The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 18, 1902, Page 4

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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until 9 o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until 9 p. m. — s —— BRILLIANT TRADE REPORTS. RILLIANT reports came in from almost all B parts of the country last week. Trade was said to be expanding in all sorts of lines. The best reports came from the North, East and West, the South and Southwest advices, though cheerful, showing less animation than the other sections. The country’s bank clearings exhibited a gain of 19.7 per cent over the corresponding week last year, and, with the exception of Philadelphia and Detroit, every im- portant city showed an increase. The failures were 196, against 168 last year. The leading feature of the week was the possibility of another such shortage in cars as was experienced last year, when the internal and even the foreign com- merce of the country was cut down by the inability of the railroads to transport all the freight offered. The cereal crops are large this year, and fears are ex- pressed that the different rail lines will not be able to handle all the business. The heavy crops, too, will need a large amount of money for their movement, and, though that will be forthcoming, some strin- gency in the market is rather expected while the movement lasts. This money is drawn from New York and sent West, from which it soon finds its way back, so that its absence from financial headquarters is brief. Increasing activi ¢ in the more important staples is reported. The hardware business is especially active, and the volume of trade is said to be the largest ever known, especially in builders’ hardware. Lumber is quoted strong and active again, and the steel mills are ordered far ahead with structural material. The activity in these three lines indicates that building operations are still brisk all over the country. The fall demand for dry goods, greceries, boots and shoes and clothing is active in all sections, and the general distributive trade in merchandise could hardly be better and remain in a healthy condition. Leather has again gone up under heavy sales, while hides are also firm, with advanced quotations for several descriptions. The food staples continue active. Provisions have ruled alternately strong and weak at Chicago and other Western packing centers, but the general plane of values is steadily declining. The country has come to the conclusion that with the huge corn crop cheap hogs are merely a matter of a few months, and is selling heavily on the Chicago Board of Trade. The packers are standing under the market and doing their best to hold up prices, but with indifferent suc- cess, as the selling pressure is great. Cereals are un- settled, and the markets are somewhat mnervous, varying from day to day with the changing crop con- ditions. Locally there are a few new conditions worthy of notice. First there is the current rise in barley, due to a growing conviction that the crop this year is not turning out nearly as large as heretofore ex- pected, and, as the demand for shipment to the East and Europe is brisk, quotations have rising. The same may be said of wheat, but in a less degree. With these two important staples showing a diminishing yield it is natural that many lines of farm produce should feel the stimulating effects, directly or indirectly, and a feeling of firmness should per- vade the interior of the State. This is reflected in a general belief that good prices for the different farm prodticts will rule during the balance of the season, which is but another expression for the continuance of the current prosperity. The city in turn feels the influence of this optimistic expectation, and trade in 2ll branches continues brisk and at living margins of profit. As far as all signs go at the moment we have still an indefinite period of good times ahead of us, e r— Mayor Collins of Boston is to get from Kaiser Wilhelm 2 cross of the red eagle for entertaining Prince Henry, France is to give him a cross of the Legion of Honor for entertaining the French dele- gation that attended the unveiling of the Rocham- beay monument, and now some Chicago Aldermen whom he entertained while they were inspecting rapid transit in Boston are going to send him another decoration. Before his term is over the Mayor may be the most decorated citizen on the continent and may have to hire a hall to show his honors in. An Indiana man has developed the idea that the State Legislature should appropriate $500 annually for five prizes to Indiana authors who produce the best literary work during the year; and it is safe to say the author of the project has a poem or two and perhaps a novel to submit for competition imme- diately. lately been | THE STATE CAMPAIGN. W HATEVER hopes the sanguine supporters of Governor Gage may have had before the primaries of nominating and re-electing him, they can no longer look upon those things as among the political possibilities of the year. ~Not- | withstanding the formidable machine operated in his favor and the aid given by the Democratic bosses and their push in the larger cities of the State, Gage has but a minority of the votes in the convention. While astute manipuiators might by trading with candidates for other offices contrive to make a fac- titious majority and thus procure his nomination, the results would be disastrous to the party. The en- tire State ticket would be put upon thé defensive and defeat would follow as sure as the coming of election day. The primaries have shown that even in his own sec- tion of the State Gage has not the support of the | rank and file of the party. In his own county the aid | of the Democratic push did no more than win for | him a bare majority, and with that majority, assum- ing it to be a valid one, he has south of Tehachapi :only 67 delegates out of a total of 173. In fact, tak- ing the State as a whole, he has little or no following outside the cities of San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sacramento. That fact, taken in connection with the notoriety of the aid given him by the Democratic push, makes it evident that he will not have the sup- port of genuine representatives of the party in the convention, nor, if nominated, would he have the support of the rank and file on election day. From first to last the Governor’s administration i has been one which the party cannot and will not support. Senator Bulla has stated the case tersely, but clearly, in saying of the opposition to Gage: “The people are down on him for his action in throwing his aid to Dan Burns for United States Senator. He had given what was tantamount to a promise to aid in the selection of a southern man. Then the appointments he has made are inexcusable. | The climax was capped by The Call's charges, which appear conclusive and which the Governor has inadequately explained. When The Call pub- lished those shipping receipts it made men pause. Here was conclusive proof of what the paper had charged. They waited for the Governor's answer, but he made none. There is no answer to those charges. With all these things against Gage it is taking too much risk to saddle him on the party. A campaign with Gage as the standard bearer would be a campaign of defense. That is not a good cam- paign and we cannot afford to be defeated. It would not only be calamitous to the State, but might be a national calamity as well.” With that statement every intelligent Republican will agree, nor can there be found in the independent vote or the oppositicn vote enough of a Gage fol- lowing to make up for the certain Republican defec- tion. The fact that the Democratic push in the cities voted for him in the primaries affords not the slight- est reason for believing it would support him in the elections. It is to be borne in mind there was no contest in the Democratic primaries, and therefore the Democratic push was free to invade the Repub- |lican camp. It will be different on election day. There will then be 2 Democratic candidate in the field, and it is now probable that he will be a strong man and a gocd campaigner. He will recall the wan- dering hosts of Democracy to their old standard, and large numbers of those who voted in the Republican primaries for Gage will vote for the Democratic can- didate for Governor. Experience has proven in American politics that when the head of the ticket is weak the whole ticket is weakened. There are thousands of voters whose action at the polls is determined mainly by their views concerning the character of the men who lead the rival tickets. When they decide to vote for a particular candidate for Governor they are apt to vote his ticket pretty nearly straight. They scratch it only when they have some personal acquaintance running on the other side. Thus a weak nomination for Governor would endanger nearly every other can- didate, and the party cannot afford to put that han- | dicap upon its nominees for other offices. Finally, it is to be borne in mind that the nomina- tion of Gage would put the party on the defensive. Republican orators and the Republican press, in- stead of going forward to great issues in their discus- sions, would be forced to hark back to the scandals of the Gage administration and waste time and words in an effort to defend the indefensible and explain offenses that every explanation will leave offensive. Should an effort be made to ignore the administration and to stand silent in the face of charges that have been long familiar to the public, covering the whole time from the Senatorial fight for Burns down to the exposure of the San Quentin scandals, the canvass would be a mockery. There is, in fact, nothing for the Republican party of Califor- nia to do in this emérgency except to repudiate the Governor who has disgraced it and seek the suf- frages of the people by proving its capacity to purify itself of the predatory politicians who have been preying upon it. The announcement that Winston Churchill has de- | veloped political ambitions-will be pleasing to the country. His change of activity may not improve politics, but it will lessen the output of historical novels, and that is something. W confusion to adopt a definite programme of action in the coming campaign there are abundant evidences that certain influential elements in the party are striving to revive a free trade agita- tion and force Democracy to take it up and make it the dominant political question of the time. The very confusion in. the party councils helps the free trade clique, for as there is no harmony on any issue and no leader who represents a vital policy the free- traders make a stronger showing than any other fac- tion and are thus more likely than any other to dominate the situation. The country is, therefore, in danger of having to undergo another prolonged controversy over the tariff with all the consequent uncertainty that results to industry and trade when the fiscal system of the Government is made the subject of pelitical strife and partisan contention. Only a few yedts have passed since the country underwent that kind of agitation, and no one who has an intelligent conception of the foundations of American prosperity can look forward to a renewal of it without anxiety for the future as well as a dread recollection of the calamities brought by the tariff tinkering experiment of the past. The menace is the greater because outside the | Democratic ranks there is a formidable force of free- traders who will co-operate in the agitation. The Free Trade League is busily at work urging the is- sue upon the public mind. The case is not always ipresented as 2 direct demand for free trade. Some- THE TARIFF ISSUE. HILE the Democratic camp is in too much times it is called tariff reform and sometimes it is called reciprocity. Any movement that tends to un- settle the tariff or weaken the protective system is advocated by the league and by those who hope to make free trade the dominant issue in politics. It unfoitunately happens, moreover, that a clique in the Republican party itsell has of late shown a willing- ness to support reciprocity treaties that would im- pair the universality of protection to home industries, while others have declared a readiness to reduce du- ties here and there for the sake of benefiting their par- ticular communities without regard to the welfare of the. rest of the country. Such being the case, it behooves genuine protec- tionists to reaffirm their allegiance to protection as a principle in distinction from protection as a matter of local and temporary expediency. If we are to have protection at all it must be applied to the indus- tries of the whole country. Experience has proven that only when so applied has protection been fully beneficial to. American industry and had the support of the American people. If we are now to enter upon a new period of tariff tinkering, either by Congress or by reciprocity treaties, we are going to have a re- turn to the old confusion that brought so much dis- tress to the people when the McKinley tariff was set aside for the Wilson tariff. The issue should be met at once. It will not be wise for the Repub}itlzan party to show any vacillation or any uncertainty upon it in the coming Congres- sional elcctlons even if the Democrats do not speci- | fically put'it forward as the chief issue of the cam- paign. It is enough to know that a new free trade agitation is already under way, and that unless checked promptly it will again disturb all our indus- tries. Republicans should see to it that no one but a stalwart protectionist is chosen to represent the party in any Congressional district. A Parisian cloth manufacturer is reported to have invented a method of manufacturing perfumed cloth, the perfume being guaranteed to last as long as the fabric, so_the dude who gets a lilac shirt can get the lilac odor along with it and be too sweet for any- thing. D the British and the Boers it seem&d to the people of Europe and America who were watching the struggle from afar that it would develop into something like a war of extermination and that out of it would come a race hatred as fierce and as enduring as anything known to history. Events now occurring show how ill-founded was that judgment. No sooner was peace declared than the rank and file of the two armies fraternized, while the leaders en- tered upon an interchange of compliments that sounded more like the congratulations of allies than the formal courtesies of foes. A new illustration of this suddenly awakened friendliness was afforded by the tumultuous welcome given by the British to Generals Botha, Dewet and Delarey upon their arrival at Southampton. That the Boer leaders would be well received by the King and his Ministers was of course to be expected. Diplomacy and statecraft, if not sincerity, would dic- tate that course, for it is clear that the situation in South Africa is such that the only sane policy open to British statesmen is that of conciliation. The populace, however, is not subject to considerations of policy, nor are the sentiments of promiscuous crowds determined by the exigencies of state. Therefore, when the people on the streets at Southampton thronged around the carriages of the Boer leaders and greeted them with shouts of “Brave soldiers all,” it is clear that the antagonisms of the war have van- ished and that there js now an opportunity for estab- lishing in South Africa a genuine reconciliation. Were the problems of the Transvaal capable of solution by sentiment the Ministers of the crown would have an easy time. Unfortunately, however, those problems include questions affecting property, business, industry and politics. Some of them are so complex that even the best of friends might quarrel over them. So full of menace is the situation caused by these controversies that at one time it was seriously proposed: that the constitution of Cape Colony be set aside for a time and the whole country be governed directly from London. That project was set aside by the Ministry, and an opportunity will be given to the British and Boers 6f the Cape to help in the solution of the difficulties that beset the country. Should all go well in that colony it will probably not be long before a full measure of self- government will be granted to the Boer states, and then the capacity of the two races to get along to- gether and divide on political instead of racial issues will be tested. While' the sentiment of reconciliation which now animates both parties is encouraging to the hopes of those who desire the establishment of lasting peace in South Africa and the building up in that part of e world of a great union which will have as much in the way of independence as Australia or Canada, it would be foolish to expect too much from it. Re- construction in any conquered country is a slow process. With the fall of the Boer republics there has been virtually swept away their form of civiliza- tion. A new order of things will prevail there, and while in the end the new will be much better than the old, the change is not going to be brought about without friction and opposition. Britons and Boers are not yet at the end of their conflicts, but by the exerciée of a wise statesmanship the leaders on both sides can so direct affairs that the contentions will never again lead to armed strife. { — BRITONS AND BOERS. URING the latter part of the strife between Good reports come of the results of the govern- mental experiment in introducing the reindeer into Alaska. It is said there are now over 4000 of the animals in the Territory, that the increase is about 30 per cent a year, and that the American-born are larger and stronger than the imported stock. In fact, it is predicted that within a few years the Lap- landers will be sending to Alaska to get reindeer to breed from to improve their own animals. The latest New York idea in skyscrapers is an of- fice building with living apartments in the upper: stories, so that the occupants of the offices can, if they choose, live in the same structure. It is ex- pected that the idea will find favor with bachelors and that hereafter all first-class office buildings will have to supply similar conveniences. + Carnegie’s gift to John Morley of the library of the late Lord Acton, amounting to upward of 90,000 vol- umes, should have been accompanied with a check to provide a building for them. As it is Mr. Morley ‘may find himself in the situation of the peasant to whom the Rajah gave an elephant. e [ William C. Whitney sums up the situation in the Democratic camp by saying they have no issue and no man, and, while the saying is brief, it seems to fill ) the bill. b GERMANY EXCELS GREAT BRITAIN — IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF WARSHIPS o e ® BATTLESHIP KAISER FRIEDRICH III, ONE OF GERMANY'S FORMIDABLE WAR VESSELS WHICH, ACCORD- ING TO A NAVAL CRITIC, IS SUPERIOR TO BRITISH CRAFT OF LARGER SIZE IN THE EFFECTIVE- NESS OF 1TS BROADSIDES AND FORE AND AFT FIRE. FONRE ERMAN naval critics have of late pald considerable attention to the British navy. A pamphlet entitled “Los von England” (Independent of England), written by Ernst Teja Neyer, has attracted considerable atten- tion and the Contemporary Review for July has a translation of the German publication. The writer proceeds to show that Germany excels Great Britain in design and con- struction of warships, citing among other proofs that German battleships of the Kalser class, although of 4000 tons less dis- deliver 25 per cent more welght in a broadside and twice as much in fore and aft fire. He claims that the trial trips of British ships are untrustworthy, and that the frequent mis- haps to projectiles and guns indicate®that the armament is un- reliable. The ships are fitted with defective boflers and the maneuvers are simply reviews. Twenty-nine of the battleships were buiit prior to 18%0 and fifteen out of twenty-flve battle- ships in service'in home waters are cbsolete. The officers also come in for a share of critieism, the writer asserting that more attention is paid to the crews in German ships than in the British navy, and in this latter assertion he is supported by naval critics in England. As Germany has outstripped Great Britain in the building of fast;ocean steamers and speedier torpedo craft and is likewise manufacturing better armor plate and more effective guns, the riter concludes that not alone is Germany no longer dependent upon England for war mater- ial, but that, on the contrary, may profitably increase its orders in Germany for guns and shells, which it appears to be unable to produce with satisfactory results at home. Coele Fifty-seven war vessels were under construction in Great Britain on July 1, of which fifty-two of 298,780 tons were for the British navy and five of 28,350 tons for foreign navies. Of the vessels for the British navy sixteen of 139,700 tons were building at the dockyards and thirty-six of 159,000 tons were in private yards. The vessels bullding for foreign navies included two armored ships of 11,800 tons each, one protected cruiser of 4000 tons and two destroyers of 750 tons each. The report of the boiler committee when simmered down admits the advisability of using water-tube boilers to some extent in the British navy, and in future ships of this type end the common Scotch bollers will be about evenly divided as to horsepower. Notwithstanding the condemnation of the Belleville boiler, the Powerful, fitted with that tpye in 1895, made a very good showing during her commission trial of two hours on July 8. The boilers developed 23,508 horse-power, giving a speed of 21.2 knots, against 25,886 horse-power and 21.8 knots developed six years ago. The displacement of the Pow- erful is now greater by 150 tons than in 1896 by the addition of four six-inch guns, shields and ammunition. The boilers are in good condition and while the steam pressure has been reduced from 257 pounds to 235 pounds, there is practically no reduction in the speed of the ship. An extraordinary attempt at mutiny took place last month on the reformatory training ship Cornwall, located at Pur- fleet on the Thames. The boys had been stealing ship’s stores and six of the offenders had been punished. Two of them felt very sore, bodily and mentally, and with other sympathizers POPE RECEIVES MANY VISITORS AT AUDIENCES placement than the British, are more effective in that they . -3 determined to get even on the officers, and while scrubbing decks one of the boys sneaked up behind the officer in charge and drove a knife into his back. Another boy rushed down between decks to brain another officer, but at this stage the other boys in the plot weakened and the ringleaders were put in irons and takep ashore to be dealt with by the police. The wounded officer, although stabbed in the left lung, has suf- ficlently recovered to appear at the trial and the offenders— only 16 and 18 years of age—will serve their country in some other capacity than that of bluejackets in the navy. THe armored cruiser Pedford has failed, as predicted in this paper July 23, to come up to the required speed of 23 knots on her full power trial. The engines developed 22,457 horse-power, giving a speed of 227 krots, and the fact that notwithsand- ing the horse-power exceeded the contract of 457 the speed was deflcient three-tenths of a knot indicates that either there is too much lost power in the machinery or that the propellers are unsuitable for the ship. It is also possible that the lines of the hull may be defective. Another attempt will be made with new propellers. The Bedford is the first of ten armored cruisers, identical in every particular, which has had her speed trials, and the outlook is not very favorable that this type will meet the speed requirements. Six other ships, denominated as the Devonshire class, are also under construc- tion; they are ten feet longer and of 400 tons greater displace- ment than the Bedford class and as they have only been re- cently begun the defects found in the earlier built ships may be remedied during the progress of the new ships. ‘The old and obsolete coast defense ships Hydra and Cy« clops, built in 1871-2, have been placed on the sale list and dis- posed of as scrap-iron. The contract for a new dock at Chatham has been signed and it is calculated will be ready for use within a year. The dock i3 to be 650 feet in length, to be built of concrete faced with granite. There are already ten drydocks in the Chatham yard, renging in lengths from 225 to 479% feet, and with this addition of a 650-foot dock is second to the Portsmouth dock- vyard, which has seventeen drydocks. It is to be noted in this connection that while the British Admiralty is able to get docks built in the short time of one year drydock-building in the United States navy yards is progressing very slowly. Four docks were contracted for about two years ago and are likely to take not less than four years before they are completed. The British cruiser Spartiate, of 11,000 tons, has at last passed successful steam trials during the last month. At her thirty hours’ four-fifth power trial the machinery deveioped 14,068 horse-power, giving a speed of 19.8 knots. On the eight hours’ full power trial the revolutions averaged 120.1, indicat- ing 18,658 horse-power and giving a speed by patent log of 21 knots. The ship was built_at the Pembroke dockyard and the machinery by the firm of Maudslay, Sons & Field, which went into liquidation a year ago. The Spartiate was laid down May 10, 1897, and has three times attempted to make the required speed of 20.75_knots with 18,000 horse-power. There is some doubt about the ship having made 21 knots at the last trial, as the measurement by patent log is admitted to be untrust= worthy and by no means as reliable as a course of forty miles over which ships in the United States navy are tried. .WWHWWWW%W. GERMAN URGES UNION AGAINST UNITED STATES SOME ACTIVITY MANIFESTFD IN STOCK MARKET ROME, Aug. 17.—The Pope is in such good health that it is thought not neces- sary to suspend the Sunday audiences, as has hitherto been the custom, in order to give the Pontiff strength for a fatiguing ceremony, such as the great name day reception of to-day. Dr. Lapponi, the Pope's physician, insisted, however, upon limiting the number of guests to 200, in- stead of the usual 50. The efforts to ob- tain invitations to the name day recep- tion were so persistent and came from such high quarters that the Pontiff, hear- ing of them, overruled his physician’s ad- vice and had an additional hundred guests included, The inhumerable letters and telegrams of felicitation received by the Pontiff in- cludes communications from Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria and King Al- fonso of Spain. The communication from the King of Spain was the first missive sent to his godfather by King Alfonso since his coronation. The Pope held the receptions in his pri- vate library. He showed no signs of fa- tigue. He appeared to be unusually ani- mated and recognized the Right Rev. Ben- jamin J. Keiley, Bishop of Savannah, Ga., who was the only American present, im- mediately he perceived him. The Pope said to Bishop Keiley: “I am glad to see you again before you leave.” Bishop Kelley sald afterward that he was astonished at the Pontiff's vitality and brightness of mind. Upon re-entering his private apartments the Pope sald: “It does not matter what Dr. Lapponi says. I feel better after each occasion of this kind.” The reception lasted for one hour. His Holiness talked about the‘collapse of the campanile of St. Marks at Venice and expressed a wish to see the restoration of the roof of the Lateran palace before he dled. Riches for Quinault Indians. TACOMA, Aug. 17.—One hundred and eleven Indians on the Quinault reserva- tion, fronting the Pacific Ocean, are in- terested in the proposed opening of the reservation to settlement. Preliminary to such opening the Government last spring ordered a survey of the reserve, which is now in progress. Each Indian will’ re- ceive 320 acres, the balance of the reserve being thrown open for homestead loca- tions. All of the Indians who did not have claims have now squatted upon bot- tom lands along the Quinault River. ‘Without exception they have taken agri- cultural lands, paying little or no atten- tion to timber, When the allotment is made every Indlan on the reservation will be worth , depending upon the value of thelr respective land-. Immense Vessel Is Llunched. CAMDEN, N. J., Aug. 17.—The steam- ship Texan, the I of three sister ships built at the yard of the New York Ship- building Company, was successfully launched yesterday. The \vessel's di- mensions are: Length over all, 484 feet 3 molded beam, 57 feet; molded depth, 42 feet 6 inches.’ Her displacement will be 16165 tons and her carrying ca- DB ty 11,000 tons. BERLIN, Aug. 17.—Baron August §ar- torious von Walterhausen, professor of political economy at Strassburg Univer- sity and one of the leading German au- thorities on American subjects, will con- tribute a striking article to a forthcoming number of the Zeitschrift Fur Social ‘Wissebschaft on the united States of Cen- tral Europe. The writer will argue that the central European States will sooner or later be compelled to erect a common tariff bar- rier against the aims of th® United States to economic ascendancy or against those of Great Britain with greatly moderated tariffs, and perhaps free trade between themselves. Baron von Waltershausen believes that eventually a complete politi- cal union between Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and Holland is probable, and that this union will give those countries an impregnable economic position. The Baron will argue also that the great States like the United States and Russia possess recuperative powers superior to those of the isolated and small countries of Western Europe. In support of this statement he instances the fact that the United States issued loans at 7 per cent at the end of the Civil War and refunded these loans at 2 per cent in 1892, PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. J. B. Maloney of Key West, Florida, 1s staying at the Palace. Ex-Mayor W. T. Ellis Jr. of Marysville is a guest at the Grand. Dr. Ralph Hagan of Los Angeles is reg- istered at the Grand with his wife. Railroad Commissioner E. B. Edson is registered at the Occidental from Gazeile. H. 8. Deming, a banker of Santa Cruz, is at the California, accompanied by his family. —_———— To Hold Series of Lectures. The Board of Education has granted permission to the School Extension So- clety of San Francisco to hold a series of lectures at Franklin Hall in the Frank- lin Grammar School, Eighth and Harri- son streets. The first lecture will be given Friday, August 22, by Charles Klel- er of Berkeley, who will tell of his trav- els in the South Seas. The lecture will be f{llustrated with stereopticon views. On Friday, August 29, F. H. Weelan will lecture on “The ‘Greatest Invention of the Nineteenth Century.” Joseph R. Knowland of Alameda, pres- ident of the Historic Landmark League of Californja, will deliver an fllustrated lecture on the subject of landmarks in California. A concert will also be given by the boy chorus of the Columbia Park Boys’ Club. [ —_——— Machinist Falls Twenty Feet. Patrick Inaters, a machinist, while mak- ing repairs on a bofler at Third and Town- send streets yesterday, missed his footing and fell twenty feet. He sustained a dis- located shoulder and a fracture of his left forearm. He was taken to the Central Emergency Hospital, LONDON, Aug. 17.—The money market is maintaining its active strength. The advance in rates of discount are consid- ered justified by the fact that the Bank of England is controlling the market and by the possibility that the advantage of a bank rate will later be found neces- sary. The Stock Exchange has gone through anuther settlement without seriously crip~ pling any important stocks. It is con- sequently cheerful, though the volume of business has not materially increased. Notwithstanding lower prices and con- siderable liquidation, the week end wit- nessed some renewed activity. There was no demand for British railroad shares, but they were steady in spite of decreased earnings. Kaffirs have been bought considerably since the reports of new mineral discoveries. BERLIN, Aug. 17.—The Boerse last week had an irregular tendency. The week opened with the appearance of the semi-annual statement of the Deutsche Geneossenschafts Bank, admitting heavy losses through unfortunate industrial ven- tures and calling for a stockholders” meeting to reduce the capital of the bani by 6,000,000 marks. Later came the an- nouncement of the reorganization of the Redenhuette Iron Works, with an assess- ment upon the shareholders. This caused a fall in the iron company’'s shares from 46 to 13 during the week. The break- ing off of relations between the Ham- burg-American Packet Company agd the coal syndicate also had an ad ef= fect upon speculation. These events, how- ever, beyond further contracting the vol- ume of transactions, especially in securi- ties for the monthly settlement, exercised a comparatively light Influence on the Boerse. Ggrman 3 per cents and Prussian consols weakened upon the higher * ten- dency in discount rates and the listing of the latest issues of these securities at London, which is interpreted as meaning preparation for new loans this fall. This, however, the Frankfurter ZBitung again authoritatively denfes. Nevertheless there were considerable short sales of German 3s and Prussian consols. The weakness of thé Boerse was follow- ed on Friday and Saturday by a much stronger tone, as a result of the strength of the London mining market and the Canadian crop report. Prures stuffed with apricots. 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