1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
159 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—The steamer Larchmont or the Joy Line 
Captain George W. MeVay commanding, which left Provi¬ 
dence, It. I., February 11, for New York, sank in the 
Sound three miles off Watch Hill R. I., three hours later, 
a few minutes after she had been in collision with the 
two masted coal laden schooner Harry Knowlton, bound 
for Eastport, Me., from Perth Amboy. The Knowlton was 
beached on the Rhode Island shore and all of her crew 
escaped. The Larchmont is believed to have carried about 
125 passengers and had a crew of 45 men. Of these 170 
the survivors, so far as is known, number 19. The intense 
cold caused frightful suffering, which, combined with the 
gale blowing, made any attempt at rescue impossible. 
The complaint of commission men that inadequate service 
is furnished by the Kansas City Stock Yards Company has 
been found to be based upon fact by the committee from the 
Kansas Legislature, which, acting jointly with a committee 
from the Missouri Legislature, recently made investigations 
of the stockyards. That this poor service costs patrons 
of the'yards as much as $6,000 a day, is also held in the 
report, which has been made to the Legislature. The report 
is peculiar in that while it states that the charges on 
certain classes of live stock are unfair and exorbitant it 
recommends that such charges be maintained and legalized. 
, . . . Lyndhurst, the country home of John Wana- 
maker, on the old York Road, near Ogontz, Pa., was de¬ 
stroyed February 8 by fire. The conflagration was started 
by an electrical iron which one of the maids had been using 
and which she left on a table. While she went to attend 
to duties in another part of the house, the iron burned 
through the table and set it in flames. 'Pliese flames spread 
from table to floor and from floor to wall, until the house 
was a furnace. The loss is estimated at $250,000. covered 
by insurance. The greater part of the furnishings and 
niany paintings which hung in Mr. Wanamaker's gallery-—- 
one of the finest private galleries in the country—were 
saved. . . . The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad 
established a new record for live stock traffic February 11 
by bringing to Chicago 1,288 cars of stock, the largest 
number, ever brought there in a single day by any railroad. 
The Burlington brought 400 cars of stock, the St. Paul 
road 335 cars, the Rock Island 234 cars, the Illinois Central 
230 cars and. the Wisconsin Central 30 cars. At. least 75 
per cent, of the Northwestern's live stock deliveries of this 
day originated in Iowa and Nebraska, the average haul 
being about 400 miles and the average speed 25 to 30 
miles an hour. . . . An accident bulletin issued Febru¬ 
ary 6 by the Interstate Commerce Commission for the three 
months ended September 30 last shows the total number 
of casualties to passengers and employees while on duty to 
have been 19,850, as against 16,937 reported in the preced¬ 
ing three months. The number of passengers and employees 
killed in train accidents was 267, as against 194 reported 
in the preceding three months. Fifty-two passengers were 
killed. The total number of collisions and derailments in 
the quarter was 3.672 < 1.891 collisions and 1,781 derail¬ 
ments), of which 269 collisions and 201 derailments affected 
passenger trains. The damage to cars, engines and road¬ 
way by these accidents amounted to $2,932,760. The num¬ 
ber of employees killed in coupling and uncoupling cars and 
engines was 81, being an increase of 13 over those reported 
killed in the last quarter. ... A special meeting of the 
trustees of the General Education Board, held at the 
offices of the board at 54 William St., N. Y., February 7 in re¬ 
sponse to a request for the meeting from John I). Rocke¬ 
feller, resulted in the reading of a letter from Mr. Rocke¬ 
feller in which he announced a gift to the board of $32,000,- 
000 in income bearing securities, Mr. Rockefeller an¬ 
nounced his first gift to the board in March. 1902. of 
$1,000,000. The second gift came in tl.e form of a letter 
from Mr. Rockefeller in .Tune, 1905, in which he announced 
to the board a contribution of $10,000,000. In October, 1905, 
the $10,000,000 was paid to the board in cash and was 
named “The John I). Rockefeller Foundation for Higher 
Education.” From (he income of this fund conditional sub¬ 
scriptions have so far been made to 18 colleges in Southern 
and Middle Western States. Some of this has also gone to 
educational institutions in Pennsylvania and Ohio. The 
conditional gifts amount so far to $1,077,500. and the col¬ 
leges interested are now busy raising sums that total 
$3,262,500 in order to meet the conditions under which they 
are to be beneficiaries. In other words, the colleges that 
are to receive money from the fund are compelled to raise 
first about $3 to every $1 received from the board. 
THE JAPANESE QUESTION.—What practically amounts 
to a complete solution of the so-called Japanese problem, 
involving the San Francisco school question and the future 
friendship of the United States and Japan, was found Feb¬ 
ruary 12 at a conference between Secretary of State Root 
and the conferees of the House and the Senate on the immi¬ 
gration bill. The proposition is that no Japanese 
shall be admitted to the United States unless they present 
passports from their Government, This alone would perhaps 
not be effective, but the Japanese Government has said very 
plainly to the United States that it really does not wish its 
subjects to come to this country, but would rather have 
them go to Corea and Manchuria to populate and develop 
the lands of which Japan gained preponderance by van¬ 
quishing Russia in the late war. The provision, which 
would thus amount to practical exclusion of the Japanese 
from the United States, would take the form of an amend¬ 
ment to the immigration hill. This measure, the main object 
of which is to make it more difficult for foreigners to enter 
the United States, was passed by the House and the Senate 
last Spring, but with different provisions. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Professor Shaw, of the New 
Hampshire State College, has resigned to take a position 
in the bureau of animal industry, at Washington. Mr. 
Shaw for the last four years has been assistant professor 
of agriculture at the college, and will remain until the 
end of the present college year. He will take charge or 
.the work on sheep and goats in the bureau of animal 
industry. 
An expenditure of nearly $1,000,000 for the purchase of 
cattle to supply the needs of the Indians on reservations 
in North and South Dakota, Montana and Arizona will 
be made soon by the Interior Department. The Commis¬ 
sioner of Indian Affairs will invite proposals for furnish¬ 
ing and delivering during the flscal year 1907, 24,751 
heifers, 775 bulls, 1,268 mares and 1,268 milk cows to 
Indian agencies in the States referred to, at an estimated 
cost of $794,420. 
A second Winter school short poultry course of six 
weeks will be given by The Connecticut Agricultural Col¬ 
lege, Storrs, Conn., beginning February 20, 1907, a suffi¬ 
cient number of applications for this course having already 
been received. A few more applicants can be provided for. 
The annual meeting of the New York State Agricultural 
Experimenters’ League will be held in the Agronomy 
building, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., February 21-22. 
The purpose of this league is to promote co-operative 
experiments in the various departments of farm husbandry, 
to promote intercourse between those studying farm prob¬ 
lems, to advance agricultural education, to collect and 
disseminate data relating to country life and to support 
legislation favorable to the promotion of these objects. 
All interested are invited to attend. The secretary is 
Charles H. Tuck, Ithaca, N. Y. 
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