ed
that
passenger
accommodation
be
included
in
the
scope
of
the
Shipping
Committee.
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'
PROFITEERING
IN
SUGAR
CHARG-
ED IN INDICTM
NTS.
CHICAGO, Sept.
6.
Officials of Bunte
Bros:,
confectioners,
and
three
whole-
sale
grocery
houses
have
been
indicted
byv the Federal
Grand
Jury charged
with
profiteering
In sugar.
The
grocery
houses
named
are the
Empire
Grocery
Company.
Hadesman
Bros.
and
the
Hen-
derson-Taylor Company.
_
bunte
Bros.
were charged
with selling
60,000
pounds
of
sugar,
' which
cost
$7,800
for $17,400 and with’selling
for
$48,000
two other lots which cost $20,800.
The
Empire
Grocery
Cempany
was
charged
with selling 600,000
pounds
of
sugar
to the W. H. Edgar
Company,
o.f.
Detroit,
for $162,000,
while
the
cost
price was
set
at $81,420.
"
Hadesman
Brus.
were
charged
with
selling sugar
which
cost
$B,llB to
the
Syman MuffetCompany,
of Flint,
Mich.,
for sls,Boo—Jgurnal
of Commerce.
"In. Our
case*the
question is:
How
much
did
the
sugar
actually
cost
the
Sugar
Factory
?
Is the price of $40.80,
demanded
by the Factory,
in accordance
with the
principles of public
price-regu-
lation ? i.e..
is the price of $40.80
based
on actual cost
plus a fair profit ?
Which
is
the condition
to which
the balance
of
the uade
is subjected;
or
does the price
of
$40.80
give
an
undue
profit
to
the
Factory?
Is
labor in
St. Croix so
well
remunerated,
that
such
a
price
should
be necessary
?
e
Or
have
the
Sugar
PFactories
placed
tnemselves
outside
and above the general
principles
which it has
been
found
ne-
cessary,
just, and reasonable
to introduce:
and. maintain
to
the common
benefit
of
our islands? - If
so,
then it is only reas-
onable
to expect thar
similar
considera-
tion
will be shown
the factories
on
the
part of the population,
should
opportuni-
ty arise.—St.
Thomas Mail Notes,
Sept.
18th.
FINGER PRINT SIGNATURES
FOR
COLONIAL BANK CHECKS
Bank
Provides
System
for
Depositors
Who Cannot Read;
Several
De-
‘
‘positd,
no
Withdrawals.
For
the
convenience
and
protection
of
depositers
+the
American
Colonial*
Bank
has
installed
a finger-
print sys-
tem
for
those
who canunot
sign
their
names
to
checks
or deposit slips.
Fin-
gar-prints
instead
of
signatures
will
be used
as a means of identifying checks.
The finger-print meéthod
has only recent.
ly been provided but already several
sav-
ings
depositors have
taken
advantage
of
it
in
opening
their
deposits.
The
means
of identification
is
explained
to
ST
LR UL &
AV
|
them.
and™then their
finger-
prints
are
taken
and filed; away
‘in
the
signature
file
for future reference.
So
far none
of the
depositors
with finger-print sig-
natures
have mad¢
any
withdrawals.
While
the
finger-print
system
of
identification
has
been
used
by
banks
elsewhere
it is belieyed
that
the
Ameri-
can
Colonial
Bank
is
the
first
bank
in
Porto
Rico
to
adopt
it.- Porto
Rico
Progress.
Sept.
10th.
.
. FIRST
SHIP
HERE
FROM
PACIFIC
;
COAST DIRECT.
With
the
-arrival
of
the
steamship
Point
Bonita, of the Pacific
Mail
S
S.
Co.,
at Ponce,
P.
R.,
on
Tuesday,
the
first
direct
steamer
service.with
the
Pacific coast
to Porto Rico
was
establish-
ed,
F.
E. Wood,
of the Nitrate
Agen-
cies
Co.,
general
agents
for
the
Paci-
fic
Mail
SB.-8:
Co.. said
that
there
was
a
steamer
scheduled
to
sail
from
San
Francisco
every
two
weeks
and
that
there
was cargo enough offered to warrant
the
statement
that the
service
would
be permanent.
:
Porto
Rico receives
chiefly food
pro-
ducts
from
the Pacific
coast
and
in
the
past
these
products have
been
shipped
by
rail
Jacross.
the
United
States
to
either
New
Orleans
or
New
York.
This
has
involved both
excessive
ex-
pense
and generally
a -cousiderabie
de-
lay in_ delivery, which
it
is
predictgd
the
new
steamship cßervice
will
elimin-
ate.
5
The ‘‘Point Bonita’’
sailed
from
San
Franecisco
on
August
14
and arrived
in
Ponce
on Tuescday
September
7,
making
the
trip
in approximately-three
weeks
The
-agents
of the
steamship
line
be-
lieve
that
they. will’ be able.to
guaran-
tee
delivery of freight
from San
Fran
cisco
Lo Porto
Rieo
within four
or
five
weeks.
At
present
the
steamers
which
are
being
sent
to
Porto
Rico
are
freight
steames
only
and
they
will
carry
cargo
not
only for
Porto
Rico
but
for
the
mainland
and will aceept
cargo
from Porto
‘Rico forBaltimmore and
Nor-
folk.
Later
it
is
possible
that
some
of
the steamers
coming from the Pacific
coast
will have passenger
accommodation,
at least
for a
limited number
of
passen-
gers.
T
s
Wit
the
recent
increase
of
railroad
freight
rates
it
is.said
there
will
be
a
consicerable
increase
in
thé
volume
ofi
water
freight
from
the
Pacific
.coast
to
the Atlantic
and
return.
This
service is expected
tq benefit Porto
Rico
in
the
more
prompt
delivery
of
tood
products,
such
as
canned
vegetables
and fruits, beans,
California rice,
canned
fish
from
the
Pacific
north-west
and
other
food pro ucts, while
it also
gives
the Pacific
coast
an opportunity to
com-
pete “with
the
Atlantic
coast
markets
for
other commodities
in this market
Ibid.
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'
TO BUILD AGAINST RATS.
Washington,
D.
C.,
Sept.
I.
Pluns
for radical
cha
ges
in the
co
struction
of
business
buiidings, dwellings and wharves
are being drawn
up by the
United
States
Public Health Service
as part of a nation-
wide eampaign
for
rat extermination,
it
was announced
today..
Health Of?cers
various
states
and
the
larger
cities,
at
a
conference
in
Galveston
and Beaumont,
Texas,
to study
bubonic
and rat extermination,
recom-
mended
to
Surgeon
General
Hugh
S
(C‘umming that standard
specifications
{or
rat
proof busldings
be drawn
up by
the
Public
Health
Service.
These
are
to
be
furnished
to
the
different
states
and
cities in order
that they
may be incorpor-
ated
in the building codes
throughout
the
country.
;
*“While
bubonic
plague
is under
con-
trol
in
this
country,
theve
will always
be scattered
infection
until
the
rut
can
be
exterminated’’,
said
Surgeon
' ‘en-
eral
Cumming.
"'The
most
effective
measure
is
permanent
rat
proofing
of
all
buildings.
Plans
for
thia may
easi-
ly
be
incorporated
in
an®
mew
con.
struction.
Whlle
the
Puble
Health
Service
can
concern
itself directly
only
with the
problem of plague
prevention,
there
is
an
important
economic
prob
lem
that
enters
into this sicuation,
due
to the
faczt that
at
the prese~t
time,
ac-
cording
to authoritative
estimates,
there
is one
rat
for
every
one
person
in the
United
States.
[T'¢
maintain
this
huge
number
of rats
costs
the people
of
this
country approximately
one
cent
a
person
every
day
for
rat
food,
an
intolerabie
and
unnecessary
burden
tor the
people
to carry.’”’
—lbid.
ALLOTTING.
THE
CREDIT.
Doctor
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have
bßeen
at
death’s
door,
and only
vour strong
constitution
has saved
vou.”’
:
Patient—
‘Remember
that
when
you
send
in
your
bill.’—lbid.
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