I O GREAT BUSINESS GAIN. The Remarkable Change For the Bet- ter In a Single Week. . UN PREGBDEN TED CONDITION [he Large Boom In “’heat Is an Im- portant Factor-The Strength of Stocks—Some Prices May Be Be- duced—The Failures of the Week. NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—-R. G. Dun & Co’s weekly review of trade says: No one now doubts that the brighter day is dawning, and it is the common re- mark that never before has business shown so great a. change for the better Within a single week. To the change of conditions and of spirit described last week there has already answered a large increase in the working force and in the volume of trade. Dispatches telling of about 500 establish- ments which have opened or have materi- ally enlarged their force, though they fill many columns, give only part of the fact, for throughout the country the gain has been surprising even to the most hopeful. It is not more speculation or hope which lights the fires and starts the wheels, for elders which have been accumulating for months, with the necessary replenishment of dealers’ stocks now greatly reduced, would employ the whole producing force for a time, and the increase in number of hands at work means increase in purchases Eur consumption. Monetary anxiety and peril being removed, the business world has that confidence which is worth more in practical influence than several thou- sand millions of currency in circulation. Foreign need of American wheat con- tinues an important factor, and the price has advanced to 89% cents, gaining 7 cents for one week, 11 cents for two weeks and 25 cents since early in September. The price is the highest since June, 1892. Western receipts were only 4,494,033 bush< els against 8,202,864 last year, but the election cut off much work during the days . in which these receipts were started to market. Atlantic exports, in spite of scanty freight room, were for two weeks 2,717,231 bushels dour included, against 3,260,384 lass yea. and Pacific shipments are also heai. y to india, South Africa and Australia. Stocks .conoinm .1 to rise until Tuesday, declined a little 1 *h realizing, but turned strong again in spite of the professional belief that the rise had gone far enough. It seems to be a market in which hunters for small profits are left behind. Hoarded Money Coming Out. The volume of money boarded for months, but now seeking investment, is remarkably large. Returns of earnings are not yet satisfactory, those for election week being 15.6 per cent smaller than last year and 17.3 per cent smaller than in 1892, but October returns covering $44,249,429 on half the mileage of the country are given today and are the best since June. Chicago east bound tonnage for election week was smaller than last year. Since the settle- ment of the Venezuela trouble, the natura’il desire of foreign investors to share in American prosperity may balance the in- clination of speculators to take small prof- its, which caused foreign selling of 40,000 shares this week. After spe01e resumption this single force practically‘ruled the mar- ket and the gold movement for years. Many textile works have been starting or increasing force, mostly on orders book- ed weeks ago. But there has not been much gain in the demand as yet. After purchases of 46,000,000 pounds of wool in five weeks the transactions fell to 6,243,700 pounds last week, but prices were strong and in some grades 1 cent higher, and even great- er advance is demanded at the west, while foreign markets are higher and Australian fully 1 cent per pound. There is slightly better demand for lightweight men’s goods and for dress goods, .but not enough as yet to Start most of the waiting mills. The market for cotton goods is not yet active, but more liberal estimates of the cotton crop are generally credited, prevent- ing any advance in price. The output of iron furnaces in blast Nov. 1 was 124,077 tons weekly, having been increased 11,295 tons, or 10 per cent in the latter part of October, by confidence in the future. All the markets were stron- ger, although the enormous purchases of pig iron in advance of needscauses com- parative inactivity at present. Plates and steel bars are $1 to $8 per ton higher and sheets in better demand. Anthracite and bessemer pig have advanced a shade, and the average of prices is 2% per cent higher. The billet pool is in protracted meeting here this week to decide upon its course and is still undersold. May Reduce Prices. The beam, bar, rail and wire nail asso- ciations meet this week, and the undersell- ing of wire nails by outsiders has gone so far that a decline ,of 45 cents is openly quoted. It is noteworthy that the prevail- ing expectation, notwithstanding the gen- I - oral improvement in business, is that A. "i u some, if not all, these combinations will decide to reduce prices. The coke com- bination, it now appears, has not prevent— led large contracts for future delivery at less than $2, its fixed price, and even less than $1.75, but the output last week de- creased. A heavy sale of copper to for- eigners, said to cover 10,000,000 pounds, has raised the price to 11% cents, and tin actually sells at 13 cents, though less is quoted. The Chicago hide market lifted prices 7.? per cent in a single week, leath- 1' has risen 1.6 per ccnt,‘and quotations of boots and shoes have been raised an aver- age of 4.3 yer cent. Checking business is much restricted. . The change in the money market is striking. Instead of $2,500,000 going out - to the interior, as before, $2,500,000 have come in this week; instead of 80 cents dis- count, New York exchange at Chicago is at 70 cents premium; instead of merchants and manufacturers vainly hunting lenders, banks are hunting for more commercial paper. Commercial rates are down to 5 per cent on best paper. Foreign exchange is higher, owing to sales of $4,000,000 gov- crnments taken by the Bank'of England as a. member of the syndicate early in 1895, to payments of $3,000,000 sterling loans and to foreign realizing on $2,000,000 of securities, but all these are in effect taking profits for confidence in American honor. Failures for the Week have been 276 in the United States against 283 last year, and 46 in Canada against 49 fast year. A Rumor Denied. L0“DON, IVI‘ . 14.—The officials of the foreign (.liicc ‘lly r‘ .c isany truth in the s‘. my piibl. filed by a New York news- . nape.- saying that the British er: bassador 5 at Washington, Si: Julia/L Pauncefote, has tendered the good offices of Great Britain - with the view of averting trouble between I the United States and Spain. . , u‘ . 1y. .. _.. - ,.J,a,‘.>, -‘,._,‘ is . he TIME ' To Subscribe for the. GA AND Both Pacers Sent to one Address for $.I.OQ a Year . ‘1 llKLY N. Y. TRIBUNE. " then a door banged to. A ivas being robbed. > said the highwayman. "‘l. don’t need. . aim-assistance.” kl ‘ THE EVENING ”Azn'rrs ANGLER CAUGHT A BICYCLE. .A Thief n-a Thrown the niachme mm the Sea. Among the reSidents of ‘Berniuuda, 7 says the Boston Transcript, are two brothers, one of whom, besides being antenthusiastic yachtsman, is also.a swift and skillful rider of the bicycle. Some time ago, shortly before the date set for a bicycle race in which he was to be one of the contestants, his wheel mysteriously disappeared, and all 'ef- forts to find a trace of it proved fruit- less. One day, about fourteen months af- ter the bicycle had been presumably stolen, a fisherman who was angling out in the middle of St. George’s Har- bor for floating fish, hooked a large one, which instantly plunged into the depths of the harbor in a vain en- deavor to escape. The angler played with him for a while, and then, feel- ing the line tighten in his hand and the strain become steady, began to haul up. He soon realized that he had at the end of his line one of the heaviest catches he had ever made, and that it was apparently almost a dead weight. He hauled away, how- ever, until there appeared above the water not only the fish that he had hooked, but a bicycle, round the ban- dles of which the fish, in his efforts to escape, had wound the‘liné a num- ber of times. When the astonished fisherman had sufficiently recovered from his amaze- ment at his curious catch, he took the bicycle ashore. There it was soon identified as the one which had so in- explicably disappeared. Strange to say, the machine, in spite of the fact that it had been at the bottom of the harbor for fourteen months, was put in running order again. “ IT RAlNED DOGS.” Chose Who Played aJoke Upon the Mayor Will Hardly Repeat It. “Once in my experience,” said the Montana man in a musing tone, “I am remember when it actually rained logs. The shower did not last more than five minutes, but they came very lively while they" were coming. The way it came about was this: “We thought we could play a joke on the Mayor of the town in which I lived. When I say we, I mean’ the Board of Councilmen. The Mayor had been heard to say that he wanted a dog, and along this line we worked our joke. W'e resolved ourselves into a committee of the whole to hunt down all the dogs in the towu: There were a good many dogs in this town, a good many that seemed to be ‘their own dogs,’ so we collected all of them together, and placed them in the May- or’s room one night. He was a bach- elor. and had chambers over the first floor of the house which was known as the Town Hall, The president of the board and myself had collected the dogs, and while the other Council- men took- the Mayor to help them decorate the town a bright vermillion hue we slipped the animals into his room. We then joined the rest of the Council. _With due respect we all saw the Mayor to his home at about 2:30 the next morning. The Mayor was oblate walk 'alone, if 'it was so late in the morning; so, letting him go by himself up the steps to his rooms, we stood under the windows to watch - what would happen next. “Soon we heard a struggling sound, light showed in the windows; The win- dows were thrown up with a crash. Amid a chorus of wild yelps and muttered curses the shower of dogs began. “Look out!” shouted the president of the board, who was the $St to get control over his laughte as the shower commenced slackening, ‘he will begin to shoot!’ “The warning came none too soon, norscarcely soon'enough. I thought the next day, as I examined the bul- let hole in my hat. There was a glit- ter of bright steel in the window above, and then that Gatling gun sound which 5.1:; 3 Montana man can make a pistol produce.” The Chair was Bare. _It was at one of the many delightful afternoons given by Mrs. Cleveland at her residence on Madison avenue, New , York, shortly after she had stepped temporarily from her position as first lady of the land. Among the furniture in that puritanical looking drawing room where she dispensed a charming hospitality and won the favor of the ex- clusive set in New York society, was a specimen of those tiny _' 1.1. painted chairs that are ever warning you they are not meant to be sat upon, but which are so dear to every woman’s heart. A ”friend of mine tells me that on the oc- casion in question he was about to sit' upon this one, when, as his avoirdupois was considerable, he looked around for a chair more suitable to his dimensions. Mrs. Cleyeland noticed the movement, and with a graceful command said: “Oh, don’t be afraid; all the furniture in - the house is made for heavy peo- ple.” . ' ' This good natured reference to her husband’s adiposity evoked a. smile * from the gentleman, and, as every stout man thinks the other man is stouter than himself, he felt a sense of security in accepting the profiered seat—Wash- ington Post. . . . One Having Authority. Voice at the Telephone—Major, will you please bring your family and take supper with us next Sunday? ._..-vant Girl (replies back through telephonej—Master. and Misses are not in at present, but they can’t come to supper, as it’s my Sunday out.—-Bos- _‘ ton L} lobe. "Help. Helpll” cried the man, who “Calm, yourself,” -4 \. 0/:- Woman Sun‘rnglstl In Kansas. ITOPEKA, Nov. 13.-—-The Kansas Equal Suflrage association, now in session here, announces that the women of I‘. nsas have grown tired of begging axis or that politi- cal'organization for favors, and that they propose to become a lively factor in Kansas politics. It was also decided to ask the in- coming state legislature to grant to Kan sas woman suifrage. Gross Fraud Alleged. * SANTA FE, Nov. 13.—Delegate Cattron announces that he will contest the election of Ferguson as delegate" to congress from this territory. He alleges that he has pos- itive evidence that many fraudulent votes were cast for his opponent at the recent election. A Change In California Returns. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 13.—0fiicia1 re- turns from all the counties in the Seventh congressional district show that Castle, Democrat and Populist, has been elected over Bowers, Republican, by 90 votes. . O Burglar Killed. BATAVIA, N. Y., Nov. 13.—-One burglar was shotto death and another was wound- ed and captured in Elba, Genesee county, while they were resisting arrest after en- tering W. A. Hundrenart’s store. The burglar alarm awakened. the proprietor, and he, with a body of citizens, surround- ed the store. The robbers were fired on, but returned the fire. The wounded man says his name is George Stevens. AtaWeat Point Bail. ‘ At the dances given at the great military academy nearly everything is reversed. As the Cadets are virtually prisoners, not allowed to leave the grounds except upon certain occa- sions and at certain times,and as they have precious little pocket money, all the calls and attentions and the like must come, from the girl. She it is who sendsthe youth flowers, sweet- meats and so forth. She calls upOn him, and, indeed, altogether takes the initiative in a curious leap-year-like. way at total variance with what she will experience in after life. The very novelty of it is interesting, though. A first experience at a. _West Point hop is not likely to be forgot- - ten. Every girl who is to be present is duly registered in a big book, and if she is not already supplied with a regular escort, the “hop manager" se— lects one for her, but when the girl, duly chaperoned, arrives at the hop, she finds that she has filled her dance program with the names of cadets whom she possibly never even saw. This may strike the girl as a trifle cut-and—dried, unusual and, savoring decidedly of military discipline, but it is the West Point way, has been so for years, and there seems to be no likelihood that it will ever be altered. MN The Combination Bay State Hot Water and Hot Air Heater has From it you get indirect radiation, which is greatly to be preferred to direct hot-water heating. The hot-water heater simply warms the air over and over without any provision for ventilation. Bay State receives fresh 'air from the outside constantly, heats it and drives it all over the house. You should appre- ciate the value of. indirect radiation. We can tell you all about it if you write us. many advantages. BARSTOW STOVE co. 228 Water St., New York ZWWN The Combination Consult your local dealer. Foundries—Providence, R. 1. Boston Office—56 Union St. W» % L Brooklyn Vault Light Company, MANUFACTURERS. ‘ r SKYLIGHT- iND PATIENT LIGHT DESIGNS. . ‘1 OFFICE, 481 BRIGGS AVENUE, * BROOKLYN. N. Y. The War recently Result: Bids from $ to $100 each for Columbias, their in I! van are ablo to pay $100 for a bicycle, why be content with anything out a Coiumhia? Chosen. by the Governmen artment totastthebicyclefmarmymand WWW ' W ‘°'“‘“’“”’°“°' "."‘1‘cycles,+ STANDARD OF THE WORLD. The experts who made the choice de- cided that Columbias were worth every ,. .' dollar ofthe$100askedforthem. _1. .Beautiful Art Catalogue of Calendars and Hartford Bicycles is free if you call “POD any Columbia Agent , by mail from us for two 2-cent stamps. POPE MFG. 011)., Harp-"0rd, Conn. Bunch Stores and Agencies in almost every city and town. If Colombian are not " properly represented in your vicinity let, us know.
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