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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25
Rank of EngIand london, May q

The proportion of the banks reserve
TO liability this week is 1919 per cent;
last week il was 20.42 per cent.
Bank of France.-Paris, May "a
The weekly statement Of the Bank Of
France shows the following changes, in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25
The Dollar in Foreign Exchange

Foreign exchange rates moved with
in a narrow range yesterday. with light
dealings. Francs were firmer, while
ruhlcs and sterling were steady.
Closing rates yesterday. compared
with week ago. are given in the table
below. American bankers have sus-
pended all dealings in German and
Austrian exchange. 50 that daily quo
tations for either marks or kronen are
no longer available.
Wcok
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25

United States Steel. Plans Of the
corporation in connection with the
purchase of 60 acres of land on Newark
Bay are said to include the manufac-
ture of steel bottoms, II feet IN depth,
that will go through the Barge Canal
which has just been opened up from
tide water to the Great Lakes. The
deal with the Steel Corporation was
made through Joseph =. Day, who is
also negotiating with other industrial
concerns for the sale of so acres OF
land still remaining in the section
where the property is located.
Ingot Production Official figures COM
piled by the American Iron & Steel In
stitute covering steel ingot production
and finished forms Of rolled iron and
steel in the United States during 1916
show that production of steel ngots
and castings amounted to 42,773,6SO
tons, against 32,l51,O36 tons the year
before. Finished steel production
amounted to 32,3SO,3s9 tons last year,
compared with 24,392,9 24 in 1915.
There were produced in 1916 2,S5i,-
5lS tons Of iron and steel rails; 1855
$50 tons of plates and sheets; 3d.
088 tons of nail plates; 3,5lS,7i6 tons
of wire rods; 3,029,964 tons Of structural
shapes and l5,493, O93 tons Of all other
finished rolled products, making the
total 32.3S0,3S9 gross tons. Production
of pig iron in Canada in 1916 amounted
to I,069, 5ll gross tons. compared with
825,420 gross tons in 1915. Production
of steel ingots in Canada in 1916 ag-
gregated ,2S6,5 500 tons, compared with
912.755 tons in 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25

Below is ven the current exchange
value of foreign money in dollars and
cents, together with the intrinsic gold
parity, as calculated by the United
States Mint:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25
Record Price'of
1872 Touched by
Steel Common
Advance Takes Place on
Large Volume of
Transactions

Common stock Of the United States
Steel CORPORATION sold on the Stock
Exchange yesterday at the highest
price touched since the company was
organized. After displaying vigorous
strength during the early trading 1t ad-
vanced TO 1919, surprising its former
record. made in the war boom OF Iast
November. by l2, points. 1t closed at
1919, net gain on the days dealings
Of 35s points. In 1915 Steel common
sold at 80, and in 1904 dropped to 81.
transactions in the stock yesterday
were on a huge scale, approximating
4OO. 900 shares. or about one-third OF the
total DAYS business on the eXcnahge'
The stock has risen more than hiteeh
points within a week.
Huge Lots Traded In
The market value of the 5.OS3.O2o
common ehares of the Steel Corpora
tion has appreciated approx mately
Sl65 600 600 since February !, when the
stock sold at % following the announce
ment by Germany that a ruthless SUB
marine campaign would be waged. ne
issue has a par value of S5OS,3O2,5OO
AT the high point yesterday 1t had IN
creased to s66s .000,0 900 in round figures.
The ease and confidence with which
the Steel shares changed hands IN
countless lots of 900 to almost lO,OOo
shares was regarded as one OF the most
phenomenal features in the annals OF
the local exchange.
Other industrials. notably those IN
cluded in the wide variety OF equip
ments and munitions, kept pace win
United States Steel as to actual gains,
but the so-called "war brides while
strong. were for the most part far be-
low highest quotations recorded IN the
spectacular markets of the two preced-
ing years.
Low Priced Rails Slump
While improvement was shown IN
quotations for standard railroad
shares as a whole. there were striking
exceptions to this rule among few
low-priced issues. New Haven fell 51s
to the minimum of 32Ss, but rallied
later on announcement of probable
favorable action by the Massachusetts
Legislature regarding the company's
application to issue preferred stock.
Denver e. Rio Grande issues con-
tinued under the handicap imposed by
recent court decision. The pre-
ferred fell 81 to 1874, its lowest
price in many years and the common
dropped IA to IA.
Metals, shippings, oils and diverse
issues. which move in common with the
war division, registered extreme gains
of to points. Exceptions to this
tendency were manifested by some OF
the motors. Peoples Gas, American
Zinc. Brooklyn Transit and Virginia
Iron.
Commission houses reported a de-
cided accession of public interest. the
inquiry originating at leading indus
trial centres. The short interest also
paid its heavy toll, especially in United
States Steel.
Bonds were irregular on the heavi-
ness of minor railway issues and an
easier tone in internationals. United
States coupon IS lost | II per cent on
call. and Panama coupon IS fell 8
points 10 90 on one sale.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25

Gain in Bank DepOsits.-Steady
growth in deposits of national banks
is reflected in the returns made to the
Controller of the Currency on May J..
OF the thirty-two institutions in the
country reporting gross deposits in ex-
cess of $5O,0OO,OOO twenty-one showed
increases and eleven decreases, as com
pared with the previous call on March
last. The National City Bank of
New York headed the list with an in
crease of s45.2S9OOO in deposits. The
National Bank of Commerce, in New
York, reported en- increase Of s27,75S,-
600. the First National Bank an in
crease of s21,499.OOO and the Chatham
and Phenix. of New York, an increase
of S11 $50 900.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25

London Money Market-London. May
24.-Money was in increased demand
and discount rates were firm. Money
was quoted at 81 to per cent. Dis
count rates: short bills, 411-l6 per
cent; three months bills, Az per cent.
Gold premium at Lisbon, So.
Evening star., 1917-04-15
Height of Impudence.

csN ERMANY'S calm admission that
" she was quite justified in Offer
ing Texas and New Mexico 10 Mexico
If that country would attack us--weu
Germany reminds me here of the impu-
dent diner-out."
The speaker was a senator. the oc-
casion luncheon in Cambridge.
This diner-out," he continued, 'tdined
one evening in a circle that was new to
him. He took a charming lady down 20
dinner and from the caviare to the
teal he amused her, in his famous way.
with the marital difficulties Of the
Brown-Browns. The Grown Browns. it
was plain from his narrative. must be-
fore long air their difficulties in the di
vorce court.
Funny. isn't it? said the diner -out.
as the alligator pear salad came on.
and he looked at his charming COM
panion with smile.
She beamed on him.
Yes, she said. it's awfully funny
really, and perhaps it will interest you
to know that l am Mrs. Brown-Brown'
The diner-out smiled in his turn
Really he said. Then tell me.
have l got all the details right?'"
Evening star., 1917-04-15

isfaction of some poor fellow too Iii
to care whether he has any such salts
faction, might. nevertheless be oblie
ing disciples of the graduate nurses
Installed in the naval hospitals
Even II she could poach an egg prop
erly the enlisted woman OF the navy
might make a good "dietist ana b.
most useful indeed" said the worns n
who was speaking.
Then It was that this member of I'll.
navy nurse corps fshed IN her desl5
and brought out a certain decision @,
the first deputy attorney general OF
Philadelphia, William II. Keller: 70
are advised that II is not illegal for a
nurse who has been trained in the So
ministratfon OF anaesthetics TO admir-
lister such anaasthetic as may be ue-
scribed by a physician in accordance
with his orders and directiona" This
means much. as a decision. Il seems, a.
the law in regard to the matter has
been most stringent in the past In the
event of war q woman qualified AS
nurse may give great aid to the naval
bases as an anaesthetist
Enrolling as nurses aids. women would
perform any task, however humble,
which might be asked OF them. II 10
well known that numerous American
women. while generally spoken OF an
nurses" this side of the Atlantic
have been content while abroad to per,
form the humblest. even most disagree
able tasks, as nurses aids in the great Z
war in Europe. In the pharmacy OF
our naval hospitals, however, there IS
a not improbable opportunity for those
women who. in college or some specia
chemistry. These would doubtless be
given the title of pharmacist. Men OF
duty in these positions are rated IS
petty officers.
Evening star., 1917-04-15

horizon. The response in this direc-
ton was such that if this newer move
ment in regard to women also be an
experiment the success of it may cas-
lily be guessed.
"Third-class yeoman'' is, SO far, the
principal rating given fair patriots
wishing to serve for brothers, fathers,
husbands or simply Uncle Sam. The
yeoman branch of the navy performs
it's clerical work and a candidate must
have had some experience before ac-
ceptance One test of examination is
the writing of a letter 200 words in
length, with double and single spacing,
fa paIow p
cent in the typewriter examination will
not be considered further.
Yeoman schools for the regular blue
jackets desiring to become stenog-
raphers or bookkeepers are located at
Newport, r. l., and San Francisco.
After graduating from one Of these
schools, young men are sent to the snip
or station which needs their services.
1t is the vacant chairs of these boys,
who may soon don the uniform of war,
which the yeomen now enlisting may
be called to take.
Women enrolling as radio operators
are likely to come in for more thrills
will be known as electricians. a gen
eral electrician" having to know names
and uses of the various parts of the
dynamo and dynamo engine ana pc
familiar with ordinary types or sWitch-
boards and methods of wiring. A re-
cruit, ordinarily, must be able to re-
ceive twenty words a minute. Enlist
ing In the navy electrical schools means
that the recruit is obliged to have
knowledge of general electricity, to be
an operator of the Morse code, or have
considera BILE knowledge of radio teleg-
raphy Schools whose students youn
women might eventually replace, IN
the event of this country engaging in
war, are located at the navy yards IN
BROOKLYN and on Mare Island, Cal.
The naval radio stations at Colon
and Balboa, at the terminals OK the
Panama canal, which were erected es-
pecially for comm munication with YES
sells coming to the canal or its ter
minal ports, are performing increasing
Evening star., 1917-04-15
@7oumd@d American Soldier Will Have Best of Nursing"

prepared to mobilize approximately
1900 Red Cross nurses on first call.
These nurses are enrolled with base
hospitals, navy detachments and emer-
gency detachments. The work of these
trained nurses car be supplemented by
IL body of lay women who have taken
I. course in elementary hygiene and
home care of the sick and preparation
of surgical dressings as outlined and
supervised by the Red Cross and taken
for the purpose of equipping themselves
for work as volunteer nurses aids
There are approximately $500 lay
women who have qualified for this
service now on the list of the Red Cross
bureau of nursing.
Estimating that 80 per cent of those
who have had this course in elementary
Evening star., 1917-04-15
Work of Enlisted Women in the United Sta

00 S7OMEN may now enlist in the
MAN. navy. They are enlistinS.
H\V The United States has es-
" tablished a precedent among
the nations for no other country III
the world welcomes women on the
rolls OF its navy. Their services are
s.cee pied. but they have no standing as
being enlisted.
European women, who have gwen
II, 50 much, who have sacrificed pleas
drc tossed aside hobbies and luxurtes.
forgotten personal ambitions and
aspirations. demands for political
lights and greater freedom. viii nnd
that in case the starry banner fights
the black agile American women viii
emulate what has been n noble
example. For not only Will they bear
domestic burdens, but. like the women
particularly Of France and England,
hey will take mems places when the
latter leave for battle. and they VIII
l,e, besides this. recognized units O.
rhn navy.
/, came like an electric shock-this
news of the privilege. 1t made much
more of a stir than some officials
of the Navy Department imagined II
would This was realized when. a
few hours after the announcement.
young lady in Philadelphia, Miss
Loretta Walsh. enlisted and started 4
recruiting station at once. And every
body one met that day. especially
women, said excitedly: Have YOU seen
the papers? Did you know that women
are joining the navy
Various officials of the Navy Depart
,uent were deiuged that day and the
next with inquiries as to what enlisttng
women should he allowed to do one
person, seeking such information. hap
psued into the bureau of navigation.
after leaving Secretary Daniels office
where other people We're asking the
same question-and ran into the first
woman enlisting in Washington. This
young woman. Miss Elma s. Moulton.
was not at all warriorlike in appear
ance. yet with quite definite air OF
being sure that she knew what she
was doing.
of course. what she was going to
do, in case her services were required.
Evening star., 1917-04-15
Ignorance.

ID A. 5. FRANKLIN. president of the
u International Mercantile Marine.
said at n luncheon in New York last
month;
The Germans. thinking to win VIC
torious peace by unrestricted sub
marine warfare, show an Ignorance OF
neutral psychology as stark as Mrs.
Burdocks ignorance Of medicine.
"A physician had prescribed for Hod
Carrier Burdock, and as he left the
Burdock home he told Mrs. Burdock to
take her husbands temperature the
next morning.
THE next morning about 10 the ply
sician called again.
well, and how's our patientT he
said to Mrs. Burdock genially.
Sure. doctor, said she. I hadn't no
thermometer in the house, so 1 put a.
barometer on his chest after breakfast.
and it went to very dry" SO I give
him tree bottles OF beer and he went
off TO work whustlin'.'"
Evening star., 1917-04-15

nursing arc available and may be at
tached 10 base hospitals, we would have
l.s2s lay women TO assist the nurses,
or - total of approximately 1000 nurses
and assistants available. With the Gus
tonary assignment Of ten patients TO
e4ch nurse, the Red Cross nurses would
probably be able TO take care of $4,000
sick and wounded.
In earlier stages OF war 1t is es,i-
mated that the proportion of sick and
wounded is about ) per cent OF the
strength of the army. Reckoning that
the Red Cross nurses and assistants
are prepared TO care for $4,000 at once,
We would be prepared to render nurs-
ing service 10 AN army of one million
men. And this is a conservative estf-
mate"
To define the status of the bureau of
nursing service the general organiza-
tion of the American Red Cross should
be understood The national officers of
the American Red Cross are a presi dent
vice president. treasurer. counselor and
secretary. The President of the Unite
States is always president of the Red
Cross.
The central committee, Of which ex-
President William Ii. Taft is chairman
consists of eighteen members, and in
cludes the Secretary of State and the
surgeons general of the army and navy
The committee delegates its RESPONSE
bllities to the acting chairman, Eliot
Wadsworth, whose Office is at the ma
uonal headquarters. Under this central
committee are two divisions, those of
civilian and military relief Under the
latter are the bureaus OF medical and
nursing service. Under civilian relief,
because of its entirely peaceful purpose,
tne town anu country nursing service Is
placed. The bureau of nursing service.
Evening star., 1917-04-15
BOOKS RECEIVED.

WALTER R. BENJAMIN. 225 6TH AVE, INV
YORK CITY. BUYS ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH
LETTERS OF ALL CELEBRITIES. IF YOU
HAVE ANY OLD COLONIAL Oh REvOLU.
TIONAkY LETTERS, OR COLLECTIONS q
LETTERS. WRITE TO HIN. HIGHHeT PHIoE6,
PAID. PCBILRHNR OF THD ooLLDQz02, a
MONTHLY FOR AUTOGRAPH CoI1HCfckA.
Evening star., 1917-04-15

ly effective service in facilitating op-
erations. And, according to one naval
officer-"shore duty covering points
in any of our possessions as well as
within the borders-women enlisting as
radio operators might be sent to Pan
anna for duty in a most important field.
Englishwomen are featured almost
daily in the news as doing their bit"
in machine shops, and should the
United States have a prolonged war.
taking major part of the navy to
operate, women now enrolling as cleo
tricians might receive further instruc-
tion in these schools and be given an
opportunity to run steam turbine en-
gines, dynamos, etc. This, however. is
not, even in the very uncertain future.
a probability the ladies of the navy
may anticipate.
That which the majority can do their
best in doing is doubtless in the old,
prescribed lines, where a woman's S
hands and heart have ever worked to-
gether-where sick and wounded men
lie and long for rest At least, this is
the view held by that little known but
most interesting group of women
called the navy nurse corps. Sent by
the naval bureau of medicine and sur
gerry to a most enthusiastic officer
of this exclusive yet most efficient
and patriotic band of women, the writ
er learned too many new and surpris-
ing things concerning wOmen's place
in war to speak of at this time. al
though a few bearing on the subject
in hand demand space.
There are 10000 graduate nurses
enrolled and ready for service the mo-
ment their country calls. So that pure
ly civilian women, expecting to enroll
in the navy and with ever SO ardent
a spirit to take Up the duties of nurs-
ing, may not be called nurses. but
instead will be classified as one of
several kinds of nurses aids"
"Dietists' is Il word coined by this
representative of that honored band of
1e5 nurses so closely related to the
workings of the bureau of medicine
and surgery and called the navy nurse
corps. And "dietists," as applied to a
U. s. N. r. F. would mean that women
SO designated. while not dieticians and
so qualified to plan the gustatory sat
Evening star., 1917-04-15

was not very warIike. Clerical work
isn't at any time. And that's what
yeoman on shore ordinarily does. That's
what she may do. But it is what he will
do, the man whose place she steps into.
that stirs her. and what fastened Miss
walsh to the recruiting station, and
what is sweeping other women in other
cities toward enrolling.
There was a nebulous idea in some
minds when the paragraph announcing
Evening star., 1917-04-15

news OF the decision appeared that
women accepted for duty would so to
sea. This was constantly being ex-
planned away. in the offices of the Navy
Department, even though most papers
had stated definitely that shore duty
would cover all possible needs FOR en-
listing womens services. So the Secre-
tasy OF the Navy. Mr.. Dariels, respond
ed to the inquiry of one person with
the following paragraphs:
For a long time 1t was supposed that
there was no place in the naval serV-
ice for women. but this notion was eN-
ploded when, Il few years ago. women
were enlisted in the naval hospitals and
their services have been in every way
so satisfactory that the number has
been steadily increased.
The provision for a naval reserve
contemplated the enlisting of women In
the naval reserve for such service as
nurses in hospitals, radio service and
services rendered by yeomen in type
writing and stenography. and women
are now being enlisted in such services.
1t is gratifying 10 see that the Women
are taking advantage of this call to
serve in the ways in which they are pc
culiarly fitted.
:;
Because many people are not in
formed as TO that particular division
of the navy women are now joining, IT
may be recalled tnat on August 80 ldsC
the naval reserve force was created;
that of the six general classes constf-
tuting this body the fourth class is the
naval coast defense reserve. And it is
in this class that women are being
privileged to make definite record OF
their patriotism. If they possess a til
tie. it is that of reservists.
In making monthly reports of per
sounel. a separate list is to be submit
ted of woman reservists, according to q
circular issued on March 10 by the bu-
reau of navigation. Male members of
the naval reserve force are permitted,
in signing their names. to add ~. S. n.
r. F." There appears to be no reason
then why women, some of whom are
not eligible to the use of a Ph.D. or
a B. S. should not use the more unique
symbol of their standing and thereby
Evening star., 1917-04-15

,7 OF can give the mothers of
w this country, who are pre-
pairing to send their sons to
Evening star., 1917-04-15

practice cruise on battleships. an ex-
pertinent was tried by the government
It was considered wise to learn wheth-
er throughout the land there really
Evening star., 1917-04-15
THOSE FrTzENBERGERs. By He

THOSE FITZENBERGERS. By Helen
r. Martin, author Of "Barnabetta,
etc. illustrations by Robert A
Graef. New York: Doubleday, Page
~ Co. Washington: Woodward &
Lothrop.
A MRS. MARTIN story. STEPPED
n in other sauces than those of
IA an out-of-the- Dutch
L u hamlet of interior Pennsyl-
vania, would be the subject,
Evening star., 1917-04-15

00 0oMEN may now enlist in the
MAN. navy. They are enlistinS.
H\V The United States has es-
" " tabltshed precedent among
Arizona republican., 1917-08-15

LOST-Between Y. M. c. A. and California Inn, baby's locket and chain. Ward, care Korrick's. Reward.
 h,,7
Arizona republican., 1917-08-15
ENTRANTS MANY
 IN PATRIOTIC
 SINGLES MEET

NEW YORK, Aug 14.-Although the entry list is smaller than in former years, the names of a majority of the leading tennis players of the country were drawn today for the National Patriotic singles tournament to be staged at the West Side cub, Forest Hills, Long Island, next week. The tourney, which has been substituted for the annual singles championship and the proceeds of which will be do- hated to the National Tennis Associa- ton ambulance fund, drew entrants from all parts of the country.
 In view of the fact that the play really is a national exhibition tourna- ment with the gate receipts to be given for patriotic purposes, the draw was in part seeded in order that inter- est might be sustained throughout the entire weeks play. The names of the sixteen entrants were equally divided between the upper and lower halves and the remaining forty eight selected at random to fiji in the blank spaces on the card This is not considered a violation of the association rules as the tournament is not a. championship, with either title or trophy at stake.
 In the upper half of the draw are John R. Strachan of San Francisco; Douglas Walters of New Orleans C. $. Garland of PittsDurg; S. kashiO oi Japan; R. L. Murray, formerly of Cali fornia and now 9. resident of Niagara Falls; while the eastern experts in- cude Dean Mathey of Cranford, N. J.; Karl Behr, New York; Craig Riddle of Philadelphia and T. R. Pell of New York
 Among the more prominent players
Arizona republican., 1917-08-15
W00DMA|V MEETS
 FIRST DOWNFALL

CLEVELAND, Aug. 14-The Wood man, unbeaten 1917 trotter, today met defeat when Miss Perfection, in the 2:09 trot opening the second Grand Circuit meeting at North Randall, won the race.
 The Woodman was the favorte. as Mack Forbes, picked to give him com petition became i'll and was scratched. Only one favorite won, Ruth Main sheet taking the 3-year-old trotting stake
 In the 2:07 pace, The Savoy. the favorite, was beaten by Day Spring, that sold for s15 in a pool of $1S0, and Day Spring won easily.
 Spy Direct, piloted by Greers. was the victor in the 2:17 pace, easily de- feating Peter G.. the favorite.
 On account of yesterdays heavy rain and a slight downpour this morning, the track was heavy and the time S oW