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INTERESTS OF THE FARM
POINTS FOK POULTRY RAISERS
EGG-LAYING HONORS AT STORRS
English Hens to the Lead—Some
Large Eggs Laid by Con
necticut Birds.
The total number of eggs laid at the in
ternational egg-laying competition during
the 26th week was 2064. The percentage
of broody hens remains about the same,
there being a difference of only 35 eggs
between the total scores for the previous
week and last. Up to the present time
only two Leghorns have been broody. The
leading pen for the week was a pen of
silver laced Wyandottes belonging to T.
N. Burns of Broomall, Pa. This pen laid
30 eggs. Three pens tied for second place
for the week with a score of 29 eggs, all
of which were single comb white Leg
horns. These pens were owned as follows:
F. G. Yost of Sayre, Fa., A. P. Totman
of Waterville, N. Y., and Mrs K. E.
Woodruff of New Haven, Ct. Two more
pens of single comb white Leghorns dis
tinguished themselves by tying for third
place. These pens belong to A. P. Robin
son of Calverton, N. Y., and P. A. Kep
pel of Paradise, Pa. These pens both laid
28 eggs.
Three eggs weighing .19 pound were laid
during the week. Two of these were pro
duced by a outlet belonging to Arthur S.
Bailey of Cobalt, Ct., and the third was
laid by a rose comb Rhode Island Red hen
owned by E. S. Edgerton of West Will
ington, Ct. The smallest egg laid during
the week, weighing .01 pound, was laid
by an Ancona pullet belonging to the Mt
Orchard poultry farm, Narvon. Pa. The
pen of single comb white Leghorn pullets
belonging to Charles W. Sherwood of
Saybrook Point, Ct., also laid two small
eggs. These weighed .02 and .04 pound,
respectively.
The silver medal for the pen laying the
greatest number of eggs for the month of
April was won by a pen of single comb
white Leghorn pullets belonging to W. L.
Sleeger of York, Pa. These birds laid 124
eggs. Another pen of single comb white
Leghorns stood second for the mohth with
a score of 121 eggs. This pen, which be
longs to A. P. Robinson of Calverton,
N. Y., receives a bronze medal. Third
place for the month was won by still an
other pen of single comb white Leghorns,
the property of Mrs K. E. Woodruff of
New Haven, Ct. This pen laid 119 eggs,
end was awarded another bronze medal.
The best individual for the month was
a barred Plymouth Rock pullet belonging
to the Woodside poultry farm, West Phil
adelphia. This pen laid 29 eggs during
the 30 days of April. The next best indi
vidual for April was a white Plymouth
Rock pullet owned by the Edgewood poul
try farm, Packer, Ct. This bird laid 28
eggs.
The following is the list of the leading
pens as they stand at the end of the 26th
week, with the total number of eggs laid
by each
Tom Barron of Catforth, Eng., single comb
white leghorns, 590; Ed Cam of Hoghton,
Eng., single comb white Leghorns. 526:
George H. Schmitz of Chicago, 111., single
comb butt Leghorns.. 50-1; Edward Earn of
Hoghton, Eng., white Wyandottes, 491; O.
A. Foster of Santa Cruz, Cal., single comb
white Leghorns. 479; Braeside poultry farm
of Stroudsburg. Pa. single comb white Leg
horns. 465; Beulah farm, Stoney Creek. Out .
white Wyandottes, 460; George I’. Dearborn
'of Blairstown. N. J., single comb Rhode
Island Reds, 459: John A. Frltchey of Har
risburg. Pa., single comb Rhode Island Reds.
483; Glenview poultry farm. West Willing
ton. Ct. rose comb Rhode Island Reds, 425.
The best individual to date is a single
comb white Leghorn pullet belonging to
Tom Barron of Catforth, Eng. This bird
has laid 132 eggs. The second best in
dividual is a white Wyandotte owned by
Edward Cam of Hoghton, Eng. This pul
let laid 130 eggs to date.
A CURE FOR CHICK DISEASE.
Sour Milk a Specific for the Destruc
tive White Diarrhea.
Prof EUe Metchnikoff. it is claimed, has
successfully demonstrated efficacy of
Hour milk in prolonging human life and
now the. agricultural experiment station
at Storrs, Ct., has adapted it to use in
the fight against the disease known as
white diarrhea in chickens, which was
sounding the knell of the poultry industry
in this country when the Storrs experi
ment station took up the subject. Accord
ing to Prof Raymond Pearl of Maine
state college, Oue of the foremost poultry
authorities, often as many as 90 per cent
of chicks hatched died from this disease
within their first three days or four out
of the shell, apd an average of 50 per
cent of the chicks hatched in the United
States were its victims. The. Storrs sci
entists have gone far toward conquering
this enemy, however, and in a bulletin
just issued Dr L. F. Rettger of Yale and
Prof W. F. Kirkpatrick of the Connecti
cut college tell interestingly of the experi
ments which have led to the knowledge
of the efficacy of sour milk as a specific
in the rout of white diarrhea. Prof F.
H. Stoneburn’s name is also on the title
leaf of the bulletin, he having preceded
Prof Kirkpatrick in the college poultry
department.
When the Storrs station took up this
subject authorities differed as to the cause
of the trouble, and even long after Prof
Rettger isolated the bacterium pullorum,
which causes the disease, there were va
rying theories regarding it. The Storrs
experiments have established the exist
ence of this bacillus in the ovary of the
mother hen as .the beginning of the trou
ble. however, and that chicks from in
fected eggs have the disease when hatched.
Infection from chick to chick does take
.place within the first three or four days,
but prpbably not after that. Even if in
fected chicks live, they are usually stunt
ed and weak and poor layers—or this was
the case until the experiments with the,
lactic acid -bacteria in sour milk. Pre
vious work has been by way of the estab
lishment of the Storrs station’s hypothe
sis on firm ground, and this new bulletin
carries the work on into the field Of how
the infection is spread, how to treat in
fected birds and bow to rid a flock of the
infection. It has been learned that ma
ture stock can receive the infection from
hen to hen and also by means of the ex
periments through which these facts have
been established.
For the complete elimination of the dis
ease from a flock breeding- must be looked
to and eggs or live stock obtained from
strains known to be free from the infec
tion. but the sour-milk diet has been
proved most effective in prevention of the
sperad of the disease and to enable indi
vidual birds to grow and develop and be
come healthy and vigorous despite the in
fection. The bulletin lays proper stress
on the necessity for keeping stock free
from the infection and contains this perti
nent paragraph: “It should be considered
both a moral and legal offense for persons
to sell or exchange eggs, chicks or mature
■tock which come from flocks that they
know to be infected with the germ of ba
cillary white diarrhea.” The work fit Storrs
and New Haven has given the poultry in
dustry in this country a new lease of life.
One large incubator manufacturer who
was considering retiritig from the business
has decided on the expenditure of a half
million dollars for the increase of manu
facturing facilities, since if became clear
that the experiments were sncessful in
establishing the cause and remedy for the
disease. The value of the work thus
quietly done is recognized fur outside Con
necticut.
EARLY SEASON FOR VEGETABLES
Potatoes Are Goin» Higher, Bat There
Are Compensations.
The local farmers who took a long
chance on the market and held their fall
potatoes until now are going to make some
money, for they are getting more expen
sive right along. In the last week Maine
and local potatoes have advanced to $1.55
a bag, and are going higher. Bermuda
and Florida new potatoes are $6.50 and
$5.50 a barrel, respectively, and there has
been an almost complete failure of the
Florida and Carolina crops, indicating
high prices right along, so that the local
growers who held potatoes are going to
get good prices.
The warm weather has had the effect
of sending green stuff—spinach, aspara
gus, dandelions, etc.—well down in price.
The season is about two weeks early, and
prices to-day are very much lower than
they were a year ago at this time. As
paragus is so cheap that it is being used
in greater quantities than ever. The Hen
ry J. Perkins company is averaging 500
dozen bunches a day, and the retail price
is down to 10, cents a bunch. This in
flux of native asparagus has killed the
California and southern asparagus trade.
California asparagus sold for $4 a dozen
bunches two weeks ago, and to-day whole
salers would welcome $1 a dozen for it.
Spinach is very cheap, as indeed all vege
tables except tomatoes and cabbage are.
The tomato season in the South is prac
tically over. The only good tomatoes now
on hand are hothouse grown, which means
high prices. Cabbage sold very low all
winter, and when new cabbage came in it
sold low because of the big supply of old
cabbage on hand. The old cabbage now
has been used up, and new is about back
to normal.
Strawberries are so plentiful the whole
salers are receiving two and three cars a
day. Prices at retail are down to 15 and
18 cents a basket. Oranges are get
ting scarcer and grapefruit is gradually
mounting. Apples are so plentiful that
prices to-day are not more, than they were
in the fall of 1912. Western box apples
are in more demand than they were during
the winter, because of their better pack
ing and keeping. It is also true that,
the warm weather has increased the de
mand for fruits and vegetables, and the
marketmen are now at the hight of thejr
activity. Unless there should be unfavor
able weather the outlook is good for plen
teous crops of all vegetables, and corre
spondingly low prices.
Among the freaks.of the season is the
early production of vegetables and conse
quent low prices. Cucumbers, string
beans, spinach and all spring vegetables
nre from 30 to 50 per cent cheaper than
they were last spring. Apples a year ago
were selling for $5.50 to $6 a barrel, and
buyers begged for them. This year the
best apples brought from $3.50 to $4.50,
and there is not a heavy demand for
them. Oranges are small and fairly high,
but grapefruit are cheaper than a year
• ago. The pineapple season, styange to say.
also is 30 days earlier than usual. Ship
ments received this week are from Ha
vana, but next week the Florida crop will
come in. This situation is inconvenient
for the housewives who like to can pine
apples. for most of them will expect the
best fruit at the usual time—a month
later, and they will not understand why
’ they cannot get it. The last two years
; have been very peculiar in their effect ott
i the produce/ market and produce prices,
and it looks to the Perkins Tfompany as'
if the coming season would be equally
unusual.
Wilbraham Peaches Sailer,
Reports of damage to crops and fruit
trees from the cold weather of the past
few days have come from all sections of
Western Massachusetts, but one of the
most serious reports of loss comes from
Wilbraham, where a number of the peach
growers have found that the peaches which
have just set. on the trees were nipped by
the frost. Some growers find that their
crops are practically ruined, while others
find that the location of their orchards
were so favorable as to prevent serious
damage. The orchards located on high
ground seem to have escaped with com
paratively little damage, while those on
lower grownd were hit hard.
REPORT ON MINE ACCIDENTS
Death Rate for Accidents in 1011 Was
l.®o Per 1000.
Accidents in quarries, coal mines and
metal mines of the United States dur
ing 1911 resulted in loss of life to 3602
men out of the 1,005,281 men employed.
The bureau of mines, which since its es
tablishment, has endeavored to promote
safety and efficiency in the mines and
quarries of the country has just issued
its first summary of quarry accidents.
It shows 188 men were killed during 1911
out of 110,954 men employed, making
the death rate 1.69 tier WO. In coal
mines 728.348 men were employed, of
whom 2719 were killed, making the death
rate 3.73; in metal mines 165.979 men
employed, 695 killed, making the death
average 4.19.
Approximately one-half of the deaths
in and about, quarries were due to three
causes in the order named; Explosives,
falls or slides of quarry material and
falls or slides of overburden. Accidents
resulted in the serious injury of 862 men,
7.77 per 1000; slight injuries 4528, or
40,81 per 1000. Approximately 33 per
cent Of both the serious and slight injuries
occurred in the handling and transport of
material.
Fatalities in granite quarries were 29,
sandstone and blue stone 14; limestone
90. and cement rock 29. Of these. 33 inen
were killed in Pennsylvania quarries, 22 in
California and 12 in Illinois. The statis
tics were collected from 3290 quarries
whose 110,954 employes worked an ag
gregate of 25,325,004 days, developing
$149,541,722 in products. The men killed
। left 89 widows and 129 orphans.
ALLEGED TRAIN WRECKER TAKEN
Reading; Man Charged With Various
Attempts to Cause Disasters on the
Boston and Maine.
On a charge of attempting to wreck
Boston and Maine railroad trnins by plac
ing obstacles on the track. Fred I. Tur
ner, 23, of Reading, was arrested Satur
day. According to the police, he has con
fessed to making such several attempts
during the past eight years, saying that
bis object was “to see the excitement.”
In most of the cases logs were placed
on the rails or fishplates in switches, but
the obstructions were discovered before
the arrival of a train. In one (W two
instances trains passed over (the fishpliites '
but were not derailed.. When the Inst
wrecking attempt maM -two weeks
ago, logs were Ldupd on the rails a few.
hundred yards below the Reafimg station,.
The discovery resulted frbUi a toldphope
cal! to Ihd'Xtation frOib ’nM tHtHnOwn per-.
son. who told where the obsurudkuisAWcre.
Turner is alleged to have told. tile, an,
thorities that it was he who telepuoned,
as he became conscience stricken.
THE SPRINGFIELD WEEKLY REPUBLICAN: THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1913.
ROMANCE OF STEEL TOLD
■'UVSc ,f.n /'u Ai fU
IMMENSE EXPORT BUSINESS
FROM ICELAND TO FIJI ISLANDS
Head of Corporation Says Combination, i
Was Not Made to Stifle Competi-
tion, But to Develop For
eign Trade.
The United States steel corporation was
pictured at New York Monday by James
A. Farrell, its president, as a combina
tion organized not to suppress its competi
tors, but to develop the sale of steel in |
foreign lands, a development which could
not have been accomplished-, he said,r if
the corporation had not taken the various
companies competing for foreign business
under its wing. He was testifying as the
first witness for the defense in the hear
ings of the government suit to dissolve
the corporation as a combination in
restraint of trade.
Mr Farrell amazed his hearers by his
intimate knowledge of affairs in the most
remote part of the world and held them
keenly interested as he narrated the story
of his rise from a common laborer in a
steel mill at the age of 15 to be the head
of the greatest industrial corporation in
the world at the age of 50. The witness
traced the growth of the steel corpora
tion’s export business from 202,000 tons
the first year it was organized to 2,246,-
600 tons in 1912 and from $31,000,000 in
value in 1904 to $92,000,000 in 1912 and
said that the efforts to push its foreign
trade had been "continuous and inde
fatiguablc.” The result had been that 90
per cent of the country’s foreign trade in
steel was done by the corporation, he
said.
“We have made the strongest effort
possible to increase our foreign trade as
compared with our domestic trade,” Mr
Farrell declared. “Our competitors have
only been concerned with foreign busi
ness when domestic trade has been in
sufficient to keep their capacity employed.
We have kept after the foreign trade
continuously. If we had not it would
have been impossible to develop it.”
W. E, Corey Contradicted.
Contradicting the testimony of William
E. Corey, his predecessor as president
of the corporation, that there had been
“understandings” between the corporation
and foreign manufacturers as to prices and
a division of territory, Mr Farrell said:
“We have never operated under any pools
or agreements with foreign manufacturers
either as to price or location. We have
never entered into any contracts or agree
ments with foreign manufacturers to stay
out of their market provided they would
stay out of ours.” He denied also that
the corporation “made a practice” of
selling its products lower abroad than in
this country. “In fact, some of our com
modities are sold higher,” he said.
Before the corporation was organized,
the witness recited, seven steel companies
were competing for foreign business. On
being taken over their foreign offices were
combined under one office and their opera
tions systematized. In 1904 the United
States steel products companies was or
ganized to take charge of the foreign trade
and push it. Exhaustive studies were
made of foreign markets in order that
business could be done according to the
usages and requirements of each partic
ular -market and “at an enormous ex
pense,” the processes. of manufacture at
the mills of the corporation were adapted
to meet these requirements. The cor
poration established agencies from Iceland
to the Fiji islands, 268 in all, Mr Far
rell said, and as a result the export busi
ness of the subsidiaries had greatly ■ in
creased, in the case of the Carnegie steel
company to 24 per cent of its whole pro
duction.
A diversity of product enabled the cor
poration to meet all demands from bed
springs to steel bridges. No single sub
sidiary with one or two products, he said,
could have maintained these agencies on
such an extensive scale. Mr FarreH told
of selling wire in Patagonia, rails in For
mosa, steel bridges in Iceland and wire
fencing in South Africa. Steamships had
been bought or chartered to carry steel to
points seldom touched on regular steam
ship routes, he added.
This foreign trade, he further explained,
had been developed in the face of the
financial opposition in Europe, preferential
tariffs and local opposition. The city au
thorities of Manchester, Eng., had can
celed a contract with the corporation for
the railway rails in favor of local manu
facturers, he said, although the bid of the
steel corporation was the lowest. Four
thousand men were now employed by the
corporation in manufacturing steel for ex
port and 15,000 more in making the steel
sold to manufacturers of goods sent abroad
for sale, the latter amounting to $30,000,-
000.
“We do, correspondence from our office
in every language,” said the witness, “in
English, French, German, Russian. Chi
nese, Japanese and Hindustani. We
have to get the business. Our office is an
encyclopedia for American manufacturers
on trade conditions in foreign countries
and we often lend them our salesmen to
do their business for them.”
How Cotton Crop Was Saved.
The United States steel corporation as
an industrial benefactor was the subject
Tuesday of testimouy of Mr Farrell,
its president, in the hearing of the govern
ment suit at. New York to dissolve the cor
poration under the Sherman antitrust law.
It was Mr Farrell’s second day on the
stand as a witness for the defense. He
said that the steel corporation used its
enormous stocks of pig tin to prevent spec
ulators from cornering the'commodity and
sold it to its competitors at coSt when
attempts to corner it caused a scatcity.
Since its organization, lie testified, the
.corporation had raised the wages of itg
employes ,28 per. cent, adding $40,000,000
a year to its payrolls. The average wage
of employes in 1901 was $716.88 per man.
and last year was $856.70 per man. Mr
Farrell gave a clean bill to the American
steel and wire company, ope of the sub
sidiaries of the. corporation, which the •
government alleges is a monopoly ,in it
self. He quoted many figures to show that
of the hundreds of different kinds or wire
products which the company manufactured,
its percentage of-production was less than
half of the country’s, total output and in
one., instance he named a so-called inde
pendent concern as the manufacturer of as
much as 75 per cent of a certain kind.
Answering the charge that owing to “the
community of interest” between the rail
ways and the steel corporation the cor- I
poration was favored over other manufac- ■
Hirers in buying steel, Mr Farrell said it
was the custom of the railroads to get their
supplies from the steel mills nearest their
shops, regardless of woo owned the mill.
The steel corporation, he repeated, had
-made every effort, to push its foreign trade ;
and while the corporation had . been able i
to secure higher prices for Its export i
prbducW.’ prices to'domestic consumers had j
grown cheaper. He' added that the foreign ,
‘business of the corporation was now being •
threatened by ’ new steel, plants in Aus-i
ttaKh, which could mine and assemble raw
materiar ahd, uiarittfnctftte steel--at a lower
cost than the corporation.
Mr Farrell pictured the corporation as
an industrial benefactor. As an example,
he said, that were it not for the policy
of the corpwition "to do a general busi
ness regardless of conditions," the cotton
crop of the United States this year Could
not be marketed. He explained that the
corporation supplied practically all the cot
ton ties used for binding cotton baled in
this country, and that there was no profit
in their manufacture. "Our competitors.”
he said, "have shown nn desire to manu
facture cotton ties, so it devolved upon
us to supply the demand. It is not an at
tractive business, bnt last year we sup
plied the compress men in the .South with
1,000,000 bundles nt 85 cents a bundle.
If we should stop manufacture, the cotton
crop this year would lie on the ground.
"The government at the time of the
recent floods.” he continued, “needed steel
piling to strengthen the levee at New Or
leans. We got a rush order for 515 tons
on Thursday, and in spite of the fact that
we were very busy, we delivered it on
the next Tuesday. 86 hours before the high
waters arrived. We always give prefer
ence to government work.”
The cost of steel production in America
was greater than in European countries.
Mr- Farrell testified. He said the wages
paid abroad were 37 per cent to 38 per
cent less than here, freight rates were
lower, and shipping facilities for export
trade better. Pig-iron could be manufac
tured in India and laid down in Calcutta
at $5.88 a ton. he added, and there was
at present on the way in a sailing vessel
from that port to San Francisco the first
cargo of Indian pig-iron ever brought to
this country. The freight was $5.50 a
ton and, under the new tariff, the duty
is 11 cents. Thus the pig-iron would be
laid down in San Francisco at a cost of
about $11.50. Chinese pig-iron could be
laid down in San Francisco under the
new tariff for $10.78. The present mar
ket price for pig-iron on the Pacific coast
is $21.50.
MISSOURI TO KEEP COMPANIES.
Suita Against Insurance. Concerns
Will Be Dismissed it They Accept
Advice of Counsel.
Judge Thomas Bates of Chicago, attor
ney for the fire insurance companies which
had threatened to withdraw from Mis
souri as a result of the recently enacted
antitrust law, will advise the companies
to remain in the state, and Attorney-Gen
eral Barker will then dismiss the suits
filed against them. This was the under
standing reached at Jefferson City Thurs
day after conferences between Judge
Bates. Gov Major. Attorney-General Bar
ker. Superintendent of Insurance Revelle
and former Gov Joseph W Folk, repre
senting St Louis business interests.
The following statement was given out
Thursday night by the attorney-general: "I
have just written Paul Jones, chairman
of the business men’s league of St Louis,
a letter which I hope will settle the insur
ance situation in this state. I told him,
as I have always said, that the compa
nies could safely transact business in Mis
souri and if they do not continue under
this law it will be apparent that they are
simply acting in a retaliatory spirit. I
believe all of the companies will now re
turn to Missouri.”
In his letter to Paul Jones, Attorney-
General Barker said: “I am willing to
notify the insurance agents throughout the
state and the public that actuary bureaus
may be established and that the mere fact
that any two companies or more use the
same rate or rate sheet is no violation of
the law. All prosecuting attorneys of the
state will be notified to the same effect
and instructed that no prosecution shall
be instituted against the companies on
this account, and if any prosecution is in
stituted contrary to my opinion I will di
rect a dismissal of the same.” The com
panies must return jo the state before the
case in the supreme court is submitted
by Attorney-General Barker, which will be
in 20 days. । q ■ ■
TO ADMIT WOOD PULP FREE.
Customs Court txtends Canadian
Agreement to Other Foreign Countries
The customs court Monday decided that
European nations are entitled to the free
entry of wood pulp and paper under the
“most favored nation clause" of their
commercial treaties with the United
States because the free entry privilege is
granted to Canada under the only opera
tive clause of the Canadian reciprocity
agreement. The court also held that
the treasury department had placed a cor
rect interpretation upon the Canadian reci
procity act by immediately admitting wood
pulp and paper free without reciprocal
action by Canada. Dissenting opinions
were delivered.
Norway, Russia, Austria-Hungary and
Germany claimed the right of free entry
of wood pulp and paper from their re
spective countries. Former President Taft
declined to grant the request and referred
tile question to the courts. It cannot be
stated whether the treasury department
or the department of justice will appeal
the case to the supreme court. It has
been the attitude of the government to
oppose all appeals from the customs court,
because the act creating the court says the
decisions of the customs court shall be
final. The fact that the question involves
the interpretation of treaties may cause
the government to .appeal.
REHEARING FOR STANDARD OIL.
Sugar Creek (Mo.) Citizens Grieved
at Prospect of Losing Jobs.
The Missouri supreme court at Jefferson
City, Mo., Saturday granted a rehearing
in the ouster proceedings against the
Standard oil company of Indiana and ap
pointed John Montgomery of Sedalia, com
missioner to take testimony as to the good
faith of the company in severing its con
nection with any trusts. The court also
made an order suspending the writ of
ouster against the company.
RUMORS ABOUT NEW HAVEN.
Denial Made That Pennsylvania Is
Buying the Mellen Organization.
According to a Boston News Bureau dis
patch from New York: “Reports that
Pennsylvania railroad is seeking control of
New Haven and has bought about 50.000
shares of New Haven stock in New York
and Boston during the past three weeks,
through Kuhn, Loeb & Co, are declared to
be without foundation.”
CHANCE FOR JOB HARRIMAN.
Error Discovered in Los Angeles Pri
mary That May Restore Socialist
Candidate to the Ticket,
A mistake in vote counting, discovered
Thursday, may change the political situa
tion at Ix>s Angeles, Cal., in connection
with the mayoralty election next month.
At the primaries last Tuesday John
Schenk, progressive candidate, and 11. H.
Rose, independent, obtained places on the
ticket, while Job Harriman, socialist, was
eliminated. The recount Thursday un
covered an instance where Rose had been
given 932 votes which should have been
credited to Harriman. As Rose’s vote by
precincts was 21.137 and Harriman’s 20.-
353. Thursday’s increase for Harriman, if
. not offset in the entire official recount,
will give the socialist a place on the ticket
NO TAX ON MARTIN ESTATE.
Although Bradley Martin, the millionaire
society man who died in England. Febru
ary 5, left an estate in New York city
valued at $1,275,000, nothing therein is
taxable under the inheritance laws, ac
cording to the official report of the ap-
praiser filed at Now York Thursday. The I
entire estate in New York consisted of ,
stocks and bonds in railroad and trust '
companies. The value of Mr Martin's ;
property in England was not stated, but it
was said the entire estate would ag
gregate at least $8,000,000.
RED FLAG MAY FLY IN OHIO.
Nobody Claims Reward Offered by
Socialists in East Liverpool.
The red flag of the socialist organization
may fly in East Liverpool or any other ;
town in Ohio, according to the opinion of
Attorney-General Hogan, delivered to City :
Solicitor Benjamin Bennett at East Liv
erpool Thursday and by him transmitted
to Mayor R. .1. Marshall, under whose
order the flag was removed several days
ago. The socialists replaced the flag and
when the news of the decision reached
East Liverpool some person climbed to the
roof of the building from which it was
flying and smeared it with black ink. The
socialists immediately offered a reward for
the name of the man, but no one came
forward with the information, although
the act was witnessed, it was alleged, by !
many persons.
MONEY AND BUSINESS.
COTTON INDUSTRY AND BUSINESS.
The shut-down of the seven large cotton
mills of the Fall River Iron Works in Fall
River added to the depressing influences
current in business in this part of the
country—for it is necessary to point out
that confidence is increasing, if anything,
in that large section which is close to the
harvests and which is impressed by the
present brilliant crop outlook. These
Fall River mills make coarse goods to be
converted into “prints,” and results that
have already materialized from the an
nouncement of the shut-down command
attention, in view of their possible bearing
upon the general business situation. The
announcement by the Bordens came last
Monday. It was an unexpected happen
ing, inasmuch as stocks of goods being
carried by the mills were known to be
low. The finished stocks of prints carried
by the American printing company, the
concern connected with the Iron Works
mills, were only about one-fourth what
they were three years ago, when the last
suspension of production took place. And
this condition was known to the buyers
of print goods.
What happened as the immediate conse
quence of the shut-down of the cotton
mills that feed the American printing
company’s plants was that the demand
for prints became more active, although
the printing company’s plants can con
tinue running on old orders for months to
come. Knowing that there were in stock
only 750,000 pieces of all kinds of print
cloth, only a two-weeks’ output when all
mills are running, buyers saw at once
that with curtailment in production on the
program, they could not meet the demands
of the consumer. At the end of the week
a leading trade journal stated that prices
had stiffened on the buying of 500,000
pieces for printing purposes by inde
pendent converters, and that the dry goods
markets were “in a better condition" at
the end of the week than at the beginning.
If the Bordens had announced the shut
down to test the market, or to smoke out
buyers who have been using the tariff re
vision to force down prices, they could not
have succeeded better. The special value
of the demonstration is that the low stocks
of goods on hand cannot be ignored in
any estimate of the situation. And what
is true of the cotton goods industry is
kuown to be true of most other manu
facturing industries, notably in the line of
textiles. There has been no overproduc
tion in recent years and curtailment to
any extent in these industries must evi
dently exhaust very quickly the stocks on
hand and leave the supply inadequate to
the demands of 100,000,000 Americans,
not to mention the requirements of the ex
port trade.
The shut-down of the Borden mills in
Fall River may or may not be followed
by other curtailments. The Bordens have
long played a lone hand in the mill busi
ness. The shortage of operatives in Fall
River was so serious, with summer coming
on, that mans’ of the Borden "help” may
be taken into other factories. Whether
bottom prices have been reached in the
cotton industry remains, of course, to be
seen. It would seem to some observers
that all possible harm from tariff revision
had been discounted. The present prices
of mill securities are very low, reflecting
the indisposition of investors to carry
them until more stable conditions had been
reached. But it is to be remembered that
these low prices of mill shares reflect a
prolonged decline covering several years.
Very little of it has come since February
1 of the present year, a date prior to the
publication of the cotton schedule of the
Underwood bill. The following shows
prices of the shares of four Fall River
mills which have suffered most, perhaps,
in four different periods:—
Price. Feb. 1, Feb. 1, Present
Fall River Mills. 1009. 1912. 1913. price.
American Linen . .125 86 81 75
Border City 155 120 lOS 105
Hargraves 1321$ 95 60 00
Parker 125 95 70 65
These market quotations of mill shares
show distinctly that the great decline in
values took place between 1909 and Feb
ruary 1, 1912. A year ago the cotton
industry began to emerge from a severe
depression. One of the best features of
the present situation in the industry is
that stocks are so low, while the coun
try’s consuming power increases with the
growth of population every year.
Special attention is deserved by the tex
tile industry because it appears to be
more depressed than any other. The iron
and steel trade remains in better shape.
The Iron Age sums up present conditions,
saying:—
While unfavorable conditions concerning
the business outlook have increased, the
steel trade shows continued resistance to
such sentiment. A canvass has been made
of a number of large companies to locate
suspensions of deliveries or cancelations
of orders, but none were reported. What
is missed, that was a marked feature last
year, is the cumulative effect of large con
tracts for delivery six to nine months
ahead.
This is confirmed by Saturday's monthly
report of the unfilled orders of the United
States steel corporation, the decrease dur- .
ing April amounting to 490,000 tons. The ;
unfilled orders now on the books, how
ever, are 1.314,000 tons greater than at
this time last year. Steel mills continue
running at capacity, but the orders for
far-away deliveries are shrinking. At the
same time, the daily production of iron
for April surpassed all records except
for February last. Railroad earnings con
tinue to show improvement over a year
ago. the gross for April of 45 leading
systems showing an increase of per
cent. The railroads, however, have
stopped placing orders for equipment ;
with the steel companies, to a con
siderable degree, owing to money mar
ket conditions, and this accounts meas
urably for the steel trust’s shrinkage
orders for future delivery. Now huildinv
goes on at a high rate, April expendi
tures outside of the city of New York
showing a gain of 8 per cent in 114 cities.
The reaction in building in New York ac
counts for the decrease of 4 per cent for ;
all combined. The real estate situation in
New York now shows the depressing es- I
feets of much overbuilding and the gen
eral cutting off of funds for mortgage in- t
vestment by the banks and capitalists gen
erally.
Judged by bank clearings last week,
there is no appreciable amount of busi
ness depression in the country as a whole.
Bradstreet’s returns for the week ending
Thursday show an increase of 12 per
cent over the week before and a frac
tion of 1 per cent orer 1912. The Finan
cial Chronicle's estimate for the week end
ing with Saturday is a decline of 7.8 per
cent over the year before. The estimate
of Dun's for the same period is a decline
of 0.7 per cent and an increase of 15.5
per f-ent over 1911. The truth is that
there is an immense volume of business ■
actually being transacted and that the de
pression manifested is still based on
prospective happenings. The week was
notable for a glowing crop report by the
government: the number of idle freight
ears decreased; and copper returns for
April showed a decrease in the surplus of
28.720.000 pounds. Immigration is in
creasing. The foreign situation was great
ly improved by the final abandonment of
jfontenegro's claims to Scutari.
On the other hand, there are various
factors that continue to depress the sit
uation. Exports of gold were resumed to
the amount of $6,000,000. owing to the
exigent demands of Paris, which is prepar
ing for a heavy government loan. The
investment markets remain ranch as they
were. The New York banks gained near
ly $4,000,000 in excess reserve by reduc
ing loans $17,000,000. The New Haven
railroad situation and the entangled con
dition of the Union and Southern Pacifies
cause uneasiness that is reflected in bear
raids in the stock market. Stock specu
lation is nil. outside of the operations of
the short interest.
SMALT, SALES OF MANY STOCKS.
No Features In Boston Market —Bos-
ton and Maine Short-Time Notes.
There is very little change in the Boston
money market, which is extremely dull.
Boston banks are practically out of the
market for long-time loans, and are not
very eager even for short maturities.
Following are the opening, highest, lowest
and last sales at the board Tuesday:—
Bonds.
Last
Open. High. Low. sale
Am Tel & Tel 4’s 87% 87% 87% 87%
C J & 8 Y 4'«. 1940 80 80 80 80
KCF 8& M 6’s 1«8% 108% 108% l( »%
Mass Gas 4% s, '3l 94 94 94 94
N E Cot Yarn s's 90 90 80
N E Tel s's. 1932 101% 101% 101% 101%
NYNH&Hcv6’s 119 119 119 119
Stocks.
Ahmeek 300 300 300 300
Alaska Gold 11 11% 10% 10%
Am Agri Chern pr 93% 93% 93% 93%
Amalgamated 74% 75% 74% 75%
Am Pneu 82d pr 18% 18% 18 18
Am Sugar Ref 109 110 109 110
do preferred 111% 112 111% 112
Am Tel & Tel 127% 128% 127% 128%
Am Woolen pr 75% 76 75% 76
Ara Zinc L& Sm 22% 23 22 23
Anaconda 38 38 38 38
Arizona Com'! 3% 3% 3% 3%
Boston & Albany 195 195 195 195
Boston & Corbin 1% 1% 1% 1%
Boston Elevated 90 91 90 91
.Boston A Maine 56 57% 56 57%
Butte-Ballaklava 2% 2% 2% 2%
Butte Superior 27% 28 27% 27%
Calumet A- Arizona 64 64 63% 63%
Calumet & Hecla 455 455 455 455
Centennial 12% 12% 12% 12%
Chino 39% 39% 39% 39%
Copper Range 43 43% 43 43%
Daly-West 2% 2% 2% 2%
East Butte 11% 12 11% 12
Bdison Electric 267 267 267 267
Fitchburg pr 101 101 100% 100%
Franklin 5% 5% 5% 5%
Ga Ry A Elec pr 84% 84% 84% 84%
General Electric 138 138 137% 138
Giroux 2 2 2 2
Granby Cons'd 63 63 62% 63
Greene-Cananea 6% 6% 6% 6%
Hancock 19 19% 19 19%
Island Creek Coal 47% 47% 46% 46%
Kerr Lake 3% 3% 3% 3%
Keweenaw 1% 1% 1% 1%
Lake Copper 12% 12% 12% 12%
Maine Central 101 101 101 101
Mason Valley 6% 6% 6% 6%
Mass Electric pr 73 73% 73 73
Mass Gas 89% 90 89% 89%
do preferred 89% 89% 89% 89%
Mohawk 51 51 50 50
Niplsslng 8% 8% *% 8%
North Butte . 28% 28% 28% 28%
North Lake 1111
N YNH A H 103% 104% 103% 104%
Old Colony 4% 4% 4% 4%
Old Dominion 47 47 47 47
Osceola 85 85 85 85
Pennsylvania rta .53 .53 .51 .51
tPond Creek Coal 19% 19% 19 19
do rights .60 .60 .56 .57
Pullman Co 154 154 153% 153%
Ray Cons’d 18 18 18 IS
Reece Buttonhole 15 15 15 15
Santa Fe 1% 1% 1% 1%
Shannon 8% 8% 8% 8%
Shattuck Arizona 24 24 24 24
Superior & Boston 3% 3% 3% 3%
Superior Copper 27 27% 27 27%
Swift ACo 104% 105 I<H% 105
Tamarack 27 28 27 28
Torrlngtoti 27% 27% 27% 27%
Trinity 3% 3% 3% 3%
United Fruit 154% 156 154 156 ’
United Shoe Mach 48 48% 47% 47%
do preferred 27% 27% 27% 27%
US Sm Ref A M 39% 39% 39 39
do preferred 46% 46% 4R% 46%
U 8 Steel 59 60% 58% 60%
do preferred 105% 105% 105% 105%
Utah-Apex 1% 1% 1% 1%
Utah Cons'd 7% 7% 7% 7%
Utah Copper 51% 51% 51% 51%
Wolverine 51 51% 51 51
tEx-rights.
Local Provision Market.
MEATS.
Bacon 20g25 Sausages (pkg)
Sliced bacon 30@38 22@27@32®23
Lard 12^18 Sausage meat (lb) 20
Pork— Frankforts 18
FTeah 16@18 Bologna 18
Salt 1&U1S Hama sliced SOr^SS
Roasts 2202$ Tongue 25028
Chops 20023g25 Tripe BQI2
Lamb— “ honey combed
Lep, 23®2» 10312
• " conarterz 25 Mntton—
Forequarters 14 Forequarters 10015
Chops 30540 Legs 18620
Beef- Calf s liver 35
Round 25035 Veal-
Rump 35^40 Steak 35038
Porterhouse ' Cutlet 35038
35040045 Roast 18025
Chuck 14016 Chops 25023
Hamburg 15025 carters 14020
Roast 25028 Fowl 25021
Srort 28032 Chicken 28030
Corned (lb) 8022 Philadelphia do 32035
Corned pressed Western broilers 25030
30035 Native broilers 33035
Dried 35040 Squabs (pair! 120
Smoked 35@40 Pigeons (pair) 50
Liver 14 Capons 85040
Suet 10 Turxeys 28030035
Smoked shoulders 15 Spring ducks 30035
Hams 22025’
GROCERIES.
Buttat— Pickles (qt) 30g40@»
Tnb (new) 82086 Vinegar (gab 204-8)
Creamery 42 Sugar—
Butterilia 95080 Granulated (IS
INDIVIDUAL COUPON ROOMS
RENTERS of Safe Deposit Boxes in our im
pregnable, fireproof vault have the use of
individual coupon rooms, so that they may
examine their papers and securities in privacy
and without disturbance. It is the aim of this
bank to provide every convenience and comfort
for its patrons.
Union Trust Company
“Springfield’s Leading Commercial Bank’’
Cheese— to 201 LOO
New 24 Brown (17) 1.00
Old 28 -.ftW 100
8 is« 38 Powdered (12) 1.00
Edam (each! Molasses laali P. R. 65
10031.25 Maple sirup (gal) 1.50
Sage 33 Eggs (dozen) (local)
Rcqnefort 48 20035
GRAIN AND FLOVB
Whaat— Cats (bn) new 47
5- 1 white (cwt) Corn—
-202 20 West(cwt) 13501.40
Bran (cwt) 1.300140 Northern (hut 1.00
.Middlings (rwt.> 1.45 Hay tailed (ton) 23025
Ry- ed (cwt) .Strew (cwt) 1.20
„ > 5001.60 . ..,| oil meal 2.M
Mixed feed tcwt) - :>seedmeal 1.75
1.3501 41 Flour-
Gluten (cwt) 1.6501 7<i St Louis 00025
„ “hi 304 Haxatl 5.75
-ornmeal (cwt) Graham 5.75
13501.40 Entire wheat (Tb) 4
VEGETABLES AND FRUIT.
French endive 350.4<>Greeen st. beans (qt)
Bench beets 10015 15
Bunch carrots 10015 Dandelions (pk) 35
Bunch Turnips 15 Pineapples 10030
Green Peas iqn 10 pineapples (doz)
Hothouse tomatoes 1.1002.50
. . 40 Strawberries 1502$
<»rape,ru:t letch? Parsley (bnneb) 5010
8050015 Cabbage (lb) new 5
Apples— i plant 'each)
Baldwin (pk) 40065 15030
(bari el 3.0003.<0 r tnce 8010
Russett (pk) 40050 Celery ibunchi 12030
(barrel) Oran^s-Callfornla
Cranberries (qt) 17 (dozen) 40075
25 Florida 40080
Kut^k) £ Onl ™«
Sweet potatoes (4) Bermuda Ob) 10
'"•i . . 25 Green peppers (each)
New potatoes (pk) 75 5
Asparagus (bnnchi Bananas 20025
„ , 10040 bananas 30080
Hot-house cucumbers Elga 20015
10015 nates (lb) 12014
Wax Beans (qti 15 Mixed nuts 15022
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W. J. MACKAY, Secretary.
PRIOLEAU ELLIS. Ass’t Sec’y.
E. H. HILDRETH, Ass’t Sec’y.
GEO. G. BULKLEY, Ass’t Sec’y.
F. H. WILLIAMS. Treasurer.
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