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STREET SCENES IN HAVANA,
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You are taken ashore from the ship
at Havana by rowboats hooded with
canvas against the sun, and the sturdy
boatmen give the visitor the first im-
pression of the real Cubans. They
are an admixture of African and In-
dian and Spaniard, with the blood of
the African very evidently supreme
among the lower classes. There isa
frowzy crew of hackmen and hotel-
runners’bawling out an almost unin-
telligible Spanish patois at thelanding
as your welcome to ‘‘the pearl of the
Antilles,” and the Cuban cochero im-
presses your American nationality
upon you at once. Likeother cabmen
the world over he considers the Ameri-
can as his legitimate prey, and while
Cubans pay one price, and foreigners
in general a figure one-third higher,
the proverbially wealthy American
must pay two-thirds more, as a gen-
eral thing, unless he be an adept at
parrying an overcharge.
Havana is dilapidated and pictur-
esque, and the traveler will find as
much of the bizarre and unique in a
stroll up the Prado and about the lesser
streets as he has perhaps ever en-
countered in a like distance anywhere.
To me the most interesting hour in
the day in one of those antique towns
is in the very early morning, when the
place is just getting awake and the
hucksters are coming in.
These country people arrive in all :
sorts of ways for the daily market.
One group comes afoot, with tremend-
ously heavy loads of fruits and vege-
tables carelessly. balanced on their
heads or swung on their backs. Here
is a swarthy fellow leading a horse
bearing capacgious reeded panniers of
fruits and stalks of sugar-cane, which
latter is a favorite natural confection
NATIVE WATER-CARRIER,
with the masses, for a copper will buy
a long stick of it. The fruits are
mostly new to any one not tropic-
traveled, and the familiar-looking
bananas are tucked in with sapotes,
mamayes, aguacates, chabacanos,
mangoes, and a great variety of other
products rarely ever seen outside those
latitudes. This fellow will soon be
shouting out his stock with loud-lunged
persistency about the streets and into
the patios of the houses, and will then
sleep and smoke away the rest of the
day.
Lumbering wains come straining
into town, drawn by heavy-necked
yokes with restraining nose-hitches.
A four-team of these cattle and their
great cart will alone block the average
side-street, so the country ox-carts
rarely get very far into town. When
two of them meet there is an ably
conducted debate on road rights and
considerable native profanity. An am-
bulating haystack adds a picturesque
touch to the scene and a breath “from
the fields. As the diminitive horse
under the load swings down the way
the grass often brushes the houses cn
either side and crowds the foot-men
to the extremity of the eighteen-inch
sidewalks. An ox-cart, a load of hay
and a long-poled volante blankly re-
garding each other in a narrow street,
and each with an eloquent driver, is a
“jam” combination excelled nowhere
on lower Broadway.
The Cubans are like every other
- Spanish-tinctured nationality in their
utter indifference to time. Theirs 1s a
land of manana indeed, and almost
by raving over the delay, as do those
nervous Americanos from the North.
‘How many cows there are about
the streets!” somebody exclaims, and
then he is calmly informed that the
morning’s milk is simply being deliv-
ered. A bunch of cattle and their
driver stop before a house, and the
portero comes out with a cup for the
morning’s supply. It is seen then
that the cows are being milked from
there is the view of Cabana fortress
across the bay, and of the masts and
rigging of the ships in the harbor. |
Commerce had not yet spread its
wings, and the shipping is not exten-
site. A pleasanter walk is through
Cuba street, with glimpses into the |
barracks of the Spanish soldiers and
chance views of the home life of the |
people who dwell in their stores and
shops. Seeing the soldiers in the
barracks one is tempted to ask if they
are ever clean.
in Havana houses the question will
recur a thousand times: How can
they help feeling themselves prison-
ers behind those massive doors and
grated windows?
It is better to come to the Cathe-
dral this way than to take a cab and
drive directly from the hotel. = Com-
ing in a cab the two towers stand out
just like the towers of innumerable
other cathedrals, and the crumbling
gray stones are as other time-eaten
monuments. But coming upon the
A NATIVE FRUIT-SELLER IN HAVANA
door to door by the dairymen, for this
is the way the acute Cuban housewives
have taken to assure for their {ables a
lacteal supply which is. entirely fresh
and absolutely pure. Otherwise the
guile-loving vender might dilute_ the
milk before delivering it to his cus-
tomers, and ecraftily stir into the
watery fluid the juice of the sweet
potato to color it up to a duly rich and
creamy cast. Even with the cows
milked before the door one must con-
tinue to watch the milkman, for T have
even heard of their having a rubber
bag of water concealed under their
loose frocks and connected with a rub-
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A HAVANA HUCKSTER.
ber tube running down the inside of
the sleeve, its tip being concealed in
the hollow of the milking-hand. Only
a gentle pressure upon the bag of water
within is needed to thus cause both
milk and water to flow into the cup at
the same time. The milk-venders of
Italy and India have also learned their
trade to perfection, for they practise
this identical trick.
Havana has many quiet nooks and
corners which escape the American
THE CATHEDRAL, HAVANA.
nothing can ever hurry them. Over
in the railroad yards the crews can
sometimes be seen switching the
trains back and’ forth by yokes of
oxen, while the locomotive engine
stands idly by, and -the engineer and
firemen smoke cigarettes in the cab.
Hours are consuthed by this and like
leisure and primitive pursuits, but no
one is so foolish as to heat his blood
visitors. The walk from the Prado to
the little park of the Punta takes
hardly more than a minute, yet this
spot remains unknown to many.
The Cathedral of Columbus may be.
approched from it either by a walk
along the parapets, on the water front,
or by strolling through one.of the nar-
row streets lined with substantial
warehouses. , Following the quay
Cathedral out of some byway unex-
pectedly, the whole panorama of its
history may sweep across the mental
vision in a flash. = As for the sacred
bones of Columbus, they are by com-
mon report gone. They might have
been removed openly with the consent
of the United States Government if
it had been asked. The ceremony
would have been of historic interest,
but the painful reflections to which it
would have given rise
Captain- General Blanco for the mys-
tery with which the removal of those
ashes was accomplished. Santo Do-
mingo can henceforth dispute with
Madrid instead of with Havana the
genuineness of the ashes.
The Cathedral will lose none of its
attractiveness if the disputed ashes
are no longer in the urn or under the
slab which was supposed
them. And good poetry and good
epitaph writing will be the gainers
that the tomb of Columbus is no
longer subject to the inscription:
POULTRY VENDER.
Oh, rest thou, image of the great Colon!
Thousand centuries remain, guarded in the
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Aud I omembrance of our nation!
Don Jose Garcia de Arboleya, a
learned Spaniard who wrote a histori-
ca) and descriptive manual of Cuba
half a century ago, pathetically asked
where the muses were when these
lines were inscribed. He received no
answer.
Two Shades.
Two misty shades met in illimitable
space.
“Ah.”
thou?”
“I sigh,” replied the other, ‘‘over
the sad decline of a decaying stage.”
‘“You do!” cried the first. ‘‘How
strange! For, know you, this lament-
able decline sorely afflicts me as well.”
*“To think,” moaned the other,
‘‘that at this very moment a make-up
nose—save the mark!—doth move the
groundlings to ardent ' admiration.
Was ever anything so grotesque, so
flippant, so coarse?”
‘““Never,” cried the first; ‘‘it passes
belief. This Cyrano’s nose seemeth
more like the gibing fancy of a Christ-
mas mummy than the staid accessory
of a play.”
“I am glad,” said the wailing one,
“to find such quick and touching sym-
pathy. May I ask your name?”
‘“I,”” proudly replied the other, ‘‘am
Richard’s hump. And you?”
“I am Trilby’s foot.”
And they drifted away together.—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
cried one, ‘‘why sighest
Statistics show that the consump-
tion of hay in the large cities is as
large now as it ever has been.
And of the dwellers |
may excuse |
to cover |
| FACTS OF SIGNIFICANCE,
CAUSE AND EFFECT AS EXEMPLIFIED
IN THE RECENT ELECTIONS.
Republican Control of the House of Repre:
sentatives Saved by Galns Made in the
States \Where Protection Was Emnha-
sized as a Leading Issue.
A vote for Democratic Congressmen
| will be a vote to overturn the Dingley
Tariff law, which has been the primal
factor of our present prosperity; which
has increased the wages paid to
American workingmen one billion dol-
lars in the passed eighteen months:
which made a balance of tra le in our
favor of over six hundred million dol-
lars last year, and is building new
factories and setting more men at
work in our mills, factories, logging
camps and mines, It will be a vote to
indorse the free trade Wilson law,
which closed our mills and factories,
and enforced idleness and poverty
upon American workingmen.—Taco-
ma liedger.
| It is a fact of history that <in the
| States of the Far West the campaign
ending November 8 was chiefly fought
| on the issue of protection. The ex-
tract just quoted from the Tacoma
Ledger is a fair sample of the argu-
{ ments and appeals relied upon by the
i leading Republican newspapers of the
i Pacific Coast to reach the intelligence
of voters. Day after day, week after
| week, the journals supporting Presi-
{ dent McKinley's administration and
| its policies spread before their readers
| the facts and figures of revived pros-
| perity under protection as contrasted
with the facts and figures of depres-
sion and ruin under four years of
| free trade and tariff tinkering. Every
{ Republican speaker followed the same
i line. :
i Adifferent policy was pursued in the
Middle and Eastern States, more par-
| ticularly the Atlantic Coast States. In
| these States the tariff was almost en-
| tirely ignored alike by newspapers
{ and campaign speakers on the Repub-
lican side. = Naturally it was ignored
on the Democratiq side. Republican
writers and orators had little or noth-
ing to say about the leading feature in
the policy of the Republican National
Administration. The needs and de-
{ mands of the American merchant
| marine, albeit of vital consequence to
{the people of the Atlantic Coast
States, received scarcely a word of
recognition. So far as the voters of
{ these localities were informed the
| issue of marine protection and the
restoration of American shipping was
| not involved in the campaign,
I Mark the result! The Republican
| majority in the National House of
| Representatives was wiped out by
"losses in the Western, Middle and
| Fastern States and the control of the
House by a majority now estimated at
| thirteen was saved to the Republican
| parly by the gains of Congressmen in
| the States west of the Missouri River.
| Leaving out the gains in these States,
{ where the doctrine of protection was
made the leading -issue of the
{ campaign, the Tower House ci the
I'ifty-sixth Congress would be in the
control of a coalition of Democrats,
Populists and Free Silverites.-
| Phere is possibly a lesson in these
| facts that campaign managers would
: do well to keep in mind hereafter,
“Under Proper Laws.’’
| Naval expansion is inevitable under
{the unanswerable logic of destiny.
| But what the country most needs isan
| expansion of its maritime fleets. Un-
{ der proper laws that would promptly
seb in, and while taking no millions
‘oul of the Treasury it would turn un-
i counted millions into the channels of
industry and make Amorica as buky a
| builder of merchantmen for the outer
world as she long has been of locomo-
| tives,—Philadelphia record (Free
Trade).
Here is the definition of the peecu-
Har virtues of the policy of diserimi-
nating duties that is hard to Deat.
Under this very proper law, precisely
similar to the law enacted for the same
purpose a hundred years ago by the
founders of the republic, there would
be no taking of millions out of the Na-
tional Treasury, but there would be a
wonderful turnipg of ‘‘uncounted
millions into the channels of indus-
try.” We should begin by building a
vast fleet of iron and steel ships for
by the time this demand was supplied
our splendidly equipped shipyards
with their cheaper materials and su-
perior mechanical equipments would
be ready to build ships for the reat of
the world. All this, as the Philadel-
phia Reeord very truly observes,
‘‘under proper laws,” but in no other
Way,
All Sections Interested.
If Congress would pass a bill to give
the same protection to American ship-
ping that it does to American manu-
facturers and farmers and mechanics,
there will be profitable business for
the investment of the millions now
going abroad at a low rate of interest.
paid to foreign shipowners for carry-
ing our foreign trade, besides build-
ing up the greatest industry in this
country—shipbuilding. All sections
of the United States are interested in
such a measure, but none more so than
the Pacific Coast States.—McMinville
(Oregon) Valley Times.
Breaking Into Our Market.
The days of superior woolen goods
from Yorkshire mills have ended, as
far as our market is concerned. The
sole aim and object of the: English
manufacturers, nowadays, consists in.
the development of every device that
will enable them to adulterate their
mixtures of wool, cotton, rags and
shoddy into such a presentable form
that they can hang together until they
get upon the wearer's back in the
United States. They want some share
of our market by crook, if not by hook.
—New York Commercial.
the American merchant marine, and’
AESTONE STE NES CORDEE
PAID THE INSURANCE.
Parents After Three Years Identify the Remains
of Their Murdercd Son to the Satis-
faction of a Jury.
A jury at Bellefonte has awarded
John Fk. Potter a verdict against the
Union Central Life Insurance Com-
pany, of Cincinnati, O.; for $1..5.5b, be-
ing the face value and interest of a
$1400 policy held by his son, George
Potter, who 1s supposed to have been
murdered in 1894. Young Potter disap-
peared from home in the spring of that
year, and later a mangled body, sup-
posed to be his, was found near Cross
Forks. The company refused to pay
tne insurance on the grounds of insuf-
ficient proof of death. Three years
after tne buriat7of the murdered man
the father and mother had the remains
exhumed and identified them as those
of their son.
The following pensions were issued
last week: ‘thornton Winesburgh,
Buffalo, Washington, $6; John C. Neel,
Hamilton, Jefterson, $8; John H. Ken-
nedy, Brookville, $6 to $8; Jacob Wid-
aer, Aitch, Huntingdon, $6; Richard M.
Fast, Fairchance, $6: Susan Gohn, Jen-
ners, Somerset, $8; Asburg M. lias,
Punxsutawney, $6; George Mille, West
Bridgewater, $65; Thomas KE. Keon,
Pittsburgh, 38; George FE. Irvine, Alle-
gheny, $6; Henry M. Gaskill, Erie, $6
to $8; William C. Lutz, dead, Murrays-
ville, $6: William Kline, Jennerstown,
$10; Greenburg B. Nevling, Smith Mills,
$8; Hugh McPherson, Canal Ridge, $12;
Andrew A. Washburn, McKean, $3;
Thomas-J. Cameron, Lewistown, $24;
Emily A. Keen, Tamarac, $8; Mary
Porter, Boyer, $8; James Rossell, Van-
derbilt, $6; Charles ('. Hern, Pittsburg,
$1 to $€: William Stone, Mercersburg,
36 to $8; George M. Dopp, Lenoxville,
$8 to $12; John A. Bennett, Indiana, $b
to $12; Benjamin F. Noel, Creighton,
$6 to $8; William Robins, Keech, $12 to
$20; Thomas Bechtel, Marketsville, $10:
Angeline Davison, Cooperstown; Ellen
A. Brower. Vail, $3; Benjamin Cump-
son, Woodbury, Bedford, $8; Reuben
Rubendall, Liverpool, Perry, $6;
Stephen Atherton, Centerville, $10 to
$12; Uriah Stover, Houseville, Center,
$6 to $8; Jacob Ritter, Tomstown,
Franklin, $10 to $12; John A. Yeager,
Center, 36 to 38; George W. Edwards,
Enid, Fulton, $8; ' John HH. love,
Clarion, $10; Mary Budd, mother,
Sharon, $12; Mary A. Ziders, Thomp-
sontown, Juniata, $12; Maria W. Wolf,
Erie, 8; minors of William Care, Mor-
ris Run, Tioga, $18: Moses Johnson,
Bedford, $6 to $10; Workman Simmons,
Elizabeth, $ to $10; William Dixon,
Harrisburg, $6 to $8.
Con Rumberger of East Sandy had a
terrible encounter with a deer while he
and his son were hunting last week.
The son fired at a deer, injuring it.
The deer limped into the brush, where
the elder Rumberger was. Mr. Rum-
berger whipped out his knife and at-
tacked the deer, which made vigorous
resistance. Rumberger cut the animal
several times, but could not reach the
vital spot. The deer caught the hun-
ter on its horns, and after tossing him
about, pitched him over a bank into a
creek 20 feet below. The son then came
up and killed the animal.
During the trial-at Allentown of a
‘ase in which the value of a horse was
in dispute, Robert F. Thomas, the
plaintiff, asked the Court's permission
to pray when he took the witness
stand. He stated that whenever he
said or did was done under the guid-
ance of the Lord. Judge Albright
granted his request, and Thomas
prayed aloud for about ten minu.es.
The trial was then continued.
Four children of the family of Henry
Raudenbush, of Quakertown, were seri-
‘usly poisoned last week by eating
tainted cheese at supper. The cheese
wag purchased at a local grocery store,
and more than a dozen families had
bought from the same cake before the
poisoning had become known. Phys_
icians worked with the children all
night, and nex: mornirg ‘hey were r2
ported out of danger.
Property owners of Parnassus who
appealed to court from the award of
viewers for damages caused by grad-
ing lost money by so doing, as the
»ourt adjusted the claims on a basis of
35 less than what the viewers had al-
towed. Mrs. E. N. Glass was awarded
$200; J. S. Alter, $150, and Mrs. M. J.
McMath, $750. These were test cases.
The others will likely accept the award
of the viewers.
Burgess Joseph Vanallman, of Holli-
daysburg, signed an crdinance taxing
poles of all electric light, telephone,
telegraph and electric railways within
the municipality 75 cents for each pole
erected on the street and 50 cents for
cach pole erected in alleys. Several
days ago there was an advance in tele-
phone charges and street car fare.
Edward Rock, an old citizen of Penn
station, died last week under peculiar
circumstances. He went to the home
of Adam Underland, a neighbor, who
had been stricken with paralysis. While
administering to the afflicted man an
artery, without apparent cause, broke
in Mr. Rock's leg. Before medical aid
arrived he bled to death.
Miss Nellie Thomas, aged: 22, of
Pittsburg, who was injured in a run-
away accident Wednesday at Greens-
burg, died last Friday. She was the
daughter of John C. Thomas, of Pitts-
burg, who, with six brothers and one
sister survive her. She was engaged to
be married to Edward Sanders, of
Pittsburg. i
A wagon loaded with turkeys, driven
by Charles Johnson; cof Upper Rox-
borough, vas run into by a trolleycar
cn the Chestnut Hill & Norristown
Railway the other evening. Johnson's
wagon was wrecked and he was
severely injured. The turkeys escaped,
and there was a wild chase to recap-
tere them.
At a meeting of the Red Cross at Mt.
Pleasant the other evening a net earn-
ing of $300 was announced from the
carnival, more than $100 of which was
reaped from fancy work and candy
kcoths. An envelope addressed to the
widow of Jesse Noss, of Company FE,
from Admiral Dewey was sold for $3).
John W. Larkin, a Neshannock
township school teacher, has sued John
Riley for $5,000 damages. Riley had a
wire stretched along the street to pro-
tect grass near the sidewalk. Larkin
fell over this wire, breaking his nose
and sustaining other serious injuries.
Miss Rebecca Martin, aged 87, of
Paris, Washington county, was burned
to-death a few days ago while sitting
near a grate fire. .
A. F. Welsh, who claims to come
from Canada, is in jail at New Castle,
on a charge of false pretense. He and
a companion are said to have conspired
to bunko the confiding housewives of
‘the Shenango Valley by a dress pat-
tern scheme.
Andrew Allan, superintendent of
mining engineers of the Pennsylvania
Coal Company, who was burned by an
explosion of gas in No. 4 mine at Pitts-
ton Tuesday night, died last Friday at
Wilkesbarre from his injuries.
William T. Chase, an employe of the
Juniata shops at Altoona, was run
down by a yard engine a few days ago
and received injuries from which he
died.
THE MARKETS.
PITTSBURG.
Grain, Flour and Feed.
WHEAT—No. 1red............ $ 0@
No. 2 red 65
CORN—No. 2 yeilow, ear
No. 2 yellow, shelled
Mixed-ear....... .. .i....
OATS—No. 2 white. ...
No. 3 white
RYE—No. 1
FLOUR—Winter patents
Fancy straight winter
Rye flour
HAY—No. 1 timothy
Clover, No. 1
FEED-~No. 1 white mid., ton..
Brown middlings
Bran, bulk. .... ..
STRAW-—Wheat
ahaa 13 00
Prva 12:2
Dairy Products
BUTTER—EIgin creamery. 24 @
Ohio creamery 22
Fancy country roll
CHEESE—Ohio, new
New York,
Fruits and Vegetables,
BEANS—Lima ? qt ¥
POTATOES—FancyWhite, @ bu
CABBAGE—Per 100 heads ....
ONIONS—Choice yellow, & ba.
Poultry, Etc,
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12
22
FLOUR
WHEAT —No. 2 red
RYE—No. 2
CORN-- Mixed
T
BUTTER Ohio 2reamery.. .. :
PHILADELP HIA.
‘OATS --No. 2 white
BUTTER--Creamery, extra....
EGGS—DPennsylvania firsts. ...
NEW YORK.
FLOUR—Patents..............
WHEAT-No. 2 red
CORN--No. 2
BUTTER Creamery.
EGGS —State of Penn
LI VE STOC K.
Central Stock Yards, East Liberty, Pa.
CATTLE.
Prime, 1300 to 1400 ths 5
Good, 1200 to 1300 ibs 4
Tidy, 1000 to 1150 Ibs 4
Fair light steers, 900 to 1000 Ibs 4
Common, 700 to 900 ths.... ... 3
Loew
SHEEP.
Prime, 95to 105 Ibs
Good, 85:40 90 tbs, ..........
Ealr, 701t080:Ibs. ... oul,
= C0 WH
Springer, extra 5 10@
Springer, good to choice 10
Common to fair 3 50
Extra yearlings, light. ..:..... 465
Good to choice yearlings. 40
Medinm 85
Common 00
CO Wa Wi Or CTO
LOU Cr Ot y
REVIEW OF TRADE,
Exports at This Season far Ahead of Last Year—
Improvement in Cotton and Woolen Goods.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
trade reports as follows for last week:
The most significant thing this week
has been the entire absence of the cus-
tomary nervous fright before or after
the meeting of . congress, the presi-
dent’s message and the treasurer's re-
port. No one showed the least alarm,
and nobody could find occasion for
any. Money and stock and grain mar-
kets moved on exactly as if the gov-
ernment were automatic, certain to do
or say no more than the people had
already decided and expected, and so
the gradual betterment since October
continues.
There is a larger demand for pro-
ducts in nearly all the great industries, -
larger export . demand for foreign
needs, a more healthy domestic demand
since seasonable weather arrived and a
comforting conviction that November
business, the biggest ever done in this
country in any month, was but a step
toward something better.
Kxports last year in December were
marvellous, but this year are starting
far ahead. The Atlantic wheat ex-
ports, flour included, have been for the
week 5,636,767 bushels, against 4,312,137
bushels last year, and Pacific exports
556,523 bushels, against 973,083 bushels
last year, and prices have declined 21gc
for cash, but western receipts of 10,-
135,169 bushels, against 6,213,471 bushels
from last year's great crop, stops ar-
gument.
Cotton shared in the export move-
ment fully and nevertheless has risen
o=16¢ in price, with a feeling that esti-
mates of vield may have been ecces-
sive. At the extremely low price yet
quoted, foreign buyers do not stop to
calculate comigercial and mill stocks
on hand. The consumption in this
country is not very large, being but lit-
tle changed by troubles about wages
at the South, though by more volun-
tary curtailment to New England, but
the demand for goods is better, and
has lifted the price of print cloths 4c,
and some of the other goods a shade.
Woolen goods have been in much
better demand and many of the
smaller mills have been buying after
concessions secured by the larger. The
mich broader market is inore healthy
and promises far more for the industry
and sales of 10,655,200 pounds in two
weeks past -at the three chief markets,
against 10,852,700 pounds in the same
weeks of 1892, are quite in line with the
demand in prosperous years. Prices
yielded about gc in November, ac-
cording to 100 quotations by Coates
Bros., and from Philadelphia dis-
patches appear to be about a cent
lower this week.
The rupture of the inchoate rail com-
bination, it appears, resulted in lower
prices and larger sales in the first
week of sharp competition than were
realized a week ago. Prices were made
in some transactions much lower than
were then or are now quoted, and
while $17 at Pittsburg is now named.
special orders are said to command
lower figures. The purchase of 150,000
tons bessemer pig at $10 at a valley
furnace and 100,000 billets for Pittsburg
at $11 50 of which 40,000 tons went to a
hoop mill, with 11,000 tons rods at Chi-
cago at $22 and 22,000 tons plates for
_one concern at Pittsburg, besides enor-
mous orders for bars and plates in car
and ship building, a steamship con-
tract on the Delaware and a contract
for 5,000 tons for bridges at Chicago,
give some idea of the heavy business
coming forward, just when the works -
usually expect a season of idleness and
waiting. Pig iron has risen at the East
to $1150 and quotations average for
pig throughpyt the country a shade
higher than at any time , this year,
though prices for finished products
have recently been declining