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HOW LEVINSKY LOST.
CARPENTING'S VICTORY.
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A SPECTACULAR FINISH.
The following statement from the Chinese press will, il tuo be read 12. reports that Georges Carpentier, The New York Times of October with much interest:---
~RATS CAPTURE LINER.
** LEVIATHIN "`OZERBUN.
AN ARMY OF CATS KILLED.
One of the revenges of the war that must be sweet to the Germans is
"Through the efforts of Mr. Wei European heavy-weight champion, Tre-chun, the Chinese Consul Gen-knocked out Battling Levinsky the possession by the United States eral in Australia, an arrangement has American light heavy weight cham of the "Leviatan," formerly the been arrived at with the Australian pion, in the fourth round of Vaterland," the greatest of all the immigration anthorities whereby their scheduled twelveround battle Chinese merchants' Families and students may be permitted to land in
Australia.
"Chinese students have been al
before a crowd of more than 15,000
J
American
£3,000,000).
For 14 months she has been lying useless at her dock in the Hudson River, a paradise for barnacles and
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M
eat liners of which our late enemies in the Jersey City baseball park, were so boastfully proud.
The finish of the fight came one
The 55,000 ton vessel, with its II | lowed to remain in Australia for a minute seven seconds after the fourth decks, was among the ships seized in unlimited number of years provided they do not carry on any activities round opened. A heavy right blow before this county entered the way, i ports by the United States other that study. Failure to comply to the jaw, one of a series of frantic and must, therefore, be paid for at with these rules means, deportation. rights and lefts which Carpentier (who have hitherto been prohibited an Philadelphia boxer
Families of Chinese merchants showered on his rival, sent the veter fall appraised value at the time she was taken over. This was from landing) may be allowed to lend
crashing 15,000,000 dollars through the ropes in a neutral corner. provided they produce regular pass-
(normally ports issued by the Chinese Govern Referee Harry Ertle stepped quickly ment. In case of the death of the between the two combatants, and THE POST-WAR POSITION. merchants, the Chinese Government with extended left art, held Carpet The story of America's post-war will be responsible for the repatriatier at a safe distance as he bent. foreign trade activities is worth tion of the widows and childress. studying. Ar the close of the Great
down and started the count. "Chinese travellers will be per- War. American manufacturers found mitted to stay in Australia for one
rais, at an expense to the nation ol £600 a day-to date, may, £110,000 WORLD MARKETS THREATENED WITH themselves in positions of consider year provided the applicant is able vinsky, boxing a losing fight almost ping Board authorities have not the net tonnage of vessels arriving at The increasing adoption of oil fuel
The finish was spectacular. Le-and what to do with her the Ship- Although the figure for the total able uncertainty. Enormous plants to produce a Chinese passport visée from the start, was cornered by the least idea. had been developed; almost incredible by the British Consul at the port of rushing, wildeyed, eager Carpentier. F. A. McKenzie, writes in the profts had been carned. America
Neither do they know what to do Landon during 1919, shows a cons of fire risk. Oil leakage may be x and departing from, the Port of in passenger vessels raises questions Entire Mail:—”.
had drawn nearly all the loose gold embarkation in China.”
The French man had sent his rival with her population of rodents number derable improvement on that for the source of danger which is not Recent American developments are of the world into her cofers. }^-
to the canvas on two previous occaing many thousands who render life for of great interest and importance to She had turned herself from British manufacturers because they land carrying her foreign trade of European labour is returning to instance. He was lashing out so marry as Dr. John Evan Holt- the corresponding figures for the intanal damage due to collision or sions, for counts of eight in each the upkeep crew, mainained aboard preceding year, it still falls far below present in ships burning coal, while are bound, in the months ahead, to and exchange at a heavy annual loss America greater than ever before.vagely with both arms in wild Harris, director of the laboratory of years immediately prior to the war. stranding may release the oil in con- have a serious effect upon our trade, to a land carrying on her foreign There was no difficulty in finding attempts to land a decisive blow. both home and overseas Up to re.trade at a heavy annual profit sufficient workers to take in the great
the Government Quarantine Sestion. In The Frenchman's rushing attack plaintively expressed after investigat entirely unaffected by the
1913, the last year of trade siderable bulk with possibility of it cently many felt that we were in-Manufacturers in all lines were harvest of the West this autumn. forced Levinsky into the cornering the situation. ified in regarding the American plaas gorged with money. The new Employers can pick the workmen in Carpentier in a leap was upon his
war, becoming igalted. Vapour rising for building up a great postwar for millionaires were reckoned by the place of workmen picking their em foc, striving
Dr. Holt-Harris was charged with the ret tonnage arriving and from all stored in tanks may also There were thousand, while the new hundred-ployers. The upward rise of wages Levinsky's upraised, protecting arms of the rats. He found the vessel·lar 062,252, whereas for 1919, the tinns, the Board of Trade apprint- eign trade lightly.
batter down the duty of ridding the "Leviathan" departing
conceivably become a source of fire several reasons for this: (1) Ameri millionaries were quite an important has stopped and a decline has begun. A flurry of rights and lefts failed of too big to fumigate with hydrocyanie first complete year after the termina-ed a Committee Last January to 40, danger. In view of these considera- can production had not yet caugh: group. The Armistice, coming sud-The cost of living is on the down effect, but Carpentier persisted and gas, as he had contemplated, and so tion of hostilities, the figure was enquire into the matter. Its resort up with the home demand ard man denly and unexpectedly, gave the grade; food is cheaper; clothing has finally produced the desired opening-be is trying to kill them ok by star~ | 26,335,191 tons, or rather less than iber of recommendations made, which ufacturers could find a more pro business world a very nasty jar, and fallen. Costs are coming down. Like a fash, be darted forward, his vation.
has just been published, and a num fitable marker at their doors then momentarily threw everything out of Experience has proved that wages right poised for instant action. they could overseas. (2) Amerixear. Factories engaged on war movements in America are apt to be Suddenly
Not a scrap of food has been allow 66 per cent of the pre-war figure in view of the authoritative nature be can prices were high and were work had no more work to do. There very much more rapid and extreme home
crashed the blowed on board for three weeks, the crew Last year, however, as might be of the Committee one may anticipate made Hill higher for foreign buyers was a short spell during the winter than those of other countries. The an
with the accuracy of
taking their meals ashore... fencer lunging on
expected, showed a considerable imwill be adopted by the Board. expert
After the first week of this siege in which the law water mark of it is suggested that a sample of each provement over the previous year, Among the more important of these
to
amounted to
by the appreciation of the dollar. We of 1918-19, when it seemed that the rise in wages was more sensational the attack The punch landed solid the numerous cats that had been 14,564,008 tons was, reached, this supply of fuel oil, taken on board a had to pay £1 for every normal 14/6. cotntry might have to face a great than anything which Europe had to ly on Levinsky's jaw and the boxer mobilised In a previous effort to keep latter figure being little more than vessel shall be tested by the chief
ADVANTAGES.
show. Men were finally paid rates crumpled in a heap, slipping through out of all reason. Now that the fail the ring ropes on his journey down has begun, the decline may be just ward. as sensational.
The result was early forecasted. is probable, that the costs of produc- battler
That there will be labour troubles Levinsky, not even approaching the tion will fall is ascertain as anything pronouncedly by his young and of old, was outclassed can be. The public which bought so ambitious rival. The big Levinsky, extravagantly has now cease to buy; at 175 pounds, appeared in good a cold ft has followed a hot fit, and condition physically, but in other excessive economy is once more tak respects he was not to be compared ing the place of excessive ostentation to the man recognized at one time All this, of course, is very much along as the cleverest light heavyweight in the lines of what has been experienc- the ring. Levinsky's defensive skill was missing. He was slow, and the gore through it, on a bigger scale, old brilliance of attack was notice and in a more extreme form
ably absent. Almost from the time evident that Levinsky was outclassed. men put up their hands it was
ed with
AND WORKERS...
American mator
A
DEFEATING PUSSYFOOT:
CHOCOLATE MYSTERIES.
NEW CREME D'ORIENT. LIQUEUR.
bottles.
(3) Shipping freights were so high! industrial crisis. Then, almost in ia and delays owing to congestion so day, it was found that the factories,
the rats in check, disappeared. serious, that delivery overseas was one and all, were more busy than
Then the ferocious rodents fell other war years the Egures were not below 150 F. The test is a 36 per cent, of that for 1913. For the engineer to see that its flash point is costly and uncertain. (4) Labour ever. The American public for close difficulties in America were abnormal on two years had been economising
back for food on the leather cushions 37,154,133 tons for 1914, 30,890,531 simple one and can be carried out and growing. Prizes kept rising all and making money. Expenditure
and all other fittings that yielded to tons for 1915, 24,975.437 tons for with an apparatus which has already the time." In ore case known to bad been unfashionable, and while
their teeth. me of American goods urgently the Americans never, even in the
weaker rats dying of and being de-shows a diminution of some 6,000,000 shall be allowable to carry oil in Dr. Holt-Harris now counts on the each of which, it will be noticed, of Trade. It is proposed, that it 1916, and 18,053,002 tons for 1917, bean sanctioned by the Board wanted for the British market by no hardest days of the War, cut
oured, and then on the survivors tons on the preceding year. These cellular double bottoms under engine means an exceptional case--the price their outlays as the British people did
killing each other. rose forty per cent, in two months, they still went slow. Now, after the
figures, it should be stated, by no jand boiler compartments and in peak while acceptance of the order was Armistice, the people, with pocket
means accurately represent the tanks, deep tanks and bankers. Con- delayed on the American side owing books fall, with heavy banking
activity of the Port of London during sideration should, however, be given to strikes. This was followed by accounts and with appetites whetted
the war, since the tonnages of many to the avoidance, as far as possible, delays of three weeks at New York by abstinence, started out on an orgyed in Great Britain, only America has
vessels using the Port on Government of el-fuel buckers in 'tween decks before freight could be secured and of extravagant buying such as the
service are not included. was further followed by a long delay modern world has never witnessed.
The space overhanging boiler rooms, or total value of the goods in of oil-fuel bunkers adjoining the ships' at the Port of London after the goods Nothing was to good, nothing was had reached here, before delivery too dear, nothing was too extravag-ally fighting desperately against the American manufacturers are natur
ported or exported from the Port sides abreast of the boiler rooms. of London last ye smounted to Where these are found to be neces could be secured. With these bandi- ant. The workman who long ago decline in prices. This has been
nearly 820,000,0004, which is about sary, they must be sub-divided into caps it is not surprising that had ridden to work on his Allvver
As early as the second round Levin notably illustrated in the textile trade, sky was in danger of a knockout. American business wer who came to which after all was a very sensible where the manufacturers have closed! He was sent to the floor twice in this
31.7 per cent. of the whole overseas compartments not exceeding 21ft. in trade of the United Kingdom, and is length. To prevent the spread of England last year, full of enthusiasm thing for him to do now developed some mills, and have given minimum session and on each knockdown be
only slightly less than the import fire which might follow on a collision for developing the markets on a taste in fine cars and could pay for price guarantees to jobbers and re- required a count of eight to collect in a Home paper:~-~~-
An Old-Fashioned Woman" writes the latter port, the value of the bunkers, it is proposed that the boiler
and this side, returned home bitterly them. The very schoolboy wanted a tailers. This kind of thing does very his scattered senses.
export trade of Liverpool For or grounding in way of all-fuel disappointed, while some British car of his own. All the automobile well, when it is supported by flour. weathered a storm of blows which different kinds of drinks shown at the cent. of that for the whole country, openings so arranged that the heat pass seeking to develop Amer-works torting out all that they could iching business prospects, but when Carpentieri aimed at his jaw, but Brewer's Exhibition, at the Agrical-The figure for London shows an in- from even a fierce fire would not
Gamely he
I tried to count the number of goods härdied in 1919 amounted to f and funnel casings should be so nearly 828,000,0002, or about 32 per insulated, and all doors and other ican trade have retired in disgust. by the most scientific methods of there is a dropping market all gradually the American ring general tural Hail.
AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS* mass production could not meet the the limitation of output and artificial was battered down to defeat.
call for their goods. Clothing of maintenance of minimum prices that
crease of 51.3 per cent. on that for endanger surrounding wood-work, or But to-day many of these conditions all kinds seemed to go up night after can be devised will not permanently impress as a possibly dangerous there were, but men went from one is only 21.2 per cent. The foregoing with the leading of air pipes to an In his victory Carpentier failed to
No one seemed to know how many 1918, while, for Liverpool, the increase accommodation. Further points desi are altered. The handicap of the night. I paid three visits to one prop up rates. This bolstering up of opponent for Jack Dempsey. If the to another sampling varieta figures have been taken from the open situation, the testing of storage high exchange still continues and is shoe store in New York City within home prices in textile goods has been Frenchman fought at his best and growing worse, rather than better, a few weeks. On the first occasion followed by an effort to sell more he evidently did, then he would do sample everything here; he must leel 31 last, in which period the Authority of fire had proved to be leakage from Report of the Port of Loudon tanks, &c. The Committee'a investi There is still congestion at the ports the price of a pair of shoes was $12 overseas.
"If it's part of a buyers' job to Authority for the year ended March gations indicated that the chief cause the downward path. Above all Costly furniture, costly food, costly & QUESTION FOR BRITISH EMPLOYERS Carpentier in his attack leaves him- rather dreadful at the end of the landed, or received 2,699,181 tons of sanged joints in the pressure system well to steer clear of the Utah mauler. on both sides. Bat freights are on on the second $15, on the third $20
here is the essence of the whole thing office furnishings it was the same
self wide open, and no man can perfect day." I remarked to an ex-import goods, and also handled conveying heated oil to the boilers, -American production has at last everywhere. The manufacturers
afford to do that against Dempsey. pert. caught up with and surpassed the mzde still fresh fortunes, the work manufactured goods are coming to Levinsky, is not impervious to attack worse jobs than this.
During the next year American
737,783 tons of goods for export and accordingly solid-drawn steel Carpentier, on his showing against But the mas replied, "There are The imports show an increase of 19.8 pipes are recommended with machine home demands. This has brought man, by constant strikes and threats England and will invade our markets He is not impervious to assault, and for instance. It's a well-known fact previous year, and the exports an to metal two results: a fall in prices and a raised their already high wages sky overseas as they have never done his offensive is not quite up to the that no one can survive tes-tasting for increase of but little more than perused
Tea-tasting, per cent. in comparison with the ed flanges coupled practically metal fresh campaigh for foreign trade. high. The public could pay and the before. We will find ourselves flood standard expected of a man consider more than a couple of years. Sem-cert The stocks in the warehouses possible, and impervious to oil Any jointing material American manufacturers finding public, was willing to pay.
should be the thinnest themselves overstecked and being: American financiers the great American underwear, American fancy ponent for Dempsey.'
cars, ed in the light of a prospective op- pling wine is diferent-it does give directly controlled by the Authority heated to 250 F. The scantlings of determined to keep their factories money kings who exercise supreme products, American clothing and going, will now dump their goods control from their beadquarters in American wares of every kind. In boxing skill expected of the French-tive liqueurs. They want drinks with 1919, the difference of 79,285 tas &c, should be tested to double work-
a man a chance."
at the end of last March amounted to flanges should be suitable for a wherever they can find a profitable the neighbourhood of Lower Broad our steel market the weight of man did not materialize. Carpentier dreamy names and musky flavors, representing an increase of over 11 ing pressure or at least 400 the after The brilliant speed, cleverness and I am told that women like disc 705.323ions at the end of March, square inch, and all pipes, fittings, 784,608 tons, as compared with working pressure of 200 lbs. per way saw that this thing could not American competition is already be discarded whatever knowledge of so a Chelses firm has invented a percent. In this connection the report jointing. Other recommendations in In this campaign the Americans last. Manufacturers bave certain great factors, in their broader basis of prosperity and invasion will be backed by great off against bis rival Instead, he d'Orient." It sounds like a face space has been unprecedented owing &c., we need not refer to in detail.
aing severely felt. This American Fing science he had when he squared poetic favour-abundance of raw material, even in the
potion of financial resources and by good sell plunged in wildly in an anxious ex-cream, but I am told it has a certain to the fact that shipments under for It will be gathered that this expert "Creme states. that the demand for storage connection with lighting, ventilation, mass production, and high-produc. the boom, financiers and manu- ing organisations. tion. American trades unionism is facturers combined to lay the often unreasonable and exacting, bur foundations of fresh foreign trade But few, if any, who have studied the yond question, while the bout lasted, "take" something: "I think I'll made without regard to the rate fire risk on such off-burning passenger
This may seem a gloomy forecast. rival He cot-fought Levinsky be
change of blows with bis American power.
ward contracts for certain articles Committee is satisfied that no drastic it has pot, save in exceptional cases, markets. The big banks opened basic conditions of the American but there was no positive direction
Here, as at every stall, I was asked such as tea, wool, and meat were measures are necessary to meet the adopted the suicidal policy of induce more and more branches over the industrial world to-day will deny it. er infallible accuracy in his blows have a chocolate," I said, looking at at which ing the workman to limit his output world. In many cases they could not Eventually the thing will right itself. Indeed, be missed many well intend some delectable boxes on the table. to pass into consumption. To meet in general, be carried out, without High production with tiga wages, find American men sufficiently train-Competition will in some cases finished swings for the face and stomach chocolate all at once and don't opened additional storage space, amount may expect to see them adopted they were able ships. Their recommendations can, bave giver the Americans an advanted in foreign banking; so they sent in combination, rivals will become of Levinsky.
"Certainly, madan, but eat the this demand the Authority has provid- difficulty, and as we have said, one age difficult to over-estimate.
to England for our young men alles. There is bound to be an in- The Americans possess another Manufacturers opened their foreign creasing demand for some form of in a wild ontburst of chetting after advantage which it would be foolish agencies. They sent big deputations protection against the American the bout. The French war hero understood.
The crowd acclaimed Carpentier your mouth"
ing in all to 2,500,000 sq. ft., of which officially-Engineering. Mr. Frank Vanderlip imports.
I gasped, but obeyed. to-ignore. The grouping together overseas.
about 800,000 sq. ft. were added Then I of productive units turning out the headed one of these deputations to
boxer had made good in his initial sweetmeat was full of a queer-tasting trucks, barges and road wagons has The immocent-looking during the year to which the report same line of goods ander the the Orient and opened up very im this aggravated American competi popular. One of the most represent. "Full strength liqueur." These dia extremely difficult ever since the out- Chinese maidservant was accosted by The most direct way of fighting American bout and the result was liquid, which the man stred me was made the problem of distribution with $6 change in copper cents, a
refers. The shortage of railway combine, portant Japanese connections there. tion would be along the lines of a ative crowds that has ever witnessed colates are sold at half guinea a break of war, and although at the a man who first helped himself to While returning home yesterday has certain great bezefits. Numerous deputations visited, and war of prices. British employers and about here stood cheering wildly pound In the West-end shops. Ability to control retail prices or to are visiting, the United King British workers will have frankly to keep up rates is the least of these, dom, and the contment and, as a rule, is more illusory than Europe. South America was, and is, reduce their profits and wages, and natured crowd eager to slap him mascatel from Epernay very prettily ment of Government motor lorries, thief was cornered in Shanghai Street:
of face the question whether they are to through a pushing, jostling, good-new drink.
until Carpentier left the ring, passing France, I learned, has sent us about a year ago; some measure of value to $5, and then made off. The height of the recent congestion period. ten rolls of the coins, amounting in Teal The big Combine generally has the object of a special effort. Fresh speed up their output, or lose trade. familiarly on the back.
It is a sparkling red relief was obtained by the employ alarm was promptly raised and the enough smaller competitors to make shipping lines were formed for direct The competition they will have to
quote reasonable prices. But shipping connections. And during all face is not equal competition on his corner, sat, surrounded by seconds wine with some people, for an expert Various measures adopted by the his girdle. The bystanders showed Levinsky, morose and dejected in bottled, and it is called "Redcarel," the report states that this method of In dispossessing himself of the coins Combine control enables research this time foothold was being main standard lines of goods, but the and handlers, seeking to cheer bim;
New bottles pount as much as old transport was found to be costly, the man let fall à dagger hidden in departments to be, run, economy to tained. The United States was even flooding of their markets with the as the crowd remained, in little says the great sale of a certain po- Authority have however, materially great zeal in recovering the scattered te systematically and scientifically then the greatest exporting nation In over products of a tremendously groups, to discuss the result. As he pular French wine is largely due reduced the congestion, and although coins but not in returning them to cultivated, and diffiency to the world, but activities were hindered speeded-up industry.
be obtained far more readily than can by lack of supplies. Large numbers
left the ring Levinsky was greeted on its charming appearance. be done by the smaller unit. The of orders sent from Europe were
it cannot yet be stated with certainty the unfortunate maidservant. all sides, with sympathetic, expres-
"The connoisseur wouldn't touch that there will be no recurrence of the Police Court this morning, a control of the Combine may be on never executed, first, because America
sions, contrasting vividly with the it," he added, "but ladica adore it." the trouble, it appears that the time previons conviction having been occasions hard, and may occasionally could not apare the goods and,
acclaim which greeted the French
Port wine, which makes me think required for the turning round of proved against the thief, Magistrate fall very hardly on the individual; secondly, because she was not satisfied
victor.
of City aldermen and about church-ships is now approaching the nor-Smith sentenced him to nine months het when it is properly done, it that Europe could pay.
Carpentier sought to end the fight wardens, is becoming more and more certainly makes for efficiency and
mal-Engineering. WHEN your child has whooping with a single How immediately the popular, so perhaps even the 120,000 enugh be careful to keep the bell sent the men on their journey, gallons which are to be sold at Min- Economy, American business to-day
more and more coming under scarcity of labour, which was one may be required This Femedy will also There was no demonstration of light-
Now the scarcity is ended. The giving Chamberlain's Cough Besedy as He made no pretence of boxing. cing-lane may leave someone dry.”
cough loose and expectoration easy by curbine, control, and is more and of the great factors in hindering still liquify the torgh. mucus and make it ning like, speed, no
Plans of model public houses ire. bound to do, 80, is effect if not greater production, no longer pre-sier to expectorate." It has been used dancing
phantom-like shown which Inchade special provision ame, despite all the anti-Trust valls. Immediately after the war contains an parcotic or other injurious cut loose in a wild orgy of swing. sion also for other forms of light
successfully in many epidemics and as it
or out. He just for their wives company, the Legislatures can closed large numbers of foreign substances it is perfectly safe. For ale ing which surprised the onlookers, amnisertent"
Provi at their leisure.
labourer's went horde; now the flood all Chemists and Bluzakangers. and Levinsky particularly,
the steaded statement
firid.
control of a single
desired
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