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Com ments on Business.

The comments on business contained
In the trade journals are very opti-
nistic
l'radstreet's says: Well-nigh insatia-
Die demand for practically all kinds OF
goods continues, necessity seemingly
overriding The supposed power of stead
lly rising prices TO automatically check
consumption. Higher quotations fail 10
deter orders from rolling into the steel
mllls' DIG foreign orders are reported
pending advices OF lack of materials
match reports OF short supplies of
freight cars; there is more general bust
ness under way. Notwithstanding that
Indictment weather In the East has re-
tarded retail trade In spring fabrics
while collections are good.
X. q. Dun 4 Co. says: Only by the
use OF superlatives can existing COM
niercial ana industrial conditions &c
adequately described. Great as are the
gains shown by bank clearings, iron
output. untitled steel tonnage. and SINH
lar indices. more statistical records no
longer fully reflect a situation for
which there Is no precedent. In some
branches and sections the volume of
business has reached such vast proper
lions that further expansion Is depend
ent upon increased facilities for both
production and distribution. Marufac-
turers In steel. In textiles. and in other
lines are rejecting additional contracts.
cause capacity Is already booked far
ahead. or through inability to obtain
necessary raw materials.
Only because of breakdowns and re-
pairs Is there an idle wheel In the steel
Industry. With scarcely an exception.
plants everywhere are pushed to the
limit of capacity. and works that had
been Idle for years are now being utll-
lied whenever IL Is physically possible.
But even with production on n scale
never before known. demands cannot be
filled, and considerable new business
Is OF necessity turned away. The mar
Scts are In an extraordinary state. with
prices advancing almost daily and some
manufacturers refusing to quote at all.
or naming what are thought to be pro-
hibitory figures.
Commercial failures this week in the
United States reported by r. q. Dun &
Co, are 327 against ca last week. $50
the preceding week, and 81 the corre-
spending week of last year. Failures
in Canada number 10 against Il last
week. As the preceding week. and IS last
year.
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DEATHS

CooK-Passed from this life 10 life eyeriast-
ing. at Providence Hospital, Thursday,
March ~, 1916. at 5a5 D. m, ISABELLA
MeBhYDE COOK, beloved wife OF the late
The remains can be Viewed at 1914 Massa-
chusetts avenue northwest, Funeral will
be held at O'clock Monday Afternoon,
March 70 from the above address.
cook-A special meeting OF Cathedral Chap
ter, NO. H. E, o. s., will he held in the
chapter room Monday, March 10 n M.
Tor the purpose OF attending the funeral OF
our late Sister. ISABELLA NJ cook, at
Arlington. Members are requested 10 be
present NELLIE X. DODGE Matron
ELIZABETH r. CORNISH. Secretary.
NEULAND-Departed this life ON Friday.
merch H. lgl6, after lingering illness.
MARY MARGARET NEULAND. aeed
tMeny-two years. daughter Of the late An
ore sa anq bertha Neuland (nee Bessler).
Funeral from her sisters residence Mrs.
Philip A. Simpson. 30 Fourteenth street
northeast, on Monday, March 20. NJ 400
a. m; thence TO Holy Comforter Church.
where requiem mass will be said for the
repose Of her soul. Interment at 81. Mays
Cemetery.
sANDERs-on Saturday. March ls. 1915. At
me residence OF her grandmother, Mrs
louis Drill los South ST. Asaph, Alexan-
dria, Va. AN0EIUS CATHERINE, the in
iant daughter Of Mrs. and Mr.. Eugene Lee
fOVNG-At a. M. Sunday, March 10 1919.
OLIVER FRANCIS YOUNG. .
Funeral strictly private. Services At the
Cemetery. p. m. Monday.
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, italy is after 1000 Inquiries from do
mestic sources are reaching large pro-
portions. and are taxing the capacity OF
Car and Foundry, Pressed steel Car
and Railway Steel Spring.
TIE demand for rails Is reaching rec
rd-breaking proportions, practically all
for delivery In 1911 The Frisco has ,as,
tons, all for next years delivery. Be-
fore the month is out, sales are ex-
pected to reach several hundred thou
sand tons.
The Steel Corporation is quoting plates
az $3.50 per 100 pounds, or S32 a ton.
above the low level reached during the
last depression. But In the East from
$3.50 to 81 per 100 pounds is asked.
Bars are'in heavy demand, and most
of the mills have sold their possible pro-
duction for the rest Iof the year.
The increasing demand has sent prices
of ell steel products up, But the in
gradients that go into the making of
steel are also rising. In instances out OF
proportion to the Increase made in the
figures quoted on the finished product.
tcrro-manganese. an alloy absolutely
necessary in steel making. Is selling at
$3.50 To $3.50 ton for spot delivery, with
futures quoted around S175 n ton. This
compares with quotation of SIS to $40
immediately before the war.
Railroad embargoes are adding to the
difficulties OF dry goods manufacturers.
The Inevitable consequence Of n situa-
ton where only part OF the goods
shipped have got through has been that
many customers have felt themselves
disseminated against, and complaints
TO tho mills for slowness in deliveries
are frequent
The demand for practically all kinds
OF goods Is strong, and retailers are
doin6 heavy business, which means
that goods are going rapidly into tho
hands OF the ultimate consumer
Cotton goods generally are firm, with
an advancing tendency, which is spe-
as ginghams.
Movement OF wool to the mills ia
heavy There Is an excellent demand
Tor worsted yarns and stocks in spinners'
hands appear to be small. Clothing
manufacturers are Offering contracts
freely into 1871, but the disposition of
the mills In respect to such business Is
still one of caution.
silks. both spun and raw. are NOV
ing higher. Japan raw having moved up
~ cents a pound within the week. There
is good buying of embroideries.
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British Securities,


The Improvement in railroad securi-
ties was inspired in large measure by
the reports that j. T.. Morgan has con-
cluded with the British government an
Agreement whereby the securities mohil-
lied by that government will be con-
signed to Mr.. Morgan's Arm for dispo-
sition in the market and as collateral
for further loans to the allies.
But even If no arrangements have
been made by our bankers with London
for keeping off the market the Amcrl-
can bonds and stocks which have been
modified by the British exchequer there
are good reasons for believing that the
selling movement of our securities by
Europe has long since been exhausted.
Last December l.. +. Loree. working
with the Federal reserve officials. OBJ
tanned figures direct from our railroads
showing that between January IL and
July 81 OF 1915 $751; S92, 900 of American
railroad bonds and stocks had been re-
turned from the other side, reducing the
amount owned abroad to s.. %, $4,000 par
value or to H.75l. 49, 900 market value.
That selling was at the rate of $4,000, 900
q month; and IL the same rate was con-
tinued for the remainder of 1915, on
January l last there was only some
f1.4O0.000 market value of our railroad
stocks and bonds left on the other side.
During January and February foreign
owned securities were returned at the
rate of $7O.OOOOOO a week.
II the British government has mobil-
lied anything like Sl.0OOOoOOOo of our
securities. as has been cabled from the
other side. there are virtually no Amer
ican railroad bonds or stocks now held
abroad. Few of our industrial stocks
have ever been held abroad, and COM
paratively few industrial companies
have ever issued any bonds.
During the week the United States
Steel Corporation issued Its annual re-
port for the year 1915 showing a gross
were Mt the rate of nearly $40 a share
for the common stock.
During the past few days estimates
have been made by those familiar with
net earnings for the second quarter OF
the current year ranged as high as S75.-
10000 which would be at the rate Of
500. GOO annually. Wagers were made
that the earnings would be nearer no.
10000 than 81. 900 900. -
II the Steel Corporation was able to
report earnings of 5000 900 900 for n single
year there would remain balance
e21900o,O 900 equal to approximately A.5O
. ahafe.
+ . Demand for Steel.
There Is no falling off In the demand
for steel. Production is growing rapidly,
but, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. certain producers
have been forced TO cut down the re-
quirements of consumers. In some
cases orders have been Topped of 81
per cent.
Foreign requirements are large, and
many mills have declined to make bids
owing to the fact that they cannot now
supply domestic consumers with what
they want. The big demand is coming
from the railroads. and the equipment
companies are reaping large profits.
The call for steel is worldwide. In
Qu!rteE are in the market for between
10000 and 1900 railroad cars for EXPORT.
Tho Interstate Railway Company OF
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Live Stock Prices.

Closing prices on the principal live stock
Chicago Market.
CHICAGO, March --Hogs-Receipts, 10
go; slow. Bulk t9.b5m9.7O: light, fg.15ue 10:
mixed. s9.25as76; heavy, 5000 ~; rough,
70 sos, 10; pigs, H.e5aSsO
Cattle-Recelpts 100; steady. Native beef
steers. N.6OmS.@; stockers and feeders, sea
So So, cows and helfers 'a.sOas.i5; calves, SS.S
Sheep Receipts, 500; weak. wethers. $50
Kansas City Market.
KANSAS CITY. Mo-, March IS-Hogs-Re-
ceipts. LOCO; strong. Bulk. ss.3oa9eo: heavy
WbOds6Oi packers and butchers, S9.i0fs $780,
light, @lsaaso; pigs, T.toasso
steers. se.2sde.e5; dressed beef steers, IL SoaD
slS; southern steers, TGs.6o; cows S5afs.2b;
he 81. r,, 5000 slocksrs and feeders, $500
SHEEP Receipts none; steady Lambs
sio.s5 Bil. a. yesrlnss. ts.saaiO; wethers ssasi
ST. Louis Market.
st. LOUIS. Mo-, March ls.-IIogs-Recelpts.
$500: HIGHER. Pigs and lights, "a. 25fr9.2b;
2. mixed and butchers. ssSoaS.F5:, good heavy,
csttic~Receipts, 200; steady. Native beef
steers, s7.50a9.S0; yearlinE steers and heifers.
s.50n9.50i cows, 5.50uS; stockers and feeders,
S.5OnS; Texas and Indian steers. 81 8dS;
COWS and heifers Nae; native calves, sea
1916.
sheep-Recelpts, none; nominal. Yearilng
wethers. NHlo; lambs. Dail.Go; ewes, $50
East Buffalo Market.
EAST BUFFALO. n. y. March Is.--Cattle
--Receipts. 50 head active and steady.
veals-Receipts, goi active. Aall.50.
Ql020; mixed, sio.O6ai0.l5; Workers fp500
lilo; pigs, 1875: roughs. so.i5a9.25; stags.
sheep and Lambs--Receipts. 1000 head;
active. Lambs. .ispis; yeariinss, ts.5oalo.5o;
others unchanged.
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IN MEM0RlAM

CNotices for this column are accepted At u
cents fiat. either prose or poetry, in case mo-
tice does not exceed ten lines. And 10 cents
for each line In excess OF ten.)
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BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENTS

woRKINGMEN-Let's talk things over and
you will soon know where to 40 to save
part OF your nay envelope and buy as good
grade and stylish new suits at IS up: these
stuck on one price. JUsTH'S OLD
STAND SO d.
The Washington times., 1916-03-19
RUG WEAVING

NINE. RHODES-Scalp Treatment and Facial
massage. Combines beautifully made into
switches. 12e6 9TH st. n. w.
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WANTED-SALESMEN

EXPERIENCED salesman for guaranteed in
vestment offer by large, successful COM
pany: position good from ST. 900 to $40, 900
yearly; prospects furnished; permanent con-
nection for men able 10 make good. Man
ager. 80 Bond bldg.
Observation-Disclosures unnecessary; 500 to
$500 per month: we furnish the ira ming and
the lob; earn while YOU learn. Write quick
ARTHUR X. OELHAFEN, Manager, Toma-
hawk, Wis
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FOR SALE-FARMS

DO YOU WANT LAND? We want to send
everybody wanting land free copy OF Ameri-
can Land Bulletin. containing land for sale
In thirty States. many snaps We are pub
fishers not land dealers; write stating kind
wanted: or II you have land for sale write
for information about our unusual service to
advertisers. AMERICAN LAND BULLETIN
Baldwin. Wis
The Washington times., 1916-03-19
TABLE BOARD

SPECIAL LUNCH-7A 12th ST. N w,
Southern cooking. nice home made dessert.
cellent table board. $3.50 per week; quick ser
vice.
The Washington times., 1916-03-19
HELP WANTED-MALE

AGENTS-Sell raincoats; new proposition: We
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weekly; sample coat free. CONFER MFG.
CO., LOG Postal ST., Dayton, Ohio.
EARN 800 WEEKLY mana gtng clean legiti-
mate mail order business; we furnish every
thing: right party need not worry about capt
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ROOMS AND BOARD

EYE ST. n. w. 20l-Iarge southern-expo-
sure room third floor. next to bath; cor
ner residence; a. IN. l.. tho best OF home
cooking: terms for two people. $40 month.
Sth ST. n. w, llO6-l-arRe. nicely furnished
room. excellent board: home cooking; rea-
sonable
MASS AVE. w, l2l.-Firs;-class table
board and rooms: rates moderate: by day.
week, or month. Phone y. se6l.
18th ST. n. w, SOS--Rooms and BOARD. With
or without private bath; home cooking.
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BUSINESS PROPERTY

FOR RENT-Corner srocery store and dwell
ing northwest section OF city: old eatab-
lished stand: occupied at present. doing good
business. Address BOX ia, Times office.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-09-30

Judge Edmund Waddill, Jr., Of
the United States District Court
with residence in Richmond, one
OF the greatest jurists in the South,
has issued an injunction against
the city of Norfolk in the segrepa-
ton which that place sought to
impose uLOn the thrifty Negroes
OF that prosperous Southern me
tropolis. This is the natural and
logical thing to do, and we take
pleasure in commencing the noted
Judge for his absolute fairness TO
the Negroes. The colored people
were represented by Attorneys !.
Thomas Newsome and w. R. Wal
ker, and it is said that their presen-
tatlon Of the matter at issue was
able, comprehensive, and calcula-
ted to carry conviction to the pre-
siding Judge. Their handling of
this case is an apt refutation of the
oft repeated and ti1ne-worn state
ment that Negro lawyers haven t
the grasp of legal ideas and cannot
properly interpret The law. The
injunction issued by Judge Waddill
is permanent, and is quite likely a
probable forecast of what he Uni
ted States Supreme Court is going
to do with the segregation question.
when ii finally adjudicates it with
the full bench Of nine members
passing on the validity of meas
TIRE designed in iniquity and hay
ing for its basic principle the con-
hscat'on of the property rights of
native born and intensely loval
Americans, whose only crime con-
slsts IN possessing skins which are
little darker hued than those COW
erlng some other people.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-09-30
"HE DIDN'T DO RIGHT"
independent Voters Turning This Con.
vcton Over and Over In Their
Minds and 1t Will Cost Mr..
Wilson Many Vote.

A Democrat who never voted for u
Republican candidate for President ex-
cept In 1872, when he was forced by
the lack or Democratic nominee to
cast his ballot for Horace Greeley,
says: II expect to vote for Woodrow
Wilson, but l don't like his course in
the railroad dispute. He didn't do
right"
The railroad controversy has intro
duced moral issue into the campuirn
MI. Wilson sacrificed principle to OK
pedlency, or what he judges to be OK
pediency, when he tamely surrendered
to the demands OF the trai service
brotherhoods.
He put his own personal and party
need before the public good. He angl-
ed for votes. He aimed body blow
at the tried and tested arbitration
method OF settling differences.
God help you; cannot" be is said
TO nave exclaimed to the railroad man
ayers, VINO do not poll as many votes
as their employees. But he could have
helped them If he had stood jmpa rtiol.
~ between them and the utterly reck-
'N''' VICE representatives who
were bent on their ule-or-ruin pro-
gramme.
He didn't do right" The conscious.
ness or that fact Is sinking deep into
the American mind.
He didn't do right" That wide.
spread conviction will cost him thou
SANDS or votes on election day.
He didn't do right" He preferred
the weak. the timid attitude of tho
born compromised.
The American people like co1ra ce
They like convictions. They like a
man who has the courage Of his con-
v1ctions. They like man who is
wiling to risk consequences for the
sake Of just cause
1t was an unjust cause In which
Woodrow Wilson enlisted when he ac-
cepted the brotherhood view that the
chief item IN their demands could not
be rated.-Providence Journal
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-09-30

The Race Congress 10 G held in
Washington. October 4, can be pro-
ductlve of much god if wisdom
prevails and the right things are
said in the possible address to tile
country. Agitation If the proper
sort was a great lever in freeing the
bondmcn III the dark days of sla,
very, and it is Just as effective today
as 1t was then. Calm, temperate
and dIspassionate should be the
spirit pervading the gathering, but
none the less vigorous should lis
utterances be. No place in this
country is better fitted for meet
ing of protest than this country 5
Capitol.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-09-30

Gratitude to public sentiment for
tearing down the old one storv
school house to immediately buili
an up-to-date modern staucture Of
eight rooms, fills and Thrills us.
For twenty odd years this paper
has COntended for what is being
done, and if at times i. seemed cru
el, it meant to be kind. Also the
school board has our thanks. This
paper asks no favors because Of
color, but equal and exact justice
because we are tax paying citizens.
Giving us equal chances and fail
ure follows, it will be our fault, not
yours,
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-09-30
FIVE THOUSAND A DAY
Enrollments in the Hughes National
COLLEGE leauue

The Hughes National College League
Oh Fifth avenue, New York, is receiy
ing enrollments at the rate of five
thousand a day. They are coming
from all parts Of the country, and tho
work Of organizing branches in all
states and most Of the important cities
has been started. A large percentage
or the enrOllments are from men who
give their usual political affiliations as
Progressive, Democratic or Independ.
ent
The league has received the endorse.
ment OF Governor Hughes, who wired.
If there was ever a time when tho
educated men Of the country who have
It's welfare at heart should work for
right principles and strong government
1t Is now" Chairman Wilcox of the
Republican National Committee OK.
President Taft, and John HAYS Ham.
mond have also praised the work on.
Enthusiastically, as much on the score OF
ihe benefit to the men themselves as
OF the real work it will do TO holm
elect Governor Hughes.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-09-30

The funeral of Mrs. Susan San
bridge will be held from Mt. Zion
M. +. Church on Monday, October
Z, at p. N. 1t will be remem-
bered that this old lady was stran-
ger to this community when strick
Ell on the street aud died in the City
Hospital. Mrs. Susan Sandridge,
since her death has been at the un-
dertaking establishment of Under
taker H. M. Cole, where she is in
remarkable state Of preservation.
she having been embalmed bv him,
ana kept by him for the past eight
weeks, adjacent to his dining room
where he could, sanitarily keep her
for fifty or hundred years, if he
wanted to and lived that long.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-09-30

The Pioneer Press is very glad to
see t':at Judge John Mitchell,
w Gods IS determined to punish real
violations Of the Yost prohibition
LAWN fact he has already done it
but we are also glad that he has
enough liberality, coupled with his
great grasp Of the law, to fail to
summarily commit man TO nil
when no attractions of statutory
enactments are intended. A Judge
who tempers justice with mercy
and one who is also a terror to evil
doors, is real asset to any COM
munlty, and that is exactly what
Judge Woods is to the eighteenth
judicial circuit.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-09-30
Evangelist George Stew.

Evangelist George Stevens is
preaching at his tabernacle to ca
paclty crowds daily. lis truly, as
it were, an awakening in Zlon'
as the preacher men say, but the
question that interests us, is the
religion he breaches, big enough,
broad enough and grand enough
to embrace all manner of mankind?
If so, then he is man after Our
heart, and if not, we'll then we will
be compelled to accept his preach
ments in spirit that betokens lack
of conviction.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-09-30

Its quite probable that if il were
not near the Presidential election
people would Sill be ahixing war
tax stamps to telegraph blanks bills
of lading &c. It's time too, be-
cause this country has been the
laughing stock of the void with
its war-tax and no war.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-09-30

The Administration Orders
Soldiers Homc' and other headings
Of similar nature adorn the front
pages of the metropolitan dailies
these days. Wonder if just such
moves as those referred to above
are not made with the idea in mind
OF making votes for the democratic
candidates?
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-09-30

I. Thomas Fortune, the old edi-
torial war horse, is doing some fine
editorial work on the PHILADELPHIA
Tribune at this time. It is not
hard to decipher his writings, be
cause once read after, you never
forget the Fortunesquc style, and
we wish it were possible for it tc
endure forever.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-09-30

If the foolhardy whites who pro-
posed a ghetto for Martinsburg,
would have been 80 foolish as to
have tried out their segregation
scheme, its dollars to doughnuts
that Judge Aston Gordon Dayton,
of the United States Court for the
MOI hern District of West Virginia,
would have done as die, the Hon.
Edmund Waddill, seen that it
died a-borniu - h playing the
part of exeCutioner.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-09-30

Has President Wilson S re. and
prediction gift of 500, 90 month
~ position to the wife of Bishop
Walters Clampcd his moutho
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-09-30
STATEMENT OF THE OWNER
SHIP MANAGEMENT

Sf1lP, MAN AZ EN- EN T.
Circulation. Etc. Required by the
Act of Congress Of Augu t "a 1912,
of Pioneer Press, published weekly
! at Martinsburg, w. Va, for Oct.
| 1916.
State of West Virginia |
County of Bel kelley %
Before me, Notary Public in
and tor the State and county aforc-
said, personally appeared J. r. Cliff
ford, who, having been duly sworn
according to law, deposes and says
that he is the Editor of the Pioneer
Press, and that the followi is, to
the best of his knowledge and beli.f
a TRUE statement of the ownership.
management, (and if daily paper,
the cl1culatlon,) etc, OF the af0re-
said publication for the date shown
III the above caption, required bv
the Act Of Augu st "a, 1912. embod-
led in section 443, Postal Laws and
Regulations, printed on the reverse
of this form, to wi:
Publisher, Editor, Managing Ed
ltor, Business Manager, Owner, +.
X. Clifford, Martinsburg, w. Va.
No bondhol"ers.
r. Clifford.
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this 3Oth. day of Sept 1916.
l.. d. w. Gerhardt