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INSISTS ON INCREASED
OUTPUT BY TICKETS
NEW YORK, Feb. 8—Plans of the
New York Stock Exchange, announced
for February 7, to abbreviate symbols
on 100 important stocks, are expected
to speed up the stock ticket almost 20
per cent.
The ticket would then print an av
erage of 55 transactions every 60 sec
onds upon the tape reeling from the
familiar clicking glass hive into the
basket, a quickening in pace almost j
50 per cent of that of two years ago. |
The change has been made necessary !
by the recent record-breaking bull1
market of two million share days, dur
ing which the ticket at time lias fallen
as much as 15 to 42 minutes behind
the actual trading.
Concurrently the Western Union
Telegraph Company, the Stock Ex
change agent for major distribution of
stock quotations, is at work upon ad
ditional wire extension of the terri
tory it serves direct. The Stock Ex
change itself operates the tickets of
members in the financial district
south of Chambers street. The West
ern Union supplies all non-members
in this area, all members and non
members north of this line through
out the city, and the remaining tick
ers in the country at large.
The Western Union at present wires
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ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT
LAW
Will Practice in All Courts of the
Territory
SEWARD, ALASKA
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FOR FIRE INSURANCE
Dr. A. R. Roberts
DENTIST
Dental and General
X-RAY WORK
New Tecklenberg Bldg.
Phone Mad. 108-Seward, Alaska
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and Dr. ETHEL A. K. EDMUNDS
DOCTORS OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
AND GRADUATE OPTOMETRISTS
Eyes Examined, Glasses Correctly Fit
ted. Optical office, Fraser-Paterson
Co. Telephone Main 2174.
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Phone Madison 90. Seward, Alaska
Hugh Dougherty
. FURNISHED HOUSES FOR RENT
Real Estate and Insurance
Business Phone Adams 152
Residence Phone, Madison 58
Aaron E. Rucker
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office in Arcade Building
Phone Adams 121 Seward, Alaska
stock quotations as far west as Cleve
land, supplying Boston, Philadelphia,
Washington, Baltomore, Pittsburgh,
Albany, Syracuse and Rochester on
the way. The company now aims
within the next six months to push
the western objective as far as Chi
cago, which is now fed by Morse re
lay, and also to embrace in this direct
service Minneapolis, Omaha, Kansas
City and St. Louis.
The new symbols will cause little
inconvenience to the trading public.
Seldom does a broker’s customer, it
is said have more than 15 separate
stock issues in his strongbox, and he
can readily memorize their changed
degisnations anew. The hardest hit
will be the brokers themselves, and
the reporters on the floor of the ex
change who pluck sales on the wing
from the brokers milling around the
score of trading posts, but to them
it is all in the game.
Brunswick Radiolas, tne Radiola de
Luxe at the Alaska Shop. tf
Picture Framing at the Alaska
Shop. tf
Eastman Kodaks and Supplies at
the Alaska Shop. tf
Kentucky Derby Winner
Will Annex Big Purse
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 9.—A record
number of nominations for the fifty
first renewal of the Kentucky Derby
is expected by turf writers who,
taking into account the large number
of eligibles wintering at the Louis
ville tracks, and elsewhere, predict
diet the 152 nominations of last year
will be exceeded when the entries
close this month.
The race for three-year-olds at a
mile and a quarter, will be run at
Churchill Downs, Saturday, May 16,
the seventh day of the spring meet.
The purse with $50,000 added by the
Kentucky Jockey Club, may be the
largest in the history of the half cen
tury old classic. Last year 19 of the
152 nominees accepted the issue, mak
ing the purse $52,775 for the winner,
Black Gold. The year previous when
Zev, the Rancocas Stable’s colt won,
20 started, giving the race a net value
of $53,600. The starting fee, $500, is
added to the $50,000 purse.
Germany’s First Cable
Railway Inaugurated
(3v Associated Press)
OBERWIESENTHAN, Saxony, Feb.
9.—The first cable railway in Ger
many to carry passengers has been
inaugurated. It starts in this city and
runs two miles to the top of Fichtel
mountain, which has an altitude of
3,975 feet above the city. The cars
: suspended from the cable carry 20
persons.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 9 —
The House voted on a resolution to
return the Postal Pay bill to the sen
| ate where it originated, on the
j grounds that it infringes on the prer
ogative of the House to initiate all
i revenue legislation.
NEW ART OF SELF-DEFENSE
A new system of the art of self-defense is being- taught to members of
the Paris police. It is a form of the Japanese Jiu Jitsu, oni a more scientific
basis, and is known as “Le Diodo.” Photo shows Professor Kasulakow,
the inventor, illustrating at the Prefecture.
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Esperanto Converts Put
Language To Rigid Test
(By Associated Press)
BERLIN, Feb. 9.—Esperanto is be
ing given a thorough test as a busi
ness language, as well as pleasure, un
der the auspices of the British Es
peranto Committee and the Univer
sal Esperanto Asocio. From Janu
ary of this year until March 31 there
will be courses offered to young bus
iness men in Germany, France, Eng
land, Holland, Italy, Austria, Po
jland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
There will be 20 students in each
i country. The course will consist of
25 lessons, and at its conclusion the
! young men will exchange letters with
j each other in Esperanto on business
j subjects.:
It is the contention of the leading
I Esperantists that business knowledge
of the language can be acquired so
readily that it is the ideal means of
international communication.
CONGRESSMEN ARE BOOZERS
NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—“If congress
men were compelled to abstain from
intoxicating liquors for a week the
eighteenth amendment to the consti
tution would be repealed within a few
weeks,” declared William B. Stayton,
ihead of the anti-prohibiiton amend
ment at a dinner given here. He said
President Coolidge was a total ab
stainer, but not another single gov
ernment official followed his example.
Sunny Clime Takes
Edge Off Bolshevism
—
(By Associated Press)
LISBON, Feb. 9.—The Portuguese
j republic is in a fair way of becom
Phoenix Hose
H & W BRASSIERS
P N PRACTICAL
FRONT CORSETS
BANBURY & OGLE
ing a complacent land of refuge for
the Communist who has no country
and the royal prince who has no
home. Driven out from other coun
tries of Europe these wanderers seem
to head for Portugal on the western
edge of Europe, and cause trouble
for the Lisbon police. There is no
! other state to which they can be pass
ed along, and vessels dropping anch
or in the Tagus do not seem to want
them as passengers.
Some of the Communists travel like
princes, and there is here today no
prince in particular who looks like a
shabby suspect. Hotel porters are
sometimes at. a loss whether to ad
dress a new guest as “your high
ness,” or simply “comrade.”
The followers of Communism, un
der the influence of the warm Por
tuguese weather, often assume t h«
mild and satisfied air df people who
are taking the rest cure. As for
j the prince, a relative of the King o'
| Spain who recently was driven ou!
of France, this man stalks about
I moodily and bemoans his banishment
from the pleasures of Montmartre.
CLEMENCEAU ON FARM
George Clemenceau, the old “tiger,
now living quietly on his farm is a
striking example of philosophical old
age. In fact, this grand old man of
France is now engaged in writing a
book on philosophy at the age of S3.
Yet, only four years ago he was one
of the most active and powerful fig
ures in the world.
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