Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 December 1914 — Page 26
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HEWS OF STOCK VAEXET
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—Record-break-ing dullness attended the resumption of stpck "dealings. Attendance of brokers on the exchange was light and outtide interest appeared .to be entirely lucking. Th-3 total overturn of the first half hour was less than 4,0ol) shares. United States Steel and Southern Pacific on 100-share.offerings again touched the low marks under which trading i» not permitted, and St. Paul declined to its low price, with weakness fn Amalgamated and estern Maryland. .Such unimportant shares as feeei Sugar and Rock Island rose slight fractions.
Pronounced .improvement was shown in the final hour, when a moderate demand for some of the leaders resulted in gains Of 1 to 2 points, with the coalers in the lead. The closing was firm.
NEW YORK STOCK SALES. Amalgamated Copper American Beet Sugar American Cotton/Oil Amer. S'melt. & Ref'ng Amer. Sugar Ref'ng .. Amer. Tel & Tel Anaconda Mining Co. Atchison Atlantic Coast L.lne
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Canadian Pacific Chesapeake & Ohio Chicago & North Western Chi., Mil. & St. Paul Colorado Fuel and Iron.... Colorado & Southern Delaware & Hudson Denver & Rio Grande ... Brie General Electric .. Great Northern pfd Great Northern Ore Ctfs. .. Illinois Central Interborough Met. Interborough Met. pfd Inter. Harvester Louisville & Nashville ... Missouri Pacific Missouri, Kansas & Texas Lehigh Valley National Lead New Haven New York Central Norfolk & Western ...... Nnrthern Pacjfic Pennsylvania People's Gas .. Pullman Palace Car Reading Rock Island Co Rock Island Co. ufd Southern Pacific Southern Ra.ilway Union Pacific United States Steel United States Steel pfd. ... Wabash Western Union
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Eggs—Firm receipts, not received fresh gathered extra firsts, 38c firsts, BO 37c.
Live poultry—Firm western chickens, 12%@13c fowls, 13%i@)14%c: turkeys, 14©15c dressed, dull and weak weetern roasting chickens, 14@18c fresh fowls, 12%@17c turkeys, 12 21c.
COMMERCIAL, PAPER.
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—Mercantile paper, i@iM: sterling exchange, heavy 60 d£y bills, $4.82.50 for cables, $4.86.25 for demand, $4.85.25: bar silver, 48% Mexican dollars, 37% government bonds steady railroad bonds steady.
NEW YORK TOOUR.
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—Flour—Firm. Whent—Futures, without transactions.
ELGIN BUTTER.
ELGIN, 111., Dec. 26.—Butter, 34c bid no sales.
CHICAGO PRODUCE.
CHICAGO, Dec. 26. Butterchanged. Eggs—Receipts, changed.
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Pork—$15.00. Ribs—$9.7&®i 10.37.
ST*, ST. LOUIS GRAIN. f"¥ ^T. LOUIS, Dec. 26.—Wheatred, $1.23% a1.25 No. 2 hard, 1. December, $1.25%. tfl jny Corn—No. 2, 66%c No. 2 white, for aftir December, 67%c. iur »w. Oats—No. 2. 49c No. 2 white, and December, 49%c. me tr caug' WHEN IN DOUBT. "rvpAcr
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CHICAGO BOARD OP TRADE.
CHICAGO, Dec. 26.—Wheat prices tended downward today, demand being restricted to a holiday basis. After opening a shade off to the marrjiT4tKsi. sagged. Burnt e|f*rhe close was strong at l%c net ad-
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Was followed by a material advance. The close was strong, 1%@1%c net tiigher.
Oats rose with corn. Higher prices for hogs carried provisions up.
CHICAGO CASH GRAIN.
CHICAGO. Dec. 26.—Wheat—No. 2 red, $1.26% 1.28 No. 2 hard, J1.26J4 ®1.28 No. 2 northern, $1.28.
Corn—No. 2 yellow, 67%@68%c No. 8 yellow, 66% @67%c. Oats—No. 3 white, 49\i (®49%c: Standard, 50t4@50%c.
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INDIANAPOLIS LIVE SUCK
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 26.—^Receipts— Hogs, 7,000 head cattle, 200 head, unchanged calves, 150 head sheep and lambs, 100 head.
HTKEKb— Good to choice steers, 1,300 lbs. and upwards..? 8 25® 8 7t» Common to medium steers, 1,300 lbs. and upward.. 8 00® 8 50 Good "to choice steers, 1,150 to 1,250 lbs 8 00© 8 50 ComiLon to medium steers, 1,150 to 1,250 lbs 60® 6 00 Common to medium, 000 to 1,100 lbs 6 25® 7 Good to choice steers, 900 to 1.100 lbs. 7 00® 7 Extra choice feeding steers, 900 to 1,000 lbs.. 6 75® 7 Good feeding steers, 000 to 1,000 lbs 5 75® 7 Common feeding steer*, 600 to 900 lbs. 85® Medium feeding steers, 800 to 800 lbs. .... S5® Common to best Mockers 6 00® 7 bULLS AND CALVES— «ood to prime export ....$ 6 25 Good to choice butchers.. 6 00 Common to fair bulls ....
Good to choice cows ...9 £air to medium cows ... Canners and cutters .... Good to choice cows ... Good to choice cows and calves Fair to medium cows ... Canners and cutters «...
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LAMBS— Wool lambs 8 Good to choice Common to fair Good to best spring lambs Spring lambs Common to medium
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NEW 1ORK PROVISIONS. NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—Butter—Firm creamery extra, 25c.
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HEIFERS— Good to choice heifers ..$ I'air to medium Common to fair bulls ....
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Best heavies Good to choice lights .... Medium and irixed Common to good lights .. Best pigs Roughs Light pigs Bulk c«f sales
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Bucks 9 Common to choice Good to choice Common to medium Good to choice Common to medium yearlings Good to choice shorn sheep Common to medium shorn sheep Culls to medium
CALVES— Common to best veal ....$ 4 00@ 8 50 Medium and mixed -7 50® 8 55 Common to good heavy .. 4 00& 7 50
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.
CHICAGO, Dec. 26.—Hogs—Receipts, 7,000 light, [email protected] mixed,. $6.80® 7.20 heavy, [email protected] pigs, $5.50® 7.20.
Cattle—Receipts, 400 strong native steers, [email protected] western steers, $5.00#10.00 cows, [email protected] calves, [email protected].
Sheep—Receipts, 2,000 steady sheep, [email protected] yearlings,: $6.T6®7.70 lambs, $6.50 @8.75.
BUFFALO LIVE STOCK. BUFFALO, N. Y.. Dec.' 26.—CattleReceipts, 125, steady.
Veals—Receipts, 200, active $4.00® $10.00. Hogs—Receipts, 10,500, active heavy ar,d inlxed, $7.00 yorkers, [email protected] pigs, [email protected].
Sheep—Receipts, 4,400, active lambs, $5.00i®8.86 yearlings, [email protected] sheep [email protected].
PITTSBURGH LIVE STOCK. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 26.—Hogs.— Receipts. 5,000 active: heavy Yorkers, $7.35 light Yorkers and pigs, $7.40.
Sheep and lambs—Receipts, 1,000 higher top sheep, $5.85 top lambs, $8.50.
Calves—Receipts, 100 higher top, $10.00.
CLEARING HOUSE STATEMENT. NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—The statement of the actual condition of clearing a a an the week shows that they hold $117,121,200 reserve in excees of legal requiremehfs. This is a decrease of $8,176,780 from last week.-
LOCAL MARKET REPORT:
Metal and Rubber.
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Metal—Copper and heavy brass, per pound light brass,, 4c per zinc and foil, 20c.
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lead, 2%c per pound tin-
Rubber—5c per pound for old boots and shoes 2c per^pound for old bicyale tires 2c to 4c per pound for automobile tires 3c per pound for solid tires.
Scrap iron—Stove plate, 20c per 100 pounds mixed iron, heavy cast, wrought, malleable and steel, 25c per 100 pounds.
Hides and Tallow.
Hides—G. S.. No. 1. 14c No. 2, 13c calves, G. S., No. 1, 16c No. 2, 14 %c. Rasa.
Rags—Country, 60c per 100 pounds all-wool tailor clips, 2c per pound old rope, 1c per pound.
Herbs.
Golden seal, [email protected] per pound: ginseng (wild), [email protected] per pound May avple, 3c per pound sl'ppery elm bark, 3c per pound wahoo (bark of tree). 10c pound Virginia snake root, 20c per pound wild cherry bark, 2c per pound wild ginger bark, 5c blood root (fibre off), 5c per pound.
Grain, Hay and Straw (Wholesale). Wheat—$1-16. Oatsstraw (baled), $8.00 per ton wheat straw, $6.00 per ton.
Ilay-—No. 1 timothy, new, $16.50 No. 2 timothy, new, $15.50 alfalfa hay, $19 per ton No. 1 clover mixed, $16.00.
Bran—$26.00 per ton. Middlings—$30.00 per ton. Mixed feed—$29.00. poultry and Produce (Wholesale.) Hens—Live, 10c 1914 springers, 10c cocks, 6c ducks, F. F., 10c Indian Runner ducks, 9c geese, 10c dozen eggs, 35c butter, packing stock, 20c old hen turkeys, 15c old torn turkeys, 13c voung toms, 15c cull turkeys, Sc young turkeys, 15c guineas, 40o per pair.
Poultry and Produce (Retail.) Hens—Live, 13c springs, live, 20c cocks, 16c ducks, live, 18c geese, 12c: ducks, dressed, 30c dozen eggs, fresh, 45c turkeys, 30c pound, dressed butter, 40c.
WINTER COAL MARKET.
Brazil block $3.50 Clay City block 3.50 Minshall 4-inch lump 3.00 Minshall 4%-inch lump 2.86 Minshall, mine run 2.6O Linton No. 4, 4-inch lump 2.75 Linton No. 4, lV4-inch lump 2.60 Linton No. 4, mine run" 2.40 Linton No. 4, egg nut 2.60 No. 5, 4-inch lump 3.25 No. 5, 1%-inch lump 2.6O No. 5, egg nut 2.60 No. 5, mine run 2.40 No. 6, 4-lnch 2.76 No. 6, l^-inch, 2.60 No. 6, mine run 2.40 No. 6, egg nut 2.C0 Chestnut anthracite *76 Stove anthracite 8.60 Egg anthracite 8.25 Screenings 1.7o
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HOW THE BUSINESS SECTION OF A BIG CITY WAS VIRTUALLY UNSCRAMBLED, AND WHOLE
STRETCHES OF BUSINESS BLOCKS- RAISED FOURTEEN FEET, A CITY HALL TpRN DOWN, THE COURSE OF
JUST IN ORDER TO PUT THE -METROPOLIS OF EASTERN ..WASHINGTON ON THE MAIN
LINE JF THE ST. PAUL RAILROAD,
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WHAT HAS BEEN DONE IN SPOKANE
Here Is a story of characteristic American enterprise. It Is an onnal of big things well done. Tbe St. Paul wanted to put Spokane on Its Main Line between Seattle and Cltlcaeo. It did so after facing seemingly insurmountable obstacles. It built a tunnel under the heart of the city, lifted four solid blocks of Front street, constructed an open subway In a bed of solid rock in the busiest part of town, ntrolKhtened out a curve In tbe .Spokane River and did a lot of- other wonderful things. It took tbree years to.complete the task. Not a life wan lost and there was not a single hint of Iabo£ difficulties. In the latter point there Is a situation worthy of study by students of industrial problems.
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UTTING a big city on the main line of a transcontinental railway wheal, for some reason, it failed to get there in the first place, does not sound like a very formidable Undertaking. In these days of wonderful accomplishments, when even Mr. Hercules would have to hustle to attract attention, the mere shifting of a metropolis from a branch line to a main thoroughfare of commerce would seem to the casual observer just a part of the day's work of a great railway syetem. But when the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railway took the thriving city of Spoka.ne, Wash., virtually lifted It up by the roots and then put it down again where it wanted it there was enacted one of the seven wonders of American rail roading.
It was only a few days ago that the proud citizens of Spokane, completed their formal celebration of this event in a manner befitting its importance. Under the auspices of the chamber of commerce the town for several days practically tried to do nothing but whoop 'er up. Bands, confetti, speeches, banners, parades, red fire, etc., made Spokane about the liveliest spo*. on the map for a few days during the middle of September. Vice Presidwit Barling, amid wild hurrahs, drove the golden spike that marlced the completion of the big task.
Those gay and effervescent scenes marked the beginning of a new day for this city of the west. No longer on the side track, Spokane is now right on the main line, thougfh it cost $16,500,000| to put her there, ut dollars and cents do not tell this story any more than they 6ould measure the glory of Qolumbus and his voyage to San Sanvador.
Business Heart Unscrambled. Here, in brief, is what was accomplished: The entire business heart of Spokane was unscrambled a busy street and all the buildings on it for a distance of four blocks were raised fourteen feet without interfering with traffic or the usual routine of life in that section the course of the Spokane river was changed an 800-foot tunnel was built through solid rock under one if the busiest parts of Spokane -an open subway three-quarters of a mile long also in the retail and shopping district was dug in solid rock the city hall was torn down -and a $400,000 union depot went up in its place two bridges with an aggregate length of more than half a mile wer^ constructed a street frontage of a mile and a caiarter on both sides of a main business thoroughfare was bought and a track elevation of half a mile was constructed. And then, after all this was accomplished a new railroad was built from Plummer, Idaho, up through the center of Spokane and then out to Marengo, "Wash., a distance of 80 miles.
And that's how the St. Paul put Spokane on the main line. Now the "Olympian" and the "Columbian," the all-steel trains of the St. Paul that thunder their way from Chicago to the Pacific ocast and back find this great comxi-arcial center of —Jil: '-'""•ton ly oil their
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petihway, where formerly they passed it miles to the couth, and the distance from Chicago to the coast has only been lengthened fourteen miles.
Lift Street In Air.
Perhaps of all the things accomplished, the one that appeals to the Imagination was the job of taking Front street, with all its traffic and buildings, and lifting it 14 feet in the air much as you might lift a long row of toy blocks without spilling any of them. Now Front street is one of the main retail arteries in Spokane. Ivarge brick blocks lift their heads here and there above their more primitiv.e neighbors. It is thronged throughout the shopping hours with busy buyers and down under its pavings there is the usual laJbyrinth of conduits, wires and pipes all tangled in a snarl like a giarat's skein of yarn.-
If you have ever been down under a city street you will understand what an inextricalble knot of lead and copper had to ibe guarded when they lifted Front street 14 feet in the air. But so skillful was the task accomplished that not "a strand of wire was snapped nor a single ipiece of pipe or tubing broken. Moreover, while the street was bodily raised from its foundation, buyers In the street caane and went, automobiles sped along as was their wont, trucks and wagons jolted over the pavements just as they^ad always done. And the buildings that lined the street, great and small alike, brick and stone, with their host?,of tenants in store and office, all were picked up in fact as if by the magic power of some great, mysterious force and still life -ran on just the same. Women and men thronged the shops* or mounted elevators to the offices just as before and all the whil® the very ground on which these structures stood, the very foundations of everything was being lifted slowly, up, up, up. For nearly half a mile through the heart of Spokane this slow, systematic upheaval took place. Yet so perfectly was the work done that not a single life was sacrificed nor a single hour's 'business was interferrcd with.
Near the center of this rearranged city there flows the Spokane river, which of yore made a ndble bend as it passed through the confines of the town. But this curving sweep of water, awe inspiring as it might be to the. eye of the poet or painter, very seriously interferred with the ambitions of the St. Paul. And so figuratively speaking they took the river and straightened out the kink much as you might uncoil a piece of garden hose.
Through Rock-Bound Subway. For a distance of 800- feet Jhe St. Paul tracks now run through a rockbound tunnel far beneath the heavy traffic of the retail district. It can be imagined perhaps even by those unfamiliar with tile technique of engineering what problems had to be solved before this great hole could be torn through a city's foundation. But it was necessary in the genero.l plan of development and the work went along under the swirl of city activity wwn-
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out accident or delay. In this connection it might toe said, parenthetically, that the whole task of placing Spoicane on the main line was accomplished without the loss of a single human life.
T^iere is another ipoint that calls for attention to this connection, too. During the three years of the work there was never a hint of labor difficulties, which taay ibe construed alike as a favorable commentary on the broad policies of ithe Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway company and the wholesome appreciation and intelligence of those sturdy fighters in the ranks who conquered all for their employers.
There are -countless theorists who have marshaled vast idealized armies of la/borers and put them to work under a splendid system of employment
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in which there was no flaw, for man and master were brothers together. But it is sometimes doubted if these fine theories could be proved with men of flesh and (blood, because there is so much difference 'between what men cmghlt to do and what men will do. So it might Ibe interesting for some of our wise economists to Btudy the story of the St. Paul's job in Spokane. Here was a 'big thins accomplished under grim, severe circumstances that could have had no false theories or rattlebrained sophistry as its guiding code.
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When the St. Paul began to plan its work and its engineers had made surveys of the necessary route, one of the mean problems lay In the fact that the "Olympian" and the "Columbian" would run their noses smack through the city hall of Spokane unless sotnetiody came to the rescue. So it "fcecame imperative that the city hall be purchased, for It was easier to do this than to send the line through some other part of town.
Did you ever try to buy"a perfectly good city hall, as she stands? If so you will know what of patience and laibor were necessary to uproot the seat of government of this American city and send trains pounding through the center of its business district.
But the city hall of Spokane at last gave way to the pushing of this railroad company and today there stands in its place one of America's most noble passenger stations.
Build Two Colossal Bridges. To the west of this station traobs cross a magnificent new brldgo spanning the Spokane river and valley for a distance of 1,000 feet at a height of 175 feet above the water. Two miles further west there is another bridge standing 150 feet in tho air and stretching 2,000 feet across the river and valley.
East of the station for a distance of
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half a mile the tracks run on an «te vated roadway, which la erven with the second^ story windows of store* and shops. Then they descend into an open subway hewn from solid stone, where they travel for a distance of three-quarters of a mile.
From the open subway the trains plunge Immediately Into the Front street tunnel, where they roar unheard by the city fpr above them. Emerging from this subterranean passageway, the new line passes quickly out of the city to the southwest.
There was opposition to the St. Paul's ambitious plans at first, but time has shown that the company, while serving Its own ends, has also the city's Interests at heart, and Spokane knows today, that she has started on an epoch of bigger things than she ever could have dreamed of ha.i not the St. Paul with indomitable courage taken her by sheer force and planked her on Its main line. When '"The Olympian" steamed triumphantly into the big new union depot, 14,006 jubilant Spokane citizens swooped down to the depot and swartaed through the train. Fourteen thousand is a ibig crowd of people and It shows hefw important the event was looked upon tn Spokane.
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Advooatee of Changs to Hold Meet'»nB Monday Night.
T. M. 1 NOTES
The T. M. I. club rooms are being put in shape for the open house to be held New Year's day. The committee extends a cordial invitation to ail members and their friends to call at the rooms on the afternoon of January 1. On New Tear's night there will be a dance for the members only.
Today is election of officers there will be no meeting today, but the polls are open from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. As there is quite a line attached for anyone who rails to vote, it will pay every one to take off a few minutes and mark a ballot.
At the last meeting of the year, on Tuesday, the 29th, the results erf Sunday's voting will be announced. The officers elected will give a smoker and a good time is promised.
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ROM Liockridge, of Ft. Wayne, secretary of the Citizens' league, will a&» dre»s a district meeting- in the Interest of the constitutional convention, which will be held in the rooms of the Chamber of, Commerce Monday evening. "William Houston will preside at the .!— —i
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ered by Judge Elchhom, of Bluffton, .kibn, oi Larayette, and a number of local people, including Professor Lynch, and Phil Reinbold. rrx^t'na- be held In an effort to awaken Interest in the mov»lutfut 10 sLX'U't a constitutional convention.
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