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DAVISON IS SILENI
ABOUT HIS LATEST
VISHJ LONDON
Was There When the Recent
Huge Loan Was so Great
ly Oversubscribed
MUCH WILL PAY FOR
WAR SUPPLIES HERE
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' American Securities Held Abroad Will
Undoubtedly be LIsed Largely in
Making Payments in
America
By HOLLAND
New York, Jul> 24.— (Special.)
M hen Henry T. Davidson returned in
the early spring, from his winter’s visit
, to Iaondon and Paris many were the
conjectures about the purpose of that
Visit. He did not reveal it. It is one
of the qualifications of Mr. Davidson as
i a master of great financing that he
| knows when to speak and when to be
taciturn. He can conceaL his thoughts
with an impenetrable mask. Hut if
ai y one who is occupied with great fi
| nai-cing maintains silence, then ft is
I reasonably to be inferred that he is
| occupied with great things. Some of
these were revealed some weeks after
Mr. Davidson's return, although not
$ until after his visit had been supple
mented by the one which J. P. Morgan
l made late in the winter and early in
the spring.
Again Mr. Davison has returned hav
( Ing made a second visit to Great Brit
| win. Whether or not he went to Paris
t Is not disclosed. Of matters with
which he was not concerned he was
J willing to speak, saying briefly, but
emphatically, that his visit to London
i had no relation to the criticism in Eng
land which was aimed against the ap
| pointnient of the house of J. P. Morgan
& t’o. as the general agents for Great
Britain in the United States with re
jqieet to the purchase of arms and mu
l itions. The criticism which was
voiced in England respecting the ap
pointment of the Morgan house as
agent for Great Britain was not very
important, nor did any of those who
are lenders in Great Britain partfei
I pate in it. Instead there has been un
qualified commendation for the manner
In which this American house has with
utmost watchfulness served as over
eccrs in the placing of British con
tracts here.
The Great War Ix>an
11 may have been a mere coincidence
In point of time that the stupendous
v ar loan which has just been success
fully placed by Great Britain with her
own people, rich and poor, should have
Icon under way at the time of Mr.
Havison's visit. A little later there
will be disclosures of the use to which
Great Britain will put a considerable
part of this loan. There is no respon
I nible man of finance in New York,
j ! robably none of the great bankers
(,t the United States, who is not per
suaded that some part of this loan will
so be utilized as to facilitate payments
in the United States for the supplies
v» hich Great Britain is purchasing
i.ere. Nor is there any doubt that a
considerable portion of the actual cash
with which Great Britain is meeting
its subscriptions on account of the war
loan has been secured through a sale of
American securities.
Mr. Davison possesses a master mind
so far as the whole subject nf Amer
ican securities, both those which are
lodged in the United States—meaning
those which ar*» recognized in the se
curities market—and those which are
in the hands of foreign investors, lie
was one of those who were present at
some of the conferences last fall when
the attempt was under way to discover
"hat the aggregate of American se
curities held by foreign investors is. Tt
v as due in part to his counsel that this
difficult matter involving much de
tail work was put into the hands of a
committee of which L. F. Uoree was the
chairman. Through the labors per
f'UTtv-u under the supervising eye of
Mr Uoree it wns at last established
that the aggregate amount of American
sceurities. chiefly railroad, which were
helo abroad, not including investments
in American realty properties, mort
gages and the like, was considerably
l'ss than $3,000,000,000.
This estimate confirmed one which
Mr. Davidson had already made, for ho
v as one of those who did not believe
that the aggregate of American se
curities held abroad was as large as
| some of the estimates made it.
The house of .1. P. Morgan & Co. has
j hern occupied greatly with receiving
• imports of gold from Ottawa, and it
I was under the leadership of this house
that in the early fall of last year gold.
I a. T roximntely $100,000,000 in all. was
| sent from New York to Ottawa. While
j it was not with any intent so to speak
ur act in T^ondon as to disarm the criti
1 cism which has been aimed against the
Morgan house as the agent of Great
T>ritain in the purchase of supplies that
. Mi. Davidson went to London, vet there
is the question of abundant and ren
| sonable facilities by means of which
these enormous purchases can be paid
for There was also the question of
exchange. The leaders of the foreign
exchange market a few days ago were
ohlo to report that the dollar is the
only money issued by any of the na
tions of the world which is now at par
with gold. At the time the statement
was made, Russian money was at a
depreciation of 25 per cent and a report
from London this morning tells of fur
ther depreciation. Italian money was
at a depreciation of about 18 per cent:
even the pound sterling was at a de
predation. Tt was deemed inevitable,
evr n before Mr. Davidson sailed, that
there be some arrangement, however
li!;rhlv artificial it might be, which
would prevent utter demoralization of
the exchange market. That groat mas
ter of foreign exchange. Max May. who
in one year handled $2,000,000,000 of
it. was quoted as having said that if
the exchange markets broke down
completely it was inevitable that the
cor sequences would be about as dis
astrous to the allies as to Germany and
Austria.
Tn the spring, shortly after Mr. Da
vison returned from bis first visit to
London, ho was quoted by an intimate
friend as having said that whatever
the other preparations for war may
have been in the British kingdom, the
financial, prestige and power of Great
Britain were being admirably con
served and handled in a manner which
matches, if it docs not surpass, any
achievements of the great financiers
of the past The financial strength, re
vealed to Mr. Davison as It was last
winter, would be. he thought, revealed
to the world in the course of a few
months. The event has justified that
prediction, and it was with the an
i.ovncement that the loan had been
subscribed for and oversubscribed by
the people of Great Britain to encour
age him that Mr. Davison sailed from
the other side for the United States.
Itt^ friends in the financial district say
that he is wholly justified in main
taining perfect silence respecting the
Pin poses of his visit to London, for
that is his duty. They, however, have
the right to infer that tiie results of
b’*s visit may be disclosed In the course
»»f a few weeks, probably by the an
nouncement of the perfecting of ar
rar gements by which the British credit
as represented by exchange will be
protected and the payment of the great
! obligations which England has entered
i into with the manufacturers of the
j United States will easily be facilitated,
j Furthermore, it is thought that any
| man of finance would make a good
j e i ess who should say that in all prob
1 ability Mr. Davison has perfected ar
! ran gements whereby some part of the
An « rican securities held by English
investors may well he utilized in the
highly artificial and original financing
which is now under way.
HUNTSVILLE
Huntsville. July 24.—(Special,)—The
members of the civic league of Hunts
ville. a majority of whom are women,
voted at their meeting Friday to
pledge their services to the city com
missioners to aid them in their admin
istration of city affairs in whatever
way might be possible. The city is
facing a financial crisis and the league
is anxious- to render any service that it
or its members can do.
Miss Grace Walker of Chicago was
• an interested visitor at the league
nific ting.
Mrs. Frank Webster of Nashville, one
of the founders of the league, while a
resident of Huntsville, made a short
talk, in which she reviewed some of
the things that are being done in
Nashville. She said that inspection of
milk, meat markets and all places
where food is kept for sale is done
under the supervision of the women of
the city and the benefit to the public
health has been incalculable. She
urged the establishment of a milk de
pot here.
A general warning to be prepared for
tue invasion of the cotton army worm
has been sent out among the farmers
of northern Alabama by Luther D.
Fuller, field agent of the department
of agriculture. Mr. Fuller says that
I the worm has appeared in certain sec
i tions in Alabama and, although the
worm may not get this far north, the
farmers of this part of the state had
best get their poisons ready and be
prepared for the expected invasion. Its
extermination, be says, is a very easy
matter if the proper precautions arc
taken. So far this s< ason there has
t een no army worm or other Insect
perniciously active in the cotton fields
of this section.
John Walker, a well known citizen
of Huntsville, former proprietor of the
Southern cafe, died last night from the
effects of a stroke of paralysis. He
was stricken on Thursday midnight
am'i rapidly become worse. He is sur
vived by his widow and several chil
dre n.
Lest France Forget
Paris. July 10. — (Special.'The Croix de
Pierre, a society that was organized in
France a short time before the war broke
out with the object of protecting histor
ical architectural monuments such as
the Rheims cathedral. Soissons cathedral
and the city hall at Arras. One proposi
tion is to leave the ruins of the Rheims
cathedral as they stand and build a new
one on the site of the archbishop's palace
adjoining. The society is in favor of pre
serving other ruins in the state that war
leaves them. "Rest France Forget.” The
society also protests against any repris
als on German architectural treasures
When the time comes to rebuild any o(
the ruined cities and towns, the society
urges that there he no more streets of
six yards wltdh and no more schools wlth
' out adequate playgrounds.
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SOCIAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT
By MRS. SIDNEY M. LLLMAN
On July 21, 1913. prizes were awarded
j to the residents of Ensley. whose home
j surroundings, outside the house,
j most attractive. To encourage the. peo
j Pic* to this end. the Ensley Land eom
| pany last April offered valuable money
; prizes to the persons in that suburb
whose home surroundings showed the
leanest and tastiest arrangement and
who had best taken advantage of the
j natural opportunities This was not in
j any way to he judged on the amount of
money spent, the smallest cottage in
j Ensley was as possible a winner of the
first prize as the largest, most preten
tious home.
The offer was by no means extended as
a philanthropy. The idea was entirely
to beautify Ensley and make it a more
desirable place to live. in. Ensley m
known far and wide as on* of the groat
industrial centers of the south, but the
Ensley Land company wants it to be
more than that. They want to make it.
n garden spot
Nothing could do this botte: than re
gard, and that reward must be worth
while to make people try for it. So
prizes were offered amounting to $250. The
first prize to be $100. the second $30 ami
four prizes of $25 each. Notice in writ
ing had to be given to the office of the
Ensley Land qpmpany of those who would
like to have their places entered for the
contest. •
On Wednesday afternoon i committee
was appointed by Commissioner George
Ward, consisting of Mrs. James Hard,
chairman of the city beautiful commit
tee of the Civic board; Mr. W. N Lind-1
say, Mr. HI C. Wood. Mr. CL G. Weath
erbee. After careful and intelligent in
spection of the HO homes entered the fol
lowing persons were awarded prizes:
First prize. Mrs. L Myers. 1606 Ave
nue J.
Second prize. Mrs. Erskin McNamara
2800 Avenue E.
Four $25 prizes: Mrs. M P Dodge, 17,17
Terrell boulevard: Mrs. C. R. Bard. 21 IS
Park avenue; Mrs. TV P. Noble. 1717 Jef
ferson avenue: Mrs. C. E. Cooper, 2334
16 Court.
Honorable Mention: Mrs. .1 \v Brig
man. 1921 Avenue H; Mrs W. A. Por
ter. 2607 Avenue T; L. Burk. 2222 Ave
nue J: W. M. Saver. L’Sflfl Sixteenth ave
nue; Mrs. Wallace Given. :kX'9 Twentieth
street; J. L. Parker, 2529 Seventeenth
street.
| Often it was extremely bard for the
judges to reach a decision. One point
would a little outbalance the other-the
lock yard would show more care: the
porches were more tastefully arranged -
but with matematical accuracy the com
mittee went conscientiously on.
The pa’’ties winning the first prizes
lived side by side on Avenue J. in two
attractive If ttlo white cottages, ami.
strange to sav. were almost overlooked
by the committee. After finding what
was supposed to he the place the com
mittee inspected a home that was any
thing but attractive and wondered how
people could ask three busy men and one
busy woman to come out and look it ‘
over. However, someone suggested at i
the last moment that the cottages across!
the street looked so lovely they should ;
have entered when the list was consulted
and it was found these were the ones'
contesting. The Mrs. Myers are sisters
in-law. All the work in the homes is
done entirely by them; every available
space in the yards is used with suc
cess and judgment. The committee found
it impossible to decide which of these two
home-makers should have the first prize.
There wasn’t enough difference to war
rant giving one of them the $50 prize and
the other the $100. so it was decided to
split the first prize to give to both.
At Mrs. Erskin McNamara’s, again, it
was hard to decide here. Everything was
clean and sweet. It looked so appetizing,
even out in the alley, the committee never
in its wildest dreams expected to find any
thing so clean. It was actually swept as
clean as a floor—if not dusted.
The four last prizes were awarded for
various reasons of merit. One home, for
instance, was not only delightfully at
tractive. but the most charming baby
bloomed forth to greet the party on the
porch and at once both the home and
the baby were tagged a winner.
The home of Dr. Noble is situated on
a high terrace tastily arranged with ferns
and porch boxes—one man was lazily
heard to say ,as he climbed the many
steps that this was certainly "uphill
work.’*
One of the honorable mentions that
really deserves special mention was the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Brigman. Here'
the back yard was abloom with multi
colored zinias and luscious purple grapes
and Mrs. Brigman proudly told the com
mittee that she and her husband, a one
armed man .had done all the work alone.
One old-fashioned garden held all the
flowers grandmother told of. from th°
sassy snap-dragon to the short-lived four
o'cloeks.
That the Ensley Land company has done
all of this with an eye to business is
undoubtedly true, but that business should
take form In this way is highly commend
able. No pride can be a higher asset
than pride of home and home is not only
the four walls of our dwelling nor our
front and buck yard, blit the street on
which we live, the town of which that
street is a part and the state in which
it is located.
We cannot in our civilization be units,
standing alone is entirely out of style.
But. working for any object with an idea
of bettering Is always worth while.
With the city's stress staring us In the
face, such a contest and Its results as
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PREPARE TO MOVE
BIG ORAIN CROPS
Bankers to Join May Co-operate With
Wholesale Grocers
Jackson, Miss.. July 23.—(Special.)
The Jackson board of trade is using
every possible effort to interest the
business men of this part of the coun
try in a proposition to take care of
the big grain crops that are now as
sured. A few days since the whole
sale grocers were invited to meet here
July 28 for the purpose of a confer
ence with representatives of the United
States department of agriculture with
a view to finding a market for the
surplus of corn, oats, etc., and it is ex
pected there will be a representative
meeting.
R. S. Wilson, state agent of the de
partment of agriculture, and C. A.
Cobb, assistant state agent in charge
of Boys’ club work, have now joined
in the issuance of an investigation ad
dressed to the bankers of the state,
urging them to join forces with the
wholesale grocers at this meeting,
| ANNISTON |
Anniston, July 24,— (Special.)—An
ordinance was introduced in the city
council Thursday night by Judge Ad
dison F. MaGee, councilman from the
Third ward, to increase the amount al
lowed by persona convicted in the re
corder's court, and sentenced to work
out the fines and costs, from 50 cents
per day to $1 per day, each day’s work
to be credited on the fines and costs.
The ordinance was continued until the
next meeting of the council.
In support of hiu ordinance. Judge
MaGee stated that other cities allow
convicts $1 per day for labor, and said
that the state allows more than the
city of Anniston for this purpose. He
| alsc said that under the present law
j when a convict Is fined $100 he is re
I cuired to work over six months in or
der to pay off the fine. According to
Judge MaGee, the fines are excessive
when they have to be worked out.
Home of Mrs. L. Myers, 1606 Avenue J, Ensley, who tied with R. H.
Myers for first prize
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Home of R. H. Myers, 1600 Avenue J, Ensley, tied for first prize
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Home of E. McNamara, 1800 Avenue C, Ensley, winner of second prize
this of Ensley shows what interested rit- the reward of good health and beautiful
izens can do to help in the campaign of surroundings will he yours,
education to keep the city clean when Such a contest as this one has been
it will be necessary to curtail the gar- called an "effort of intelligent selfish
bftge collection. Remember, if no real ness." Such selfishness as this is an
estate company in your section offers you effort for better housing conditions and
a reward to clean up—clean up anyhow- recommends Itself to any community.
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BUSY SOCIETY GIRLS
Hr ( \HOI.fVI-: PRESCOTT
Now. It is the poor society girl, or rather
the rich society girl, who Is getting it. i
havt Just finished reading an article by
one of those Englishmen who come over
on this side of the water and write books
about us. Me calls the American society
girl frivolous, empty-pated. heartless, de
«> tful, artificial and a number of other
things, but there's one thing he does not
call her, and that's lazy.
For w hutever eise she may be, the but
terfly girl, whose name Is seen in th*
newspaper columns more often, perhaps,
than she cares • s°e it. Is never lasy.
Tlu* very fact that she Is a society girl
prohibits her indulging In anything that
over approached laziness.
In the first place, every society girl
must have her pet < limit' It may he a
fresh air Lome, a hospital or a school;
hut whatcvi i it is. she must give of her
time us wdl as her money to her particu
lar philanthropy.
1 know of a girl who has taken upoa
her > boulders tl . i;< ep.ng of the lawn and
garden u a children's hospital. Out of
her own allowance she hires a gardener,
and hi-v* all tb< seeds and plans that
keep the grounds beautiful all through th*
spring and summer and tali.
There Is another prominent society girl
who makes all her wedding gifts. This,
by the way. is an old-fashioned, resur
rected. and a very sensible and pretty
fashion, too and more is the pity that
it whs i-vt i allowed to become unfashion
able.
Thcic is much sentiment with the giv
ing of « present made with one's own
hands \s all of th« debutantes of last
season are announcing their engagement*
this fall, this particular society girl U *
ver> busy individual these days.
And. speaking of brides, it seems to b#
quit.' the thing nowadays for the bride to
make at least a part of her trousseau}
with her own lingers, and really it is sur
prising how many girls are becoming
adept in the art oT fitting garments and.
ornamenting them with dainty embroidery
and handiwork.
There is another society girl In town
who dresses dolls in the most wonderful
fashion -dresses them all complete even
to wraps and hats.
She dressed over 1000 dolls lost winter
for lairs and bazars, and at v'Jirislma*
time she organized a club of girl* to
dress dolls for the little chlbften in th*
| orphan asylum, and those were'busy days
indeed for the doll dresser*.
Another society girl was explaining her
r»*d hands hist week toy telling a group
of friends that she had Just finished her
four dozen bottles of catsup. She has
taken up the making of catjvup. preserves
and jellies for the household Irnto her own
her hands. In the group was, another girl
whose talent for cake buklngfls known far j
and near.
Ho. with all her new fuda+and interests,
the society girl, you will see. Is anything
but lazy When she has done nil that
society requires of her and hns eaten and
attended to her toilet, and slept, the fact
that she still finds time for other affairs
not purelv of a social character refutes
the idea that many have formed of her
that she is frivolous, hearties*, artificial, «/
deceitful and empty-pated.
Those who see the society girt at close
• range and Judge her from a purely per
| sonal standpoint, know' better than this,
know her as a warm-hearted, impulsive,
11 generous creature, ready and willing to i
| assume her part in making the world j
i happier and better.
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Then why don’t all men use them, when they
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