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ters, What little pubile interest there was in evidence was seen prin- most interested in knowlng Is whether the Steel Corporation has purchased cipally tn the bond and preferred ij; the open market all the stock it ex- Hects to allot agatnst subscriptions. It fs the prevailing’ opinion that all, or Practically all, mich stock wan taken from the market In the recent break. United States Steel to-day moved sluggishly and with @ narrow range, Other Steel shares were Irregular. ‘The real feature of the market was the extreme weakness Gulf. Shortly after the beginning of trading it sold down to 70, a lows of % points and a new low record for the present downward movement, No satisfactory explanation of the out- standing weakness of this Issue has been advanced by interests known to ‘be in virtual control of the property. Tt waa at first believed that it was caured by the forced selling out of a weakly margined account. rumored to be due to the necesmity of carrying out additional financing on @ large @oule, Stili another ex- planation, and one that is most gen- erally credited, da that the profius of the ehipping end of the company's business are steadily dwindling, and oil developments in Mexico are | Anaconda falling far short of, expectations, stock market. Issues possessing un- mistakable eafety as to principal and Interest and offering a comparatively high Income yield “were in g00d In vestment demand. Announcement by the United States Steel Corporation that {t will offer §0,000 shares of common atock to em- ployeos at $81 a share was without in- It is known that while the allotment Is stated to be 50,000 shares the Steel Corporation will actually allot all stock subscribed for at the What Wall Street is {crease in buying that was in the stock market with the the new year did not mater- ‘to-day. Trading dragged along c s fastion and during the part of the session were decidedly irregular. were no new developments ortance to stimulate activity the bulk of the trading carried nm originated in professional quar- Am Beet. Sngse Am Brake ov of Atlantic Aan Cat & Filey Am One de Fury pt Am Dru Siynd Am ILide & (Len Am Hide & 1 wt... Am doternational Ain Lined Ou Ain Looamotive Am Safety Hasor , stated figure, SAVINGS BANKS. n INDUSTRIAL OA K SAVINGS EET, NEW YORK. rtenicAnuos! Dividend mt the rate of Per Cent. Per Annum DEPOSITS MADE ON on Bi nt. DR WINtEReST PROM JAN. 187, hy terest Paid on Deposits Frome ——<— $5 to $5,000 PULLEYN, President, 10,000,000 \VINGS BANKS. _ Ain Smelt de tet Aw. Smet & Ro yt TH Am Steel Miry . RANT S1 CHAMBERS Doard of Trosters lune deciared Aim Sumaira Tot , Am Tol & Tel ss. Am Tet pf new DEPOSITS ENTITL JAN. 10TH, 1021, WILT. Ames ‘Readiration, Against the weakness of the ship-| Am. Dry Coou . ping hares, food stocks displuyed a|Asonated Ou , con#ploucusly firm tone and the leather issues were tn persistent de- American Hide i & Leather | Alt, Got & Ww preferred at one time showed a gain |AU, Of & W. bu of more than four points, Railroad issues were slightly low- |® Reading still pointmont at the fact that a post-|! ponement has been filing a plan of segregation, moved off more than a polnt. Most |Brane ‘Tenn . other railroad shares registered their | in dnitial trading, | # JOHN 8 DALY, Comptrotior ASSES $2 | GREENW Te ee ee ae Nath Bteat 4p requested for |# B'ktyn Kagdd Trane ICH SAVINGS BA jromrpornied 3038 8. E. COR. 6TH AVE. 16TH STREET, NEW YORK terest Rate Jai FOUR*¥PER “CENT ee oe highest prices ‘Coppers were quiet and Olls were fractionally lower. Money renewed at 7 per cent. The | ‘wheat and cotton markets were firm. Butte Cup & Zine. putts d& Superior, Yesterday Third Warm erday was the thin warmest soi in New York annals, | Chie., ‘eathor Bureau. Tiandler Motorw, Per annum, bie on all sums front » ind etter January 17, 198 OPENS AN “ACCOU ’ DEPOSITS MADE ON OR BEFORE JANUARY 10 WILL DRAW INTEREST CHARLES M. according to the V temperature at 3.30 in the afternoon was In 1890 the and two years temperature reachod go on Jan. 2 the tembernturs was 60, OM JANUARY 1, 1921, EXGELSIO!Le SAVINGS BANK The Tru meos FRANCIS M. Gan & Electric 58% |The Bowery Savings Bank Trade In The Market and other rules and methods of interest traders are given in our free booklet, “The In- vestors and Traders 428 AND 130 nOWERZ, Branch 87 Liberty St. NBW YORK, Deo, 18, 1920. Gividend st the rate of F mnnum has been declared pd will be credited to depoal- | Gember 31, 1920, on ail sums tre 000, and will be Cruckble Steal. . Oructhe Btest pl... Die Cane Sugar, Tube Cane Bogar pt 0% Cuban Am. Snear. Den, & Rio G, vf, Ritter dam 17, Areata wade pul, So, Sh. de Atl. will draw Accounts ean Booklet, “Ban! WILLIAM J. JOHN 0. GRISWOLD. 25? ST. x by Mall" sent free Eniticott-Johnaton. . ‘OOME, President. 6™AVE. The General Rules of inston Wil, & Wa. _MENRY A, SCHENOK, President. ‘KNOX, Vive-Pres. & Comptroller, The Rights of Stock and Bond Holders. The Deposit Require- ments for Carrying @. LIDDLE, Secretary. INUAL DIVIDEND. SAVINGS BANK No, 20 Union Square. [DEND has been deciar Citizens’ Savings Bank COR, UANAL 8T., 1Q18T BEMI-ANNUAA, DIVIDEND. [The Trustees have ordered interost at) J) PEM OKN'T,, ireat Norther vf, Great Nor, Ore. Hue rate of FOU per annum to be How to Give a Broker Instructions, Broker's Commission Gulf Brutes Steel. . Hartholl & (arker. . fepowit for the throo| x months ending December ordance with the By the bank. Mone: January 10 will draw in \erest from danumey 1. HENRY SAYLOR, President, RDWIN A. LAHM, Socretary, WIARL A. RICHTOR, Asst Boo'y, Nes BANK inc “ete inter, Cous, Corp nt. Cone, Corp. of, ‘How to Indorse a Stock Certificate. How to Group In- vestments. ‘ater, Mer. Marine. 12% nt, Mer, Marine pf. Call, ‘phone or write, Ask for No. Kansas City 50. : Dime Savings Bank 40th Street and 6th Avenue atthe ‘ate ot ; FOUR ven Cee eee ee ES or before Jam, 10, 1981, iS NGSAVINGS BANK ‘ending Dees Si. i000, at the PER CENT. Sthereler parable’ on and to $5,000 made on| ver ann Jan, 13th will draw from Jan, 1, 1921, OUR CHRISTMAS CLUB”, BR GEORGE he DUONG, teerdar. Ledtgtt Vella. Liggett & Moyers JONES & BAKER Specialists in New York Curb Market Securities BROAD STREET OFFICE 60 Broad Street Telephone Broad 7150 MADISON SQUARE OFFICE 225 Fifth Avenue Tel. Madison Square 1377 42nd STREET OFFICE 605 Fifth Avenue Telephone Murray Hill 7120 Offices in 8 Principal Cities Direct Private Wires num on all depoaite tro Goh entitled therein’ seeabie co after Jan. 17th. 1024, Jan. 10th wil ade on or before terest from Jan. BANKING BY MAIL. ETT, Seo'y & Treas, WEST SIDE SAVINGS BANK Sixth Avenu and Ninth street, @ dociared annual dividend at the rate of FOU TO-DAY'S PRICES LIBERTY BONDS, Liberty 81-28 opened 91; 85.60, up 1.08; Ist 41-19, 86.08, up .88; 2d, 85.90, up .80; Sd, $8.10, up .18; 4th, Victory 8 8-43, SEARLE BUR, The Trustees hi Opened irregular. up 1-8; Retail Candy, 71-28; Tobace co Products Export, 1—9; } Maracatbo, 10 1-2, off 1-2; Cartb., 71-8—13-8; Bweets N} nighiow HAM Vv Chunsakes ACCOUNTS OF SOCIETIES KEW YORK SAVINGS BANK N, W. Cor. 14th St. and 8th Avenue Dividend Jan. ist, 1921, at the rate of FOUR PERCENT MERC | FOREIGN EXCHANGE OPENING. Sterling demand 4.63, cables 3.53 3-4, up 1-4c; Prench francs demand 0684, cables .0585, off .0003; 0844, cables .0846, off demand .0185, cables .0186, off .0002; Canadian dollars demand .8615, unch; ELECTIONS AND MEETINGS. OF THE AMEIMOCAN LRPBRS OCOKPORATION. take botioe that @ Special Mi Misswo to 08 at ies offices, ‘No, fa" janbattan, Clty of New York, cH e abai, at 89) OF THE CITY OF Avenue and 147th at, credited Jan. 1st, at the rate of Four Per Cent. lire demand Avemue, Borough of ¥. My for’ the purpome of considering abd’ voting (Ue ate of Anger ation tO Amertoan d"* awl foe te pair Dusinem as may auton of betote {terest from Jan. Let. BRIAN G. HUGHES, President. _ WILLIAM M. KERN, Controller = BLL T, MANSON, Treasurer he peavoaltion to france demand .0616, fy, come belore "the ayeein yorway kronen 1346; Denmark LOST, FOUND AND REWARDS, & LOAN ASSOCIATIONS BAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATIONS Sl00 NEWARD heFra pays epee Argentine pesos demand .7470, cables No. 14683, taken tr ath or in Young Wome Association. Thuraday afternoo The United states Stecl'Corporation flee of stock for sub- scription by employees at 81, #1,000 WeW Ali, LOST—Flatinum bar pin with 12° sauare diamonds c Ih jamonda “at each end. border of “VERONICAS ViIOIL” LN SHASON FEB. season of the Passion play "Veronica's Vell,” with rv. new setting and costume: Bt, Joseph's Hall, West Hoboken, N. J., on Feb. 13 arxt will continue on Sunday afternoons and Sunday, ‘Thursday evenings through Lent. Executive Committee, of which Bishop J. J. O'Connor ts Honorary Chairman, has arranged th give the. porformance on Fob, $5 for the Cathols yin af gouitay” bate at its 64th semi-annual cash dividend yearly rate of 414% on savings share accounts of $10 to $5000 and 5% on will begin in FUNERAL DIRECTORS. “Campbell Sa Call “Columbus Tuesday and H EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1921 PARIS CONFERENCE Open. 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TO% TOM Pan-Amer Pet do B 68% O84 Penn kK ave 40%) 40% Penn Seabemrd St v v Poople'a Gas W% By Pore Marquette hy is Phila Company ..., 4% HN Phillips Petrolewn, 23% 24% Piorce Arrow ... we 20% Piewe Arrow pt oe oo Pierce Oil .. 10% 10% Pitta Coal cay OB Pitts & Woe mO% Pond Gresk Coal, 19% Premed Steel Cnr ., 81% Putkwan Company « 100 Punta Ales Sugar. 47 ail Sted doris, Do 80H Ray Copper [1% 11% 1% 11% Redigiccccs & B 8? BS Replogle Bled... 3 8% 3D BONG ittep iron & Bted., GL 810% OH Royal Dutch NY .. os Ld ed St Joweph Lead .. 12% 1% 12 12 StL & Ban Fen, 2% 2M Bt L & Bouthwost. 27 Pik diol At TL & So'wot pl 87 a aT BS Savage Armes... 1% 12 11% 1B axon Motors... 2% 2% 2% 2% Seaboard Air Line. 7 7% 8% 6% fea Air Line pt.. 11% 1% 11% 21% GeareRoduck .... U5 Wt NH WOM ek Cet te Ch OE Shattuck Aritoue ., 4% 5 sm 8 Bball T, & T. « 2% 42% 42 “2 a MB OI 10 aby 8K OHH BN Sh BN 28h 8) OTH OT 2188 186% 108 105% 103% 105% 103% 105% nm mm (St BIN MH BLK BK 4, 4, 1 oe 9% OH OM 7 ™ MH Th Ki 424 48% IT 018% 16% Bi 26M OT 0% «9% 9% 2 Fh Hy m™ MH TH es 8 & Union O . 21% 20% 20% A% | Union Pacttlo 220% 118% 110% Union Pacific, of... O1% Oe OM OT United Alloy v.46 SE 8 MLB United Fruit . 108 aD 104% Uned Food Prod... 21% 22% 20% 22% Ua. Ry. Inv. Co. of, 20% 20% 20% 20% Un, Retail Stores... 62% 02% 31% OL U.S OTL eo. 4 1h 1M lh USO Lt... 8% BOM BOK BOK 8. Ind, Alootol. Oh 84% GH C6 8, Realy de wh 40K 41K 41K Ms © my OF a 3% KO BS . 8, 51% 80% BOK . 8. oT 10T-107 whe Bh 40% 3B BM 38K 87ST WA HOR 90K th % % ae 1% 8 21% 20% ah 10% 10% 10% 2 10% 10% TOK a oF 6 4h 8 » 9% 10 Vie 11% 1% 1% ® 3 9 : y 1 1 th Wile-Overkand ... 9% 6% BY 5M Wiliys-Oveniand of, 8 30 3080 0 0 Bs fy By B® CHARLES H. LEE DIES. Charles Henry Lee, sixty-six, @ Prominent leather merchant, died yesterday in the Broad Street Hospi- tal. He waa the grandson of Gideon deceased Inherited the leather firm of Lee & Co, and in 1893, when it was ‘acquired by the United States Leather Company, Mr, Lee became 4 director of the latter organization and was active In {te management for fifteen years. In 1904 the Andeas Trading Company, an ex- port and import company, and in 1911 he founded Lee & Co. He was also imterested in numerous other concerns, Mr. Lee had & residence at No, 24 Gramercy Park, but had been livin at Cedarhurst, L. 1. Ho ia survive by his widow, two daughters, Mra. William F, Ladd and Mrs, Maloolm D, Sloane, and W.. Charles C. and Marion W. ite belonged to the Century Club, Rockaway unt, Club and the Downtown Association, ———_— ARREST RAIL “PRESIDENT. ‘Thomas F. Barrett, Virginia cou! carrying raliroad, ton. Riverside Drive, on jn Alpany. fam F, Hini 510 Lancaster ‘Avenue, that city, Fourth Avenue, thoritles could ‘not find Avis. ~~ Corporat An They May Purchase stock. as $51 @ share, as against AGAINST BOLSHEVIK! Kerensky Calls 100 Members 1917 Gonw'ituent Assembly of Russia hae een called to meet in Paris on or work and advised how to about Jan, 10, the third anniversary |ourry them out. ‘They have also of {ta dissolution by the Bolsheviki,| given me many beautiful ser- cable despatches announce. ‘The con- ferecs will represent the various Rus- sian revolutionary and democratic parties, be to unite ali Russian revolutionary and democratic elements into a single national body In order to create a body to speak in the name of the Russian people and direct the fight on the Bolsheviki in and out of Russia. Issued by Alexander Kerensky, former Russian Premier, who probably will preside at the conference; Nicholas D. Avksentieff, former Agriculture in the Kerensky Cabinet and head overthrown by Kolchak in the sum- mer of 1918, and Osip 8. Minor, mem- ber of the central executive commit- tee of the Party of Social Revolution- ists, Only duly electod members of except that between Kansas City and He oonetituent Assembly will par-| wichita. I had never been in Mex- garded as the first constructive stop taken by the revolutionary and dem- ocratle parties of Russia opposed to the Bolshevik! in the direction of cre- Major BR. B. Batley and Miss Mabel holders was in my favo! Dr. LYNN, Mass., Jan. 3.—A friendship| Woods had recelved in the thern which ortginated in Berne, Switzerland, | $290,000 for $100,000; Mr. Church two yoars ago while both were in the| White, former cashier of the Rank of service of their country, and which de- veloped into love a year later at Berlin, had its altar setting in Lynn jast eve ning When Migs Mubel Case, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Case, No. 62 Beacon Hill Avenue, was married to rey, fee Tri M . my attorney, Judge Trimble, and told ajor Ralph Edward Balley of Neod- ¢ ec: vith thi Pee a ah mead d-|him the incident connected with this formed at the rectory of St. Stephen! Episcopal. Church bythe Rev. Willian Appleton Lawrem.: Tence of the Episcopal Church, worker at Berne when she inet Major Bailey, then assigned among American prisoners in, Switzer- land and later appointed Director of the Bureau of Prisoner Communication at jeriin. two army workers returned to America, but kept thelr engagement a arcrot. Bailey of Needh: resentative of a Roston bank. EXTRA! YEGGS GET$3,000,000 Not tm One Hal, the Chicago district for the yoar 1920, based pocket pickings alone, reached the stag- gering total of $4,500,453, an average datly property loss of more than $12,435. into the hundreds of thousands, are not, as, robbery complaints turned into the po- Tice department. eB mobiles stolen during th i t included "In the ‘tabulation’ for ‘elthe ys of which 8,185 were recovered. Fig: | ee They. lo: Ne 400 inlies nearer.” They looked Pree oat Se EE By oe RYOTE at me in wonder. They thought they = had come to a funeral, and they v. Lee, once Mayor of New York. The system is to-day marking its tenth anniversary by issuing a new card, which will displace the 10-cent affair] 4 in use since establishment system, The new card will be nished free, postal fixed to It, It will be accopted at any depository office aa deposit of $1, or it may be redeamed in cash, tions are written in ten language: four sons, L. Mason, John Goldfogle yesterday at the Yorkville Casino by the New York Letter Car- rlers’ Association In connection with the HE day after the annual public meeting for the Install Ail hl FO ad er tion of officers. A silver loving cup was dinner I called on my great | presented to him in appreciation of the friend, Dr. Woods, and told Garden City Golt|work he did for the postal employes while in Congress, who represents imself a# President of a smail West was} locketi up In the West 123¢ Street Po- lice Station last night charged with the larceny of $3,000 in @ business transac. . QUESTIONS. promise of $500,000 If he secures a} 1 ¢ _Jconcesuton from’ Mex! E will take itewoat is the chief source of ra-| tga” was. promised "$100°000 He wea arrested at his home, No. 640) pared from the inky secretion of the warrant Issued July 28, 1917, by Justice John J, Brady The complainant was Will- mani a coal merhant, of No. jar Fott sup! ly had an office at No, $31 Pittebungh, but the au- im there, His whereabouts had been unknown since cuttle fish? shawl worn by men ii nects the extremities bones? capital city? shoe worn b; STEEL TO EMPLOYEES AT 81. thing 80 seal ePrice at! riage, mont: ‘The Untted States Steel Corporation to-day announced the price at which tts employees may purchase stock from it $104 inst TO BEGIN BIG FIGHT Coprniaht, 1080, by the Prem Publishing CHAPTER XI, (Couttnued.) ISEE MY of 1917 Assembly to Mect SPIRIT FRIENDS Jan. 10. A conference of 100 members of the § stated In the preceding chap- ter, for years I have had spirits talk to me in my sleep. They have shown me plans for my mons on right living, At that im- portant meeting mentioned in a pre- coding chapter when I needed $3,000,- 000, I recelved thought waves that reached me ag plainly as the human voice, which proved It was not neo- essary for me to be asleep in order to be reached. In hours of need I am confident that if 1 ask I shall recelve help. A night or two after receiving the sermon on Devil'e Gold 1 was awak- ened by u voice and saw standing by my bedside two spirits—holding a large map of the Western. part of the United States and Northern Mexico. Running directly from Kansas City to the Gulf of Mexico was a vivid red line indicating the Kansas City, Mex- {co and Orient Raliroad. They pointed to this and sald, “Build this rati- road.” (1,000 of the 1,600 miles are now constructed and in operation) I never had been over any of the Western section of the United States | The purpose of the conference wil: The call for the conference was Minister of of the Uffa Directorate, ico and had never thought of going there. I did not know that there was a great natural harbor for the terminus on the Pacific Coast— did not know that it was the dream of The call for the conference ta 1e- ing the Kansas City Southern, but the fact that this rad had proved a Case, Red Cross Nurse, Are Wea, |PTO‘1table investment for the stock- Commerce told me that the $84,000 on which he had retired was every cent he had.in the world, but that he had made it all from his small investment in the Kansas City Southern, That night I went to the home of meseage. He was amazed, not at the meaange, but at the fact that for the first time I had seen my messengers. He got down his large atlas, marked the road on {t.as it had been given to me, looked at me In a thoughtful manner and said, “It's wonderful Stilwell, wonderful—T am confident you will build It—something tells me you will, and as you go along the way will open. Forget the loss of your old road and start at once on thle. I shall invest in ft when the ‘time comes to do. 90.” . T also told Mr. Martin and he was amazed at the nmagnitude of the plan. When he latd his ruler on the map and found that the Pacific term'nus but by Year’a| we ona north and south line, he sald, Werk tu Chicase. “Wonderful—T had no idea ‘the west- CHICAGO, Jan. §.—Thieves’ ern coast of Mexico receded to such an extent. ' "The second day after receiving thit | meamge a testimonial dinner was Wilton ®, son of Busnop Law- ‘The bride was a special Red Cross to laison work Less than two yeas ago the Major Bailey the son of Oliver m and i" foreign rep~ loot ir on burglaries, hold-ups and Feb. 11, 1900, at which time I was presented with a silver loving cup. | Tt was after twelve when my time; came to speak. There had been won- | Embezzloments and forgeries, running included in theso figures as compiled| Cerf! speeches: Father Dalton, the by Chicago's police Pelee piyerd leading Jewish rabbi, the leading| vast loss only @ little more than one. | Presbyterian minister, leading busl- fourth, or $1,403,954, was recovered, This | #88 then from all tmdes—all bors means that’ more ‘than $3,000,000 was|testimony of my work for Kanna) the net loss, City and the wpbullding of the South; This compares “with a record of $3,-| then came the Joving cup. What a 543,690 In property and cash stolen dur-| happy night it was for me! How It| 1919, with police recoveries of $972,- During that year there wero 6,943 | Strengthened mo in the determ/na- tton that [ would give to Kansas City one more great road. T eald, “My friends, I brought the Gulf of Mexico 114 miles nearer Kansas City, Now IT am going to build a new yoad and bring the Puct- The value of the thousands of auto- tabulation for elther During 1919, 4.447 cars were stol~ . GOHS AFTER FOREIGNERS NEW POSTAL SAVINGS PLAN, ‘The United States Postal Savings found a wedding, But on the way home that night a number of my losta, who, I am afraid, thought my rreat losses had affected my mind, asked how I could bring the Pacific Ocean 400 miles nearer Kansna City. wlance at the map would have explained it The next day the Kansas City pa- ners were full; the new road and the ‘dea was the proverty of the world. CHAPTER XI. of the tur- ten 10-cent ave been af- and when vingw stamps itruc- Oe Letter Carriers Honor Goldfogle. A testimonial was given to Henry M. THE OPEN WAY him of my vision. He talked with interest, but when I totd him of the two spirits that had delivered the message, he, a8 usual, punched me in the ribs and laughed, but invited me to stay to lunch He explained to the a Bank of sald, “Le aes DO YOU KNOW? the Presa ectors of the ‘commerce the new road, and ‘ubltshing Co, 4 start Stillwell off with ‘ork Bening World.) Covyright, 1991, (The New more and left for Mexico the next day with Mrs, Stillwell. Arriving at. Chihuahua, my first stop, I called on Mr. Enrique ©, Creel, the President of the Bank of Miner afterward Governor of ~Chihuahu and later Ambassador to the United States. 1 had a long talk wi and explained to him t at railroad that J hoped to He agreed with me that he no railroad enterprise could be a greater success than this: that It had been the dream of hia lite, and that his connection with the Chihuahua and Pacific had only been | in the hope that this railroad would eventually reach the Pacific. He told me of the wealth of the Slerra Madres in timber, of the millions of ns of ore on the dump heaps lert 2—What coloring pigment is pre- 3—What do they call the blanket or Mexico? 4—What strong, of movable Mr. © plan of 6—Of what State is Montpeligr the ni knew of in Mexico th ‘What is the name of the Weeden 1s to be air tight? 8—What email, two-wheeled drawn by manpower, is com: used in Japan? hat is a period of 1,000 years year, when 60,000 shares were available, ‘Tie amount which may be bought jo Rey Seouts thie year was not anngunced, | there by the ancients (one dump benp 1 bad essayed ran 410,000 tons of ore and this value above great friendship {s one of the thin, and looking over a word. and plans with great tuld me that the building of this rail- road and the opening up of the bar- bor of Topolobampo had been the great ambition of his life. He told me that twenty years before, Grant had organized a company with this same object in view, and wus President of it for that Mexico was too poor to grant a subsid, resagmed, ex-Secretary Windom had taken the Presidency terprise, and had for seven years at. dan H 200 miles enat of Sait Lake City 2328, and Iowa, all given for me at the Midland Hotel, | « On (The New Toth Brening World) would pay to bulld the rafiroad for the Pactflo business. "If there was @ wall at the Pacific and no business could ever leave rat port, it would pay to balld the railroad for the great locd! business.” And I am positive, after years of study of the territory, that he was right. Mr. Creel, the second day I was in Chihuahua, agreed to become one ef the Vice Presidents of the road, and he promised to come to the City of Mexico in a few days and help me with President Diaz in any way that he could. i) We left for the City of Mexico and 1 found to my great surprise that President Diaz knew I was coming and hud one of his family to meet me at the hotel to take me to the palace for an interview. I shall never for- get that wonderful interview. What a man! He was the most wonder- ful man I ever met in my life, and words cannot describe my years of business relations with him, His that I love to dwell npon. How he looked me over! 1 thought I could feel his eyes reaching into my brain its cells to see just what kind of a brain it was. He had such a piercing look that you won- dered if he could see your back hair. I must have passed muster at the first interview, for he afterward sald he was my friend before I had spoken And what a friend he was! President Diaz went over my mapa interest.. He President two years, but that after President Grant of the en- President Diaz that this section of|/tempted to get financial aid ai ating a solld, demooratic front against | \fexico should be opened and devel-| subsidy in the building of the ae the Bolshevik Government, oped. He then told me that later Mr, Hunt- is It looked like a tremendous task to|ington for several years had at- WAR ROMANCE UNFO undertake a new transcontinental | tempted to find a line over the moun- LDED. | rattrona, especially so soon after lot-|tains. He sald, “It hag the greatest value as a transcontinental ratlroad Humboldt has where you intend to put this railroad, Senor Stilwell, and he pronounced it the treasure-house of the world.” [ was thrilled by the story of other men who had seen this line as I had He then from the Mexican Government him that I wanted national and fed- eral ald that would equal three mil- lions of dollars or five thousand dol- lars a mile. request the State of Chihuahua to give us $600,000, and that a conces- sion would be sent me the next day at 11 o'clock, and in that concession the Mexican Government would give us enough federal aid to equa} about what I desired. As he promised, the ne arrived visited this section asked me what I desired I told He sald that he would day at 11 o'clock the concession ) asked President Diaz how it was that he had known that I was com- ing to Mexico, “Why,” he said, telecrame from the Governors. ‘What Governors?" I asked. not understand what you mean. He was surprised that I did not know about i. He then brought « buneh of telegrams from the Gover- norms of the following States: Texas, Missourl, Kansas, Nebraska, Louls- telling of the rful work that I had done in the upbullding of the West; also one from Assistant Secretary of State Rydn, who was in Topeka at that time. | had never before read such wonder- fully complimentary telegrams, They were grand. Preident Diaz said: Senor Stilwell, no man has ever come to Mexico with such an endoree- ment as you have In these telegrams. I will always do all in my power to ald you." The next day, as I stated before, the concession was in my hands, and { made the deposit with the Govern- ment, The concession [ had started for was mine. Shortly after this I left the City ef Mexico and returned to Kansas City to start building the railroad T cannot describe the satiefaction with which I laid all of my documents be- fore Dr. Woods and Mr. Rulé and the directors of the Bank of Commerce, ‘The $500,000 was subscribed at once to help start this work, and my sub scription was on the same basis as that of any one else, I receiving no compensation whatever at that time for the ownership of the concession. Engineers were started out over the railroad, and the Kansas City, Mex- jeo and Orient was really born. It le needless to go over the his- tory of the road.” Edward Dickensin. General Manager of the Union Pacific Raltroad, resigned and became Vice President and General Manager of the Orient (as bt was called), Ninety per cent. of all those T had Inter- ested in the Kansas City Southern Railroad became interested in the new venture, When the Mexica trouble arose, about 1,000 miles of the 1,600 then finished, I had over 8,000 stockholders in the road and the va- | rious enterprises connected with it. My lint of stockholders was equal to the Blue Book of this country and neland—hundreds of names of noted lrond men, finencters, &c., and among the names on the Board of ctors of the road were some of leading men of the United Btates. The rond made rapid progress, con- sidering the opposition of other rail- roads and the diMecult problems of engineering to solve, But when the Mexican trouble arose we had just reached the Con- tinental divide, with the track 8.500 feet elevated, and the promised land the Pacific port—was in sight CHAPTER XII OBSERVATIONS 8 the Brown! s have dictated the conclusion of this history { shail write a chapter on my observations of the phe- nomena connected with my interest Sig Ut It may be that all I have done and here recorded wits only Providence handing down important testimony to help at this time fn establishing the fact that aj) Bible history has re. corded, namely, that fe ts unending and that In our Father's house are many mansions,