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BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1910 iXcal Estate RATE INCREASE UNFAIR Testimony Before Commerce Commission HIGH PROFIT IN BROOM CORN Maximum of Success Reached in Panhandle District of Texas Increased Yield Per Acre Shown in Other Crops first quarter and first half of 1911, and the salmon packers are covering for their full requirements of tin plate over the early part of next year, The sheet market Is firmer, especially In the Eastern territory. A central Pennsylvania Interest Is In the market for Its full requirements of Ingot molds for next year. of the Supreme Judicial Court, sitting as referees In the case of the International Paper Company vs. the Bod well Water Power Company, on the question of the regulation of the flow of the Penobscot River aa affecting the Stillwater branch. This 1 one of many steps In protracted litigation between the two corporations relative to the use of the river for power purposes, the plaintiff company claiming that defendants seek by the erection of a dam to practically monopolize the flow.

The Bodwell dam was constructed In part some years ago, Its completion being prevented by Injunction secured by the International company. The plaintiff has mills on the Stillwater branch, and seeks to have the Injunction made permanent to prevent tho defendant from diverting to Its own use such part of the volume of water as naturally would flow through the branch. The Hours a Mother Dreads THE long afternoon school-session drains for the moment your boys brain-vitality and piles up body-energy. He comes home to let off steam in ways which try tired nerves. You know that he must work off his stored-up energy to maintain the normal balance between mind and body, so you endure his noisy antics.

If you are a wise parent you will encourage in those after-school hours play which will build up his character. By sellingTHFSATURDAY Evening Post yourhoy can let off steam without taxing your nerves and, at the same time, build up a character which will be his best asset in later life. THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY Philadelphia, Pennsylvania BOYS WANTED. Character-building work for energetic, noiiy boy. If bright and ambitious, your boy can earn from fifty cents to $2.00 or more each week without interfering with school or other duties.

Apply te LOUIS G. JONES 1108-1109 Barristers Hall INDUSTRIAL GROWTH SOUTH OUT OF TOWN IF YOU WANT TO Buy or Sell, Hire or Root Mortgage or Insure In BROOKLINE Communicate at onca with tha office of FRANK A. RUSSELL 118 DKVONSIIIKK BOSTON 1821 BKACON ST. (Coolldge Corner) 219 WASHINGTON BT. (Brookline Village) Telephone, ut Each Office.

(tr)tc my 12 FOR SALE IN DOVER, MASS About 5 acreis of land situated between Clay Brook Hoad and the Charles River. One-half of It has been surveyed for camp lots; wtH sell as a whole or In lots to suit; us a whole beautiful place for a summer home; mile from Charles River Station; express trains A. M. and P. M.

each way; covered with oilk trees; rate of taxes $3 on a $1000. E. J. ROBBINS, 21 Church Wellesley. (r)3t 25 EXECUTORS SALE OF AND TO CLOSE AN ESTATE Property known as the Bears Den In Malden, bordering on Fellsway East and Middlesex Fells Reservation.

0V4 acres, heavily wooded; on high elevation, overlooking Boston harbor and all surrounding points; most picturesque Bpot In the vicinity of Boston; in Ideal location for a gentlemans estate, or Institution, or suitable to cut up. Will probably double In value In the near future. BTURTEVANT 35 Congress Room 412, Boston. (r)WFB: 23 34000 EQUITY IN BROOKLINE RESIDENCE to exchango on suburban or nearby country place. AddTess F.R.C., Boston Transcript, (r): HOUSE fully FURNISHED Piano, telephone, (1 or 9 rooms, bath, $35 month for winter; 5-cent fare; facing ocean; warm, sunny; 2 minutes to station.

235 Shore Drive. Ocean Spray. Wlnthrop. (r) I70K SALE Ideal roperty I1 IN HEART OF BERK SHIRKS; deer and game very plentiful. HERBERT HALL, Massachusetts Institute Technology, Boston.

r) TO LET, IN SALEM Modern, sunny, eleven -room house; pood neighborhood; all conveniences; low to desirable tenant. A. D. HURD. 1111 Old South Building, Boston.

YrlSt: 2,1 IN THE CITY 8. B. KNIGHTS CO. Office 73 Tremont Street, Boston Sale of Large and Valuable Tract of Land. Area, 124,107 Square Feet, Facing Back Bay Fens and Ipswich Street.

ill be sold by Public Auction on the Premises, Tuesday, Nov. 29th, at 3 oclock P. M. The land fronts on Boylston Road about 374 feet, on Ipswich Street about 615 feet, Is near Lansdowne Street, Park Hiding School and Massachusetts Avenue, about 10 minutes ride from Park Street in Ipswich Street electric car, which stops In front of property making land very desirable for Investment or improvement; $1000 must be paid in cash at tlrre and place of sale. Balance Of purchase money to be paid on delivery of deed, or part on mortgage, as may be desired.

(rln 10.22.25,26.28 rpo LET, IN DOR HESTER--Private si -I dence, 11 rooms, all Improvements, suitable for a doctor or private hospital; 2 baths, sun parlor; lookout on roof; fine view'; large piazza. Key at 148 Centre Dorchester. (r)ftt 23 REAL ESTATE WANTED TIT ANTED A completely furnished house in good condition, on the Back Bay, for three adults, from the middle of December until th first of May; best of references. Address O.R.W., Boston Transcript. (w)4t 23 CITY OF BOSTON STREET DEPARTMENT Important Notice Chelsea Bridge North Chelsea Bridge North will be closed public travel on Sunday, November 27, liHO, between the hours of 8 A.

M. and 6 P. LOUIS K. KOURKE, Superintendent of Streets. Boston, Nov.

22, 1910. 2t 23 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS BOARD OF RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS. cern regarding the impending cho ce of att insurance commissioner in Tennessee, where Hon. Reau E. Folk, chairman of the fraternal committee of the Commissioners' Convention, is at the head of the Insurance department.

The work of Chairman Folk in the steps to throw legal safeguards around the fraternal system was given high praise. His loss would be a blow to fra-ternalism, members said. Plans were adopted for a systematic organization of each State to watch the progress of the bill, the headquarters to be in Chicago: A sub-committee of four will work with the Insurance Commissioners, Including Messrs. Piper, Smith, Markey and Burnett. NEW ELECTRIC LINES FOR MEXICO Railways from tlie Cnpitnl to Inehla anti Toluca Planned Mexico City, Nov.

25 (Special) The National Congress has passed a bill' authorizing the Mexico Tramways Company to construct two important lines of electric railway. One of the proposed roads is to run between this city and Puebla and the other between here and Toluca. The Puebla line will be about 125 miles long and the Toluca line about 45 miles long. The Mexican Tramways Company Is a subsidiary of the Mexican Light Power Company, the Canadian concern which has Installed a great hydro-electric plant at Necaxa and constructed a system of electric transmission lines radiating to this city and various other towns and industrial centres within a radiaus of 150 miles. The preliminary surveys for the proposed electric railways have been made.

The line between this city and Puebla will pass through the mountains close to the Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuatl volcanoes. There are a number of important towns and popular resorts along the routes of the proposed roads. It is planned to handle passengers, express, mail and a limited amount of freight on the new lines. The construction of these two railways which will begin soon, will mark the inauguration of a new era in electric railway building In this country. The Mex-co Tramways Company already has a numbei of lines running 'from this city to suburban towns.

While Mexico is said to be a most inviting ffe'd for Interurban electric railway enterprises, comparatively few lines have been constructed. MAINE BLUEBERRY CROP SHORT Estimated Y'leld of Washington County Estimated at 75,000 Bushels Quality Above the Average Bangor, Nov. 25 (Special) The blueberry crop of Washington County this year is estimated at 75,000 bushels, compared with 100,000 bushels in 1909, but the quality is much above the average. About 40,000 acres are devoted to blueberry bushes, and it is estimated that the owners realize about $2.50 per acre, nearly half of which Is paid to pickers who harvest the crop with rakes. A blueberry rake is a contrivance mounted on low wheels, much resembling a carpet sweeper, and pushed' like a lawnmowev.

There are wire frames which, being agitated, loosen the berries, allowing them to fall into a broad pan carried close to the ground. In this way a man can gather two to three bushels of berries in a day, while hand pickers get from hall a bushel to a bushel in ten hours steady work. The pickers get from 5 to 6 cents a quart for their berries, nearly all of which go to the canneries. It is said that 75 per cent of the canned blueberries used In the United States are grown on the plains of Washington County. Wnmsutta Mill Meeting New Bedford, Nov.

25 At the annual meeting of the Wamsutta Mills officers were elected as follows: Directors, Wil li arW. Crapo, Francis B. Greene, Thomas M. Stetson, Walter P. Wlnsor, Horatio Hathaway, Oliver Prescott, Edward T.

Pierce. Treasurer, Edward T. Pierce; clerk, George M. HaskeU. The report of the treasurer was as follows: Assets Real estate and machinery merchandise cash and debts receivable total $4,391,477.50.

Liabilities Capital stock profit and loss accounts payable depreciation dividend $45,000, total $4,391,477.50. Chicago, Nov. 25 Assembled reports of special KM and Intensive crops grown in the United States show that more Is being done to Increase the dollars-per-ucre yield than Secretary of Agriculture Wilsons warning, when he opened the land show here, would Indicate. His experts In the Department of Agriculture not only have reported yields per acre far In excess of IUtm Is corn crops, and from orchards of peaohes and apples and the still more profitable specialties of ginseng, mangoes, avocados, tigs, grapefruit and pineapples, but yields also from straight farming" In various sections where the staple crops have been supplanted by specialty field crops. In the Northwest spelts, durum wheat and flax have done much to add to settlers Incomes under adverse conditions.

The durum wheat crop in the regions of small rainfall now totals $30,000,000 a year, but the value is low per acre. Alfalfa has been seized upon both East and West as a high-profit crop as well as a soil restore! The annual crop Is now put at $100,000,000. In the Southwest, broom corn has won a sweeping victory where soli and climatic conditions were favorable. In the Panhandle of Texas It has reached Its maximum of success, the average yield there having been found to be three-fourths ot a ton with a value of $100 to $150 per acre. There broom corn is grown almost on the wholesale scale that wheat Is grown on the bonanza ranches of North Dakota, and in the vicinity of Dalhart over two thousand acres of broom corn were raised.

In one case, near Amarillo, a field of 1400 acres netted the grower over $140 an acre; In fact, he was offered and refused that figure for his crop In the field, but decided to install his own machinery and manufacture the brooms and market them. Other broom-corn crops in the same district near to Amarillo and Soncy, Bdchland, Wildorado, Vega, Ontario and Adrian have done equally well on a smaller scale. In the district known as the Eastern Panhandle 5000 acres of broomcorn were grown and 22,000 acres of kafir corn. No region in the country which recently was ranches and now is filling up with a farming population has more generally adopted what are regarded as novelties in farm crops than the Texas Panhandle. The reports covering 125,000 acres in one district show 3330 acres of corn, 20,120 acres of cotton, several thousand acres of alfalfa, broomcorn, kafir corn and millet, and only 17,500 acres of wheat.

One farmer in Hansford County, in the Panhandle, grows 400 acres of alfalfa almost solely for the seed crop, making alfalfa seed pay him from 50 to 80 bushels per acre, leaving his hay for his own cattle and hogs. In the southwest of Texas rice growing has met with varying success. In the earlier years the per-acre yield was as high as the broom-corn yield of the Panlian nut during recent years the over-supply ol rice has depressed prices and discouraged rice production. Kafir corn so far has surpassed even the best yields of Indian corn in the proceeds per acre of the crop, the yield being on an average from 40 to 60 bushels per acre and an average price of from 50 to 70 cents per bushel, professor Mlally, reporting on this, pointed out its advantages in certain localities, saying; Kafir corn has the habit of temporarily resting, as it Were, during seasons of extreme drought and heat, and then, when sufficient rainfall occurs, to start out a vigorous growth and make a bountiful yield of both forage and grain. Melon growing as well as the growing of strawberries and small fruits generally being out of the realm of straight farming are not comparable in the yields to the grower which can be produced per acre on-a big acreage.

Onion growing has surpassed all records in southwestern Texas, and celery has made equally remarkable showings as in Florida, but neither so far have Interested the men accustomed to farming as It Is done in the Northern States where corn, wheat and oats are staple. However, the possibilities have long since been demonstrated. IRON TRADE CONDITIONS Current Developments of Small Importance-Slight Falling Off in Production New York, Nov. 25 The Iron Age says: Current developments In the iron trade are of small Importance and little change is looked for In the remainder of the year. In pig iron production there Is a slight falling off, but evei so, stocks are still increasing.

The United States Steel Corporation has made a further reduction In active blast furnace capacity to prevent holiday, accumulations. In addition to rail orders already an-nrunced, the Lackawanna recently bought 9400 tons for new work, the order being divided between two mills. Its requirements for rep.acements have not yet been made up. The Lehigh Valley has placed 3400 tons, but its total purchases for 1911 are expected to be 20,000 tons. The Pennsylvania and New York Central orders, which together are put at 240,000 tons, are delayed by changes In specifications which have already had consideration at a meeting of rail company presidents.

Some of the railroads are figuring on bridge work, but car orders are coming out slowly. Chicago finds some Indications of a more liberal buying policy by railroad car and repair shops. The leading fabricating interest has five months work aliead and there is a little better prospect In structural lines. One item Is the practical certainty of early action on the Niw York subway work. For the post office at the Pennsylvania Terminal.

New York, bids will be opened next week for 6200 tons. A Pittsburg company has taken 1700 tons for a ferry house at Cortlandt street, this city. From Pittsburg It is reported that billet and sheet bar prices will hereafter be made on a Pittsburg basis, with full freight added, instead of making a common price for Youngstown, Wheeling and Pittsburg territory as heretofore. Pig Iron markets are quieter, though Chicago reports Some fair sales. In which Southern furnaces have shared to a greater extent than for some time.

The Southern situation weaker, though the principal interests there still hold aloof, their $11.56 basis being below the competitive level fixed by Northern furnaces. IRAIL AND CAR ORDERS PENDING Contract for 720,000 Tons of Fnrnacc Colic Placed Increased Buying of Steel Bars, Tin Plate, Sheet and Wire Products Cleveland, Nov. 25 The Iron Trade Review says: While the attitude of the railroads is disappointing, it is known that negotiations have practically been concluded for fairly large awards for both rails and cars, some of which will in all probability be announced in the very near future. During the past ten days, the railroads have been buying more freely from wholesalers. The cutting of prices on structural shapes by wholesalers and at the warehouses of the leading interest has not had effect on mill prices.

A company near Pittsburg has closed for 30,000 tons of furnace coke a month, or a total of 720,000 tons for a period of two years beginning Jan. 1, 1911. The market cn furnace coke for prompt shipment Is quotable at 10 to 15 cents a ton higher than two weeks ago, as a result of circular letters offering coke at low price having been withdrawn. In some quarters there is a more optimistic feeling on account of the increased buying of steel bars, tin plate, sheets and wire products, but the trade generally apparently does not expect any decided change for the better until after the first of the year. During the past week, several large contracts for steel bars have been placed, covering the It Bears Hardest on the Small Producers How the Body of Consumers Is Affected Freight Raise 5 Mills, Price to Buyer Up 40 Cents Washington, Nov.

25 Expert freight tariff testimony featured today's session of the Inter-State Commerce Commission, which Is Investigating the proposed advances In rates in the official classification territory. Several of the witnesses told of the effect of these scheduled increases by the Eastern trunk lines, dwelling on the discriminatory phase of the railroads plan to meet the alleged need tor more freight revenue. Henry C. Barlow of Chicago, a director of the Chicago Association of Commerce, and for twenty years experienced In railroad business, testified that the class rates between New York and Chicago were unjust and therefore unreasonable and the proposed advances were not fairly distributed. He said that the railroad plan put the entire Increase on only 10 per cent of the freight tonnage whlls the pretext of meeting wage increase applied to 100 per cent of all tonnage.

He said that the proposed advance put 44 per cent flf the burden on the first class of freight and that substantially 75 per cent of the burden rested on shippers of first, second and third classes of freight. He estimated that substantially 10 per cent of the total railroad tonnage In the territory affected would bear the burden of the advance. He said that substantially 85 per cent of the total increase would be on class rates and 15 per cent on commodity rates. He contended that the big shippers would not bear as much of the burden as the small shippers, and that the shippers under class rates during the past decade had contributed their full share of the proposed increased rates. Mr.

Barlows declaration that any increased freight rate always fell on the consumer was questioned by Chairman Knapp. Mr. Knapp asked the witness how he figured that an increase of less than five mills on a pair of shoes, when the increase of freight rates promised general prosperity, would be reflected on the price of shoes a man wore. Mr. Knapp explained that he recently had been shown some figures regarding shoes which he had verified.

The manufacturer had increased his price fifteen cents a pair, the retailer forty cents a pair, under a requirement from the manufacturer, and owing to the freight Increase. Mr. Barlow said that when a manufacturer shipped 100,000 cases of shoes a year, probably on three or four per cent profit, and a fifteen per cent rate Increase was imposed on him, he probably would raise his price ten cents a pair, as the manufacturer would not be willing to suffer the loss. Then the retailer would increase the price to the consumer. While discussing packing house produce rates, Mr.

Barlow brought the name of George W. Perkins, of the J. P. Morgan Company of New York, again Into the Investigation. Mr.

Barlow said that he understood that Mr. Perkins agreed with the packers on an advence of only one half of what had been proposed. Did he purport to represent the railroads, the beef shippers, or anyone else? demanded Prank Lyon, attorney for the commission. "I dont know, replied the witness. "I am told Mr.

Perkins came as a representative of Mr. Morgan as a peacemaker between the packers and the railroads." Mr. Barlow said the paper traffic was not included among those affected by the proposed advances. He declared an Increase on paper would not hurt the Cricago market. He submitted a Statement concerning the railroad dividend earnings based on financial publications.

Chairman Knapp suggested that the official reports to the Commission furnish the real basis of calculation along that line. The witness said that would depend on the way those reports were to be Interpreted. Mr. Barlow read figures for various railroads in the territory affected by the pending Increases showing large dividends and closing with references to the Pennsylvania Reading and the testimony of their presidents before the Commission concerning the maintenance of dividends. He cited a recent commercial estimate that the value of products handled by the railroads annually approximated 822,000,000 and added that the proposed Increases mean imposing a burden of $20,000,000 on commerce because of inefficient management.

Mr. Bar-low resumed the witness stand at the afternoon session. RAILWAY MEN SUBPOENAED Result of Declaration That Roads Must Go Out of Rnsiness Unless Rates Are Raised Washington, Nov. 25 The claim of the Railway Business Association that Its members would be put out of business unless the railroads were permitted to Increase freight rates will be investigated by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Subpoenas have been Issued for George A.

Post of New York, the president of the association, and A. H. Mulliken of Chicago, the vice president, to appear at the pending hearings of the Commission on the question of the suspended proposed freight advances In the official classification territory. President Post also was advised that the Commission would be glad to hear any representatives of his organization. LONDON WOOL SALES ACTIVE Crossbreds Practically Unchanged, but Poor Qualities Ruled in Buyers Favor London, Nov.

25 A large number of buyers attended the opening of the sixth series of wool auction sales Wednesday. The offerings amounted to 8365 bales. Competition was animated between home and Continental representatives. Crossbreds were practically unchanged, but poor qualities ruled in buyers favor. Cape of Good Hope and Natal offerings ranged from unchanged to 5 per cent lower.

The sales follow: New South Wales, 1900 bales; scoured, lsls lid; greasy, 6dls d. Queensland, 3500 bales; scoured Is 2s ld; greasy, 6ls Id. Victoria, 800 bales; scoured, Is 2dls 5d: greasy, 2dls ld. South Australian, 700 bales; scoured Is 3d3s 9d; greasy, 7dls. New Zealand, 800 bales; greasy, 5d 10.

Cape of Good Hope and Natal, 600 bales; scoured, Is 6dls 10d; greasy, 5d10d. The sales were continued yesterday with offerings of 11,937 bales. The demand was better and prices ruled firm for better kinds, but bnrry sorts were 10 per cent cheaper. The Sales follow; New South Wales, 1000 bales; scoured Is 3d10d; greasy, 9dls ld, Queensland. 2100 bales; scoured, Is ld greasy, 8dls 2d.

Victoria, 2700 bales; scoured, greasy, 7dls 2d. South Australia, 1000 bales; greasy, 8d Is 2d. West Australia, 3900 bales; greasy, 5d Is d. Tasmania, 300 bales; greasy, 6dls Id. New Zealand, 900 bales; scoured, lsls 61; greasy, 6dls d.

WATER RIGHTS TO BE SETTLED Case of International Paper Co. vs. Bodvrell Water Power Co. to Be Heard by Justices of Maine Supreme Court Bangor, Nov. 25 (Special) A hearing will be held in this city on Nov.

30. before Justices Savage, Cornish and King SAVED TO NEW ORLEANS Plant and llnlnes of rosinmern Electric Company lo Be Taken Over ly New Concern Organized by Loeul tnpltnllatu New Orleans, Nov. 25 A new corporation, with a capital of $1,500,000, has been formed by New Orleans business men, and It will purchase tho plant und assets if the Consumers Electric Company, which was recently placed in the hands of receivers. The name of the new corporation will be the Consumers Electric Light Power Company. The stock of the new corporation has been divided Into 15,000 shares, of $100 each, of which 5000 shares will be the preferred stock and 1000 shares the common.

The directors of the corporation aro Charles E. Fenner, Walker B. Spencer, Charles Payne Fenner, Bernard J. Mayer, Esmond Phelps and Mike S. Hart.

The old Consumers' Electric Company was organized In New Orleans several years ago. It erected a magnificent building In Rampart, between Canal and Common streets, and equipped a plant at cost of nearly $1,500,000. Various circumstances forced the concern Into the bands of receivers, Samuel Tnsull of Chicago Was appointed receiver by the court. Under his management the business of the corporation was carried on to the satisfaction of the court and a majority of the creditors. In a recent decree, Judge Foster ordered the plant and assets of the old corporation to be sold at auction Deo.

17. Esmond Phelps, the secretary of the new corporation, says; "The organization of the new company means that the plant will be saved, and that a business which ranked among the foremost of Its kind In the United States will be saved for the city through the progress and enterprise cf New Orleans business men. SKYSCRAPER GOING HIGHER Fourteen Storle Being Added to the Knickerbocker Trust Companys Eight Already In Use New York, Nov. 25 (Special) New Yorkers are now seeing another freak building operation. This time It Is the placing of a "skyscraper on top of one already completed.

The first one Is not disturbed at all as the work goes ahead. Before the 1907 panic the Knickerbocker Trust Company planned a twenty-two-story structure for Its new home. Then the Knickerbocker collapsed, carrying banks and other trust companies down with it. Money for the new twenty-two-story building was not available. So it was decided to clip off fourteen stories and put up eight.

Now the contract has been let for the additional fourteen. The masonry is ripped from around the steel frame, at the top of the present building, and the riveters are already busy extending the frame further toward the sky. The design of the architects calls for the latest type of sky-scraper fireproof construction. The entire steel frame Is protected by a covering of hollow terra cotta block, which went through a temperature of 2000 degrees Fahrenheit In process of manufacture. Floors and partitions are of this same terra cotta, so that there Is practically no danger from fire There are other precautions besides these, however.

Elevator shafts and stairways are Inclosed in the fireproof material, so that a. blaze, if it started among the contents of one floor, would be unable to spread any further. There Is a thorough standpipe equipment, with hose attachments on every floor. The Job will be completed by April 1, 1911. Then the Knickerbocker Trust Company will have a total of 150,000 square feet of floor space in Its new building.

COTTON CROP GUESSES Average of Tliose Made by Members of New York Exchange Was Bales New York, Nov. 25 From the compilations made by Rhd, Siedenburg Co. the average of the guesses of 170 members of the New York Cotton Exchange places the size of this seasons cotton crop at 11,927,600 bales. The highest guess made by any member was 13,600,000 bales, and the lowest 10,650,000 bales. Of the 170 guesser only two below the 11,000,000 mark, and eighty-four exceed that of 12,000,000 bales.

G. M. Shutt made the lowest guess, forecasting a crop of 10,650,000 bales. Last year he also had the distinction of contributing the lowest guess to the compilation. The highest estimate made was that of G.

E. Adams, who figures on a crop. ANOTHER COTTON ESTIMATE A Memphis Concern Forecasts Crop of 11,900,000 Bales Memphis, Nov. 25 The Newburger Cotton Company of Memphis has issued Its estimate of the cotton crop. This firm has in the past been very successful in the size of the crop, basing its estimates on a postal card canvass and allowing for certain corrections which experience has shown necessary.

Its estimate for this seasons cotton crop, linters and repacks, is 11,800,000 bales, divided among the States as follows: Alabama 1,225, 000 North Carolina 675.000 Arkansas 750,000 So. Carolina 1,100,000 Florida 80,000 Oklahoma Georgia 1.800,000 Tennessee 273,000 Ixiulslana 273.0 0 Texas 3.400.000 Mississippi 1 200,000 Allother 03,000 TO MEET COMMISSIONERS Joint Conference to Re Held in New York by Committees Representing Insnrnnee Heads and Large Fraternal Federations Chicago, Nov. 25 (Special) At the conclusion of the first conference of the joint committee of the National Fraternal Congress and Associated Fraternities of America it was announced that the fraternal committee of the National Conference of Insurance Commissioners had asked for a joint conference early in December to plan for the enactment in all States of the commissioners bill to safeguard the seven billion dollars of fraternal insurance. Chairman C. E.

Piper of Chicago, of the fraternal joint committee, notified the insurance commissioners' committee that his committee would be present. A communication also wras sent to each Insurance commissioner formally notifying them that the fraternal federations acting unitedly had approved the commissioners bill and had chosen a committee to cooperate with them in the conservation of the fraternal system in the manner proposed. Each commissioner was urged to prepare the bill to conform In all details to constitutional requirements In his State and to forward a copy to the fraternal committee in advance of the New York conference. The fraternal committee Includes Chairman Piper, past nresident of the National Fraternal Congress; J. J.

Hynes, president of the Congress; D. P. Markey, vice president of the Congress; W. E. Davy, president of the Associated Fraternities of America; Benjamin D.

Smith and A. H. Burnett. C. H.

Robinson is secretary. During the session of the committee objection was raised by a representative of one society to the provision which prohibits such mergers as that of the Fraternal Tribunes of Rock Island, except when acted upon by the governing body of the society and approved by the insurance commissioner. The committee unanimously decided that any loophole- for mergers inimical to the Interests of the members should not be admitted. The provision in th insurance commissioners bill was reindorsed. The committee members expressed con- ELECTRICAL FARMING PLANNED Power for All Uses to Re Furnished Inhabitants of Sweet Grass County, Mont, Helena, Nov.

25 (Special) Sweet Grass County, or that large portion of It reclaimed by a local land company under the provisions of the Carey act, Is to be electrically farmed. The tract Is watered from two Immense lakes which secure their supply from Big Timber and Otter creeks. The latter creek has Its aource In the Crazy Mountains, perpetually snow-capped, and to meet any possible emergencies the company has obtained two additions! reservoir sites near Its source. The flow of water will produce 2000 horse-power, and the company Is planning to install an electrical plant with the Idea of furnishing lights and power to all residents on the tract. The power will be used on the farms for heating, cooking, pumping, running cream separators, fanning mills, elevating hay and, in fact, almost anything to1 which the hand may be turned to advantage.

Under the terms of Its contract with the State the company must turn the Irrigation plant over to the settlers as soon as the land Is sold, and It Is likewise planned to handle the power project in a similar way, so that the users will have to pay only for the actual cost of maintenance. In addition the pole line will be used for the wires of a proposed telephone system which will connect the farms with Big Timber and the town of Glasston, recently platted. SECURING COKING COAL LANDS The Steel Corporation lias Option on OOOO Acres In Virginia and Has Closed on 12,000 Acres Tazewell, Nov. 25 (Special) The United States Steel Corporation has been given an option of thirty days on 6000 acres of coal lands In McDowell County and known as Pocahontas Vein, No. 3.

The property- Is owned by the McDowell Coal Land Association. The consideration is $500,000. The steel company has closed an option on holdings of the Empire Coal Land Corporation, comprising 12,000 acres, near Richlands, Tazewell County. The Steel Company will use the product of these mines for coking purposes. Pocasset Mill Dividend Fall River, Nov.

25 (Special) The Pocasset Manufacturing Company has declared a regular quarterly dividend of 1 per cent, payable Dec. 1 to stockholders of record of Nov. 23. The rate is as usual. REAL ESTATE MATTERS Transactions in South End Sale of New Estate in Dorchester Desirable Corner in Brighton District Changes Ownership Papers have been recorded whereby Samuel L.

Dana and another have transferred to Daniel Goodnow title to the investment estate In the South End numbered 326 Shawmut avenue, consisting of 2062 square feet of land and brick building thereon. The tax valuation is $8500, of which $4600 Is on the lot of land. Title to No. 66S Harrison avenue, near East Dedham street, belonging to G. Nu-delman, has been acquired by W.

Edward M'unday on private terms. This property, which consists of 1200 square feet of land, with the building thereon, is taxed on a total of $6900. Of this amount $2100 is on the land. Deeds have been recorded In this transaction. Sales in Wards 18 and 23 Papers have been recorded transferring to A.

G. Crawford title to the Hun-nefeld property, numbered, situated in Kendall street, near Shawmut avenue, and consisting of 927 square feet of land and a brick, three-story house thereon. The land is taxed on $1 a foot basis. Edward R. Gregory has transferred to A.

Lewenberg title to three lots of vacant land at West Roxbury, fronting on Canterbury and Calder streets, and con- taining 14,657 square feet. The land is valued by the assessors at 30 cents a foot. Sale of Vuluable Corner In Ward 25 Deeds have been recorded in the transfer of title to property situated at the corner of Commonwealth avenue and South street, Brighton, belonging to James F. Sweeney, to James J. Coleman.

There are In the estate 20,606 square feet of land (vacant) taxed on a total of $14,400, the basis being sixty-five cents a foot. Salem and Peabody Affairs George A. Vickery has bought a lot of land at the southerly and westerly corners of Lafayette street and Ocean avenue, Salem, adjoining his estate. The lot Is 65 by 112 feet. Mr.

Vickery buys to control the corner. John Meagher of Peabody has bought the property at the northerly side of Lowell street, Peabody, extending through to Railroad avenue, for investment. The estate of the late Serena Ayer Is the grantor. Thre are about 20,000 square feet. In the lot, with a building thereon containing two stores and a printing office, and agroup of smaller buildings.

Sale of 19 Powellton Road Charlotte A. Powell has sold to Leila M. Pike the new two-apartment house No. 19 Powcllton road, Dorchester. There are 4128 square feet of land with a frontage of forty feet on Powellton road.

The house was con-tructed from plans by F. G. Powell, and the. i are sixteen rooms. The new owner buys for occupancy.

Sale of Sonth Boston Estate Mary H. Toomey has sold her estate at 85 I street, consisting of a three-family house and a lot of land containing 1189 square feet, all assessed on a valuation of $1600, to Hannah Noonan, for investment. C. Ernest Judkins was the broker. Suffolk Transfers Recorded From the files of the Real Estate Exchange today have been taken the following data: IB.

signifies Charlestown; Ch.t Chelsea; Dorchester; E. East Boston: Roxbury; Revere; S. South Boston; Winthrop; W. R.t West Roxbury. Seller.

Buyer. Gocanon. D.llunnefeld. A. G.

Crawford. Kendall st. R. Gilmore, W. Thompson.

Northampton st. mortgagee. W. Thompson. M.Turkington.

do. G.Nudelman. W.E.Munday. Harrison ave. A.E.Gladwin, A.E.

Gladwin. Beacon st. mortgagee. J. F.

Wilbur est.S.C. Wharton. do. T.KIng. T.

Foster. Preble S. B. E. Powers.

J. A.Ringrose. Silver S. B. J.Wijson.

J.F.LeGallo. Everett E. B. J.Evans. A.

Goldman. Porter ami Bremen Ee B. J.G. Barton. E.E.Ryan.

Cabot R. E.E.Ryan. M.B.Green. do. A.

C. Howard, C.W. Howard. Shirley R. guardian.

A. M. Rule. Phillips. Savin Hill D.

E.A.McDon- M.Hohmann. Dorset D. ough. Baker Farm A. R.

Gilliland. Pleasant Hinck-Assoeiates. ley D. E. Atkins.

D. B. Hoar et al. Maxwell D. L.M.

Ryder. J.F.Calden. Juliette D. J. Lewenberg.

A. Lewenberg. Corona D. C.A.Powell. L.M.

Pike, Powellton road, D. S. Lege re. R. Powers et al.

Eastman D. R. Gregory. A. Lewenberg.

Canterbury Calder W. R. M.E. Cannon. T.F.English Jess W.

R. et ux. J.F. Sweeney. J.J.Ooleman.

Commonwealth av. South B. E.J.Dever est. F.A.Sweeney. Oak B.

1 F.W.Coughltn. F.Frledman. Englewood av. Ch. Woodward.

J.H. Wood ward. Furness Re. New Coal and Timber Enterprises Cultivation of Sisal Hemp Planned Another Irrigation Project Special to the Transcript! Baltimore, Nov. 25 Many Southern industrial enterprises were announced J.ur-ing the past week.

They Included the plans of Individuals and corporations for the development of minerals and timber resources, for constructing cotton oil mills, foundry and machine plants, woodworking factories, Ice and coal storage plants, cotton mills and other industries. The Manufacturers Record of this week reports the essential details, from which have been prepared the following important facts: Kiefer Coal Coke Company, Fayetteville, W. was inclrporated with a capital stock of $350,000 by Pittsburg capitalists who are not as yet ready to announce particulars of their development plans. Carolina Ore Company, Winston-Salem, N. will build a plant to fuse pyrites cinder Into a material for mixing with iron ores for pig iron making; this plant will be operated by electricity and its annual output will be from 30,000 to tons.

Lowell Cotton Mills, Lowell, N. increased capital stock from $100,000 to $450,000, and proposes to add 10,000 spindles with probably 300 looms. Chess Wymond Company, Louisville, Ky purchased 25,000 acres of timber land near Rayville, for $400,000, and will cut the timber for manufacture Into staves and headings. Cedartown Iron Company, Cedartown, was incorporated by Birmingham capitalists with a capital stock of $30,000, to develop iron properties. Woodside Cotton Mill, Greenville, S.

Increased capital stock from $800,000 to $1,200,000, but has not as yet announced plans for enlarging. Sisal Hemp Development Company, Tampa, was incirporated with a capital stock of $100,000, to cultivate sisal hemp and manufacture hemp products. Charles Kantorowicz, Little Rock, pir ns the organization of a $1,000,000 company to develop the coal, shale, timber, clay and other resources of Round Mountain, near Ward, Ark. Southern Power Company, Charlotte, N. contemplates building a 4000 horsepower plant at Great Falls, S.

to extract nitrates from air. Creosote Wood Paving Company, New Orleans, was incorporated with capital stock. Wulburn Fertilizer Company, Charleston, S. will juild a plant with an initial annual capacity of from 15,000 to 20,000 tons; this company Incorporated recently with a capital stock of $100,000. Southwest Virginia Fuel Corporation.

Big Stone Gap, was incorporated with a capital Strok of $600,000. Glencoe Turpentine Company, Jacksonville, was in orporated with a capital stock of $50, 0. A. Y. Walton, and associates of Hondo, are plannr to construct dams and irrigate 150,000 acres of land.

Simpson-Doeller Company, Baltimore, will build a label and printing plant tn cost about mam building to be two stories high, 240 feet 8 Inches by 217 feet 4 inches, reinforced concrete construction. Fort Worth Glass Company, Fort Worth. Texas, was inc rporated with a capital stock of $100,00 Oklahoma Cotton Oil Company, Oklahoma City, will build a mill to replace plant recently burned; drily capacity to be 125 tons; buildings of reinforced concrete; buildings and machinery will cost about $125,060 Trade Improves Slowly New York, Nov. 25 Despatches to R. G.

Dun Co. indicate that business operations are conducted on a conservative basis, but current trade is well sustained and future orders come forward freely in certain lines. Buyers still operate cautiously at Boston, although the distribution of merchandise shows some further expansion. Demand for cotton goods is quiet and there is renewed talk of curtailment, but steady improvement appears in all branches of woolen goods. LITHIA SPEWS WATER, Distributors for Boston Territory Boston, November 18,1919.

(8063, 6945, 6947-6954) On the petition of the directors of thf Boston and Providence Interurban Electric Railroad Company that the Board fix the route and determine the grades and method of construction of the railroad of that company in the town of North Attleborough, the Bo.rd will give a hearing to, the parties in inlecest at its office, 20 Beacon street, Boston, on Wednesday, December 7, 1910, at 10.30 oclock in the forenoon. At the same time, the Board will give a continued hearing on the petitions of the directors of the Boston and Providence Interurban Electric Railroad Company that the Board fix the route and determine the grades and method of construction of the railroad of said company in the city of Boston and in the towns of Dedham, Westwood, Norwood, Canton, Sharon, Mansfield, Foxborough and Attleborough. And the petitioners are required to giva 9 notice of said hearing by publication hereof twice prior to said date in the Boston Evening Transcript and the Jamaica Plain News, newspapers published in Boston, in the Fox-borough Reporter, a newspaper published in Foxborough, and in the North Attleborouga Evening Chronicle, a newspaper printed in North Attleborough, to serve a copy hereof on the City of Boston and the towns of Dedham, Westwood, Norwood, Canton, Sharon, Mansfield, Foxborough, Attleborough and North Attleborough, and to make return of service at the time of hearing. By order of the Board, CHARLES E. MANN, CleHc.

at 23 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. SUFFOLK, SS. PROBATE COURT. To all persons interested in the estate of SARAH H. D1X.

late of Boston. In said County, deceased: Whereas, MATTHEW BINNEY, the trustee under the will of said deceased, has presented for allowance the 12th, 13th and 14th accounts of his trust under said will, for the benefit of EVA C. DIX and others: You are hereby cited to appear at a Probate Court, to be held at Boston, In said County, on the fifteenth day of December, A. D. 1910, at ten oclock In the forenoon, to show cause, If any you have, why i he same should not be allowed.

And said trustee is ordered to serve this citation by delivering a copy thereof to all persons Interested in the estate fourteen days at least before said Court, or by publishing the same once in each week, for three successive weeks, in the Boston Evening Transcript, a newspaper published in Boston, the last publication to be one day at least before said Court, and by mailing, postpaid, a copy of this citation to all known persons interested in the estate fourteen days at least before said Court. Witness. ROBERT GRANT, Esquire, Judge of said Court, this twenty-second day of November, in the year one thousand nine hundred and ten. ARTHUR W. DOLAN, Register.

P8S9Z JUDGES WERE PALLBEARERS Bench and Bar Represented at Funeral of Augustus B. Endicott These Physicians Have Used It Personally and in Practice Are They Not Competent Witnesses? "FOR THESE PURPOSES IT IS ENDORSED BY THE HIGHEST MEBiCAL AUTHORITIES." Dr. Geo. E. Waltons standard work on the Medicinal Springs of tha United States and Canada, states: "BUFFALO LITHIA SPRINGS WATER is an efficient diuretic, and proves of great value in Inflammation and Irritation of the Bladder and Kidneys, especially when dependent upon the Uric Acid Diathesis, as exhibited in cases of Gravel and Gout.

For these purposes it is endorsed by the highest medical authorities. Dr. Chas. B. Nancrede, Prof, of Surgery, Medical Dept.

University of Michigan, and author of articles in International Cyclopedia of Surgery, is of the opinion that BUFFALO LITHIA SPRINGS WATER is one of the best alkaline waters in this country. I have used it with undoubted advantage in my own person. Dr. John T. Metcalf, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York: I have for some years prescribed BUFFALO LITHIA SPRINGS WATER for patients, and used it in my own case for Gouty Trouble with decided beneficial results, and I regard it certainly as a very valuable remedy.

Additional testimony on request. For sale by the general drug and mineral water trade. Guaranteed under the Food and Drugs Act, June 30, 1906. Serial No. 15055.

In Lithia Springs water SmS Funeral services for Augustus B. Endicott were held this afternoon at the First Unitarian Church in Dedham. Many members of the bench and bar, county officials, business men and associates of Mr. Endicott in Masonic and historical societies attended. The ushers were Henry D.

Humphrey, Lusher G. Baker, Arthur M. Daniels and George R. Wight. The services Included the reading of the Scripture by Rev.

William H. Parker, minister of the church, and the delivery of a eulogy and prayer by Rev. Roger Sawyer Forbes, a former minister. The Arlington street Church quartet sang. The honorary bearers were Judge John W.

Hammond, Judge Edgar J. Sherman, Judge Frederick D. Ely, George Fred Williams, Hon. Wendell Warren, Sheriff Samuel H. Capen, John H.

Burdakin, Cllf-ford P. Baker, Abram T. Eddy, William H. Wood, Dr. Andrew H.

Hodgdon, Edwin A. Brooks, Joseph Guild and Henry G. Guild. The body bearers were: Chester W. Lord, Roger B.

Lord, Phillip E. Young, H. Wendell Endicott, Eugine Endicott and Samuel' Colburn. The burial was in the old parish cemetery in Dedham. S.

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