TIIE SCR ANTON TRIBUNE FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 24, 1895.
EASTERN LEAfilE.
Syracuse 3 Scrunion 1
Wilkes-Barro 25 Koelicstcr 1
Buffalo 18 Springfield
Providence .17 Toronto 0
All scheduled Eastern league ball
games were played yesterday. First
and second place la still held by Spring
Held and Wllkes-Barre, although the
latter Is steadily gaining. SerantoiVs
loss of the game to Syracuse places the
latter In third position, and forces the
former downward to a tie with Provi
dence, Uie latter having won from
Toronto. Buffalo is rapidly closing up
the ranks, being but two points to the
rear of Providence and Scranton. To
ronto and Rochester seem to be unable
to keep the pace with the other club3
in the league.
Stundlug of Eastern I.caguo Clubs.
P. V. I,. P.O.
Springfield 21 If, li .714
Wllues-Burre ) 1-" '''
Syracuse IS 10 S .B.ii
Scranton 19 W '
Providence 1 W ' r'-',i
Buffulo 21 11 W .f-'4
Toronto 1 t 12 .
Rochester 21 4 17 .I'M
Today's Knstern l.cuguc Uunics.
Scranton at Syracuse.
Wllkes-Barre at Rochester.
Providence at Toronto.
Springfield at Buffalo.
theyToilp"xot bat.
That's the Reason Scranton Lost at Syra
cuse Yesterday.
Bpecial to the Scranton Tribune.
Syracuse, N. Y., May 23. Failure to
bat when a hit would have meant
victory caused Scranton to lose today's
game. Twice the bases were tilled, but
'the desired hit never muteralized. The
visitors outlielded Syracuse but could
not hit Kllroy with any degree of suc
cess. They only secured six hits off of
lilm.
Brown was found eleven times and
gave three bases on balls. One thou
sand persons saw the game. Score:
SYRACUSE.
R. II. O. A. E.
Welch, cf 0 1 2 U 0
Simon, If 0 13 10
Mlnnehan, 3b 0 15 4 0
GrifHn, rf 0 10 0 0
Power, lb 0 0 11 0 0
Eagan, 2b 113 2 1
Moss, ss 0 0 14 2
Rafter, c 12 111
Kilroy, p j 14 13 0
Totals 3 11 27 13 4
SCRANTON.
R. H. O. A. E.
Radford, ss 0 U 2 2 u
Ward, 2b 0 2 3 5 0
Brady. It 1 "0 3" 0 0
Sweeney, rf 0 0 3 0 0
Clark, lb 0 1 12 1 0
Whitehead, 3b 0 0 0 3 0
Johnson, cf 0 0 3 0 0
Rogers, c 0 110 0
Brown, p 0 2 0 3 0
Totals 1 6 27 14 . 0
Syracuse' 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 03
Scranton 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0-1
Earned runs Syracuse, 1. First base on
balls Off Kllroy, 4; off Brown, 3. Struck
out By Brown, 1. Two-base hits Kilroy,
Clark. Sacrifice hits Moss, Power, Grif
fin. Stolen base Moss. Double plays
Radford to Ward to Clark; Whitehead to
Ward to Clark; Eagan to Moss to Power.
Hit by pitcher By Kllroy, 1; by Brown, 1.
Wild pitches Brown. Umpires Gaffney
and Swartwood. Time 1.13.
Rochester WHkcsBarrc.
ROCHESTER.
, R. II. O. A. E.
ShlnnlcK, 2b 3 2.3 4 2
Daly, cf 1 2 ' 3 0 0
Hamburg, lb 1 1 t o 0
Lush, If 3 0 10 1
Payne, rf 2 4 2 0 0
'Hanrahan, ss 2 3 111
O'Brien, 3b 1 4 1 2 U
White, c 2 2 3 0 0
Wente, c 0 0 5 0 0
Duryea, p 3 0 0 0 0
Harper p 0 0 0 0 0
Totals .. 18 18 27 7 4
WILKES-BARRE.
R. II. O. A. E.
Lytie. If 5 3 11 0
Shannon, 2b 4 5 3 3 0
Betts, cf 4 4 2 0 0
Lezotte, rf 3 2 0 0 1
Earl, lb 2 3 12 0 1
Dlgglns, c 1 3 5 2 3
Swish, 3b 13 111
Mc.Mahon, ss 2 2 3 2 2
Camplleld, p 3 10 2 3
Totals ; 23 20 27 11 11
Rochester 2 3 1 9 2 0 1 0 0 IK
Wllkes-Barre ....3 0 0 0 4 3 7 2 6-25
Earned runs Rochester, 7; Wilkes
Barre, 15. First base on errors Roches
ter, 4; Wllkes-Barre, 3, Two base hits
Hanrahan, Lytle, Betts (2), Lezotte, Earl,
Smith (2), White. Three base hits Payno
(2), Hanrahan, O'Brien, Lytic. Lezotte,
Dlgglns (2), McMahon, Campfleld. Stolen
bases White, Hamburg, Lytlo, Earl,
Dlgglns. Double plays Hanrahan to
Hamburg, Dlgglns to Shannon, llunrahan
to Shlnnlck to Hamburg. Left on bases
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MA. ME., SCRANTON. PI.
Rochester, 8; Wlllces-Burro, 7 Bases on
balls Off Harper, 3; off Cnmptlcld, 4.
Struck out By Duryen, 3; by Harper, D;
by Camplleld, 1. Hit by pitched ball
Duryea, 3; Hamburg. 1. Wild pitches
Camplleld, Umpire Hurst. Timo 2
bourn,
Toronto-Providence.
TORONTO.
R. II. O. A. E.
Mearn, If t 0 4 2 0 1
Slppl, 2b 0 12 4 1
Freeman, if 112 0 1
Lutenberg, lb 1 3 11 0 0
Smith, 3b 1 1 1 0 1
Lake, c 2 3 3 2 1
Demont, ss 112 11
Casey, rf 0 110 0
11 ray, p 0 0 0 0 0
MuUarry, p 0 0 0 1 1
Totals 0 13 21 8 7
PROVIDENCE.
R. II. O. A. E.
Lyons, cf
Bussett, 3b
Knight, If
lingers, lb
t'uoiiey, bs
2 4 4 0 0
0 1112
112 0 1
3 1 10 0 0
1 1 0 1 0
Strieker, 2b :. 3 2 4 2 1
.Murray, rf 3 2 0 0 0
Dixon, c 3 1 (i 0 1
Iluddcrhuin, p 12 0 10
Totals 17 15 27 5
Toronto I 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 16
Providence 7 6 3 1 0 0 0 0 017
Earned runs Toronto. 2; Providence, 1.
First base by errors Toronto, 4; Provi
dence, 5. Left on bases Toronto, 12;
Providence, 7. First base on balls Off
Gray, 3; off Metiariy, 3. Struck out By
itudderhitm, B; by Cray, 1; by McUurry, 1.
Three base hits Freeman, Demont, Lyons
2. Two-buse-hlts Lyons, Murray, Dixon.
Stolen buses Freeman 2, Lutenberg,
Rogers 2. Double plays Slppl to Luten
berg. Hit by pitcher By Gray. 1. Wild
pitch UilikltTliam. Umpire Doescher.
Time 2.05.
Buffalo-Springfield.
BUFFALO.
R. II. O. A. E.
Eottenus, If 2 2 10 0
Urquhart, lb 2 3 31 1 2
Shearon. rf 1-1 3 0 3
Wise, 2b 2 3 3 1 0
Drauby, 3b 2 2 0 3 0
Clymer, cf 2 2 0 0 0
Dowse, c 2 16 0 0
Leewe, ss 1 2 3 5 1
Herndon, p 12 13 0
Totals 15 18 27 13 C
SPRINGFIELD.
R. H. O. A. E.
Shannon, ss 12 13 1
Donnelly, 3b 1 0 2 3 0
Leahy, ir 3 10 0 1
Si'helMer, rf 112 10
Gilbert, lb 2 2 11 1 0
Garry, cf o 1 1 0 0
McDonald. 3b 113 2 2
Gunson, c 0 14 11
McKlllop, p 0 10 4 0
Totals 0 10 21 13 5
Buffalo 2 5 0 0 3 0 1 2 -15
Springfield 3 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 D
Earned runs Buffalo, S; Springfield, 4.
First base on errors Buffalo, 2; Spring
field, 3. Two-base hits Bottenus, Drauby,
Clymer, Gurry. Three-base hits Urqu
hart. Wise 2, Scheffler. Home runs
Let we, Leahy. Sacrifice hits Leewe.
Stolen bases Shearon, Wise. Clymer,
Dowse, Shannon 2. Scheffler, McDonald.
Bases on balls Off Herndon-, 2. Struck
out By Herndon, 3; by McKlllop. 3. Hit
by pitcher Bottenus. Wise 2. Schemer.
Double plays Leewo to Urquhart; Drauby
to Leewe to Urquhart. Left on bases
Buffalo, ; Springfield, 7. Time 1.50. Um
pire Snyder.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
As a result of yesterday's games,
Pittsburg again goes to the head of the
National league percentage list. Bos
ton drops from fourth Into fifth place,
and Baltimore passes both New York
and Philadelphia and occupies sixth
position. The Louisville-Brooklyn
game was abruptly ended in the lat
ter's favor, on account of Louisville's
failure to have a stock of spheres on
hand. There was no scheduled game
for St. Louis and Washington.
Standing of National League.
P. W. L. P.O.
Pittsburg 2fi IS 8 .2
Cincinnati 27 is 9 .r,i;7
Chicago 2K IS 10 .W3
Cleveland 2ij i pj .,-,
Baltimore 2') 11 '.) .550
Boston 22 12 10 .545
New York 23 12 11 .5i!2
Philadelphia 23 12 11 .522
St. Louis 27 10 17 .370
Brooklyn i s 11 .3.13
Washington 23 7 1H .301
Louisville 23 18 ,2I
At Pittsburg
Pittsburg 1 0004000 5
Poston 1 0 0 1 200004
Hits Pittsburg, 1o; Boston, 10. Errors
-Pittsburg, 4: Boston, 2. Batteries
Hawley and Sugden; Dolsn and Ryan.
Umpire Keefe.
At Cincinnati
Cincinnati , 1 200012028
Philadelphia 0 2 1 1 4 3 1 1 13
Hits Cincinnati, 13; Philadelphia, ' 16;
Errors-Cincinnati, 3: Philadelphia, 5.
Batteries Rhlnes and Spies; Carsey and
Clements. Umpire McDonald.
At Cleveland
Cleveland 0 0 4 3 0 3 0 0 10
New York 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 0 D
Hits Cleveland, 11; New York, 8. Er
rorsCleveland, 2; New York, 5. Batter
ies Young and O'Connor; Rusle, Wilson
and Farrell. Umpire Emslle.
At Chlcugo
Chicago 1 0000203 28
Baltimore 0 010100226
lilts Chicago, 13; Baltimore, 12. Erors
Chicago, 8; Baltimore, 1. Batteries
Grltlith and Klttrldge; Oleason and Rob
inson. Umpire Murray.
At Louisville
Louisville, 0; Brooklyn, 0. (Game given
to Brooklyn at the end of second Inning
by tho score of V to 0 on account of
Louisville not having a supply of now
bnlls.)
No gamo was scheduled today between
tho St. Louis and Washington clubs,
STATE LEAftlE.
At Hazleton
Hazleton 0 0010000 12
Harrlsburg 1G 030000 9
Hits Hazleton, 0; Harrlsburg, 12. Er
rors Hazleton, 4; Harrlsburg, 2. Batteries-Fox
and Wcstlake; Huston and
Kelly.
COLLEGE GAMES.
At Princeton-Cornell, 3; Princeton, 13.
MITCIIELL-GOKDON FIGHT.
Will Da Pulled Off in Either tho Frothing
ham or .Music Hall.
It has, been decided that tho light be
tween John L. Mitchell and "Jersey"
Gordon, of Philadelphia, will be pulled
off either at Music Hall or the Kroth
ingham. Tho winner Is to get 75 per cent,
of tho receipts and the loser 25 per cent.
Gordon will train In Wllkes-Barro, and
Mitchell In this city and West Plttston,
where he Is instructor for the National
Athletic club. His seconds, Patrick Mur
phy and Harry Mitchell and possibly
James Judge, will bo In his corner. A
referee has not yet been decided upon.
Jack Gllhrlde and Dick Hicks, middle
weights, will appear In one of thu pre
liminary bouts.
CARLISLE OH CURRENCY
Concluded from Page 1.
, , 1
tlon of sliver in the coinage was that gold
went out of circulation and we had prac
tically silver monometallism until after
the passago of the act of 1834. For the
purpose of restoring gold to the circulation
congress, In 1S31, changed tho ratio from
15 to 1, to 111 to 1, and na this was tin
over-valuation of gold in tho coinage, sil
ver left tho country, and from that time
on until 1878 wo had practically gold
monometallism, whenever we had any
motallic basis at all for our currency.
Gold Would Ho Horded.
It would be a useless consumption of
time to go Into a detailed account of tho
monetary legislation of this and other
countries, or to show at length how It
affected the movements and use of tho
two metals by Its repeated failures to
conform tho legal ratio between them.
The great and Import ant fact conclusively
established by the history of that legis
lation and Its effects upon the circulation
of tliu coins of tho two metals Is, that
whenever one of them is over-valued
relatively to the other 111 tho coinage laws,
with free coinage or coinage upon equal
terms, und both aro made legal tender,
the coins of the under-valued metal will
bo driven out of circulation und out of
use as money In the country where' tho
unequal valuation Is made. Tho reasons
for this are perfectly plain. Both being
legal tenders, the least valuable coins
will always lie used In making payments,
und will become the measures of value In
the oxchange of commodities, and conse
quently thu more valuable coins will bo
hoarded or sent out of tho country Into a
market where their reul value will bo
recognized. Now, as this Is Just what has
always occurred at least in modern
times, when commercial relations between
different countries are so intimate and
the means of transportation are so rupld
and cheap even when tho uniler-vnluutlon
or over-valuation amounted to only 1 or 2
per cent., I think wo uro fully Justified in
concluding that If the United States alone
should adopt the policy of free anil unlim
ited coinage of legal-temler silver at the
ratio of ltl to 1. which would be an over
valuation of that motiil to the amount of
UK) per cent. .all the gold In the country
would be Immediately hoarded or exported
or bo held as a commodity by speculators
engaged In tho business of buying and
selling It at a premium. If this should be
the result, tho free coinage of silver
would not for a long time odd anything
whatever, even nominally, to our stock
of money; on the contrary, the Immedia'..!
effect of such a policy would be a contrac
tion to the extent of fully one-third of our
present volume of currency by the expan
sion of about $U23,00O,0OO in gold, and It
would requlro more than llfteen years to
supply Its plueo with silver dollars, even
If our mints coined nothing else.
All who have been or may be Induced
to give their support to this revolutionary
policy, upon the asurance that It will give
tho country more money for use In the
transaction of business, will be greatly
disappointed, for they will find, when It Is
too hue, that instead of having more
money they will have less, and that It
will be depreciated In value besides. The
introduction Into the currency of a colic
try of any kind of motley about which
there is tho leust doubt will always oper
ate to drive out the same amount, or
about the same amount, of better money
and thus leave the people with substan
tially the same volume of currency they
had at the beginning. The act providing
for the purchase of silver bullion and tho
Issue of legul-tender treasury notes In
payment for It was passed on the 11th
day of July, 1S!KI, and the purchasing
clause of that act was repealed Nov. 1,
lbt'll. While ' It remained In force Unit d
States treasury notes were isued to the
amount of 155,931,uti2, and there were
many people who believed that this was
making a material and permanent addi
tion to the volume of our currency; but
the official records show that during the
same time the net exports of gold from
this country amounted to $103,419,491, to
that the real addition to our cireulatijn
accomplished by the lsue of nearly $150.
UO.OUO of new notes was about firty-two
and a half million dollars during n period
of more than three years. The mere
apprehension that the government would
not be able to maintain the parity of the
two metals under the policy Inaugurated
by that act, not only discredited tho new
treasury notes themselves, but the whole,
volume of our currency, and gold wont
out about as fast as tho new notes came
In. While, therefore. It Is not at all cer
tain that free coinage would ultimately
make any considerable addition to our
circulation, it is absolutely certain that
It would give us a depreciated and fluc
tuating currency, and the question is
whether the producers of cotton, wheat,
corn, beef, pork, oil, lard, cheese, and other
exportable articles will be benefitted or
Injured by such a result. It Is an axiom
In trade that the prices of exportable pro
ducts are fixed In the foreign market
where the surplus Is sold, and are llxed
In tho currency of that country according
to Its nominal value there. If sold in
England, for Illustration, the prices aro
fixed and paid In pounds, shillings, and
pence, and not In dollars and cents, and,
consequently, It makes no difference to
the foreign purchaser what kind of cur
rency tho producer has at home. Thu
character or value of the currency In use
In the producing country does not affect
tho price of the. article abroad to any ex
tent whatever, for tho purchaser there
trades in his own market and uses his
Would Not Increase Prices,
own currency In measuring values.
The establishment of a Bllver standard
here could not possibly Increase the price
of cotton or wheat or any other American
product In Liverpool, London, Purls, or
Berlin, whatever effect it may have upon
tho nominal price In this country. If our
monetary system were so changed that
It would require two dollars to purehnso
hero the same quantity of commodities
that one dollar will purchase now, It
would not affect tho valuo or purchasing
power of the English pound sterling, the
French franc, or German mark In the
least. The only effect would be that the
exchange would be doubled, and the pound
sterling Instead of being worth (I.M In
our currency, as It is now, would te
worth $9,732, and when our people wanted
to muke a remittance to pay a debt abroad
they would have to puy twice as much In
oajtnom.y for the samo number of pounds
as they pay now, while tho foreigner who
wonted to moke a remlttaneo to pay a
debt here would pay only half us much In
his money for the same number of dollars
as he pays now. But tho exchange would
be in a constant change of fluctuation.
Just as It has been between Great Britain
and India on account of the changes In
the prices of silver from (lay to day; and
the American producer would be com
pelled to puy for the risk taken on ac
count of the fluctuations by receiving a
less price for his cotton, wheat, beef, and
other articles. The farmers and planters
do not export their own products, but sell
them at home to somebody else who
sends them abroad, and if the exchange
Is steady and the money Iriwhlch he Is
to pay for the products has a fixed value
relatively to the money In use in the
country where ho expects to sell them,
the purchaser hero cun afford to poy the
highest price that would leave him a rea
sonable margin of profit In view of the
conditions existing In the market abroad.
In other words, he has to Incur but one
risk the possible fall in the prlco of the
products abroad; but If tho currency here
Is depreciated and fluctuating, If our
money has no flxed and certain value rel
atively to the money in use abroad where
he expects to sell the products, there is
an additional risk to be incurred which
will have great influence In determining
tho price he enn afford to pay the pro
ducer. In addition to the risk of a fall
in the price of the products abroad, ho
must incur the risk of a rise in the price
of silver tetween the time of his purchase
and the time whena he receives the pro
ceeds of his sale, for if Bllver rises in the
meantime he may not get back as many
dollars as he paid out. Tho producer must
pay for both of these risks by receiving
a, smaller price for his commodities, and
honce hlB prices will never Increase in
proportion to the actual depreciation of
tho money in which they are paid. To
lllustruto my meaning, when sliver is
worth 110 centB per ounce, the bullion con
tained In a silver dollar is worth 40.4 cents,
but if the prlco of sliver should advance
to 62 cents per ounce, tho value of the
bullion contained In a silver dollar would
bo 48 cents un lnorease of nearly 414 per
cent. Now, the price of cotton or wheat
will not rise in proportion to the deprecia
tion of the dollar In which It Is to be paid;
that is, the purchaser for export will not
pay for it at the rate of 48 cents for each
dollar when sliver Is worth 00 cents an
ounce, bocatiBo he knows that silver may
rlso to fil or C2 cents per ounce before ha
can sell the product abroad and get his
money for it, and he knows thut if this
happens the gold he receives abroad can
not be exchanged for us many silver dol
lars as he puld tho producer here. Ho
will not take all this risk upon himself,
but will compel tho producor to share it
by receiving a less price for his cotton or
wheat; and tills argument applies with
equal force to all other articles. It Is
Impossible to estimate accurately tho
amount of loss which this would Indict
upon tho Aineilcun producers of export
able products, but It would undoubtedly
be very greut, us the value of our exports
of domestic merchandise Is neurly $S70,
uoo.uiio per annum, and u smull percentage
upon tills large sum would very materially
uffoct'lho Incomes of our producers.
Why Prices Have Declined.
It Is argued that the existing standard
of vuluo ought to be ubundoned because
since 1873 prices of commodities buve
fullen, and will continue to full, If tho
standard Is maintained, so that It has
been und will continue to be, more and
more difficult euch succeeding year to pay
debts; thut this full In the prices of ull
commodities Is attributable to the appre
ciation of gold, and that the appreciation
in tho value of gold has been caused by the
alleged demonetization of silver In Ger
many In 1S71 und 1N73, tho omission of the
standard silver dollur from the coinage of
the United States In 1873, und the suspen
sion of the coinage of sliver by France In
1870. It Is true that the prices of many
things have fallen since 1873, but It is true,
also, that the prices of many things had
fullen long before that date. The asser
tion that, the fall In prices since 1873 Is
due to the appreciation of gold alone is
based upon the assumption thut the rela
tions between supply and demand have not
changed, that thero 1ms been no diminu
tion of the cost of production and distri
bution, lhat tho facilities for effecting
financial exchanges have not been im
proved, and, in brief, that tho world has
made no progress In tho conduct of its
Industrial and commercial operations for
more than twenty years. This assumption
Is so Inconsistent with well-known eco
nomic and historical facts that It seems
scarcely worth while to glvo It a serious
consideration. Reductions In the prices
of commodities are generally due to so
many different causes that It is scarcely
cer possible to ascertain the extent of
their separate influences. I presume
however, that even the most ardent advo
cate of free rolnage would be willing to
admit that tho Invention and use of labor
saving machinery, the extension of our
railroad systems, the Improvement of our
wnter-wnys ami the greut reductions In
the rales for carrying freight, the employ
ment of steamships, the use of the tele
graph on the land and under the sea, the
application of electricity In the production
of light, heat and power, the utilization
of by-products which were forhierly
wasted, the introduction of more econom
ical methods In the processes of produc
tion, the wonderful advance made by
our laborers In skill and efficiency, the
greatly reduced rates of Interest paid for
the use of capital, and many other things
which It would require much time to
enumerate und explain, have affected
prices In some measure, at least, and yet
they Ignore all these great influences in
their argument upon the subject and at
tribute the low prices of commodities to
a single alleged and inadequate cause
the' appreciation of gold. I presume, also,
that our free-coinage friends will admit
that if thechangeln pricey has been caused
entirely by the appreciation of gold, the
reduction would have affected all things
alike, because it cannot be denied that,
In tho absence of other Influences, gold
must bear the sumo relation to the price
of one article thut It bears to the price of
another. But we do not find that the
prices of all things have been reduced in
the same proportion, nor do wo find that
the prices of all things have In fact been
reduced. It would requlro fur more time
than could be devoted to the subject upon
such un occasion as this to discuss the
subject of prices in all its details; nor Is
It necessary to do so for tho purpose of
this argument, because a very few illus
trations will servo to show the weakness
of the contention that the decline Is
duo alone to thu appreciation of gold.
In 1891, 1892, and a part of 189,1 I had the
honor to serve on a sub-committee
charged by the senato of the United States
with the duty of ascertaining the course
of prices and wages of labor for as long
a period us authentic records would enable
us to embrace In our investigation, and,
after a most thdrough and Impartial exam
ination of the subject, a report was made
which fills four large volumes aiid em
bodies a mass of Information upon these
subjects which cannot be found In any
other official form. As to the course r.f
prices und wnfjes 'the committee was
unanimous, though there were differences
of opinion among tho members as to the
causes thut hud from time to time pro
duced tho changes. The prices of many
articles and the wages of labor In many
occupations wero ascertained during each
year ns fur back as 1810, and for the pur
pose of comparison the prices of commodi
ties and the wages of labor In tho year
1800 were adopted as the standard. The
stitilclency of the reasons for selecting thut
year rather thun any other will not, I
think, be questioned. There were no
great financial or other disturbances dur
ing that year, business wan In a normal
condition In ull parts of the country, no
chunges hud been made In the monetary
systems of the world for many years, the
United States was using gold as the meas
ure of value, Just as It Is now, except
that there was no legal-tender sliver In
circulation as there Is now, the puuplo
wero prosperous and the prices of com
modities and tho wages of labor were
fairly adjusted with relation to each
other. At the time when this Investiga
tion was made all tho legislation In: regard
to silver now specifically complained of
hud been accomplished, and If prices or
wnges had fallen there was as much
reason to attribute the reduction to thnt
legislation then ns there Is now. Ample
tlmo had been afforded for Its effocts, If it
had any, upon prices' and wages to be felt,
and the fact that the investigation was
not made for the purpose of Influencing
legislation upon the silver question adds
to the value of Its results.
D.cllno In Prices Not Uniform
In the first plnco, the committee unani
mously selected 232 articles In common
UBe which It was agreed constituted the
great bulk of tho consumption and ex
penditures of the people, and these articles
were separated into eight classes or
groups; that Is, clothes and clothing,
fuel and lighting, metuls and implements,
lumber and hoiise-buildlng materials,
(drugs and chemicals, house-furnlshlng
goods, nnd miscellaneous commodities.
It was found that tho prices of articles
used for food, taking them altogether,
had fallen less than 10 per cent, since
1873, while the prices of clothes and cloth
ing had fallen 82 per cent.; fuel and light
nearly 24 per cent.; motals and Implements,
35 per cent.; lumber and building mato
rluls, nearly 20 per cent.; drugs and chem
icals, 31 per cent.; house-furnlshlng goods,
27 per cent., and miscellaneous articles,
10 per cent. The prices of the year 1800
being taken as the standard, wero repre
sented by 100, and increases and decreases
were shown by deviations from that num
ber up or down, as the case might be.
The investigation showed that at the
time it was made articles of food stood at
103.9, or nearly 4 per cent, higher than in
I860; clothes and clothing at 81.1; fuel and
lighting at 91; metals and Implements at
74.9; lumber and house-building materials
at 122.2; drugs and chemicals at 80.3;
house-furnlshlng goods at 70.1, and mis
cellaneous articles at 95.1, These results
of the investigation establish three facts
which huve an Important bearing upon
the present controversy. The first fact
established Is that the prices of articles
of food which are the products of the
farms, gardens, orchards, and dairies of
the country, wero about 4 per cent, higher
than they were In the year 1800, long before
the silver legislation now complained of;
the Bocond Is, that tho full In prices of
these farm products since the year 1873
has been much less than the full in the
prices of the commodities the farmers
have to buy; and the third Is, that tho
reductions in prices have not been.un!form,
either as to particular articles or groups
of articles, and therefore cannot be at
tributed to one and the .same cause to
the appreciation of gold, for instance.
The conclusion is Inevitable that various
Influences have operated 4o produce
these change In prices, some affecting one
group of articles und some another and
doubtless some: affecting all, but to no one
Influence cun the whole result be attrib
uted. Cotton and wheat are the commodi
ties most frequently referred to by those
who contend thnt the full In prices Is
due to the appreciation of gold, but there
is nothing whatever In the methods of
producing those articles, or In transport
ing or Belling them, or In the chnructer of
the money received for them, which would
muke the appreciation of gold uffect their
prices more- than It would affect the prices
of other commodities produced by our
people. In addition to .the various causes
which have more or less affected the
prices of all articles, the prices of these
two products huve been seriously affected
by the enormous Increase In their produc
tion since the year 1872, which was the last
crop year preceding the legislation In re
gard to silver. Tho production of cotton
in this country In 1872-'S was 2.974,351 bules,
containing un average of 439 pounds net
weight, while the production In 1893-'4
was 7,349,817 bales, containing an average
of 47J pounds net weight, or an increase of
nearly 200 per cent, in this country alone,
besides tho great Increase that has taken
place in competing countries; and In
1891-'5 the production here was much
larger, being nearly 10,000,000 bales. Ac
cording to the statistics of tho agricul
tural department, the production of wheat
4n this country In 1872 was 219,997,100
bushels, and In 1894, 400,207,410 bushels, or
nearly twice as much, and there has also
boen an enqrmous Increase of production
in competing countries. But, gentlemen,
notwithstanding the great Increase In the
production of cotton and wheat, here and
in other countries, and the consequent de
cline In their prices, a given quantity of
either of them will now purchase In our
own markets and In the markets abroad
a larger share of many other useful com
modities than It would have purchased in
1872 or 1873, so that, In fact, as compared
with many other things, the values of
cotton and wheat have appreciated.
Wages Have Hlscn.
The ono thing which has been less
affected by the changes In tho relation be
tween supply and demand, by Improve
ments In the methods of production and
distribution and by the other Influences
which produce fluctuations In prices of
commodities generally, Is lubor, and it Is
by far the most Important Blngle source
of Income possessed by our people, a much
larger amount being expended every year
in the payment of wages than for any
other purpose. The cost of labor in tho
manufacturing and mechanical lndistrlos
alone during tho census year 18S9 was
$2,283,216,529. which was neurly two and
one-half times the value of all the wheat
and cotton produced In the country; and
If we add to this the amounts pul.l for
farm lubor, for clerical and other woik
In mercantile establishments, for domestic
service and for work on railways of all
kinds, on witter craft, on strce'.s nnd
other Improvements In the cities, t.nd In
the many other occupations which give
employment to our people, we should have
a sum almost, If not quite, equal to the
value of all our agricultural products.
It is evident, therefore, that If the alleged
depreciation of gold alone hus caused a
reduction of prices, the wages of Ir.'oor,
the greatest commodity In the market,
should have fallen since 1873; but exactly
the reverse is true. Tho Investigations of
this subject by tho sub-committee covered
a period of fifty-two years and embraced
all the occupations In which our people
were engaged, and the fact, unanimously
found, wus that, although eighteen yenrs
had elapsed since the silver legislation,
the wages of labor were higher than In
1872 or 1873. Wages were found to lie
nearly 61 per cent, higher ihnn In 1SC0.
which was thirteen years before tho silver
legislation, and more than S per cent,
higher than In 1S73, when that legislation
wus adooted.
The argument that the reaction of
prices is due to the appreciation of gold
is necessarily based upon the further as
sumptions that the lesisla'lon :u regarj
to silver has producjl u scarcity of re
demption or metallic money ;n tho worldi
and that prices are fixed and regulated
by the amount of such mon-y In circula
tion, or available for clrculu.'.ijn. Neither
of these assumptions is Justified by tho
facts. Tho most ex'.i null m efforts have
boen mado from tlma to tlmn by the trous
ury department, through th director of
the mint, by careful examinations of the
monetary statistics of other countries,
by correspondence with ou: diplomatic
and consular represen'i lve;s nbtoad and
with foreign financial authorities, nnd
otherwise, to ascertain the actual amount
of gold and silver used as money In the
world, and the result shows thut there Is
now more gold and sliver In the aggregate
and more of euch one of them, In use ns
full legal-tender money than there ever
was at any other time In the history of the
world. The gold In use as money amounts
to $3,965,900,001), the full legal-tender sliver
amounts to $3,435,809,000, and the limited
legal-tender silver amounts to $019,900,000.
Tho policy of maintaining, or rather at
tempting to maintain, the so-called double
slumlord never succeeded In keeping so
large an amount of full legal-tender silver
In circulation In the world as there is at
this time, and one of the principal reasons
for this Is that the effect of the policy
was to drive first the coins of one metal
and then the coins of the other into the
coffers of the hoarders or Into the m'ltlng
pots, because they were under-vulued In
the colnuge laws and would not remain
In use as money.
The Per Capita Argument. '
I attach very little Importance to tho per
capita argument, because the amount of
currency required In a country depends
mainly upon the volume of business to be
transacted and the customs of the people
In conducting their exchanges, and not
at all upon the number of men, women,
and children residing In It, but, as there
are a great many who believe that the
circulation should be regulated by the
census returns, it may be worth while to
state that the production of gold ulono
In 1890 and it Is much larger now was
nearly two nnd a half times greater than
the average annual production of gold and
liver both during the decade which closed
with the year 1800. In 1800 the population
of all the countries In Europe and Amer
ica was 197,505,895, nnd the production of
both gold and silver amounted to $21.49
for every hundred inhabitants, while In
1890 tho population of tho sume countries
was 408,789,341, and the production of gold
alone was $118,849,009,whlch amounted to
$25.46 for every hundred Inhabitants, or 95
cents more for each hundred people than
was furnished by both metals during eaqh
year in the former decade. In 1894 the
population of these countries was 485,180,
841, and the production of gold alone was
$157,228,000, being $32.41 for each hundred
Inhabitants, or $7.92 more for each hundred
people than the total of both metals during
the last decade of tho last century. If,
therefore, the people of Europe and Amer
ica had used as money all the gold and
all tho silver annually produced in the
world 100 years ago, they would not have
received as large a pes capita addition to
their stock of money as they would re
ceive now by adding the gold alone. In
view of these facts, I submit that the Bll
ver legislation of 1871, 1873, and 1878 has
not diminished "the world's supply of
metallic monoy as compared with former
times and prevented the single gold
standard countries from making as great
an annual addition to their stock of metal
lic currency.
Official monetary statistics show that in
the gold standard countries of tho world
the stocks of money are much larger per
capita than in the silver-standard coun
tries. Taking the large gold-standard
countries, it appears that in 1894 the stock
of money In the United States was over
$25 per capita, in the United Kingdom
nearly $20, and In Germany nearly $19,
while in Mexico the per capita was $4.71,
In Russia and Finland $8.32, and In China
$3.26. The gold-standard countries use
large amounts of sliver as money, but tho
silver-stundard countries use no gold as
money, and cannot do so for the reasons
I haw already endeavored to explain.
But, gentlemen, for the reasons already
stuted, the commercial nations of the
world do not now require the same pro
portion of mctalllo money In the transac
tion of their business that they required
a few centuries ago, or even one century
ugo. Credit has been vastly extended and
the use of paper In the form of notes,
checks, and bills has almost entirely dis
placed metallic money in the daily busi
ness of the people, and as long as these
forms of credit are kept equal in value to
the metallic stundurd, tho effect upon the
prices of commodities is precisely the
Biime as If tho whole volume of circulation
consisted of standard coin, for, as long
as equality In their value can be main
tained, the paper representlves of the dol
lar perforin the same office In the exchange
of commodities thut gold dollars them
selves would perform; but If this equality
Is destroyed, the puper is discredited, Its
purchasing power Is diminished, und the
people huve no longer a stable measure
of value.
No Crime te lie a Creditor.
One of the most effective arguments
made by the advocate of free coinage, in
some parts of the country at leust, Is
thut the people are In debt, and that it is
tho duty of the government to relieve
them by such legislation as will enable
thm to procure cheap money for the pur
pose of discharging their obligations, and
in support of this argument the most
exaggerated statements are made as to
the depressed and Buffering condition of
our furmers, wage-earners, und other pro
ducing classes. This argument concedes
that under the proposed system of free
coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1 all the var
ious kinds of currency In use by the
people, Including the silver dollar itself,
would be worth less than it Is now, for,
of course, If this Is not to be the result
money would be no cheaper than It Is
now. To assert that the people are In debt
Is Blmply to say that they have traded
with each other on creflit, that one part
of our fellow-citizens, relying upon the
Integrity and financial standing of their
neighbors and acquaintances, have lent
them money on time and sold property to
them without demanding immediate pay
ment In cash, and that In this way they
have enabled many people to carry on a
useful business und live In comfortable
homes who otherwise could not have done
so. If It Is a crime to lend money to a
man who wants to borrow it, or to sell
property on credit to a man who wants to
purchase it, and has no ready money to
pay for It, let the perpetrators be properly
punished, but let us not Involve the whole
country In confusion and disaster and
Immolate the Innocent and guilty alike
In order to punish the real offenders. If
our people are In debt they owe each
other, and, consequently, about as many
would be actually Injured as would be
apparently benefitted by scaling the obll
gallons down to a sliver standard. The
indebtedness of the farmers, mechanics,
and other laboring classes of our people,
although large In the aggregate, is quite
small In comparison with the whole in
debtedness of the great railroad and man
ufacturing corporations, the national and
state banks, saving Institutions, trust
companies, Insurance companies, building
associations, and other organizations en
gaged In financial and commercial enter
prises. These various organizations are
indebted to the people to the extent of
many billions of dollars, and while It is
true that many of the people are Indebted
to them, their debtors and creditors are
not the same persons, and, therefore, the
debts cannot be set off against each other
and extinguished In that way. I deny
that there is any such thing as a distinct
"debtor class" In this country, for, while
nearly every one owes some debts, large
or small, nearly every one has also some
debts owing to him; in other words, he is
both debtor nnd creditor. Tho laboring
people, as a general rule, owe very little
at any one time, while their employers are
always Indebted to them, because wages
arc not paid In advance; and, besides,
many of them have small deposits In
savings und other banks, in trust compan
ies, In building associations, and large
numbers of them have their lives Insured
fo the benefit of their wives and children,
and consequently they are creditors of the
banks and Insurance companies. The
Bavlngs-bank depositors In this country
last yenr numbered 4,777,687, and the wives
and children of the depositors who de
pended upon these accumulated earnings
for future support doubtless numbered
10,000,000 more. There 1,925.340 depositors
In the national banks last year, and 1,724,
077 of them had deposits of less than
$1,000 each, while state and private banks
and loan anil trust companies held de
posits for 1,436,038 people. Our life Insur
ance companies, to say nothing of com
panies Insuring property against loss by
fire and otherwise, had 7,505,870 policies
outstanding last year, upon which the
premiums hud been paid, or wero, being
paid, by the people, and the mutual benefit
and assessment companies had 3,478,000
members. The building and loan associa
tions had nearly 2,000,000 members, all of
whom had paid their money In as required
by the rules of the body to which they
belonged. 'Here, then, are about 21,000.000
of our people, generally poor, or at least
people of moderate means, who have
given credit to these great corporations
and companies, and, in my opinion, it
would be a grievous wrong to adopt any
policy which would deprive them of the
legal right to demand nnd receive Just
as good money as they parted with when
they mado the deposits in the banks or
paid the premiums on their Insurance pol
icies. Tho hard-earned savings of tho
poor ought not to be sacrificed to the
avarice of tho wealthy mine-owners or
the ambition of aspiring politicians, and If
the peoplei who have a substantial Interest
In the welfare of tho country and a Just
appreciation of their responsibilities as
citizens will exert their proper Influence
In public affairs this great wrong can
never be perpetrated.
Need an Klnstlo Currency.
Mr. President, but little remains for me
to say before bringing these remarks to
a conclusion. It is not my purpose to
dlscuBs upon th,ls occasion the various
propositions which have been made from
time to time for the Improvement of our
bunking system, or for the retirement of
United States notes, because the questions
Involved In them are so Importunt and
so large that they cannot be properly con
sidered In connection with the subject to
which my time has been devoted. We
have an abundance of money In this coun
try for all the purposes of trade, and the
disturbances and hard times of 1893 and
1894 were not caused by a scarcity or
contraction of the currency, but by a
contraction of credit resulting from a
loss of confidence In the stnblllty and
value of our currency. So far as the
mere volume of Our currency Is concerned,
we had then and have now an ample sup
ply for all necoBBary purposes, but under
the existing system tt Is not properly dis
tributed and is not sufficiently elastic to
meet all the changing requirements of
bUBiness at different periods of the year.
The United States should go entirely out
of the banking business by the with
drawal of Its arbitrary and compul
sory Issues of notes and afford the people
an opportunity to supply their own cur
rency based upon their own means and
credit, thus enabling every community
to utilise Its own resources when neces
sary and adJUBt the circulation from time
to time to the actual demands of legiti
mate commerce. In what way this shall
f 1 . :
be accomplished is a question which has
already engaged the serious attention of
the people and public authorities, and It
will no doubt continue to be investigated
and discussed until a plnn is formuluted
which, if not perfect, will at least have
the merit of being a great Improvement
upon the existing system. In the mean
time our highest duty Is to preserve the
present standard of value, muintuln the
parity of the two metals, and keep all the
money In circulation among the people,
whether It be gold and silver coins, or
paper bused upon them, equal In purchas
ing power, so that no discrimination will
or can be made between those who receive
silver or paper and thoso who recelvo gold,
A great movement should do nothing to
discredit Its own obligations or diminish
the value of the money In tho hands of
Its citizens, nor should the people of a
groat country ever consent to the adoption
of a policy, through experimental financial
(legislation or otherwise, which would
vltluto tho obligations of their contracts,
Interrupt the regulur course of their busi
ness and destroy tho foundations upon
which their Industrial and commercial
systems have been constructed. The
spirit of conservatism Is still strong
among our people, und, notwithstanding
the delusive promises and selfish appeals
that are now largely Influencing their
opinions In some parts of the country,
the truth will ultimately prevull und I
have no doubt: of the result when the time
for final action comes.
THEIR SILVER WEDDING.
Celebrated by Hcpresentutlve and Mrs.
W. K. Heck, of Moscow.
Twenty-five years ago yesterday Rep
resentative and 'Mrs. W. K. Beck, of
Moscow, were united in marriage. Their
silver wedding was celebrated last
night, and at their pleasant home many
friends who had gathered to tender cnn
gratulaitions, were received with boun
teous hospitality. The decorations
were beautiful and thu refreshments
were delightful.
Through the courtesy of General
Manager W. F. Hallstead the midnight
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
fast line from New York, stopped to ac
commodate ' the returning Scranton
guests, who were as follows: Dr. and
Mrs. C. W. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. G. H.
Wlnt, Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Guernsey,.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Carr, Mrs. Myers,
Mrs. Kate Hawley, Mrs. B. F. Killam,
MIssps Emalene und Yolande Killam,
Miss Francla Killam, Dr. K. M. Green,
Attorney S. W. Edgar, Misses Clara
and Leona Gregory, Mrs. M. A. Greg
ory, A. O. Holllster, Miss Nellie Hollls
ter and Mrs. Carrie Cobb, of Holllster
vllle. The Moscow guests were: Mr. and
Mrs. H. L. Galge, Mr. and Mrs. Charle3
Suter, Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Gardner, Mr.
and Mrs. D. W. Dale, Mr. and Mrs. W.
F. Clements, Mr. and Mrs. R. Fanfleld,
Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Yeager, Mr. and Mrs.
B. J. Cannon, Misses Cannon, Miss Mol
lle Noach. Mis3 Sue Pyle, Mr. and Mrs.
O. E. Vaughn, Florence Pelton, Mrs.
Frank Pelton, Mrs. F. A. Miller, Miss
Miller, Miss Alice Scanlnn, .Mis. Stan
ton, Mr. and Mrs. Poston, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Haverstrlte and Horace Simp
son. A VERY GRAVE CHARGE.
Made by Airs. Connolly Against Mrs.
Pickering.
Mrs. William H. Pickering, of Dun
more, began action against Mrs. Mar
garet Connolly, of the same place, yes
terday, to recover damages for alleged
defamation of character.
'rlor to her marriage to Mr. Pickering
the plaintiff was Miss Verna M. Stone,
and in her declaration she alleges that
on or about Jan. 1 of the present year
the defendant publicly charged her
with having given birth to a child be
fore her marriage to Mr. Pickering.
For the Injury the sustained by this
accusation she asks $1,000 damages.
Mrs. Connolly was arrested yesterday
by Deputy Sheriff Ryan on tho capias
Issued at the Instance of Mrs. Pickering.
She had no one to furnish ball for her
and would have been compelled to go
to Jail but for a special statute which
allows a married woman to go on her
recognizance in such cases if she can
not furnish ball. Her recognizance was
taken by Judge Edwards.
t IT WAS COSTLY COAL.
Woman Killed While Gathering It on the
Spencer Plane.
An Itallnn woman known as Wil
liams, residing at Spencer's field. Dun
more, was Instantaneously killed on the
Spencer plane, near the ' Spencer
Brothers' colliery, Dunmore, yesterday
afternoon.
The unfortunate woman was picking
coal on the piano und moved from the
track on the approach of the down-trip
of cars. At the same time she stopped
unconsciously In front of an up-trlp
which struck her and passed over her
body, mangling It in such a terrible
manner that the head was severed from
tho trunk.
Coroner Kelley will hold nn Investiga
tion Into the mutter. This is th" sec
ond accident under similar ciicuin-
stunces in the same place within a few
years.
SUICIDE OF A LUNATIC.
William Willis Jumps hi f ront of a
Freight Train.
Pleasantvllle, N. J.. May 23. A de
mented man giving his name as William
Willis, of Philadelphia, who created a
furore In this town yesterday by his
antics, threw himself In front of n
freight train on the Philadelphia and
Atlantic City railroad last night and
was cut to pieces.
One of his exploits was rushing Into
a dwelling and telling a woman that he
had Just murdered her husband and
wanted to wash his hands. The wo
man was almost crazed by the insane
mail's announcement.
BASE HALL BRIEFS.
The Young Hustlers defeated the Ac
tives of Park Place by the following
score: Young Huslers, 15; Actives, 9.
George Wcstlake was quite seriously in
jured In the Curbondulc-Lancnster gnmo
at Carbondale yesterday. He will be com
pelled to lay off for several days.
The F and Gs of Olyphant would like
to arrange a gamo with tho Trojans. R.
J. Gallagher, captain; P. McLaughlin,
manager. Answer through Tho Tribune.
Tho Trojans of Olyphant challenge any
club of the same place, tho Rosebuds pre
ferred, to a game at any convenient date.
John Lally, captain; P. Corcoran, man
ager. The Sunsets of Taylor accept the chal
lenge of the Kills Boys to a game of bull
to be played on Mullln's field at 2 p. m.,
sharp, Saturday, May 25. P. Sullivan,
manager; Michael Day, captain. .
The team of No. 18 sclfbol nnd the Sail
ors mot on Gammon's Hill yesterday
afternoon and played a very exciting
game of boll, the score being 4 to 3 in
favor of No. 18 school. F. Hughes, tho
pitcher for No. IS school, did effoctlvo
The Blue Bells, of Providence, challenge
any club tinder tho age of 13 years to a
game of base ball, The club Is composed
of RufUB Richards, catcher; Edward Mc
Millan, pitcher; RoBsar Price, shortstop;
,.,i.o i.iiuius, iiint base; nJuKur Rich
ards, second base; Willis Price, third base;
David Powell, right field; James Ellsby,
center field; and Alex Connolly, left field.
Ill
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OE ORGS,
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Ofl OTHER CHANNEL
Some Events cf the Day on the West
Side of the City Noted.
THEiK CLL'li K00MS DEDICATED
Many Prominent Uepnhlicans of the City.
Song, Music ond Speech Mnklng-Fu
ncralof KImcr Williams Today at
3 O'clock -News Notes. '
Happy good fellowship premeated last
evening's successful endeavor of the
member of tho West Side Republican
club to entfii-taln Its friends and also
Incidentally to display enlarged and
beautiful club quarters to the guests.
Many were the prominent personago
present, the list Including Judge H. M,
Edwards. Mayor W. L. Connell, Attor
ney F. VV. Fleitz, Thomas H. Dale, and
others.
The roi.m had been especially decorat
ed for the occasion. Colored lanterns
ornamented the exterior, and on the
Insde flags, bunting and, more than all,
the natural beauty of the apartments,
lent an air of home-like comfort to the
place. Potted plants were seen, on the
chairman's table and a crowded house
completed material for an evening's en
tertainment. Professor John Davis opened the fire
works with a brilliantly executed piano
solo, and President W. S. Mears in
troduced Judge H. M. Edwards ns
chairman. In accepting the position
the Judge said: "Were this a political
meeting I would not have consented to
act as chairman, thinking such a posi
tion, under the circumstances, improp
er and insulting to a people that have
intrusted me with confidence, I am
proud of membership in this society,
and I wish to congratulate the young
men for their successful endeavors
which have culminated in these hand
some apartments, made, of necessity,
larger for the accommodation of the
club's growth."
The Dickson Mandolin and Guitar
club gave a selection oil string lnstrue
ments. which was well received, and
then Thomas II. Pale gave a talk on sil
ver. Messrs. Kvans and Richards, two
well-known singers, accompanied by
Mr. Kelley, -pars a selection, nnd an
encore being demanded nnd given. An
Instrumental du't of-Mcssts. Price and
Edwards pimped those present to the
extent that Ui y iung men were com
pelled to r-rnrml. Attorney F. W.
Fleitz was Introduced nnd spoke about
club formptJc.n. Mid after Messrs. Gina--der
and Piefer had rendered an Instrue
mental duct Mnynr W. L. Connell spoke
about th.- mii-sion of the West Side Re
publican club. The celebration was one
of the n;ost n.ituMe ever held on this
side.
ISHcf News Notes.
Morgan B. Williams, of Wllkes-Barre, Is
in town to attend the funeral of Elmer
Williams.
Wntkin, a 5-year-old son of Thomas
Watklns. of Hampton street, suffetjpd a
kick in the fnec by a horse while he was
playing about the animals on the commons
near the I'.oirail woods.
.Mrs. G. R. Hill, of South Hydo Park
avenue, gave a party yesterday afternoon
to her niece. Miss Myrtle Williams, In
honor of her eleventh birthday. Those
present were: Misses L. Louise Phelps,
Elsie Powell, Maud Williams, Myrtle
RauKht, Katie Davis and George Will
iams. Robert Morrif lodge mot last night and
took action on the death of Klmer L.
Williams. The pall-bearers were selected
from nmor.g tho lodge membership and
are: Edward James, Lewis Davis, John
R. James ond Will R. Lewis. The lodge
will attend In a body, meeting at 2.13 p. m.
In tho lodge hull.
Tho funeral of Elmer Williams will oc
cur today nt S o'clock from the parental
home on South Main avenue. Revs. J. T.
Morris and W. S. Jones will have charge
of the obsequies. Many out-of-town
friends nnd relatives will be In attend
ance. Robert Morris lodge will attend In
n hrt.lv a, wnll CIhsh Nn. 7. of ttlifl Welsh
Baptist church, of which deceased was a
member. Teacher Henry P. Davles, re
quests thnt the class line form at, the cor
ner of Main avenue and Hampton streets.
In the Scranton Street llaptlst church
last evening n supper was served between
the hours of G und S by lady members of
the church whose surname Initials are
either A, B or C. The affair was patron
ized very liberally by members of the
church und congregation. Those In super
intendence were: Mesdutncs Ashlemant
Archer, Asbury, Alney, Atkins, Adams,
Armstrong, Bush, Bcddnc, Bryant, Bel
den, Bin knlu, Cnrpenter, Chlmard, Conk-.
Un, Corliss nnd Collins. After the supper
a social time was enjoyed.
West Sldo Business Directory,
PHOTOGRAPHER Cabinet Photos, $1.49
per dozen. They are Just lovely. Con
vince yourself liy colling at Starner'a
Photo Parlors, lul and 103 South Main
avenue.
GROCERIES Revere Standard Java
Coffee is unexcelled. Tho leading coffeo
of the day. For sale only at F. W. Ma
son & Co. Fine Groceries, 116 South
Main avenue.
SECOND HAND FURNITURE CASH
for anything you have to sell. Furni
ture, Stoves. Tools, etc. Call and see
tho stock of J. C. King, 1024 and 1024
Jackson street.
WALL rATER Go to Fred Reynolds,
200 North Main avenue, and see his
complete line of Wall Paper, Paints
and Window Shades. Just opened with
new stock.
PLUMU1NG William D. OrlfflthSi 113
North Main avenue, does first-class
Plumbing, Steam Hent and Gas Fitting.
Satisfaction Is strictly guaranteed.
Charged with Embezzlement.''
Alice Arnold, of Iloboken, a young wo
man, 22 years of ago. was arrested in
this city last night at the Instance of the
chief of police of Hoboken. She is
charged with the embezzlement of 1250.
Another .Vntch Arnngcd. ,
A second match betweon Mike Leonard,
of, Brooklyn, and James Judge, of this
city, has been arranged, and wlH tana
place at the Frothlngham on June 17. .