Evening Star Newspaper, August 19, 1922, Page 10

" clalmed_Miss The Treasure Train By Arthur B. Reeve. The Star’s Week End Fiction The Last Installment The Story Thus Far: | . Maude Euston, daughter of Barry Eus- ! ton, president of the Confinental Ex- press Company, among the most sought after young women of her set, goes to Kennedy to_get his help. They I the Hotel St. Germaine, and heard 3 man and woman whispering be hind a palm in the lobby. They men- tioned the name of Granville Barnes. treasurer of her father's company. He had been suddenly stricken whiie riding in his car the day before, and his chauf- feur and he were buth found uneonscious, gasping for life, an hour later. They were in_the lospital. daugerously Il The man and woman in the tearcom had said something tiat now was the chance, when any of the warring powers Would ‘welcome @ Dblow that might crip- le the other. They mentioned. too, The Continental Express Company ing big shipments of gold and se. coming from abroad by way of Rarnes and Lane are ‘both suit- Maude Euston, as Walter knoy e went to Mr. Hospita] to see Knrne: 2 bit of blgod-seak One 'the street there s talk attack on Barnes should afect the next Dig shipment of gold there might be a Bad time, for Continental stock has been boosted until it fs aimest a war stock. Rodman Lanue goes to Kennedy. He savs more broken ralls than usual are mnow found on the roads over which they trans- rt gold. A new shipment is starting From Hialitax by train e mext day and edy_promises to help. ey eXimines e blood spectmens des Tacnes was poisoned by some Te then learns that a vacht owned ther moor- ings. Kennedr, ) alter_and Lane méet the treassre wain at Worcester. Whiting, one of Kennedy's students, goes along with some heavy ‘There is a dummy pilot Tiiced If rails have been broken or bridges own up. PIoTelis the train snops. Abead. yow of white fuses shows, and from them @ thick cloud of greenish-vellow smoke in bearing down on the train. Most of the srmed guards run from the train to escape the poison gas bearing down on them. UVICKLY Kennedy pulled from his pocket the rangements he had had his hands that morning Jjust as Miss Euston's knock had inter- rupted his conversation with me. Hurriedly he shoved one into Miss Euston’s hands, then to Lane, then to me and to the guard who was with us. “\Wet them!" he cried, as he fitted his own over his nose and staggered to a water cooler. “What is it?" I gasped, hoarsely, as we all imitated his every action. “Chlorin gas,” he rasped back, “the same gas that overcame Granville Barnes. These masks are impreg- nated with a glycerin solution of sodium phosphate. It was chlorin that destroyed the red coloring mat- ter in Barnes’ blood. No wonder, when this action of just a whift of it on us is so rapid. Even a short time longer and death would follow. It destroys without the possibility of Treconstitution and it leaves a dan- gerous deposit of albumin. How do You feel”” ‘Al right,” T lied. We looked out agaln. The things that looked like fuses were not bombs, as I had expected, but big reinforced bottles of gas compressed at high pressure, with the taps open. The supply as not i haustible. In fact, it was decidedly limited. But it seemed to have been calculated to a nicety to do the work. Only the panting of the locomotive now broke the stiliness as Kennedy and I moved forward along the track. Crack! rang out a shot. “Get on the other side of the train quick!” ordered Craig. . In the shadow, aside from the di- rection in which the wind was waft- ing the gas, we could now just barely discorn a_heavy but powerful motor truck azmd figures moving about it. As 1 peered out from the shelter of the train I realized what it all meant. The truck, which had probably con- veyed the gas lanks from the ren- dezvous where they had been col- lected. was there now to convey to some dark wharf what of the treas- ure could be seized. There the stolen yacht was waiting to carry it off. “Don’t move—don't fire," cautioned Kennedy. “Perhaps they will think it was only a shadow they saw. Let them act first. They must. . They haven't any too much time. Let them get impatient.” For some minutes we walted. Sure enough, separated widely, but converging toward the treasure train at last, we could see several dark figures making their way from the road across a strip of fleld and over the rails. I made a move with my Fun. “Don’t, Kennedy. ‘Let them get together. His ruse was clever. Evidently they thought that it had been, indeed, a wralth at which they had fired. Swiftly now they hurried to the near- est of the gold-laden cars. We could hear them breaking in wahere the guards had either been rendered un- conscious or had fled. I looked around at Maude Euston. She was the calmest of us all as she whispered: “They are in the car. Can’'t we do “crawl something?” “Lane,” whispered Kennedy, through under the trucks with me. Walter, and you, Dugan,” he added to_the guard, “go down the other ide. We must rush them—in the n car. As Kennedy crawled under the train again I saw Maude. Euston follow Lane closely. How it happened I cannot describe, for the simple reason that I don't re- member. I knew that it was a short, sharp dash; that the fight was a fight of fists. in which guns were dis- oharged wildly in the alr against the will of the gunner. But from the moment when Kennedy's voice rang out in the door, “Hands up!” to the time that I saw that we had the rob. bers lined up with their backs against the heavy cases of the precious metal for which they had planned and risk- ed so much, it is a blank of grim fdeath struggle. I remember my surprise at seeing pne of them a woman, and I thought { must be mistaken. I looked about. No; there was Maude Euston stand- Ing just beside Lane. 1 think it must have been that which recalled me and made me realize that it was a reality and not & dream. The two women stood glar- ing at each other. “The woman in the tearcom!” ex- Euston. “It was about this—robbery—then, that I heard you talking the other afternoon.” ~ I looked at the face before me. It e MOVING, PACEING & STORAGE GH_CO0. NITED BTA A MOVING, PACKING, SHIPPING. M. 4229: Y. FIREPROOY. PHON! : ¥ AR R A AAAAD AT ADANTY £ Who Moves You Is Just as Importunt as Where You Move ’hone Main 6900—Our padded vans experienced and care! men are siorage in our fireproof furaitare nflv:llvflmflkntfl. Transfer & ] i A3 3 3 A b % sk a3 A i3 ‘National Household Movers. rates Toads Phila. and whole loads from Wash. to Bal gauze ar-| was, had been, a handsome face. But now it was cold and hard, with that heartless expression of the adventuress. The men seemed to take thelr plight hard. But, as she looked Into the clear, gray eyes of the other woman, the ad- venturess scemed to gain rather than lose in deflance. ° “Robbery?" she repeated, “This is only a beginning. “A beginning. What do you mean?" 1t was Lane who spoke. ~Slowly she turned toward him. “You know well enough what I mean. The fmplication that she intended was clear. She had addressed the remark to him, but it was a stab at Maude Euston. “I know what you only wanted me to do—and 1 refused. I there more st 1 wondered whether Lane could really been involved. “Quick—what do you mean?’ de- manded Kennedy, authoritatively. The woman turned to him: “Suppose this news of the robbery is out? Do you want me to tell you, young lady?" she ladded, turning again to Maude Euston. Il fell you. The stock of the Con- tinental Express Company- will fall like a house of cards. And then? Those who have sold it at the top price will buy it back again at the bottom. The company is sound. The depression will not last—perhaps will be over in a day, ta week, a month. Then the operators can send it up again. Don't you see? 1t is the old method of manipulation in 2 new form. It is a war-stock gamble. Other stocks will be affected the same way. This is our reward—what we can get out of it by playing this game fu which the materials are furnished free. We have played it—and lost. The manipulators will get their reward on the stock market this morning. But they must reoken with us—even it we have lost. She said it with a sort of grim hu- bitterly. What will happen? i put the way, the Granville first?” I chlorin. ) you have Barnes out of asked, remembering She laughed shrilly. “That was an accident—his own carelessness. He was carrying a tank of it for us. Only his chauf- feur's presence of mind In throwing it _into the shrubbery by the road saved his life and reputation. No, oung man; he was one of the ma- pulators, too. But the chief of them as—"" ' She paused as if to enjoy one brief moment of triumph at “The president of the com- she added. , no, no!" cried Maude Euston. u in ‘a surging passion as he stepped forward and shook his finger at her. “You llie and you know i There is an old saying about the fury of a woman scorned.” She pald no attenticn to him whatever. laude Euston,” she hissed, as if Lane had been as inarticulate as the boxes of gold about, “you have saved your lover's reputation—per- {haps. At least the shipment is safe. But you have ruined your father. The deal will go through. Already that has been arranged. You may as well tell Kennedy to let us go (and let the thing go through. It involves more than us.” Kennedy had been standing back carefully keeping them all He glanced a moment out of the corner of his eye at Maude Euston, but said nothinga It was a terrible situation. Had Lane really been in it? That ques- tion was overshadowed by the men- tion of her father. Impulsively she turned to Craig. she cried. “Can’t save my father “It Is_too late,” mocked Mrs. La- bret. ‘*People will read the account of the robbery in the papers, even if it didn't take place. They will see it | before they see a denial. Orders {will flood in to sell the stock. No; it can't be stopped. Kennedy glanced momentarily at me. s there still time to catch the last morning edition, Walter?” he asked, H tly. I glanced at my watch. ¢. may try—it's possibl “Write & dispatch—an accident to | the engine—train delayed—now pro- | ceeding—anything. Here, Dugan, vou keep them covered. Shoot to kill if there's a move.” Kennedy had been feverlshly set- ting up the part of the apparatus which he had brought after Whiting had_set up his. “What can you do?" hissed Mrs. Labret. “You can't get word through. NOrders have been fssued that the tele- graph operators are under no circum- stances to give out news about this train. The wireless is out of eommis- !sion, too—the operator overcome. The robbery story has been prepared dnd given out by this time. Already re- porters are being assigned to foliow it up.” 1 looked over at Kennedy. If orders had been given for such secrecy by { Barry Eusion, how could my dispatch ldo any good? It would be held back by the operators. Craig quickly swung a wire over those by the side of the track and seized what I had written, sending furiously. “What are you doing?" I asked. “You heard what she sald. “One thing you can be certaln of.” he answered, “that dispatch can never be_stolen or tapped by sples.” ‘Why—what is this?" I asked, point- ing to the instrument. “The invention of Maj. Squier of the Army,” he replied, “by which any num- ber of messages may be sent at the same time over the same wire without the slightest confiict. Really it con- sists in making wireless electric waves travel along, instead of inside, the wire. In other words, he had discovered the means of concentrating the energy of a wireless wave on & given point in- stead of.letting It riot all over the face earth. of the = “It is the principle of wiréless. But in ordinary wireless less than one-mil- Honth part of the orlginal sending force reaches the point for which it is in- tended. The rest is scattered through space in all directions. If the vibra- tions of a current are of a certain number per second, the current will follow a wire to which it is, as it were, attached, of g off into space. P “All the ‘energy in wireless formerly wasted in radiation in every direction now devotes itself solely to driving the current through the ether about .the iwire. Thus it goes untll it reaches the point where Whiting is—where the vi- tions d to its own and are in tune. There it reproduces the send- ing impulse. It is wired wireless.” Craig had long since finished sending his wired wireless message. Wae waited impatiently. The seconds seemed to drag like hours. Far off, now, we could hear a whistle finally i and the Eptteme of Events Up to Avgust 19, 19232, FOREIGN. Arthur Griffith, Irish dall head, dies of influenza at Dublin. British plan for huge cut in reparations is shock to French. Viscount Northcliffe, noted publicist, died at London of suppuration (or the production of pus) within the heart, which was followed by acute blood poisoning. Cork rebels flee into Kerry hills. Dele. gates to the unsuccessful allied con- ference on German reparations leave |Londom Premier Poincare orders French debt commission, headed by Jean V. Parmentier, to return from ‘Washington to Paris. NATIONAL. President Harding confers with rall executives and ‘strikers’ heads with- out results, Rail and “big four” heads in secret session seek com- promise on seniority issue to end strike. Hard coal operators propose miners return at former scale pend- ing commission inquiry. Nation-wide soft coal strike ended. Ralil presi- dents and unlon chiefs meet in New York, but fail to agree. John W. Davis elected head of the American Bar Association at San Francisco convention. Great Lakes seamen get increased wages. Train deserted by crew In Arizona desert; passengers suffer, but are rescued. President Harding, addressing Congress, says that law must rule in strike. Twelve dead in forest fire in northern Min- nesota. Post Office Department rules that new houses must be equipped with mail boxes to get mall delivery to door. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Detectives endeavor to locate the slayer of Barney A. McBride, discov- ered badly mutilated on road in Prince Georges county, Md. Street car stoned by gang of colored men. Stained shirt latest clue in MaBride murder. House reconvenes. District Commissioners asked by Ib\lrn.u to prune local estimates by $3,000.000. More than 42,000 tons of; ocoal declared weekly District need, by Walter C. Allen, secretary of the public utilities. Rent commission or- Jers 400 Tents cut at Chastleton Apartment. Members of Citizens’ Mili- tary Training Camp from Camp Meades to be reviewed by President Harding here Monday. ITTLE STORIES '36’15&111%&; The Young Foxes Get a Les- son. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. You'll find this true of men and mice: Who foolish acts must pay the price. REDDY FOX. The four little Foxes, the children, their stomachs full, were taking a nap close to their home in the Old Pasture. But their mother was not napping. No, sir, she was not nap- ping. She lay listening to a sound that both worrled hdr and provoked her. It wds the volce of Bowser the Hound. And she knew as well as if she had been where she could see that Bowser was on the trail of Red- dy Fox. Had it been In the late fall or win- ter Mrs. Reddy would have been neither worried nor provoked. She would simply have prepared to help Reddy out in case he had trouble in getting rid of Bowser. But now she was worried because of those four young Foxes. She felt sure that Reddy would have sense enough_ to keep away from the Old Pasture. But there was always a chance that he might not. She knew that he was not in condition for a long run at this season of the year. She knew that he would soon feel the heat. If he could not play one of his smart tricks to fool Bowser he might come seeking her aid, and that would mean that Bowser might find those young Foxes. So. Mrs. Reddy was worried. She wasn't worried on ac- count of what might happen to Red- dy, but on account of those young Foxes. And, she was provoked because Reddy had been where Bowser the Hound would find his trall. She knew just as well as if she had been there that Reddy had visited Farmer Brown's barnyard. “Ill give him a piece of my mind,” declared Mrs. Reddy. “Yes, sir; I'll give him a plece of my mind the first chance I get. The idea of getting into trou- ble this time of year! He ought to know better. He does know better.” Just then one of the little Foxes awoke. At once he pricked up h! funny little ears. “Bow, Wow, WO Wow!” came the voice of Bowser t Hound from the distance. “Bo Wow, WOW, WOWwW.” Another littl Fox awoke and pricked up his ears. Then the other two awoke, and all sat up to listen. “What {s that noise? asked one little Fox. “It is the voice of Bowser the Hound,” replied their mother. “Who is Bowser the Hound?” asked another little Fox. Mrs. Reddy walked over and sat down in front of the four little Fox: es. She looked at each sharp little face. In nmone was thers &ven a trace of fear. All she saw was curiosity. N ¥ Caov '}h-.“-w - *“IS HE FOLLOWING A FOX NOW?* ASKPD ONE OF THE YOUNG- STERS. “Listen, children,” sald Mrs. Red- y, and her face was very Sober. “That is the voice of Bowser th Hound, , ar is a big dog, whose greatest delight is to chase Foxes. He has a wonderful n and with it he can follow & trail of one of the youngsters. Mrs. Reddy nodded. “He i= chasing your father,” said she. “Your father has been careless or thoughtless or too venturesome and has been whers that dog found his T tracks. If he should ever catch your father you ‘wouldn't have a father. . The eyes of the little Foxes opened very wide. *“Why not?" asked one. “Because Bowser the Hound is a terrible fcllow and would shake your father to death if he should catch He would do the ey WASHIN FINANCIAL CLEARING OF STRIKE SITUATION |N. Y. Curb Market/ THINK THAT BUSINESS CAN NOW »|. FACE FUTURE WITH CONFIDENCE OPENS WAY FOR TRADE SPEED Outlook fflar Fall and Winter Is Brightened by Bountiful Harvests and Liberal Mouney and Credit Conditions. BY STUART P. WEST. NEW YORK, August 19.—Interest in the financial situation this week has been divided bstween the prog- ress made in adjusting labor troubl at home and the lack of progress to- ‘ward Rny solution of the great ques- tions which cloud the outlook abroad. The strike which has tied up the coal trade for the last four months and a half is now virtually settled. The strug- 8le with the coal miners was always of far more consequence than the struggle with the railway shopmen. As statistics on car loadings have shown, the walkout of the shop craft employes has had very little effect during the last six weeks in curtail- ing the movement of freight. Whether a continued walkout would result in deterlorated equipment and & great reduction in traneportation of mer- is 2 matter regarding which much difference of opinion has been expressed. But the figures to date have all been on the side of the carriers. The threat of a sympathtic strike by the members of the big four railway brotherhoods quickly petered out. There were Isolated ‘walkouts, but that was all. The fear of a general railway paralys particularly acute, . had completely disappeared by the middle of the week. B It has meant a good deal, therefore, to settle the soft coal strike, even if the settlement has not been the sort that the operaors woull have liked to see. Manufacturing industries may now look ‘forward to getting back to the production of a mon‘h and two months ago. The railroads, wtih coal shipments at & maximum 8 they surely will be, face a demand pon their facllities probably greater even that that which resuited in the famous freight congestion of 1917. With a norma] supply once more, with uncommonly large grain h vests, with a cotton crop which, al- though les: f anything than the average, promises to bdring fully as high as a year ago, and with money and credit conditions the easiest in four years, the outlook for rices the autumn and coming winter is favorable. It has not, moreover, been overdiscounted by a violent Wall street speculation. The rise from the prices of a year ago has been derable, but has not been hed by any huge outside speculation, straining bank loans and creating Inflation, such as character- ized the markets of 1915 and 1919. Germany's Finaneial Dilemma. The one question that must always be asked with solicitude is how far, i all, our domestic business and financlal conditions would be affected b{ the complete economic breakdown of Germany. Cable dispatches very recently have pictured banking senti- ment on the other side as apprehen- sive of a general panic, should the reparations commission de with France against England and encour- age the French to carry out alone the drastic program set forth by their premier at the London confer- ence. But, 8o far, apart from what is, on the whole, a moderate decline in French, Belgian and Ita ' n_ex- change, the markets of the last fort night have not suppdbrted the notion of serious uneasiness below the sur- | facy Foreign ' government have ylelded very little, the general investment list at London and Paris has been steady, and more striking still, sterling exchange has within the last few days sold within 2 cents in the pound of the very highest of the year. The: e symptoms quite incompatible with alarm lest Germany drag the rest of the nations with her on the downward path. How the German reparations prob- lem will eventually be worked out so as to avoid a crisis in France and Belgium 18 still very hard to see. But_ Great Britaln, not being de- pendent upon German indemnity payments, having successfully bal- anced her budget and regained the credit side in her trade with the outside world, occuples a compara- tively Independent position. So, even more, does the United States, where commerce with Germany and France together is an insignificant part of the total home and foreign trade. (Copyright, 1922.) Grain, Produce and Live Stock LOCAL WHOLESALE PRICES. s—Strictly fresh, selected. can average re- southern, 25. Live poultry—Roosters, per Ib.. 15; w:key-. It?"z 1b.. 25; spring - ens, per 1b., 28a323 keats, young, each, 36a50¢ fowls, 2a02 S Dressed poultry—Fresh killed spring chicke: per 1b., 30a35; he er 1b., 24; roosters, per Ib., 10; turkeys, per 35240; keats, young, each, 35a50. _ Live stoc'«—Calves, choice, per ib., 9%a10: medium, per lb., 9; thin, per Ib. 5a7. Lambs, choice, per lb., 13; live %{; 3.0028.00 each; live hogs, Green frujts—Apples, 1.00a4.50; per bu.” baske 150. California oranges, 8.00a10.50; lemons,- per box. Peaches, ‘per crafe, 1.50a4.00. loupes, §0a2.00. Vegetables—Potatoes, 1, 2.0002.5 T No. 2, 50a1.00. 3.50. Cymblings, per crate, per basket, 1.25a1%75. Cabbage, West Virginia, 1.2621.50 per bbL; nearby cabbage, per bbl, 76a1.00. Cucumbers, per box, 1.00a3.00. - plants, per ~crate, 1.00a1.50. toes, per box, nearby, 25al. 1.50a2.50 per bbL Peas, 2.00a2. basket. Peppers, per crate, 50a75. Spinach, per crate, 50a75. beans. per quart, 25a30." Celery, per doz., 50a1.00. DAIRY MARKETS. BALTIMORE, August 19 (Special).— Poultry—Live, spring chicken, pound, white Leghorns, 22a2 old 19a24; white Leghorns, 19a20; old roosters, 15; ducks, 19a21; small, 15a16; pigeons, pair, 35; guinea Yowl, each, 50a60. Eggs (loss off)—Native and nearby firsts, dozen, 25; southern, 23. Butter—Creamery, fancy, pound, 36, nearby creamery, 33; ladles, 26a27; rolls, 22a24; store packed, 32; dairy prints, 23a24; proct but- ter, 31a32. —_— ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md., August 19 (Spe- olal)—The trial of Willlam A Stults of Frederick county, indicted by the grand jury a fef days ago for the murder of Policeman John- P. Adams of Frederick, will take place at Rockville, and has_been set for August 29. Sherman P. Bowers of Frederick, who will defend Stults, took the matter of a change of venue up with Chief Judge Hammond Ur- ner, te Judges Worthington and Peter, and State's Attorney An- ders, and the removal of the case to this county was agreed upon. In this county there i{s a local law which allows the petit jury to be recalled, ‘which will be done in this case. John A. Garrett of Rockville will Le as- soclated with Attorney Bowers in de- ending Stults, and Stat Attorneys Anders of Frederick county and Thomas I. Dawson of this county will conduct the prosecution. Stultsz, it is charged, shot two deputy sheriffs and Policeman Adams when they visited his home to serve a writ of attachment. At = meeting of the guarantors of the Rockville Chautauqua, which w: presided gver by Dr. George E. Lew s chairman,” the following chairmen of reparati =\u to be held here beginuing A 31, to continue six days: Hospitality, Mrs. Willlam W. Welsh; decorations, Mrs. Emmet Dove and Mrs. Leonard Edgar Beall; O. M. Linthicum; junlor chautau Sunday program and Ronore thote scheduted for Jestares Among those uled for ures are Dr. L. G. Herbert, Walfred Lind- strom, Dr. Frank Bohn, Miss Mildred Leo Clemens and Dr. Pauline Pearson. The annual lawn fete and festival for the bemefit of the Hén Smith-Edmonds Post of the Amer- ican Legion was held last evening on the Iawn adjolning the courthouse. It attracted many members of the organization and othérs from various parts of the county and vvond a success in every way. W.! Valentine wunn,.:ommlndcr of the V"' was chalrm of the committes In charge. A Upon convicted In the court here of having Intoxi Ing liquor in their intention of el thews and Delno Berry, both col ware each fined §100 and costy by Judge 0 in -the police court. Arthur Mat ’s, 0D of thé woman was acquitted & similar ‘The woman's the price | gmall for his if He is """fi of foolishness. Had he kept away from where Bowser the Hound lives he would not be in trouble . now. Never go near ‘where there may be danger. It is easier to avold danger than to escape 1t. Whenever you :]’r”tm voice of Bowser the Hound . “Shall we hide now? asked.ome of the little Foxes. (Copyright, 1822, by T. W. Burgess.) ( 250 't | Ohlos GRAIN AND PROVISIONS. BALTIMORE, August 19 (Special).— Potatoes, white, barrel, 1.75a2.00; No. 2, 75a1.00; 100 pounds, 50al.25; 150 pounds, 75a2.0 sweets, barrel, 2.75a 3.25; yams, barrel, 2.25a2.50. Beans, bushel, 40a60; lima beans, 50a1.00. Beets, hundred, 2.00a2.50. Cabbage, hundred, 3.0024.00. Carrots, hundred, 8.00a4.00. Celery, dozen, 40a80. Corn, dozen, 5a10. Cucumbers, bas- ket, 75. Eggplants, basket, 50a1.60. Lettuce, basket, 50a1.25. Onions, bush- el, 60a75. Peppers, basket, 20a35. , basket, 25230. Tomatoes, bas- ket, 25a35. packing stock, bushel, 60a65 ; yellow, basket, 35a40. Apples, barrel, 1.00a2.00; bushel, 50 21.00. Cantaloupes, basket, 25a75; crate, 50a1.50. Crabapples, basket, 40 a60. Damsons, pound, Grapes, bas- ket, 75a1.00. Huckleberries, quart, 15 a20. Peaches, basket, 35a6 a2.75. Pears, basket, 50a1.00. melons, primes to select, 6a25. o Closing Prices at 1 0'Clock. ‘Wheat—No. 1 red winter, spot, no quotations; No. 2 red winte 1.12%; No. 3, no quotation red winter, garlicky, spot, 1.04 per bushel; No. 3, 93% asked; August wheat, 1.06% per bushel; September, 1.02% asked. Sales—Bag lot of nearby, by sam- ple, at 55, 60, 65, 75, 80 and 95 per bushel. Cargoes on grade—No. 2 red winter, garlicky, 1.03 per bushel; No. 3, 93; No. 4, 87% per bushel; No. 5, 81 per bushel. Car lot of No. 2 red winter, spot, 1.123% per bushel. Car lot of No. 3 red “winter, garlicky, spot, 94, 94%, 943%, 94% and 94% per bushel. Corn—Cob corn quoted 3.75 asked per barrel; Contract corn, spot, 728 per bushel; No. 2 corn, spot, 74%; No. 4 corn, no quotations; track corn, yel- low, No. 2 or better, 78a78% per bushel. No sales. Oats—White, No. 2, new, 42% per bushel; No. 3, new, 41%. ! Rye—Nearby, bag lots, 65a35 per bushel; No. 2, western export, spot % per bushel; No. 3, no quotations. Hay—Receipts, 53 tons; range I 16.00218.00 for fair to good timothy and light mixed; market firm; supply on hand ample for trade. = Straw—No. 1 tangled rys, 15.00; No. 1 wheat, 10.00210.50; No. 1, nominal, 12.00213.00. CHICAGO, August 19.—Wheat prices here took & downward swing today during the early dealings, the break in the market at Liverpool and some general selling being responsible for the decline. Shortly after the start the September delivery went to 99% n, the inside figure of the season. As a’'whole the market displayed a weak undertone, with support com ing mainly from shorts. The open- ing, which ranged from % to % lower, with September 1.00a1.00% and December 1.013% to 1.01%, was fol- lowed by a further decline all around. ng of the drought over part of the belt eased the corn and oats market, the former receiving fair sup- port from shorts. After starting % to 3% lower, with September 59% to 59%, the corn market underwent a further setback Oats started a shade to % down, with September 30% to 30%, and held close to the initial figures. Provisions were lower, In line with srain values. Potatoes—Steady: receipts, forty- two cari total United States ship- ments, 659; eastern shore Virginia, stave barrels Irish cobblers, mostly, Minnesota sacked and bulk early 1.00a1.15 cw! Nebraska sacked early Ohlos, 1.00a1.10 cwt.; Wisconsin, bulk, cobblers, 1.40al.5¢ ‘Wheat continued under pressure from local and commission houses, all deliveries going to a new low for the season. The ‘close was weak. with &rlumh- fi’ 9‘12 %flc;g;‘ lowea-. ;n.h Sep- T an ecem| 1.00% to 1.01. he The weakness in wheat affected corn, and the cl how of % to 3 cent, 5 WHEAT— High. Low. i Ry B 2 8 .59 88 B3¢ 56 56 lon ;: - the it, Bea Mat- < Dot lored, o both of Washington, the ceremony hn-&pllee at the reetory. ‘Within the last few days the fol- v have fallen victims of the vigilance of members of the county's mounted police force and have paid ‘golleo court here for e motor vehicle laws: Bam: Frasler, $25; Willlam Hall, 3r., $10; Chester Vance, §1. A of of he Church here, through th the members of Christ Church Guild. William H. Baden, & member of the has presented the church with & get of handsome gr silk - ings for the lectern and pulpit. " International Salt has declared its regular quarterly dividenfl of $1.50, payadle October 3 10 stock of record e e A securities | (Quatations furnished by the Aseoclated Press.) 50 Am 800 Beth 8¢, 100 Beth 8¢ T 00 By 2000 Car Light . 100 Chicago Nipple ... ' 4 200 Columbia _wmeraid. .69 100 Columbia Motor, 3% 500 Com Solvents +:A" .48 100 Com Bolvents *B"* 41 600 Continental Motors ~ 7% 00 Cuban Dom Sugar.. 9 100 Ca Cane Bug rets. .25 200 Curtis Aero ....... 4% 300 Durant " Motors ‘ind .15 800 Federal Telegraph. 1% 100 Glen Alden Coal.. 85 100 Gibson H . 100 Gluble Bros 400 Gimbie' Bros w i. 1300 Goidwyn, Pictures. 400 Pub Ber Co N J ptd 400 Radio Corp com. 400 Kadio Corp pfd ... Reo Motor Truck.. 200 Schulte Stores . 1700 South Coal & I 700 Bt Law:r F. 500 Btuptz Motor . 80O Tech Prod . 5 500 U B Light & Heat 700 Un Retail Candy. 3900 Wayne Coal . 100 West End Chemic BTANDARD 8700 Anglo Amer Ofl. 1600 Atlantic Lobos . 10 Galena Signal Of." 3 Tilinols Pipe Line 3- Tndiana Pipe Lin rrairie Pipe Lin nd 100 Aetna’ ¢ 300 Alcan On 600 ¢ 100 Cities Service pr.. 100 Columbian Syndicate 2500 Creole Syndicate. . 6000 Federal Oil . 1400 Fensland 01l 200 Glenrock Oil 11000 Hudson Ol ... . 2000 Sntemational ~ Pet. 4000 Keystone Ranger .. . 100 Kirby Petroleum .. Petroleum. . 100 Kyan Consolidated. ms _Petroleum. . Te: 1500 Turman Ol 200 Wilcox 01l “ ol & MINING. Alas-Brit Col Metis Amer, Exyloration. Big Ledge ....... Boston & Mont Dev .16 Boston & Mont Con Canada Copper ... -09 Candelabria Mining. 32 1000 Combiuation £r Min 03 ted Copper ' 2% 100 El Salvador ...... - Emma Stiver Mines Eurcka Croesus ... Gold Development . Guldtield ~Florence. 03 59000 4000 !Traclers in Country, Says Survey, Await Pent-up Flood of Orders, With Strikes Apparently Out of the Way. Special Dispatch to The Star. BY J. C. ROYLE. NEW YORK, August 19.—This has been a topsy-turvey week for busi- ness, but fundamentally the position of business is so strong that now, with the coal and rall strikes ap- parently out of the way, it can face the future with confidence. The eco- nomic disturbances have held up trade, but they have not destroyed orders. Manufacturers, wholesalers and retaflers await a pent-up flood of orders. If the country can put its fuel and transportatiou houses in or- der the fall is expected to be a period of unprecedented activity. Telegraphic dispatches from corre- spondents in all the strategic Indus- trial centers of the country reveal an unsettled state of affairs. Trade has been very spotty and hesitant. In only one section of the nation—the Pacific northwest—has it been ported anywhere near normal New England the fuel shortage has been the bogey, in the south the rail strike disturbances served as retard- ing influences. This has been true, too, in the southwest. In the middle west the absence of coal cut down activities, while In the far west, espe- clally in ‘southern California, the specter of a transportation tie-up un- nerved the fruit shippers and their alarm was infectious, so far as gen- eral business on that part-of the Pa- cific coast was concerned. The east saw a curtallment in the output of steel and a let-up in buying, but con- ditions have been fair here. These widely scattered incidents of transportation delays, coal shortages and their companion ills have been only momentary influences on the business situation, for their effects had been discounted. It {s hard to be pessimistic In the face of Tecord- breaking crops and a good supply of labor. Assurances to Help. Given the assurance of regular train service and normal coal sup- plies, the manufacturer can look for- ward confidently. -This is, especially true of the farm implement makers, the rallway equipment people and all lines that enter into building con- struction. Meantime, the retailer and more generally the country mer- chant can put his buying plans into effect with some assurance that they will mature. The basic industries of the country are in good shape. The steel com- panies, while they have had to cur- tail their activities because of the fuel shortage, have plenty of orders on_hand. With adequate coal supplies the steel people foresee capacity produc- tion. The automobile manufacturers, with the price-cutting flurry over and done with perhaps for the remainder of the year, although more than a modicum of doubt may be attached to the word “perhaps,” are in good shape and enjoying a fine business. Bullding Big Ald. Furniture manufacturers are profit- ing by the construction of new build- ings and dwellings, as are the makers of all sorts of household appliances There is a lull in‘the overwhelming 72 demand for radio sets and all manner 57 1000 Kewanas Miniug . .05 1000 Knox Divide s 10000 Lone Star . e 7000 McN Min & Mill. 8800 Marsh Mines Cons. .12 2% Big | 03] 1% ! 10 1% 19 42 7500 Tech Hughes . T8 6000 Tonopah Divide Tonopah Extension. 100 Tonopah Mining. 1000 Tri-Bullion Sm & 500 Tuolumne Copper . 1200 United Eastern . 1200 West End Cons.... 1#& 1000 White Caps Mining .14 BONDS. 5 Aluminum 7s, 1833.. 108 6 Am Tel & Te 6s 1924 1013, 16 Anaconda Copper_8s. 102% 1 Anglo-Amer Uil 7% 2 Armour 23 Beth_Steel 78 Natl Bwy eg 7e. 112 Natl .o e 106% 94 108 1y 102 1083 105 18 Co 3 Cof 19 Cop Exp Ass en 8s '25. 1 2 Fed Land Bank 4%s 101% 25 Galena Signal Oil ‘78 1063 ¢ Tire 7s.. 108 1 3 G Ry o Hav Tia g 12 V:nu:z 0il 7s. 1 814 Western Electric FOREIGN BONDS. A tine 7s, '28.. 1005 ‘; f‘:fi: Steamship 7s 93 lOKJnlE;gzfiC u&lg‘s!s 8 Bwiss s . 8 'J'fl Mexico 37% ————— CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET. HICAGO, August 19 (United States Dsplrpent of_Agriculture—Cattle—Re- ceipts, 2,000 head; compared week 880, beef steers and yearlings mostly 25 to G0 cents higher, good grades advancing most; extreme top matur- ed steers, 10.95; best yearlings, 10.85; beef cows and heifers uneven, largely 25 cents up, spots and better grades. 1light heifers, 50 cents and more high- er: canners and cutters, steady to strong; bulls, about 15 to 25 cents higher: veal calves, unevenly, to 1.50 higher; stockers and feeders strong to 25 cents higher. Week's bulk prices, beef steers, 9.00a10.50; stockers and feed 6.00a6.75; beef cows and heifer: .50; canners and cutters, 2.8523.85; veal calves, 11.25a12.25. Recelpts, 8,000 head; market o8 tiva on betier grades around slow to ’:n‘e::lzlzz top, 9.65; bull 1 ;:7:;‘(-1 we’l’ght, 9.4529.60; 210 to 250 pound butchers, mostly, 9.10a9.35; cking sows, mostly, 7.0027.60; many plain _heavy butchers and packing sows held without bid: pigs, mostly, 8.5029.00; holdover fairly liberal heavy, 8$.0029.50; medium, 8.559.50, light, 9.15a9. iight light, 9.1029.60: packing sows, smooth, 17.25a9.90; acking sows, rough, 6.75a7.35; kill- rn pigs, 8.5029.25. Sheep—Receipts, - 1,600 head: native lambs, mostly, 12.5¢a12.7 13.75; none strictly choice; mostiy, 9.00; compared week ago kill- ing lambs, 25 to 50. cents higher; natives, mol:x. 50 cents up; matured ‘weathers, W ewes, yearlings, feed- and breeding stock, strong to 25 1 lo- c:fnl higher. SN BAR SILVER QUOTATIONS. NEW YORK, August 19.—Foreign bar silver, 69%; Mexican dollars, 53%. LONDON, August 19.—Bar 1::1"3 Ice ounce; money, b ::3. bl‘)‘ 3;7 rates, short and three- month 2% per cent. New York Air Brake plans new financing throt Bdward B. Smith wm Do-l,.lolu it was of radio accessories, which gives rise to the belief that the larger producing companies will have to take steps to acquaint the general public with their wares. Heretofore the public has sought them unsolicited. Copper con- tinues quiet. The cotfon market i erratic with price tendeneies upward. Department stores of the larger cities report a fair business for this time of the year. Summer sales have been well attended and goods moved off the shelves to make place for fall supplies. Commodity Reports From Various Sections Flour. ATLANTA. August 19 (Special).— Millers and bakers throughout south- east are lucky to have on hand a ten- day supply of flour. The prospective shortage Is due entirely to freight con- gestion. There Is considerable flour in transit, but deliveries are uncertain. Millers report some husiness in single iorders and no contracts. Prices this | week are from 25 to 40 cents lower than last week. - Frults. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., August 19 (Special).—Growers of peaches, pears, grapes and plums in southwestern Michigan are more optimistic, because raile are furnishing a greater number of refrigerator cars. Because of con- gestion in Chicago the late fruit crop, valued at $30,000,000, must be mar- keted largely in other centers. This requires cars rather than boats, which usually carry crops to Chicago market. Nearly all factors entering into fruit marketing are satisfactory at present. ‘Tires. SEATTLE, August 19 (Special).— Auto tire dealers are apprehensive about price outlook, owing to tenden- cles of manufacturers and jobbers to change previous low quotations to even lower ones. Dealers fear results of |po!s|blq overproduction by fac- tories. Tobacco. _PITTSBURGH, August 19 (Special). —The 5-cent.cigar is making a splurge here for the first time since before the war. It is becoming a competitor of the stogle, which does not seem able to get below the three-for-ten class. Once the stogie sold at four for five. Men's Wear. CLEVELAND, August 19 (Special). —Hot weather has revived demand for summer clothing and merchants are not having difficulty in clearing shelves, especially of men's wear. Burlap. +NEW YORK, August 19 (Special).— Seventeen vessels now are en route from Calcutta with burlap cargoes for east coast ports in the United States. Eleven are bound for New York and six for New Orleans. Coal. HOBOKEN, N. J., August 19 (Spe- 0 | clal).—Heavy .orders of British coal will be unloaded here soon, consigned to Delaware, Lackawanna and West- ern. The coal has been -ordered by the road in order to keep its trains moving. Steel. SEATTLE, August 19 (Special).— Mills producing steel concrete rein- forcing rods, angle bars and similar building material are operating this month on a basis of 70 per cent of 1914 production. This is a distinct gain over last year, improvement be- R e e e TV e ’ FOREIGN EXCHANGE. (Quotations furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Co.) Belling checks—dollar values at close today: . 448 Budapest E Prague ,.... 0760 Warsaw ...0 NEW YORK& All(!;l‘lltl l;r—r,;ore!ign exchange steady. Grea tain, de- mand, 4.47%; cables, 4.47%; sixty- day Dbills on banks, 4.45%. nce, demand, .0796; cabl . Italy, demand, .0453%; eabl .0454. Bel- glum, demand, .0756%; cables, .0757. Germany, demand, .007%; eables, .0075%. Holland, demand, _.3890; cables, .3895. Norway, demand, .1740. Sweden, demand, .2650. Denmark, de- mand, .2160. Switzerland, demand, 1908, Spain, demand, .1564. Greece, de- mand, .0315. Poland, demand, .0001%. Cszechoslovakia, demand, .0295. Ar- gentine, demand, .3650. Brazil, de- mand, .1350. Montreal, .99%. Einning late in the spring and con- tinuing every month since May 1. Notes. NEW YORK, August 19 (Special).— A shipment of 2,293 packages of silk valued at $2,234.505, arrived here early today in thirteen special bag- gage cars. The silk was loaded at Seattle on the arrival of the Admiral liner President Jackson. In view of railroad conditions the transconti- nental journey was made in very ex- cellent time. TOPF Kan., August 19 (Spe- clal).—Retall merchants of this city have moved summer stocks. @ able to report a eral use of. dail, tising has been th the merchants have also been build- Ing up good mailing lists, circular- izing their patrons regularly. PHILADELPHIA, August 19 (Spe- Coal and Naviga- s spending $500,000 for on of new docks and S near Northampton. will facilitate the shipments, by _and the Delaware river, of an- ite to this market. MOUNT RAINER MOUNT RAINIER, Md. Angust 19. —Regular meeting of the town coun- cil of Mount last Monday of the unavoid. William E. Filoyd B. M day. With th ress slated for consideration is that of a petition from a number of citizens asking the councl to enforce ordinance com- pelling property owners to connect their premises with the town water and sewer system, it heing stated that a number of propertics are not now connected. The council also is ex- pected to consider the purchase of a tractor and other equipment for road work in the tow The annual Mount Rainier carnival is proving unuzually snccessful, large throngs attending : ing from Mount Rainier, shington and | nearby points. Proceeds of sthe af- fair, with the exception of the sum from the firemen's booth, will go to liquidate the $2,5 town hall. A {is a feature of the { will continue through Labor day. Farson is ch: tee in charge of the carnival {, Mr. and Mrs Walter Aman have returned from a visit with relatives in New Jer: . and Mrs. y A Wright have guests Mr. and [ Mrs.” Robert of Richmond, | Va. AMrs. James A. Nichols has re- jturned from a Washington hospital { much improved. following an iliness. irles F. Crane are | Mr. and Mrs. { touring. New York Canada by motor. Mrs. B. A. is_enter- taining her parcnts, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Bassett of Elmira, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Mil on a motor trip in Ohio. . Installation of a siren 28 a fire nsidered in Mgqunt ult of reduction in to the protec- town by tha fire il be b department, | nier annusiiy < £3.000, it is estima the department. Tt or and th newly organized il _of Pre wood have requested the Mount I nier department to continue protec- tion to that tow: Mra M. K. Tovey has return from a vacation at Coionial B ra., where Mavor and Mrs. Wi Rider dre i Mrs. ) Welch and 2 Bessia Welch nr visiting northern points, thefr itin- erary including New York et At- lantic City and Niagara Fall W. A. Bennett isiting thersburg, M Mrs. Thomas W guests her bro Mr. and Mrs. lisle. Pa. Robert E. Jc Frank M st been elected (o of the Citizens' In bank recentiy iner stock from 0 now has = i Assets have on Janus in county, ) had as recs -law and sister, Griffith of Car- ce, newspaperman, and dir te Bank. The asedits capita 510 o 1 surplus the Prince Georges ¢ was along with those county teams ¥, began to sign s clubs. As a re- Mount Rainler's now playing in em are Hoff- over; Loomis. pitching and attsville. g forth at These men, ber of other tly added to the uch to improve the in the league. ugp with the sult a numbe best perfermer the league. A man, pitchine catching, and playing the and Weidman smart tossers re clubs has done quality of play ALEXANDRIA ALEXANDRIA, August 19 (Special).—All ‘arrangements have been completed by the three fire com- panies of this city to attend the an- nual state convention of the Vir- ginia Firemen’s Association, which i will convene in Hampton, Va., Wed- nesday and end Friday. Seventy- eight firemen from the three com- panies here are expected to attend. The business sessions of the associa: tion will be held beginning Wedne day morning, Thursday will 1 the big parade and the convention will end Friday with reel races. Samuel Johnson, colored. arrested yesterday afternoon by Polidemen Magner and Durrer, charged with knocking William Washington, col- ored, in the head with an iron bar, was arraigned in_the police court today and Justice Duvall, after mak- ing a brief investigation of the case, remanded the prisoner, awaiting the result of Washington's injuries. At the Alexandria Hospital today it was stated that Washington is still in an unconscious condition, and but 1it- tle hope is hel out for his recover: He s being treated by Dr. Llewelly Powell. The police charge that the 'mntlve for the assault, which took place in the washroom of the Alex- andria Fertilizer and Chemical Com- pany, was robbery. H. Linden Wheat- ley of the Alexandria Fertilizer and Chemical Company testified that he paid Washington off vesterday and that he received $9.25. Washington when found by the pclice had no money in his possession. Capt. George H. Evans, secretary of the local coal committee, will this coming week make & rurvey of the coal situation here, belng authorized by the local fuel committee, composed of George E. Warfield, chairman; W. A. Smoot and J. A. Eggborn. James R Caton, jr, special commi: sioner, has sold to Evelyn Dillard a house and lot on the east side of Al- fred between King and Cameron streets. Va., —_— COTTON MARKETS. NEW YORK, August 19.—Yesterday’ sharp reactions were followed by ad- vances in the cotton market during today's early trading. Traders who had sold yesterday afternoon on re- ports of rains in the southwest seemed to be covering or rebuying their contracts on this morning’s ad- vices indicating nothing more than a few light showers in Texas. The market opened at a decline of 4 points on October, but was gen- ) erally unchanged to 18 higher and ¥ active positions showéd net advances of 26 to 30 points during the early tradin, ith December wi selli: up from $1.63 to 3193 s 4