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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21
Manhattan Elevated

Question-klndly give me lnforma-
ton to the best of your knowledge
on the following stocks: Manhattan
Elevated. Why is this stock selling so
low, as the return is very high at the
present price? Would you advise buying
for both investment and speculation :?
What is your opinion on sugar stocks,
especially Cuba Cane common, for spec
uation? Is Keystone Tire good spec
ulation at the present price? Do you
think it will go lower? What is the
future on railroad stocks and also
Brooklyn Rapid Transit? w. A. W.
Observation-Disclosures Elevated is leased
to the Interborough for 999 years at an
annual rental on the bonds and 7 per
cent on the stock. The guarantee on
the stock amounts to $4,200,000 per
annum, and the interborough officials
have stated that the amount OF the
guarantee is not being earned. Should
the lnterborough fail to carry out the
terms of the lease the Manhattan would
probability the company would be Op-
Grated separately. 1t is a question how
successful that would be. Everything
depends upon the relief the INTERIOR
ough is asking for in the way of in
creased fares. If they get this relief
the Manhattan lease will undoubtedly
be carried out. Sugar stocks would ap-
pear to offer speculative possibilities at
this time. Since prohibition the con-
sumption of sugar has been greater
than ever, and the high price of the
ommodity, Of course, aids the sugar
companies, particularly those operating
outside the United States. Cuba Cane
is one of these. Keystone Tire and
Rubber stock showed S297 earned for
the first six months of 1919, or at the
annual rate of $685., against 1921 for
1918. The company is said to be ex-
banding and finds considerable demand
for it's product. The stock appears to
offer speculative possibilities, but spec
ulative only. We cannot forecast the
future of the railroads. We believe
that legislation will be such that the
carriers will get square deal. Brook
Ign Rapid Transit, unless relief is
afforded, will probably face a long
drawn-out receivership. Undoubtedly
the company cannot long continue OPP
erations under present conditions
Everything depends upon getting to-
gether of the powers that be.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21
Unfortunate Working Girl

Question: would like very much to
have your opinion on some stocks
winch | am unfortunate enough to
hold-Curtiss Airplane, ten shares
bought around its highest price some
years ago; Wright Martin, twenty
shares, somewhere around SIT share
Intern ational Nickel at $l8, and 500
Hull Copper, held for four years at 80
cents a share; Gold Zone at ST cents,
1000 shares. Have been advised to
buy Mexican Panuco Oil Company. Do
you know anything of it? Please tell
me your candid opinion of the above
stocks and what | had better do with
them-sell or hold. If by holding I
might come out even in the end !
think ] can manage to do so, if moth
ing unforeseen happens. Am a work
ing girl who has come to grief through
trying to make q little in stocks in or
der to help her people at home, who
have been hard hit by the war. Also
have some Ray Hercules. Is that any
good?
Answer-Your experience is a conf
mon one--so many of us are tempted
to speculate in the stock market. We
hear stories of the ease with which
money Is made, and we say to our
selves: Il guess I will take a chance,
my information Is so good" We do
not wish to convey the impression that
we are preaching, but this much we
can say: No man or woman who hon.
estly cannot afford to lose money
should speculate. And speculation is
buying for rise Or selling for a fall
in prices: 1t makes no difference
whether the trading is done on mar
gin. If one buys stock for the rise. and
not Tor income purposes, and pays for
1t outright, it Is still specializing. Buy
ing stock on margin is simply a differ
better protected the account. One
might purchase good security, the
earning power of which was substan-
tial, and when the condition of the
company had not changed-in fact.
might have improved-be upset to find
it suddenly going down with the GEN
eral speculative list. But when 60.
curity Is bought for the income one
need not be bothered by fluctuations
Ihere are so many contributing causes
for movements in the stock market thar
not even the wisest professional specu-
iator energies unscathed. We cannot
attempt to forecast the stock market.
for each day brings new elements into
II. therefore we cannot tell whether
or not your securities will come back
to the price you paid for them. If
they did, are you quite sure you would
sell them? If you have, as you say,
come to grief through trying to make
little extra money in stocks. would
1t not be best to cash in now and
charge the loss up to experience? For
you should realize that Just as long as
you hold these securities you are spec
ulating, with more grief in store for
you If they decline further. No infor-
nation we could give you regarding the
stocks mentioned would aid you much
If at all. We fully appreciate your
position. You have plenty of company
The time to seek advice Is before in
vesting-not after.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21
THE IMPORTERS AND TRADERS IA
lAONAL BANK OF NEW YORK

49,. New York, Dec. Nth, 1913
~ dividend OF Twelve Per Cent has to
hs a zen declared by this bank payable on
.rs a,d DAY OF January next TO stockhold
ra,,, ~ record at the close OF business De
osmher 10Th. 1919.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21
THE BANK OF AMERICA.

New York. Dec 10, 1919
rhe Board of Directors has todnv d.
sss ssd semi-annual dividend Of sixteen
iSSSS par cent. free Of tax, payable Jan. q,
s's 70 stockholders Of record OF this date
w. ~ HNNNMT. Cashte4.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21

unlisted. tsells cents per share.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-05
Art
Howard Mansfield
Whistler Etching
Collection Sold
Art
SN~HERE is apparently boom in the

ENHERE is apparently boom in the
works Of James McNeill Whistler.
Last week The Tribune reported the
importation by the Duveens of his portrait
OF Lady Meux, purchased in London for
S20O,O00 and Immediately on its arrival here
sold to an American collector Now tae sale
Of celebrated gathering of Whistler's etch-
lngs IS announced, and though the price is
not stated it is said to be, in its way. as
sensational as that paid for the painting
Hahlo d Co., print sellers, give out the
information that they have sold for Howard
Mansfield his collection of Whistlers etch-
lngs and Autographs. transferring it en- bloc
to an amateur whose name is for the pres
ent reserved
That the transaction is financially as we'll
a. artistically momentous every one con-
versant with the world of prints will readily
understand For probably thirty years Mr..
Mansfield has been a devoted and enlight-
ened Whistlerian. He was friend of the
artist. He compiled a catalogue of the lat
Fer's etchings which was some years ago
printed by the Caxton Club, of Chicago. and
as the result of his absorption in the sub
iect he can claim to have brought together
a collection of decidedly individual char
acter.
1t IS, to begin with, tolerably complete. no
subject Of any Importance being omitted It
contains $40 Of the etchings, and there are
about 420 impressions in the lot, which
means that Mr.. Mansfield was ever careful
to obtain every estate" of interest Besides
their excellence in the mint and cummin Of
those technical points dear to the connois-
seur of prints, many of them are for one
reason or another Of notable rarity.
In addition to the etchings, this collector
sought out and gradually accumulated
wonderful array of the Autographs, 15s Of
them IN all Now having brought his long
and happy task of organization and finish
to completion, be hands over his treasures
to another lover of that American master
who as an etcher at all events has only one
rival of his own time, Seymour Haden and
only one peer in the past, Rembrandt The
sale Will be noted with the keenest interest
by amateurs of prints. 1t makes an unusual
episode in the history of the subject, and,
incidentally, it promises to have decided
influence in strengthening the market for
the etchings and Autographs of Whistler.
R. c.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-05
The Allied Debt to Rurnania

The text Of the secret treaty between
the Entente Powers and Rumania clears
up many disputed points. 1t emphasizes
the Entente responsibility for the nl;ob+
IN winch Rumania found herself within
four months after she had declared war
1t also furnishes a strong argument for
liberal treatment of the Rumanians at
the peace conference
Rumania has been unfairly accused of
having brought disaster on herself bv
rashly invading Pennsylvania and leav-
ing the Bulgarian border insuficientlv
protected. 1t has been charged that she
would not accept Allied advice. But the
ninth article of the military convention
supplementary to the treaty says ex-
pllcitly: "The principal objective of Ru-
manian action will be in the direction of
Budapest through Pennsylvania"
The Allied War Council evidently
thought that the Germans and Austro-
Hungarians would be unable to meet an
offensive in Pennsylvania if it were sup
ported by joint Russian offensive in
Bukowina. The council must also have
imagined that the Bulgarians would be
fully occupied by Sarrail's offensive
north from Salonica.
All these calculations were faulty.
Sarrail began an offensive. But it made
slow progress. The Salonica army never
got further north than Monastir, just
across the Serbian border. Won Mackcn-
sen, who commanded in Bulgaria. over
ran the Dobrudja and crossed the
Danube. Won Falkenhayn, who com
nanded in Transylvania, drew the Ru-
manans into trap north Of the Hunga-
rian border passes, defeated them and
then swept across Wallachia. The Rus
New-York tribune., 1919-02-05

slams made feeble demonstration in Bu-
kowna and quit Russia's support, in
tact, was only half hearted. There is
every reason to think that the Stiirmer
government betrayed the Allied plans to
Berlin.
Russia's collapse and exit from the war
left Rumania helpless. The treaty with
the Entente bound Rumania not to make
separate treaty of peace with the
Teuton powers. But after the Russian
Bolshevist government signed the treaty
of Brest-Litovsk the Rumanian govern
ment had no choice but to sign the treaty
'of Bucharest. 1t may be held that the
bucharest capitulation invalidated the
treaty with the Entente. But the Allied
armistice with Germany annulled both
the Brest-Litovsk and Bucharest treaties,
thus reviving the original Rumanian
compact.
Rumania fought Loyalty and gallantly,
although, in military sense at least, she
had been completely abandoned by the
Allies. She put her faith in Entente
promises. She deserves to be generously
dealt with now.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-05
The Smiler With the Knife

Americans at the peace conference
should refuse to accept Won Bernstorff as
one of the German delegates. The idea
that his appointment would be regarded
as a compliment to America could have
emanated only from the German mind.
Not in all the history of modern diplo-
macy, at least, has there been a repre-
sentative of belligerent power to a
neutral power who so shamelessly abused
the hospitality accorded to him. Why he
was not dismissed when he issued the
notice warning Americans not to sail on
the Lusitania it is still difficult to under
stand. Mr.. Wilson himself referred to
it as an unprecedented breach of diplo-
matte usage. But this affront became a
comparatively minor matter in view of
what followed. Until the day when rela-
tlons with Germany were at last broken
OH Won Bernstorff was engaged in plots
against our national security and well
fare. Arson and murder were his
weapons the while he politely professed
himself our friend
Does this "smiler with the knife under
the cloak" really believe that America
has forgiven and forgotten? Does he
think that America will listen to the Ger
man plea moro readily if he presents it?
Truly the German psychology is a mys-
terry that grows the more it is explored.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-05
Too Early for Trees

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: 1t would seem from the announce
ment in Thursdays Tribune that your tree
department has accepted the proposition OF
those who hold that our seasons have
changed, which SO far l hold has not been
demonstrated. Perhaps it has been misled
by the phenomenal weather of the month
just closed which seems to have deceived
and misled some vegetation itself and the
birds as well-the boys even are getting
their tops and marbles ready to put in COM
mission. The Tribune announces that a
quite formidable movement is on foot for
a memorial tree planting enterprise for the
week of February 8, at which time / will
venture the prediction that no tree plant
ing may be safely undertaken, save, per-
chance, IN some faraway semi-tropical cor
ner of our vast domain. The time for sue
cessful tree planting comes with the de-
parture of our rigorous cid friend Jack
Frost, some time next month. There may
be difference in time of week or so,
cording to locality, but all must await the
disappearance of frost in order that proper
planting arrangements may be made.
JNO. Y. CULVER.
New York, Feb 8, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-05
Z altered FLAGS

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Will you please explain if under
the following circumstances the United
States flag is desecrated? On the corner of
Greenwich and Chamber Streets on the
side of the street nearest the river. there
is a saloon. Stretched from the corner of
the saloon is cord, the other end Of
which is attached to AN IL" pillar. Sus-
pended on this string is what once was nm
American flag. 1t is literally, or. rather
has been literally, torn to shreds. the
colors ahave faded on account of the ele-
ments, and yet this flag, if such it NAV
be called, is allowed to hang there in
plain view of all. Is not this an in
suit to said flag? 1t bears practically no
color or shape at all. Should there not be
some law enacted to forbid the use or ex-
posure of any American flag that didn't
have all the stripes, and other glorious
things which have come to be associated
with that flag?
ARMISTEAD H. CARPENTER
New York, Feb. l, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-05

N'eos IS rotten to the core and must be razed
10 the ground before new building can be
"''e"p p'ed. lhelr attack is a frontal one,
'he contrast of ideals is absolute. and either
thelr world or ours must perish
lhrd!y we must take care that all those
Russians with whom we collaboratc arc i,rev-
ocaoiy committed to the full agrarian pro-
gramme The land must remain absolutelv
in the hands Of the peasants throughout the
territory Of the federal republic. and while
'"9 ''hal details of so vast and complicated
rans1errence of property and of power
must doubtless be left to a future egisla-
1--WE body, the bare idea of restoration TO
the old proprietors must from the first he
made impossible
unless all uncertainty upon this point c-n
be dlspelled from the minds of peasants. the
success OF any expedition would be endan
gered from the very outset.
What made the armies of the Convention
and the Directorate nvinaible was the firm
resolve to preserve the newly ACQUIRED land
from the clutches of the emigrant mobiles
whom European coalition would fain have
reinstated, and to-day the one and only
thing which would rouse the rural masses
Of Russia would be challenge to their nos
session of the land. But, CONVERSELY thew
are uneasy as to their tenure under Boil
shevlk regime, and resentful of the more
and more frequent attempts to commander
their stocks of grain
Thus, those who came to them Offering
not only firm guarantee of possession. but
IN addition those ordered conditions fo,.
which they are already longing would arouse
at once all that is most conservative and all
that IS most radical in their nature The
central tact IN Eastern and much of Cen
tral Europe is a passionate land hunger on
the part of those inarticulate millions which
form the backbone of the state, and the sue
cess or failure Of Allied policy in those re-
glons will depend upon the degree to which
it reckons with this fact
The chief British opponents of Russian
intervention are those whose war prophecies
have so often been falsfed by events They
are, for the most part, the same who pleaded
so stubbornly for the preservation of Aus
trla- hungary. And just as they failed to
realize that the disappearance of Austria
Hungary was a preliminary condition of
victory for the Allies, to- day they are
blind to the glaring fact that until some ex-
ternal force intervenes to restore order in
Russia there can be real peace in Eu-
rope, no general disarmament in Europe or
America, society of nations, no social re-
construction save through the horrors of
dissolution and anarchy
New-York tribune., 1919-02-05
Weather Sharps

Now that Germany has been defeated
and the freedom Of the seas has been
determined (almosU ancA league of
nations has been established (nearlv)
contentious persons who must have
something to argue about are advancing
the proposition that our climate is
changing and that our winters are
warmer than formerly. The evidence
on which this theory is predicated is,
of course, our present mild winter.
Such a hypothesis utterly ignores the
fact that had not the temperature
reached q higher figure in New York
last summer than had ever been known
here before it is barely possible we
might still be suffering from the frost
bites of the previous winter, which was
the coolest on record in these parts
But that is the beauty of arguments
about the weather. Illustrations can al
ways be found to support any conten-
tlcn, and conflicting evidence is easily
ignored or overlooked There is so much
weather that the debaters can't be ex-
pected to carry a complete chronology
of it in their minds.
1t is this inability of the weather
wiseacres to remember whether Christ
mas before last was white or green or
whether there was cold snap year
come Thanksgiving that prevents the
complete discrediting Of weather super
stitlons' Take Candlemas Day, known in
America as Grounding Day, for in
stance. Who will remember three or
four weeks hence whether or not this
animal really saw his shadow February 9?
The rhyme says:
"lf Candlemas Day is fair and clear
There'l be twa winters in the wear"
That's the Scotch version The Amer
lean meteorological expert al naturel
has it that if the grounding sees his
shadow he will retire to his reinforced
concrete dugout and prepare to resist
winters barrage for six more weeks.
mat sounds like a perfectly simple
proposition, easily demonstrated or dis
proved. But it isn't 1t opens up wide
field Of technicalities and evasions.
Some of the weather sharps assert that
the eroundhog makes his appearance at
daybreak February 2 and if he sees his
shadow returns for another nap of q
month and half, knowing that winter
is not over. Others hold to the belief
that it is just at high noon that .,:e
furry forecaster takes his solar obser-
vation, while still third school declares
that should the sun come forth at anv
time of the day for ever so brief
moment, just so NJ. ArctomYs monar
sees for even feeting instant his
shadow outlined upon the ground or
snow, all hope Of an early spring must
be abandoned. And finally, there is a
small but very vociferous group that
utterly rejects all these propositions and
submits arguments to prove that
Groundhog Day is not February 2 at all,
but February Is.
SO long as the experts are divided
who is going to be able to say didacti
cally whether or not the groandhog is
entitled to credit as weather prophet?
New-York tribune., 1919-02-05

"Major General ORyan Cables His Ap
probation to THE New York Americana
Eight column head line in the Hearst
newspaper
This was the Appreciation:
Thanks for your cablegram of congratu-
atlon and sentiments expressed
Apparently Mr. Hearst considers he
has won great victory every time SOL
dier speaks to him.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-05
By the Oil Reporter
fr,o,n tn, y;chi.a. Kan.. Eoole)

(From The Wichito, Kan. Eaols)
L. V. Wassam, oil broker, who spudded
into severe case of pneumonia fever two
months ago. has cleaned out. repaired his
casing and is drilling around on the strceta
again.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-05
The Old Order Changeth

'From The Toledo Biode>
spring without book beer signs will give
US something new in tho way of thrills.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-05

The Committee on Responsibility for the
War has been formed. That it will pin
the responsibility where it belongs lis our
confident hope, especially as the "Probe to
Fix Blame" headlines, such as prevail after
railroad wrecks, are absent. Besides, there
is no dead engineer to be held responsible.
But probably the Executors of the Estate
of Grand Duke Ferdinand, decd, arc having
some uncomfortable moments Just now.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-05
SHOOTS FROM THE YouNc>1pEA


ANSWERS given by 5A Grammar Grade pupils
to questions the world warl
Our soldiers still in Europe because they
need money to get home"
The great purpose of the Peace Conference is
that every representative that from another
nation asks for what he wants."
The purpose of the Peace Conference is that
every representative of all the nations that
in it, should and demand what part
of Germany they want
"The great purpose at the Peace Conference is
United States, Col. House.
"Some of soldiers are still in Europe be-
cause they became cop duties"
"Mr Hoover had nll the food during the war"
"The navy after the is DONE it pets all
broken up to pieces and the ships are going to
be all broken up
There eoldiers in Europe because
they watching the Rhine for Germans.
and they are watching very careful"
THE great purpose of the Peace Conference
is that one of the winners decide what they want
and the others decide if they will give !, u,
them"
"Our soldiers are watching the water on tbo
Rhine--doing the policemen"
1t may cheer Old Herb Corey, who com
plains of high food prices in Berlin r.
know that New York's newest hotel
charges only 4oc for half grapefruit.
MANY NOVEL HAS LESS PLOT
From the Denver Post1
TWO chorus girls. age 49, want position on
ranch; no experience. Call room An Crest
Hotel. between a. m. and D. m
81 think" ventures AL, "unless there is
a change overnight, that ! am correct in
saying this is winter one may handle
without gloves
Bolsheviki Take Steps for Peace
The Globe.
Az long as it wasn't steppes.
Even the London bus driver, famed i'm
story, is striking.
Well, strikes may be treat to him.
+. p. A.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-05
The Coming 7ower
THE BALKIN' BALKANS

How doth the little busy nation
Improve each shining hour,
BY irritating all the day
Some greater, larger Power
New-York tribune., 1919-02-05
"VARIUM EFT MUTABILE"

From the Scranton Timesl
LOST-WEDNESDAY EVENING IN NEW
Academy. black and dark green change
able mans scarf. Reward if returned TO
,Tinps
New-York tribune., 1919-02-05
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