The evening world. Newspaper, October 4, 1913, Page 5

Close Race for the Money Prizes Offered by The Evening World in the Better Babies’ Contest Conducted in One of the Most Crowded Sec- tions of New York. Tt’e going to be tremendously dimeuit to plok the winners of The Evening World's money prizes in the Better Babies’ Contost held at Greenwich House. They've just finished the firet Judging of the youthful contestants, and the doctors and nurses detailed to examine the score carda report that many youngsters eted scoro “hetween All of these will be carefully re-exam- ined one day next weck, and no slight eat defect will escape this second seru- ny. But no difficulty is anticipated tn finding boys ‘and girls who richly de- eerve prizes for perfection, “According to the tests we have just finished,” ald Mra, 8. G. Major of and 100 per cent. obtained the cov- | bab! THE EVENING WORLD’S AND WELFARE ASSOCIATION'S CITY-WIDE SERIES OF BETTER BABIES’ CONTESTS. | Five 100 Per Cent. Babies Discovered in Greenwich Greenwich House, “we have already dis- covered five 100 per cent. chjidren. It thas been @ remarkable lot uf babier. Representing many different nattonal! tles and bom and brought up in one of | the most crowded sections of New) York, the children entered in our con- teat are children of which we are proud. Why, we had one iittlo girl, only elght- een months old, who weighs forty-two Pounds and ten ounces! I might add that the girl babies in the contest have made @ spectally fine showing. “We are proud of the mothers, too. They have shown a mont intelligent in- terest in the real object back of the competition, the improvement of the children. Only @ few mothers have they thought winning @ prize acted wing the present condition of the indicating how this con- improved. Hach mother has Metened eagerly to the advice of the examinii physician, About the only advice she has tried to give to him has beon the assertion that her baby has an angelic temper, despite all appear- ances to the contrary, She has ehown @ touching willingness to accept coun- ee] on the score of baby's health." Market Closing—Towards the close Prices yielded to sudtien heavy selling pressure and the ist sold off about & point at which point, short covering turned prices up on @ rally lasting up were best for the day while the steel iagues did not raily in same propor- tion. Amalgamated Copper declined to 4% and@ rallied to 76%, Canadiar, Pa- cific closed at 24%, net gain 1%. Read- ing sold down to 16 and closed at 104— a net loss of %. Union Pacific closed at 168%, a net Gain of % over yesterday's Gnal figure. American Can tesues were etrong, the preferred gained 1% points at %%. U. 8. Gteel common showed loss of % and the preferred loss of % at close. Total sales 163,20 shares. Opening—Canadian Pacifio was the most prominent feature at the beginning, showing @ gain of 184 at 2%. Other inguee were generally firm, ranging frac- tionally above yesterday’s closing, but the volume of business was extremely email Union Pacific continued in scant supply, moving up 3-6 to 1887-6 on mod- erate buying, Amalganated terberough Metropolitan Dreferred. While trading was quiet, the market ‘was stronger all around at opening, and Sentiment seemed to be getter, and a number of traders tried to cover shorts, but found that etocks could not ve obtained readily. It was thought that large interests have been taking back. Steel sold higher. American Telephone and Telegraph atook was active and weak, selling dawn to 1361-8, & toes of 17-4 paints. The news that there would de a gen- eral reduction in Steel prices produced hardly any effect upon the market. ‘There wae an Inclination to wait and | on volume of business. Recent decline hag apparently put market in strong technical position, and removal of tar- iff uncertainty is @ favorable develop- ment, as tt is generally believed tho to changes in schedules, in middle of second hour. ———— FINANCIAL NEWS ITEMS. Canadian Pacific Ratlroad reports for fourth week of September gross earn- hee increased $703,000 over same period last year. Number ot #aitimore and Ohio Raile road stockholders has increased more than 2 per cent. in past year—share holders numbered 11,64 in August, 1913, and 14,114 eame month this year, 01 erin banking house represents more than 10,00 shaveholders in Germany— Union Pacific and German holdings to- wother approximate 0 per cent, of share capital, ft was stated at the office of the In- terstate Commerce Commission that Mastern railroads will file @ petition with the commission Oct. 14 or 16 for advance of 5 per cent. over present vates, None has been filed eo far, Chesapeake and Ohio report for year ended June 9, total net operating reve- nue declined $1,020,471, and total in-! come after charges and ta: were de WALL STREET ee to the close, final prices of some taaues | 0 see what effect the reduction will have | country will successfully adjust Itself | Market dull, with tendency to sell off The Closing Quotations. following were the highest, lowest end leet of stocks for to-day and the net chenges cxenpered with yesterday's Am. T. @ T. ‘Asconite Mining Ft Beta ofan 7% Cae peceleum a = Central Leatbes. Fy Bie +2 me = aay = 1 i! FR RFR FE it it : SS ss BRE BPE SE ER FS RE EEK EE BSED ED Gel ett +t ae Gucted ts equal to 5,5 cent. earned on 962,792,000 of een [eae com. pared with G81 per cent. previous years. To Gate 2% raliroads, opersting in the United States only, have reported week- 4y @roes earnings for the third week of September as follows: Gross @,206,690; increase $133,988, or 1-31 per cent. Bllver bullion was quoted to-day at 61 8-8, per ounce, and Mexican dollags et @ cents, Denver and Rio Grande Raliroad re- port earnings for Beptember declined (096,800, and from July 1 declined 657,500, Westinghouse Electric and Manufac- turing Company pald off 620,000 of its ! $1,600,000 collateral trust 6 per cent. notes, due Sept. %, and extended the remain- der for ® months, ——.— NEW YORK COTTON MARKET. Wrideg's 18.47 | Cotton opened Irregular changes both ways, and steady, Short covering on unfavorabie ‘Texas weather and damage reports held llet up at opening, but Southern and commission house offerings were free, based on fair weather in East and pectation of large ment; market not respond to lower cables, but ased off after the Arst 16 minutes on with was barely | 6 pointe under iat | night's close, or about 9 points down since the publication of the Government report, Selling was led by room traders The market acemed to have a eteady undertone and acted eas if there wen more long cotton to come out. } In the eecond hour apprehension wath |rewant to possible loss in Texas and Tenewed oclaime of heavy | Gamage to crop, and influenced consid~ erable buying, and advanced the list briekly with spot houses and prominent bull interests credited with buying. Market closed from ® to 13 advance. 42d and 43d Street: Upholstery STERN BROTHERS Special attention is French Lace Salon On the Fourth Floor in which are being shown large assortments of Decorative Laces, Lace Articles, Motifs, Etc. for the making to order of Sash, Vestibule and French Door Curtains, Bed Covers, Bureau and Dresser Scarfs, Lingerie Pillows, Etc., at moderate prices. West of Fifth Avenue Departments invited to the new THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, Noted Specialist Tells Mothers The Meaning of the Score Card The Physical Examination. RPh DT ee re lA MEASURING THE ABDOMEN OF WELL URS RTO RED CHILD—- EDWARD SMITH \J yen ane OLS, 27 POUNDS. 1 A distinguished specialist from the A bald spot on the back of the head, Babies’ Welfare Association explained| where the hair ts worn off, ts waually In detail today the physical examina-| indicativ tion of the head and features, as it ia in the Better Babies’ Contests. physicians give the careful considera- ause the shape often The abnormally small head and abnormally large head not ma’ of measurement alone. The abnormality strikes the eye of the Physician immediately the chil sented for examination. The a applies to the box-shuped head. “The condition of the scalp may also denote the presence of rickets, The hair of a child with this or some othe. constitutional disease may be brittle. of tho same conditions, But ty halr does not count againat the acore until after the child ta one old. dirty scalp means an unhealthy lp. Milk crust or scabs and sore of; any sogt, count against a child. “In examining the nose the physician remembs that a depressed bridge is early infancy and may be @ racial characteristic. In such in- stances !t should not count against the child, “When the mouth fs habituaily hela open It may denote adenoids and en- layged tonsils and nasal obstructions from any cause. The gums are bleed- tion,” he 5 Indicates rick The Supreme of Justice consists in moderation, rep these trial days of ours, the Judi Kner legge in order to render anblage a eople of New York have tried more than 4,000, by wieem, the ¢ past twelve months and all decisions have been in faver of JACOB RUPPERT'S Knickerbocker THE BEER THAT SATISFIES The beer that satisfies most of the people all the time is the beer that can be relied upon by of beers, but use in the world, invite our Cane to visit the supreme satisfaction, in moderation, regulated the rest of the Freple any time. Knickerbocker (s not only one (t retains its unif orm flavor and effervescence. eo far up t on co Ti ERY, 90th ‘had achieved her greatest successes on Aristotle, greatest hres idl of ancient Greece, said: “The virtue ted by wisdom. is taxed to the limit of lega! lecistons. It is brewer in the finest brew | Bottled at the brewery and for sale by all dealers. We cordiall Inatitution any day between the hours of tep and three o'clock. na. swollen of have scurvy ndigestion, “But the throat of every baby should visually, Uni there ¢ examined tonsils or sympt has mouth | dicharge from the nose, the} need not for adenow's| finger, No child in penalized they are actually BLANCHE BATES HURT | IN RUNAWAY UPSET of Friends Fear Results Because Delicate Condition of Actress. The frienus of Blanche Bates, who, off | the stage, fe Mre. George Creal, heard to-day that she had been injured in a| runaway accident while driving with | her husband gear Lake Mahopac, N. Y., and that owing to her delicate condl- tion serious results were feared. Mrs, Creel notified the Charies Frohman management a few weeks ago that she w going to @ sanitarium up State in anticipation of the birth of @ child. Tho poastole effect under such condi- tlons which would otherwise be silght caune the actress's friends great worry. According to the report, Mr, and Mra, Creel were driving in a huckboard when the horne was frightened by an automobile and ran away. George H. Pryor, in an automobile, followed and was at hand when the buckboard was overturned and the actress and her hus- band thrown out on the roadatd noratches and bruleee were ¢! apparent injuries, Mina Bates waa married to George Creel, @ politician and writer of Dei ver, Col, in N ber of last year. Boon afterward she withdrew from the Belasco management, under which she nd announced her retire Changing her mind, the management of Charles Frohman. Her last appearance the stag ment for a she went u 1018. WORKMAN IS BURNED, SIGHT DESTROYED Mahoney Working on New BY ELECTRIC RAIL; Switch When Head Touches Deadly Conductor. John Mahon thirty-six yeare olf, A laborer wiio gave the addr Kant Sixty-second atreet, rec full electric force of two “channel ratte” of the New York City Raliwaye Com- Pany at Sixty-fifth atreet and Broadway at 6 o'clock this morning, How tong he remained helpless under the shock ts not known, but he was taken to the Polyclinto Hospital with his right eye burned out, @ fractured sku and many burna over the body. The doctors say he would be totally Diind if he recovers, but recovery seems Impoasibie. ‘Tho rallway company fa putting a new awitch in at the corner and there ts an excavation exposing the tracks and two channel falls, Mahoney was on k screwing In bolts, himacif his forehead with two of the ralla only a He don an tron and both channel ratis againat His body against the wet Ground completed the circuit, He = | leant, before being found, Fellow wots men wearing rubber gloves haa to pry him loose f the rails, Cy r officials said that the ralis carry between 69 and 6 volte of was wth the “Case for the Defense” in Los Angeles lust summer. TWO DEAD IN TRAIN WRECK. BRIE, Pa, Oct. 4~Two men are known to be dead and at isast eight more are injured, several seriously, tn a head-on collision between two Nickel Pinte freight trains at Fairview, Pa, eight miles went of this city last night. Roth trains met at high speed and nearly all the injured were buried under the wreckage. A wreck train is hurrying to the scene from Buffalo, N. ¥. Coroner Hanley of this county haa gone to the wreck to conduct @ Personal investigation. The dead are William Cunningham, Girard, Pa, fireman; Patrick Tracey, Conneaut, O., brakeman. Case * But during 000 cases of f the best and Map of Greater New York FREE hie fmpertent streets in wing the boreu, including an imavsnne rh eae of New Jersey and Westchester Cou: f i rad el | Ne with, Fees name, end eldrese te the COP Street and Third Avenue, New York electricity. “DROWNED ON HOUSE ROOF. me Admintstratrix Acks 98,000 fvom His Employers, Julla Lane, administratriz of Barthol. omew Joseph Kinsella, who fost bis life by drowning on the roof ef a bouse, brought sult In the Supreme Court yea. terday to recov Brothers, Kinsel are the owners of No. 1% Bast jundred and Kighty-second atreet. ‘ain pipe on the roof became clogged and Kinsella was sent up to remove the obstruction, It In alleged in the com- plaint his arm was caught in the pull of the rushing weter and dr the pipe. Ho was dragged int trate position with his head und eral inches of water, id CHICAGO MARKETS, WHrat, Ne ren. High. Low, Clee, Change 80% Sm — au%s— % — ay wy : ao Wheat opened off 1-8 to 14, partey steady. ‘The repetpia of wheat at Winnipes to-day ageremated 1.256 care, against 1,414 care on this day last week and 772 care a year ago. Com was 14 lower on the initial Prices, and showed a weak tendency in the Gret hour, both active options de- clined further, and showed @ tendency to go further. Wheat was quiet; demand from ehorts oe, s * improved, but fresh speculative buying | , was untkrportant, and prices engaged off to new low levels, ‘Wheat closed 4 lower. Corn closed 64 tp 9-4 lower than yen- terday's finals. ———$——— Bank Reserve $8,696,180, ‘The statement of the actual condition of Clearing Mouse banks and trust com. | panies for the week shows that they; hold $3,696,160 reserve in exceas of legal requirements. This is @ decrease of $7,568,90 from inet week. ’ WHEAT AND CORN thik SUMMER COMPLAINTS Dysentery, Diarrhova, CHOLERA MORBUS. 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