The Grit-advocate., 1901-10-18
WASHINGTON GOSSIP

department, 1alr progress was maze
on the armored cruiser Colorado and
the protected cruiser Denver during
the past month. The former vessel was
advanced from five to seven per cent.
toward completion and the latter from
dfty-tive to fifty-seven per cent. The
monitor Wyoming still remains seven
ty-five per cent.
1t is recommended by Rear Admiral
CrOwninshield, chief of the naviga-
ton bureau. that four vice ndmirals be
created, reducing the number of rear
admirals to fourteen, if necessary. 1t
is said that the United States often
has been in a humiliatng 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-
tiOn 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 will
De filled by separate detachments of
recruits. If any considerable number
of enlistments expire in Il single or
ganiZation as a whole will be returned
from the Philippines and another regi-
ment sent to take its place.
One of the matters which it, is en-
pcctcd will receive attention at the
coming conference of American states
is the establishment of International
health service. Some years ago the
American delegates to the conference
requested Surgeon General Wyman of
the marine hospital service to submit
suggestions, and in response he sent
to ex-senator &. Davis, chairman of
the United States delegation, Il pro-
visiCncl plan entitled international
Sanitstion-Pan-Amerl Republics"
The plan cOntemplntes an intenation-
nj agreement upon measures for the
elimination of yellow fever from sea-
port cities or towns which are or have
been endemic habhats of the disease.
postoftice Inspector John p Clum has
returned to Washington from Il 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 mail
service once a week in each direction.
He established the nOrthernmost post
office in the world This is at Point
Barrow, where Rev. DR.. II. Richmond
Marsh, the missionary at the
little settlement was appointed
postmaster. This place, where the
northernmCSt newspaper in the world
is published once Il year, will receive
the mails once Il year by a United
States rcvennc cutter. Heretofore the
few natives i'll the vicinity have had to
send for their mail 100 miles and often
much further
Statistics compiled by the marine
hospital service for 1,10O cities and
towns in the United States having II
population of 1000 or more, indicates
for the United States an annual mortal
ity for the last calendar year of 11.4l
per 1000 Of population, according to
the census of 1900. The population of
these cities and towns aggregate 30
Il2,GOS. and deaths from all causes in
1900 numbered 1861. 100. The annual
mortality per 900 of estimated popu-
lation is 1851. There were 36.240
deaths from phthisis pneumonalis. 64S
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 6.95
per LOCO population. was the most
healthy in the country
The annual report of Thomas Fitch,
commissioner Of immigration at New
York. has been received ut the Treas
IIry Dppn tmpnt The rpnOrt shows