Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-12

parte and Senator Alice of Delaware
it was agreed practically that unless
Congress should require especially that
the proposed great battleship should be
called the Constitution it would be
named the Delaware In accordance
with the law that battleships shall be
named after states of the union.
Representative Gardner Of the Glouc-
ester district of Massachusetts Is mov-
ing energetically in behalf of the
American traw1ers who had been fined
by the Newfoundland authorities for
fishing on the west shore within the
thrce-mile limit. He called at the
state department Wednesday and had
a long conference with Sec. Root on
this matter with the result that the
secretary will undertake, as soon as
Rep. Gardner has produced the court
record showing under what act the
captain of the vessels were arrested and
the disposition made of their case to
lodge formal protest with the British
government. not only against those ar
rests but against the continuance OF
the Newfoundland attitude on this sub
ject.
"A SIpSldulldl l1cTedSt III lile lell iihl
industry in the United States is shown
in a preliminary summary of the CEN
sus bureau issued Wednesday. The
figures cover the calendar year 1904
and are compared with 1900 and show
an increase in the number of establish
mentS of twenty-six per cent. over
1900. There were PIG such establish
ments in 1904 with a capital invested
of s26,25S. .104, an increase of SO
per cent; salaried officials, clerks.
etc, 1861; drawing salaries, amount
ing to $1,4SS,236; wage earners, % 629;
wages 11,302,237 The total value of
products was $S6629. 1888, not including
$333,441 by products reported from
other industries The total number. Of
dozens of felt hats produced was 2,611,-
s75. an increase of 80 per cent. over
1900.
AS result of observations made by
American army officers in the Far
East during the Japanese war
a change is to be made by; the war de-
partment in connection with the field
subsistence arrangements. Heretofore
the quartermasters department has
had charge of all equipment pertain
ing to the cooking and baking for the
troops in the field, but under the new
arrangement the commissary officials
will have charge of such equipment as
we'll as the matter of the preparation
of food for the soldiers. Under this
plan the commissary will not be de-
pendent upon another branch of the
service for the transportation and
furnishing Of ranges, utensils and
bakery outfits when in the field.
The department Of commerce and la
bor' Wednesday in reporting on a bill
introduced by Senator Frye of Maine
expressed the view that the provisions
of the steamboat inspection law with
respect to the carrying by steam ves-
sells of dangerous burning fluids, such
as paphtha and gasoline, should not
apply to yachts. Senator Noyes' pro-
posed. measure was the result of pro-
tests by Eastern and Southern yacht
owners against the decisions of the To-.
cal steamboat inspectors that the law
was as applicable to private yachts as
TO any other steam craft and that
therefore they could not have on board
naphtha or gasoline leunches. If the
bill passes, the steamboat inspection
law will be amended insofar as the
restriction will apply only to those ves-
sells carrying passengers "for hire"