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COUNTY LEAGUE DATA
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WORK AT 16 ACRES SCHOOL
A WIDE RANGE OF ACTIVITIES
Timely Hints on General Agriculture
—Why and How to Fight
Various Insects.
The Sixteen Acres school is located
5*4 miles from Court square in Spring
field and is strictly a rural community.
There are two teachers, Miss M. E. Co
burn, who has been there for 10 years,
and Miss I. B. Ingraham, who has been
there for six years. Together they have
40 pupils, 17 in one room and 23 in the
other. This school, through the efficient
leadership of the teachers, has been able
to interest the boys and girls not only
in play and recreation and regular school
work, but. also in agriculture, Nature
study and commuinty building. Through
practical work in agriculture, home mak
ing, public activity and recreation, these
boys and girls have become so deeply in
terested in rural life that there has been
created a spirit of satisfaction and pride
in their community, a determination to
improve the homes and surroundings as
well as the school. Instead of being dis
contented with rural life, as so many of
the boys and girls in country communities
are, they are beginning to realise the pos
sibilities that are lying at hand,—the op
portunity of making money and enjoying
life in the open country, of making a
rural community satisfying from a rec
reational and social point of view as well.
Activities cl the Sixteen Acres School.
To interest the boys and girls in agricul
ture. the teachers are carrying on some
of this work right on the school grounds,
where they have been setting out about
60 plants and shrubs, building a lawn and
making flower gardens. The children are
taught how to take care of the grounds.
They are divided into squads, some hav
ing charge of the watering of the shrubs,
vines and flowers, others having had
charge of the making of the walks and
keeping them in repair, and others keep
ing the grounds free from refuse of all
kinds and making everything neat and
tidy. They also make a study of soils
and their treatment, insecticides, fungi
cides, fertilizers, sprays and mixtures, the
economic value of birds, the keeping of ac
counts. farm management, the keeping of
home gardens for raising and selling vege
tables, and now, through the Hampden
county volunteers, some have taken up
the larger area plots.
The school has also called in the advisers
of the league to assist them in this work,
to give practical demonstrations in plant
ing of trees and on fertilizers. The
pupils have gone to near-by places to
hear such men as Prof Graham on poultry.
In connection with the housekeeping the
pupils take up certain phases at school
and also at home. At school they wash the
windows and sink, scrub the floors, do the
dusting, take charge of the desk arrange
ments. care for the plants, care for the
telephone, study the circulation of fresh
air, care for and inspect the toilets, ring
the signals set lights of glass, and the
like. At home they are taught cooking
and sewing, are made to feel responsible
for one definite thing each day, take up
household economics and are affiliated with
the home-making department of the
Hampden county volunteers.
The health committee cares for the cor
rect posture of the pupils, considers the
care of the personal appearance, studies
first aid and emergencies, prevention of
diseases such as tuberculosis and other
contagious diseases, dietetics, the care ‘of
the teeth and how to preserve them. The
children also make a general study of dis
ease carriers and their extermination. The
children are taught the setting up of ap
paratus, the making of light apparatus,
and the construction of various articles
such as window boxes, match scratchers,
wooden picture frames. Also they take
up some of the arts and crafts activ
ities,—calendar work and other drawing.
The school has laid much emphasis on
play and recreation, as every country com
munity should. They enjoy baseball, foot
ball, basketball, field-day events, folk
dancing and marching, and have reached
quite a degree of proficiency in the folk
dances. All the athletics are directed not
Only to develop healthy and vigorous
bodies, but also grace and heauty of
form and movement. They conduct dra
matics and have had some outdoor drama
tization.
It is interesting to note that the boys
and girls belong to the Band of Mercy
and make a special feature of the study
of birds and animals and kindness to ani
mals, They write themes upon such sub
jects as “How to make the country a bet
ter place to live in,’’ “What we owe to the
animals.” “The school a powerful com
munity helper,” “Don’ts in the care of ani
mals,” “How to make money on the
farm,” “Forestry.” “The care of poultry.”
The teachers read the Monday articles
as published by the Hampden county im
provement league and in every way try to
tie up the boys and girls with the larger
activities of the home, farm and com
munity.
The following is an essay written by one
of the pupils:—
How to Make the Country a Better
Place to Live In.
You can raise all kinds of things In the
country. Raising vegetables, poultry, and
frntt is profitable if done rightly. One could
make more money that way than working in
the «hop and it would be more healthful. If
you raise apples you must spray the trees
as they have enemies. If there are dead
trees cut them down, as the insects will go
onto the other trees and kin them too. If
the property Is looking neat and clean It will
be far easier to sell it and more people will
cotne to live, stand for arty movement that
will help the country In any wav. The conn
try feeds the cities and supplies. Men who
are not afraid to work, the country Is by far
the best place to live la. People live longer
there. One can enjoy the birds and all the
little animals tn the country.
The sparrows chatter and giggle in ever little
pOO t ,
They make me think of a parcel of girls on
their way home from school;
And the robins hunt In the plowed ground
for worms they know are there.
And the larks. ( though yon can’t see them
are signing everywhere.
The city Is like a big cage to live in. If
policeman gru-mbies.
You musn t walk there!”
The school boys and girls also get up
Friday entertainments once every three
weeks. Each time a division has charge
and entertains the whole school. These
smaller entertainments lead up to com
munity entertainments. The children
raised $45 for a grafanola by selling candy,
calendars, plants and seeds. This instru
ment enables them to study music in a
more fundamental way, so that through
theme study they learn to distinguish
oratorios and grand operas, and also the
rhythm in different kinds of music. The
grafanola also is a greet aid in the recrea
tion.
All these activities are in no way al
lowed to interfere with the regular school
work. In fact they reinforce and make
more effective the scheduled' studies. Es
says written about live topics that con
cern the boys and girls and the commun
ity vitally afford the best kind of training
in English composition. A rural arith
metic teaches them mathematics much
more effectively than abstract problems.
The enthusiasm and inspiration that are
kindled in the hearts and minds of the
boys and girls in such a community creates
a high degree of efficiency in scholarship
as well as a new psychological attitude
toward the home, school and conimunitj.
One of the important factors in the suc
cess of this school is the fact that the
teachers have been there a long time and
that the teachers do not run away from
the community when through with the
routine work, but take a lively and actite
interest not only in the school grounds
and buildings, but in the homes, farms
and the community itself. Such teachers
with the co-operation of the parents can
make such work as that of the Hampden
county volunteers eminently worth while.
Rooster Day Very Sncceaafnl.
Rooster day, the 6th, was very success
ful In that probably hundreds of roosters
were killed in Hampden county. The
league advisers in traveling over the coun
ty the past week have been surprised to
see the wav the farmers have taken to
the idea of Rooster day. and the prin
ciples which the day was meant to teach.
Consumers in the city are asking for infer
tile eggs because they realize these eggs
keep better than fertile eggs. By creat
ing a demand for infertile eggs, they are
helping the cause because farmers will try
to supply them where there is a demand.
Many farmers killed off their roosters be
fore Rooster day, while many others are
killing them off from time to time because
they realize they are not as important as
they formerly thought. Rooster day did
more to educate the farmers to this fact
and also to educate consumers to the value
of infertile eggs than anything else for
years. The Rural New Yorker says edi
torially. "Every day should be rooster
day. Make them into pie.”
RAISING THE ONION CROP.
The Condition Attending; It Tn the
Vicinity of Amherst.
From Our Special Correspondent.
Amhebst, Saturday, June 13.
Amherst is situated on the edge of the
fourth most important commercial onion
growing district in the country,, and prob
ably in the world. In the Northampton
meadows, Hadley, North Hadley, the
northwestern part of Amherst, Sunder
land, Deerfield, Whately and Hatfield,
there are this year about 700 acres of
growing onions. There were last year in
this district produced on a slightly smaller
acreage about 3,000,000 bushels, which
were sold for about an equal number of
dollars. It requires some observation and
reflection for one to even begin to imagine
the tremendous amount of labor involved
in growing this crop. In the first place,
the. land must be plowed, pulverized with
various forms of harrows, rolled and lev
eled with the utmost nicety. The seed
arc sown by a hand machine with con
siderable speed, but a great deal of hard,
slow work is involved in the pulling, top
ping, screening and bagging the crop. It
is, however, the weeding, which is now at
its hight, that takes a stupendous amount
of labor. Frequently, especially after a
wet spring, when the land has been hard
ened by heavy rains and the weeds are
thick, progress is slow indeed. It often
takes a good weeder an hour to weed 300
feet. Onion rows are usually sown 12 or
13 inches apart. When sown a foot apart
there are in an acre 43,500 lineal feet of
rows, or 8% miles. Usually an onion crop
has to be weeded from four to five times.
Accordingly in weeding an acre of
onions an average distance of about eight
miles must be traversed. Moreover, each
acre must be weeded at least four or five
rimes during the season, and frequently
some places many more. It is therefore a
conservative assumption to state that each
acre must be gone over on an average of
4% times, or a distance of 36 miles. In weed
ing the crop of the valley, then, a dis
tance of oyer 25,000 miles must be
crawled, or more than eight times across
the continent and more than once around
the world.
The onion weeders observe the eight
hour day—Oh, yes! Eight hours in the
forenoon and eight hours in the afternoon,
and sometimes an hours or two extra.
From daylight to dusk, men, women and
children are slowly crawling on their
hands and knees across the onion plains,
and with their thumbs and fingertips loos
ening the dirt and pulling the grass and
weeds that the onions may live.
Who is doing this work? The Yankee
farmers? No; they never in their own
estimation stoop so low. The children
of the Irish immigrants? Never; you can
rarely catch one of them breaking the
nine-hour law, and moreover, they don’t
have to weed onions. They say, “Let the
Polacks weed the onions,” and the Poles
and Lithuanians are weeding the onions
and reaping the reward, which, with
favorable weather and market conditions,
is usually a generous one. A family of
Poles will save during the summer months
by growing a crop of onions more than the
average journeyman will earn in a year,
and they are the people that a generation
or two hence will literally own the earth,
or at least the greater part of it in and
near the onion section of the Connecticut
valley.
LEADERS ALL LEGHORNS.
Thirteen Flrat Pena in Storrs Contest
Belong; to the White Bred.
The total number of eggs laid during the
31st week of the third international egg
laying contest at Storrs. Ct., was 3440. The
Leghorns took the first 13 places for the
week. The leading pen for the week was
a pen owned by A. B. Hall of Walling
ford, Ct., which laid 60 eggs. There were
four pens that tied for second place, lay
ing 57 eggs. They were owned by the Glen
view poultry farm of Rockville, Ct.,
Charles N. St John of Greene, N. Y., Mrs
K. E. Woodruff of New Haven, Ct, and
P. G. Platt of Wallingford. There were
three pens that tied for third place for
the week with a score of 56 eggs. They
were owned by Thome; W. Moore of Cen
tral Village, Ct, Charles Heigl of Rocky
River, 0., and George A. Cosgrove of West
Willington, Ct. The English Leghorns fell
off In their score this week, only produc
ing 53 eggs.
The ribbon winners for May have been
announced. The blue ribbon goes to Tom
Barron of Catforth, Eng., whose single-com
white Leghorns laid 258 eggs. Second
Erize was won by a pen of single-comb buffi
leghorns owned by the Wolverine poultry
farm of Grand Rapids, Mich This pen
produced 552 eggs. There were two pens
that tied for third place, with a score of 242
eggs, these belonging to Mrs K E. Wood
ruff of New Haven, Ct., and Manwood poul
try farm of Butler, Pa. Both were single
comb white Leghorns, '..here were 10 pens
in all that produced more eggs than ths
winning pen of t^ae previous month.
The 10 leading pens to date are as fol
lows :—
Tom Barron of Catforth, Eng., white
Wyandottes. 1305; Francis F. Lincoln of
Mount Carmel. Ct„ single comb white Leg
horns. 1'200; Neale Bros of Apponaug, R. 1.
white Wyandot tvs. 1128; Merrythought farni
of Columbia, Ct., white Wyandottes. HIT;
Tom Barron of Catforth, Eng., single comb
white Leghores, 1031; Cecil Guernsey of
East Cobleskill, N. Y.. single comb white
Leghorns, 1033; Dr J. A. Fritchey of Harris
burg, Pa., single comb Rhode Island Red*.
1013; A. B. Brunday of Danbury. Ct., single
comb Rhode Island Reds. 1008; Marwood
poultry farm of Butler. Pa., single comb
white leghorns. 083: Jules F. Francis of
West Hampton, L. 1., barred Plymouth
Rocks, 070
VACATION PHILOSOPHY.
[From the Indianapolis News.]
Do not spend more money than you can
readily afford to spend. No benefit ac
crues from trying to squeeze a hundred
dollar vacation out of a SSO appropria
tion. It is far better, on the contrary, to
take a $25 vacation with your SSO allow
ance. You will enjoy it more, because you
will not be harassed and nagged by the
fear of lack of means or by' the
necessity of counting every cent and of
THE SPRINGFIELD WEEKLY REPUBLICAN: THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1914.
getting the utmost out of every nickel, i
some persons, perhaps, may not mind this
sort of mental lahor with its attendant
worry, hut most of us do. We invariably
discount it, however, before the vacation
is begun only to regret it as soon as we
we are started. And the secret of the art
of getting the most out of vacation lies In
foreseeing this regret and forestalling it—
in having not only barely enough money.
Hut more than enough to do what you
plan to do. It is better to take a trolly
ride and come home solvent than to jour
ney to the seaside and pawn your watch
to get back. Vacations ought to afford
freedom from vexation and not merely re
sult in changing a familiar care.
TWO SIDES TO ECONOMY ISSUE
THE GROWTH OF PUBLIC NEEDS
Cases of the Great State Institutions
and Hmmune Care tor Their Inmates
—How Far Shall Political Consider
ations Welsh In the Scale t—Some
Interesting Points About Col Goet
tlng, Speaker Cashing and Other
Political Candidates, Especlally
Western.
From Our Special Correspondent.
Boston, Saturday, June 13.
Representative “Tom” White of New
ton, the big chairman of the House com
mittee on ways and means, who has to
do. as a matter of duty and not of egotism,
as much speaking at this stage of the ses
sion as several other members put to
gether, has said several times that re
publicans are backing up GOv Walsh in
his economy program, while it is the dem
ocrats who are preventing him from keep
ing down the state tax. This week it
has been particularly evident that the
economy program is being carried out.
The ways and means committee has re
ported against a lot of appropriation bills
relating to our state charitable institu
tions. In addition, they have cut out
certain other recommendations of the
committee on public institutions. One of
these, it will be remembered, was the ap
propriation of $20,000 for land for a
colony of the Northampton state hospital
which had been reported favorably by
the committee on publie charitable in
stitutions. Representative Warner of
Northampton, Supported by Mr Hall of
Pittsfield, did his best to save the item,
but they could do nothing against the
sweep of the current which has set in
for cutting down the appropriations. It
has reached the point now where the pre
diction is made that the state tax will
not exceed the $8,000,000 state tax of
last year. Democratic members of the
House are talking it freely among out
siders that the governor will ha^e the
credit of keeping down the state tax.
As long as the republican leaders and
majority of the House have been fore
most in this effort at state economy and
as the democrats did not fall into line
until Within a few days, honors seem
to be easy, as far as party politics go.
Gov Walsh can point with pride to the
success of his pokey in keeping down the
tax. Republicans can show by the rec
ord that they gave the governor stronger
support than he had in his own party.
Thus the governor will be sure of his re
election as far as it might be risked by
the charge of an extravagant adminis
tration, and the republicans can still pose
as the conservative and safe and yet
progressive party of the state when it
comes to the expenditure of the public
money.
At the same time, it is well, for the
public, which must pass upon these politi
cal plans, to decide how far the admin
istration of the public institutions and
the comfort of the inmates shall be sac
rificed in order to make political capital.
The question is whether it is worth while,
dodging the consequences of the legitimate
growth of the state and the increase of
population, to deny enlargements which
are imperative,, and compel .-present in
mates to endure things which will look
very bad when outside critics hold them
up to stain the name of Massachusetts.
For instance, there was no attempt to
deny the statement that the appropria
tion wanted for the Lyman school for
boys is imperative, that the accommoda
tions were intended for 350 boys, that
450 have been committed and that some,
of them have to sleep on the floor for
lack of better accommodations. But the
House gave a large majority against the
enlargement for the sole reason that it
would break down the economy program
if the bill were passed. If the whole pro
cedure is for the sake of playing poli
tics, it is a fair question how many votes
can be made in the long run by such a
policy, for there is nothing easier than
to stir up a scandal about a public insti
tution if there is any failure to take
humane care of the inmates. If boys at
the Lyman school, or the industrial
school for boys at Shirley, have to sleep
On the floor for a year because the par
ental state of Massachusetts, which is
responsible for their condition and which,
to all the world, stands in loco parentis
to the boys, prefers that they shall sleep
on the floor instead of having beds, it
is quite evident that more votes may be
lost by the bad treatment of the boys
than by the saving on the state tax. A
comparatively small number of persons
pay taxes. Most Of our men voters are
only poll tax payers, but all of them have
hearts to feel for hoys that are not de
cently cared for. This is not an effort
to prejudge the case one way or the
other, but only to call attention to facts
which are just as stubborn as any oth
er facts and which must be considered
when the final round-up for votes is
made. The Worcester state hospital, the
Westboro hospital, the Penikese hospital
and various other public institutions are
on this list.
Some very interesting gossip, from ■well
informed sources, too, is current about
the contest between Col Goetting of
Springfield and Speaker Cushing for the
republican nomination for lieutenant-gov
ernor. The prediction made at this end
of the state ts that Cushing will get the
nomination, but that he will be a load for
the republican party to carry. What
makes this snapper to the prediction is
the statement that Frank J. Batchelder
is working for Cushing's nomination. Now,
it will be remembered, this man is one
of the foremost workers for the old A. F.
A. idea. He. seems to be quite prominent
ly identified in democratic minds with
that undemocratic movement, and there is
thorough contempt by democrats for
Batchelder. But it comes from sources
not democratic that Batchelder is traveling
in an automobile through the eastern part
of the state, working up republican senti
ment for Cushing. It is recalled that it
was thrown at Cushing, at the time of his
successful campaign for the speakership,
that he had this element in his favor. It
is not a popular position to take, to be
an open friend of the old A. P. A. move
ment Nor does it appear that Cushing
has any such open alliance. But it is said
by men who have exceptional reason for
being well informed that this is a part
of the undoubted facts of the day. and
that it will be likely to give Cushing the
lead over Goetting. Furthermore, it would
qot be strange if efforts were made to
harmonize the republican situation by per
suading Goetting that his handsome vote
last year afforded hint a better basis of re
tirement from public life than to ap
pear as a defeated candidate for another
nomination, and that it would be best for
him to harmonize with the latest situation
and eliminate himself. Elimination seems
to be the popular current problem, especial
ly in Huerta's ease, and i* it works so
well abroad, why not try it at home?
Further political information about
western politicians is of local interest.
Representative Chamberlain of Springfield
is mentioned as a certain candidate for
the seat held by Senator Gordon- Cer
tain interest* at. the state-house wonld be
extremely pleased to have Mr Chamber-
! lain elected from the Ist Hampden sena
torial district. His stand upon the bills
। which concern the liquor question, the so
called social uplift movement and.’ in gen
eral the moral reforms of the day is quite
satisfactory. He has been the most fre
quently speaking member of rhe Spring
field delegation, and his record, as shown
by the roll-calls. •is very satiafactorv to
the temperance people. While his stand
ing here may not settle his status at
home many here would be glad to see
bin, promoted.
Other interesting Western Massachusetts
statements here are to the effect that Rep
resentative Cowls of Amherst is a candi
date for the Senate to take the seat now
held by Senator Ward. The locality argu
ment seems to enter into this arrangement,
for it will be remembered that John H.
Schoonmaker of Ware, at the extreme
Hampshire corner of this Franklin-Hamp
shire district, was Ward’s predecessor, and
the locality argument counted something
when he defeated Ward for the nomination.
It is understood that Ward will be a can
didate for the nomination for state treas
urer and that will take him out of the
senatorial contest. It is believed by his
friends here that he can easily defeat
Charles L Butrill of Boston, who is al
ready claiming that he will win. It is
further understood that Cowls will have a
rival in Jobn W. Haigis of Montague, the
rising young member who landed a place
on the railroad committee his first session
and was one of the busy and efficient legis
lators during his long service.
But we hear, furthermore, that Senator
Mack is candidate for Congress to run
against Congressman Treadway, and that
the contest for his senatorial shoes will
come between Representatives Burdick of
Adams and Hall of Pittsfield, with no speci
fication which way the chances lie. Of
course President Coolidge will return for
another term in the chair. Regarding the
2d Hampden senatorial district, the voters
would not feel flattered by what is said
here, for the temperance people fail so com
pletely to get a foothold there that they
say their prospects are hopeless and there
is no use of trying. Senator Boyer of
Southbridge will have a carefully selected
opponent, and at the other end of the
county Senator Sibley is being measured
and reviewed carefully and cautiously to see
whether or not he is a safe man for the
morality people to indorse on his record.
There is much quiet scrutinizing of possible
candidates in progress, and it is not safe
for any politician to have a smell of liq
uor about his breath or clothes.
The Legislature will find two vetoes
awaiting them Monday, which Gov Walsh
has prepared to-day.
PINCHOT WARS ON PERKINS.
He Calls For Progressive Chairman's
Resignation on Ground of Friend
ship For Trusts.
Amos Pinchot made public at New York
last week the text of the confidential let
ter he recently addressed to Theodore
Roosevelt, the members of the progressive
national committee, and other leaders, de
nouncing George W. Perkins, chairman of
the national executive committee, as a men
ace to the party, principally because of his
affiliation with the United States steel corpo
ration and the International harvester com
pany, “two great monopolies which have
succeeded most completely in exploiting ths
public and crushing organized labor.”
The letter opens by declaring that “a sit
uation exists in the progressive party
which must be terminated before it can
command general popular support.” “Ths
situation I refer to,” Mr Pinchot continues
in his letter, “is this: First, an element
in our party leadership, headed by George
W. Perkins, favors the protection of pri
vate monopoly in American industry, and
since the party’s formation has been tak
ing active steps to commit the party to that
policy. Second, the -qhtiirmap of the ex
ecutive committee (sfr jerkins) Is active
ly opposed to recognitiofi^f labor’s right to
organize and deal with capital through la
bor unions, and has frequently gone on
record to this effect.”
Mr Pinchot then goes on to say that the
progressive party has placed itself positive
ly and definitely on record in opposition
to Mr Perkins, and adds that "through
the progressive party’s official bulletin,
through public speeches and interviews, and
in pamphlets, printed as progressive party
literature and distributed from the party's
headquarters in New York and Washing
ton, Mr Perkins has conducted an extensive
protrust propaganda, calculated to con
vince the party and the public that the
trusts are useful and sacred institutions;
that those who attack them are bent upon
the destruction of all healthy industry on
a large scale, and, finally, that the pro
gressive party fully agrees with him in
these views. As a result we have been
placed in a false and fatal position. Our
sincerity has been attacked. Our energy
largely expended in defending ourselves,
ant we are constantly under the embar
rassing necessity of explaining that our
party stands for something directly con
trary to that which the ipokesman and ex
ecutive leade- tands for.”
Mr Pinchot says in his letter that Mr
Perkins's name has been signed to many
resolutions of the steel corporation declar
ing against organization within its plants,
and that “Mr Perkins’s views on the most
critical issues between capital and organ
ized 1-bor coincide closely with those of
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.” In view of all
these facts, Mr Pinchot says, in conclud
ing his letter, the rank and file and the
majority Of the leaders of the party feel
that Mr Perkins's resignation as chairman
of the executive committee is necessary. Mr
Pinchot declares he believes even Mr Per
kins will agree with him that the success
of the party demands such action immedi-
- ”
OCEAN LINERS COLLIDE.
Steamer* New York end Pretoria
Come Together Off Nantucket.
With more than 650 persons on board,
all thankful at having escaped a disaster
similar to that in which the Empress of
Ireland recently was sent to the bottom,
the American liner New York, a gaping
hole in her stem, where the Hamburg-
American liner Pretoria struck her in the
fog off Nantucket early Saturday, reached
New York Sunday. As the steamer
passed Fire Island on her way into port
an impressive service of thanksgiving,
presided over by the Rev Francis E. Clark
of Boston, founder of the Christian en
deavor society, was held. There was
Scarcely a dry eye among the congre
gation while “Nearer My God to Thee"
was being sung in memory of those less
fortunate than the New York's passen
gers in wrecks at sea.
Coming up the bay Sunday afternoon
the wounded liner wore a big tarpaulin
bandage over the gash in her side cut by
the Pretoria's prow and anchor. Although
the hole covers a range of three of the
broad plates of the liner and extends from
her upper works to within 10 feet of the
water line, it was said that repairs would
be made immediately and that the New
York would sail on her regular schedule
for Europe.
That the Pretoria did not strike the
New York at her most vulnerable point—
between the funnel*—was due to the skil
ful handling of the American liner by
Capt Roberts. When he saw that a col
lision was inevitable the captain ordered
his boat full speed astern, and the order
was executed so promptly from a dead
stop that the great ship leaped backward
like a thing alive The German boat had
reversed her engines, but thl* had been
done too late to prevent a crash, and site
struck the New York about 50 feet abaft
the stem. The New York reeled slightly, ,
but recovered her even keel when the
Pretoria, backing out at the request of
Capt Roberts, swung around until sh* lay
alongside the New York with her bow
pointing in the same direction Then,
while the New York lay with bate way
on, the Pretoria sheered off.
Passengers who had been awakened by
the collision came on deck, most of them
in scant attire and a majority having
lifebelts. There was no uanic; - although
tense excitement prevailed, until the of
ficers and crew of the liner had succeeded
in assuring the passengers that the ship
was in no danger of sinking.
Captain of Pretoria Say* American
Steamer Was Responsible tor Col
lision.
Capt Dugge of the Hamburg-American
line steamer Pretoria places upon the
steamship New York of the American
line the blame for the collision between
the two vessels in the fog about 400 miles
east of Nantucket early Saturday morn
ing. Officials of the Hamburg-American
line at -New Yor» Tuesday gave out a
copy of a wireless message received from
Capt Dugge asserting that the Pretoria
was on her proper course. It says that
statements made by Capt Roberts were
'more or less not according to facts.”
The collision happened in latitude 40.30
north and longitude 65.6 west, Capt
Dugge said. Capt Roberts Monday stated
his position at the time of the collision as
latitude 40.31 north and longitude 64.50
west. The two positions differ by approx
imately a mile in latitude and 16 miles in
longitude.
THE ST LAWRENCE DISASTER.
Start of inquary Into Sinking of Em
press of Ireland.
Capt Kendall, skipper of the Empress of
Ireland, was the first witness called in
Quebec Tuesday at the opening of the
government’s investigaton of the collision
between his steamer and the Storstad in
the lower St Lawrence river and the Jobs
of more than 1000 lives. The examina
tion of witnesses was preceded by the in
troduction of brief summaries of tie facts
by counsel representing the owners of the
two vessels. Lord Mersey, the eminent
British authority on admiralty law, sur
prised the big gathering of lawyers by the
vigor with which he conducted the hearing,
notwithstanding his 75 years.
CHICAGO BANK SUSPENDS.
La Salle-Street Institution, of Which
William Lorimer la President,
Closed hy State Bank Examiner.
The La Salle-street trust and savings
bank of Chicago, organized by William
Lorimer five years ago, when he was
United States senator from Illinois, and
of which he has since been president,
was closed Friday by the state bank
examiner. While rumors of financial trou
ble had been whispered of late, the ac
tual closing of the institution was a sur
prise. Coincident with this action exam
iners closed several state banks which
had heavy deposits at the larger institu
tion.
No statement of what the closing of
the La Salle-street bank actually means
in dollars was made by the examiner. The
June report of the state auditor’s office
placed the deposits at more than SS,<WO,-
000. For the last three weeks, according
to officials, there has been a mild run on
the bank and more than $1,000,000 in de
posits have been withdrawn.
A syndicate of bankers who are mem
bers of the clearing-house is being or
ganized to take over the closed La Salle
street trust’ and savings bank, C. B. sfun
day, vice-president of the bank, announced
at Chicago Monday. The plan includes
the retirement of Mr Munday and Will
iam Lorimer, the president.
OFFICERS’ HOME DYNAMITED.
Internal Trouble* in Branch of Min
ers- Union Cause of Violent Demon
stration at Butte, Mont.
Violent demonstrations by seceding mem
bers of the western federation of miners
kept Butte (Mont.) awake most of Satur
day night. Hundreds of the 9000 mem
ber* of the branch miners' union, dis
gruntled because of heavy assessments
levied for the recent strike in the Michigan
copper mines and discontented With the
card system, marched through the streets
after a mass-meeting. Most of them went
home and the city was quiet until 2
o’clock. Then the home of P. K. Sullivan,
an officer of the union, was dynamited.
Sullivan and his wife and three children
escaped injury, although the windows were
blown out and a porch was demolished.
At attempt was made about the same time
to dynamite the home of Nat Brill, presi
dent of the branch miners’ union, it was
reported.
Earlier in the night the safe of the
western federation, taken from the head
quarters of the union by rioters who
earlier had wrecked the place and de
stroyed the unrecorded ballots cast iu the
recent election of the union, was blown
open. The police were powerless to stop
the carting away and dynamiting of the
safe. Nearly 1000 persons stood around
while the seceding union men set off sev
eral charges before the safe door gave
way.
After the union's safe had been
wrenched open and examined by the in
surgents, the latter complained to the
police that one of their number had placed
the rest of them in the light of thieves
by decamping with S3OOO and a diamond
ring which had been in the strong box of
the union.
Gov Stewart of Montana telegraphed
President Wilson in Washington Mon
day. asking that federal troops be held in
readiness to restore order in the event of
further rioting in the Butte copper mine
district. The president took no action pend
ing further advices from the governor,
and a conference with the Montana dele
gation in Congress was arranged for
at the White House.
CURTIS IS NOMINATED.
Portland'* Mayor la Maine Gaber
natorlal Candidate on Democratic
Ticket.
Mayor Oakley C. Curtis of Portland,
Me., secured the democratic nomination
for governor at Monday’s primaries, ac
cording to returns in hand Tuesday from
all cities and all but 89 towns. With
these places missing Mr Curtis received
a plurality of 4036 over Mayor Elmer E.
Newbert of Augusta, his nearest opponent
in the four-cornered contest. Gov William
T. Haines, republican, was renominated
without opposition.
There was no opposition to the renom
ination of the four Maine congressmen,
Daniel J. McGillicuddy, democrat, arid
Asher C. Hines, John A. Peters and
Frank E, Guernsey, republicans. At the
election in September Mr McGillicuddy
will be opposed by Harold M. Sewall, re
publican; Mr Hinds by J. C. Scales, dem
ocrat; and Mr Peters by William R. Pat
tnngill. democrat. In Mr Guernsey’s dis
trict. with 45 towns to he heard from in
the democratic contest. Major Charles W.
Mullen of Bangor apparently had a safe
lead qier two other candidates.
MONEY AND BUSINESS.
GOLD EXPORTS AND TRADE.
The heavy gold exports of $10.71X1,000
last week, making an unprecedented total
for one week. raised the questton of the
so-called gold drain to the first financial
importance. There is nothing alarming in
i the situation, but a new complexity is ru
trod uccd That compels study. Tbe facts
I that hare aroused sqieeial attention are
these The present gold movement from
New York to Paris begau early in May.
and in five weeks the actual exports have
reached about $55,000,000. Tn June, ex
ports began to increase heavily; in fact,
more than two-thirds of the shipments
have taken place this month.
The prospect is for no immediate let-up
of the outward movement, for the week
ended with sterling exchange still above
the point where exports are profitable. Both
Paris and London are eager to draw as
much gold as possible, and American con
i ditiohs are such that the gold can be
I spared. Money here remains cheap, not
withstanding the gold exports, there being
only a slight rise in the rate for 60-day
loans toward the week-end. The New
York hank statement of Saturday, more
over, shows that the clearing-house banks
continue in a strong position, the surplus
reserve being over $40,000,000. the largest
on the date reported in 15 years, except in
1908 and 1911. And while gold has gone
abroad of late at an abnormal rate, the
specie holdings of the New York clearing
house banks are still $436,118,000, ns
against $352,086,000 on the corresponding
date last year.
It would seem that the exports of gold
must reach much larger proportions to be
really menacing to American finance, un
der prevailing conditions, for the United
States all the time is itself a producer of
gold and its imports from the mines of the
Klondike and Mexico are considerable. In
the 10 months ending April 30 of the pres
ent fiscal year, this country had a net in
crease in its stock of gold amounting to
$63,000,000. Gold exports are a common
place phenomenon. When the Balkan war
broke out in 1912, and capital in Europe
began to be hoarded, the gold export move
ment caused an outflow of some $60,000,-
000 before Mr Taft left the presidency.
Repeatedly since 1900, gold shipments
have reached equally large sums in periods
not exceeding nine month*. Generally
speaking, under any given conditions, gold
goes where there is the most demand
for jt
In the present case, gold exports will
be harmful to the United States if the
shipments reach such a total as to make
funds scarce in the face of increasing
domestic trade demands. Business has
begun to improve of late; it would be
impeded in its expansion if the money
supply were to be seriously curtailed. On
that account if no other, the limits of the
present gold export movement will be
closely watched. The causes of the
present shipments are not much in dispute.
Europe wants the gold, in the first place.
The banking situation in France for
months has been precarious and Paris has
drawn gold from all sources at every op
portunity. The bank of France has in
creased its gold holdings $109,000,000 in a
year. French politics, the present suc
cession of cabinet crises and the govern
ment's financial snarl all make for uneasi
ness in that country. The renewed trouble
in the Balkans, especially the present dif
ficulty between Greece and Turkey, hint
at uew Balkan complications; and French
bankers mav be taking care of Russia's
gold demands in addition to the require
ments of their own government. At no
time since the last Balkan war have the
French bought back American securities;
its our gold they want rather than more
Frisco bonds. And their losses in Mexico
probably strengthen this feeling.
On this side of the water, it is easy
to meet the foreign demand for gold.
Trade reaction has gorged the banks
with money, rendering money rates very
low. With the shrinkage in our merchan
dise exports this spring, on account mainly
of the exhaustion of our exportable sup
plies of cotton and grain, the balance
of trade has turned against us. Imports
under the new tariff have not yet become
a material factor in this situation thus
far because they have been Insufficient
in volume. A foreign exchange expert in
New York points out two special causes
for gold exports now operating. Usually,
at this time .of year, finance bills on
Europe are dfawn by our bankers in con
siderable quantities in anticipation of grain
exports later on, but the great London
banks are now discouraging the drawing
of these hills, it is said, so as to keep
sterling exchange at the export point.
Again, and very specially, several Ameri
can railroads have notes amounting in
ah to some $40,000,000. maturing this
month, and when they were issued they
were made payable in Ixmdon at 4.86%
for demand sterling at the option of the
holder. With exchange where it is now.
or 4.B9lo.—there is a profit of some $4 on
every SIOOO in forcing payment of the notes
in London. Consequently, these railroads
are obliged to transfer about $40,000,000,
to London to meet their maturing obliga
tions.
With the beginning of wheat exports
about July 1. the balance of trade is like
ly to shift in our favor and American
credits abroad to be built up again: and
then these gold exports will doubtless
slacken if not stop entirely. A great har
vest would change tbe aspect of the situa
tion materially, in view of European de
mands for grain and cotton. We shall
have such a harvest in wheat, bnt Other
crops are ks yet only conjectural, with
present indications favorable. General
trade revival is the other thing needed
to create more of a demand for money
in this country, and with that demand
gold shipments « ould cease to be profitable
unless Europe's requirements should gain
in intensity by reason of war or a serious
menace of war.
The week’s trade developments have been
fairly favorable al! along the line. Tbe
government June crop report was promis
ing to a very high degree. Statistical re
ports of railroad earnings in April and
May, idle freight cars s fortnight ago and
the steel trust's unfilled orders on June
1 reflect the depression in industry which
has characterized the spring. Bank clear
ings last week also dropped under last
year's record, and stock trading in New
York was no more than nominal. All
speculative interests wait on the decision
in the freight rate case, which seems
sure to be published early this week. But
there is general admission that the steel
industry has speeded up since June 1. its
new orders now running two and three
times more than in May; and the textile
industry is forging ahead, gradually if
slowly. Dry goods sales in Chicago’ last
week wore notable, buyers from all over
the West exceeding by 30 per cent those of
the year before, and this is reported as a
sign of the effect of tbe harvest promise
on western sentiment. The declaration
of the regular dividend by the New Y'ork
Central railroad, notwithstanding recent
losses in net earnings, indicates that the
directors expect to do more business the
rest of this year.
TUESDAY'S MARKETS.
At New Yor.
Open. Low. Class.
Adams Express 100 1W 100
Alaska Gold 27% 27% 27% 27%
Ama^ Copper 70% 71 70% TO%
Am Beet Sugar 26% 26% 26 26
AmßrS&Fpr 14a 140 140
Am Can 28 28% 27% 27%
do preferred 93 03% 93 98%
AmCarAFdry 51% 51% 51% 61
Am Hide* Lpr 21% 21% 21% 21%
Am Ice Secur 30% 31 30% 30%
Am Malting pr 4t% 41% 41% 41
AmSmo-Refpr 101% 101% I<U% 101%
Am St Foundry 31% 31% 31% 30%
Am Sugar Ref lOS 106 lOS ios%
do preferred U 3% 113% 113% 113%
Am Tel A Tel 123% 128% 123% 123%
Am Tobacco 231 232 230 227
Anaconda Cop 31% 31%- 31% 31
AJ<-ii TASK 99% 99% 90. - »%
Bethiebem st ; a 41% <l%
Brook Ray Tr -•- 91’4- 91% 90%. -
B F. Goodrich.. .2^ 24%
do preferred '9o® 90% 90
California Petrol ■ 20% 2Tr% 20%- SO
Canadian Par 193% 193% 193% 118%
Central I.eatSrt ’ ■ 309 g ' M&vß6% '
Ches * Ohio 52 52 51% 31%
Ch Gt Western 14 14 13% 13%
do preferred 37 37% AT 37%
Chi Mil ASt P 100% 100% 99% 100
do preferred 133 133 133. 134 -
Chi A X'west 131 131 131 130%
Sj^^on
Col ASo 2d pref 33% 33% 33% 32
Con Gas (NY) 129 129 129 128%
Corn Prod Ref 8% 8% 8% 8%
do preferred 64% 64% 64% 64%
Deere A Co pref 94 94 94
De! A Hudson 148% 148% 148% 148%
Denver A Rio G 10% 10% 10% 10%
DIURI Seeur 16% g
do Ist pref 43% 43% 43% 43%
Gen Electric 148% 148% 14.8% 147%
Gen Motor 94% 94% 92 92
do preferred 94 94 93 93
Gt No Ore rtfs 31% 31% 31% 31
Gt Northern pref 124% 124% 123% 123%
Gngg'heim Ex 53% 53% 52% 52%
Illinois Cent 114% 114% 114% 114
Inspiration Cop 1«% 16% 16% 1«%
Int Ag Corp 7’7 7
do preferred 20% 20% 2*>%
Interbor-Met 14% 14% 14% 14%
do preferred 63% '63% 62% 63
Int Mer Marine 2% 2% 2% 2%
dopreferred 9% 9% 3% 9%
Int Paper pref 33% 34% 34 33%
J I Case pref 88 88 88 80%
Kan City So 27 27 26% 98%
Lehigh Valley 137 338 137 137%
Loose-Wiles 32 32 32 32
Mexican Pet 62% 62% 61% 61%
Miami Copper 22% 22% 22% 22
M St PA 8 S M 124 124 123 U 123
Mo Kan A T pref 40 40 40 37
Missouri Pac 17% 17% 16% 16%
•Montana Power 50% 51 -*X*% 50%
Nat Biscuit 130% 130% 130% 130
Nevada Con 14% 1411 14% 14%
N Y Ceu A H 92% 92% 92% SC
NYN HA H 66% 66% 63% 65%
N Y Ont A Wes 25% 25% 25% 25
Norfolk & Wes 104% 105% 104% 104%
North Pacific 111% 111% 111 111%
I’enMylvaaht 111% Ml% 111% 111%
People's Gas 120% 120% 120% 120%
Pressed St Car 44 . 44 44 44
do preferred 102% 102% 102% 102
Quicksilver 1111
do preferred 1% 1% 1% 1%
Ry St Spring 29% 29% 29% 28
Ray Con 21 21% 20% 20%
Reading 16*4% 165 163% 164%
R Iron A Steel id’s, 22% 22% 22%
•do preferred -86% 86% 86% 86
Rumely 11 11 11 10
St Louta S W 19 19 18% 18%
do preferred 42% 42% 41 41
Seaboard Air L 19% 1% 19% 19%
do preferred 55 35 54 54
Sears-Roebuck pr 123% 123% 123% ..
South Pacific 94% 94% 95% 94%
south Railway 24% 24% 34% 24*,
do preferred 78% 78% 78% 78%
Studebaker Co 33 33 31% 81%
•Texas Co 143% 143% 143% 143%
Un Bag A Paper 4% 4% 3% 3%
Union Pacific 155% 135% 154% 154%
LOCAL SECURITIES MARKET.
Farr Alpaca Sale at 138% —LaOow
Manntaetaring Asaoetatea' Rtadtta
Sell at 6%—A Dall Market.
The local securities market costinues tn
drag on Its way with very little trading.
The sale of four shares of Bigelow carpet
company's stock at Boston last week st
213. an advance of 26 points, has much
interest for local holders of Hartford car
pet company's stock, in view of the ru
mored negotiations for tbe consolidation
of those two companies. No sales of Hart
ford carpet common or preferred are re
ported, but the figures at whichsthe stock
is being held continue high in anticipation
of increased value in case of-consolidation.
American writing paper bonds sold Mon
day in New York at a quarter
point above tbe. low 645^ mat. they hit
last week. The drop m these bonds
puzzles local-holders, even though business
for that company has been poor and is
given as an explanation.- -It is recalled
that the bonds are due in five-years, and
even if a year or two of poor business
should intervene there is every confidence
that a company with a Working capital
balance of SJ.JOO.OiMI and a plant of the
great value of tbe company's will certainly
meet its obligations.
Fitchburg preferred was quoted four
points off Monday, being given at 79@80
as against 83 for the' bid price a week ago.
Holyoke street railway has dropped to
145@14T as against 14Sgl3D of the past
few weeks. Northampton street- railway
was quoted yesterday at 101%@103 as
against of the preceding week.
Five Ludlow manufacturing associate*’
rights sold in Boston last week at 5%,
an advance of % of a point.
Rights for the new issue of Springfield
gas light company's stock were quoted in
the local market Monday at 15%@17%.
An auction sale in Boston last week dis
posed of 22 of them at 8%. which, how
ever. is t’onsidcred a low figure. Five
shares of Union twist drill company's
preferred stock were sold at auction at
93%. Farr alpaca sold at auction for
138%. It was quoted on the local mar
ket Monday at 138@140. an advance
of two points. Hendee manufacturing
company's preferred Stock was quoted
Monday at 101@10S. a point off, and
Springfield breweries preferred .are quoted
at 8311185. a Stop of a point and a half.
United States envelope was quoted Mon
day at 106%@107-
Banking and Financial
SPRINGFIELD
FIRE AND MARINE
INSURANCE COMPANY
CASH CAP.TAL, $2,500,000.00
A. W. DAMON, President.
CHAS. E. GALACAR, Vice-Pren’t.
W. J. MACKAY, Secretary.
PRIOLEAU ELLIS, Ass’t. Sec’y. I
E. H. HILDRETH. Ass't. Sec’y.
GEO. G. BULK LEY. Ass’t. Sec’y.
F. H. WILLIAMS, Treasurer.
Springfield Agents:
Oppenheimer & field, 14 Fort St
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