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Washington Produce

Butter : one-pound prints, 41a42i
Eggs-Hennery, 24a25; current re.
ceipts, quality inferior, prices not
quoted.
Poultry, alive-Spring broilers, large
30a33 small and medium, 25a2T; Leg.
horns, 18a23 fowls, 22a24; Leghorn
fowls, 15a17; ROSTERS, 14a15; ducks, Is
Dressed, shipped-in, iced-Sprins
dunn, 23a25; Leghorns, 22a24: fowls
heavy, Is; small, medium and Leg
horns. 15ai7. Jobbers' prices, home
dressed-Spring broilers, large. 35a36;
medium, 33a34; small, 30a32; Leghorns
27a2S; fowls, large, 27a28; small. 25a
Is; Leghorn fowls, 20a22; roosters, II
ala; ducks, 22a23: turkeys, 42a43
Meats. fresh killed-Beef, l8a20; veal
15al6; lamb 20a23; pork loins, 25a28:
smoked hams, 81 smoked shoulders
20; bacon, 81; lard, in packages, IL;
in bulk, IL
Live stock-Calves, 8; lambs, 8.
uits-Watermelons. 35a75; canta.
loupes, l.25a3.00; honeydews, 2.50a3 90;
honeyballs, ponys. 800; standards, 400;
junbos. ATS; oranges, 6.00a8.50: lemons
8.50a10.00; lines, per 100. $50; peaches
l;,5Oa2.75: pears, per box, 2.75as 90;
seedless, 250a30O; Malagas, 2.75a3 90;
crab apples, per busnel, 200; apples
50a1.50: pineapples, 500
egetables-Potatoes 2.75a300 sweet
potatoes, yellow, 500; red, 500; toma-
toes LOCALES; peas, Washington State,
400; carrots, per 100 punches, 300a
400; beets, per 100 punches, 300a4 90;
spinach, 75a1 90; kale, LOO; corn, per
Dozen, 20a25; cabbage, per bushel, 75a5
las; eggplant, 1.50a20O; peppers, 150:
squash, white. l50a2 90: yellow, LOO;
cucumbers, 200; string beans, lisa
200: lima beans, 2.50a3.00
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Baltimore Markets

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, Md, July 31.-Po-
tatoes, white, 100 pounds, 2.25a3 90;
beans, hamper, 75s1 40; beets, 100, 100
$500; cabbage, hamper, 75al.15; car
rots, 100, 3.00a4.00; corn, dozen, 5a10;
lima beans, bushel, 2.00a2.25; lettuce.
crate. 60a75: onions, bushel, 150a1 .65 !:
1.75a2.25: squash. hamper, 25a35; to-
rnatoes, crate. hamper. 30a1 90; apples.
bushel, 50a1.25; blackberries, quart, 18
ago: cantaloupes, crate, 1450a2 90;
peaches, crate, 1.25a1.50; watermelons,
100, 2.00a3.00.
Dairy Market.
pound, 23a32: Leghorns, 17a24; ducks
13a20; pigeons. pair, 15a25.
Eggs-Receipts, 1,946 cases; nearby
hrsts, 20a22; southern, firsts, %.
Butter-Good to fancy creamery,
pound, 36a361a; process, 29a291a. Store
packed, 20.
Hay and Grain.
Wheat-No. 2 red Winter, export, 90
No Winter, garlicky, spot, 881a; July,
8812; August delivery, 1872; September,
s9ss.
Corn-No. 2 domestic, yellow, new,
$685.; cob corn, 4.75a5.00.
Rye-Nearby, 60a72.
Oats-white, mo 2, 45laa46; No. 3,
ALIAS.
Hay-Receipts, none. No change in
market; continues quiet
Live Stock Market.
Cattle--Receipts, 400 head: light sup
ply market dull.
Steers-Choice TO prime, none; good
TO choice, 6.25 to SIS; medium to good,
SIS to 6.25; fair to medium, SIS to
SIS: plain to fair, $50 TO 500; COM
mon to plain. 400 to 4.50.
BullS-Choice TO prime, none; good to
choice, 500 TO 625; medium to good,
SIS to 500; fair to medium, $50 to
SIS: plain TO fair, $50 TO SIS, COM
mon tn plain, 4.50 to 500.
Cows-Choice 10 prime, none; good to
choice, AIS to 500; medium to good,
45o to ATS; fair to medium, $50 to
400: plain to fair, 800 to 3.25; common
to plain. 2.25 to ais.
Heifers-Choice to prime, none; good
TO choice, 500 to $50; medium to good
$50 to 500; fair to medium, 500 To
$50; plain to fair, $50 to 500; COM
mon to plain A 90 to $50.
5000.
Sheep and lambs--Receipts 600 head
light supply, market steady; sheep, loo
TO $50; lambs, 500 TO 9.25.
Hogs-Receipts, 1000 head; light sup
ply, market steady; lights, 1925 to 1880;
heavieS, $50 to 1000; medium, 1925 tc
1850; roughs, 700 to 825; light pigs
9.25 to 1000; pigs, 1000 to 1910.
Calves-Receipts rs head: light sup.
ply, market steady; calves, 200 to 900
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B. & o. is NEGOTIATING
FOR CONTROL OF C. & A
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 31-George M
Shriver. senior vice president of the
Baltimore 81 Ohio Railroad, said today
that negotiations for acquisition of the
Chicago e. Alton Railroad were being
carried on, but no definite conclusions
had been reached.
His statement was made in answer to
reports current in Wall Street that the
B. e. o. had acquired control of the
Midwest carrier through a third party
who had turned majority of the bonds
of the Chicago g. Alton over to bankers
for the B. e. o.
The Chicago e. Alton, which is
valued at 100000 900, has been In the
hands of receiver since 1922 1t is
a thousand-mile road, serving the ter
ritory from Chicago south and south
west to st. Louis and Kansas City.
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they want credit. The chains find 1t
difficult and costly to make deliveries
and to extend credit, whereas the in
dependent can judge better how to
time and zone his deliveries and to
whom to extend credit.
It is likely that the independent mer-
chants will account for $50,000,000, 900
worth of business in 1880, according TO
distribution authorities. OF the chains,
81 organizations will probably sell s4,-
600, 00O, 900 worth of goods this year.
(Copyright, 1900
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VOLUME OF STORE
SALES MAINTAINED
Chains and Mail Order Con-
Germs Have Enjoyed In
creased Patronage.
BY 7. C. ROYLE.

Chain stores and mail order houses
are maintaining their sales volume at
an astonishing figure. according to data
reaching Government departments, but
this does not mean that the independ-
ents are doing badly. Many of the in
dependents have had to cut prices on
some articles to meet the chain and
mail order house levels, but they have
a decided advantage over the latter type
of merchandising since Iney can change
prices readily. while mail order houses,
with high cost catalogues outstanding,
must make their prices and stick TO
them.
There still is much discussion as to
the danger to the independent mer-
| chants from the chains. The chains
are generally considered a modern de-
yelopment, but, as matter of fact, the
chain store in the United States dates
back TO 1883 and it was known in
other countries at least 400 years be-
fore that date. Today there are some
5000 chains operating 10000 stores
which, it is estimated. do about a
tenth of the retail merchandising of
the country.
Room for Independents.
At the same time there has been
little, If any, diminution in the number
of independent merchants. The De-
partment of Commerce predicts that
there will always be ample room for the
independent.
THE resourcefulness and freedom of
| action of the individual will always go
far toward offsetting the large-scale
| operations of the more complicated or
Merchandising specialists of the de-
partment add that there will always be
many individuals engaged in business
| who are not fitted by training, eXpe-
rience or ability to be successful, but
| that such individuals would have failed
| even If chain stores never had been
| known. The authorities hold that at
| the moment the ability to utilize new
| methods and to take advantage of
| changing trade conditions is the domi-
nant factor determining success or
| failure.
It is certain that mistakes are made
| in the chain store field as well as IN
| the individual stores, and these mis-
| takes are multiplied by the size of the
| operations of the chain. A piece Of bad
| buying for the Great Atlantic 81 Pacific
or the Woolworth chain is far more
costly than a similar mistake for an
independent corner grocery or small
dry goods store.
Although the growth of the chain
stores has been rapid, 1t has beer
proved that mere bulk is not synony-
nous with profits Curtailment oi
costs is an advantage supposed to be
possessed by the chains, but Depart
ment of Commerce specialists point out
that the chains have no monopoly o.
efficient management. Moreover, the.
lack the. individual contact which thu
independent merchant has with hi
customers 1t Is regarded as equal!
important that Improbable customer
be eliminated as. that excessive over.
head should be reduced.
Special Service.
There will always be plenty Of Amer
cans who are willing to pay for specia
service, and that Is what the individual
merchant has an opportunity to fur
nisf. They want goods delivered, ant
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STOCK RIGHTS OFFERED.

NEW YORK, July 81 (P.-The New
York Stock Exchange has received no.
tice that stockholders OF A. P w. Paper
Co., formerly the Albany Perforated
Wrapping Paper Co, OF record August
4 will be offered the right to subscribe
at par and interest from July /, 1880,
for 25-year per cent convertible notes
to the extent of $6.25 principal amount
for each share held. The rights expire
September 4.
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MONEY MARKET.

NEW YORK. July 81 (E).-Call money
steady high, az; ruling rate, 2; close,
2 per cent.
Time loans steady, 30 days. 2a2L !;
so days, 2Ha2l2; 80 days, 212a234
four months, 234a3; five months, 8; six
months, 3a3ia
Prime commercial paper, 3a34.
Bankers acceptances unchanged.
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WHOLESALE PRICE REPORT
By the Associated Presl

F5sUIIdNEu
General prices registered fractional
point decline last week. Census Bureau
figures which follow give the index for
the week and comparable periods, rep
resenting 1926 average wholesale prices
as 100 In addition, selling prices for
composite ton of steel products at like
periods is. given:
All commoditieS-Week ended july
&c, 1873; previous week, 1874; same week
last year, 992.
Steel--Week ended July &C.. 1914
previous week, $33.18; same week last
year, 1868. : ..
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METAL MARKET.

NEW YORK, July 81 P.-Copper
quiet; electrolytic, spot and future, IL
Iron quiet, unchanged. Tin steady;
spot and nearby 5000; future, 3O.I2.
Lead steady; spot New York, 5.25: East
st. Louis, SIS. Zinc steady; East st.
Louis, spot and future, 4.74a4.80 Anti
mony, 1871
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DIVIDEND Is OMITTED.

NEW YORK, July 81 6P-Directors
of the Buffalo, Rochester 81 Pittsburgh
Railway, Baltimore & Ohio subsidiary.
today omitted the semi-annual dividend
of 50 share on the common stock due
at this time. The regular semi-annual
payment of So on the preferred was
authorized
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BANK CLEARINGs.

NEW YORK. July 81 CSpeciaD New
York bank clearings, today. $1.066, 900, 4.
900; a year ago, $2,070.000 900. New
York bank balances, today. $137. 900 900:
Federal Reserve credit balances, today,
$4,000 900; year ago, $3.50, 00O, O0O.
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U. S. TREASURY BALANCE.

The United States Treasury balance
announced today as of close of business
July 90 was sl93 ,080, 062.50. Customs
receipts fer the month to date were
s241s2,8s6l5. Total 1Sainary expendi.
lures S. sac ol1 a.
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Washington Stock Exchange

SALES.
Norfolk g. Washington Steamboat rts.
10 at Is.
AFTER CALL.
Lanston Monotype-10 at 1877.
Capital Traction $500 at 94ts, $500
at 94i2,
Norfolk & Washington Steamboat rts.
p at l63s.
Washington Gas 5s-$500 at 1O4.
Bid and Asked Prices.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGES.
sHoRT.TERM SECURITIES.
tReportea by J. 4 w. selisman = a.

tHeported oy j. 4 w. Scotsman A Coz
Allis- Chalmers Co SIS 1897 IoIs. 1Ss
American Tel g. Tel 5l5s ie43 ina f1al.
American Thread SIS 1853 i6HA mi
BBs tsv1sEt 81 = Ohio 41ss 1893 l0o.s ioo7s
Bell Tel; Of Canada SIS is27 105 f03lS
California Pet. Corp Sias fa3s i02 i03is
Cana adam Nor. Rwy gas 1895 100 f60E
Chicago Rock Island As 1894 ee3. ~
Chile Copper Co. SIS 1947 80. 9615 96ss
Cudahy Packing Co. 5i7s 1887 $751; .a5is
Gen Mot. Accep. Corp. SIS 1887 l02te t021c
Gensral Pet Corp. SIS 1910 - i02i1 i02Is
Cen cen dnssIef Equip SS le4o... s5ia s5!s
Soooyear T. x: 5s 1857. 93I4 ,93l2
Srand Trunk OF Canada IS 1885 1861 1861
Cult Oil OF Pa. SIS 1887. l0Iig iOi7s
Humble Oil 5iRS 1882 1000, i02ie 1925
Internal Match Corp. SIS i947 S9ls 9934
y: H., Chic x st. l.. IS 1892, IO2ss 1924
philips Pet. Co. 5l4s 1889 80 $685. 90
Pure Oil Corp. 5Iss 1887 - eos. 100
Shell Union Oil Co IS i947 a. OH.
Sinclair Crude OIL Co SIS i93a f03tsr 1925
standard on n York 4I2s 1851 90 99Ls
81. l.. Ir Mt & So. Ry. IS 1881 i007s I0iss
st. l., southwestern Ry. As 1882 qai4 ssa&
Union o,i Co. Of caflli. IS isss, 1872 iSSl
United Drug Co SIS 1853 $500, "a sqeiL
U. Rubber SIS 1877 ~ sis1 al
Western Electric Co S. 1874 164 f01ia.
yW.,lhsslinE Steel Corr. s;as 1888. io5s ios
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Rail Stocks
BY GEORGE T. HUGHES.

(This is the twenty-second Of series
Of brief analyses by Mr. Hughes on
railroad securities. The intent is not
to recommend the purchase or sale oil
any particular stock. but to give the
investor such information as may enable
him intelligently to chart his own
course.)
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Sales of Stocks on New York Exchange

1890 A.M........ 1913 900 100, 400
1890 PM........ 1621600 2:1o PM. lips 200
n
than 100 shares Pay tPIus
stock sPayable in scrip pluS s stock Paid last
able in stock Plus
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NEW YORK BANK STOCKS

NEW YORK, July 81 (A9.-over-the-
counter market
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BONDS.
PUBLIC UTILITY

Bid and Asked Prices.
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There will always be plenty Of Amer.
cans who are willing to pay for special
service, and that Is what the individual
merchant has an opportunity to fur-
nish- They want goods delivered, and
Putnam patriot., 1930-02-20
TWO STORIES OF THE WEEK

0 that extremely clever and deseredy popular magazine The New Yorker. to be attributed the finding the best story of the week the Irish tenor Cormack Mir Mccormack. the papers months ago related consented thrice fabulous figure make tone picture for of the great film companies Hollywood he went to work Accustomed having his and tenor temperamenaes he found all his liking However, cannot it is said have ones way m the movetone and there battle on the set in which related by those in the know, Mir McCormacs went pretty much pieces When the battle and the picture finished it still remained without The best suggested but The New Yorker says the will be used provided by present through the whole struggle. "he Unstrung Harp" The second best story from gentleman lives far away. He prominent a certain work and falling under the spell of the advertisement memory de- eopment insute he took of the advertised courses When he had completed the and called institute diploma he received asking for testimonial be used in advertising course His reply think, the perfection of wit itself. He
 Memory Course Institute,
 1884 Smith Street.
 New York City.
 Gentlemen:
 do not remember having taken your course
 Yours truly,
Putnam patriot., 1930-02-20
A TAFT STORY

r.R Taft stricken with grevous and probably fatal illness M has, since from the office of Chief Justice of Supreme Court received from all parts of the country the highest of praise and affection Almost all who haNe
 written of him have mentioned before reviewing his spenddy accomplished career his charm tact geniaty and optimism Certainly there kinder man in the White House tell story of Iait hhohess Deiofe waiting until it is too late
 Years ago. the editor of certain newspaper pub hshed within the confines of Windham County cub re- porter hardly of short and working Tor pig con ectcut daily Mr. Taft then Secretary of War to the city the principal address at most important political dinner. -
 Now if you know the ways of newspapermen, you will realize without being anything is anathema to reporter attend banquet So 1t was that the cub got the iob He did not know He had been to banquet He didn't know anything about politics His eyes were weak seconseiousness shaky But willy ny he went through after course until that fatal moment for the weaeyed arrived when man jack present- before the days of womans surage- up big black cigar and the speeches began.
 The cub did we'll through the earlier and less im- portan speeches the time the oamaser introduced Mr Taft black with smoke and the cubs eyes were streaming In desperation he wrote card and sent to Mr Taft by waiter May have your Mss after the ban quet? back of the card highly przed personal relic today Mir Taft Sorry. speaking from notes me room Il w H. T." The Secretary spoke The smoke rolled up in clouds The almost in actual instead of nicotine The banquet ended and the handshang was over few scrawled all that record for cys biggest paper of the Secretars notable and really nationally important address.
 Then the reporter went Room All. He knocked. The Secretary opened the night hot and MT Taft was in his shrseeves and too smoking big black cigar reporter explained his predeament The Seere tary laughed long loudly Come in and sit down. he said there with his feet propped Up chair dictated his speech practically word for word and what he waited until the cub had read back and his before he said characteristic and kindly good night
 Years passed and the former cub and the Secretary then xPresden dinner and he who had been the cub minded gratefully of the incident Mir Taft in the wilderness of lifetime of kindliness had forgotten it.
Putnam patriot., 1930-02-20
ATHLETIC PRESIDENTS

VxyE thought that nothing must try the soul Of the " editor of the Sunday Magazine section of great news paper so much as the annual give observance to holidays anniversaries of the great Each year Christmas there must be and varied o res The same is true Easter Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July Each year wrack his brains to attack the anniversary from some and readable angle
 The Editor of New York Herald Tribunes magazine section last Sunday entirely different method of obser ing the birthday Washington She the editor happens to be Mrs William Brown Meloney had Charles w. Paddock h. S Olympic star sprntng champion write article entitled George Washington Athlete Referring the various recent biographies of the President Mir Paddock gathered some interesting facts Washington proficient poevaulter
 magnificent and able distance runner lie was
 wrestler thrower quoits and mighty hunter There the old story Washington threw rock across the Rap pahannoek River other tale of how after tory ne outdanced the young of the county m throwing the iron bar. Il,
 But Mir Paddock still further in his record ot the
 athletic presen Next Washington he records Wilson as tba most trained athlete his school and college days Will son was crack baseball player although oddly enough ne had bad reputation azness the neld Roosevelt eohe third never leading athlete but ceaseless one from ae cate bov he developed himself every line of athletic activity He was good runner pole vauler and jumper and as all the world knows great hunter and fisherman Few of the other resdents though many of them from their backwoods org and frontier training of great physical sfehgh ae natural stamina were athletic in the trained sense Nashgo loved sport for sports sake Roosevelt used sport to keep W Wilson was nstncvey good sportsman but had no love o game
Putnam patriot., 1930-02-20
Heavy Western Corn Fed Beef, Native Veal and Pork

this department the greatest income turning thousand dollars yearly into the city treasury.
 That the city fathers not intend to spend money on unnecessary improvements the months from the fact that making up budget only the ordinary running expenses of the city taken
 brighter business section at night adequate street
 direct the stranger broached before the council not matters that enthusiasm Of forward without spending money It will many years before the city debt is apprecaby diminished unless raised by taxation We feel however the coun es procedure will meet the appreciation of the tax The majority of those who pay the bills feel that things as are are good enough and would probably pose a rising
Putnam patriot., 1930-02-20
Timber From the TropicsY

u Is recognized. says the American Tree association. that the forest rs- sources tropical America may bs | very important factor in our own domestic timber problem. Some bs- heye that those forests will be called upon to bridge the hiatus that h bound to exist between the exhaustion or our wild timber crop. and the har- sest time Of our man-msnaged fx- ests Others believe that they viii form permanent source of timber to replace some of cur own special purpose hardwoods.
 All are agreed that. in any case We cannot fully and completely out line our own forestry problem with out taking Into consideration aii the factors that may influence the oss come
Putnam patriot., 1930-02-20
FASHION SHOW OF 1930
 STATE ARMORY APRIL

The Second Annual Fashion Show sponsored by the Nindham County Farmers Association and the Putnam Chamber 0f Commerce. will be held April 5th. afternoon and evening. al the State Armory. This entertaining affair as put on last year will be wei remembered There were display. by merchant members of the Chamber and talks by representatives of the Farmers Association. The attendance was 50 large in Eiks hall. where the show was held last year. that # was decided Co seek larger quarters this year. The State Armory will make sn excellent place for the Fashion Show of 1880.
Putnam patriot., 1930-02-20

do not remember ever having taken your course. Yours truly,
Putnam patriot., 1930-02-20
FIRE DEPARTMENT OUT
 FOR BLAZING CHIMNEYs

The fire department has answered several calls this week for chimney fires. Last Sunday evening at 6 s0 there was a telephone call for a chim- ney fire at l9s Main street. The same evening at 9.42 chimney fire at the home of Mrs. Keane, Wilkinson St. No damage. Monday at 6.l5 a. m. chim- ney fire at 3s Mill street. No dam age. This was the tenth alarm this year.
Putnam patriot., 1930-02-20
DEAN BROWN TONIGHT
the game

rTE Rev James English and the members of the Oongre
 gaona Church are extremely fortunate in having secured Dean Charles Brown of the Yale Divinity School to deVer at the Second Congregational Church tonight ns famous rec ure on Abraham Lincoln. Aside from being New England leading Protestant ehurchman Dean Brown IS very great sneaker Moreover is of the leading citizens or the state of Connecticut It just happens that the eator o inc ptot has heard Dean Brown but many times The
 etng tonight which open free to the public very rare
 ornnty for all Putnam people hear great speaker great scholar and a very charming gentlemen
Putnam patriot., 1930-02-20
COW FALLS IN WELL
 DIES OF INJURIES

4 valuable COW owned by NJ. G. Goodman. Meadowland Farm in the Gary district, died from injuries she received when she fell into a well, Wednesday afternoon. Rotten boards covering the we'll gave way and the COW went down. Dubois garage was notified and went to the scene with the automobile wrecker and pulled the COW out. The animal died soon after being brought to the surface.
Putnam patriot., 1930-02-20
HISTORY AND SINKING SHIPS

rEHERE s in the history of the United States strange
 huence the of events with ships and the George the Third is quite possible became cog nizan of the depth of his colonists dsconen when they sank of his gates off the New England Coast The War of 1872 almost entirely matter of the The nyen-
 ton of the Monitor of whose Thomas Taylor Putnam
 probably the only living survivor revoutonzed the building of washps and furnished of the startling just hirtywo years last Saturday the whole nation thrown into patriotic and reyengul frenzy that only counterpart when America into the World And certainly the spirit of national begereney reached
 higher point than when the Lusana sunk of the of Ireland and datory waited and delayed