork Joins, 171zc; spare ribs. 1sc; breakfast bacon. 25c; smoked bacon, 17c; regular ham, 1Sxc skinned ham, 1shc.
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Montgomery Market

Montgomery, June 11.-(Special.) Spot cotton was quoted here today as follows: Strict mlddling, IA 316c; mid ding, 13Bc; strict low middling, 13Mc. low middling, 12asc
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Creamery Products

Country butter, 2O005c; fresh creamery butter, soc: process butter. l5c; cheese. 1efc: imported Swiss cheese. 31c; German brick cheese. 200; limburger cheese, 1Sc; imported RnQuefort. 36c; Nsufchatsi cEeese. per dossn. Sc; fimento cheese. N8.
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Naval Stores

2 Savannah, June 11.-Turpentine firm s5@45Ac; sales, 699; receipts. 1412: shipments, 3009; stocks, 1s.420 rosin ments, 27s7; stocks. iO3. 300. Quote: A, B. $s.75@ 5@3.so; c. D, $4; E. $40 4o5; r, $41O@415; c. $4.15; H, $415@4.2O; I. $415R425; K. $4.4om 4.45; M, $4S0; N, y550; VIC. $5.S5: wv. $6.
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London Stocks

London, June 11.-Consols for money.
 1873; for account "A. Bar silver steady.
 261sd Money, 1% per cent. Short bills 2ssQ2 11-16 per cent three months. s-16 Q2 5-16 per cent.
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MRS. WALLACE ENTERTAINS IN INGLENOOK

Mrs. Sam Wallace entertained num- Der of friends at an anagram party yes- terday afternoon at her home in Ingle- nook.
 The rooms on the lower floor of the house were decorated with nasturtiums and ferns and after the game an ice course was enjoyed by the guests. who
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ton belt So the local trade were buyers in a small market, where no one cares to be short of cotton.
 We advanced from the low point of yes terday some 25 points and 12 from the closing of yesterday before profit taking made itself in reaction of 5 points from the highest.
 There is a general belief that this crop cannot recover from the setback which occurred from the rains in Texas the last two months and one hears no argument which is not of a bullish character
 While the spinners have not bought any forward cotton of note. the traders ex- pect they will soon enter the market.
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Kansas City Grain

Kansas City, June n.-Wheat: No. 2 hard, Ssc; No. 2 red, 90@91c. Corn. No. No. white, 41@411ec; No. 3 mixed 400 40Ac.
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St. I,Ouis Grain

St. Louis, June 11.-Wheat: No. 2 red. 92ae61ac; No. 2 hard. 9i1s@9sc. Corn: No. 2. 73c No. white, 75@751ac. Oats: No. 2, 421kc; No. white. 4312c.
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CELEBRATION OF FLAG
 DAY IN WOODLAWN

The opening day of the Woodlawn Playground and the celebration of Flag day will occur tomorrow afternoon from 3 to and in the evening from to 10 o'clock, during the latter hours MT Weatherly speaking on Play and Play grounds" and MT. J. B. Gibson on "Civic Pride" The exhibition during the after noon hours includes the following:
 Boys-Track: 50-yard dash. 100-yard dash 220- yard dash. Girls: b0-yard dash, 75-yard dash, spoon race
 Standing broad jump, dodge ball.
 Running broad jump--Goals in one min ute.
 dodge ball, goal in one minute. baseball game. baseball game. junior team; volley ball. game by girls; May pole dance. pa- triotic songs, tub race, baby boat race.
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Hubbard Bros. & Co.'s Letter

New York, June 11.--(Special )LShowers in the Atlantic states were not considered sufficient to break the dry weather which
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pompano, 1c; bluefish, Be- red bass. 6c:
 mixed fish. TIC; small trout. SIC; fresh water cat, dressed, 10c: salt water cat. SEC; speckled trout. 1214016c Shrimp. 1Oc lb, Perch, 61zc.
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Fish and Sea Foods

Red snapper, 9hd10c: gray snapper or groupers. 5c; Spanish mackerel, 15c in bbl. lots; fresh water brealns. shc:
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New Orleans Cotton Futures
Bank of England Statement

mutton, $4.75 @5.00; sheared lambs, s7. .Oo @s.o0; string lambs, $S.0O@9.55.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS

ball game by girls; May pole dance. pa- triotic songs, tub race, baby boat race ANNOUNCEMENTS A meeting of the Boys club has been called for 7:So this evening at the East Birmingham playground. The Study circle of the Woman's Mis- sonarv society of the Woodlawn Meth odist Episcopal church will be entertained Monday afternoon in the parlors of. the church.
 The Womans Missionary society of the Norwood Methodist church will have a baby show this afternoon at o'clock at the home of Mrs. G. B. Tarrant. at 1916 North Thirty-f1rst street. NOTES
 Mrs. Solon Jacobs is the guest of Mrs. J. E. Rice of Chicago, who Is delightfully."- known through her visits to Birmingham friends.
 Ben Walker Curry, who the past season has been a student at the University of Alabama, is now visiting in Montgomery as the guest of Jordan Tyson, who was also a student at the university These two young men were the beaux attend ing the dinner dance on Saturday even ingsat the Country club notes the Mobile Register
 Mir Curry has also been the guest of MT. Robert Goodal, Jr., in Birmingham since the conclusion of his university studies.
 Mir. Nelson Proctor is attending sum mer school at Tuscaloosa
 Miss Edith Tucker of Mobile Is spend ing the month of June at the Hotel Hill man.
 Miss Grace Thompson is visiting her sis- ter Mrs. Eugene Galloway. in Selma.
 MT. and Mrs. T. L. Hill have a party of friends as their guests at the Bir- mingham Outing club at Calcis.
 Dr. and Mrs. Robert Moref1eld who have had summer camp on the Cahaba river returned to the city this week, but expect to again spend some time in the woods later in the season..
 Mrs. Roberson (Maybelle Shackelford) of Wetumpka is the guest of her grand father, MT. c. F. Enslen.
 Mrs. Louis Turner and Miss Dolly Griffin have returned to Inglenook from a trip to Nashville. Tenn.
 Mrs. T. P. Powers has gone to her
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homo in Auburn after visiting her mother. Mrs Ruth Rothrock. in Ingle- nook.
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LOCAL SECURITIES

Total sales for the day, 109,6
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Miss Dorothy Ransom, Miss wiI1ias Atkins, Miss Estes and Miss Minnie Atkins have returned from a camping party at Queenstown.
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Mrs. J. R. Agnew. Jr. and little son of Fairfield are passing tho heated term in Pittsburg and others points in Pennsylvania.
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Mrs. W D. Miller and daushtsr of Fairfield are spending the summer in Joliet, Ill. as the guests of Mrs. Ida Bush.
Evening star., 1914-12-19
War Developments.

Berlin is rejoicing over a reported
great victory over the Russians in
Poland. the details of which are not as
yet forthcoming and which Petrograd
does not admit The German 1ubi-
lations. occasioned by official an
nouncements in unqualified terms
though without particulars, may be
premature. and today's dispatches in
dicate that Berlin. now that the first
re1oicings have passed. is anxiously
awaiting details and Russian ac-
acknowledgements Whether the recent
success presages the fall of Warsaw
cannot be determined at this stage.
Twice before the kaiser's troops have
seemed to be on the point of taking
the Polish capital. and each time they
have been thwarted with serious
losses. This may be the final success
full assault.
German satisfaction over the sea raid
on the east coast of England continues
despite the seeming absence of any
military advantage. 1t is denied In
Berlin that the bombarded coast town.
are unfortthsd. and asserted that the as
sault upea than u 1usufed. Thus q
9usstion ee faot 10 raised which may be
rsssSvsA ~ later asvelopments. A
Evening star., 1914-12-19

committee comprising some of the
foremost Englishmen has been organ
lied to formulate q recital OF Ger.
many's alleged violations Of the rules
OF warfare, including the attack upon
Scarborough. Whitby and Hartlepool.
There is evidence that the allied cam
paign against the Germans in France
and Flanders is assuming an aggres-
been made upon the German left flank
near the seacoast and, according to
London and Paris reports. they are
succeeding. The French claim ad-
vances in the interior, while Berlin
officially notes the repulse of attacks.
Apparently the purpose is to continue
to thrust all along the line nd to gain
ground. however slightly. with each
impulse, with the design of driving
the Germans out of their present
strong line of defensive positions.
The virtual annexation of Egypt by
England is announced in an official
declaration to the effect that hereafter
that country will constitute British
protectorate. Turkish suzerainty being
terminated. This is chiefly matter of
form. inasmuch as for all practical
purposes Egypt has been under the do
minion of England for years. 1t serves,
however, to simplify the military ad-
ministration of the country in the
present crisis. 1t was fully assured
from the moment that Turkey entered
the war field that England would form
ally disavow all responsibility to that
power for the Egyptian administra-
tion.
Evening star., 1914-12-19
An Educational Lecture Series.

Tonight will close a series of remark
ably successful travelogue entertain
ments which The Star has been pleased
to be able to offer to it's readers in CO.
operation with Mr.. Robertson. During
the past three weeks twenty-six travel
ogues have been given at Convention
Hall. covering wide range of subjects.
and attended by over $4,000 people. The
educational effect Of these illustrated
lectures. descriptive of all parts of the
world. and with especial bearing upon
the great international conflict now in
progress. has been unmistakable. The
hve school matinees have been attended
by 1900 pupils. who have not failed to
derive benefit from the descriptions of
foreign lands and interesting parts Of
this country. illustrated by stereopticon
and motion pictures. 1t is interesting
to note that of all the lectures that
which dealt with Germany has been
most popular. having been given four
times to over 1900 people. The Star
is proud of the great outturning of its
friends to take advantage of the on
portunity 1t has offered to hear Mr..
Robertson and to learn through his de-
hverances and his pictures SO much
about the nations now in the grip of
war.
Evening star., 1914-12-19
Delayed District Works.

1t is noted in an article in the news
columns of this issue of The Star that
municipal public work which If in full
progress would give employment to sew
eral hundred men is checked by execu-
tive action In the matter of signing con-
tracts, accepting plans and selecting
sites. This is an unfortunate situation
which could be remedied by enterprise
on the part of the District Commission
ers and the board of charities Bids
have been opened for the Western and
colored high schools and the successful
bidders have been virtually designated
through being informally authorized to
proceed with the work of site prepara-
tion, though the contracts are not yet
signed. Naturally these constructors
are proceeding conservatively. for every
thing they expend prior to the signature
of the contract Is at their own risk The
signing Of the contracts would warrant
them in proceeding at full strength and
would probably increase their employ
ment rolls by two or three hundred men.
Plans have been prepared for sixteen
room school, which await approval by
the Commissioners. and also plans for a
residence for the superintendent of the
tuberculosis hospital and for farm build
ings at the National Training School for
Girls. which await the approval of the
board of charities. The money for ali
these buildings became available at the
end of July, when the District appropria-
ton bill was signed. and the plans have
been prepared and submitted for an
proval for some time past. Money has
also been available for four and a haIr
months for two new fire engine houses,
for which the sites have not yet been Sc
iected. If action were had on all these
| construction projects employment would
probably be afforded at once or within
4 Few weeks for at least 500 men, and
. larger number would have been en-
ploysd II the papers had all been made
ont at the District building two months
ego. Washingtpn II suffering along with