The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-08-16
NOTES FROM WASHINGTON
ilibusters Must Not Trespass.-
Especial Correspondencs.l


tAs party OF Canadians 10 raise the
British flag over Isle Royale, in lake
Superior. They point out that the
treaty of 1912 expressly names the
A.! channel between Isle Royale and the
} Canadian mainland as marking the
international boundary at that point
In lake Superior, so that there could
be no question as 10 the American
title Of the island. Moreover, the
state department has never heard that
the Canadian government ever chal
lenged that title. The island Is a
game preserve, and includes many
rich vineyards, and is a favorite
summer resort for people from Chi
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul, in the
United States, and from the larger
towns Of Manitoba in Canada. II
Capt Young trespasses on any pri
vately owned property, he will OF
course be dealt with according to
the laws OF Michigan, which exercise
! jurisdiction over the island.
Shudder At This Task.-The latest
| trust is one that will propably make
the women of the land mad clean
! through. II Is nothing less than n
! corset trust When the news of il
! permeates through the nation Presi.
dent Roosevelt will probably be i'm.
portuned by all the women's clubs
and organizations 10 set the depart.
ment of justice on it and rend it into
! small bits. The statement Is made
here on the authority of the presi-
dent OF Connecticut company that
sells materials to corset manufact.
urers that the four great corset man
ufacturing concerns Of the country
| are to form a trust, not by any
! formal organization, but by such an
| understanding as TO the conduct Of
| business as to make virtually a COM
bination. 1t is denied that II Is the
! purpose to increase prices, but az
the same time it Is stated that the
| manufacturers are far behind in their
orders. The leading corset cOmpan-
les Of the United States, according to
| this information, turn out 200, ,000, 900
| cOrsets a year. This means that the
per capita Of corSets among the
women per year is high 1t almost
| raises the question whether there is
! truth in the assertion that men wear
them. Department Of justice officials
blush at the mere suggestion of in
vestigating a corset trust. They re-
fuse to talk about it.
The Unknown Army"-"The un.
known army has been the subject Of
much controversy in discussing the
forces engaged in the Civil War"
said Commissioner of Pensions War
ner, short while ago in speaking of
the pension roll, but never until the
| McCumber service pension bill be-
came 4 law was there a means Of de-.
termining anything about its extent
THE unknown army has come to be
so-called largely because its members
did not apply for pensions. This they
did not do on account of various rea-
sons Of delicacy, pride or indiffer-
ence, but most of these causes have
been removed by the passage of the
service law and most of the I'M.
knowns, those who have never here
tofore asked for pensions, are COM
ing TO the front. II think everybody
Will be surprised at the limited num-
ber there are of them So far there
have been about 100000 applications
under the new law, but of these only
Il little over one per cent are in the
shape OF original applications, or in
other words. applications of the hith-
erto unknown possible pension claim
ants. Certainly the entire number
will not exceed 5000 The other 275..
600 applications are all for increase
and were made by men whose names
have been on the rolls in the past $"
Navy Department Skeptical-The
report published recently that the
drowning OF seaman Lynch of the
battleship Georgia was due TO the nj.
legged fact that he knew too much
| about the recent turret explosion on
that vessel was received with no
CredenCe by navy officials "If there
is any suspicion of chicanery, either
among officers or men, we want to
know it, in order To eradicate il
from the navy" said a high naval
| officer, when commenting upon the
report. mo one is more anxious than
we are to learn all we can about the
accident in the turret of the Georgia.
and If any of the men know or think
they know anything that would throw
light upon il, il is their duty 10 come
forward and tell IT, The first thing
! TO do is TO find ont who are the six
sailors who are alleged TO have gone
10 Lynch's father and told him that
his son was missing because he knew
too much about the explosion. That
is where the investigation should he.
gin The navy department will start
an investigation into the matter. The
story that the six sailors are said 10
have told will be sent TO Capt. Nc.
Crea, commander of the Georgia. with
instructions TO make report upon IL
Anthracite pisappearing-"At our
present rate of consumption there
will be no anthracite coal left in IS
years" says Edward w Parker. the
coal expert Of the L. s geological
survey. Hard coal will never he
cheaper to consumers than II is now
The production Of anthracite in 1000
was 6i.645,010 tons. According 70
one coal expert the anthracite avail
able for mining in 1901 was 4.765.
216.750 tons" Dwight T. Randall
engineer in charge of smoke abate
ment. U. s. geological survey. saws:
From the figures given by Mr.. Par
ker. evidently there Is not enough
| anthracitp coal I'm the country FOR