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REV." YORK LETTER.
‘ The :"1""’rtrd Oil Trust is in pro-
cess <“' :lation. Holders of
itsccrtih. ...' have surrendered or
will surrender them and re.-
ccive instead stock in the Standard
Oil Company, of New York. This.
change—for it is little more than a
change—is due to the prejudice which
has been aroused in many minds
against trusts and to the crystaliza-
tion of that prejudice in the legislation
of many States. When the Standard
Oil Trust was formed it lost nothing
by the frankness of its title.‘ Times
have. changed. The public knows
what trusts mean to them, and legis-
latures have declared them to be il-
legal conspiracies in restraint of trad
The Standard was a trust, an organi-
zation for the joint operation of hun-
dreds of companies. In becoming i‘ic
Standard Oil Company of New York it
acquires all those privileges which 1hr
corporation law of this state gives ii
and loses not one of its trust charac—
teristics. It is still the giant of its
class, and for the accommodation of
its Executii’e Committee, Board, chair-
men and general oflices is enlarging
the great building in lower Broadway.
which, when completed will be sixteen
stories high, eover a ground space of
100 by 130 feet and be occupied exclu-
sively by the Standard. Of the total
number of barrels of oil run from all
the petroleum wells in the United
States in 1894, the S andard controlled
78 per cent. That was its high water
mark on that line. In ism; the Stand-
ard distributed in dividends to its
stockholders $36,000.0tm the high wa-
ter mark on that line. It has fought
many battles, won many. and the. sin-
gle aiin of the men in control has: al-
ways been profits. It has not mat-
tered much what methods were used:
power has been coveted only because
it can be translated into profits.
In undertaking to exterminate the
tramp and the professional beggar
from New York the Police Department
is doing the public a signal service.
Consultation between the Police
Board and the Charity Organization
Society has resulted in the adoption. of
a comprehensive plan of campaign.
Two picked policemen clothed in citi-
zen dress have been detailed for each
of the six police-court districts of the
metropolis. They are devoting their
.Whole time to patrolling the. city in
search of beggars.
The first time a man is caught beg-
ging he is questioned and warned. If
he is a married man he is directed to
the nearest office of the Charity Or-
ganizaton Society, where, if found
worthy, the needs of his family will be
relieved. If unmarried, he is directed
to the Municipal Lodgng House. where
he will be helped to find work or to
wth his out-of-town
friends.
Caught offending the second time,
the beggar receives more drastic treat-
ment. If the man is unknown to the
Charity Organization Society he will
be sent to the workhouse for three
months. If he has a record as a pro-
fessional beggar the period of his
forced retirement from the street will
be greatly lengthened. \l'omen beg~
gars.will be treated with the same so-
verity as men.
Once in the worklnmse. the beggar
will be taught some useful industry.
Plenty of hard work will prove :1
wholesome tonic. To increase the op-
portunities for healthful toil a munici-
pal farm wll soon be established on
Riker‘s Island.
There is a small club of Bohemians
in New York the walls of whose quar-
ters are modestly covered with tinted
burlap. On these walls. all visitors of
note are. expected to write their names
and a sentiment original to the oc-
casion. It is told that \Villiam Dean
Howells dropped in one\day, looked
about, and wrote: "I can’t think of a
thing. William Dean Howells”. A
jester happened by, and scrawled be-
lowz-“Autobiography of “'illiam Dean
1 Howells.”
. New York Herald musical critics
have been handling the singers who
compose the chorus at the Metropoli-
tan Opera House with especial sever-
ity in, their recent criticisms of per-
formances. Again and again it has
been stated that the chorus singing at
the Opera House was discordant and
unworthy of a high'class musical es-
tablishment. The discords really eman-
ate from behind the scenes at the op—
era and are not to be attributed to the
singers who compose the chorus at all.
During the last performance of “Car-
men” .an expert musician, who was
stationed behind the scenes at the
Opera House for the express purpose of
noting the exact source of , the poor
chorus singing that has caused so
much comment, was considerably as-
tonished to find that the Metropolitan
Opera House possesses two corps of
chorus singers, one of which is paid
to sing, while the other sings from pure
love of singing and because there is
nothing else to do at the moment. The
extra chorus is composed of the stage
carpenters, call boys, maids whose
mistresses are on the stage, and the
numerous individuals who congregate
behind the scenes. “Carmen” proved
to be a very popular opera with the
second chorus. Nearly all the stage
hands seemed to know the opera by
heart, and to be able to sing the for-
sign words. When they. were not con—
versant with the words the lack of
knowledge did not deter them from
singing. Carpenters, as they passed
about the“ stage on their various duties
can" the chorus as though they were
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hired for that express purpose, and the
shrill voices of a trio of call boys
could be heard above the singing even .
of the trained chorus maids. ..
CYRUS TIIORP.
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AN IMPORTANT CASE.
ELECTRICITY FROM COAL WITH-
OUT HEAT OR STEAM.
Tbe Possibilities of 1; Recent Discovery bv
Willard Case—Energy Obtained by
Chemicals from the Cold Mineral—As
Yet an Expensive Process.
To produce electricity from carbon
without heat as a. scientific experi-
ment is one thing, and to do so on a
commercially payingbasis is another.
Mr. Willard E. Case of Auburn, N. Y.,
has succeeded in doing the former,
and believes that the time will come
when electrical energy can be gen-
erated in that manner so as to be of
immense value to the industrial
world. In a lecture before the New
York Electrical Society the other even-
ing he demonstrated the correctness
of his theory by actual experiment, at
the same time frankly confessing that
his discovery was as yet of no com-
mercial value. This was due to the
fact. he explained, that the chemicals
which he uses in his battery are ex-
ceedingly expensive.
Mr. Case, .who is a young man, has
been experimenting for the past ten
years along the line‘of this discovery.
Some years ago he read a .paper on the
subject before the Royal Society in
view. the scientific world wasn't r iady
for such a, startling advance in elec-
trical science, so it turned up its nose,
so to speak, just as it had done in so
many famous instances before. Mr.
Case, however, persisted, and it is
now several years since he first suc-
ceeded in converting the potential en-
ergy of carbon into electricity without
producing heat. In developing his
theory he has constantly kept before
him as a model the human body.
"The, human body,” said Mr. Case,
speaking of the manner in which he
arrived at his discovery, "is the most
perfect motor we have. It is twice as
effective as the steam engine. It :11)-
sorbs the oxygen into the blood. the
tissue is oxidized, and work is done.
This is done at a low temperature.
Now, why not follow out this plan in
carbon. consuming batteries, 'oxidizing
the carbon at low temperature?"
Mr. Case went on to explain that it
was high temperature that caused so
much loss in producing power io—day.
Thus the present steam engine and
dynamo have an efficiency only one-
tenth the energy of coal. In illustrat-
ing this the electrician became some-
what technical. He put it in this way:
“In the battery which I use I succeed
in oxidizing the carbon without heat,
but it is an expensive process. Now,
if this is to be of commercial value,
we must either cheapcn the chemicals
or find some other agent that is cheap
enough for general use.”
Mr. Case is averse to making any
predictions for his discovery. "1 am
not. a promoter," he says, "and the
cause of science is very often in-
jured by unwise or rosy forecasts. I
believe, however, that the day will
come when the world will be produo
ing electricity direct from carbon. To-
about five pounds of coal per horse
power. By the process which I have
demonstrated two—tenths of a pound
of coal. theoretically, accomplish the
same result."
it. is easy to build air castles on Mr.
(fasc‘s method of producing elec-
ricity. but Mr. Case prefers to have
other people do it. while he works up-
on his theory in a scientific spirit. He
admits that. if he could bring his meth-
od down to a paying basis, it would
probably result in the retirement of
the steam engine. No engine ‘would
be needed to develop this power. No.
dynamo would be necessary. The elec—
tricity would be used in motors, as it
is to-day, stored in batteries and car-
ried over lines, and all this with an ex-
ceedingly small loss of energy.
“I have little doubt," said Mr. Case
yesterday, "that this problcm‘will be
solved. Owing to the publicity which
my lecture before the New York Elec-
trical Society has received, I presume
there are a hundred practical elec-
tricians working to-day along the
lines which I have laisl down. It
wouldn't surprise me to wake up any
morning and read that electricity
from carbon, without heat, has been
rendered practical for commercial
uses. But with the industrial possi-
bilities I really have nothing to do. My
treatment of the subject has been
purely scientific, and I prefer to leave
it for others to paint pictures of the
future.”
A MAN’S VIEW
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Of the way a 'Woman 5395 a tvomazi.
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London, but as he said to an . Eagle.
reporter, who was granted an inter- ,
day thevbest electrical plants require
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THE GRRTAN TROUBLE.
{etnliatiom
Coxsmwrrxopn; March iii—In politi-
cal circles here the opinion prevails that
the blockade of the island of Crete by the
fleets of the foreign powers, which went
"into effect yesterday, will drive’the Greeks
to desperate acts on the frontiers of Mace-
donia and Epirus, whence the news of a
con diet is hourly expected.
The naval officers were summoned by
telegraph yesterday to rejoin their ships
immediately, creating the toilet that. the
departure of the Turkish fret s imminent,
although it; is doubted whether the war-
ships are really ready for sea.
' ATHENS, March 17,—A dispatch received
here today from Khania. says that the
Turks have made a sortie from Retimo
and proceeded to Atupopulos, which they
burned without. opposition from the forces
of the powers. It. is alleged that the pil-
lage of the Christian shops continues and
that; the governor of Retimo and-the Turk-
ing. -
Loxnox, March lit—There was a. re-
newal of uneasiness on the Stock Exchange
today on account; of the possibledevelop‘
ments in the east. Consols dropped and
foreign securities were very depressed on
reports that the Greeks have crossed the
frontier.
VIENNA, March 17.-——1t is asserted in of-
fioial quarters here that Greece will declare
war against Turkey. ,_
ROME, March 17.——A dispatch from
Khania to the. Secolo says that the Cretan
insurgents have declared that they will re-
ject autonomy and offer all possible resist;-
ance to the occupation of the island by the
powers. .
The dispatch also says that Colonel Vas-
sos, commanding the Greek army of occu-‘
pat-ion, is about to move his camp to, the
mountains of Sphakia, where he will fortify-
himsolf so that his position will be. almost;
impregnable. He will not; withdraw his
troops from the island under any circum-
stances.
CONSTANTINOI’LE, March 17.—The reply
of the porto to the note. which was presented
to the Turkish government; by the powers
simultaneously with the presentation of
the ultimatum of the European govern-
ments to Greece has been officially pub:
lished. The porte admits the principle of
autonomy for Crete. but reserves discus-
sion of the form and details of such an ad-
ministration ‘with the diplomatic repro-
sentatives of the powers. these. details to
be subordinate to the withdrawal of the
Greek warships and troops from the island.
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TO' EXCHANGE ISLANDS.
A Reported 'Arrangemmit. Between Great;
Britain and Italy.
PARIS, March l”.—Tho Echo de Paris
says it understai (is that; Italy is on the
eve of ceding to Great Britain the island
of Pentcllaria, situated (30 miles southwest;
of Sicily and about; half way between the
coast. of A frica and the Sicilian coast, in
exchange for the island of Pcrim, off the
Arabian coast, in the strait of Bab-e1-
Mandeb, at the entrance of the Red sea.
The island of-Perim, belonging to Great
Bri'ain, is a. bare rock, about five miles
to: -: on which turtle shells are taken,
an . the island of Pentellaria has an area
of ‘ s square miles. a populatidn of about
7,(?’- i persons, produces fine fruits and has
a CutiVGnlellt port, Oppidolo, at; its north-
west. point. The Echo do Paris expresses
the hope. that; the powers will interfere and
refuse to permit; the transfer of the islands.
Chicago’s Postmaster Resigns.
CHICAGO, March lT.—Postmaster Wash-
ington Hesing has tendered his resignation
to the president. His resignation was ac-
companied by that. of Frederick F. Stoll,
superintendent of the city delivery, who
gave as his reason his intention to Teen-
tor business. It- is said, however, that: he
will at once take charge of Mr. Hesing’s
mayoralty campaign. .
The Arbitration Treaty.
\VASHINGTON, March 17.—.The senate
committee on foreign relations today au-
thorized Chairman Davis to report the
Anglo-American arbitration treaty to the
senate tomorrow. The treaty will be
amended as heretofore indicated.
liIr. Bayard on the “Hay to Rome.
.LONDON, March l7.—The retiring Unit-
ed States embassador to the court of St.
James, Thomas F. Bayard, accompanied
by Mrs. Bayard, started today for Rome.
The \Veather.
Rain; warmer; southerly to southeast-
erly winds. ‘
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Closing Quotations of the New York Stock
Exchange.
NEW YORK. March 17.——Money on call easy
at. 1%@2 per cent. Prime mercantile paper,
3@4 per cent. Sterling exchange easier, with
actual business in bankcrs‘ bills at. $4.87 for
demand and $4.85%@4.S5}«3 for 00 days. Posted
rates. [email protected]}§ and [email protected]}é. Commer-
cial bills, 34.84%. Silver certificates, 62@02%c..
Bar silver, 62%c. Mexican dollars, 48c. Gov-
ernment bonds steady. State bonds dull. Rail-
road bonds firm. ,
Closing prices:
Atchison ...... . . .; 11% New England” . . . —~
Bur. & Quincy.. .'. 77:4 N. J. Central ..... . 93%
. C., C.. C. & St. I... 33%; North American. 4%
Chesapeake &. 0. 18 Northern Pacific.. 13%
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Chicago Gas ...... 78% Do. pref ...........
Cordage. . . ., ...... — N. Y. Central. , . .-.
Cotton Oil ........ 12 Omaha ....... . . 3%
Del. & Hudson...109}4_i Ontario & West... 1 4
Distillers’ Trust. . — Pacific Mail.. 26%
Erie. .............. 141/; Reading ....... 24%
General Electric.. 35 Rock Island..... . . 68%
Hocking Valley.. 4 Silver Bullion ..... 63%
Lackawanna..; . . .157 St. Paul ........... 77%
Lake Shore... . . . .170% Sugar Refinery. . .113%
Lead .............. 25% Texas Pacific ...... 9%
Louisville & Nash 49% Union Pacific ..... 7
Missouri Pacific. . 18% \‘Vabash pref ...... l5
Northwestern....llOI/; Western Union... 86%
General Markets.
NEW YORK, March 17,—FLOUR—State and
western quiet, but. steady: city mills patents,
[email protected]: winter patents. [email protected]: city mills
clears, [email protected]; winter straights. [email protected].
\VHEAT—No. 2 red opened stronger on high-
er cables and war news, but later yielded to
realizing: May, 79%@80 3-160. ; July, 78%@78%c;
CORN—~NO. 2 quiet, but firm; May, 30@30}{;c.:
luly, 33%c.
OATS—No. 2 inactive; track, white, state, 21
@300.: track, white, western, 2l@30c.
PORK—Steady; mess, [email protected]; family, $9.75@
10.50. .
nominal. ~ _
BUTTER-Steady; state dairy, 12@18c.; state
Creamery, 13@18%c. ' '-
CHEESE—Steady; state, large, 9@12}.4c.;
small, 9@12}éc.
"‘EGGS—Quiet; state and Pennsylvania, 110.
western, misc. '
SUGAR—Raw strong: fair refining, 2 13-16@
2%c.; centrifugal, 96 test. 3%@3 5-16c.; refined
firm; crushed, 5%c.: powdered, 4%c.
TURPENTINE—Quiet at L’QMCQZQiiéc.
MOLASSES—Quiet; New Orleans 23®300.
RICE—Steady; domestic. 8%,@6}gc.; Japan.
4V4@4%c. ' '
TALLOVV—Steady; city, 314@3%c.; country,
3%@3}éc. ' ‘
- HAY—Dull; shipping, 50®55c.; good to
choice. 87%@72}éc. ‘ ~ '
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Blockade of Greek Ports Likely to Induce
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for we want the room for our Spring wrappers that we
open Saturday.
980 Wrappers, 25 per cent off 750.
$1.25 Wrappers, 25 per cent. off 940.
$1.50 Wrappers, 25 per cent. off $1.12.
$1.98 Wrappers, 25 per cent off $1.49.
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GRANITE IRON WARE
37c 14; quart. Granite Tea Pots at. 25c.
45c 2 quart Granite Tea Pots 29c.
540 3 quart. Granite Tea. Pots, 35c.
21c 4 quart Milk Pans, 14c.
75c 12 quart Water Pails, 54c.
690 4 quart Measures, 25c.
98c 8 quart Tea Kettles, 69c.
CUTLERY.
Kitchen Knives and Forks 40 each.
Christie brand Knives, (3 in set) 19c set.
Genuine French Carvers, 490 each.
Bric-a-Brac.
Hand Painted Plates with ribbon and ease], 210.
. Hand Painted Belleck China. Rose Bowls at. 100.
Hand Painted Belleck Vases, 100.
Hand Painted Belleck Easter Eggs on easel, 12%(3.
$1.98 Brass Banquet Lamps No.’ 2 Centre Draft
Burner, $51.19
Best. 50 Laundry Soap 30 bar,
8 Packages’Toilet Paper fer 250.
Men’s 50c Working Shirts dark colors, 380.
Ladies’ 500 fleeced Vests and Pants, 38c.
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SEPARATE SKIRTS.
Ombre Plaid Separate Skirts. $5.00.
Large pattern Brocade Satin Skirts, $10.00.
490 yd.
Mixed Suiting Skirts, $2.98.
Moire Volour Skirt, $10.00.
' Black MohairSkirts, $2.25.
‘ MATTING.
Now is the time to buy your spring Matting. 10c to
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DOMESTIGS.
60 Challie, all new patterns, 40.
90 full bleached Muslin, 6&0.
IOc Dress Ginghams, 30.
15c Turkish Towels, 10c.
. DRESS 600113.
750 Silk and Wool Fancies. 50c.
980 all Coverts, 750.
$1.50 .‘mported Coverts for tailor made suits, 980
75 Imp ,rted Suit Patterns $1 00 per yard, ‘
Lace curtains.
500 Lace Curtains, 37%0.
$1.50 Lace Curtains, 750.
$2.00 Lace Curtains, $1.25.
$2.25 Lace Curtains, $1.49.
$2.75 Lace Curtains, $1.98.
Greatest Line of Portiers ever shown 'in. the Twin
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35c Half Bleached Linen, 25c.
750 Full Bleached Linen, 50c.
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