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12 THE ROCK' ISLAND ARGUS, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1911. Former Umm n n saw For toe Scraiu BUeap tTiii T-r-T-r liifTjsaaiBiiT- -isagssssT--T--l.- i rr-TT I r?T?mt- : - ; f ' By CHARLES N. LUR.E. , in th. orcr T,e South KSWSI ffM H . nrnbiir in d-odoi- Anmcu republics niak',ns valiant f: t - VV if It'i1 " ? i -"i V iii'jS ' ' effort, to provide thrives with big ff iWil I W'4 : 1' S V"5 ;'r ji? 1 ft. tfv , flshtiar Hip but tie, r a. vet -fee- ft - If th 0081 of a wars"1'' We folk- on the watr despite the Po8- OfeM WJPMf1 ? V :,W Vl??: -- I preHent vorth as Jl.:23.039 la to $28,000. how much will be the value of the ships of the United Statea nay one year, five yearn or ten years from the present tirru ? We are spending millions each year for new ships. The latest navy bill calls for an expenditure of more than 34,KM),009 for vessels, with other appro priations bringing the total of money to be exprmded on the navy tn one , to more than $125,0,KK. That Is a considerable heap of cash even for a two billion dollar country," especially when it Is considered and hoped de voutly, of course that the ships and men and armzonents for which It is to Le given out m.tjr never be called upon ti fire anything more terrifying than a salute to the Assistant secretary of the navy or a visiting admiral of the Hai tian fleet. Rating of Nations In Naval Power. We are building Dreadnought after Dreadnought on the latost approved lines of naval architecture In Hie ef fort to retain our place as the second greatest naval power of the world. It Is well known that we are second in the race to Oreat Uritain and that she h;is no intention of permitting us or uny other power to pass her in the con test which she deems of vital impor tance to her national safety and the preservation of the empire. Close In 'ir wake corns Germany, taking very tf-riously the kaiser's dictum of sev er il yetu-s ago that "Germany's future li-s on the wafer." France, Japan. Iilv. Austria arid r.ueia trail aJong of bcrtleshlps. What shall it avail all these nations to sink millions and scores and hun dreds of millions in battleships which will In a few years become almost as obsolete as the old wooden ships? The problem of deterioration and progres sive useleseness of naval vessels is one that is vexing seriously the whole world of statecraft at present. It Is a live Issue In every country which has a big navy more so In some than in others, of course, since its seriousness l with a plan, later approved, for a lar ger ship, carrying heavier and more is proportioned to the length of time In I powerful gur.s. It Is decided that send which each na.tion. has b?en engaged In j ing the older ships against veseels of the launching of ironclads doomed to j the newer type and larger size would rust out their lives In Inglorious ways, i be sending their crews to certain death: A few years ago Orat Britain inauga- without the possibility of inflicting se--rated the policy of selling her old war- j rious damage on the enemy. The new ships for whatever they would bring, i er vessel is built, the older ones are The T'nited Staffs is following the Brit- j placed first "In reserve." then "out of lsh lead in this matter, and ti e oth?rs commission," then dismantled and final will fall into line. A few years will : ,v M at auction to the highest bidder see tlu- fcuri'rst b.-ittlcshiD of toriav cut' fnr whatever they will bring, small name, the victim of Havana harbor; the Oregon, Clark's famous ship which got around the Horn In time to fight at Santiago; the St. Louis, the Charleston and the Milwaukee, crack armored cruisers of the beginning of the present century: the Alabama, the Kearsarge and the Kentucky, famous battleships of a few years ago, which went on the famous "around the world cruise" these and many others, some costing over $5,009,000 apiece, are headed for the port of obsolete ships, destined nev- down and altered into a coal barpo or : fractions of their original cost in the j er again to hear the thunder of big reduced to other ignominious service. Had end for vitels each termed In her turn "the thund' rer of the sea3." "the invincible Dreadnought!" Doomed by Development of Science. It is the advance in naval science millions. gome few are retained to serve as receiving ships or for other purposes, but they never again know the joy of the green water spurting up to thfr bows. They are doomed to rust In ordinary forever. According to reliable estimate, the which dooms these ships, big ar.d lit- i United States has invested within tie or perhare it would be better to say big and bigrer to the fate of dis mantlement and disuse before ever having a chance to measure guns ani exchange projectiles with an enemy in battle. They are built to tarry and li:ht a certain number of puns of a twenty years J13S.597.042 in warships which are either obsolete or so nearly obsolete that they cannot be considered first class fighting units of the navy. A glance over the list of naval "back numbers" shows such comparatively modern vexpels as the Maine, built to certain size. Alr.rg come?; a designer 1 take the place of the vessel of the same guns in battle unless it be that they shall bo sent to certain doom as last desperate hopes of the nation. List of Obsolete Ships. Here is a list of American naval ves sels which have been noted possibili ties as sea fighters and which are re garded no longer as good fighting units: BATTLESHIPS. Keel laid. Cost. Alabama IS J4.6S6.820 Illinois 1697 4.621.40S fndiana 18SI 6.983.371 lewa 1893 6,871.3)6 Kearsarge 1S96 6.043.591 Kentucky .... 1879 Maine 1&99 'Massachusetts ls91 Missouri 1900 Ohio 1S23 Oregon 1S91 Texas 1SS9 Wisconsin 1897 4 9511191 TOARMORED CRTJ1SEPA 6,381.903 ! Atlanta 13 6.047.117 Baltimore 18S7 6.2M.260 Boston 1SS3 6.266.504 Chicago 13 6.675.C82J Cincinnati 10 4.202.121 4.723.694 Total Jo8.637.3 In reserve. ARMORED-AND SEMIARMORED CRUISERS. Brooklyn 1893 J4.423.7f0 New York 1490 4.346.642 St. Louis 1!02 S.Mg.177 Charleston 190 2 3.82J.411 Milwaukee lJOt 3,935.255 f An exception must be notod in the JC68.971 rase of the famous armored cruller 1,978.1 29 J s,'pw York, know n in her day ns one of jjjthe biggest and fMt vi-mbHh I'mio 2.J71 94 1 ain owned. Time w as h"n he was 1 233 CG9 ' called the equal of a battl'-shlp. She 3.3ii9.011 ! has been remodeled at a mxt of mufn 1.291.161 than J.r00,000 and has be. n ren.imed tha J.849.&! ' Saratoga, yielding her former ilenitna 1.267.119 tlon to the r.ew monster battleship New lJ6IiO'York wh,'h h" bv'" I'la"'""'- Th" 2 19' 729 ' otnf"r8 are scattered among tlie mvy 2 i; 303 1 yards and ptaflons of the ynn'ry. ; home. like the New nrl. anj tr;. TotaI JS.lB.Sa r?,aSi have lost th. ir name to newer GUNBOATS. Bennington 1S8 iCastlne IS'.U Detroit 1S90 Columbia 1490 Marblehead 1S90 Minneapolis 1FJ1 Montgomery 1890 Olympla 1X91 Philadelphia 18S8 Kalelgh 1n9 San Francisco 18 Total THE MONITORS. Amphltrlte 1R71 Monadnock 1K75 Monterey 1SS9 Puritan 1875 Terror 1874 Cheyenne 1S99 Ozark 1899 Tallahassee 1.S99 Tonopah IS try $20,350,275 Concord . Nashville Total ISM 1U94 I ships. The Tex;is w.ii selected recent r9.317! ly to serve as a target f r the big guns. 671,164 1 The Katahdin. a futiious ram In her 7H6.2N3 ' f.Kti.3Hj J2. 731, 432 day, which nevr r.nnmnl anythlrsr bipger than a pier, underwent a sl'mlir J2.195.MW Iolal 32.432 fate. The Vesuvius, famous "dynamite 2,756,700 ! TOTAL COST OK ALL SHIPS IN ABOVE ' cruiser of other days. : not lneij,ed 2.763.371 3.336, 466 2.217.102 j 1,590 3S0 ! 1.G23.8T9 ' TABLES. Battleships Jn8.637.3t6 Armored and semlarmored cruisers 20,350,275 1.518.179 M Unarniored cruisers In the list, but she is shown In the pie ture as a type of obsolete vessel. She never proved her worth or Justified the money spent on her, the scheme of i Gunboats Total J19.678.16S ' Total 27.198.ia i hurling dynamite from the deck of a l?'5l5,,,i? i naval vessel having been proved Im- - I practicable, even In the SpanUh-Am -r-Ji38.697.0421 kan war. when It was tried. Today's Market Quotations l By wire from W. Wagner & Co, members of Chicago Board of Trade, drain, provisions, ftneks. and cotton. lo al offlee at Kuolt Ia.r.d house. Hock Island. Ill Chicago olti. e. -S9-10o. I'aiard of Trade. Local telephone. No. wen 23U.J BOARD OF RADE TRANSACTIONS. Wheat. May. :". fl in .Ju!, Septen int. Corn. M:iv, T. ' . A'J. :". .luiy. r.o-'. r,34 . September, l '-s. 51".,. 51". j Oats. May. :nh, oi-",. :;7.,. ;:pt. .Ir.ly. :il. :;i ::i-4. ::i. Sfjitombi r. ;i"Ts. :U', :'. o Pork. May. 17CJ. 17.7". 17. .".. 17.".'. July. 107". t ti.Tir. h;.:vj. Lard. May, 0.20. 0 2". 0.12, 0.12. July. 9.12. l 12. 0.(7. :.-. Ribs. May. 0.7.2. :'.57. 0 17. 0 !7 July, y lo 0 15. 0.i'7. 0 oT. THE GRAIN MARKET. Chicago Grain. Cb.ic.aK! M''-r h 11. The nnrket in Wheat ijj clown ward bound: SentiiuVer whiat jjiobalilv ."-ri. S ii! inu i.t In si tant oil her way. His chaKte in corn fontimciit. Tl is cliaiiK"' has helped out o;;ts. I am si inln.s out a card today t-taling it is ho d;iy of your broker to supgtsi timely iuvi-ftiiieuis. I recom mend immediate atttntian to the pur chase of May, corn. Your instruc floiii will rtcc-ivc persona! sc-rvice. E. V. WAGNER. Liverpool Grain. l-ivorKxl, March 11. Wheat was firm on th? opciiinc on unexpecteil firmness i:i .American markets yester day, ami !he elos'ntt t -ttMcJincss in Kue ros Aires, and shorts were induced 'o cover some. The steadiness in Paris and a c"tiiiinid fair demand from the continent caused fur'heriiis tishteninp; of offers. loiter and jus; before the e'ese the market 'iinml lower with a !v).ne of -'Ki from the opening on tlu inc-reasc'i pressure of both Australian ami India offc rs. tit a decline, and taik of latire world's siii)itn'n s this wc k. with lii)eral contributions from Russia. There was a iiii"t demand for spo;. wih ail cargoes? offered at a decline. At tlie Jose the market was easier and exchanged to '8 higher than yester day. Corn was firm and hitrher on Amer ican sir-nt:th and scarcity of first liand American offers. The advance was checked by better rejiorts from Argen tine, and a decline of 1 penny in plate spot. Chicago Cash Grain. Wh'-.if No. 2 r 0.-W01!4. No. 3 r "S .joo, No. 2 hw 005 ;)l '2. No. 3 liw S."J!I, No 1 ns 0: f; loo No. 2 ns 0: t? 00. No. 3 ns !" ; OS. No. 2 8 9 "hi 00. No. 3 Svy?0o, c .205, durum S2 Ii 0t. Oats No. 2 30, No. 2 w C1U5 32, No 3 w 303431'4, No. 4 w 23'o30i. standard 31ft 31 V-,. Corn No. 2 -17'i'??4S. No. 2 w ITVa ft 4S, No. 2 y 47,i54S,4, No. 3 45 4ii, No. 3 w 4534 fi 4fi' j. No. 3 y 4647. No. 4 43Afi44, No. 4 w 43Vi$r'44Va. No. 1 y 4:i2444, spm 41 U ii 42 , sgy 41 'if 12'i. Chicago Cash. Corn firm. Oats ',4 higher. Kansas City Cash. Wheat uenchangd. Corn ' , higher. Peoria Cash. Coin 20 cars. Market i. up. No. 3 w and No. 3 y 45 U, No. 3 mixed 431;. Nothing on oats. St. Louis Cash, Cash wheat, no (remand, unchanged. Corn unchanged. Liverpool Cables. Wheat closed unchanged. Corn c losed i higher. Chicago Receipts. Today. Contract Wheat 16 4 Corn 24J 1 Oats 93 59 Northwest Cars. "Io Last Last Cattle and sheep steady. Western Live Stock. Hogs. Cattle. Sheep. Kansas City 2,500 100 500 Omaha 6.500 100 St. Iuis 3,500 Estimated Tomorrow. Hogs. Cattle. Sheep. Chicago 38,)"0 23,000 2G.000 NEW YORK STOCKS. New York, March 11. Following are the quotations on the market today: .140'i .172V4 -HS'i . 7(iy, .1548 . 29 Vi, .llaVs .iocy2 . 55 ',4 .124a -121 i . 75 day. WTeek. Year Has ; Cnion Pacific I". S. Steel preferred I. S. Steel common , j Reading i Rock Island common (Southern Pacific . .' j New York Central Missouri Pacific Great Northern Northern Pacific Smelters Colorado Fuel & Iron 32 Canadian Pacific 215 '4 Illinois Central 134 Pennsylvania 125V4 Erie 28 Chesapeake & Ohio 81 V Brooklyn Rapid Transit 7CV Baltimore & Ohio 103", 4 Atchison 106V6 Sugar us St. Paul 1201, Copper 62?4 Ihigh Valley 171',i Daily United States Weather Map 2?? IX S. Department of Apiculture. WEATHER BUREAU WIIUS L. MOORE. Chiet rv 22 1 206 Minneapolis . Duiuth 5 7 Winnipeg 171 131 Chicago Estimates Tomorrow. Wheat 310 73 15 13 ?OCOCCKXXXJCCOOCXOOCKXOOOOOC CXXCC!CO0C5000O0CeC000OCO0 2 6 Hotel Majestic Newly Furnished. Rates, 50c, 75c, $1.00 and S1.50 Steam Heat and Electric Light BARNEY O'NEIL PROPFIETOR 1S17-1S19 Second Avenue :coccooc coococcocoz. oc cc oc c-ccooecooccoc oc coccocc Corn 197 Oats S3 Primary Movement. Receipts. Shipments. j Wheat today 400,000 208,000 j Year ago C45,0u0 23''. 000 Corn today 520.0O0 472,000 Year ago 507.00U 543,000 LIVE STOCK. Opening of Market. Hoes 1VoO. ixft over. 1.S0O. Onen- cd strong. 5c higher. Mixed 6.90fz 7.25. good 7.00Q7.20, rough 6.756.95, light 7.i0(5 7.35. Cattle 200; steady.' Sheep 2,000; strong. Nine O'clock Market. Hogs Monday 3S.000, cattle 23,000, sheep 2C.0O0. Hogs strong to Kc higher. Quality good. Mixed 6 95f?7.30. good 7-OOfi-7.25, rough 606.95. light 7.05S7.35, pigs 6 907.40, bulk 7.057.25. Carrie steady. Beeves 5.00F7.0 cows 2.503 6 00. sioekers 4.255.S0, Texans 5.lf:5.f0. calves 7.50'jr. S.75. Sheep 2.75J5 4. SO, lambs 4 650 6.45. Clcse of Market. Hogs closed weak; early advance lost. Mixed 6.9"'fi 7.23, good 6.95(57.20, rough 6.75 6.90, light 7.00Q7.30. New York Bank Statement. New York, March 11. Members' daily average cash reserve, 25.54; re serve decrease f3 K" 6f. Ices IT Q j decrease, $3,842,800; loans increase, I $6, 446.900; specie decrease, Sl.086,700: legal tenders decrease, $1,941,700; de posits increase, $3,228,900; circulation decrease, $97,900. LOCAL MARKET CONDITIONS. March 11. Following are the quota tions on the local market today: Live Poultry Old bens, 10c; springs 16c pound; ducks, 18c pound; geese, 10c pound; turkeys lSc pound. Fresh eggs, 19c Potatoes, per bushel, 5c. Butter, dairy 24c; creamery 26c. Lard, 12c. Onions, 80c Feed and Fuel. Corn, per bushel, 50c Oats. 22c. Wheat, 85c. Forage Timothy hay, $15 to $16;' Clover hay, $15. Y.'ood $4.50 per load. Coal Lump, per bushel, 15c; slack. 10c Sales on Market square in last 21 hours up to noon today: Oats, two loads at 32c. Ccrn, six loads at 4c and 50c. Hay, three loads at $15. Clover hay, one loal at $14. m 1 cj Col T MillM,IMikmkllwNMJ" .' 2 7a -rr- iZiTM rnmUM am dMad Um. dm Kmuk polnM rt Mmal t? ttoar. 0 eHuifi fr0rw, (J)Am. twort Klarta Inm i rMk iIm uJT FH Bof. mivlmum MWfHJ b M li Uani K-bntf rlUll. J It M UMg OA. i1filnilii W If mi haul m Wi. FOIUJCAsr I OH ItOCK ISLAND, DAVKM'OKT, MOLINK AND VicIXlTY. Unsettled with rain tonig ht or Sunday, colder. WEATHER CONDITIONS. Dubuque IS Davenport 15 The northwestern area of low pres sure has advanced to the Red River valley and is attended by generally cloudy skies from the Pacific coast to the tipper Mississippi valley and the upper lakes, with rain or snow on the Pacific slope and In the Rocky mountain sections. This disturbance has also caused a rise in temperature in the Missouri and upper Mississippi valleys. The area of high pressure Denver and fair, cool weather that was yes- Jacksonville terday over the central valleys has ; . moved eastward to the St. Lawrence valley and the north Atlantic sec tions. The continued eastward move ment of the northwestern low and the approach of a high that has ap peared on the north Pacific coa3t will be attended by unsettled and colder weather in this vicinity, with rain to night or Sunday. OBSERVATIONS. Low High Pr'cip last yes- 24 hrs. night., terd'y. Inch Rock Island 41 Atlantic City 32 Boston 30 Buffalo 26 11 62 2.3 0 0' Kansas City 51 2.6 0 2iN,,;W Orleans 61 New York city .... 3' .Norfolk 1 0 Pho'-nix 11 St lj'ii.s 1-. St. Paul ! San Dieao Is 00:. Seattle ;!s 0o; Washington 32 Winnipeg :; Yellowstone; I';irk .21 J. M. SMKHIKU, l.c;il For ast-r 5S 42 10 70 80 .IS .0.1 .''0 62 M IS M - i .0' .00 .0 1 ."l SALARY LOANS Made in One Day. I Paid ha'-k In nmrill, convenient Inxtal j mentu: our low rates hurt our rornpc-tl- t'ir. hut will henc-lit you. Victor Finance company. J! McM&nJH htjlldirof, Kcon I . ami Main KtreetH, Ivavenport. Norln j 2411. River Forecast: During the next 4S hours only slight changes in the Mississippi will occur from below Du buque to Muscatine. Flood Hgt. Chag. stage. 7a m. 24 hrs. St, Paul 11 02 0.1 THE SMOKE HOUSE For a good smoke, try a Smoke House cigar. Dunsmore & O'Connell. liHH Fourth Avenue. (The Btat l the Cheapest) FIRE. LIFE. I.I'JIJTMNO ANu WIND fcidlCJ l.SbLUANCE. EoUthlUhed lt74 Offlee. 172 TUlrd avum. Katta I aonable. J rtOCK ISLAND, ILL ' A. E. MclNNIS i f;erif-ral Cor,tr.-itor and riijlll-r j Plans a.nd mi iniatc f u r n l I.i-1 Wl,! i;il lot bfid l'Jild houn: on monthly 1 paymer.ti. l'rU r-a'n:i hl: and all iwoik K'iar4utifil. Old phoua 111. V: J'lilJ Ci'-vtatu utittl.