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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-24
Nations Prosperity Wave Will
Rise Higher, Says Detroit.
MICHIGAN CITY RECORD
TOUCHES ALL AMERICA
Manufacturers There in 1915 Sold
s4oo. 0O0.c0O Worth of Cars and
Predict 1916 Increase.
Copyright, 1916
BY HERBERT COREY.

DETROIT, Mich. January 22.-Detroit
talks figures.
That is why the visitor believes De-
troit's amazing story of prosperity. At
first il has the sound of boom season
In a mining camp. People are Juggling
bank balances, suburban lots. mort
cages. chances to get rich. one meets
men who yesterday were working for
50 week. and today could hire Croesus
for an errand boy. 1t is rather con-
fusing and rather mad. Then the fig
ures convince. II this story is true it
compliments the whole country. 1t
means that we hardly had hard times
at all in 1915. 1t means that 1916 will
be our most wonderful year. If this
story is true. the United States is a
better country than we ever thought
and we are not prone to understanding,
as nation. For-listen:
I'VE sold more than $500. 100000 worth
of automobiles in 1915" says Detroit.
That's the top notch of auto sales.
II may be urged that automobiles are
no longer eXtravaganceS. That they
are as much part of the countrys
life a Dobbin used to be. But one
may concede that while an automobile
may be a necessity. one might concern
ably get along with last years machine
IL would be a humiliation. of course.
But il could be done. The country that
can buy of one city so many new cars
in a year that was marred by war and
gloom and business failures is in d
reasonably safe financial position. So
one would think.
War orders" say the doubters. The
figures We're swelled by the trucks sent
to Europe. our country did not buy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-24
Buying of Lots Still Goes On.

So that it isn't much wonder that the
corner boys'-which is the name
given the real estaters by trans
planted New Yorker-are doing A
tremendous business. The banks help
lot for a thousand dollars. he need
only pay 800 down on it. Some one
would finance the building of house
on the same terms. Lots were covered
by an intricate network of mortgages
Now the banks bit more conserv-
alive. as the prices of lots have gone
higher, out the business goes on In
the past two years there were 10000
deeds and 10000 mortgages recorded.
In the closing quarter of 1915 an aver
age of 1000 transfers of suburban lots
were made each week. There are u.s.
GOO employees In Detroit and 1o3, 900 in
dividual taxpayers.
THAT man." said one of the corner
boys. began the year with deskroom
and telephone privileges. Today he is
worth 100000"
The man who pointed out this lucky
speculator had been fairly lucky him
self
"Or uimbie," said he. The point is
10 keep trading. Plenty of purchasers
to he found
November 10 he bought six lots and
three weeks later refused q - per cent
profit He bought six other lots and
began six brick houses on them His
total cash investment was only $1,000
when he sold out for a cash profit OF
$4,000. Another man "kited" checks
and bought four lots. Before the skied
paper came home he had sold for a
cash profit. The other day he was try
Ing TO buy stock in one of the most
conservative banks in the town, for
cash.
Il know they're conservative" said
he. u never could borrow a penny
from them"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-24

all the affairs Of the city have been
han d led for
Up-to-Date Police and the last two
Fire Departments. hsen striking
ly apparent in the police and fire de-
partments. An expert from New YORK
city made a survey of the two services
and recommended reforms to bring
them up-to-date. Since then woman
officers have been employed to handle
cases of girls and women requiring
correctional attention or in need of
personal and sympathetic advice. A
policemen's school has been started,
where officers are educated in police
methods. departmental cooperation
and city ordinances. Weekly target
practice is held. and the men are classl-
fed according to scores.
Formerly it was not unusual for fire
men to waste time and let a fre get
away from them because they knew
nothing of the interior arrangement OF
the building in which they were work
ing. During the last two years every
building in the city has been carefully
miliarize themselves with its interior.
Now, when fire company responds to
an alarm. it can fight the fire intelli-
gently. Even though the building is
full of smoke. the firemen can find their
way about
Commission manager government. be-
cause of it's youth. has not yet conclu-
sively justified itself. Two things
seem to be necessary to its success.
One is a commission of progressive,
unselfish men, and the other is the
right man for city manager Dayton
has both. Its city government prob
ably is one of the best in the United
States, but whether this is due to it's
form or its personnel remains to be
seen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-24
First Three Months Poorest.

So let US have look at Detroit's fig
ures. The first three months of 1915
were slack by comparison-hardIy bet
ter than the first three months of 1918,
which was Detroit's banner year One
concludes that Detroit has been fat
tened by prosperity. He listens to De-
troit's prediction with crablike austen
ity
Just BOOM" he SAYS to himself "A
lucky town. This swallow doesn't make
summer.
Then the figures begin to open up. In
August the town was doing so much
business that the Saturday half holi-
day-if il had ever been an actually
in this city Of hustlers-had been COM
pletely forgotten The year had gotten
away TO bad start. but in the twelve
months that ended November 10, De-
tToits savings accounts increased 1874
per cent Her other banking accounts
increased % per cent in the same pc
Rod, or from 129.000.o00 plus to i47,-
100000 plus. Since June the increa Sc
in bank ciearings has ranged from ls 3
per cent in August to As per cent in
November. Only New York, Chicago
and Philadelphia spend more money in
bricks and mortar than Detroit Every
industry is at normal or better Thir-
teen thousand more men are employed
in making automobiles and accessories
than in 1914.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-24
AERO CLUB ENDORSES
PEARY'S PATROL PLAN
Authorizes Admiral to Organize
Committee for Furthering Aerial
Project for Coasts.

NEW YORK, January 24.-Rear Ad-
mira1 Robert F., Peary's plan to estab-
lish aerial coast patrols on the At
lantic and Pacific sea boards and along
the great lakes. to be used in time of
peace as an adjunct to the coastguard
and life-saving service, and in time of
war as an expedient for defense, has
taken definite form. The Aero Club of
America has authorized him to organ
militia authorities to further the prof.
ect. Letters have been written to the
Secretaries of War and the Navy and
also to the superintendent of the United
States coast and geodetic survey, in
Washington, inviting their co-opera-
ton
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War Trucks Hardly Affect Total.

Our country did. though, according to
the bankers and merchants and manu-
ia cturers of Detroit. Trucks were sent
TO Europe. certainly-Detroit scorns to
deny this-but the total was hardly
affected by the war trucks. Practically
every man in position to speak says
that il the war orders were taken away
tods Detroit would hardly feel the loss
If domestic conditions remain as they
are
Because that $500, 1000. 900 worth of
automobiles went to the United States
says Detroit, for Americans to ride in,
and haul loads in, and catch trains
with. Wen sell more machines this
year than We did last.
Detroit is gambling that 1916 will be
better than 1915. The automobile
makers are gambling on it by the cree
tion of larger factories and the install
lation of more machines and the en-
ployment of more men. Then men who
buy and sell real estate are also gam
bling on it. They have peculiarly
lively set of spectators in Detroit.
They hop in and out of a market like
frogs i'm a pond. But they buy and sell
cornfeld lots on the forecast of the
nations business.
While the country is making money
Detroit can sell cars" they say, land
while Detroit sells cars people will buy
lots here. Have YOU looked at the
figures"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-24
To Garry Light Wireless Apparatus
Death of William B. Ruggles.

NEW YORK, January 24-William B.
Ruggles. recently engineering adviser
to the Russian government, died yes
terday of pneumonia at his home at
Bergen Point. N. j., in his fifty-fifth
year. He was the head of the Rug
gles-Coles Engineering Company. Mr..
Ruggles was born in Bath, N. Y, and
was a graduate Of Cornell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-24

When Dayton children start out for
are that they
Life Is Guarded at VIII go to Is
Recreation Center. he Nj m
river, which flows through the town.
For years and years the principal item
of news in the Monday newspapers
was a chronicle of the drownings at
Island Park. The division of recrea-
ton of the new city government has
made Island Park as safe as river
front can be A life saving station has
been established. with a fast gasoline
launch, thoroughly equipped for saving
life. and manned by a trained life saver
Life saving stations and life saving
equipment have also been provided
along the river bank. and a life-saving
crew has been organized in the fire de-
partmeHt.
Dayton used to treat its workhouse
prisoners as most other cities treat
them; that is, put them in cell and
let them stay there in idleness eating
poor food at the expense of the city
until their terms had expired. Under
the commission manager the work
house has been made clean. and all the
prisoners given work in the open air
The woman prisoners have been set to
work making towels and bed clothing.
Male prisoners are taken outdoors and
used for city work as day laborers
The result is that the city gets the
benefit of the prisoners work and the
prisoner gets the moral and physical
advantage of outdoor exercise.
When the commission manager gov
eminent took hold of the affairs of the
city it found that several thousand
voorhees, and homeless men drifted
into town every winter. The worst
cases Of restitution were handled by
charity. and many men were put in
Jail as warrants. To meet this condi-
ton a municipal lodging house was es-
tablished. where any man out of a job
and with no place to sleep may have a
clean bed and three good meals by
doing a half days work for the city
This labor is usually removing snow or
handling a pick and shovel in a grading
gang.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-24
Not Merely Money Bagging.

Stories OF that sort-of the hectic,
high-blown, feverish gamble in city
lots might alarm the conservative were
II not for those figures that Detroit
produces. For FIVE or six months last
year an average of fifty-six families
reached the city each day with their
furniture. So the railroad men report
ed. Fifty per cent of the immigrants
who reach Michigan land in Detroit
Then other stories one hears restores
ones shaken confidence in stabilities
The big men of Detroit are not merely
rich men. apparently. Few of the big
men here were born rich. None OF
them took their money away from any
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-24

Miss Anne F. Harvie, granddaughter
Of the late Chief Justice John Marshall,
died at her home in Richmond, Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-24
Maine City Raises $4,000.

Portland, Me, according to officials of
the Aero Club, already has raised a fund
of $4,000 for establishing a unit of the
patrol system. Campaigns to raise the
necessary funds in other coast cities
are said to be under way.
The Aero Club has offered to add 10
per cent to any sums raised before
February |.
Rear Admiral Peary's plan is to
divide the entire coast into sections
Of 100 miles and in each section es-
tablish and equip a hangar ana repair
station, with at least one seaplane.
To Garry Light Wireless Apparatus.
The seaplanes will carry light wire
less apparatus and when in active
service will take their positions fifty
or more miles off shore and patrol their
respective beats continuously, back and
forth.
With the initial expense of installing
the system betrayed by patriotic citi-
Zens of coast communities, 1t is plan
ned to have the cost of maintenance
devolve upon the naval militia of
coast states until such time as the
United States government may take it
over.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-24
MANAGING The CITY.
IX.-The Home of the
New Idea.
By Frederic J. Haskin.

DAYTON, Ohio, January 17-This
might be called the most original city
in America without starting an argu-
ment Bright ideas in city administra-
ton seem to sprout and grow in Dayton
like crocuses in April 1t was Dayton. for
example, that originated the idea of using
vacant lots for vegetable gardens; or
ganized the housekeepers of the city into
an inspection force to see that the city
is kept clean; established a free legal
advice bureau, free medical service for
babies and municipal employment bu-
reau to take care of Migrants.
These are only a few of the innova :
lions that are making Dayton famous.
The force back of its original and
vigorous policy is city Amana ger
plan of government. The commission
holds occasional meetings to decide
upon the general policies of the city
administration, and the manager car
ries them out. The commissioners get
only $1,000 year and the mayor $4,000.
but the city manager. Henry N. Waite.
gets s12,500. He was railroad build
err before he became a city manager,
and he conducts the business of Day
ton with the same dispatch and eff
ficiency that made him successful in
his former profession.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-24

Piles Cured In to II Days.
Druggists refund money IL PAZO OINTMENT
fails to Itching. Blind, Bleeding or Protrud-
ing Piles. First application gives relief. 50c.-
Advertisement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-24
Baby Death Rate
Is Greatly Reduced

is attributed to the fact that now the
city has. for the first time, health
officer who gives all of his time to the
service. He has repeatedly discovered
threatened epidemics and stopped them
Under the supervision of the health
department three baby clinics and four
certified milk stations have been estab-
lished. Mothers have made gooJ use of
these. Free clinics for the treatment
of disorders of eye. ear, throat and
nose, and a free tuberculosis clinic
have also been established.
Observing that large number of
people in Dayton could not afford to
buy fresh vegetables and that much
vacant property in the city was not
working the government undertook to
establish community truck gardens In
co-opera ton with the Dayton Play
ground and Gardens Associations, six
community gardens were created. on
" hich SeVenty-fye families are now
raising vegetables. 1t also plowed anu
prepared twenty-five gardens FOR the
cultivation of vegetables by hundreds
OF children, under the direction of an
vacant lots into gardens from which
as many families are now providing
themselves with vegetables
The division of parks, which has
charge of this garden work. also
cleaned up, graded and prepared for
the use of children a dozen additional
so that Dayton. town
of 10000 people, now has twenty
eight Fairgrounds whereas the city of
Washington, with population OF
$50, 1000, has only thirteen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-24
Funds Are Used
With Great Care,

funds are used with more care. En-
penditures for each year are outlined
in accordance with estimated reve-
nues, and the town pays cash as it
goes, so that it cannot run into debt.
Pay rolls are not honored unless ac-
companied by certificate showing
ploye worked
Each department and the newspa
pers are given monthly statement
showing expenditures and balance for
each appropriation in the budget. All
of this has more than doubled the
work of the accounting department.
yet it has three fewer employees than
either. Office hours have been re-
ducd from ten to eight without any
reduction in pay. This careful and
systematic handling of funds is the
principal reason why the taxpayer of
Dayton gets SO much service for his
money.
In Dayton free legal advice is given
to any person who cannot afford to
hire a lawyer. This bureau has han
died hundreds of cases. most of which
scrupulous employers and difficulties
resulting from loan shark extor-
ton. 1t also settles cases that might
otherwise wind up in the police court
mostly fights about the payment of
rent, and family quarrels. The total
expense of this bureau to the city is
only 1925.
There is no joyriding after work
hours in automobiles owned by the
city of Dayton. Under the commits
sion manager a municipal garage has
been established. All cars are num-
bered and labeled and kept in the
garage. When an employe needs an
automobile he signs statement, show
ing how long he had it and what he
used it for. All repairs and adjust
ments of the city's motor vehicles are
made at the garage, at a saving of
several thousand dollars year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-24

The buslnosslike manner in which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-24

Though Dayton is always ready to
spend money upon municipal improve
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-24

Perhaps the browning success of
Daytons new government is the great
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-26
CHICAGO GRAIN AND PROVISIONS
Features Of the Trading and Closing
Prices on Board Of Trade.

. CHICAGO, Feb. 4-Big cxport sales
,.'apl togay TO overcome in the wheat
market the nervousness brought about
by the crisis between Germany and the
= nlted states. Quotations closed firm.
i,hc net higher. with May At fl.ls% and
July at sl.lbh. Gains were scored too
by all other leading staples--corn. kGi&c
@71kc.
Although the magnitude or the pur-
chasing Of wheat for Europe was not
fully understood until after the session
was AT an end the fact was well known
That a liberal total would be announced.
AZ finally given out the aggregate was
10000 bushels, making 100000 bushels
m The last forty-eight hours. exclusive
or 10000 barrels OF Canadian flour.
equal 20 100000 bushels OF wheat. Aside
from export business, however, the bulls
had the advantage most Of the time be-
cause ~of signs that yesterdays selling
hurry was overdone and that some
feasible way might yet he found to
prevent an outright breach with Ger
many. Bulllsh domestic crop advices
counted somewhat also TO give the mar
ket an upward trend.
Leading traders who Yesterday threw
wheat overheard right and left bees me
persistent buyers today. especially when
ever az happened soon after the open
Ing and again at midday. the market
temporarily fell below yesterdays mini
mum figures. The chief feature OF the
bullish crop news current was a report
by n well known authority that the out
look IN Texas pointed TO only half a
normal yield
Corn showed strength throughout the
day. Receipts were light, and there was
some export inquiry at the seaboard.
Oats appeared TO be principally gov.
erned by the action Of wheat and corn.
Word was received OF export sales OF
100000 bushels. Provisions moved up with
grain and hogs. The best demand was
Tor lard.
Chicago Cash Prices-wheat: No, +.
red. n;i7hal: lsh No. 3 red, Si.i5al, ieIs
No, 2 hard. tl,l7di.is. No. 3 hard. si.iog
yellow. 7ig7ldc; No. Z white. TidGihc
OATS No. 3 white. t2ItQlSc; standard
ttQif%c. Rye; No. 2, s3a05c Barley:
etd7sc. Seeds: Timothy. S5,75QS. 90;
clover, tiO.0Oa2o0o Provisions: Pork
'iy2,e,,,NSSn lard no.O6; ribs. SO, 7Sgpll. 25
! liGGs--Higher; fecelpts. l.260 cases
firsts, 22tsc; ordinary firsts. 2iMc. al
mark, cases included 20d22iac.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., 20 cars I'M
| changed.
! POrLTRY--Ailve, unchanged; fowls
! 15c: springs, 1TLc.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-26

Quotations of the Day ON various
Comm ODDITIES.

NEW YORK. Feb. ss-FLoUR-Un-
wtIEAT-spot market. firm; No. .
hard, N.SOA; No. 1 durum ti.97h; No. 1
Northern. Duluth, n.40h; No. ] northern,
Manitoba. ti.4sA, I. o. b. New York. Fu-
turea feverish; May, n.s6A.
CoRN-Spot market, firm; No. yell
OATS-Spot market steady; standard,
6l3Q62c; No. 3 white, 50hd52c,
HAY--Steadyi No. l. n.2tqfl 27h; No. 2.
n.11hQi.22h; No. 3, uOoqi.0; shipping,
allffa0c
HoPs-steady; state. common to choice.
1915, i5d27o; 1914 b09c; Pacific coast, 1918,
HIpEs-ffrn; BogOta. seasSe; Central
Neutrality-suspicious.: hemlock firsts. 81
0efc; seconds, S2d53Sc.
Professionalism steady; mess, S2i.O0:
family. s2i.50dIoS00; short clears, 10000
~ So Beef steady. mess, SlT OOfpi7 %:
fancy. uS.50ql 1850. Lard, firm; middle
west, ti0,s0al0.sO
TALLOW--Steady.
HUTTER-Strong; receipts 6,9i tubsi
creamery extras, Se@S1shc; firsts. SSuSo4c;
HCiGS-Unsettied receipts 1855 cases;
fresh gathered extras, 26n36ttc extra
firsts, &ssc; firsts. 2aaeSe; seconds, 22s
~CHEEsE-steady; receipts. 44S boxes:
state whole milk, flats. held, coiored
specials. lS0lshc; state whole milk, white,
lSc; state whole milk. eolored. average
fancy, f7l1qst1Ac; white, average fancy,
i7ltafl1Ac; flats. current make specials,
l1@llAci flats, average run, l6Nc
POULTRY-Dressed, weak, prices un-
change; alive, steady: chickens, i5lsG
i5,Ac; fowls. i6lsc
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-26
GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKET
Wheat is Poorest Seller on List and
Prices Range from Two to
Seven Cents Lower
CORN MARKET IS UNSTEADY

OMAHA. February Is, 1915.
:, Wheat was the poorest seller on the
nst today. selling from PC TO &c lower.
The receipts were good and the demand
Tor this cereal was fair
The corn market was very unsteady,
selling lc higher 20 1c lower. There was
a very poor demand for corn
Data were quoted unchanged to Ia
lac lower. although most OF the sales
were made at h0kc lower.
lyvN sold II lower
Clearances were Wheat and flour equal
Clearances were: Wheat and corn e Iuul
TO 5000 bushels. corn, 1900 bushels,
oats, 1900 bushels
Primary wheat receipts we're 1.623.4O)
bushels and shipments $4,000 bushels.
aeainst receipts Of 10000 bushels and
shipments OF G63. 600 bushels last year.
Primary corn receipts wero lV93OO
bushels and shipments G46,00l bushels,
against receipts OF 5000 bushels and
shipments Of $4,000 bushels last year.
Primary oats receipts were 1.lO,00
bushels and shipments $4,000 bushels,
AGAINST receipts OF $4,000 bushels and
shipments OF 6Os,o0O bushels last year.
CARIOT REC FyI prs.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-26
ID. LosIs Live stoek MarLet.

ST. LOUIS, No. Feb. 3.-CATTLE-
Receipts, 900 head, market steady ma
steers and helfers. ts.5oas.b0; cows, 5000
IL. stockers and feeders. s5.boeIG, 80;
Texas and Indian steers. S.25qe.00; cows
0lIOo
HoGs-Reeeipts. ll.loO head. market On
Toe lower; pigs and lights. t60e0S. 81
mixed and butchers. &DaS5S; good
heavy. S6-50n&00.
SHEEP AND Receipts. 800
head: market steady: yearlinR Wethers.
g. o0eilo.oo: lambs. ts.oDaii-t0; ewes. $3.50
nk1o