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100 TORPEDO BOATS
FOR RUSSIA
BUILT AT NIXON’S YARDS
NO BREACH OF AMERICAN NEU
TRALITY.
To Bnill Worship* and Send Them
Abroad to Be Delivered, Rnt the
Huilder Mu*t 'lake Hi* Oun Ri*k.
Am Soon a* the Miipn Are Ileyond
the ft-Mile Limit of Anierienn Jn
ri>*di(‘tion They Are Lawful I*ri*e
a* Contrahand of Hnr,
New York, Dec. 3.—lf the plans of
Russia for the construction of a prac
tically new navy come to fruition, the
Tsar has only begun to fight.
It will create surprise when it is
known that Mr. Nixon has really turn
ed over to Russia nearly 100 torpedo
boats. Some of these boats have gone
across in sections and been put up on
the other side. Some of them have
gone under their own steam. How this
ha® been done without detection is the
secret of Mr. Nixon and the Russian
government.
How the new Russian navy will get
out of the Black sea through the Dar
danelles without complications with
Turkey and Europe is a matter which
at this time does not enter into the
problem.
TJie Dardanelles Harrier.
With that the Americans who have
been engaged to do the work have
nothing to do. Under treaty no war
ship of any Power is to be allowed by
Turkey to pass these straits. There
was talk several months after the out
break of the Russian-Japanese War
of Russia passing her Black sea fleet
through the Dardanelles, and Great
Britain was reported to have made
strong representations to Turkey and
the permission was not granted. Rus
sia. however, did take through sev
eral of her auxiliary ships after dis
arming them.
It is no breach of American neutral
ity for Mr. Nixon to build any num
ber of ships in this country and send
them abroad to be delivered to pros
pective purchasers. But lie must do
so at his own risk. As soon as these
ships are without the three mile limit
of American jurisdiction they are law
ful prize, as contraband of war.
No Cause for Government Interfer
ence.
There is plenty of precedent in the
archives of the State Department for
non-interference with iMr. Nixon's
plans. According to AVheaton, one of
the most eminent authorities on inter
national law, "sending armed vessels
and munitions of war to the ports of
a belligerent for sale as articles of
commerce is not prohibited by the
laws of nations or by the laws of the
United States, though it may render
the property liable to confiscation.”
If it were the intention of Mr. Nixon
to recruit crews for these ships, hoist
th. Russian ensign and send them out
of American ports to prey on Japanese
commerce, this government would be
liable to censure just as England was
compelled to pay the United States
$15,000,000 for the damage done Ameri
can commerce by the Confederate
cruiser Alabama, which outfitted in an
English port.
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An engineer named Knorr, a German,
who has become a naturalized Rus
sian, built four of the great bridges
on the Trans-Hlberian Railway, includ
ing the big Yenisei and Obi bridges,
which cost, respectively, $2,360,000 and
12,000,000. They were great engineering
Coats, and brought him International
Came in his profession. Rut he was
pursued by a curious fatality. A writer
In T. A T. says: He bad five daugh
ters, who were famous in itusslu for
their beauty, and whom he loved dear
ly. Just after hi* first bridge wus com
plated on* of them died; and as ea> h
•f hie three succeeding bridges was
MWiIMM* Hm Mould liut
build g fifth bridge.
Mr. Nixon's Yard, Where Russian War Craft Are Building
TWENTY-FOUR BANK DIRECTORS
WHO REPRESENT $11,000,006,000
•A Financial Combination Which Controls the
Destinies of the Business World.
By W. G. NICHOLAS.
New York, Dec. 3.—Somebody has
gone to the trouble of analyzing the
personnel of the National City Bank
directorate and making deductions
therefrom. It is found that the twen
ty-four directors of this bank, the larg
est in America and one of the largest
In the world, are directors of three
hundred and fifty-seven other banks,
trust companies, railroad and Indus
trial corporations, and Insurance com
panies representing assets of more
than $ll,000,0u0,0<)0. This bank is the
center of a local group of banks and
trust companies, whose loans aggre
gate more than $400,000,000, or nearly
half the total loans of the fifty-three
clearing house banks of New York.
The statement from which these
facts are gleaned does not mention the
additional interesting fact that the
Standard Oil interests which control
the National City Bank are also heavy
stockholders in the leading banks of
other cities—Chicago, Cleveland, Pitts
burg and Washington. This group is
to-day the strongest financial combina
tion In the world and wields its power
aggressively and remorselessly. It
controls not only the destinies of the
business world, but is reaching out for
control of national and State Legis
latures on a scale never before at
tempted.
The President nml tlie Tariff.
The opinion prevails in the financial
district that President Roosevelt will
find It Impossible to withstand the ar
guments against tariff revision and
that he will yield to the advice of rep
resentative business interests to tread
softly In that direction. The inspired
announcements which have come from
the White House as to the President's
Intentions for tariff revision were put
out as feelers and the response thereto
has been of a kind calculated to im
press the chief executive with the force
of the opposition he will encounter,
should he go ahead with his plan qf
campaign as originally outlined. Not
only Is there general Wall street dis
belief in tariff revision, but there is a
strongly grounded theory that the
next Congress will pass a law giving
generous subsidies to the shipping
combinations under cover of a move
to stimulate and upbuild the American
merchant marine. The government
commission to inquire into facts bear
ing on this question has completed its
work, and will present its report to
Congress early in the short session
now about to begin. This report, it is
well understood, will form the basis
of a friendly campaign on behalf of
the shipping interests. That was what
the commission was appointed for and
It has done its work. It was packed
for subsidy promotion, only two of
the Democratic members being against
governmental gifts for this purpose.
Reaction Party Getting Stronger.
The reaction in the stock market is
getting stronger numerically and in
point of influence. It includes some
of the strongest and most experienced
operators in the street. It is going on
the theory that the prosperity feature
of the sitaution has been sufjlciently
discounted by the advance which has
taken place and that the general mar
ket would be benefited by a setback
in prices about this time.
The banking interests are now di
vided in their market position and not
even all the Standard Oil crowd are
a unit at this time, some holding that
there should be a decided reaction or
at least a halt of considerable dura
tion, while others want to continue
the juggle and mark up the prices of
the goods to still higher levels before
pulling out and taking a rest. They
have not yet completed their plans for
new flotations and distribution of
new issues of securities and think It
will be just as easy to work oft the
goods at higher figures than those
now ruling. The two market factions
are seemingly about equally matched
in strength and influence, conse
quently the market front presents a
ragged and irregular appearance.
Manipulation of Active Securities.
Manipulation is strikingly evident in
many of the active favorites while in
others the tape is proof of continued
energetic liquidation by the insiders
and of Increasing pressure. That por
tion of the public which has come in
to the market within the last thirty
or forty days has had practically no
profit in its trades, although as yet
serious loss has not been incurred.
This is a good thing for the outside
players in one sense, although it may
breed over-confidence whlrh will be
costly later on as It will encourage
stubbornness to stand out against
losses Instead of taking alarm and
fleeing therefrom.
I'. X. Steel Advanced Since May f2fiT,-
000.000.
Comparison of current prices with
those prevailing in May last show that
the stocks and bonds of the United
States Steel Corporation have increased
in selling v‘.ilue during that period
$267,000,000. This rise In quotations Is
a good thing for the setuul holders of
the securities and for those who were
lucky enough to make speculative In
vestments while tlie depression was
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SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. DECEMBER 4. 1904
on. It has not given back to the
hundreds of thousands of unfortunate
gamblers in these securities, however,
the money they lost on the break in
preferred Steel from 100 down to 50
and in the common from 55 to under
9. These hundreds of thousands of
small fry ti'aders and men of larger
calibre were frozen out, countless num
bers losing every dollar they possessed
on earth, having been induced 'to buy
the 'stuff largely on account of the
great names identified with the cor
poration and in the guileless convic
tion that the multi-millionaires con
nected with the property would pro
tect the public against shrinkage in
prices. Not until they had been roast
ed to death did they learn that the
stock they were buying at fancy figures
had been sold to them by the insiders.
Now that the preferred is nearly back
to record figures and the common more
than half way back, there are signs
of another unloading by Insiders.
Rumors of Sleel Manipulation.
Incidental to the manipulation which
is going on in Steel there Is a re
newal of further bond conversion jug
glery and persistent rumors of the ac
quisition of several of the independent
Iron companies at terms which must
net the insiders tremendous profits.
These reports are met with denials of
course, but In Wall street denials do
not count for anything. Insiders seem
to regard it as their bounden duty to
lie about their plans until a conclusion
has been reached. They probably argue
that It is none of the public’s business,
and they have the additional strong
reason for secrecy in the fact that
premature publicity nine times out of
teh delays consummation and really
does no good. Experience has taught
caution In this respect.
Kaatern Railroad System to Invade
New Field.
The New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad Is planning to move
further West and invade the Eastern
trunk line territory as an independent
proposition. This corporation has close
affiliations with the Pennsylvania, and
is openly antagonistic to the New York
Central, although using the latter's
New York terminals under lease. Its
recent purchase of the Ontario and
Western is only the beginning of a
campaign of expansion and extension.
It Is said to have designs on either the
Lehigh Valley or Erie, or both, and
to be full of ambition to extend its
influence in the transportation world.
The New Haven is one of J. Pierpont
Morgan’s pets. He has taken more
real live Interest in that property than
in any of the corporations with which
he is Identified, and he is said to be
the moving spirit in the new schemes
of expansion.
Pushing Morgan Into Background.
It is well known that the Rockefeller
combination now dominates New York
Central and with the increased power
of that outfit Morgan Is being slowly
pushed into the background. For
many years Mr. Morgan has been the
financial representative of the Vander
bilt party in the Central management.
That feature of control is being shifted
over to James Stillman of the National
City Bank, a circumstance which may
have something to do with the Morgan
purpose in connection with New Hav
en. William Rockefeller is a director
of the New Haven road, and he has
two or three of his dummies on the
board with him. but the Standard Oil
Is a minority factor there.
It is no sure thing that the Pennsyl
vania is not in some way tied up with
Morgan in these plans, and the sug
gestion is made that in the final
shake-up the New Haven will aban
don the Central and have its termi
nals in the grand underground depots
now being constructed by the Penn
sylvania corporation. Such a move
might involve the digging of a tunnel
under the western end of Long Island
sound to connect with the Pennsylva
nia. This latter plan may look some
what chimerical, but the thing would
not be impossible from an engineering
standpoint, it is said. When the New
Haven carries out its plans there will
then be four factors in the Eastern
trunk line situation instead of two.
The Wabash system is gradually in
trenching itself all along the line, and,
although not as strong as either the
Central or Pennsylvania it must here
after be considered and be given a
voice.
* no, 000.4)00 of Mercantile Marine.
The syndicate which was stuck with
$50,000,000 of the 4 per cent, bonds of
the Mercantile Marine is about to
make a market for the securities. The
load has been lying on the stomach
of the syndicate ever since the allot
ment was made more than two years
ago and no effort wus made for a pub
lic distribution, the futility of such an
uttempt at the time being well under
stood. Conditions having tremen
dously improved, however, the time is
deemed opportune for a concerted ef
fort to stimulate friendly Interest in
these securities.
An IntitLU move in Congress for a
subsidy this winter will be one for
ward step. This mercantile marine
bond syndicate is made up largely of
those who profited by the original
Steel Corporation flotation, and the
big end of the profits of the original
deal ate reinvested in the shipping
bonds. The New York Life Insur-
ance Company owns $3,000,000 of these
bonds. The New York Life appears
to be about the only outside investor
of importance that could be induced
to take hold at the time of the forma
tion of the company. Unfriendly per
sons say this is because George W.
Perkins, chairman of the Finance
Committee of the New York Life, was
persuaded to make the investment by
his very good friend George W. Per
kins, member of the firm of J. P. Mor
gan & Cos.
Tlie Street and the Trusts.
Wall street cannot be induced to
take seriously the scare reports from
Washington that the President in
tends to get after the wicked trusts.
It is thought to be more than likely
that he will take action against the
beef trust as government agents have
been busy for many months collecting
evidence against it. But so long as
the White House and the Department
of Justice remain blind, deaf and
dumb to the glaring iniquities of the
coal trust it would be shockingly in
consistent to run amuck in other and
less offensive fields. What steps may
be taken by Washington to investi
gate Standard Oil can hardly be at
tended by results of consequence. The
misdeeds of this venerable sinner have
long been known to the world in gen
eral, and its methods are believed to
be so cleverly concealed and covered
up as to make the corporation proof
against prosecution.
Speculation in Copper.
Speculative interest in the Coppers
has been revived throughout the East
by the sensational advance of the cop
per metal, and by the continued re
ports of a shortage in the world's sup
ply. The best copper authorities as
sert that production falls short of con
sumption, and that the metal Is cer
tain to advance to 17 cents a pound
again within a year. Consequent upon
this advance of the metal, speculation
in copper shares has been rife, and
all the active stocks have seen a re
markable advance. Trading on the
New York curb market in copper
stocks occupies the attention of the
traders to the exclusion of almost ev
ery other security.
It is asserted that all the prominent
producing companies will close their
fiscal year with a large surplus of
earnings to their credit. These pre
dictions have caused a most sensa
tional advance in the price of the pop
ular copper stocks. Among these Mon
treal and Boston Consolidated M. &
S. has perhaps had the greatest per
centage of advance of any. Three
weeks ago this stock went begging on
the curb at 75 cents a share, and to
day it is in large demand around $3.25
to $3.50 per share, and there are those
who freely predict that, owing to an
Internal struggle for control of the
company, this price will advance to
$lO within sixty days. United Cup
per, a Heinze property, Is also advanc
ing in value, as are British Columbia,
White Knob, Tennessee and all of the
popular low-priced copper stocks.
On Tuesday of this week the Chi
nese government endeavored to pur
chase 2,400 tons of spot copper at the
market for the manufacture of coin,
but was unable to get the order filled,
and the best price they could obtain
was 15*4 eents for March delivery.
Phelps, Dodge & Cos. make the state
ment that unless copper production in
creases more than 10 per cent, from
now until the first of next year there
will he a copper famine.
J. P. MORGAN AS A
JUDGE OF ART.
Other Multi-millionaires Who Know
Good Pictures From Ifnil Ones.
New York, Dec. 3.—The election of
J. P. Morgan as president of the Met
ropolitan Museum of Art brings that
gentleman's remarkable taste before
the public eye even more effectively
than any of his many and extremely
expensive art purchases abroad.
In giving a good deal of attention
to pictures Mr. Morgan is by no means
peculiar among the multi-millionaires
of the day, though undoubtedly be is
unique so far as unerring and culti
vated taste in pictures goes. There
are two big railroad magnates, how
ever, who need not doff their hats to
him as judges of pictures. They are
' James J, Hill of the Great Northern
Railroad, and Sir William Van Horn
of the Canadian Pacific. Were either
| of these emperors of transportation to
i lose his Job he would be quite compe
i tent to take charge of and buy for
1 any art galleries in the world.
In this they and Mr. Morgan are
j said to be head and shoulders above
i all the other multi-millionaires of the
United States and Canada. That this
I should be true of Mr. Morgan is not
' surprising. Unlike most of the best
known rich men of to-day he did not
begin life as a poor boy. His father
bad money in plenty; young Morgan
was educated abroad, where he had
many opportunities to see and study
the finest an treasures of the old
world, and he was a connoisseur of
the first water when he returned to
this country and took up the banking
business where his father had laid it
down.
It was not so -with either Mr. Hill
or Sir William Van Horn. Both of
\ them were poor boys and neither had
i opportunities to sec fine pictures or to
I study them until man's estate had
been reached. Betides being a flrst
! class Judge of pictures Mr. Hill Is said
to know more about diamonds and
: other precious stones than any one else
!on this continent except Oeorge F.
I Kunz, the gem expert of the great
est dealers in precious stones in
| America. Nobody knows just how he
| came to take up the study of gems,
| but be did so many year* ugn and his
' gem lore includes not only about ail
there is to know about grades, quality
and values, hut slao the history of
diamond and ruby cutting and the in
dividual history ot all the noted gems
lit tbe world. Dumps.
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INSTIGATOR OF THE
“REVISED VERSION ”
Octegennriun Risliop Who I* Fond
of Cycling and Billiards.
London, Dec. 3.—Although w'hen it
was rumored last August that Dr. El
licott, Bishop of Gloucester, was about
to vacate his see, the aged prelate gave
a vigorous denial to the story, his ap
proaching retirement is now authori
tatively announced. Born eighty-five
years ago, with a record of forty-one
years service on the Episcopal bench,
he is easily the doyen of Anglican
bishops. Until a very recent period
his bodily and mental strength seemed
little impaired by the assaults of time.
For many years he was one of the
most ardent of Alpine climbers and
when he was nearly 70 he crossed the
Aletsch glacier alone and in a snow
storm. At dinner that same night he
made light of his adventure. A hard
worker all his life, and proud of his
health and strength, he has at last re
luctantly yielded to the persuasions of
his friends that he should devote what
remains of his life to the rest he has
so richly earned.
To him, more than to anybody else,
the Church is indebted for the “Re
vised Version” of the New Testament.
At Cambridge, in his young days, he
devoted himself to its historical study.
Bringing to his task as the years went
by the accumulations of a profound
scholarship and intimate acquaintance
with Hebrew literature, he became
convinced of the necessity for anew
translation. But he feared that he
could not arouse sufficient interest and
sympathy in the project to obtain the
sanction of the church for the work,
and it was more or less as a forlorn
hope that he induced Bishop Wllber
force to bring the matter before con
vocation in 1870. To his surprise and
gratification a committtee was appoint
ed to undertake the task, of which,
as the man best fitted for the position,
he was made chairman.
It has been said that he possesses a
gold pass that enables him to travel
free on any English railroad. This is
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a slight exaggeration, but he has a
silver "life pass” on the Great East
ern, which he won, so to speak, in a
railroad accident on that line. On
that unfortunate occasion both his legs
were broken, but while he lay In ag
ony he administered spiritual consola
tion to a fellow sufferer by the dis
aster. The period immediately follow
ing this terrible experience he has
described as “time spent wiht the an
gels.” For all that he is a very hu
man type of man with none of the as
cetic’s attitude towards life. He knows
how to enjoy himself and no doubt
his mastery of the art of recreation
accounts in no small measure for his
vigor ahd longevity.
Quite late in life the bishop took to
cycling and he still plays a good game
to billiards. It is related of him that
playing at Lord Ducie’s one Saturday
night he regretted that someone had
not Exercised sufficient forethought to
put back the hands of the clock which
pointed to midnight at an interesting
period of the game. Probably the
story is apocryphal, but it illustrates
his devotion to the green cloth and
ivory balls. He narrowly missed be
ing Archbishop of Canterbury, Dis
raeli strongly urging his claims to it
as long ago as 1868. But the Queen
for once disregarded her favorite
Premier’s recommendation and ap
pointed Dr. Tait to the vacant see.
ENGLAND’S INTENTIONS
IN FAR OFF THIBET
Arc Attracting the Attention of the
State Department.
Washington, Dec. 3.—England’s in
tentions in Thibet have attracted the
careful consideration of the State De
partment because of the vital relations
the affairs of that country to the
American policy in support of the ad
ministrative entity of China. There
have been some exchanges of a thor
oughly informal character between
Washington and London. The Wash
ington government was long ago ad
vised by its ambassador at London
that no policy In contravention of the
integrity of China is contemplated.
The text of the Anglo-Thtbetan
treaty already published imposes upon
the Thibetans the payment of £500,000
($2,500,000), England to remain in Thi
bet until this is paid. The sum is so
great as to assure England of practi
cally permanent occupation of Thibet,
the resources of that people for
ment toeing sadly limited.
This and the reported clause of the
treaty stipulating that no other gov
ernment shall have privileges in Thi
bet unless approved by Great Britain
has aroused the deepest antagonism of
Russia, on the ground that this is a
virtual assumption of the powers of
sovereignty by the British. It is an
nounced in London, however, that this
text of the treaty is not correct and
that the treaty will be amended before
ratification, so that it will suit every
body concerned.
Considerable opposition to the treaty
has become manifest In Pekin. It is
doubtful if it will be readily ratified
there. Before it is ratified the Rus
sian and British governments will un
doubtedly measure their diplomatic
strength with the Chinese government.
Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, has
sailed from England for his post. It is
expected there will be some develop
ment of the situation when he arrives
in India.
There is no disposition on the part
of the State Department now to ques
tion England’s intentions In Thibet. In
the fact of such assurances as have
been given pressing inquiries would
probably not be gratefully accepted. If
the treaty as ratified Is tn contraven
tion of any of the principles of the
’’open door” or the ’’administrative
entity" of China there will be time
enough to act then.”
—Countess Margaret Cassini, niece
and adopted daughter of the Russian
ambassador to this country, will de
vote her energies to amateur theatri
cals in Washington this winter. She
is a born actress, graceful, beautiful,
clever, with a good voice which she
knows how to use, and she has thk
en up acting with her usual zeal, en
ergy and taste. Her favorite charac
ter Is Judith, although she is at home
In comedy as well as tragedy.