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THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
1S65
OF GALVESTON
1916
DON’T REALIZE
BONDS AND STOCKS.
NOT MUCH HOPE.
RECORD FOR YEAR SHOWS
CHIEF POINTS
compared
' 6,
ALLIES’ ANSWER
to
IS DUE TONIGHT
BOULEVARD WORK.
In
another column
the story of the award
of the contract for the completion of
street eastward
EXPLANATORY NOTE
SENT BELLIGERENTS?
AS THEY RETIRE
associa-
annual
meeting on.the Treasure Island.
HANSING WON’T TALK.
By Associated Press.
are
rear guard action as
FOES FINALLY LEARNING.
year
greater than that of the
staple sent
abroad in 1915,
the number of bales
NEW TAPE OF U-BOAT.
TO HOLD DOWN LID.
MAGAZINES ARE HIT.
shipped on the Harrison line
steamer
THE WEATHER
the vessel
ECLIPSES IN 1917.
PREMIER TISZA TOTTERS,
A
WOULD RESTRICT CHILDREN.
6
TINKER IN COLUMBUS
As-
0
SOME LIGHT THROWN
UPON THE DOCUMENT
American association, club
it was announced here.
While
this
(WHATCHAN
ihOING ToWEA
DRASTIC PROPOSAL
TO RUSH WARSHIPS
of that city,
aims of President Wilson’s step which
an unfriendly press in both camps at-
tributed thereto.”
Entente Press Misses Gist
of U. S. Note.
TROOP-LADEN SHIP
BLOWS UP, SINKS
Volume of Cotton Going Abroad Is Smaller Than
Last Year—Coastwise Business at
Record Figure.
Contractors Would Be Made
to Give Preference to Fed-
eral Work.'
Suggestion to Preserve Peace
Should Be Guarantee Re-
garding Terms.
Nearly All on Board of Russian
Steamer Are Lost in
Mishap.
Russians and Rumanians Are
Fighting Heavy Rear
Guard Actions.
Lengthy Missive Will Be Hand-
ed to American Envoy at
Paris.
ther developments of great importance
Galveston.
Total ....................$251,554,235
TOTAL EXPORTS FOR 1915.
January ,...... 31,122,615
February.............. 31,696,017
March ....... * 26,016,067
April ..............-....... 12,592,361
May ........ .'.i 16,625,626
June ...................... 9,069,333
July ...................... 7,651,937
August .................... 4,918,953
September ................ 20,406,065
October ................... 24,008,140
November ....... 16,767,905
December ............. 17,796,672
the second note is said to be that the
German reply, received in the interim,
showed that the German government
had not been influenced by the /‘mis-
conceptions regarding the purpose and
Berlin Has Word to This Effect
Lansing Refuses to
Talk.
(Unincorporated)
For
Banks, Individuals, Corporations
American Bankers Association Trav-
elers’ Cheques for Sale.
will be seen
us nearer to
exclusively by eastern ports.
Galveston’s greatest loss this
. .I ton and vicin-
OFF?/ity: Tonight
- •/ and Sunday un-
1 --------------—
Some of the Reasons for Cheerful Attitude Toward
Immediate Future Are Enumerated—
Prospects Are Altogether Bright.
The total foreign export and import business of the port of Gal-
veston for the calendar year 1916 reached a value of $259,925,356. :
Exports of all commodities during the year were valued at $251,,
554,235.
Imports of all commodities during the year were valued at $8,-
371,121.
Cotton exported during the year amounted to 2,207,224 bales
valued at $182,364,874. ’
Wheat exported during the year amounted to 23,078,475 bushels,
valued at $31,727,452.
Spelter exported during the year amounted to 106,985,773 pounds,
valued at $11,854,923.
Cottonseed cake and meal exported during the year amounted to
380,135,902 pounds, valued at $6,834,758.
Other export commodities of high importance were lumber cop-
per, scrap iron, pig iron, steel billets, corn, flour, rice, hay and miscel-
laneous foodstuffs.
duer us. I have therefore reason to
hope that the loyal offer's of the cen-
tral powers have Brought
peace.”
In point of value merchandise ex-
ported through Galveston this year has
been greater than for any year pre-
ceding 1912. It is far in excess of the
valuation of last year’s exports, and is
not very far removed from the rec-
ord for the port’s best year. And
while this result is caused largely by
increased values on the several prin-
cipal commodities, there is no douot
that the aggregate business for the
year has provided the waterfront with
activity nearly approaching the nor-
mal. For, while the port has suffered
inconvenience as a result of conditions
brought about by the war in Europe,
an inconvenience resulting from a geo-
graphic position which ordinarily is in
its favor, on the other hand the dis-
advantage has been offset to some ex-
of today'is paper
and Rumanians
has been in
CONVENTIONS. '
Already a goodly number of conven-
tions have been secured for Galveston
during 1917.
The Texas Bankers’ association, dis-
trict No. 1, will be the first to meet
next year. This convention will be
held in February, according to the Gal-
veston Commercial Association.
The Russians
fighting a heavy
same gossip named Count Zichy as the
most prominent candidate for the
premiership.
Galveston in position to secure all the
deadweight she can handle, and the
cotton will be kept at home. Bookings
for export at early dates have been
Export values for 1916 were $32,882,544 more than those for 1915.
-he 8reat coastwise business of the port involved freight the
value of which is conservatively estimated at close to $1,000,600,000.
Note—The statistics given here have ~ -
been compiled by the Tribune from
would make him president
of the
-----—-----
BATTLE FIERCELY
sociation Club There.
By Associated Press.
Chicago, Dec. 30.—Joseph Tinker
former manager of the Chicago Na-
tionals, is in Columbus today for the
purpose of completing the deal which
By Associated Press.
New York, Dec. 30.—Dealings
in bonds on the New York stock
exchange during the year which
closed yesterday totalled a par
value of $1,158,209,000, and set a
new record. The total in 1915
was $951,798,000.
Total dealings in stocks for
Twenty-four ships operated by the
Southern Steamship company have*
used the Houston ship channel in the
coastwise trade with New York These
vessels brought 52,351 tons of inward
freight and carried 57,811 tons out-
bound, aggregating 110,162 tons of
freight which is calculated to be worth
$10,502,190. Included in the oubound
freight are 40,800 bales of cotton val-
ued at $1,355,020.
TOTAL EXPORTS FOR 1916. ’
January ................. $18,654,424
February ........... 26,578,242
March ............ 3 ........ 13,482,173
Ar!, ...................... 16,444,223
May /'...... 11,818,089
-une ...................... 10,761,590
ul ....................7,162,106
Ausust .................. 13,550,132
September ............... 21,276,040
October ...................* 31,038,796
November ................. 41,252,024
December ............... 39,536,396
FORECAST
For Galves-
GALVESTON FACES NEW YEAR
WITH CONFIDENCE AND HOPE
To Complete Deal for American
Emperor Charles Expresses Hope for
Peae Proffer.
posal designed to furnish authority un-
der which private manufacturers or
shipbuilders would be compelled to give
preference to navy work has been sub-
mitted to Secretary Daniels to the
house naval committee for inclusion in
the 1918 naval appropriation bill, con-
sideration of which will be resumed
next week. It provides that where con-
tracts or orders have been placed “for
ships or munitions or material enter-
ing into the construction of Ships or
the making of munitions,” the secre-
tary, in his discretion, may require the
fulfillment of the work ahead of any
undertaking for private enterprise.
Should the contractor fail to comply
through neglect, delay or refusal, the
secretary would be authorized to take
over the plant and complete the work,
charging the contractor with all costs
in excess of the stipulated contract
price.
Mr. Daniels indicated in his annual
report the difficulties encountered by
the department in hurrying its build-
ing program and said the enormous
amount of new construction authorized
required some remedial legislation.
The item is one of the few cases of
new legislation included in the navy
bill and Chairman Padgett of the house
committee expects to have it ready by
the middle of January, despite the fact
that it carries a total of nearly $400,-
000,000. He believes his committee will
recommend the 1918 construction pro-
gram proposed by Secretary Daniels,
which includes three 42,000 ton battle-
ships, one battle Cruiser and about one-
half of the remainder of the three-year
program in smaller ships.
Operations on the Franco-Belgian
front have been confined to minor
movements, except in the Verdun re-
gion, where Berlin announces the re-
pulse of several attacks made by the
French on the positions on Dead Man
hill, of which the Germans recently re-
ported the capture.
tent by business which has been
created by the war.
The wheat movement is less than
for the two previous years, but still
is very large as a result of the needs
of the belligerents. Metals have passed
through the port in immense quanti-
ties for the use of the warring nations,
though this has been to some extent
an overflow busness and Galveston
has not received the portions meted
out to the more fortunate ports of the
Atlantic coast. Various other com-
modities have added extraordinary
business for the wharves, and during
the past month has begun the move-
ment of classes of war munitions
which until now have been handled
from Eighteenth
boulevard repairs
government, and will call for a con-
siderable expenditure of money. Most
of this money will go to labor, as will
a large part of the cost of the reha-
bilitation of teh causeway and other
work which will be undertaken during
the coming year.
It is understood that about $260,000
worth of work will be done at Fort
Crockett; that the plans as forwarded
to Washington contemplate building a
concrete retaining wall along the north,
line of the government reservation, be-
ginning at Thirty-ninth street and fill-
ing in that portion of the property
west of Thirty-ninth street that was
washed out by the 1915 storm; the
plans also, it is said, call for relaying
the brick pavement. Filling in pri-
vate property north of Fort Crockett
is said to have been abandoned.
From the proceeds of bonds aggre-
gating $87-5,000, issed by the city of
Galveston early in the year, there is
unspent at the end of 1916, according
to a statement prepared for the Trib-
une by City Auditor Marion Douglas,
$562,305.65. The 1916 bond money spent
so far amounts to $312,694.35.
A large part of that money undoubt-
edly will be spent by the city during
file coming year—in fact, there are
. tentative plans for the expenditure of
a goodly sum of it, plans which, in a
general way, had been shaped before
the $875,000 worth of bonds were ever
voted.
The 1916 bonds issued by the city1
aggregated $875,000. These bonds were
sold at a premium of 1 per cent, which
premium amounted to $8,750; this ‘sum,
however, went to the general fund of
the city.
Of the funding debt bonds, amount-
ing to $125,000, there has been spent
already $114,065.72, and there is left
$11,934.28.
Of the beach filling bonds of $300,000,
$80,181.15 has been spent, , and $219,-
818.85 remains unspent.
Of the street improvements bonds
of $250,000, only $52,305.16 has been
expended, leaving unspent $197,694.84.
The water main bonds aggregate..
Refuses to Comment in Any Way on
Report From Berlin.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Dec. 30. — Secretary
Lansing refused to comment in any
way on the report that a second ex-
planatory note had been sent both to
the central powers and to the entente
allies to correct misinterpretations of
the president’s note calling for peace
terms. He indicated that under the
recent policy of silence adopted by
President Wilson and himself in the
peace negotiations, he would make no
statement either affirming or denying
such reports. It is felt that much mis-
understanding might arise in the popu-
lar mind, but it is held that the va-
rious governments addressed would be
influenced only by the official infor-
mation, which will be quite complete.
Secretary Lansing also refused to in-
dicate whether he thought the Berlin
report might have arisen out of the ।
sending abroad for the information of
American diplomats, of his two state-
ments authorized the day the note was
published. It. is known 'that these
statements were transmitted to. the
American diplomats to acquaint them
fully with what had taken place here,
but that they were not instructed to
present them to the. various foreign
offices.
Secretary Lansing .has been most
emphatic ever since his two state-
ments were issued in saying that the
president’s note was absolutely self-
explanatory, and required no further
comment. Fe has stated also that no
special instructions were sent to the
American diplomats as to the manner
Three large conventions will be held
in May. On May 8 the' South Nexas
Wholesale Grocers will be in session
and on May 9, 10 and 11 the Southern
Wholesale Grocers’ association will
hold its annual meeting. Later in the
month the Master Plumbers of Texas,
will have their convention in Galves-
ton.
The last convention of the year will
probably be that of the Texas Hotel-
keepers’ association, which will be held
in December. ■
The date of the Texas' Cotton asso-
ciation annual meeting has not been
announced, but it will be held in this
city.
In 1918 the annual convention of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians will be
held in Galveston.
2 By Associated Press. •
> Washington, Dec.' 30.—Four 1
2 eclipses of the sun and three of 1
) the moon,, the greatest number '
possible in single year, will 1
5 occur in 1917, according to a ’
3 memorandum issued today by the <
> naval observatory. The last 4
year in which seven eclipses 2
* came was early in the last cen- i
tury and the next will be in ’
। 1935. - ’
| On Jan. 8 there will be 'a total ]
, eclipse of the moon by the <
' earth’s shadow, visible through- <
, out the United States beginning (
• at 12:50 a. m., and ending- at 4:39 }
- a. m., Eastern standard time. Be- /
tween 2 and 3:29 a. m., Eastern c
time, the eclipse will be total. 9
2 By Associated Press.
3 London, Dec. 30.—The Berlin
(i Lokal Anzeiger has become pes-
। simistic over the prospects of
i peace, according to a Copenhagen
1 dispatch to the Exchange Tele-
, graph company. The dispatch
i quotes the Friday issue of the
i -paper as follows:
i “As the result of information
, received in well-informed polit-
, ical circles, we have the impres-
- sion that the hope of speedy peace
' becomes more remote. The feel-
’ ing in leading circles in the bel-
, ligerent capitals is too plain ”
GALVESTON TRIBUNE r“
VOLUME XXXVII. GALVESTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY,DECEMBER 30, 1916. —TEN PAGES NO. 30. L
the cotton movement.
of presenting the note. Intimations
that the misunderstandings abroad,
particularly in the public mind, might
be dispelled by official statements
from here, have met with an unfavor-
able reception. It has been sid that
no matter what the public misunder-
standings are, just at present, this
situation would eventually clear of it-
self and must be suffered as part of
the results of keeping the negotiations
absolutely confidential.
board of arbitrators for some changes
in Mr. Mueser’s plan were also ap-
proved, and the task of revising the
working plans has already been given
to Mr. Mueser. Just as soon as he
has completed his work bids will be
invited. In the meantime a, list of con-:
tractors who will be invited to submit
bids is being collected,; and the coming
year should see material progress
made.
On Jan. 16 the board of causeway
engineers will meet here to adopt a
working plan for repairs to the Gal-
veston approach to the causeway. This
work also will be under way in a
short time.
FORT1 CROCKETT FILL.
During the coming yar there will
be another bit of work of considerable
importance to Galveston. This will be
the refilling of that part of the Fort
Crockett military reservation which
was washed out during the hurricane
of 1915. This work will be done by the
, SEALY & GO.
Chicago, Dec, 30.—A law preventing
children under 16 years old from going
to motion picture theaters more than
twice a week was urged by Mrs. Al-
fred Hamburger, speaking before the
Chicago Political Equality league to-
day. Mrs. Hamburger, whose husband
is the owner of a chain of Chicago pic-
ture theaters, said that too frequent
Attendance gives children distorted
views.
Galveston faces the New Year with,
confidence and hope. While this is
a characteristic' way of looking to the
future, Galveston is doing so this year
with good cause. The year just com-
ing to a close has brought many things
to Galveston which inspire this hope
and confidence, despite the complica-
tions and difficulties which have re-
sulted from the conflict in Europe.
Chief of these things has been the
solution of the problems which arose
over plans for the rehabilitation of
the destroyed portions of the cause-
way. After an arbitration of the dif-
ferences as to the working plans for
this vork, the award favoring the
Mueser arch plan was accepted by all
interests. The suggestions of the
Estassshed BANKERS Estaszhed
contract calls for an expenditure of
approximately $128,000, and calls for
sidewalk and brick boulevard along
lines conforming to the present boule-
vard and walk. The new portion of
the boulevard will be laid on a con-
crete base.
Contractor Bowden is making good
progress on placing concrete bulk-
heading “along the line of the county’,s
boulevard right of way in this .same
section, as well as the whole length
of the boulevard to Thirty-ninth
street. Work on this contract has
been under way for several months
and it is expected to give additional
protection to the boulevard and the
boulevard slope. -
® A contract was recently let by the/
city of Galveston for the construction
of a concrete bulkhead or retaining
wall along the crest of the new fill
in the east end. This work will be
completed during the coming year at
a cost of something more than $6,000.
The story of the port’s commercial
achievements during the past year will
be found in other columns of today’s
issue of this paper. . "
they retire toward the ifne of the
Sereth in northeastern Wallachia and
southern Moldavia.
Today’s German army headquarters’
reports show steady progress for Field
Marshal von Mackensen’s armies along
the entire front between the Rumanian,
Carpathians and the Danube, despite
the strong resistance they are en-
countering. At the same time the at-
tack on the Moldavian frontier is de-
veloping and Russo-Rumanian posi-
tions have been carried and passed by
the invaders, repeated counterattacks
not serving to stop them. In this
fighting the Teutonic forces took 600
prisoners and seven machine guns.
The Teutonic line of advance from
the Wallachian plain now lies well to
the north of Rimnik-Sarat, on the rail-
way from Buzen to Fokshani, while
on the right flank a still nearer ap-
proach has been made to Braila, the
Danube granary, which is one of the
main objectives of Von Machensen’s
activities in the present stage of the
struggle.
man Gregg and others have pledged
earnest and persistent support to Gal-
veston measures. The completion of
the seawall extension will mean fur-
carrying freight valued at $2,607,961,
including 20,698 bales of cotton which
were worth $2,289,108.
During a few recent months a situa-
tion opened up in ocean freight which
gave the eastern ports a tremendous
advantage over the Gulf in the ship-
ping of cotton, even in the handling of
cotton from Texas points. There was
so great a disparity in ocean freight
rates that the difference between rail
rates was wiped out. And during that
time hundreds of thousands of bales
were routed through eastern ports.
It is a matter for self-congratula-
tion to Galveston to consider that the
agencies which have worked against
her during the past year will not be
felt so keenly during the coming yeak.
The freight congestion in the east al-
ready is diverting business to the Gulf.
Heretofore the east has had control of
deadweight, and cotton and other light
cargo have been attracted eastward on
that account. But 1917 opens with
By Associated Press.'
Washington, 'Dec. 30.—A. drastic pro-
234,678,000 shares
good. To speak of the future and pre-
dict concerning business more than a
month distant no longer is permitted,
for export contracts for sailings at
distant positions are not being- made.
The "control of shipping is in the
hands of the British admiralty and
the will of the admiralty may make
or mar any prospects which might be
entertained.
ENORMOUS COASTWISE BUSINESS.
The biggest business of the port of
Galveston is its coastwise trade. Dur-
ing the past year there have passed
in and out of Galveston and the sub-
ports of Houston and Texas City al-
most 800 coastwise vessels, which
probably have carried more than 2 -
000,000 tons of freight. The value of
this freight probably would run as
high as $1,000,000,000 and possibly to
$1,500,000,000. It is unfortunate that
there are no means for arriving at
an accurate knowledge of this business
the law not requiring manifests to be
filed except in case of bonded goods
and there being no official or other
source where such information has
been found available for publication.
Commodities handled on the north-
bound vessels have been cotton, cop-
per and other metals and various
kinds of products, while clothing
hardware and other finished products
are brought here from the north.
HOUSTON. SHIP CHANNEL.
The past year has witnessed the
proving of the Houston ship channel,
and while there has been some degree
of miscellaneous trading via this route
the principal value of the channel to
Houston has been found in its use for
coastwise shipping.
RESORT FEATURES.
There is every indication that next
season will be one of the liveliest in
the history of the famous Galveston
beach. Bathing facilities, such as the
city has never had before, are provided
and there will be additional amuse-
ment and beach attractions before the
season opens.
Among these will be a- 700-foot pier
into the gulf, from the south end of
Twenty-second street. The contract
for part of this structure has already
been let and it will undoubtedly be
completed before the season opens.
Texas has been unusually prosperous
this year and for this reason and this
fact will tend to make the summer
season here more than ordinarily ac-
tive.
easterly winds.
For East
Texas: Tonight
and Sunday un-
settled; prob-
ably rain south
portion.
For West
Texas:. Tonight
and Sunday
partly cloudy to cloudy.
For Oklahoma: Tonight and Sun-
day generally cloudy.
Winds on Texas coast; Light
easterly.
Wayfarer for Liverpool,
1916 were
BAssociated Press.
Berlin, Dec. 29.—-Via London, Dec.
30.—-It has been learned' that ‘ a few.
days ago President Wilson sent a sec-
ond note, explanatory of the first, to
the central powers and the entente na-
tions. This note has not been pre-
sented.
The reason for the withholding of
Retirement of Hungarian Leader Ap-
pears in Prospect.
By Associated Press.
Berlin, Dec. 29.—Via London, Dec. 30.
—Dispatches from Budapest concern
themselves more and more with the
question of the possible retirement of
Premier Tisza. Audiences granted yes-
terday by the emperor to Count Ap-
ponyi, the opposition leader, and to
former Premier Khuen Kedervary, tend-
ed to strengthen the gossip that the
post of Count Tisza as Hungarian
premier and dominant personality in
the dual monarchy, was shaken. The
In April the Lumbermen’s
tion of Texas will. hold its
with 173,389,000 in
1915. The year’s dealings in ।
stocks have been exceeded only 1
on three previous occasions; in !
1901, 1905, and 1906. The record <
was set in 1906, with 284,063,459 j
shares. , 9
$200,000. Of this sum $67,142.32 has
been spent; there is left $132,857.68.
EAST END SEAWALL.
Affairs looking to the extension of
the seawall eastward from Sixth street
and Broadway to Fort San Jacinto are
in good shape. The county is ready
to go ahead with its part of the work
just as soon as the government
reaches the stage where active work
is to start. The necessary orders for
condemnation of right of way, if such
action is found necessary, have been
passed by the county commissioners
and the money for the work will be
forthcoming in due time.
The government has arranged for
preliminary surveys and the matter of
further work is to be taken up vigor-
ously during the session of congress.
Senator Morris Sheppard, Congress-
to Broadway. This
Two Hundred Policemen Will Be Put
on Job at Chicago.
By Associated Press.
Chicago, Dec. 30.—Two hundred
policemen will be stationed in the
downtown district here New Year’s
eve to keep down disorder and prevent
efforts to tilt the lid, which it has
been announced will be clamped down
excepting between midnight and 1 a,
m. Chief of Police Healey, whose
resignation, affective Jan. 1, has been
accepted, will remain in charge of the
department through New Year’s day
at the request of Mayor Thompson.
settled; prob-
ably rain; light
By Associated Press.
Washington, Dec. 30.—The Ameri-
can government, it became Known
authoritatively, believe there are three
principal points in its note to belliger-
ents, and is surprised that they have
not been move clearly understood, par-
ticularly by the press of the entente
allies. These points, taken in their
order of importance from the adminis-
tration yiewpoint are:
“The fear that the position of neu-
tral nations be ‘rendered altogether
intolerable’ if the war continues.
“The suggestion that arrangements
be made as a guarantee against simi-
lar conflicts in the future.
“The proposal that means be found
for comparing the concrete peace terms
of both sides.”
The last point has aroused most
comment, and the first was emphasized
by Secretary Lansing’s statement, aft-
erwards modified, that the United
States' itself might be drawing near
entrance into the war.
The administration, however, it was
learned today, thought the suggestion
for an arrangement to preserve peace
in the future would attract more at-
tention among the entente allies than
it apparently has, and furnish a means
through which these nations- could en- 1
ter, with perfect propriety, into a se-
rious peace discussion.
If such an arrangement could be
made the administration feels there
would be no ground for the fear that
agreements over terms made between
the belligerents would not be kept
after the war ends. It was pointed
out today that such a fear has been
one of the main objections of the en-
tente allies to entering into peace dis-
cussions.
the value of cotton exported
year is many million dollars
exported is barely two-thirds the num-
ber for last year. In fact, there. have
been but two years in the port’s his-
tory when the value of her cotton ex-
ports exdeeded the amount of 1916.
Cotton during a greater part of this
year has averaged $100 a bale. So,
wheat has been worth almost $2 a
bushel and cottonseed cake has been
selling close to $50 the ton.
November was one of the best
months the port has ever experienced,
and December has been exceptional,
when compared with the same month
of preceding years. During the month
of December the most valuable cargo
ever carried out of the port was
By Associated Press.
Paris, Dec. 30.—The allies’ answer
to the German, note of Dec. 12 will be
handed to Ambassador Sharp tonight,
says the Petit Parisien, and published
tomorrow. It is long and again sets
forth the- responsibility of the central
empires for the European, conflagra-
tion. It insists on legitimate repara-
tion and restitution demanded by the
entente, as outlined by1 Premier Lloyd-
George, and also says that Germany, by
failing to formulate proposals for
peace, removes in advance any basis
for pour parlers.
The note seeks to suggest that the
Berlin cabinet, having proclaimed in
1914 its contempt for treaties, can not
pretend to obtain the same conditions
as powers respectful of signatures and
must offer guarantees.
Berlin, Dec. 129.— Via London, Dec.
30.—Budapest dispatches quote Em-
peror Charles as saying to Count
Julius Andrassy during the reception
yesterday: a
“Our enemies are finally commencing
to understand, that they can not con-
such information as has been avail-
able. Government records were used
in compiling figures for the first 11
months of the year, but these were
not available for December. The en-
forcement of the order requiring a
shipper s declaration with each ship-
ment makes for a delay in complete
returns reaching the customhouse.
Eleven steamers which cleared during
the latter part of the month are in-
cluded here, the manifests of which
have not been completed. Rough esti-
mates were made on the total value
and the value of the several commodi-
ties on the steamers Nessian, Ninian,
Bowden, Eptalofos, Martin Saems, Sen-
ator, Hanseat, Tafna, Helmstock, Scan-
dinavic and Osten. The fact that ship-
pers declarations sometimes take sev-
eral days to arrive complete, it is pos-
sible that some of the cargoes cleared
this month and included here will not
be in time for the official government
figures for the year.
By Associated Press.
Berlin, Dec 30.—By wireless to Say-
ville—/The Finnish steamer Oihonna,
of 1,070 tons, with a regiment of Rus-
sian coast artillery from the Aland
Islands, on board, struck a mine and
sank in a few minutes, according to
a dispatch to the Frankfurter Zeitung
from Copenhagen. All on board with
the exception of 50 persons, are said
to have been drowned.
The steamer was bound for Helsing-
fors. In addition to the men lost 1,000
horses went down with the ship.
According to the same source
another liner, plying between Abe,
Russia, and Marihaam, likewise struck
a mine and a large number of per-
sons who were on board her are miss-
ing. The accidents, according to the
newspaper, are attributed to badly
anchored Russian mines belonging to
the Finnish Bay mine fields.
Chicago Woman Thinks Too Much
Movies Bad for Them.
By Associated Press. «
British Freight Steamer Has Narrow
Escape,
By Associated Press.
New' York, Dec. 30.—The British
freight steamship Chicago City,’ from
Bristol, England, December 11, .was
fired on and stopped by a German
submarine on December 14 when about
120 miles off Fastnet, according to a
report of the crew on her arrival here
today.
The Chicago City was saved from
being sunk by the timely appearance
of a British destroyer, attracted by
the firing.
The submarine is described as being
of a new type, more than 200 feet long
and painted dead black.
S. E. Cor. Strand and 22d Sts.
Oldest National Bank in Texas.
We have been continuously in busi-
ness for over fifty years, assisting
in the upbuilding and development of
Galveston. We solicit new accounts
and promise satisfactory service.
EXPORT BUSINESS OF PORT REACHES TOTALVALUE OF $251,554,235
Total ............... $218,671,691
Continued on Ninth Page.
CONSIDERABLE INCREASE
) By Associated Press.
X New York, Dec. 30.—Owing to
3 the increased cost of white paper
t and other materials necessary to
’• printing and art work, several
X magazines of national circulation
2 announced today increases in the
3 price of subscription. Other
3 periodicals have already given
notice of a similar jump in
(i prices. Several of the smaller
3 magazines in New York have
suspended publigation and others
I are planning to merge with pub-
lications controlled by the same
2 interests.
3 Publishers explain that many
$ of them have had to reduce their
2 contracts for paper at this time
and to pay nearly 50 per cent -
2 . more than this item has cost -
3 them heretofore. '
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