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The New York herald., 1922-12-14
JUMP IN STERLING
LIFTS GRAIN AGAIN
Wheat, Corn and Oats Touch
Highest Points of the
Season.

CHICAGO, Dec l3.-Buoyancy in
wheat to-day appeared to be chiefly re-
lated to a notable ascent OF sterling ex-
= Change All deliveries of wheat eclipsed
previous high price records or the sea-
. son. Tho finish was unsettled at is
TO 2%c net gain. with Nav S1.23A to
SI.23la and July s1.l4la to $l.l4"s.
Corn gained 7sc TO ! sc and oats 70 to
&c. Provisions ended from sc decline to
a rise OF &c
The Jump in sterling was so unusual
that although wheat at Liverpool was
in some cases quoted full penny lower
the actual value of the cereal across the
Atlantic as figured here was &c a
busheI higher. Bulls contended that the
upward course OF sterling was an indl-
cation of q return to normalcy. ana
were disposed also to regard rise IN
Argentine wheat quotations as being
largely due to betterment in rates OF
exchange. 1t was conceded, however
that unfavorable weather for the Argen-
tine harvest was likewise partly re-
sponsible.
Speculative purchasing of wheat. on
a broader scale than usual OF late, was
ascribed partly TO a review by leading
trade authority dwelling on shortage. OF
world production Of wheat compared
with last year. Most sellers were mold
ers in a position to realize profits. Fore
casts of snow or rain for the entire
domestic grain belt failed to have any
decided bearish effect
Corn and oats. as we'll as wheat'
touched new top prices for the season,
Rural offerings lacked volume. oats ana
corn being reported in demand for llve-
stock feeding on farms.
In provisions buying by shorts VIE
tually offset the bearish influence OF
lower hog values here and break in
lard at Liverpool.
The New York herald., 1922-12-14
CALIFORNIA PETROLEUM
TO ACQUIRE OIL ASSETS
Will Get All Properties of
Western Star Company.

The California Petroleum Corporation
has entered an agreement whereby 1t
will acquire all the properties and as
sets of the Western Star OIL Company.
a $2,00O.000 corporation. in exchange
for $4,000 shares Of common stock and
$4,000 shares of per cent. preferred
stock of California Petroleum. Based
on current market prices the California
Petroleum shares involved in the deal
are valued at a total of $3.750.000.
The Western Star Oil Company was
organized last February under a Cali
fornia State charter and Is the owner
of 200 acres of proven and prospective
oil bearing lands in the Signal Hill,
Santa Fe Springs. Huntington Beach
and other districts in California. In ad-
dtion to storage facilities consisting
of sixteen tanks with a total capacity of
10000 barrels. Its balance sheet as of
September Is last showed total assets
and liabilities of s1.145,777.
The New York herald., 1922-12-14
STOCK EXCHANGE L1sTINGs.

The New York Stock Exchange has
admitted to the list: $2.500.0 addi-
tional common stock and $4,000. 900 adj
ditional z per cent. preferred stock Cali
fornia Petroleum Corporation $1,623.100
additional preferred stock and 1887. .929.-
700 additional common stock Standard
Oil Company OF New Jersey $2,0O0.000
additional preferred stock Continental
Can Company, $26.000,000 additional
common stock May Department Stores
Company, $6,903.125 additional common
stock American Radiator Company, 300.-
900 shares no par value common stock
Of Continental Motors Corporation. with
authority to add 1.460,s45 common TO
be exchanged for present $40 par COM
mon and a further 1871 shares of no
par common on official notice OF issu-
ance; $84,600 additional preferred stock
Montana Power Company, $3,672,200 ad-
dtional common stock American Steel
Foundries, $11.sS5,t00 additional COM
mon stock Packard Motor Car Company,
$5,100,OO0 first and refunding 7h per
cent. bonds. series A, and Sf,00o.000 first
and refunding z per cent. series II. Ohio
Public Service Company; SS.0S1,400
per cent. preferred stock and $24.244.2o0
common stock United states Realty and
Improvement Company. $1s.000.000 first
and refunding 6 per cent bonds Tenncs-
see Electric Power Company.
Also 75.o00.000 guilders per cent.
fifty year sinking fund bonds Kingdom
of the Netherlands, $2,0o0,000 additional
stock National Surety Company, S25,-
900, 900 twenty year sinking fund per
cent. bonds Sinclair Pipe Line Company,
S4,645,000 consolidated mortgage thirty
year S per cent. sinking fund bonds Do
minion Iron and Steel Company. Ltd.
100000 additional stock Alliance Realty
Company. $449,550 additional common
stock American Bank Note Company.
$4.457,900 additional common stock
STANDARD Milling Company. s6.o0o.eo0
twenty year 8 per cent sinking fund
bonds United Stores ReaHy Corporation.
ss.000.000 first mortgage 7ia per cent.
bonds Manati Sugar Company, s15.00o.-
900 additional common stock Studebaker
Corporation, 100000 shares no par
value common stock Consolidated Gas
Company of New York. s5.5O1, 500 first
and refunding per cent. series ID.
bonds Missouri Pacific Railroad Com
pany: $12,55s.500 preferred stock end
$12.55s.500 common stock Chesapeake
and Ohio Railway Company and S45.-
100000 common stock Atlantic Refining
Company,
The New York herald., 1922-12-14
Drcs. Goods Business.

Jobbers Of wooden and worsted dress
goods for next spring report business as
satisfactory. though there has been a
slight slackening in buying In the last
several days. Retail merchants are still
adhering to a conservative buying policy
and are little inclined to commit them
selves for any large amounts of mer-
chandise for future delivery. though in
dications are strong that prices will be
higher in the future. The continued
high labor and raw material costs, 1t is
expected. will be further reflected In
values Of dress goods early next year.
One of the encouraging features is the
insstent demand for low end storm
serges. All wool crepes. poiret twills
and French serges also are in steady
call
The New York herald., 1922-12-14
BUSINESS NOTES
AND TRADE NEWS
American Woolen Company to
Open Fall Blanket Lines
for 1923 Tomorrow.

The American Woolen Company will
open tomorrow its lines of blankets for
the fall of 1923. 1t was announced yes
terday. 1t is believed that opening
prices will be somewhat higher than
last seasons levels. Several manufac-
turers opened their lines last week at
prices averaging about 5 per cent above
the old levels. A prominent seller ex-
pressed the belief that opening prices of
most manufacturers will be lower than
generally expected. He is of the opin-
ion that comparatively low prices will
be named at first, so as to feel out the
market After substantial volume Of
orders have been booked he SAID
manufacturers will withdraw their
prices, to be further readJusted to lev
els more consistent with raw material
costs''
The New York herald., 1922-12-14
Desire Lower Fur Prices.

Raw fur dealers in the producing sec
tions throughout the United States and
Canada appear to be going very slowly
in their buying because of their beiief
that the trappers and country dealers
are holding their goods at prices con-
siderably above those warranted by the
present demand, in the consuming mar
kets, according to the New York Auc-
tion Company's digest. This holding
back of goods" reads the letter. has
resulted In a decrease of receipts by
the receiving houses IN all sections with
the exception of the Southwestern mar
ket, where the receipts seem to be
somewhat above normal The expecta-
ton Of the dealers in the fur producing
sections as to lower price level on sub
stantially all articles coincides with c,e
view Of other factors"
The New York herald., 1922-12-14
FRENCH RAIL EARNINGS CLIMB.

Throughout 1922 the earnings Of all
French railways have steadily in
creased. according to statistics compiled
by Brown Brothers & Co. Figures for
the nine months to September 30 show
an increase in receipts over the same
period in 1921 Of about 3l5.000,00O
francs. Between January and November
loadings increased from 243.000 to 346.-
600 cars. or about 43 per cent. In the
same period loadings Of American rail-
roads rose from 743.000 to $4,000 cars.
or 80 per cent. In 1920 the deficit of
all the roads was about 1000. .000, 900
francs. In 1921 It was 1000. 900. 900
francs. This year will probably close
with a deficit of less than 1880, 100000
francs.
The New York herald., 1922-12-14
Discuss Toy Fair Here.

There was considerable discussion re-
garding the New York Toy Fair at the
sixth annual convention Of the Toy Man.
ufacturers Association of the United
States, Inc. which opened yesterday at
the Hotel McAlpin. James 3. Reynolds,
former Assistant Secretary of the
Urea asury, cleared up many uncertainties
regarding the new tariff law. Nelson B.
Goskill. chairma nof the Federal Trade
Commission, and John G. Howell
statistician of the Brookmire Economic
Service, will address the toymakers at
to-day's session. The convention will
close tonight with banquet.
The New York herald., 1922-12-14
Join SILK Association.

Ten firms were elected to member
ship in the Silk Association of America
at the regular quarterly meeting of the
board of managers held yesterday. "A
nominating committee also was ap-
pointed in anticipation Of the annual
election OF officers. The new members
of the association are the Tubize Arti-
ficial Silk Company. Nadai & Fleisher.
Inc, Oscar A. Goedecke & Son and Ed
ward Paul Serrell of New York city;
the American Textiles. Inc, of Bay City,
Mich. William Brown Company Of
Philadelphia Cunning silk Company of
Easton. Pa. Lincoln Hosiery Corpora
ton of Pennsylvania; Oakbrook Hosiery
Mills Inc, of Reading, Pa. and Railway
Silk Corporation Of Yorkville, N. Y.
The New York herald., 1922-12-14
CHICAGO PRICES.
NEW YORK PRICES

NEW YORK PKI(ES.
WHEAT-No 1 Northern spring, 81 49,. ,
No red and No hard. 1.S91s No.
Manitoba, 81 .3lai No. mixed durum. 81. %
c. l. f. track New York.
CORN-No. yellow and No. white,
92Ac. No. mixed, 92llc. c. l. T. New York
OATS-No. > white. 5Ic.; No. white. Doc {;
No. white. size. fancy clipped white,
56isa57lAc.: ordinary clipped white. 5iisa
5511c.. all elevator.
RYE-Market firm, No. 2 Western. si.o5
I. o. b. and sl0fl1. c. !. (. New York export.
BARLEY-Market dull. Mailing, s2aSic.
c. |. T., New York.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. dull. American,
$40: Canadian. $l.95. nominal per 100 lbs.
HAY-Market steady No. /. Sa5a26; No.
2. $2sa2o. No. 3. S2ia23. shipping. slsa2o
per ton.
STRAw--Market quiet. No. l rye. s23ae4
Haat. 10
The New York herald., 1922-12-14
DIVIDENDS AND INTEREST.
AMERICAN CAN COMPANY.
preferred StOck

A quarterly dividend OF one and three--
quarters per cent has been declared on the
Preferred Stock of this Company. payable
January End 1929 to Stockholders of record
at the close Of business December 18th, 1922.
Transfer Books will remain open. Checks
mailed
X. H. ISMON. Secretary & Treasurer.
The New York herald., 1922-12-14
[he Baltimore & ohio Railroad Co,

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.
Baltimore. Md. December 13. 1922.
Tho Board of Directors this day declared
for the six months ending December 81.
1922. from the net earnings OF the COM
pany. a dividend OF two (2) per cent. on
the Preferred Stock of the Company, pay
able March 1. 1928. TO the stockholders of
record at the close of business on January
13. 1928.
The Transfer Books will not close
c. w. wOOLFORD, Secretary.
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The New York Central Railroad Co.

New NOrk, December 13, 49,
Dividend of One Dollar and Twenty-Five
cents G1.25) per share. on the Capital
Stock Of this Company has been declared
payable February 1. 1923. at the office Of
the General Treasurer. to stockholders OF
record at the close OF business December
20, 1922.
For the purpose OF the Annual Meeting OF
Stockholders of this Company, which will
be held January a. 1923. the stock trans
fer books will be closed at 3 p. NJ. December
70. 1922. and reopened at 10 4. M. January
%, 1923.
MILTON s., BARGER. General. Treasurer
The New York herald., 1922-12-14
MISCELLANEOUS MARKET
TRUST AND SURETY COMPANIES.
tFed. Land pank Farm Loan

Y. =. LAND BANK FARM IOAN BONDS.
Yield
Bid. Ask. Ab't.
sFed. Land bark Farm Loan
rs, Nov. 1871. op. 3f.... 1o3% 1o3b AS
tFed Land Bank Farm, Loan
IS. May. 1871. op. 81 -. 1o39s 1854 4.4J
tFed Land Bank Farm Loan
IS. May. 1888. op. 20. ...10O 1904 40
'rra nss. May. ioas. op. SO. =. 1904 ioox .s7
tied Land Hank Farm Loan
4iss. Nav, 1880. op. a.. ooh 100 $50
tied. Land Bank Farm Loan
aga. Nov, 1898. op. 49,. eet 100 40
sFed i.Rnd Bai,k Farm Loan
as. May. 1887, op. az. e9h 100 $50
mot listed on New York Stock Exchange.
The New York herald., 1922-12-14
TIFFANY & CO.,
Fifth Avenue and 31th Street.

flItn avenue ana 0Itn otreets
New York.
Notice Of Special Meeting of stockholders.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that special
meeting OF the stockholders of TIFFANY IA
COMPANY is hereby called to be held at the
principal office OF the corporation at 9TH
Avenue and 37th Street. In the City. County
and State of New York. on the 18th dayiof
December. 1922, at IL o'clock noon. The OBJ
Jects of the meeting are:
(a) To increase the amount OF the stated
capital OF the corporation from Twelvs
million dollars ($12 .000. .000) to Sixteen
million eight hundred thousand dollars
(416. 800. .000). and to amend the certifl-
cate OF Incorporation and the certifi-
cate of reorganization Of the corpora
~ tlon for that purpose. and to take any
action necessary to effect the same.
fb) To transact all such other business as
may come before said meeting.
The transfer books Of the corporation VIII
be closed for twenty (20) days before the
day OF holding the meeting
(Dated) New York. November "a. 1922.
JOHN G. MOORE, President.
H. II. TREADWELL. Secretary.
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AMERICAN CAN COMPANY.
rAr.vsSn~, sfnrk

common StOcK-
A quarterly dividend of one and one-quar.
ter per cent. has been declared on the Com
mon Stock Of this Company, payable Febru.
ary 10Th, 1923. to Stockholders Of record at
the close of business January 31st, 1923.
Transfer Books win remain open. Checks
mailed.
The New York herald., 1922-12-14
sEABOARD CTEARANcES
GERMAN BANK STATEMENT.

BERLIN. Dec. l3.--The statement OF the
Imperial Bank OF Germany as OF December
shows the following changes:
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THE HANOVER NATIONAL BANK
~ klas (.lk.t NJ Neyu Xar1x

NEW ICIKs IyeCeIIUtK
Notice is hereby given that the annual
meeting OF the shareholders of this bank for
the election OF Directors to serve during the
coming year and for the transaction of such
other business as may come before the meet
ing, will be held at the banking house. Mas
sau and Pine Streets. Tuesday, January 9th.
1928, between the hours OF II o'clock A. M.
and IL o'clock M. s
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American Telephone & Telegraph Co

American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
133rd Dividend
The regular quarterly dividend of two doll
ars and twenty-five cents per share will bs
paid on Monday. January 10. 1923. to stock
holders of record at the close of business on
Wednesday. December 20. 1922
II. BLAIR-SMITH. Treasurer.
THE IMPORTERS 4 TRADERS NATIONAL
BANK OF NEW YORK.
New York. December 18th. 1922.
A quarterly dividend of Six Per Cent. and
an extra dividend OF Six Per Cent. have to-
day been declared by this bank. payable on
the 2nd day of January next, to stockholders
of record at the close OF business December
21st. 1922.
G. f. REGAIN. Cashier.
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To THE sToCKHoL6ERE or THE

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN. that spe-
cjal meeting of the stockholders OF the IN
I'uSTRIAL BANK OF NEW YORK will be
olgh Of Manhattan. City Of New York. on the
18th day of December. 1922. at II o'clock
A. M, for the purpose of having submitted
to them an agreement bearing date theS 18th
day OF November, 1922. between the Manu-
facturers Trust Company and Industrial
Bank of New York. for the merger of the
Industrial Bank Of New York into the Manu-
facturers Trust Company, and of having said
stockholders consider and approve the said
agreement.
Dated, December 4th, 1922.
SLAUGHTON b. LYND. President.
JUNIUS r. CLOSE. Cashier
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Net

Sales. High. Low. Last. Chge
500 Winthe SM AZ, II lOis loh = q
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NEW YORK CURB MARKET
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 10. 1922

DECEMBER 13, 1922.
The New York herald., 1922-04-30

war service In Palestine. His COM
nanding officers try to shelve him
as too old, but he evades them by .
new disguise and Is effectively
among those present in routing the
Turk. But he realizes that the COM
ment, AT your age-with your dyed
lair and mustache-you're an old
FOOL was really right. and one Is
not surprised to find him settling
down in the last chapter.
In between we get throwbacks to
earlier adventures. glimpses OF Wig
nolles the boy. who ran away to
enlist at 16; yignolles the wanderer
and collector Of experiences. The
story. forbidden Fruit" has a bit
OF novelty In that its heroine is q
barem beauty, with whom he gets
into touch quite accidentally. by get
ting a wrong number in a telephone
call, being put through" to the
harem by mistake. The telephone as
medium Of romance in Cairo with
harem as its terminus is a paeas-
ing innovation. The lady is dis
covered" and he supposes her killed.
but years later he meets her. very
much grown up to excessive fatness.
and is obliged to invent a wife Of his
own and five children to help him
escape her fascination.
z There is. too. the reminiscent story
OF Eve Damer. the young English
girl. tale beginning in the West
Indies and ending in dlsillusionment
in London, falling as flatly as its
Cairene predecessor. If 1t has a
moral 1t Is that vignolles was still
too young to settle down. But after
The war he manages it by a charac-
teristically eccentric proceeding.
AS an aside we are given a causti-
cally conceived sketch Of a British
profiteer behind the lines in France.
with yignolles in the role OF re-
former. There is also a highly pic
turesque account of Salonica and tho
back country before the war-a grim
sketch OF the unspeallable horrors Of
Macedonia "the last place God
made." As sheer brutal realism II is
the best thing in the book.
The New York herald., 1922-04-30
New Fiction
Continued from preceding poge.

feet Of much Of the literature Of the
day; a certain stridancy. sometimes
OF incident, sometimes. as here.
merely IN dction. II is fatiguing, as
khe reader Knust pant and worry at
the writer's elbow il he is to reach
the goal-and that goal. as In this
story, is often. very well worth
reaching. One wants to reach it, but
would rather do 1t with less elamor.
There is novelty in the central
idea of this story. Lola. the daush-
ter OF middle class tradesman.
Breezy. the jeweler. is throw
back" inr part. to her French ances-
tress. Nine. de Breze, a courtesan
famous II her day. Lola Is not so
much beautiful as alluring. There
was so definite and disordering a
sense Of sex about her that she
passed through very procession OF
fribute." Yet there is nothing re-
oeIlant or vicious in her-rather. she
a the mermaid. the fairy. become
wholly human She falls in love with
fhe great Statesman. Mr.. Farallay.
who is a lonely. unhappy. isolated
figure, married to the remarkable
Lzdx Fec. but practically separated
from her. t.nla conceives the idea
that she is destined to take that in
different lady's place and supply Mr..
Farailay the love he needs, and
thereby to serve England as well. II
Is al upon a sIngulariy elevated yet
human plane.
Lola manages to get herself into
the house as Lady Feo's maid, and
thus completes her education. Even
fuaIly she meets and subdues her
idol after a very well detailed series
Of remarkable adventures. but the
course Of true love follows its wen
known habit. and although Lady Fec
Is quite complaisant all hands realize
at last that remuneration Is the only
way out. 1t is the same problem that
Wells treated in THE New Mac
AAt1LNEAfl anu ttSCGACAG ~ 0AS<Ao~
frous ends-the old Parnell diff
Guilty. but solved here by avoiding It's
consequences. The book is thus a Gu
riously efficient combination Of sew
eraI apparently discordant themes,
harmonized at the end. but stopping
an a minor chord. Despite its blem-
ishes it must be ranked an artistic
achievement.
The many minor characters are SO
wen done that one Is often tempted
10 follow them as they disappear In
the crowd instead Of watching the
leaders whom the authors finger in
dicates. But they all fit appropriately
into the picture. It Is an arresting
novel. with the faults as wen as the
virtues OF the day. each to high
degree.
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theme is not too patiently moralized;
it Is not so much a parable as a
spectacular. mystic poem In prose.
What Mr.. Blackwood has done Is
to take mass of more or less law
material of what may be called
psychic phenomena and weave the
varying strands of the mixture into
a prismatic fabric that Ia not quite
or this world nor yet quite out OF It.
Looked at from one side 1t Is an in
trusion or superhuman spirits. OF
elemental sprites. taking possession
OF human bodies; from another. as
the psychoanalyst doctor explains. It
is all explicable as q normal mani
festation Of the subjects "subllminal
SELF" You can take your choice OF
the explanations. Mr.. Blackwood
himself is not dogmatic about Il.
The story. as such. deals with the
adventures. largely psychic, Of the
extraordinary Le Vallon together
with DR.. Ffllery. and several women.
lie vallon has uncanny psychic pow
ers; In fact, he Is possessed" by q
"non-human" being, who may be
called q spirit OF wind and fire. a
primeval nature sprite. q Pan. or
something even moro nearly ele-
mental than any or those familiar
names suggest. This spirit or lie
Vallon, recognizes in Ffllery and in
one OF The women. the Russian girl.
Nayan, kindred elemental spirits i'm
prIsoned in human bodies. At one
point, which is one OF the peaks OF
the story. he invites these two to
escape with him. After Nayan's song
he cries out: We are all exiles to-
gether. But you know the way out
the way back, You remember!
Comet We win 60 back to-
gether. We work here in vain."
1t IS an immensely impressive
scene. ending in a great storm. all
stage managed without any suggcs-
ton OF the melodrama. The handling
of such high strung passages with
out becoming absurd Is little short
OF miraculous.
But the way out is not so simple
as that. There are many complica-
tions which make a long, but swiftly
moving story. There Is Lady Glee-
son. for example. who symbolizes, or
embodies. the destructive forces OF
evil. lie yallon Is always creative,
constructive. trying TO build up.
Lady Gleeson is the opposing force.
In her "peering. gIittering eyes" one
sees the destructive lust, the selfish
passion, the bird of prey" Elsewhere
She is called 'the slim animal OF
prey" The contrast Is subtly given,
without any lapse into crudity, even
at the most dangerous spots.
The imprisoned spirit finally
escapes. and the book ends upon a
wholly human note, but Le vallon
and the woman still hear, the magic
sounds Of the dream, vision-call il
what you win. 1t is a thankless task
to try to convey in a few bald prose
sentences the essence Of such a crea-
ton as this book. Perhaps the best
summary Is to say that. however one
takes 1t. it is an impressive and al
ways interesting experiment in lit
erature.