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Evening star., 1924-09-26
AWAITING COAL TRAFFIC.
Western Maryland Present Earn
ings Unfavorable.
Speciel Dispatch 10 The Star

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
BALTIMORE, September 26.-The
August report of the Western Mary
land Railway, while unfayorable
compared with the corresponding
month a year ago, showed that the
management has the expense item
we'll in hand and that the rate OF
shrinkage in earnings was not as
great as two months ago
Operating revenues in August drop
ped s549.199, compared with a year
ago, while expenses were cut s4Sl,-
029, reducing the shrinkage in net
operating income to S6S170. After
allowing for the months proportion
of fixed charges, the actual net in
come showed d comparative loss OF
s140,639.
1t is not expected that the Western
Maryland will turn the corner until
the movement or soft coal begins
in earnest. More than so per cent
of all the tonnage of this company
consists of that commodity.
Evening star., 1924-09-26
MORE EARNINGS REPORTS
New York Central's Income Shows
August Decline.

NEW YORK, September 26.-The
New York Centrars net operating in
come in August declined to $5,54S,777,
compared with $7,262, 900 in the same
month last year.
Gross revenues decreased more than
s6,000,000. Net operating income for
the first eight months of 1924 was
$41,523,S00, against $54, ,714,914 year
ago, while gross fell to S243, ,3S1
from $286,455, 123.
National Steel Car Company earned
net profits of s35S,3s2 in the year
ended June 80, in contrast to net loss
of s11S,000 in the preceding year.
Operating profit was $60S,815, against
S142,S88 a year ago.
Commonwealth Power Corporation
surplus after taxes, charges and de-
probation for the year ended August
81 increased to S2,514,618 from 1854
821 the year before. Gross earnings
of $31 1,6Ss,S50 showed a gain Of more
than $3,000,o00.
Evening star., 1924-09-26
BY WILLIAM r. HEFFERNAN.

NEW YORK, September 26-Those
working for higher prices gained con-
siderable advantage in today's curb
market operations. 1t was noticeable
that public participation was on the
increase and that the buying move
ment was spreading to inactive parts
of the list.
Public utilities maintained their
prominence, with the demand for re-
cent favorites carrying prices to the
highest for the present move and to
new tops for some. The upturn in
middle Western utilities gained mo-
mentum, carrying the price more than
4 points above the previous closing.
The decidedly favorable earning
report of Commonwealth Power Cor
Evening star., 1924-09-26
LUMBER ORDERS SLOW.
Present Business Reported Under
Records of 1923.

AS reflected by the operations of
564 of the chief commercial softwood
lumber mills of the United States,
the national lumber movement un-
derwent no changes in the week
ending September 20. as compared
with the previous week, says the
National Lumber Manufacturers As
sociation. There is, however, a no.
ticeable decline in all three factors
of production, shipments and orders
when last week is compared with
the corresponding week of 1928.
Evening star., 1924-09-26
New Palindrome Found.

New palindromes are rare, but a
Western newspaper writer has re-
vealed several especially good ones.
A palindrome is merely a phrase that
spells backward and forward. A clas-
sic example of the palindrome is the
speech put into the mouth of Ma
poleon, able was l ere 1 saw Elba"
Among the new ones sent was the
following, purporting to be sign
which store manager placed over
a rat-catching preparation composed
of Dutch cheese and tar: Rat trap
made a la Edam, part tar" Years ago
when Red root" was popular an a
cure-all, a druggists sign ran: 'Red
root put up to order"
Evening star., 1924-09-26
NEW YORK CURB MARKET
Received by Private Wire Direct to The Star Office

poration furnished an incentive for
renewed buying of the stock, which
was bid up to within little more than
a point of the high for all time. Ten
nessee Electric Power responded to
publication of it's earnings for the Il
months period ended August 81,
which were almost double those OF
the common for the previous II
months.
Profit-taking sales in some of the
baking company stocks apparently
had been completed and the upward
movement was resumed today. Ward
Baking A and United Bakeries COM
mon were features. the former stock
advancing 4 points.
Radio stocks moved with good
deal of iEdecision. The realizing in
Dubilier had run its course and
slightly higher prices were the rule.
Evening star., 1924-09-26
MORGAN MAN ON BOARD.
Fisher Body Officials Also Join
General Motors Staff.

NEW YORK, September 26.-The
representation of J. p. Morgan & Co.
in the control of the General Motors
Corporation has been increased
through the election of George Whit
ney, a partner, as a director and
member of the General Motors finance
committee. r. r. Stettinius, another
Morgan partner, is a member of both
boards.
Other important changes made by
the General Motors Corporation in
cluded the election of Charles T.
Fisher and Lawrence Z. Fisher, both
representing the Fisher Body Cor
poration, as directors, and the addi-
tion of Fred ]. Fisher of the same
company TO the finance committee.
Evening star., 1924-09-26
BIG TEXTILE CONCERN
0MITS BOTH DIVIDENDS
By the Associated Press

BY the AssOcla ted Press
NEW YORK, September 26.-Direc.
tors Of the Standard Textile Products
Co. have omitted dividend payments or
both classes Of preferred stock, which
have been paid regularly at the rate OF
per cent annually since 1919. The
company is one of the leading manu-
facturers of oilcloth in the country.
Earnings of the company were suf-
ficient to cover current dividend require
mentS on the preferred shares. Alvin
Hunsicker. president. explained. but
because of unsettled conditions in the
textile industry the directors deemed il
wise to defer payments.
Evening star., 1924-09-26
Requirements for Culture

DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi-
dent of Columbia University, outlined
five traits that distinguish a man of
culture. They are, in condensed YER
sion: Correct use of the mother
tongue, refined and gentle manners.
sound standards of appreciation of
beauty, power and habit of reflection.
and efficiency or the power to do.
To these requirements for the cul-
tured man, a European woman edu-
Gator has added, to make the com
plete woman" the following: Guilt
walton of a. lively imagination, untir-
ing energy ard whole-hearted devo-
ton to an ideal, idea or a person.
Evening star., 1924-09-26
AMERICANS SPEND
S29,0D0,0)D ON ART
Imports in Past Year Heav.
lest for Decade-ArticIes
100 Years Old Favored,
Special Dispa tch to The Star.

Special Dispatc to The star
NEW YORK, Septembe- 26. = A
steady growth of the "ar ; enc" senti-
ment in the United States is evidenced
by the latest official records of the
government. which show an importa-
tion of more than $4,000, 900 worth
of art works in the fiscal year 1924
against $27.000.00O worth in 1923.
,$21 100000 worth in 1921 and $22 ,oOO,-
600 in 1914. In fact, says the Trade
Record of the National City Bank.
the value of art works imported in
the fiscal year 1924 is greater than
in any year since the beginning of
the war.
American Demand Growing.
That this American demand for art
objects from other countries is a
growing one, says the Trade Record,
is evidenced by study of the gov
ernment records of importation of
the group of articles classed by the
customs authorities as "art works.
In the decade ending with 1900 the
Importation of art works averaged
about $500. 900 a year. In the decade
Immediately preceding the war they
averaged about Sic, 100000 year; in
the decade since the opening of the
war the recorded imports of this mer-
chandise has averaged about s21,00o,-
900 year. and in the fiscal year
1924 made the highest record of the
decade, s29,1S2, 1856. The total value
of art works imported since the be-
ginning of the century is about s420.-
100000. of which about s2l2,0OO,OOO
have come in during the past 10 years.
Originals Very Popular.
Curiously, adds the Trade Record,
the demand for art objects from
abroad includes chiefly articles pro-
duced by an earlier generation of
artists. The various classes of
articles forming the $29,000,000 worth
Of art works imported in 1924 in
clude works of art 100 years old"
S21, 116,l03: Original paintings statu-
ary, ETC." s6.259, 900, and the ''produc
tion of American artists s155,O00.
Most of these articles 100 years old
and over" come from Europe OF the
total of this particular group amount
ing to S19,000,00o imported in 1922.
the latest detailed figures available,
about S9,000,000 worth came from
France, s5,000.o00 from England, ST.,
000 900 each from Italy, Belgium and
Netherlands. and about a half-mil-
lion dollars worth from China and
Japan.
Glasses of Articles.
The classes of articles forming this
big group which have been produced
more than 100 years" include, accord
ing to the governmental publica-
tions, works in bronze, marble, terra
Gotta. parian, pottery or porcelain.
artistic antiquities and objects of
art OF ornamental character.
Evening star., 1924-09-26
COMMODITY NEWS
WIRED STAR FROM
ENTIRE COUNTRY

MANCHESTER, N. H, September
26-The +. NJ Hoyt shoe fact ory
has gone on full production. an i'm
provement Of so per cent in the past
few weeks. The J. F.. Elwain fac
tory reports orders on hand sufficient
| to assure capacity operation for some
time to come. All other factories in
the State report Improvement
DENVER, September 26.-The total
value of gold, silver, lead and copper
produced by the American SmeIting
and Refining Co. in Colorado in the
last seven months is placed at
s5.105,657, against S5.s45.O62 for the
similar period last year. Gold was
the only metal to show an increase,
the figures being $1,421,O41, as
against $s0S,s42.
STEVENS POINT. Wis, September
26.-The central Wisconsin black
berry crop is producing excellent re-
turns, cool weather having held it
back until PRACTICAL all other berries
were gone.
COLUMBIA, Mo, September 20
The Riverview orchards here have
sold 27,0OO bushels of apples on the
trees for $4,000.
SUPERIOR. Wis. September 26.-A
steamer of the M. A. Hanna line has
cleared for Buffalo with 6oS,0OO
bushels of oats, the largest grain
cargo by $4,000 bushels ever shipped
from this port
HAyERHILL, Mass, September rs.
The Shoe Workers Protective
Union has forwarded to manufac-
turers a formal petition calling for
an upward revision of wages
SEATTLE, September 26.-Seven
thousand bales of raw silk, valued at
$3.50 n pound G. /. T. New York, or
moro than s6,000,000, will be rushed
to New York this week end. North
ern rail lines are competing for a
record delivery from Yokohama to
New York.
Evening star., 1924-09-26
APPLE BUYERS HOLD OFF,
Maryland and Virginia Crops in
Fine Condition.

Peaches have made a good crop in
both Maryland and Delaware. says a
Department of Agriculture review
Pears VIII not make as good a crop
as last year in either State The
gathering Of apples in commercial
orchards has begun in Virginia, and
there mas been some Improvement in
size and red varieties have colored
well. Some sales have been made at
satisfactory prices, but buyers gener-
ally nave shown little activity.
The fruit crops in North Carolina
especially apples. are unusually good.
Color and quality are better than
usual. Rains have improved the con-
dition of the citrus fruits in Florida.
Evening star., 1924-09-26
WANT MORE u. S. SHIPS.
Gulf Ports Swamped With Cotton,
Grain and Lumber.
SpecisI Dispatch to The Star,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW ORLEANS, September 60
New Orleans and other gulf ports are
congested with cotton, grain, lumber
naval stores and other commodities
destined for Europe, shipment OF
which is being delayed by lack of
vessels. 1t is stated on reliable au-
thority that 100000 bales of cotton
would be shipped from gulf ports in
the next two weeks if vessels were
available.
Exporters are demanding relief
from the shipping board, which has
promised 10 vessels, but has not yet
allotted them, although 1t is reported
to have many vessels idle.
Evening star., 1924-09-26
SEAB0ARD AIR LINES
NET REVENUE GAINING
Eight Months Earnings Make
Good Show-August Keeps
Up Record.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

BALTIMORE. Md, September 26.-
ne august report of operations of
tne SeaDoard Air Line Railway shows
'hat the company is continuing its
record OF favorable earnings, and
heepins down expenses. Total reve-
nues last month were $3.764. III 90. an
increase of $45l6O compared with
the corresponding month last year
Whlie operating expenses were So
s24,o96 an increase of S26,454. leaving
net or SS4O,62l, an increase fSlS,7O5.
for the eight-month period total
operating revenues were s32.05e,131,
an increase of s73S.23l, compared
with corresponding months in 1923
operating expenses were S27.l94.682
an increase of s437.s41. leaving net
revenue of s7.S64,449, an increase of
S300,3S9
Evening star., 1924-09-26
GRAIN GREAT HELP
TO LAKE STEAMERS
Rush of Shipments Calls
Idle Boats in Service.
Montreal SWamped.
BY j. G. ROYLE-
Sppcial nispatch to The Star


CLEVELAND. September 26.-The
prosperity of tho farmers Of the Mid
die West and Northwest has been
reflected in the situation of the own
ers and operators of vessel on the
Great Lakes and bids fair to save
them from what otherwise "ould
have been an Improbable on.
Practically all the idle ships nd
there were more than IA hundred
units in the laid-up feet a month
ago-have been fitted out to grab the
Fall grain trade, which their owners
expect to be unusually heavy be-
tween now and the close of naviga-
ton.
The exceptions are those vessels
which are owned by steel and ore
interests or are chartered to such
interests and which are devoted
solely to carrying iron ore and coal.
The volume of freight represented by
these two latter commodities has
been extremely unsatisfactory this
season.
Evening star., 1924-09-26
STUDEBAKER'S EARNINGS
MAKE BETTER SHOWING
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK September 26.-The
Studebaker Corporations net profit
after taxes in the current quarter
will exceed s2.000,o00, with sales of
about $4,000 cars, according to A. r.
Erskine. president. He said Septem-
ber production would reach 5000 cars,
and Octobers schedule was $4,000, ap-
proximately the capacity of the com
pany's plants. Sales and profits in
the fourth quarter would show much
better results than the third quarter,
he stated, and might exceed any SINH
lar period iE the corporations his
tory.
Evening star., 1924-09-26
FIFTY BANKS TO REOPEN,
Millions Being Taken in From Crop
Sales in Northwest.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

ST. PAUL. September 2s.-Mflljons
OF dollars already have come into
circulation as a result of the market
ing or the big 1924 crops in the
North"est. Approximately so country
banks in the Northwest are expeCted
to reopen as result of the i'm
proved agriculture situation. Bank
cIearings for the district are above
*200,00O.OOO, gain of about % per
cent over 1928
A jump of s2s.oOO, 900 in St Paul
bank clearings last week is attrfb-
uted in part to the business attend
ant on the American Legion conven-
ton, but much of the gain resulted
from trade originating in rural COM
munities.
Evening star., 1924-09-26
NINE BIG SCHOONERS
GET BALTIMORE CARGOES
Revival of Coastwise Trade Seen
in Port Records of Present
Month.
Special Dispa tch TO The Star

special Dispatch TO The Star.
BALTIMORE, Md, September 90
Are schooners coming back into the
coastWise trade after a long period
of idleness? This is the question
asked among shipping men interested
in the sailing vessel. Since Septem-
Der l nine large seagoing schooners
have arrived here to load cargoes of
brick. coal and fertilizers.
The Eliza beth Freeman is here
from Norfolk to load bricks for Port
Tampa and the Virginia Pendleton.
from the same port, is at Sparrows
Point TO load steel billets for Port
land, Me. The schooners Lydia Nc
Lellan Baxter. Capt. Melville, cleared
with bricks for Port Tampa. the Dol
ly Madison with coal for Caibarien,
Cuba, and the Mabel A. Frye for
Windser, Nova Scotia, with fertilizer.
The Charles A. Dean has sailed from
Rockland, Me, for Baltimore, to load
fertilizer for a Nova Scotian port.
Evening star., 1924-09-26
Washington Stock Exchange

SALES
Washington Gas ss $500 at 1o2.
Washington Rwy. & Elec. 4s-slooO at d.
81. 900 at IS.
Capital Traction Co-10 at 92S.
washington Gas Light-i0 at 50a.
Washington Rwy. Elec. pfd.-lo at 20.
Merchant Transfer and Storage Co.-1o at
125.
AFTER CALL
Washington Gas IS $500 at sels, $500 at
96la.
Capitai Traction 5s-s1.0O at 81. $500 at
81 81 900 at 81.
Mopey-Call loans, and per cent.
Evening star., 1924-09-26
SOUTHERN RAILWAYS NET
IMPROVES IN AUGUST
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, September 26.-South-
ern Railways net operating income
of s2,73S,l33 reported for August was
a gain of more than 100000 over
August last year, although gross rev.
enues of $12,019,3S0 decreased about
100000. Net operating income for
the eight months of 1924 was ST.
5s6,505. against $17691,05S a year
ago. Gross aggregated s92, 1854. a
drop of about S6,50e,00O.
Evening star., 1924-09-26
AUSTRIAN SHARES SOLD.

NEW YORK, Septe mber 26.-Acuui-
sition of 100000 shares of the Lower
Austrian Discount Company of
Vienna. an. important Austrian bank,
was announced today by two New
York investment houses-F. J. Lish-
man & Co, and Morgan, Livermore
e Co.
Evening star., 1924-09-26
FIND PROFIT IN COTTON.

BELLEVILLE, ILL.,, September rs
DISQUALIFICATION was raised for the
first time in st. Clair County this
Summer. Growers were so pleased at
the results that a much larger
acreage will be planted to the weed
next season.
Evening star., 1924-09-26
CORN JUMPS 6 CENTS
IN EXCITING TRADING
BY the Associated Press.

Fy the hSsOc1Ated Fress.
CHICAGO, September 26-Corn
made spectacular advance of as
much as cents a bushel in price to-
day, with something of a stampede
to buy on the part of previous sellers.
The biggest jump in values was to
s1-10 for July, in which, however,
dealings were comparatively scarce.
Evening star., 1924-09-26
Glasses of Articles.
Your Banker KNOWS.

When in doubt about a security
consult your banker. 1t is equally
as much his interest as yours to pro-
tect your savings. You trust him
with your deposits-why not trust
him with your investment problems?
Evening star., 1924-09-26
FOREIGN EXCHANGE.
Quotations furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Co..
Nominal Selling checks
en1d yolu fpdo
RATES ON BAR SILVER.

LONDON, September 26.-Bar sill
yer, 35 1-16d per ounce. Money, 2B
per cent Discount rates, short bills,
3% per cent; three months, 11-16
per cent.
Evening star., 1924-09-26
Ore Season Near Finish.

According TO George L. Mari. sec
retary or the Lake Carriers Associa-
Il"h' the tonnage of iron ore brought
from the head of the lakes probably
Will not exceed 10000. 900 tons this
season, as compared with 59.00OOOO
tons IN 1923. Most Of the vessels en-
gagged IN the ore-carrying trade have
about completed their contracts and
are Just sweeping up the remnants
or a slack season. The volume of
coal carried to the. Northwest also
mas been light, Mr.. Marr added, since
last W inter was mild, supplies were
ample and heavy carryover of coal
tonnage resulted
Evening star., 1924-09-26

NEW YORK, September 26-Fol-
lowing is an official list of bonds and
stocks traded in on the New York
Curb Market today:
Evening star., 1924-09-26
Rushing Grain to Market.

ON the other side Of the picture
from the slack showing in ore and
coal the movement of grain from
canada has been unusually good all
season western canada had heavy
arr!oVer from The record breaking
harvest Of 1923 and has been ship
ping wheat steadily to America as
Well as 10 Canadian export terminals
NO" the 1924 harvest is beginning to
move and while it is well under that
OF last year in volume, growers are
no less anxious to ship and sell. since
prices have shown material advance
normally much of this Canadian
gram ana very considerable amount
from America would be shipped via
the Great Lakes. the st. Lawrence
ana Montreal for transfer to ocean
carriers at that port. But the con-
Eestlon at Montreal has been such
that neither Canadian nor American
vessel owners would accept charters
Ior that destination. fearing that
they might be tied up for 80 days or
longer before they cOuId unload
Evening star., 1924-09-26
water Rates Very Low.

only Caaadian vessels can carry
canadian grain from one Canadian
port 10 another, just as only Ameri-
can vessels can transport cargoes
from Duluth to Buffalo, but Ameri-
can vessels can compete in the car
rSlnS or cargo between Canadian and
American ports and they are all set
TO do so. The profits. even if they
secure the business. will not be large
1here have been so many vessels
available that rates are near bottom
ana shipping authorities contend
only the larger vessels can show a
reasonable profit
Lake vessels have set new records
TINS year. however. in speed and de-
Pendaolllty FreiGhters have COM
pleted one round trip after another
between Cleveland and the head of
the lakes in seven days The tourist
trafnc on the lakes started late and
was SLOW for time. but before the
end OF the Summer had made IN much
OF the loss as compared with former
seasons.
The situation as regards transshin-
nent OF wheat at Montreal does not
present liability of much change
before that port is closed for the
Winter. Elevator facilities are in
adequate to handle the grain which
is sure to be shipped from the prairie
provinces, either by rail or bv water.
and the number Of ocean-goine yes
sells is so small that grain cannot he
poured into their holds direct from
the conveyance which carries II 70
Montreal.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-12-04
FIRST NEED IN DISASTER is
HARDWARE-NoT FOOD

How absolutely essential hardware
stores are to the community is best
demonstrated in time of disaster.
The truth of this statement accord.
ing to an article in the November is
sue of Good Hardware, was proved
in Lorain, Ohio, recently, when tor
nado swept the city of $4,000 people
leaving in its wake so dead, $50 in
jured and property loss estimated
at S2O,O00,00O.
Four hardware houses were among
the 80 stores hit by the twister which
tore through the heart of the bust.
ness district. 1t left the town in dark
ness. Light wires were down, gas
lines were broken, more than 500
homes were wrecked and the biggest
theater in the town was totally demol
ised, with more than a score OF per
sons buried in the wreckage. Tons of
debris filled the streets. Dead, dying
and injured were everywhere, many
pinned under the ruins.
There was an instant demand for
tools to help in excavating the ruins
and for electric flashlights, gas lamps
and oil lanterns of all kinds to light
the search for victims. 1t was by such
makeshift Illumination as this that
doctors and nurses worked through
the night, and it was to the hardware
stores that survivors turned for these
articles.
People could do without food said
the writer in Good Hardware, but
they needed rope, shovels, picks,
axes and light to probe among the
ruins for the dead and injured.