Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 6, 1902, Page 7

y THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1902, 7 Omaha Cohn, Wampold & Co., the N to Hayden Bros. their Big Surplus Winter Stock. Over 2,000 Men’s Suits Go in this Gigantic Sale at 50¢ on the For Style, Fit and Workmanship, These Suits Have Never | Saturday Stock, Including the Very Best Will go on Been Surpassed. Sale in Two Lots, Choice of Suits worth up to $15.00 at - $7.50 and §5.00. These coats come in all shades and sty oeavers and vicunas, handsomely made u ble and dressy, regular value up to $18.00, ®o In this sale at. . Crand Hat Sale Fashionable hats at the popular price: new and approved shapes—Panamette, fed cvlors, wold everywhere at $2.50 and $3.00; HAYDEN: CLOTHING SALE N Greatest Purchase and Sale Ever Attempted by a House. | oted Manufacturers Close Out This Entire Civing you your Lot I, 1,100 Men’s Fine Suits from this purchase, in strictly all wool cheviots and cassimeres, in all the new pop- ular shades and styles, handsomely made up ~lined with the strong and neat serge or Farmer’s satin linings, sflk sewed through- out, perfect fitting, manufacturer's regu- lar price $10.00, your choice in this grand surplus stock sale 5 ou L] I.o|2 ”lhout 900 Men’s Elegant Suits In fancy cheviots, cassimeres, meltons and worsteds, 35 different styles to select from, in a great variety of handsome patterns, in all shades, light and durk colors, round corner, single or double breasted, square cut and all the new styles, all regular sizes, and in stouts and slims, artistically tai- lored, dressy, dependable and fashionable suits, such values have never been offered in Omaha before at less than $12.50 to $15, your choice in this grand 1 50 o . surplus stock sale— Baturday, only... Attend This Big Overcoat Sale Specials for Saturday at §10.00 $12.50 in this grand Bros, les, in medium and full lengths, in kerseys, tho 'z 50 ln 00‘ .. s =1 a e at Hayden | ® of $1.50 and $2.00. These are in all the dora and Derby, in all the late winter sale prices $1.50 and $2.00. Great Cap Sale Saturday Saturday we place on sale 300 dozen ular price; heavy silk and satin lining, w all the new shapes and colors, made e and 50c. o [oys' $1.50 Sweaters at 50c # doz. boys' sweaters, fine all wooi, in fan f stripes, for boye rom 3 to § years, regular $1.50 quality, at be. MEN'S $1.00 SHIRTS AT 4C. 300 doz men's fine colored laundered shirts, made with separate cuff, ail the newest colors, not a shirt in this lot worth less than $1 and a_great many worth up to $1.50. On sale at 48c. men’s. and boys' caps at one-half the reg- ide turn-down band to protect the ear to. sell at _50e, 75c and $1.00; sale prices 25e, v 4 ) In the High Grade Dress Goods Dept In the high grade dress goods department | we will have special sale in winter suitin Everything must go now in order to mal room for spring goods which will arri: after invoicing. Be sure and examine Priestley and Lupin before buying a dress elsewhere. | dren's suits and overcoats at one-third to Boys’ & Children’s Clothing Sale A big new purchase of boys' and chil- cne-half the regular prices. Extraordinary sale Saturday at Hayden Bros. Boys' suits, in double-breasted made up to wear, correct in style, in ca simeres and cheviots, gray and brown mix- tures; regular $2.50 values; special sale price Boys suits in a great variety of black, blue, oxford gray and brown patterns, in checks and Scotch mixtures, made with extension walistbands, double seat and knees, reinforced tape seams, many of the pants lined throughout, in vestee, double- breasted, Norfolk and three-plece styles; suits worth up to $5.00; sale 2 95 price only Children’s latest attractive novelty suits in imported Sotch cheviots, homespuns, English worsteds, cassimeres and cheviots, all this season's latest colerings, in Rus- alan blouse, sailor, Manly and Norfolk, with saflor collar effect; sizes 24 to 8 years; sale prices from $6.00 to ... Just Received, a Lot of Pretty Novelties in Over- coats for the Little ellows. These are very popular styles. Let us put one on your boy and it will make him one of the best dressed boys in town. Made up fn Russian pleated back and front, with belt to match; single and double-breasted cassocks and the long-cut, swagger style, in best Cambridge cheviots, kerseys and friezes, in medium dark gray and brown mixtures, checks and overplaids; worth up to $7.50; special sale 3 oo price, $5.00, $4.00 to 135 reeters, made in good, heavy, all-wool Irish frieze, in dark gray and brown mix- tures, lined with a very fine flannel lin- ing, for boys aged 8 to 8; regular $5.00 values; speclal sale 2 95 11 price { 185 boys' and children's reefers, made of fine grade blue chinchilla and friezes, some are made with large sterm collar, cas- simere lining; worth $2.50; l 25 special sale price e 1 ASTONISHING SALES in Every Department, SATURDAY Do your holiday shopping now. Goods selected now reserved for you until you want them. HAY DEN 25,000 epot cash purchase best made un- gerwear. On sale Baturdsy at Hayden iros. The newest, freshest, most stylish, best made, best fitting garments ever manufac- tured can be had in this sale at one-third to one-half the regular prices. Ladles' fine combed Egyptian cotton rib- bed vest and pants, fleeced lined, sk croched neck, satin trimmed front, in sil ver gray and white, regular e quality, at Ladies' flat knit vest and pants, in the extra heavy fleeced lined, tape front, regular e quality, at 39, Ladies” Oneita Jersey ribbed e to button across front gyptian cotton, inion suits, and m regular e g ma; fine at Boc Ladjes fine halt wool union Jersey ribbed, full Fibbed cuffs and union sults, quality, at 9 Ladies Jersey ribbed union sults, made of %-fine ‘wool worsted yarn, full winter weight, made with high cut front, giving full protection to the lungs and neck, in vhite and silver gray, regular & quality, at $1.50. . f Union sults in the silk k, in blue or flesh color, suits, winter welght, 'close anklets, in_soft' fleece non-shrinking, regular $1.50 ' sterlin , or sil at $3.50 Ladies’ fine Jersey ribbed vest and pants, made of fine Australian wool, in black, worth $1.39, at §1. Boys" extra heavy flat fleeced lined com- bination suits, ir. all sizes, worth Tc, at 50c. Girls’ Jersey ribbed fine fleeced lined combination euits, regular 75c quality, at Children's Jersey ribbed union suits, made of the %-wool worsted yarn, full winter welght, worth $1.50, at 98c. Ladiés” outing flannel gowns, colors, extra large, worth at b Ladfes’ extra heavy flannelette gowns assorted colors, ellk finish, fancy worth $1.50, at %c. Ladies' Teavy black flee full seamless, regular assorted in yolks, lined stock- Ve quality, at xtra heavy fleeced by the Wayne St regular 3c quality Children’s e eavy ings, regu quality, at 12ic. Men'e $1.50 heavy wool underwear, shirts and drawers, in ribbed and plain wool, also silk fleeced lined, in plain and fancy colors, in_all sizes, on sale at s Men's extra heavy fleeced lined shirts and drawers, in pink, blue and brown mixed, regular 31 quality, at 4 Men's extra heavy wool and fleeced lined shirts and drawers, in plain colors, regular $1.%5 quality, on sale at One lot of men's fine silk and wool under- wear, in the American Hoslery Co., Nor- folk, New Brunswick and Stoneman. These are ‘three of the best known brands of un- made and sold at §250 and $3 a t, on sale at $L60. § SHIRTS—One lot of men's plain and colored flannel shirts, worth up to $2.50, on sale at 98¢ and $L.50. SPECIAL SALE ON SWEATERS. LADIES' MEN'S AND CHILDREN'S. Children’s fine worsted sweaters. In blue- black, red and white, regular § quality, on saie at $1.39, Sweaters for all_colors, regu $L.75. One lot of boys' 8 years, in fine worsted, with silk stripe, worth up to §2, on sale af 98¢ and $1.25. Boys' sweaters in sizes from 10 to 1§ years, In fancy stripes, in plain colors, worth up to $2, on sale at 98¢ and $1.25 Men's heavy wool sweaters, all colors and styles, on sale at 9c, $1.50 and $2. Another Silk Stock for Hay- den Bros This message from our New York buyer will_explain: ined stock- king Co. fieeced \nea stock- girls, trom 10 to 16 vears, in ar §2.50 quality, on sale at weaters, sizes from 3 to Nov. 20.—Messrs. Hayden ale silk stock of Ashley & Balley on safe at auction. Have made large purchases and shipped same at once. Yours, MURRAY. These silks are now in and we are arrang- ing as quickly as possible for Monday's sale. Look for full particulars of this great silk sale in Sunday’s papers. neck and | fine | Saturday in the Bargain Room Saturday we will still continue the great | cut slash ‘sales in order to make room for e toys. 35,000 worth of merchandise will be sacrificed, in fact, almost given away, | In order to close vut the stock, as we must have the room. Dress Tm-ds, silks, cotton | dress goods, ladies’ and gents' furnishing goods, boys’ clothing, winter caps, every- thing in the room. Do not miss the sal Men's extra heavy Jflrtc;r overshirts, brown, black and blue. his quality usually sold at §i. On eale at 49¢c, Boys' part wool sweaters, in red and blue, reguiar Te quality, 3 L i vy fleece lined vest and | pants, in gray and ecru, reg- ular 500 quality, at 2e. | “Ladies’ extra heavy fleece lined vest and pants, all sizes, the regulat Hc quality, on eale at §oc. Ladles’ outing flannel uhderskirts, regular B0c_quality, at Se. Children’'s heavy fleece lined vest and pants, in all sizes up to M, on sale at %ec. DRESS GOODS. B4-inch all wool plaids, ings, -inch black se: | cheviots—everything that sold up to $1.00 €0 at 46c lish_henriettas, all colors, 18¢c. k fancies, at 19¢. in is inch all wool Toc French flannel, at 19c. UNDERWEAR SATURDAY MEN'S $1.50 SHIRTS AT 2C. Men's laundered shirts, with stft bosom and separate collars and cuffs—every shirt warranted new and perfect. The colors of these shirts are not of the newest style, but every one is made up to sell at $1.30.On sale at Zc. Men's 7oc undegwear at 300 doz. men's heavy wool fleeced lined | shirts, in all sizes and all colors, regular quality, on sale at 25c Men's 100 wool overshirts, | medium colors, in all sizes, from 14} to 17, [ on salc at 2 ALl <) underwear that sold up to 100 on 26¢ BE SURI THIRTY-MINT ROM 10 TO 10:30 O'CLOCK A. M will sell 10¢ outing flannel, in light and medium colors, only 10 yards to a customer, at 2%c a yard FROM 2 TO 2:30 O'CLOCK P. M. We will sell short lengths of all wool dress goods, silk and wool henrietta, serges, silk wool and cotton novelties—evérything worth from ¢ up to $1.00 a yard—only one pattern to a customer, at 8 1-3c FROM 8:3% TO § O'CLOCK P. M. We will glve one of our famous dress goods sales, containing thé 64, 56 and 58- inch wide extra_heavy sultings, 46-inch all wool Prunellas, 5i-inch Cravenetted suiting, 0 length from 3% to 6 yards, not a yard worth less than $1.50 and up to %.00, and only one pattern to a customer, at %c a yard, 5. ND OUR FAMOUS urday we will have 15 different other which will be announced before they commence. ; Waterproof Shoes Are what you want for this weather. We have them with cork filled and viscolized £oles, every pair warranted to keep your feet dry and warm. Men's velour calf bals, worth $3, at $1.96. Women's velour calf bals, worth $3, at $1.96. Men's vici kid bals, worth $3, at $1.96. Women's vicl kid lace, worth $3, at $1.96. Men's box calf bals, worth §3, at $1.96, Women'’s box calf lace, worth $3, at $1.95 Childs' and misses’ school shoes, $1.29 and %8¢, and youths' satin calf bals, worth up to $1.75, at Sdc, Ladies” fur trimmed slippers, worth §1.25, at fc. Special sale on Brooks Bros. Fine vicl kid shoes, worth Women's vicl kid cork filled worn without rubbers, $2.48. Special sales on boy leggins and ladles’, misses’ and children Jersey wool stockinette leggings at 8bc, Toc, G0c and 3%c. Saturday night in the bargain room will have o special sals on men's working shoes HAYDEN BROS. S4-inch black | | n dark and | By | | We will place on sale some of our very latest sheet music at only 1% per copy. By mall, 2¢. Regular price, 3¢ and 3c. Such popular pleces as Please Let Me Sleep, A Rose With a Broken Stem, Love or Gold, On a Sunday Afternoon, The Good 0ld Days Gone By, Think Once Again Be- fore We Part, Actions Speak Louder Than Words, Forever and For You, Ete. GRAND FOLIO SALE TOMORROW. We have purchased 1,00 coples each ot ten different new folios for our holiday trade. These are all new books that have just been put on the market this fall. No. 1, Witmark Dance Follo, contains uch popular pieces as Stay In Your Own Back Yard, Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder, When You Were Sweet Six- teen, Bing Me a Song of the South, My Wild Irish Rose. No. 2, the Ploneer Ragtime Folio, con- tains &lch hits as The Palms, Cavalleria Rusticana in ragtime and 20 other original ragtime pieces 0. 3, the Star Dance Folio No. 1, contains such favorites as When the Harvest Days Are Over, Jessle Dear; Bird In a Gilded Cage, Down Where the_ Cotton Blossoms Grow, When 1 Think of You, etc. No.'4, Star Dance Folio No. 3, contains Josephine, My Jo, twostep; Rip_ Van Winkle Was a Lucky Man, twostep; Mister Dooley, twostep; Jennie Lee, ete. No. 6, the Popular Ballad Folio, a collec- tlon of ballads And sentimental songs from Lhe pen of the best writers, such as Baby's Prayer, After All, Because | Loved Her ‘700, The Village Choir, ete. No. 6, the Drawing Room Vocal Follo, containg 3 late popular ballads such ae Every Day at the Station, Buppose She Were a Sister of Your Own. 13-Inch oak airtights, for $.95. 14-inch Star oak, best on earth, for $11.K. Extra large 1i-inch airtight Oak, worth $20. Will heat a_whole house. For $14.60. Economy Hot Blast, $8%. The best double heating baseburner made, 1-Inch, large size, for §25.50. A great big fine cast ran with 20-inch oven, nicely nickel plated, worth $27.50, warranted, for $23.50. HOUSE FURNISHINGS. Steel snow shovels, 43¢, 14x21-in. photo holders, 7e. 6-in. stovepipe, Sc. Good shoe brushes, 9. l-‘fin(‘?‘ ‘wood salt boxes, be. Double roasting pan, 49c. Set 3 knives, 15c. 3 boxes wax tapers, 10e. Dover eggs beaters, be. 6-in. elbows, 6c. Wood coat hangers, dc. Hardwood towel roflers, 6e. The Book Sale The opening book sale of the Hayden Bros. Saturday. for sale for the first time. Prices that will put Hayden Bros.' book department in the front of all competitors, Remember we sell the newest copyright books at the lowest price, $1.08 All the regular %c books on sale at 10c. Books published to sell at iic on sale at The. Children’s 20c books on sale at be. We haven't space to Qquote prices on books, but will merely say that Eaturday will be the greatest upportunity to buy holl- day books that will be offered this year. Books selected now will be held for you until Christmas week if you wish. eason at Hollday books The Jowolr; Sale Greatest display of new goods ever made. Make your selections for the holldays now. Will be reserved for you until you want them delivered. Just received a big lot of ebony and ebonold goods. Ebonold mirrors, hair brushes, clothes brushes, hat brushes and military brushes on sale at 25c. Another lot of the gold shell rings, in band chased and set style, & written guar- antee to wear with each ring. On sale at 0c and 25c. Siverwear of all kinds, both flat and hollowware, In greatest variety at astonish- ingly low prices. “’he best showing of %c articles in the 1% ana make your selections of holiday Jewelry now. 2c butcher knife, 10c. Steel frame wringer, %5¢. 250 dozen men's and Loys' caps and chil- dren's tam-'o shanters and stockini Btecking caps on sale in the bargain room. This lot of caps was secured at one-third the regular price, from 85c to 76c. On sale in the bargain room Saturday at 1% and 214c. i ¥ Optical Department COMPLETE NEW STOCK o-date frames—gold, gold filed and aluminoid; both spectacles and eyeglasses, fitted with finest quality crystal lenses, at one-half price. No charge for examination by experienced opdclan, ' Ten-year guaran- teed gold filled frames, §8 value, in this sale at s, Of v Grocery, Candy and Provision Sale P NflWh"‘ the time to B“’(”;Jrrrgh{";m“ @upplies. ing for Christmas you cannot affol o buy Fos. " We carry e’verxmnzdynu want. HayAen's 5 the only Arm that carr Bros. plete line of high gra Cleaned Patros Currants. Cleaned Acrop Currants.... Cleaned Acme Currants.. Imported French Currants.. California_Loost Muscatel Raisins. California Seeded Ralsins. Fancy California Raisins. lmrurted Sultana N Rals! in e Citron in all grades— from lsc to. Lemon Pesi— " @B 35¢ e go Cherries— only.... Apricots— only.... Tea and Basket Fired Japan Tea. Mocha. from 12%o to Orange Peel— from 1240 to......... Choice Evaporated Appl Fancy Niles Appice, 100, 134e. All New Peaches. Nectarines— onty. Blackberries— only. Brk. Bacon. Salt Pork— per pound. Fresh Pork Sau: s-poun ring, each Anchovies— per pound Meat Sale 0. 1 SBugar Cured No. 1 Sugar Cured T Compound Lard Fancy Fat Her- cook- ayden a com- 1t you want to do a our goods any place but at Fruit and Chease Boukn Do Ao A Qe New Crop Oranges— .lc each Peanute— ‘0 ...Bie Coffe per quart. New Hollow'een Dates—per Ib.... Fancy Nuts— 1002 crop... ‘Brick Cheese— at i6e ent... . sowa Cream ‘Cheese. Neutchatel Cheese—each. Candy Sale eliclous Pure int Lozenges— pound. Daint; Paperlain=poued.... |2 e ure Bugar Hoar ana “Draps, onty.. A0C Pure Sugar Star Lroken Ioc Mixed Candy orfly— 'oc Ilie 15¢ ...0¢ Tic 21 o 1 Sugar 124c BANKERS APPEAR AS BEARS They Tell Board of Review About Value of Their Bhares, SOME INCLINE TO PESSIMISTIC VIEWS y Few Wil Asns to Have Stock ed at Its Full Book Value or at Rate of Most Re- The unusual spectacle of a group of bankers engaged in an earnest endeavor to depreciate the stock of their own respec- tive institutions was presented yester- day to the Board of Review and a small gathering of casual llsteners, and fn the course of the proceedings some highly inferesting and at times surprising infor- mation regarding banks and banking was disclose. All of the national banks, with the exception of the Commercial, were repro- sented officially, their representatives being Gurdon W. Wattles, president Union National; C. F. McGrew, vice president Omaha Natlonal; Luther Drake, cashier Merchants National; M. T. Barlow, presi- dent United States National; Henry W. president Nebraska National; F. H cashier First National Ou bebalf of the board Chalrman Rose- water stated that It was the purpose to seeure from the gentlemen present such | 1aformation as possible, to the end that al OUR SHIRT MAN ‘Wishes to say something a have not said before and o no words to express their goodness our shirt comes under the cause we know all the good little modest in speaking of them; cuffs attached are the strictest good form of dress, but there are plent other kinds and our lines o $2.50 shirts, of the best manufacture and fit, you will find hard to equal. Rrownine R. S. Wilcox, Mgr. adjustment of the bank assessments might be arrived at that would be equitable in relatfon to one another and fair in relation to the other business institutions. Bankers Have Thelr Say. Bach of the bank representatives in turn was questioned ds to the capital stock, sur- plus, undivided profits and real estate hold- ings of his Institution, and the value of stock and time and amount of the last divi- dend. Nearly every one of them, in an- swering thesd questions, presented in some form or other a protest to the effect that the quotations on bank stock could not justly be taken as an indication of the value of the bank property, and that the banks had for seme years been paylng taxes from 50 to 800 per cent greater than any other clase of business institutions employing the same amount of capital. Gurdon W. Wattles, president of the Un- ton Natfonal bank, was first called upon and in response to questions stated the cap- ital stock of that corporation to be $230,000. the surplus $25,000 and the amount of real estate $6,000. The latest sale of stock of | which he was Informed was at 75 cents. and the highest at any time at $1.15, that being before the panic. The latest dividend was | 2 per cent. Mr. Wattles sald, in speaking | of the value of the stock of his bank. that he would consider 60 per cent a falr valua- tlon for purposes of taxatfon. The stock quotations as presented in the financial pub- | | lications, he sald, could not be relied unon in any way as indicating the true value of stock. Talks for Omaha National. C. F. McGrew stated that the Omaha Na- tional had $1,000,000 of stock, $100,000 sur- bout his vast assortment ur ad man has struck we a snag We are pleased when critical eye. Perhaps it's be- points about them and are a of the f $1.00, $1.25, $1.50, $2.00 and King-§-@ plus, $50,000 of undivided profits and real estate valued at $328,000. There had been no sales of stock, he said, for three years, but the book value of the shares was $1.15. He belleved the stock would sell for 100 cents. He sald he would consider $400.000 a fair assessment of the property of ms bank. The most recent dividend had been declared in 1598 and the amount pald was 1 per cent. Mr, Drake gave the capital stock of the Merchants National bank at $500,000; sur- plus, $100,000; undivided profits, $25,000, and real estate, $200,000. The real estate, he aid, was valued too high by $50,000 or $75,- 000. The book value of stock, he sald, was $1.22, but that he did not consider a fair valuation for purposes of taxation, and he thought the assessment should be fixed at 70 or 75 cents. Some discussion as to real estate led to the statement on the part of the board that the real estate would be de- ducted from the amount of the stock in the assessment of banks, but that no bank would be permitted (o put one valuation upon its real estate for that purpose and a lesser cne for taxation as real estat Mr. Drake stated further that his bank had on October 1 last paid a quarterly dividend | of 1 per cent. In this connection he ob- served that the bank had regularly paid 60| per cent as much tax as it had dividend, | which caused a general laugh. Mr. Barlow and H Bank, On the part of the United States National bank Mr. Barlow acknowledged $400,000 | capital stock, $100,000 surplus, $10,000 of | undivided profits and real estate amount- Ing to §$15,100, He said the book value of stock was $1.26, but a sale had been made recently at $1.10. The last dividend was ten years ago. Of the real estate mentioned in his statement Mr. Barlow sald that $15,000 was carried in another corporation, and the board then informed him that that portion would not be deducted from the amount of the bank’s capltal stock. When asked what the bank wanted in the way of a reduction Mr. Barlow said he desired to have thé amount fixed at $200,000 If it was to be on a sliding scale and subject to | further manipulation, but if it was to be fixed by agreement, as last year, he would consent to $2 representing full val- uation in relation to the 40 per cent valu tion of last year. Mr. Barlow sald that the banks had agreed to the assessment of last year, although at that time convinced that they were being required to pay from 30 to 50 per cent more ihan any other clas of business houses operating on the same amount of capital. Nebraska National Statement, Mr. Yates of the Nebraska N bank said his institution had now 0,000 | of capital stock, there having been a r duction of 50 per cent since last year. The surplus, he sald, was $50,000, the un- divided profits $3,000 and the real estate $61,000. He sald there had been no sales of stock for many years, but the boak value was $1.25 or $1.26. Of the $50,000 surplus, he said $26,000 was premium | bouds and should be deducted. He he expected to be merely treated the rest of the banks and assessed on the showing made. The capital stock of the First National was given by Mr. Davis as $500,000, the sur- plus $100,000, undivided profits $71,000 and real estate $135,000. He sald he was willing to bave the stock put in at the book value and that a small sale had been made of the bank was one of 5 per cent in July last, which would indicate 10 per cent a year, but the average for ten years past had been but 6 per cent. He sald he wanted the assessment of the bank reduced to 100 cents, but that as it had been placed by the tax commissioner it represented $87,000 more than there was involved § the business. Mr. Davis said it was fair to presume and it was true that any bank's assets were not worth 100 cents on the dollar. The banks of this city, he said, had been paying five times as much In taxes as they should. Mr. Drake, speaking on the subject of over-assessment of banks, said that last year Mr. Fleming had sald the assessment was to be made on the basis of 40 pey cent of the true value of property, and after some negotiations with the Board of Re- view at that time the banks had agreed to a certain schedule of essment. It was then found that the bank assessments were from 200 to 300 per cent higher than those of any othar class of business con- cerns. He referred to the double liability upon bank stock as one important detrac- tion from its desfrability as an investment, which was greatly Increased by heavy taxation. Mr. Wattles Expresses Regret. Mr. Wattles deprecated the fact that under the present method of taxation the banks were placed in the position of be- ing compelled to submit quietly to an un- Just standard of taxation or to come before this board and disclose for publication facts which would make it appear that thelr stocks were not worth the values placed upon them. Mr. Yates said that the plan of assess- ment followed by the tax commissioner in fixing the bank assessments was one which he himself had suggested some years ago and he still believed It to be the most practicable method of dealing with the question. He felt that the banks were the victims of an injustice which was due to force of cimcumstances rather than to any unfairness on the part of the tax com- missioner or fault in the method of asse: ment. Mr. McGrew pointed out that the banks were compelled to make a complete disclos- ure of all their property of whatever sort and could conceal nothing, while mercantile houses might make just euch statements as pleased them. Mr. McGrew inquired if in case the banks were to unite and file sworn statements a to the value of the stocks those statements would be accepted by the board as the basis of taxation rejected. Mr. Barlow spoke at some length in an effort to explain the unprofitable features | of the banking business, setting forth that a great proportion of tho undivided profits were still to be earned and that there wa a percentage of loss on the bills recelvable. Mr. Davis also argued that there should be somg reduction for the losses on bills and Mr. McGrew said that the amount would run as high as 3 per cent at least. At its afternoon session the board adopted the following resolution Resolved, That for the remaining days of its eession the board will give no more hearings to complainants asking reductions of assessments, but will confine itself to the work of review and hearing those cited to appear and show cause @ short time ago at $1.50. The last dividend i The mew kind of Gemeral Arthur cigars are now on sale. This proposal the board | OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, A century of legislation for Ireland that appears to have been solely designed and tries of the country has had its Inevitable effect. The mills that stood as late fifty years ago by almost every artery of the great waterways of the country are idle and desolate, the looms that were daily plied in every village from Cape Clear to the Glants' Causeway and from the Hill of Houlto to Galway bay are but ead memories of a generation now within measurable distance of the grave, and the many handicrafts that distinguished the economy of the Emerald isle are now like the baseless fabrics of a vision of the night. In some districts in Ireland, not only In Cork and Limerick, there has been a par- tial revival of industries, with a result ex- ceedingly gratifying. Under the patronage of the Countess of Abercorn and other Irish ladies the making of laces, tweeds has been largely revivified, and of the excellence of the work turned out the many prizes secured at the Cork exposition, just closed, very forcibly attest. The gratifying results of this revival, clrcum- | seribed though it be, indicates that there { is.a wide field for larger endeavor, for the industries of Ireland have never, even in the palmy days of the past, been anything like fully developed. . It is a far cry from the present date to the year 1911, but already some of the per- sons who are interested in such matters are begiuning to discuss the chances of an-+ other great world's show being held i Paris then. After the last big world's show, with which a certain amount of dis. appointment was mingled, the fashionable cry was that there would not be another for a very long while. But prediction In one direction would be a very risky busi- ness just now. Those, however, who are in tavor of a repetition of the ventures are polnting to the fact that during 1900 one and a half milllards of francs, or $300,000, 000, more than in ordinary years are de posited in banks by means of letters of credit was then withdrawn and spent in Parls by foreigners visiting the exhibition. The inference that all or most of the money was spent in Paris secms falr enough, such statistics go. The last great world's ehow did not altogether meet all the glow- ing anticipations which had been formed of it, but if the figures which are now given are really accurate, it will be seen that there was some compensation of & sub- stantial character. The budget for India, which was recently presented to the House of Commons by Lord George Hamilton, the secretary for India, shows that during the last three years there was a surplus of income over expenditures of $43,600,000. In that time there were spent $100,000,000 on railways, $10,000,000 on irrigation and $39,000,000 en | famine relief. while $19,000,000 was aside from profits from the mints to form | & gold reserve. All the sources of income. except oplum, showed steady improvement, and the Increase of revenue was particu- larly noticeable in customs. which includes | the tax on drink and railways, most of which are under government ownership, There are now 25,300 miles cf railway oven in India, with a capital of $1,175,000,000. The government is annually taking money from rallway revenus to opem new productive hosiery and | ‘framed to cripple or obliterate the indus- | lines, and by terminable annuities and a sinking fund it will acquire all, except one, of the old guaranteed lines. These repre- sent from $400,000,000 to $500,000,000, and will belong to the government in fifty years. The black spot In the country's progress, though the Indlan secretary did mot men- tion that, is the increase in the drick habit. It is stated that within the past few years the consumption of liquors ht increased 125 per cent, though the popu- lation has increased by only 17% per cent. | An effort is to be made in Parliament to | laid | allow local option in India, the bellef be- ing that the better class of Mohammedans and Hindus will support any effort made to prevent the spread of alcoholism. But the sale of liquor in India is a government monopoly, and it 1s doubtful .that the pow- ers that be in Parliament will permit the passage of any measure that will diminish profits In that direction. e The Austrian empire has been so frult- ful in political disturbances that the oc- currence of another will not excite reat attention, except, perhaps, for the r that its source is unusual. The orivate fortune of the Austrian emperor, which. however, he regards as the fortune of his house rather than of himself as an indi- vidual, has, it appears, been heavily drawn upon during the past ten years. All the minor princes and grand dukes recelve al- lowances from this source, and their num- ber has been steadily increasing. This has made it necessary for the emperor to ask for an inorease of $500,000 a year in the annual amount set apart for his civil list. As half of this sum, or $400,000, must be voted by the Hungarian Diet, some of the more radical Hungarian members are mc- cusing the court of extravagance and are denouncing it for spending the money out- side of Hungary itself. o The stories of the awful barbarities prac. ticed upon Macedonian peasants by Turkish soldlers were to have been expected. They have followed inevitably the recent wi rising against Turkish suthority in that pound part of the Balkan peninsula and were doubtless anticipated by those who planned the revolt. Those Macedonian agitators are wild and ignorant men, but they know how to ap- peal for sympathy throughout Christendom. The Macedonian committee 1s constantly planning ways and means of arousing the forocity of the Turks and leading them to the commission of atrocities. More than once the murder of Mohammedans has been resurted to by the Christlans in the cer- tain bellef that they would be followed by reprisals so horrible that they would at- tract the attention of the powers of Eu- rope. Recreation and good exerclse in Ping Pong. Tables are 30 cents an hour. Bee Bullding Parlors, 214 South 17th street. ENDS THE PHILBIN HEARING Kitchen Brothers' Attorney Dism His Appeal From Lower Court’s Deciston, The suit of the Kitchen Bros. Hotel com- pany ageinst J. J. Philbin, ticket broker, formerly officing in the Paxton hotel build- ing, which sult began as a procesding in torcible entry and detalner with the allega- tion that Philbin was holding his office room a year longer than he had right to under his lease, was conluded yesterday, when the attorney for the hotel company, during the proceedings before a jury in Judge Sla- bangh's court, dismissed the appeal he had taken from the decisjon of the county court that Philbin should pay $600 rent for the room during the time in controversy. Be- cause of & decialon in a justice court that liquidated damages were collectable, the sult became a much complicated affair and flever got beyond the point of argument. Philbin's attorney had just moved that the jury be instructed to return a verdict for the defendant when the plaintiff's at- torney dismissed the appeal on which the case had been carried into the higher court. 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