p. 21 | Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 18, 1910

Current Mention

—One thousand delegates from all over the world are in attendance at the International Congress of Esperantists at Washington, D. C.

—Provision for King George and his household was made recently by the House of Commons, which appropriated to the king’s use the sum of $2,350,000 a year. This is the same amount that was allowed the late King Edward.

—F. Mergenthaler, son of the famous linotype inventor, with his young wife, her parents, and their chauffeur, were instantly killed on the night of August 9, when an express-train on the Pennsylvania dashed into an automobile at Mill Lane crossing, near Cape May, N. J.

—By September 1, in compliance with a law passed by Congress in June, every ocean-going passenger steamer doing business at an American port, and plying between ports more than two hundred miles distant from each other, must be equipped with wireless apparatus.

—A woman, the daughter of the chief director of the royal library of Berlin, has won the “kaiser’s prize,” said to be the most coveted of all the honors of the University of Berlin. She was one of the first women to matriculate at the university, which first opened its doors to women in 1908.

—On the morning of August 9, as he was starting on a European trip, and while talking with friends on board the “Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse,” Mayor Gaynor, of New York City, was shot and dangerously wounded by a discharged city employee. At the time of going to press, the mayor is reported to be out of danger.

—Fourteen persons were killed outright, and twenty or more injured, some of them fatally, by the collision of a passenger- and a construction-train at Ignacio, Cal., on August 9. The locomotives were crumbled up, as the trains met, and the tanks holding the oil burst. The wreckage was soon in flames. A misunderstanding of orders is said to have been responsible for the disaster.

—Forest fires in Montana, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and California have resulted in extensive damage; and President Taft has authorized the use of the government troops to help subdue the flames. The danger confronting the forest reserves is said to be the most serious in the history of the forest service. Twenty bridges, a dozen lumber mills, and several towns have been destroyed.

—Improvements in the Siberian Railroad system have resulted in better train service, and have reduced the time from Moscow to Vladivostok by 24 hours. “It is now possible to leave London on Monday, and reach Yokohama, Japan, on the second Monday following. By taking the fast Canadian-Pacific steamship, which leaves Yokohama on Tuesdays, the tourist, if he so wished, could reach Vancouver in 26 days after leaving London; and in 37 days after setting out on his world-encircling trip he would be again in London. This, be it noted, is less than one half the time taken by Jules Verne’s traveler in his trip around the world.”