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STOCKS VERY DULL
STRENGTH OK MARKET DUE SOLE
LY TO LIGHT OFFERINGS.
not till after new year
is A RESUMPTION OF GENERAL AC
TIVITY ANTICIPATED.
Then It la Relieved That Prices
■Will Take an Upward Trend— Call
Loan Rate Seem* to Sa.gr Instead
of Stiffening aa the Year Draws to
a Close—Railroads Most Active I
sncs in Yesterday’s Trade—Some
Realising: on l’. S. Steel Stocks.
New York, Dec. 20.—The strength in
to-day’s dull market was due to the
very light offerings of stocks. Dull
ness was really profound at times
and was largely concentrated in a few
active shares. There is a pretty gen
eral agreement that revived activity
is not to be looked for until after the
holiday period.
The call loan rate seems to sag in
stead of to stiffen as the end Of the
year approaches and little is done at
as high as 3 per cent. Along with
the general agreement In the proba
bility of dull trading until after the
New Year go numerous expressions
of confidence in higher prices when
the market does become active.
Some Active Issues.
The movement in New York Cen
tral to-day unaccompanied by news of
any direct bearing on the property
was of considerable effect on the
whole of the day’s narrow market.
The restoration of dividend rates on
Lake Erie and Western preferred and
on Indiana, Illinois and lowa were
favorable incidents. There was some
realizing in the United States Steel
stocks on the additional advances in
prices of products. Southern Pacific
moved in response to rumors of a
coming dividend. Gains were not fully
retained, but the closing tone was
firm.
Bonds were firm. Total sales, par
HEW YORK STOCK AND BOND LIST
Railroad Stocks.
Atchison 85%
do preferred 103%
Baltimore 'and Ohio 100%
do do preferred 95%
Canadian Pacific 130%
Central of New Jersey 190
Chesapeake and Ohiio 48%
Chicago and Alton 43%
do do preferred 78
Chicago and Great Western 22%
Chicago and Northwestern 207
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Pau1.170%
do do preferred .182
Chicago Terminal and Trans 12%
do do preferred 22%
C., C., C. and St. Louis 90%
Colorado Southern 23%
do do Ist preferred . 59
do do 2nd preferred 36
Delaware and Hudson 187%
Delaware, Lackawanna and West.33o
Denver and Rio Grande 31%
do do preferred 88%
Erie 37%
do Ist preferred 75
do 2nd preferred 56
Hocking Valley 90%
do do preferred 92%
Illinois Central ;154%
lowa Central 28%
do do preferred 55%
Kansas City Southern 28%
do do preferred 63
Louisville and Nashville 140%
Manhattan L .......163
Metropolitan Securities 79
Metropolitan Street Railway 121%
Minneapolis and St. Louis 62
Minn., St. P. and Sault Ste. M 90%
do do preferred 146%
Missouri Pacific 108%
Missouri, Kansas and Texas 30%
do do preferred 62
National R. R. of Mexico pref.... 40%
New York Central 141%
Norfolk and Western 79
do do preferred 92
Ontario and Western 43%
Pennsylvania 137%
Pittsburg, C., C. and St. Louis... 76
Reading 78%
do Ist preferred 89%
do 2nd preferred 81%
Rock Island Company 33%
do do preferred 83%
St. L. and S. F. 2nd pref 62%
St. Louis, Southwestern 24%
do do preferred 57%
Southern Pacific 64%
Southern Railway 34
Texas and Pacific 34%
Toledo, St. Louis and Western 35%
do do preferred 53%
Union Pacific 110%
do do preferred 95%
Wabash 22
do preferred 43%
Wheeling and Lake Erie 18%
"Wisconsin Central 21%
do do preferred 45%
Mexican Central 20%
Southern Faciflc preferred 118%
Express Com nun let*.
Acfems Express .236
American Express ...209
United States Express 119
Wells-Fargo Express 237
Miscellaneous.
Amalgamated Copper 67%
American Car and Foundry 35
do do preferred 93%
American Cotton Oil 5§
do do preferred 93
American Ice 6%
do do preferred 38%
American Linseed Oil 16%
do do preferred 37
American Locomotive 34%
do do preferred 102%
American Smelting and Refining.. 81%
do do preferred 113
American Sugar Refining 141%
Anaconda Mining Company 101
Brooklyn Rapid Transit 60%
Colorado Fuel and Iron 46%
Consolidated Gas ~201%
Corn Products 21%
do do preferred ; 79%
Distillers’ Securities 37%
Ceneral Electric 185%
International Paper 24%
do do preferred 77%
International Pump , 39
do do preferred 86
National Lead 23%
North American *..101
Pacific Mail 43%
People’* (las 107%
Pressed Steel Car 39%
do do preferred 90%
Pullman Palace Car 234
Republic steel
do do preferred 68
Rubber Good# 26%
do do preferred 94
Tennessee Coal and Iron 71%
l rilled States I.cut her 14%
do do preferred 101%
Prilled Htalee Realty 79%
I nited States Rubber 32
do do |,referred 93%
l alt Mi Slater Steel 29%
do do preferred 92%
” eetlnghoiiae Electric 1*2%
western Colon 92%
Bend*.
I"'■ refunding Be, legtsterrd .... 104%
<> do refunding Be, coupon 104%
do do )a. registered i94%
do do Ba. coupon 3M%
do new *. regtetered ......... J*f%
do do new 4a, uowpon ......... 11l
do do (Sd is. tegteteicd 106%
JOSEPH D. WEED. President.
U’M. P. McCACLEY,Vice President.
SAMUEL L. CLAY. Cashier,
Savannah Bank
and Trust Go.
SAVANNAH, GA.
Solicits accounts of Indi
viduals, Firms, Banks, Bank
ers and Corporations.
Buys and sells Foreign Ex
change.
Savings Department.
Interest paid or compound
ed quarterly.
Correspondence Invited.
value, $3,320,000. United States bonds
were unchanged on call.
gale* of Stock,,
Total sales stocks were 558,200
shares including:
Atchison, 6,500; Baltimore and Ohio,
9,100; St. Paul, 9,900; Delaware and
Hudson, 5,600; Erie, 15,200; Louisville
and Nashville, 3,400; Metropolitan
Street, 5,100; Missouri Pacific, 5,900;
Norfolk and Western, 7,500; Pennsyl
vania. 42,100; Reading. 41,600; Rock
Island, 7,600; Southern Pacific, 64,700;
Southern Railway, 6,200; Southern
preferred, 300; Union Pacific, 39,500;
Copper, 17,400; American Car and
Foundry, 10,100; Smelting, 17,900; Su
gar, 7,500; Tennessee Coal, 4,300;
United States Leather, 29,000; Leather
preferred, 10,000; United States Steel.
15,400; United States Steel preferred,
40,100.
MOSEY MARKET.
New York, Dec. 20.—Money on call
steady, 2%<&3 per cent.; closing bid,
2% per cent.; offered at 3 per cent.
Time loans easy and dull; sixty days,
ninety days and six months, 3%@3%
per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 4(g)
4% per cent. Sterling exchange easier
with actual business in bankers’ bills
at $4.87.35@4.87.40 for demand, and at
$4.84.65#4.84.70 for sixty-day bills;
posted rates, $4.85%@4.88c. Commercial
bills, $4.85%. Bar silver, 61c, Mexican
dollars, 48%c.
do do old 4s, coupon 106%
Atchison general 4s 102%
Atchison adjustment 4s, bid .... 94%
Atlantic Coast Line 4s 99%
Baltimore and Ohio 4s 103%
Baltimore and Ohio 3%s 96
Central of Georgia ss. bid .... 110%
Central of Georgia Ist inc., bid 92
Central of Ga. 2nd inc. closed.... 73%
do do 3rd incomes ’. 63%
Chesapeake and Ohio 4%s 107%
Chicago and Alton 3%5, bid 82
Chicago, B. and Q. new 4s 100%
C., M. and St. P. gen. 4s, bid 110%
Chicago and N. W. con. 7s, bid .. 129
C., R. I. and P. R. R. 4s 80%
C., R. I. and P. R. R. col. 5s ... 93%
C., C., C and St L gen 4s 101%
Chicago Terminal 4s 85
Consolidated Tobacco 4s, bid .... 73
Colorado and Southern 4s 91%
Denver and Rio Grande 4s, bid 102
Erie prior lien 4s 101%
Erie general 4s 91%
Fort W. and D. C. Ist, bid 107%
Hocking Valley 4%s 111%
Louisville and Nash. Unified 4s 103%
M. and O. C. T. 4s 96%
Manhattan consol gold 4s 105%
Mexican Central 4s, bid 76
Mexican Central Ist income .... 23%
Minn, and St. Louis 4s, ofd .... 97%
Missouri, Kansas and Texas 45.. 100
Missouri, Kan. and Tex. 2ds 85%
National R. R. of Mex. con. 4s .. 81%
New York Central gen. 3%5. bid.. 101
New Jersey Central gen. ss, bid 136
Northern Pacific 4s 105%
Northern Pacific 3s ' 75%
Norfolk and Western consol 4s. 101
Ore. Short Line 4s and Partic. .. 104
Penn. conv. 3%5, bid 102
Reading general 4s 102%
St. L. and Ir. M. con. ss, 'bid ... 116%
St. L. and San F. fg. 4s 89%
St. Louis S’western lsts 97%
Seaboard Air Line 4s, bid 84
Southern Pacific 4s 94
Southern Railway 5s .. 120
Texas and Pacific lsts 119%
Toledo, St. L. and W. 4s 82%
Union Pacific 4s 106%
Union Pacific conv. 4s 111%
U. S. Steel 2d 5s 92%
Wabash lsts, bid 117%
Wabash Deb. B 67
Wheeling and Lake Erie 4s 93%
Wisconsin Central 4s 93
Va.-Carolina Chemical 41%
do do preferred 112
New York. Dec. 20.—Standard OH, 639.
Baltimore, Dec. 20.—Seaboard Air
Line common, 16%® 16%; do preferred,
35% bid.
Atlantic Coast Line common, 153%@
354%.
LOCAL FINANCIAL MARKET.
, ....
The following are the Savannah
Cotton Exchange quotations:
FOREIGN EXCHANGE—SterIing
steady; commercial demand. $4.87%;
sixty days, $4.84%; ninety days $4.83%;
francs, steady; commercial demand,
.5.16; sixty days, 5.18%. Marks, com
mercial demand, 95 11-16; sixty days, 94
13-16: ninety days. 94%.
DOMESTIC EXCHANGE—Buying
at 75c per SI,OOO discount; selling up to
S6OO a graded charge of 10c to 45c;
over S6OO at rate of 75c per SI,OOO pre
mium.
Bunk Stocks.
Bid. Asked.
Chatham Bank 86
Citizens Bank 160
Commercial Bank 109
Chatham R. E. and I. C 0.... 54% ...
Germania Bank 150
Southern Batik 173
Merchants National Bank 111% ...
The National Bank of 5av...172
Oglethorpe Sav. and Trust...l33
People’s Saving and Loan ..100 102
Savannah Bank and Trust .138
Savannah Trust ..108 110
Railroads and Industrials.
Bid. Asked.
Augusta and Savannah ....118% ...
Atlanta and West Point ....155 156
do 6 per cent, certlf 109 110
FINANCIAL.
wM&leland;
BROKERS.
MEMBERS
New York Cotton Exchange
Chicago Board of Trade
New Orleans Cotton Exchange.
New York Coffee Exchange
Si. Louis Merchants' Exchange
Milwaukee Chamber of Lomineroe
Local Office 4i Bar Street, East.
Private wires 10 principal rltlee.
K. It. OWEN. Manager.
lirffM-ii.tlrn iMilllr trim-tea.
JOHN W. DICKEY,
Stock sod Bond Broker,
AIf.tMTA, 4> A.
Writ* fur liot, ,
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1904.
Chat, and Gulf stocks ill 113
Central Ice
Georgia Telephone and Tel
egraph $5
Georgia Brewery 90
Macon Ry. and L. pref 85
do common 25 ...
Georgia Railroad, c0mm0n..255
Planters’ Rice Mill 95
Propeller Towboat, ex-dtv... 96
Savannah Elec, preferred ... 88 90
Savannah Elec, common .... 16 17
Savannah Hotel Company... 66 70
Southwestern .. 118% ...
Southern Railway preferred. 94% 95%
do do common 34 34%
Savannah Brewing 102%
Savannah Cotton Exchange. 65 70
Bontl*.
Chat, and Gulf R. R. 5 per
cent. Ist mortgage- 104% ...
C. of G. coll, trust 11l 112
C. of Ga. cons ill 112
do do Ist incomes 92 93
do do 2nd incomes 72 73
do do 3rd incomes 62% 63%
M. G. and A 111% 112%
G. S. and F. 5s 116
Georgia State 3%5, 1930 108 110
do do 3%5, 1915 104 106
do do 4%5, 1915 114% ...
Macon Ry. and L. bonds 96% 97%
Jacksonville Electric 5s 97
Ocean Steamship ss. 1926 108
Savannah city ss. 1913 108 110
Savannah city ss, 1909 104% ...
Southbound 5s 112
S. A. L. common 17 17%
do do preferred 36% 37%
Savannah Electric Cos. 55.... 97 * 98%
Eatonton ill 112
MARINE
INTELLIGENCE
It is stated in Jacksonville that the
Swan, with tall yellow smokestacks
and neatly painted cabins of pure
white, and with large letters bearing
her name painted on either side of
her main deck, the new steamer built
by the Merrill-Stevens Shipbuilding
Company for Capt. W. T. Gibson, is
now ready to proceed to Savannah,
her future home. The Swan is still
tied up at the Merrill-Stevens dock,
where she is receiving a few finish
ing touches. The crew is aboard, and
she will steam out of port in a few
day®. The Swan has been given a
trial trip, and her engines work to
perfection, not a flaw being found,
and she will be delivered to her own
er in first-class condition during the
present week. The Swan is to be op
erated on the Savannah river, be
tween Augusta, and Savannah, in the
freight and passenger business.
Savannah Almanac, 75th Meri
dian, City Time.
Wednesday, Dee. 31.
Sun rises at 7:20 a. m. and sets
5:26 p. m.
Moon, first quarter, sets 5:35
a. m.
High water at Tybee to-day at
6:30 a. m. and at 6; 49 p. m. High
water- at Savannah one hour later.
Low water at 12:16 a. m. and 12:55
p. m.
ARRIVALS AM) DEPARTURES.
Arrived.
Steamship Zambesi (Br), Rooney,
New York, light. Strachan & Cos.
Steamship Leuetra (Br), Grant, St.
Michael, light.—Strachan & Cos.
Steamship City of Atlanta, Fisher,
New York, assorted.—Ocean Steamship
Company.
Sailed.
Steamship Frederick, Baltimore.
Shipping; Memoranda.
Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 20.—Arrived,
schooners William T. Donnell, Dorr,
Perth Am'boy; Maud H. Dudley,
Grover, New York.
Cleared, schooner Harry Prescott,
Gray, New York; barge Southwest,
Merrlrnan, Philadelphia.
Key West, Fla., Dec. 20, —Arrived,
steamers Gussie, Olsen, Havana, and
sailed for Tampa; Olivette, Turner,
Havana, and sailed for Port Tampa.
Sailed, tug Osceola, , Tortugas.
Note—Spoken off Key West by a pi
lot boat, J. Edward Drake, Philadel
phia to Galveston, twenty days
Charleston, S. C., Dec. 20. —Arrived,
steamer Algonquin, Staples, Jackson
ville, and proceeded for New York.
Saiiled, steamer Brunhilda (Br), Ton
quist, Liverpool, via Savannah.
Brunswick, Ga., • Dec. 19.—Arrived,
steamer Colorado, Risk, New York;
bark Guernica (Urug), Torres, Ha
vana.
Cleared, steamer Charterhouse (Br),
Field, Liverpool.
Sailed, steamers Sabine, Young, New
York; David, Warneke, do, via Sa
vannah; schooners S. P. Blackburn,
Gardiner, New York; Blanche 11.
King, Taylor, do; Robert McCuddy,
Hall, do; Laura M. Lunt, Hart, Bos
ton; Harry Messer, Garland, do; The
ollne. Moody, do; Hibernia (Br), Mc-
Dade, Havana; Harold J. McCarty,
Flynn, Newark; bark John Swann,
Mitchell, New York.
Baltimore, Dec. 20.—Arrived, schoon
er Malcolm B. Seavey, Port Tarnpa;
Henry F. Kregor. Port Tampa.
Philadelphia, Dec. 20.—Arrived, Re
becca M. Walls, Savannah; Agnes
Jenning, Fernandlna.
Cleared, steamer Aragon, George
town, S. C.
New York, Dec. 20.—Arrived,
steamer Rappallo, Savannah.
Hamburg, Dec. 17.—Sailed, Horsley,
Charleston.
Antwerp. Dec. 18.—Arrived, Schwarz
fels, Savannah, via Bremen and Ham
burg.
Liverpool, Dec. 20.—Arrived, Foyle,
Savannah; Calrntorr, Brunswick.
New York, Dec. 20.—Sailed, steamer
City of Memphis, Savannah.
Newport News. Va., Dec. 20.—Ar
rived, steamer Fenchurch, Savannah,
and sailed for Havre and London.
Port Tampa. Fla., Dec. 20.—Sailed,
steamers Miami, White, Havana, via
Key West; Trignac (Fr), Dalu, Nan
tes, via Norfolk.
Notice to Captains of Vessels,
Vessels arriving at night will be re
ported at the Morning News in its
dispatches, without charge. If captains
will confirm reports of their arrival
to No. 241. either telephone.
Notice to Marinera.
Pilot charts and hydrographic Infor
mation will be furnished masters of
vessels free of charge In the United
States hydrographic office, In Custom
House. Captains ure requested to call
at Ihe office. Reports of wrecks and
derelicts received.
This office operates a time ball on
the roof of the Cotton Exchange,
dropped dally nt 12h. 00m.00s. (fiun
days and holidays esoepted), 70th me.
ridisn time. In case of the failure the
bnll la lowered slowly 5 minutes after
It. Clarence Hatrh.
In charge.
ocKAft rNßiunri.
COTTON—ffsvanniih to Boston, per
100 pounds, tsv; lo New York, per 100
pounds. 20c $u duck. 21c llghli red; t
Philadelphia. 10c pet 100 pounds, Bsi
tfrnon., Ik 200 |M/un<].
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I*UM HISDp litt* Frtlilt, mum,
To the American People
To Policy-holders
To Investors
When I began mv story of “Frenzied Finance" I figured
the cost I would be compelled to pay—time, money, misery,
perhaps death.
My story's hardly under way and already I am beginning
to pay the awful price.
The great benefits cannot come to a great people unless
someone pays the price.
The work lam doing is a great one. The benefits to the
people will be tremendous. Why should I not pay the awful
price ?
1 am willing to pay any price if I can only get my whole
story to the whole people.
But I cannot get it to them unless they assist me in the
only way they can—
By absorbing my story.
Already “The System” has found the real weak spot in
my work.
Each copy of a 10-cent magazine costs the publishers
more than they receive for it.
The difference is made up in what they receive from
advertisers.
Even then the limit of the number they can publish is
about 600,000.
All over that number draws on their pockets, unless they
can get a price for advertising commensurate with their cir
culation.
There should be at least 3,000,000 copies sold each month
to supply the people with the real Crimes of Amalgamated,
which begfin in the February number, and The Remedy, which
follows.
The only possible way to do this is to raise the price of
the magazine to 15 cents, which has been done.
I therefore appeal to those who are to receive the bene
fits of my story—all the people—to buy the magazine, and
See that the great advertisers, who are absolutely de
pendent upon the people for their very existence* patronize
Everybody’s Magazine.
Or it cannot even be sold at 15 cents. ,
Boston, December 20, 1904. j
EVEYBODY’S MAGAZINE—OUT TO-DAY
to Baltimore, $5.00; to Philadelphia,
$4.75; to New York, $5.62%; to Port
land, $6.00.
LUMBER —By Steam—Savannah to
Baltimore, $5.50; to P. R. R. or B. and
O. Docks, $6.00; to Philadelphia, $6.00;
to New York, $6.25 per M. to dock;
lightered. $7.00; to Boston, to dock
$7.25.
FOR GREATER SAFETY IN
STEAMBOAT TRAVEL
New anil More Rigid Requirements
of Steamboat Men Hereafter.
Many changes are about to be made
In the steamboat law's as a result of
the Investigations following the Slocum
disaster. It has been expected for
some time that anew order of things
would come into the steamboat service.
The difficulty all along has been the
obsolete and imperfect laws governing
the service. The new regulations will
remedy many of the defects which now
exist and will tend to a greater se
curity to life and property. One of the
changes is the prohibition of the use
of loose or compressed granulated cork
In the manufacture of life rafts or life
preservers and of the use of kapok life
preservers. New methods will be used
in placing straps on life preservers,
the quality of the covers and the
method in which they shall be con
structed. Hereafter life preservers
must be suspended on wooden slats
or cotton cords, and not on wire, and
at a hight of not more than seven feet
from the deck surface below.
At least one life preserver must be
carried for every passenger and mem
ber of the crew' on all vessels, and
hand pumps, fire hose, boats and rails
must be provided on barges currying
passengers.
The rules relative to boats, rafts,
bulkheads and other life-saving appli
ances have been so drawn as to pro
vide for details of construction of me
tallic life boats and life rafts, and the
filing by their makers of drawings and
specifications with the Board of Super
vising Inspectors. Metal air tanks
must be placed In all wooden life boats
and a small increase of required boat
capacity on river passenger steamers
has been made.
Heretofore only Inland steamers have
been required to carry fire buckets,
barrels and axes. Hereafter all pas
senger steamers must carry these ap
pliances. They must also have fire
branches In lamp lockers, oil rooms
and light compartments, and these
compartments must also be lined with
metal.
Steam fire pumps must be capable
of throwing an effective stream of wa
ter for a distance oj not less than fifty
feet through at least two fire connec
tions each on the main deck and each
deck above the main decK. Every
pump must be fitted with a gauge and
a relief valve, adjusted to lift 100
pounds pressure. Portable fire extin
guishers are required on all passenger
steamers, proportioned In number lo
the tonnage of the bout.
The rules have been made more
stringent as to discipline of crews In
fire and boat drills.
New and additional requirements
have been made for watertight bulk
heads and proportional lifeboat equip
ment of ferryboats, which must have
a life preserver for each passenger and
member of the crew. Life-saving a
pUsnces are also required on paesenger
bargee in ton
In,portent •heng<e have been made
In the rules affecting excursion steam
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. Savannah, Ga.
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Already the great advertisers who can be influenced by
“The System" are being worked upon.
The receipts from advertising this month are $15,000 less
than last, and
More withdrawals are threatened.
I intend to write a chapter on this phase of “frenzied
finance,” giving the names and the histories of those adver
tisers who are allowing themselves to be bulldozed by “The
System."
This war has been begun in deadly earnest, and I intend
to strike back.
If there is an insurance president, a soap maker, a bank
er, who has not the manliness to stand up against “The Sys
tem,” 1 intend to let the American people know it, that they
may discontinue the purchase of his goods in favor of those
who have the fairness and pluck to staifd up and be counted.
I have not a dollar’s interest in Everybody’s Magazine,
directly or indirectly.
I give my time, my energy, my story and my money
freely.
Already this work has cost me personally hundreds of
thousands of dollars, and before I am through it will probably
cost me millions, but I will stick as long as I have life and a
dollar left.
If these should he taken, the people will, if only a suf
ficient number read my first chapters, find a way to—finish
what I have begun.
Therefore, I most earnestly appeal to every man and
woman to assist my w’ork by securing a copy of Everybody’s
Magazine and urging others to do so.
East month the entire edition was sold in the first week,
and this month’s, although 100,000 larger, will probably be
sold out in the first day or two.
The next issue will be limited only by the facilities of the
publishers to handle it.
I can write the story, pay the enormous advertising ex
pense of getting it before the public, and hold myself ready to
pay the penalty of my work, hut that’s all I can do.
THE FEbrLE MUST DO THE REST— DO IT I
Thos. W. Lawson
I made sa to • few complement and (Ha
| nuftiber of offii era and men to be re-
I golfed on glveu 'leasee of voaaelo.
The owner, agent or nailer of every
vessel must indicate the sate draught
of voter for the vsoeeL
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