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DIVIDENDS DECLARED

American Bank Note Company usual quar-
terly of 75c a share on the common stock,
payable May is to stock of record May 1.
sharon Steel Hoop Company quarterly divi-
the first dividend declared since the Sharon Steel
Hoop Company purchased the Youngstown Iron
& Steel Company.
standard Silver Lead Mining Company, quar-
terly OF 8 cents a share payable April Is to
Wichester- Hay ydep Howell Inc. per cent on
common stock and regular of per cent on the
preferred, payable in quarterly insta llments, The
common and first preferred dividend will be paid
Aprii rs to holders Of record April so,
International Nickel Company. regular quar-
terly Of ~ per cent on the preferred stock,
payable May to stock OF record April Ia.
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OILS ARE IN GOOD
DEMAND ON BROAD STREET CURB


Trading reflected
public This independent oil
n
and the preferred advanced from AN 4s Aetna Explosives showed
is taken important
At Ito
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Financial Briefs
TONoPAH STOCKS

Edward p. Currier has been admitted to
full partnership in the firm of Montgomery,
Clothier & Tyler.
The New York Subtreasury lost $685.
900 to the banks on Saturday, making a
cash net loss since Friday of $13,361, 900.
The American Locomotive Company has
received orders for fifty 151-ton Mikado
engines for the Chicago and Northwestern
and eight 97-ton Mallet engines for the
South African Railways
Moncure Biddle and j. Lewis Henry have
formed a copartnership for dealing In in
vestments, and have opened Office at
lO4 South Fifth street.
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NEW YORK. April 2.-As heretofore. re-
Gently there were no quotations In the early
dealings today for Teutonic exchange.
Features of interest developed In strength
In francs and Spanish exchange. Rubles
worked q shade easier while Scandinavian.
Dutch and Italian exchange displayed
stsadiness. The rally in pesetas following
saturdays reaction brought that class Of
exchange up to the high figures OF this I'M
mediate movement to 2l.So for cables and
2l.70 for checks.
other quotations were
Demand sterling t.75It. cables Ats II |;
sixty-day bills nominalIy 472, ninety-day
bills 40.
Francs cables 6s3H, checks b.s2x.
Swiss cables 5.o9, checks 500.
0uilder cables t0x, checks l0h.
RubIe cables HAS. checks $40.
GtockhoiIn cables 30.10. checks 500.
lChrlotiania cables $3.50, bhscls 1919.
CopenheSsn eahles 90. checks 3o-Sn
.... = ~"
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DENVER PLEDGES LOYALTY

DENVER. April 2-Resolutions pledg-
ing loyalty to the Administration and urg-
ing thorough national preparedness and uni
versal military training were passed at a
patriotic mass-meeting in the municipal
auditorium.
The resolutions urge members of Con-
grsss to support the Administration unre-
servediy. Copies of the resolutions are to
be sent to President Wilson and members
a. both houses OF congreea. It was voted
rreaoional dslegation = q1te his Views on
& ~ Y. & eet q smother
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ST. JOHNS ASSrlnD..Y
in FIRST PLACE
Progressive Assembly Displaced
as the Largest Subordinate
Body in the A. o. M. P.

St Johns Assembly had an immense turn
out to celebrate in no uncertain manner the
cart,;,,, 20 ~ -, aa ,arr in ,,ia, the
pinnacle OF its amoiton,-'he record OF
overtaken Progressive's roll of 1853 by a
margin of Ave members. according to the
record of the NJ f. recorder. There was
no bombast nor unseemly braggadocio nor
-, g.. r. r,,,,,.o -. n gnod hearty
poast ior the future put soou, nea,,S
selt-consra'uiation over results wei earheo earned
candidates was thrust upon p NJ A. Fred
keene. q Progressive Assembly, who mag, ssc
benediction over the lost venerable prestige of
smS hoWsve SMa se1s or the SSse and
Srbss ror tne ou ,ne n ,be orranzs
tion and ioySy !" extended e the Challenge ale Of
OF OF 0n smoi,ous prosress as wei as IN the cause
Recorder poInSy the s ~ abb ,dDs and i"i
steady grind OF the orsa anized forces and of the
Rro,har Keono who ,s denu,v over Pennsyl-
yanis Assemby breusht & deiessti9n Leg; lon ,sni from
-, hmoWm rs tne , lem 'ro fpitv w ' bv reru
lar 'istatons among the assemoheS'
solicitor Joseph 7. TAYLOR delivered his SIX; s
and was presented by Brother James H. Ma
vote vote on behalf Of the assembly with a silver
service
Prizes were awarded for work during I,sic Feb,
buds 10 the f,yseYen proposDs members during
stipulated time. Albert HAYS obtained
of onions from Brother Gi!lies a peck of pc. pc
alligator from Deputy Taylor. Fred Hoch cap
S prize "a, and : watch i from si brother oiies for
The 9th Gse . hi. os msmossOs ,s meeting ss.
S officers I IN the nitiatory ceremony and really
Assembly was vas not not that No. 2s produced the
TSs m obTs n thu but tns aras 's sbTs s
recent and HpknoTP artisan FTeasrick
sion .on iniToduced II % forty ssndidstes swenty:two Of
VII ha %' nrze awI no1a5 ahov m
for one Of the lssses. orsspizatiopss in re
ssaps:. 5 safest; most solvent and, thsrsrors
with the added value Of the effciency Of the
orders official and the high
teilisant s,inIble prospsct Is E rsss, 10 the IN
sSits sSpnd " comparatively easy to obtain his re-
esr%aqsswn Hssegsy gs had attend
oeers se ah M il ncRn ss
son superthts ndsnt @ at and Harry fentig. in
nds5$sSn ns 4ssSrdsd hearty xsec%.
of the general expressions OF the speakers in the
proposition to procure other meeting Quarters. "'
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MONEY.LENDING RATES

NEW YORK-Call money opened at 2E
per cent for lending and renewing: high,
2h; low. .: closed, 2k @2h; ruling rate
~ per cent.
Time money was unchanged today on
good mixed Stock Exchange collateral at
3h @3k per cent for sixty and ninety days
and at az o. per cent for five and six
months The trading figure for four months
was AK per cent
Industrial loans ruled Y per cent higher
than these hgures- Prime bank accept
ances were unchanged at az @3N per cent
for ineliEibies and sh and 2H per cent for
eligibles.
PHILADELPHIA - Call, az per cent
Time. ~ @6 per cent Commercial paper
three to six months. ~ OK per cent.
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Liverpool Cotton

LIVERPOOL. April Spot cotton was
dull today and II points lower on the basis
of 12. SD for mid-upland. The sales aggre-
gated 5000 bales, including 5000 bales
American, The imports were 1000 bales,
all American. The market for futures
closed quiet at net decline of l0@l4
points.
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Total sales. ss6, 100 shares. compared with
$50. 800 shares last Mnndey
Observation-Disclosures Securities " OF 1
per cent; Virginia Railway and Power ~
per cent.
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NEARLY ALL OF THE LEADING STOCKS
JOIN IN VIGOROUS UPWARD MOVEMENTS
Scant Supply Factor in Bringing About Advances.
Gains OF One to Three Points Registered in
Minor Steel Industrials
High Points in Todays Financial Neus

EnaynJ strength shown
daoonce8 easy Independent oils
Philadelphia
ment for 0eek More gold Japan ~ "
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LOCAL LOANS SMALLER
Individual Deposits, Reserves and Sur.
plus Also Fall

General declines were shown In the va.
rious items in the Philadelphia weekly bank
statement today. Loans showed loss of
$1,336,000. individual deposits $62S.000.
reserve held S1.194,000 and surplus
eS44,000.
Details follow:
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WHEAT REACHES
NEW HIGH PRICES
Buying Is on Enormous Scale.
Much Covering by
Shorts

GRAIN BELT WEATHER FORECAST
CHICAGO. April 2,-The weather forecast
UI1nois, WiecOnsin and Minnesota-Fair
sCnisht and Tuesday, becoming unsettled
Misseusi-Fsir tonisht. partly cloudy and
l9wa-Falr tonight. Increasing c,oudiness
~ North end South DAkots. Nebrssks and
hsnsas-Fatr toniGht and Tuesday; warmer
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TOO LATE FOR CLASSIFICATION


DEATHS
LEsLIE.-April ?. JOHN LESLIE. aged 81
230 T.. m. 7O8 N 39th st: Int. Arlington Gem
Remains may be viewed We'd. to 10 p. M g2
hbwTS wRTTsSsOyfr,dR hRK Hosgg.n April
friends invited to services. Tues. 2:30 D. m..,
4li5 Walnut st. Int. private. Old st. Davide
TREGEAR - Suddenly. April I. HENRY
TREGEAR, Sr., aged ~. Relatives and friends.
Pennsylvanlss Rsilrcsd Veterans Invited g
ing 1870 Chestnut St Int. private. Arlington
Gem.
HELP wANTED-FEMALE
YOUNG LADY for office work: high schooi
graduate with knowledge of typewritng pre-
ferred; state qua iifca,ions and wages ex-
pected. Apply p S07. Ledger Office.
HELP wANTED-MALE ~
MEN wanted to do ordinary labor. Apply Reed
Reed and Swanson SITS. Brooklyn Coop se Co.
BOY. 10 years of age and upward. Apply Reed
and Swanson sts., Brooklyn CooperaKe Co.
COUPLE wanted. sober and Industrious, for
janitors. Wallingford Apts., seth and Ludlow
SITS; see Mrs. Oelschlaser.
HOT PRESS STAMPERS, exp'd, on pocket
books ana card cases. 4S-hour schedule; steady
position. Wolf CO., 18th and Cailowhi1. N
YOUNG MAN for clerical position; good oppor-
tunity for advancement. high school graduato
preferred; wages So to start. S11 Led. O6i.&
BOY for office work and errands: good opp0r-,
tunity for advancement, with privilege OF CON-
tinuation school: wages s.. s12 Led. Or
ICE WAGON DRIVERS wanted: good waoo1x n
start. s13 Ledger Office. Y3$
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NEW YORK. April "A sharp reaction
in the Liverpool market was entirely ig-
nored at the opening of the local cotton
market, and more attention was given to
rains in the eastern belt. AS a result OF
buying by Liverpool and southern interests
the tone was steady. with prices down
only to points
Some room traders were sellers and COM
mission houses also supplied the list, but
it was noted that scalping was INDUCED in.
The early bulge carried the market
about to IL net points net higher There
was buying on reports that rains in the
southwest had been insufficient and on the
eastern belt forecast for showers or thun-
der storms in the Carolinas and Georgia
but general business restricted by un-
certainties regarding plans in Washington
and the market soon eased under renewed
liquidation.
The scarcity of old crop offerings in the
early afternoon alarmed shorts and in an
effort to cover their sales bears ran the
market up sharply, summer months selling
at net advance of about 30 points while
new crop positions advanced 20 points
There was apparently no fresh news to ex-
plain the rise beyond the good-sized re-
ports and the reports of spot market
strength South.
The exports for the day aggregated
26,2O6 bales.
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COTTON PRICES JUMP
WHEN BEARS COVER
Scarcity of Old Crop Offerings
Alarms ShOrts-Rains
Hold Attention

COTTON BELT WEATHER CONDITIONS
NEW YORK. April 2.-The following
Temperatures were reported In the cotton
belt this morning: 0klahoma City. 3s:
Memphis. Little Rock and Nashville, A;
San Antcnio and Del Ric ss; Gal.
Corpus Christi, Birmingham and Asheville.
60; Macon. ThemasyilIe and Raleigh. S2
Psnsaeoia. Knoxyilie.' Augusta. Sayannah
and and Wi,minstop sSi y;, NeT orlssns. ss Tampa
There was 0I inch Of precipitation at
Fort Smith. ..0s inch at, Galveston and
SSihseveRors, -; S.ttanHaS a. hnosV'is % w az No. No.
leans. 2.Ss At ThomasviIle. "a at Pensa-
cola. AZ at Montgomery. .58 at Memphis
and .64 at Birmingham.
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Details follow /:
FOREIGN EXCHANGE

plus April S. 1915. was 80: :eos. 900: March
rs, S2,7Is, 900; April I, 1912. 3l2. 7O2. 900.
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A new council, TO be known North Penn
Council No. 3S3, will be instituted in Stuarto
Hall. at Germantown and Lehigh. avenues. on
Wednesday night next. The degree work will
be performed by the team from John X. Marlin
Council. and large delegations of Juniors are
expected.
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LOCAL MINING STOCKS

Total sales. se.s59. 900. compared with 81
S62 900 last Monday.
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CHRONOLOGY OF RUSSIA'S TRANSITION
FROM AUTOCRACY TO DEMOCRACY

MARCH of bread caused unrest working
Strikes declared
hungry people food shops.
March (FidayzPetrogad police
Minor outbreaks when hungry people broke into bread stores and dis
police Perograd
slby hafhearted of disorders In blank
ridge fired mobs steadily Cavalry
cheered by people who obeyed orders clear streets
March 10 (Saturday)Cowd Government officials finally
alarmed and ordered troops fire into the solid Nevy Prospect
with machine
Officials replaced them with police known to have mpnctn Fired
solved he had determined repression again.
eliminated first big break Governments forces Russian regiment Of
people Another Joined later Four late night These
brief battle Success led to other wholesale
loyal police
March II Nonday fighting continued undated but in after
Government regiment opposing fighting
line Thousands joined Within hour all
festoes issued Gar appd that the
second day revolution with
old
the few by Gar
March l3
forces and officials surrendered Ministers
Duma final
Revouonists full
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OPINION HERE DIVIDED
ON RUSSIAN SITUATION

Varying opinions on the Russian revou.
tion are held by Philadelphia citizens con-
versant with the peculiar conditions exist
ing in the great autocracy.
DR.. Henry Golden, of 1922 South Broad
street one of the small group of Russian
Americans In this city, said that the belief
of the Russian people in the divine attrib-
utes Of the Gar would be shaken by revo-
iution. He predicted that 1t would result
in a constitutional form of monarchy
with the divine idea abolished, the rest
will be comparatively easy At the same
time the masses in Russia are so thick
that II will take some time for them to
comprehend the full Significance of the sit
uation."
Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf.' of Keneseth
Israel congregation, said that he was un-
able to form correct opinion from the in
formation available He said he preferred
to form his opinions on the matter when he
could find whether the uprising was from
distressing economic conditions or ma
tional revolution.
Doctor Golden, on the other hand, said
the revolution was due to hunger "I
doubt II this could be called victory
for the Allies. as the news from London
seems 70 indicate. The Russian masses
are pro-nobody. They have no quarrel
with any one. They are fighting condi-
tions like hunger-not men or nations. This
revolution is the second phase Of the dis
turbance which began sixteen years ago"
Chaos will reign. according to Doctor
Golden, II the democracy gains the upper
hand or there will be, and this is more
probable, a constitutional monarch with a
constitutional government.
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men hlgh up in the favoritism of the Car
anu Czarlna but devoid of intellectual abiI-
NY since the revolt of 1906 the present
supreme powers of Russia have been unable
10 meet the Industrial, political and eco
hoinlc problems of the country.
Ihose who know Russia realIza tho,
there are three forces in the unbannv COM
IIy-the Reactionaries or those close 10 the
Czar the combination of landlords. cant
tallsts and ministers who combine to form
the Liberals. and, third, the people. The
Liberals wanted, and still want. to estab-
ish constitutional monarchy Nthey want
the war TO continue because, having great
interests themselves, they find war proft-
aple' ana they want Constantinople opened
because port to the south would ba ~
personal commercial worth to them.
But 1t was the people. the workers and
tho peasants, who fought hardest against
entering the war and who wanted and still
strive to establish democratic republic. n
was the people who started the present
revolution. The Liberals, once the revou-
tion had been started. fell in with the revo-
luton.
The Russian people are OPPOSED TO war
ana 10 militarism, but they believe that
their own success as revolutionists will
mean revolution on the part Of the Ger
manic peoples Then they hope and believe
there Will come a consolidation OF all the
revolutionary peoples, Russian and Ger
manic. combination that by its very force
and weight will compel the militarists Of
Guroper warring nations % osasa ,their
. /. 4 u . IT.
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REGARDS REVOLUTION
AS OF BENEFIT TO ENTENTE ALLIES

WASHINGTON. March 16.--Kaleidoscopic
changes in world affairs now in process
yet may seriously affect the future Of the
United States. officials admitted today The
next few weeks must be fraught with mo-
mentous happenings, they say, which may
force radical action at dozen points by
this Government.
Administration officials are seriously con-
cerned with the outlook. They hope fer
the best, of course. but are leaving nothing
undone to protect the interests of the
nation.
Naturally, developments in the Russian
revolution were today overshadowing all
else. officials were inclined to believe that
the outcome there will be beneficial to the
cause of the Entente nations. They as
serted that for the first time in generations
the Russians themselves are i'm control of
their Government. Monarchical and aristo-
cratic corruption and degencracy have over
reached themselves, officials say, and Russia
has finally overthrown absolutism.
INCOMPETENTS OUT
It is believed here that with the advent
of the new Duma and the representatives
of liberal thought in Russia there will be
general resumption Of the offensive
against Germany. This offensive, official
reports reaching here during the last two
months have pointed out, has been held
back by inef'iciency--and possibly corrup
tion--on the part of certain Russian lead
ers. These men now have been relegated
to obscurity Some Of them face trials by
court-martial and death. And it is expected
that in their places will be brought for
ward competent officers who will lead.
In this very connection it is recalled that
only very short time ago experienced
japanese soldiers, who had been detailed
to train the Russian units, We're forced out
of the service by the direct orders Of Car
Nicholas. With him deposcd, these oAlcers
are likely to return to their former posts.
Administration officials say German Sug-
gestions that the revolution in Russia and
the parliamentary crisis In France will lead
to breaking down of the solidarity of the
Entehte are without foundation. They ex-
pect that the war will continue as here
tofore, with the exception that Russia will
prove more powerful.
u. S. FAVORS REVOLUTION
The sympathies of the United States.
which may be forced at any moment into
war with Germany, are clearly with the
Russian revolutionists out Of the maze of
reports coming from Petrograd State De-
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PRINCE KRAPOTKIN, FORTY YEARS
psi AN EXILE TO RETURN TO RUSSIA

was happening in Russia when he made his
speech Tuesday promising greater share I'm
government to the German people after the
war" N' NV
i Know the new members of the Gov
ernmental Council" the Prince resumed
THEY are all right"
Prince Krapotliin was born in one Of the
most arstocratic of Russian families and
as child was page at court. Every
circumstance should have combined 70
make nm an aristocrar. But circun,
stances, instead, led him to deep study and
thought OF the plain peoples condition In
ltussa. Meanwhile he Travelled extensively
IN siberia as military attache, there seeing
frst hand the horrors of the exilinp of
n0lltlcai , Offenders, He became geographer.
Then. in 1872, he cast his lot de6nitei,.
against the mobiles and with the working
men. ''e
Two years later his activity marked him
loF persecution by the Russian autocratic
Government. lie was sentenced to inpris
oIihleht III the same fortress of ST. Paul and
81. Peter which was the first building COW
tured in Pctrograd by the reyoutionory
iorces lie remained there two wears es-
Gaping to England. There he started bis
propaganda Of a Theoretical anarchist {"
RE did not believe with the radical an
archlsts, but he ives an exponent of Vigorous
measures in demolition of autocrac cies and
estaphshment OF the rules of the people
IL was vigorous prosecution of these mime
that caused his expulsion from Switzerland
subsequently and three years Imprisonment
IN FRANCE. Since 1886 he has lived In Eng
land writing scores of books on Russia's nc
ltical and economic problems and hecnn,-
ihs noted as geographer.
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BRIGHTON, Eng, March 10.


Forty years -banishment from Russia did
not dim the Joy today of Prince Krapotkin
in the prospect once again of going home"
under government which would make
all peoples equal in control.
1t was a joyful interview which the
seventy year-od sef-professed anarch-
st accorded your representative here, in
the presence of his equally jubiant wife
and helpmate, for forty years the sharer in
his enforced absence from his native Russia
which started when he cast his lot with the
workingmen.
II hope this means Russia will follow the
example of America and give full freedom
to tho people," he declared "Autocracy
has now finally come to its end after a
fifty years struggle. a new era of progress
has opened"
This is the happiest day Of our lives"
interJected the Princess. Perhaps" she
added with sigh, I'VE will now return to
Russia"
Il said new era of progress was
opened for Russia" the Prince continued
"A nation united with the army is sure TO
win the war. Free Russia will help the
German nation get rid of the Hohenzollerns
Russia, freed from German pressure, is
sure to recognize an independent Poland
not a Poland governed by autonomy, but a
really independent Poland.
II believe the Russian people will point
the way for the German people. The latter
are kept fighting by manufactured fear
of the menace of Russian arstocracy.
81 wonder interrupted the Princess
again, IF Bethmann-H Honweg knew what