American Letter.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXIII, Issue 4052, 29 July 1907, Page 4

American Letter.

NKVi YORK.. May 8. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. A tempest in a tea-pot has arisen in Brooklyn, -where the trustees of tho famed Plymouth Church have leased tho edifice for a Christian Science lecture. Plymouth Church was founded and made, world-famous by the Rev. Henry Ward .Beecher, and there are those in its congregaI tion to-day who say that Beecher's j faith and tents were so broad that lie would have weleo med an exposition of Christian Science from his pulpit. Still, the a mservativo majority of tho preson t-day congregation is of another Miind, and tho trustees may go Auto the courts to compel tho Christian Scientists to break tho contra ct. A RAILROAD CONTRACT. A great street railroad strike has held San Francisco; in a helpless grip for more than a. w«.!ek. There have been striking longs! horemen in New York at tho same, time, and some j disorder, but the strike in San Francisco is a vsolou£ thing, which, has already been ed by several deaths. San■ Fvanciset > is a city where the labour union re.i'J. ns supreme. Its Mayor is a Unionist , a.nd its police are in turn ruled by the same party. They have in conscfju once, been lukej warm in the pmtecti on of the proi perty of the simM; ra.ilroad coraI panics, and tho first- cars that were operated after the Kie- up were greetj ed with volley?, of hck-1 :s and pavingstones. Tho situation: ( leveloped such violence tha'i, Goveruo r Gillette, of California, the ir, atter personally in han-d, and thres'toned, to call out tho m'Jitia Federal troops if necessary, if rioting did not ceasoat once. Under the moral protection and effect, of such a.n order by the Executive of the St a. Ho, the railroad companies, have been; enabled to r<v sr.rno a partial operation of their lines. 'Much hard feeling remains in tho ci'jy, however. M'OTOlt-CAR SPEED MANIA. AV jth tho opening of the sprin g and sur.imer season, an unusually backj w.-trd season this year, tho poilice of hirgo communities and small fin d that their troubles increase in regu bating automobile speed. Tho continued prosperity of tho country has ovid'jnced itself in an increasing use of : motor vehicles, a.nd the possess ion of 'one of theso seems in most oa sua to bo an incentive for speeding rna chines ! through country roads anil city streets alike. At first it was no small matter for- tho city police to or- .jrhaul offending chauffeurs. That dii ficulty has beoii overcome by tho pcrchaso of racinr; automobiles and motorcycles b.v police departments- c>t the larger ej'.ties. The country constables, spurred on by statute enaetr, lents that enabled them to share the fines imp.osed, devised ways of their .own, Um , frivoarito stylo being the orecti'ju c-f some temporary gate or barricade across tin* highway. AYhi le tho Work, of both city and country poLeo has thus improved, there has i al.so been a steady tendency to wards j stricter legislation regulating; the speed of automobiles. Magi strafes I and judges have done, their \ >art in imposing heavier fines, and, i n sonio outrageous cases, short gaol L sentences, so that the speed man ii i is being kept partly in check. It remains a good deal of a men; ice and a nuisance to country folk. Tho old pleasure, of driving a hoi .-so over quiet rural road.s i: spdib »d for many timid, nervous folk. Tho noisy motor-car has. found its wu.y into the quietest corners of the country. FOREST PItESKRV A'L'l ON.

Forest preservation has begun to he a topic of groat interest. Only yesterday tho Pennsylvania. railroad announced that it. had .bought great tracts of land, on 'which it will set out at once 2,500,000 trees for the maintenance of its CTOSS-t’.es and other wooden necessities tor many years to come. Tho lumbermen, have cut without tlirought of the morrow, and great simple enough when they follow tho forests tracts have been devastated ruthlessly and with an absolute lack of system. New \ ork State has a great forest preserve in the Adirondack mountain country. A few years ago the State purchased six million acres of this beautiful forest and set it aside as a wild jmrk preserve. Now it finds that it must bend its every energy to keep the thieving lumbermen from cutting tho trees within the very limits of this xireserve. Some of the small fry iioach upon tho State’s land, and tlio bigger fry to obtain legislation that will enable them to cut timber under some pretence, of public weal. It is a constant vigilance that cutter in leash. HEN Kit Ah KTUOKI.

Henenil Kuroki, of Japan, has arrived in America, and is tin- guest of the Hinted States Govei n incut and its people.. He is receiving tho most

distinguished reception given to a guest from abroad in some time. He has already been entertained at Washington and at the Jamestown Exposition, and is now in New York, the Japanese standard waving gaily above his hotel. Kuroki speaks but little English, but apparently understands all that is said to him in that tongue. Like all Japanese, lie is deep in reserve, makes little comment, but shows tremendous interest in everything about him. It has been repeatedly noted that he does not show his age ; he seems more like a man of thirty-five than a man of about twice those years.