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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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Inorn dally average for the three
★ months ending Nov. 510,1914,
23,180 W
A vera are for the year 1913—21,577
Average for the year 1912—21,175
Average for the year 1911*—18,851
Average for the year 1911 V—17,495
FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4
A BRIGHTER OUTLOOK
AFTER a thorough investigation
of business conditions through
reports during the months of
October and November from
about six hundred correspondents, in
cluding Governors, Mayors, officials
of national banks, railroads, associa
tions of manufacturers, boards of
trade, life insurance companies, State
federations of labor, trade unions, em
ployment bureaus and charity organi
zations, John Hayes Hammond, chair
man of the industrial economics de
partment of tile National Civic Fed
eration, announces that business im
provement, with an increase of pros
perity for the immediate future and
steady betterment thereafter, is the
essence of his findings.
Mr. Hammond is not a dreamer
and when he presents to the Civic
Federation to-day his interesting re
port it may be assumed with a con
siderable degree of confidence that he
knows what he is talking about.
"Business throughout the United
States is improving and the convic
tion that a further advance toward
prosperity will be made in the next
few months is widespread," says
the summary of the report. "Im
provement in financial conditions
and the resumption of exports have
been followed by signs of Improve
ment in many quarters.
"The resumption of normal busi-
liess activities m'ust be gradual and
the unusually large number who
are now unemployed will tind work
slowly. We must expect a great
deal of unemployment In the com
ing winter months."
It is pointed out by Mr. Hammond
)n his analysis that it requires time
for financial recovery to be reflected
in factory payrolls. A few cities are
entering upon additional public works
to give employment, but there is no
•wild demand, as there was in certain
quarters last summer, for all man
ner of governmental experiments.
There appears to be no doubt that
the first shock of the war has passed.
On this point Mr. Hammond says:
Stability of mind lias been estab
lished. adaptation to changed con
ditions is going on and business
men are hopeful of marked im
provement within three months.
largely owing to the railroad
situation many of the great funda
mental industries have been for a
long period exceedingly quiet.
Numerous letters refer to the
lowering of money rates that has
taken place in the last month, es
pecially in the Middle West, and
the consequent freer movement of
trade. Another significant feature
is the improvement in the savings
bank situation. Tlje great savings
institutions of New York City re
port that business is now altogether
nbrmal. In Philadelphia and oven
in Pittsburgh, despite the severity
of the depression in the iron and
steel trade, the deposits of the
largest savings banks have, during
the last month, exceeded with
drawals.
Stress is laid by many correspon-
dents on the general belief that do
rnestic conditions will show a de
elded Improvement after January 1.
Those in position to study funda
mental conditions believe that we are
Jiear the upward turn and that nor
inal prosperity is not far away. As
a result of the lesson of the No
vember election legislative panaceas
and radical business regulation to the
point of exhaustion have been cast
aside by the conservative elements of
the country. Indeed, those who were
disposed to favor all manner of legis
lative nostrums as cure-alls for the
ills of the body politic have turned
their faces toward the more stable
and constructive policies of the na
tion.
Right here in our own territory the
farmer is gathering the fruits of con
ditions which developed during the
cummer to his advantage. He is get
ting a better price for his wheat and
Jn every other way is profiting from
the situation. Railroads and indus
trial and manufacturing concerns
have been hjydest hit. These will
gradually recover their equilibrium.
With the assurance of Speaker
Clark that the coming session of Con
gress will give its attention to the
passage of appropriation bills and to
little else and with the further cheer
ing prospect of a short session of the
Legislature in this State, its efforts
being restricted to commonsense legis
lation and mighty little of it, tlvre is
n. brighter outlook for the future and
greater hopefulness among the ha
rassed business interests.
THE SKNTIMKNT GROWS
ANTI-IJQUOR sentiment in Har
risburg and Dauphin county is
growing. Doubling of the mem
bership of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union proves most
conclusively the way the wind blows in
this section of the country.
More than a thousand women lined
up with the "white ribboners" of this
district during the past week, pledging
themselves to do everything in their
FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG t£s§S& TELEGRAPH DECEMBER 4, 1914.
power to oppose the traffic. When
enough women are actively aroused In
the fight tt will have to go.
It has been a wonderful Fall for out
door work and the progress that has
been made upon the Cumberland Valley
Railroad piers and other important |
operations has been remarkable. There I
is still much to do, however, and we !
are glad to note a disposition on the
part of officials, corporate and munici
pal, to keep things moving for the
benefit of the unemployed.
BED CROSS STAMPS
THE sale of Red Cross Christmas
stamps this year should not
suffer because we are called
upon to extend our holiday
charities in so many new directions.
The sale starts next Monday.
The country has a big task before
it if it hopes to break the 1913 record.
There were approximately 40,000,000
Red Cross Christinas Seals sold In the
United States during the holiday sea
son of last year, which means that
about $400,000 were spent in order
that the fight against the Great White
Plague might go on on successfully.
The cheery message of these Christ
mas seals has gone out on holiday
letters and packages for six years and
each penny spent added to the great
est crusade of modern times.
And every year since 1908 the na
tional work has gone happily on. In
round numbers the gross receipts that
have been gained through the idea
that Miss Bissell gave to the Red
Cross Society have been for the years
1908 to 1913 inclusive, nearly $2,000,-
000.
The society estimates that the aver
age person in the first stages of tu
berculosis can be sent to a better
climate, properly nourished and made
well again for the average sum of
SSOO.
No citizen of Harrisburg who is in
terested in the development of the city
can help being impressed with the
tremendous transformation that Is now
under way In the vicinity of Second
and Mulberry streets. Thousands and
thousands of cubic yards of dirt are be
ing removed to make room for the sub
way, the union freight station and the
building changes in that territory. Nor
is this all. Owners of property are
preparing to readjust themselves to the
new street lines, and within the next
year or two the old Harrisburger who
has not seen that section for some time
will hardly recognize the old aristo
cratic residential part of the city.
CARE OF TEETH
DOU you make your children
brush their teeth?
According to one of the
School Board's dental experts,
many parents in this city do not.
The expert declares that nine times
out of ten decayed teeth in the mouths
of school children are the direct result
of parental neglect and failure to in
struct the boys and girls in the use
of the tooth brush.
Now the public Is getting square
with the Pullman Company for its high
and mighty attitude toward travelers,
if we may judge of a suit now on trial
in New York City. It Is the story of
a four-year stomachache, as told by
Mme. Delia M. Valerl, a vocal teacher,
who says she has taught several opera
singers. Mine. Vareri insists she got
her first introduction to gastronomic
troubles in a Pullman dining car and
she wants $5,000 for the ache. She
says she didn't know what was In the
food, but she is positive she had a
stomachache.
STUDENT ENROLLMENT
JUDGING from the enrollment of
students in the State College Engi
neering Extension at Steelton, am
bition fills the breasts of just as
many young men of the present as of
the past.
The school which opened last even
ing has a total enrollment of 170.
Every one of 'hese 170 young men will
be bigger, better men by this time next
year than they are this, as a result of
the constructive work they will be do
ing for themselves. And the Pennsyl
vania Steel Company, from whose
ranks the students are recruited, will
have just 170 better trained employes,
than they have at present.
The Pennsylvania Steel Company
does well to encourage its men to train
themselves for better positions by
means of the extension course. For
the more efficient its men the bigger
the dividends of any plant.
Governor Tener has recognized
ability and unusual energy in the re
appointment of Thomas J. Lynch as a
member of the State Water Supply
Commission. Mr. Lynch has exhibited
in all his activities on Capitol Hill the
elements that constitute a high type
of public service, and his reappoint
ment Is a proper recognition of his ef
ficiency and fitness.
That Poultry Show that is coming
along in fine shape should attract hun
dreds of people to Harrlsburg, which Is
rapidly becoming the Mecca of all In
terested in scientific pursuits of one
kind or another, including the develop
ment of the best breeds of poultry.
Democratic State headquarters have
been returned to Philadelphia. We're
sorry to lose the optimistic gentlemen
of the staff. They were always cheer
ful and always hopeful and their
prophecies invariably encouraged the
Republican forces.
A Pittsburgh scientist declared Ni
agara Falls will run dry in a thousand
years. Always something to worry the
liquor men. If Niagara's going that
way. too, the sentiment over the States
must be terrific.
Annville's Kreider shoe factory em
ployes are contributing ,a ear load of
flour to the Belgians. Those Pennsyl
vania Dutch are as generous as they
are thrifty.
A gem expert says that war has
halted the production of diamonds and
prices will Increase steadily. Another
contribution to the high cost of living.
It yo\i have any troubles or com
plaints of any sort, tell them to the
Public Utilities Commission. It has
nothing to do until to-morrow.
It Is costing the Federal league a
pretty penny to put that new Plank In
its platform.
Cheer up about your coal bills; ac
cording to the Telegraph flies of fifty
jvears ago the mercury was below zero.
EVENING CHAT I
Harrisburg has at least one mer
chant who should make a study of
hank notes. He raised all sorts of
arguments the other day when a cus
tomer offered one of the new Federal
bank notes, of the live dollar denomi
nation. This merchant evidently had
not read of the arrival of the new
notes. The customer had made a pur
chase and presented the bill. The mer
chant looked the note over carefully
on both sides, put 011 his glasses, read
the numbers and read the inscription
at the bottom of the note. Handing
it back to the customer the merchant
remarked, "That note is no good. It is
a counterfeit." When told by the cus
tomer that the note came from a bank
the merchant insisted that the customer
was mistaken, and that no bank would
ever allow a note or that kind to go
through. During the argument an
other customer came in. Overhearing
the remarks, the late buyer asked to
see the note. He pulled two notes of
similar design and denomination from
his pocket, compared his money with
that of the first customer, and remark
ed: "If that note is no good, I have
been gold bricked, and by a bank
cashier. I just had a check for one
hundred dollars cashed and here are
a few tens and fives the cashier gave
me." The merchant remarked, "I'm
beat. Thought 1, knew all about
money. Guess I \iad better study up.
Some fellow is liable to come in here
with a real counterfeit and get me."
Speaking about those new Federal
bank notes, Uncle Sam is in trouble
once more. Many of the first issue
from the Philadelphia Federal Reserve
Hank of fives will have to go back. A
typographical error appears on the
front of the note, and the United
States government will not permit any
money with a (law to continue in cir
culation. Whoever was responsible for
the error may be hunting a job by this
time. Tlie mistake will cost the United
States many thousand dollars. Many
ot the notes may never get back.
These five dollar notes have been in
circulation for some days and no doubt
have reached States in the South and
West. The defect on the new notes
will be overlooked by ninety-nine out
of every hundred persons. You have
to be shown. The engraver failed to
provide a space between the words
"of" and "America." It does not hurt
the value of the note, but as stated,
Uncle Sam must have his money per
fect. and banks have been ordered to
return to the United States treasury
all defective Federal bank notes.
The filing of expense accounts at the
Capitol has been productive of some
funny things. One man sent a long
statement without swearing to it as
the law required, and another man, a
gubernatorial candidate, filed a state
ment sworn to, but not signed. One
of the oddest experiences was with a
man who called up on the long dis
tance telephone and became indignant
when one of the clerks refused to read
the whole report to him over the wire.
Anion/? the Harrisburg boys who are
making good in South America are
two sons of John Paget, the florist for
almost a generation at the State Hos
pital in this city. Almost sixteen years
ago one of the sons. John P. Paget,
went with Colonel Francis Shunk to
Ecuador to work on the construction
of the new Guayaquil and Quito rail
way, a distance of about 350 miles
between the two principal points over
a most difficult route, one river being
crossed thirty-seven times by viaducts.
About ten years ago Alfred Paget, an
other son, joined his brother in Ecua
dor and is now treasurer of this rail
road company. For years John was
superintendent of the new line ofter
its completion, but is now a prosperous
contractor on his own account. Both
boys were home last Spring and re
turned to Ecuador in June. Tliey have
hat] many interesting experiences.
John was stricken with yellow fever
after being at Guayaquil about eleven
years and was regarded as practically
dead when an American medical ex
pert arrived and saved his life. He is
now immune to the disease and his
friends refer to him as one back from
the dead, calling him the "new John
Paget." On their return home about
a year ago the, young men had as their
guest the minister from Ecuador to
the United States. Thus do Harris
burg boys go out into the world and
make good wherever they go.
Eels are the cheapest'dish on the
market at this time. A large hunch of
those caught in the Susquehanna and
nearby streams may be bought foi
10 cents—enough for a meal for even
the largest family. Eels came pretty
near being too numerous to attract
buyers yesterday. Hundreds of them
were sold at the several market houses,
all of them by men who had taken
them from nearby creeks and the
river. The run is said to be unusually
large this Fall and while the eels are
not very big they average a good size
for the table.
1 WEIL KNOWN PEOPLE ]
—John M. Justice, of Philadelphia,
has gone to St. Petersburg, Fla„ lor
the winter.
—John D. Hoffman, Republican
candidate for Congress in Mitchell Pal
mer's district, got off easily. He spent
less than SSO.
—VV. C. K. Fisher, well known here,
has been elected head of the Reading
Grocers' Association.
-—Colonel C. E. Hyatt, of Chester
Military Academy, is in demand to
hold reviews these days,
—R. P. Heaton, just elected to Con
gress in Schuylkill county, was de
feated last time by the man he de
feated last month.
-—George H. Brooke, of Philadel
phia, has been at Lakewood for a
while.
I DO YOU KNOW I
That Harrisburg is headquarters
for important railway mail activi
ties and that many men start
from here?
\
The Retailer
Sells Service
The retail storekeeper sells ser
vice, charging a prollt.
He gathers merchandise from a
multitude of sources anil dis
tributes It to consumers.
lie usually safeguards bin cus
tomers with liU guarantee.
A good merchant tries to give
bis public what it. wants.
Kor this reason the modern
merchant feels kindly towards
national standard products when
they are advertised in the news
papers.
He knows his customers are
newspaper readers and will want
, to see these newspaper advertised
goods.
Kor this reason the up-to-date
merchant backs up the manufac
turer's newspaper advertising by
putting the goods where people
can see them.
IMMENSE COST OF !
CAMPAIGN SHOWNj
Final Statements of Cost Indicate
That It Will Run Well Over
a Million Dollars
COMMITTEES REPORT
I
I
McCormick's Report Shows That
He Spent Less Than He Did
During Primary Fight
The tremendous cost of the recent
campaign for the political parties and
the various candidates Is well illus
trated by the last accounts to be filed
at the Capitol. The time expired last
night and while it may take days to
figure up what amounts were expended
it is safe to say that no campaign in
recent years has been so immensely
expensive. The accounts filed on the
last day may run over $500,000 and
the whole cost of the campaign go
considerably beyond a million and a
half.
The Republican State committee's
account shows expenditures of $238,201,
with contributions of $153,8!)t>.
More, than SIIB,OOO was spent by
the committee for publicity, and some
stitl,ooo was expended In aid to various
county committees.
"The campaign was planned on an
elaborate scale," said State Chairman
Crow in commenting on the account,
"and while in the beginning we bad in
sight sufficient funds to carry it out,
the contributions failed to materialize
because of the condition of the times.
We had got so far in the campaign
before this was discovered that it was
impossible to change the character
and scope of the plans originally laid
without lessening the force of our fight
almost on the eve of the election. It
was, therefore, uecided to proceed with
the work and go in debt temporarily.
"I am sure the Republicans of Penn
sylvania will promptly pay this obli
gation, and with this belief in mind
the State committee in a few days will
send out letters asking for contri
butions."
Through W. Atlee Burpee, treasurer
of the finance dommittec of the State
committee, the sum of $52,000 was
collected to help defray the expenses
of the campaign. This is by far the
largest contribution.
The Largest Givers
Other large contributions were as
follows: Charles Miller, $5,000; Sen
ator Penrose, $2,500; Prank B.
MeClain, $2,500; Daniel P. Lafean,
$2,500; Thomas S. Crogo, $2,500;
James Loughlin, Jr., $2,500; John H.
K. Seott, $2,500; Henry A. Loughlin,
$2,500; George 11. Earle, Jr., $2,500;
G. M. Loughlin, $2,400; Henry Houck,
$2,000; A. W. Mellon. $2,000; K. B.
Mellon, $2,000; Allegheny county Re
publican committee, $2,000; E. V. Bab
cock, $2,000; Dr. M. G. Brumbaugh,
$1,000; Samuel D. and J. D. Lit, $1,600;
P. R. Babcock, $1,000; James Elver
son, Jr., $1,000; George. T. Oliver,
$1,000; R. A. Penrose. Jr., $1,000; M.
M. Garland, $1,000; Spencer Penrose,
$1,000; Charles B. Penrose, $(>00; J. il.
Cummings, $500; William P. Taubel,
$500; Edward Morrell, $500; John C.
Bell, $500; C. P. Wright. $300; M. J.
Breeht. $300; S. L. Lane, $300; Sam
uel G. Dixon, $300; John Price Jack
son, $250; A. E. Keeport, $250; John
R. Wiggins, $250; John Lehman, $250;
N. R. Buller, $200; Samuel T. Todd,
$200; Chester P. Ray, $200; Thomas
E. Murphy, $200; A. E. Jones, $200;
Samuel D. Foster, $200; David S. B,
Chew, $200; J. Herbert Snow, $200;
Thomas J. Stewart, $200; John M.
Reynolds. $200; W. E. Rice, $200;
Samuel W. Pennypacker, $200; Joseph
W. Hunter, $200; P. A. Smith. $200;
Philip H. Johnson, $200; Walter H.
Gaither, $65; James A. Carey, $l5O,
Joseph L. BaKlwin, $150; E. A. Devlin.
SI50; Harry C. Ransley, $150; Robert
E. Foster, $150; William I. Schaffer,
$150; John P. Dohoney, $150; Bromley
Wharton, $150; Archibald B. Miller,
$150; Samuel B. Rambo, $150; Charles
A. Htistis, $150; James X. Moore, $150;
William H. Smith. $150; Harry D.
Heller? $150; Thomas Lynch Mont
gomery. $135; N. B. Critchfleld, $135,
Morris Wolf, $125; C. A. Emerson. Jr..
$125; Emory B. Johnson. $125; 11. A.
Surface, $125; James Poust, $120; B.
Franklin Royer, $120; James McKirdy,
$120; C. J. Marshall, $120; Charles D.
Wolf, $120; George H. Biles, $120;
Samuel W. McCulloch, $120; W. Bind
ley Hosford, $120; E. 1. Simpson, $120;
William .1. Roney, $120; Wllmer R.
Batt, $120; C. Howe Cummings, $lO5,
and S. C. Register, $lO5.
Brumbaugh Expenses
Statements of campaign expendi
tures and contributions of Governor
elect, Brumbaugh and the Brumbaugh
Citizens' Committee were tiled last
night by Janies S. Iliatt, secretary of
the Brumbaugh Citizens' Committee.
The contributions, all of which were
made to the committee, aggregated
$20,988.93, Dr. Brumbaugh himself re
porting none, though his personal ex
penses -amounted to nearly $5,000. Of
this amount about $4,000 consisted of
bis own contributions to the State and
Citizens' Committees. Expenditures set
forth in the committee's statement
totaled $20,899.61. i
Or. Brumbaugh's personal expendi
tures in the course of the campaign
amounted to $4,949.52, of which SI,OOO
was a contribution to the State com
mittee and $3,091.93 to the Brum
baugh Citizens' Committee.
Demwiiits In Debt
The expense account of the Demo
cratic State committee showed that
the total receipts were $81,427.56 and
the total expenditures $81,392.60.
There are outstanding obligations
I amounting to $14,670.68, so that the
Democratic State campaign cost
$96,063.28.
There were 3,780 contributors to
the fund and of these 3,150 gave less
than $25 each and 110 contributors
gave SIOO each. Among the larger
contributors were: Yince C. McCor
mlek, $13,000; Joseph F. Guffey,
$5,000; Henry B. McCormick. $1,660;
Democratic national committee, $1,500;
Brooks Bee, $1,500; Miss Anne McCor
mick, 81,000; Robert S. Blight, $1,000;
Roland S. Morris, $550; George W.
Norris, $500; C. N. Crosby, $200; Ar
thur B. Clark, SIOO.
Expenditures were classified ap
proximately as follows: Advertising,
printing, circulars and dissemination
of information, $40,000; postage,
$8,000; contributions to county com
mittees. $2 5,000; salaries and clerk
hire, $9,000; speakers, meetings and
traveling expenses, $10,000: incidentals
and general expenses. $2,000; tele
phone and telegraph, $2,000.
The contributions to county chair
men of $25,000 were used mostly for
watchers.
McCormick's List
The account of the personal expenses
of Vance C, McCormick, Democratic
candidate for Governor, showed that
lie spent $21,936.64 since the pri
maries, in which lie spent $33,000,
and of this sum $2,250 was given by
Ills sister. Miss Anne McCormick. who
contributed $5,000 to her brother's
primary campaign, and S2OO by Jamce
McCormick. an uncle. There were no
other contributions.
Most of the money spent by McCor
mick was in contributions to varlou.'
nolltical committees and other organ
izations. as the bulk of bis campaign
expenditures were made i>y the Demo
cratic State committee and the Pal
iner-McCormick League. His largest
contribution was $13,000, to the Demo-
Tomorrow, Saturday, Dec. 5
AN EXCEPTIONAL OFFER OF
Hart Schaffner & Marx
HIGH-GRADE
BLUE SERGE SUITS
Values S2O, $22, $25, S2B and S3O
« $15.00
The Reason For This Sensational Offer at This Time of the Year Is
TOO MANY BLUE SUITS IN STOCK
NO C. 0. D.'S ALTERATIONS
H. MARKS <3, SON
4t>h and Market, SLreeLs
cratic State committee. Other contri
butions were as follows: Philadelphia
Washington party city committee,
$4,000; Washington party State com
mittee. $1.5000; Dauphin county Dem
ocratic committee, $1,600; Dauphin
county Washington party committee,
$750: Palmer-McCormick I-eague, Har
' risburg. $350; Palmer-McCornilck
League, Dauphin county, $100; Cen
tral Democratic Club, Harrisburg.
$250; total. $21,450. McCormick's
other expenses were traveling items,
etc.
Francis J. Gildner. treasurer of the
Frank M. Trexler Nonpartisan Cam
paign Committee, reported total re
ceipts of $24,662.50, of which Colonel
Harry C. Trexler, his brother, gavt
$14,662.50; the candidate himself,
$5,000, and Edwin G. Trexler, $5,000.
\ OUR DAILY LAUGH )|
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INTERESTING. gfr.
Kind sir, I've
walked twenty /Vf
miles ter-day / \ i
Dear me! How A
interesting! Go ' v •*'
ahead and keep it
up; you might —=. Jra} --
break the record.
THE KITTY'S BACK
Hy Wldk Dinger
The Kampaign Kitty's back again,-
Somewhat reduced in size;
Perhaps before the race was run
Somebody did get wise,
And guessed what the result would be,
And that's the reason why
The kitty since the primary-
Was not so bloomin' high.
But then at that it, I'll tell you bo.
Some twenty-thousand beans '
Is to my mind a goodly sum
To dig up from one's .leans
And put into a losing game—
I wonder how much tin
Would have been spent if there had
been
A single chance to win.
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY !
YEARS AGO TO-DAY j
[From Telegraph of Dec. 4, 1864] i
Two Lose Purses
Two. people had their pockets
" picked at the Union depot to-day. I
" Loss In money. $7lO, and a S4OO note, j
' Institute Opens
' County institute opened a two-day
session at Middletown this morning,
j City teachers attended.
George Weaver Heads Paxton
* George F. Weaver was elected
£ president of Paxton Fire Company
I last night.
* NEWS DISPATCHES
OFTHECVLWAR
1/ [From Telegraph of Deed 4, 1864]
Congress In :58th Session
Washington, Dec. 4.—The second
session of the 38th Congress met to
day. /
t Where Is Sherman'.'
Richmond, Dec. 4.—Sherman's
'• whereabouts ure not positively known
• s here.
1 Capture Pirate Ship
Fort Monroe, Dec. 4.—A pirate
ship was captured near here.
S RETURNING TO NORMAL.
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I From the New York Sun.]
Business is once more finding Itself
* on firm ground. When the very foun-
I datlons of finance and commerce
' rocked four months ago in the economic
" convulsion attending the outbreak of
I j the war in Europe it was difficult to
'• j believe that a sure footing would be
- ' recovered in anything like the com-
I parativeiy brief Interval which has
! since elapsed. The banking and busi
i liess community, however, kept its head
" despite the difficulty of keeping its
II feet, and as a result almost normal
>• conditions liav» been restored.
New York City is always the center
k of any financial disturbance that visits
i the l/nlted States. Here the country's
„ prlmarv markets for money, securities
' H nd foreign exchange are maintained
' and here the country's commercial bal
ances are ultimately settled. Testi
mony of the country's return to the
r normal is in no respect more convinc
ing than in the announcement that the
New York Clearing Hotflebanklng in
o st 11 ut ions have retired all the loan cer
, titlcates which began to issue In Au
\ gust to enable members to effect tem
' porarv arrangements of accounts
- 1 among themselves without using re
», serve money.
v Resort to the issuance of clearing
o bouse certificates was an emergency
« measure of the first class sanctioned
liv experience in grave crisis, and the
H promptness with which it was made
° undoubtedly helped to render the crisis
last August less acute. On previous
'- occasions in our flnnmial history em
s ployment of measures of the sort was
_ almost invariably too tardy and timid.
~ On this occasion our bankers acted
with resolution and celerity, and in
consequence the hanking position was
" almost overprepared for trouble, a vlr
>t tuc and not a fault 4ri that violent
i- panic was prevented precisely because
it was so adequately anticipated.
It is interesting to note that while
the latent issue of clearing: house cer
tificates in New York was outstanding
for a shorter period than in the 1907-08
panic crisis or In 1893, much the
largest total was issued this year. The
previous record was made seven years
agro. but was exceeded in the last few
months by $23,835,000. and the maximum
amount recently outstanding: at any
one time was $20,765,000 greater than
in 1907-08.
There is. in the aggregate of clearing
house loan certificates taken out and
in the fact that they were all retired
within seventeen weeks from the tlrst
issue to the last cancellation, striking
proof of the extent to which the finan
cial situation has been adjusted to the
circumstances of the European war.
EVERY GIR/ APPRECIATES
A BRACELET
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Solid Gold lirnrelc-tm, oval and flat bands in every width, plain and
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liracclctH, set with Cameos, Amethysts, Topaz, Garnets and Sapphires—-
ail beautiful mountings, at f.'t.no to
Dini.iond Hnicrlctn in a wonderful variety at *B.OO, to *200.00
Tnngo llrnrclrtH. the latest fad and worn very effectively over gloves
—plain and engraved, at 91.00 to *3.00
lltinKle llrncelrtu, solid gold, gold tilled and silver, plain and engraved.
at 30c to *4.00
lloby Bracelet*, solid gold and gold filled, plain and engraved, at
*t.OO to *4.00
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DIAMOND MERCHANTS AND JEWELERS
Reliable Since 1 SO". 420 Market Street Open Rventng*.
ALWAYS Insist on Getting
Well-Known Merchandise
Don't Buy "Orphan" Brands
A WORD TO DEALERS
BUYING ail advertised ar- VOU build your business by
.... . 1 treating your customers
tide is, in a true se s , courteously, and giving them
buying merchandise with a good service. Good service ln
reputation back of it. , ' ,udPS f them the
1 known brands of merchandise
WHEN you buy merchan- they see advertised.
disc without a Brand _
\\T HEN you sell them mer
or 1 rade Mark, you buy an W chandise backed by the
"Orphan" Brand, something reputation of some well-known
that has no hallmark of brand whlch they recognize it
removes any suspicion on the
fame, nothing to distinguish p ar t of your customers that you
it from common, ordinary are getting a larger profit.
merchandise. JN fact, customers buy more
THERE is a type of dealer 1 quickly and are satisfied,
who is always offering They like to trade with reliable
~ dealers, because they know that
his customers Orphan some spurious article or "Or-
Brands or "Just as Goods"— phan M Brand is not being palm
but you can do your share « d °* on them a 8 " Just ns
. . Good,
towards eliminating this
kind of dealer. \X7 HKN YOU buy mr ' rf ' hnn -
R-i-i-r TtM- * i i•, «r\,. W dise you always Insist
Ll' USE to buy Ills Or- t)mt you What You Ask
phailS Or Just as 1.'0r." You will llnd it pays and
Goods."' Go to the next Is the best business policy to
, , , . hm . give your customers what they
dealer and "Get \\ hat You * sk for . tpy lt _ and bllild a
Ask Eor. ' greater store.
"Get What You Ask For"
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National Anti-Substitution League, Philadelphia
New York's example in August was
quickly followed at other banking ren
ters, but the Treasury reports now that
at every point Hearing house certio
rates have been either paid off or called
for redemption. According to all pre
cedent this marks th»> recovery of finan
cial equilibrium. The fact, tnat emer
gency currency is In process of rapid
retirement, more than one-third of it
having been already withdrawn, has
corroborative significance.
The banking position to-day supple
ments other evidence, the optimistic
bearing of which has been summed
up in the progress toward a complete
resumption of open dealings in the
organized securities market, and in
creases the encouragement already of
fered for a revival of general business
confidence.