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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23
News Digest
Foreign

London Stock Market. -Lohdoh' W
Apart from a good demand J"
few specialties, the stock maFHe'
dull and unirteresting to-day '0D -.
and neutral bonds moved higher vs., ~.
the war loan weakened. Most o, :.
interest appeared to be in the A'- 80.
rubber and industrial sections VIZ" W.
small. steady advances we're re'''..
on a broadening business. Amer :,
securities stifened under the Ie'u :.
United States Steel, which fh'ns' $.
hands fairly freely The e.O',n'
steady. Money was quiet ana a.''' =,
rates were steady. Money - -
cent: discount rates, short and W." Ia
month bills, 5lsG5S per cent s
premiums at Lisbon. SOU
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23

Z rom us ownership OF SECURITIES the
Reading reports an income of Sl2,253.-
a66, an increase of sS12,l55 over 1915.
Following its usual custom, the man
agement refrains from giving n de-
tailed statement concerning the sources
of this income.
The report Of the Philadelphia &
Reading Railway indicates that this
company contributed s6,372, 255 TO the
Reading Company in the form of divi-
dends. On Sl45O4,0OO of the 1896
500 capital stock of the Central Rail
road OF New Jersey approximately ST.
100000 additional was received by the
Reading Company.
The surplus of the Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron Company for
the fiscal year was Sl,2S0,O4S. There
is nothing in the report to show. how
ever, that any OF this was distributed
70 the Reading Company. On the con-
trary, it was carried forward on the
balance sheet as the 1916 profit and
loss surplus.
In addition to the stock holdings
named, the Reading Company's balance
sheet shows the following holdings
from which a substantial income is
derived: Philadelphia & Reading Rail-
way Company's bonds, s2O,OOo.ooO;
stocks Of sundry companies, $685.
1913 includes Jersey Central; Phila-
delphia and Reading Coal and Iron
Company. S7l,6O3,lS4; sundry rail
roads, $5.92l, 43G; bonds of sundry com
panies, S24,46o .6S5.
Philadelphia & Readings Report.
The income account of the Philsdel-
pha & Reading Railway Company, the
Reading Company's chief operating
property compares with the previous
fiscal year as follows:
I9I5-TS. I9I4!i5.
Railway operating rev
enues ............s 57.2ss.ss2 s4s7f4.s2i
Railway operating ea-
expenses .......... 33.3ss.65s 3f.t2s.3s7
Net revenue from
railway operations s23.oos.734 Sl5.5S9, 434
Railway tax accruals s.. <o2.I77 Si.i66, $50
Uncollcctible railway
revenues .......... e.957 1888
Total taxes and uncol-
lectible railway rev
enucs ............. sl,4os,o35 s1.72,5s6
Railway operating in
come ............s 22.4ss.esS si4.4I6.s4s
Other income ....... 1885, 5i0.123
Total income 600. s22.s3t.o5o Snaps. s7i
Deductions from in
come ..-..-....... 9,ZoI.OSo 5.SJo,l21
si3.564.oi4 ss.52s. $50
Income appropriated
for investment in
physical property eo5.66o i.i6i.eoI
Net corporate income si2.e6s.3s4 s5.s67.15s
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23
Central Railroad of New Jersey.

The annual report for the year
ended June 80 last OF the Contra
Railroad of New Jersey, made public
yesterday, showed tota, operating rev.
onues Of S33 1852 1928, as compared with
S2s, ESQ in the preceding year Net
after expenses was increased from
S9,790,949 in 1915 to Sl2,S33,0S3. and
surplus after charges, taxes. etc,
totalled s5972,572. an increase o:
s66o,394. This was equal to 2l.79 per
cent on the s27,iS6.so0 capital stock,
against 1886 earned on the same
amount of stock in 1915. The balance
Of surplus after dividends was 1885,
1856 gain of S660,374.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23

Paris Bourse. Paris, sept .,
Trading was quiet on the Boa''' . :
day. Three per cent ren'e'' % -. a,
so centimes for cash; eNcnS"s -,
London, 27 francs 80 Genuine"
cent loan. 90 francs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23

Bank Exchanges.-The days clear
ms al New York and other cities:
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Official rates Of discount at each Of
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Sub-Treasury. - New York banks
gained from Sub Treasury S2,347,00O.
Silvcr.-Bars in London. 32A pence;
here in New York, Gs7s cents; Mexican
dollars. 53is0 50 cents.
Ruling rates on r:cney yesterday
compared with year ago were as
follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23

New French War credi'''-f'. -.
Sent. 22.-The Chamber Of Depu''' "a,
dav unanimously voted VAR ereo'' s,',,
the remainder Of the year amour
to 100000 francs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23
DEPOSITS OF FRENCH
LOAN COLLATERAL

The American Foreign Securities
Company has now received from the
French government. and has deposited
with the Bankers Trust Company, as
trustee. all Of the collateral securing
its s94,5OO,OOO three-year > per cent
collateral gold notes. A list Of the
securities so deposited follows;
ARGENTINA.
Government.
81 loan OF 1854.
&C., loan Of 1886.
- loan Of 1896.
- loan Of lS97-l90O.
80 loan Of 1900.
3 interior loan Of 1908.
Sc interior loan Of 1907.
3 interior loan OF 1909
80 interior loan Of 1911.
e. ceduas.
SWEDEN.
Government.
$500 interior loan Of 1887.
Sc loan Of 1883.
3i.>, loan OF 1890.
@, loan OF 1894.
49, loan of 1875.
3i.'e loan OF 1899.
3ia'e loan of 1900.
81 - loan Of l9Oi-1906.
3D. loan OF 1907.
3i.Cc loan OF 1911. diTere.
fi.', loan of 1913.
Other Securities.
81 ?, loan Of 1910. Caisse Hypoihecaire de
Ville' Suede.
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Continued on page IL e''sn'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23
EALTH MARKETS AND co nj M = Z k@@
Finance Economics

GARET GARRETT, Editor
WALL STREET OFFICE T. leIepno ftia
Bu ling Broad St. hanover o'i''
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23
the twelve Federal districts are as
follows:
Weeks Money Currents. The n

'l5-day paper.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21
THE VANISHING DOMESTIC
By Frederic J. Haskin

and insist upon the full quota of SER
wants are having a hard time. They
are paying fabulous prices for ex-
tremely poor servants, who have al
ways the choice Of any number of 9TH
er positions.
Far more serious though less pic
turesque than the shortage of SER
wants among the wealthy is the diff
Guilty the average housewife expert
ences in getting a maid of all work
ThlS is especially true in the North
and West, where there are few negro
servants and immigrant peasant girls
have had almost a monopoly of do
mestic service. The German girls
who formerly came over in consider
able numbers, are now almost unob-
tainable and fewer of other nationaliti-
ties come every month. The advance
in wages has forced many an Amer
lean woman to do her own house
work. Unframed girls, who cannot
speak English, are paid as much as
S25 or $50 a month.
The most striking feature of this
scarcity of domestic help is that there
are thousands of American men and
women who need the money and could
do the work. Unemployment is a
problem in nearly all of our cities
which the return of prosperity has not
completely solved. The touch" is
becoming q more and more common
incident upon American streets. The
manner of the American down and
out is always the same. He apolo-
gizeS for his condition, explains that
he is poor but worthy, seeks to ap-
proach you as an equal forced to ask
help by a temporary embarrassment.
The man is not a good beggar, for the
same reason that he does not relieve
his own indulgence by becoming a SER
want. He is too proud.
The spirit of American equality has
engendered the idea that all personal
and household service is menial and
degrading. Every other nation in the
world has a servant class that is salts
fed with its status as such. In the
United States no such class has
grown up among the native white
population. All the comfortable
by immigrants. And now that there
are no immigrants to fill the jobs,
Americans who need them will not
take them. The anomaly goes far
ther yet. American wives and mothers
are compelled to perform these So
called menial tasks themselves be-
cause American servants cannot be
found to do the work for wages.
OF course, the idea that household
work is of a lower order than any
other skilled labor is simply one of
the less desirable products of Amer
lean pride. The dignity of any work
depends upon the spirit in which it is
done. and this fact is gradually gain
ing recognition.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21

to send large delegations to attend the
conference here next month. To be
left off the main highway between the
east and the west would mean to be
sidetrackedf for all time. More and dmore
automobile traffic is going to pass
through Pennsylvania from the west to
tho east and from the east to the
west. The establishment of the Will
liam Penn Highway will mean much
to the businessmen of the Juniata
valley. Thousands upon thousands of
tourists will use that route If it is
linked up and rebuilt from end to end,
and the automobillst is the best spend
er on earth. Beside, the Juniata VAL
ley is one of the most beautiful any
where, and State pride ought to
prompt people generally to get back
of movement that will do more to
advertise the scenery of Pennsylva-
mia than any one thing that has been
undertaken in the past fifty years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21
MOMENTOUS effect of the war
that has been very little noticed

n MOMENTOUS effect of the war
~ that has been very little noticed
- - is the decrease of the American
servant to the point where that rare
and valuable creature seems TO be
seriously threatened with extinction.
This is not fanciful. Careful students
of the situation are predicting that the
all-around household menial will have
to be replaced by skilled workers in
various lines. Instead of having one
maid to muss through all of your
work, from cooking to window wash
ing, you will be visited regularly by
expert cooks, bedmakers, laundrymen,
dish washers, doorknob polishers.
There is to-day in Washington, d. c.,
a man who makes quite a remunera-
tive profession of washing pet dogs
for society women. He shows the
possibilities of specialization in do
mestic service.
Reduced immigration is the prin-
cipal cause of this shortage in help.
1t is estimated that ~ per cent. few
er servants came into the United States
last year than the year before. EN-
ployment agencies cannot fill their or
ders. Clumsy Scandinavian peasant
girls, unable to speak a work of Eng
lish, are literally received at Ellis
Island with open arms and offered sal
aries that make their jaws drop and
their eyes WlueH. very lew VI lllSlI
ever get as far west as Chicago.
Female help is scarce, but male SER
wants are almost unattainable. Never
before has there been such a short
age of Wallets and buffers. Gouty old
gentlemen are forced to dress them
selves, and persons who have always
considered a butler as much q neceS-
sity as a tooth brush are now opening
their own doors. 1t is estimated that
there are less than half as many but
lers and Wallets in New York to-day as
there were a year ago. One employ
ment agency, which specializes in real
English buffers, had orders for five
hundred this season and only secured
five, though it usually has a thousand
names on its registers. With con-
scription threatened, the prospect of
new supply is anything but bright.
Nearly all of these aliens who have
been American servants have gone
back to the service of their father
lands. Not only are buffers and va
let's fighting in the ranks, but thou
sands of French maids are wearing
the uniform of the Red Cross.
Many of these American servants
have gone to the battle line with the
help and sympathy of their American
employers. At least one New York
society woman is still paying thS
wages of her five servants who are now
on the battlefield and In the hospitals.
In the absence of the butler, the
daughter of the house opens the door
for her guests.
Persons who keep large town houses
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
A FRIENDLEss DOG
Editor of thc Telegraph:

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
VIII you kindly print the following
plea for a friendless dog. Every day
on Market street between Third and
Fourth streets there is yellow dog,
lying in the sun or shivering in the
cold. He is very friendly to everyone.
On Saturday in all the cold he was
playing with the papers that blew
with the wind. I went into a restau-
rant and bought a couple of sand
wiches for him and he was nearly
famished.
Now will you write this up asking
the large army of employees in the
neighborhood to give him the pieces
from their lunches?
I have u dog and a cat or I would
give him a home.
Please don't use my name in this
unless necessary. Thanking you in
advance, l remain,
Respectfully,
a LOVER OF ANIMALS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21
MR.. ROOTS SPEECH
New York Evening Post. ]

When Elihu Root takes his time
and puts pen to paper, the result is
apt to be something notable. His
speech at the Republican State con-
vention, yesterday-reallya a speech to
the country, actually intended as a
rallying cry for his party in the COM
ing Presidential campaign-was the
performance of a master. In style,
in ordered thought. in close argument,
in disdain for rhetorical fripperies, ii
stands out above all our current poll
teal oratory. As a powerful attack
upon tho President 1T leaves the
shrillest assault OF Mr.. Roosevelt look
ing cheap. 1t is the deep baying of a
mastiff as against the yelping of q
terrier. Even one compelled to dis
sent from much that Mr.. Root said,
and 10 critcise his address sharply,
cannot refuse the tribute of Intellect
ual eXhilarauon in reading a speech
so consummate in form and so weighty
in matter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21
INCOME TAX ON \ BANKRUPT

VTTOULDN'T it seem a ridiculous
wv proceeding for the United
States government, through it's
judicial department, to declare a man
bankrupt, and then, through its treas
ury department, try to collect an in
come tax from him?
But that Is exactly what will ulti-
mately be done under the Treasury
Departments rules governing income
tax collections. A man who gains by
investments In stocks must report and
pay q tax upon his gains. but will be
allowed no deductions for losses. II,
therefore. a man made wise war stock
speculations last year and sold later at
a gain of $4,000 and then, in the
same year, speculated in other stocks
which wiped out his capital entirely,
so that at the end of the year he had
no capital and a large accumulation of
debts, he must nevertheless make an
income return showing $4,000 gain or
be subject to fine. Secretary McAdoo
In performance of his duties would
file in the bankruptcy court claim in
behalf of the government for the
years income tax from the man who
had gone bankrupt on his years busi-
ness.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21
Front and Cumberland SITS.
SEGREGATION FOR LEPERs

1t is stated on the authority of ply
sicians and nurses who have made the
subject a study that there are in the
United States more than 500 lepers at
large. These unfortunate sufferers are
free to come and go and constitute a
menace that cannot be overestimated.
These facts were brought out at a
hearing given by the United States
Senate committee on health on bill
that seeks to establish a national hos
pital for lepers. 1t was brought out
that there is hardly a city of any size
in the United States that does not con-
tain within its borders at least one in
dividual who is suffering from the
ancient malady. In this city we know
that within comparatively recent times
we have had two, one Chinaman who
died. and another u sufferer who was
taken elsewhere.
The arguments that are brought for
ward in favor of the government un-
dertaking this work are manifold. 1T
is held that municipalities and states
are not prepared to care for such suf-
ferers and that in consequence the
unfortunates are subjected to harsh
treatment, not Intentionally, but un-
aVoidably so. There are three leper
asylums in this country, but they are
not prepared to care for any more
patients than they have, which is 500.
IT conditions are as the doctors,
nurses and investigators say they are,
and if there are so lepers at large in
New York. so in Chicago and so on,
with a less number for the other cities.
it is certainly time that the federal
government take cognizance of the
matter. Every effort should he put
forth to stamp out the disease, and the
quicker it is done the better. The
statement of some specialists that
Il
certain circumstances may be all true
but to run unnecessary risks simply to
sustain a contention is not the part OF
wisdom
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21
WILLIAM PENN HIGHWAY

NNE thing was impressed upon the
" Chamber Of Commerce trade
eNcurSionists last week above
all others, and that was the widespread
interest in the movement for the es-
tablishment of the William Penn
Highway across PENNSYLVANIA through
the Juniata Valley by way of Harris
burg. All along the way between here
and Altoona the Harrisburg party
heard of the project and received as
surances of large delegations to at
tend the conference to be held here
next month.
1t Is natural that Harrisburg should
look favorably upon the William Penn
project. Ever since the days when
the Calder stables were headuuartcrs
for the stage coaches that carried pas
sengers between this city and Pitts
burgh by way OF Hollidaysburg, our
people have looked upon the Rock
Vile gap as the gateway to the west
by way of the Juniata Valley, The
construction of the Pennsylvania canal
along the course of the Junata be-
bNSOh hSlS anu IlOllludNSDuTG was q
second link in this western connection
and when the PENNSYLVANIA railroad
surveyors chose the Juniata valley.
paralleling the old canal. the route
was definitely and finally established.
When Harrisburg man thinks of a
western trip by force of habit and as
socistion his mind naturally pictures
his Journey by way of the Juniata.
The endorsement of the Pixies Peak
Ocean-to-o Ocean Highway association
came rs an encouraging development
of the Chamber Of Commerce trip and
served to increase enthusiasm all
along the route. The people of the
Juniata Valley realize the Importance
of this project and are displaying their
interest in the appointment of com
mittees and their expressed intention
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21
UP TO THE MAYOR

DURING the campaign leading up
IL to his election Mayor Meals
made many boasts as to the
kind of a police department he in
tended 10 have. He poked fun at
Mayor Royal and his detectives. He
charged that they were inefficient and
that the officers in charge either
winked their eyes at crime or were
too stupid to know a criminal when
they saw one. But all this was TO be
changed under Mayor Meals. Imme-
diate detection of crime was promised
and efficiency in the police and detec-
tive bureaus was to be the keynote
of the new administration. IT is now
up to Mayor Meals to make good.
In the space of month eight fires
Of incendiary origin have been started
ard not an arrest has been made.
Despite unquestioned proof as to their
cause the detective department has
been quoted as desiring conclusive
evidence" that they were the work
Of frebug, or frebugs, regardless of
the fact that it is the duty OF the city
detectives to investigate for them
selves all suspicious occurrences and
find the evidence that shall lead to
conviction. il it is ascertained that
crime has been committed. It is not
the part OF the private citizen to do
the investigating. The detectives have
more to do than to merely make ar
rests after proof sufficient to convict
has been laid before them.
The five fires of Saturday night are
ample proof that an incendiary is
at work in the Allison Hill district.
Not resident of that locality is safe
so long as this miscreant is at large.
It is the duty of Mayor Meals to see
to it that his officers remain on duty
day and night, if necessary, until the
mystery surrounding these fires Is
cleared up and the guilty persons be-
hind the bars.
Nor ought it to be such a very diff
cult thing to apprehend this criminal
All the evidence in the case points to-
ward a person of unbalanced mental
condition. There has been apparently
no purpose back of the fires save
desire to see something burn. School
houses, stables, boxcars and lumber
yards alike have been visited by the
nrebug, and such a man ought to be
easy of detection, by the simple pro-
cess of elimination, if in no other
way But difficult or easy, the task
of apprehending him should not be
neglected for a moment until he is
safe in prison.
Mayor Meals made a solemn pledge
to the people of efficiency in the police
department. The Telegraph believes
he was in earnest and that he meant
every word he said. 1t is now up to
him to see that his department makes
good.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21
WELL. KNOWN PEOPLE

Judge Charles T.. Rice is to be
banqueted by the Luzerne bar next
month in recognition of his distin-
guished legal services.
George C. Stone, head of the New
Castle works of the American Tinplate
Company, has become head of the
plant of the McKeesport Tinplate Com
pany
W. Fl. Stout, prominent in geo
logical affairs in Schuylkill, has been
made head OF that county's farm
bureau.
Senator J. P. McNichocl left yes
terday for his annual trip to San Lucie.
Fla, the old Quay winter place.
Congressman W. S. Ware will lead
the grand march at the Union Re
publican Club ball in Philadelphia
March 6.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY

Little Marion Parker, of Freeport,
Pa, has written a pathetic little let
ter to Mayor Mitchell, New York City,
asking him to find her papa and send
him home if he is in New York. The
letter read:
Dear Sir:-Will you try and find
my papa-he left me over a year ago
and 1 miss him so much, for only
had papa to love, as mama is in
Heaven. Papa called me Bolts" and
J. know he loved me so much, but why
does he not come to me? l have
papa. Please find him If he is in
your city and send him home to me.
John Pickles, aged "a, of Phila-
delphia, can't stand it any longer,
sez 'e, and so he has petitioned to
have his name changed to John
Turner. A jokes a joke, thinks he
of the punable name, but time has
soured him on Pickles and inasmuch
as he is not drinking man, the name
will have to go.
State College students will have
half holiday tomorrow by reason of
President Sparks will deliver an ad-
dress on "The Inauguration Of Wash
ington."
The Mayor of Chester is in favor
of annexing Philadelphia to Chester,
but he is strongly opposed to the idea
of having Philadelphia annex all of
Delaware county including Chester,
Eddystone. and Marcus Hook. He
thinks Chester is perfectly we'll able
to take care of herself, and treats
Mayor Smiths proposition in the light
of a valentine.
The executive boards of the United
Mine Workers of the three anthracite
districts are off for New York to-day
for the purposes of negotiating new
agreement with the coal operators.
Federal Government representa-
tives have taken the first step in con-
demnation proceedings against prop
erty wanted for a site for new post
office down i'm Lancaster, for which
S13S,000 is available.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-21
HOW TO LIVE LONGER

HABITS-RuIe lift your chest
up, arch it forward and throw your
shoulders back, stomach in. Do not
slouch.
IL you stand straight and breathe
deeply, it will help you to keep your
chest up. 1t will also help to keep your
bowels in good condition.
II II Is hard for you to sit up straight
in your chair. put a small pillow behind
YOU low down, that is, in the small of
the back. One of the common causes
of constipation and nervousness Is q
slouching position. Walk and stand
with heels apart and toes straight for
ward. "Toeing out" leads to weak feet
and fat foot