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NEW YORK CURB MARKET

WHEELING. W. Va. Nor % 10
Furnished Tie lntollgencer by 4. L. Maslen & Ca.
members New York Stock Exchange. National Hank
pf West Virginia building. Wheeling. ". Va. I.nuis
f. Brand, manager.
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REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
The Center Wheeling
Savings Bank

I.urutrd 1T Wheeling i'll the stale Of
West Virginia Ut the clos" of business
November 18th. 1916. Sank lIrst began
business May 81. 1901.
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N Y STOCK EXCHANGE

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Furnished The Intelligence ny A. H MaS,en \ p 20"
a,cuibers Now York Stock EXchttlSr E"'I,.A ",;"
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REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
THE SECURITY TRUST
COMPANY

Located at 11i5 Market ST.. Wheeling.
in the state of West NirGinih 1T the
close Of business November II, 1915.
Organized 1g09 B;lnk first began bust
ncsS Feb. -. 1908
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PETROLEUM

OF. CITY. Ia. Nov. c2.--Cr"dtt bal
surcs $3.50 Runs S9,0T+: average S4.-
los, Shipments e3.1el; average 6o.Sa
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he market This IS tho htghes

the market. This IS the htghest rate
quoted in many months, II not this
Time loans easier; 60 days - S3:
30 days 81 931a six months y 9S%:
Cali money firm; high 3a;, low ~
ruling rate 5; last loan 332; CLOSING Dld
2. offered at Sh.
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STOCKS AND BONDS.
LOCAL STOCKS

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I,a.ly quotation lis: " the Wheeling S'''"
change:
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PITTSBURGH STOCKS

WHEELING. W. Va. Nov. -. IL
Furnished The luielliscnccr by \. L. .MaS;cn n Co.,
ncmbers New IUTk Stock Exchange. N-luuaI Bank
Of West Virginia building. Wheeling. W. vs.. LUuis
+. HrNnd. E.Anaser.
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WHEELING. ". Va. Nor. 20. Is
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members New York Stock Exchange. National Bank
Of West Virginia building. Wheeling. W Va Louii
g. Erund, manager.
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TECHNICAL CONDITIONS
CONTROLLED STOCKS
Indications OF Extended Bull Account
In Metals Not:ceable-U. s.
steel Steady.

NEW YORK Nuy. e Trading IN o.,
days active llarA"t w;tS iE;l'tl hnEe "'U
20 an Unusual extent 5E tcGHu!cAl c"hui-
1ionS There We're further nulcitt'"Hs
of an extended bali aCoUnt. eSeciaHE III
metals and S:,cc.siiti"s o. recent pE";nii'-
Snce AMI strength.
Stocks OF the more speculative rhar-
acter were freely offered ilih'HHS tRot't
the outset. but registered lowest - YES
in the final hour. when ih* th''tc ''S'
became unsettled.
Authoritative denial OF any lu!penuihS
deal or constellation OF the metal COM
pauics wus the chict factor III tnat
quarter. CoapcrS fell Two l." attIoss
tlve cpints iru:u highest quotations OIL
the preceding session. P:.pec issues
lost as mitch. also some OF IN" equip
ruents and independent steel ana IRON
6ssues, Bethlehem steel failing so points
1ad recovering 10. with L loss OF LOT
he preferred.
United States Steel held steady curing
be forenoon, the action OF the c"rpot
tion III the matter OF the lncfeaSeu
Wage schedule being accepted rs Il IA.
urablc Development. Steel made us pes.
price III the later dealings out LoS'
ground as selling pressure 'hSretsCu
closing AT a net loss OF almost tHo
points. Total Saies amounted 70 -
SIC 900 shares. ,,,,r
Bonds were heavy. Totai safes 'P>''
valuc) aggregated $4.32'.0Vo
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Totals ..........$lI. J62.a25.H ss.4Si."9%.59
Increase .......$ SOS. l32. 0i..............-
(D-Drno;rs decrease.
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HAY AND GRAIN

Quotations. by c. +. Sraunilch 4 Co.
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liUnUS $3,-1VVVV.
BOSTON COPPER STOCKS

Sotal shares LIS. 200.
funds 81. 230. 900.
Evening star., 1916-04-15
FOREsEES PETROLEUM BOOM.
Argentine Paper Warns Against
ANY Probable Worthless Proposition

Anticipating that the next ma jor in
dustrial boom in Argentina will he IN
petroleum shares. the Bueuos Aires
Times recently published an article
warning its readers against the likeli-
hood of many worthless propositions
being placed on the market. TO quote
the article:
NO more propitious time could be
selected for a petroleum boom on It
really sound basis. The inflated price
of coal. due to the extraordinary war
demand, has made many striously pom
der on the advisability of adopting
liquid fuel, which has various advan-
tages in it's favor. At the present mo-
ment we are importing quite a cousid-
cradle quant1ty of petroleum. ana, from
what we can discover. the importers
find absolutely no difficulty in disDos-
ing all that is supplied to them, while
the demand for the cheap Comodoro
Rivadavia petroleum is far higher than
the supply is ever likely to be under
the present official administration of
the oil fields. II would he well for
the mineral laws of the republic to be
modifiedsin order to encourage private
enterprise in the matter. Even With
out this modification we think that the
boom is coming"
Evening star., 1916-04-15
MEXICO ESTABLISHING
A METALLIC RESERVE"
S5O,GO1.OG0 VIII Be Accumulated
in Order TO Protect the Various
Paper Issues.

The confidential agency Of the MeXi-
can government in Washington is in
receipt of a dispatch from Mexico City
describing III detail the methods to be
employed by the new monetary COM
mission in collecting specie for the
now rapidly growing metallic re-
serve" which VIII be the basis of the
currency now in circulation
The figure set for the ultimate me-
taiiic reserve is s5o,o09,oo0 gold OF
this sum siO,000,00o has been placed
at the disposal of the department of the
treasury by the hennequin commission
of Yucatan. In the national treasury
already there is SIC. 1000, 900 in gold. All
the ircome derived from forest and
land exploitation within the repuphc
will be collected in gold. Mining
taxes will be collected in gold onn nn'ms7 n6o
ing the total up to about $3o.Ooo,ooo.
to which will be added S2o,ooo,oeo
more, which it is expected to realize
from loans on properties or the re-
public not in public use or needed TOT
public uses. These lands Will be deslg-
mated by the first chief ,
The exchange value of the peso mas
become stabilized at the ratio of twenty
pesos. paper to one dollar gold tAmeri-
cam, and as reported yesterday, the
money market is strong. with le"
holders willing TO part with thelf con-
stitutionalist paper AT that ratio.
Following u Aconference between the
government authorities and commit
tee of merchants in Mexico city,
concerted movement looking to the
graduated reduction of prices for ne
cessities was agreed upon.
Evening star., 1916-04-15
LARGE SUMS INVESTED
BY u. s. BUSINESS MEN
Latin American Countries Offer
Many inducements to Capital.
Particularly in Mining.

Big business" interests OF the United
States have for some time been making
large Investments III various Latin
American countries. particularly in
mining enterprises in South America
The huge scale upon which some of
these ventures have been projected is
brought out in a recent statement bv
Mr. John Paul Bushnell. formerly of
Washington, but now located al Chuuui-
camata, Chile.
Among the enterprises enumerated
are the Armour packing plants in Ar
gentina. the Dupont nitrate mines in
Chile, the Bethlehem Steel Company's
immense iron mines near Coauimbo,
Chile; the Morgan interests in the
lCerroede Pasco Copper Company's
mines in Peru. the Braden Copper Com
pany's extensive copper plant at Ran
cagua. near Santiago, Chile, and last,
but perhaps greatest of all, the Gug-
genheim corporation. known as the
Chile Exploration Company. now COM
pleting the gigantic copper industry at
|Chuouicamata, near the town of Calama,
on the Antofagasta railway.
Evening star., 1916-04-15

One of the three corner stones upon
which the democracy of Argentina
stands today was described by
Romulo S. Naon, ambassador from
that country to the United States, in a
recent interview granted to a repre-
sentative OF The Star. These three
corner stones are compulsory primary
education. compulsory voting and COM
pulsory military service. 1t is the first
mentioned of these governmental prin-
ciples, as connected with the highly
developed educational system of his
country. upon which the ambassador
spoke.
Regarded in his own country as the
highest authority of the age on edu-
cational matters there. where he once
held the portfolio of justice and edu-
cation. the name of Romulo S. Naon is
today coupled with that of the great
president, SArmiento. as the chief
sponsors for free education throughout
the republic
Evening star., 1916-04-15
BUSINESS ACTIVITIES NOTED
THROUGHOUT LATIN AMERICA

81 40 to $3.50 a barrel since the out
break of the war on account OF re-
duced shipping facilities and the clos
ing of European markets from which
Peru formerly took SO per cent of it's
average annual cement imports of a.
$50 barrels.
The 1916 budget estimates of Bolivia
as published in the West Coast Leader
for March 9, place the expenditures
at SS700,000 Gin round numberS) ana
the revenues at $5.600.000, leaving a
deficit of s3,100,0OO. Deducting the dis
count on salaries recently authorized
bv the Bolivian government, amount.
ing to 100000. deficit of $2,ooV.ooo
remains Adding to this the 1915 de-
fcit of Sl4o0OOo there is a total deficit
for by an issue of customs warrants to
the amount of 100000 bolivars, or
s3,S93,OOO.
The second Brazilian corn exposition
will be held at Lavras, state of MInas
Geraes, Brazil, from July 19 to II next
1t viii be conducted by Benjamin H.
Hunnicutt. an American. who ls the
School The first exposition OF this
kind was held last July at Sac Paulo
and was pronounced success.
A Brazilian cotton congress Will be
held from May l to 10 next under the
Auspices of the Sociedade Nacional de
Agricultural tNational Society OF Asrl-
culture) at it's headquarters. Rua Fri
metro de marco, o Rio de Ianeiro. Hhe
object of the congress will be to study.
from a practical viewpoint, the most
effective means of developing and per-
fecting the Brazilian cotton crop. other
Agricultural commercial and industrial
organizations have been invited to take
part.
Under a law signed by the President
of Paraguay January 81 the arnortlZa-
ton of debts contracted prior to Au-
gust a. 1914. is ordered at the rate of
per cent of the principal March 81,
1916. and an equal reduction at the
close of each of the three following
quarters During 1917 amortzations
of per cent per quarter must be made
The payments are to be made. at the
election of the debtor. in gold currency,
in gold treasury bonds at their nominal
value or in paper currency at the eX-
change rate established by the office
of exchange.
Evening star., 1916-04-15
ARGENTINE RADICALS STRONG.
Will Have 1876 Votes of 800 in the
Electoral College.

ECENOS AIRES, Argentina, April i.
Full returns from the election of
April OF half the membership of the
chamber of deputies indicate the cleo
tion of twenty-seven radicals, seven
teen conservatives, ten democrats, four
radical dissidents and three socialists.
The electoral college which desig-
mates the president of the republic to
succeed DR. Nictorino de la Plaza will
meet in June. The candidates are DIR.
Hipolito lrgoyen, radical: DR.. Louis
Guemes. conservative, and Alisandro
de Ia Tore. democrat.
OF the 300 electors in the college the
radicals will have 1876 votes, the con-
servatives GO, the democrats, 62, the
radical dissidents 19 and the socialists
IA. The number necessary to elect q
president is ISL.
Evening star., 1916-04-15

The merchants and various commercial
interests of the city of San Pedro Sula.
Honduras. have organized chamber Of
commerce, for the general purposes and
along the lines followed by similar bodies
in the United States San Pedro Sula
is Il city of about 10, 900 inhabitants. sit
uated thrty-five miles from Puerto Cor
tes. and is the commercial metropolis of
large section of northern and western
Honduras. Several of it's business
houses are conducted by Americans, who
exercise important influence in the
business community.
The following cablesram has been re-
ceived from John Linn Rodgers, repre-
senting the United States in Mexico,
dated April 3. 1916. at Queretaro:
THE government is permitted by de-
cree just issued to invest from the pub
lie funds 100000 gold for the purpose
of stabilizing the value of paper money
1t is intended to maintain ratio of 20
pesos to one American dollar.
"A moratorium decree will probably be
issued tomorrow, extending to January L,
1911"
In the message of the President of
Guatemala to the national assembly
March /, published in Ell Guatemalteco of
the same date. the total foreign COM
merce in 1915 is given as S16.639,061. a
decrease of s5.446.o79 from the total
foreign commerce of 1914. The imports
last year were s5072,476. and the ex
ports of $11,568.5S5, showing Il favorable
trade balance of $6,494 ,109. an increase.
owing TO exceptionally good crops, of
S3,0o1 ,19i over the trade balance of 1914
\ shipment of 1850 bales of bagging
and fifty tons of jute from Calcutta was
due in Buenos Aires March 90. according
to La RaZon of March ?. Argentina de-
pends on India for q considerable portion
of the material required for making
grain bags in the domestic factories, and
the abundance Of the 1915 crops makes
the present demand for bags even greater
than usual
a company has recently been or
ganized in Lima for the manufacture of
cement, according to the Callao Revista
Commercial of February. 1916. The
price of cement in Peru has risen from
Evening star., 1916-04-15
SAN SALVADOR'S HEAD LAUDS
POLICIES OF UNITED STATES
Pan-American Development, He Says, to
Be Based Upon Consideration for
Smaller Nations.

\ strong plea for pan Americanism
and high words Of praise for the ef-
forts of the administration of the
United States toward formulating an
engagement between the various gov
ernments of the continent whereby the
sovereignty of each would be guaran-
teed We're voiced by Dan Carlos Me
isndez. President of San Salvador. in a
recent message to the national assem-
bly, of that country.
President MelendeZ, after speaking of
the crisis which the various govern
ments of the Americas must face at
the close of the present conflict in Eu-
rope, and urging preparation for the
duty of contributing far as wisdom
and prudence will permit" to the in
evitable task of contriving world
concert to insure the future harmony
of civilization. spoke of the relation
ship of the United States to the South
ern and Central American republics as
follows.
In the European system of govern
ment the equilibrium is due to Il fatal
consideration of the nations and of the
states. and this necessarily brings
about the violent. artful and dismem-
bering organization of the national
units which constitute the society of
the states situated in the old world.
In the American system the equili-
brium and the consideration must be
the necessary postulate and the spon-
taneous formation of the peoples who
organize and constitute themselves
obeying solely to national tendency
without any consideration of the prin :
ciple which maintains the balance of
the political. social and economical
forces which have come to naught in
E,l1rnne
Evening star., 1916-04-15
Central American Countries Are Rapidly Stdng Ahead
To the Wonder Workers of Panama.
BY EDWARD PORTER.

BY EDWARD PORTER.
Puf'd up with pride. a foolish king of
Bade the Sea pause in its unceahns
course;
In answer to a mob's tumultuous cry
\ prophet bade a Mountain come to
The Sea roar'd on; the Mount majestic
stood;
i futile triumph had their will been
Containing naught o. good to human
kind.
Greater be you than any king OF
prophet:
With vision clenr, with Faith oppos-
ing Fate"
You toird uniiinchinE; Seas you have
(Tho' necr their waters meeto in har-
mony:
And Mountains you have mov'd, for you
have dug
With work that's close akin to Natures
'Tix an Eternal Epic you have wrought.
Thro' rock and jungle, amid dusky
While down ut Panama you fought and
Men no less brave have gone to Pole
and Pole,
Planting thcrcat the colors o. their
clans:
Two o enrth'. highways with cross-
cOuntry-cHt
You jGin'd: thereon all fngs may fly.
The Stranger Seas chant DER the frozen
wastes,
Alike for those whose bodies they do
hold,
And those comc back from the unfet-
terd Poles:
But Sister Seas that you have made ns
ph0nH:
Now sounding bold and joyous for tho
living,
Now with gentle murm''rinE for men
" ho pcrish'd ere their wonder work
were done.
Evening star., 1916-04-15

we feel that student is thoroughly
educated.
There is n final feature of our edu-
cational system of which / would like
to speak-the standardization of re-
Guiremeuts for any given degree. Tn
der the system the government pro-
poses to know precisely what training
an individual has had before he opens
his law office. starts in to practice med
icine or dentistry or accepts the re-
Sponsibilties of an engineer. 1t sets
definite standard. and every student
must obtain a government diploma i'll
the particular branch he intends to
make his profession signifyinS he
has attained that standard. before he
can practice.
1T is this feature and the fact that
every branch OF the system is open to
any one with the will to enter it. with
out regard to his financial condition. of
which the citizens of Argentina are
particularly proud
Evening star., 1916-04-15
SECRETARY McADOO HOST.
Gives Luncheon to Argentine Fl.
nance Minister-Leaves for Chile.

BUENOS AIRES, April 15.-William
G. McAdoo, Secretary of the United
States Treasury. gave a luncheon yes
terday in honor of Francisco Oliver.
minister of finance of Argentina, and
other personages.
Mr.. McAdoo this morning. prior to his
departure for Chile, took leave of
President de la Plaza and invited the
Argentine executive to visit the United
States.
Foreign Minister Murature. Minister
Oliver and other cabinet ministers were
present at the station when Mr.. Nc
Adoo left this afternoon. The other
members of the delegation will depart
tomorrow.
At his departure Secretary McAdoo
presented Minister oliver with hand J.
some tea set as a souvenir on behalf
of all the American delegates at the
congress.
Evening star., 1916-04-15
EXPORTS TO SOUTH AMERICA.
Shipments From U. S. Show Large
Increase Each Month.

United States exporters are shipping
to South America twice the amount of
goods moving southwark year ago.
and each months figures are sending
the record higher. Tables prepared in
the bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce show exports valued at
s97,000,000 for the last seven months.
double those of the corresponding
months year ago.
Estimates by bureau officials put eX-
ports to South America for the fiscal
year 1916 at sl75.O00.00O. Last years
Many kinds of goods are included.
South America bought in the United
States in January more than a quarter
of IL million dollars worth OF aSricul-
tural implements. three times the
Evening star., 1916-04-15
FINISHING PANAMA RAILWAY.
Event Will Be Celebrated by Presl'
dent Porras This Month.

PANAMA, April 15.-Panama's own
little railway, the Ferrocarril de Chiri-
uui. will be completed this month and
put in operation under government con-
troll Trains will he operated to both
Boauete and La Conception. one due
north and the other west Of David, cap
ital of Chiriqui province. The COM
pletion of tho railway to these two
towns viii be celebrated by President
Porras. who personally will visit the
province and inspect the railway. A
largo number of invited guests from
Panama and the CaHai zone l,..l Il, =
company the president
Evening star., 1916-04-15
Developed Since 1858.

'"This primary and secondary system
of education has been built up and de-
yeloped since 1853. 1t was Sarmiento,
the intimate of Lincoln and friend OF
Horace Mann, Sarmiento the dreamer
and the fighter, who worked out and
gave impetus to this system we are so
proud of today.
For the student having completed
the requirements of a primary and
secondary education there remain the
universities. There are four national.
one state and one private institution
with a total enrolment of something
over 10000 students. In each univer-
sity there are different faculties
law. medicine. dentistry, chemistry, en-
gineering and exact sciences, mathe-
ma tic science and economics. The pc
riods required to obtain degrees from
..o.5.. departments varies from three to
seven years. And having obtained one,
Evening star., 1916-04-15
Policy of the Americas.

And this organic and funda mental
principle of the American policy con-
stitutes the center of gravity of all
these combinations, and explains the
loftiness and the nobility Of the ideas
just expressed by the North American
statesmen concerning the respect which
even the smallest or weakest countries
or those having a constitution less
solid and stable should expect from all
American countries.
But, in order that those ideas which
reveal the highest desideratum of the
American public law become a living
and fruitful reality, it is necessary that
the stronger and more stable powers
should assume no supremacy nor en-
deavor to hamper the free develop
ment of the smaller American nation
alities, by means OF coercive systems
or by means of intrusions into their
territory Thus, and only thus, can an
American international organization
be reached, founded upon justice, lib
erry and law.
The political systems which seek the
solution of international problems by
means of the guardianship or a hege-
mouism. have always turned out futile
and harmful to the constitution or
order to the just and profitable deVel-
opment of the community of nations.
And this is precisely to my mind the
spirit and the reach of the vast ana
high orientation in which the North
American government is anxious to
impel the international policies of the
new world
Evening star., 1916-04-15

amount for January, 1915. Twine sales
increased 600 per cent Wire sales
doubled. as did lumber and furniture.
South Americas January automobile
bill in the United States amounted to
S345. coo. six times the figures of jan
uary 1915. Coal shipments were
s227 900. against $4,000. md steel rails.
S142. 900, against S43.0
Evening star., 1916-04-15

at is likewise established that all
questions of any character Whatsoever
which may arise between two or more
of them which are not settled by the
ordinary diplomatic methods shall, be
fore they bring about hostilitieS or
permanent international Investigating
commission for "a period of at least
one year, and if this investigation
should not bring about settlement of
the dispute same shall be submitted to
arbitration if the matter does not af-
feet the honor, the independence or the
vital interests Of the litisating parties
or the interests of the third party.
The project stipulateS likewise the
formal engagement not to permit the
departure from their respective terri
toris of any military or naval expe-
ditions hostile to the established gov
ernment of any of the contracting ma
tions. and the expectation shall also
be prevented of arms, munitions and
any other war material for the use Of
revolutionistS and insurrects.
THAT is why this government sees
in the project of the North American
government a very laudable and very
sincere effort to preserve the peace of
the American nations and eliminate
from the diplomatic relations many
obstacles which prevent harmony be
tween the states and SOW mistrust and
suspicion. especially when diplo-
matte dispute arises with a strong
government which is not always dis
posed to acknowledge the right of
those possessing inferior means OF
material defense although they may be
in the right