The evening world. Newspaper, September 5, 1902, Page 2

P BAER CHANCES. VIEW OF STRIKE New York Senator Re- fuses to Reiterate ' Statement that End ils Near. Employees. POLITICAL LEADERS FAIL./IS NOW AGAINST THEM \Jnabie to Force Operators into Line—Platt Practically Admits Defeat, and Quay Goes to Mountains. to Work, 3 Senator Thomas C. Piait posi {Special to The Evening World.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Sept. 5. Hs tively refused to-day to reiterate the opinion .expressed by him a few days ago that the coal sir.ke r | Reading Railroad, once the of friend of George Baer, President the labor, sald to-day that nothing but would be settled within two/!a return of the miners to their work weeks. — | would end tho coal strike : ppt (ye | in 1872 the man who now stands “IT, DO. NOT REITERATE | ,,, against » compromise with the own words. of the Justice to employees, He " q Ki BG Senator Platt was seen by an Even- made speecues denouncing the op- ing, World reporter after Senator pression of laborers by the managers Quay, of Pennsylvania, had been | of corporations. To-day he acserts ‘quoted as having declared just be- the “divine right’ of the corpora fons to do as they ples Mr. Bacr was seen by an Ev World correspondent at the Ri e! ning ading ~ ducks that he and the New York _ Senator had discussed the strike situ- ation. That .report. was taken to Terminal to-day. Senator Platt. ‘Oly statement covers the whole » = “The report is not true,” said Sen-|*ubiect,” he anid, “The coal op- Wa “ator Platt.’ “This is exactly what |SPMtre banc thelr position on J his “happened: 1 met Senator Quay (thee and personal iherty, hey WIL never yteld tn thin iw and out of the dining room of the |... Fifth Avenue Hotel last nicht. We jee en _ Passed the time of day. I wis intro-|to an e duced to Senator Quay’s sou and) “Bur, Mr. Maer, your statement daughter-in-law. Then we patsed on. | made no mention of the divine right | Wedid not exchange a word about! of the operator _ the coal strike. I went to bed at 9.30 | hing but a return of the minces work Will bring thin strike Calla It a Pruat! Now _ o'elock.”” - | "That was not necessary, though is “It is reported, Senator,” said the! the holding of property is a great oh Bvening World reporter, “that you tryst.” ffe going to’ send some one to J.) qi} an extra seston of the Penn- solve the pr stature was no answer. rs idea of “divine right’ His great-giand he a Plerpont Morgan and ask him to set- | eyivania ty tle the trouble. Is that true?” ent dimeut No, air,” was the Senate's rep'y; | it may provont further strikes, bit “It is not true.” {it can bring no relief in this one." | Don’t Understand It, “Can the operators afford to hold “How do you understand the strike | out all winter? situation?” Ther _ “I don't understand it. I don't! Ge F Ra | know anything about th@ strike.” [may be heredliary ie “Will you reiterate your statement peed ee te thea iia ron p Gfia few days ago that the strike will | Puchy of Zwelricken During © be ended within a fortnight?” MSR lithe. RPSACLEGIIBI OUR “1 do not reiterate anything,” said and thetr » ution In ther Senator Platt, with emphasis. try drove them fMnatly *It 1s said, Senator, that the Re- 1 the lant wh’ Na publican leaders in New York and py" Ureinun, the author nf the Heide! ‘Pepnsylvania are alarmed over the jerg Catechism, was a member of the strike situation.” Bacr family. They brought thelr chore “Ido not know anything about the With them Hee OUnR Political situation in Pennsylvania,” NoY", “Nine mlendfaatly. to the tones was Mr. Platt's reply. “In New York pao is a trustee of their. thovionl al we are not worrying. a ©, the Franklin and Marshall, at “Are you going to do anything to aster, Pa., and Is one of the plilars Lan end the strike?” of the Reformed Chureh in Reading, his “ Pi 7 ne, tame. » SNO, SIR; I'M NOT GOING TO DO | Torn in somerset Counts, Pa., Spt. 2 ANYTHING. I DON’T KNOW ANY- j1891. Mr Bagr attended the common F THING ABOUT THB STRIKE.” schools of Somerset. When only hirteen ¥ Benator Quay reached the city last # old he went “on" the at night, It was reported that he had Vemorra: as an apprentice, where be becoming oome to discuss the strike situation with mained three years, Senator Platt, but the New York Sena- Pett practical primer In 180) af tor says they did not tuik on that suy- laving been emploved for a veal by Ject. chief rk of the Ashtole Mills Senator Quay, with his son, RoR. Miles from Johnstown. he en 1 Quay, and his daugh n-law, loft the Sophomore clasa of Fra Fifth Avenue Hote! ear and shall College at Lancas | Went by the 7,30 o'cluck express io Lake sulug his ginte stud a . Pracid in the Adirondacks, he and his brother Henry pure persons pets parture caused many | chaxed the Somerset Democrat, "been done to settle the mine trouble. ve BEyeralnattles: y afterward his brother enlisted sh aN pany of volunteers which was mustered into the service as Company B, One Hundred and Thirty-third Megiment, He The reticent attitude of the -oal Presidents to-day led to the conclu- . served nine months with the rank of gon in Wall street that a probable Sapiain and participated Inthe bntthe Sompromise between the operators of second Mull Run, Antietam, Chancel- and the miners was pending. lorsville and Fredertoksvurg During “President inomas P. Fowle-, of | Part of bis sery PMR ROURE HAS, BR Jutant reneral of the Second Brigade of the Ontario and Western, who con-| 1 y's Division u ring with his broth hon w scutied Inw Baer, later eluded yesterday a ep cial tour of | am J _ the anthracite regions and conferred Word that he would not return until | {2% Years. and in 1868 moved to Read- | ing, where he was dentined to become, as It happened, “Reading 8 most emine x ‘owler's second trip !s appr- jeltizen.” At least ch was the title ently more mysterious than the first. | conferred on him at a banquet given in fp All inquiries as to his whereabouts |)!" honor on Dee. 4. lan. by 4 [mere met by the answer teat he had| Mr Baer's first big feo came during bo gone away on a short business trip.| the first year. when he earned %.000 by 72 Attb offices of the Reading Presi- | MMnIng w heavy edectment ult involv. went Waer was reported to be in| with that $5,000 fee Mr. Buer was more lade}phia and not likely to come! pleased than he would be now with one New York until Tuesday. a hundred times Its size. It ma President Truesdale, of the Dela- Lackawanna & Western, was {his offices, but sald that he had thing to say, and would make no jent to-day. Belleved that President Fow- Ing into his law offices, Was Labor's Friend One: In 1872 he frat became identifed with (he great railroad aystem that he was later to contral, Previously he had been an ardent advocace of labor's rights, making several speoshes on the oppri a sion of the working te by corp. eop ra have gone to Philadelphia] tions Bur when the Philadelphia and Reading Raliromd named him as ite f personally with President ik, ecg geJn mova Lpirectory,| MINERS GOING BACK, ‘has succeeded the] prospect that West Virginia Strike yt cag ot ede il Will Soon Be Of, CHARLESTON, W. Va., Sept. 5 ~The resident solicitor all that was change FRONT ON LABOR The President of the Jump Reading Was Once a Defender of Rights of Delivers Ultimatum Declaring Pool of Younger Members of that Only Way to End the Strike Is tor Men to Return ON A SECRET MISSION, | to eit u August, 1862, when a e | age of twe years, he raised a com- " | presiding jud ft durts of Somer: | yw Presiden.s Trucedale and Un- [yet County, and was admitted to the bar » Gerwood, left ‘the city again, leaving |in 1801 He practiced in Somerset tor prom. | a} name for him, and business came pour- | STREET FEARS HIGHER MONEY. in Call Rates Causes a Check in Speculation and Con- servative Attitude, * M. P. CARRIED UP TO i2 0. Gould-Vanderbilt - Rockefel- ler Families in the Stock—} Market Steady. | After a firm and lively opening to- day speculative sentlinen seemd to TL THE LATEST NEWS OF THE : BUSINESS WORLD GOSSIP IN AND ABOUT WALL “STREET, Youngsters Win a Million. |® victory in the courts is shown by as told in the street is that Frank west of Chiengo have been abrogated Cove John PD. Kechefeller. fy, and by the former in the interest of the Alfred Gwytine Vanderpilt +n UBriington, This open move has been saw cpportunity fore quick coup in Ms followed by similar action on the part) * |sourl Pacific, which thy e<eca'ed Of the Northern Pacific. ‘They indl- (special ta Wort) . | | with neatness and despatch, [* sas Cate the utmost confidence on the} NEWARK, N Counsel for Cony aera pie We nhs crades vege The Board of Estimate held its frat: | | srnd ca ey vr bart of the men c Fi py. {the United States Steel Corporation to- | © eas at its session to-day rejected! regular meeting to-day since the sums announced Tuesday that the long. Ue ir fi men controlling the mer i subm.tted supplemental amdavits | Perolution introdu by the General! mer adjournment. All the members of | time pool in Misaourt Paci: had} Set that it be declared legal, or Med to the application of Unlon of Woavers, d&c., to the effect that| the Board with the exception of Presls 4 er suppor ally Hauidated and would no jong-; the stack, It was atance! The story that the Grand Trunk Rall- tow) has Aeguired the Detroft and To- sold heavily short, for every one ex- jedo Shore Lf: one of the properties peeted it to go down. This was the of the Hverett-Moore Syndisite. Is to- jOPportunlty the young speculators | 1" lomsinily eantrmeih | tho. Gran : , i run wil sroume all puteta. st were waiting for, They pnt their) uijties, a ating $1,900.00, and will | mi!Nons back of the gtack and foreed 1 it up nearly 3 pointe. hey fright- ee ened the ‘shorts into a panic, Money Stringency Unitkely. Prognosiications of panics in the change, and the day Hquidation depressed, The the al list) greater ipld Jump in call money from 6 10 10 per cent..with a gene Penge from 7 per cont. to & per on the Mfting of Joana, was to frightex timid Nithough not encoursged bs hanks the (ndivsriminate buykg of w day it Although row many or show an Known th itement wan t ban nC erLen to place the " Stendy Thy Bull-Treasu the banks mately how sten me lous rain Moue sive tt ),00—8 ows the ement matte ace th. volume roilday tn drain measure rop yeu of while the n atant ney wh ralway tat in activity of its trading. Its inl- ded a gain o ! at and dtr Nghe war on the in Nvlde stowk had 1 would movement minodd Increase the vir 1 upon week Po Up to 120. or mem: keteller Pasitle recovered fully p the Inat ord of 119 pought sbsttlary | V ines wore tn yet was In ervor on af the cott few tt drys, assed ut 0 the Goudy ‘ong on the the Government vn to the ae: erop conv ha H Morgan's Grip on Reading. The Real ies were held in ¢ ant deol nes we tined by the prac fieal ¢ Aion of the story that the be Morgan control ls now ab- se Kowmty vding was ali in the name of riman. Tie We whil peare T willing Howl m, Becau courts W was atpong, Independent Hoa hive intluen twas Durchased hdavily at the lowcst figures A spony termination « were doomed t not eavy buying tn : and Pennsylvania 5 os Agus 6 Phung Tn the In tray Me made a M 4 points: while Ff sand American Cot : each. | | reent | reported purchasiug At support ling was unusuaity } t during the frst he hares during the a bash prego larre raln mar- h jent | auotation k HUNTINGTON CUARITY, The Childrer’a Hon New Bruns- wick, Noda has $5.0M from is PB. Hun . to es abltsh | n memory of her sister. Mrs. ThVhouse, wife of lawyer house. Mrs. Hil houre stington mansion last Se —_ -- ————| news that the strike in the Pocahontas lregion has been declared off is having Mg effect the Kanawha and New River flelds. Information that there will |be no “blackilat” will go a tong was Ing the strike here Baker reported to Gov. m Eikhorn that on his morning. fro he strike is over there, and that all! th lorios are hiring all the old men) who apply for work, | | ae |CONTRACTS FOR COAL FROM MINES IN WALES. LONDON, Sept. 6.—The anthracite coal shipments to the United States are the result of orders which have been oming in for the past fortnight. There are probably from 29,000 to 9,000 tons contracted for to be shipped immediately fo New York, which demands 6,00 tons Dealers regard the New) York market as vphemei They prefer to serve thel« regular customers and cannot pos- sibly supply tons daily, The prices range fe i # to #9 Por ton free ‘scorched’ the old-timers and made about $1,600,000 profit ; money market and stringency in the e ° . |ecall and time mon rates are en- Missourl Pacitic offiealy made public | couraged by yesterday's sudden jump to Ke grors carnings for the perlod ty 71-2 per cent. even though it beginning Jan 1 For month of was only a temp spurt and was Ie rdeneins GUTIET: hich’ quickly back to G per cent, Now 1 Ay hich they are confronted with the Govern shows an incr ment statement showing that the o United States 213, whieh ‘4 over last stock of money in t on Sept. 1 was is an increase of $47,446,6: Penisylvania Gong We In an oMelally inspired statement Vice-President Pat) Moston, of the This {s decidedly againet any Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail- lasting stringency in money rates road, ¢ays that the acquisition of 8"! Upsets many predictions hereto- that property by the Pennsylvania [Fe confident'y made would be a thogoughly losteal devele es aiacy ot Troasitrs Shaw 1s Gpment of the present riflroad ett sicrsed with the New York ban They ation, ‘The uniting of the two sys- have promised to take out $500,000 ad teme—the Atebison and the Penn-/ ional elreatition at once. Later, ih wili take 10,000 more. sYlvania—he points out, was dis- Be tikes sod long before George Gould be- Why Morgan Ho'ds Of. gan his sensational invasion of Penn- 5” piernant Morgan‘a reluctaner to sylvania territory in the East. NoW tay a positive position toward end- that the d-Cassatt row hYS) ing the coal strike is sald by Wall reached {ts flood tide, it is not at all) street men to be due largely to the unlikely that the Ponnsylvania Will) oretinate stand of Presidents Baer ally west of the M.s:I88-PPl) and Truesdale, of the Reading and os ‘Delaware, Lockawanna and Western Chicago | They are expert he of two of the ring = dargest and most important esal -p- annual necting of the rie Rallway reelented jerating Hines, The vtand they have \ tickney was tnanimously given anoth: erm as President His drat | token has embarrassed Mr. Morgan, itliclal act was to state that there 16 no | because It is able they would re- Joo! on looking ty the aequisttion of the / tire fram thet: offtclal positions be- rondyby qutslite interests. fore they would publicly recede, Coal 6 oO road presidents are a drug on the market, and if Mr. Morgan should press the matter too hard he might have to get new presidents, That is Wall street's explanation. not Hill and bi rgan Confic ent. That President James J. Hill, of the Northern Securities Co. a d J. P. Morgan believe that they will win Wundey fr & Found Coxgon O11 ssn Done Bw Am iw Malt pi & Met & Rel ot uit Eugar ex, diy Sugar pt ex div \imeric mn Co. 2 Nan APDOF p bh, Top, & 8. Fe Ton. & 8 Fe of Viltiinore & Ohio opt 1) Xo. 8m: Ly) Miner ia y Door pt. S Sree), ex div | 14.200 Virg = 00 Vig rh erts, ad in pd 1,80) Wabann th Par, eed | ofnoo witaeh phe 0 hada Router 0 Wow Ee a ne ON Om) West, Untin Tele, en 250) Whe kt Ble Ge Went 2am) ‘entrai a Gt Went no ape 5 MM i ‘The total ales of stocks were 868,00). sharce rat and of bonds 43,197,000. ioe aor ———— rT « mito CURB MARKET QUIET. 1 & <a ie eae Wenkness in Outslde Dealings on 1. Bourne Realtzing Sates, i The outside market was only fairly active, It was weaker on. realizing sales, thern Securities sold at 116 1-2 and 116 5-8. Quotations for the active stocks were: Bia ae) & Moutsonss & Rio Gl be 1M Den Aaa Lene Rates 8 At td 50 Det Uno Ry Rock Island pe. Sou Mee Rock Island 49, By 1 | Realt ane Realty. it so Men oN Brit Ste Liverpool Grain and Provision ante LIVERPOOL, Sept, 5 —Closing—Wh at 2) In 8p 1 Northern spring, firm. ds, edly 31-2d.; No. 2 red Western winter, quiet, 4s.; No. 1 Callfornia, steady, 6%, 41-24.; futures firm; September, 68,; December, 107-84. Corn—Spot quiet; Amertoan Ht xed Md.; futures firm; October, 8, 81-4d.; November nominal; Decem- atten ber, ds, 1d. Paes Pork firm; prime mess Western, 81s, YMina & St dae $4, Hame—Short cut, 14 to 16 Ibs, SAR atip ae Re Me steady, S78. Bacon firm; Cumberland 17 Mo. Kan, & Ter. cut, 2% to 90 Ibs. O98, 6d.; short rib, 16 ALR Mos ani a tex. be to 4 lbs., 6ls.; Jong clear middies, light, "RMN. Ck Bt, es BS to MH Whe, 69s. lonw clear middh fo Not. Weeutt heavy, 3 to 40 Ibs, 588, 6d.; r 3 Nat Lend backs, 16 to 20 lbs,, 58s 64.; clear bellies, 4 to 16 Ibs., 63s. Shoulders—Squere, 11 to 18 Ibs., firm, bis, a To Make Photograph Cardboard, BALLSTON, N. ¥., Sept, 5.—The Union Bag and Paper Company to-day fold the Empire and Excelsior Paper Mile at Rock Clty Falle to Brown Bros., of Comatock’s Bridge, Conn.,and Atterbury Bros., of New ork, who’ will manuficture photograph cardboard un- der the name of the E. M. Brown Paper Company 511M Reading oo... 20) Reading Tat pe. 800) Reading 21 pf Prices H m the Boe: Younger sclons of the houses of! tecent raed by the varlous railroads . composing the Northern Securities Gould, Rockefeller 4 derbilt | ould, Rockefeller and Vanderbilt Company, ‘Trafe understandings be- are credited with a ck-market'tween the Great Northern and the turn of great hrewdness, The story Wisconsin Central for the territory } | Light Trending tn eh nee STEEL TRUST ASKS |TRADES CONGRESS (WOODBURY CLASHED A FRAUD INQUIRY.) ATTACKS TRUSTS WITH LAWYER Charges Made in Court that/1abor Men Declare for Nation-| Street Cleaning Commissioner Suit ee ete elie al Ownership andControl of| Accused of Favoring One tion Is oe ea Ue Cul Monopolies—Reject Woman| Bidder Over Another—Di- Immediate Action Requested} Franchise Resolution. version for Board of Estimate ‘the time had now arrived when in the economic interests of women the fran- chise should be extended to them on the same terms as it i or may be to men.” The Congress adopted a motion favoring dent Swanstrom were present. The bide for the contracts for the final dispost: tion of the rubbish, sweeping and ashes jn Brooklyn were referred back to Comes missioner Woodbury ly William HL restrain ti from co Bernard Smith and urtis. for an Injunction to directors of the corporation < $20,001,000 of preferred Aspinwall Hod 8, stock Inte bonds. Counsel for the corparation In the sup- | Payment of Members of Parliament] The hearing on the matter caused @ | plementit aidivita claim to have cone | 2 ute to allow all Rolihs of the com-| clash between the Commissioner and TMinelng praof of fraud on the part of | MUM ty to be adeilatoly represented in} Luke D. Stapleton, counsel for Mat+ mmplainants und further allege that] ® i Houee of Commons. thew T. Meagher, who claimed to be the | in a position to prove t the was also voted that the Parliament-] jowest bidder. When the bids were re- ' Riise Sue blackmail and | 4*¥ Committee be instructed to introduce | ceived in July preference was given ta ; a bill in the House of Commons to pre- the proposal of 'T. Milton Kennedy bes ask thn uiry be Immediately: ma ny, Vasnu eva RETER eh rig | Neue any children under Aftcen years Off cause he offered a larger number of rec vansel, ssing the Court, ‘it | 18¢ being employed In any textile: or! ceiving and disposing stations, although will enad ainants to ap: Le ie sper orice: +6 ciation | 2! bid Was apparently higher than that iaumporte to this cause, we {ntroduced a resolution aimed against! Meagher after the bids were recelved, proof nacratary proof ot “eaPitallstle combings,", which was Unan-| set about making an amendment to Ble. tize—fiat thle itt. {MoUsly adopted. It was worded a» fol-| proposal, increasing the number of bie a" el not dy bona ‘tide i receiving stations and making other ar- “That, in the opinion of this Congress, rangements that he considered equal ta rporation but ay ss ae ae growth of gigantic capitalistic trusts,| the proposition o ny Sima MS with thelr enormous power of controlling | “amr ou ton Of hie rival. 3 a Lt Ameriean Steol Cor vesguction, ts injurious to the advance-| pons “menament was presented ta, poration, and thy stockhole nent of the working” clasees, ae by sue | Borough President Swanatrom, and ouly named aa ea 8 ure used c eons oi reached Cc e se Buh Hie vomitation combinations the prices of commodities| treated, in ores OL nuble: Works We a ce tnaees., are raised, the ttandard of comfort of| Would SAD ECL Pe ites ie that thin was the the peonle can be reduced, the workmen's! cry ™iyyner, Woodbury hotly pro, : nae this was the freedom endangered and national pros-|'“sted that he had never seen*the . | » proiico tho | eee raced. amendment, and that he considered {8 Dit a to show UP)" phe speakers contended that the time OL AE Z i 8 had sirrived when Hi ae State did not] Lawyer Stapleton, on the other hand, . ane init r rtrol the Trusts the latter would con-| said that the Commissioner wae in favor _ Hs hn | HO) the State, and that the only per-| O° awarding the conttuct to meron ; nanent solution of the difficulty rested Wr Brahitrad erat shack Mat.) ir Joseph 1. Corr-gaa in national ownership and control. of Meagher, at which statement A Wiillam et, | these monopolies misstoner glared flercely at th 4 CAnIpwells tnd) HIeUREE | "The Congress adopted a resolution con-| . vA sd i se Shab ad Richard’ THM= aemning the recent War in South Africa, | Saker. ad le and expressing hostility to all wars of| After the bids had been referred back - Mie ama wi Joseph BE. Corrigan | foreign aggression. + [to the Commissioner with power to fen } Was the most import Mee a x Se ject them and to re-advertise for new By i Of tho defense o} ; | pronosals. Stapleton and. the Commise 5 iy depentedvotalhmdete cog EROST) ANBULLEACTOR clas cr met just outside the door of the ‘ atitle Waters ANG STaTOmincde' Cove meeting room ra ilie in whicti James H, Lancaster and|Corn $horts, in. Chicago! Covered | that did you apring that proposttion, sift aliewations Honey Serie Ctr. on me like this for?" he demanded, ., 1S MaMa sype : warmly. jaws roof Omaha,| CHIC . Sep te of a fav- Mr. ‘Stapleton protested that he bes A Lan was) orablo weather map for corn and wheat| lleved thi his course had been the dine A Lewes today, there was strength in all grains] Proper one, and that there had deen no t the opening for fear there might be| {mein which to get the matter before ihe | cold: weather row. “Well, hereafter,” commanded 4 Ve the ind do not] Cables, lighter pts and continued mat a = ‘bus! i, griding also had gome Influence in Sain thrangtiine oor eat Tuscsday arly uptur hext 1 shorts were nervous and covered ————$_—_ ee wee also ¥ cool comm's-| WORKMAN DIED OF INJURIES, . 1 the frosts scare, | L. & N. MERGER HEARING. Chap ta Hiliet | John Lee, a laborer, thirty-five years momar Es matured beyond) old, of No, $3 West Forty-third street, : at | ; President Smith Hefore State Rall- |! Mle sh poor | led from injuries he received while i RR Te roe oat ee crmeh DOO | warkingiina new bullding/at\@ixtesnt™ read Co | the corn upturn lo send Suptem| oats] Street and Union Square to-day. He LOVISVILL phe ins |up one vent early to-day Was at work on the third floor and vestigation of the alleged merger of the |. Provisions were wanted by brokers for] roller, falling from the fifth floor, struck, shies i i packers at the opening becasy of hight] him on the head. ¢racturing hie skull Southern and the Loutsvitle and Nash ‘or hogs at the yards. Trade was| He @ied in the ambulance while on < Railways, which was begun. the . DUE the support helped prices. | way to the New York Hospital, bs the Kentucky continued ( of this. we THE MAIN POINT IS THIS than “$2.50 for a good Goodyear Welt hy his ‘testimony, ied the entire morning session —If you pay more Shoe, o WEAK. FA Americana, with WELT Ap favor a grees tne YOU PAY TOO MUCH! 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It is made in medium weight Lace Bals, Box Calfand Vici Kid on Metro- — per, 1-2 to 6-8; December, RTI ES, May, M 1-407 a8 C politan Last; also Vici Kid Bale on Civitas Last; also Vict Kid Oxfords on Metropolitan September, §9 bid; October, 51 3-4 bi Last, On all these styles the sizes run from 5 to 11, widths, 4,5 & 6. Halfsizes on all widths. + May, 40. December, 43 1-4 to 42 3. ——— The Cottun Market. ‘The local cotton market opened firm to-day, with prices 2 points lower to 4 points higher. English cables were higher than expected, and this, with a strong aWil street support, caused a decided bullish se: trading which sent. pri covered and trading Was very actle, Commission houses took profits on further rain reports and a better tenor to the crop reports. Dept. G JAMES MEANS COMPANY, Brockton, Mass. CANDY Our stores sre a melange of sweetness—tempting, glamoury, seductive, However, quality 1s never sacrificed for novelty. We make everything we Be, ee OK hhere EAC to Ree None: | HAN and’ use none but the best and freshest Ingredients, “Prico”=that's’ ver, 5.15: December, 8.47 to $48; January, | (he only difference between our candies and the candies sold by the most 8.48 to 8.49; February, 8.37; Match, 8.88 to $39: April, 8.39 to 840; May, 889 to 849, jexclusive and famous confectioners. Tho margin between their prices and our prices mark the governing difference of two types of merchandising. SPECIAL FOR FRIDAY ONLY. SHIPPING NEWS. OTCH CREAM LUMPS... 5.6 SSNRARBRARRBSR Dey oneanBE ae tCs ¥ ; SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY ONLY. por OF NEW YORK, GLACE FRUIT, WALNUT, CHOCOLATE FUDGE... ...: seeT. 108, ni — SPECIAL FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. ¥ ARRIVED, BUTTER PEANUT BRITTLE.. . . ee eaeeneee 5 10¢. Ian copenhagen | ORIBNTAH FRUIT PASTE in Orange and Lemon...- ige. > eNears Pars | DELICIOUS CREAM ALMONDS : ips‘ matric hare London | VANILLA MARSHMALLOWS. Been ize Chempeabes sae | Y8sonTHD FRUIT AND NUT CHOCOLATES. isa. 18 ne SHOcOLATE-COVERED COCOANUT ORISP.... ee soect OUTGOING STRAMSHIPS, QiGH-GRADE RONHONS AND OMOCOLATES OR ALL Choco. tt BAILED TO-DAY LATES « idea ie : : flo dtan Wo will deliver any 2 a! y1 YY Rio Grande, Bru Pelse witlews 1. Hamilton, Norfolk. or a he iollowine 54 BARC AY SI Port a Prince cla conlwear lane INCOMING STEAMSHIPS, ‘To any address on Mat BERLIN, Sept. 5.—Prices were heavier an the Boerse to-day, Locals and In- "| tora cAreentings (reustad’ esse these at 167. “Spanish t's were ottong. 1 Ry. S11, Sn. nf ox 400 Rubber Aaa 9M either POEUN DUB TO-DAY. Ph eriepsl ‘teres. City COR cM ee ai ‘pORH sTORM® OPEN UNTIL 9 ¥. u. On aTTRDATE: