The evening world. Newspaper, May 19, 1903, Page 4

5 have € ‘] 1 9 Act iit, ms eartnen me Go nee ade a. Shi % bo TTA ee nee pn omemmn = & ae. {o> Operators in raw cotton ure buying s-heavy demands and a short crop. On ‘account, it Aid BU rising that local mark from the | eve Bow TO CORNER COTTON Of “Represents a Syndicate Which Purposes a Great Coup, Embracing Manu- ‘factured as Well as Raw, SULLY UNLOADS AT PROFIT. Conditions of Pit so Unprece- dented that Conservative ‘Operators Gasp, but Brown Says Price Will Go Higher. Whe far-reaching scope of the move- ment that has sent cotton to prices the market has not known in years, ‘became apparent to-day. There is a well-defined suspicion that W. P. Brown and those associated with nim Tted in to corner the raw cot- ton market of the world and that in- lly they are gobbling up all they €an of the finished p-cduct on specula- ‘ton. Int goods. It is the belief of tne is that they can nold up the price and that the mills: will be compelled to an What/ is asked because tho neat crop promises to be very late. Conse- quently the mills will advance prices . Wecause of the increased cost of the raw material and manufactured cotton ht at prevailing prices can be sold profit, Cotton Mills Close. Despatches received by The Evening World to-day indicate that the effects the continual igh range of prices being felt throughout the country. the cotton mill at fenderson, Ky., @losed to-day, throwing 800 hands out of employment!on account of the high price of the staple. The cotton manu- facturers of Utica, N. Y., have decided to close down their piants if the pre- ‘Wailing prices continue. AVithin a few minuies after the open: | ing of the Cotton Exchange to-day {pent cotton was in sight, and the 15-ceat Sotion earohesie’ by the leaders of the ‘prevailing bull movement did not ap- Bear to be so remote as the bears like it belleve. e excitement In the pit was tremen- ites There was a tense anxiety about ‘tho trading that made the operations of the brokers almost tragic, for it 1s cer- tain that many must go under in the re of high prices, W. F. Brown, the New Orleans cotton King, who Is tn charge of the bull cam- Palgn, was nunchalant as usual to-day. b 3 He appeare’l in the pit ten minutes be. | ¢ ‘fore the onening of the market and was apperently the most unconcerned man although his share in the vier than. that of any other | He had given his orders to his ers early in the day and took 10 Roticcae interest In the prevailing ex- cltement. Ex-Bull Leader Is Unloading. Daniel Sul:y, the leader of the bu! movement until cotton got up to where Daniel Sully considered tt a good suie, was early on hand, The impression ails ‘that Sully ‘is unload-ng the enormous holdings he gathered in March eye and at prices that are netting | rofits. yHgyis working in perfec: . and fame together on the . Mr. Suly a new sivaw hat, in which Mr own took more interest than ho did ia terre Livernoo! received. pre- yious to the opening showed that the arket there had opened higher on Start, but it was “not until some ons | cotton that the real a bid for Ji y itement. o the day began. y Options Forced Still Higher, It! seemed as though a couple of tor- Bdoes uroke icose Tight thoes, Vipin and higher went the quotations In Jul saith succeeding options follow! until the bulls were paying 8.99 ton to be delivered in Januar, Femarkabls condition cau servative brokers to gasp. and It f these brokers, the most com: grasp he cotton situa- the world over that any. man ev er “Be or else he is the most stue: tor, that ever did business’ on’ the x of this exchange.” Rumors of failures floated here mentioned per: ently. It is a dead certainty that m Shorts are being squcezed in the steady wance. Men who sold two or three _ Months ago for May deitvery have lost ims, and the prospect some of then? i able to settle Is iets Twenty-five Clerks Discharged ne Arm of cotton brokers dischara jenty-five' clerk: ces oF gischare Bota of @ question, slight reaction at the end the, "Bat tae while the bulls and used e breath and look ‘the. sattuation: Mr. Brown. after a mee with his brokers. announced summer season ® full workin, his opinion that cotton Is going Geld Serien markets of the remains unchan, He said Weta was in receipt of cablegrams hat ie ifemand con- ‘thee Maeeea ‘the sup to be out of bed and his tome at No. 1 Kast eves favorable 1o- kept # ALL THE W. P. BROWN AS HE’ APPEARED I IN THE COTTON EXCHANGE TO-DAY, SURROUNDED BY A CROWD OF EXCITED BROKERS. done. | Mesroes to work In its downtown #e>- LA THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1903, TEST NEWS OF THE BUSINESS _ WORLD. | MAKES STRONG NERVES. Hees, Neus, Spe, Hoe Net NEGRO ARMY FOR SUBWAY Contractors at Last Decide to Bring in Excavators from the South to Displace Striking Italians in Tunnel. Discouraged by the success of the striking Italicn picketers jn getting men away from subway work, the contractors decided to-day to put up with no further delay, but import negroes to finish the ninety days’ excavations work yet to be The Degnon-McLean Company put 100 tions this morning and John C. Rogers, who has charge of the section running from One Hundred and Thirty-fitth street to Girard avenue, through a thickly populated Italian quarter, said he would take a chance on having trou) ble and employ negroes to take up work on the section which has been delayed for nearly four weeks. “I have engaged forty negroes," he said. “and I will have a hundred more to-morrow. The Italians have not at- tempted to make trouble for the men while they are at work, but thelr pick- ets waylay the men on their way home and scare them from returning the next ay Rogers has notifed the police of the East One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street station that he will have his section of the trench full of negroes to- morrow and has asked that the police! guard Ve increased. { It fs estimated that fully 600 negroes were working on the subway to-day and that the number would be doubled by the end of the week. The workmen at Spring and Marion streets were stoned at their work to- day by the wives of italian strikers whose homes adjoin the trench. When work began at § o'clock women and boys apyearea at the windows of the} neig:26Tig ents and, yelling | Italian imprecations at the laoorers,) pelted them with stones and garbage. Dodged the Missiles. For a time no attention was paid to women, as the workmen were not Italians and notexcitable. They dodged tha misefles until Foreman Henry Me- Guigan and Assistant Superintendent Kelly ran to the Mulberry street station and teported the disorder, Sergt. Sullivan sent a squad of men to the ecene, und they put an end to the trouble iy arresting Dominick Viga- wetto, of No. 219 Mott screet. He claimed to be w bartender, Wut at the statton- house wu card was found showing that he was a walking dewgate ior the Ex- cavators’ Union. Clashes between police and striking Itahans took place all along the line of the suaway early to-day. ‘Lhe bluecoats on pleket duty along ihe trench and the rereryes at the statiun-now were cased Upon to suppress 4 doaen fgole caused by the atteinpts of tue striking excavatos to intimlaate their country= men who tried to return to wok. strike Pickets Active, ‘The strikers were out 4s usual at day- break in squads Of NVe Lo pick Up word- jngmen as Woey left (new aomes. Waoen the men got past them they round an- WF set Of PILKELS MAGItiNG them in tne streevs Juat ont t Ye BELG Line OF mytal evason and when they vould not make the men turn vach they set upon them. ‘they coniined their efforts secret), o workinen of their own tlona ist ers a_ wide At "Beventy-tecond street and Colum- kus avenue @ young Lalian was eet Upon ‘vy @ crowd of ten strikers and wh he refused to turn back they assaulted him. Merchants, measenger boys and laborers passing at the time went to the lad's assistance and a general meler was In progress when the pollce arrived in reeporse to 9 t@lanhane allmmons. Whree Men Arrested, The strikers, who tad been getting the worst of the ‘encounter, seemed glad o. the arrival of the police, as dt axe the an excuse for jmmi Higat. giving negro and Irish 1a ay, tal Mohea “italian fapoters enen, a doute Loree of Guard” to-day and Without trouble. | eryrorgs Tne contractors eens ALtomDL wt untlenida de Pe "the subway wi ‘the dealings after the morning session. jsourl, Kansas and Texas in large lots | yeateraay |S this | La CROPS COOD AND STOCKS AUN UP Government Figures Add Strength to Improving Mar- | ket and Traders Join in Buy- ing, Sending Prices Higher. | Blocks closed strong in the market to- | day, with gains of 1-2 to 2 points, A more fayoraole Government crop report caused the Western traglers to buy with | \gor during the late afternoon and the! firmer tone of the London closing trans- actions added to strength which marked Despite the heavy and continued | quidation of Rock Island stock by Jo- seph Leiter, who has been selling out most of his holdings within the past thre@ weeks, an advances of 3-4 was! scored in the common on support by other Chicago shareholders, who are! now more aatisfied with the terms of the deal whereby the road has acquired control of the St. Louls.and San Fran- cisco. The latter stock gained 1 per cent. before the close, The Standard Oil crowd bought Mis- on the improved condition of winter wheat in the State of Kansas and the reports that large Increases in the earn- ings were expected in the April report. Butler Bros. bought heavily of both! Missouri Pacific and St. Paul, which! 2 over a point each on good support rom the Gould brokers based on the better crop reports from the Weat and , the Aldermanic Committee. li Ai neki dd hid CITY GLOW WITH LIGHT N Ws 200TH BIRTHDAY, Illuminate Every Window from Yookers to Rockaway in Celebratioa of the Anniversary Next Tuesday Night— Watch The World Dome for the Sig- nal, a Flare of Electric Light. When the electric lights flash from every window of the Pulitzer Build- ing and the great golden dome is circied by electric fire at 8 o'clock next | Tuesday night it will be a signa) for one of the most unique illuminations this clty has ever known—that in commemoration of the 250th anniversary | of the founding of the City of New York. The suggestion that every person—occupant of humble flat or stately skyscraper—illuminate his windows Tuesday night was brought to the attention of Acting Mayor Fornes, and he approved heartily of the idea, | saying: “The idea of lighting up all the hotses on the night of the great cele- bration Is excellent. I shall bring it to the attention of the memfers of It will make a novel feature of the celebration Mf every large building, every business house and every dwelling is illu minated. “I shall also take the matter up with Mayor Low. who returns to- day and I have no doubt he will issue a formal request for the illue ralnation of the city.” It is urged that every householder, ever flat-dweller, every “hotel pro- prietor, theatre manager and office and mercantile building owner join in the effort to make the city, as a salute to the coming official celebration of its birthday, a great mass of light from the Battery to the Bronx and to the furthermost corners of Frooklyn, Queens and Richmond. Mayor Low has set apart all of next week for celebrating the event. Appropriate exercises have been arranged in all of the public schools and by many societies and organizations. The civic exercises, in which Sec- retary of War Elihu Root will represent President Roosevelt, will be Tuesday, and it is suggested that the evening of this, the Principal day, be the time for the illumination of the city. The lights from every window in the Pulitzer Building and from the dome will burn from 8 until 9 o'clock, and when they are flashed on it will WESTERN UNION REMOVES WIRES United States Ccwrt of Appeals Decides the | Pennsylvania Railroad Has the Right to Take Them Down. PHILADELPHIA, Mrety 19.—The United Btates Court of Appetis to-dav held that the Pennsylvania ‘Railroad had a legal right to remove! the poles and wires of the Western UWmion Telegraph Company from along {the .railroads’s right of way, The dgcition to-day at- ‘rms a judgment of the Western Penn- el de a signal to the whole city to turn darkness of night into a brilliant = slow of light. 7 = rumors of increases of 1 per cent, in the | Pennayivanta % anne “| HOWARD GALLUP, Reading rose 1-2, Baltimore and Dn:o LU AN sj 3-8, Lehigh Valley 1-4, Delaware and, % C BM. * DEAD, Hudson 11-2 and Lackawanna 2 points a on the vews that thelr annual reports +.%|New Yorker, Who Had Taken will show larger net gains in the earn- +104 ings ior the year instei@ of big losses, re 1 Up Residence in California, ay Was geieiaiy expected Ot the cose ti Dies There. of the cual strk +R : 3 ¢ &{ SANTA BARBARA, Cal, May 19— Amalgamated Copper gained nearly a = 4| News reached here to-day from the point on renewed buying by the Lewis- + ‘| northern part of thls county of onns based on the beiter tone tor copper ue y of the stocks abroad and tho increase in the + | death there of Howard Gallup, of this Calumet and Hecla dividends. + &| city and New York. Mr, Gallup was a ~ _-— 2 | Popular clubman and - Unton, Pacific gained 11-4 per cent. on Rl siderable means. He was Te eheeie talk of a@ definite settioment of ‘the | \ the Union, Metropolitan, Racquet ard atrike of ithe bollermen and shopmen, | University’ clutis'of New York. within the next two or threo days, and Southern Paciti¢ gained 1-2 on the news of &. Wd. Harriman s recovery. The local tractiona also felt the strength, developed. oy short covering ind ‘snowed. fractional alvances on rumors of Jarge increases in the earnings during the aunmer months. Louisville & Nashviiie and Texas Pacthe were both over a point higher on Use Increases in thelr earnings dur- jog the second week in this monta, Bonds were qui ‘a sympathy with ————_ The Closing Quotation To-day’s highest, lowest a snd a shade firmer stocks, — CURB TRADING QUIET. Market Weak with Rock Island 58 on a Decline, Trading on the curb was quiet and j Somewhat weaker to-day in sympathy with the listed securities. Rock Island s were especially weak, falling off 2 per vent. 443-4, a decline of 1-f, and Union Cop- ber dropped 1 point to 3. The bid and asked prices of the prin- cipal outside securities to-day were: HEAVY DEFALCATION CLOSED THE BANK. Southport (Conn.) National Lost $100,000 by Stealings of Cashier, | Who Ran Away. WASHINGTON, May 19.—The Treas-| ury Department to-day received a tele- gram from National Bank Examiner] ,asccan can... closing prices and net changes from yesterday's closing prices or from Inst recorded sale are as follows: | Net eof thelt {taliens toe hat Mr, Harri. ata ve “Te ue ‘omer workinen turned vat places, and the general aitu- nor aifect ot the [contractors, u work, suked fans porun te where Ti'gh. Low. Close. ch'ge. Amat, Capote ey Bie fe eR emer a ie Rs BR Fs fd pie 1M S & ‘Uy Bs Hee 8 mae BR: tt 129% ae +0 a a ee 36% r 4 3% dw + % oT Ok te Sb Shu + 1 am 18 1 toe 3% 14% 114% ee ‘Be ik iS ue uM Rig t $ ; . Perkins announcing the closing of the) American Can Southport National Bank, of Southport, rely Conn, This action, it fs understood, | Nor was taken in consequence of the de- faleation of the cashier, which is De- Waite lieved to have approximated $100,001. Bandact Cie SOUTHPORT, CONN., May 19.—The ‘The Wheat Market, National Bank has been closed by an| wneat opened dull and x s easier to-day, order from Washington, Cashier O. P-| following lower cables. There was little Sherwood of the institution ten day@ ago! buying by forelgn houses. Corn opened leaving a shortage of $100,000, dull with prices a shade lower. pat A warrant has been issued for his ar- | market at St. Louis was the weakest on rest. but the police have no trace of him. see there Coclining. 2-8) cont herwood Is forty-two years old and ck's 10,50 A. M. opening prices has been with the bank sinoe 1884. Y Wheatsays ef-s gun’ Reis: ber, 75 a8. Corn—May, 8; July, ‘The officials of the Southport National stated to-day that the'r aesets were to 86. Can preferred sold at} WS sylvania United States Court and re- verses a judgment of thie New Jersey United States Circuit Court. The Pennsylvania court refused to grant the petition for mn injunction sought by the Western Uieion Telegraph Company against the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the New Jersey court granted the injunction. Residents of several towms along the Phitadelphia and Baltimpre Central Rallroad are to-day without telegraphic communication owing to the deciston. The Western Union has tetken the n- itlative and severed its contwetion with the Pennsylvania Railroad” Company, which controls the telegrmph service along the lines of raiload. The Postal Telegraph Com pany, which will replace the Western Unten, as yet has no communication with these towns, and until its snes are exte:uled thers will be no communication by wire with the points affect These include smail towns between this city and Octoraro Junction, a dis- tance of sixty-thres miles. ‘The opinion quotes the contract of ihe Western Union Company with the Penn- sylvania Company, dated Sepk. 20, 1asl, which contained ‘a provision ttmt’aftet a period of twenty years, upon ten hotice given by the railroad vompany, the telegraph company would ie bound to remove its lines whenever rhquested. After quoting numerous authorities, the opinion says: “As it waS not asserted that the tele- graph company had the right inn ently of contract to maintain ‘ks upon the railroad, and in view settled construction of the law, Not permit such a contention to be, rec ognized as the basis of jurisdiction.” = LABORERS IN A RIOT.. Brought from Boston to Gwe to, Virginia, but They Refused. About one hundred Italian latwrers who had been engaged in Boston to go to Tank River, Va., caused a small riot in Mulberry Bend Park to-day. When they were hired in Boston they say James Marshaletti, the contractor, ex- acted from each of them $1. This they say he was to refund when they reached New York, He mst them in the park to-day wor that purpose, Mean time one of the Itallans hat leamed that the fare from Virginia to Boston was $17. They may the contractor told them it was only a few dollars. A row followed and the police were called. In Centre Street Court the contractor} was discharged. The Magistrate saying} that If there was anything wrong in the: Way the men had (een treated the of-+ fense had been committed In Massa. chusetts.. ‘The contractor said he stil wanted the men to go South with him. but they of fare. ———— GRAIN SUPPLIES CUT. able Shown in Corn and Onta. 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