New-York tribune., 1902-12-25
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL

Washington. December a
LURID FILIPINO OUTLOOK-"The situation
in the Philippines right is about as bad as IL
could be, says Brewster Cameron. who mas h'eo
in the islands for :he last two years and comes 10
Washington as the accredited representative OF the
allied chambers of commerce. His special mission
to put before Congress the needs of the Phlhp-
pines and ask such relief legislation may give
The worst feature of situation he said. is
deprecated and fiuctuating currency we
ought to get or gold basis speedily possible
Already the civil government of the Islands mas
sustained net loss of not less than sl0poVO oy he
fuctuation in the value of our silver The natives
desperate straits largely because of the tre-
the carabdo. the most useful animal of the lsanqs;
horse, the mule and the OK in the United States;
The rinderpest has destroyed fully 90 per cent OF
gle animal has risen from 80 to SIS in gold Fort1
ands has discovered a serum which has proved
an almost certain preventive of the sCourge. ai
While on the subject Of pests however II Is ar
pToPrate to mention the pag9e 9f m pn
parts Of the Philippines than ever saw mem ZEN ~ ~
sects were at their worst
INTEREST IN ST. LOUIS FAIR.-The fame OF
the coming Louisiana Purchase Exposition has
gone abroad and penetrated the Far East FROM
Hong Kong comes the following comment. print
ed in late number OF The Hong Kong Teie-
graph:
The millions of visitors at st. Louis in 1904 will
be able with their own eyes to see these countries
dencS @ Correct dea 9 Of their T actual % and
wealth Of their real resources % ana Ps ProduGs Social
political and educational well as their c0nlnst-
Louis Exposition viii afford the first opportunity
Of any magnitude to Asia and Austraiasa unafe
the conditions that exist, to demonstrate
TO the world what they are doing and can do IN tne
tom at chcaso 81 m @ the
War the American occupation Of me fl'iIpp ~ br new
Federation On the other hand, the Paris Exposi:
ton Of 1900 came too soon after this succession Of
far reaching events to take full advantage OF
sition in 1864 at most oPportnne time portray
the new Asia and the new Austraiia JaBapi G9rea
viii make sxhbs & at St d Louis syn and
and 4 r1if AUSTRALIA Wi viii take smilsr steps if Hong
Kong does not join in this participation it VIII re,
community.
IRRIGATION STATISTICS NECEssARY.-As a
of warning cities and towns against build
ing waterworks and power stations without suf-
ficiently accurate measurements of the flow Of the
stream. the Geological Survey has issued the fol-
lowing bulletin:
The lack of such information frequently leads to
Of hydraulc works For exaRe PIE the city Of AT
works. @ by which it was estimated that 1900 horse
power could be developed Subsequent measure
five times too great: In like manner the sweet,
water dam and the Bear Valley dam in California
were woeful examples of projects carried through
on insufficient data. So also the ella Bend Art
zona project is another example of the expenditure
of a large (s9O009o) upon insufficient data ana
subsequent abandonment Of the scheme. AS an
illustration. il may be stated that reports upon
certain stream in New-York state were made by
five different engineers. all OF good standing In
which estimates of the minimum flow of the stream
under consideration varied from oD 70 oip cubic
per second per square mile that Is. one eIGl-
neer gave the minimum flow just twice the now
estimated by the other. Since these reports were
made G93o-0D. actual measurements OF the now
of this stream have been made; which show that
the lowest estimate made by the engineers is at
..at tnLA