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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY London department store busincSR may piss into the control jut a few big interests if present tend ¬ encies are maintained says the American Chamber of Commerce in London Bift stores are reaching out and purchasing other big Stores but it U pro ¬ posed to maintain them as separately managed competing units Harrows are purchasing Swan Kdgnr in Piccadilly Circus having already absorbed Dickins t Jones in Itegent street Ilarrods are already firmly Intrenched in South America where a big enterprise beiiring their nune in Buenos Aires has ju st absorbed another hirse depart ¬ ment store in that city John Barker of Ken ¬ sington has buiigiit up Pontings and Messrs perry Toms Selfridgcs the fiimoiis American store bearing tln iiMine of its owner originally a ChiciiKOiin is another fictor in his iiKivement Tin value of advertising as a selling force is bejn realized in Britain nnil another feature of the de ¬ partment store tni le is the amount of mail order business done with the provincial towns and even with the British colonies coloniesFinal Final efforts to avert a strike of gashouse work ¬ ers wore begun yostcrdny through the Illinois Pub ¬ lic Utilities Commission which has been asked to Increase the cost of gis so as to eniible the com ¬ pany to meet the workers demands for higher wages If the commission turns a denf ear to the appeals of the company the union leaders said the gasheuse men will strike leaving the city without gas A walkout was prevented by a series of hurried conferences and telephone appeals to the public utility commissioners lt Springfield After twelve hours of meetings behind barred doors Samuel lusnll president of the Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company and Thomas C Campbell head of the gashouse workers union announced the strike had been temporarily averted and that the men would stay at work for a week pending ac ¬ tion of the commissioners commissionersAllied Allied troops have occupied Constantinople and the great guns of the British dreadnought Benbow and other giant allied warships moored to quays or anchored in the Golden Horn command both sides of the Bosporus Kvory ship is cleared for action The actual arrival of allied forces caused little alarm nor were there any signs of panic except in Ktamhoiil Shopkeepers near the war office there closed their places of business when it Was heard the allies were coming but the troops inspired confidence and the stores were soon reopened All the allied powers participated in the movement being under orders from the Irilisli oommandiTin chlef the Italian contingent including detachments having Moslems on their rosters Four thousand bluejackets and marines were landed by British warship warshipBorne Borne is to have a large amusement enterprise somewhat on the lines of Luna Park at Coney Island An immense piece of waste land is to be made into a great park with two theaters one covered and one uncovered each capable of con ¬ taining IOOfl persons and having enormous stages All kinds if theatrical and variety entertainments moving picture shows operettas cinemas circuses and boxing and athletic exhibitions will be given in them and there will be halls for concerts and skating restaurants tea rooms and all kinds of open air amusements It is to be called the Paiiola from the district in which it is situated Cavalicre Filotco Alherini a moving picture pioneer started the iinderttikng iinderttikngDr Dr Wolfgang Kapp the new German chan ¬ cellor and Gen Luettwitz his military lieutenant have decided to retire from the direction of Ger ¬ man governmental affairs unconditionally accord ¬ ing to a dispatch received at Paris from Frankfort moling advices to the Gazette of that city It is said this decision was reached after negotiations with independent socialists led by Dr Colin in which the latter had threatened to attack tlir new government forces with armed workmen A AVolff bureau dispatch frtuu Berlin states Col Bauer confidential adviser of Gen Ludemlorff has boon assassinated The general strike is effective over nearly all of Germany GermanyA A mob has stormed French headquarters at Bonn and pillaged stores and private houses says a Berlin dispatch to Paris The disorder began with an attack on a French military automobile truck the driver and several French officers narrowly escap ¬ ing being lynched Police officers were obliged to fire upon the mob Fiftynine persons have been killed and upward of a hundred wounded in disorders at Treves in the American one of Occu ¬ pation southwest of Coblenz according to advices received in Paris Ucvlxcd figures of the casualties in the fighting at Dresden are said to show that more than 100 were killed and 0l wounded woundedGross Gross earnings of the Chicago Surface Lines for the twelve months ending January II 1920 were i iSU an increase of 9 25 10 over the record of the previous year Operating expenses for the same period were 2 1 01 lsri an increase of S722077 The south side lines earned 721 per cent on their capital stock after all previous ex ¬ penses were met and on the strength of this have increased their dividends from per cent per year to The citys per cent of the net earnings of those lines comes to 14Sr 88 88The The people of Argentina like to take a chance on a betting proposition This is shown by the fact that last year they bet altogether 17 iUOOOOI on horse races in lottery tickets roulette resorts or other means of gambling says La IJazou Argen ¬ tinas uopnlatioii is about s000000 o that the average gambling by each person was 22 a year Li Itazoii gives these figures in urging that all gambling should be under government supervision and that the proceeds should be placed for public benefit benefitChicaco Chicaco bricklayers and masons are to receive l2T ail hour on and after May 1 according to a contract signed by contractors and workers repre ¬ sentatives on Tuesday and celebrated by the union yesterday Tilelaycrs will receive 1271 ait hour The old scale was l and 102 with bonuses run ¬ ning as high as 2 i cents an hour None of the par ¬ ties to the new agreement would discuss the set ¬ tlement Special meetings of the union were held to inform the members of the increase increaseThe The magnificent conservatory at Chatsworth the Duke of Devonshires residence which served Sir Joseph Paxtou as a model when he designed the Crystal Palace is to be demolished The conser ¬ vatory which was built about seventy years ago and was rebuilt twentyfive years ago is sixty five feet high and contains tiOOO square feet of glass and seven miles of piping Shortage of coal is stated to be the reason for its demolition
