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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03
Dividends

Ar 4 MEETING OF THE HOARD or DT.
c65SpasY 5sfs9Tss or OF NEVADA, bsla this "dsyNS asy
dividend Of Fifteen Per Cent u5g5) was de-
eiared payable on October FL; 1910. to stock
nsny Al q o'clock p, m, September s0 1915.
me stoek trsnsisr i,,s nsoSs 5s, WIN close sf
s'o'" y G. A. HiI6BEE. sscretarx.
/. rhiladslpbls. Pa. Sept 40. 1919.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03
puuADEIPHIA-Call. 5s4 @6 per
LONDON-Money is quoted 31s pc
FOREIGN EXCHANGE

New York. Oct. 3.--The foreign ex'
change market opened rather uncertain.
Sterling was easier at 4, ,22M for de-
mand sterling and 4.23 for cables.
Francs showed improvement, cables be-
ing quoted at s.42 ard checks S,44'
Lire was also up slightly, the figures
being 9.7S for cables and $50 for
checks.
Other quotations we're:
Swiss cables 5.35, checks 500
guilder cables 1914, checks 3SM pc
setas cables 10. is, checks 1910; Stock
holm cables "a so, checks "a. 90 Chris
tiania cables 1880, checks % 10; CO.
penhageu cables u 80, checks 2l.75 ;
Belgian cables S.4S, checks $50; marks
APO, Austrian kroner 1.5O, nominal
In the second hour of business the
market was steady at slight improve
ment. Quotations were: Demand
sterling 4.22h, cables 4.23A; franc
cables $50, checks Sal; lire cables
9.7S, checks $50 marks APO; Austrian
kronnen 1,55.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03
BAR SILVER

Commercial bar silver was quoted in
New York today at $l.1S9s an ounce,
la decline Of 2Ssc. In London the price
was 6Sd, down 1l4d.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03

roDAY's RANGE an LIBERrY noNps

Sales Of Liberty Bonds In the Stock Es.
change carry interest to date Of sale, The
seller receives thot interest. Ia addition to
the sale price Of the bond.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03
NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET

New York, Oct, 3.-The coffee market
opened quiet at declines of 30 to 10
points. Immediately after the call, De-
cember sold from 1920 to 14.30. Trad
ing was featureless and sales very light.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03
moNEY.LENpINe RATES

NEW YORK-Money on call, both
mixed collateral and all industrial col
lateral. opened today at Z per cent for
lending and renewing.
Time money is reported in urgent de-
maud and & per cent is strongly bid for
ell dates. Some money is being loaned
at G per cent for four and six months
on industrial collateral.
Prime mercantile paper is unchanged
with a light market here and more busi'
ness in the interior. Discount rates
range from to 81 per cent, with most
of the business at 5A per cent.
Call loans on bank acceptances are
unaitered at 4A per cent. Dealings
are on a moderate scale and rates ruled
as previously
PHILADELPHIA-Call. 5s4 az per
cent: time, 5% as per cent; CONNER ,
cial paper. three to six months, pa "a
js4 per cent, and six months q per
cent.
LONDON-Money is quoted o1s per
cent. Discount rates, snort bliis'
3 T.16@3la per cent :; three months
bills, 3 9-16@35s per cent.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03
Other quotations we're:
BANK cIEARlNos

Bank elearIngg today compared with cor
responding dai iois Last two yssiisss ysiiss 1917
sn ss5 ss s s tss iss
ss'si:s S:s. # III s$Ii III ss
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03
Int Rap Tran i'd

h0li NiN9 ~ ~ b9
1000. TIA
Lack Steel of 23
1000 90
Lehigh Valley 6s
1000. l0lIf
Liggett e. Myers Is
2000. ITO
2000 ITO
Lorillard Co 50
2000. 91&
Long Isl bs 1887
1000. 74ss
Louis & Ma sh 81 IS
6000. 100
Manhattan HeN
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-03

Chile Copper

Chi & Ct West 4s
1000. 57M
Chi West l r r Is
2000. 81
Chi NJ & st p 3lzs
5000 .... 6l5s
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

man from Dznpu1y can call New
York home They get here some
how; land a job some way. And
they fling themselves so utterly into
the atmosphere of the thing that
who can say after three months
training in downstairs cabaret on
Forty second Street that Evelyn. of
East Liverpool, Ohio, has ever
breathed aught but the inspirational
air Of Broadway?
Now the burlesque manager
comes again into his own. Since
1915 he has implored the "ponies,"
mediums" and "stalwarts" to for
sake the cabaret and hit the road.
Nothing doing! With flfty-two
weeks right here in "little old New
York" or at the contiguous sea-
shore why should lady go out on
the dusty old road, in the smelly
hotels and theatres, to cat tho small
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

IoV,UUO readers. That Is the nor
nal number Of passengers that the
subway and az" systems convey
hither and yon each day. 1t may be
that some of these passengers do
not read "The Subway SUM-" its
overhead contemporary, The Ele-
waited Express" or it's surface com
peer, 1.-THE Green Car Traveller. "
If so, the editor of "The Subway
Sun" believes The loss is a little
less than mutual. While the editor
cannot deal in fiction, much as that
tendency is uniustly ascribed to
him, he does try to dress his hard
Fan facts in raiment pleasing to
the eye. Having an entire week to
write an average Of fifty words, he
can put every verb, adverb or ad
jective through numerous rehear-
sails, trying it this way and that,
with stage lighting thus and so, to
get the maximum effect and
smoothness.
There are 1889 cars operating
daily on the Broad
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

ae"gers would kindly distribute
themselves evenly through the
cars" and his mail the next forty
eight hours was kept hot with a
facetiousness The point of which is
obvious.
Who IS the editor of "The sub
way Sum?
That is more or less a secret.
All the heads of the various de-
partmcnts constitute the editor
Mr.. Shonts himself reads proof on
every edition, and, according to the
publicity office, is a demon wnen it
comes to digging up things to write
about. He is, perhaps, the editor
in-chief, since his name is affixed
to each editorial, and he IS directly
sponsor for It. But the circum-
stances Of Mr.. Shonts's official posi-
ton make il necessary foi him TO
do more than write fifty words
week. Yet the 100000 volun-
teer proofreaders VIII quickly Nod
him responsible if anything goes
wrong.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
What Of the Dancing Girl?

town grub and meet the small town
Johns? Many of our prominent
cabaret girls remember them
days somewhat in the light Of the
tortures of a medieval past.
Ladies who shifted at mention Of
the road in the palmy bellum
days-when it was nothing for
man to make S1,000,0O0 in one day
and try to spend it that night
now sniffle because they fear So
and-so manager will overlook them.
Yes, they are going back TO the
"road"-those that Mr.. Ziegfeld has
a grudge against. Some are going
to take the road that leads home,
and fo~ them Broadway viii be
memory or a thousand Of them
Back to the road" to the neon
veniences Of continual Jumps and
the financial embarrassment Of
"half pay" weeks, lower salaries
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

way, Lexington Avenue and
greensboro branches. The over.
head service requires 1901 cars
AS every passenger knows, there
are four editions of the editors
completed works placed in eyerv
car--two at each end. While 2he
editor does not exactly attribute
the rush to the ends of the cars as
tribute to his literary skill, it is
a fact that the rush has in no wav
abatcd since he began publishing
about two years ago.
After looking the ground over
carefully the editor of "The Sub
way Sun" became convinced that he
should be heard from on some new
topic about once every two weeks.
Reports showed that the average
number of transients in New York
City daily is between 100000 and
100000, the figures being subject
to fiuctuation.
Some time ago, thinking to ale
vlate the crush conditions in the
centre of the rush-hou trains, the
editor wrote something about how
fine things would be if the pas
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
The Passing of the Cabman

never closed restaurant on the cor
ner Of Forty-seventh Street and
Seventh Avenue. The illumined
clock in front of E. cabaret on the
northernmost point of the square
moved considerably before Bill did.
He was sitting as though he had
no chest and the top of his head
was about parallel with the top of
his back. Nobody came; nobody
wanted to go home in his coach or
to get quiet, healtnful ride that
would assure them of sound
sleep.
He drove slowly to his stable
when milk wagons were rumbling
busily by. There were other nights
on which he had failed to attract a
client, but he could not recall them.
Some of them had been rainy and
others wintry, he vaguely recollect
ed. But never had he waited
through a star-gemmed evening
freshened by the softest of zephyrs
and gone home none the richer.
Since that first Monday night,
Bill explained in front of City Hall
Park, where he had driven in des-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

and then an out and out hiatus in
remuneration. It's a tough old
world.
The cabaret principals have been
stampeded to the various vaudeville
wheels" Some have already beat
it for the West to go over the
Orpheum, Pantages or Western cir
cults. Others, the topnotchers,
will interview Mr.. Keith in the near
future, and Marcus Loew and the
Fox people will have plenty of
opportunities to annex talent. Let
any one who can use anything from
a wire walker to a jazz quartet
speak.
AS for the genuine, blown-in-the-
bottle New York show girl, shed
like to see some Of these interlopers
from points West get the air.
Herself, she can always find place
to kick.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

without more than once or twice
threatening to turn Bolsheviki and
labor not at all There were times
during the spring and early SUM-
mer when It looked a. though the
escalator were going to die ON Mr..
Shonts's handA 1t could scarcely
Sit up, and moved only with a con-
vulsive shudder. But at length the
blue jeans clinic that worked upon
the escalator succeeded in lowering
1ts blood pressure, retarding the
action of it's heart and by brisk
massaging restored the use of its
upper and neither joints.
AS result there isn't an escs-
Ator in town that escalates anv
more freely than the ono at Park
Place.
Up to the tine that 1t was proved
CHS escalator would work tho climb
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

the purer air that is waited over
from the City Hall.
The first sixty-e eight steps Of this
journey are now accomplished for
the subway inmates by the new es-
calatoT.
The Park Place escalator is tall
and thin, somewhat as though it
had been on a rigorous diet. Its
two-foot beam permits only one
passenger at a time to enter upon
the sprightly journey upward, and
in the morning rush hours, as tho
customers form long aueoue
awaiting their turn, each to save
slxty-eight steps, the appearance is
not unlike the opening Of the Zieg
field Folies.
In the course Of year 2,000,o 900
passengers who detrain at the Park
Place station ara going to save
13S.000,00o steps. I
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

pera ton, business has been scarcely
healthy enough to feed him and his
horse, and then there are lodging and
clothing to consider. Bill said that
he has something set aside for the
dry days, and now that they have
come he will be forced to use it.
"But, gee," said Bill, cts like
guy who had a first love that
took about all the love in him and
who amt got much left in his heart
for any one else. This business was
something / had talent for. Any
thing else is going to seem I'M
friendly and rotten. But Mollie
and l must live She don't look it.
but she's twenty-four years old and
still pulling strong When ! had
business I'd never get tired. Some
times l worked twenty hours a day.
This waiting is what gets my goat.
The younger people look at my
coach and say what they think are
funny things. The older folks, my
best customers, have their stuff in
their cellars and they don't come
out"
Bill looked up at the new City
Hall clock and read aloud that it
was 10 o'clock.
Might as we'll close for the
night" said Bill.
"Giddan Molliao
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

Bill slumped forward in his seat
one night last week. He even for
got to tuck in a loving young couple
who were riding with him, not to
get anywhere but just for the nov
city Of it. Bill hates people who
ride in his coach for humorous d.
version. The only kind of people he
likes to drive are those who are 60
ing some place, or those who want
q quiet, refined. healthful ride.
The young couple had nothing to
do with BilPs slumping. They came
too late; they merely were rubbing
it in Bill is going out of business,
He took in exactly s1S.95 last
week, although his horse Is stalwart
and his barouche has fine springs
and soft cushions.
From s o'clock until 1880 he
maintained his hungry watch be-
fore tho Brevoort on Monday night,
the first one after July l. Nobody
came. Bill said he felt lonesome
and Just a little afraid Kind of
hopeless and helpless, he described
It. People were going home early
and in streetcars and subways
Some nodded real cordially to him
But nobody wanted to ride.
Then he went up to Longacrt
Square and stopped tn front Of q
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
years ago Big
( Bill Nicely drove up in front

TWENTY-TWO years ago Big
1 Bill Nicely drove up in front
of the Brevoort Hotel one
morning in a coach drawn by very
new horse and entered the public
hacking business. To-day many
persons knew Big Bill, although
they possibly never heard of Nicely.
He has for years taken home gen
tiernen who, suffering from alcoholic
amnesia, had forgotten their ad-
dresses.
He always sat up In front, Of
course, on the seat without a back
to 1t. Despite the temptation to
slump forward as he drove through
the years, Big Bill always sat erect
He took personal interest IN his
customers and had the same smile
for those who rode two blocks and
those who rode two hours His
clients were his friends, and he
tucked all under the laprobe with
the same solicitude.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
Editing ''7he Subway Sun -

N7R1T1NG speed never has been
w standardized. A fxt-class
hack writer will turn out
his 5000 words a day, but Robert
Louis Stevenson sometimes wept
for hours over the composition of a
single paragraph. Browning chewed
penholders with relish as he wrote
slowly and painstakingly; it took
George Borrow a lifetime to write
only few books, among them
"The Romany Rye" while the edi-
tor of ''The Subway Sun" writes an
average of fifty words a week.
Whether the conservative pace at
which the editor of "The Subway
Sun" labors admits him at once to
a literary footing with Stevenson,
Browning, Borrow, ct al, he is will
ing to leave to his readers. What
ever literary rating he may finally
be given and he probably will
have to die to get the can with
out boast claim that his daily cir
culation greatly exceeds that of any
writer, living or dead.
The editor of "The Subway Sun"
figures his daily circulation at g.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
T HERE do we go from here?
y That is the question half


thousand cabaret show
girls and principals along Broad
way are asking. 1t is violating no
confidence to say that many will 90
home, more will join burlesque and
musical comedy "road" shows and
the remainder will go back to the
counters, the manicuring tables and
the clerkships which they left when
they were magnetized by the lure
Of Broadway.
This compels an admission. On
the word Of an authority the "New
York show girl" the sinuous gazelle
with the luminous orbs and the in
corrigible toes, isn't a New York
girl at all. Fact. Not one in ten
of these insouciant damsels who
are supposed to crack the steelv.
mercantile heart of the hat sales
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
Eons Ago

TF YOU should casually remark
H. to a friend that a gentleman
bathing at a beach near New
York stepped on the calcaneum of
megatherium Of the Pleistocene
period, your friends reply would, in
all probability, depend much on his
Individuality. But just the same,
that is just what happened.
DR.. Ledoux, of New York, was
bathing at Long Branch, near New
York, when he stepped on some hard
substances, which upon examination
proved to be fossil bones. One was
the skull of a walrus, the second a
fragment of mastodon, and the
third was a bone Of a megathium,
orc gigantic ground sloth.
This calcaneum, or heel bone, is
Of enormous size, measuring over
fifteen inches in length and weigh
ing over twenty pounds. The bone
shows no evidence of erosion and
apparently had not been trans
ported any considerable distance.
The animal to which it belonged
probably died within a few miles
at most Of the place where the bone
was found. The ground sloths
fiourished during the Pleistocene or
glacial period. They were Of gil
gantic size, larger than any exist
ing quadrupeds except the elephant.
The hind legs were very massive,
as was the tail, which supported the
animal when he reached up after
the leaves upon which he fed.
Remains Of ground sloths abound
in South America and are not un-
common in our own Southern
states, but this bone seems to mark
the limit Of their northern range.
Numerous skeletons Of these AMI
mails have been recovered, and q
very f1ne collection Of these ex-
tinct mammals Is to be found in
the American Museum Of Natural
History. The late Colonel Roose-
welt gave to the museum three
specimens Of another species Of
these extinct mammals, called gryp-
otherium. These were found In q
cave In Patagonia. Exploration
showed that these species lived
until a few centuries ago, and were
not only contemporaneous with
primitive man, but were stabbed or
confined and fed by him in the
cave.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
NEW WORKERS are to be-

NEW WORKERS are to be
L Y invited to become the
critics Of their own art.
In the course Of the next sew
eral days a silhouette Of the
Park fountain, the original Of
which has been executed by
Frederick w. Macmonnies, will
be set in place that members of
tho Municipal Art Commission
and others may SOC how it blends
into the classic surroundings of
City Hall Park.
Tho work portrays q figure
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

from the Park Place platform to
the street level was one of the most
tedious among subway ascents in
the city. From the fact Of the
stairs to the first landing-or from
the cellar to the mezzanne floor, as
1t were-took sixty-cight steps and
from tina point to the exit across
from the Woolworth Building re-
CURED seventy-one additional PAGES.
IN all 139 steps, the majority of
them upward, were necessary for
a lady or gentleman to get out Of
Mr.. Shonts's clutches and breathe
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

IMPLYING Civic Virtue, with her
aldic sword in hand, with Con-
quered Vice lying at it's feet.
Mr.. Macmonnies said he did not
wish the group to be purely
decorative, but an allegory Of
truth and justice. He made the
study in Paris, he said, and the
model was a young Frenchman
who had an American cast Of
features.
, Civic Virtue is sturdy figure
nino feet in height, at whose feet
arc two conquered sirens typi-
flying vice. ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
The Park Place EscQZQte2z.

n WHAT Is it that runs
W swiftly without getting
ahead, sinks lower as It
climbs higher, and saves slxty-eight
steps?
A The Park Place escalator.
A picture Of rudy good health
after its severe attacks Of spring
fever, the new escalator attached
TO the Seventh Avenue subway ser
vice IS now up and around and
about able to do full days work
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27
Days the Present City as Looked 1867
Bowery Meals
MERE was a time on the Bow
cry, before the Lexow inves-

HERE was a time on the Bow
Z cry, before the Lexow inves-
tlgating committee spoiled
material for lot of good Sunday
stories, when man who wasn't so
particular about his brand of whis-
key, could guzzle his senses away by
paylng dime and breathing one
oreathful of booze through a rub
Der tube. Some places charged a
nickel.
A restaurant was opened at 81
Third Avenue last week where
man can eat his hunger away for
some time into the future by pay
! ing twenty-five cents. Urban J.
Ledoux, former American consul
at Prague, Bohemia, and later
maker and breaker of the first post
war breadline, owns and generally
supervises this new kind of eating
place. Mr.. Ledoux runs the only
restaurant in the city which pre-
fers converts to the Bahai prin-
ciples to profits. The Bahais are a
sect whose basic principle is the
Golden Rule. If they were poor
they would like to be given a fill
ing meal for twenty-five cents.
Hence they give it to others.
4 Vegetarian Meal
The restaurant does not serve
juicy porterhouse steaks. Neither
are chuck steaks, without juice, on
the menu. Mr.. Ledoux and most
of the Bahais are vegetarians, and
meat is as popular with them as the
Grown Prince is in France. The
% cents worth of food is entlreyv
along vegetarian lines.
Vegetable soup is the beginning.
It is followed by a plateful of as
sorted vegetables, served in we'll
cooked large chunks. The final gas
tronomic assault is committed by
rice pudding and coffee, which isn't
coffee, but near coffee. Some
appetites, built up in smoothing
ruffled thoroughfares, occasionally
survive the vegetable onslaught.
These healthy cravings are quickly
reduced by another plate Of the
vegetables.
The brows Of many Of the patrons
are quite low. The largo majority
come to the restaurant to eat. A
few Banaians visiting for spiritual
comfort. No bill for single per-
son can ever rise higher than Is
cents. 1t is possible, however, for
light caters, Nognishi, for instance.
to eat for considerably less.
"A man came in this restaurant
last Wednesday and ate three plates
OF assorted vegetables. He fumbled
around in his pockets for several
sweaty minutes before he said that
he didn't have the money. Then
he prepared himself to land as
lightly as possible. But he wasn't
thrown out. They gave him another
plato Of assorted vegetables.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-14
(ftyhoES

RI. Clean Towel Service. Phone
r l. 4476.
Tri-City Towel Supply company.
n. l. 4476.