davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-04-23
FEDERAL LEAGUE.
Hoppe Wins From sehaefer.

New York. April 23.-William F.
Hoppe OF New York went into the lead
in the AL balkline championship tour
nament by defeating Jake Schaefer.
the young Chicago player. 400 10 1874.
in the afternoon series. Hoppe aver
age IS 4-22, with high run OF 81
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-04-23

Two base hits-Bodie. Collins. Scott.
Struck out-By Scott. ? billings. Leli-
velp; by Banding. 1 OLord). Bases
on balls-On Banding, 5. Double play
- Weaver Blackburne-Chase. Runs
eGrned-On Blanding. 3 in Z innings.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-04-23
MISUNDERSTOOD
EIGHT STRAIGHT
White Hose Again Victorious
Over Cleveland's Failing
Ball Team.
CHIFEDS LOSE ANOTHER
Mordecai Brownies S'loufeds Win
Sixth Straight Game-cubs Lose
Opening Game at Home
Lot.

Cleveland. Ohio, April 23.-Chicago's
White Sox and the Lake Erie weather
bureau conspired yesterday to make
the opening OF the American league
season in this town as gloomy as Gen.
eral Huerta's 1914 outlook. The Sox
licked the Maps roundly to the tune of
to o. Score:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-04-23
Princeton, 10; Fordham, I.

defeated Fordham yesterday in one
sided game, 10 to L.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-04-23
Results Yesterday.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Results Yesterday.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Chicago, 8; Cincinnati, 4.
Philadelphia. 8; Boston. 1.
Brooklyn-New York. rain.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Cleveland. o; Chicago. Z.
Detroit. 4; st. Louis, 2.
New York, 1; Washington, 2.
Philadelphia, 8; Boston, 8 Is innings
oy agreement).
FEDERAL LEAGUE.
ST. Louis. 8: Chicago. 4.
Kansas City. 4; Indianapolis. 8.
Pittsburgh. s; Buffalo. 9.
Baltimore. 8: Brooklyn, s.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
No games scheduled.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-04-23

Iotdl 100 - 10
Slated for Schultz in eighth. fBat-
ted for Safer in ninth. Tran for Bres-
nahan in ninth. fBatted for Pierce in
eighth. IRAN for Sweeney in eighth.
(a) Batted for Koestner in ninth.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-04-23

Two base hits-Crandall, Mathes
Struck out-By MCGUIRE, 3 Drake, H
Miller. Boucher); by Crandall, (Swill.
ing, Block. Passed ball Wilson.
Time-1:49. Umpires-Brennan and
Mccormick.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-04-23
Cubs Play In Cold.

Chicago. Ill, April 23.-Chicago's
Cubs returned to the west side lot
yesterday to open the home season
and met the most cherries welcome
of recent years. The temperature was
IS degrees above zero, and the crowd
was 1000 bugs. mostly below Zero and
Cincinnati's Reds, under their new
leader. Charley Herzog. took the long
end of a to score. Score:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-04-23

ST. Louis, Mo-. April 23.-Mordecai
Browns team nosed out the Chifeds
once more yesterday, taking the final
combat of the series by count of to
4. That gave the SLoufeds a clean
sweet OF the series, and 1t was the
sixth straight victory for them. All st.
Louis is dumfounded. Score:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-04-23

Wild pitch-Blanding. Time 1:4s.
Umpires-OLoughlin and Hildebrand.
Browns Team Ahead.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14
COTTON MARKETS.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK. June 13.-The cotton
market was unsettled today. with prices
casing on under a renewal of old crop
liquidation and reports of good showers
in the carolinas. The close was steady,
but at net loss of 8 to s points.
There were quite a good many over
night selling orders at the start and the
opening was at a decline of to IL points
on the old crop and of 1 to 4 points on
new crop deliveries. Relatively weak ca
-bles encouraged the selling movement
but offerings We're well taken, owing to
prospects for continued clear. hot wealth
er over the greater part of the south.
Old crop positions rallied to about last
nights closing figures while the new
crop sold or points net higher on
covering, and fresh buying for long ac-
count. :, This advance encountered in
creased selling pressure, however, and
some of the same brokers who had been
very heavy sellers late yesterday on the
Chicago bank news were sellers again.
There was also a good deal of scattered
realizing for over the weekend. While
better weather reports from the Caro-
hnas may have inspired some local pres
sure.
The market broke sharply, with old
crop months selling IL to IL points
under yesterdays closing figures, while
later deliveries showed net losses of
5 to s points. A slight rally followed
on covering. but the market closed with
in a point of two of the lowest on new
crop positions. The supply and dis
may have inspired some of the old crop
selling. Detailed weather reports
showed good showers in North Carolina
and fair showers in Georgia, Alabama
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14
New York Bank Statement.

NEW YORK, June 1S.-The statement
OF actual condition OF clearing house
banks and trust companies for the week
shows that they hold 1921 200 reserve
in excess of legal requirements. This is
a decrease of $991s. 100 from last week.
Loans. s. 131. 4OS, GOO: increase, 81, $3.50
Specie. s436. 49, 900: decrease, S. 591 600
Legal tenders, $74.5s5.0O0: increase.
1901 900.
Net deposits. s2.oes. $4,000; increase,
$1O560,OOO
Circulation. al, 1oo. 600: decrease, s1s1 900
Bank cash reserve In vault. $436 So, 90
Trust companies cash reserve in vault,
s74.171.00O.
Aggregate cash reserve. $510.70s.00
Excess lawful reserve, $42,311, 200; de-
crease. 9,91s,700.
Trust companies reserve, with clear
ing house members carrying IS per
cent cash reserve s93.591 900.
Summary of state banks and trust
companies in Greater New York not in
cluded in clearing house statement:
Loans and investments, $573, 400;
decrease, $695.400.
Gold. $43,502.200; decrease. $1.3s1.1O0.
Currency and bank notes, $685., 700:
increase, $4,000.
Total deposits. ss74,sss.soo decrease.
$7.712.200.
Close-Mercantile paper, 31aai. ster-
ling easier; 60 days. 1856 As; demand
1880. Commercial bills. 4.S6a4. S6A
Bar silver. 56A. Mexican dollars, A.
Government bonds steady. Railroad
bonds irregular.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
CHICAGO.

CHICAGO, June 13.-Too much rain in
Nebraska and the spring crop states
turned the wheat market today In favor
of the bulls The outcome was a firm
close, at V to has net advance
Corn finished " lower to hah gain; oats
Y of to u up, and provisions the same as
last night to cents down.
It was evident from the start that the
Lorimer bank troubles and the Sidney
Long & Co. grain failure had ceased to
have any effect on the price of wheat.
Holdings not in strong hands were no
longer pressing on the market, so that the
trade as a whole was in better shape to
respond to ordinary conditions. Chief at
tention went promptly to complaints of
excessive moisture in Nebraska, where
warm, dry weather is needed to rush the
1dpening Of winter wheat. Advices from
the Dakotas and Minnesota told likewise
that rains were becoming menace to the
spring crop as well.
Fear of q wet harvest in Kansas and
Oklahoma proved a further handicap to
the bear side Of the wheat market.
The forecast was unsettled weather for
both states, a most unwe1come prediction
in view Of the spread of cutting and
threshing.
Unconfirmed rumors that Argentine ex-
porters were rebuying shipments sold
to come to the United States led to
tightness here in nearby deliveries of
corn. Rains in Illinois and other places
that have been suffering from drought
made the later options ease off.
Oats paralleled the action of corn and
seemed almost wholly devoid Of indepen-
dence.
Prospect of larger receipts Of hogs next
week gave provisions downward slant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14
The Political Money Trust.
From I.ippincott's.

llpplncOtt
It is perhaps going too far to claim
that political control of our banking sys-
tenn would be extended to the point OF
building up political machine out OF
the officers and employees of the banks.
who are not public officers. but who are.
nevertheless, subject to dismissal by a
public body. Nor is it to be believed that
political control would be used to extend
credit to democrats and to deny it to re-
publicslns, charge which was made by
Andrew jackson against the Second
United States Bank. Conceivably, the
claims of the cotton growers under
democratic administration to receive lib
eral treatment in interest rates and re-
discounts might be more favorably re-
garded than the claims of the manu1ac-
turers of New England. But public sentl-
ment would not allow any administration
to go far along the path of sectional dis
elimination About the worst that could
be said of political management of the
new banking system is that every impor-
tant question of banking policy would be
considered in its bearing upon the for
tunes of the party in power. In other
words. would be settled by giving the
people exactly what they at that mo-
ment wanted, by saying Yes TO every
request with sufficient political backing
and by saying NO very seldom and only
where denials would not mean a loss OF
votes.
This is a fair outline of what may be
expected under political management or
the new banking system. 1t is not at all
unlikely that some such policy may be at
tempted But that it can permanently
succeed is unlikely. Political control or
the banking system of the United States.
IL seriously attempted, will result so DIS
astrously to the party in power that 1t
will never be repeated. Imitation of credit.
which political control implies, means
eventual collapse and widespread rum.
If political control is attempted. one eN-
perience will be sufficient to convince the
politicians that the banking business
should be let alone, and that the func-
lions of the reserve board should be con-
fined to carrying out the recommends
lions of the advisory council OF bankers
which is also provided by the act.
The Khedive of Egypt is In theory
monarch Of large powers The scope OF
his authority is comprehensive He APP
proaches closely to the powers OF an
absolute monarch. In practice he takes
the advice of the British resident. so
with the federal reserve board. In theory
ii will direct and govern the banking
system of the United States. In practice
it will, with the most anxious solicitude.
follow the recommendations Of the adj
yisory council of bankers In this body.
composed, as it will be, of the wisest.
most experienced and most conservative
bankers, will reside the real governing
power of the new system. Their conclu-
,sions on all matters of banking policy
will control.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, June 13.-F1our-Dull
Rye flour-Quiet.
Cornmeal-Steady.
Rye-Quiet.
Barley-Steady.
Wheat-Spot irregular; No. . hard win
ter, 99A elf. New York: No. red, new,
92h elf. July shipment; No. l north
ern Duluth, 1.O2A, and No. / northern
Manitoba, LOB fob. afioat. Futures were
firmer on complaints of excessive rains
in Nebraska. July. 94ss; September, 91B:
December, 90.
corn-spot firm: No. 2 yellow. s214 elf.
prompt.
Oats-Spot dull
Hay-Qufet.
Hops-Easy.
Hides-Easy.
Leather-Firm.
Pork-Steady.
Beef-Steady.
Cut meats-Steady.
Lard-Steady. Refined quiet compound
steady.
Tallow-Quiet.
Cottonseed oil-Steady; prime summer
yellow, 7.35; July, 7.43; September, 7.61;
December, 7.O5.
Wool-Steady.
Rosin-Quiet.
Turpentine-Quiet.
Rce-Steady.
Molasses-Dull.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14
Dazed the Crank.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.

David P. Barrows. while acting presi-
dent of tho University of California, one
day received a queer visitor. Lean and
terribly earnest, the man broke into
Barrows' study.
st am the prophet Micah" he an
nounced, land I have a need for your
service The world is soon to come to
an end. Could you not spread the It'd
ings through the universitiy?"
Dr. Barrows shook his visitor by the
hand, collected his thoughts and re-
piled: II believe that at no time was
there such a crying need for prophets.
But, unfortunately. prophesying is an
art with which I am unfamiliar am
not even in close sympathy with It, and.
as ] am unable to comprehend what
you have accomplished. confess inabil-
ity to participate as a prognosticator."
Whether it was the unexpected reply
or the quick fire OF So many words that
dazed the visitor will never be known.
Certain 1t is the man backed to the door
and uttered the inadequate reply, Yes"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14
NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET

NEW YORK, June 1s.-Indifferent Euro
pean cables and reports that cost and
freight offers from Brazil were shade
lower seemed responsible for scattering
liquidation or local selling in the coffee
to lower and active months eased
off another point or two. Sales. 12,OCO
bags.
June. ss2; July. s.ss: September. e.os:
October. GIT: December, 9.34; January.
9.36: March, 9.39; May, 9.41.
Spot quiet; Rio No. Z. on: Santos No.
4, 12Aa12M. Mild dull; Cordova. 1212a
16 nominal.
Havre unchanged to Y franc lower.
Hamburg unchanged to v pfennig higher.
Rio so lower at $3.50. Brazilian receipts.
@, 900 bags; Jundiahy. HOO bags San
tos cables quoted As unchanged; futures
unchanged to Is higher.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14
BALTIMORE.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to me star
BALTIMORE. June 13.-Wheat-
spot No. 2 red. 90: spot No. red west
ern, 96; June No. 2 red, SO; July No. 2
red. 50; August No 2 red. STU; Septem-
Der No. red. 87A; receipts. 1904
bushels; exports. 179,381 bushels.
Corn-Quiet; spot contract, II; re-
ceipts, $3.50 bushels.
Oats-Firm; standard white. 46a46A
No. white 45ha46N; receipts. Hill
bushels: exports. 1891 bushels.
Rye@Quiet: No. 2 western export, 72a
70; No. 2 western domestic, 75a76: re-
ceipts, S,s5S bushels; exports, Il, 143 bush
els.
Hay-Steady: Mo- timothy. unchanged;
No. l. clover mixed, unchanged.
Grain freights-Steady; steam to Liver
pool per bushel. unchanged: Cork for
orders, per quarter, unchanged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14
Right or Wrong.
From Lippincott'.

From Lippincott's.
One of our western senator's. who pos
sesses a. rather irascible temper. has a
habit on days when everything seems TO
go wrong Of scolding the clerks employed
by his committee.
Not long ago, during a session Of the
Senate, the western solon had expressed
a desire that one of the clerks prepare a
tabulated statement Of certain trade sta
tistics of the United States. The state
ment was accordingly prepared and laid
before the testy senator. who glanced at
1t with an air that BODIED trouble. I'm q
moment he looked up and exclaimed:
"See here. Morton. this worn't do. Why
didn't you prepare this statement on the
typewriter? These figures are disgrace
full Any twelve-year-oid schoolboy
could do better than that. See that
three? 1t looks for all the world like
five! No one would take 1t for anything
else. Just look at it!''
clerk. alphabetically. Tho fact is. it
is q i've" --.sr
"A five." roared the senator. You
idiot! It looks like a three!'' --------
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

CHICAGO. June 13.-Hogs-Receipts.
II. 900 head; steady: bulk of sales. S.15a
8.25; light. 7.95as.25: mixed. 7.95a8.30:
heavy. 7.S0aS.27; rough, 7.sOa7.95; pigs.
Z. 00a7.75.
Cattle-Receipts, 800 head: steady.
Beeves, 7.30a9.30; steers, 6.S0a8.10:
stockers and feeders. 6.20aS.10;. cows
and Eeifers, 3.60aS.70: calves, 7.00a10.25.
Sheep-Receipts, 1000 head. Sheep.
5.40AS35; yearlings, 6.35a7.50: lambs,
6.50aS.00; springs, 7.25as.50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14
COTTONSEED OIL.

NEW YORK, June 13.-Except for
August. which showed firmness on de-
mand from shorts. cottonseed oil ruled
easy in absence of outside demand
with the lower ruling in cotton. Final
prices were l point higher to 3 net
lower. Sales. 10000 barrels. Prime
crude, 6.2fa6.33, prime summer yellow.
7.35; June, 1888; July. 7.43; August. 1855;
September. f.6l: October. 7.4S; Novem-
Der. 7.07; December. 7.05; January, 7.07.
Prime winter yellow and summer
white 75Oa8.50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14
NO DIVIDEND ON COMMON.
Directors Of c., I. and L. Railway
Pass Semi-Annual Payment.

NEW YORK. June 13-Directors of the
Chicago. Indianapolis and Louisville rail-
way have passed the semi-annual divi-
dend on the common stock. which has
been on a 81 per cent basis for several
years.
The reason given was that earnings
did not justify their continuance. The
regular semi-annual dividend of per
cent was declared on the preferred stock
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14

And James Tyson. who landed in Aus
tralia penniless, died not long ago .
millionaire five times over"-and q
the last.
And these are but selections from the
long list of those who have Jared across
the seas to find fame or fortune-from
Barney Barnato. who started on his
road to wealth by dancing for copperG
in the drinking saloons Of Kimberley
to the. Hon. Andrew Fisher "a Scotsman,
like Mr.. Watt, prime minister of Vic
toria). who has fought his way to the
premiership of the Australian common-
wealth. and Sir Samuel Way. Bart. who
became chief justice and lieutenant gov.
ernor of South Australia in which he
first set foot as an immigrant two
generations ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14
Much Needed Invention.
From the Yonkers Statesman.

From the Yonkers Statesman.
Mrs. Bacon-The old-fashioned feather
duster and the vacuum cleaner have
been combined by a Pennsylvania in
ventor for removing dust from small
articles.
Mrs. Egbert-I hope now some one will
get busy and invent something that
will pick up the pieces and glue 'em
together again,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14
NEW ORLEANS.

NEW ORLEANS, June 13.-The cotton
market had downward tendency on the
weekend session as the result Of rains
in portions of the eastern belt, and the
falling OF in consumption of cotton by
American mills during May, as COM
pared with the same month last year.
Liberal buying orders kept the market
steady. but offerings were sufficient to
put prices to points under yester-
days finals.
The close was steady at a net decline
of to points
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14
Strong Presumption.

From the New York Globe.
Lawyer--You say that the defendant
ran his automobile into the show win
dow of millinery store: but that doesn't
show he was intoxicated, does 1t?
Officer-Well. no; but when I arrested
him he was trying on the hats.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14
Sales Aggregate 13o, 900 Tons.

Sales of merchant pig iron last week
aggregated about 10000 tons. including
10000 to 10000 tons for pipe works. The
rank and file of consumers continued ex-
tremely conservative, but there was
more general buying by foundries de-
pendent. Upon the railroads. as well as
by manufacturers of heating apparatus,
special and jobbing foundries.
,. In the steel trade the principal fea-
ture was the placing of line pipe orders
by oil companies in California, Ohio and
West Virginia aggregating about 213
miles, or about 5000 tons; this bust
ness went mainly to Independent pipe
shops.
Railroad equipment orders were light
The Bethlehem Steel Company sold 25,-
600 tons of rails in small lots; the Ten
nessee Company secured an order for
1900 tons from the St. Louis and South
western. and the Lackawanna Steel
Company an order for $50 tons from the
international railroads Car orders ag-
gregated 400. the largest being 800 for
the Havana Central. Structural orders
called for only 1900 tons of steel shapes,
including $500 tons for caisson for sub
way and tunnel work. 200 tons for the
Bonwi-Teller store and LOCO tons for
track elevation at Chicago for the ILL
nois Central
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14
NEW YORK DRY GOODS.
BOSTON, June Is.

NEW YORK. June 1s.-Cotton goods
markets were steady today Yarns
were frmer in spinners' circles. Linens
were in better request. White goods
and printed wash fabrics sold freely.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14
Australia's Cattle King.

In 1871 Mr.. Sidney Kidman. another
poor emigrant, spent his last shilling
in purchasing a horse for e. los A
score of years later he was Australia's
cattle king" lord of $4,000 square
miles OF land, and counted his sheep
and cattle in hundreds of thousands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14
Popular Impression.

From the Yonkers Statesman.
BILL see Chinese streets are always
made crooked to keep the evil spirits out
Of them.
Ull-Why. thought evil spirits liked
crooked" things
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14
President Wilson's Descriptive
Designation of Conditions
Widely Discussed.
COMMERCE BAROMETERS
INDICATE DEPRESSION
Records of Bank Clearings, Money
Market, Imports and Exports
and Railway Earnings.
BY W. s. COUSINS.

NEW YORK. June 13.-President Will
sons descriptive designation of business
conditions In the United States has prob
ably provoked a wider discussion and
inspired more general and thoughtful
expression of opinion than any state
ment emanating from the White House
in a year. Newspaper writer's have been
furnished with a new expression; bus
ness leaders have been given a clearer
conception Of the Presidents attitude
toward their intricate problems; political
adherents have sought comfort in the as
surance that a panacea for our CONNER
cial Ills is surely in process OF prepara-
ton; while political opponents have seiz-
ed the opportunity to heap their criticism
upon what they term the incompetency
Of the present administration to deal
with a complicated situation, and to de-
clare that the legislative policies have
been ruinous in their effect on business
conditions. From the jumbled mass of
statement and contradiction we turn for
definite information to those reliable
ly, the records of bank clearings, OF
money market conditions, Of import and
export, Of railroad and steel trade aot1v1-
ties, Of interstate and intrastate COM
merce, Of employment and idleness, and
here we must discard psychology" and
realize conditions as they actually exist.
For the month of May Bradstreets s.
after having received returns from all
large centers of the country. shows that
the bank exchanges were III per cent
less than in April, and showed a decline
Of 81 per cent from the poor month of
May, 1913. and Of 11.3 per cent from
May, 1912 An equally responsible index
of conditions is the overwhelming abund-
ance of unemployed money. Since the
beginning of May the continent has taken
$50, 100000 gold from New York, but
money rates, instead of hardening under
this natural stimulant and the certainty
that the efflux of the precious metal
is to continue on q substantial scale,
have sharply declined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14

and Louisiana. but forty-nine stations
east of the river showed maximum tenn
peratures of 100 degrees or over.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14
WEEKS RANGE OF PRICES
Corrected to the Close of Business June Is at the
New York Stock Exchange
Railway and Miscellaneous Shares.

following table closing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14

Because of the slowing down Of business,
there has been considerable piling up OF
idle money at the principal reserve CEN
tiers.