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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14
mo- Change in Refined susars

nned sugar. remain unchanged, with
local renners quoting on the basis OF
"a 1onn per cent for cash, for Hne
TcFpletsd Raw ~ nre unchanged
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14
BAR SILVER

Commercial bar silver was quoted in
New York today at $l.01h an ounce,
unchanged; in London at 4S 7-16d, un-
changed
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PHILA. INACTIVE STOCKS

Following are quotations for inactive
stocks listed in the Philadelphia Stock
Exchange and IL wh!ch .here were no
transactions today. Tho price given Is
the last previous sale:
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BANK CLEARINCS

Bank olearings today compared with cor.
responding day last two years:
ne.,on SO. 1ssle.:: ,.i lGlI e.s
Phila. ss5. o0+. 500 Gl.hSa.OT5 81 9T7 GAI
Ha,!%Grs isisSs iis ,oI ssS ssS
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COTTON CONSUMPTION
REPORT HELPS PRICES
Figures Given Out by Census
Bureau Take Trade Com
pletely by Surprise

COTTON BELT WEATHER CONDITIONS
New York. Feb. 1.-THE following tenn
this morning:
, Oklahoma lity and Fort smith. 34:
~! san Antonio and vicksburg, 40; Al
ianta and Jacksonville. 4s; Corpus Christi,
kn"Nriile. Augusta and Thoma sviile. so;
GlalNeston. New Orleans and Montgomery,
o.. rensnc9ia and savannah. 81; Charles
There was .0l inch OF precipitation at
New Orleans and Nashville; IL at Sayan-
nah; 20 ut Charleston; 80 at Whining
i'aaG NJ ~ Mat, mt knoxville, 20 at Augustai
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BEARISH NEWS BRINGS
DROP IN CORN PRICES
Shorts Fail to Come Into Mar
ket and Poor Buying
Power Results
GRAIN BELT WEATHER FORECAST

GRAIN BELT WEATHER FORECA>T
will hn'G%sS prsSably Ell Pisht snow fonisht and in
hoMsi Missouri ri@tmsettled iatd "s and colder tonight:
with light snow casts saturday fair an"
MISUNDERSTANDING and colder tonlght.
with, snow, east and south; Satur"aS
Minnesota-Fair tonight and Saturday;
:, Iowa-Unsettled end colder tonight with
light snow extreme cast; Saturday cloudS'
North DakOta-Fair tonight and Sntrr-
day; slightly colder east ana tentrai 10
south ,Dakota-IEair tonight I, End Sat
ursa Go'dcT tcnsSt and Saturday
colder s.st End south ,Snrhta Saturday;
Moniana|Part cloudy tonight and Sat. ,;st.
Wyoming-Fair tonight and saturday.
except probably snow extreme northwest.
Chicago, Feb. IA drop in proNl-
sions. less tense foreign political news
and predictions of an Improvement in
the weather created bearish sentiment
in corn today and the market was
heavy Shorts did not come in as eX-
pected and as a result the buying power
was poor. A great deal of long stuff
was liquidated.
There was some purchasing by houses
with connections in the east, but this
demand developed mostly on setbacks.
Elevator interests were good. sellers
The technical position was easier as a
result of yesterdays heavy covering
movement.
About 225 cars are expected tomor-
row, which was a surprise to many, In
view of the smallness of offerings from
the country and the unfavorablC
weather. The cash article did not fol
low futures on the recent bulge and are
row about on a delivery basis.
Oats sagged on selling by local in
terests and commission houses induced
by the decline in corn. Shorts covered
on declines. Trade was moderate The
cash article was relatively unchanged
Shipments from Argentina for the weel
were $4,000 bushels. .
Leading futures ranged as follows:
Corn tnew delivery Vest
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cent; time, So asa per cent CONNER
cial paper, three to six months, u m5h
per cent; six months. 6 per cent.
London, Feb. 14.-Money Is quoted at
.3h per cent. Discount rates. short and
three-month bills. 317-32 per cent.
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s..th Omaha. Feb. l4.-HoGs--Receipts
aa10 head; 1Oc to 1bc higher.
csATTLE-Receipts. 1000 head. Active
ahsH hssHiEsEsP-Receipts. 100 head. Steady.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-25
HORSE SHOW FINAL
|HAS STAR EVENTS
Program at Arlington Park
Full of Interest From
, Start to Finish.

Nogul, Triggers, Red Wing. Ideal
Matthias. Echo and Willow King are
nahies to reckon with in the horse
show world today. for these thorough
hrsds established their right to tan
baSk fame by winning the champion
ship contests at the close of Wash
in2ton's tenth annual horse show at
Arlington Park yesterday afternoon.
Fhe championship numbers were
ropen only to horses that had won at
ne meeting. Mogul, owned by a. w
SNtkinSon of Camden, n. j., won the
ana his stable mate. Ideal Matthias.
annexed the red, defeating Made In
America, entered by Miss Amy du
Pc7t of Wilmington, Del. This pair
accounted for the harness pair
,Apionship, in which there was but
,ns entry.
Triggers. the property of Cassills
Farm. of New Marlboro. Mass, was
proclaimed the champion in the road
saddle class. and Red Wing, from the
baTn of Glen Riddle Farms of Penn
sytvania, the champion lightweight
hrhter.
Eoho. owned by Miss Marion du Pont,
as decided to be the best park saddle
horse at the show. Glen Riddle Farms,
. fSer winning in the lightweight
hunting division, also was awarded
: he blue through Willow Kings per-
fOrmances in the class for middle and
heavyweight hunters, this being the
nray stable to capture two champion
sItps. Maryland, Virginia. New York
and the District of Columbia. which
" sre represented by number of en-
trTes in the show, ran unplaced in the
hnSl contests.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-25
WORLDS BIGGEST SALOON
TOCLOSE BLINDS MONDAY
Employs II Bartenders and Clerks
and Has 216 Feet of Bar.
Owner a Millionaire.

BRIDGEPORT. Ohio, May 24.-The
biggest saloon in the world will go
out of business Monday. when Ohio
becomes dry. under an amendment TO
the state constitution. 1t is loca ted
in this little city of 1920 souls. just
across the Ohio river from Wheeling,
w. Va.
The saloon employs seventy-seven
bartenders and clerks and has 216
feet of bar. For the past year Or
two its average daily bank deposits
have been $4,000. or $500. 900 a year
The saloon has made Bridgeport one
of the showplaces of the Ohio Valley
The proprietor is a milliona;r ire and
says he never smoked or drank in
toxicating liquor. He estimates that
since 1915 approximately 10000 drinks
day have been sold over his bar
He also claims there has never been
fight in his saloon. He attributes
this largely to the fact that he would
not sell to drunken man or a minor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-25
Detroit

I'd like to visit in Detroit.
where countless cars are made,
and watch the artisans adroit
pursue their helpful trade. |
earn much money while I,toot
my tlmbrels and my Tyres; De-
troit and Akron get the loot, for
cars and rubber tires. Detroit's
fine buildings, many a one, show
how that city leads; | paid for
them with hard-earned mon, but
others have the deeds. Detroit
has dwellings gay and bright,
and palaces of stone l paid for
everything in sight, although
they're not my own. My wife,
she needs a chatting dish, the
kids need teddy bears but all
my moneys gone to Mich,
Detroitward, for repairs. De-
troit has social functions great,
where youths and maidens
dance, and when it's time to pay
the freight | dig down in my
pance. Detroit has grown and
grown again, until she's over
size, and l provide the iron men
that pay her hustling guys.
Nine dollars for an extra rim.
and twenty for a wheel; it
makes my aged eyes grow dim
to tell how poor l feel. l used
to calmly spend my days with
ncighbors, pitching quoits, and
still might follow frugal ways
if there were no Detroits. But
now l labor night and day, and
salt no money down; | have to
send it all away to Eddie Guest,
his town. WALT MASON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-25

of the decision of Federal Judge
Mayer yesterday restraining govern
ment officials from interfering with
the production of beer containing a
maximum OF 2.75 per cent alcohol.
pending a judicial decision of the
brewers claim that it is not intoxi-
eating.
Delegates from nearly a score of
labor unions attended The meeting.
Speakers included c. A. Windle of
Chicago. editor of the Iconoclast:
REPRESENTATIVE r. l.. Haskell CT
Brooklyn, who has introduced anti
prohibition LEGISLATION in the House
and Lieut.. Edwin J. NcDonald. an
officer in the list Army Corps. who re
Gently returned from France.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-25

prohibition amendment to the Consti-
tuition until it's constitutionality has
been tested in the Supreme Court of
the United States were adopted by n
large crowd at mass meeting held in
Madison Square Garden tonight under
auspices of the Association Opposed
to National Prohibition.
The resolutions also called on Con-
gress to repeal before July l "all So
called wartime prohibition laws"
Although originally called as a pro
test against the amendment which
was declared to have been "ergrafted
on the Constitution by a t%rannical
minority mere handful Of profess
SIGNAL agitators." the meeting also
took on the nature OF a celebration
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-25
HOSPITAL LADIES' SALE
Affair to Be Held Wednesday and
Thursday at 14l9 I Street.

The ladies' board of the Washiu-
ton Eye. Ear. Nose and Throat Hos
pital will hold spring sale May :
and May % at 1919 l street from /
o clock in the morning until o'clo Il.
in the evening. Mrs. John v.
Thompson has loaned her home 10"
the sale. Flowers. aprons. hanakcT
chiefs. canned fruits and jellics va.
fill the tables for the occasion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-25
SENATOR HITCHCOCK AND
Mr.. TAFT WILL SPEAK

Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska
ranking democrat of the foreign re-
lations committee. one of the chief
supporters o. President Wilson'S
fight for ratification of the peace
treaty. has accepted an invitation to
accompany former President Taft on
a three-tiay speaking tip in the mid
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-25

die west They will make addresses
at Springfield, III. Thursday, at Kan
sas City. Mo. Friday and at Omaha.
Neb., Saturday. in each case at q state
convention OF peace league societies.
Mr.. Taft is understood to have eX-
pressed an earnest desire to confer
on plans for the ratification fight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-25

German mail passing through the
American censorship recently has
been made up principally of letters
relating to resumption of commercial
relations with the United States.
Great Britain and France
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-25

Wearing the croix de guerre and the
decoration of the Legion of Honor,
Capt. r. Norris Williams, formerly
tennis champion, returned recently
from France. Just before he left he
won in the doubles with Capt. Watson
NJ Washburn, another well known
American player, in a tournament for
A. f. F. officers held at Cannes. This
photograph was taken on Capt. Will
liams' arrival in New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-25
ASK CONGRESS TO WAIT
COURTS LIQUOR RULING
New York "Wets," at Mass Meet
ing, Urge Postponing "Dry"
Enforcement Legislation.

NEW YORK, May 24.-Resolutions
Eging Congress to refrain from en-
actment of laws TO make effective the
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-24
Dainty Colorful Metal Necklaces

becoming touch"-epecially good" with Abatros
dresses and blouses
Fancy metal links combined with beads in Wilson red apis blue
Also combinations with Wilson red beads and sim
ulated pearls. Chains in green gold finish. At So to Sc
New Bag Frames-She combined with white blue red
square tops fancy shapes S135
shell color bag frames at 75c.
Ear Rings Reduced Prices oseng styles. Odds and
ends Variousy at 81 to SIS.
-Gimbe Philadelphia, First floor
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-24
j
Transportation Still Slow So We Are Using Airshp
GimbeL Brothers
For Tomorrow Saturday
Friday. Jan. -
Store Closes $50
Store Opens at 9

n $ c
Worlds Greatest ale Next Monday
eNe al
A Most Important Sale of Furniure OpnsM Monday
t h arm dft makers H Hlt th i'm o1appSo onas an d ed III
e y gt through dH he ban wa to- 0 change
I o
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

Smith could let loose change and
loose bills lie anywhere about the
house and it would be safe. Fanny
had key TO everything.
Either from a Northern newspaper
OK from a Northern negro, Fanny
learned of tho huge salaries paid to
help Of al colors and previous con-
ezsions Of servitude In New York
CIsy. She wanted some OF that
roney and shc returned all The keys
70 Mr.. and Mrs. Smith and went
ssrthward on an upper berth.
The family Of Harlow Lewis, Of
xzo2 Sedgwick Avenue, The Bronx,
sTered her shelter and some Of the
money she had heard about, 90 she
went 70 work there. MIR. Lewis COON
became annoyed at seeing some Of
his best linen cyaporate. lie dis
charged Fanny and had Detective
Duane, Of the High Bridge station,
placed on her scent Tha slsuth
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

friends, como from college to the
organization and make the white
collared subdivision executive quite
nervous and sweaty. The white col
Jared gentry are specialists, but with
none Of the advantages of the spe-
cialists of the professions. If they
know the leather export business
they aren't qualified to work in the
lumber import business after twenty
years in the leather export business.
Up to certain point, maybe $40
or $50, their value advances. After
that they are either taken into the
firm or their value declines, and the
baldhead regards their presence as
some philanthropy and has the JOY
of-giving feeling every time he looks
at this aging employe.
The white collared people get lit
tie publicity. They get married oc-
casionally and, if they live in Brook
lyn, the local papers mention it,
Often they are among those present
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
The Man Beneath the Clothes

received fewer setbacks. He was,
in common parlance, "good
FEEDER"
There came day when Broker
curb's physician ordered exercise
and could not be bluffed out Of it.
Accordingly Brokercurb Joined a
gymnasium on West Fifty-seventh
Street.
In workout duds and on the GYM
nasium floor Brokercurb was not a
pretty figure. The absence Of
high collar discovered two addi-
tional chins, giving him the appear
ance from Adams apple to chin tip
Of South Sea pelican. His paunch
billowed over his belt and caused
Brokercurb to breathe with the
greatest difficulty when forced to
stoop after u medicine bali. This
unwieldy superstructure was sup
ported by n pair of spidery legs
that had sullenly withstood the long
siege Of food and drink. In way
all that remained of Brokercurb's 8
impressiveness was his voice. That
was bass.
Perceiving about him great sup
pleness and athletic ability Broker
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

might as we'll have stayed at home
and had his bacon with his workadav
sisters and brothers. Not a bobbed
head IN sight. Nothing but business
hke looking men and trinity dressed
women indiscriminately gulpjng
their coffee, their newspaper and
their rolls. The early morning
Vlllager is like the average husband
-gruff over his coffee. He buries
himself behind the newspaper and
treats his feminine vis-a-vis ike
the Martha a-by-the-day variety Of
spouse.
You save your uptown friend the
shock Of disillusionment about the
Village, however, If you make YOUR
breakfast date on the mellow side
OF III a. m. "Atmosphere" has
oegun to diffuse itself. Even in the
conventional pastry shop, which
could be duplicated anywhere be-
tween 18th and l18th streets. some
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

waist Of this gifted acrobat. It
curb keenly felt his inferiorty-
while in the gymnasium. Lucky, he
thought, that position in this life is
not predlcated upon physical fitness.
Out of the gymnasium, his neglected
body made invisible by the con-
ventlonal curtain Of clothes, he
continued his bluffing; In the gym
naslum ne was nonentity that the
gym attendants would have easily
defined as another fat guy trying
to wipe away few pounds and get
back to human" that is, if they
paid any attention to him at all.
or the young men who worked
out daily while Brokercurb went
through the motions there was one
he most envied This one was tall
and blond and built like a Greek
god. He was an expert on the
horizontal bars and when spinning
on them somehow reminded Broker
curb of an animated pinwheel. Such
spins were topped off with an aerial
somersault. Brokercurb was dazzlod
by the display Of agility. He felt
that he would have given much to
have possessed the broad shoulders
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

Fanny was found guilty, that she
had been an ideal servant-too ideal,
In tactic languish in Jail In these
days OF help scarcity. Fanny had
been dazed by the city's tumult and
dazzled by the glamour, he said in a
soft fiow Of old Southern oratory.
lie asked that Fanny, who was
really beloved In the Smith house.
hold, beloved enough to bring him
from Virginia, be released to q ife
OF honesty. He was ready to trust
Fanny with the venerable Smith Sill
verware any time, at any place. He
said something about having q ro-
turn trip ticket for Fanny. She
would never again stray away from
Virginia, he promised. Fanny
watched the judge, hopeful and
breathing bosterously.
Judge Gibbs sentenced her To an
indeterninate period In the peniten-
tiarV
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

that last evening had been worse
one.
The bait and the boy talked past
the weather, slurring through places
they'd been, people they knew and
were coming to words about each
other when another Of the buses
slipped up in back of the one they
were in and the girl slipped out
while the clutch grated, the motor
shook and the big car ratified off.
At Fourteenth Street a young
man jumped off the moving bus,
swore and shook his fist at the
driver and went into the subway
Presumably he went far up town,
apologized and will probably be
married later in the fall
The bait is still working st u.
You can see her any night on one
of the middle seats Of q white bus
drawn up in front of a white-front
restaurant on Seventh Avenue,
near a big moving picture theatre
with trick lights in front.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

seat, looking as though somebody
ought to be sitting next to her. The
doughboy gets in. He is lonely HIM
self, but sincerely so.
A man with q red-peaked hat
takes $1.0S in payment for the ride
and the doughboy, or it might even
be a civilian in new neighbor-
hood, says something about it being
too large a city to be alone in. She
may smile. More likely he will get
a laugh. The girl either moves to
another seat, leaving the bait swal-
lower red, or, if the car is filled, the
bait gently eases herself onto the
sidewalk and the sightseers are
off. Then she Chambers into the
next one and the procedure is re-
peated.
She catches as many as eleven on
busy nights, she explained the other
day, but her average is about six.
She likes her work, she said, just as
any artist would. She resented be-
ing classed with a minnow and her
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

discussing politics with lota, and
talking the way they Go at the
Bolshevist meetings, except that his
accents are cultured and mild where
those of the rabid Socialist orator
are crude and frenzied. After one
has heard all the arguments of the
oppressed workingman. and under
stands perfectly who the proletariac
are, and all that sort of thing, one
hates to have breakfast spoiled with
a highly spiced rehash of what can
he had for nothing any day over in
brownsville. The Villager is never
more discursive on politics than in
the morning. In the middle of the
night he talks music, poetry and art,
but at breakfast, with capitalistic
news sheet in his hand. he inficts
politics onevery onewithin an area Of
SIX square yards, just like the worst
suburban Philistine with a perfectly
proper wife and family of nix,
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

had disturbed the police Of the
Sheriff Street station by an inces-
SAINT kicking on their front door.
An hour or so later Mr.. Gold
hagen, who lives at 100 Attorney
Street, told Magistrate Brough in
the Night Court that he was intoxi-
Gated.
at takes money to do that" said
the magistrate, doubtfully. "How
much do you make?"
"Huhr Mr.. Goldhagen said. "Tm
a plumber I make $11 day and
$40 when I work overtime"
Five dollars," said the magis-
trate. Goldhagen said he didn't
have it with him, but would send it
up by a cop. The magistrate told
him that no plumber could use a
policeman for messenger boy, even
if he did make twice as much as the
cop. Goldhagen promised to bring
the money himself, although it would
take 81 worth of time.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

the muscular arms and the trim
would have given him a greater
sense of security in his bluffing. He
began to realize that some of his
aggresslveness was travelling on
pretty thin ice.
"For instance" soliloouized
Brokercurb, what q rotten chance
I'd have with a man like that tall
blond"
Brokercurb had a party of clients
at luncheon in a cafe down in the
Woolworth Building the other day.
At such affairs Brohercurb was
nothing less than masterful. He could
prod head waiter or an assistant
manager with a vigorousness that
invariably begot him a choice table.
The party was seated and Broker
curb began ordering. He ordered
rapidly, too rapidly for the waiter.
Pardon" interrupted Garcon.
Il said filet of beef for four
with horseradish and chicken en-
casserole" almost shouted Broker
curb, irritated at the interruption.
Then he added one of his best lines:
"Rotten service~
Sorry, sir," apologized the waiter.
"You ought to be-" snarled
Brokercurb. He looked up defiant
ly at the waiter. 1t was the tall,
blond horizontal bar expert.
Brokercurb's clients said after
ward that never at luncheon had
they seen him so thoughtful. They
also agreed that the size of the tip
was out Of all proportion to the
service.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
The White Collar Squad

at euchres and the affairs 2f politi-
cal clubs. They report for work at
8, most of them, and quit at 5, with
an hour for lunch. They spend an
average Of 30 cents for lunch, and
often must walk four blocks for it.
Sometimes the white collars lose
their situations, and then they wait
In outside offices and meet new bald
heads, who ask more questions than
q district attorney. The more ener-
getic white collars advertise in "The
Journal of Commerce" and other
publications read by baldheads. They
describe their experience in detail;
they seldom are so bold as to men
ton salaries.
The tribe of the white collars is
not increasing The blue shirted
gentry are obtaining volunteers for
various reasons. Some of the white
collars would like to be wealthy
enough to get drunk and be forget
ful and happy. Some would like to
buy their wives new dresses or their
sweethearts pound boxes of candy
instead Of dwarfish half-pounds OF
Wednesday and Saturday nights.
Mr.. Goldhagen, Of the blue shirts,
is hero in far-off sphere to many
Of the white collars. Mr.. Goldhagen
was arrested on recent night. He
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

Of It Ia floating around The real
studio inhabitants have begun to
bestir themselves and ara lazily
drifting in to have little some-
thing. Lota is putting cigarettes IN
between bites of omelette. She
hasn't had shoe shine, it Is true.
and she's rather down at heel and
her one-piece dress is on ssst any
how, but then she, too. has managed
TO surround herself with that elusive
thing called atmosphere. so ey-
ternals don't count overmuch.
Her companions collar IS as
rumpled as his hair. and that's say
ing something His coat is quits
casually streaked with paint. He is