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Till- ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1913.
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COTTON PRICES
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Large Spot Houses Heavy Sellers.
Good Weather and Labor
Troubles Are Blamed.
NEW YORK, April 22.—In the face
ot ttteaay cables, the cotton market
opened barely steady to-day. with prices
4 points off to 1 point higher than last
night’s close. Room traders were in a
bearish model, particularly a* to near
months, and offerings became heavy
enough to force, prices off some 7 to 15
points from the owning range May
nr>d July were heavily sold. \Jany of
the most conservative spot houses sold,
which encouraged freer offering from
the ring and Wall Street.
May dropped to 11.56, against an open
ing of 11.71; July fell from 11.72 to
» 11.59: August followed by losing 11
>»oints from the initial figure The new
crofm followed, hut thtur losses were
- smaJler
New Orleans and Uverpool were lib
eral sellers
The continued liquidation is chiefly
based upon the continued favorable
weather conditions In almost every sc«
lion of the cotton belt. In ulmost every
section of the belt preparation is a I
* most complete and planting is In full
swing The majority of traders say
t 1t is a weather market, and if weatl -
or developments are good during the
» next few weeks, it will give the planter
ample time' to plant a large acreage
The attitude of the market during the
next month will he governed by the
course of the weather
In addition to ideal weather, a po
tent factor, which is causing consid-
£ erable unfavorable apprehension, is the
« weakness in the Southern spot situation.
Spots all over the belt are reported
cheaper, with little demand. Such fac
tors cause hesitation among the bulls.
/ Many recent bulls are now the most
radical hears. A few of them are pre
dicting lie cotton for July and August
and October as low as 10*£g.
» The weekly weather report was favor
able, except it showed some moisture
is needed in Texas. Indications are
that this will come. This, with a cable
from Monchester stating that the labor
trouble was becoming more serious,
. brought out heavier selling during the
afternoon session. The market was
* given no support, and May increased
its decline to 11.52, July to 11.54 The
mi entire list made declines of D to 19 points
from the Initial level.
* Commission houses were good sellers,
while the buying was mainly from
shorts and scattered buying of the new
, tic crops. This buying, however, was not
effective.
UH At the dose the market was steady
- ■ with prices at a net decline of 13 to 16
points from the final quotations of Mon-
day.
RANGE IN NEW YORK FUTURES.
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11.71111.71! 11.51111.62(11.51 -52 11.67-68
| j 111.53-57 11.70-72
11.72 11.72 11.64 11.65111.54-55 11.69-70
11.54 11.54111.36 11.38! 11.37-38 11.52-53
...I . ! 111.21-23 11.35-36
1131 11.31111 17 11.18 11.17-18 11.30-31
II. 34 1 1.35 11.20 11.20 11.20-21 11.34-36
III. 89 11.29 11 17 1 1.20 11.16-18 11.29-30
111.80111.31II 1.28 11.28 1 1.21-2311.31-35
RANGE IN LIVERPOOL FUTURES.
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COTTON GOSSIP
NEW YORK. April 22. .1. M. Ander
son says: "The cotton market has re
ceived very little or no support to-day.
Waters, Sheargon and (ieeran sold the
market oft shortly after the opening it
looks like the uptown crowd is selling
and Wall Street also. It Is generally be
lieved that prices will work lower”
• * *
The weather continues favorable and
the local crowd seems Inclined to sell.
Business is very light. There has been
business is very light. There have been
July and October to change hands.
Two breaks close together, which last
night had widened into one three hun
dred-foot crevasse, occurred yesterday
afternoon in the levee at Woodiawn
plantation, several miles north of May-
orsvllle, Miss., midday between Vicks
burg a fid «Jreenvllle The break will
flood all of Sharkey and Isaquenna coun
ties und nearly all of Washington and
Warren Federal engineers say 1,130
square miles will he affected by over
flow.
Last night rain was threatening all
along the lower river section.
All records were wiped out last night
wdien the gauge at 4 p. m. read 51.6 feet
with the river still rising
The Journal of Commerce says: "The
weather is a trifle cool west of tire Mis
sissippi River. Western Texas needs
rain Estimated Increase of acreage in
that State 5 to 15 per cent. Very favor
able crop reports from many sections.”
* * *
Following are 11 a. m. bids: May,
11.60; July, 11.62; October, 11.21; Janu
ary. 11.22.
* * *
NEW ORLEANS, April 22 —Hayward
& Clark: The weather map shows
cloudy in Texas and Oklahoma, with
some light rain in West Texas; fair in
Central and Eastern States, indications
arc for unsettled weather, with rains in
Texas and Oklahoma; cloudy, lajcoming
unsettled in the Central States; contin
ued fair in the Atlanties.
* * *
River News: Cairo. 45.2; Vicksburg,
51.7; Memphis. 40.4: New Orleans, 19.?.
Liverpool cables: "American mid
dling fair, 7.37d; good middling, 7.03d;
middling, 6.83d; low middling. 6.67d;
good ordinary. 6 33d; ordinary, 6.98d.”
* * • *
Spot cotton brokers here say nothing
doing in spots and the market is lower
to trade.
* # «
The weekly weather report at 11
o’clock is expected to be unfavorable,
owing to the cold weather beginning of
last week.
* * *
The New Orleans Times-Democrat
says: “After declining in the early ses
sion on a favorable crop report from
Texas the cotton market advanced in
the late session on steady spots, unfa
vorable reports from Texas, a serious
break in the Mississippi levee below
(Jreenvllle, Miss., and the anxiety of
shorts to get under cover. May con
tracts were bought in New Orleans by
the same people who have been buying
them recently. New Orleans May is not
very far below' a spot parity, but New
York May and July are way below a
Southern spot parity. Once the market
began to advance resistance melted
away. As a matter of fact the eorpse-
stabbers ran when the corpse showed
life, then hurled epithets at it from a
distance.
“Yesterday’s break in the levee will
inundate many of the best cotton plan
tations in Mississippi, Home of which
were inundated last Spring and again
in January this year and again in April.
It is yet early enough for the waters to
recede in time to make a cotton crop,
but three inundations within twelve
months will probably restrict operations
because of the damage done farm equip
ment.”
* * *
Following are 10 a. m. bids: May,
12.25; July, 12.07: October, 11.34; Jan
uary, 11.38.
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Shorts Cover Their Lijies Early,
but Prices Ease Off Later in
Absence of Support.
By C. W. STORM.
NEW YORK, April 22.—The inter
vention of the government in the Min
nesota rate cases had a good effect on
the stork market and general gains
were shown at the opening to-day.
Among them were Amalgamated Cop-
oer ] t, American (’an Anaconda %,
Canadian Pacific %, Chesapeake and
Ohio L. United Slates Steel common
U, i fritted Statef Rubber common L.
Union Pacific •"•*, Reading L. Pennsyl
vania L, Northern Pacific V*. Mis
souri Pacific \, Croat Northern pre
ferred ■>. Atchison shaded and Union
Pacific lost part of its advance after
half an hour.
The curb was steady.
Americans in London were strong,
specially the Harriman group. Cana
dian Paoirh in J.ondon moved up
sharply. •
Although fhe market was inactive
Turing the forenoon stocks showed a
fractional improvement. Pennsylvania
and Reading rose Union Pacific
gained to 155**. Steel common was
id e at 63*4. Missouri Pacific, Great
Northern preferred and Canadian Pacif-
.<• were up V The tone in the late
'orenoon was steady.
(’all money loaning at 2".,.
Trading was dull in the last hour and
price changes were without importance.
Chesapeake and Ohio gained slightly,
but fractional recessions from the noon
level were made by Amalgamated Cop
per. American Can, Steel, Southern Pa-
•;fle and Missouri Pacific.
The market closed steady.
Government bonds unchanged. Other
bonds firm.
MONEY AND EXCHANGE.
NEW YORK, April 22. Money on call
- :i 4til2 7 8• Time money unchanged, sixty
lays 4(ft)4*4 per cent, ninety days 4*4(ft)
4Ms. six months 4*4(ft)4*4 per cent.
Posted rates: Sterling exchange 4.84
(ft 4.87, with actual business in bankers’
bills at 4.8665®4.8880 for demand and
4.8340® 4.8345 for sixty-day bills.
Prime mercantile paper unchanged.
TRAINMEN HOLD CONFERENCE.
NEW YORK, April 22.—Conductors
and trainmen on fifty-four Eastern rail
roads will hold their first conference
with railways today over wage de
mands.
Today's New York
Stock Market
The following table shows the
highest, lowest and close, to
gether with the previous elose:
Stock quotations:
Last Prev.
METAL MARKET.
NEW YORK, April 23.—The metal
market was firm to-day. Copper, spot
to July offered 15%; lead. 4.58 (bid);
spelter, 5.50ft 5.70; tin, 49.39@49.50; zinc,
5,50(ft/5.70.
STOCK EXCHANGE BILL.
NEW YORK, April 22. -The stock ex
change incorporation bill will be consid
ered at (he executive session of the
senate judiciary committee to-day at Al
bany.
BAR SILVER.
LONDON, April 22.—Bar silver steady
at 27 11 -16d.
NEW YORK. April 22. -Commercial
bar silver, 60c; Mexican dollars, 48c.
LIVERPOOL. April 22. This market
J WHS due to Open 1 to 2 points higher,
but opened quiet 1 to 1*4 points higher.
At 12:15 p. m. the market was quiet,
at a net advance of 1 to 1% points
higher
T- Fair business doing in spot cotton at
4 points advance. middling 6.83d, sales
8.000 bales, including 7,000 American
Dales; imports 6,000 bales. Including 3,000
American hales.
At the close the market was easy
with prices at a net decline of 3 to 4
r points from the final figures of Mon
day.
' ’ Futures opened quiet
* Opening Prev.
Range. Close Close
tpril ... .6.57 -6.56Vs 6.52V2 6.55Vi
' April-May . . 6.63*4 6/49 6.52
May-June . . .6.53 -6.52 6.48Vis 6.52*4
) lune-July . . .6.52 -6.51 6.47 6.50/
July-Aug . . .6.48 -6.47U 6.43 6.16*.,
Aug.-Sept . . .6.36 -6.37 6.32Va 6.36*..
*■ Sept.-Got. . .6,25 -6.24 6.20 6.23*»
* Oct.-Nov. . . -6.16h.-6.16 6.12 6.15*.
*" NoV.-Dec. . . .6.13 -6.12*4 6.08**. 6.12
Deo.-Jan. . . .6.12 6.07*4 6.11
4 Jan.-Feb . . .6.11 -G.10 6.06*4 6.10
Fob.-Moh. . 6.10 6.07*4 6.11
Closed easy.
* HAYWARD & CLARK’S
DAILY COTTON LETTER
NEW ORLEANS, April 22. -The Liv
erpool board shows a narrow market
following the changes In New York.
Political news shows that no progress
f is being made toward peace. Another
» ultimatum was sent to Montenegro.
The allies have practically accepted the
proposed terms of the Powers, but have
reserved for themselves the most im
portant question of division of territory.
Liverpol cabled: “Labor troubles in
ICast Lancashire coming. Feeling very
bitter.”
The Journal of Commerce says that
reports from New' England states arc
that trade In cotton goods is beginning
.. to show a steady decline.
Our market to-day was easy from
the start und sagged to 12.05 for July
in the second hour
RANGE NEW ORLEANS FUTURES.
16.
Estimated receipts tor Wednesday:
! 913. 1912.
New Orleans........ 2.700 to 4,70rt 2,441
Galveston . . 4.200 to 5,200 589
SPOT COTTON MARKET.
Atlanta, .quiet; middling 113-16.
A the s, steady; middling 12 1 «.
Macon, steady; middling 12
New Orleans, quiet; middling 12 7
New York, quiet; middling 12.15.
Philadelphia, quiet, middling 12.55.
Boston, easy; middling 12.15.
Liverpool, steady; middling 6.79d.
Savannah, easy; middling 1 IS*<«■
Norfolk, quiet: middling 12V,..
Augusta, steady; middling 12 V
Mobile, steady: middling 12*4.
Galveston, steady; middling 12%.
Charleston, steady; middling 12 : v
Wilmington, quiet; middling 12c.
Little Rock, steady; middling 12c.
Baltimore, nominal; middling 12*4-
Memphis, steady; middling 12%.
St. Louis, quiet; middling 12%.
Houston, steady; middling 12 9-16.
Louisville, firm: middling 12%.
Greenville, quiet; middling 11%.
Charlotte, steady; middling 12c.
MINING STOCKS.
BOSTON, April 22.—Opening: North
Butte 30%, .-Duelling 41. Superior Bos
ton 4. Wolverine 61, Calumet Arizona 67.
BALTIMORE AND OHIO EARNINGS.
NEW YORK, April 22.—Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad earnings for March allows
a nef decrease of $1,009,000. For eight
months earnings show an increase of
$981,600.
TO-DAY'S PORT RECEIPTS.
The following table shows receipts at
the ports to-day compared with the
same day last year:
Ap 12 11 |
My 12 31 12 31 12 2t' 12.23 12.33-24 12.32-33
In 12.17-1“ 12.20-23
' ,||v 12 13112.14 12.03 12.06112.06-07 12.15-17
\K 11.83 11.S3 11.7(1 11.70111 70-72 11.*:;
Set 11.42 11.42 11.42 11.42 11.84-40 11.50-52
Oc 111.3* 11.38111.27 11.20 11.28-29 11.40-41
,T 11.28-30 11.10-42
»<■ 11 4011.40 11.28 11.30 11.29-3(1 11.42-4;:
111 11.41 11.41111.31.11.31,11.32-33 11.44-45
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1913'. | 1912.
New Orleans . . .
5,021
2.236
Galveston
7,033
9,244
Mobile
185 "
519
Savannah
4.285
3,362
Charleston. . . .
70
559
Wilmington. . . .
267
599
Norfolk.
1.414
2.982
Baltimore . . . .
Boston
84 ...
210
Philadelphia. . . .
Various
•>'
6.122
40
Total.
24.506
r.'.76i
INTERIOR
MOVEMENT.
1913. 1912.
Houston
4.045
3,277
Augusta
67
869
Memphis
482
1,154
St. Louis
1.215
2,835
Cincinnati
297
837
Little Rock. . . .
154
Total
6.106
8,926
every day.
COTTON MARKET OPINIONS.
Logan & Bryan: We look for lower
prices.
Thompson. Towle Co.: We are very
conservative about the long side, though
as far as weather is concerned these
conditions can change very quickly.
New burger. Worms Newman: We
still maintain our belief in ultimately
lower levels, unless the elements inter
fere too long or too much with the crop.
Miller «SL Co.: U is a weather market.
Norden A Co.; We feel it is better
to buy on breaks than to sell.
Hayden. Stone & Co Tt is difficult
to see what can arouse a favorable opin
ion as long as weather continues good.
Atwood. Yiolett A Co.: While the ral-
ATLANTA MULE AND
HORSE MARKET
(Corrected by the National Stock Yards
Commission Company: C. G. Tur
ner, President.)
M mes.
14 to 14*/2 hands, rough, good ages,
$115 to $130.
14 to 12W finish with quality, $155 to
$180.
14% to 16 hands, rough, $130 to $170.
15 to 15*4 hands, finish. $180 to $205.
16 hands, with quality and finish, $205
to $230.
16 hands, heavy chunk, weighing form
1,250 to 1,400 pounds, $255 to $330.
Horses.
Southern chunk horses, from $75 to
$110.
Southern chunk, finish, $110 to $135. 1
Good driving horses, quality and finish, \
ranging in price from $160 to $210.
Heavy draught horses, rough, $160 to
$210
Heavy draught horses, finish, S210 to
$300.
OPINIONS ON GRAIN.
CHIC AG* *. Apihl 22. Bartlett, Frazier
& Co.: Wheat The strength in Liver
pool and continued dry weather in the
Southwest are likely to give us a firm
market to-day.
Corn—Do not look for any advance in
prices.
Oats Very little outside buying and
May continues to be liquidated slowly.
Provisions—We look for a little firmer
market.
NEW YORK PRODUCE.
NEW YORK, April 22.—Petroleum,
firm; crude Pennsylvania 2.50.
Turpentine, firm; 43Va bid.
Rosin, easy; common 5.00 bid.
Wool, quiet; domestic fleece, 28ft>30;
pulled, scoured basis, 40(ft-60; Texas,
scoured basis. 48(ft 62.
Hides, dull; native steers, 16%(ft 19%;
branded steers, 15%(ft 16%.
Coffee, steady; options opened 1 to 5
higher; Rio No. 7 on spot. 11%.
Rice, steady: domestic, ordinary to
prime. 4%(ft)5%.
Molasses, steady; New Orleans, open
kettle, 354ft 50.
Sugar raw. steady; centrifugal. 3.36(ft
3.39; muscovado, 2 864)2.89; molasses
sugar, 2.614) 2.64.
LIVERPOOL GRAIN MARKET.
LIVERPOOL, April 22 Wheat opened *
*4 to %d higher. \i 1:30 p. m. the j
market was % to %d higher; closed % j
to \d higher.
Corn opened unchanged. At 1:30 1
p, m. the market was % to %d higher.
Amal. Copper.
78
rr/ t
77%
77%
| Am. Ice Sec .
26' 4
26' 4
20'%
26'/*
Am. Sug. Ref.
113' 2
113'/ 2
Am. Smelting.
70? «
70
69 <4
70%
Am. Locomo...
35'4
36
Am. Car Fdy..
51
51
Am. Cot. OH..
47
47
Am. Woolen. .
21
21
Anaconda
38%
38%
38%
38%
Atchison . . .
102' „
101 7 fi
10P 4
102
A. C. L. .
123
123
122
122
American Can
36'/ 2
34' ,
34
34%
do, pref. .
95* 2
95' 4
94
94%
Am. Beet Sug.
30' 2
31
Am. T.-T.
130' 4
129%
1293 4
130
Am. Aqricul...
*1
51
B. R. T
90%
90%
90%
90%
B. and O.
99 J „
99
983 4
99' %
Can. Pacific..
2453 fi
244' 2
2443 4
244' 2
Corn Products
10*4
10%
C. and O. .
68%
67 3 4
67%
68%
Consol. Gas. .
132' " 2
132'4
Cen. Leather. .
55' '4
55%
Colo. F. and 1.
34' 2
34'/a
333 4
33(4
Colo, Southern
31* s
31
D. and H
160
160
Den. and R. G.
20'%
20*4
Distil. Sacur. .
17' »
16 7 b
16%
16'/4
Erie
30‘a
30
30%
30'4
do. pref. . .
46' 4
46' 4
45
46%
Gen. Electric.
141'/a
140' .
1393 4
1401/2
Goldfield Cons.
2%
2%
G. Western . .
14%
15%
G. North, pfd..
128'
128' 4
125%
127%
G. North. Ore.
36
36
34
35
Int. Harvester
105
104'4
III. Central. ..
119 3 4
1191-8
119' 2
11®'/2J
Interboro ....
16 7 s
16%
16%
16
do, pref. .
58
58
573 4
5754
Iowa Central.
8
8
K. C. Southern
25
25
2434
24/2
K. and T
26
26
26
26
do, pref.
60'4
60' 8
L. Valley.
161' e
160-3 8
160%
160' 2
L. and N.
133
Mo. Pacific
38
37'4
38
38
N. Y. Central
103'%
102%
103' 4
103
Northwest.
133
Nat. Lead .
49' .
N. and W. .
106'. 4
106*4
106'4
106
No. Pacific. .
116' 2
116
116%
11614
O. and W.
303/4
30%
30' 2
Penn
1143 4
1141/a
114%
114*4
Pacific Mail .
23
P. Gas Co. . .
112
P. Steel Car
26
Reading . . .
1653r
164' 2
165%
164/2
Rock Island .
22
22
22
26
do. pfd.. .
37 7 r
371/a.
37' 2
37' 2
R. 1. and Steel
25%
253 4
253 4
25
do. pfd.
843 4
84%
843 4
84
So. Pacific . .
101»/ t
100' 4
1003,
101 4
So. Railway
26', a
26'/2
26%
26/2
do. pfd.
79
St. Paul.
110' 4
109%
109%
109*/2
Tenn. Copper.
36
36
36
36
Texas Pacific.
68/4
Third Avenue
36
Union Pacific.
155' j
154%
1543 4
154%
U. S. Rubl>er
64
63%
64
64%
Utah Copper.
533 4
533 4
533 4
53' 2
U. S. Steel
63' 4
62%
62%
62%
do. pfd.
1083 a
108%
108%
108,2
V.-C. Chem.
33'/4
33
33
33 4
W. Union. . .
66=8
66'/8
66'/,
66/2 I
Wabash. . . .
3' a
do. pfd.
10
W. Electric. .
64
W. Central . .
53'/a |
W. Maryland.
40'/^|
PRIMARY MOVEMENT.
WHEAT—
1913.
! 1912.
Receipts . . .
471.000 231.000
Shipments . .
2.442,000 2
81,000
COHN— | | !
Receipts . . .
346,000 1 383.000
Shipments . .
1.183,000 3
76,000
RECENT BUYERS
SEELING WHEAT
Good Rains Favor Crop Prospects
and No Support Is at Hand
in the Grain Pit.
ST. LOUIS CASH QUOTATIONS.
Wheat
Corn N<
Oats -No,
No. 2 red
red ..
red ..
. .110
CHICAGO. April 22. Wheat was to
%c lower this morning on the more fa
vorable weather throughout the North
west for seeding, coupled with cloudy
conditions in the winter wheat belt,
where rain is most needed. Northwest
ern ears were more liberal and there
was a big increase in the European vis
ible supply .’or the week.
There was a disposition on the part
of the big longs to continue on the sell
ing side of the market, and the July,
which has been given such great sup
port during the past few days was not
as strong as yesterday.
Corn was strong, the principal cause
of the strength being buying by shorts
and the smaller offerings.
Oats were firm with corn.
Hogs at the yards were 10c lower and
tlie feeling in provisions was easier.
Wheat closed with losses of % to %<\
and sentiment was favorable to the
bear side. The fact that a round lot of
wheat is now' on the Lakes, destined to
Chicago from Duluth, the amount being
placed at 2.000,000 bushels, coupled with
cloudy conditions in the Southwest and
scattered showers there, caused heavj
liquidation on the part of holders. It is
also said that increased receipts of
wheat are expected at both Duluth and
Chicago.
There was considerable May wheat
sold by influential concerns, who bought
the deferred months instead. Cash
sales here were 35,000 bushels wheat:
315,000 corn, and 125,000 oats. Vessel
room was chartered for 250,000 bushels
corn at l%c to Buffalo.
Corn closed % to Vic lower and the
feeling was weak.
Oats were off %toVic.
Hog products were lower on liquida
tion by longs.
CHICAGO CASH QUOTATIONS.
CHICAGO. April 22.—Wheat. No. 2
red, 1.07 ft 1.10%; No. 2 red. 1.004) 1.04;
No. 2 hard winter. 93(ft;95; No. 3 hard
winter, 9l@94*4; No. 1 northern spring,
924ft93; No. 3 spring, 884) 91.
Corn, No. 2, 56%(ft-57; No. 2 white, 584/
59: No. 2 yellow, 574) 57%; No. 3, 55(ft
56V£; No. 3 white, 57%(ft59: No. 2 yel
low. 554/ 57%; No. 4, 54ft 55%: No. 4
w'hite, 56(ft57: No. 4 yellow, 54%@55%.
Oats, No. 2. 33%; No. 2 white', 36% @
37; No. 3 white, 34%<ft35%; No. 4 white.
33%ft34%; standard, 35% (ft 36.
CHICAGO CAR LOTS.
Following are the receipts for Tuesday
and estimated for Wednesday:
ITuesday. tWedn’sda?
Wheat . . .
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Corn . . .
... 84 ! 45
(>ats . . .
. . . 173 1 119
Hogs . . .
. . .1 12,000 | 24,000
I. 0. 0. F. SPECIAL
SAVANNAH, GA„
MAY 27TH.
i
In order to properly take care of I.
O. O. F. delegates and their friends
who will attend the Convention at Sa
vannah, May 28th-29th, the Central of
Georgia. Railway will operate special
train, to leave Atlanta 8:40 a. m.. May
27th, stopping only at Griffin and Macon,
and scheduled to arrive in Savannah 5:0u
p. m. This train will be ’composed of first
class coaches and parlor car. A passen
ger representative will accompany this
train to render the delegates every nec
essary attention. In addition to this
special train, there are two other daily
trains each way through without change,
leaving Atlanta 8:00 a, m. and 9:35 ]> m.
Returning, trains leave Savannah 6:45
a m. and 8:00 p. m. Those leaving on
night train*, and desiring sleeping car
reservations, can make same now by ap
plying to
W. H. FOGG,
District Passenger Agent,
Marietta and Peachtree Streets., At
lanta. * advt
New York Dental Offices
28*4 and 32% PEACHTREE STREET.
Over the Bonita Theater and Zakas’ Bakery.
Gold Crowns . . . $3.00
Bridge Work . . . $4.00
All Other Work at Reasonable Prices.
DECATUR
ITS EDUCATIONAL
ADVANTAGES
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lv may go furtl
er, we look
for lower
prices.
COTTON SEED OIL.
Cot Ion seed oil
quotations:
| Opening.
Closing.
Spot
7.04 fi 7.15“
April
T.OTfti 7.12
7.07 ./ 7.10
May
7.06ft 7.10
7.05ft 7.06
June
7.07ft 7.14
7.06ft 7.00
July
7.10ft 7.11
7.08ft 7.00
August ....
7.14ft 7.15
7.124/'?.13
September . . .
7.13ft 7.15
7.12ft 7.13
October . .
6.87 <1 6.90
6.83ft 6.85
November
6.61 ft 6.66
6.60s, 6.62
Crude Southeast
.. . .6.00 bid
Crude A alley . .
. . .5.94 hill
Texas crude ....
... .5.87 bid
Closed heavy;
sales 11,900
barrels.
NEW YORK
COFFEE MARKET.
Coffee quotations:
Opening.
Closing.
January. „ . .
11.20ft 11.;;%
11.30ft11.32
February . .
. 11.1! ft 11.1-5
11.32 •! 11.34
March
. 11.24
!1.35ft 11.36
April
10.739, 10.77
May
.10.69
10.Si ft 10.81
June
. 10.80
10.1*24/ 10.!' t
July
. 10.95
11.05ft11.06
litlgU^ . . . .
11 .L5ft 11. IT
11.17(1/11.19
Septrtfc be/
. 11.20
ill.174lll.lil
October.
U. 21 (dll. 25
11.1791 11.19
1 November. .
. 11.: 1
11.17ft 1J.U*
J| December
1*1.22'
11.17ft 11.19
Closed steady.
Sales. 93/00 bags
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Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads
The Sunday American. YOUR ad
vertisement in the next issue will sell
goods. Try it!
GROCERS.
SUGAR Per pound: Standard granu
lated 5c. New York refined 4%e, plan
tation 4.85c.
COFFEE - Roasted (Arbuckle’s)
$24.50, t\.\ \.\, $14.50 in bulk; in bags and
barrels. $21; green 20c.
RICE -Head 4 V ■ / 5%c. fancy head 5-\
ft6*4c, according to grade.
LARD—Silver leuf 13c pound, Scoco
pound. Flake White 8%r pound,
Cottolene $7.20 per case, Snowdrift $5.85
per case.
SALT -One hundred pounds, 53c; salt
brick (plain) per case, $2.25; salt brick
(medicated) per case. $4.85; salt red
rock per hundredweight $1; salt white
per hundredweight 90c, Granocrystal,
per case, 25-lb. sacks, 75c; salt ozone. ;
per case. 30 packages, 90c; 50-lb. sacks,
30e: 2.‘-lb. sacks 12e.
MISCELLANEOUS — Georgia rar.e i
*>•**»P 37c. axle grease $1.75. soda I
crackers 7%c pound, lemon crackers 8c,
oyster 7c, tomatoes (2 pounds) $1.65
case, (3 pounds) *2 25. navy beans, $3.25;
Lima beans 7%c, shredded biscuit $3.60,
rolled oats $3 40 per case, grits (bags)
S2 40, pink salmon $7. eocca 38c. roast !
beef $3.80. syrup 80c per gallon. Sterling
ball potash $3.30 per ease, soap $1,504®
4 per case. Rum ford baking powder $2 50
per case.
A SECOND NEW Public School Building, costing ap
proximately $25,000, will be erected in Decatur before Sep
tember. The site lias been bought, plans have been ac
cepted by the Board of Education, and work will bo begun
in a «fe\v days. This is the SECOND new public school
building erected in DECATUR in three years, made neces
sary by the growth of population from 2,400 in 1910 to
about 9,000 to-day.
For the past year DECATUR has operated a public
HIGH SCHOOL of three grades. Beginning in September
there will be added a FOURTH HIGH SCHOOL grade,
making it so that boys and girls may be prepared in DE
CATUR for the best college and universities in the United
States and for LIFE ANYWHERE.
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE ,
Grows steadily by every standard by which a great wom
an's college is judged. To-day it ranks among the first
educational institutions of America.
BESIDES, residents of DECATUR enjoy all the edu
cational advantages of ATLANTA, with which it is closely
connected by TWO ELECTRIC LINES. Georgia Railroad,
TELEPHONE and DRIVEWAYS.
SEND FOR BOOKLET.
DECATUR BOARD OF TRADE
DECATUR, GA.
BELL PHONE DECATUR 148
WEEKES BUILDING
MEN AND RELIGION BULLETIN No. SS
Ninety Per Cent Jacob,
Woman’s Wage, The Price ot Opera Seats,
Anri a Fee.
“Thou fool, this night thy Soul
shall be required of thee; then
whose shall those things be?”
LUKE 12:20
Jacob was a business man.
“If God will be with me,’’ he said, “And will keep me in this way
that I go, and will give me bread to eat and raiment to put on -
“Then shall the Lord be my God—
“And of all that Thou shalt give me, I will surely give the tenth unto
Thee.’’
Ninety per cent for himself! Ten per cent for God! Generous Ja
cob?
His favorite son, Joseph, cornered the world’s grain and enslaved the
old man and his other sons through their necessities.
And until this day we suffer from Jacob’s percentage ideas.
YOU are content if you get your ninety per cent, but you say:
“Touch not the tariff, it will lower the laborer’s wage!
“Name no living wage for girls. To do so would throw many un
skilled ones out of employment.
“If I have to pay women and girls enough for them to live upon,
why—I will employ boys and young men. Then what will become of the
giris?”
LO, THE PHILANTHROPIST! You pat yourself upon the back
for employing a woman at a wage upon which she cannot live.
To decrease your percentage, your dividends and increase her wages,
her living, might be wise!
A factory owner said: “The average wage in my place is five dollars
a week.”
Five dollars? For that, her week’s wages, you may get a seat at the
opera, but she cannot live.
HER QUESTION is not:
“Shall I go to the Opera, and forget the barrenness of my room, the
loneliness of my life in hearing God-given music?”
BUT—
“Shall I have shelter to-night?”
For the grocer and butcher must be paid; the landlord must have his
rent; the landlady is compelled to collect the board bill, however kind
her heart may be.
One girl received four dollars a week; an inferior room and board cost
her three dollars and sixty cents a week.
The remaining forty cents a -week would not meet her necessities.
For several weeks she did not pay the whole of her board.
The landlady finally said: “You must pay.”
The girl left her trunk with her and found board at three dollars a
week with the understanding that she would hold her trunk for thirty
days. At the end of that time the girl had saved three dollars; her debt
was eight.
For the lack of five dollars——?
Friends found her in time.
BUT CONSIDER THIS: A madam of one of the houses which were
in our midst paid one of our City Fathers, a lawyer, one hundred dollars,
just twenty times the amount the girl lacked after thirty days of slavery.
Why did the madam pay the Alderman one hundred dollars?
To insure herself a peaceful residence with her mamma in the house—
never to get the lawyer to plead in open court with Recorder Broyles.
WHY did the Alderman take the fee?
Men are saying: “THANK GOD, we have in Atlanta NO one man,
three men or six men government at this time. There is safety in num
hers.”
The Chief of Police rightly closed the woman’s house. POOR DE
LUDED CREATURE!
She and those who prey upon her kind are learning at last that pro
tected vice can not be revived in Atlanta.
But the other problems—the barren and lonely room, the underpaid
girl—
These, too, will be quickly solved.
Bernard Shaw says:
“THE WAGES of prostitution are stitched into your button holes,
and into your blouse, pasted into your match boxes and your boxes of
pins, stuffed into your mattresses, mixed with the paint on your walls,
and stuffed between the joints of your water pipes.
“The very glaze on your basin and teacup has in it the lead poison
that you offer to the decent woman as the reward of honest labor, while
the procuress is offering chicken and champagne.
“YOU will not cheat the recording angel into putting down your
debts to the wrong account.”
To-day God is asking you:
“WHY do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your la
bor for that which satisfieth not?”
To-day Jesus is saying to you:
“Take my yoke upon you and learn of Me.”
You will pay her a living wage
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE MEN
AND RELIGION FORWARD MOVEMENT