1914 . 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
441 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—The Interstate Com¬ 
merce Commission handed down a report 
March (i containing serious charges 
against the management of the Chicago, 
Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad. The 
report contains the following statements: 
That the income of the St. Paul road for 
1910 was overstated by more than $5,- 
000,000. That the St. Paul had mis¬ 
represented the cost of labor for the fiscal 
year ended June 30, 1011. That the 
income of the Puget Sound line was 
greatly overstated by means of “a variety 
of expedients.” That the Puget Sound 
line included in its operating expenses 
no charges for depreciation of equipment. 
That the “fictitious showing” of income 
was used by officers of the Puget Sound 
company to aid in the sale of its bonds. 
That the Puget Sound company’s report 
of property investment was $100,000,000 
in excess of the cash investment. 
Capt. H. C. Simmons and 10 of the 
crew of the coal steamer Charlemagne 
Tower, Jr., which sank off Barnegat, N. 
J., March 0, were landed at Norfolk, 
Ya., March 7 by the steamer Bayport. 
The men were picked up from a lifeboat 
off the New Jersey coast five hours after 
they left their sinking steamer. Four 
other members of the crew, who put off 
in another lifeboat, were rescued by New 
Jersey life savers. All of the crew were 
saved. 
Probably for the first time since the 
parcel post has been put in operation a 
coffin, for an infant, was sent through 
tlie mail, from New York to Englewood, 
N. J., March 8. The undertaker tele¬ 
phoned for the coffin and as the postage 
was only 18 cents found the new service 
much cheaper than by express or by send¬ 
ing a wagon to New York for it. 
A four-foot water main running north 
and south under Fifth Avenue, New 
York, broke at the intersection of Broad¬ 
way, Twenty-third Street and Fifth Ave¬ 
nue, March 8. The water tore away the 
earth to the west of the break without 
disturbing the pavement and broke into 
the sewer running through Twenty-third 
Street. Next the tremendous back pres¬ 
sure of the underground flood tore into 
the new Broadway subway excavation 
and filled the subway. Finally electric 
sparks caused gas explosions. Thousands 
of dollars worth of plate glass was blown 
out of buildings. A trolley car was 
banged so badly that eight passengers 
had to be treated by an ambulance sur¬ 
geon. A column of flame fifteen feet 
through mounted high in the street for 
three hours. Great holes were torn in 
asphalt and block pavements and it was 
necessary to rip up much more good 
pavement before the flow of flaming gas 
could be shut off. 
St. Luke’s Protestant Episcopal 
Church, Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, N. 
Y., one of the finest edifices in the bor¬ 
ough, was destroyed by fire March 9. 
The flames also gutted the parish house 
and burned out two floors in the rectory. 
The damage was given as $400,000. 
March 9 the U. S. Supreme Court 
refused to review the penitentiary sen¬ 
tences imposed upon Frank M. Ryan, 
president of the International Associa¬ 
tion of Bridge and Structural Iron 
Workers, and twenty-three of the asso¬ 
ciation’s members. The labor men were 
convicted technically of conspiracy to 
carry dynamite and nitro-glycerine on 
interstate passenger trains. In further¬ 
ance of this conspiracy it was charged 
that Ortie McManigal carried these ex¬ 
plosives on such trains to Chicago, Tiffin, 
Ohio, Los Angeles and scores of other 
cities from coast to coast. 
Fire in the building occupied by the 
Missouri Athletic Club, St. Louis, March 
9, caused the death of 48 persons. A 
number of persons among these were 
transient guests who were not registered, 
and identification is difficult. It is said 
that warning had been given of unsafe 
conditions in the building. 
The United States Circuit Court of 
Appeals handed down, March 9, a sweep¬ 
ing affirmation of the decision of Circuit 
Court Judge Hazel of Buffalo, sustaining 
the application and force of the so-called 
“Goodwin patent” to all the common 
types of films manufactured by the East¬ 
man Kodak Company. Unless it is pos¬ 
sible for the Eastman Kodak Company 
to carry the case up to the United States 
Supreme Court, the decision of the Court 
of Appeals means that the Eastman Ko¬ 
dak Company will have to account to 
the Ansco company for all cartridge films, 
film packs and cinematograph films made 
by it in the last fifteen years. The 
amount of money involved is enormous. 
The Ansco company controls the patent 
by virtue of controlling the Goodwin 
Film and Camera Company, which owns 
the patent. The original inventor of 
the pliable film. Rev. llannibal Goodwin, 
a clergyman, who was experimenting to 
improve stereopticon views for his Sun¬ 
day school, is survived by a widow of 86 
and one daughter, who are in modest cir¬ 
cumstance's. 
MESSAGE ON CANAL TOLLS.— 
March 5 President Wilson appeared be¬ 
fore Congress and read a short message 
asking for the repeal of the provision in 
the Panama Canal act exempting coast¬ 
wise American shipping from the pay¬ 
ment of tolls. Mr. Wilson asserted that 
his reason for asking the repeal was that 
everywhere except in the United States 
the tolls exemption was regarded as a 
violation of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, 
and he further asked it in support of the 
administration’s general foreign policy 
Because of the wide diversity of opin 
ion, even among members of his own 
party, on the tolls question, Mr. Wilson’s 
reception was not so flattering as that 
accorded him upon former occasions. 
Sharper criticism among members of 
Congress also followed the delivery of 
the message. 
WEATHER AND CROPS. 
Niagara Co. peach growers of this sec¬ 
tion claim that peach buds were killed 
by the cold weather in February. In 
different years past just as cold weather 
has been experienced and followed by a 
large crop, but this year the few live 
buds are found on the young tres. Many 
auctions owing to Spring changes. 
Horses are selling at $350 to $550 per 
pair; cows, canners $20 to $30; fresh 
$60 to $125, according to quality. Veal 
10 cents pound; butter 20; eggs 30; 
pork 8%. No market for potatoes until 
the weather is warmer, as what few po¬ 
tatoes there are, are stored, usually in 
pits during the Winter. The trimming 
of fruit trees is well under way and 
farmers here anxiously await Spring 
weather. m. h. l. 
Barker, N. Y. 
We have had good Winter weather 
nearly all the month. The latter part 
has been extremely cold, the mercury 
going to 24 deg. below zero. Some have 
fears about the peach buds. I have ex¬ 
amined a few and find them all right 
Some have been trimming apple trees 
during the few warm days we have had. 
Not much else is being done but chores 
and attending auctions of which there 
are a large number. Cows are selling 
very high, also western horses which are 
being shipped in. Hopewell Grange has 
appointed several committees to purchase 
its supplies of fertilizers, spraying mate 
rial, binding twine, etc. Stock of all 
kinds is doing well. It takes lots of 
grain and fodder. Wheat and meadow 
lands are well protected with snow. It 
has been hard work to get eggs during 
the cold weather. I see that many of 
the Granges are taking action against 
the Wilson bill in regard to widening 
sleighs. e. T. B. 
Canandaigua, N. Y. 
No fruit or gardening crops offered by 
farmers here. Potatoes sell for 32 to 
38 cents now, according to variety. Tri¬ 
umph (seed stock) 30 to 35 cents here. 
Cows (milch) sell for from $50 to $70, 
and good pork brings 7% cents. Good 
veal nine cents, live weight. Oats 40 to 
45; corn $14 to $18 a ton. Dairy but¬ 
ter 26. h. G. F. 
Almond, Wis. 
Oats 32; corn 50; rye 4S. Choice 
Timothy hay $10 per ton baled (little or 
no demand). Butterfat 30 cents per 
pound. Milch cows, fresh or just com¬ 
ing, $50 to $75. Stock and feeding cat¬ 
tle $5 to $6.25 per cwt.; fat cows and 
heifers _$5 to $7: corn fed steers $6.50 
to $7.75; hogs $7.50 to $7.90. Fruits 
and garden truck are not enough raised 
for home consumption. This is mainly 
a live stock section, gradually turning 
to dairying, to which it is well adapted. 
Clover and other legumes adapted to this 
latitude grow here to perfection, while 
the nondescript type of cows are rapidly 
changing to good dairy type, through 
the use of purebred sires. m. b. c. 
Amery, Wis. 
Wheat 70; barley 50; rye 50; Scotch 
peas 80. Hay from $5 to $9 per ton, 
according to quality. Straw $4 per ton. 
Clover seed $7; oats 32; flaxseed $1.15. 
Eggs 24 ; butter, creamery, 30, dairy 22. 
Cheese from 17 to 17%. Horses from 
$100 to $250 and even $300 per head. 
Cows $50 to $90. Calves, live weight, 
eight cents; hogs, live weight, seven 
cents. j. g. 
Algoma, Wis. 
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