AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11123, 24 July 1907, Page 1 (Supplement)

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

The Detroit correspondent of the New -""otic World states that the Duke of Manchester intends shortly to enter the treat car shops of his father-in-law, Mr -immerman, and make a close study of the railway business of the United State.. ' . . '-'. A fund of £200,000 for the endowment of an American academy of fine akts at Rome has been practically raised. The ten founders of the academy include Mr Pierpont Morgan, Mr William K. Vanderbilt, and Mr Henry Frick. ■ Mr James Jones, who was one of Jefferson Davis's negro bodyguard in the Civil War, has refused £3000 offered to him if he would point out the spot in the James River, where he threw the great seal of the Southern Confederacy. Just before the fall of Richmond the aeal was entrusted to him to be concealed rwhere it would.be safe from the Nortlterners. f The Canadian Government has renewed "the Canadian and Cape mail contract for five years at £20,000 per year. Mr Henry Phipps, the steel manufacturer, of Philadelphia, has given £200,---.000 to build a hospital for persons suffer^ ing from tuberculosis. St. Vincent's Roman Catholic College, Chicago, is opening a theatre, built with £60,000 of church funds, and to be managed by priests. At Lawrence, Kansas, on Sunday, Mr Julius Perkins, a lawyer, was killed by a fall from the roof of his house. Under a policy recently taken out he was inaured for £90,000. Mrs Bertha Blessing, of Philadelphia, went to the ceriietry on Thursday to decorate the grave of her brother. As she knelt in prayer the headstone collapsed on her. She was killed instantly. Professor Ladd, of Yale University, Who has spent two months in Korea, gives a hopeful forecast of affairs in the peninsula. ...... V The New York Tribune devotes an article to the. increasing size of Atlantic liners, pointing out that the development of New Yorks harbor facilities -is not" keeping pace with the requirements •of the new leviathans. "New York," proceeds the article, "is facing a big loss, for even now ships are sailing v ithout lull cargoes, because of the shallow and narrow harbor entrance, which prevents tho biggest draught vessels from leaving. A photograph of President Roosevelt, which is being exhibited at, Lansing, Michigan, is claimed to be the. largest in the world. It .is an enlargement on bromide paper and measures 17ft by 12ft. The picture cost £40. Mr James Morris, of New York, has bequeathed the income of £3600 to be spent in giving rides in Central Park to invalid children of New York.: He also left £5000 to provide mu9ic for the children in New York hospitals. Mr Roosevelt is undecided as to what he will dd after he retires from the Presidency, except that he has promised his wife that he' would go to Europe for a long rest. He is also contemplating later an extended hunting tour in South Africa. It is, however, positively stated that Mr Roosevelt has no- idea even of becoming president of Harvard University, but it is believed that he would not be averse to representing New York in the United States Senate. JAPANESE MAY NOT BE CITIZENS, The Department of Commerce, and Labor at Washington, in giving i decision oh what is regarded as a test case, hi" ruled that Japanese come under the designation of "Asiatics," and that consequently they are not eligible for naturalisation as American citizens SALE OF ZION CITY: The late Dr Dowie's Zion City bids fair to have a fate far different from that which its founder intended. A syndicate is arranging to purchase it as headquarters for a great circus, and also for a playing card trust. 1 A Coprt order requires the sale of the city for the benefit of the creditors. THE THAW TRIAL. Mr O'Mara, the detective who has had charge of the extensive investigations undertaken in the interest of , Harry Thaw, sailed for Europe yesterday on board the White Star liner Cedric. It is supposed that he is in search of fresh evidence. The expenses of the defence in the Thaw trial, which amount to £50,-u<-, have now been paid. Mr Deltnas has received £10,uv_-> while another of the defending counsel, whose name is not disclosed, has received £20,000. It is reported that he asked -for £20,0uy, more. AN EMPLOYERS' FU_*D. * One of the most important developments in the industrial situation has been the decision of the National Association of Manufacturers, composed of more than 3000 firms and corporations, to raise a £300,000 fund during the next three years (£IOO,OOO annually) to wage a campaign for the "open shop" principle. The manufacturers decline to tell exactly in what way this fund will be used; though they intimate that much will be spent in literature. It is their plan to. federate all the employers of the coun£7,ooo,ooo IN FINES. The Waters Pierce Oil Company, a constituent of the Standard Oil Company, has been fined £324,600 for offences against the Trust Law, and has been refused permission to do further business in Texas. The company will appeal against the decision. The Standard Oil Company had already be_n fined £7,000,000 in Ohio and the Chicago Courts alone for similar offences. THE SITUATION AT SAN FRANCISCO. A New York corespondent says that the situation at San Francisco can only be described as desperate. In all some 40,000 persons are out of work; capital for continuing the work of reconstruction is no longer forthcoming; and the Japanese difficulty is presenting a very serious aspect. Dynamite was exploded under a tramcar full of passengers at San Francisco on Tuesday. The car was raised from the track and* the passengers were badly frightened, but nobody was seriously injured. It is evident that the strikers are desperate. Nearly all the tramway lines are now in operation, and the president of the United Railroads, Mr Patrick Calhoun, has absolutely refused to negotiate with the strikers' union. THE PRESIDENT'S ADVICE TO FARMERS. President Roosevelt attended the celebrations in honor of the semi-centennial Of Michigan Agricultural College, the Oldest institution of its kind in the United States. In the course of an address, the President said that the farmers must combine among themselves*, as the most efficient means of protecting their industry fron. the highly-organised interests now surrounding them on every side. A vast field was open for the work of cooperative associations dealing with the relations of the farm to the transportation and to the distribution and manufacture of raw materials. The President instanced the farmers' combination in Denmark as an (.--.ample of the good that might be accomplished by such means. PROPOSED HEBREW UNIVERSITY. The establishment of a great Hebrew University is proposed, which shall include all the leading institutions through* out the countryj with the Jewish Theological Seminary of New York at. their head. A preliminary endowment fund of £2,000,000 is suggested, and it is proposed to adopt the German system of instruction. The projectors declare that such a university is necessary to teach young Jews their religion, while it would at the same time greatly develop Jewish scholarship. As New York City contains nearly a million Jews, the scheme has locally aroused great interest. The Evening Post frankly laments the suggestion, believing that it would emphasise racial differences, and be a serious blow to liberalising tendencies in the universities, which have many Hebrew professors. The Post adds that a Hebrew University seems unnecessary. MR BRYCE ON WOMAN'S SPHERE. Mr Bryce, the British Ambassador, was the orator- at graduating exercises at the Bryn Mawr Woman's College .Philadelphia, lhe subject of his address being : "Has the education of women distinctive aims!" Mr Bryce considered the faculties of men' and women about equal, and that the intellectual training tliat was suitible to the one was suitable to the other. He judged that the majority of American women in the Eastern and Middle States did not desire to enter politics, but he did not wish to' express a definite opinion upon such a controversial subject. Regarding the entire country, Mr Bryce suggested two distinctive fields of work for women; first, the cultivation of a thorough knowledge of and a fine taste in literature, second, the study of the best method of mitigating the acutene_s of the contrasts between wealth and poverty.