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Sugar Market

New York, April 15.-There was no
change in raw sugar prices but there
seemed to be a more optimistic feeling
It is now generally conceded that the
10000 tons of raw sugar to be shipped
this month as promised by the food ad-
ministration will be more than realized
and that conditions will soon be normal
Today the committee reported no pur-
chases. Prices remain at the fixed level
of 4.9S5c for Cubas. cost and freight, equal
to 6.005c for centrifugal
No changes were reported in refined
sugar which were listed on the basis
of 7.45c for fine graduated. Business
IS gradually becoming larger and 1t is
expected that the receipts OF raw sugar
will be larger this week and afford an
opportunity for all refiners to soon work
at full capacity.
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Rice Market

New Orleans, April 15.-Rough ,and
clean rice We're strong today. Re-
ceipts: Rough. 1920 sacks. millers, 1914
sacks; clean, 1910 pockets. Sales: Rough
Honduras, 100 sacks; clean Blue Rose.
leoo pockets. Quote: Rough Honduras
Use; Japan, 7.25@8.25c; Blue Rose.
1.25@S25c; Clean Honduras. S.14@9Mc.
Japan, SQSssc; Blue Rose, s@sNc;
polish, per ton, $40; bran s45m46.
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Metal Market

London, April 15.-Bar silver, Ard per
ounce. Money, 9 per cent. Discount
rates: Short bills. 1915 per cent; three
months, 1916 per cent.
New York, April 15.-Metal exchange
quotes lead quiet; spot. $40 bid. Speiter
firm; East st. Louis delivery, spot, 81
bid. At London, spot copper. f110; flu
lures, f110: ekctrolytic, f125. Spot tin.
sS22; futures. e322. Lead. spot, f2s los;
futures, ELS los. Spelled. spot. esq; tu-
lures. ESQ.
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Dry Goods Market

New York. April 15.-Cotton goods
and yarns here today were firm with
trading quieter. Dress goods were quiet
owing to the restrictions placed on
sales through government needs. Raw
silk decidedly easier. break being
reported n To Japan market
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S. r.. Stewart & Co.

4O1-c woodward Bldg. Birminghnm, Ala.
Cotton. stocks, bonds, grain. provisions
and cotton seed oil. New Orleans cor
respondents Jno. F. Clark & Co. Direct
private wire. continuous quotations.
Phone Main 56z w. I. PHELTA, MEr.
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Railroad Schedules

Arrival and departure of passenger
trains. Birmingham: The followine
schedule figures published as informa.
ton, are not guaranteed
BIRMINGHAM TERMINAL STATJON
Southern Railway System
fSnnflpovr, N "a
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Chicago Futures
Produce Market

New York, April 15-Butter, firm; re.
ceipts, 3257; creamery, higher than extras,
45lzqa6c; creamery, extras, 90 score, 45c
'flrsts, 42laG4412c. Eggs firm: receipts,
3oT1; fresh gathered extras 3S1ac; fresh
gathered storage packed firsts, 37@3Sc;
do regular packed extra firsts, 36,k0p37c;
flrsts. S5@s6c. Cheese, steady receipts,
25ss; state held specials. 24@251kc; do av-
erage run. 23@241ac. Live poultry, firm;
old ROSTERS, &c; young ROSTERS and
smooth-legged chickens, 35c; turkeys, 35c;
dressed; chickens, 27a44c; fowls, 29@35c;
turkeys, 25@3Sc.
Chicago, April 15-Butter, firm; cream
cry, 34@411ac. Eggs, higher; receipts.
&,o37 cases; firsts. 321aa43kc; ordinary
firsts, 3'5Aa321ac; at mark, cases includ.
ed. 3lqS2hc. Potatoes, steady; receipts,
&c cars Wisconsin, Michigan and Min
nesota bulk. s1.oo@115; do sacks 81.
@1.2.
st. Louis, April 15.-Poultry, springs,
S01sc; turkeys, 3014c; ducks, 301kc; geese,
rs. Butter, creamery, 421sc Eggs, SIC
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ny JOHN


Monday morning found wholesalers
fairly we'll stocked, and a number OF
new shipments coming in. Retailers re-
port a good days business.
The recent freeze has set local gar
dens back badly, but great deal OF
replanting is being done.
The food board has no changes in the
list today
Quotations were as follows:
Poultry
Fryers-50c lib.
Guineas-50G each.
Roosters-30c lb.
Turkeys-Live, 35c lb.
Ducks--30c ID.
Geese-25c h.
Eggs-W Wholesale, 959S7c.
Eggs-Retail, SSq42c.
Fish
Perch-10c
Salt Water Trout-1Ec.
Red Srapper-Headless and drawn. II
01sc.
Gray snapper-Headless and drawn.
111sc.
Mullet-oG1oc.
Spanish Mackere--20az2kc.
Oysters-Eastern extra select. $225 gal.
Oysters-Plants. $40 gal.
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Port Cotton


New Orleans: Middling, 33c: receipts,
1912; sales, 207; stock, 1896
Galveston: Middling, 81 9oc; receipts.
SIG; sales. 205; stock, 306.5lS.
Mobile: Middlng, 3S5oc; exports. %:
stock, 1916.
Savannah: Middling 3s.5Oc; receipts,
2S04: stock, 267010.
Charleston: Middling sac; receipts. 81;
stock, A426
Wilmington: Receipts, 276; stock. As. ;
1884,
Texas City: Stock, 41,S42
Norfolk: Middling. s2.5 Doc; receipts, 1914;
stock, 1922
Baltimore: Stock 81,
Boston: Middling, 80 zoe; stock, 1900.
Philadelphia: Middling, 30.75c stock,
|S125.
New York: Middling, so.5oc; stock. 49,
ST.
Minor ports: Stock, 24s05.
Total today: Receipts, 1896; stock, l.,
49S, 4S7.
Total for week: Receipts, 1918.
Total for season. Receipts, 5.469, 269:
exports, 3,267, ass.
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Liverpool Cotton

Liverpool. April 15.ZCotton spot in
fair demand; prices weak; good mid
ding, 23.S9d; middling. 2336d; low
middling, 22.S4d: good ordinary, 21.S4d:
ordinary, 21.22d Sales 5000. including
1900 American. Receipts. 10000, in
GLIDING 5000 American. Futures closed
easy New contracts: April. 23.67d:
May. 23.3sd: June. 23.13d; July, 22.92d:..
August, 22.72d. Old contracts, fixed
prices: April, 222ld; April-May. 22.13d:
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Interior Movement

Houston: Middlng, 81. 60c; receipts, 2162;
shipments, 1775; sales. GA; stock, 1856, 74O
Memphis: Middling. S4.5Oc; receipts.
1906; shipments, 7343; sales, 100; stock. 372.-
794
Augusta: Middling. s25oc; receipts. ~:
shipments, 40: sales. 70; stock. 1880
st. Louis: Middling. 33c: receipts. 1872 /:
shipments, 500; stock, 17,114.
Cincinnati: Receipts. 27O; shipments,
$751; stock, 21.76O.
Little Rock: Middling. 33.50c receipts,
262; shipments. 1924; sales. 1924; stock. A..
7l5.
Total today: Receipts, 1o,so4; shipments
II, 6S4; stock, 7S9, 49,
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New Orleans Futures
Spot Cotton

New Orleans, April 15.--Spot cotton
quiet, 1c Off Sales on the spot, 207; to
arrive, none. Low middling. sic; good
middling. S4.25c. Receipts 1919: stock,
442, 366,
New York, April l5.--Cotton spot,
quiet; middling, 30.50c.
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Cotton Seed Oil

New York. April 15.-cotton seed oil
was nominal in the absence Of quota !
tions or business. No tenders were
put out Prime crude. 1906
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Meal and Feedstuff

Hen Feed-s4.25 per l00-pound sack.
Mixed Horse and Cattle Feed-$5o469.
C. S. Meal. per cent-$N.
Creme Feed Meal-N1.
Old style Hulls-$29
Lintless Hulls-$00.
Corn--$2.N.
Corn Chops-N50,
No. 2 White Oats-S1.1S per bushel.
Choice Pea-Green Alfaifa-st2 per ton.
Choice Timothy Hay-$40.
No. / Timothy Hay-S39.
No. / Johnson GrAss-S31.
Clover and Timuthy. ~
Shucks-S16.
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Bonds
Money Market

New York, April 15.-Mercantile paper,
four months and six months, per cent.
Sterling Go-day bills. s4.72h; commercial
6o-day pills on banks, $4.72; commercial
6O-day bills. s471A; demand, A70As; ca
bles, S47645. Bar silver, 95Ac. Time
loans easy 60 days. 30 days and six
months. saa@6 per cent. Call money firm;
high, per cent; low, 21s per cent; ruling
rate, pei cent; closed, 3G3M per cent;
last loan, 31a per cent. Francs, demand
SIP; caolas, 5.70@5T TON. Guilders, de-
mand, 46N; cables, 474. Lires, demand.
$50; cables, 1857. Rubles. demand, 1874;
cables, IA nominal. Mexican dollars,
76kcc. Government bonds firm. Rail-
road bonds irregular.
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CORN WEAKENED
ASOATS ADVANCED
Large Exports of Provisions
for the Past Week Put
Strength in Provisions

Chicago, April 15-Increased receipts
today characterized the corn market
Prices closed unsettled at s1.27ls May. and
81. 29ssli1 49A July, with the market a
whole sc off to 1sc advance, compared
with Saturdays finish. Oats gained MQ
Nc and provisions to 10 cents.
Notwithstanding rallies due to profit
taking by shorts, the corn market aver
aged decidedly lower the greater part OF
the day In addition to the liberal sup
plies which crowded the sample tables,
country adviees of shipments appeared
to indicate continued free movement
to terminal markets. The fact that Toll
edo was sending more corn to Chicago
attracted especial notice, although it
was said arrivals here came from all the
big shipping states, and even included
quantities from Colorado and Tennessee.
Buying on the part of houses that last
week were thought to have made sales
to the government gave strength to oats.
No export bids were in evidence.
PROVISIONS responded to announcement
that exports for the week were the larges.
ever known. Big supplies of hogs hac
only transient depressing influence
Chicago Futures
Future quotations were as follows
Corn Open. High. Low Close
May 1.27 1.27% 1.26% 127h
July 1.49& $50 1.49h 143ss
Oats
April -. s71s SsM s71s sss,
May -. Sslz s4% 1914 s4ss
May .:...4zsa 1905 47.sa 1890
Lard
May .....25,so 1910 1855 1857
July .....26.s7 2s.o5 1886 2597
May 49,. 2405 24.12 23.97 a41o
July ..2445 24.60 2445 2457
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Live Stock
Union Stockyards.j

Live Stock
Union Stockyardsl
Fed Steers:
Good TO Choice-8k0oiSc.
Medium to Good-7Iz98hc.
Common TO Medium-61x67hc
Grass cattle. according 20 weight quail
ity and flesh:
Steers-7hQSlzc.
Fat Cows-707Mc.
Medium Cows-61s07c.
Cutters-616kc.
Canners-S06o
Heavy Bulls-70T5ze.
Light Bulls 8GNc
Oxen-41107hc.
Fat Yearlings-7@Sc.
Medium Yearlings-e00c.
Vcalers-SQ9c.
Hog5:
Choice Corn Fed Hogs. ls5 and up-J
016c.
Choice Corn Fed Hogs. la to iss-iA
g1Sc.
Choice Corn Fed Hogs, 90 to ls6-ls0ltc,
Light Pigs, 70 pounds down-l2c.
Best Heavy Rough Hoss-1lc.
Half Fat Rough Hogs-13c.
Soft and oil hogs from 1c to e per
pound less above prices.
Hides and TaI1ow
- yJfAoo-1nE011N
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Cash Grain

Chicago, April 15.--Corn, No. yellow.
nominal; No yellow, s1.55@1.65; No. 4
yellow, sl.45@1.50. Oats, No. white, 90M
Gle: standard, 9OA@9l1kc Rye. No. 2s 81. so;
barley, s1.40@1.7S; timothy, $56S; clover
s2oqI. Pork nominal; lard. s2557; ribs,
$23. 20G23.70.
st. Louis. April 15.-Corn, No 2, s1.s5;
No white, $1S9a1. 80; June, sl.50@1. 5OIa;
July, N.b0l4. Oats, No. 2, S51k@S6c; No. 3
white SadS91ac; May, s5kc; July. 75c.
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Bananas--Sl .75dD2,25.
Bananas. Jumbo-$2. 5093.
Oranges-California, s6.60M
Oranges-Florida, s..
Limes-Imported SoG$1.
Florida Celery-s2.50 crate.
Snap Beans-$3Q3. so.
.50QS.
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Live Stock


Chicago, April 15.-Hogs: Receipts, Ca
900; market weak. Bulk, $17.4O@17.70;
light, s17.25@f7.S5; mixed, $l7.10Q17. 81;
heavy, $l625@1765; rough, $l6.25Ql6. w;
pigs S13@l7.
Cattle; Receipts, $4,000; market strong.
Native steers, $lo.S0@16.75; stockers and
feeders. 81. 75Q1265; cows and heifers. $3.50
Q13.75; calves. $10@15.
Sheep: Receipts, 1900; market strong;
sheep, S13@17.S5; lambs. $16.50Q21.25, the
highest price on record.
Kansas City, April 15.-Hogs: Receipts.
II 900; market steady. Bulk, 81. 35@1i.55;
heavy, ST. 35@1755; packers and butchers.
81. 4O@17.s5; light, $17S5@17.65; pigs, SIS. 75Q
1925.
Cattle: Receipts, $4,000; market higher.
Prime fed steers. $15@166O; dressed beef
steers, s1s.76d15.50; southern steers, SCALA;
cows, $z.75@1a65; hefers. $8.75@14; stock
ers and feeders, sS.5N013,25; bulls, IS 500
11.75; calves, sS50@1S.50.
Sheep: Receipts 450O; market higher.
Lambs. $2O@21; yearlirgs. $16@1750; weth-
ers, 1$5.5o416.70; ewes. $15@16.
st. Louis. April 15.-Hogs: Receipts II.
900: market steady. Lights, S17.7Od17 go;
pigs, Sos. 91725; mixed and butchers,
81. 50@17.s0; good heavy, $1710@17.5O; bulk,
$1749@17.S0.
Cattle: Receipts, 6400; market steady.
Native beef sters. ss75@1575; yearling
steers and heifers, $7ll1350; cows $6GIl2
stockers and feeders, T.50@12; fair to
prime southern beef beef sters, s9615 Is;
beef and heifers, $6013.50; southern year
ling steers and heifers, $7.50@10; native
calves, sZ,75Q15.5O.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-29
Soldier Describes U-Boat
Attack on mst CONVOY
Saw Three Perscopes, Others Counted Seven-Torpedo
Like Trail Passed Stern-Frng Ragged Two Hours
Oil Overspread Water Indicating De-
struction of Submarine

of the middle Atlantic. With difficulty
found my lifeboat. There were lights
all around US. The explosion which we
all expected to follow the bump did not
come. We thought we were beached
But soon word reached us that we had
collided with one ship of a convoy
bound for Europe. The ill-fated boat
which our ship had struck was founder
ing, with all her lights brightly burn
ing. She sent up three rockets, which
meant distress.
Our searchlights were turned on her.
We saw the hole in her bow. 1t was
we'll above the waterline, but measured
about twenty feet in circumference.
We had not yet heard whether our own
shin had been damaged. After nearly
two hours, and feeling numb from the
49,. 49, we4c told to return to bed.
Our ship had been sounded and found
undamaged. But few wanted to go to
bed. The accident had killed all the
sleeping desire which we possessed a
short while before.
Some sailors left our boat and
brought materials to the damaged ship.
that lay, one would think, helpless
among the luminous breakers, which
beat against it with a kissing sound.
The other boats continued on their way.
AS morning was being ushered in we
went back to bed. Our ship was under
way again, and without further mishap
we reached the United States. But the
two experiences will live in my memory
until DEATH
New-York tribune., 1918-01-29
City Urged to Run
School Lunch System

The Board of Education, at it's meet
ing yesterday was urged to take over
and operate the school luncheon sys-
tenn developed by voluntary commit
tees in New York and Brooklyn. Con-
sideratlon of the plan was deferred
until after the disposition of the build
ing measures for which the meeting
was called.
1t was argued that the luncheon sys-
tenn, which under existing private
operation has incurred an annual def
lclt Of about $500 school, might be
SO extended and developed under the
boards control SO that the overhead
expenses could be cut down, resulting
IN a much smaller deficit school,
The Board Of Education now operates
similar luncheon service in the high
schools.
Clarence E. Milcney and Edward D.
Shallown, representing the Board of
Superintendents, and C. B. J. Snyder,
superintendent Of school buildings.
presented their suggestions for the
Standardization of school buildings and
equipment. The board recommended d
for approval at its regular meeting
Wednesday the equipping of a cooking
room in Public School II, in Brooklyn,
and of additional class rooms in School
81, in The Bronx.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-29
39,526 New York
Quota of Reserve
For Shipbuilding
Nation to Enroll 250,000
Men for Special
War Work

WASHINGTON. JAN 28.-Quotas as
signed to each state in the three weeks
campaign for voluntary shipbuildinr
reserve of 250, 900 men were announced
tonight by the Department of Labor.
The object is to enroll men fitted for
shipbuilding work and not now en-
ploycd in it, as part of the war labor
reserve now being registered Men who
enroll will not sacrifice independence
of action, and are advised to remain at
their present jobs until notified that
place in a shipyard is ready for them
The quotas follow:
Maine, 2,972; New Hampshire, 1858;
Vermont, 1890; Massachusetts, 1891;
Rhode Island, 1856; Connecticut. 4,786;
Pennsylvania, 32,7H; Ohio, 1892; In
diana, O,847; Illinois, % ,662; Michigan,
11,734; Wisconsin, 9,611; Minnesota
8,762; Iowa, 1851; Missouri, 1882;
North Dakota, 2,54S; South Dakota,
1898; Nebraska, 4,400; Kansas, $3.50;
Delaware, s11; Maryland, $3.50; Dis
trict of Columbia, 1890; Virginia.
8,453; West Virginia, 5,327; North Cas-
clina, 1924; South Carolina, 6,253;
Georgia, 11,0ol; Florida, 3,435; Ken
lucky, $3.50; Tennessee, 1852: Ala
bama. s.99s; Mississippi. 7,4SS; Arkan-
sas, 6,022; Louisiana, 1864; Oklahoma,
8,492; Texas, 17,023; Montana, 1883;
Idaho, 1921; Wyoming, 618; Colorado,
1920; New Mexico, 1928; Arizona, 888;
Utah, 1850; Nevada, 1856; Washington,
b,906; Oregon. 1904; Califarnia, 1870.
Pennsylvania, the department an
nOunccd was the first state to mt info
operation the programme for coordina-
tion of Federal and state machinery for
mobilizing and supplying labor to war
industries
New-York tribune., 1918-01-29
Fads Gone, Women
Seek Wartime Work
High Glass Girl Employees
Crowd New Federal La
Dor Bureau Here

The pinch Of war is being felt by
the wealthy. The fads and luxuries
with which they occupied themselves
before April Of last year are rapidly
being eliminated through the taxes on
incomes and excess profits.
The list Of the former occupations
of the more than 150 women who ap-
piled for positions through the
Women's Division Of the United States
Employment Service Of the Department
Of Labor, which opened at % East
Twentysccond Street yesterday, caused
even those in charge to be surprised.
Instead of the rush Of applicants for
plain jobs where the feminine workers
could wear "trouserettes" in munition
plants, or semi-military uniforms, the
bureau was crowded all day with
women and girls who have been thrown
out of high-salaried positions with
high class modistes and costumers, as
portrait painters and musicians, and
as teachers Of fads that were "exclu-
sive" and highly remunerative before
the war.
Mrs. Margeretta Neale, who has charge
Of the new division. and Mrs. Hilda NJ.
Richards, national chief of the women's
division, who came to New York to
supervise the opening work here, re-
garded these "job-hunters,' two Of
whom came all the way from Cali
fornia, where they had been conduct
ing school. as only a small vanguard
of others who are to follow.
Most of these women were earning
large salaries until few months ago."
said Mrs. Neale. "They came here and
asked for almost any Kind of work, and
asked only wages enough to live on"
The list Of applicants also included
recent brides of drafted men, clerks,
bookkeepers, domestics, but only few
of the last. Twenty-Five places were
tilled from among the $50 who applied,
but not in single instance was a
woman referred to a job that a man
could have filled. The Department of
Labor is holding out no encouragement
to women "who want to fill a mans
job during the war" Mrs. Neale cx-
planned.
The Monday shutdown of industries
kept the six clerks in the mems diyi-
sion, which moved its headquarters
from the Barge Office to the Twenty
second Street building, hustling. They
registered more than 500 men, nearly
200 Of whom already had jobs, but
wanted to change.
1t was the biggest rush the mems
division has had during the ten years
it has been in operation. No encour-
agement was given to men already en-
ployed in war jobs, when they applied
for change, but the men working in
non-essential industries that are not
producing war munitions were will
New-York tribune., 1918-01-29
Master Of Al Trades, Head of
Own Religion, Gets No Exemption
George Washington Spiers Twentyeight Sole Member of
Superior Quakers, Has Dependents lnvents Battle
ships, Is Physically Defective, but Is Placed in Class

When George Washington Spiers, a
many-sided genius, enters the Ma
tional Army-which will probably be
soon in view Of the action Of the Dis
trict Board yesterday on his appeal for
an exemption-he will be embarrassed
if the military officers ask him what
work he is best fitted for. Though only
twenty-eight, Mr.. Spiers has engaged
in some forty-one occupations, accord
ing to his questionnaire, and he indl.
Gates that he is highly skilled in all
Of them.
Scruples might have deprived the
army Of his unusual services if the
membership Of the Superior Quakers"
had been larger. For Mr.. Spiers, though
singularly adapted to aid in the me-
chanical side Of making war, had aver
sions against belligerency, he said. and
nc felt that his conscientious objec-
tions ought to relieve him from the
obligation to fight because he was n
member of a religious organization in
existence before May 1S last which is
opposed to war. Spiers testified that
his first hatred of warfare led him to
form the superior Quakers" in Janu-
airy, 1900. Louis Marshall, who han
died Spiers's appeal, reported that the
appellant vas at the present time the
exclusive member Of The "Superior
Quakers,' having no colleagues or CO.
religionists.
If Mr.. Marshall and his associates or
the District Board had not differed with
MIR. Spiers's opinion of himself, he
would have been placed in all Of the
I'VE classes AS it was, he was put in
0iass among the first to go to camp
The local board had placed him in
Class 2B, on account of dependency
but the government appealed this clas
New-York tribune., 1918-01-29
Press Here Drinks
Friend, Says Bryan
New York Editorial Like
WhiG of Whiskey Bottle,
He Tells Ministers

William Jennings Bryan was intro
duced as "surprisc speaker" at the
union preachers annual meeting, held
at Marble Collegiate Church, Fifth
Avenue and Twenty-ninth Street, yes
terday. He talked on national prohi-
bition, and incidentally paid his re-
spects to New York newspapers.
The New York newspapers are the
centre OF the opposition to prohibition
in this country" said Mr.. Bryan. can
editorial in one of them is like getting
a Whit OF whiskey BOTTLE" he con-
tined.
The liquor interests" said the
speaker. would tie every American
down. bind him hand and FOOT and and
pour liquor into him three times a day.
l thank God we have War Depart
ment and government which made the
cantonmcnts safe for the soldier bows"
The law which forbids selling liquor
to soldiers, he declared, is the making
OF the country. A bone dry country
Vail see. in the opinion of the Com
moncr. more slaves unfettered than
We're freed by Lincoln's emancipation
proclamation"
Mr.. Bryan was chcered enthusiastic
cally when he declared that he was
having the time of his life since he en-
tered the liquor fight And after his
statement that he has had nothing in
his life but fighting, save while serv-
ing as soldier during the Spanish
American war when he had peace, it
was several minutes before he could
continue from the laughter his lest
evoked.
Il expect to Gee the country saloon
less before [ die" said Mr.. Bryan.
For years have prayed for drv
country and for women suffrage. and
since the war began, have added a
prayer that the women of the world
W'Ill have voice in making this the
last war on earth"
The meeting was held under the
auspices of the Anti-Saloon League. and
was presided over by the Rev Dr..
David Rurrell, pastor Of the Marble
Collegiate Church. Among others who
spoke were DR.. Howard Russell.
founder Of the Anti-Saloon League and
Mrs. Della Potter, DR.. p. A. Baker
and William II. Anderson. all Of whom
occupy extensive positions in the
league
New-York tribune., 1918-01-29
"Magnetic Woman" Sent
To Prison for Fraud

Mrs. Rae Hyman, the "magnetic
woman" who was convicted of defraud-
ing hundreds on the East Side by prom
lslng ~ per cent profit on invest
ments, was sentenced yesterday by
Judge Wadhams in General Sessions to
not less than one year and three
months and not more than two wears
and half in Auburn prison.
MRS. Lyman represented that she was
able to pay fabulous interest rates by
loanng money on short terms at ex
orbltant rates to wealthy society
women, who wanted it to speculate with
or to make purchases without the
knowledge of their husbands.