Evening Star Newspaper, June 18, 1922, Page 30

30 CRANE DARKENS CITY. Bird Alights Wire Carrying 110,000 Volts. | The } on Agreement With Berger. 17. - Vi, Jur n ninutes lecide upon il andidate hagze T e tion a iission | election. conve: a | day v it twelve hours. d by anti SEE LA FELLELTE DEAL. “})A Tn AND “MIKE” Transmission | Socialists Opposing Him Charge - Wisconsin ention continued in the La Follette in gued and into the night be- ¢tion demanded that the party ited when the full ticket in the fleld. The other which ried headed by Vietor Berger, took e d that no opposition to La Fol- bk be shown. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 18, 1 PRIGE DEPRESSION HITS THE MARKET Downward Trend Results in Losses of Five to Ten Points. THE SU BRAVE MAIL STORM Belated Letter Tells Post Office Department How Wainwright, Alaska, Got Its Christmas Bags. the RECOVER $52.003 BONDS i night How * Tukrook and “Mike” | games and dances, that were to last| NEW YORK, June 17.—The further M ShRGe S digrsenatas o Kaywak, Eskimos, helped get the| through three days and nights, the doWnward trend of prices on the stock Poarding Housekeeper ven the moral support of the sc mail to Barrow when the regular car- | one serious topic of conversation was | €Xchange this week, amounting at ) S QHCTRRE i \ return for which the La rier failed to arrive at Wainwright, | the non-arrival of the mail carrier. |times to serious depression, indicated {lette” faction would support Berger in ToTer it e tetiont Lt Beasien ze Contents to Palice. N tor Con; s Circle Stratford Building 2 Thoma 14th anc Monroe Sts. stores with | i ‘,;‘1 e floor, shops and ov. RS Eirenchot | build: 1 Ready Octcber B Ist LEASES NOW BEING NEGOTIATED For Plans and Further Particulars Apply RANDALL H. HAGNER & CO. 1207 Connecticut Avenue Excellent loeation, Ready August Ist ST i i $12 A DAY 20 PRICKLAYERS Wanted At Once Varnum St. Eetween 14th and 16th Sts. N.W. Upshur St. Between 14th and 16th Sts. N.W. BRING TOOLS ST R ‘)00“00000000000000000“00000 CHEVY CHASE, D.C. Ideal New Home TOLONIAL TYPE feet some fireg dining room, 14x16 feet ideal in size and convenienc parlor. 14x16 fect; tile bath, built-in tuh. tory, and fireplace. Attic over entire third floor. 7,500 Inspect Sunday. GATWOOD S. BENNETT 809 Continental Trust Bldg. L2222 222222 222222222222 2222222222222 222274 If You Are Looking for 2 Something New £ Inspect Houses Adjoining St. Gabriel’s =2 New Catholic Church 7th AND WEBSTER STS. ‘These houses are different from the ordinary box houses. They are much deeper and have larger rooms—and are bullt espeeially for parties dexiring to rent out rooms or a complete fiat and still retain sufficient space for themselves. Take 9th Street Car to Varnum Street N.W. and Walk East 2 Squares FORCE YOUR HOUSE TO PAY FOR IT: SELF YOU CAN EASILY RENT 2D FLOOR FOR ENOUGH TO MAKE MONTHLY PAYMENTS INSPECT TODAY ss in one of the Mil- IIIIIRnnG: | *% First Floor Plan—Center hall, 8 feet in width; living room, ] kitchen es; breakiast room to seat six; sun Second Floor Plan—Four bedrooms, 2 sleeping porches, tiled 3709 Northampton Main 6594. s“m“’“mm”mmw | ‘Onoway-puk (big wind),' they said. aking their heads. ‘Opko-tigeechuk (trail very bad).’ Christmas was told in a Post Office Alaska, las letter just influence. Extreme losses of five to ten points recoived at the | Department. I e y standard 's and 1d- in auto factories earn| Tt required three months to get the| Splendid Mafl Carrler. Gy anderajehincesanRIcORRIT oAb oto $44 0 week, plus time | letter from inwright, it having But we didn’t begin at once 10} g, rogeig T § s vt | worry about himr N euhunginya, | Sus8ested urgent liquidation and the and nalf for overtine and holidays. |Been written March 1 by ard | worry about him. Ned Nushungintyd: | passing of “paper profits made in s o ng- £ds e e DO S <n’ ks BE S r | the steady rise the first of the year. T e [addrexsed to. “Postmaster General | isn tthe sort that you easil Moderate rallies in the final Aesaion, pull hairs out its tail as | Will s, Washington CIVME ekl Y St worrying . bolit, with Mexicans leading, resulted al- Sl S Hays left th. g ch 4. s not only, like all Eskimos, intelli-l ;50 entirely from the announcement ae 5 > 7 or | kont and "kind in the treatment of Y 0] uacher and Postmaster Ward, for | kont in e ntreliteom the ennonncement is both in the far-north village, [ dOKS, and ready to go hungry himself | 3, G SETCRMEnE for afiust N interesting picture of Ned |rather than see them starved or un- A 3 Nushungin Kimo muil carrier, |derfed. But when going with the ounds Denth Knell of Pool Who runs 650 miles with the mail, | mail he does not add his weight to| The attenuate demand for certain ink thin khaki trousers, which ! the load his dogs must haul. He does | specialtics evidenced by further en- fwould freeze if he sat down. l""' ride on the sled. He is running | forced closing out of margin accounts i as he comes into the village, and as |Sounded the death knell of many pools v Mr. Ward's Letter. he leaves; but how do you know he [and put an effectual quietus upon the i a4 unique picture of the|doesn’t sit on the load or stand onjoperations of vedturesome Individual traders, Industrials and miscellaneous stocks suffered most, but the decline Mr. Ward's | the runners he gets beyond The proof is in rrying the mail, when and its life, doubtless heard a thou- sand or two ‘Mike and Pat’ storie e ches as do most | embraced numerous Jjunlor ol low ! Here ix one worth telling of us here, but thin khaki pants in|priced rails, which had won tmpo- obody who has lived here on the | Which, if he were to sit or stand still [ 1ary favor on their speculative possi- jaretic coast through such w on the sled with the mercury down, |bilities. Shorts used the more omi- | this—the worst, - s the where it has been hanging this win- [nous aspects of the labor situation to {within their memory —would e ter, around 40 below, his legs and [accelerate the reaction. ek of Chicago or any other | fest would quickly freeze. He runs| Better class rails suffered compara- wee down there as ‘windy” Time|Wwith his dogs practically every step |tively littie serlous pressure, but the dtier time; beginning early of the 630 miles. If any man | weakness of shippings reflected con- ber, the wind, which Alaska could be counted on to bring |ditions in the American merchant wing here, has cut loose a4 dog team through, that man *is [ marine. 1 thix coast with storms that Nushunginy i Reduction of the Bank of England | made mushing its trail the hardest S0, on Christmas, we said: ‘He’'s|rate, with concurrcnt action by affili- i most dangerous traveling in the|been delayed, storm bound perhaps;|ated banks in the far eq stonished vorld. This trail, running for 300 |himself, his sled and his dogs cov-|financlers. Regardless offthe fav Dimiles along the aretic coast. is_the | ered, it may be, by the quick drifting |able British foreign trade balance, upper half of the United States mail {snow, where they have stopped 1o |however, sterling lost almost six cents route from Barrow to Kotzebue and |slecp. But he'll” break out. He'll|on the week. Allied remittances were |return, the longest, as well as the{come. He may be here tonight’ The (distinctly heavy. Practically all neu- of all our postal routes. [ neXt day we said the same thing.jtrals of northern kur reacted !And the next. And the next. sharply, and extreme weakness was t winter mail starts down | “But when the 28th had arrived.|qisplaved by the lesser currencies, Barrow, No- - and Ned had not, the subject matter pected notably Greece and Austria. of our thought was changed by the over this route, 1 {{ vembe the aving r being e to reach Kot the lower end of ! realization that, If the mail- diu not i T T | R T it e e PULLMAN MILEAGE, 1921, the upcoming mail on the 18t of | ou schedule ime by or betare the end | 700 579 465 MILES TOTAL r has bes 'ntimental consideratic nd that al interests afford the most ef- motives. jut it w not when thinking about Ned that we rrival he that i about as Estimated to Average Four and a (i1 and the folks were moved to action. It was when into the our thought shifted to the imper- Half Round Trips Daily to of Isonal, mechanical, postal efficiency the Moon.- Jidea that ‘the mail must be gotten . v through on time, that we stopped | I¥ (he Associated Press, stead of taliing and started to apt. i ICAGO. e 17 —Tie Pullman car SHi% hvean 5 eage in averaged four and & et tiT Council fia Called- half round daily to the moon, fter a quickl of alled iila; and council, hort at miles” from the eart » @ statistician of the PPuil- sesston the way-puk” Bad. s oha Batl aia h the procecdure was immediat This mi - averaged SLCREistas, nob o1/ Oh greed upon. I rang the big school f trips to the sun, which o AT the alling all the people to the 000 miles distant, according to when the less solemn part of th which is also the post tement ! bration ‘. And, as the folks! a few minutes they were eage reported for the year toRether hane f schop and meeting was | was 465 m) which was de- clared equivalent to e * the equator « he mere statement of the circling the earth the festivities, the enter- . the giving of pr n was sufficient eRents, There was ty-eight times wvas the LU T T st d the outdoor and indoor gument or urging. Two | day. or on sixteen minutes and vere reauired by the emer. | (WeRts-two secor ich car was galt = zencv: First. that a coupl men { to have averaged a vearly run of 118.37 evgmT g a3 {should be willing to start down the | Mile five trips (§lcoast at once to find the mail sled | @7 b | 1. it Ned were with it and able to ey, i travel, to help him: if not, to get the s o ; frh ! mail, b it back and take it on P Opaicaraide of Wimiiea dor 1 to Barrow: second, )plies be i LR b id, thue supplies: be If a new-born bahe started this nished to last th dogs for a month ing the possibility not find the mail ¥n the coast d learned that Kaywak, an ex- perienced reindeer herder, and Tuk- . A far-ranging hunter, both of lwhom had come to the village for the Christmas celebration, were well a quainted with the trail down the coast. Would they go? Yes, without a moment’s hesitation. Having no authority to use government supplies or funds for outfitting these men, 1 1id, all that 1 could do would be to draw on my own ‘grub-pile. The an- swer of Akuaksraurak, the president, was immediate: should not give all. do his part.” Within a few minutes a list was made up of the necessary {provisions. The amount required of jeach person in the village, it all * 1o share in furnishing the sup- . was named, and each man and | |woman present was d if he wish-17F |ed to give. Not a refusal or a hes v quickly the supplies were not only promised, but brought to- gether at the schoolhouse. Within a short time, the sleds were loaded, the nen and their more, there b that they would led without going d traveled ai the rate of thirty miles an hour without stoppping he would be 4 vears old when the por- ter brushed him off. averuge daily i SPACE | The Edmonds Building 911 15th St. N.W. Washington's Newest Office Building mile ge was | N ! an cars c. sengers, an average of would take 106 hotel each to furnisk nightly commodations provided SIX DIE WHEN TORNADO SWEEPS OVER FARMS 0 rooms e slevping ac- $1.000,000 Damage Done—100 Persons Hurt as Buildings Are Wrecked. the Assoriated Press. GLENWOOD CITY. From a wreckage-strewn countryside belated reports trickled last night showing that the toll of the tornado at swept through sections of four Harry Wardman 1430 K ST. N.W. Main 4190 Wis., 00000000000 6000506¢ - ~ — doxm harnessed in and. with the|western Wisconsin counties Th i {heartening ‘God speed you' of their |day night caused six known dea L, w R]g S Agenc neigabors sounding in their ears,|injury to approximately 100 persons . ! y ywak and Tukrook were off on the (and damage that will’ amount well Manufactarers’ Agent for il_down the coast, going under |toward §1,000.000. Various Kinds of sion of all the people of this Veiled by a terrific rain and o . mmunity to co-operate with the|storm, the tornado leveled or other- i Bulldmg Mate"lls_ postal service wise damaged buildings on some 200 Also Met Mail Sled. farmmeeads, killing live stock, uproot- phone and ing trees, tangling me dam- telegraph wires and doing age to growing crops. Recurrent reports of many dead. dupiications or misspelling of names, seemed for a time to indicate a heavy death list, but when errors had been eliminated and all reports run down last night six names were on the roster of dead. “It makes no difference to the point lof this story that Kaywak and | Tukrook met the mail sied on the trail twenty miles southwest of here, | 50 that their help actually consisted | merely in taking onto their sleds a vart of the load and so speeding its arrival here and at Point Barrow by a few hours “The opportunity had come to these Arctic Americans to show what the attitude of every American com-| munity should be toward the great|to the people. Naturally they are central agency of service that, more|ready to do what they can to help than any other, unites us all. And|it N they showed it | _“Where the ‘Mike' and ‘Pat’ ele- “Why was their response so per-ment comes into the story is in the fect and so quick? Because here the | fact that, like all except the Ipanee local branch of the nation-uniting | (oldtime) Eskimo, Kaywak and Tuk- postal service is established, not as|rook, the two men who, as agents of in_most localities throughout the | this community, started out to find country In one of the several private|and help bring on the mail, have business places, whose tendency is to | English names—or, rather, in their divide and separate the people, hut;cnue‘ Irish names, their full names lin the neighborhood-uniting public | heing, respectively, Michael Kaywak i school. and Patrick Tukrook. So the postal service is | thought of In association with the “Respectfully and heartily yours, EDWARD J. WARD, public school. That means that it is thought of as something that belongs ‘Teacher and postmastel ATTENTION, BUILDERS! Building Supplies at CAMP HUMPHREYS, VA, including all kinds and sizes of lumber, plumbing and electrical sup- plies. We have contracted with the government to wreck this camp in a short period and must sell the materials at the lowest possible prices in order to live up to our contract. ‘We now have a Gigantic Crew of trained men Wrecking these Buildings, also experienced Salesmen on the Grounds to see that your wants are taken care of. This material is all in _ FIRST-CLASS condition, as OUR MODERN WRECKING METHODS enable us to keep it that way. In order to get CHOICE OF THESE MATERIALS, Place Your Order Early. 1-inch Sheathing, at $20 1,000 feet. 1x4 and 1x6 Flooring, at $18 per 1,000 feet. 1x6 Siding, at $20 per 1,000 feet. 2x4, 2x6, 2x8 and 2x10, at $22 per 1,000 feet. 6x6, 6x8 and 8x8 TIMBERS, at $22 per 1,000 feet. DOORS at $3 each. 34x34 6-light Sash, $1.00 each. 5 TOILET SETS (Porcelain and low down tank), COM- PLETE, $15. BEAVER BOARD, $15 per 1,000 feet. PIPELESS FURNACES, $25 each. Also a full line of PIPES, VALVES and FITTINGS. RADIATION at 17¢ foot. 400 to 500 gal. TANKS, $40 and $50. STOVES at $8. COOKING RANGES, at $25. We are also WRECKERS of the AMERICAN RED CROSS Building at 18th and E sts. n.w, Washington, D. C. If you cannot come to the grounds to select your matcrials call us at either‘blace at our expense and your order will be here delivery is desired a moderate charge S | Supervising Engineer of | Building Construction Let me know your wants and give me a chance to supply them or get your building operations| started, |Office 311, 1319 F St. N.W. Phone Main 1254 For Lease Automobile - Showroom ' Northeast cor. 14th & T Sts. |[fi Available July 1st 000000000000000000060 taken care of. will be made. American Wrecking & Salvage Co.| Camp Humphr_eys,o}l’a., Telephone 56 i 411 18th St. N.W., Wi —eany amount in demomi- nations of $10 and Up Citizens Savings Bank, 1336 New York Ave. June 17.—! hail { FINANCIAL.” STEEL MORE ACTIVE FORNEAR DELIVERY 922—PART 1. RANGE OF MARKET AVERAGES. The following chart shows graphically the action of forty repre- sentative stocks dealt in on the New York Stock Exchange. The period covered is the past nonth, up to and including the close of the market Friday, June 16. The lower section of the chart indicates the relative activity of the market. JUNE 3 1 235678 9101213141516 | Prices Firm and Production Increased, Despite Uncer- ©» 2 tain Fuel Situation. 3 ™ NEW YORK, June 17.—The dema. 4 = | for steel continues ve for nea g | delivery und the rate of product.y > 18 increasing, despite the fuel siti.. ) tion, which, however, causes consts 1l = |uneasiness. Prices e v fir ; with an upward tendency, owing ;¢ the increasing cost of product oo Pig iron strong and in g 1« 8 83 || although quotations are Copper is quiet and eas 1 33 sumably having supplied immed . n d«, foreign demand has din i d X Z | and domestic buyers are H a = x-;t which has 0 son 1 S | of prices by second hands 1 < = ihr(nlm ers. It is reported that i F = {1ots of electrolytic have been so 1 s lx‘ d-—]n'un.vl th rger 0= & s are hol E 1 14 E z Production of 1 z 20 leattin : 100,00 ing im month b proxima (Uopyrignt, 1972, by W. F. Meyer.) 1921 : .50, December 15 | Hizh 1922 to Date. . 96.41, May 29 . 6390, August 24 | Low, {7859, January 10 | 4T expe fall oft 5 , but ralli Ralls, 1921. Rails, 1922 to Date. I e . 77.56, January 15 . $6.83, May 29 and buying . 6552, June 20 . 72.43 January 9 ers. He shipments are re Twenty Industrinl Common Stocks Used Are: from the straite. AmiGin A Bk . Lead is fir: h little av Am Car& Fdy Am Tel & Tel for prompt delivery. excep Am Locomotive Anaconda premiumn, Demund is slow at th Am Smelting Baldwin Loco moment Twenty Rallrond Common Stocks Used Aret jne auiet but steady. Consumer Atchison € M & St Panl K C Sout Northern Pucific Readiag aSTRean Lo e sapnlicd byt thepe as Baitimore & Ohio Del & Hudson Lehigh Vailey New Haven ' South fair demand for high grades. Canadian Pacific Erie Louis & Nash rfolk & Western Southe Antimony, quiet and barely stead . Ches & Ohjo lilinols Central N X Central Penusylvania Usion Pacific Daily Movement of Averages: | Industrials. Kails Tadost BALTIMORE PRODUCE. | Yoy 18, Tharsday a1 441 e 3. catuetay S BALTIMORE, Md, June 17 (Sp ¥ y £8.13 | June Tuesday cial)—Potato shipments have be: 2 ;},‘,‘,'._,:,d.:r mr ::::;;: Wednesd: very heavy the past few days bo: 4. Wednesday 4 June 9, from native and nearby points, esr« | Tune 3 e Virginia, and, while comm Friday 86.21 | June ) sion men s: e difficulty . , Mar 31, Wednewdsy S5 553 | Yine 15, Thursday pre Ay Pt Tune 2 Feiday g+ i R g The mark sy Rt he ok i A O SR SR Y e the AT A GLANCE A tif the heay ments keep i WEr prices A4 for next we urt ——1921— —1922— _ Close s - e Uanr' i ow, fiigh Low Testeriny. Tiew | N0 1 Stock Drought from 400 to 1 Liberty 3! 6-15-47 9670 8600 10030 94.84 10008 34913 PeTTE wpE Moo 2 ‘,}}’11&:( 0 fol Liberty 1st 4s. 6-15-47 97 5 10000 9600 *10000 4.00|ure ot wanted, Old potatoes Liberty 2d 4s 5 100.00 9560 9994 401 lighter supply and rket firmer. | Liberty 1st 4%4s.. 10040 9600 100.14 423 higher under good d for s [Tiberty 2d 345 10006 9374 9998 : e preva) Liferty 3d 4° 9824 10008 9674 10006 424 inye 1.00 Season for swe i Liberty 4th 4 98.14 10014 9586 10008 424|and vams over and stock arrivis | Victory 43 100.10 100.98 10002 100534 370 (™o rior g v and be . | s to December 1 . their nearest possible redem: sold in buyver's favor at whate: dat i {The Year 1922 to Date on the Washington Stock Exchange. *Up to and including Friday, June 18, 1922, Furnished by W. B. Hibbx & C ihs Build BONDS. pen. Hich, y N so1, 91 eucumbe d s in good dema but infer Lt. 1st R. 1st pring oni 14.000—Pot. Elee. Power Ist d at 100 1 100,000—FPot. Elec. Power cons n Elec. Power deb. 6 Elec. Power gen. €s. nd Light gen. d Elec 4 wide ra Te. tive and gen. mort 000—Riggs Realty (long) ,000—Riggs Real (short) 100—Wash. Market Cold Storag Shares. STOCKS. 10—Amer. Tel. and Tel. 4.515—Capital Traetion shington Gas and W. ked stock sel barrel and 2—District National Ban —Federal National Bank t. Bank of Wash.. t. Metropolitan . 10—Second tional Bank..... — and Trust.. ntinental Trust 5 tional Savings and Trust 36—LUnion Trust s e eieate 25—Wash. Loan and Trust.. 10—>Merchants’ Bank ... 1—Firemen's Fire Insurance. 26—Nat. Union Fire Insurance. 168—Columbia Title Insurance..... 29—Real Estate Title Insurance.. 10—Dist. of Col. Paper Mfg. pfd... 940—Mergenthaler Linotype as_to quality. While the daily are only moderate a Shippers are adv in promptly. as buyer: cal, and held eggs wi i 253—01d Dutch Market com. quotations of cents 215—01d Dutch Market pfd.. native and nearby stock 2,235—Lanston Monotype ... The general live pot 150—Washington Market flr."n;"\’;‘{ “@ * No Saturday session. EShila o ¢ I‘_"‘—_ e —————— nd white le to 40. ARRESTED IN VIENNA. GRAIN AND PROVISIONS. . bt xmall e CHICAGO, June 17.—A closing 1 not bring & W 7 YOS s plent Head of Bankrupt London Insur-|bulge, similar to the one vesterday, | 15, _g;f?inr;nals:::.';:" ance Company. was the only feature to an otherwise | stock slow sale at 18 to lifeless session in wheat on the board | LONDON, June 17.—The home office | ¢ . V trade today. el vere announced today it had been officially | °C trade foday. Houses that were!Q) [GHT COTTON REACTION advised that Gerald Lee Bevan, for- (Luvers late yesterday were on thel e head.of the City Equiiable Fire uving side again auring the cosing| FOLLOWED BY FIRMNESS Insurance Company of this city,irally. Tre buying was believed to . - i this year, had been or @ ‘! NEW YORK, June 17.—Moderate re |:nr?‘\_|er_?:(_gflll:d‘{:;“¥._ o4 be for a big cash interest, which is|gations were followed by firmness il Bevan disap] »enr!ed“ from ronaan) taking advantage of the technical|the cotton m;\.‘kell today, ;vllh [ 2 ly after the failure o e in- | e ) contracts selling up from shortly after e I8 °fha " Stock | Condition of the market and force |ber, contracts & brokerage firm with which he was |Pit shots to cover. | pared with 21. copnected. . om Vienna say| At the finish wheat was 14 to % |terday. The general market thle\e“x‘:nnnlp::resr;ed there, who was | higher: July, 1.11% to 1L11%, andi;‘n(;;l‘?z at a net advance of 10 tu living under an assumed name, re-{September, 1.12% to 1.12%; corn. un- T steady il Uvtek Violently and afterward at-|changed to % lower: oats wers un|.Lhe Sl el e d i tempted suicide, but succeeded only, changed to % off, while provisions|}atine’ orders which had evider: s in_inflicting slight injuries upon him-|showed 71 to 1215 decline. There Bentbroughi in by th 1 self. was a lack of enthusiastic buying of | jare yesterday. Not a gr | = Wheat in e early trading. Scat-|cotton was wantde, however. and i UM. ered showers were reported inisoon as the eariy orders had b SEIZE CARLOAD O Oklahoma and Kansas. and tempera- | supplicd prices eased off on ind SAVANNAH, Ga., June 17.—Federal | tures thronghout the southwest and | iiine that the golf storm bad prohibition officers today captured a|central west were lower, although the | gppeared into Mexico without caus 4 carload of bottled whisky on _the|forecast was for generally fair with anything more serious than a 1174 track of the Seaboard Alr Line|rising temperature. Disappointing | rain in extreme south Texas. In oti+1 rallway. The car was labeled po- | threshing returns on wheat were re- | respects the weather map was + tatoes and was to have been dis d from Texas and Oklahoma, favorable and there was s ! patched early this morning to Jersey | with mention of black rust damage ! suthern selling as W ' City, N. J. It had about $20,000[in thc_ latter state. Commiesio selling on the early . worth of liquor in it, with a few |houses bought September on a mod- | which carried Juls off to 21. sacks of potatoes. erate scale early, and July came out!cemler or about 6 rather freely, tending to widen the ' points net lower, t difference somewhat. Numerous s« ,rls continue to re Corn and oats were rather dull. Lo-{ hore irom tne south regarding a heas cal traders bought corn early, while|infestation of boll weevil and pro f commission hou: of damage from that later in the season. ording 4 local brokers apprehensions of th sort are modifying the market eff-cu of better growing weather and 1 of a probable improvement in the s gold, and the mar- & ket on the whole showed an easy undertone. Reports on oals con- tinue relatively poor, but so far have had little effect on the market. The wheat market lacked enthusi- asm. Values, bowever, showed | crop's condition greater firmness toward the finish| NEW ORLEANS, on disappointing threshing returnsclosed barely stead from. parts of |the southwest, with'|of & to 16 points. Ju some mention of black rust damage |21.57; December. 21.21 in Oklahoma. The close was firm, | March, 20.78 Spot with prices ranging from % to 1.00 higher; middling, 21 higher, July 1.11% to 1.11%, and Sep- NEW YORK DRY GOODS. tember 1.12% to 1.12%. The corn market later developed an NEW YORK. June 17.—Cotton goods were quiet today, With prices easy undertone and closed % higher | generally firm. Cotton yarns werq pects PERPETUAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION Pays 6 Per Cent on shares maturing. in 45 or 83 months. It Pays 4 Per Cent June 16.—Cottor net advance; October 21.03, cotton, firm, 1% to 1.00 lower, with July 613 to 61%. Open. High Low. Close. A 110% LI1% 100% LI1% ' pought carefully, as prices were ir- on shares withdrawn be- 1% 113% 1108 1124 | regular. Many ' lines of worsted . 3D%) 52 -4 | Boods were cleared up in seconé fore maturity. 5 62 ey e | hands, Some improvement was re Beptember ..., .03% .63 .@4% i | ported in silk fabric channels. Lineny A..a' Mm lh.n December . B35 .60y .64l were still slow, with price resistance OATS— UK % % notable. Burlaps were easier. . $8,000,000 ember a0y fgit e el Provisions were dull and easier, NEW SHIP TO SAIL. NEW YORK, June 17.—The Norty German Lloyd line vesterday ar- nonced that a mew steamship, thy Sierra Nevada, would leave Bremen, September 16 on its maiden trip td New York. The new ship ix a twiny scroew 9,000-ton ship, with accommo- dations for 200 first class and $0§ third class passengers. She will havy a speed of fourteen knots. with a light trade. NEW YORK, June 17.—Wheat spot barely steady: No. 2 red, 1.2 0. 2 hard, 1.27; No. 1 Manitoba, 1.44, and No. 2 _mixed durum, 1.30 c. track New York, to arrive. Corn, spot easy; No. 2 yellow and No. 2 white, 78%, 2 mixed, 78% c.Lf. New York, Surplus More Than $800,000 Corner 11th and E Sts. N.W. BERR! President &