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The Washington times., 1926-04-19
ENGAGEMENTS
ANNOUNCED
TODAY
Miss Mary Hill Weed to
Marry British Major;
Other Betrothals

Mrs. Helena Hill Weed has an
nounced the engagement of her
daughter. Miss Mary Hill Weed. to
Maj Hubert Stephenson, of War
wfckshire. England.
Miss Weed. who is a daughter
of Walter Harvey Weed, the geol-
ogist and copper expert, now a
resident of Searsdale, N. Y, is a
granddaughter of the late Ebenezer
]. Hill, of Norwalk. who was, for
% years, the Representative of the
Fourth Congressional district In
Congress. and of the late Samuel
Richards Weed, of the firm of
Weed & Kennedy, of New York
Miss Weed prepared for college
at the Hillside School in Norwalk,
and at schools in Geramny, Italy
and Switzerland. Since completing
her work at the Teachers College
of Columbia University in 1925.
where she majored in physical edu-
cation, she has been studying stage
dancing at the Ned Wayburn School
in New York.
Major Stephenson, late Of the
Royal Warwicks Regiments, en-
tered the British army during the
Boer war and served through that
war and the Natal uprising He
was engaged In business on the
west coast of Africa for several
years but returned to the army at
the outbreak of the world war. He
was severely wounded at Gallipoli,
but as soon as he recovered went
to France, serving there until again
desperately wounded at Pozieres,
when he was invaded out of the
service. He is now connected with
the New York offices of the Dollar
Line Steamship Company.
He in a son of Frederick James
Stephenson, of Warwickshire, who
was. for three terms, lord mayor
of Birmingham, England.
The wedding will take place at
Rocks and Shoals" the summer
home of Mrs. Weed, at Wilson
Point, Norwa1k, Conn, on May 30.
The Washington times., 1926-04-19
PLAN F ET ES
FOR P EN-
LEAGUE
Many Parties Being Ar
ranged in Connection
With Meeting

In connection with the forthconl-
ing Authors Congress Of the
League of American Penwomen,
number OF festivities are being ar
ranged. Mrs. Harry Atwood Cole
man. national president of the
organization will give d reception
for the delegates on Friday evening,
April 80: and on Monday evening.
April 26 the delegates will be enter
tanned by Mrs. Elise Muiliken, pres
ident OF the d. G. Branch Of the
league at its headquarters. 1903 Il
DR.. Al. Frances Foye, president
OF the women's City Club. has in.
vited the delegates to tea at the
clubhouse, 20 Jackson Pl., from
to $50 next Sunday.
Mrs. Co1man will be guest Of
honor at reception to be given on
Thursday. April 20. by Mrs. Homer
Hocll and Mrs. Elmer Q. Leather.
wood.
Col. and Mrs. Morris k Barroll,
of Kensington, Nd, have announced
the engagement Of their daughter,
Eleanora Katherine Barroll, to
Lieut.. Walter F. Christmas, Con-
struction Corps, United States
Navy.
Mr.. and Mrs. &. s. Brittle. OF
Warrenton, Va. have announced
he engagement Of their daughter,
Mamie Bowen, to Larkin White
Glazebrook, jr., Of New York, son
OF DIR. and Mrs. Larkin White
dslazebrook. OF washington.
Mrs. John Bell SmalIwood is at
the Hotel Lorraine In New York for
q short stay.
Mrs. John Brown Heron, Of
Pittsburgh, Pa. who is staying at
the willard, entertained at dinner
last night for q company Of IL.
Mrs. Robinson Downey Of Waynes.
burg, Pa, who has spent the winter
at the willard, entertained at dinner
there last night. She had 10 guests.
The Washington times., 1926-04-19
WASHINGTON LINES UP BEHIND PERMANENT SYMPHONY 0RCESIR
MARINE CORPS BALL
FOR RELIEF FUND

A spring ball and card party will
be given by the civil and enlisted
personnel of the adjutant and in
spector's department. Marine Corps
headquarters, on Thursday, April
%. at the city Club. The Marine
Band Orchestra will furnish the
music for the dancing. and arrange
ments are being made to take
care OF a large number of bridge
and 800" players.
The ball is for the benefit Of the
relief fund which provides ap-
propriate comforts for the sick
members of the department.
Brig. Gen. Rufus II. Lane, adjutant
and inspector, is sponsoring the
event, and the major general COM
ficers of the Marine Corps are ex-
pected to attend.
Senator and Mrs. Frank r. Good
ing, of Iadho, will be hosts to a
company of % at dinner this
evening in the reception room of
the Mayflower
Edward C. Van Devanter, who
entertained at a tea dance Saturday
afternoon in the garden of the May.
flower, has as his guests Mrs. Good
loe- Falconer, of Kentucky, Mrs. VIII
lam Laird Dunlop, jr.; Miss Ellen
Crenshaw, Miss Frances Dunlop, OF
Leesburg, Va; Miss Cornelia Baum,
Of Omaha, Neb.; Miss Virginia. Lut-
trell. Frank Otis, OF New Orleans,
Richard Taslxer Lowndes, Winart
Johnston, Foxhall Daingerfield, Cor.
don Burke and Lieut.. Maurice Smith,
u. s. n.
Mrs. stephen B. Elkins Is at the
Ambassador in Atlantic City.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. D. Hancock
will entertain at dinner on April %
in compliment to Capt. Gilbert
Frankau.
The women's Army and Navy
League will hold rummage sale
at 1924 r ST. on April %, 20 and
"a for the benefit of the Soldiers,
Sailors and Marines Club. The
proceeds of the successful sale held
last season were sufficient to enable
the club to carry on for a year.
The home at 1915 l. st. is main
tanned at cost for enlisted men, who
find there at reasonable rates COM
Portable rooms, shower baths, good
food. reading and recreation rooms.
Officers Of the organization are
The Washington times., 1926-04-19
MRS. HERT GUEST
OF WOMENS PRESS CLUB

Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, vice chairman
of the Republican National Commit
tee, will be the guest of honor tomor-
row at the weekly luncheon Of the
Women's National Press Club.
Mrs. Wade n. Massie. of Virginia
and Washington, spent the weekend
as the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. r. G.
HUNTER in their apartment at Ward
man Park Hotel.
Mr. and Mrs. s. r. Kay are
spending the week at Wardman
Park Hotel coming to Washington
from Atlanta, Ga, where Mr.. Kay
is British consul.
Mrs. John A. Logan. widow of
General Logan. will entertain at
luncheon on Thursday at the Chevy
Chase Club.
Senator and Mrs. Royal s. Cope
land will entertain at dinner at
Wardman Park Hotel on Saturday
evening. April "a. when their guests
will number twenty.
Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant has
sent out invitations for a dinner on
April %.
y X
Mrs. Bertha Lincoln Heustis and
Mrs. Peter McClelland, of Los An.
geles, formerly of Washington, are
at Wardman Park Hotel. having
come to town to attend the d. A.
r. congress and later the conven-
ton of the League of American
PenWomen.
\ X X
The South Dakota Society will
meet at a dance on Thursday eve.
ming. 1t will be held in the garden
house Of the Grage Dodge Hotel.
The Washington times., 1926-04-19
CITY RALLIES
TO SUPPORT
RECTAL
Movement to Found Per-
manent Symphony En-
lists Many Backers
By JEAN ELIOT

"YAsHINGToN is waking up
" somewhat belatedly to the
importance OF the concert
The Washington times., 1926-04-19
JUSTICE
LUNCHEON
GUEST

The Chief Justice and Mrs. Taft
were the honor guests at luncheon
yesterday Of Associate Justice and
Mrs. Willis Van Devanter, who en-
tertained a company of about so at
the Congressional Country Club.
The guests were seated in the main
dining room at long table beauti-
fully decorated with pink roses and
spring flowers. The guests included
several of the associate justices,
Judges in the local courts, Senators
and Representatives and the ladies
of their families.
~
Percival Dodge. American Minister
to Denmark. and Mrs. Dodge have
arrived in New York on holiday
visit to the United States.
\
Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh and Mrs
John Alan Dougherty will sail for
Europe on the Leviathan on April
30. Mrs. Dougherty, who is at the
Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Atlantic City
with Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Schoell.
kopf, will remain through this week.
y y n
MRS. MITCHELL CARROLL
HOSTESS AT ARTS CLUB
Mrs. Mitchell Carroll will be
hostess Tuesday night at the Arts
Club when the honor guests will
be the Rev. Charles Wood, Of the
Church of the Covenant, and Mrs.
Wood. Mrs. Wood will give an H.
Illustrated travelogue on Spain.
On Thursday evening the hosts
of the club will be Mr.. and Mrs.
t. NAs-
of honor Justice Siddons, who will
speak on Shakespeare the Poet, "
to club members and their guests.
Miss Helen Howison will be heard
in a group of Shakesperean lyrics,
with George n. Wilson at the
piano.
Mrs. Adolph Caspar Miller will
sail on Friday on the Majestic for
Europe to be gone two or three
months.
Mrs. Cpshur Moorhead has re-
turned from Pittsburgh, where she
spent the week as the guest of
Mrs. Donald McKaig. Mrs. McKaig
was formerly Miss Frederick Nor
gan of Washington.
Mrs. Louis Lehr will leave today
by motor for Charleston, s. c., for
visit of 10 days.
n
Mrs. Lawrence Phipps. wife of
Senator Phipps of Colorado, has
just returned from a visit in New
York.
n
John II. Storer entertained at
dinner at Wardman Park Hotel last
evening when his guests were his
brother-in-law and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs Robert Treat Paine, of Boston,
his sister, Miss A. c. Storer, of
Newport. r. l., and his son and
daughter in law. Captain and Mrs.
Theodore l.. Storer.
The Washington times., 1926-04-19
DR.. WORK OFF
FOR WESTERN
TRIP

The Secretary of the Interior
DIR. Work. left yesterday for an
insuection tour of the Indian reser-
vatfons and reclamation projects
under his jurisdiction in Ell Paso,
Texas. Yuma, Arizona, Los Angeles,
and Las Vegas, New Mexico. DR..
Work will return to his apartment
at Wardman Park Hotel about the
first of May.
Senator and Mrs. Walter E. Edge
have as their guest for week or
10 days, Mrs. William Edge, mother
of the Senator.
The Second Secretary of the Brit
Ish Embassy and Mrs. G. H. Thomp-
son. have returned from their wed
ding trip and are with the latter's
mother. Mrs. Grosvenor Hyde
Backus. at PALS Tracy Pl Mr.. and
Mrs. Thompson will occupy the
home OF Mr.. and Mrs. Backus until
August. when they will join the EN-
bassy group at Manchester, Mass.
+
Mrs. Marshall Field has gone to
Indianapolis, where she is visiting
her nephew and niece, former Sen
ator and Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge'
X
Mrs. Elsie Hill, suffrage leader
and wife of pr. Albert Levitt. has
arrived in Washington to spend
month and is at the National Wom-
ems Party headquarters. She has
with her her little daughter, Elsie
Hill Levitt. Mrs. Hill and her
daughter will sail in May for Paris,
where DR.. Levitt, who is the pro-
lessor of law at the Washington
and Lee University, will join her.
Miss Alice Hartman and Miss
Louise Lacey will not be at home
tomorrow afternoon, as is their Gus
tom on Tuesdays, as they are attend
ing the concert of the Washington
Symphony Orchestra.
The Washington times., 1926-04-19
MRS. COOLIDGE WILL GO
WITH THE PRESIDENT

Mrs. Coolidge will accompany the
President this evening to the
Washington Auditorium where he
will deliver an address before the
D. A. r. in convention here.
Il
The Vice President and Mrs.
Dawes will be the honor guests at
dinner this evening of Associate
Justice and Mrs. Harlan Fiske
Stone. who will entertain a com
pany of as in the Presidential suite
of the Willard.
The Washington times., 1926-04-19

hrs. Samuel Warren Miller, presi.
lent; vice presidents for the Army,
drs. B. Frank Cheatham, Mrs.
ohm McA. Palmer. and for the
The Washington times., 1926-04-19

Navy, Mrs. e. j. Dorm and Mrs.
Louis Kingsley: Miss E. j. Nourse,
secretary and Mrs. o. M. Lissak,
treas lrer.
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Connecticut avenue and Porter street
to cost $500.
James l.. Lucas. owner and builder,
l.. w. Giles. architect: to erect one
two-story brick dwelling. $40 Massa'
chusetts avenue northeast: to cost
s.. 400.
n. G. NJ. Stetler. owner: George
T. Santmyers architect: W. NJ. Ward,
builder: to erect one four.story brick
apartment. 1903 O street; to cost
s. NJ. Riror & Sons. owners and
builders: George I. Santmyers. archi-
tect: to erect two two.story brick
dwellings,. 1740 and 1912 Varnum
street: to cost $50 900.
Joseph Shapiro Co. owners and
builders: Joseph W. Geddes. archi'
tect: to erect two two.story brick
apartments. 1915 to $500 W street;
10 cost $4,000
Roy o. Pratt owner, architect and
builder: 70 erect ore twostory~ frame
dwelling, 2211 Randolph street north
east: 10 cost $4,000.
Bliss Properties. owner: Charles n.
Tompkins Co. builders TO make re-
pairs. IL and 43 3 street: to cost
~. 500.
Harry A. Bramow. owner and build
er: coleman and McCaw. architects:
10 erect one ftve.story brick. concrete
and stone apartment. 1921 Sixteenth
street: 70 cost $3.50 900.
r. Z. Mulliean. owner and archi.
tect; Edwin jacobson. builder: To erect
tile addition. 1915 Northampton street;
to cost $500.
William r. Gore. owner and builder:
John W. Kearney. architect: to erect
one two.story tile and stucco dwelling
2s3A Allendale street; to cost SIS, 900.
William F.. Gore. owner and builder:
John W. Kearney, architect: to erect
one two.story brick dwelling. H120
Chevy Chase Parkway: to cost $4,000.
William r. Gore, owner and builder.
John w. Kerney, architect: TO erect
one two. story stucco and tile dwelling
1872 rwenty.eishth street; to cost
$4,000.
Allen and Nc William owners: G. W.
Gosnell, architect and builder: to erect
one two.story store and three dwellings.
1925 to 1892 Fifth street southeast: 10
cost $4,000.
John l.. Barr. owner and builder; r.
stanley Simmons. architect: to erect
one History brick. stone and concrete
ONCE building. ot9 Seventeenth street:
10 cost $500 900.
David Lynn. owner and architect;
Arthur l.. Smith. builder: 20 erect one
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two-story brick dwelling, 1900 Quebec
street: to cost $fs 900. ~
Frank Hid. owner and builder:
Claughton West. architect: to erect
two two.story brick dwellings. 1882
and 1924 Rhode Island avenue north
east: to cost 81 900.
Arthur Block, owner, architect and
builder: 10 erect one two.story tile and
stucco dwelling. 1919 Gera mum street;
to cost $14.5o0.
Douglass Phillips. owners and
builders; to remodel 1921 X street: to
cost $4,000
Catholic Foreign Society 1t America.
w. II. Fissell 4 CO.. builders: to erect
one two-story frame addition. sac De.
catur street northeast: to cost $1,000.
Nathan Cohn, owner: William r..
Fowler Construction Co.. builders: to
make repairs. 1141 Seventh stree,
southwest: to cost $1,000.
Winfield Preston owner and builder:
Marcus Hallett. architect: to erect
six two-story brick dwellings. 1881
~ Ives place southeast; to cost $23.
600.
d. !. DUNCAN. owner and builder:
George 7. Santmyer. architect; to
erect "a two.story brick dwellings,
5013.35 Seventh street and 5012-34
Seventh street; to cost $4,000.
ID. j. DUNCAN, owner and builder;
10 erect "a brick private garages.
501s.35 Seventh street and 5O12.34
seventh street: TO cost $24|00.
n. L. Dunbar, owner: William Half.
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$I,5o,O()0BULD|NG
/ PERMITS IN WEEK
: Office Structure at $500, 900
PRINCIPAL Project-Apart.
nent to Cost S25O.OOO.

Permits for building construction
work costing approximately $500. 600
were. Issued during the past week by
the District building inspector. Sew
era aior apartment and office build
ing projects were included.
The largest operation approved wa =
the construction Of a $500 600 History
omce building by John L. Barr at $40
seventeenth street The structure
designed by r. Stanley simmons. will
be OF brick. stone and concrete con
struction.
Harry A. Rramow. the records show.
VIII erect a five-story apartment build.
Ing at 1321 Sixteenth street at cost
~ $2bo,000. II VIII be Of brick. stone
and concrete construction.
Other Permits Recorded.
w T. e. Cheek. owner. architect
and builder: TO erect one one.story
frame dwelling. 32a F'ifty-ninth street
northeast to cost $1,000
". E. Mooney. owner and builder:
W. 4. Lamar. architect; to erect one
two-story brick dwelling. 3ssa Gram.
ercy street: to cost $4,000
Harry Morga nstein. owner: Morris
II. Berkman. architect: to erect one
three.story brick store and DWELLING
500 Four-and.a Half street southwest
to cost 80 400.
\. C'rivella. owner and builder.
Frederick T.. Hi. architA ct to make
repairs. a25 H street northeast: II
cost $4,000.
Standard on GO. owners, archjte ct G
Ane builders; To erect hrirk canopv.
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pap, architect and builder: to erect one
one story brick dwelling, 22ll Naylor
road southeast: 10 cost $500.
II. A. Gillis. owner and builder:
Marcus Hallett. architect: to erect one
! two.story frame dwelling. 3201 Morri-
son street, to cost $4,000,
n. A. ellis, owner and builder:
Marcus Hallett. architect: to erect one
two.story frame dwelling. 1905 Morri-
son street: to cost $4,000.
The Pullman Co.. owners and archf-
tects: Lake Stone Co. builders; to
erect one two-story brick laundry $40
Rhode Island avenue northeast; to
cost $50 900.
Lord Baltimore Filling Stations.
owners and architects: Martin Bros.
builders: to erect ore one-story brick
and stone service station. 1000 sixth
street: to cost $6.s27.
NJ. Goldenberk. owner: A. r. :Fitz.
Simons. architect; NJ. L. Robey. build.
err: to erect one one.story brick. ga
rage, 472 7. street; TO cost $4,000.
II. r. Howenstein, owner and build
er: to erect eight two.story brick dwell
ings. 1452.S4 Lawrence street and 3400.
10 Fifteenth street northeast: oscost
$50 900.
F. Hand, owner: J. r. Miller builder:
to erect one one.story frame and brick
veneer. $500 Thirty.second street: to
cost $500.
The Womens Medical College
Philadelphia. graduates 20 women
physicians every year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-11
SECOND MORTGAGES j.
NEED INTEREST LAW
Charges Range From & to AZ PEI
Cent. Says Baltimore Secretary,
Urging Legal Check.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The star.
BALTIMOfsE September 1.-THE
second mortgage business has been
frowned upon by many as being what
IL generally known AZ money
shark" business. due largely to the
fact that the business has not been
conducted under any well defined sys'
TEN Of rules. Charges have never
been standardized and many home
buyers have been a prey for the un-
scrupulous who have no hesitancc In
charging all the traffic will stand
according to G. Philip Pitt. secretary
of the Baltimore Real Estate Board.
In the first place" says Mr.. Pitt
lit Is Impossible to conduct a second
mortgage business in keeping with
the spirit Of the usury laws, but no
body seems TO pay any attention TO
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MARYLAND was made in 1924 by bill
introduced in the Legislature. but
which for reasons quite obvious 10
those familiar with the hill. failed to
pass.
Under our present Law there is M
provision for any rate Of interest
between s per cent a year and that of
~ per cent a wear which has been
legAlized on g certain class Of small
loans. Second mortgage money can
not be had At per cent. and AZ per
cent IL entirely too much. II would
seem that the second mortgage com
panies could render themselves and
the general public a real service by
securing the adoption IF A law which
would lesalize a fair rate Of interest
for mortgage loans.
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these laws. II all Of those guilty Of
violating the spirit of these laws could
be jailed there would be few money
lenders. even including our most re-
spectacle bankers.
There is big. growing field in
every large city for legitimate second
mortgage business with standa rtiized
methods and charges. and unless the
better class Of mortgage companies.
whose charges are based on the. risk
taken rather than the amount that
can be squeezed out of the borrowers.
get together and do something toward
regulating their own business on fair
standards II Is likely that others will
eventually attempt and perhaps sue
coed in doing 1t for them.
The first move In this direction in
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LOCAL FIRM SELECTED.
Wolfsteiner Company. Inc. to Do
Work on Press Building.

The contract for tffa~~ sheet metal
work for the National Press Building.
in course Of construction at Four
teenth and r streets, has been award
ed to the Wolfsteiner Co. Inc. 1919
W street
The award to the Washington con
Germ was announced today by Frank
r. Dunlap OF the George A. Fuller
Co. general contractors for the struc
ture. which will be the largest pri
vately owned once building In the
city
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The Women's Medical College
Philadelphia. graduates 20 women
physicians every year.
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Tired Fathers

I see many wives and daughters as
| loaf along the shore; they are bath
ing in the waters, dancing on the peb-
bled floor; and they flirt with gilded
laddies-while their sad. devoted dad
dies deal in prunes and finnan haddies
in some distant village store. There
are women, dozens, dozens, basking in
the Summer sun, there are damsels
and their cousins, having 40 kinds of
fun; there are mothers large and
stately, there are aunts who charm
me greatly, there are nieces who till
lately had no sort of spending mon.
All the women of the nation, when
the Summer days are here, must in
dulge in vacation, by the noun
tains, sea or mere; and the fathers
say, Go to it! Go and have your
fun, beshrew it, If you didn't YOU
would rue It, and raise thunder for a
year. Go and do your stunts untiring
by the babbling woodland rills, while
we keep the home fires burning, in
our drug stores, selling pills; go where
briny water washes. while we're sell
ing cheap goloshes, corkscrews,
knives and Hubbard squashes, so that
we may pay the bills where's
your pa?" ask of Celia, as she frolics
on the shore; wouldn't it," she SAYS,
CONCEAL yuh? He won't leave his
blamed old store: he would sooner grub
for nicke1s, selling punk and pungent
pickles than come where the water
trickles like the water at Lodore. :"
Happy girls! They think that father
is a crouch who'd rather slave than
forsake the toll and bother for the
beach and rolling wave; but the
fathers, they are wishing that they,
too, might go kerswishing to the
brook intent on fishing, but they're
doomed to work and save.
WALT MASON.
fCnnyright 1921
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FOREIGN.
FUKEIUN.
(S am. Greenwich time. today)
SOFT COAL BUSINESS
SLACK IN PENNSYL WANNA
Cut in Freight Rates Asked as
Means of Meeting Competition
of Southern Mines.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July "a
The coal business in Western Penn
sylvania bituminous fields is suffer
mig from q marked depression, de-
clared DIR. Charles Reitel, professor in
the University of Pittsburgh. speak
ing yesterday at the concluding SEES
sion of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission here on the complaint of the
Pennsylvania and Ohio coal operators
against alleged discriminatory rates
which favor their Southern competi.
tors. They are asking a 40 per cent
slash in the freight rates. bringing it
to $1.26 a gross ton to the lake ports.
DIR. Reitel gave the commission
the results of a. survey of the fields
operated by 90 mining companies.
He said that conditions financially in
the coal fields were bad. Banks are
declining to take commercial paper
of the coal interests. The depression
is attributed to the loss Of business re-
sulting from the rates enjoyed by the
Southern coal fields in shipping their
products to the Great Lakes for trans
portation by boats North, West and
East.
The commissions hearing will be
resumed in September.