Monthly Statement for October,
Showing Large Reduction
in National Debt.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT ESTIMATES
Montnly Circulation Statement of th«
Comptroller of the Currency—The Coin
age for October—Treasury Balances
anti Itond Purchases—Uradstreet’s Re
port of Failures.
Washington, Nov. 2.—The monthly
statement of the pnblic debt shows
that at the close of business October
31, 1901, the debt, less cash in the
treasury, amounted to $1,022,032,957,
a decrease from last month of $9,563,
408. The debt is recapitulated as fol
lows:
Interest-bearing debt, $961,023,100;
debt on which interest has ceased
since maturity $1,341,310; debt bearing
no interest, $385,324,244. Total, $1,347,
688,654. This amount, however, does
not include $803,897,089 in certificate^
and treasury notes outstanding, which
are offset by an equal amount of cash
In the treasury held for their redemp
tion.
The cash in the treasury is classified
as follows:
Gold reserve fund.$ 150,000.000
Trust funds . 803,897.089
General fund . 148,310,584
In national bank depositaries.. 110,840,438
Total .$10,213,048,111
Against which there are demand lia
bilities outstanding amounting to
$887,392,412, which leaves a cash bal
ance on hand of $325,655,697.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.
Eatlmutes of Expenditures Darlnj)
tlie Fiscal l’enr.
Washington, Nov. 2.—The estimates
of the expenditures of the interior de
partment during the fiscal year begin
ning next July aggregate $170,000,000.
of which $142,161,200 is asked for pen
sions and the administrative work of
the pension bureau,$1,964,270 beingfor
salaries of the bureau personnel and
$350,000 for the investigations by spe
cial examiners of pension cases.
In addition to the $13,516,200, al
ready appropriated for the twelfth
census, $1,912,120 for the next year is
asked. Of the amount heretofore ap
propriated for the census $9,423,332
had been disbursed up to August 31
last, leaving a balance of appropria
tions unexpended on that date of $4,
092,578.
Other items call for $7,000,000 for
the Indian service; $2,286,965 for the
general land office, including the an
nual appropriation of $300,000 for for
est reserves; $1,069,207 for the geo
logical survey, and $949,000 for the
patent office.
CIRCULATION STATEMENT.
Increase* and Decrease* Shown l>y
tlie Comptroller of the Currency.
Washington, Nov. 2.—The monthly
circulation statement issued by the
comptroller of the currency shows
that at the close of business October
31, 1901, the total circulation of na
tional bank notes was $359,911,683, an
increase for the year of $28,218,270.
and for the month of $1,081,135.
The circulation based on United
States bonds amounted to $328,198,
614, an increase for the year of $29,
369,549, and a decrease for the month
of $646,453.
The circulation secured by lawful
money amounted to $31,718,069, a de
crease for the year of $1,151,279, and
an increase for the month of $1,727.
588.
The amount of United States bonds
on deposit to secure circulating notes
was $329,833,930, and to secure public
deposits, $110,256,750.
Yesterday’* Rond PnrchnHe*.
New York, Nov. 2.—It was an
nounced at the subtreasury at the
close of business, yesterday, that the
total bond purchases by the govern
ment yesterday amounted to $1,272,
170, par value, and with premiums, $1,
586,887.63.
Tbe Month’* Coinage.
Washington, Nov. 2.—The monthly
coinage statement of the coinage ex
ecuted at the mints of the United
States, shows that for the month of
October, 1901, the total coinage was
$8,72S,868, as follows: Gold, $5,750,000;
silver, $2,791,488; miner coins, $187,
380.
Tlie Week's Failures.
New York, Nov. 2.—Bradstreets re
port: s
I “Failures for the United States for
the week number 172, as against 227
last week. Canadian failures for the
week number 17, against 16 last
week.”
Trenunry Balanoen.
Washington, Nov. 2.—Yesterday’s
statement of the.treasury balances in
the general fund, exclusive of the
$150,000,000 gold reserve in the divi
sion of redemption, showed: Availa
ble cash balance, $175,655,097; gold,
$109,346,493.
AUXILIARY COMMITTEES,
Addillonal State Auxiliary Commit
tees For the St. Louis World’s
Fair Named.
St. Louis, Oct. 30.—The following
additional au-xiliary committees for
World’s fair work under the joint
committee on legislation and state
and territorial exhibits have been ap
pointed:
Alabama—Wm. II. Olopton, chair
man; John 11. Hundley, C. B.% Cook,
J. W. Bray and Beeves Jackson.
Indiana—Sylvester J. Fisher, chair
man; T. B. Glazebrook, H. B. Wandell,
Chas. M. Reeves, Joseph Flory, Myron
M. Medsker and Jesse A. McDonald.
Kansas—L. B. Brinson, chairman;
E. C. Robinson, I. N. McCreery, D. F
Coon and S. H. Fullerton.
Oklahoma—E. R. Darlington, chair
man; Judge J. F. Hilton, Zach Mulhail
and H. L. Murry.
South Carolina—Dr. P. G. Robinson,
chairman; Malcolm Macbeth, Dr. Chas.
E. Michel, L. L. Prince and Houston T
Brookings.
Mississippi—Judge Upton M. Young,
chairman; Judge Leroy B. Valliant
Dr. John P. lSryson, Marcus Bern
heimer, Oscar Johnson and James H.
Williams.
North Carolina—Dr. Wm. C. Green,
chairman; Jesse M. Battle, Robert B
Dula, Caj)t. E. P. Creery and Dr. Wm
McPheeters.
Virginia—Henry T. Kent, chairman;
Maj. R. R. Hutchinson, John R. Trip
lett, W. Scott Hancock, Colin M. Selph
and John F. Lee.
West Virginia—Oreon E. Scott,
chairman; John Goode, Zach Mitchell
and Capt. E. H. Barnes.
Wisconsin—Loyd G. Harris, chair
man; J. C. Birge, Edward K. Holton,
Christian Bernet and John B. Buss.
HE WILL WORK IN BRAZIL.
Jolin LcmvI.n Taylor to Represent the
Louisiana Purchase Exposi
tion in Brazil.
St. Louis, Nov. 2.—John Taylor Lew
is, who has held several diplomatic po
sitions under the United States gov
ernment, will represent the Louisiana
Purchase exposition in Brazil. The
matter of Mr. Lewis’ appointment
was taken up by the executive com
mittee, Wednesday, and President
Francis was empowered to act in the
matter. The latter made the an
nouncement that he had made the
appointment.
Mr. Lewis was vice and deputy con
sul general of the United States to
Rio Janeiro under President Cleve
land, from 1896 to 1898. He speaks
Portuguese, the language most used
in Brazil, and has a general acquaint
ance among the most prominent peo
ple,of that country. His work in Bra
zil for the St. Louis exposition will be
to influence the Brazilian government
to appropriate money for an exhibit
of the resources of the country, to
induce manufacturers and large pro
ducers to make individual exhibits,
and to exploit the exposition so that
visitors from that country may come
to St. Louis in 1903. Mr. Lewis is 35
years of age, and is a native of Meck
lenburg county, Va. 4
IN THE HANDS OF AN EXPERT.
Lieut. Godfrey L. Carden, t. S. 51.,
to Have Charge of the Ordnance^
Exhibit ut St. Louis.
St. Louis, Nov. 1.—An appointment
made at the request of the Louisiana
Purchase exposition company by the
secretary of the treasury, is that of
Lieut. Godfrey L. Carden, who is lo
serve at the head of the ordnance ex
hibit division. Lieut. Carden, who is
not a stranger to St. Louis, has had
an unusually distinguished career for
a man of his age. His parents were
missionaries to Bangkok, Siam, when
he was born, and in later years, when
the family residence was in Califor
nia, the young man entered the naval
academy at Annapolis. He received
his commission in 1888. He served dur
ing the Spanish-American war under
Sampson, in connection with ord
nance matters. He is authority on
the subject, having written and lec
tured much about guns. Two years
ago he delivered a lecture before Ran
som post, G. A.'R., of St. Louis, on the
Spanish-American war. At the Pan
American he was chosen superintend
ent of the ordnance exhibit,’that be
ing the first time an attempt was
made to collect a large exhibit of the
products of factories devoted to the
making of war munitions. Relative
to his work, he says that the exhib
itors who made attractive displays at
the Pan-American are all anxious to
repeat the experiment at St. Louis in
1903 on a much larger scale.
Argentina Meann liUMinens.
London, Nov. 2.—“The Argentine
government lias requested Chile to de
sist from roadmaking in the Cordil
leras,” says a dispatch to the Daily
Mail from Buenos Ayres, “and has
demanded an official declaration that
the roadmaking already accomplished
does not constitute a claim by Chile
to the territory in dispute. Failing
this assurance, the Argentine minis
ter. it is said, will be withdrawn.”
A RACE AGAINST TIME
Grnithic Account of tlic Record
Breaking Journey of the Aoi
tralian-London Mail.
_/
“Transportation,” said a speaker
recently before the internation
al commercial congress at Phil
adelphia, “underlies material pros
perity in every department of
commerce; without transportation
commerce would be impossible; those
states and nations are rich, powerful
and enlightened whose transportation
facilities are the best and most com
prehensive; the dying nations are
those with little or no transportation
facilities.”
Then the speaker uttered these two
memorable sentences:
“Trade follows the flag.”
“Trade follows the mail.”
If these statements be true, too
great importance can hardly be
placed upon the recent achievement
of an American Pacific liner and of
the five great railroads making up the
transcontinental system between San
Francisco and New York, of which
Mr. Charles Barnard gives a graphic
account in the “Four Track Series.”
At the past office of Sydney, N. S.
W., there lay, early in the morning of
August 13, 1901, 367 sacks of the most
important mail matter ever sent from
Australia to F.ngland. There are two
routes by which such mail could go.
One is an all-British route by way of
the Suez canal. The other is prac
tically an all-American route, by way
of Samoa, Hawaii, San Francisco, New
York and thence to London. Of
course, under the present arrange
ment. the last lap, on the bosom of
the broad Atlantic, is sailed under
the British flag. The British route is
the older one and also the shorter,
being 12,500 miles, while the distance
the other away around is 13,557, a
difference of over a thousand miles.
That morning’, the 13th of August,
the American flag was flying on a
new ship, fresh from the American
ship yards on the Delaware. She was
the best available ship that day in the
South Pacific. The only thing to do
was to place the important mail on
board the new American, twin-screw
steamer “Ventura,” of the Oceanic
Steamship company, which was done
at ten o’clock in the morning. From
Sydney the Ventura steered straight
for Auckland, and entered that har
bor on the 17th. Taking on freight,
mails and passengers she again set
sail, making for the beautiful and po
etic islands of Samoa, thence for Ha
waii and San Francisco. At seven p.
m., September 2, she anchored at
quarantine in San Francisco harbor,
having made the voyage in 20 days
and 9 hours. Had the Ventura been
urged it is possible she could have ar
rived a few hours earlier and landed
those precious mail bags that day.
As it happened they could not be
landed till 8:30 on the morning of the
3d. They were at once transferred
by teams to the Market street station
of the Southern Pacific (Ogden route),
and at ten o’clock they began their
eventful journey across the continent
to New York, 3,3S8 miles away.
Suddenly the unexpected happened.
The train arrived at Ogden, Utah,
two dreadful hours late.
The mail was transferred to the
mail ear of train No. 2 of the Union
Pacific. It was still late when
it reached Omaha. The Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy put the single
mail car containing his majesty’s
mail behind a special fast engine. It
was a night run against time for No.
108G. On and on, GO miles an hour
steady. The train entered Union sta
tion, Chicago, at 9:08 a. m., on the
Gth. Five hundred and eight miles in
555 minutes.
No. 6 is the Lake Shore—New York
Central “fast mail”—the heaviest fast
mail train in America. She had left
at 8:30. That train had to be over
taken. A new special, two cars and
No. 566, would try if it had to chase
it all the way into Buffalo. At pre
cisely 9:59:30 a. m. she pulled out
from the Lake Shore station—and
No. 6 one hour and 29% minutes
ahead. As the special ate up the
miles, it became evident that she was
making up the lost time. She would
overhaul No. 6 at Toledo. Two hun
dred and forty-four miles in 2G5%
minutes. The thing had been done.
The two hours lost 2,000 miles away
had been made up.
At Buffalo, the precaution was
taken to make up the New York Cen
tral’s No. 6—the fast mail—into two
sections, sending on those mail bags
from Australia, together with Uncle
Sam’s mail, in the first section. This
was the fifth and last of the railroad
lines forming the route across the
United States. The train pulled into
the Grand Central station the morn
ing ot the 7th at 9:57—three minutes
ahead cf time.
The Campania sailed at noon, with
his majesty’s mail on board, 25 days
and 2 hours out of Sydney. At seven
o’clock Saturday morning, September
14, the Australian mail was deliv
ered at the post office in London, as
sorted and ready for the carriers.
Instead of the old time of 35 days
and some hours by way of the Suez
canal, it was done in 32 days less
some hours by using the American
route.
FEMININE FINERY
Some of the \ew Trim miners for Earlf
Winter ContnnioN—The Latest
in Hats,
Navy bine is used more than it has
been recently, and a soft yet bright
red with tints of yellow in it is at
tractive.
New trimmings are many. Irish
lace is stylishly acceptable for any
and every place where it can pos
sibly be used, not only on gowns,
but hats and fur garments as well.
Silk escurial lace is another revival
and appears as dress trimming in
the colors of the materials upon
which it is used. It looks very well
on tan and brown, and the latter is
very fashionable from pale biscuit to
dark brown, says a fashion author
ity.
A new and handsome trimming
employed chiefly for evening gowns
consists of pompadour wreaths of
roses. Then those who like spangles
may indulge their fancy to the ex
tent of wearing spangled hosiery and
gloves, for novelties in this line have
made their appearance, and there are
almost countless more sensible ways
of using them.
Two-toned colors appear in novelty
ribbons, sage green on one side and
turquoise on the other, representing
one combination, black and red an
other. To the polka dot and coin
velvet ribbons have now been added
a two-toned variety, the satin lining
being in lighter tint than the velvet.
Cashmere and Persian colored rib
bons are also used very extensively.
Pretty shirt waists in shepherd’s
plaid are seen with silk collar and
cuffs, and there are very dainty ef
fects in gray and white, gray and
black and red and white. Shirt
waists of handsome striped Louisine
silk are also seen, and usually show
the delicate colors, such as pink and
green, pale blue, green and white, or
red, white and blue. They are made
perfectly plain, with a few gathers
at the neck in front, and fasten with
hooks and eyes.
Taffeta and velvet will be used for
many of the new long coats this;
winter, and will be made warm by
lamb’s wool interlining-. Black and
the dark, rich shades of red, blue
and green will be the colors em
ployed. A handsome taffeta clonk
seen recently was of the deep ruddy
tint that was once called wine color,
with kimono collar and cuffs of
black satin.
Many of the gowns by fashionable
dressmakers have waists that open
in the back and are perfectly straight
in front, with a point. The skiflt in
many instances is put on the belt,
with the back fullness confined in
small box plaits flowing- away from
the waist. Art nouveau embroidery
is frequently used and chenille also
in delicate tints is applied in em
bordered designs.
The popular tailored hat is charm
ing for all ordinary wear, and is
generally made of camel’s-hair
felt, draped over a wire frame, and
is flat and broad in effect. The hat
is seldom worn just as made, for the
wearer bends it to suit her particu
lar type of face and style of hair
dressing. Bending does not hurt it
in the least. It is made with that
in view. Velvet is much used for
binding these hats, as well as for
loops and bows.
Shylock Still Flourishing.
Nearly a year has elapsed s-ince the
money-lenders’ act came into opera
tion—or, to sipeak by the card, was
intended to come into operation. That
it has failed, and failed egregiously,
to fulfill the purposes for which it was
parsed can no longer be doubted. In
practice the act neither prevents de
ception on the part of the usurer nor
rescues his victim from oppression.
And where Shylock has been himself
unable to slip through the meshes of
the net that was drawn around him,
the authorities charged with the ad
ministration of the act have kindly cut
a hole for his escape.—London Truth.
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married for nearly two years, and so
far have not been blessed with a child.
I have, however, suffered with a com
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