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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-04
Play Shoes
For Children

Sturdy dark tan leather
oxfords and high shoes
with substantial toes and re-
inforced parts that defy
hard knocks, which is why
we call them "Knockabout
Shoes"
oXFoRDs-st to II. s3.25:Il,S to q.
1910 for large girls, 3<.75.
HIGH sHoEs-lacsd-sizess 1S to II.
1915: IL :, to 2, 34.5o.
Black. tan and white feathers,
some in combination. Sizes 4 to 8,
SO to $3.50; sizes 81 TO 1917, 81 to
$3.50; sizes II to 2, So to 81.
For big girls-oxfords in black
and tan calf with perforated vamp
"a stunning model. IS.
Babies shoes-black, tan, white
feathers, $3.50 to $3.50.
First Floor. Old Building.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-04
A ADVERTISEMENT.
THE WORST WHEEL OF A
COAT MAKES THE MOST
NOISE!

And big posters often an
nounce a poor show - good
clothes need but little putting.
Just now marbles" intimate
spring-Spring Overcoats--good
and good looking, 322, $25. s2s,
$50 to $3s.
Spring Suits. too: fresh and
fine, priced about fhe same.
Surprising when labor and cloth
seem deaf to the armistice. I
make my ready made clothes:
that helps n little-if everybody
helped as much the high cost OF
living would be reduced to you.
G.. n. VINCENT. 524-628 9Th
Ave-, near 31st st.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-04
Young Girls
FrOcks, $1.95
Our Better Grades

A purchase
of. gingham
a n d cham
bray frocks
that measure
up to our
$3.50 to 1915
grades.
Six models
and each is so at
tractive that 1t
would not be sur
prising if every
mother who sees
them will choose
the entire num-
Der for her daugh-
ter's school and
summer play out
fits. Model illus
trated is trimmed
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-04
PILLOW CASES
SHEETS

Extra-long Sheets
for all sizes of beds -. ~ X 1875
inches, S2.2O; 80 X ll2 inches, So. so.
First Floor. Old Building.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-04

Fishing Tackle
Sale
New York Trout Season
opens Saturday.
Spinners, chum hooks, casting
spoons less.
Fresh water reels-$1.25 to SIS.
Trout flies-50c to 81 dozen.
Trout rods-$4 to $25. Surf
rods.-$S to $25.
Fishing jackets in khali-$2;
were 81.
The Sport Shop. BurlinEtou Arcade
Floor. New Building.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-04

with cross stitching effective.
Ginghams are in plaids and stripes
and the chambrays are in the best
plain colors.
Sizes 6 to Ia years.
Main Aisle. Old Building.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-04
A. r. STEWART 1928

Good Morning!
The 1Cedther today aral
probably be cloudy.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-04
This Store
Has Become a Notable
Part of the City

1t has studied the city, her repu-
tation, her progress, her growing
importance, and it has taken its
place in the line to advance her
interests in every honorable way.
1t has affiliated itself with the
citizenry Of the world, and gone out
to the uttermost parts Of the globe
to bring its treasures to this port.
1t made new buildings for the
honor Of the city and the con-
venience, comfort and safety Of the
people.
The Store buildings are part Of
our very selves at your service, please.
y [Signed]
%H% q 4 q
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-08

ports alone are landed annually at
Manchester, or nearly 20qo of the total
cotton coming to the British Isles from the
United States.
Such a volume of trade is only natural,
as direct Importation of cotton to
Manchester saves from II cents to S1.45 a
ton, as compared with shipments to
Liverpool forwarded to the same
destination.
The amount of cotton arriving at
Manchester must increase just as quickly
as the American shippers learn of this
advantage of shipping to Manchester.
Quay and shed space are specially
adapted for discharging, sorting and
storing raw cotton.
In addition to the Canal Company's
warehouses at Trafford Park, there is
special re-enforced concrete warehouse
divided into sections or safes" available
for the storage of cotton. Vast overhead
electric travelling cranes provide for
weighing and sampling.
Handling is reduced to a minimum
because the same crane serves the safes"
the operating platforms under cover, as
we'll as motor vehicles, carts and railroad
frei ghtcars outside.
Cold Storage
There is abundant and excellent accom-
mediation.
The enormous consumption of frozen
and chilled meat in Manchester and the
surrounding district is constantly in
creasing.
The Union Cold Storage Company,
Limited, maintains large refrigerator
store, capable of holding 175,000 carcases
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dock accommodation and dock con-
veniences and necessities in anticipation
of increase Of traffic.
No mere catalog would convey the spirit
of progrcSSiveness and accomplishment
on which the Manchester Ship Canal
prides itself
There are 120 acres of water space.
There are 6H miles of dock quays. The
docks are lined with transit sheds, many
being of ferro-concrete construction-ot
which 3 are single foor-6 triple floor,
| double floor, 5 four floor, and II with
five floor accommodation.
The special installations for grain, cold
storage, iron-ore and goods requiring such
specialized reception, originally provided
few years ago, are continuously added to
and brought up to date
Specializing in Grain
Let us consider in detail the facilities
for the handling of say, grain, one of
Americas principal exports.
No other port has such ample means as
Manchester for every stage of the handling
of grain. Over half-a-million tons are
received at the docks annually-one
result of Manchester methods.
The recent completion, during the war
period, of the second grain elevator, gives
Manchester a total grain storage capacity
of 100000 bushels 100000 tons) shared
equally by the two elevators.
As an instance of the handling capacity,
at the newly-fnished Grain Elevator, No.
2, at No, 9 Dock (34l separate bins),
grain can be discharged from vessels
from six berths at one time.
The cooling bins can cool 700 tons of
| grain at one operation.
At No. 2 Elevator, steamers arriving
with miscellaneous cargoes and large
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of sheep on the banks of the canal, with a
wharf at which large steamers can dis
charge right into the cold air chambers
The same Company has other cold air
stores, with an $4,000 carcase capacity, in
the city.
The Manchester Corporation also has
cold air stores in the city with capacity
for 100000 carcases, and cold storage at
the Smithfeld Fruit, Fish and Poultry
Markets.
At No. 9 Dock of the Manchester Ship
Canal there is refrigerated transit
chamber (cubic capacity, 300 200 feet) for
sorting frozen and perishable produce in
the same temperature as the insulated
chambers of the discharging steamers.
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Manchester and the Ship Canal We
have only summarized the story. If we
have kept rather close to facts, to what we
have done in commerce, it is largely
because we believe that Americans, like
ourselves in the North, take pride and
interest in accomplishment.
The bonds of friendship uniting our
two nations, drawn tighter in this war,
must in years TO come be even more
securely fastened.
The community of interests due to the
free interchange of commerce which we
wish to cultivate, will, we believe, be one
of the greatest guarantees of the continued
friendship between our two nations, and so
of the permanent Peace of the WORKABLE.
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and then again reloaded for distribution
throughout the country.
BY hard experience MANCHESTER then
learned and she has never forgotten, that
every handling of bale of cotton or
case of goods costs money.
In 1882 some prominent citizens met at
the house of Mr.. Daniel Adamson. Little
did the people of the city imagine that
from this small gathering would spring an
enterprise which would completely alter
their whole history and turn rapidly
decaying district into one of the most
prosperous areas of the British Isles.
This was the magic destined to be
wrought by the Manchester Ship Canal.
The Inland City Becomes Seaport
At the meeting it was explained that
the cost of inland carriage and expenses
of what should have been unnecessary and
avoidable handling was surely and steadily
choking Manchester trade. .
"There is," exclaimed Mr.. Adamson,
"a remedy, and one remedy only-a water
way, which will give practically unlimited
docking and warehousing facilities to the
shippers of the world"
Having settled upon the remedy, they
Immediately set to work to put into opera
ton the scheme decided upon--that of a
great Ship Canal, destined to rank in i'm
portance, if not in magnitude with those
of Suez and Panama.
1t must not be imagined, however, that
the scheme, sound and practical as it was,
was permitted to go through without strong
opposition. Some people even regarded
the idea as preposterous.
Its promoters applied to Parliament for
power to proceed with its construction in
1883, but, after long and costly contest
of opinion, the Bill was lost.
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They made similar appeal in the
following year. They met with another
rejection. The two contests had cost up
wards of 100000.
Still undaunted-for they were British,
and, above all, Lancastrians--thc pro-
moters made a third appeal. This time
their efforts were successful. An act i'll
1885 authorised the construction of the
Manchester Ship Canal, and the work was
finally completed in 1894.
Manchester is now a port-the third
greatest port in the British Isles in the
value of its sea-borne imports and exports.
The Cargoes' Reception
1t is the little foxes that steal the grapes
the fittings here and carriage there that
cat into money.
Since its inception the Directors of the
Manchester Ship Canal have maintained
so strenuous a policy of providing the
hundred and one mechanical contrivances
that make for handling economy, the latest
and most ample facilities of warehousing,
docking, railway construction, that today
no other British Port can save the shipper
so many of the, small charges that, added
together, amount to so unpleasant figure.
The policy has ever been to increase
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But the plan and execution of the Ship
Canal were such that land is yet available
for such additional railways as may be re-
quired large choice of warehouse and
factory sites fronting on deepwater may
be yet obtained.
For the lifetime of this generation, an
even faster growth than the Manchester
Ship Canal dare anticipate will yet keep
the word congestion foreign to its vocabu-
larry.
The Magic of the Ship Canal
The story begins in the middle of the
10Th century. At that time Manchester
was prosperous-in fact, TO her most of
the modern industries of the world owe
their origin, and she was reapng the
reward of her creative and inventive
genius-but Manchester was not port.
The rapid development of overseas
commerce brought her only decay and
stagnation. Her trade was rapidly and
steadily slipping away to other centers.
The significant fact was that these
places were seaports, Manchester was
merely an important inland city.
She had no waterway to the sea-raw
materials, unloaded at Liverpool, had to be
reloaded for rail transit to Manchester
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-08

Manchester ranks as second port in the
United Kingdom for the Importation of oil.
Fruit
Large supplies of green fruit arrive in
normal times from North America by the
regular lines of steamers. American and
Canadian shippers realise the advantages
of shipping apples to Manchester because
of the very satisfactory prices obtained
there as compared with other markets and
because of Manchester's superior facilities
for dealing with perishable produce.
Available Outward Traffic
The Lancashire Coalfelds, the Cheshire
Salt Works, the Staffordshire Potteres,
and the immense and varied kinds of
manufacturing concerns clustered around
the docks and far-reaching surrounding
districts afford vessels ready means for
securing outward shipments.
Cottons, woolens, yarns, locomotives,
machinery implements, TOOLS metals, hard
ware, earthenware, paper, coal, and all
kinds of traffic are shipped at the docks of
the Canal, at less cost of transit from
most of the works in Lancashire, Yorkshire
and adjoining centers than to other ports
in the Kingdom.
The outward trade from Manchester has
been developing steadily and persistently
during the last few years. The more ex-
perience merchants and shippers gain of
the Port, the more satisfied they become,
and the more extensively do they use it.
Envoi
Americans coming to England, whether
on business or pleasure, should visit
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The district in which these towns,
nearer to Manchester than any other open
steamship port, are situate, comprises an
area of 10000 square miles.
As the whole world knows, the largest
and most important cotton-spinning and
weaving district in the world is imme-
diately contiguous to the Manchester
Docks.
How Manchester Lowered Rates
Let us take two striking examples Of
how ManchesteF lowered rates
So early in the game as during the first
attempt to obtain Parliamentary sanction
Tor construction Of the Canal, the Mersey
Docks and Harbour Board, till then deaf
TO all requests for a reduction in the cost
of getting raw cotton TO the mill and the
manufactured article to the export
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subway along the quayside to the elevator.
What Manchester Means to Cotton
To the whole world the word
Manchester" is almost synonymous with
Cotton.
Between a half and three quarters of
million bales of cotton from American
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-08
"THE REAL ENGLAND"

President Wilson, during his hurried risit
to England just before the Peace Conference,
Uisited the Manchester Ship Canal It 1uds
the only industrial enterprise IN the British
Isles he fo,lnd time to visit.
Lord NorthcLfe, then speaking Of this
euent, suid:-
"Many people are inclined to think that
Ne1c York is the United States. NeiU York
is not the United States, and London is by
no means England. Within oe,y easy reach
of Manchester are $4,000, 900 of the most
progressive English people,"
"Among them there is nothing but the
aca,uest admiration for the United States"
The London "Tjmes,"
23rd December 1915,
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II
steamers, suddenly
reduced the Liver
pool dock and town
dues from 81 cents
to y cents a ton on
imported raw cotton.
Even so, Man
chester so steadily
drew cotton from
Liverpool, that with
in two years of open
ing the Canal, the
Liverpool dock and
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CITY BECAME AN OCEAN PORT
MANCHESTER'S MESSAGE


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American
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The "Water Route"

Other things being equal, the more of a
long freight-haul is water-borne, and the
less is rail or road borne, the better for all
concerned.
1t is precisely the advantage of all
water carriage into the very heart of the
industrial England of the North and
Midlands that Manchester, alone of
British ports, is able to offer American
Exporters. The same ship that leaves
the American port enters the port of
Manchester.
For the Manchester Ship Canal, one of
the greatest artificial waterways of the
world, connects Manchester directly with
the sea and, today the worlds great ships
discharge their cargocs in the very center
of Manchester, EngIands second greatest
city, instead Of as previously, being
obliged TO discharge on the fringe of the
industrial area.
Nothing but wide appreciation and
consequent utilisation of this business
advantage could have given Manchester
her present position.
Water Makes Rates
In England, as in America, freight
rates have often been the result Of the
struggle between water and land trans
portation charges.
Where Liverpool ends the Port of
Manchester begins.
The Docks of the Manchester Ship
Canal are situated in the core of the most
densely-populated district of England.
Manchester is essentially the center Of
the inland canal system of the North and
Midlands-and the North and Midlands
are industrial England.
The Port of Manchester is the natural
source of supply for at least III important
inland points.
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consign m e n is OF
grain from North
American ports, can
be berthed along
side the transit
sheds, and whilst
discharging general
cargo into the transit
sheds, grain can be
delivered oversize
by means of port
able elevators on to
bands running in a
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town dues were further reduced from this
y cents per ton to 48 per ton.
Liverpool rates took the same course
when Manchester began to import grain.
The dock dues on wheat and corn were at
once reduced from 81 to "a cents per ton
at Liverpool, and by Il cents per ton
at Birkcnhead.
The all-watcr route the Ship Canal
could offer of course at once affected the
railways. The railway rate for cotton
from Liverpool to Manchester dropped
from $2.lS to $l7+ per ton, with
corresponding reduction to neighboring
towns.
At the same time the railroad rate for
export piece goods and yarns from
Manchester to Liverpool dropped from
$2.+3 to $1.9+ per ton.
OF course, during the war period, the
rates and charges at all British ports were
necessarily increased, but as much as
ever, the water in the Ship Canal still
enables Manchester to keep her advantage.
Within SO miles of Manchester City
lives an industrial population of nine
million souls--a population roughly equal
to that of Greater New York and Chicago.
OF this population nearly a quarter can
be reached from the Port of Manchester
entirely by the network of canals operated
in connection with the Manchester Ship
Canal.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-08

America the Gulf of Mexico Brazil,
Australia, Bombay, the Persian Gulf,
Alexandria, the Syrian Coast, and in fact
all parts of Europe and most parts of the
world.
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The Unknown Word

The Unknown Word
Already the length of quays, excluding
the smaller docks, at which large ocean
vessels can berth, load and unload, is
23,950 feet, of which II 900 are at the
Manchester Docks.
"None of this was here thirty years
ago. an observer will say to himself, who
has Travelled up the IS miles of canal
"What will the next thirty years bring
forth?"
And then, trying to visualise the future,
he thinks of the other great ports of the
world-and of their congestion.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-08

k1AGECsfhsM MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL - -
The Al-Water Route to the Heart Of Enqand

Timber
From 100000 to 100000 loads of timber
were dealt with every year prior to the
War. Savings of from "a cents to $1.32
per ton are affected by forwarding
timber from the docks, as against the
Liverpool Docks, to most of the sur
rounding towns.
A large volume of oil comes in bulk.
This is stored chiefly in the huge oil tank
age installation on the banks of the Canal,
over half mile away from the docks
In all there are SO tanks, with a total
capacity of 1884, 106 gallons, or 1926
tons.
The oil is conveyed to each of the
respective depots through pipes direct from
the vessel to the tanks.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-08
Connecting Rail and Waterways

The Manchester Ship Canal Company
maintains the services of terminal
company at the Manchester Docks, itself
receiving and delivering the traffic in
freight cars from and to the different
railroads at their functions
In this way it connects directly with all
the railroads of the country
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-08
Where Liverpool Ends

Where Liverpool Ends
Go one day to Eastman Lock, 10
miles from the Bar at the mouth of the
Mersey, where the Canal begins. There,
if you are fortunate, you may see the
steamer Manchester Citizen" one of the
fleet owned by the Manchester Liners,
Ltd, majestically gliding by the lock gates
which are the front door of the Ship Canal.
The Manchester Citizen" and her
sister ships are but some of the ocean-going
steamers which regularly load and unload
cargo at Manchester from United States
and Canadian Ports.
In normal times regular lines of steamers
sail between Manchester Docks and North
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-08-13
RIPPING RHYMES
By Walt Mason
BURNING MONEY.

Life is gay and bithe and sunny since the peace dove
hit the breeze everyone is burning money just as though
it grew on trees insist thrift and saving but there's
none to heed my words; ohnnies say that am raving
and throw money to the birds Men are drawing prncey
wages and their breasts are filled with mirth and they
eer foebodng sages who predict day of drh but that
day viii come surely tomorrows sun will rise things
will then be going poorly with the gddy spendthrft guys
Things won't boom along forever as they're booming now
my friends and the who's truly clever saves as ably
as ne spends patent to the nowngn expensive times
IKE these that the kopecs won't be growing always on
the shrubs and trees There win come day Of trouble
when this boom is left behind and the kopeek and the
roube will be mighty hard to find happy then the lads
whose wages have been safely placed brine who obeyed
the Seeis and sages when the saving graft was fine And
now sick will be the mortas who like spendthrfs now be-
have who reply with eers and choItes when we call on
them to sayel
sasaHHsRsa4ssafesaaas4H
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-08-13
Portland Movie Managers
Combine To Battle Union

Portland, Or, Aug 1S.--Manaeers Of
moving picture theatres in Portland
contemplate forming a union all their
own.
The aim Of the proposed organization
Is warfare on a iion which is already
we'll estabhshed-that of the musicians.
The managers also want to fight against
the demands Of the movie operators who
are demanding an increase of from 81
cents to 81 an hour, with time and a
half for Sunday aud holiday work.
The members Of the musical union are
attempting to force the proprietoFs Of
movie houses to increase the number Of
musicians employed in every theater.
They even demand that suburban thea
ters. now using onl va pianist, shall
regularly hire three musicians.
Another incentive for the proposed
union Of managers is the fact the I'M
IONS Of stage employees and bin posters
want new wage scales.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-08-13
HOW THEY DO IT IN PARIS.

The French food ministry in Paris is working sue
cessfuy at the problem of reducing high prices Reduc
tions in fOodstuffs vary from 20 to so per cent
Local committees have been appointed representing
both dealers and customers which determine fair prices
and recommend that dealers who sell at these prices be
patronized The absence of dealers name from among
those recommended all that is necessary to inform the
public where he stands
The plan has been worked out without any special
legislation and seems simple enough to be worth adopting
anywhere.
1t might be- tried in connection with another scheme
which has been proposed in this countryto have lists
giving wholesale prices published in prominent places so
that the customer see for himself how high per-
centage of profit the retail dealer is making in each case
Legislation is often slow and unweldy and the simp-
Ter the scheme which be devised to meet the question
the better