4 PROJtABLE REDUCTION OF 'WAGES IN STEEL INDUSTRY! Np Stock Offerings to Employes by U. S. Corporation Apparent Basis of Prediction, but Improvements in Other Channels Are Noted New York. Dec. IS.—"The Iron Ago" says buying of finished steel for lb? first quarter of 1915 has intMtscd somewhat, but it is evident that De cember will uot put ou the books the volume of new business ntnvuM for a strong revival of mill operations after January 1. The last two weeks of the year, from ail signs. will take their usual quiet course. The possibility of wage and salary reduction* at the beginning of the year is again having attention »ince it bo came kawwn that no stock offering to employe* will be made by the Steel Corporation, and with the expectation that there will be no bonus district tion. Counting apmist wage reduction* are the improvement in tinancial sn i security markets and the better rail road buying looked for after the gen erally pr*?dieted advance .:i liablern ireight rjites. On the other «ide are the poor balance sheets of the year and the indications that profitable iron r.nd steel prices are» some months distant. The sitiiatiou still faiis to develop the extreme concessions in price which mark the beginning of broad buying movements. Bars and shapes can be had at 1.00 c., Pittsburgh, for early de livery. and piates are weaker than eith er at that price; but I.loc. holds for first quarter delivery and a goon many bar sales have been made ou that ba sis. Concessions on sheets and tin plates continue. Chi the latter, while $3.20 was named as the season price, the large contracts closed have been at $2 to $o lower. The requirements of the leading can interest wiil exceed those for 1y 14 ami in that industry 1915 is expected to make a now record. Com petition in sheets has been sharper. No. 2S black selling below 1.80 c.. whiie galvanized have gone to 2.75 c. and in the Chicago district to a bas.s of 2.70 c.. Pittsiwrga. A new and urgent inquiry for barb wire for export has sprung up and in one case 12,000 tons are wanted for quick shipment to the war rone. It is vioubtful if some of this demand can be met in the time set: vet wire mills are looking for business for the next •wo or three weeks. Some of them have taken on about all the rod busi ness they will want for four or five months. The export movement in other lines is rather stronger. Greece has placed 10,000 tons of steel sleepers with two companies. An order for 35.000 steel barrels has .iust followed one for 25.- 000 at Cleveland. Russia is expected to place a larje order for cars. Standard Oil Company contracts are being closed including plates and riv ets. bolts and nuts. The plate inquiry is for 20,000 tons. In the Fast 4.000 tons of piates will be required in ad dition to 2.000 tons of shapes, for two Standard Oil tank steamers to be built at Newport News, and the Navy De partment will buy 2.000 tons of piates for fuel oil tanks. Structural business is more promis ing. but a cording to the Bridge Build ers' and Structural Society 's est.mates only 20 per cent, of the country's ca pacity wa- contracted for in November, the lowest rate for the year. At Chi cago structural steel letting* were 4. •'OO tons, with 7.000 tons pending. Cleveland reports 2,100 tons placed by automobile works aud 2.500 tons pending. The B. & O. bridge at Pitts burgh over the Allegheny river. 12.000 tons, will soon come up for bids. At New Orleans bids have been taken on 3.200 tons of shapes and,5,000 tons of reinforcing bars for cotton warehouse and dock work. Fabricating prices have not improved, a Massachusetts pier ontraet last week bringing out a bid of $45 per net ton. erected. The Pere Marquette has come into ' the market for 5.500 tons of 90-lb. rails. Norway's award of 25.000 tons was made to-day. A little car work is , coming out. but the year's record will run but little over SO.OOO. against 147.000 last year. Orders for 70Q are expecte-i this week and the Pennsylva nia will build 1.050 box cars in" its own sbeps. The pig-iron market has quieted down greatly. Pittsburgh reports sales of 15,000 tons of basic and an Ohio river steel works will buy 10.000 ton*. In foundry iron buyers are not disposed to pav recent Northern advances. Some Southern producers, however, are still selling at SS.oO to $9.75 for No. 2 iron at Birmingham. MBS. IAMS GETS A DIVOECE Her Husband Is Democratic Chairman in Greene County Wash ngton, Pa.. Dec. 18.—Mrs. Vir ginia Isabelle Swart lams, former wealthy woman and society leader in the most exclusive circles of Wavnes burg. and w.io. a few years ago. had her favorite bulldog's te«fh capped with gold. was g-ante-i a divorce yestordav rrom James 1.. lams. Democratic eount'v ■aa rman n Greene county, and a po litical power m Wes'ern Pennsylvania. In tie failure of the Farmers' and Drovers' National bank, at Waynewburg. lams lost heavily, after "the bank j'ailure and the inability of the lams family to maintain its palatial resi dence in a Wayne#burg suourb, rumors "f domestic i:fferences became current and mo-e than a year ago Mr. and Mrs. lams separated. TANGLE ON NATUREALIZATION Applicant Was Born Here, but Lived in Old Country Many Years Mauch Chunk. Pa.. Dec. 18.—The Bureau of Naturalization at Washing ton is puzzled as to whether Paul Hollv is a citizen of this country. He wa« born at Pittston. Pa., but'when oniv '0 months old his parents, who were not American citizens, removed to Aus •-o-Huogary. After being 22 years in that country he returned to America. The Bureau of Naturalization states that all persons born on American soil ire American citizens, but in the case >f Holly they do not know whether he relinquished /lis citizenshio by residing f<> long in Austro- Hungary. " Prothonotarv f'orkill will have the man file his declaration of intention to be ome a citizen. The department wiil lake up the matter and file an opinion in the case. Beading Sets "Denial Day" Heading. Pa.. Dec. IS.—Tuesday. De cember 22. has been «e* aside as "Self denial Day" ill Reading. On this day the people are urged to denv themselves some luxury and -lonate the cost of it to tie city oor fund. IAT 10:30 SATURDAY NIGHT THIS) I Now For the Grand Wincj-Up—-This Tremendous Sale Closes Satarday I Let Nothing Prevent You From Being Here. This Is the END. ONLY 15 MINUTES TO A CUSTOMER ; || THREE OF THE WORLD'S BEST PIANOS—PRICES AMD TERMS SLAUGHTERED n " the enstonieea» Ru> ou RfrA iMano. A p ** lt,ve *»■••■■««*'« of siue an) These three Pianos are only a sample of the many that must be sold here Saturday. Come in and loot at them. Bring along any professional musician of SI your acquaintance. Come prepared to buy. This is your last chance. Get your Christmas Piano now. 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Fares and Freight I TT ~~7~~ _ c,* llr j au & 1 Paid to out-of-Town I WINTER PIANO CO. ?■!— J rlirrhflQPK 9 '<■'< «•<•' ua (without any extra Kftj I St ' Harris burg, Pa., H. M. ELDRIDGE, Manager ITZ™"V," r " m "" ,ver " g ai^M^—■MM— a—BHW HiMim luß II BODY FOUND IN ICE Mystery in Death of Fayette County i Pottery Manufacturer Cniontown. Pa., Deo. 18.—Froienj solidly ;n six inches of ice in a itream. the body of Arthur Eobbine. -.reaithr j f ropr.etor of the Hobhins hotel ami a | HABRIBBURG KB IDA V EVEM-NU. DECEMBER 18, 1914. •▼•11-known pottery manufacturer of' j Xeiv Geneva. Fayette county, was found 1 late Wednesday night by a searching ! party which rtarted oat" to hunt him , , wnen he -failed to return home. Rubajna wa; in Pittsburgh Tuesday. | He wont there to »ell soma pottery. Ac- I 1 cording to adrieee received here W»d-i nesday he left Pittsburgh Wednesday morniag for his home. TWO TOURS FOB, QUAJtTET State CoU«g« Students to Vitit Pan ama Oanal and California I State College. Pa., Doc. 18.—The quartet of the Pennsylvania State Col lege has been re-engaged to nialte two trips such as it made last year, one to j the Panama canal zone in June, ae the I guests of the government, and one to California, in the Taster vacation, as the guests of the Santa Fe railroad. At the San Kran'moo exposition the quartet will sing in the Pennsylvania building. Salary Reduced But Not Applicants Lebanon, Dee. 18. —The announce ment of the reduction in salary of the Palmyra postoffice from $2,300 to $2,- 000 lias not resulted-in the reduction > of the efforts of a half dozen Demo ■A-rnts to get tho office. The present fOKtinaster, Frank H. Hart/., ItojwbticNin, will not vacate until March. 19ffi. Among the candidates are George N. Bruml)cin, clerk in Theodore l.ercii's store; Dr. •!. N\ Becker, veterinary sur geon, and Dr. C. I*. Marks, dentist.