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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19
HOPEFUL SPIRIT
IN MONEY MARKET
Peace Conference Progress
Ar0uses Interest in Finan-
ciaI Circles.
REVIEW OF METAL MARKET

NEW YORK, January 1S.-Consid-
Their adjustment of peace conditions
during the week, as demonstrated by
events in the steel, copper and textile
industries and the reported intention
of the Pennsylvania railroad to re-
duce expenditures wherever possible.
Intermingled with these develop
ments were conflicting views of en-
ployers and employees. which brought
the whole industrial situation in
higher relief and gave additional en-
phasis to the demobilization of labor
at centers where extraordinary activ-
ity prevailed during the war.
According to bankers, the appoint
ment of new director general of
railroads has effected no change in
the position of the railroads. De-
pletion of the governments ''revolv-
ing fund" is said TO have placed some
of the smaller roads requiring new
equipment and repairs in a critical
situation.
Money Market Hopeful.
More hopeful conditions prevailed
in the money market, a slight easing
of time funds resulting from the Of
feringS of interior banks, but the
Treasury Department continued to
issue warnings against the use OF
money for other than constructive
purposes, and a further scaling down
of brokers' loans is probable.
Obviously, the domestic monetary
situation for the next three months
will be almost wholly regulated by
the desires or requirements OF the
home government in connection with
the victory loan" to be issued in
the second quarter of the year. Mean
time there are prospects of more
railroad financing, but so far no con-
firmation is obtainabl concerning the
report that England may soon offer
a large note issue to American in
vestors.
Review of Metal Market.
The steel industry has taken on a
much better tone during the past
week despite the fact that production
is proceeding at about IS per cent
veloping from increased foreign in
quiry, principally for sheets and
plates. Italy, Japan and South Amer
lea have been mentioned prominently
in this connection win regard TO
production it was announced that
strenuous efforts were being made to
prevent the shutdown of more plants
in the Youngstown district.
For the last few days there has not
been much of interest in the iron
industry, the question of price being
agitated by the high cost producers,
with the result that a more or less
unsettled condition prevails Ocean
freight rates are subject Of much dis
cussion, but the action of the shipping
board in releasing reeuisitioned ships
is expected to bring about gradually
reduced rates in the carrying trade
The scrap market is exhibiting a
generally dull tone, with the posi- BILE
exception of the west, where some
activity is reported by consuming in
tereStS.
There has been no Improvement in
copper, an apparent deadlock exist
ing between producer and consumer.
The market, for lead Is virtually
dead with a. Mxsitsd absence of in
quir$es. S1eslteE is very weak and
little fnt&rssl is shown. Esoth of these
markets are waiting for word as to
government action on the subject of
contracts.
The, tin market is nominal and fea-
tureless.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19
BALTIMORE WOMEN
PREFER HOME LIFE
Majority Who Took Jobs Dur
ing War Say They Are
Ready to Quit.
DO WORK SATISFACTORILY
DO WORK SATISFACTORILY

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, January Is. -W VIII
women who have gone, during war
time, into factories, shops and OF
fees, and doing mans work In gen
eral go willingly back to making
homes, to domestic service and to the
care of children?
The question was asked a number
of woman workers in Baltimore VINO
took mems jobs during the war ana
who are still holding them down.
Some of the women are married Win
few exceptions these stated that they
had gone into the work through pa
triotic motives to tide the country
through a great emergency and that
when the emergency had passed they
were ready to go back to their home
duties.
Likes Work, But Home Better.
A ticket examiner in one of the To-
cal railroad stations. SAID:
Il like my work very much, but. OF
course. don't know how much longer
they will keep us on the job. I've been
running my home along with this
work, and. believe me, the work has
taught ME to appre ciate my home
more than l ever did before. l think
every woman who works out, whether
she does it for patriotism or because
she needs the money, sooner or later
begins to think about her own home
and is ready to swap her job for 1t
The elevator girl, though, appar-
emily has come to stay.
In a large department store, as well
as in an Office building, several green
ones" were being taught this work by
experienced operators, who stated
that woman operators only are being
employed. The hotels are also con-
tinuing the woman operator.
The one reason the woman operator
will continue to hold down her Job
is because she runs it far more eco
nomical1y than the young fellow who
held it down during the pre-war
period was the statement of one
pleased employer The average young
man, he said, does not like running
an elevator and takes it only tenn
porariiy until he can get something
better. AS a result, he never becomes
proficient in handling it.
An elevator operator in one of the
large Office buildings stated that be
fore she had secured this work she
had sewed for a living. Running an
elevator she found to be much moro
interesting and not SO hard on eyes
and nerves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19
Orders Withheld After War.

THE cotton industry has been in an
uncertain position since the cancel
lation of war orders. Purchasers
have withheld orders until more def
mite information was available as to
the disposition Of goods owned by
the government and of raw materials
purchased by the mills to cover their
contracts, as well as the future trend
Of prices for the staple. Recent
announcement of the terms of pay
ment by the government on orders
held up because of the armistice,
which are considered very fair, will
place the industry on a more settled
basis. The mills have been running
full, but the end of untitled orders is
in sight with practically no new
business being placed 1t IL expected
that soma curtailment will be neces-
sary after the end Of the year unless
new orders are forthcoming"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19
TaE wAsHiNeToN TlTIs IasuhANcI

TIE WARRINGTON TlT11 INSURANCE.
COMPANY.
At . meeting Of the board Of direeeoes Of the
above company. held On THURSDAY, January ID
1919, the regular scniannaal dividend o. three
per ceAtum (95s), together with an extra div
idend Of one per centum (17s). was declared.
payable Ont Of the earninEs for tie six Dsaths
ended December 81. 1913. on TIE caDttaA stock
Of the company, the books for the tnnaef IT
stock TO be closed at noon January IL. 1919.
and remain closed until noon January % 1919.
on which date said dividends shall b paid
JOHN a. STADT1ER. Asst 6ecsetAy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19
e. OTHERWISE

One feature of the rehabilitation of
the army of civilian war workers in
Washington is the closing of many
hundreds of savings accounts with the
Washington banks. 1t Is also true that
the discharge of officers and men of
the Army who were stationed in this
city during the war has resulted in
the closure of many accounts.
All so-caIIed war workers were not
extravagant. While many of them
| left positions paying them more than
they received under the government,
| many also received higher. pay as
clerks, typists, stenographers, watch
men, messengers and Iaborers than
they received in the cities, villages
and rural districts whence they came
to Washington.
Thousands of them opened savings
accounts in Washington. When they
were separated from the government
service they closed their accounts and
withdrew their savings. No statistics
are available as to the number of &C
counts opened in Washington by the
war employees of the government, nor
any statistics as to the number of &C
counts CLOSED. Dut the mum Der must
mount into the thousands.
In one of the smaller savings banks
there lay, arranged in neat and order
ly piles, about two hundred deposit
books, each representing closed ac-
count. OF course, in addition to the
savings accounts, the war workers
opened thousands of small checking
accounts. Generally these were very
active and the closing of those ac-
counts, it is said, represents no hard
ship on the banks.
Many more of these war workers
accounts are expected to be closed and
their savings withdrawn from deposit
here as the clerks are released from
their government duties and return to
their homes.
Securities influence Wide.
Destruction or impairment of the
value of widely held securities of a
corporation does injury further than
to stockholders and bondholders. 1t
tends to derange business in general,
as credit to a great or less extent is
based on those securities.
This point was touched on by My.
McAdoo when Secretary of the Treas
ury and director general of railways
in the short-line hearing before the
Senate and the committee on inter-
state and foreign commerce of the
House of Representatives. In the
course of that hearing Mr.. McAdoo
said:
There was something like eleven
billions of dollars in railroad bonds
and obligations, held not only by in
dividuals. but in very large part by
banks and trust companies and fidu
ciary institutions in the country.
They are an essential part of our finan-
cial structure, the basis of an i'm
mense amount of credit in the coun-
try upon which business is being done,
and the value of those securities had
shrunk very much under the. uncer
taipties of the situa ton
''The discussion about the railroad
rates and the inability of the railroads
to earn what they thought necessary
to enable them to make improvements
on their property and the growing
difficulties Of selling securities for the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19
JOHN L. EDWARDS ( co.

THE DISTRICT TITLE INSURANCE.
COMPANY.
At . meeting Of the board Of dixUeeslo - -
above company. held on Thursday, JsApazy 10
1alS. the regular semtsnsual aivsdend Of Arss
per esstun (3ss). together WITH In sxtze DIV
3aepd Of tAsse per ecntun f27tl. Was 1seAafe1.
payaele out Of the eaFaings TOR ths siz neAths
ended December 81, 1918. = tAe eepttal sssrk
stock to BE- closed at nees JanaaU ~. 1e1e.
esd Sesasia slsesd sntl nssa JAAsaSy - tafe.
on which date aid dtyiAsals shan - Dail
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19
Low PRICE Of COTTON
MAY REDUCE ACREAGE
Industry Generally in Uncertain
Condition, Federal Reserve Re-
view for December Says.

Unless the prices of cotton material
ly increase. farmers will reduce the
acreage which they would otherwise
plant and devote their energies to
general produce. the Federal Reserve
Boards review for December says.
The cotton industry generally Is in
an uncertain condition and is ex-
pected to remain in that condition
for some time. tho report says,
The review says:
"As to Sea Island cotton. compare
lively very little of it has been mar
keted, and the producers feel that un-
less a higher price prevails present
holdings will be dead loss. There
are no sales of Sea Island cotton. and
it is reported that very few bales Of this
spectators. This is a very unusual
condition and it Is working consid-
cradle hardship on the growers and
merchants. An investigation as to
the cost OF production of Sea Island
and long staple cotton shows that it
has probably cost the grower around
20 cents pound. lint; at least not
less than IS cents.
Farming Is Uncertain.
General farming conditions are
just now in a state of uncertainty, or
rather an awaiting state. It is the
season Of the year when farmers are
getting ready and mixing their ar
rangements for next years work.
Unless the price of Gotten materially
increases, there will be a tendency to
reduce the planting of this COM
modify and increase acreage in
general farm products. Some of the
earlier crops, such as lettuce and
celery. are already planted in the
district, and the only dark cloud in
the agricultural situation appears to
be the present price of cotton.
Wheat, rye and crimson clover crops
are in f1ne condition, and, with the
present weather conditions, the
farmers look forward to fine winter
pasturage."
The textile manufacturing situation
Is reviewed in a special report Of the
Federal Reserve Board just made
public. 1t says:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-02
New Republic
May Delay Peace

A situation which may affect the
peace settlement with Germany has
arisen through the proclamation of
an independent republic of the Rhine
Province, stretching alone the from
tiers of Holland, Belgium and Luz
emburg and extending from the
lowlands along the Dutch border 70
the hills OF the Sarre. This Province
contains vast fields of coal and iron,
great industrial cities and the CEN
ters of the most important textile
manufactures in Germany.
Announcement that such n decla-
ration was to be made has been
forecast for several weeks, reports
from Belgium, Holland and Berlin
reflecting the imminence of a move
of great importance. Last week a
statement was issued at Berlin de-
nouncing those who were behind the
movement and declaring them to be
traitors to the fatherland. 1t was
charged that the French were sctive
in propaganda work in the Province,
1t being alleged that General Man
gin, French commander at Mayence.
was the prime mover.
If the Rhineland Province be-
comes independent, a buffer state
will be set up between Germany and
France and Belgium, the Sarre re-
gion will be in the control of the
new state and Germany will have
lost all her possessions west of the
Rhine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-02
Miss Martha Fry WEEDS
Vay Buterbaugh Friday

A quiet wedding was solemnized
on Friday morning at o'clock, when
Miss Martsa Fry. daughter OF MIR.
and Mrs. Edgar Fry. 222 Seneca
street. and Way Buterbaugh, OF this
city, were united in marriage, at the
parsonage of st. Matthews Lutheran
Church, 2317 North Fourth street.
the Rev. e. L.. Snyder officiating. The
bride wore a dark blue travelling
suit, with hat to harmonize, and
corsage bouquet of bridal roses. The
bridegroom is a graduate of Central
High School class of 1908, and of
Millersville Normal School He Is
employed as a railroad mail clerk
at the Pennsylvania terminal Mrs
Buterbaugh is the granddaughter of
the late J. d. Saltzman. who was
well-known throughout the West
End of the city. The young couple
left for n motor trip to Gettysburg,
Baltimore, Washington, Fredericks-
burg, Va, Richmond, Va They will
be "at home" after June 10, at 1719h
North Fourth street
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-02
Courthouse Notes

Petitions For Attorney. - Lawr-
ence, alias Little" Brown. one of
the three defendants indicted or a
charge of numbering S. Wolfe La
cob, a Steelton grocer, presented a
petition to the court to-day through
Assistant District Attorney Robert t.
Fox, asking for the appointment of
an attorney to defend him when he
is called for trial neXt week. Counsel
will be appointed later.
Ask For Counsel Fees.-Two petit
tions for counsel fees so that they
could defend divorce proceedings
brought against them by their hus-
bands were presented to the court
to-day in these cases: Bruce NJ. VS..
Essel c. Winters, and William j. VS..
Mary NJ. Shoop.
Guardians AppOinted.-The Her
5hey Trust Company was appointed
guardian of Fern j. Markey, upon
petition of her father, Frank j. Mar
key; Irene c. Rhoads was named
guardian of John K. and Janet l.
Keffer, minor heirs of part of the
estate of the late Elizabeth Keffer
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-02
New Pastor In Charges
Frankford Church Greets
Rev. Milton 0. Peirce

Philadelphia, June z-The Rev.
Millard o. Peirce assumed his dutfesi
as pastor of the F'rankford Baptist
Church yesterday. Large -congrega-
tions welcomed him at all fhe-serE-
ices. Mr.. Peirce succeeds the Rev.
Thatcher Smith. who was pastor for
about two years and was compelled
to return to California on account
of the illness of his wife. The Rev.
G. J. Burchett Is pastor emeritus OF
the church.
The new pastor was born in VIII
mington, Del, and received a pub
lie school education in that city.
While pursuing his normal school
training he took up the study of law.
He entered Leland Stanford Uni4I
versity and completed his training
for the ministry at Colgate Univer-
sity. In 1916 he was chosen pastor
of the Tabernacle Baptist Church OF
Harrisburg and while there the
membership of the church was al
most doubled, while the Sunday
school tripled.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-02
RAILROAD VETS
TOPICNIC AT MT.
GRETNA JULY 29
Philadelphia Division Asso.
citation Will Elect William
Elmer President

The Veteran Employees Associa-
ton of the Philadelphia division of
the Pennsylvania will hold its an
nual outing and picnic at Mount
Gretna on Tuesday, July 20, accord
ing to announcement of the COM
mittees to-day.
1t is expected that this picnic
will be the largest ever held by the
association, whose membership is
now more than 1,400. Veterans or
the rail, from Harrisburg to Phila-
delphia, will attend. A band from
Lebanon has been secured to fur
nish the music during the day.
The committee, with Charles t.
Jones of this city, as chairman. is at
work in completing plans to handle
the crowd. H. ]. Babb, the sec
retary of the association. is mapping
out a program of entertainment.
and it is expected that an aviator
will be on the ground.
At the business meeting in the
afternoon officers will be elected.
William Elmer, the new superin-
tendent of the Philadelphia division.
will succeed r. w. Smith, Jr., as
president of the association. Mr..
Smith became president OF the or
ganization when he was appointed
superintendent of the division and
was automatically relieved when Mr..
Elmer succeeded him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-02
Railroad Notes

Army and Navy teams in the Rail-
road "Y" drive will celebrate to-
night at the P. r. r. Y. NJ. c. A.
Pennsylvania railroad officials
have given strict orders to give the
best service possible on all excursion
trains.
Broadway limited which was re-
turned recently to the Pennsyl sched-
ule has been running behind time.
Engine trouble has been the chief
cause of the delays.
The Pennsylvania railroad block
station at Alfarata on the Peters
burg branch has been re-opened. 1t
was closed several months ago when
retrenchment was ordered and
freight business slowed up.
On the Middle Division of the
Pennsy on Friday. S.323 cars were
hauled. OF this number, 6,732 passed
Denholm, and 1900 were inter-
changed at Tyrone.
John A. Keeley, a widely known
railroad contractors died Saturday at
his home in Philadelphia. One of the
big contracts completed under his di-
rection was the Schuylkill Valley
branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad
including the tunnel at Phoenixville.
Charles w. Shoemaker. yardmaster,
of the Port Richmond branch of the
Reading, died at his home in Phila-
delphia. He was 40 years of age and
had been with the company for Is
wears
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-02
wuIIAM III. RESHORE

William H. -Seshore, As years old,
90 Brick Church road, Enola died
in the Polytechnic Hospital yesterday
He was a flagman on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, of which he had
been an employe for twenty years
He Is survived by his wife, Mrs Jen-
ME Beshore; three daughters, Mrs.
A. e. Faust Mrs. ". J. Keister and
Miss Maude Beshore, and three sons,
William Beshore, Theodore Beshore
and Walter Beshore. The body may
be viewed at his late home on Thurs
day evening. Funeral services will
be held on Friday afternoon at 2
o'clock in the Enola Methodist Epis-
copal Church, conducted by the pas
tor, the Rev. Mr.. Aller. Burial will
be made in the Enola cemetery.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-02
Woman Aged Eighty
Makes an Air Flight

Atlantic City, June 2.-Mrs. Ida
c. Wilcox, who is eighty, the widow
of an army colonel, lives in a little
cottage near the field where air.
men have been doing their daring
performances since the beginning of
the Aeronautical Convention. The
fascination tempted her until she
could stand it no longer, and at last
gave the most experienced aviation
fans at the air port thrill by TAX
ing a ride with Eddie Stinson, who
ascended 5000 feet.
"I want you to go as high as you
can" she said to the daring flyer
''and do all of the stunts I have seen
you do with others.
Stinson did as she requested. He
looped the loop with her ten times,
did the Immermann turn, the nose
dive, the tail spin and finally the
shimmy, a new stunt invented at the
aid port, which consists of making
the machine act as if it were skip
ping through the air.
1T was simply wonderful" said
Mrs. Wilcox, when she came back to
earth. Now 1 can really say that
I have lived"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-02
METHODISTS IN
Big CAMPAIGN
Eight Big Congregations t
Raise Their Quotas by
Wednesday

In eight Methodist churches IN the
city yesterday. campaign started for
the Methodist Centenary Fund. the
aftsr-war work in the United States
and abroad. Canvassers in each church
win visit every member and meetings
viii be held during the week at which
reports will be made. Special services
were in order and prominent speakers
were present
At Stevens Memorial Church Bishop
william F. Anderson, who was a Y. NJ.
C. A. worker in France, was the speak
er of the day. He is prominent in the
Methodist Centenary reliefship work. He
expects to sail for France July L.
At Grace Church
At Grace Methodist Church 1t was
reported that $6,140 had been raised.
which brings the total up to $4,000.
The drive will continue through Mon
day. Tuesday and Wednesday of this
week and those in charge of the can
vass are sure that Grace Church VIII
go .oyer the top" in raising its quota
The apportionment that Grace Church
is to raise in the national financial
drive of the Centenary campaign Is
S15,26s. There will be meetings on
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday IN
Grace Church and the canVassers OF
the eight Methodist churches OF Har-
risburg will come together to give their
renorts and to hear reports of other
churches.
1t is anticipated that the quota for
Harrisburg will be raised by Wednes-
day evening and all the prayer meet
ings of the Methodist churches will be
adjourned to hold a union victory ana
Jubilee meeting in the auditorium OF
Grace Church. The final reports OF
the financial canvass will be made at
this meeting, and the special feature VIII
be World War reconstruction lecture
drama by Bishop Anderson.
Announcement was made yesterday
bv the canvassers in the Centenary
drive at st. Paurs Methodist Church
that the quota, $1.645, would be
reached to-day. During the services
yesterday afternoon total or Sl'-
53450 was raised. Special services
were held throughout yesterday. An
address was delivered in the morning
by the Rev. DR.. Hickman, district su-
perintendent.
Yesterday saw the finish of the Cen
tenary campaign at Epworth Metho-
dist Church The services all through
the day were of an impressive nature,
beginning with a record-breaking Of
fering in the morning. when the first
Centenary offering in the Sunday
School was taken. A sermon by the
Rev. Homer Knox followed The
church unit leaders and assistants met
at the church at las p. m. many OF
them going without the usual Sunday
dinner to be in on the task. After
short time spent in instructing the
teams who were TO make the canvass,
and a brief prayer service that the
way in the homes might be opened, the
teams started. The following made the
canvass: Messrs. Dickei and Stamm,
Fishel and Davis. II. Motter and Adair'
l. Martin and Harvey Batdorf, c. Bat
dorf and Hibeck and c. Motter, Beck
and Blough. l. Smith and Howard
Calvin Zorger and Rickenbach. Parks
and Reigle, Knox and Clarence Zor-
ger.