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GAIN IN REVENUES.

: NEW YORK. February Io.-Gross
revenue Of General Gas and Electric
Corporation for 1924 amounted to
31s,S15.o15, an increase Of $2,767110
over 1924. After providing for ex-
penses. taxes, depreciation and in
.terest on funded debt. including all
prior charges OF subsidiary. coritpa-
ries, net income was $1,5t1. .ie9. an
Increase OF $21s,117. 81 +,
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CONTINENTAL CAMS NET.

NEW YORK, February 10.-Net in
come OF the Contin entail Can Co.
increased to $4.053,325 in 1924,
quail after preferred dividends to
$50 a; share on 450,050 no par value
common shares at the end Of the year,
compared with $S.767,730, or s91S &
share on 365,464 shares In 1928.
Evening star., 1925-02-10
A:worA to spectators.

II you must speculate, select a rep
'utAble broker who holds m neI11bershfp
in q recognized stock exchange. Ex-
change requirements in. themselves,
are some protection, as its members
must comply with business ethics as
provided by rules and regulations.
II a member violates these rules, he
hasards his membership. which -
usually his greatest asset
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BIG DROP IN EARNINGS.

NEW YORK, February to.-Gross
earnings of the American Locomotive
G. ~ 1904 amounted to s56, 301 .S42.
the annual report revealed, in contrast
to SyV,ISV.Iio lne year before. Net
profit of Sc, ,649,507 compared with S12,-
376.564 in 1928, and was equivalent
after allowing for the preferred div
idends to $3.50 share on the COM
mon stock.
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PIG IRON DEMAND UP.

NEW YORK. February 10.-Demand
for pig iron has improved, noticeably
in the New York district in the last
few days. Pending inquiries exceed
rs. 900 tons, against about 1000 tons. a
week ago. Prices are unchanged at
s23.5o eastern Pennsylvania and $23
Buffalo.
Evening star., 1925-02-10
BY WILLIAM F. HEFFERNAN.

NEW YORK, February 18-Heavy
buying of selected issues In the min
ing section, slight upturns In the oils
ana an irregular movement else
"here characterized happenings on
the Curb exchange today. The new Kel-
vinator stock, which opened almost
four points above the price Monday,
again gave a good account of itself
The congressional investigation into
recent advances in crude and refined
OIL quotations failed to influence the
market for the oil shares.
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STOCK DIVIDEND VOTED.

NEW YORK, February ,1o.-The
Paige Detroit Motor Car Co. has de-
clared q stock dividend Of an per
cent on the common stock and the
regular quarterly 8 per cent cash.
The stocR dividends payable April to
holders Of record MG.ch 18. .:.,s.;.;-,,
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Washington Stock Exchange

SALES.
Washington Rwy 4 Elec. &. & r. 6s-Sl,ooo
at 101 Il. 20 -.
National Mtge. & Investment pfd-oo al
9ss 80 at 9;s, 80 at 9h.
AFTER CALL.
American Security & Trust Co.-10 at $50.
Washinrton Gas 6s '33-S2UU at lU1 "A, 500
al at 1olA. s4U0 at 1u1 u.
Lanston MonoIype-1U ct 1914.
Washing ton Gas Light-l0 at Jsh4.
Federal American National Bank at 23o.
Money-Call loans. and per cent.
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BUTTER HIGHER TODAY:

CHICAGO, February 10.-Butter-
Higher; creamery extras, 50; stand
ards. 39A; extras, firsts, 3fMa3S1a;
firsts, 35 1aaa6A; seconds. s2A34.
Eggs Higher; receipts, 1851
cases; frsts, 42a42h; ordinary firsts,
39a46.
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LIVE POULTRY PRICES.

CHICAGO February 10.-Poultry,
alive, unsettled; fowls, 21a23; springs.
81; roosters, 1SS turkeys, IS; ducks. 26;
geese, 16.
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A hen travels with the. Sir John
Martin Harvey's stock company. in
Europe, and has never missed her cue
to strut across the stage In '"The
CofSican Brothers"
Evening star., 1925-02-10

Fresno, Calf, in 1908. was the first
city to have an automobile news
paper delivery service.
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NEW YORK, February 10.-Fol!ow-
ing is An official list of bonds and
stocks traded in on the New York
Curb market today:
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Money to Loan

Secured by first deed Of trust on real estate
Prevailing interest and commission.
Joseph |. Weller go sg9 Wash, a,n l. : Tr9s' w
Evening star., 1925-02-10

{The next article In this series wa
appear tomorrOvS.)
Seward daily gateway., 1925-07-02
Seward Brevities

Seward Alaska is located at the head of Resurrection
 Bay 1914 miles Northwest of Seattle Seward the point of egress to the Interior of Alaska and
 transfer point for regions to the Westward. Seward IS the terminal for three steamship companies Seward has modern homes buildings school and business
 houses. Seward has $1OO00O Jesse Lee Home, now under con-
 struction.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-07-02

Seward is the home of of the largest Standard Oil stations the Pacific Coast Seward has unlimited natural resources in mining fish ing, fur farming forests. Seward was described by President Harding as gem in perfect setting" Seward has pulp mill coming in the very near future Seward has livewire Chamber of Commerce write to them for detailed information Seward is natural tourist resort mountain climbing glaciers boat riding, fishing, hunting and scenics u surpassed anywhere. Stewards population is estimated today at 8OO and it is growing steadily.
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Miners Gas Masks.

DANCER of mine deaths through
smothering by poisonous gases is
being reduced in the Illinois coal fields
by equtpping the workers with self
rescuers," tested and approved by the
Bureau of Mines. They are designed
to give the wearer half an hour or
more after the gas surrounds him be
fore he is overcome, and consist of q
pinch clamp for the nostrils attached
to a small can with a mouthpiece. The
device is worn in the pocket or on the
belt and is inclosed in a soft brass case
that may be ripped open by hand. When
the fumes arise the breathing appa-
ratus is quickly adjusted and, by in
haling and exhaling through the mouth
into the can, the miner is protected
from the poison for at least half an
hour and has a chance to seek escape.
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Swallowed Up Disaster Undertake Almost Hopeless Task
Two Modern Robinson Crusoes, With Equipment Swallowed

ted with a shoulder-strap; Felipe
machete; my pouch and some ten
pounds of cooked meat and yucca,
completed our outfit.
The river which we now were about
to leave flowed, generally, from east
to west, and, since Fagot's place was
located at the junction of that tribu-
tary with the Wanks, we had its
course as a guide to our destination.
Striking camp, we proceeded down.
stream some 800 yards, over trail
which Felipe had previously opened.
The mouth of a creek which flowed
into the river there from the south
was the real starting point of our
journey.
For mile we followed the creek
along it's bank, cutting and hacking
our way through a dense tangle of
jungle. Six hours, approximately,
were consumed in this work. BY this
time we had reached a point where
the creek was sufficiently shallow to
permit our wading through it. Where
upon we splashed in and followed its
open course upstream.
Stumbling and plunging over the
slippery rocks, we came at times to
small deep pools which required
swimming. But this we never at
tempted to do without first making
surrounding banks for signs OF
'largartoS' (alligators). When we
found these-as we sometimes did
we would climb one of the banks and
cut our way through the bush until
we had left the pool in our rear.
Such a procedure was always fol-
lowed at my insistence and in spite of
Felipe's protests. He assured he that
it was all unnecessary labor because,
if we took large stone in each hand
and pounded them together under the
water, the sharp noise produced would
quite scare the alligators away and
leave us free to swim across without
danger. l had heard that the Indians
frequently used this method and, on
one occasion, 1 had with success put
1t into practice myself but still / did
not feel any inclination to enter into
intimacies with alligators.
Five or six miles up this channel we
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~ Through jungle DANGERS Without Gun or Garb

At dawn we arose. weak, feycrfsh.
our scratches and sores fostering and
Unnamed. once again we took IN
the struggle. all too conscious Of tha
fact that another such night could
not be endured. Two hours later.
however. we were out Of tho swamp
We found ourselves facing a rather.
steep hill. Searching. until we found
a stream of fresh water, we relieved
our tortured bodies by bathing. Then
we Camped for the rest Of the day
and the following night. Slowly va
regained somel of our strength.
Before noon on the next morning.
we reached the top Of the ridge, and
from there saw before US a vast plain
covered with grass and sparsely
wooded with long-leaf spruce pines.
But what caused our heart to bound
with hope was that, in the distance,
we saw a large river. This we be-
lieyed was very probably the Wanks,
and if SO, We would find human hab-
itations
Pressing forward, we quickly de-
scended the side of the hill and COM
menced a hurried march over the
plain. We reached the river shortly
after sunset. Our provisions had
been exhausted the day before. and
since then there had been no oppor-
tunity for hunting. And so. hungry,
but none the less joyful, we dropped
down on beds of soft, dry grass and
slept.
The next day we had scarcely COM
menced walking down stream along
the shore Of the river when we saw
! a party Of Indians in three canoes.
our appearance was such that IL was
with difficulty that they could be
persuaded TO approach us. After
many appeals and offers Of rich con-
pensatiOn, however. they were in
duced TO take US as passengers.
The Indians carried us TO Fagots
place. which, they said. was about
20 miles down stream. Three hours
of fast canoeing and we had reached
our haven. Felipe had proved his
boast: The man who knows does net
perish in the Jungle"
downright 1927
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Scientific Sherlock.

THE Post Office Department was
- faced with a mystery in the con-
tinual rifling of registered letters in
the Southwest The theft was mar
rowed down to one OF six post offices,
but the question as to which one
was hard to solve. A few weeks later
an inspector took one of the letters
that had been rifled and resealed, held
it to his nose and calmly announced
that the thief would be taken within
a week. He was. The inspector had
prepared six lots of mucilage. each
having a different perfume. This was
distributed among the six offices un-
der suspicion. The thief used the
perfumed mucilage to reseal the let
ter and gave away the location OF
the office. The rest was easy.
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were before US. With the setting of
the sun we must in practical naked
ness, face that most relentless of all
jungle foes, the mosquito. With hor-
ror L remembered the tales l had
heard of men who having been
caught OUT at night without net
tings had later been found dead. In
some cases they had been literally
stung to death by the myriads of
fiedish insects and in other cases
they had in desperation been driven
to suicide.
1 knew there was some truth in
these narrowing stories because dur
ing one of my earlier trips through
Talamanca, the draughtsman of the
party, Mariana Zuniga, had persisted
from mosquitoes.
Disturbed by these thoughts I dis
cussed the situation with Felipe who,
as usual smiling away my fears, re-
marked La montana nos dara mo-
squitoeros," C"The jungle will provide
us with mosquito bars.") He remind
ed me of the fact that in Zuniga's
case, at the time of the finding of his
corpse, evidence had also been dis
covered which showed that, in his
panic, he had drunk himself into
tnsensibility without making any eff
fort to protect himself from the pests.
X X X
MY fears greatly Gained by the con-
1vA fidence which Felipe showed,
then proceeded to assist him in con-
structing a shelter of the usual lean
to" type. This was built from saplings
securely tied together with vines and
closely matched on the top and the two
end sides with broad palm leaves, all
the materials for construction having
been found ready at hand in the
jungle. The damp dirt floor of our
of the "platanillo" palm, which leaf,
waxy in nature, elliptical in shape.
from 6 to feet long and about feet
wide, provided a soft and dry bed.
/ noticed that Felipe collected 'pla-
tanillo" leaves in considerable excess
of what was required for our bed. He
explained that those leaves would
serve us as blankets, and that, if it
were true that they give. but scant
warmth yet they would be mosquito
proof" Particularly would this be
true if we took care to cover our
heads and shoulders at the same time
that we did the rest of our bodies.
And so it proved. That night, in our
"platanilIo leaf beds, and with a
smudge-fire burning at the front of
our lean-to, we calmly defed our dead
Iy little enemies and rested in COM
fort.
Notwithstanding what the expert
ences of our first day had demonstrat-
ed with regard to finding food and
some of degree of comfort, L was suf-
ficiently anxious to know how Felipe
was going to provide the clothes, shoes
and weapons, which were indispen-
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found that we were commencing to
climb the foothills. The creek itself
had become a turbulent stream which
offered new defiaslces to our efforts:
waterfalls, sometimes 40 to 50 feet in
height, presented themselves as ap-
parently insurmountable barriers to
our advance. But sometimes making
rather long detours around them
through the bush, other times scram-
bling up to their very faces with the
assistance of the long, strong vines
which hung over them, we manage
to overcome them. Finally, in the
middle of the afternoon of our first
days travel. and after about IL hours
of incessant effort, we found ourselves
some Is miles from the river and well
UP in the foothills.
4 X X x
DOR six days we Travelled west
u through the forest, at times hav-
ing to cross deep gullies. Our most
serious thought was concerning the
food supply A good part of our pro-
visions had spoiled because of the
heat, and it required the mastery use
Of all his woodcraft to enable Felipe, in
such sparsely wooded country, to ap-
proach his game to that short dis
lance which his primitive and weak
weapons required. His skill and
pdbltlICts IlO"tNtI, hcpl US Suppllcu
With bigger game the forest was
rich. Frequently we met with tracks
and signs of jaguars, pumas and
tapirs At night, sometimes, we heard
the call Of some big cat" Whenever
we suspected that there was danger
of such an encounter. even at the ex-
pense of time and effort, we detoured
widely out Of the way.
On the seventh day we rapidly de
scended from the foothills, and at
about midday we found ourselves
facing tropical swamp. Our gourds
were filled with fresh water from a
nearby stream and then we ventured
into what we knew would be one of
the stiffest trials of our experience.
AS long as daylight permitted we
ploughed and stumbled through the
mud, into which, at times, we sank
nearly to our waists. With the aid OF
two saplings ten feet long, which at
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A Yearbook of Flying Women.
"A roerely read for their exploits
and "staunts," will constitute a popu-
lar publication apart from the inter
ests it defends.
Francie Ii was a pilot acrobat be
fore becoming a real missionary of
| aviation and modern ideas, in long
town to town, above the old pagodas.
In the Chinese revolution Francie
Lii developed qualities of comman-
der. She took a considerable part in
organizing the aviation of the south.
Shigeno Kin, her Japanese side
partner, is a. mechanician of motors
as we'll as of planes. She, too, Joined
the Chinese military aviation, where
she now is.
In Italy the wife of former Cabinet
Minister Finzi is military pilot, after
holding the civil permit for three busy
flying years.
In France Marie Coupeau owns and
runs one of the 90 "taxicab mono
planes" of the Paris region. Mar
celle Tenant is a Photographic pilot
in another such ''run-about." She has
had luck in plotting photographers
above views and monuments.
Miss Andree Farman is really re-
markable. She has grown up a pilot
from childhood. Several times a week
her father, the manufacturer of Far
man biplanes, has continually taken
the family to Deauville in lone of
those safe busses." Miss Andree
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Woman Flyers in Fewer Accidents
Per Capita Than Airmen of World

could read q map before she could
read cat" and could run a biplaue
before another little girl could run al,
bike,
CuriousIy. the American flying won
an best known to the French public
is Miss Cody, grand-niece OF Buffalo
Bill, pilot acrobat and parachutist
who, in 1920, descended in parachute
on the ocean, and made the shore by
swimming" She had also a notable
race with Miss Bessie Colman it
seems, and the two woman pilots
treated each other with the greatest
cOurtesy!'
1t is a trait promising for the year
book. The words are those of Mime.
Faure-Favier, feminine air specialist
of Paris. author of the Air Guides and
illustrations inquiry into Women
and Aviation"
Nine. Faure-Favier ought to have
great consulting authority in the com
pilation of the Yearbook of Flying
Women of the World.
= = < =
1T viii require more than one year
L to satisfactorily prepare the year
book. The subject matter is delicate
Much editing will be necessary. For
example, two real world experts in
gliding. with and without sail, are
two German girls. The German list,
truly, is mostly new matter, but the
entire yearbook is demanding i'm
mense correspondence.
The entire subject is new-and i'm
minent.
Why there exists as yet no year
book of men flyers,
The Yearbook of Women Flyers
will surely come out first
Shoot first, ladies!
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times were held out from one TO the
other OF us for support, while on
other occasions they were laid on the
swamp to serve as a bridge" from
one small mound Of firm ground to
another, we slowly made our painful
advance.
And in what a crowded world we
found ourselves; life - active. busy.
joyful - was present everywhere.
Brilliantly plumaged birds flew from
tree to tree and filled the air with their
calls, some shrill and harsh, others nu-
steal and belI-like in their clarity Bands
of monkeys scrambled and chartered
among branches which would have
offered a paradise to an orchid
hunter. Through the heavy. strong
smelling air bees, many-colOred but
terflies and metallic-lustered hum
ming birds fitted and buzzed about
all Joining in the song of life.
While above us, then, we saw life,
so splendid and joyous, at our feet
| yawned the black swamp, foul with
disease and squirming with deadly
reptiles. It's very slime seemed to
say: Here is death" And so. through
that contrast of the beautiful and
hideous, of life and death. we jour
neyed, having as our only guide
FeIipe's instructive sense of direction
WHEN darkness came it found us
W on n wet but firm bit of land
1t was barely large enough to hold
us both, without facility for building
any shelter or even for cutting and
gathering the friendly "platanillO'
leaves. On that bit of ground, COW
cred with a heavy coating of foul
smelling swamp mud in order to get
some protection from the mosquitoes
we lay and spent might of horror
We were in physical and mental
anguish. The night noises all were
terrifying-all seeming to proclaim
death. Close at hand we heard the
splashing struggle of two heavy
beasts as, grunting and snarling, they
fought a mortal combat. A monkey. as
it fell prey to snake or other enemy,
pierced the stiffness with its death
shriek-harrowingly like the human
voice
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SUGAR From Artichoke.

RY a process discovered by experts
~ of the Bureau Of Standards, sug-
ar one and a half times as sweet as
the cane and beet varieties may
be extracted from artichokes. The
refining treatment necessary is so
simple that, it is said, the cost OF
manufacturing the product can be
greatly reduced. Because of the low
expense in cultivating the vegetable
and its heavy yield when compared
to other sugar-bearing plants, it is
believed the artichoke may be extern
sively employed to provide a great
part of the future crops. Lack of
means of crystallizing the extract
has been bar heretofore.
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PARIS. March 3.
- IN years ago, in 1919, the Amer
lean Miss Ruth Law and the
Baronne de Laroche had a
~ dispute, which got into the
newspapers of two continents,
as to which should be classed first
in aeronautics.
The baronne was the first woman to
hold a pilots certificate (French
Brevet No. Sc, 1910, whereas Miss
Law was classified in the Aerophile
as of 1914.
Miss Law had done raid" of
$50 miles, and the first postal flight
to the Philippines. Baronne de
Laroche had no such long trips to her
| credit, but held notable records for
| looping" Miss Law had mounted
| to 1850 feet. while the 'baronne's
altitude was 11,700 feet.
The dispute was never decided,
because the baronne crashed fatally
in the midst of it's discussion, July
| is, 1919, while looping.
But the point is that woman flyers
had no say in record keeping.
| 1t remains so today. There is no
! roster of feminine aviators, and no
| classification which takes account of
! their records in more than a merely
accessory way.
| flying women have fewer accidents
! per capita per year than men, and are
| important enough, all over the world
| INCLUDING China and Japan, to have
| year book of their own.
The stubborn, faithful stroke in
women" is credited with their fewer
accidents than men, both as drivers
of motor cars and pilots in the air.
Only yesterday the touching faith
| fulness to death of Lady Harvard,
wife of Sir Harry Harvard of High
| way House, Beaconsfield, Bucks, re-
vived these claims for women.
| Lady Harvard had driven her four
scatter car into Uxbridge,, and was
| returning in the midst of rapid sub
I urban traffic. Suddenly she was seen
/ to slow down, avoid three onward
dsshing cars with skill, and bump
| into a bank, on the right hand edge
of the road, which stopped the car.
| Lady Harvard was found leaning
back, her hands still gripping the
| steering wheel and a doctor who was
| called stated that she was dead.
| I'm the act of dying says Francie
| Ii, Chinese aviatrice passing through
| Paris, Lady Harvard kept faith with
| approaching motorists While losing
| consciousness she slowed her car
| and drove it to safety. The same
thing was done, in the air, by the
skilled Japanese woman pilot, Shigeno
| Kin, who tainted at the wheel while
bringing down her hydroplane in
| safely. She was found unconscious,
| floating undamaged"'
x
THE Chinese flying woman has
more to say further on. The
point is now that the case of Lady
| Harvard is almost typical (according
| to the project of police of Paris)
Of the driving attitude of woman mo-
| torists.
The perfect had been criticized for
| granting an unusual number of per-
| mitS to women.
| But" he replied, woman drivers,
in the streets of Paris, have fewer
accidents per capita per year than
men-as will appear by statistics
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The Creeping Man.
CONTINUED from Second Page.)

would be the survival of the least
fit. What sort Of cesspool may
not our poor world become?"
Suddenly the dreamer disappeared.
and Holmes the man of action sprang
from his chair.
Il think there is nothing more to be
said, Mr.. Bennett. The various Incl
dents will now fit themselves easily
into the general scheme.
The dog, of course, was aware OF
the change far more quickly than you.
His smell would insure that 1t was
the monkey, not the professor, whom
Roy attacked, just as il was the mon
key who teased Roy. Climbing was a
joy to the creature and it was a mere
chance, I take it, that the pastime
brought him to the young lady's win
dow. There is an early train to town,
Watson, but 1 think we shall just
have time for a cup of tea at the
Chequers before we catch it"
Copyright. 1923. in [. s. and Canada by Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle. Released through the
North American Newspaper Allisnce.l