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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-04
MORE THAN SIX MILLION AUTOS
 NOW IN USE
Haynes Head Sees Bright Future For Industry in
 This Country.
REASONS FOR
 PROPHECY

Tt does not take much thinking to recall the days when people lined up, money in hand, to buy their favored cars'' says MT. $. M. How, general sales manager of the Haynes Auto mobile Company, kokOmo, Ind. This proved that the automobile was want ed and needed. A great percentage of people, it is true, bought cars at first mostly for social and pleasure purposes, in just the same manner as they bought the telephone, electric light system and the many other mod ern couveniences for their homes and their own personal requirements.
 But the desire was natural one. and the evident means of proving the aggressiNeuesS of the American buy ing public. It also paved the way ill showing th.l the unlimited uses to which they could put their cars to in crease their wealth, happiness and health.
 With such a natural demand fo~ automobiles inherently eEempifieG. there should be no question about the future of the automobile indus try. The outlook points to big busi- ness ahead. Today the industry ranks near the top of America's list of pros | porous and important manufacturing 1 institutions.
 ! Its business principles are sound, ] and as it's mission is one to fill the needs, there is every reason to be ] Iieve that the automobile industry will in time be second to none. Prac- ticalIy 6,0OO,000 motor vehicles were l in use in the United States by the
 first of the year. This in itself is a l strong indication of the national econ 1 omic importance of the automobile and shows the possibilities that lie l ahead for motor. car nlanufa cturers.
 Business now is exceptionally good The New York, Chicago and Hartford shovys-and, in fact, all the automo- ! bile shOWs-were pronounced sue ! cesses. Record crowds attended them
 and gratifying number of sales were
 made. This all goes to prove there
 is still that eager demand for cars"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-04

George Lambie of Southbridge. Mass. one of the most competent soccer officials in New England, will referee the Paterson game. while Thomas W. Cahiu, honorary secre- rary of the United States Football Association, will serve as the U. s. F. 4. delegate to the game
Evening star., 1919-11-14
DISTRICT WOMAN ENJOYS
AMERICAN CLUB IN PARIS
Mrs. j. w. Mcintosh Among First
to Take Advantage of Facilities
Offered by z. w. C. A.
PUBLIC UTILITY.

a Washington woman, Mrs. ]. w.
Mcintosh, was among the first to
register and avail herself of the nu-
merous facilities of the new Ameri-
can Womans Club. just opened at
the Hotel Petrograd, Paris, by the
Young Women's Christian Associa-
ton. This announcement comes from
the war work council of the Y w c.
a. 500 Lexington avenue, New York.
The object of the club is announced
as TO cultivate social intercourse
among American women, resident and
travelling in Europe, and to serve
especially the women who are visit
ing the graves of American soldiers
who died in France during the war"
There are dining halls, tea rooms
reading, writing and rest rooms, and
sleeping accommodations for transients
who stay not more than two weeks
The club gives easy access to the
shopping. business and theater dis
tricts, and is prepared to furnish
ide-interpreters for business or
pleasure trips.
OF all it's services, however, it points
with greatest pride to the informa ton
bureau. which has pledged itself
never to be stumped by the same
question twice. This bureau offers to
answer not only the usual tourist
questions. but also those on Books
and Battles. Figures and Facts, Art,
Science of War"
Evening star., 1919-11-14
UNITE BUYING POWER
OF EMPLOYEES STORES
Ten Distributing Centers Agree on
Capitalization Proposition, With
Experts in Charge.

Capitalization of the buying power
OF cooperative stores run by govern
ment employees has been agreed upon.
and hereafter all supplies for at least
ten such distributing centers will be
bought through this agency.
This was agreed upon at recent
meeting of representatives of the
stores. held in the offices of the Fed
erai Employees Union, the unanimous
sentiment being in favor of estab-
fishing what might be termed a
wholesale jobbing house to bring the
consumer in still closer touch with
the. producer. The buyers for the
various lines have been named. One
expert will be chosen to buy cloth
ing, another to contract for canned
goods, third will purchase cured
meats. and so on until every staple
line has been covered.
This will enable all stock to be dis
tributed from the same warehouse
and will reduce the expense of op-
Grating the stores.
AT a meeting of employees of the
Federal Trade Commission yesterday
the purpose of the War Department
employees cooperative store was ex-
planned to them by ]. F. Kelley of
the department, and 200 employees of
the commission later joined the as
sociation.
Employees of the Navy Department
and the State Department also are
being admitted to membership, and
the stock and floor space of the store
has been increased to meet the new
trade.
Evening star., 1919-11-14
DAIRY MARKETS,
Special Dispatch to The Star.

BALTIMORE. Md, November IL
Arrivals by boat: Poultry-AIive:
Chickens. young, large, smooth
pound. 30 do, small to medium, oSa
~; young rough and shaggy, pound.
21a2S; do, white leghorns, 28a29; old
roosters, pound, 20; do, old hens, over
pounds. pound, 80; do. small, pound
2Sa29; do, white leghorns, hens
pound, 2S. Ducks. muscovy, young
pound, %; do. white pekings, young,
pound, 80; do, puddle, pound. 80; do
smaller, poor. pound, 25a26. Turkeys
young, pounds and over. pound, 37a3S,
do, old. pound. 37a3s. Pigeons, old
pair, 25a3O; do, young, pair, 25a30
Guinea fowl. young, over ia pounds,
each. 9Oa1.o0; do, smaller, each, 60a70.
Eggs-Western Maryland. Pennsyl-
vania nearby. dozen. 66a67; eastern
shore Maryland and Virginia, dozen,
66a61; western. dozen. 65a66 West
Virginia, dozen. 65; southern, dozen,
ga; loss off.
Butter-Creamery-West separator
extras, 71a72; do. prints. pound ex-
tras, 7Oa7l; nearby creamery extras,
6!a6S; dairy prints. Maryland. Vir-
ginia and Pennsylvania extras, 47a4S;
store packed firsts. 45a46; rolls, Mary
land and Pennsylvania extras, 47a4S:
do. West Virginia extras. 46a47: do
Ohio extras. 46a47; process butter,
| Sass.
CHICAGO. November 14.-Butter-
Higher; Creamery, 55a69.
Eggs-Firm; receipts. 2,096 cases;
f1rsts, 65a66; ordinary flrsts, 53a56: at
| mark, cases included, 53a59: storage
packed, firsts, 671a.
Poultry-Alive, unsettled; springs.
! 25; fowls, 16a24.
NEW YORK, November 14-Butter
l-Firm; receipts, 3,605 tubs; cream
| cry, higher than extras. 711aa72; ex-
ira COZ score). II: first. 62a7o: pack
| ing stock. current make, No. 2, 471aa4S.
s-Firm-Receipts. $3.50 cases:
fresh gathered extras, 75a76; do, ex-
ira frsts. 72a74;. do frsts, 67a71
state, Pennsylvania and nearby west
ern hennery white, fine to fancy, 9Sa
LOO; state. Pennsylvania and nearby
hennery, white. ordinary to prime, rs
a97; do. brown, 7SaS0; do, gathered
brown and mixed colors, 75a76.
Cheese-Steady; receipts. 1921
boxes; state whole milk current make
specials. 32laa33; do, average run,
81 " a32A; state whole milk twins,
current make specials, S1ka32; do,
> average run, 81.
Evening star., 1919-11-14
Machinists' Head Sends Message.

A communicat ton received from
William H. Johnson, president of the
International Association of Machln-
lists, asked that the protest be made
and that every Encouragement ana
assistance be given the fourteen or
ganizations making up the, railroad
shopmen's unions to bring about ways
and means for the solving of the
great public utilities problem in
volved in the management and opera
ton of the railroads.
Pete Conlon, a former vice presl-
dent of the international Association
of Machinists. now assistant to the
president of the railway department
Of the American Federation of Labor,
addressed the meeting. He took for
his subject the anti-strike station,
iapDealing to every union labor man TO
enter his protest against the Cummins
and Esch bills. He was given an en-
thusastic reception.
Following Mr.. Conlon's address the
call of the American Federation OF
Labor for the moral and financial sup
port of all organized labor to the
steel strikers was presented, ana
the lodge voted "a days pay for
the relief bread fund" This means
that Lodge No. 1913 wilF contribute the
sum of approximately $4,000, accord
ing to Business Agent Charles Frazier.
This donation will be paid by the in
dividual members of the lodge to the
general secretary.
Evening star., 1919-11-14
WHOLESALE MARKET REPORT.

The wholesale market prices this
morning ranged about as follows:
EGGS-Strictly fresh, 72; average re-
ceipts, 20; southern. 50.
CHEESE-June, whole milk. 35a36.
BUTTER-Standard creamery. "a;
prints. IS.
LIVE POULTRY-Rooster per h.,
20; turkeys, per h., 36a37; chickens, per
h.. 33a34 hens, per h., 80; keats, young
each, 75aS0
DRESSED POULTRY = Fresh killed
spring chickens. per lb.. 34a36: hens.
per h., 32a33; roosters, per lb., 22; tur-
keys, per h., Haas.
PORK-Sman and neat. 20; medium.
1Sa19: heavy, IS.
sheep, 4a6.
GREEN FRUITS-Apples per DBL
new, 3.00a95U; basket, 1.00a2.50; Call
fornia lemons, per box, 6.o0a7. SO; pine
apples, per crate, 5.00a6.O0: CaI!fornia
oranges, 500a7 90; grapefruit, 3. .15a4.7
grapes, per basket. 3Oa35; do. Niagara.
crate, 2OOa350; lima beans. 5Oa65 per
quart.
vEGETABLES-Pota per sack.
4 .OOa4. so: do, No. 2, 1.50a2.00; string
beans, per barrel, 5.Ooa7.o0: eggplant
.0Oa5. 90 per crate: cabbage, 1.50a2.50
per barrel beets, 3a5 per bunch; lettuce,
.OOa3. 80 per basket; New York celery,
4 .O0a6 90 per crate; celery, per dozen, 5oa
90: romaine lettuce, LOCAL %; squash.
800 per 100 punches; onions, per loo-
pound sack, 450a5.00; tomatoes, nearby,
OOa 6 90 per crate; sweet potatoes, 3.oca
4 90: spinach, 1.75a2. 90 per barrel
Evening star., 1919-11-14

BAR SILVER QUOTATIONS..
NEW YORK. November 14.-Bar
silver, 124%. Mexican dollars, SO.
Evening star., 1919-11-14

England The steamship companiei
are making every effort to be readI
for the anticipated rush. and by tn
end of May something like 100 liner
may be engaged in bringing Amert
cans across.
One American. who controls severe
big hotels in New York city. is here
looking over London and the large
provincial cities for suitable sitei
upon which to build hotels on Ameri
can lines.
Evening star., 1919-11-14
Fine Wool Prices Higher.

BOSTON, November 1.-THE Com
mercial Bulletin tomorrow will say:
1.-The government wool auctions have
been the center of attraction this week,
although there has been more or less
business privately as well. chiefly Tor
the half blood and fine woods. Prices
for the finer grades are 20 to % per cent
higher, while medium woods are generally
steady and the lower grades from good
quarter bloods down are Is to ~ per
cent lower compared with June. The
manufacturing situation is very strong
and the tendency is for higher prices TO
be named on the finished product"
Evening star., 1919-11-14
U. S. Wool Stocks Ample for Year

Wool stocks sufficient to supply the
United States for more than a year
at the present rate of consumption
were on hand at the close of the quar-
ter ended September 80, according to
an announcement today by the De-
partment of Agriculture. Total stocks
aggregated 729,373,000 pounds, more
than so per cent more than was on
hand the same date a year ago.
Evening star., 1919-11-14
CURE STOCKS.

Quota tions furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Co.
Evening star., 1919-11-14
LIBERTY BOND PRICES.

NEW YORK. November 14.-Prices
of liberty bonds at 1880 am. today
were: Three and a half 1O0.40; first
As, $3.50; second As, 1916; first 4 Il s.
$3.50; second ANS. 93.12; third Az S,
94.5S; fourth Ans, 1906; victory 3A S,
1886; victory 4As, 1892.
Evening star., 1919-11-14

A practical shoe repafring.
OUTFIT that will enable every
family in Washington to prac-
tice true economy. 1t will
reduce your shoe repo1ring
bill 7S per cent. F0af siBe
lasts with every outat. Steel
shOemakers' hammer, extra
heavy stand, Riehards' steel
knives, nails, heel plates ana
many other necessary tools
make mp the outit mt 92.15.
Other outfits for less. Buy
leather and all shoe repairing
material at semi-wh0lesale
prices in our store.
Evening star., 1919-11-14
PROTEST RAILROAD
ANT|-STR|KE PLAN
Machinists in Resolutions
Oppose Proposals in Cum
minis and ESCh Bills,

Machinists employed in the railroad
shops and those serving in the shops
of contracting machinery plants,
members of Local Union No. 1913, In
ternational Association of Machinists,
last night at a meeting in their hail
5th and G streets. registered their
protest against the anti-strike pro-
posal contained in the Cummlns ana
Esch bills now before Congress, in
which it is made unlawful for mem
Der of any organized labor union to
go out on strike or participate in a
Walkout.
Resolutions were unanimously adopt
ed protesting to Congress against the
passage of the proposed legislation as
unAmerican and in violation OF the
rights of citizenship guaranteed bE
the Constitution. The delegates to the
Central Labor Union were instructed
to present the resolutions to the CEN
trail body for Endorsements
Evening star., 1919-11-14

Mems, SOC pair; Ladies',
25c-black or tan. CATS
Paw Heels-Nens'. 25e pair;
Ladies', zoe. Panther Rub.
Der Heels, Usce, Essex.
Tite Edge. Spring Stop,
Surety, Static, Goodyear,
Walkmore.
Evening star., 1919-11-14
LONDON EXPECTS RUSH OF
AMERICANS NEXT SPRING

LONDON, October 20 Correspond
ence of the Associated Press).-Eng.
land is looking for big invasion of
American visitors next spring. 1t is
stated that not less than 100000 pas
sages have already been booked to
Evening star., 1919-11-14
FRENCH BouRsE PRICES HEAVY.

PARIS, November 14.-Prices were
heavy on the bourse today. Three per
cent rentes, so francs 25 centimes; ex-
change on London, 80 francs As CEN
times. Five per cent loan, 88 francs
AZ centimes. The dollar was quoted
at francs So centimes.
Evening star., 1919-11-14
WHOLESALE BEEF PRICES.

The following are today's whole
sale market prices for beef cuts as
quoted by the Washington market Of
&
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-23
A ROMANCE OF BUSINESS.
The Greatest Retail Merchant of the
World Began at $3.50 a Week.

The Greatest Retail Merchant of the
World Began at $3.50 a Week.
Instead of playing soldier or cow
boy or Indian, F. w. Woolworth, a
farmers boy, played at keeping store.
At 10 he graduated from a commercial
college as a first step in the fulfill
ment of his dream. He got job in a
dry good store at WATERFOWL, N Y,
46 years ago, the understanding be-
ing that he was to receive nothing
until after an apprenticeship of three
months He was then paid $3.50 a
week, and in the course of two and
one-half years he got Sc week. His
highest salary as an employee was
$40. He died Monday night the
greatest retail merchant of the world,
not only in number of stores. but in
volume of business, and the 51-story
Woolworth building is known almost
as widely as New York itself. Amer
lea was startled in 1912 by the an
nouncement of the formation of the
f. w. Woolworth company to take
over 631 SO and 10 cents" stores in
the United States and Canada. 1t was
called trust and there was the gener-
al assumption that it was financed by
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-23
Fiye-Cent Store
The WOOIWOrth

One road to fame is always OPEN
It is by devising a plan for selling
merchandise of any name or nature
to vast numbers of people who do not
realize wish to buy. Not every bus
mess man arrives, for the majority Of
business men occupy themselves with,
selling goods in response to a known
demand. 1t is the rare man who hits
upon a new idea for inducing sales in
great volume who finds himself fam
Gus, and in spite of the fact that mil
lions and millions of clever business
thinkers are all the while eager to
discover such new idea, those who
reach fame by way Of such discovery
are so infrequent that each is likely
to make his journey practically alone
on the road. And yet the thing looks
simple-after some one has done it!
Perhaps the secret is not so much in
hitting upon the idea as it is in seeing
Its later possibilities. The fellow
who gets the idea in the first instance
may not see what there is in it until
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-23

he has turned the matter over a bit.
Great results are not always the sud-
den flash that they often seem to be.
Take the case of the latest new-idea
sales producer. the man who made his
"5 and 10 Cent Stores" familiar to
city-bred people everywhere through
out the populous district of the United
States, Canada, and Great Britain.
Frank Woolworth was clerk in Moore
& Smiths dry goods store in Water
town, a small manufacturing city in
northwestern New York, when his
selling idea came to him. It was after
the firm had undertaken to dispose of
quantity of shopworn goods by mix
ing with them fifty dollars worth of
the cheapest articles that could be pur-
chased and then placarding entire col
lection with the sign, "Any article on
this counter cents" The whole col
lection was sold the first day. But it
was not the firm that grew famous by
that days work. 1t was the clerk. For
when the clerk saw how the public took
to the notion of one small price for
all sorts and conditions of useful ar
.ticles he began to realize something
of what he might accomplish if he
could fill an entire store with goods
that could be disposed of in the same
rapid-fire manner.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-23

So it was that Frank Woolworth,
with nothing better as background
than a sturdy boyhood on New York
farm and a public school and "busi-
ness college" training, found himself,
| in February, 1879, proprietor of a
"5- Cent Store" in Utica, New York,
seventy miles from WATERFOWL, on
| his way to become known throughout
the English-speaking world, on Dor
rowed capital amounting to 1925. That
his confidence in his new idea had not
been misplaced was evidenced by net
profit of $139.50 at the end of six
weeks. He looked about for the OPP
portunity to launch his project in a
fashion commensurate with its possibi-
ties, and in the following year he open
ed at Lancaster. Pennsylvania the
first of great chain of stores. This
first chain store had a floor space of
IA by 35 feet. Within month he
had another store on the same plan IN
Harrisburg, the capital city of the
State, and put his brother in charge.
From that time forward money flowed
in freely, and as each store accumu-
lated surplus, that surplus was used
to open other stores, until many large
towns and cities were included In the
chain In each store were the same
variety of goods, the same general
arrangement and sales methods, and
each store front, no matter where To-
Gated, had the same familiar color
and the same signs. The veriest-
stranger in town was at home as soon
as he reached the Woolworth store.
Of course, no such success in mer-
cIandising could have been attained
without imitators. There were 9TH
ers who Caught on" when the five
cent store plan first came into notice.
People tell of tinware dealer and a
stationer in Wilkesbarre, Pennsylva-
MIA, who got the five-cent idea so soon
after Woolworth got it that they were
believed by many to be the origina-
tors. But Woolworth never quarreled
with anybody as to who got the idea
first; it was enough for him that he
had it. He gave all his time to max
ing the most of it. Incidentally he
took into the great organization that
gradually came into being in connec-
zion with it the principal imitators or
co-discovers. He divided territory
with them; he chose the big cities, in
GLIDING New York and philadelphia,
while giving to others the southern
states. And with the chain length
ening, on its way to include the hun
dreds of stores in the United States
and Canada and the seventy-five in
Great Britain Of which it is now COM
posed. the Woolwolth idea developed
new methods on the buying end. From
taking mere jobbers' lots, and special
stocks, and stated quantities of goods
the chain was able to contract by the
year for the entire output of whole
factories. Whole factories giving
their entire facilities to supplying the
counters of almost thousand stores
and all sorts of goods represented,
from candy and hardware to dress
goods and music, and yet not single
article of greater price than ten
cents:
1t was a wonderful idea, that five
cent scheme of young Woolworth back
there in Moore q Smiths slowgoing
dry goods store in WATERFOWL. But,
after all. there is good deal in the
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-23
Retaining the
Crippled Soldiers

The work already done by the Fed
eral Board for Vocational Education
on re-educating and placing disabled
soldiers, sailors, and marines, says an
editorial writer in Over Here (Rah-
capacity for solving one of the pres
sing problems of peace" The paper
cited, with a name bearing the rever-
sal of The wars most popular song, is
the official publication of the United
States Army General Hospital No. 3.
The writer adds more encouraging
news:
"By February Is, three months af-
ter The signing of the armistice, the
board had dealt with 22,851 cases Of
men injured in the service, of which
1920 were reported to it from hospi-
tails, 4,494 from the Red Cross, and
6,552 from the War Risk Insurance
Bureau.
ITO save to industry the thousands
of men crippled in the war, training
them to be disappearing and find
ing jobs for them within the range of
their impaired physical ability is OBJ
viously one of the chief concerns of
the country they have served so faith
fully Certainly there is no present
problem of education comparing with
it in urgency or in sentiment, and
there will be general satisfaction that
it is already well in hand Not only
have these victims of wars devasta-
ton given up valuable time that would
have been devoted to getting a start
in trade or profession, but they re-
turn with the handicap of wounds and
disability and deserve to have their
way made smooth by every aid that
can be given them"
The heartrending tales we have
heard of the thousands of mutilated
men who must be constant reminder
TO Europe of her years of war will hap
PLY not have their counterpart here.
Over Here give us some statistical
assurances on this point.
According to official advices, the
total of major amputation cases in
the United States forces to date is
1904, of which 2,3O8 are arm and leg
cases; and of these approximately 600
are arm amputations and 1,708 are
leg amputations. The remaining 726
are hands, feet, and two or more fin
gers. Not all of these men require
special training to enable them to
make a living, the Federal Board for
Vocational Education points out: in
fact, the percentage is smaller than
one would imagine. A lawyer, doctor,
craftsman, bookkeeper, dentist, steno-
grapher, office man, or salesman is
not necessarily affected unfavorably