COPPER CONSUMPTION GROWS 
World Use of Metal Shows Gigantic 
| Gain, Department Reports. 
World consumption of copper leaped 
from 15,000 metric tons at the begin- 
nijig of the nineteenth century to 
1,500,000 in 1917. Electric power gen¬ 
eration and transmission are largely 
responsible for this increase, though 
during the world war enormous use 
was made of the metal and its alloys 
in the manufacture of war material. 
Such remarkable increases in con¬ 
sumption demanded new sources of 
supply, says a Commerce Department 
report, and during the nineteenth 
century copper ore fields were devel¬ 
oped first in South America and Cuba, 
and later in the United States, Aus¬ 
tralia, South Africa and Canada. 
Copper smelted at British ports from 
cuprous pyrites, imported in vast 
quantities, because of its sulphur con¬ 
tent, from Spain and Portugal, was 
another productive source of supply. 
The total production for the world 
for the nineteenth century has been 
estimated at 10,240,000 tons. The first 
decade of the twentieth century saw 
a production of 7,333,000 tons. This 
great advance in production was 
largely brought about by improve¬ 
ments in mechanical concentration. 
The production for the present dec¬ 
ade will exceed 10,000,000 tons; that 
is f it probably will exceed the total 
output for the nineteenth century. 
NEW DEMANDS BY FRANCE. 
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Agrees to New Finance Parley if 
Germans Are Excluded. 
Paris, Oct. 12.—Prance, replying' to 
the recent note from Earl Curzon of 
Kedleston, British secretary of state 
for foreign affairs, suggesting a finan¬ 
cial conference, has proposed that 
such a conference be held at Brussels, 
according to the Petit Parisien. She 
has stipulated, it is said, that all the 
allied representatives should be mem¬ 
bers of the reparation commission, 
and that the two German delegates 
be excluded from the meeting. 
Premier Delacroix, of Belgium, is 
visiting London, and the newspaper 
understands his only purpose is to 
reconcile the views held in Paris and 
Brussels with the British attitude re¬ 
garding reparations. 
CHURCHMEN HONOR MIKADO 
Sunday School Delegates Present 
Portraits and Gifts. 
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Tokyo, Oct. 12.—Portraits of the 
Emperor and Empress of Japan, 
painted by John W. D. Eorster, of 
Toronto, Canada, were unveiled at to¬ 
day’s session of the world’s Sunday 
school convention. 9 
They were later presented to the 
ARCHDEACON STUCK DEAD. 
Alaskan Missionary Credited Wit 
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First Ascent of Mt. McKinley. 
New York, Oct. 12.—Archdeaco| 
Hudson Stuck, of the Yukon, The fir 
white man to ascend Mount McKinle>| 
died at Port Yukon, Alaska, last Sunl 
day. Word of his death was receive] 
here late today. 
Archdeacon Stuck was born in Eng] 
land 57 years ago. He came to th 
United States ip. 1835, and was gradu| 
ated from the theological department 
University of the South, Stwa ne< 
Tenn., in 1892. His appointment al 
Protestant Episcopal archdeacon o 
the Yukon was announced ih 190 
after he had served as dean of S 
Matthew’s Cathedral, Dallas, Tex. 
Although Dr. oCok, of north-pol| 
controversy fame, claimed to havl 
climbed Mount McKinley, Arehdeaco) 
Stuck, who ascended it in June, 191 
is generally credited with havin| 
been the first tq reach its summit, 
was a fellow of the American an 
Royal Geological societies and auth< 
of a number of bo^ks. 
COULDN’T STAND BULLFIGH' 
Foreign Postal Delegates in Madri| 
Found Scenes Too Harrowing:. 
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Madrid, Oct. 12.—The scenes of thl 
Spanish bull ring were too harrov 
ing for a section of the foreign del 
gates to the International Post; 
Congress, now in session her 
who attended the regular Sundaj 
bullfights, and many t> f the: 
found themselves obliged to lea^ 
before the fights were concluded. 
The fights were of a lively natur- 
one of the performers lancing skil 
fully in the Portuguese style thl 
bulls to which he was opposed, . anl 
other performers acquitting them] 
selves creditably after the Spanisi 
manner. * 
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