The Holly chieftain., 1901-10-18
WASHINGTON GOSSIP

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advanced from five to seven per cent.
toward completion and the latter from
nfty-hye to iifty-seven per cent The
monitor Wyoming still remains seven
iy-ive per cent.
|, is recommended by Rear Admiral
Crowninshicld. chief of the naviga-
tion bureau. that four vice admirals be
created reducing the number OF rear
admlrals to fourteen. II necessary III
Is said that the United States often
has been in humiliating position on
important occasions abroad by reason
of the low rank of its naval represent
atives The report closes with an
earnest Recommendation for the crea-
ton Of national naval reserve.
1t has been determined at the War
Department to send troops to the Phil
ippines TO take the places Of those
whose term Of enlistment expires.
Where the re-enlistments are not large
in any one regiment, their places VIII
be filed by separate detachments OF
recruits. If any considerable number
of enlistments expire in a single or
ganiZa ton, 1t is probable trat the or
ganiZation as Il whole will be returned
from the Philippines and another regi-
ment sent to take its place.
One Of the matters which it is eN-
pected will receive attention at the
coming conference of American states
is the establishment OF International
heath service. Some years ago the
American delegates to the conference
requested Surgeon General Wyman of
the marine hospital service to submit
suggestions. and i'll response he sent
to ex-senator G. Davis, chairman of
the United States delegation, a pro-
visional plan entitled International
nitation-Pan-Am American Republics"
The plan contemplates an information.
al agreement upon measures for the
elimination of yellow fever from sea.
port cities or towns which are or have
been endemic habitats of the disease.
Postoiiice Inspector John p. Clum has
returned to Washington from trip OF
inspection through Alaska. He has re-
ported to the department that the SER
vice generally is in excellent condition,
more particularly in the Yukon valley,
where the various towns have a mail
service once n week in each direction.
He established the northernmost post
office in the world. This is at Point
Barrow, where Rev. DIR. II. Richmond
Marsh, the missionary at the
little settlement, was appointed
postmaster. This place where the
northernmost newspaper in the world
is published once n year, will receive
the mails once year by a United
States revenue cutter. Heretofore the
few natives in the vicinity have had to
send for their mail 100 miles and often
much further. f.f He, .lta
tsa,t I.l L., ylt, ri
hospital service for 1,19o cities and
towns in the United States having
population of 1000 or more, indicates
for the United States an annual mortal
ity for the last calendar, year of 1I.47
per 1000 of population, according to
the census OF 1900. The population of
these cities and towns aggregate 90
712,G0S and deaths from all causes in
1900 numbered 3G1. 100. The annual
mortality per l 900 of estimated popu
lation is 1857. There We're 1920
deaths from phthisis pneumonalis, GAS
from smallpox. T1,0oT from cnteric fe-
yer, $50 from measles, 2,237 from
scarlet fever 5000 from diphtheria
and membraneous Group and 2,539 from
whooping cough. The table shows
North Dakota, with Il death rate Of 605
per 1000 population, was the most
healthy in the country.
The annual report of Thomas Fitch,
commissioner of immigration at New
York has'becp received at the Treas
ury Department. The report shows
that the number of aliens who arrived
during the fiscal year ended June 30,
1901. was 453,496. There ware also
1906 citizens of the United States
who arrived from abroad. From a
comparison of the steerage immigra-
ton for the last two years 1t is shown
that nearly 100000 of the increase of
last year over the year before was In
the immigration from Southern Italy
alone. he number of returning alien
residents stands Mt 10.6 per cent. of the
total immigration. or the amount
brought per capita there appears to be
an appreciable increase over last year,
but the report says: "The conclusion
is unavoidable that out immigration is
constantly increasing in illlteracy. Not
only are we drawing more and more
from the countries where illiter1cy is
high. but also the immigrants them
selves are showing higher percentages
of illitcracy." a5...
Sumner Lathrop, a wealthy New
Yorker, who travels extensively
throughout the world and sends
,ne Agricultural Department many
rare plants and other foreign
products, and David Falrchild,
special agent of the depart
ment of Agriculture. both of whom
have only just returned from trips
abroad, will leave Washington shortly
on nuOt her trim IN the Oriant and other