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The Washington herald., 1916-12-23
WATCHMAN DEAD IN TOWER,

Philadelphia. Dec. 22.-The timely dis
covery of a watchman dead in his rail-
road signal tower at Front and jackson
streets possibly prevented a railroad ac-
cident yesterday afternoon. George Eisen-
man. 6S years old, employed by the Penn
sylvania Salt Works, was the victim.
The watchman had to ring a bell into the
main office each hour. At o'clock the
bell failed to ring and a man was sent
to eewhat was the matter.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-23
BOUGHT MEXICAN $40 BILL.

Henson Johnson yesterday asked the
police to find a man who early in the
day approached him at Seventh ana o
streets and asked him to change a SO
bill. He changed the bill In return he
got so bill, but it was Of the Mexican
variety and of a vintage that is out of
date.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-23
CHICAGO WOMAN FREED
OF Charge OF MURDER
Jury Fails to Upset Precedent in Slay
ing Trials.
CBy the International News service.)

CBy the International News Service.)
Chicago. Dec. 22.-Mrs. IVA Barnes
was found not guilty of the murder
Of her husband. James r. Barnes, at
$40 this afternoon by a Jury that had
been celebrating since 12:45 p. m.
The verdict followed a sensational
and dramatic trial in which the State
tried hard to refute the charge that
you can't convict a woman of muir
der in Chicago" Twenty-eight wom-
en- have been tried on murder charges
in Chicago in the past four years.
Mrs. Barnes is the twenty-second to
go free.
Mrs. Barnes was charged with shoot
ing her husband in Washington Park
last September after a separation that
followed when he found another man
in her apartments. The defense con-
tended that the shooting was acci-
dental
The Washington herald., 1916-12-23
NEW STANDARD OIL HEAD NAMED

New York, Dec. 22--Alfred c. Bedford,
vice president and treasurer of the Stand
ard Oil Company Of New Jersey, was to-
day elected president of the concern to
succeed the late John d. Archbold.
The new head of the Standard OIL Com
pany is 50 years old, and has been with
the parent company or its subsidiaries
since he was IS years old.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-23
WIFE SENDS HIM TO PRISON.

New York, Dec. 2.-Induced by his
wife to confess to thefts amounting to
5000 from his employers, Adolph Loeffler
Vas sentenced today to serve from three
years to forty-two months in prison. His
wife patted his shoulder and wished him
a merry Christmas.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-23
$4,000, 900 FOR JEWS.

New York. Dec. aa-The American Jews
have started to raise 100000 In one
year for the suffering Jews Of the war
lands They started last night at Car.
negie Hall with a great meeting. wher
the meeting was over It was estimated
by members Of the committee that about
s25oaooo Of the siaooo,oOo was IN sisht.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-23
HER FEELINGS MUCH HURT.

Kansas City, Dec 22.-Miss Beatrice M.
Stevens asks $1,000 from the Gate City
Directory Company for improperly desig-
mating her as "seamstress'' in the 1872
directory. She asks in a suit filed today
in Circuit Court an additional $4,000 for
an error made in the directory issued in
1915. Miss stevens petition says she
has bean irreparably damaged
The Washington herald., 1916-12-23
GETS $500 AFTER 1s YEARS.

st. Louis, Dec. 22.-George weise, q
former sailor and of an admitted row
ing disposition. recently received
$S90.25 from the local Free Legal Aid
Bureau. representing his share of the
estate OF an uncle who died in Adrian
Mich. eighteen years ago.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-23
1913 PAROLES ARE GRANTED.

Trenton, N. j., Dec. 22-The State
board Of pardons today played Santa
Claustto LIB inmates of the New Jersey
State Prison when it granted them pa
roles. Five men serving various terms
for murder were among the number. re-
leased.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-23
SIX KILLED IN WRECK.

Jacksonville. Fla, Dec. 22-Six men
were killed when a double-header freight
train on the Seaboard Air Line Railway
ran into a washout near Mckinley, Fla.
sixty-nine miles west of here today But
one member of the crew escaped.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-23
s22 CHRISTMAS TREE STOLEN.

An imported pine tree. valued at az
was stolen from the front yard of the
sesidence of W. A. Brooke, 17s5 Mis-
sissippi avenue northwest, yesterday.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-23
GERMM RAIDER SUNK,

Paris, Dec. 2-The German submarine
U-N. which recently raided shipping Oh
St Nazaire. has been sunk by destroy
ers. says q dispatch from Nantes today
The Washington herald., 1916-12-23
SIXTEEN INJURED IN WRECK.

Pendleton, S. C., Dec. 22.-Sixteen per-
sons were injured, several perhaps fatally.
when a Blue Ridge train was wrecked
near here today. One car turned COM
plstsly over.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-23

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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-30
LABOR SHORTAGE
FEATURES MARKET
Progress in Trade and
Transportation Evidenced
by Business Activity

New York, September 2s.-Dun's re-
view tomorrow will say:
Restraining influences hamper but do
not check progress, current reports
adding to the accumulated evidence OF
prosperity in industry, trade and trans
portation. Holiday observances have
had the usual effect of temporarily linn
iting business in some branches and
labor conditions still restrict manufac-
turing operations; yet bank clearings
at most leading centers, as well as the
smaller cities, mount upward steadily,
and other statistical barometers also
make remarkably gratifying exhibits.
The high and rising prices constitute
a source of complaint and cause some
hesitancy in forward commitments, but
the purchasing power is sustained by
the full employment of workers at adj
vanced wages and signs of contraction
in consumption are the exception. 1t is
noteworthy that demands are broaden
ing in practically every direction, fol-
lowing the partial let up in midsum-
mer, and retail distribution, under the
stimulus of recent cool weather has de-
veloped in a way that foreshadows a
record movement during the fall and
winter.
Weekly bank clearings, s4,S7s,Ss7,-
426
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-30
WEEKLY REVIEW
OF COTTON MARKET
Reduced Crop Estimates
Cause an Advance in
Egyptian Cotton

New York, September 2O-The cotton
market has been comparatively quiet
during the greater part of the past week
Bullish private condition figures were fol-
lowed by quite a sharp advance on Mon
day, but the market met a good deal of
realizing around 1884 for January and
later fluctuations were rather nervous
and irregular. Conflicting estimates of
the extent of the deterioration in crop
prospect for the month probably served
to create uncertainty as to he showing
of the government crop report expected
at the beginning of next week, and this
doubtless tended to promote the evening"
up of accounts. A somewhat similar in
fluence was attributed to the ruling OF
southern spot markets which suggested
that the buyers were being supplied
around the prevailing level of prices, al
though there was nothing to Indicate Of
ferings in excess of demand. Trade buy
ing and further covering by Liverpool
straddle shorts checked declines around
16.0Sc for January, however, while the
absence of southern hedge selling on any
important scale also helped to steady the
market. Some fresh buying was reported
toward the end of the week on cold
weather productions ana the appearance
of freezing temperatures at a couple of
stations in Oklahoma seemed largely re-
sponsible for a moderate bulge in prices
during todays trading. The prospects
for immediate damage from that caused
did not appear early enough defined to
bring in any demand and local brokers
late yesterday were inclined to regard
the bulk of the weeks business as re-
duction of outstanding accounts for over
the Official crop figures. Private reports
published have ranged from 56.S to 1913
per cent as to the condition and COM
pared with figures of the previous month
have shown deterioration ranging from
2.9 to points. The average of seven
reports indicated a condition of 5S4 per
cent and pointed to a falling off of about
SIS points for the month. Record break
ing ginning figures are expected from
the census bureau at the opening of
Monday morning and opposing market
views are between the bullish idea of
ultimate results and the prospects for
rapidly increasing receipts next month.
Reduced crop estimates have caused adj
vances in Egyptian cotton and there has
been some buying of Egyptian in lieu
of American in Liverpool.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-30

ton Williams, on the day following this
phenomenal market told the bankers that
the Unitel States had now become a cred
itor nation and was, for the present at
least, the leading money power of the
world.
These two statements explain partly the
remarkable upward trend of prices in tho
securities market. There were, or
course, other and even more influential
causes at work. To have exported COM
modities of the money value slightly in
excess of O0,0O0 in the month of Au-
gust, with the certainty that no sma >
part of these export swas paid fol
promptly, was of itself sufficient reason
for the public to take great interest in
the securities market. Furthermore,
there were limitations that the Septem-
Der record may prove to be as great
certainly will not be much smaller-than
the record of exports made in August
If that should prove to be the case,
then in two months this country will
have sold commodities of the money
value of s1,0O0,0O0 and probably have re-
cevied payment therefor, or at the rate
of 100000 a year.
One of the striking features of the up
ward trend of security prices was the
evidence that not any single leadership
nor even any group of leaders brought
about this appreciation, but instead 1T
represented thedesire Of the public to
make reasonable and safe investment,
and the confidence of the public in tbs
values which lie behind the great indus-
trial organizations of the United States.
In the spring of last year one of those
in the financial district who has had
long experience, but who is himself not
speculator, ventured to predict that
sometime this fall the market quotations
for United States Seel stock would pass
at par and, furthermore, that if this
prediction proved to be corerct then the
very impulse occasioned by this rising
price and b ythe knowledge of the enor-
mouc values which lie behind the Steel
corporation might carry the stock as
'igh 120 before the close of the year.
His explanation of this was that pub
licty which has furnished good details
telling of the condition of the Steel
corporation, of the magnitude of it's
earnings and of it's surplus as we'll as
continued orders which will occasion the
operation of all the plants to their ca
pacities, persuaded the public that the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-30
SHEFFIELD

Sheffield, September Especial JAS
was expected by the management of the
Tennessee Valley Fair, which is being
held at the fairgrounds at Tuscumbia
a record breaking crowd was on hand
at the opening yesterday. The crowds
were larger than on the opening day of
any previous year. except that of the
first fair six years since, which would
seem to show that the people are willing
and anxious to patronize fair that has
merit to 1t. which is certainly the case
with the Tennessee Valley Fair this
year. The display of live stock, cattle
and agricultural products is far in ex-
cess of any previous fair. The poultry
exhibition is very fine. The woman's
building is full to overflowing with va
rious exhibits. The racing cards and
other entertainment features are all I'D
to a high standard. The fair will come
to close Saturday night.
All the Jewish stores in Sheffield, Flor
ence and Tuscumbia have been closed
yesterday and today in observance of
Rosh Hoshannah, the Jewish New Year.
Religious ceremonies incident to the
celebration have been held in the tenn
pie in this city.
The funeral of the infant of Rev. and
Mrs. G. I. Harris Of this city took place
yesterday afternoon at the Methodist
parsonage in Sheffield.
Capt ]. w. Johnson of this city yes
terday received a telegram from his
nephew, North Duncan, at Montgomery.
stating that he had been commissioned
Acknowledgment Of the third squadron
of cavalry. A number of Sheffield, Flor
ence and Tuscumbia boys are in the cav
airy regiment now encamped in Mont
gomery.
For the past several days very warm.
sultry weather has been experienced
hereabout. but last night q sudden de-
cided drop in temperature occurred. and
It seems like real touch of winter.
There Is much cotton in the boil I'M
opened in this section. and it is feared
that the cool weather will cause Still
greater damage to the crop, which is al ]
ready admittedly very short one.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-30
DECATUR

Decatur, September 29.-(Special.)
The cattle quarantine will be raised
in this county on December l, accord
ing to United States Inspector w. w
Cameron. The last dipping will be
done in this county on October 1, alr.
Cameron says.
Mr.. Cameron says the tick laws in
this county will be inforced to the let
ter. Several cattle and ono herd have
been seized by Inspector Cameron,
which cattle came from tick infested
districts and were being brought into
this county. These cattle Will be kept
to themselves and dipped a number of
times.
1t is said that better prices are be-
ing paid for cotton in Decatur today
than are paid in any other town in
this section of the state.
Decatur is the fourth largest cotton
market in Alabama. The Decatur COM
press alone handles over 10000 bales
annually. This cotton is compressed
here and the large protion of it shipped
to foreign markets.
Sometime ago the Decatur Cotton
Compress company's plant was de-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-30
LITTLE NEW YORK STORIES
BY A BIRMINGHAM MAN
By ALLEN GRIFFIN JOHNSON

New York, September 2s.-(special)
When Wetherford Allen, who is a native
of both Birmingham and Nashville, so
he says. hit New York city recently, he
liked the looks of the little old town so
well that he decided to hang around
awhile, and promptly started hanging.
He ran across Dick Yancey, Jr., from
Nashville, Ed Buford, Col. Tom Hutchin-
son of the south, and few more lin
goods" up here, and began to believe that
Manhattan was just the place he had
been looking for for all these years.
But now-well. if he didn't have some
nerve, perhaps he would be on the road
home already, but as it is he is sticking,
but a very nervous young man. He
started off bravely enough, riding all
over town on top of buses, in surface
cars, and even on the strike ridden Il. :"
But when he ventured into the stygian
blacllness of a subway hole between sta
lions, the lights on the train went out
suddenly, and the train halted midway
between nowhere in particular.
Wetherford declares that he had ali
kinds and varieties of strange sensa-
tions, from a thrill to cold sweat, but
there was no use. His arms were pinned
to his sides by the crowd in the car, and
BESIDES even at that moment of nervous
ness, lie felt a strange reluctance to
move away from the pretty little blonde
who was literally crushed against him
until she was absolutely forn-fitting.
The lights remained out about 10 min
utes, the fans stopping, of course, and
the heat growing intense. General nerv-
BUSINESS was evident, and a panic was
ready to spring into being at the least
provocation. Maybe it would have sprung
but we'll have to hand it to Wetherford
for stopping it anyhow. Just as matters
were lad, and very hot, he bethought
HIM suddenly that the sound of his
own voice had long been pleasant to
him, so he shouted aloud, 'Hurrah for
wilson, The thing worked! Instantly
there was a general laugh, and COM
ments upon the democratic candidate SO
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-30
To Build Cotton Warehouse

Sylacauga, September 29,-(Special)
The Sylacauga Bonded Warehouse COM
pany, a corporation composed of business
men of the town, have begun the cree
ton of new fireproof cotton warehouse.
The new building will meet all the re-
uuirements of the insurance rules as to
fire protection, and will be large enough
to care for all cotton coming to town.
It will be ready for occupancy October IS.
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interested the perspiring passengers. that
possible danger was forgotten until the
lights went on again.
Well. that's not the first panic the
ne me of Wilson has averted, perhaps,
but Wetherford is of the opinion that
going through with those dark expe-
riences in the subway would not be to
his liking more than once or twice in
lifetime
Even this did not make him think of
leaving however. No, that though didn't
occur to him very strongly until after
he had been stoned while on an Il
train, along with other passengers after
which, while taking q trip up to the top
of the Woolworth building, he reached
the forty-seventh floor, and slipped back
halfway to floor forty-six All kinds of
assurances from the elevator operator
failed to convince him that there was no
danger, and when he reached terra firma
again, he gave vent a real desire to go
back to Dixie, mainly because winter
was coming on so rapidly.
However, 1 have said he proved game,
as he has since decided to hang on and
take his metropolitan chances along with
the rest of us. What's the use to run
out in the woods and get killed by light
ming as like as not anyway?
Motherhood also asked me why didn
write up about the New York girls who
leave the dance floors, slip into the la
dies waiting rooms and steal cigarette
or SOL mean a smoke. To tell the truth,
L didn't know they did. And 1 am still
trying to figure out how Wetherford got
wise to it. I've seen them smoke in no.
tells, restaurants, and even in automo-
biles, under cover of darkness, but never
in a ladies' waiting room, and if a news
paper man can't get pass into one of
those places, l want to know how Weth-
erford managed it.
If there's any girl down there that is
fond of being squeezed, she can get all
she wants of it on Broadway subway
train if she'll get on along about or
$50 any weekday afternoon. Most of
them on board keep quiet, but l heard
one declare the other afternoon that it
was positively indecent" So it is, but
unavoidably so, girls, unavodably $50, i
assure you.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-30
IMMENSE EXPORTS
HELPING TO KEEP
STOCK PRICES UP
Public Buying Shows Con-
fidence in Fundamental
SOundness of Condition
FORECASTS BORNE
OUT BY THE EVENTS
Retirement of Greenbacks May Be
Result of Large Amounts of
Gold Pouring Into
America
BY HOLLAND

New York, September 29.-(Special.)-It
was perhaps coincidence that upon the
day when securities in excess Of 1000, 0Oe
shares were dealt in on the stock ex-
change there should have come from
Washington report that the money
value of the exports for August was
some $10,00O0O0 in excess of $500, 900, 900
So, also, at the annual meeting of the
American Bankers association, the
comptroller of the currency, John Skel-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-30
THE ABUNDANCE OF MONEY

Some of those who have recently pur-
chased heavily of securities are man
ayers of some of the greater banks not,
only of New York, but of the entire
country. They have been seeking good
investment for the plethora of funds
which they have carried and which are
constantly increasing. Another feature of
this upward movement which has caused
considerable discussion is the fact that
the public did not borrow to any great
extent, but used it's own cash for these
purchases. This is of itself an unusual
phenomenon.
GREENBACKS TO BE CALLED IN
1t has been observed that at the meet
ing Of the American Bankers assoca-
ton at Kansas City last week sugges-
tons were made that the time is now
orportune for putting the country upon
a. actual gold basis. That would involve
the retirement of the greenbacks and
gradual retirement of the national bank
notes. Undoubtedly the extraordinary
accumulation Of gold and the certainty
that there will continue for sometime to
be g. large movement of gold from Eu-
rope to the United States explain the
disposition of some bankers to discuss
the expediency of utilizing these enor-
nous stores of gold SO that the green
backs may be retired. Every banker has
known that within a few years, in all
probability, these legal tender notes
would be retired, and there has always
been some apprehension lest the retain
ing of so large an amount of them in
the currency might at sometime prove
to be a source if not of actual peril at
least of embarrassment
One of the most gratifying pieces of
information that have come to the United
States-curiously enough at the very time
when the chemists of this country are
holding their annual meeting-was the
apparently authentic report that enor-
nous quantities of potash had been al
most by accident discovered in Cuba.
Some of the chemists say that if the
supply Is as great as the first reports
intimated 1t may make us as Independent
of Germany as we became independent of
Italy after the sulphur deposits of Louis
lana were made available.
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trouble US before eonns to surgical operation
had
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WiLson-Hughes -Hanly- Benson

The appeal Of each one Of the presidential
candidates is presented with equal fairness and
impartiaity in THE LITERARY DIGEST. The
man who is Democrat, Republican. Prohibi-
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own party and the facts he needs to know about the
opposing parties. The man who is still undecided
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stroyed here at a loss of nearly one
million dollars, including the cotton
within the plant at that time. The plant
is being rebuilt and the work now is
almost completed. The large press was
placed in some weeks ago and the new
buildings are about completed. The new
compress will be larger and more mod
ern than was the old one.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-30
1T WAS INEVITABLE


This upward movement of security
prices was inevitable. Leaders in the fl
nancial district were convinced that, not
outstanding the apprehensions which
We're caused by the peril of a nation
wide railroad strike, the impulse of pros
perity which is felt all over the country
would make inevitable an appreciation in
the market quotations of securities of all
kinds, excepting, possibly, railroad stocks
and bonds
NO one ventures to predict how far this
will go, for the reason that, on the whole,
1t has not appeared to be purely specu-
lative or boom market manipulated by
leaders. 1t does reflect the participa-
ton of the public in this movement,
and it is the first time in some years
that the public has so generally been
persuaded that securities of the kind
dealt in upon the floor of the exchanges
offered tempting opportunities for invest
ment. If, then, the public is participat-
ing in this upward movement-if it does
not reflect manipulation by any one
leader or group of leaders. but is per-
fectly normal-then it is impossible to
predict how far the movement will go
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