The day of the Gladiator is not past. Near New York this month the pugilistic champion of the United States, for the consideration of merely a million dollars, will stand up for something less than an hour to pummel and be pummeled by the pugilistic champion of Europe. Nearly seventy thousand fervid partisans will look on, eating peanuts--primordially yelling for blood. Among them, it is said, will be hundreds who figure prominently in Bradstreet's, the Blue Book and the Society Column. Gentlewomen will be there--in the fifty dollar seat section. Roustabouts and longshoremen, barristers, doctors and preachers, business men and government officials--and small boys roosting in neighboring trees--all with "thumbs down" when one bruiser weakens. Who is there to stop wars and rumors of wars while the spirit of the gladiatorial combat is thus rampant in human society, breaking through the carefully laid veneer of civilization? H.B.C. Enters Consignment Fur Business _Company Takes Over Warehouses of Defunct Nesbitt Firm; Will Strengthen London Market_ By PRO PELLE One of the most interesting events in the fur trade last month was the announcement by the Hudson's Bay Company of its intention to accept consignments of skins for sale at its London auctions. The news came as a surprise to many, as it has long been known that the famous old Company took particular pride in offering no skins for sale at its auctions save those collected by its own posts and graded with that excellency which has earned for the Company the reputation of setting an accepted standard for all skins. To those who are familiar with the past history of H.B.C., the news did not come altogether as a surprise. The Company has demonstrated on many occasions in the past that it does not hesitate to reverse its decisions and alter its policies when the changes wrought by time and economic progress in the domain of the Company make such changes a business necessity. Many in the fur trade wondered why the Company did not enter the consignment business sooner but the sequence of events has since demonstrated that by keeping out of that end of the business until after the speculators had had their fling, the Company was able to enter on the "ground floor," so to speak, and with everything in its favor. The establishment of great fur auction companies in St. Louis, New York and Montreal tended to deprive London of its old-time prestige, and, naturally, anything that detracted from the influence of the London fur market also affected the Hudson's Bay Company.