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Evening star., 1921-09-13
by JAMES ALLERTON.

Special Dispatch to Tie Star
NEW YORK, September 13.-Retail
trade. with no holidays to interrupt 1t
this week. has taken decided spurt
in this section and the stores are full
of customers making their autumn
purchases. Wholesale buying, espe-
cially in the textile trades, has not
kept pace, as many cotton goods
manufacturers still are withdraw.
from the market until the trend OF
the situation in cotton shall nave
manifested itself definitely.
Export business has been brisk IN
cotton. copper and grain. Whlle the
demand for fuel, both for Industrial
and domestic uses, is increasing daily.
Steel products are still in slow de-
mand, but inquiries indicate that the
situation in those manufactures is on
the upturn. Automobile sales are faf
above expectations and this is true
not only of cars which have been the
objects of recent price cuts, but In the
higher priced vehicles.
Building in the greater city has far
exceeded in the first eight months or
this year the total for the entire year
of 1920. In fact, the borough Of Man
haitian alone probably will see more
money expended in this way than was
put into buildings in the five boroughs
last year Nearby New Jersey towns
have benefited by recent adjustment
in freight rates on building material
Evening star., 1921-09-13
Pittsburgh Sees Business
in Constructive Course
BY H. r. LAUFFMAN

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PITTSBURGH, September 13.-Busi-
ness in this section is travelling along
constructive course. AS measured
by the movement of freight in this
section, there has been a decided i'm
provement. which promises to con-
tinue throughout this month. In
August the average daily car move
ment over the central division of the
Pennsylvania system was 23,423 cars.
an increase of 500 cars daily over
July. The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie
road shows 10 per cent improve
ment for the period.
The view of the retail trade as to
the future of business is indicated by
the award of a contract by one of the
largest department stores for an ad-
dition which will cost approximately
S3,O00.0O0. This contract was placed
despite unsettled conditions in the
building trades, where wage scales
still are in controversy.
Mill schedules have increased in
practically every iron and steel cen
ter and price shading, while still
practiced. is less pronounced than a
week ago. Public improvements are
being encouraged by a drop in costs
and bids on public work, are low
enough to encourage individual build
Ping operations. Contracts are being
Evening star., 1921-09-13
Building in the Northwest
Showing Decided Revival
BY l.. $. McKENNA
specia, Dispatch to The Star.

Specia, Dispatch to The Star.
ST. PAUL. September 13.-Building
in the northwest has seen a marked
revival. Figures compiled today show
that even although construction slow
ed up somewhat in August the record
for the first eight months of this year
in this section exceeded by 33 1-3 per
cent the general average for a SINH
lar period for the last five years. The
total amount of building contracted
for in the eight months in Minnesota.
North and South Dakota, was more
than $5S.1S0.000. Contracts for dwell
ings exceeded all others.
Directors of the federal reserve
bank for this district have deter
mined to maintain the present dis
count rate of 6k per cent. indicating
that liquidation is not yet completed
in this section.
Efforts of the traction company to
advance fares in st. Paul and Mime
apolis from 6 to cents have been
halted by a temporary injunction OBJ
tained by the two cities. The in
crease had been approved by the state
warehouse commission. the ruling
body on intra- state transportation.
The new Farmers Cooperative Sell
ing Agency during the first four
weeks of its existence handled 10
per cent of the live stock marketed
at the South ST. Paul yards.
Evening star., 1921-09-13

mon to medium. 3.25 to 400. Cows
Choice. 500 to 5.26; fair to good. 3.75
to AIS: common to medium. 1.50 to
325 f a.
week ended noon today were $500
head. against 5.376 head last week.
Light supply, market higher. Sheep,
100 to 425. Lambs. 500 to 100.
Hogs-Receipts for the week ended
noon today were 8,184 head. against
S,32S head last week. Fair supply,
market about steady. Lights. 1915;
medium. 1915. Pigs. SIS. fRoughs.
500 to $50.
Calves-Receipts for the week end
ed noon today were 2.O36 head.
against 2,016 head last week. Fair
supply, market higher on good veals:
other grades steady. Calves. 500 to
1900; extra, 1880.
Evening star., 1921-09-13
PASSES DIVIDEND ON COMMON

BOSTON, September 13.-The direc-
tors of the United Drug Company
have passed the current per cent
quarterly dividend on it's common
shares. The IA per cent quarterly
dividends on the first preferred and
II. per cent on the second preferred
were declared as usual.
Reason for passing the common
dividend lay in shrinkage of the COM
pany's profits, which accompanied
marking down it's inventories June 80
last to market prices or lower. in con-
formity with general declines in v'lras
since the first of the year, Louis K.
Lissett, president, eApla.ncu.
Evening star., 1921-09-13
NEW YoR KsuGAR PRICES.

NEW YORK. September 1s.-Raw
sugar was quiet early today. at AS
for centrifugal for Porto Ricos and
1855 for Cubas. with no business re-
ported. S
The raw sugar futures market was
a little lower under liquidation and
trade selling. Prices at midday were
1 to 4 points net lower.
Refined sugar was quiet, with de-
mend limited. Prices were unchang.
ed at 5.65a5. 65 for fine granulated.
Refined futures were nominal.
Evening star., 1921-09-13

mand the market advanced on all
prices. Steers-Choice, $50 to $50;
good butcher, 100 to see: medium.
SIS to 626: common. 4.25. to 5.25.
Heifers-Choice. 6.75 to 7.25; fair to
good, 500 to $50; common to medium,
4.25 to $50. Bulls-Choice, $50 to
5.25; fair to good, 3.75s'to 4.75; Com
Evening star., 1921-09-13
VISIBLE SUPPLY OF GRAIN.

NEW YORK. September 1a.-The
visible supply of grain shows the fol-
lowing changes: Wheat increased
3,359,O0O bushels, corn decreased 261.-
600 bushels, oats increased 1.947,000
bushels. rye decreased 195, 600 bushels,
barley increased 509.000 bushels.
Evening star., 1921-09-13
PARIS BOURsE HEAVY.

PARIS. September 13.-Prices were
heavy on the bourse today. Three per
cent rentes, Sc francs 55 centimes
Exchange on London, 81 francs 20
confines. Five per cent loan, 81 francs
IS centimes. The dollar was quoted
at IS francs 70 centimes.
Evening star., 1921-09-13
Washington Stock EXCHANGE

SALES.
Capital iTractiOn-1 at 81
National Bank Of Washington-10 At $50.
10 at 1SD.
Mergenthaler Linotype at 119A. 2 At
113h.
AFTER CALL
Warrington Gas 7hs-$50O at 102%.
Capital Traction 5s-S50O at s7%
Lsnston MOnotype|5 at y.
Capital Traction-10 at S6E.
National Bank Of WaShington-lO At IS0
10 at $50, 10 Mt $50, 10 at 1SO. 10 at 1sO
10 at 1s0. 10 at 1s0 10 at 180.
Washington Gas Light at 44S.
Bid and Asked Prices
RNNnS
Evening star., 1921-09-13
RETAIL TRADE TAKES SPURT
DUE TO THE AUTUMN BUYING
New York Reports Textile Trades Not
Keeping Pace-Brisk Cotton, Cop
F. per and Grain Exports.

awarded on city work at about 80 per
cent under the original estima; es.
Work is being rushed on fifty dwell
ingS.
Evening star., 1921-09-13

A controversy between San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles as to which
city possesses the most skillful
automobile drivers among the fair
sex has led to arrangements for a
competition to decide the issue.
Evening star., 1921-09-13
Cement,


BEssEMER, Pa, September 13
| Especially THE plants of the Besse-
| mer Lime and Cement Company here
are operating now at capacity and are
turning out more than one million
barrels of cement month
Shoes.
LYNN. Mass. September 13 (Spe-
ciaD.-Thc shoe business is still
struggling to adjust labor costs to
present day conditions Those con-
ditions have improved materially
since summer, but manufacturers feel
that wages must come down before
normal production can be reached.
They declare no jobber will load up
on shoes. the cost of which is based
on wartime wages
Fish.
FORTESoUE. n. j., September IL
Especially aD.-Handline fishermen are
making strong effort to secure
enactment of state laws which will
curb the activities of net fishermen on
the Delaware bay and contributory
streams. 1t is estin>ted that sports
men spend a million dollars a season
fishing in this vicinity, and the fish,
IT is claimed. are being rapidly de-
pleted by use of loose mesh nets.
BOSTON, September 13 Especially -
Officials of the American Writing Pa
per Company announced today that
orders are becoming more numerous
and prices are stiffening. They be-
l1eve the turn for the better has come
IN the fine writing paper trade.
JeweIry.
NEW YORK, September 13 (Spe-
c!aD.-Wholesale jewelers. report a
somewhat better demand for clocks
following price reduction by many
manufacturers.
Live stock.
CHEYENNE. Wyo.. September 13
(SpeciaD:-The new freight rates on
cattle, which will impose a reduction
of 20 per cent between SEPTEMBER
20 to December 81. will enable west
| ern growers to market their stock
advantageously after the fall round
! ups. which are just beginning.
FORT WORTH. September 13 (Spe-
ciaD.-Stockmen of Texas suffered
a decided setback, when the Mexican
railroad placed temporary embargo
on shipments of Texas cattle. Mex
.. leo has been a profitable market for
the Texas herds this summer and
yielded excellent prices.
Fruit.
! SAN FRANCISCO, September 13
for peaches. both for canning and
shipping. Gamers declare shortage
| in all lines of canned fruit is inn
| pending and may be serious before
! next seasons crops move. Picking
| is beginning in few sections in
| muscat grapes for raisins, and is well
| under way in the seedleSs varieties
Demand is strong and prices firm.
Silk.
NEW YORK. September 13 (Spe-
ciaD.-Silk prices are somewhat
stronger this week and business
seems on the upgrade. While hosiery
and broad silk manufacturers are
| buying to cover nearby requirements
| the volume of business is not large
Produce.
SAN FRANCISCO. September 13 (Spe
ciaD.-There has been q sharp advance
| in the prices of potatoes in this section
| owing to shortage which has developed
| in the crop. Prices of onions have
| doubled in the last few weeks and fur
| ther advances are anticipated.
Evening star., 1921-09-13
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.

Record. able.
Am. Wholesale Corp. pf. O..
$1.7J ................Se Sept. Is Oct. 1
O.. s1.75 ...............s Sept. 20 Oct. 1
Dictograph Products Corp.
pf.. III Sept 80 Oct. Is
Endicott johnson, a., 81. Is. Sept. - Oct. l
Endic0tt johnson pf.. O..
OIL ID Sept oCt-
Hendee Mfg. Co. pr. O..
$1.75 ....................Se Sept. 20 Oct.
Imperial Tobacco Co. Of
Canada pf. s.-a.. - Sept. 30
Imperial TOBACCO Co. of
Canada. interim, 1hT....-- Sept. 80
McCrcry Stores Corp. pf.,
q. S1.75 ................. Sept. 10 Oct, 1
Niagara Falls Power Co..
q. $3.50 Sept. 10 Sept Is
Niagara Falls Power Co..
pf.. O.. $I.75 ............S Sept 80 Oct. II
United Drug Co. pf.. O.,
Winnipeg Electric awy Co..
o.. $l.G sept Id Oct. i
Evening star., 1921-09-13
BALTIMORE LIVE STOCK.

/ BALTIMORE, September 13.-Cat-
tie-Receipts for the week ended
moon today were 3.006 head, against
4.943 head last week. Receipts. lis
carloads for market for the weeks
With lighter receipts and active de-
Evening star., 1921-09-13

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Leh1gA CoA & NWis.eiun @
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Lehih Va1ley Caal Ca
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Evening star., 1921-09-13
Notes of Commodities
in Various Centers

Lumber.
NEW YORK, September 13 (Spe-
ciaD.-There has been an increased
demand for yellow pine and Douglas
fir flooring in this district in the last
two weeks.
Evening star., 1921-09-13

BESSEMER, Pa, September 13
(SpeciaD.-The plants of the Besse-
mer Lime and Cement Company here
are operating now at capacity and are
turning out more than one million
barrels of cement month
Evening star., 1921-09-13

WnHan colans, Assilsas
Susquahanna Collisria Co.
.. 3. Wanez, Pusidssss
Is wsass Ca
WI coansl. Psesidns.
orssa kidss Coal Ca.
Z b. Thoens. Pseside.e
1hosne. Neale 4 ca.
Evening star., 1921-09-13
General Policies Committee
ANTHRACITE OPERATORS
437 Chestnut Street, Phiadelphia

Percy c. Madeira, Pnf1M4
Aadsira, Hill g. Co.
AlAn c. Dodson. Psssiia2
Wsscnu Dodson Sc.
John Nsrkle. hstdsx
Jsdde-Hishlend css' csassns
Evening star., 1921-09-13

>SS@A
L Here are some of them as they relat
Others will follow.
Trace the course of dollar spent today for anthra
cite. The price situation unfolds you 60 forward.
For example, the mine takes the dollar and puts
it to work.
The first call upon t-and therefore mentioned first
comes from mine workers: They take approximately
IS of it for wages. Wages fixed by the 1920
award of the u. S. Anthracite Coal Commission, de-
creeng that the scale remain in force until March 3d.
1922.
Thirty five cents of the dollar is now available. To
be spent how? Fifteen goes for various supplies
necessary in maintaining the mine, its breakers and
pumping plants. Not a penny of profit cings to the
mine owner in these purchases.
The dollar now is down to twenty cents. These 90
for insurance. taxes selling expense, depletion, depre
carion of plant and equpment-ands such uninsurable
risks as strikes mine fires and foods. What remains
is the margin out of which the profit must come.
The u. S. Federal Trade Commission says:
Margin must not be confused with what is often =
called profit Selling interest income and excess
profit taxes, well as other items must be deducted
from before the profit available for dividends
, surplus from the operation can be determined"
Evening star., 1921-09-13
33h% Discount
ON FORD SIZES
Guaranteed 5000 Miles

Note the thick.
nonskid design OF
the casing-one rea-
son why you can
easily attain well
over the gua4Rnteed
Evening star., 1921-09-13
What Is the Anthracite Producers
Profit PER TON?

What Is the Anthracite Producers
Profit PER TON?
The facts as established by the u. S. Federal Trade
Commission are published broadcast. They are
known to all men. Anthracite owners margins"
according to that authority less than 80 cents
per gross ton in 1913. This represented operations
producing IS per cent of the total tonnage of fresh
mined anthracite.
From 1o13 to 1918 inclusive Covering the war period
the margin on which mine owners depended for
profit 428 cents per From this had to be paid
interest," selling expenses, Federal taxes, etc, before
anything was available for dividends
In other words whatever the price you paid for coal
say 81 to $1+the mine owner on the average never
retained more than 43 cents per ton on your total
coal bill This shosus thai there inflated uarte
profits.
Today the average "margn' in the anthracite region
does exceed 90 cents ton. The operator is for
turate whose margin approximates that figure Only
few exceed it. most of them make less and many
operating at loss
Evening star., 1921-09-13
It's Your Right to Know
if Coal Prices are Wrong

price coal The public entitled all the facts
of them to the of anthracite the mine
s will follow.
Evening star., 1921-09-13

1hss 1einas hsthes tntormafisa
ea ebsnia 4 b addressias
Evening star., 1921-09-13
Calls for $1.9. 900. 600.

Secretary Mellon this morning
called upon the national banks hold
ing credits arising from the sale OF
August Treasury certificates to pay
into their respective federal reserve
banks by Tuesday of next week
$129 200. 900, being 75 per cent nf
the balance held to the credit of the
Treasury. Banks cannot complain,
as they have had the use of these
millions since August I.
After Tuesday the banks will hold
$43, 100000, proceeds of the August
sale, at the rate which they pay on
government deposits. > per cent. sub
ject to the call Of the Secretary of
fhe Trea Sury
Evening star., 1921-09-13

CT. Hnbes. hsiieas
LehiGh & Wukss-Hasss Coa ca
W. A. May, Heidea3
EsnnsyivaniA Coal Cs0oany
W. I. Ala, Psssideaa
Snsnsoa Coal Comp0S
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-09

disabled soldiers and medical aid
Americanism, George s. Stewart, Jr. !;
women's auxiliaries, Miss Edith Irwin
post financial appeals, William II.
Creamer, Jr.; charters, A. Nevin De.
trich, and athletics, Edward +. Koell.
sted ut, fIs -
Importance Of the question Of collection OF
dues has Impressed itself upon the Legion
leaders to such an extent that representa- /.
tives OF the various posts will confer to-
night In the Mayors reception room, City
Hall, so that there may be a symposium o,
views on the subject and the posts may bc
given the benefit of this exchange OF IDEAS,
The subcommittee in charge Of tho meeting
consists OF Maylin J. Pickering, of the nen.
1amin Franklin Post, No. 4O5: Thoma /,
Moore, the district deputy commander.
Frankford Post, No. 2Ii, and Edward w,
Madeira. the Henry H. Houston Post, No,
Q. Germantown.
Frederick d. and Irving st, Clair Post.
No. 81, will give a dsnsant in Mercantils
Hall. Broad street above Master, Frida y
night. Benjamin NJ. Colder. member Of Tn,
pre- sent Legislature and Joseph Shanlbelan n
are two OF the real workers In this Legion
orga anization.
Prince Forbes Post. No. 7, ladies' au1-
Hilary has elected as Its officers for the en-
suing year Mrs. Miller Forbes. chairman: 4:
Mrs John Becker. vice chairman; Mrs
William +. Patterson. secretary, and Mr.,
NJ. II. McFadden, treasurer.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-09
LEGION COMMITTEE
PREPARING BUDGET
Business Of Organization to Be
Conducted ON Sound Finan-
cial Basis
LEADERS CONFER ON DUES

Al, expenditures of the county com
,.,,tee Of the American Legion in Phila d.
I.,oh,o will be included in budget
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-04-11
AUGUSTA VICTORIA
ExPIRE:S SUDDENLY
AT D0ORH, , HOLLAND

Doom, Holland. April II.---Former Empress
augusta Victoria OF Germany died here at 900
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-04-11
he EATtiE n.

raif tonight and prob.
ably Tuesday, rising TEN.
oerature.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-23
1t Was Henry Hudson

The magnificent road along the
western side of the Hudson River
northward from the Englewood cliffs
will not only be a perennial delight
in itself, but it will be an unsur-
passed scenic highway to other Won
derlands beyond. But why perpetu-
ate in it's name an error which has
too long persisted?
The intrepid and resourceful nav
igator who first explored the North
River was not Hendrick, but Henry
Hudson. By the former name he
was never known in his own time
He would not have answered to it,
probably would have resented its
application to him, even during the
brief period in which he was in the
service Of the Netherlands East
India Company, for he knew scarcely
word of the Dutch language, and
he insisted upon having the Dutch
lawyers, in drawing up at Amster-
dam the Dutch contract with the
company, write therein his name in
its plain English form-Henry
Hudson.
That he is called Hendrick is due
to whimsy of the ''gentle humor-
ist" Irving, who in the posthumous
papers Of the mythical Diedrich
Knickerbocker naturally and appro-
priately used the Dutch form of the
name. But this does not justify per-
verting history. If truth is some
times stranger than fiction, it ought
always to be stronger. Henry Hud-
son it was three centuries ago, and
Henry Hudson it should be now and
always-save in Rip Van Winkle
and the Legend Of Sleepy Hollow.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-23
Finish the Cathedral

Bishop Manning's plea that the
Cathedral of st. John the Divine be
promptly completed inspires inter-
est again in a magnificent under
taking that had its inception forty
nine years ago. 1t was at a dioc-
esan convention in 1872, when
Bishop Horatio Potter put the mat
ter officially before the delegates,
that the long cherished hope took
definite form.
The building of cathedral TO rank
as the fourth in size among the
cathedrals of the world takes time
as we'll as money. Fifteen years
after announcement of the intention
to build the site at Morningside
Heights was selected, and five years
later, on December 27, 1892, the
cornerstone was laid and work was
actually under way. Since then the
crypt, and later the choir and cross
ing, were completed. In 1916, when
all available funds were used, the
work was halted. Before it could
be started again the United States
was in the war, and by resolution
of the trustees all efforts to raise
money for building purposes were
abandoned for patriotic reasons
until the war should be over.
Now, however, interest may again
be stimulated and work started. In
addition to all other reasons, it may
be even urged that patriotism should
play large part in the effort to
begin at once. 1t has often been
suggested that the time to under
take public construction is when pri-
vate enterprise is crippled, as at
present. The same argument may
be used in this instance. Cathedrals
OF the world are looked upon as the
property Of the people, as indeed
they are, having been financed by
the contributions of generations.
NOW. when workers and builders and
New-York tribune., 1921-05-23
Save These Stones

Public interest in the erection of
monuments to the memory of ma
tional heroes again directs attention
to the decaying tomhstones Of the
more on less celebrated dead who
have the distinction of lying in Trim
ity and st, Paul's churchyards.
Year by year the inscriptions are
becoming fainter-are already illeg-
ible and the porous stones them
selves are crumbing to dust. 1t would
seem practicable, and not too costly,
to envelope all of these historic
grave markers in heavy plate glass,
to preserve them from the eroding
rain and wind. Transparently en-
cased they would permanently fulfill
a mission of calling the attention of
the greatest multitude that passes
any cemetery in the world, in the
most valuable graveyard tracts in
the world, to the simplest verities of
life, where those verities often seem
less impressive than the neighbor-
ing tallest buildings in the world
and vastest accumulations Of riches.
These graves are historic, though
most of them are but family burial
plots, Some of the dead antedate
our Republic, and it is not too much
to say that the many who lived just
before, during and just after the
Revolution were active in deeds and
opinions, to the limits Of their abili-
ties, in the founding of the United
States.
The life Of our country has been
so short that all of the dead who
were entitled to interment beside
Trinity and st. Paul's are thereby
entitled to the reverence of all citi-
zens. And here are stones, many of
which are of the most transient ma
terial, that lower Broadway with
each passing century would honor
more and more, as relics of our ma
tlon's birth, were they preserved.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-23

artists arc marking time to some ex-
tent, would seem to be the propitious
moment to proceed.
The completed cathedral will be a
glory and an honor to the city as well
as the great center of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in the United
States. We OH this side of the water
arc likely to make usefulness the
chief and only object of our build
ing. The realization that a struc-
ture may be also thing of beauty is
too often lost sight of, especially if it
means greater expenditure of
money. Here in the plans for the
cathedral may be visualized an edi-
flee comparable with the Old Worlds
choicest treasures. Let us hope that
this generation may see it's COM
pletion.