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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-20
Wearing Apparel.

Manufacturers of women's wearing
apparel experienced another busy
week. in which the out-of-town re-
taiIers crowded the local market to
place their fall orders. The manu-
facturers insist that prices must in
crease, because of the fabric scarcity
and the renewed demands of labor in
the trade for higher wages. The
minimum wage scale adopted in the
Industry has not settled the labor
question, say the manufacturers, and
further increases are necessary to
hold the workers to their tasks. AL
most. every manufacturer says he
could use more help than he is able
to obtain now
Orders booked now are for delivery
in six or eight weeks. Some manu-
facturers say that ten weeks de-
livery will be necessary later on.
The larger manufacturers declared
their intention of adhering to the
contract prices and delivery of goods
as per order, but the smaller pro-
ducers claim that advances will be
necessary. unless they are to lose all
the profits on the business already
booked, and possibly be forced into
bankruptcy. Prices for spring ap-
parel, 1t is said. will be inquired to
booyer- any possible. increase in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-20

BALTIMORE, Md, July 19.-Flour-
Receipts. 573 barrels; prices I'M
changed.
Wheat-Sales. small bag lots by
sample. 2.12, 2.1s, 2.20, 2.22, 2.25a2.27
a bushel: cargo. No. 2. red winter, gar
licky, 2.34A; No. 3, do. 2.30A; Nc. 4.
do, 2.24z a2.24A; No. 5. do. 2.21.
Cob Corn-Quoted at, white, 1000:
yellow, 1000 per barrel for carloads.
Track, yellow corn, no. 3, for domes-
tic delivery, quoted at 2.10 bushel
Corn sales. 100 bushels, No. /, white,
at 200 bushel; 100 bushels. yellow
Oats-Range of prices: No. 2. white,
Sc; No. 3, white, IS.
Rye-Range of prices. Bag lots of
nearby rye, as to quality, 1.50a1.60 a
bushel.
Hay-Prices unchanged: straw.
prices unchanged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-20
BY I. A. FLEMING.

It is the same story from every sec
ton of the country-public utility
companies. and especially street and
elevated railways in trouble, threat
ened with bankruptcy and ground be-
tween the upper and neither stones;
public utility commissions anxious 10
make a record with people. and the
indisposition of the public to stand
for further increases. where they may
offer objections. against them on the
one hand and high wages and higher
costs of material sapping profits on
the other.
E Deadlocks are on in some cities.
Tracks are being taken up in Toledo
on the order of the municipality TO
vacate. In Chicago there is a strike
on and a demand for so cents an hour
cay, almost enough to place any
street railway line into bankruptcy.
At one time investments in street
railway stock were considered the
very safest possible. but today bill
lions of dollars in investments of this
character are deemed extra hazard
Gus.
Street railways are a public neces-
sity; the development of the city 1t
self is a direct result of the urban
transportation facilities, while many
of the suburbs that in these days
have become expensive feeders owe
their development to abundant trans
portation without which they would
never have reached their importance
as residential sections.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-20
Conditions Somewhat Mixed.

Wall street goes ahead at a fancy
pace. 1t may hesitate, but it is but
nome ntarily. Old-timers pause in
.amaZement, frequently taking q
chance ON the bear side. only to pay
for their experience in changed con-
Sditions.
And yet all is not quite as roseate
the bulls would have it appear.
The nation is prosperous. but here
and there discomfort is evidenced and
mere power to demand frequently
suggests the enforcement, to the I'M
settlement of affairs generally.
There is limit to the upward move
ment. but no one knows just when
the turn will come the other way
or how far it will go before a new
wave Of buying from the new crop of
spectators will give the list another
'upturn. II il record market;
records Of, the past have small con-
hAeklon. a. 4insADecznla&oxR-h In2kAEa
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-20
Foreign Exchanges Collapse.

From the banking standpoint, the
most interesting and disqui citing de-
velopment was the collapse of ex-
change on London and Paris. the rate
to the f1rst-named center declining to
the lowest level ever recorded here.
The many additional signs of in
dustrial and economic improvement
of the week were accompanied by
further activity and stability of
prices on the stock exchange, quota
tons in several noteworthy instances
mounting to new maximums. There
were occasional pauses in the mar
ket's progress. due mainly to the ex-
traordinary collapse of foreign ex-
change. This condition was recog-
nized as peculiar to itself. however.
though not without important bear
ing upon the numerous plans for this
country's invasion of overseas mar
kets.
Measures are crystallizing for the
coordination of foreign credits, and
these requirements, which will run
into billions of dollars, may well be
expected to take precedence over the
purely speculative demands for the
stock market.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-20
q. S. Will Buy Freely Abroad.

That we shall buy freely in foreign
markets as soon as they are able to
supply the things we need is a fore
gone conclusion. Just as Europe
must purchase here the things she
has been doing without for four
years. SO this country will seek to
fill its deferred wants as soon as pos
sible.
Meanwhile our home trade con-
tinues to expand. Steel mills are
rapidly working back toward ca
pacity operations, the textile trades
are as active as limited supplies of
goods will permit, and in other lines
reports are decidedly encouraging.
One favorable feature of the situa-
ton is that money for all commercial
uses is abundant, although there is
a tendency to restrict its use for
speculative purposes, the Federal
Reserve Board preferring to con-
serve resources for productive things.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-20
ALL PUBLIC UTILITIES SUFFER
FIR ON INCREASED EXPENDITURES
jCapital Traction Company Increase in
Earnings Much Greater Than Railway
|. Company-New Committee Should
Be Helpful-Notes.
An Old High-Grade Bank.

and bankers are all sharing in the
profits.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-20
Time Funds Firmer.

Monetary conditions were compare
lively easy, so far as they related to
call loans. but time funds were dis
tinctly firmer, borrowers bidding as
much as per cent for short, as well
as long, Accommodations.
Financial interests emphasized that
brokers' loans have attained enormous
dimensions and there was ground for
the belief that the Federal Reserve
Board would again urge greater eau
ton in that quarter.
Further crop deterioration and dis
turbing elements in the labor situa-
ton, including the shipping industry,
were more than balanced by record
bank clearings and the boom in iron,
steel and copper, as well as leather
and fabricated textiles.
Buying of new capital issues was
commensurate with the plethora of
money. and much more financing OF
general character is contemplated in
connection with the growth of the
motor and oil industries
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-20
Dress Silks.

Demand for dress silks outstripped
the available supplies. The leading
mills being sold ahead for months to
come, virtually all of the business
was booked by the large jobbers.
among whom there was considerable
intertrading. Visiting buyers were
numerous They spent much time in
shopping for goods and endeavoring
to uncover weak spots in prices.
Local garment cutters evinced a
strong inclination to balk against the
high prices demanded by the sellers,
but well-nigh empty shelves induced
them to buy goods despite their pro-
tests.
Few of the leading manufacturers
listened to the pleas Of the willing
BUYERS that they be permitted to place
orders for spring fabrics for delivery
during the months of January and
FEBRUARY next The mill owners, ex-
cept in isolated instances. prefer to
devote their attention to filling the
orders they have in hand. Owing to
lack of full working forces. not only
in the mills, but in the dyeing and
finishing plants as well, deliveries are
backward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-20
Accumulation Believed Under wa1

Dealings in st. Paul common and
preferred, Missouri, Kansas and Tex
as common and preferred and several
other western and southwestern is
sues. also New Haven, were of suf-
ficient volume to give rise TO the be-
lief that substantial accumulation
was under way.
Equipments. including leading steels
and the entire metal division, were
variably benefited by trade advices
and upward revision of prices, cop
pers failing, however, to make more
than moderate response to the in
creasing demand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-20
Trade in Cotton Textiles.

Although demand for all classes of
cotton goods was extraordinarily ac-
tive. actual buying was held in rela-
lively narrow bounds by the lack of
offerings from the mills. Price ad-
yanceS were general but the upward
movement did not deter visiting mer-
chants. who Were present in the mar
kets in large numbers, from endeav-
Oring to place orders.
1t is hardly an eXaggeration to state
there were two or three customers
for every yard Of goods. Even mixed
lots of odds and ends. particularly
colored goods. were readily absorbed
at increased prices.
JobberS transacted large business
in cloths required for immediate ship
ment, and there was considerable in
tertrading among those who held
goods they had bought when prices
were much lower than they are at
present.
Leading eastern manufacturers of
ginghams stated that they could not
begin to supply the demand that
flowed from cutters of women's
shirts, exporters, jobbers and retail
erS.
Export trade in finished products
was of good volume, and IL was init
mated that sales had been made for
shipment to Germany. Some of the
mill interests advanced their prices
for cclored cloths / to Y cents a
yard. Business in bleached fabrics
was exceptionally good relative to the
state of supply. Popular brands of
these cloths were advanced 2 to 3
cents a yard, according to the fine
ness of the fabric.
Trade in the gray or unbIeached
weaves, the basic material for nearly
all finished goods, was fairly active,
being limited by the curtailed offer
ings of the mills.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-20
Review of Wooden Goods.

Jobbers of wooden fabrics are now
the only sources of supply open to
those in immediate need of goods.
Mills, for the most part, are sold up
for months to come and. except in
rare instances, will accept no more
orders for heavyweight goods for use
next fall and winter. The jobbers
are receiving their supplies of winter
goods in small lots from the mills
and deal them out to their customers
sparingly. Some of the jobbers are
reported to be selling goods for fu-
ture delivery against the orders they
have closed with the mills.
The garment makers now cut up
the cloth as fast as it is delivered
to them from the mills or the job
bers Goods offered by jobbers or
manufacturers who may have sur
plus are held at extremely high
prices This is particularly true Of
fabrics suitable for the woman's wear
trade. Tricotines, for which the
mills received $3.50 yard, are now
sold at 81 or more yard.
Mill agents say that many of the
mills will be unable to make fabrics
for next spring and that the shortage
of goods then will be even greater
than the present scarcity of fall and
winter materials.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-20
MARKET SUSPENDS,
DUE TOCONGEST|ON
Weeks Activity in New York
Shows Daily Turnover Ex-
ceeds 100000 Shares.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE DOWN

NEW YORK. July 19.-The high
pitch of activity in the stock market
this week caused the authorities of
the exchange to suspend the week
end session. thereby affording an OPP
portunity to relieve the congestion
of business reported by brokerage
houses.
The daily turnover was far in ex-
cess of 100000 shares, but consisted
In large part of the well known spec
ulatlve issues which have provided
the market with much of its buoy
ancy since the inception of the long
sustained boom.
Aside from minor or low-priced
ralis. the transportation group con-
tributed little to the market, although
investment shares, notably transcon-
tlnentals, were in better demand with
coalers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-20
A Complicated Problem.

Washington presents two street
railway situations as existing today
One company. prosperous on the av-
erage low fare of the last century in
the average American city, with short
hauls, getting the passengers coming
and going. the other a combination
of lines widely scattered. with $4l,-
O0o. 600 of capital to S1S.000,Oe0 cap
i,al of the Capital Traction Company,
finding the gross earnings entirely
inadequate to meet the expenses and
give return in even fair ratio to the
thousands who have invested their
funds in it's securities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-09
SOLDIERS HEAR oPERETTA.
1T Happened in Nutland" Is Given
at Camp Humphreys. -

'Tt Happened In Nutland," q new
operetta in a prologue and two acts.
written by Edison Browne. Just home
from overseas, and E. Edward HAN
Of the Treasury Department. was pre-
scented last evening to a s. R o. house
at Camp Humphreys through Miss
Bessie Shriner Of the War Camp Com
munity Service. ft
The leading characters were por-
trayed by Miss Lillian Santucci, E.
Edward Hall. Miss Margaret Cogan.
Finley Hayes and Margaret jain. The
quartet OF the company is composed
of c. ]. Reagan, Thomas Pyne, Joseph
'OLone and Ed O'Connor. and the
chorus OF twelve girls and nine boys.
The operetta was presented under
the personal direction Of E. Edward
Hall. and the boys all agree that 1t is
one Of the best ever presented at
Humphreys. ~,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-09
Marriage Licenses.

Clyde A. Wright and Mary Q. Miles. both
Of Richnond, Va. Rev. Hugh T. Stevenson.
N. Vernon Brendt and Sabina B. Adelrad.
both Of this city. Rev. Abrsm Simon.
Truman n. Dow and Hsrba Baker. both d
this city. Rev d. B. Bagby.
EaSi b. Griffith Of Fort Branch. Nd. and
Helen NJ. Amidon Of this city. 1T Rev.
@ WiiIism Il. Rlchardson Of Butts, Mont. and
Madeline p. Robertson Of Rockville. Nd. Rev.
Cherries q. Grove and Louise Y. Halter. both
Of FREDERICK, Ma. Rev. J. n. Je6efies.
II. Heidenrich and Eila n. Racher. both Of
TIM city. Rev. George o. Bacon.
Of this city. Rev. Herbert b. welsh.
John =. Andrews and Dorothy D. Beuchert,
both OF this city. Rev. Wiiliam L. Darby.
OIlie r. Williams Of Bluem0nt, Va. and
Mary Hindman Of Mount. Rainier. Nd. Rev.
Hugh z: Stevenson. ... -.
Eii hssssa Il. Ries. New Yort city. Rev e.
Frsnk Gittison and Eva N. Derfman, both
Of this city. Rabbi G. Silverstoue.
william J. Meyer and Mary p. Scott. beth
Of this city. Rev. q. Meyer.
Ms sura Va. Rev. Ii. schroeder. y
GeorEe q. HOFFMAN and Hlsis II. Warner,
both Of this city. Rev. d. O. Keenan,.
Clarence MacBride Of this city and Marisn
NJ. Fry Of Beltsville. Nd. Rev. Howard r.
Downs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-09
i80cletW

|"H HE President and Mrs. Will
son went to a country club
yesterday afternoon for q
round of the golf course, and
again visited the club early
this morning for q game. There ID
keen competition on between the
President and Mrs. Wilson as to who
will come out best in long series
of scores, and so far the score runs
pretty evenly.
L.iss Agnes Hart Wilson left Wash
ington this morning for Blossburg,
pa, 20 jo:n her parents, the Secretary
[ OF Lator and Mrs. Wilson, on their
farm near that place. The secretary
left Washington OH Wednesoay nor
! PENNSYLVANIA, and both he and MISS
Wilson will remain there for some
DAYS before returning to Washington.
Mrs. Wilson, who Is an Invalid IL
slightly improved since her removal
to their country horne.
Swiss Minister to Nonquitt.
DR.. Hans Sulzer, the minister Of
Switzerland, left Washington last
evening for 2onquitt, Mass. to join
Nine SuIzer and their children, VINO
have a cottage there for the summer.
He will return to Washington early
next week.
The assistant secretary Of the Navy.
Mr. Franklin Roosevelt, has returned
from Buffalo, where he made several
addresses at conventions In session
there this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lincoln G.. Valentine
of Washington and New York, who
are at the Imperial. Narragansett
Pier for the season, entertained Senior
Don Manuel Echeverfia Vidaurre OF
the Guatemalan legation in washing
ton; DR.. George N. Ponlliefl, first sec
Rotary of the Bulgarian legation, and
Nine. Ponllieb; Mr.. Atillo Peccorini.
secretary of the legation of Salvador;
Mr.. H. Zimmerman. temporary at
tache of the legation of the Neither
lands; DR.. ]. J. Valentine, Mrs. Alfred
Guidst, Miss Olive Kennedy. Mr.. and
Mrs. Robinson and Mr.. Ramon Mid
ence at dinner there last night pre-
cedins the SNOW bal"
Misc Maud wetmore entertained a
large company At tea yesterday aft
ernoon on the veranda of the Casino
at Newport, for those playing In the
tennis tournament.
Cant. and Mrs Hugh Roland French
OF EnR1anO, IH0 ldlISE 1OIAOtAy Mio1
ida Wynne, have arrived in Washing
ton and are at Wardman Park Inn
| for some time. Mrs French's sister,
Mrs. Frank Smith. also Of England,
| is with their father, former Postmas-
| ter General Robert J. Wynne. in his
home, 1911 Park road, where she will
| be joined some time later on by Capt.
Smith.
Mrs. Nevil Monroe Hopkins, accom-
panied by her daughter, Miss Frances
New York They will join Prof. Hop
kins and Capt. and Mrs. John Gregory
| Hope, the latter formerly Miss Anne
Hopkins, In the Hopkins home on
Bancroft place today.
Mr.. and Mrs. oliver Roosevelt had
az their guests at dinner last night
Mrs David L. johnson and Maj. P. de
Wardener Of New York, and few
other friends. MT. and Mrs. Roosevelt,
Mrs. johnson and Maj. de Wardener
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-09
FOR REBUILDING FRANCE.
Germans Planning for Transports
tion Of Reconstruction Workers.

PARIS, Thursday, August 7.-Several
commissioners having to do with re-
construction and other work in con-
nection with the German delegation
went to the Paris offices If the Eastern
railway today to work out with French
commissioners the railroad schedules
for the transportation of large num-
Der of German workmen VINO VIII pc
sssiened to rehabilitation operations In
the northern and eastern departments
of France.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-09
Ferdinand Postpones Visit.

|. King Ferdinand Of Rumania. who
was to have arrived in Budapest yes.
terday, has postponed his visit to that
city, according to Zurich dispatch
* Zurich dispatch received Friday
stated that King Ferdinand had ar.
rived in Budapest Thursday, quoting
q telegram received there from the
confirmation Of this dispatch.)
nanian statement declares that reports
Of excuses by Rumanian troops in
Hungary are false, according to dis
patch received here from Bucharest.
GENEVA, August s.-The inter-
allied mission at Budapest. after a
conference with Archduke Joseph and
Premier Friedrich, has forwarded to
NJ. Clemenceau, president Of the peace
conference. report to the effect that
the entente representatives are in full
accord with the new Hungarian gov
eminent, according to Vienna dis
patch received here.
ROME, Friday. August 8.-com-
menting on the situation in Hungary
sibility that Archduke Joseph, the
head Of the new Hungarian govern
ment, 10 aiming to restore the Haps-
burg monarchy and again Join Vienna
and Budapest"
"The annexation Of Croatia and
Slavonia may follow" the newspaper
says. "as these two regions are even
against the Italians. The Hapsburg
empire. having lost only Galicia and
Bohemia, then would consider Ffume
as its natural outlet That Is why
Fiume was refused us. We must keep
an eye on Trieste also, the last dis
- rvfn
acter Of a political plot organized by
pro-Austrian elements"
PARIS. August (By the Associated
PressJ.-NichoIas Misu OF the Ru.
manian peace delegation was called
today for the second time before the
Rumanians' refusal to comply with
the demands Of the peace conferences.
In conversation with members OF the
council, M. Misu denied that Rumanta
had broken away from the peace ths con Con
alton in Budapest was that Rumantan
ofiacers there had ignored the su-
preme councils orders.
The attitude Of the Rumanians 10
causing great embarrassment 70 tne
the council is discussing virtually
nothing else.
BERLIN, August s (by the Asso-
ciated Press).-The United States
through its representative In Budapest
has taken issue with the Rumanian
command Tor fits action in the Hun
garian capital, according to advices re-
ceived here from Budapest. The ad-
vices say the American authorities
have threatened to cut on AL supplies
to Rumania If the armistice conditions
imposed on Hungary by the Rumanians
are not rescinded.
BUDAPEST, wednesday. August
(by the Associated Press).-Archduke
Joseph, who took over control OF the
Hungarian government today. has
been invested temporarily with su-
, preme powers in the government.
BUDAPEST, August Z tby the As
ISOLATED Press).-Archduke Joseph
ing to ali classes to help him IN his
Aght to put down anarchy and to %.
tablish order with stroA hand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-09
ITALIAN WARSH|P
looming TO TH|SC|TY
Baltimore and Annapolis Will
Be Included in Visit
of Cavour.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, August s.-Naval
Academy authorities have been ad-
vised by the Navy Department that
the italian battleship Conte di Cavour,
now en- route to the United States,
wifi include Washington. Baltimore
and Annapolis as places at which she
will stop during her cruise.
The Cavour is due to arrive at Eos
ton about August Is and places to be
visited will include Newport. r. l.;
New York and Philadelphia The visit
Of the Cavour will be purely In the
nature of an exchange of interria-
tional naval courtesies, and there are
no high officials of the Italian navy
or government on board apart from
her commanding officer and his staff
of assistants. the Navy Department
has been advised. BY direction of the
Navy Department commanding Off
GERS Of the several naval stations viii
extend courtesies to the officers and
members of the crew Of the italian
battleship as Is customary on the &C.
casion Of such visits Of foreign war
ships.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-09
GETS GOLD MEDAL AS PRIZE.
Lieut.. Neubig Credited With
Difficult Flight Over Mountains.

Lieut.. Earl q. Neubig Of the air
service. flying in Curtis plane re-
Gently, completed one Of the most diff
1cult flights ever attempted. Flying
at the rate Of sixty to one hundred
and eight miles an hour. Lieut.. Neu-
big made the trip from Mather Field.
Sacramento, Calf. via San Francisco.
to Yosemite National Park and back
to his starting point. Over the Yosem-
lite valley IT was necessary to ascend
to the altitude Of 10000 feet.
After a difficult landing in the park
due to high trees and wires surround
ing it, he was met by many visitors
and park officials. who presented him
with a gold medal for his achieve
ment.