The Tulsa Chief. (Tulsa, Indian Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 45, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 9, 1906 Page: 3 of 8
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STEADY GROWTH OF TRADE
YEAR ONE OF GREAT PROSPERITY
Each Succeeding Month of the Past Year Has Witnessed Improved
Conditions.
All Records Broken by the Harvests. Manufactures and Commerce of the
jl United States.
Phenomenal activity, reaching to
every branch of trade and industry,
marked the year 1905.
(luring the summer of 1904 the na-
tion began to recover from a prolong-
ed season of business stagnation. As
the months of that year progressed,
conditions became more and more fa-
vorable. Both in speculation and in
the lines of actual industry the spirit
of revival was extant, and the end of
the year witnessed conditions that
were gratifying to business interests
in the extreme.
With the dawn of 1905 this state of
afTairs continued, and throughout the
twelve months growth in all lines of
commercial enterprise was main-
tained.
There was not a month in which
the financial position of the nation
was not strengthened. The business
of the country gained momentum as
the year progressed, until in the final
weeks the most remarkable state of
activity ever displayed in the history
of the United States was witnessed.
Remarkable in many respects, the
distinctive feature*of 1905 in its finan-
cial and commercial aspect was its
evenness. ■ No machinery ran more
easily, more smoothly than tho mate-
rial currents. It was a steady ad-
vance in production and consumption;
a constant increasing demand for
banking accommodations; an accumu-
lation of deposits, the immediate in-
dex of expanding wealth. The latter
half of the period developed a demand
for supplies which taxed the capacity
of factories, mills and mines to supply.
This was the stimulation of an un-
precedented crop of grains upon a
market expanded to normal propor-
tions. The earlier activity was the
continuation of the previous year,
when business revived from a year of
stagnation and inactivity, from a year
of liquidation and pessimism. The
movement gathered force during the
winter, and with the open weather the
building operations of the people be-
came general, calling every idle hand
into use. The indices of material af-
fairs pointed to a strong pressure
everywhere, reflect the bounty of
Dame Fortune in the ranks of the
capitalist and the laborer.
STRENGTH IN MONEY CENTERS.
Greatest Fear of All on the Stock
Exchanges.
Considered from almost any and
every point of view, but gauged par-
ticularly by New York stock exchange
standards, 1905 has been the great-
est year of all. Whereas 1903 brought
the stock market deluge for the sins
of excessive trust promotion, commer-
cial over-expansion and speculative
debauches of immediately previous
years, and 1904 brought the moderate
afterclap of the upheaval of the ex-
changes in moderate commercial re-
pression, the year now closed has
been tuned to one dominant note—op-
timistic progress.
The signs are many, but a few stand
out so strongly as proof of develop-
ment that to cite them is conclusive.
Briefly, these may be summarized as
follows:
Never has the farm wealth of the
country equaled that of 1905.
Commercial failure liabilities, in
spite of exceptional banking disturb-
ances of sporadic character, have
been less actually and relatively than
in any period since the panic days of
1893, with the exception of 1899.
Total deposits of the national banks
of the country are greatest in history,
and aggregate loans of the banks like-
wise at the highest level indicate that
money is being closely employed.
Using pig iron production as one of
the tests of general industry, an esti-
mated increase of about 37% per cent
In both production and consumption
Indicates unparalleled activity.
Railway earnings of the roads of
the country roughly exceed all pre-
vious records by 7% per cent.
Both Imports and exports of mer-
chandise in the foreign trade of the
country once more have attained new
high records.
Prices of leading securities, both
railway and industrial, used to ascer-
tain the mean level of stock market
values, during the last month of the
year have eclipsed all previous high
marks.
Speculation of the country, as meas-
ured by the sales of stocks on the
New York stock exchange, has sur-
passed even the enormous totals of
1901, when trust financing was at its
height.
Finally, seats on the New York
stock exchange have sold at the phe-
nomenally high price of $95,000, sug-
gestlqg what the Wall street forecast-
ers think speculation “barometer of
trade” will indicate from prosperity’s
signals in 1906.
When the year opened, progress, de-
layed enough for a season in the year
previous to show temporarily de-
creased railway traffic, steel and iron
depression, dormant speculation and
glutted money markets, had been re-
sumed. The success of the crops of
1904, and the very p'.entifulness of
money supplies the world over were
the basis on which this resumption
started.
Given good harvests progress al-
ways is more or less certain, but the
factor of cheap money just a year ago
and the knowledge that in 1903 liqui-
dation had cleaned out most of the
weakest spots tn business brought up
one pertinent argument before mer-
chant, manufacturer, banker and spec-
ulator. That waa that, with ever-in-
creasing money wealth to create new
and abundant credit on which to build
new enterprises, there was no reason
why all doubts of the future should
not be cast aside.
During 1904 demand loans of stock
market collateral in New York—
usually the best test of money sur-
plus or scarcity in the country—went
as low as one-half of 1 per cent, and
even in the usually tight month of
December did not get above C per
cent. Time loans in the same market
had been placed as low as l-\ per
cent and not above 5 per cent. And
all the time the increased gold produc-
tion In the Transvaal, Australia, Alas-
ka and the United States proper add-
ed abundantly to the stores of money
wealth of the world.
in November of 1904 much stress
had been laid on the fact that the to-
tal deposits of the national banks of
the country had reached the pinnacle
of $5,330,639,949. Each recurring re-
port of the comptroller of the cur-
rency, however, showed this record
surpassed, until that one published
last month showed total national bank
deposits at $5,554,845,194..
Of the total deposits at the close of
1904 New York held $1,224,206,600, or
a little less than one-fifth, and of the
total loans of the country New York
had accommodations to the extent of
$1,145,989,200, or more than one-third.
RAILROADS HAVE MADE MONEY.
Earnings of Lines Go Over Two Bil-
lion Dollars.
For the first time the steam rail-
roads of the United States have earn-
ed more than $2,000,000,000 in one
year, the high water mark being
reached in 1905, Not only were the
gross earnings heavier than In any
previous year, but the net earnings
were also larger, despite the fact that
more money was spent for physical
improvements, locomotives, freight
and passenger cars than in any for-
mer year.
The number of freight cars built in
1905 was 165,455, an increase of 3,000
over any former year, while the num-
ber of passenger cars built was 2,551,
an increase of over 400. There were
5,491 locomotives built in 1905, an in-
crease of 2,000 over the previous year
and of 450 over 1903, the next largest
year.
There were 4,979 miles of new rail-
road built last year, 700 miles more
than in 1904, the total mileage of the
end of 1905 being 217,328 miles. The
greatest activity in railway construc-
tion was in the Southwestern and
Northwestern states, in these two sec-
tions more than half the year a mile-
age being built. The coming year
will see a great amount of new road
built in the Northwest, as the St.
Paul, Burlington, and Gould lines are
trying to rush extensions to the Pa-
cific coast, and the Northwestern is
also developing its system.
FARM URICES SLIGHTLY LOWER.
Inevitable When the Enormous Crops
Are Considered.
With enormous crops of grain over
the West it is natural that farm prices
should average lower, but declines as
compared with the high average of
1904 were small as compared with
years prior to 1904, with the exception
of corn, oats, and barley, which are
lower. Farm prices Dec. 1 for the
past six years as reported by the De-
partment of Agriculture compare as
follows:
1905. 1901. 1909. 1902. 1901. 1900.
Wheat, per bu. 78.2 f 2.4 69.3 63.0 62.4 61.9
Corn, per bu. .. 41.2 44.1 42 5 40.3 60.5 35.7
Oats, per bu. .. 29.1 31.3 34.1 30.7 39.9 25.S
Rye, per bu. .. 60.7 6S.8 51.5 50.8 55.7 51.2
Harley, per bu. 40.3 42.0 45.6 45.8 45.2 40.8
Flax Beed, per
bu........... 95.0 99.3 ................
Buckwheat, per
bu............ 58.7 62.2 60.7 59.5 56.3 55.7
Potatoes, per
bu........... 61.7 45.3 61.4 47.1 76.7 43.1
Hay, per ton . .$3.52 *3.72 *9.08 49.06 10.01 *S.S9
ENORMOUS SUMS GIVEN AWAY.
More Than $65,000,000 Distributed by
Generous Philanthropists.
The contributions to charitable and
educational institutions during the
year just past have exceeded those of
1904 by a large sum. The total amount
of gifts reach the immense figure of
$65,104,432, or $137 a minute.
The records upon which these fig-
ures are based are necessarily incom-
plete, as the amounts published from
day to day in the papers are taken to
compile the estimate, and $5,000 has
been the minimum considered. It is
probable that the multiplicity of small
donations would raise the total by
$10,000,000 at least. Individual givers,
too, are here accounted for only,
which fact prevents the list from en-
rolling the big contributions to the
R issian Jews.
More than one-third of the contribu-
tions has gone to educational institu-
tions. Eighty-two colleges and schools
are named in that part of the annual
report, though, even so, the gifts to
this cause would not have stood in
such overwhelming proportion to the
benefactions of the whole twelve-
month had not the three largest dona-
tions of all fallen under this head. In
April Mr. Carnegie set by $10,000,000
as a fund for aged educators, followed
a month later by Mr. Rockefeller,
with another $10,000,000 for the cause
of general education, while the tragic
death of Mrs. Leland Stanford threw
into this same scale $4,875,000 more.
The dozen most “lucky” universities
rank then as follows:
Ltltnd Stanford ......................t4.97t.000
Harrard ............................. 1,500.000
Yaia .................................. 1,406,000
Chb-aco .............................. 1,150,000
Union Theological a iuinary ......... l.loO.ikU
McCormick seminary .. ............. 1,000,000
Mlllikin university ................... 1,000,000
Columbia ........................... (M.UOO
University of Virginia ................. 610,000
Brown ................................ 1*0,000
Princeton ............................. 437 tkW
University of California .............. 400 000
Following education the benefac-
tions of 1905 rank as follows: To gal-
leries, museums and societies jf kin-
dred alms went $7,024,000; to
"homes," hospitals and asylums, $5,-
391,500, with $4,700,175 to miscellane-
ous charities. Church works of vari-
ous sorts followed close with $4,424,-
757, and $1,993,000 for library build-
ings. Add to these totals $2,435,000
which eante In gifts other than of
cash, though valued "officially,” and
this country Is found to have received
in all $84,089.432—$2,015,000 was sent
to dc Its work In foreign fields.
The “roll of honor," where one may
rank the givers of millions, reads:
Andrew Carnegie ....................114,099,(100
Jlibn D. Rockefeller ................ 11,6:15,000
Mrs, Jane 1. Stanford.............. 4,996,000
Stephen Salisbury ................... 3.45a 000
John C. King ........................ 2,000.000
General Isaac J. Wiatur.............. 2,0«0.0iH)
Mrs. E. I). Rand...................... 1,250,000
Henry Phipps ........................ l.OAO.OOO
Margaret A. Jones................... 1.025 000
Mrs. Emmons lllalne ................ l.iMMi.tkk)
George W. Clayton .................. 1,000,000
Benjamin Fergusou ................. 1,000 000
Cyrus McCormick ................... l.ooo.OOO
James Mlllikin ....................... 1,000,000
\V. F. Milton ........................ 1,000,000
MOST NOTABLE BOXING EVENTS.
Two New Champions Have Fought
Their Way to the lop.
Perhaps the three most notable box-
ing events of the past year were the
retirement of James J. Jeffries, the
succession of Battling Nelson to the
lightweight title of the world through
his victory over James Edward Britt,
and the final defeat of Robert Fitz-
simmons by “Philadelphia Jack”
O’Hrien. Each of these events added
to the Interest In the sport, as they
brought new names and new faces be-
fore the public. In a general way the
bouts of the year were remarkably
free from scandal, and there was no
taint attached to any of the bigger
ones or even to one which commanded
a large sectional interest.
DEATH LIST IS A LONG ONE.
Many Prominent Men In All Lines
Called During 1905.
Among the persons of world wide
reputation, leaders in their various
departments of the world's activities,
who died during the year 1905 are;
Jan. 4, Theodore Thomas, the pioneer
of orchestral music and lifelong advo-
cate of the higher music in America;
Jan. 9, Louise Michel, the French so-
cialistic agitator; Jan. 16, Robert Lo-
raine Gifford, one of the best of the
old school American landscape paint-
ers; Jan. 18, George H. Eoughton, the
English landscape painter, whose
works are well known In this coun-
try; Feb. 9, Adolph Wilhelm Menzel,
the greatest of modern German paint-
ers; Feb. 15, Lew Wallace, the sol-
dier and novelist; Feb. 16, Jay Cooke,
the successful financier of the civil
war; Feb. 17, Grand Duke Sergius of
Russia; March 23, Jules Vernes, the
brilliant French novelist; Feb. 25, Pie-
tro Tacchina, the Italian astronomer;
April 23, Joseph Jefferson, the beloved
and popular actor; May 26, Baron Al-
phonse de Rothschild, governor of the
Bank of France; June 13, Baron Na-
thaniel de Rotchschild, the Austrian
representative of the financial house;
June 13, Archduke Joseph of Austria;
June 17, Maximo Gomez, the Cuban
patriot; July 1, John Hay, secretary
of state, whose successful diplomacy
helped to make the United States a
world power; July 4, Jacques Elisee
Reclus, the French geographer; July
23, Jean Jacques Henner, the modern
Titian among artists; Aug. 20, Ad-
olphe William Bouguereau, the well-
known French figure painter; Aug.
21, Mary Mafer Dodge, the editor of
St. Nicholas; Aug. 31, Francesco Ta-
magno, the Italian operatic singer;
Sept. 18, George MacDonald, the Eng-
lish novelist; Sept. 22, Mme. Galli-
Marie, the French prima donna; Sept.
21, Dr. Thomas John Barnardo, the
London philanthropist and “father of
the waifs”; Oct. 12, Sir Henry Irving,
the English actor; Oct. 22, Florent
Willems, at the head of the Belgian
landscape school; and Nov. 6, Sir
George Williams, founder of the
Young Men’s Christian association.
In politics the leading names of the
dead are those of Secretary Hay, Sen-
ators Hawley and Platt of Connecti-
cut, George S. Boutwell of Massachu-
setts, John H. Reagan of Texas and
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee.
Conspicuous In the religious list are
the names of Bishops Merrill and
Joyce of the Methodist Episcopal
church, Bishop McLaren of the Prot-
estant Episcopal church and Arch-
bishop Chapelle of the Roman Cath-
olic church.
Deaths during December were as
follows: John Bartlett, compiler of
“Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations," at
Cambridge, MasB, aged 75; United
States Senator John H. Mitchell of
Oregon, at Portland, aged 70; Louisa
Eldredge (Aunt Louisa), well-known
actress, in New York city, aged 75;
Edward Atkinson, social and political
economist, in Boston, aged 78; Sir
Richard Claverhouse Jebb, noted
Greek scholar, in London, aged 64;
William Sharp, Scotch poet and nov-
elist, author of novels published un-
der the pseudonym of Miss Fiona Mac-
leod, in Sicily, aged 50; Judge Mur-
ray F. Tuley, Nestor of the Chicago
bench, well known as Jurist through-
out the United States.
It has been a year of glistening n.i
tional prosperity and its brightness is
reflected into the year that Is to come.
Nowhere on the horizon is there
visible a cloud of doubt that next year
will be as generous-handed :s hae the
year whose bell has just tolled. All
records of prosperity for this and for
any other country have been broken
by the harvests, manufacturers and
the commerce of the United States
of America for the twelve months
which now have slipped finally into
the past.
The North has had a prosperity in
which the West has shared, and the
South simply Is fat with plenty. No
principal crop in the United States
has failed. For the bushel sown, the
earth has returned Its twenty fold. It
is not necessary to give the figures
in order that the great fact may he
grasped. In all the staples of life the
year has broken the record of yield.
It is possible that In the case of cot-
ton an exception should be made, but
of the southern staple there has been
a production ns large as the people of
the cotton-growing sections could
have wished. The prices are high;
everyone had some cotton and every-
one has a share of the selling price.
The Secretary of Agriculture has
said that the well-being of the Ameri-
can farmer is a matter of the pro-
foundest interest to the entire coun-
try. He might have gone farther and
have said that the well-being of the
entire country depends upon the well-
being of the American farmer. It has
been a year of unsurpassed prosperity
to the agriculturists of the country.
Production has been unequaled, nnd
as the wealth and the happiness of
all depend upon that which springs
from the ground, we go back to the
basis and the proper place for the
prophecy of happiness when we stand
upon the farm.
By the time that the new year has
run half Its course It Is probable that
there will be a fuller and better un-
derstanding between the sister coun-
tries of North and South America.
The third conference of the pan-
American states is to be held in Bra-
zil, and there the Secretary of State
of the greatest of the American coun-
tries will meet with the officials ot
the smaller republics, and out of their
conferences and discussions It Is be-
lieved will come plans which, when
put to the working test, will make se-
cure upon a firm foundation the peace
of two continents.
It is probable that before the first
session of the Fifty-ninth Congress
sees the day of adjournment that a
national quarantine law will be passed
which will reduce to a minimum the
danger of yellow fever epidemics in
the South.
It Is probable that before the new
year becomes an old year two stars
will be added to the flag of the United
States, Arizona and New Mexico, join-
ed to become one state, and Okla-
homa and Indian Territory, Joined, to
become the other. When this end Is |
accomplished, there will be no terri-
tories left in the Union, a:.d the year ;
1906 will go down In history as the j
year which saw the fulfillment of the
dream of the fathers.
To go again into the Immediate past
it may be said for the last of the old
years that it saw the making of a rec-
ord for American commerce in both
matters of exports and of imports.
The year 1904 produced the first bil-
lion dollar record for Imports; the
year 1905, saw a material Increase,
and during each one of Its twelve
months the value of the Imports
amounted to practically $100,000,000.
against aq average of less than half
that amount only a score of years ago.
The exports of the United States,
as an official puts It, “never touched
the billion dollar mark until the year
1895, and have never In any calendar
year been as much as a billion and a
half dollars in value; but, this year
they have considerably exceeded that
fitrure and will approximate a value
of $1,600,000,000.” None of the of-
ficials who make a study of trade con-
ditions has been able to discover any-
thing in the future which should pre-
vent a like marvelous growth of the
commerce of the United States dur-
ing the coming year.
The manufactures of the country In-
creased their share during the last
year In both Imports and exports of
the United States. The increase In
the Importation of manufacturers’ ma-
terials In the ten months ending Nov-
1, 1905, amounted to $81,000,000, an
Increase of 21 per cent over the cor-
responding period of last year, while
the Increase In all other Imports
amounted to but $54,000,000, an In-
crease of 12 per cent over the corre-
sponding months of 1904.
In the matter of exports of manu-
factures the value of Increase during
ten months of 1905 was $58,000,000,
an Increase of 14 per cent, while the
gain of all other exports was about
$50,000,000, an Increase of 7 per cent
over the same months of last year.
The Washington officials who deal In
the statistics of manufacturers hold
that there is every apparent Indica-
tion that the prosperous showing of
the last year is to be more than du-
plicated in the year that is to come.
It Is a fmrly well established fact
that coming unhappy events cast long
shadows before. The students of the
situation look not only at the matter
immediately In hand, but they look at
*11 the conditions of commercial life:
the state of the country’* finances,
the likelihood of tariff changes, the
posalblUtles of commercial wars, and,
j In fact, at all other things upon which
government agents make reports.
They look at all these things before
they attempt anything of prophecy,
and when they do consent to prophecy
they do not put It in black and white
because there is always a chance of i
the arising of something hitherto un-
known; but they do consent to give ,
an expression of their belief in tho
future, founded upon the best knowl-
edge which Is given to them from all
; available sources. It is only the crop
! expert who in the winter, the time
of the death of vegetation, refuses to
say one word as to the future, for the :
time of long distance weather fore-
, oasts has not yet arrived.
The view of the coming year as it
touches exports and imports and the
I manufacturers of the country is to bo j
expressed only by the much-used and I
apparently well-liked word. rosy.
Should there be those who look
only to the purse as the standard of
a people's happiness, It may be said
that there Is more money in circula-
tion among the Inhabitants of the
! United States to-day than ever thero
has been 1 efore. Despite bank troub-
les here and there tho financial Insti-
tutional solidity and prosperity of the
country seems to have a foundation
of rock which cannot readily ho worn
away. The light shines ahead.
DISASTERS DURING THE YEAR.
Earthquake In Italy the Worst Calam-
ity Recorded In 1905.
Disasters were numerous during
1905, though there was no calamity
Involving such great loss of life or
such horrors as accompanied the burn-
ing of the Iroquois theater at Chicago
til 1903, or of the steamer General Slo-
cum at New York In 1904. Leaving
out of consideration the Russo-Japa-
nese war, the greatest disaster of the
year occurred in Calabria, Italy, where
400 lives were lost through an earth-
quake Sept. 8. Nearly ns many deaths
were recorded ns due to the collapse
of a partially constructed reservoir
near Madrid, Spain, April 8.
The most serious disaster in the
United States was the tornado In
Texas, April 29. At Laredo 100 lives
were lost. A tornado In Oklahoma,
May 11, caused nearly ns many deaths
In the town of Sidney. A fire in a
shoe factory at Brocton, Mass., re-
sulting from nn explosion, March 20,
also resulted in 100 deaths.
Railroad accidents probably have
not caused so many doaths as in 1904,
but several serious ones occurred dur-
ing the past year. In a collision on
the Western Maryland railroad, twen-
ty-eight miles from Baltimore, June
1, twenty-three persons were killed.
In each of three other wreck* twenty
lives were lost, and two wrecks
caused twelve deaths each.
By nn explosion in the Rush Run
and Red Ash coal mines, near Thur-
mond, W. Va., March 19, twenty-four
lives were lost. A gas explosion In n
mine at Ziegler, 111., April 13, en-
tombed fifty miners. July 11 more
than 100 miners were killed by an
explosion in the pits at Wattstown,
Wales.
Of disasters on the water the most
serious was the wreck of the South-
ampton Railway company’s Btenmer
Hilda, off St. Malo, English channel,
in which 100 lives were lost. The
explosion of the holler of the United
States gunboat Bennington In San
Diego harbor, July 21, caused the
death of sixty of the crew.
LYNCH LAW LESS IN EVIDENCE.
Fewer Victims of Mobs Than In Any
Year Since 1885.
The lynchlngs reported for 1905
are but 66, the smallest number since
1885. The following table showing the
number of lynchlngs since 1885 will
be of use to those studying this par-
ticular feature of criminology:
1885.........
1896.........
I88f».........
1897.........
1887.........
.........122
1898.........
.........127
1P88.........
.........142
1899.........
1889.........
.........170
1900.........
.........115
18''0.........
1901.........
.........135
1891.........
1902.........
1892.........
.........235
1903.........
1893.........
1904.........
18^4.........
.........190
1905.........
1896.........
The lynchlngs in the various states
and territories were as follows: Ala-
bama, 3; Arkansas, 5; Florida, 1;
Georgia, 11; Kentucky, 4; Louisiana,
4; Mississippi, 17; Missouri, 1; Ne-
vada, 1; North Carolina, 1; South Car-
olina. 3; Tennessee, 3; Texas, 11;
Virginia, 1.
Of these lynchlngs 65 occurred In
the south and 1 In the north. Of the
to'al number 61 were negroes and 5
whites. The crimes alleged were as
follows: Murder, 34; rape, 15; mur-
derous assault, 4; attempted rape, 4;
robbery, 2; race prejudice, 1; kid-
naping, 1; elopement, 1; Informing,
1. Two lynchlngs were for unknown
reasons, and one innocent victim was
hanged.
THOSE WINNING NOBEL PRIZES.
No Americans Yet Among the Roll of
Honor.
The Nobel prizes, awarded each
year to the foremost person In each
of five departments of human endeav-
or, were distributed for the year 1905
on Dec. 10, the peace prize at Chris-
tiania, Norway, and the others at
Stockholm, Sweden, as follows;
Peace—Baroness von Suttner of
Austria, for many years a worker In
world peace movements and a dele-
gate to the International peace con- j
gress at Boston a year age.
Physics—Philip Lenard, professor ,
at Kiel University, for researches into
cathode rays.
Chemistry—Adolph von Boerger,
professor of the University of Muen-
chen for researches leading to the
evolution of organic chemistry and
the development of the chemical In-
dustry.
Medicine—Prof. Robert Koch of
Berlin, for researches looking to the
prevention of tuberculosis.
Literature—Henry Slenkiewicz, the
Polish novelist.
This was the fifth distribution of
Nobel prizes. No American has yet
had the distinction of securing one of
the awards.
NATIONAL CHAMPION3 OF 1905.
List of Those Attaining Pre-eminencs
During the Year.
The following persons stand at the
head In various lines of sport:
Amateur Athletics—Martin J. Sher-
idan.
Automobiling— Barney Oldfield.
Billiards—Charles F. Conklin.
Bowling—Charles M. Anderson.
Boxing—James J. Jeffries.
Chess—Frank J. Marshall.
Cycling—Frank L. Kramer.
Golf (Open)—VV’lllle Anderson.
Golf (Amateur)—H. Chandler Egan.
(iolf (Women’s)—Miss 1‘uuline Mac*
kay.
Jockey—David Nicol.
Rifle Shooting—Sergt. C. E. Orr.
Sknt—Herman Dietz.
Skating (Professional)—Norval Bap-
tie.
Skntlng (Amateur)—Morris Wood.
Swimming—C. M. Daniels.
Tennis—Beals C. Wright.
Tenuis (Women's)—Miss Elizabeth
Moore.
Trap Shooting—R. R. Barber.
TRAVELERS KILLED AND HURT.
Railroad Disaster* Have Been Re*
•ponsible for Many Death*.
Tho year’s record of railway dis-
asters shows a total of 3,142 killed
and 15,904 injured. In addition to
those killed and Injured on the steam
roads, 464 have been killed and 2,622
injured on the electric and elevated
roads.
YEAR AS SEEN BY BRADSTREET.
Period of Heavily Increased Purchas-
ing Power.
The year Just ending has been one
of almost boundless activity, accord-
ing to Bradstreet’s. It was a period
of rich rewards to agriculture, though
not of uniformly record yields; of
abundance of employment for labor
and of few serious strikes; of build-
ing and constructive activity In all
lines; of enormously enlarged bank
clearings totals, and of striking small
failure damage, considering the im-
mense business done and the unpre-
cedented number engaged therein.
That it was, on the whole, a year
of heavily Increased public purchas-
ing power seems certain. In view of
the fact that commodity prices were
maintained at record high levels.
Continuing tho report states:
"The multitude of records broken
shows that new guideposts have, in-
deed been set up. The revival which
began in the last half of 1904, far
from spending Its force, as was pre-
dicted in the early part of 1905, grew
as the year advanced. The commer-
cial, financial and industrial move-
ment surged forward, weather draw-
backs and disclosures of financial rot-
tenness in high places falling to stem
the upward trend. Disregard of pre-
cedents was, perhaps, best illustrated
In the persistent advance of securi-
ties despite high money prices, and
the tendency to discount prosperity
was Irresistible."
Speaking of conditions in the lat-
ter part of the year it is stated:
“In September car shortages began
to affect traffic and collections, clear-
ings reached new high figures, while
failures and liabilities for nine months
were below 1904. Lifting of southern
quarantines gave ze*t to southern
trade, which was further helped by
high cotton quotations when the
movement was heaviest. In the last
quarter open weather favored out-
door activity, but retarded retail
trade, which was also hampered by
farmers holding grain and cotton and
the car congestion, which likewise de-
layed collections. Stock speculation,
though lacking marked public partici-
pation and displaying manipulative in-
fluences, was of large volume at rec-
ord prices, despite high money, in-
fluenced by active trade and dls-
I turbed foreign markets. Iron and
1 steel outputs advanced: ore sales,
I clearings and staple prices all scored
high levels in December.”
Of the outlook for the new year the
report says:
"If satisfaction with the past and
confidence in the future are at all re-
| liable guides, 1906 is likely to equal,
if Indeed It docs not surpass, the year
drawing to a close. The volume of
orders booked ahead exceeds any pre-
vious year In the country's history,
and high prices as yet seem to exer-
cise no effect upon consumptive de-
mand. Iron and steel of all kinds are
heavily sold ahead, bb are also shoes,
cotton and woolen goods, lumber,
hardware and a myriad of other prod-
I ucts. Wheat enter* the winter in ex-
cellent condition end with an en-
larged area. Predictions as to 1906
building are even more sanguine than
a year ago.”
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