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| The life-saving service OF the
United States is so seriously crippled
that many OF the stations are strug
pling along with about so percent OF
the full force. according 10 a statement
made the other day by General Super
intendent Sumner |. Kimball, who Is
attending the annual regular meeting
of the lifesaving board in this city.
Superintendent Kimball says that
the crippled condition Of the service
is due 20 a lack of good surfmen, and
he attributes the cause 10 the poor
pay offered and the lack Of provision
made for a man who finds himself in
capactated for his work by old age
or accident TO remedy the matter
Superintendent Kimbail suggests re
tirement system
Local lawyers say that tine delin-
quent child" law, which was passed by
! the Legislature. does not change the
substance Of the present statute re-
lating 10 child offenders and that the
change in the charge against children
is a mere play upon words and a lot
of nonsense.
According TO the new law. which
becomes operative September !, "A child
between the ages Of : and II who VIC
lates a city ordinance OF commits an
offence not punishable by death or
life Imprisonment, cannot be charged
with the offence or misdcameanor but
only as d delinquent child"
Friends Of the late Mayor Collins
will be surprised 10 learn that the art
commissioners have refused 10 allow
his memorial a place on Boston Com
mon This decision was arrived at
several days ago, tut has only just
been made pIb!io
More than $4,000 was raised, and "A
statue in commemoration of him was
contracted for and trustees were ap-
pointed o. care for the fund These
are jerome Jones, a
Shuman and Thomas r Fitzpatrick.
At the meeting Of the art commits
sioners the matter Of the placing of
the statue on the Common was con
sidored, and after discussion it was
decided in the negative.
The reasons given were that in fu-
ture years other mayors friends
might come along and ask that me
MORALS TO them be erected ON Boston
Common.
The captain Of the LCyland liner
Bostonian, which recently arrived at
this port, reports having sighted an
iceberg 500 feet long and 20O feet high.
The width is not given, but it may be
assumed as half the length Then. if
a%owance is made for the much great
er proportion OF the ice that is below
the surface, a bulk SO enormous is
shown that there must have been
close 10 10000 0OO tons of good ice
thus going to waste. That, could it
have been utilized, would help to
make up the shortage that is reported
In many cities this summer. By the
way, during last winter the weather
was SO mild that the predictions were
made that we would have a cool sum
mer Have we been getting il this
month? It does not feel SO, anyway.
Parishionors Of the old Park Street
Congregational church, at the corner
of Park and fremont streets, which
for years has been identified as among
the leading church societies of Bos-
ton, are elated to find that sufficient
subscriptions have poured into the
treasury to enable the financial com
mittee TO install modern steeplo
clock
For years the present timepiCce has
withstood the ravages of winter and
summer
Men who have grown old and have
watched the present clocks for decades
are reeretting the passing of their
schoolday timepiece
A staid parishioner of the church
said the other day that despite the re-
peated trials of certain real estate
dealers and OF others. who desired the
use of the church grounds for merCan.
tile purposes, the society of the church
is stiT strong enough 10 withstand all
pressure for the sale of the property
II is said the clock will soon be in
stalled.
The establishment of an American
Academy Of Photography as a means
of raising The standard OF the art was
advocated at the recent session I'm this
city of the Photographers Association
of New England 10y Thomas IL. Cum.
mings, editor Of the Photo Era" who
also urged that a properly qualified
body should recognize special merit in
the profession.
Mr. Cummings said that the Paris
salon, the highest art authority in the
world, has accepted and hung photo
graphs side by side with paintings.
The German Reichstag has defined