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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-06-28

messenger. While OfhciaI auth0f1xa-
don for use Of the Airedale ON the bat
tledelds Of Europe has not yet been
issued BY the war department. schools
Tor Intensive courses In training have
been established and officers say that
reports from the various army camps
show that the dogs have made remark.
able progress.
The Airedale surpasses all other
dogs In point Of intelligence, and al
though peaceful, IL also most courage
ous." said one ofacer. "Tests have
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-06-28
Old Clothes Dealers Get Rich on Treasure Trove

his apartnent 10 ~
whisper ssAdns
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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-06-28

Uuu bHIppIHB stdtIUuB IOE UOUks UOuH0
for the French front. The saloons
were stripped Of their fixtures and
have been the sorting and packing CEN
ters from which 100000 books have
started on their journey to the firing
line.
Inside the cafes the spigots that
once gurgled with glee when spoken
to are now speechless. and the beer
cases have given way to book cases.
OF all the transformations wrought
BY the hand Of Mars in Hoboken none
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-06-28
Tf1f SPIRIT
OF IS
Booth Tarkin61on

;
I URING the spring Of 1917 certain groups
Of patriots In the East, particularly in
New York and Boston, did a great deal
Of worrying about the Middle and West
/ states. These Easteners would
| come together at luncheons and commit
tee meetings, and after getting into
Il condition Of collective depression about
the apathy Of the country they would
appoint Of their number to act oratortcal
commission. "Rudiger 60 out there" they would say
him. "Rudiger for Code sake. 60 out there and
middle Vest" And Rudiger would 20
his rousing expedition and make speeches be-
fore commercial clubs and at larger meetings, and
then go back home without having noticed that the
Middle and Western already passing their
quotas for enstments of fighting men, whereas Rudi-
gers state, that time, had nlled Just about
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-06-28

q third OF Its own enlistment quota.
However. the Rudigers were not
all Fasteners. About 100000
people seemed to feel that the United
States did not realize that 1t was at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-21
TRANSPORTATION ON
 MISSISSIPPI RIVER

Federal service on the Mississippi river between St. Louis and New Orleans has commenced, and will consist of weekly departure from both St. Louis and New Orleans, said M. J. Sanders, federal man. ager Mississippi- Warrior waterways. The ca pacity of the service is, unfortunately very limited, "as we are using only such equipment as we have been able to find on the rivers, and can therefore at pres ent carry only some 5000 tons weekly which is about 3,500,0O0 ton-miles There is every evidence that our southbound capacity will be utilized each week. Dis organized conditions of ocean tonnage and certain government regulations will to some extent initiate against full cargoes northbound, but the prospects, nevertheless, are fair.
 Tt is hoped that we may shortly be permitted to cantract for the construc- tion of a permanent fleet, without which 1t is impossible to make any real test of the possibilities of the river for eco ncmical transportation. There is very great difficulty at the present time in obtaining the necessary steel for the con- struction of this equipment, but if this difficulty can be overcome we should, within less than 12 months, have fleet on the Mississippi river capable of hand
 ting 100000 tons of freight between New
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-21
BRUNSWICK TO HAVE
 A BIG AIR STATION

Construction of a naval air station at Brunswick is to be begun immediately by the government, the site for it hav- ing been selected sometime aga, says the Industrial Index.
 The fact that Brunswick had been selected for large naval air station has been known for sometime, but, inasmuch as it had never been official Iy announced, nothing was given out in connection with it's establishment.
 However during the past few days some 40 or 50 machinists, etc, who are to be engaged in the work of erecting the plant have arrived in Brunswick and they will be joined immediately by 200 or 300 men, at which time tho active work of construction will begin Already many car loads of materials are en route to that city, some of them having already arrived, and everything is in readiness for the construction Of the station.
 Just how much money is to be ex- pended in the building of this station, and how many, men will be used in the work has not been announced. but judg- ing from the amount of material al- ready here and ordered, it is believed that the airplane station is to be one If the largest along the coast. There
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-21

A New Orleans special to the Manu- facturers Record says:
 new type of merchant vessel has been born to the world; the south is the mother and Henry Piaggio is the father. It is the auxiliary freighter.
 True, men have for years put gasoline engines in sailing boats-witness the ffishing fleets of our gulf coast; likewise they had put internal combustion motors into 5000 and 4000-ton hulls-witness the Swedish motor ships. But they had never before thought to combine the barkentine and the full-rigged ship with the Diesel power plant.
 The discovery and the development of the idea is one of the great fact TO- mances of the war. Henry Piaggio, vice consul of ItalS was seated in his office in Gulfport one day wondering what he could do to help rid the world of the blonde beast. His eyes wandered out of the window and strayed over the sound where a great five-masted barkentne was being lowed into the harbor by a tug. As she hung heavy on the hawser, her sails Tapping in the calm, 50-foot fishing smack, sails furled, glided swift ly past her stern, leaving a boiling wake behind.
 The inspiration came, and that night Pisggio sent long cablegram to the body in Italy that corresponds to our shipping board.
 A few weeks later the City of Orange slipped from the ways at Piaggios new shipyard at Beaumont, Tex.
 She was of 2500 tons, five masts, bar kentine rigged, and with two 25Oo horse power crude oil engines to drive twin propelors-the first big auxiliary ever built in the south.
 This was October 26, 1916. It was not long before the City of Orange showed her mettle.
 Laden with products of the new world to help the old, she set sail. At Gibraltar she asked to join the convoy
 "Too slow said the convoy captain. ''These are steam vessels
 Next morning the City of Orange shook out her sails and slipped out of the harbor. Then she walked the mighty pow CT of her engines.
 When the convoy reached Genoa there was the City of Orange-had been dis charging cargo for two hours. She had beaten the steam vessels" in and walked
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-21
Plant to Make Ship Paint

A C. Shannon of Jacksonville, Fla, has according to a report from there, been called to New York to confer with others concerning the contemplated es' tablshment of very large plant for the manufacture of marine paint upon an extensive scale for the painting of huls of wooden vessels now building for the government, as well as for other owners. He has been engaged in making this paint in Jacksonville, but the plant there was practically destroyed by fire recent ly, which halted an important shipment of it's product to one of the shipyards building craft for the government. Other paints of specially protective nature were also manufactured and are to be produced by the proposed new concern, but it's especial output is to be the ma- rine paint, which, it is further stated, is made under patents and is designed particularly to prevent damage to hulls by the teredo navalis, or shipworm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-21
THE HUM OF INDUSTRY IN THE SOUTH
For Future Development Of
 the South Atlantic Ports

At meeting which it is now intended to hold in Atlanta, as a central point and neutral ground, a movement will be launched that has greater significance for the future development of the South Atlantic ports, and in fact, for the fu- ture of American trade with South America and the West Indies, than any thing that has been attempted or even proposed heretofore, says the Manufac- turers Record.
 Under the expert guiding hand Of Matthew Hale of Boston, vice president of the Liberty Shipbuilding company, which is building the government expe- rimental concrete ship at Brunswick, and who is now residing there, the five ports of Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah, Brunswick and Jacksonville have been interested in a plan proposed by MT. Hale, which, if it is carried through, will mean that the five ports will CO., operate in future in the matters of se- curing harbor improvements and port fa- cilities, in obtaining ships for operation in trade with South America and tne West Indies and in working up tonnage both in South America and the West In dies and within the interior of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-21
New Type of Vessel South's
 Contribution to Shipping

I right up to the pier without the assist ance of any tug.
 | Sister ships have come from the same
 ways-the City of Beaumont, the City of | Houston, later burned, and the City of l Gulfport-every one a triumph of the
 Piaggio idea.
 To make his success still greater, Piag- gio decided to build the ships bigger. He established new yard at Orange, consolidating the Beaumont yard with it,, and the City of Dallas was the result $500 tons A large fleet of similar ves- sells is still to come.
 But even that was not enough. At
 Pascagoula, Miss. Mir Piagsio formed the International Shipbuilding CO, where he is building S6 auxiliaries of 36oo tons 100 tons larger than the Ferris steamers
 selected by the Shipping board as its type of wooden vessels. Some of the gulf coast yards that have been building fishing schooners for years have turned to the construction of a medium type of auxiliary, ranging from 800 to 1500 tons. These have proven valu- able as substitutes for the steamers talk en from gulf and South American ser vice for war work-the Elizabeth Ruth, for instance, launched some time ago at Biloxi The Mississippi Shipbuilding corporation, builder of this vessel, is reported to have sgned contracts with the Emergency Fleet corpora tion for the construction of seven auxiliary schooners of 2500 tons
 The Clooney Construction Co of Lake Charles, La; the Brunswick (Ga.) Marine Construction Co. and other yards are likewise featuring the new model, which has demonstrated it's fitness under the most exacting demands for large or small tonnage.
 And as the forests of the south furnish the timbers for the hulls and the masts | for the sails, so do the souths oil wells supply the power for the mighty engines with which the new craft defy the costly Ca1mS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-21

There is no waning of war industry activity, but influenza is affecting pro- duction in every mining and manufactur- ing section of the country. While the epidemic is less serious in the Birming- ham district than in many other indus trial centers it has caused a consid- erable falling off in coal output.
 The miners now realize fully the inn perative demand for coal and only sick ness accounts for the comparatively small weekly production. With the in- fluenza gone, the output of Alabama will reach new high record. The miners being patriotic men, can be relied upon to do their best in response to the ap- peals of the fuel administration. All in- dications point to an output of 450,0O0 tons or more a week during November and December.
 The agricultural south has escaped the influenza and every farm has been a scene of activity throughout the year
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-21
'Infzuenza Accounts For Falling
 of in Weekly Coal Production
High Records Expected When Epidemic pery the Farming Sections Reflected Merchante Centers
 Building the South

military highway. And when this en- terprise is pushed the entire good roads movement will receive a new impetus. There has been wonderful improve ment in the road situation in Alabama within the last 10 years, but there is room for more, especially in those coun- ties where funds for maintenance were not provided. Many roads that were smooth and hard when they were built are now so much out of repair as to be classed as bad roads.
 All the state and federal ail roads will rot only be of high quality but they will be kept in fine condition. As State High way Engineer w. s. Keller has often pointed out money spent in road building is money wasted unless provision is made for upkeep.
 Few activities of material sort will contribute to the prosperity of the south so readily or in such far-reaching way as good road construction Every sec ton traversed by fine highway is section of high farm values Let's Keep up the agitation until poor road is rare exception to the rule
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-21

Prosperity is in evidence in every "coun- try town" The farmers and country merchants are flush with money and this fact is well reflected in the large shop ping cities.
 Intensive farming which has been the rule during the past 12 months, Will continue to be the rule. Larger acreage will be planted for next years harvest and with favorable seasons bumper crops may be expected.
 While roadbuilding has been kept back by war conditions there are signs or great revival in this line of industry The government can afford to aid on llLeral scale in highway construction, and public sentiment will bring pressure to lear upon Congress to act within the near future.
 A system of paved roads for motor truck haulage on an extensive scale IS needed. and not until the inland water ways and trunk highways are developed will railroad congestion be relieved:
 The Bankhead highway from washing ton, D. C., to Fl Paso, Tex, Will prop ably be the first to be transformed into
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-21
ERA OF CONSTRUCTION AFTER THE WAR ENDS

When the war ends and normal building conditions are restored in this country, there will be such an era oi construction activity in the southeast as it has never known before, says the Industrial Index. The demand for build ing materials will be unprecedented. And the far-seeing, successful manu- lecturers and dealers will prepare for it now, laying the foundation for enormous business that will come to them.
 For more than a dozen years the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-21

United States that will flow through the South Atlantic ports and be handled bS steamship operating company using each of the five ports.
 It is likely that great trading com. pany, with commercial agents through out the United States and South Amer lea, will be formed eventually to se- cure and handle business, and it seems certain that the business men of tht i've ports, three of which, Wilmington, Jacksonville and Brunswick have already pledged their hearty cooperation, will unite in presenting their needs in har Dor improvements, port facilities ana lines of ships to the government agencies that will in the near future be confront ed with the task of keeping our immense new merchant marine busy
 The five ports are beginning to realize that nothing can be gained at Washing ton by pickering, and that great op- portuuity to build up trade through the South Atlantic ports exists, and that if they present a clean-cut plant to the government, with sound corporate or ganization already formed, the perplexed officials will welcome such definite ana busnessike aid in solving what promises to be a tremendous problem. that of find ing tonnage for the 25.000,0 GOO tons of ships that the government is providing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-21

Industrial Index has been the construc- tion and industrial newspaper of the southeast, in close touch with build ing and industrial conditions
 Tn those years the columns of tha Index in which is published advance news of construction work to be done and of construction contracts awarded have reflected closely seasons of con- struction activity and seasons of con- struction inactivity, speaking generally. But it's columns have never failed to show that periods of construction in- activity are followed by periods of un- usual construction activity. The longer the period of inactivity and the more pronounced this inactivity, the longer is the period of activity and the more pronounced the activity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-21
Southern Textile. Notes

The Norfolk Hosiery and Underwear Mills company, incorporated, Norfolk. Va, increased it's capital stock from s100, 900 to $150,00O
 Providence Cotton Mills, Maiden, N. C.. idle for over a year, will resume opera tion, manufacturing cotton yarns. The spinning floor has been enlarged and new machinery is being put in.
 Katrine Manufacturing company, Foun- tain Inn s. G., is reorganized, with F. W. Symmes president and treasurer, sue ceeding B. F. Geer. Capital stock in- creased by s20,0o0 to s120,000. Product in- cludes POS and three ply yarns on tubes, ball warps, chain warps and skeins. c. J. Webb & Co, Philadelphia, are selling gents
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-21

are to be three or four large hangars, for both hydroplanes and balloons many buildings for the officers and men who are to be stationed here, temporary quarters for the building force, etc
 It is understood that the Brunswick station is not only to be used as train ing station for hydroplane and balloon flyers, but that it is to be the chle1 station along the South Atlantic coast and that experienced aviators will De stationed there at all times, flying, when necessary, to other South Atlantic ports. Brunswick, being located al most directly in the center of the South Atlantic port cities, dwas selected for this station
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-21

Orleans and St. Louis, of a ton-mileage Of 1,2oo, ,OO0Ooo'
 Telegrams from President Wilson and Secretary Redfield have been received by Walter Parker, general manager New Orleans Association of Commerce, as fellows:
 It gives me pleasure to offer my con graduation on the occasion of the open ing of the towboat service on the Missis- sippi river. It is step forward in meet. ing the longfelt need of utilization of our inland waterways, and will not only serve our commerce generally, but will help to solve the vital problem Of win ming the war. My best wishes go to the parties active in this important service
 WOODROW WILSON"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-21
Florida,s Citrus Crop

Last seasons citrus crop in Florida ag- gregated 5,75o,Oo0 boxes, according to esti- mates by the federal department of agri- culture. Oranges composed about 61 per cent of the fruit shipped out of the state and grapefruit about 3S per cent, while lines and lemons constituted less than per cent of the shipments On this basis the orange crop ran over 3,500,000 boxes, grapefruit 2,200,000 boxes, and lines and lemons less than 5000 boxes
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-21
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-02-21
FARMERS WANT CHEAPER
FOOD. NOT HIGHER WHEAT

st. Paul. Mimi. Feb. 21.-The Amer
lean farmer is not demanding an in
creased minimum price for wheat that
would make the cost Of living more
burdensome for the consuming public,
but viii be content if the prices OF
other commodities are scaled down in
proportion. a c. Townley, president
Of the National Non-Partisan league,
said in a statement issued from league
headquarters here today.
Asr. Townley's statement, it was de-
clared, was prepared before news came
that president Wilson had indicated
opposition to bills increasing the
price. Mr.. Townley denied that the
league would support Independent
bills for increasing the price, but said
it would support administration meas
ures. Proposed increase in the price
of wheat. Mr. Townley said. would
please the profiteers." who think
they can boost prices" all around if
they succeed in advancing the cost C
primary commodities
The farmer would not benefit by
SO wheat If mill feeds, farm machin-
cry and other necessities continue to
advance" the statement said
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-02-21
LEADING STOCKS
ARE UNLOADED
Coming Holiday Occasions
Free Offerings; Close of
Market Is Heavy.

New York. Feb. 21-Tomorrow's holt
day occasioned further offerings OF lead
ing stocks throughout today's stock mar
sset session Sales Appropriated zoo. 900
shares The closing was heavy.
Prominent stocks. especially industrials
and equipments reflected further selling
pressure at the opening Of today's stock
market. United States Steel. General
Motors. Pressed Steel. American Car,
Great Northern Ore. coppers and oils
yielded from large fractions 20 ! = points.
ShippinEs and tobaccos were included
among the Few gains with Bethlehem Steel
but rails lacked a definite trend Liberty
second fours were active at a substantial
advance.
Stocks were only slightly stimulated by
the Improvement in Liberty bonds, lead
crs reacting again before the end Of the
first hour Extreme declines ranged from
a point in United States Steel and related
equipments TO "a points in special issues.
including motors. Texas Company, Ohio
Gas, Brooklyn Transit, and some OF the
less active war stocks Shippings were al
most the only stocks to exhibit strength.
Marines rising one TO two points. Tho
urgent demand for Liberty bonds carried
the second fours from yesterdays closing
price Of $3.50 60 1875. first fours ad-
vancing from 1856 20 1870 and the 3 53s
from SIS 10 SSH
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-02-21
n. Y. LISTED STOCKS
MONEY AND METALS

fBV Associated Press.1
New YORK Feb. s1.-Mercantile paper
A0sZ percent
Sterling so day bills S1721z; commercial
g. day bills on banks. S4-T2; commercial
90 day bills sE-71iz; demand Sz-72h
cables s4.76 7-16.
Bar silver 65&c-
Mexican dollars Csc
Government bonds strong
Railroad bends irregular
Time loans strong 60 days. 20 days,
and mouths bid
Gail money weak. high s; low s; ruling
-ste G; closing bid ~; offered at 8; last
Lead-s7.Isa7.25
Copper-Sz3.50.
speiter-E- St Louis delivery s775
LONDON METALS MARKET.
london, Eng. Feb z1-The following
are the quotations for today IN the Lon
don metals market.
Copper spot E11os futures ft1o; electro
iytic E1z5-
Tin-spot t515. Is: futures fs12.
Lead-Spot E29. 10ss futures rs. los
Spelter. spot E54. futures $50
THE LOCAL MARKET.
Nacionales 17% 01SE.
Mexican bank notes. state bills. 9Gl6c
Mexican pesos 6S-
Mexican gold. 52A.
Il Paso Smelling Quotations.
Bar silver. (Eandy Harmon quota
ton) 65Z-
London Issd-E2s. los.
Pig Iead-s7.
Copper-wirs bars. $3.50.