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GALVESTON TRTBUNB: FRIDAY.
AUGUST II.
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Northern Lake Resorts
AUTOMOBILES
MOTOR CYCLES
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IN FIRST CLASS COMPANIES
CHAS. R. BROWN & CO.
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Daughters of Confederacy and
Gov. Go quitt Discuss Sale of
Confederate Woman’s Home.
CONFERENCE CAME
TO NO AGREEMENT
Increase of $51,000,000 and
Decrease of $4,jOU, 000 in
Imports in Hast Year.
EXPORTS OF IRON
ANO STEEL GROW
Already Work Has Began at Key
West for Big Affair Coming
Off Next January.
OVER-SEA RAIL
CELEBRATION
WHO RtM-MBERS
THE TRADE DOLLAR
J. F. Seinsheimer (St Co.
2506 STRAND
GULF, COLORADO & SANTA FE.
(Daily)
(Daily) .
. 11:35 a. m.
. 8t20 p. m.
6:35 p. m.
10:45 a. m.
2:50 p. rn.
CARS FOR HIRE.
BEST STORAGE FACILITIES.
Marine
Building
The Everitt Has a Self-Starter
Ketly-springfield Tires.
CARS IN STOCK
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C. H. MANN, T. P. A.,
L. & N. R. R.
119 Main St. Houston
ar-
export
down-
ex-
as
re-
per
5:3O p. m.....
10:30 p. m. .. .,
Depart.
8:40 p. m. . . .
Inter-State Sales Co.
2216 Postoffice Street. Telephone 3323
1912 CARS
8:00 a. m....
4:30 p. m....
Prompt Service. Immediate Settlement.
AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE
Liability, Property Damage, Collision, Fire, Theft
I. LOVENBERG
INSURANCE
Established 1881. Cor. Strand A 22g St*
(Daily).....
(Daily).....
Schedule of the Arrival
and Departure of Trains
To and From the Galveston Union Station, Corner Strand
Everitt,
Inter-Stafe,
Pope-Hartford
Coin Once Common But Now is
Found Only in Collections of
Numismatists.
IRISH POPULATION DECLINES.
Years
of the principal resorts:
Mackinac Island —$55.40
Marquette---------58.90
Milwaukee--------47.00
Put-in-Bay---------47.95
Petoskey 53.45
Waukesha *--------47.30
Through Trains from New Orleans to
Chicago, Cincinnati,
Louisville and New York
Where the cool gulf breezes
fan your cheeks and the best
of cuisine is to be had. At
THE MURDOCH CAFE
Arrive
... Bi46a.ni.
• •. Ci35 p. m.
FLY TIME-SCREEN TIME
Screen stocks complete and ready.
Also Sash, Blinds, Doors, Hardware,
Paints.
WM. SCHADT
2801 Mechanic St. Phone 224.
... 8:35 p. m.
• • . 8:00 p. m.
• . 9:20 a. m.
>.. 2:55 p. m.
Arrive.
.... 9:15 a. m.
Arrive.
■lot
•. 12:20 p. m.
JAMISON’S Ice Cream Parlor
For years the standard of our
service and the purity of our
cream has been generously at-
tested by thousands of patrons.
“On The Baach”
Next to Snug Harbor Hotel.
That Smith citizen with Cleveland
hammers the ball as he did in Atlanta.
He may not be the most polished catch-
er in the American League, but he
works a lot of polish off the ball when
he hits it.
(Sunday only) .
(Sunday only.
(Sunday only) .
Special. (Daily)...,
GALVESTON, HOUSTON & HENDERSON.
C. connection
The Surf Hotel
AMERICAN PLAN.
Every Room Facing tl e Gulf.
Telephone in Every Room.
H. C. HERVEY Manager
SUMMER EXCURSION
RATES!
To All Northern (St Eastern Cities
and Resorts. Round Trip
Rates Effective June I
DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE TO
North Texas Points, St. Louis, Kansas City, Chi-
cago and California Points.
LEAVE BALVESTOH, 5:55 A, M. and 8:15 A. M„ 4:45 P. M., 7 P. M.
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Julius J, Meyers
The Exclusive Sporting Goods
Shop. 508 Tremont, Phone 2349
J. H. Miller, D. P. A. Phone 87. C. H. Compton, C. T. A.
CITY TICKET OFFICE. 403 TREMONT STREET.
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TORNADO INSURANCE!
Policies Covering Hurricane,Cyclone and Wind Storms
Also FIRE. MARINE, AUTOMOBILE and ACCIDENT
IN FIRST CLASS COMPANIES
Carries Through Electric Lighted
Sleeper to
Dallas, Ft. WortJi and
Denver
“Last to Leave—First to Arrive.”
ASHLEY POYNOR,
City P. O. T. A.
301 Tremont Phone 2220
HUMPHREY
WATER HEATERS
Always keep you in hot water. Come
before the rush and select the size you
like. Examine our large heater.
R. C. MALITZ,
Plumber, Gas and Steam Fitter.
2020 G. tfiione 660«
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“Just Say"
HORLICK’S
It Means
Original and Genuine
MALTED MILK
The Food-drink for All Ages.
More healthful than Tea or Coffee.
Agrees with the weakest digestion.
Delicious, invigorating and nutritious.
Rich milk, malted grain, powder form.
A quick lunch prepared in a minute.
Take no substitute. Ask for HORLICK’S.
MF Others are imitations.
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St. Louis,
Chicago and
Kansas City
via
excursion trips to adjacent keys, by
water and by Over Sea railroad; a
dally carnival and circus; in fact, some
thing doing all the time.
Colonel T. J. L. Brown, the direc-
tor-general , is now in Washington
completing arrangements for
President’s visit.
| 9:30 p. m.
NINE-THIRTY
LEAVES GALVESTON DAILY.
T. & B. V. RY.
CLOTHES THAT LIFT YOU
Above the average In appearance
the kind we make. They cost no more
than £he other kind.
GEAR TAILORING CO.
503 Tremont.
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3:00 p. m.
8:35 a. m.
. 10:35 a. m.
via Houston.
• 9:25 a. m.
. 9:50 p. m.
. 10:20 a. m.
. 2:45 p. m.
• 6:40 p. m. ,
Arrive.
Everybody Reads
The Tribune
“A Paper for All the People;”
Clean, Newsy, Tirelessly Pro-
gressive; a Welcome Visitor to
Most ot the Homes of Our City.
Steam Yacht Grey Fox—Launch
Lotus.
LINK LINE
C. H. McLEAN, MANAGER.
Texas City Ferry Service
FOOT 23D STREET.
Grey Fox leaves Galveston 8:30
a. m,, 12:30, 4:30 and 7:00 p. m.
Leaves Texas City 9:30 a. m., 1:30,
5:30 and 7:45 p. in.
FREIGHT AND AUTOMOBILES
Lotus leaves Galveston 8:00 a. m.,
12:00 in. and 5:00 p. in. Leaves Texas
City 10:00 a. m., 3:00 and 10:30 p. m.
Special Trips Arranged at Boats or
Phone 85. Texas City.
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The lake resorts in the East and North are particularly
attractive. The clear invigorating air added to boating,
bathing and fishing will do much to up-build you phys-
ically. We. have on sale daily round trip tickets at low .
«pe*S an^ long return limits and will be glad to give you
rull information. Following are the round trip rates from
\ Galveston to some r'tf ’’ ’ - ——
$53.45
PA
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LOCOMOTIVES J
Leave Galveston dally.... S :00 a.m.
-(Motor Car Service.)
Arrive Beaumont ........11 :tw» a. m.
Leave Galve-'tnn daily.... 4:30 p. m
Arrive . Beaumont......... 8:15 p, m.
Leave Beaumont dally.... 4:30 p.m.
(Motor Car Service.)
Arrive Galveston ......... 8:2o p. m.
Leave Beaumont daily.... 8sWa.m.
Arrive Galveston .........11:35 a.m.
M. NAUMANN, C. P. & T. A.
Placed on Copper River and Northwest-
ern Railway and Doing Well.
Alaska’s first dining car, only re-
cently placed in service on the Copper
River and Northwestern railway, was
built from an old coach at the Cor- j
dova shops of the company and is ;
managed by a man and his wife, with
two assistants. A la carte meals are
served at all hours during the day,
the car being attached to the regular I
trains operating over the railroad be-
tween Cordova and the interior of
Alaska.
The importance of laying a corner-
stone doesn’t seem to be as great as it
was in the good old days.
An ordinary case of diarrhoea can, as
a rule, be cured by a single dose of
Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy. This remedy has
no superior for bowel complaints. For
sale by all dealers.
When It Comes to Auto Sundries or Supplies
NEWDING Gives You Service I
REMEMBER.—I am the Agent for Those “Goodrich and Diamond.”
Tires and Carry a Complete Line.
Phone 1139 Will Get You Prompt Results. 2208 Postoffice St.
Dining Cars All
the Wav
WHILE TRAVELING YOU MAY
AS WELL SEE THE SCENERY
OF THE OZARKS. TO SEE
THE BEST OF THEM YOU
MUST GO VIA THE FRISCO.
WRITE ME FOR SUMMER
RATES NORTH AND EAST.
J. F. Govan, D. P. A.
1010 Texas Avenue
Houston
island City Garage
2322 POSTOFFICE STREET.
Agents for the National, Haynes, Maxwell, Houpmobile and
Waverley Electric.
UP-TO-DATE PAINT AND REPAIR SHOP.
PHONE 1653.
J NO. C.OTT
2109 AVENUE I.
THE MOST UP-TO-DATE MAR-
BLE AND GRANITE WORKS
IN THIS STATE.
WE DO TILE WORK
Decrease During Last Ten
Amounted to 76,824.
Ireland was the only part of the
British Isles to show a decrease in
population during the last ten yearsv
in spite of th’e growing depopulation
of Scotland. Ireland lost 76,824, a de-
cline of 1.7 per cent. The cities of
Dublin and Belfast have increased in
population, and the rest of the coun-
try. except the province of L'einster,
lias been drained to supply them and
to support emigration.
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A trade dollar is slightly larger than
a standard dollar, but it is not current
coin and its metal value is only about
40 cents, though coin collectors will
pay 80 cents for it.
So many of these mongrel dollars
were in circulation -20 years and more
ago that most persons w’ere watchful
to avoid getting one, but in recent
years they have been so rare that
many people never hav’e seen one.
Trade dollars were authorized by
Congress in 1873 for the purpose of
stimulating commerce with the Qri’ent.
For many years the Mexican silver
dollar had been a highly valued coin
in nearly all Far Eastern countries.
Hundreds of millions of them were
shipped to China, Japan, the Philip-
pines and other countries in that part
of the world to pay for the products
exported from them to Europe and the
United States.
American lawmakers thought that a
coin of practically the^ same weight
and size of the Mexican dollar, hear-
ing the imprint of the United States
could be used advantageously as a
substitute for the Mexican dollar.
In the ive years beginning with 1873
the United States mint uroduced near-
ly 36,000,000 of these dollars. Most of
them were exported, but enough of
them remained in this country to be
embarrassing because of their similar-
ity to the standard silver dollar, and
in 1887 Congress provided that for six
months therafter all trade dollars
^resented to the treasury should be ex-
changed for standard, silver dollars,
and after that time the trade dollars
left to shift for themselves, being
worth only their metal value, plus
whatever premium coin collectors
might be willing to pay for them.
Nearly 8,000,000 of them were redeem-
ed, and when that period of redempt-
ion ended only 284,587 of them
mained in this country, less than 1
e'ent of the number that had been
coined.
The trade dollars have on one side a
sitting figure of the Goddess of Liber-
ty and on the other an eagle of a dif-
ferent design from that on the stand-
ard dollar. The inscription is “United
States of America, Trade Dollar, 420
grains. 900 fine.”
The standard silver dollar weighs
412% grains. The weight of the Mex-
ican dollar is 417.79 grains, but 97.27
per cent of it is pure silver, so that
though it weighs less its metal value
is about the 7 per cent more than that
of the old trade dollar. Probably this
is th’e reason the trade dollar never
made a hit with the people of the Far
East. There is ground for suspicion
that the originators of the trade dol-
lar thought the Orientals might be .
duped into taking it in preference to
the Mexican dollar because of its
slightly greater weight notwithstand-
ing the fact that its silver volue was
about 7 per cent less. But the Orien-
tal money changers quickly 1’earned
this difference in value and the de-
ception wouldn’t work.
The trade dollar was authorized by
the coinage act of 38 years ago, which
becam’e famous under the designation
of “the crime of ’73” in the free silver
agitation which began a few*years
later and continued with more or less
virulence for mor'e than 20 years.
POET RILEY’S GIFT.
Has Presented Indianapolis With $75,-
OOO Site for New Public Library.
There seems to be some financial
return from poetry after all. James
Whitcomb Riley has given Indianap-
• olis a $75,000 site for her new public
library. The Hoosier city should name
the new institution the Riley Library.
It would be a pleasant relief from the
usual Carnegie affair and mean some-
thing in a literary way.
Accused of Stealing.
E. E. Chamberlain of Clinton, Me.,
boldly accuses Bucklen’s Arnice Salve
of stealing—the sting from burns or
scalds—the pain from sores of all
kinds—the distress from boils or
piles. “It robs cuts, corns, bruises,
sprains and injuries of their terror,”
he says. “As a healing remedy its
equal don’t exist.” Only 25c at J. J.
Schott’s.
Sy Associated PreSB-
Key West, Fla., Aug 11.—Although
the active work in behalf of the Over-
sea Railroad Celebration to be h’eld in
this city beginning January 2, next,
has only been in progress a few weeks
a great deal has been accomplished,
and the success of the celebration is
already assured.
Aresolution by Congressman Frank
Clark, authorizing the president to
invite theforeign powers to be re-
presented at Key West by their am-
bassadors and war vessels, has been
introduced in Congress and has re-
ceived the approval of Secretary of
State Knox and a favorable report
from the house committee on Indust-
rial Arts and Expositions. It is ex-
pected to pass within a day or two and
the President has assured the com-
mittee of his approval.
President Taft has promised to visit
Key West on January 4 and he will be
accompanied by many notables, among
them Henry M. Flagler, the builder of
the Over-Sea Railroad, the completion
of which the celebration is to call the
atteneion of the world.
A tented city will supplement the
facilities for taking care of the crowds
that will atend and ample amuse-
ments will be furnished during the
20 days of the celebration.
Some special features will be an
open-sea yacht rur-'e from Rew West
to Havana and return; an airship flighx
to Havana and return; an airship flight
naval pageants; baseball games by
big league teams ;Chautauqua features;
Special to The Tribune.
Washington, Aug. 11.—An increase of
over 51 million dollars in the exports
of iron and steel manufactures and a
decrease of over 4 million dollars in
the imports of this class of merchan-
dise are striking characteristics of the
foreign commerce of the United States
in the fiscal year just ended. Iron and
steel manufactures exported aggrega-
ted $230,725,351 in value, against ?179,-
133*186 in 1910 and $183,982,182 in the
former high-record year, 1908.
The exports of iron and steel manu-
factures in the fiscal year 1911 were
$51,592,165. In excess of those the
preceding year and $46,743,169 in ex-
cess of the highest record ever made
prior to 1911. Ten years ago, in 1901,
the exports of iron and steel manufac-
tures amounted to but 117 million dol-
lars; twenty years ago 29 million and
thirty years ago 16% million, speaking
in round terms. The chief growth has
occurred in the last dozen years, the
total having never touched the hundred
million line prior to 1900, in which year
it was 122 million dollars. By 1905 it
had risen to 135 million, by 1908 tp 184
million and in 1911, as already indi-
cated, the total was 231 million.
This growth of 51 million dollars in
the fiscal year 1911, a growth which
far exceeds that of any earlier year,
was distributed among nearly all the
important classes of iron and steel ex-
ports. Exports of metal-working ma-
chinery, for example, advanced from a
little less than 6 million dollars in
1910 ■ to 9 2-3 million in 1911; sewing
machines from 7% million to 9 million
dollars; machinery as a whole from 80
million to 104% million dollars; wire
from 8 1-3 to over 10 million dollars;
structural Iron and steel, from 5% mil-
lion to 8 2-3 million dollars; builders’
hardware and tools, from 14 million to
17 million; electrical machinery, from
6 million to 8 million; locomotives from
2% million to practically 4 million dol-
lars; typewriters from 8% millions to
9% millions; pipes and fittings from
9% to 10% million dollars, and bars or
rods of steel, from 4% million to 5
million dollars.
NOT HIGHER PRICES.
Nor can it be assumed that this re-
markable increase in total value • bf
iron and steel manufactures exported is
due to higher prices, since a large
share of the staple products of iron
and steel show in 1911 a price level ma-
terially lower than that of ten or twen-
ty years ago. Of wire, for example,
the annual average export price has
fallen from 3.4c per pound in 1891 to
2.5c per pound in 1901 and 2.3c per
pound in 1911; of cut nails, from 2.4c
per pound in 1891 to 2.2c per pound in
1901 and 1.9c in 1911; and of bar iron,
from 4c per pound in 1891 to 1.76 in
1901 and 1911. The downward tenden
cy which has characterized iron and
steel prices during the last decade was
still in progress up to June of the pres-
ent year, the latest month for which
figures are available. Pig iron, the
basis of the more highly finished
tides forming the bulk of the
trade in iron and steel, ranged
ward in price from $16.51 per ton in
June, 1910, to $15.10 in June of the
present year; billets, ingots and blooms
of steej, which represent a higher class
of material used in producing the fin-
ished product, from $27.72 per ton in
June, 1910, to $22.13 in June, 1911; steel
sheets and plates, from 1.97c per pound
•in June, 1910, to 1.76 in June, 1911;
structural iron and steel from $49.76
per ton in June, 1910, to $44.63 in June,
1911; steel rails, from $29.04 in June,
1910, to $28.55 in June, 1911, and wire
from 2.4c per pound in June of last
year to 2.3c in June of the present
■year.
One remarkable feature of the iron
and steel export trade is the fact that
tin and terne plates show in 1911 ex-
ports to the value of $2,489,094, against
$912,171 in 1910, the quantity exported
in 1911 being 70,199,298 pounds, against
-26,168,315 pounds in the preceding year.
This record of 70 million pounds
ported in 1911 is more than twice
great as in the former high record year
of 1908, when the total was 33% mil-
lion pounds; is nine times as great as
in 1904 and 50 times as great as in
■1901, when tin plate exports first ex-
ceeded 1 million pounds.
All the world takes American manu-
factures of iron and steel; Canada and
Mexico, the West Indies, South and
Central America, the United Kingdom,
France, Netherlands, Germany, Asia,
Africa and distant islands on the oppo-
site side of the globe are purchasers of
the various articles of iron and steel,
ranging from structural iron and steel
machinery to more delicately adjusted
classes, such as cash registers, adding
machines, firearms and engines.
Arrive,
. 10:20 a. m.
- John Christensen & Company
For All Automobile Sundries and Supplies. High Grade Automo-
biles for Rent Day and Night. First-Class
Garage and Repair Shop.
Agents for Mannon, Rambler, Ford and Baker Electric.
PHONE 828. 714 TO 720 TREMONT ST.
Hotels, Cafes, Resorts
Galveston, the playground of the Southwest. Bath-
ing in the Gulf of Mexico; best Beach in America,
Fishing and Yachting on Galveston Bay. Automobil-
ing and driving along famous Beach Boulevard, ex-
cursions from everywhere—Come and enjoy yourself.
Galveston to
Charlevoix----- t_____
Chautauqua Lake Pts.. - "54.30
Chicago-----------43.60
Detroit- —......__ 46.80
Duluth------------50.15
Toronto-.......— 56.50
Special to The Tribune.
Austin, Tex., Aug. 10.—The contro-
versy between a certain faction of the
Daughters of the Confederacy and the
state, through the governor, for the
sale to the state of the Confederate
Women’s Home, has been reopened.
Mrs. A. R. Howard, president of the
Texas division of the daughters, had
a lengthy conference with the governor
on the subject, but to little purpose.
Mrs. Howard, it appears, insists that
the state shall buy the home that has
been erected by the Daughters of the
Confederacy, and which is now in op-
eration, maintaining that an appropria-
tion of $20,000 therefor was made by
the last regular session of the legisla-
ture.
The governor, on the other hand,
does not feel compelled to buy this
particular home, as the appropriation
is for the erection of “a” home, but not
necessarily this particular home; There
is another faction of the Daughters of
the Confederacy which does not care to
dispose of this home, while the faction
represented by Mrs. Howard wants to
dispose of thia home. The governor
pointed out to Mrs. Howard that this
particular home did not cost over $11,-
000, consequently it would be unwise
for the state to pay $20,000 therefor.
Besides there is now pending in the
general appropriation bill the sum of
$6,000 a year for the support and main-
tenance of the home already erected.
The attention of the legislature now
in session may be,called to this matter
and in the meantime the state does not
feel justified in taking over the pres-
ent home.
Depnrt.
7:00a. m........Kansas City-Chicago Express.
8:25 a. m........ - Houston-Galveston Express.
..Houston-Galveston Express. (Daily except Sunday) ..
4:00 p. m.........Houston-Galveston Express. (Daily).........
5:30 p. m..............Main Line Local. (Daily)....
7:30 p. m..North Texas and Kansas City Limited
(Dally)........ ...
......Galveston-Houston Special.
10:05 p. m......Galveston-Houston Special.
1:15 p. m......Houston-Galveston Special.
8:00 p. m. ....... Hous ton-Gal vest on
Depart.
4:10 a. m.. Southern Pacific eastbound H. & T. C ______;;
8:30 a. m. .Galve&ton-Houston Express, connects at Houston C.
P- (west bound) and H. & T. C. (north bound)......’
1:25 p. m.H. & T. C. and Southern Pacific westbound connection
................Houston Local....................
...... Galveston-Houston (Sunday only)..........
. .Galvestoii-Houston Special (Sunday only)...... »»55p^m
INTERNATIONAL & GREAT NORTHERN.
........Galveston-St Lou’s Fast Mall. ......
........8L Louis and Main Line Local......,,
4:10a. tn. ..Fort Worth Hvision..
Depart. MISSOURI, KANSAS & TEXAS.
6:25 p. m.......... ...........Katy Flyer.................
4:?0 a. in...,............Katy north connections... .........
pepart. SUNSET ROUTE.
fr:55a. m..H. & T. C., G., H. & S. A, connection, New Orleans
Express, T. & N. O..................................
7:00 p. m. .Southern Pacific (west bound) connection, G., H.
S. A., H. & T. C connection....................
8:15 a. m...............To Houston connections..........
4:45 p.m,............... New Orleans Express............
10:00 p.m...........Island City Flyer (Sunday only)......
Depart. TRINITY & BRAZOS VALLEY.
9:30 p m..............Houston-Dallas-Fort Worth....,..,
Depart. GULF INTERSTATE.
(From New 22d Street Station.)
... .Galveston-Beaumont.
... .Galveston-Beaumont
Arrive.
»:45 p. m.
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