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HOW DO YOU LIKE HIGH FINANCE , UNCLE SAMT y = 4 TM LOAH IT TO / IE.AHD TREK i LOAU JT TO TflEtt ON DEPOSIT * Chicago Journal. r , WORK AT PANAMA , [ v -Oreat Ditch. May Be Finished Before The Stipulated Time. There is getting to be a certain mo- aotony , which , however , is quite " \vel- -coinc , in news of work on the isthmian canal. Every month we may expect to get statistics of the work done in the month before , and it is practically -3. foregone conclusion that it will ex ceed the record of the month before 4baL Thus last July a new record was j made , with 1,058,770 cubic yards exca- " yated. That , as some persons rashly assumed , -was the high water mark , which never could be exceeded and whichwe could scarcely hope perman ently to maintain. But in August that record was surpassed , with 1,247,404 yards , and people said that surely was She climax of efficiency. When another month came around , however , Septem ber bobbed up sererenly with the new record of 3,481,307 yards , capping the climax in fine style. And now here conies the October record of 1,844,471 ards. which puts , as Kipling says , the gilded dome on the cap of the climax. ' And October is the rainiest month of all the year ! Just how much further this climax ' capping business is to go it would be rash to estimate. Scarcely any degree af progress seems impossible or even improbable under the present efficient and inspiring administration. Last 1 month there was excavated about twice as much as in the whole year 1905 , and more than half as much as t n the whole year 190G. Moreover , this achievement has been made in the rain iest part of the year , in cuttings where She proportion of rock is increasing fehere is now 70 per cent of rock and only 30 of earth and without any com mensurate increase in the -number of svorkmen employed. Thus this October record was made with a force of only 83,007 men on the canal all told , so that there was excavated an amount of ' pock and eartn equal to more than 78 cubic yards for each employe , or a tauall fraction less than three cubic fards a day for each person employed fai any capacity. That is efficiency puch as was not dreamed of a year or two ago. When Mr. Wallace was chief angineer and was doing what seemed , pind indeed was , fine work , there was talk about the necessity of employing - rom 00,000 to 75,000 men. One-third trf that number is now doing the work far more rapidly than it was supposed the whole great army could do it. * In the presence of such performances criticism is disarmed and doubt is put o shame. We may have to revise our forecasts of canal completion , but it will probably be in the direction of Shortening the time required and of de claring the most optimistic estimates $ f a few years ago to have been unduly tautious and diffident. L.uml ermen Cliursre Rnte Pools. The Oregon and Washington Lumber Manufacturers' Association has filed with ihe Interstate Commerce Commission a Complaint against nearly all the transcon- jineutal railroads , charging the fixing and increasing of rates on forest products ; Jhat on Nov. 1 the rates were advanced S jents a hundred -\\ithout legitimate reason , tt is asserted that the capital stock of the fines concerned grossly exceeds the value frf construction and equipment as a basis < rate making. Advertise in this paper. 13 CREMATED IN A NEW YORE CITY TENEMENT FIRE. Arson Plot Suspected as Cause of Deadly Blaze in Crowded Italian Quarter. Thirteen persons are dead and seven injured in a fire that swept through the five-story tenement. 2121 Second avenue , near One Hundred and Ninth street , New York. Flames shot through the roof and caused an outpouring of all the people in the neighboring tene ments. The fire started in the liquor store on the ground fioor , shot up through the air shaft and stairways and trapped all the families in the up per part of the building. U. pite all the greineu could do , they were unable to reach the victims. The persons killed lived on die fourth and fifth floors. The narrow stairways , filled with smoke , prevented them going down with the speed necessary and , crowded together , men , women and children sank to the floor , choked with smoke and were unconscious when the flames reached them. Firemen climbed to the roofs of adjoining buildings from Avhich the tenants had been driven and , t > v ? . - < W SMfeSfiBiiv : * & * . * . / > H ? f ? Kb. * < " * ' " ' % ' s " % i fei' * * . & $ &i&L ! c T < ? fo > - s , jw * \ * * - ' ' \'v ' ' WVJ ' J J&vf V x ; § fe& > . * \ f * . . f.lfe . y poured streams of water into the burn ing tenement That the fire was ths work of incen diaries who sought revenge is the opin ion of the police and firemen. Three weeks ago three Italians were caught attempting to rob a safe in the saloon of Giuseppe Cudano on the ground floor. The safe contained more than $2,000 which the saloonkeeper's friends had withdrawn from banks during the money flurry. The would-be icbbers were arrested and are awaiting trial. The fire started in Cudano's saloon and the police believe it may have been the work of friends of the prisoners. INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS. Fire at Memphis , Tenn. , destroyed the Dannahy and Hungarian hotels , fifteen stores and five saloons. Loss $50,000. Partial insurance. President B. F. Winchell of the Rock Island nt Guthrie. Okla. , said his road would accept the 2-ceilt fare provision of the Oklahoma constitution. Owing to the forcible protests of Jew ish women against the high price of meat , the kosher butcher shops in Paterson - son , N. J. , have decided to close for a THOSE CONCRETE HOUSES. Eminent Philanthropist Will Build City of Edison Homes. Working together. Thomas A. Edison , wizard of East Orange , N. J. . and Henry Phipps. a New York millionaire , believe they can solve the tenement ihouse problem. They plan , to do this by erecting an entire city of concrete houses , Mr. Edi son having perfected plans recently whereby , he says , he can build within 12 hours and at a cost of from $1,000 to $1.2(10 ( .1 beautiful nine-room house , suitable for two families. Each apart ment of these double houses can be rented profitably at $7.50 a month , ac cording to Mr. Edison , thus saving to the working man now paying $10 a month for a two-room home in the tene ment , enough money each nonth to cover his carfare expenses to and from his work. Mr. Phipps , who in 1905 gave $1,000- 000 for the erection of model tenements in New York City , recently spent an afternoon in Mr. Edison's laboratory at East Orange , discussing with him the possibilities of the cement or concrete house. The steel manufacturer was ac companied by a corps of architects , AT WORK ON THE PANAMA CANAL. builders and concrete experts , who made a careful investigation of the Edison plans. When they left they were enthusiastic over its possibilities , Mr. Edison purposes to build these houses by forcing a concrete mixture into cast iron molds , which are to be set up after the excavation for the basement is complete. Cniinrrt Liners for Cniiudu. The Grand Trunk railroad is said to have made a deal with the Cuuard Steam ship Company for a line of steamers from Liverpool to Canada so as to afford an all-British route for passenger and freight traffic between England and the Orient. The Exposition Deficit. The receipts of the Jamestown exposi tion from visitors and concessionaires we now estimated at $1.000.000 , and this foreshadows a deficit of something over $3,000.000. The buildings lone liavo cost $5.000.000. Barely more than 10 per cent of the government loan has been paid. Elvira Giordano , a ballet dancer with the Milan opera company , dropped deaden on the stage at "Ye Liberty1' theater at Oakland , Cal. , during- the ballet in "Mif uou , " CIAL CHICAGO. Measured by the volume of payments through the banks , the check to trade shows lesg severity and for the month thus far the average is under I.3 per cent. The situation as to money is brighter , al though an immediate return to the normal status requires more deliberation. The demand for currency remains acute. More encouragement is derived from the con stant additions to note circulation and specie. Interior calls for funds are now more easily satisfied. Most mercantile lines have felt the ad verse turn and there is more caution ex ercised in die present emergency , yet the hindrances do not obscure the outlook for better results from now on. antil Christ mas. There may be more retrenchment in industrial branches , but the prevailing tone favors a restoration of healthier financial sentiment as the best encourage ment for the future. Less new building affects the planing mills and lumber market , and arrivals of raw materials are under those at this time last year , while prices mainly are easier , particularly hides , which are at j thp lowest average recorded for borne years past. Failures reported in the Chicago dis- 'trict number 30 , against 26 last week ? and 20 a year ago. Those with liabdij ties over $5,000 number 14 , against 7 , last week and 10 in 190G. Dun's Review of Trade. NEW YORK. While the number of cities report that the tone of affairs has taken a turn for the better , actual business , taking the ' country as a whole , shows an increased degree of quiet both at wholesale and retail - ' tail , a working out of the continued scare- ; ity of currency at some points , of lessen ing activity in industries and of the con tinuance of unseasonably mild weather , "with its natural effect upon distribution of winter goods. Business failures for the week ending Nov. 21 number 203 , against 259 last \ week , 212 in the like week of 1000 , 224 in 1903 , 193 in 190i and 107 in 1903. Canadian failures for the week number 35 , as against 45 last week and 27 in this week a year ago. Bradstrect's Com mercial Report. Chicago Cattle , common to prime $4.00 to SG.55 ; hogs , prime heavy , $4.00 to $4.75 ; sheep , fair to choice , $3.00 to $5.15 ; wheat , No. 2 , S7c to 91c ; corn , No. 2 , 5Gc to 57c ; oats , standard , 43c to 44c ; rye , No. 2 , 74c to 75c ; hay , timothy , $11.00 to $10.50 ; prairie , $9.00 to $14.50 ; butter , choice creamery , 24c to 27c ; eggs , fresh , lOc to 24c ; potatoes , per bushel , 45c to 54c. Indianapolis Cattle , shipping , $3.00 to $0.50 ; hogs , good to choice heavy , $4.00 to $5.30 ; sheep , common to prime , $3.00 to $4.75 ; wfieat , No. 2 , 91c to 92c ; corn , No. 2 white , 55c to 57c ; oats , No. 2 wMte , 45e to 4Gc. St. Louis Cattle , $4.50 to $0.00 ; hogs , $4.00 to $1.70 ; sheep , $3.00 to $4.05 ; wheat , No. 2 , 90c to 97c ; corn , No. 2 , 5Gc to 57c ; oats , No. 2 , 44c to 45c ; rye , No. 2 , 75c to 79c. Cincinnati Cattle , $4.00 to $5.00 ; hogs , $4.00 to $5.00 ; sheep , $3.00 to $4/50 ; wheat , No. 2 , 95c to 9Gc ; corn , No. 2 mixed , 59c to GOc ; oats , No. 2 mixed , 4Gc to 47c ; rye , No. 2 , Sic to 83c. Detroit Cattle , $4.00 to $5.00 ; hogs , $4.00 to $4.75 ; sheep , $2.50 to $4.50 ; wheat , No. 2 , 91c to 95c ; corn , No. 3 yellow , G5c to GGc ; oats. No. 3 white , 51c to 52c ; rye , No. 2 , 79c to 80c. Milwaukee Wheat , No. 2 northern , $1.02 to $1.04 ; corn , No. 3 , 59c to GOc : oats , standard , 4Sc to 50c ; rye , No. 1 , SOc to Sic ; barley , No. 2 , 94c to 95c ; pork , mess , $12.97. Buffalo Cattle , choice shipping steers , $4.00 to $ G.25 ; hogs , fair to cnoice , $4.00 to $5.10 ; sheep , common to good mixed , $4.00 to $5.50 ; lambs , fair to choice , $5.00 to $7.00. New York Cattle , $4.00 to $0.00 ; hogs , $4.00 to $5.25 ; sheep , $3.00 to $5.40 ; wheat , No. 2 red , 97c to 9Sc ; corn , No. 2 , 63c to 64c ; oats , natural white , olc to 53c ; butter , creamery , 25c to 27c ; eggs , western , 25c to 30c. Toledo Wheat , No. 2 mixed , 95c to 9Gc ; corn , No. 2 mixed , GOc to Olc ; oats , No. 2 mixed , 4Sc to 4Jc : rye , No. " , 79c to SOc ; clover seed , prime. $9.20. $12 u "Week Menus Privation. The report of Dr. Lee ifraukel , man ager of the United Hebrew Chanties of New York , before the State conference of charities and correction , tells of the re cent investigation of actual living condi tions in the big city. Tb'is allows that the $2-a-day man , who is also the $ ( > OU-.i- year man , if he have an average family of wife and three children under working ago , spends more than lie eai ns for the necessities. Rent for two aiul rarely three roc ns is about $15-1 ; his food cost.s $ 'J70 for the year , of which his share is 22Jj cents a day , or hal * a cent above the min imum for physical efticif/iey fvxed by Prof. Underbill of Yale : for fuel an.l light there is only $25. and peril ip- > $ > is spent for daily papers , $8 tor club or church dues , leaving a final balance of S3 , or 25 cents a mouth , for recreation. CUBHENT NEWS 1TOTES. The national mining consrets. in se-- sion at Joplin , Mo. , adopted resolutions favoring stricter federal control of min ing lands. Attorney General W. II. Dixon of Coli > - rado began action in the Di tiiet Court at Denver to break up the so-called gro cers' trust. Fire did $200,000 damage in Parsons , Kan. The biggest losers arc Kre.ss & Co. , $40,000 ; Cooper Lumber Company and Dodge-Bryan Lumber Company , $30.- 000 each. KURDS LOOT Many Villages in Armenia Are Plundered and Then Put to the Torch. SPAEE THE PEOPLE'S LIVES. Erzerum , Betlis , Van. .a-karput and , Draibeker Scenes of Specula tion by Vicious Hordes. Constantinople advices say the law less activity of the Kurdish tribes in the Armeno-Kurdihh districts ol Er/e- ruru , BitlisYanKharput and Diurbekii- is causing lively concern at the Porte , particularly as the foreign embassies are interesting themselves ami are urg ing that prompt measures be taken by the government to prevent a. possible massacre. Under the protection of the notorious Ibraham Pasha , who is known as the "despot of Kurdistan , " Kurdish horsemen are making raids without discriminationTurkish villages suffering equally with Armenian home steads on the plains around Diarbekir and Jezireh-Ybn-Oniar. Sixteen villages have been pillaged and bnrued within the last month in these districts and eight villages in the Sert district have met with the same fate. Several of these villages were composed entirely of Moslems and in most cases the lives of the inhabitants were spared , though they were deprived of all their possessions. The pinch of hunger already is being felt , as everywhere , there is a scarcity of food , fodder and fuel. The missionaries - aries are doing their best to mitigate the misery , but outside help is urgent ly needed if the-danger of a severe famine is to be averted. The movement in favor of autonomy is gaining ground in Asia Minor as the popular disaffection against the Con stantinople government isery strong. But at the same time there is a great degree of loyalty among the Moslems , and this constitutes a powerful support to the present regime. MabS meetings are being held at which the -emoval of Ibraham Pasha is being demanded. The Porte has ordered troops from Kharput and Rieppo against tmj refrac tory Kurds , and it will endeavor to in duce Ibraham Pasha by friendly per suasion , to come into Aleppo. Some of Ibraham's villages were snelled re cently by Turkish troops and sixty Kurds were killed. THE NEW CHINATOWN. Oriental Quarter Arises on the Old Site in San Francisco. San Francisco's new Chinatown Which has arisen on the ruins of the old is ready for occupancy and is rap idly filling up with merchants and tradesmen who were scattered to the four winds by the terrible earthquake and fire of a year and a half ago. All movements looking toward the trans fer of the Chinese to a less desirable part of the city failed utterly , and the new Chinatown has risen on the site of the old , under the shadow of Neb Hill and touching shoulders with the finan cial district. In the first flush of hope after the catastrophe several plans were evolved for moving Chinatown out toward Telegraph Hill or to some suit able part of the Mission district. The site of old Chinatown was needed for the expansion of the financial district. One thing stood in the way of this part of the "city beautiful" dream. Chi nese firms and wealthy Mongolian indi viduals owned much of the property in Chinatown. They were satisfied , with the site of their quarter. It was near the big hotels patronized by i-asteru tourists , and it was not too far from the water front whence their goods came. The Chinese refused to sell and straightway set about rebuilding. There is a reason why Chinatown was rebuilt before the other parts of the burned area , even before Market street had been repavcd. The Chinese property owners had no trouble in get ting ready cash. Tliey did not try to borrow from San Francisco banks or even from New York money lenders. The first steamer to China carried long letters describing the situation. In closed were drafts on the treasurer of the company which backed the San Francisco firms. The return steamer brought the gold that was needed and the Chinese could tell their contractors to go ahead. The building department and the health authorities insisted that the new Chinatown be built according to law and the new Chinatown has , of course , lost such picturesqueness as was found in the dirt and the squalor and the tumbledown effect of the old buildings. To offset this , however , then * will be a heavy gain in healthfulne.ss. Greater The fight over the consolidation of Pittsburg and Allegheny ended in the Su preme Court when Justice Moody handed down the decision sustaining rljp Supreme Court of Pennsylvania , which had up hold the consolidation \\liich a iiiajority of the people of the two cities voto.l tinder a legislative act. The consolidated city has an area of thirty -eight square miles , an estimated population of i.X.000. ) and will contest with Boston the < -i\th place among American cities for population , a position also claimed by Baltimore. HEWEEKLY 1102 Columbus arrived at Ilajti and learned that the colony left there had peribhed. 1499 Perk-in Warbcck , who styled him self Richard IV. , King oc England , executed. 1518 Cortez sailed from Cuba to cap ture Mexico. 1540 Do Soto left the coast and began ihis inland inarch. 1542 English defeated the Scots at Sol- way Moss 157S Sir Humphrey Gilbert's first expe dition sailed to found a colony in. America : 1G2G St. Peter's , Rome , dedicated by Pope Urban VIII. 3033 Ships Ark and Dove railed from England with 200 persons to found a colony in Marj'laud. 1013 Birth of La Sallo , the explorer o the Mississippi valley. 1GS3 Boundary line agreed upon , by New York and Connecticut. 1755 Severe earthquake shocks felt along the eastern coast of North America. 1758 Fort Duquesne renamed Pittsburg by the English. 1775 American force took and fortified Cobble Hill , near Boston 177G British under Cornwailis crossed the Hudson to attack Fort Lee. 1794 Jay's treaty between the United States and Great Britain signed. 1790 French under Bonaparte defeated the Austirans at Arcola. . . .Much property destroyed by fire in Sa vannah , Ga. 1S01 The Pillory used in Boston for the last time. 1S1G A Philadelphia theater lighted by gas , first in the country. 1S32 Eruption of Mt. Etna ; town of Bronte destroyed. 1S37 Montreal used gas for illuminating purposes for the first time. 1851 Ernest Augustus , King of Han over and Duke of Cumberland , died. 1S52 Napoleon III. elected Emperor o the French. 1SGO Legislature of Georgia voted $1- 000,000 to arm the State. 1SG3 Battles before Chattanooga , Tenn. , began The National Soldiers' cemetery at Gettysburg dedicated. 1SG7 Committee on the Hoiii > e reported in favor of the impeachment o President Johnson 1S71 The Grand Duke Alexis arrived at New York 1S74 British immigrant ship Cospatrick burned at sea , with loss of 473 lives. 1S77 The Halifax fishery commission , under treaty of Washington , render ed its decision. 1SS3 Standard time adopted throughout Canada. 1SS9 Remarkable cliff dwellings dis covered in Colorado. 1SS9 Alaska first demanded representa tion in Congress. 1890 Indian outbreak near Pine Ridge , South Dakota Battleship Maine launched at" the Brooklyn navy yard. The Scientific Immortality. Sir Oliver Lodge , the noted British scientist , has delivered another pro nouncement on the subject of the im mortality of the soul. lie says first that the simple important truth to be kept in sight is the commonplace fact that there- is nothing immortal or persistent about the body except the material atoms of which it is composed. He dismisses ut terly the notion , still taught by part of the Christian church , that these atoms will some day be gathered and reunited so as to constitute a complete man as he appeared on the earth , and who there after will last forever. Th.is. he regards as merely a clumsy expedient to make pleasing the idea of the homeless , wan dering spirit or ghost of the departed in dividual. Sir Oliver says that nobody knows what the soul is , but that com mon sense rebels against its being noth ing , and that no genuine science had as sumed to declare it a purely imaginary nonentity. He holds it must be acknowl edged by science that no really existing thing perishes , it only changes form. As this lias been shown clearly in the case of matter and energy , it must also be true of mind , consciousness , will , mem ory , love and other activities which in teract with matter and appeal to the bodily senses. These facts of the indi vidual human consciousness , he sajs. can not be regarded as nothing , and they will never vanish into nothingness. They did arise with us. They never sprang sud denly into being from previous non-exist ence. Thej * are as eternal as the God head itself , and will in eternal being en dure forever. Atmosphere on i The transit of Mercury acres , the face of the sun. Nov. 14. was the occasion of careful observations by astronomi-r with more or loss satisfactory results.Vil - liani R. Brooke professor of astronomy at Ilobart college. Geneva. N. 1' . . dis covered a diffused rins : surrounding the planet. This was thought to radicate the presence of an atmosphere. Near the cen ter of the planet was noticed a white spot , which has been seen at former tran sits. Many photographs were taken. i
