The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


churches of the various Protestant
bodies in New York is said to be so
small this year as to excite disquieting
remark. According TO reports in the
daily press it is esteemed that on
Sundays during July there have not
been in all Protestant churches in Man
haitian Island 5000 worshipers, at all
the services. on any one of them"
Since Aug. u Scotland has been
resounding with the noise of guns and
the grouse have been suffering in pro-
portion. 1t is a great year for the
grouse, and the number of sportsmen
and sportswomen is larger than ever.
valuable for sport and pleasure and
invaluable to the lady author who de-
picts high society in England, there is
another side to the shooting season
which is not so bright. Three ourths
OF the moorlands of Scotland are used
exclusively for shooting purposes.
About 2,500,000 acres are given to deer
forests and there is not enough land
for the crofters to make their humble
living. Land is urgently wanted and
yet it cannot be had, for it is much
more profitable to the owner to let the
shooting than to rent it out to small
farmers. A large part of this sport
ing" land, If the term is permissible, is
est commission appointed by Sir George
Trevelyan reported that LISP, 7S5 acres
used for sporting purposes ought to be
cultivated. In fact, Scotland as a
whole is held back for the benefit of
the rich few who wish to kill some
thing. If the grouse shooting were
done In a sportsmanlike manner there
would be less reason to criticize, but
shooting at birds too tame to get out of
the way strikes the average American
as being pretty poor sport.
One of the best-known physicians
in Worcester declares the potato fam
inc blessing in disguise, if people will
replace the potato with substitutes
OF greater food value says the Boston
Budget. He thinks, as we do that
there is none of the articles of food in
common use that contain so little nu-
tr1ment as the potato, and many others
furnish more in smaller amounts at
much less relative cost He especially
names the shredded wheat, rice, raw
cabbage, and fruits as more nourishing
than potatoes and, in fact, all grain
foods. When the potato rot brought
famine to Ireland the people of that
country were not prepared to resist it,
as they were probably at the lowest
condition, both mentally and physi-
cally, that the people of that country
ever We're, and thousands whose SUBJ
sistence had been for years upon that
root, persisted from famine; then
America sent them shiploads of corn
and other provisions, and those who
could do so emigrated to this country
where they found work and food. Now
there are those who are asking Ire
land to ship us all the potatoes they
can spare, not as a charity, but in re-
turn for such food products as we have
in abundance. or for our good money.
The man who gives a peck of corn for
a bushel of potatoes is making a poor
trade, as far as food properties go.
The limit of surface Transportation
is said to have been reached in Phila-
delphia, and the Quaker City seems to
be face to face with a rapid transit
problem which will tax all the inge-
nulty or the railroad companies and
the city fathers to solve. At present
the cars are running on forty to fifty
second Roadway, yet with this quick
schedule the business quarters are con-
stantly blocked. The average speed of
the electric car is said not to exceed
eight miles an hour, while in some
thoroughfares it is said not to exceed
four miles. This speed cannot be said
to be any better than that of the old
horse car, and to this slowness of
transit is added the discomfort of lack
of accommodation. During last year
292,237 1924 passengers were carried in
1,650 cars over the 450 miles of road of
the Union Traction Company, and
about 60 per cent. of these were carried
during five hours out of the twenty
four, between and o'clock in the
morning, and and o'clock in the
afternoon. This, according to conserv-
ative estimates by competent street car
men, means that during the hours of
greatest travel not more than half of
the passengers have adequate accom-
modations. The only solutions consid-
cred are elevated roads and a subway
system. Merchants are already seri-
ously Inconvenience by the congestion
of the streets, and to build additional
railroads in them would aggravate the
trouble. The only complete remedy
would be to put all the railroads on the
business streets under ground.
AT Buffalo the people linger out
doors; they come in greater crowds in
the night than in the day, says the
Worlds Work. They come in family
groups, men, women and children, in
parties-young women, workingmen,
members of bicycle clubs, teachers
every type from all grades of life, from
every part of the country, orderly,
prosperous, lntelllSent curious, ruiz oil
good nature. They throng the courts,
they fill the Midway; they examine the
big guns; they read the Declaration of
Independence; they study the map
wherein the position of every naval
vessel is shown; they visit the Indian
village and talk with the chiefs; they
cheer the sports in the stadium; they
examine the great. locomotives; they
look at the booded cattle; they study
the charts which show educational
prgress-nothing is lost on them. They
gaze at the splendid tower of light with
child-like appreciation; they listen to
the bands; they take photographs; they
make notes; they buy souvenirs; they
ride camels; they make new acquaint-
ances. There was never such a sight
under heaven as the people themselves
They gaze at the crowds, never finding
monotonous hour. And they seriously
study new Inventions; new processes
strange products. Given a splendid
spectacle, with an instructive back
ground, and given a cheap railroad
fare. and such intelligent, wholesome
millions of people flock from our great
populous areas as were never seen be-
fore, nor in any other land And they
are themselves the crowning glory of
the spectacle.
--Nels p. Nelson. the jolly assistant
custodian of the Federal building.
whose face always wears a smile is
not happy, says the Minneanolis Ioi,r