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7 SUNDAY* AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA„ SUNDAY, AUGUST 3, 1913. 11 D What Uncle Sam Is Doing to Fight Boll Weevil in Georgia Corn Clubs, Girls’ Clubs, Farm Demonstrating Agents and Other Educative Agencies, Operating Through Agricultural College, Are Used—Will Take Agents to Boll Weevil Territory to Study Insects. CHARLES A. WHITTLE. $2,826,817* CLOTHIERS TRY REVENUE FOR TO REGULATE ALL RAILROADS < CROPS ARE HELPED BY RAINS Export Trade Large and Easing Money Should Be Reflected in Early Expansion. CHICAGO, Aug. 2.—Clearing: finan cial skies, although not yet free of clouds and mist, presage the deliver ance of investors from a continuance of the dullness which has fettered financial operations during the last year. There was during that period a decline of about 20 points in lead ing industrial and railroad shares, which marked the approach of a slow panic, as a result of the enormous shrinkage in values, approached only in 1907. Comparisons with that year, taking into consideration the large Increase in the volume of securities in six years, probably display a decline in value of nearly $6,000,000,000. but tho current month’s betterment has re duced the loss by about $1,250,000,000. Business conditions in the United States are sound and promising, but a great deal depends upon the crops, which have been improved by recent rains. The July Government report did not fully indicate the damage sus tained by drouth, but the August fig ures, if existing conditions are sus tained, will not show the betterment which has come since showers re lieved the winter wheat belts. The cashing operations in the win ter wheat country are facilitated by clear weather, and the movement of grain from first hands to the seaboard and consuming points means the re lease of large amounts of money, which otherwise would be tied up if •■bankers were not insistent that ac cumulations must not hamper the progress of the country. Railroads to Start Buying. Railroads, which are enormous con- ...-Ejimers of industrial products, lack credit with which to facilitate their purchases, and they have been com pelled to economize. There is a be lief. however, that the return of con fidence with easing money conditions will effect the extension of credito, ■which will enable railroad corpora tions to enter t th? market for sup plies and inaugurate a period of pros perity which will compare favorably with that of 1906. The public is aware that this is the season w’hen the business world slo\vs down, even in normal periods. This year the tendency is increased by restricted credit, recent high levels which money rates attained and the pending tariff and currency changes. Yet it should be remembered that the world, and particularly this coun try, is not overproducing, but is op erating only as necessity requires. Bankers have been urging their cli ents to make progress slowly in or der to lessen the call for accommoda tion. Confidence Reviving. After this waiting period—waiting for the crops to mature, for currency Teform to be completed on a souni basis which will make for elasticity and substantiality and for the clear ing of Europe’s skies—confidence should develop in every section of the country. There is a great deal of encourage ment to be derived from this coun try’s foreign trade. June exports ex ceeded anything in the history of the United States, while the Imports were smaller. Measuring the volurri3 of trade, diverse contractions can not bp given precedence over the amplift cations. Steel foundries and mills have been doing a large business and their un filled orders are in liberal volume-. The textile industry is making ample profits, and in the leather trade big gains have been established. While collections have been less satisfac tory, stocks of merchandise have like wise displayed a corresponding re cession. Money Is Eeasier. The key to whatever improvement there may be in the situation lies in a relaxation of monetary tension. Last week money was firm and loan ing as high as 7 per cent. Now, there is a supply of idle funds avail able at 6 per cent when collateral of unimpeachable quality is tendered, and commercial -'aper rates do not rise above the 6 1-2 per cent rate. The position taken everywhere by bankers to compel liquidation brought relief, and there is less opportunity for a crisis to develop next fall, when crop and trade requirements will increase, than has existed for four years. In this country this is a fact. In Europe, however, the struggle under the load of militarism is gi gantic. A war chest of enormous size was prepared by Germany, and Prance emulated her rival. Out of the gold sent abroad, $60,000,000 was not based upon a legitimate exchange proposition, but was a special move ment. Paris paid a premium to in crease its goid holdings. Germany contested England’s claim to the new supply of gold coming every week from South Africa, but this competi tion has ceased and recent develop ments suggest normal requirements and a more satisfactory situation. Stock market positions were bet tered by liquidation and LaSalle Street believes adverse factors have fully discounted. There is a shadow cast upon prosperity bv Mex ico. where the possibilities of friction with European powers should not bo minimized, but railroad and building strikes are being adjusted; large ields of grain, cu ton and other farm products are in smlit to add wealth to the nation, and hyster'a has been . ssuaged. Uncle Sam is preparing to meet the approach of the boll weevil in Georgia with all the force and wisdom at his command. The funds which have been allotted to Georgia for this pur pose are to be supplemented this year by an addition of about $15,000, bring ing the allowance up to $60,000, this increase being contingent upon proper co-operation of State authorities. This means (1) more money for boys’ corn clubs and girls’ canning club?; (2) more money for farm dem onstration agents’ work; (3) more dissemination of information among the farmers concerning what to do when the weevil arrives. The big sum of money which is an nually spent in corn clubs, farm dem onstration work, etc., In the South by the Bureau of Agriculture was voted by Congress to meet boll weevil con ditions. The Best Safeguard. The biggest thing to do in meeting the boll Weevil Is to diversify crops. Of course, it Is not necessary tb await the coming of the weevil before teach ing farmers how to grow oth£r crops than Cotton. So Federal authorities co-operating with State authorities have been quite busy and quite suc cessful in the State of Georgia during the past few years teaching Georgians how to grow crops that the boll weevil can not live upon and how to grow them successfully. The corn clubs, the girls’ clubs, the co-operative dem onstration work with farmers, under the direction of farm demonstration agents, has been the work of one hand of the Bureau of Agriculture, while the other has been engaged in study ing the weevil, combatting it and in every way trying to check it on the ground which the weevil has claimed. The Southern States have attempt ed very little on their own initiative, electing rather to co-operate with the Government forces that had been in the fight from the beginning of the invasion of the enemy, depending rather upon the accumulated results of the Government rather than to Initiate separately a new campaign and perhaps undertake work which one force could do better than two operating to ?ome extent in conflict. Corn Clubs Are Anti-Weevil Clubs. The boll weevil can find no food in a corn field. If it can get no cotton it dies. The Federal authorities rightly considered that the South could best be induced to grow corn than any other anti-weevil crop. How to en courage the growing of corn and how to grow it in a way that would en courage Its widest and quickest use. was a problem which the Government faced and solved in the very best way that anybody could have conceived. The solution Is the corn club. Get the boys to raising corn, vleing with each other; lead them to adopt modern scientific method? of soil preparation, seed selection and plant cultivation. Reach the boys through the schools. It was a great constructive genius who brought the boys’ corn club into realization—the Hon. Seaman Knapp It is his son. the Hon. Bradford Knapp, that the South knows as its inspiring leader In corn clubs and co operative farm demonstration work. In corn clubs Georgia has a “big stick” for meeting the weevil. No State in the South has had better suc cess in organizing corn clubs. No where has there been greater progress in corn raising, especially In getting a greater amount of corn from the acre The organizing and operation of the corn clubs and the girls’ clubs has been conducted in co-operation with the Georgia State College of Agri culture at Athens. The college is headquarters and directing center so Georgia State CoM«ge of Agriculture. far as Georgia work is concerned, while, of course, the general head quarters of all the corn club work which the Government is doing in the South is at Washington. Co-operative Work With Farmers. Nothing has accomplished more for preparing the farmers of Georgia for boll weevil conditions, and, for that matter, for more successful farming, than that which Uncle Sam is doing in close co-operation with the farm ers themselves through tarm demonstration agents. Briefly de scribed, the farm demonstration agent is a disciple of modern fanning with information to carry to the far mer about how he can diversify his crops and what he must do to get the best results. More than 60 counties in Georgia have obtained farm demonstration agents and many others are asking for them and planning to have them. Remarkable results have been ob tained from some of the counties where the farm demonstration agents have been at work longest. Counties that formerly bought from the West much of what they fed to themselves and their cattle have now diverted the outgo to an inside circulation. Dealers in food-stuffs have made statements in some of these counties that they have ceased buying in the- West and the only feed-stuffs which they ore now handling at all are bought from home-growers. No won der the farm demonstration work has taken such strong hold of Georgia farmers! Work Centers in College. The farm demonstration work also centers at the State College of Ag riculture, where the State agent is in charge, and to which place the agents go at stated intervals during the year to study conditions and out line plans of campaign for the bet terment of the farmer. All agents are required to take the agricultural short course and also to specialize in given lines in which their respec tive counties are most interested. * Once the purpose of the farm dem onstration agent is clearly under stood there is no difficulty met in finding all the farmers they can take care of. to carry on demonstration work. In agreeing to carry on co operative demonstration work the farmer accepts the terms of the demonstration agent, prepares his seed bed according to instructions, fertilizes according to formulas rec ommended, cultivates according to well established modern methods. Not only does the demonstration agent teach how to diversify crops, but urges modem machinery, cattle raising, silo erection and all econom ical and successful farm means and methods. Bear in mind that this is all being done with boll weevil^ money. No one would say it is not well spent and spent in a way calculated, to help the farmer to meet boll weevil condi tions mpst successfully. The Educative Side Popular. All the work which has been men tioned is supplemented with addi tional educative methods, such as is afforded through the medium of farm ers’ institutes. In those sections of the State where the boll weevil will appear first, of course, the greatest interest is being manifested by farm ers in learning what things they must do to combat the weevil. Hence it has been the policy of those direct ing the co-operative Federal and State fight against the weevil to carry information through the me dium of the farmers’ institutes to these farmers. More of this will, of course, be done as the immediate ne cessity requires. It is the policy of the Bureau of Agriculture at Washington to -co-op- orate with the educative branches of the various States to reach the farm er with boll weevil information, espe cially with information as to what the farmer must do. The researc h work is carried on by the bureau on its own account and not in co-opera tion with educational institutions. Hence the entire educative work that has been done and is planned for, has been organized into and in co-operation with the State colleges of agriculture in the respective States. Some Educative Work. In Georgia some educative work has been done by the State Entomologist. Mr. Worsham, who has conducted some institutes in southwestern Geor gia. His particular work has been studying blackroot or wilt, but in working on that line he found what he claims is a variety that resists blackroot and wilt, and being an early maturing variety is therefore well adapted to boll weevil conditions. Hence the State Entomologist has entered to some extent into the boll weevil problem In Georgia. The Director of the Georgia Ex periment Station, Prof. R. J. H. De- Loach, while developing a strain of cotton that is resistant to athrac- nose, another disastrous disease of cotton, not only developed a variety that is highly resistant to the dis ease, but by reason of its early ma turing and physical characteristics is recommended by him as suitable to boll weevil conditions. This work Professor DeLoach did through sev eral years of experiments at the State College of Agriculture. These contributions of varieties re puted to be well adapted to boll weevil conditions is Georgia’s contri- Interstate Commerce Commission Issues Report Covering 1912 Fiscal Year’s Operations. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion report? that the operating reve nue of the country’s railroads reach ed $2,826,917,967 !n the year ended June 30, 1912, against $2,772,733,828 in the previous year. Operating ex penses were $1,957,963,431, against $1,- 901,399.475. while net operating reve nue was $867,954,536. The report covers 240,238 miles of line operated. The total mileage of tracks was 360,714, an increase of 8,925 miles. Employees numbered 1,699,218. an increase of 45,987. There were 63.558 enginemen, 66,408 firemen, 49,051 con ductors, 135,959 other trainmen and 39,530 switch tenders, crossing tend ers and watchmen. Wages and sal aries reached $1,243,113,172. Par value of the amount of railway capital outstanding was $19,533,750,- 802. This amount includes capital held by the railway companies con cerned, as well as by the public. Stock totaled $8,469,560,687, of which $6,- 882,813,008 was common and $1,586,- 747,679 preferred; the remaining part, $11,064,190,115, representing funded debt, consisted of mortgage bonds, $8,019,700,886; collateral trust bonds, $1,279,128,266; plain bond? deben tures and notes, $1,967,567,350; income bonds. $263,441,054; miscellaneous funded obligations. $116,170,300, and equipment trust obligations, $318,- 182,259. Of the total capital stock outstand ing. $2,909,693,873. or 34.35 per cent, paid no dividends. Dividends reach ed $400,432,752, equivalent to 7.20 per cent on dividend-paving stock. The average rate of dividends paid on all stocks outstanding pertaining to the roads under consideration was 4.73 per cent. No Interest was paid on $808,464,701. or 7.52 per cent, of the bution to the sum of knowledge con- total amount of funded debt out- cerning the weevil. As has been standing (other than equipment, trust 1 obligations.) As has stated, most of the research work which has been done respecting the weevil and the cotton varieties adapted to it has been done by the Federal experts Will Study Weevil at Home In order that the farm demonstra tion agents may become familiar with the w'eevil. its habits and the best methods of combating it, the De partment of Agriculture has planned to take a number of the agents from that section of the State first to be invaded on a trip through Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, where the weevil is at work and to those points where the fight has been waged most successfully through proper co-op eration of agents and farmers At the head of this party will be Hon. Bradford Knapp. Phil Campbell, State agent of Georgia, will, of course, be in direct charge of the Georgia agents, while others will ac company the weevil “scouting party” Among these will be the State Agri cultural Commissioner, Mr Price, and his assistant, Mr. Hughes, the State entomologist, Mr. Worsham. If the boll weevil does not meet a stubborn resistance when he flings his line of battle across the Georgia border, it will be no fault of Geor gia's. Georgia has responded to the call to corn clubs, to girls’ clubs, to co-operative farm demonstration work, to every appeal which has seemed material to the defense of the cotton farms. Of course the ignorant tenant who never knows is going to be the covert of the weevil, but enough of the in telligent farmers have been aroused in every county of the State, who, if they will preach the gospel they have been taught, can make formidable defense against the weevil. Forty-two Concerns Increase Dividends Only One Railroad In the Number, but Twenty-five Are Public Utility Corporations. NEW YORK. Aug. 2.—Of forty-two companies to increase their dividend rate thus far into 1913 25 have been public utility concerns, according to the record kept by one of the Wall street new’s agencies. In the corresponding period of last year 39 dividend increases were re corded. fewer than in the current year, but of greater significance be cause six railroads and several im portant copper companies were in cluded in the list. Since January 1 the Nickel Plate is the single railroad to advance its re turn to stockholders, and these cop per mining concerns reduced former rates, instead of increasing* them: Calumet and Hecla, Quincy, Osceola, Ahmeek, and Mohawk. On the whole, dividend reductions in 1913 have been of more moment than inc reases. The Boston and Maine. and Western Maryland (preferred) payments were passed, and the New Haven and Bangor and Aroostook’s were low ered. American Beet Sugar. Pacific Gas and Electric, International Steam Pump preferred, Prairie Oil and Gas, Rumley. Pennsylvania Steel, and B F. Goodrich Company were some of the industrial companies to omit dis bursements entirely. In the way of extra cash dividends these stand forth prominently; American Can, 24 per $ent; Colorado Fuel and Iron. 35 percent on pre ferred stocks; Standard Oil of Nev York, $40; American Tobacco, 15 per cent; Standard Oil of Indiana. 11 per cent; Eastman Kodak. 15 per cent; Mahoning Coal. $25: Anglo-American Oil. $1°. and Gulf Oil, 100 per cent. Chino Copper and Ray Consolidated declared initial dividends and Beth lehem Steel resumed payments on the preferred issue at the rate of 5 per cent. NEWS FOR INVESTORS Among i ew listings on the New York Stock Exchange are $4,500,000 Atlanta, Knoxville and Cincinnati Division 4 per cent bond? by appli cation of the Louisville and Nash ville Railroad; $6,000,000 Nashville. Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad common; $5,961,000 Bankers’ Trust Company certificates of deposit for the St. Louis and San Francisco gen eral lien 5* • • * Grand Trunk Railway Company will issue $7,500,000 5 per cent five- year equipment notes to provide for new' rolling stock. • • * A Consolidated Stock Echange seat was sold yesterday for *1,200. a higher price than the average for the year. PLAN TO SELL‘BABY BONDS’ IN STORES IS DISLIKED Car Repairs Urged Earlier in Season Railroads Implored Not To Be Caught In Harvest Rush With “Bad Order” Cars. The number of passengers carried was 994,158,591, an increase of 6,- 447,594. Freight carried aggregated 1,818,- 2,32,193 tons, the increase being 65,- 042,254 tons. The dividend payment? of 400,308,- 609 are apt to be misleading, as they include payments from one rpad to another, thus entailing duplications. The income account shows; Rail operations— Op. revenues...$2,826.917,967 Op. expenses... 1,958.963,431 Net operating revenue.... Outside net revenue **67,954,536 1,037,459 Total net revenue $868,991,995 Taxes accrued 113,122,609 Operating income $755,869,486 Other income , 255,611,495 Gross income Rents, interest, etc $1,011,480,981 609,661,490 Net corporate income.... $401,819,491 Deduct— Dividends from current, income. $246,371,011 Additions and bet terments 37,186,102 New lines and extensions 77,082 Other reserves... 5,463.269 Total $289.u98,464 Balance $112,721,027 Carolina Forests Subject of Study Eastern Piedmont 8ection Will Be Surveyed by Federal and State Authorities Together. Illegitimate Returning of Mer chandise by Retailers Grows To Be Really Serious Evil. NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—A strong effort Is being made by the National Association of Clothiers to minimize and regulate the cancellation of or ders and illegitimate returning of merchandise. While, according to William Goldman, president of the as sociation, most retailers do not can cel at all and are seldom guilty of the return evil, the practice has grown so rapidly that It Is not a rare thing to have the cancellations and returns together equal more than 10 per cent of the gross business done. A well- defined plan is being worked out by an association committee, and Presi dent Goldman is confident that in the course of a few years one of the most necessary trade reforms will b» satisfactorily accomplished. Describ ing the association plan, he said: “The association has had a com mittee analyzing the question of can cellations and returns for some time, and it has been settled definitely that the first point In controlling the evil is to install a uniform record in all houses showing a retail firm’s can cellation record for a period of years. 8ome Keep Records. “Some members of the association have kept private records of the re turns and cancellations of their ac counts In the past, but othersjtaave not. After this record is obtain^ th' association will establish a system of cancellation reports along the same line as the present system of credit reports. “When association members make application for a report on any re tailer. the association will send to all members interested in that firm to get his cancellation record. This will, of course, be taken from the card system Installed under tho association agreement. A condensed record will then be made up, which w'ill show how that particular retailer handles cancellations generally. This will as sist materially in giving manufac turers Information needed when new accounts are taken on. If the man ufacturer finds that a retailer Is a moderate canceller generally, he will know that he is not to process any thing until orders have been revised or confirmed. If, on the other hand, the retailer is found to be an abusive canceller, the manufacturer can re fuse to take on the account. An Important Point. “In short, the handling of the can cellation question by the retailer will be made as important a point in the acceptance or refusal of accounts by the clothiers as his financial rating. This, we believe, will in time make re tailers as jealous of their record on cancellations as they are of their financial standing. “Cancellations can In may cases be traced to enthusiastic work by sales men. so in addition to reports to members steps to correct the evil at its source by uniform instructions to salesmen will be undertaken. The association has authorized the estab lishment of Joint committees of clothiers and representatives of sales men’s organizations to confer on the matter. Steps have been taken also to establish joint committees of retail ers and manufacturers through the retail associations that have been formed in several States, and which, it is expected, will soon consolidate into a national retail association. "With these committees and the association record at work, there will be small reason to doubt a solution of the cancellation problem that will be satisfactory to all concerned. The question of returns, whether legiti mate or Illegitimate, will be settled in the same general way.” Department Store Has Branch Library Many Dealers Do Not Think Well of the Plan, Fearing Drop in Book Sales. A large department store in Ta coma. Wash., has made space for a branch of the city’s public library, and customers can now’ turn in library books and take out new' ones without visiting the library building itself. About 300 or 400 volumes of the most- in-demand literature are kept at the store. If a shopper turns in a book at 10 o’clock In the morning and re quests another book which does not happen to bo in the store, a boy is sent to the library and has the re quired volume waiting when the cus tomer is ready to leave. The buyers for the book department of one of the department stores in this city said yesterday: “While a branch of the public library w'ould at tract the public to a store, it would! decrease the sales of the book depart ment. Such a step would not meet with my approval.” This same buyer estimated that if a branch were placed in the store, the sales of books would probably drop about 15 or 20 per cent. The book department chief of another store seemed to think w'ell of the branch library idea, as a means of attracting customers, but ventured the guess that the Tacoma store had no book department of Its own. KELP LEAD IN New Companies Being Organized Which Will Fill Completely the Gap the "Trust” Left. Want No Coupons in Goods From Factory Dry Goods Retailers Meeting With Success in Efforts to Stop the Practice. NEW YORK. Aug. 2.—The National Retail Dry Goods Association Is meet ing with continued success in its cam paign against the practice of *ome manufacturers in giving coupons with their merc handise. In a letter Just sent to member? of the association, its manager, F. Col burn Pinkham, says that one concern, which had been informed of the oppo sition to coupon-giving, has promised SAVANNAH. QA., Aug. 2.—Savan nah will not lose ground as the prin cipal naval stores market of the world because of the suspension of the American Naval Stores Company. It is admitted that the suspension of the American ha? demoralized the market. The present outlook, never theless, Is bright. Several new com panies already have been organized as a result of the liquidation of the American, and it is practically certain that more will be formed in the near future. The combined power of these will easily equal the American, and there is no doubt they will be able to handle the business. An official of the Columbia Naval Stores Company, which was organized la?t week in Brunswick, says that when the American Naval Stores Company i? liquidated and all of the new companies which are to be formed from the American are organ ized there will be plenty of buying power. The Columbia is made up of former officials and employees of the American. It is the belief that Savannah should continue to be the primary na\’al stores market of the world. The Co lumbia company alone, capitalized at a million dollars, should be able to handle a good share of the American's business. Savannah has been known to the world for years as the chief naval to discontinue packing coupons’ with j stores port A proposition was made by the Mayor of Cleveland to induce de partment store managers to Sell mu nicipal bonds, in denominations of $5, $10 and $25, to their customers. Reports have it that the plan has already met with considerable favor in that city. At one of the New York stores it was said that it would hardly pay customers to purchase bonds of such denominations, but it was admitted that the matter would depend to some extent upon the rate of interest. It was thought that no investment in bonds paying 4 1-2 per cent or less would be attractive un less the total investment amounted to at least $500. An especially strong objection to the plan wa? raised on the ground that the small Investors would de sire to withdraw their money before the bonds had run their time. A savings bank was considered more practical for investments of such amounts, as the commissions neces sarily paid for buying or selling the • bonds were eliminated. Railroad managers are being cau tioned not to accept the present lack of demand for a large share of their equipment as an index of conditions which will prevail through the fall. The latest idle car statement show ed practically no change in the num ber of cars out of use. and the surplus may be increased in coming weeks, but railroad men know from the Gov ernment’s crop figures that the same old shortage of rolling stock may be looked for in October. For this reason some of the car riers are being urged to reduce the number of bad order cars on their lines by having repairs made now when the shops are not rushed. Last year the beginning of work on cars in preparation for the crop movement was not ftarted in time, and a» a re sult there was a larger percentage of cars in shops in October and Novem ber than there need have been. Had work been started a little ear lier it would have been possible to add 8,000 more cars to service when they were so badly needed in the late fall. NEW WAY OF TREATING WOOD PROVES VALUABLE A special treatment of native woods for use in the better grade? of furni ture has been tried with success in Germany. Freshly cut birch, oak, elm or spruce is buried in earth mixed with lime and oth^r materials, and left for from three to five months. A remarkably fine color Is imparted to the wood thus treated, so that it can be used without painting or stain ing. and after such treatment it has practically no tendency to shrink or swell. WASHINGTON, July 26.—The Secre tary of Agriculture has just signed an agreement with the State of North Carolina for a co-operative study of for est conditions in the eastern Piedmont region. The work will be carried on by the forest service and by the State Geological and Economic Survey with one-half of the cost paid by each. The study will determine the distri bution and proportion of forest lands, and the relative value of lands for tim ber and for agriculture. It will take into account the present status of lum bering, the causes and effects of forest fires, and will recommend a system of fire protection and of forest planting. The study Just arranged supplements two already completed In the more mountainous regions of the State. The first, a study of forest conditions in the Appalachians, has b^en published as a State report. A study of the forests of the western Piedmont region was com pleted recently and the results are being prepared for publication. When the study of the eastern Piedmont region Is finished It is planned to proceed to a similar study of the coastal plain re gion, so that eventually the entire State will have been covered by a forest sur vey. DRESS AND WAIST MAKERS WIN FIGHT ON DUTY Elliott Seems To Be Nemesis of Mellen Acquaintances Recall How New Head of New Haven Has Dogged Predecessor’s Footateps. it.* goods after October 15. Two other irmniifnctirors who still make use of this method of increasing sales are mentioned in Mr. Pinkham’s letter, with th" suggestion that the retail merchants use their persuasive pow er? upon them. "We are confident,” says Mr. Pink- ham. “that the manufacturers in question desire to please their custo mers, and that if they become con vinced that the majority of the trade considers the giving of coupons an evil they will take the same action a? the manufacturer above mentioned.” At this time the market is in an ex- tremelv bad condition. There is very little demand for tho product, while the factors are forced to carry the burden of operations, which now are in full swing. An attempt has been made to curtail production In an ef fort to help the market, but up to this time this effort ha? not been success ful. There are now' something like 150.- 000 barrel? of turpentine and rosins on the Savannah terminals, and it is estimated that there is still another 100,000 remaining in the woods. These big receipts are being handled and financed by the factors. Jap Silk Market Is _ . _ . Active and Strong Stationery Business Above Last Year s Prices Give Promise of Advancing According to Authorities in the Trade. NEW YORK. Aug. 2.—In their spe cial report on the raw silk situation in the leading world markets, A. P. Villa & Bros, say: “The market at Yokohama has be come active and firm again, and prices give promise of advancing. There i? a good demand in evidence, both from Europe and America. Canton silks continue in good demand, and prices in that market continue very firm. At Shanghai prices are softening some what. as the high prices quoted by the reelers restricted bu?*ness here. There has been no important change in the situation at Milan. “The local market i? rather quiet, so far as actual business is concerned. Inquiries for silk are numerous, but the manufacturers prefef to hold off. as they have large quantities of thrown silks on hand. The settle ment of the Paterson silk strike should materially aid business in this market.” Gain in Volume Averages More Than Twenty Per Cent—New Tariff of No Effect. Dyed Wolverine Is Popular New Fur Many Buyers Think It Prettier Than Original Fisher Which It Imitates. The Dress and Waist Manufac turers’ Association has won an im portant point in its fight to get model gowns into this country for its mem bers without paying the duty that (s required under the present tariff In sub-section 4, paragraph J, sec tion 5 of the tariff bill, as reported by Senator Simmons of the Senate Finance Committee, the following line has been inserted among the articles that may he admitted without pay ment of duty under bond for their exportation within six months from the date of importation: Models of women’s wearing apparel imported by manufacturers for use as models in their own establishments. There is said to he little fear of the amend ment failing to be enacted into the law. The original attempt of the as soclation was to obtain a drawback allowance on model gowns when re exported or surrendered to the Treas ury Department for destruction, but under the bonding arrangement the 1 per cent duty required by the« u ^u'- NEW YORK, August 2.—Acquaint ances of the president and president elect of the New York, New Haven and Hartford are smiling at Mr. Mel- len’s request that he be excused “from answering any questions affecting his own personal movements after Sep tember.” To one who does not inquire close ly into the situation it might appear from the accounts of the two men's careers that Mr. Elliott had been Mr. Mellen’s Nemesis?* The latter got out of the Northern Pacific presidency after friction between himself and J. J. Hill, and was succeeded by Mr. Elliott. Now he ha? stepped out of the New England transportation sit uation to be succeeded again by Mr. Elliott What his future plans are he In tends to keep to himself, lest a big shouldered, fresh eomplexioned gen tleman from the Northwest antici pate them. If E. N. Brown's resig nation from the National Railways of Mexico should he accepted Mr. Mel len might become accustomed to working in a peaceful community I gradually by spending a few months j in the revolutionary zone. After the experience of recent months in the hands of L D. Bran- dels, the stockholders’ committee, va rious public service commissions, the Interstate Commerce Board, the Stamford Coroner, the grand jury and others retirement to peaceful Stock- bridge might prove too great a change to be entered into at once. A fur that has recently come to the front abroad, .and which will he fea tured by local manufacturers during the coming season, is c alled dyed fish er-color wolverine. It is said that many buyers consider this dyed fur much prettier than the original fisher. The fur is made up in scarfs and muff?, and will also be used for coats and trimmings A new style in fur sets is a scarf about two and one- quarter yards long, draped at both ends, and a draped muff, heart- shaped, about nineteen inches wide and eighteen inches deep. It is thought that this style will be taken up extensively by smarter dre?sers. NOVEL TEST FOR LEATHERS. Shoe manufacturers and dealers will doubtless be interested in the tests of 50 variously treated kinds of leather which have been made up into sandals for as many Boy Scouts of Washington, D. C The boys will keep a daily record of the wear to which the sandals are subjected, and will report as to the condition of the foot wear every two weeks. Cards have been provided which will show, for each pair of sandals, the number of hours worn each day, how much >f this time was spent out of doors and under what weather conditions, as well as the distance covered over ground or payment in the case of any long "hike.” NEW YORK. Aug. 2.—The whole sale stationery business is heavier than last year, the gain averaging more than 20 per cent. The new tar iff will have practical 1 ” no effect, as foreign goods, especially pencils, can' not undersell the domestic product. Imported stationery is moving fairly well and some slight advances are noted in bone goods. There have been no price changes in staple goods, however, and exis - ing prices are firmer than in several years. City ordering is heavy, esne- cially in school supplies for August and September delivery. The holiday trade is also opening well, and West ern buyers have ordered freely in the local market. 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