p. 692 | News and Miscellany by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 17, 1913

News and Miscellany

By Editor

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

— Pres. Woodrow Wilson spent last week with his family at their summer home in Cornish, N. H.

— More than fifty thousand Confederate and Union veterans encamped at Gettysburg during the five-day celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of that battle.

— A prominent automobile dealer in a Western city is responsible for the statement that upon sixty-five per cent of the automobile sales he makes he takes real-estate mortgages.

— In Chicago there are 750 theaters and 76 others building. One half of the amusement houses are used exclusively for the display of moving pictures, and have a seating capacity of 300 or less, but the average capacity is 400, or a total of 300,000. There will be an added seating capacity of 300,000 when the new theaters are completed in the fall. It is estimated that the daily attendance is 900,000.

— On June 14 a letter written by a soldier in the civil war, on May 30, 1861, was delivered to his widow in Pottsville, Pa., after a delay of fifty-two years lacking two weeks. Henry C. Russell entrusted the letter to a comrade, M. E. Richards, to be mailed. This the comrade evidently forgot to do. Recently Mr. Richards died, and the letter was unearthed among his old papers, all sealed and stamped, and was immediately posted.

— Dr. Lauro Muller, minister of foreign affairs of the republic of Brazil, is touring the United States. He has everywhere been received with honor, and in response has expressed sentiments of the greatest cordiality. The Brazilian envoy, theoretically, is returning the official visit paid to South America by Senator Elihu Root when the latter was secretary of state several years ago. He will also select a site for the Brazilian exhibit at the Panama Exposition.

— Up to ten years ago it was absolutely impossible for any foreigner to own a single foot of land in Japan. Since then modifications have been made in the law to a certain extent, especially to enable missionary organizations to own property. However, no individual who is not a Japanese can even now under any circumstance actually own any land in Japan. The best he can do is to lease it. This lease may run for any length of time up to ninety-nine years.

— The Perry centennial celebration commemorating Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's victory over the British on Lake Erie, the campaign of Gen. William Henry Harrison, and the one hundred years of peace that will have ensued between the English-speaking nations since the signing of the treaty of Ghent, Dec. 24, 1814, was formally opened at Put in Bay, Ohio, July 4. It will continue until October 5, with celebrations at Toledo, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Erie, and other lake ports and Louisville, Ky.

— The Balkan allies, who were united against Turkey, are now fighting among themselves over the division of the territory taken from the Porte. Despatches indicate that desperate fighting is going on, especially between the Servians and the Bulgarians. Over 35,000 men have been killed. July 8, Turkey officially announced that she would reoccupy the territory taken over by the allies as a result of the London Peace Treaty. This means that she will go to war again, and preparations are being made for an invasion against Bulgaria.

— Miss Emma R. Graves was one of the first women employees of the United States government for counting money in the Treasury Department at Washington. She is now eighty-one years old, and is still faithfully at work rounding out half a century in government employ. Forty-nine years of this time she has been in the redemption division. When it was proposed to transfer her to another division, she pleaded to be allowed one more year in her old place, to fill out the fifty and celebrate her golden anniversary in one division. But her request was not granted, and she is now in the register's office, still performing the service of an expert money counter.