jp'awvwwvtj J.T' ; y mmxaw MT4- v I TRADING ON CURB FAIRLY BRISK, DESPITE UNFAVORABLE WEATHER Strong Tone Develops in a Number of More Important Issues After Slight Hesitation Shorts Cover NEW YOIIK, July 11. Speculation In the Curb market today was fairly brisk, notwithstanding the unfavorable weather during the larger part of the session. After n slight hesitation a fairly strong tone developed In a number of the more Important .Issues, which caused considerable covering by shorts. " Submarlno Boat was the leuder both In strength and activity. Opening unchanged, It developed pronounced strength and at one time showed nn upturn of 2H points. Carwen Steel kept within a range of H. Curtlss Aero plane, after a small reaction, rose 2 points. Wright-Martin was moderately active within narrow limits. Butterworth judson eased oft a point, but later recovered nearly all the loss. Air Reduc tion ruled about unchanged. There was a fairly good Inquiry for the motor shares, Chevrolet showing the usual fluctuations of about 4 points. United Motors moved up , while other motor stocks were about unchanged. Aetna Explosives was In fair demand at a small fractional change, while Mexlm Munitions was active at times but unchanged. Oil stocks were moderately active, but somowhat Irregular. Mining stocks were steady but comparatively quiet, with the exception cf a few of the low-priced Issues, ' INDUSTniAI-8 Did. jUr Reduction American Store 34 Aetna Kxploslves 4tt Amerlcan-Drltlsh Mfg .. American Marconi 2tt American Writing Paper. SW Yes. close. Asked. (Sale) 87 SB 36 S 13 i 4 35 75 0 94 80 41 IS 104 H Cnadlan Car Co Cn Car & Kdy pre .... Charcoal Iron Chevrolet Motors frnmD SO 70 02 80 Curtlcs Aeroplane 40H Carwen Tool Ittt Carbon Steel 101 Emerson rhonograph ... 6" Federal Dye .... 40 Hendce Manufacturing . . S7 Kathodton Uronzo prcf.. 1V4 .Lehigh Coal Sales 18 lake Torpedo Boat lY Lima Locomotive 4 Maxim Munitions 174 Marlln Arms V Y Shipbuilding 44 Nor Amer Pap Pulp... 4 Otis Elevator 40H 1174 y4 32 2 80 7"-i 57 2 100 48 l 60 10 90 18 20 02 100 11 3114 ID 86 174 414 25 SO 30 9 274 174 07 '474 Peerless Motor Poole Eng " t1n Truck 15 Santa Cecilia 20 Santa Cecilia prcf .... 65 Scrlpps-Booth 5 S S Kresge w 1 5 Standard Motors 11 Steel Alloys Yi Submarine 81 St Joseph Lead 18 Todd Shipbuilding 84 Triangle Film 1 United Profit Sharing .. V U S Steamship 4V4 United Motors 25 United Sugar SO World Film 30 Wright-Martin Air .... 0 Zinc Concent 2 11 toy 4 2474 874 STANDARD OIL STOCKS Illinois 208 212 !12 Ohio 338 .142 Prairie Pipe ....208 272 8 O California 258 282 B 0 New Jersey 880 885 6 0 New York 278 281 INDEPENDENT OIL STOCKS Harriett Oil & Qas 174 2 Cosden Oil . . . .' 13 13y Coden & Co 13 1SV4 Elk Basin 10 10 Tuleral Oil 4 474 Inter Petrol 13V isy4 Houston Olt 20 22 Merrltt Oil 7 27 2 13 1374 10 49i 13 27 TALK OF PRICE FIXING MAKES GRAIN BREAK Market Falls Off When Board of Trade Directors Consider New Crop CHICAGO. July 11. Rumors that the directors of the Board of Trade would soon establish maximum prices on the new crop positions Induced heavy telling of corn, and sent the market off to day, after It had been established at a new high level on an urgent demand from shorts, good buying by cash nnd commission houses and support from the bulls The strength followed a set-back In the early trndlng under free offerings from pit traders and many longs who had failed to sell yesterday. They were Influenced In their operations, then, by rain and cooler weather in Okla homa and predictions of lower temperatures In Kansas, Their sales were picked up on retting orders by those who took cognizance of the acutenenB of the supply situation In Europe and the market bounded upward. Trade In wheat continued unimportant. The cash situation remained strong, whllo the market at Liverpool was dull but steady Oats moved upward, with shorts uneasy, particularly as to July. But these prices wer not maintained The directors of the Chicago Board of Trade met this afternoon to decide on the Question of a maximum price for December and May contracts. 'Fears that the direc tors would tako drnstlc action resulted In liquidation, but the market finished above yesterday's close. Number 2 yellow In the sample market wbb U.90191. against JI.8B0186V4 yesterday The low on September was 11 56 4. the top J160,, and the close 1894 0V4. Mlnst J1.67 V4 at the end yesterday; the top on December was SI. 2 4s;. the low "UK, and the final 121Vj3H. com pared with 11 21, yestorday's last price The belt on May was 11.24, the bottom UH, and the close $1 210S1.1OT4. con trasted with SI 20 at the end yesterday The best on July oatB was 68c, the low J'Kc, and the close 68H0HC against "He, the final quotation of yesterday; the top on September was 67c, the bottom 66K0 end the close E6V4c, compared with "Ho at the end yesterday. The top on December was 8874c the low 57V4c, and the final 58o bid, against 5TKC yesterday's lut price. After having sold as high as $2.05, July nat ended at the bottom at $2.03, or He lower; September sold o above yes terday's close at SI. 91 ; the low was $1-89 nd the close 11,91 bid. Leading futures ranged as follows: Low. Close, clow. ir s.osU a.os September . 1.91 l.OiK . Corn (new delivery) September .. 1.B7S l.OOJi ecember .. 1.21 1.S4K VL." '"OK l-4 S.03 1.89 tS.03 2.03V l.tlUM.tl l.RRU 1.60 1.57U 1 18 1.21 1.2lg 1.18H 1.21 1.20S fulr :: ft 67 K OS 67 5874 a ssft sua V4 58 57U E Member Decsmber 21.00 ..21.02 31.70 ..21.92 21.10 21.32 21.03 2t.0T 21.22 21.32 21.10 ai.ti ftember July .. . September 2t,70 31.92 21.67 721.70 181.63 il.li 121.82 t21'.2 juif 40.00 . 140.80 40.BO 40:i2 40.15 40.28 M0.3T tNortllnal. PUrabtr..40 00 Dia. tAiked. St, Louis Stops Sept. Corn Trading .Sf. LOUIS, July 11. The St. Louis Ex change has stopped trading In September Jorn except In settlement. Maximum price Axed at $1,68, Corn may be sold for Sep tember delivery on proper showing to Clear ing Ifouee that delivery can be made, Bar Silver Goes Still Higher Bar silver continued on Us upward march again today, setting a new high record for th third consecutive day In London and the seoohd In New York. An tncre of one-halt cent nt the New - Vatic iuAfttLa iu aa aa. tn4 la, London INDEPENDENT Oil. STOCKS Continued Ves. c lna. nid Midwest Ref 145 Met Petrol , 1 Ohio Fuel' is Akil. (Suit.) 147 146 14 Ml in Oklahoma Ilcf ...f 074 07i 0 Osage Hominy 7?4 't'ii 7i nice Oil Rapulpa Itef 1074 104 1074 Sequoyah yt if, Sinclair 2S 27 United West Oil , )J , MINING STOCK Alaska Standard 26 so Atlanta 10 11 10 Hlg Ledge U4 2 2 nisbee Copper (a pros) . . yt H . . Butto Copper & Zinc. . . 10H 1074 10V4 nutte New ork 174 laj .. Calumet ft Jcromo 1 1V4 1 tT, Con Arizona 2 214, 2 Cmma Consolidated 7i I ( First National s svi 37i Golddeld Merger 6 7 Goldfleld Cons 60 42 61 Qoldfleld Florence 20 2S Ooldfield Kcwnnas 12 16 Green Monster (, 1 j Hecla Mining ...., s-; ht' ij Howe Sound 674 8'Vi Independence Lend ..... 11 12 Jerome Verde If, If, IH Jim Dutler R2 ftn ss Jumbo Kxtenslon 80 32 32 Mngnato Copper 7 1 ) Mclvlnley-Darrngh 4R 42 Magma Copper 44 47 Mother Lode 20 27 27 Mines Co of America. .. . 174 1"4 Nevada Hills 20 2R Nevada Wonder 2 2Vi Nlplsslng 77. 7 7V Ohio Copper 174 l1 1ft Ray Hercules 3 4 Stowart ft I1-3J San Toy 14 10 Tonopah Extension 2ft 2'i 2ft United Verdo 37 37 West End Con 04 70 70 White Oaka 3 White Caps 1 174 Yerlngton 2 2H 2 Atlanta Charlotte 5 .... 07 OR llcthlehem Gs 98 0H74 OH Cosden Oil 6s lno 101 Cosden & Co 6s on inn Cudahy 6s " 07 100 Erie Bs ORM, 0RT4 New Haven 5s 8474 074 Itiisslan Government 5 ',4s 70 R'l 70V4 nusslan Government 6 Vis 89 01 90 Southern Hallway Bs OR74 OR- 0874 Sinclair Oil 6s 00 06 Todd Shipbuilding 6a 101 103 N Y Cities 4 74s 10274 10274 COTTON PRICES BREAK AS RAINS FLOOD BELT Much-Needed Precipitation Starts Active Selling Movement NEW YORK, July 11. Rain at a number of points In Texas, nnd prospects for more, caused an active selling movement In cotton this morning, under which prices broke from 3 to 21 points In private dispatches It was said that with rain In Texas now crop prospects would be fine. Peace talk appeared to be overlooked In the Improved weather prospects, which also Involved clearing conditions oer the east ern belt, where rainfall has been exccsslo in the last few days. Sentiment during the early trade was quite bearish At the end of the first fifteen minutes tho market was still heavy, with prices about 30 points under last night's close. The receipts at the ports for the day wero estimated at 8000 bales, against 3G37 bales last week, 8068 bales last year and 4017 bales two years ago. YM'day's 11-00 12.00 2 00 clone Open. A.M M PM July 27.10 2A.76 Auiraat 20 07 M)tombr 20-81 ; .,.; October 20.20 2 10 ?4 77 2.181 25.71 December 28 811 2CI Id 25 88 S 6 02 25 83 January 20.47 2B.2.1 March 20 72 20 43 May : 20 50 fcpot 27.80 Liverpool Cotton Market LIVERPOOL, July II. Spot cotton was slow of sale today, and prices were un changed. The sales were 2000 bales. The receipts were 1000 bales, of which 700 bales were American. Fixed quotations for futures were unaltered. MONEY-LENDING RATES NKVV YORK Money on call opened, loaning and renewing 2 74 per cent. Rates for time loans secured by good mixed Stock Exchange collateral were: Sfxty-days 1 per cent, trading nlnety-daya 447i per cent and four, five and six months 4 Vi 4 74 per cent. Ineligible prime bank acceptances were 4,4 4)S7i per cent and ellglbles 4 7i4 74 per cent. rnii.ADKI.rmA Call. 8 per cent; time BOB per cent. Commercial paper, three to four months, 80674 per cent. LONDON Money, S7404 per cent; dis count rates for short bills, 4 74 per cent; three-month bills, 4 13-16 per cent. FOREIGN EXCHANGE NEW YORK, July 11. The foreign ex change market this morning was feature, less. Sterling was strong and rubles slight ly easier. Quotations were: Demand sterling 4.76 9-16, cables 4.76, sixty-day sterling bills nominally 4.72, ninety-day bills 4.70. Frano checks 8.73 H. cables 6.72 K- Lire checks 7.20. cables 7.19. Swiss checks 4.70. cables 4.63. Oullder checks 4174, cables 4174. pesetas checks 23.06, cables 23.20. Ruble checks 23.60, cables 23.88. Stockholm checks 31, cables 31.26. Chrlstlanla checks 29.78, cables 30. Copenhagen checks I9H, cables 2974. DANK CLEARINGS Hank cltarlnti today, compared rlth rronaln day i"," ",r,,,,lg 1915 Frtxtck 3 P C KtJitoa Advance Philadelphia 4S4.4sn.ziii ifT.siua.szs izs.TDS.sns I n,"1T'. mart ns, mtu can com ) .,.., EVENING LEDaERr-PHnABBLPaiA, WEDNESDAY, JULY H 1917 PHILADELPHIA MARKETS GRAIN AND FLOUR . WIirjAT Itecclpta 103,218 buah. The mar k'KV,".". nominal ...POIIN iifcclpt., 4300 buah. The market "J td Mrm ami hinher. ,lue to utronaer artvtcen irom the Quotation Car lots for local iW't- to locatlnn Writrrn No. 2 ellow :no. a yellow, ii.ttsvi v-, no, 81UI92. do. No. & sellow. ...V:i2llt 14 812 tmah. The marKet ruled nrm and hlsher In mpathy with lha in1; ."Juotatlona, No S white 7UVi WSOc landanl hll. 78& f 70c, No. 3 white 774 lt?:!,,.., "b'le. lfl'47Vc, .."W't'It llecelpts, 700 Wile, and 388.000 Iba. 1?. ?,?' . Trad waa quiet hut prices wfra lltl?l,2!,.l,, Quotations Winter atrnlght ''"'VS11.16 Kanaaa clear in.6ntfll dn, ;trai,ht, Hlli.:,0: do patent 111 2r.tl.75, Vl'lW- nr,t clear, 110.50911 patent. Ill 25 ll.Mi. dn faor!te hranda. I12(tli6n illy mlJ !irh?ice and fancy parent 112412.50. ...'.. H.Ol'K tlulet and unchanged. We ouole llow ti r, ub , , aUalltj. PROVISIONS .,Thre waa lltilo tradlns- and prlcea nf eome Klnda were loner, Quotation follow ruy ter. In idi, amoked and nlr-drlrd, 85c, wnt. em beef, in am. amolied. S5c city beef Knuckles and tendora, iraokul and alr-drled, 80c western beef, knuckles and lendera amoked. 38c beef hama t.ioaaj. pork, family 144 50O45 ham S P cured looe, 24024'ic. do klnnl looe. 24H4T2SC do. do. amoked 25'4 2rtc other nam, mokcd. city cured a to brand and aera 254f.'r4c. hnm amoked western cured. 25W254c. do, boiled boneln 89r pi, nlc ahnuldera S P cured looe 2(IHc di amoked. 21'c. belllea In pickle nrcordln- to erase, looia. 274c breakfnfit baenn a to brand and aterase city cured 35, breakfnat bacon, western cured. 35c. lard weatern reOnml tierce 22'4c. do. do. ilj tuba 224r lard, pure olt kettle rendered, In tierce !."ir do do. do In tub. 22Hc REFINED SUGARS The market was quiet but steady on a basle or 7 50c for extra nne sranulated. DAIRY PRODUCTS CltEnsK ruled firm under llcht offerings and a fair demand. Quotation New York. fuu cream, fancy, new. 244 c peclala higher do. do. choice, new. 2424Vc, do do. fair to good hew 2323Sc. lll'TTUIt Demand waa falrlj actKe and the marked ruled firm with tiuopllea well under control Quoiatlona Wcitern olld-pncked ,vnipry, ianc areciaie 4c extra, 4&4?4ic extra flrl Stic. . nrsta 384 c eecond. 374 o. nearby print, fancy. 43c. eraa extra. 41 J.'c. firt 39 Q 40c, aeconda. 374 OS'ci apodal "ln.'".y,"n',, f Prints Jobbing at tn'BiVe 1.008 Tho market ruled weak under a light demand and fnlrly liberal otTcrlnga. moat of wniih were of poor tock. Quotation l'ree caaea nearby flrata, 110 ho per standard case r.uX1'r' rectlpts, 110.50, western extr,i tlrsta 11080 per ce, nrat. 11050 fanu selected eggs Jobbing at 424Sc per dozen POULTRY LIVE The market waa quiet but steadv un der moderate offering. Quotations fowl as to quality, 2lU23c. rooater. l,m'18c, enrlng cnicken. not Leghorn, plump. cim--skinned weighing 14 8 , apiece 83f3(lc. soring V,n'r.Kens. not Leghorns, smaller site. 2fl5r:to. hit Leghorns 23W20c. pucks 1'ekln 19c. uu, inrnnii iiunner. l7f(tlHo. rtgeons old per I'.nr ..i'ir'i . no, nuncr. tier nalr. JOr' DUKSSKII lAjncv. rips1rnhlp.slil .Inrl, nt,l Willi fair sale and atuea generall ruled stend Quotations were aa follow I owl. 12 to Ihh, milk fed dry plotted, fancy aeltcted, 25c. wolghlhe 44 u,s and oer nplece. 244c, weigh ing 4 lb ,ind over apleie, 24n, weighing 34 lbs. apiece, 23c weighing 3 lbs. apiece. 21 'a "C. iouls iced. In bbl . fancy, dry-plrked. weighing 44 lb" nnd oer apiece. 24c. weigh ing 4 lbs apiece. 234c. Binaller Hie. ln 21c: old rooster, dry-plrked 18c. brnll-r Jersey, fnno ,lt40i.. Virginia. 32036c: other nearby. 25ff2Sc. western 25V2c. turke. fresh-killed lend, per lb Weelern. bet here 234124c. common '20lt22c. duck. prlne. 2223c. quaba. per doi-n White, weigh ne lljf 12 lha per dozen. IS 75f 4 60. do, weighing 91TIn lha per dojen in mux on do. weighing K lbs ir doien 12 40412 (l. do. SW,lnft..7 Il" f'r doien. 1202 25. do welghln, 00114 lha per dnten lltlOBITR dark. II 50S 1 78. small and No ! 5nef!t 10 FRESH FRUITS Ilemand waa fair and alue'a generailv were well sustained Quotations were a follow $PPlr, P'r. 'W. If-n I)als I4f5 Ilnl.lwln 44f. Arple northwcBtern per box 11.50 2.80 lmona per box I17. I'lnenpples. l'orto Illio per crate 2.r,UM I. Htrawberrle. New Jork. per qt . 20iBl2.ic. HlncKberrly North ' aroiina. per qt Xtfr.'c do Jersey, per qt.. IHUlSr, ilo Delaware and Maryland, 7B10c Itaspberrlrs red. per qt . UTOc. llucklelicrrles. North Carolina, per qt., ISWllle t'hcrrle per J-lb busket Hour. 40000c. eweet. OOW75C I'luma (leorgla. per carrier. I24J3, do. North t arollna. per carrlef 42W2.50 I'ontaloupea. tleorgla. per atandard crate h"l 10. do per pony crate, W75c do, California, per atnndird crate. 11 7302 50, do per pony crate. l..-.02. do, per fl.it I'rnt,,. Il."i4f0llc do South Carolina, per standard crate, K5C0II 15 Peaches, tleorgla per carrier II 7502 75 Watermelons, southern, per car, f 17511325 VEGETABLES Potatoea sold fairly and wero again firmer, with supplies under good control. Other vege table were generally quiet at revised figures. Quotations White potatoes North Carolina, per bbl. No. 1 I4W4.75, No, 2. I1.754J2 25. White potntoes Norfolk, per bbl. No. 1, 11.25 4J3. No 2 II 76 if 2.50. White potatoes. Kast ern Shore per bbl. No. 1. 14.7503 50. No. 2. 11.7502 75. While potatoes Jersey, per i-bUBh. basket No 1. Oilctf II 1.1. No 2 .'.OBflOc. Onions. Txae. per crate No. 1 76c II. No 2. noWOOc, do. Jersey, per S -bush, basket, 03 075c Cabbage Haatern Shore per bbl -crate, 75cetl. do Norfolk per bid crate. 75cUll. Kggplant, southern, per box 1102.25. Peppers. Florida. ier box. I1.75tf?2 25 Squash. Nor folk, per hamia-r 40005c Cucumbers. North Carollnn per basket. 1102. do Norfolk, per basket. 11 504T2. do. do, per bbl., 1405 To matoes. Mississippi per flat i rate 75C0I1. do. Tennessee per flat-crate 1 4001.83, do. Texaa. per ftat-cratv 76C0I1.6O Mushrooms, per 4-lb. basket. 1101.60. LIVE STOCK QUOTATIONS CHICAGO, July 11 1IOOS Ilctelpts, 28,000, Market alow. 5 10c higher Mixed nnd butcher. 114.23015 0.1, Rood heavy. 114 1.10 15 7.1. rough heavy. 114 15014 40. light 1140 13 35: pig, 110 7,1013 83. bulk 114 60013 50 CATT1.K Hecelpta 8300 Market strong. Peeves IS.4H0I4 cows and helfera 15.41)0 11 HO. Blockers and feeder. 18 3060 30. calvra, 11001.1 HIIKKI' Hecelpta. 12 000 Market ateady, 10c lower Native and western. 17 80011: lamb. 110011 7.1 NEW YORK BUTTER AND EGGS NBW YORK. July 11. HUTTEII Receipts, 1.1,03 tubs: market ateady, Quotatlona un changed. KQQS Receipts 18 838 esse market weak and unsettled, extri flrste S50.18c. first. 834 0314 c aeronds. 311 038c. No other changes. CHICAGO BUTTER AND EGGS CIIICAOO. July 11 IICTTKIt Vlnn lie celpt. 17,(n tuba nxtra, 38c, flrata, 30087c l;OOS Finn Hecelpta 12.1100 case Firsts, aiVi 3274c, ordinary first, 200324c. NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET NEW YORK. July 11 The coffee mar ket opened quiet and unchanged to 2 points higher today. Trading was quiet, and on the call transactions amounted to 2000 bags, all for May delivery- The market was quiet during the re mainder of the morning, with the trading still In a waiting position. Until there are some developments abroad which may bring about a jnore hopeful feeling of peace, there Is nothing In tho situation to Inspire any great demand. The crop In Drazll Is getting along, and many are In clined to believe that offerings In the cost and freight market vvll soon Increase and prices naturally be eased. Receipts are still behind a year ago, al though at Rio they ara running a little heavier. Hut It 1s only a, question of time when they will become normal, aa the crop Is expected to be a large nne. Today's Teaterday's ODenlntr. close. July Aurust September 7.7007.60 October November . . . December 7.B107.9O January February March April May June 8 0808 16 .DIVIDENDS DECLARED Nash Motor Company, regular quarterly of 17 par cent, payable August 1 to stock of rec ord July 20. , Griffin Wheel Company, regular semi-annual of S per cent on preferred, payable August 1 to stock of record July 10. .Lumbermen's Insurance Company, semiannual of 10 per cent, payable July 14 to stock of record July 10. Land Title and Trust Company, regular quar. tyly of 4H per cent, payable August 1 to stock iv record juiy record July 12. Fort Worth Power and Light Comi h Towe and T.lffht Comnanv regu- lar quarterly of IH per cent on preferred, r auarterlv of lav ner cent on Dreferred. niv, u,e auiuii i io noiuvra vi rrvuru rfujjr xu, bapulpa ItsAnlng Company, of Oklahoma, res. ular quarterly of 0 per cent, payable August 1, United Hlales Rubber Company, regular quar. terly of 2 par cent on first preferred, payable July 81 to stock of record July 20. K. W. Woolworlh Company, regular quar terly of 2 per cant on common, payable titp. tsmber 1 to holders of record August 10, Burne mothers, regular quarterly, of 11,50 -.,.,--. .-";-. . l-,j-. ;j ...?-;.' '- 5 a.,, qu & vir lent aim vii uuiiimou, payapl lUgutt 18 to stock ct record Aurust 1, a fa regular Quarterly of 11,76 on preferred, cav.hi, ISO August 1 fa atack of rsoord Julr 20. ut ) to stock of reoon ena Traffla Comoatiy. Peon TraSle, Company, semiannual of a ner 7.0307.5.1 7.0SO7.B.1 7.74 07 7.1 7.7807 79 7.8307.84 7 8707.88 T.0207.03 7.(1807.97 8.0108.02 8.OO0H.O7 8 1108.12 8.1008.18 r "; ' ;",; 'IHHHH j 'BfiaaJaiL. Aiitse . ejl'sxcH r- Hplsgil. fJm .LwLW K:rjiLm ' i mLMLM i liMKi . J. WILLISON SMITH He has been elected a vice presi dent nnd director of the Land Title nnd Trust Company. Ask Export Office for Philadelph ia Continued from I'.ige (In In view nf the great amount of exporting done from this port Philadelphia shippers could lie materially :i-sHtcil by having nn agency to grain these licenses here In Philadelphia, and vve beg to suggest that onn bo established either under the aus pices of your department nt Washington or In Philadelphia. Will you lie good enough t give tills your kind nttentlnn nnd nrtvlce as early as po'slble that such nn nrinngcment enn be made, as (.ome of our members have already tnado Inquiry Very truly yours, N. . KKI.I.Y. tenernl Secretaiy. NO REASON FOR OMISSION Director Webster, of tho Department of Wharves, Docks nnd Ferries, declared to day ho could see no reason why Philadel phia had been omitted from the list of cities vvhlrh would have their own agents for Issuing licenses "I should think that the recognition of the tremendous volume of trade passing through tho port of Philadelphia would have decided tho department. In appointing agents, to locate onn here There Is cer tain to lie a great deal of delay for per sons shipping through this port It they havo to npply to Now York for licenses Tho matter should certainly be looked Into There, may be boino reason for the omis sion, but I can discern none at present " The Philadelphia Hoard of Trade has sent a telegram to Secretary of Commerce Itedfleltt asking him to remedy tho condition. This communication, signed by William M. Coates. president of the board, read as fol lows City of Philadelphia, second largest ex porting port In the fnlted States, Is greatly surprised to learn that no agency for grant ing licenses by your department under em bargo proclamation Is to be established here. Kxports last year amounted to more than J320.000.000 nnd the foreign trade aver ages more than $225,000,000 for the last live years. The Philadelphia Hoard of Trade asks that Philadelphia bo given facilities for export trade equal to other Atlnntlo ports " PHILADELPHIA WON'T GET EXPORT LICENSE OFFICE WASniNOTON, July 11 Indications are that Philadelphia will not get nn export license commission, If the present plans of Secretary RedDeld are car ried out As outlined, this commission will be conducted in connection with the district offices nnd nt present Philadelphia has no district ofllce The commissions will be In New York. Doston. Chicago, St I.oulB, New Orleans, San Francisco nnd Seattle There Is what is known as a co-operative office In Philadelphia run by the Chamber of Commcrci Republican Foes Encircle Pekin Continued from I'nge One vatlon of the "Forbidden City." If he were granted personal amnesty. All of tho mon achlstB' requests for mediation have been rejected until his troops are formally with drawn from Pekln. CHINA READY TO HELP ALLIES BEAT GERMANY WASHINGTON. July 11 China Is ready and willing to draw upon her countless hordes of men to aid In beat ing Germany. In fact. Oriental diplomats today pre dicted that sho will plunge Into the war with an Initial contribution of 600,000 men. She has 20,000.000 physically fit men of military age, with the first half million al ready equipped, and vast national resources to draw upon for further equipment Tho fight between monarchists and re publicans In China Is characterized as only factional trouble at the basis of which lay a struggle for leadership In formulating the policy toward Germany As the Orientals see It, China's partici pation In the war would mean her salvation, Inasmuch as It would train her masses In modern warfare and make the nation strong to resist what might threaten latere Japa nese aggressions. "After the war China would be able to assume her place among the Power a recognized fighting democracy," said one close to the Chinese Embassy today. Parliament must reassemble before China can take any action looking toward actual war participation This, It Is anticipated, will be accomplished by September 1 with the new president, Feng Kuo-Cheng In con trol. Accuse Alan of Attack on Girl Accused of attacking a fifteen-year-old girl last December, Samuel Bloun, 40 years old, Barrlngton. N. J., vvas'today remanded to the County Jail at Camden In default of ball by Justice of the Peace Huyett. Lillian Dold, fifteen eara old, daughter of Mayor Edward F, Dold, Harrington, Is In serious condition us a result of the alleged assault, the police say. TOO LATK FOU CLASSIFICATION DEATHS " PK BKYB. Warn COBTEP.. Suddenly, July 1UK. son at Ut.tr 11. and th HENRY YMOUK. son of Alary th late A. frUnda In arrsn p Coster ltela n Pa Coster llslatlrta and friends 1llt tW tUUSIHI ami vivsiaa. u 4 fjf Ulta taVfc 420 ft. 46th at. Int. private, ic funeral services 11 a in., at Harvest of Death Gathers in Bodies Contlnned from rse One shell every thirty Inches In an area covering their depth and length. Have ou ever walked through a field of daisies nnd clipped their petaled heads with the swish of a cane? 1 pray not. slnec meadow flowers should be left to wither and die upon their native stalk. Ilut If you will Imagine the simile, or better still, the ad vanclng hordes of Roches, full five battalions of 800 each, crumpling up under tiro as would a piece of tissue paper in a nam, you will see what passed before my eyes. I saw men fall backwards nnd those tiohlnd step upon them as they advanced I saw men place hand to bead and sink to knee I saw others fall to the front and to the side And I saw still others fly Into veritable pieces under barrage an would a piece of hard cracker should you hit It a smart blow with a hammer, CORRESPONDENT HIT As I looked from a trench of France n bullet hit my helmet, I felt Its ting and then forgot It While beside me, each side nnd all along tho line, the forefinger of a poilu was working the trigger of a mitrail leuse as fast as he could crook It. It was crleklty-crack, and crack Tack ?rack, with the constant roar of trench mortar added Those 4000 Roches lft fully two thirds of their number upon tho torn soli of Frnnce Of the others, 700 who, because It was written had passed through a cease less flro without harm, threw down their rifles and uplifted arms as they cried Kamerade " Forty of these were officers, two of whom were majors. The rest, be cause It was written also, regained their bit of that Illndenburg line. The French loss was relatively light In comparison And the spirit of Its blue-clad fighting men was exemplified In this In stance Four feet from where I stood with in the trench, a pollu at a mitrailleuse re ceived his call from the Reaper He had taken a Boche bullet directly through the heart, and another In the face at the same Instant. But his gun did not cease firing ten seconds. For his neighbor who was pulling tho trigger with his right hand, reached over and handled his mate's gun with his left, and banged away with both trlggern as tho feeders paid In the cart ridges The dead man lay beXwcen. I picked him up as he lay doubled In a limp heap and carried him to the rear of the trench FIELD OF DEAD The attack lasted forty-live minutes. It was as five seconds to me And out there In No Man's land lay more dead than I have ever looked n-vin save before Arras. They lay In al sorts of positions. In heaps and singly, with rifle and helmet and ac couterment about and upon thorn, while the sun shone on, and the blue sky, a tender blue, like a fwgot-me-tiot, reigned over head Tho mitrailleuse and the mortars had ceased, for thore was nothing before In the way of standing human barbarian target to tiro upon But the shells from behind kept on. passing, over our heads, the deep boom of the 210, the lesser of the 160, the sharper rrack of the 76. while the Boche batteries from afar replied with less InTenslty. As the aumonler and the brancandler of France scaled the trench to succor tho wounded Boche, left by their own where they had fallen, my escorting officer, who had lost sight of me. touched my shoulder, remarking he had missed me and that I should have stayed back nt the 2000-yard spot where he had placed me, since I might have been hurt or taken prisoner had the barbarian reached his objective I answered him with a smile. There may have been something In that smile, for he put his arm about my neck and drew me out of the trench and Io the rear. It was then I noticed blood upon my coat and my hand, the blood of the dead soldier of France I had laid aside under fire And In the car a few minutes later I looked with mild curiosity at the dent In the rim of my helmet The sun was sinking behind the horizon, and with It we rode away In con tempt at the shell breaking about us With the dark vve were behind English lines. ATTACK HY BRITISH There, from a place assigned me, but little exposed despite Its elevation, I saw for tho fifth time In this war an nrtlllcry duel at night. Tho bulldog tenacity of the English Is no falsely nttrllmted thing. The teeth of their magnificent artillery sink more deeply dally Into the despair of the Roche. I sat upon a camp stool and watched the course of shell, a constant rumble of thunder until 1 o'clock In the morning. At no time could the position of batteries be discerned, so well mnsked were they. At a few min utes past 1 o'clock It decreased perceptibly And as I was drinking a cup of tea and smoking a cigarette with my French and English escorts, far off above the English lines rows of yellowish lights appeared. But for the length of their Illumination one might compare them In Intensity to htat lightning For perhaps Ave minutes they outlined that which under the soft light of the moon had been concealed, silhouetted ruins, the ruins of towns nnd villages, pieces of Jagged wall and stumps of trees standing among convulsed earth surfaces. Upon the hill of Saint Elol, the home of ancient monks, a peaceful church stood out clear, showing the battered tower and the bruised walls. The lights signaled from English to Eng lish, announcing a lull to be followed by the most furious bombardment of the night before tho attack nt dawn. And then the lights died and the moon reigned again. SLEPT IN CRATER At 2 o'clock, with an English officer, I went forward perhaps 1800 yards upon ter ritory regained where, close to No Man's Land, we wrapped our coats about us and lny down within a dry shell crater. Na ture was as calm and peaceful as an even tide In June. Here, I think, I fell asleep, or rather dozed In that vague milieu between waking and sleeping senses when we dream without loss of surroundings Before closing my eyes I had looked up and located the dipper and all my friends, the stars. Suddenly I felt rather than saw a light, a single stream of graceful light from a rocket. I looked at my watch It was 4:30 In the morning and the day was struggling with the night. Then out of the east came the dawn, pale, translucent, a ghostly, beau tiful thing it has been my pure Joy to look upon many a time In my life. And with It another rocket. I followed Its course as It died In a sinuous curve far up in a sky without a cloud and amid an atmosphere abnormally clear. Immediately at the rocket's dying the roar began from the south, the east, the north east In five minutes It was continuous thunder The batteries bf England were again at work. And very aoor came reply from the boche. but feebleness Itself In com parison. With passing minutes from the south, the east, the northeast, Just compass l; S-g-aajLgJ lllllllll S IJiajjs assasaBBBSBi ypU can Bend the EVENING x LEDGER to any of your rela tives and friends with the Ameri can Expeditionary Forces abroad at domestic subscription rates. You may telephone order to Walnut 3000 (Bell) or Main 3000 (Keystone), Circulation Depart ment. Subscriptjon will bo en tered and bill mailed to you, or you can mail instructions, inclog. Injt check or money order. Euenitig HeHger 50c Pr Moatk points without emplacement, a blackish smoke dimmed and dulled the fast-comtng day, My officer remarked that In an hour the fire would cease and then the attack! "It will be over there, far from us, and It will mean this soil of France will drink more German and English blood. But It will mean, also, a little closer to the fron tier for the Hun and a little more of France for France." We looked through our glasses at the shell falling far ahead, standing meanwhile upon the edge of our crater. And after about an hour, with the day full born, we saw afar the unmistakable lines of advanc ing men I had seen them closely In like circumstances a few days before, a few kilo metres away. I knew their valor, their eagerness, their scorn for the death before them, their certainty of success In the ob Jectlve at hand, their equal part In the greater objective that Is one with all na tions espousing the cause of right And I knew the dead among them, men of youth and strength, full of sturdy, palpitating, vibrating life that would presently In great part occupy another bit of that modern Siegfried's line, and In part too, lie still and mute after the supreme sacrifice. After all. these now dead men are to be truly envied For they died In a flash, face for ward, without suffering, in a contempt for death : and for the cause ' God save their memories! God watch over their aim I As these thoughts came to me I began to shiver, for the night which had been mild and warm had passed Into the beyond, and the wind coming with the new day was fresh, as from the sea. I buttoned my coat and passed out of the crater's edge and to the rear, over a ground that had been fought for and gained, as was to be the lot of tho land beyond. My boots sank Into the earth of France, a piece of It where never again so long as man lives will vegetation grow For war Is not only hell to men and trees, but to the very sod. Great parts Sf "orthern France, parts that had been icru.o ann green In 1914, are destined through convulsion of shell, to remain for ever and aye a desert, with neither meadow nor meadow flower nor tree nor the habita tion of man CHURCH AS FOOD ECONOMIST All Denominations to Report Through "Hoover" Committees WASHINGTON. July 11 The Church Is to become a positive force In food con servation as a result of a conference here between food administration officials and prominent churchmen representing virtually svery denomination In the United States. A committee from each denomination will aid In the campaign, which will Include weekly reports, through the churches, of what every family Is accomplishing In saving the neces sities, After addresses by Herbert Hoover, Dr It I. Wilbur. Oeorge A Cullen and other officials of the food administration, the con ference laid tho foundation for co-operation In the conservation work by adopting reso lutions as above. Curat; Takes Work in Gcrmantown The Itev. Richard H. Morris, curate of the I'rotestant Episcopal Church of the Ascen sion and assistant secretary at the diocesan headquarters In the Church House, has taken charge of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Germantown, and wilt remain there while the Itev. Samuel Upjohn la away on his vacation Depot for Pennsylvania Troop Supplies DALTIMOItE, July 11. Captain Daniel W. O'Neill, U. S. 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'.: WHISKY'S DOOM IN RUSH TO PAY t Thousands of Barrels Taken && of Bond and Revenue R- $ ceipta Swelled The doom of whisky Is foreshadow 'J'. the rush of owners of liquor In beW warehouses to pay the Internal rer1 taxes and take their splrlti out of eveti ment control, " Thousands of barrels have been out of bond In this city within ths and the Internal revenue collectors been nearly swamped with the demanel at owners to pay the stamp tax at the rait of (1.10 a gallon. Chief Deputy Collector John F. McEaa said today at the Internal Revenue Col lector's office In the Federal Building thevt there Is "quite a rush" to pay the tax aasl get the distilled spirits out of bond, fcvst he s,atd he was unable to give figures with out authority from Washington. Out of 1400 barrels of brandy held In t: Government bond at the Godfrey Stored. Granite and Dock streets, about 100 bar rels have been "taxpald" within three day At $(0 a barrel he tax on thtse amounts to $12,000. No whisky Is held at this ware house. Annoyance was expressed when Inqui ries concerning whisky removals wer made at the office of the Philadelphia Pure Rye Whisky Company, of Pennsylvania, In the -Bourse Building. "We have troubles enough without str ing out any Information about th removal r r of goods from our bonded warehouses." said an official. "It Is not to' our Interest to talk for publication on such a matter. Go to the Internal revenue collectors : they are good people and can tell you all about whisky." The cause for the rush to get the dis tilled liquors out of bond Is the agitation In Congress for the Government to take over all spirituous liquors. One th In ternal revenue tax Is paid the owners can do what they please with their property. One of the effects of the agitation Is to create a demand by the whisky Jobbers and by the public generally. Prices have almost doubled In some cases. It Is said. MUST BRING COCCHI HERE, WOODS TELLS TUMULTY New York Police Commissioner Goes to Capital to Urge Efforts to Have Slayer Extradited From Italy WASHINGTON. July 11. Th anxiety of the New York authorities to brlnr Al fredo Cocchl, confessed murderer of Ruth Cruger, New York high schoolgirl, back to this country, was again evidenced today when Police Commissioner Arthur "Wood. of New York, called at the Whit Houeo to ask President Wilson's assistance. He told Secretary to the President Tu multy and officials of the State Department that It la of the utmost Importance that Cocchl be tried In New York Instead of In Italy, where he Is under arrest. In order that It may be established whether the slayer had accomplices either within or without the New York police department. The result of Woods's mission was net divulged. We receive hosts of letters like these January 15th, 1917. Aleemo Manufaeturinfj Co., Newark, N. J. 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