The times dispatch. [volume], May 19, 1912, Page 13, Image 33

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SEEKS CONTROL
OFSTORED COFFEE
jGovcrmnent Takes Steps to Se?
cure 950,000 Bags in
New York.
ACTION AGAINST COMBINE
I
Outcome of Money Trust Inves?
tigation Now On in
Washington.
(Special to Tho Timea-Dlspateh.l
New York, May 18_Tho govern?
ment brought action to-day to grt
control of 960,000 baga of ooffae, which
are tho property ot tho Brazilian State
of Sao Paulo, and at present aro
Stored In tho warehouse of the Now
York Dock Company, in Sooth Brook?
lyn. The urtlon is a new applica?
tion of iho Sherman antilruHt law, and
la an effort to break the coffee valori
7 hi '11 scheme, which tho government
"i Brasil entered Into six years uko,
In so fur Is It affects the coffee trade
in this country. Judge Hand, In the
Culled States District Court, upon ro
CeiVing the government's petition,
Kranted a temporary Injunction re
stralnliiK the various custodians of tho
coffee from disposing of It, pending
further court action.
of the elKhl defendant;! In the ease,
the only two who are In this country
are the new York l>ock Company and
Hermann Bleichen, of New York, wi.o
testified last Thursdsy on the coffee
trade before the money trust Investi?
gating committee in Washington. A
United .states marshal werft up 10 Mr
blelcken's room, at the Wuldroof. thl*
afternoon and .served him with the
papera In the COSO, and obliged htm
also to accept service for alx other de?
fendants, one of whom Is dead. Mr.
Slolckeh, niter be examined the pa
perB. said that he regarded the suit
?s a novel proceeding,
"I will bet the Attorney-Central of
the United States $ 100.000," lie said,
"that he win never be able to win this
else in the Supreme Court, or any
1.ib.r court to which it ti- finally
brought And I will bet him. loo. that
ibis government win apoioRize to the
government of Brasil for his action
before the matter Is finished."
1 lie wem on to say that he regnided
It an atrat.ue for one KoVernment to
attack another government
OIIKATBH I1UIN < <>\M ?1PTIOX.
Furnaces) All Over tkr ( ouutrr Shon
luc i.nliir. In U nrk 'l urried Out.
The Iron consumption of this coun?
try is establishing new hlKh re-cords.
A c ording to the Iron Age; Iron pro?
duction in Apt.I amounted to 2.3T;i.4-6
ions, or at the rate ol 79.1S1 tons a
day, compared with 2.100,318 ions, or
.. dally rate of 77,-'.91 tons dur'n?
March.
Production by furnaces controlled
1 . steel companies shows a Rain of
ovei 2,000 tons a day compared w'th
Straws
Here are head coolers for sum?
mer wear.
Straws of all kinds and qualities.
A block for every face.
What's your age?
We can put a Hat on your head
that will appear to have been made
especially for you and not intended
for some one else.
Smooth Split Straws, Milan
Braids, Sennit Braids, Macinaws,
etc., etc.
$1.00, $1.50, $2, $3, $10.
Panamas.''
Splendid ones. Panamas we
fully guarantee.
Variety of blocks.
$3.50, $5 to $15.
Rubber Covers for straw hats,
75c.
rCirk-farrish Go
627 East Broad Street
returns for tho pre.vIouB month, while
production by merchant furnn.<j.;s
shown a falling off of nearly IM tons
a day. Blast furnaos la operation on
May 1 numbered ?41. with a capacity
of 79.697 tons a day, against stacks,
with a capacity of 77,?87 tons a day,
active, nn April 1. Production In April
was at the rut* of ovtr 18,900,000 tons
per year. eomparlng with 2*.21r< 0 I
tons In Starch. Including oharcoal
Iron, production In April must have
I'een at ihn rate of close to ^3.100.00U
ions a yn.r. comparing with the best
previous full year's record of a. mile
over 2T.OOO.O00 tor.s In 1310.
May I tho capacity of the. furnnces
In blast was approximately 79.700 tons
a day. which in at the rate of H,<>!>".
0?o tons a year. Including ol ai al
Iron, the. month .starts out proinlsiut;
a yearly rat? of output close to 29.
700.000 tone. Th's rate of production
has never before been equnlled. In
this eotfhection It Is remarkablo that
the steM companies should b<- com?
pelled to report Buch a. ?m ill margin of
profit or. a record - breaking output.
The ste.>l ln(rn? production of the
country last monfi was at tjie rut*
of about D9.0OO.00O tons a year, or
3,000,000 tons In excess of the pre?
vious h'Kh record for a full year.
Confidence
In the methods and management of this bank in
crcasi ?1 its tli-fosito .35 per cent, from April 25, 1911,
to April 1, 1912.
For the p.tst -mx years the assets of this bank each
month have been greater than any preceding month.
They now amount to over one million dollars.
It you're not already a depositor we'll he glad to
have von on our books.
There's a COMMONWEALTH BANK office
in your neighborhood.
Commonwealth Bank
12 North Ninth Street.
BRANCHES:
102 East Broad Street,
Twenty-fifth and Broad Streets,'
' 3914 Williamsburg Avenue.
William L. Walters., ....President
F. P. McConnell_.._Vice-President
S. E. Walters ._Vice-President
II. G. Proctor.^... .Cashier
MAIL ORDERS FILLED.
Spring Tonics
Here are tonics that doctors endorse and pre?
scribe1?so pure and healthful that any one may
derive benefit from them.
MALT.
Johann Hops, $2.75 dozen.
Malt Xutrinc, $2.25 dozen.
Scotch Malt, $1.50 dozen.
Long Island, SI.50 dozen.
STOUT.
Guinesa Imported, $2.25 dozen.
l< bottles, $1.50 dozen.
F.vans, $1.50 dozen.
Philadelphia, $1.50 dozen.
Tonic Port, $1.00 Bottle.
['Everything Good to Eat
and Drink."
Fine Wines and Liquors.
Phone
Monroe
101-lOt...
504 to 508
East
Broad.
HERMANN
Baron Marschall von Bieberstein
Will Receive $37,500
a Year.
GOES TO LONDON POST
He Is Conceded to Be Most As?
tute Diplomat in
Germany.
Berltn, May 18.?Baron Marschall Von
Bieberstein, tho new ambassador of
Germany at ixindon. wtll receive a sal-'
ary of 137,300 a year, which la a higher
.?-alary than Is paid to ajty maji by the
(lonnan govtrnment, outside of the
compensation which the Kaiser re?
ceives. It Is more than that which Is
paid to tho Imperial Chancellor, who
receives a salary next to that of the
[Emperor.
gpeuulation as to how long Baron
Marscholl Von Bieberstein will remain
rln l/indon Is already going on. In?
deed, It Is freely predicted that the
new ambassador, who Is admittedly the
most astute diplomat In Oermany. was
eent to London only as a preliminary
to being nurned tg Imperial Chancellor
In plac? of Von Bethmann-Hollweg.
jvho, hla friends say, Is anxious to lay
down th? burden under the continued
assaults of all political parties and
tho press. Upon Chancellor Von Beth
mann-lfollweg's head have baen heaped
all the political mlsmoves of Oermany
In the last few years. Baron Marschall
V . i. Bieberstein Is the only diplomat In
Germany except Count Von Bernstirff.
the German ambassador at Washing
j ton, who understands and values the
power of the press and knoWB how to
I use it.
I Baron Hans Von Wangenhelm, the
I German minister at Athens, who has
I been raised to the rank of ambassndor
and who 1? going to Constantinople as
Baron Bleb,-:stein's successor, was for?
merly the latttr'a right-hand man and
councilor of the embsssy in lbiti. ?
He was marr'ed to a daughter of
Chas. Ahrenfeidt. a Qerman-Amerlcun,
at Pari", and was divorced in 1SP7,
after a duel with Count Waldemar
Von Gyllenband, who divorced his
wife a few months later. Baron Von
Wangenheim then married the Baro?
ness Johanna Von fc-piizenherg.
No l-'rlcnd of Mntrlmony.
Count I,"o Tolstoi was not a friend
of matrimony, according to Professor
Lasuerkl, who was a tutor of his
children, und he so declares in his
memoirs In a boot: to be published.
Professor Lasuerkl, In order to em
i phaalse his point, gives this talk with
Tolstoi on marriage:
"A min goes his way alone Tf h?
places a load of fifty pounds on hla
shoulde s h" can Mill ha happy be?
cause he is alone. But if he chains a
Woman to his leg; and drag- h?r along
she hlnd-is him at every step."
Professor Lasuerskl, who 13 married,
did not s?e the point of the argument
and replied: j
"I did not know ?11 this before, but
every human being must strive for
protection for myself I cannot com?
plain about marriage. I also know of
I other happy mairiages."
Despite this Tolstoi said:
"Marriage Is not a feast or \ festive
holldny. Two beings unite to be in
each others way. If a man wants to
marry let him do so, perhaps he may
rind It a means to make his life haj'py.
Before doing so, however, he should
consider that he Is about to take c
etep downward, and that he must do
6-.eryihir.cr In his power to make mar-]
r'sge happy it that, after all, be pos-?
side."
The premier of Straus's "Ariadne in
Maxos" has now been definitely set.1
It will be produced Unit at thu new]
Royal Theatre, at Stuttgart on Sop- i
tember 2D. -C and 1:7. Scans arc already
settling for ?I? apiece '
A music Und which is most interest?
ing has been made by Herman Albert,
professor of musical history at the
University of Halle. He has discover?
ed a genuine Beethoven trumpet iiuar
tet composed in 1812 for the city direc?
tor of music, and also a Ooort Friday
cantata, to which an unknown author
wrote tho words.
L. W. Austin, the American wireless
expert, who has been delegated by his
government to Investigate tho prog
THE WEATHER
forecast: i ?r Virginia?Knlr Sunday
und Monday.
far North Carolina?Fair Sunday
and Monday.
Special l.oenl Oiiln for Vrstcrdny.
12 noon temperature . no
:i P. M. temperature . 71
Maximum temperature up to s
P. M. 71
Minimum temperature up to S
P. M. is
Mean it mpcraturc . tu
Normal temperature . GS
Deficiency In temperature . 7
Deficiency in temperature since
March l . 17
Accum, deficiency In temperature
since January 1 . 44:1
Excess in rainfall since March 1. ,Vl;i
Accum. OXCCSS in rainfall since
January l . .-,.UK
l.oenl ObHcrvntinu s |?. Jl, Vcslerdni.
Temperature . i,r.
Htituidlty . ?
Wind, direction .S. W.
"Wind, velocity . I
Weather .A.cleat
CONDITIONS IN IMPORTANT CITIKS,
(AI s P. M. Eastern Standard Time.)
Asheville .... 62 7o 16 Clear
Atlanta . 7e 7 1 58 Clear
Atlantic City. 80 VI 60 Clear
Boston . 7u 7s 62 Clear
Buffalo ...... fii 54 R0 Cloudy
Calgary . 51 hi |2 P. cloudy
Charleston .. 68 7.' ?6 Clear
Chicago . 7i 7s Cloudy
Dahvcr . 82 86 :,z P. cloudv
Dtlltlth . nil ."..' 48 P. cloudy
Calveston ... 72 7ti 7U Clear
Huttcraa .... ?2 7o 66 Clear
Uayr? . 7u 71 40 p. cloudy
Jacksonville., "o 7s t'.s Clear
Kaunas City.. 7s sj qq Clear
Louisville ... us 7i Mi Clear
Montgomery.. 72 18 :,s Clear
New Orleans. 7 2 7* r,| cieur
New York ... 66 7u ;,s Cl.ar
Norfolk . r.c. 7i r,o Clear
Oklahoma ... 7s SJ r. I Clear
Pittsburgh .. 61 70 .".2 Clear
Kalelgh . ?'>* 74 r.s- Clear
Si. Louis .... 7>: $0' ?6 Clear
St. Paul ...... r.S 6'J ftp Clear
San Prancisco 56 is Clear
Savannah ... us 71 6.1 Clear
Spokane . 74 7C 4(5 Clear
Tampa . 7? Sti 72 Cloudy
Washington.. US 7 1 .'.s- Clear
Winnipeg ... 50 ? I 10 Cloudy
Wytli' ville .. r.s i;,; ;,o Clear
MI.MAT I R13 AI.MAN'W.
;, May ir>. IP12.
x men tide
Sun risen ... 1:59 Morning.'.fi:io
?uu seta. 7:13 Evening.'.., i:i3
Co-operation
is the watch-word of the time. Co-operation is the great force of modern
civilization. Co-operation is the great forward movement making for progrcs
and enlightenment. Co-operation has already wrought many good works,
and is the greatest hope for the world's advance.
In the last preceding "Service Talk" we quoted the official statement of
Prof. B. H. Meyer, formerly Chairman of the Wisconsin State Railway Com?
mission and now a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, that
^Competition as a guarantor of good service and a regulator of rates has failed."
Let us show you what other Public Service Commissions say on this subject:
"That competition cannot be depended upon to protect
the consumer from high prices and poor service has been fully
demonstrated."?The New York State Public Service Com?
mission.
"The temporary advantage to a portion of the public is
reasonably sure to be followed by an undue burden upon the
public as a whole, through the larger capital demanding a
return."?Massachusetts (?as and Electric Light Commission.
"One source of supply and one system of distribution means
a minimum cost of light to the consumer." Civic League of St.
Louis.
"Public utilities, whether in public or in private hands,
are best conducted under a system of legalized and regulated
monopoly."?National Civic Federation Report.
In the field of public utilities (by which is meant the supplying of such
public necessities as water, gas, electric light and power and transportation,
and so on)?in this field of Public Service, competition?that criminally waste?
ful and ruinous fallacy of the old order?has received its death-blow in those
States which have Public. Service Commissions. For every Public Service
Commission in existence has been created to safeguard the public against any
possible rapacity or abuse by the corporations.
Why should the city of Richmond take the backward step of permitting
any corporation to set up a wasteful competition in electric lighting service,
duplicate the pte>eut distribution system, till the streets with additional poles,
wires and conduits, harass a company which is now providing excellent ser?
vice at fair and reasonable and exceptionally low rates, and finally burden the
public with the cost of it all?
YOUR patronage of this company is a kind of co-operation, and helps to
make possible the furnishing of good service at a low price. Should the service
ever deteriorate, or the price be too high. YOUR co-operation can secure im?
mediate and complete regulation.
YOU can co-operate right now to prevent a competition in electric service
that would injure the city and people of Richmond far more than it could
ever hurt this company.
Read the next "Service. Talk" in Tuesday's paper.
Virginia Railway and Power Company.
William Northrop, President.
Service Talk No. 3
May 19, 1912
rosa of wireless tele?raphy In Europe,!
spout a week in Berlin "and left on
Saturday f'-r Paris. The German gov
eminent afforded him every facility.
Tie visited ail the big wireless sta?
tist? in this country. After looking
Into the French wireless arrangements
he will go tn r.ondnn as an American
delegate to ino International wireless
conference In that city. He will em?
body the results of his tour in a report
to tho United states government. Mr.
Austin is accompanied by his wife,
and while hire they are the Bliest* Of
Dr. and Mrs. O. It. Watson.
YOUTH HIT IN HEAD WITH
HOE BY FELLOW-STUDENT
Christiansburg, Va . May is. ?On
? Wednesday two students .it tile Chris
I tinnsburg Industrial Institute became
[involved In an altercation, in which
Fred Munroe, of Wythevllle, aced
, nineteen years, struck Richard I.urnp
i kin. used seventeen, in the back of
! the head with a hoe, fracturing his
i slcull and Inlli.-ting a 'serious Injury.
I Dr. Showaiter performed an operation
I and removed the pressure on the
\ brain, and while the wounded man Is
I in a serious condition. It is hoped he
I may recover, it will lie several da.vs
before it can be determined wnat the
I result win he. Deputy-Sheriff II. W.
i Hylton arrested Munroe Thursday and
; lodged him In Jail, and the parents of
the accused came down from Wj the
! ville to look after their ?on's interests,
j If the Luinpkin boy recovers, they will
,,sk for ball 1ie(?re Judge Piere?, the
??? unty ball commissioner.
The public school here will close
j next Wednesday, after one of Its most
' successful sessions in Its history.
I Xext yetii tlie regular hlKh school will
l he Inaugurated under the supervision
I of Professur .1. B. B. Smith, who se?
cured an appropriation from the su?
pervises for tills purpose, nud now the
I graduates from the nlKh school will
be enabled to .take the professional
; courses at the universities, as Well as
? entrances into the colleges without ox
; ninltintlons.
MANY BXCBPTIOJfa FILBD.
[Special to The Times-Dispatch.]
T.vnchbuiK. Va., May IS.?The War
Department at Washington Is experi
' encinK considerably more trouble in
I Its effort to condemn property Jn t"e
I vicinity of Front Jtoynt, for the. puf
' pose of ..stnhllshing the proposed re?
mount station there, than was at first
1 anticipated. There arc twenty-one
j condemnation proceedings ponding, and
v.xpeptlons have been liled to the re
I port of the condemnation commission?
ers in all Of the canes reported upon
! by the eoronilsslonel'S.
! The exceptions go to the award of
' thu commissioners, each case thus for
I having the claim that tho property Is
>vorth more money than has been
i award.-.1 by the commissioners, all of
.whom are residents of Warren coun
' The exceptions are" to be heard by
?Judge McDowell during the Charlottes,
vllle term of l ho Federal District Court,
which bcginti on July I.
AMERICAN COLONY
DENIES STORIES
Washington, Mny is.? -Jn o resolu?
tion, n copy of which was received at
the .state Department to-day from the
American colony In Mexico t'ity. em?
phatic denie] is mad - of reports pub?
lished In papers of the United states
to the effect that the Mexican capital
is on the verge of anarchy, it is
further denied that Americans are
threatened with denth or that there
Is any rioting or fischtinfr.
The resolution, which was adopted
. by the council of administration of
the Society of the American Colony
In Mexic City, is as follows:
"Whereas, certain newspapers In'
the United States are publishing as
news from Mexico, purported Inter?
views as well as romrnunlcat'nns from
their correspondent's, in which It is
made to appear that the situation in
Mexico C'ty borders on the condi?
tion of anarchy;
That the doors of houses are barri?
caded, and the roofs provided with
i machine guns;
That the AniT'cnns are doing guard
duty:
That rioting and fighting are oc?
curring in tho streets of tin- city;
That tin. population is crying. "Death
to Americans:" and
"Whereas, such reports are. entirely
without foundation, and do not con?
tain a scintilla of truth, but ate off?
springs of the fertile 'imagination Of
persona desirous of misrepresenting
actual condition!" -i 1 .*xlco City for
the purposa of personal gain or noto.
rlcty at the fxepense of truth and
honesty, and to the prejudice of the
Mexican people, na well as that of
foreigners residing or having inter?
ests In the country;
"Therefore be It resolved,
"That we, council of administration
jof the American colony, by unanimous
vote, do hereby unleiulvocably brand
las utterly false nil such statements as
I Ind'catcd. They are entirely devoid
, of the least basis of fact or reason;
that the authors thereof well knew
I them to be such when they gavo
them utterance; that no riot or fight
ling hns occurred In the City of Mlxleo,
n tul tlmt its population, both native
I ami foreign, Is going about Its usnal
avocations without hindrance or In?
convenience."
Preliminary
Announcement
of the Utmost
Importance
Here \vc show for the first time our new
home, 117 West Broad Street, where we will
he after June 1st. Preparations in the new
building are being pushed with all possible
speed, so as to make room for the entire
stock of new pianos which is to fill the store.
To dispose of all Pianos now on hand we
arc planning a Removal Sale which will
surpass anything ever offered the peo?
ple of Richmond! We advise every music
lover to watch this week's papers for
announcements.
E. G. R1KK, Mgr. 205 E.-Broad St.,
Richmond.