Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-27


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The February fire loss in the United
States and Canada aggregated SIS, 4S9, :
100 compared with $19,S76,600 for the
corresponding month last year and 500
$4,000 for January, 1908 The present
year has begun discouragingly for fire
Insurance companies.
The reported softening of the ice at
Sault Ste Marie will disturb vessel men
who believe that a short season would be
suitable to prevailing business conditions.
WheL the ice begins to move the lake
vessels move with it, and the work of
new season begins with a rush.
A prominent Chicago physician de-
nounces the use of chains on the tires of
automobiles because, he says, they loosen
the earth and cause dust. The dust
caused by the average automobile is gen
orally the result of speed, and all We
hicles of their class will raise dust when
they go too fast.
There is CLEAN of encouragement
for the unemployed in the report of the
committee on car efficiency of the Amer
lean Railway Association that the num-
her of idle cars in the United States and
Canada is 10000 smaller than it was nj
the time of making previous report.
dated two weeks earlier.
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Not long ago political parties were en-
gagged in disclaiming ex-Mayor Schmitz
OF San Francisco and putting him upon
one another. A few more decisions of
the Supreme Court of California, how
ever might preeipitate lively compe-
titlon between politicians bent on claim
ing him from their own.
A cutting of the Storage rates between
Bremen and Rotterdam and the port of
New York, by the North German LLOYD
and Russian lines, may be friendly
scrap" for the purpose of cultivating
business and turning the tide of travel
westward The flow of returning Euro
peaas has continued with remarkable
persistency.
The number of cigars on which the iu-
ed States during the month of January.
1908. was 481,007 $50; the number on
which the tax was paid in Jaauary.
1907, was 500, 957 COB. There is cor
responding falling off in the consumption
OF the Indian weed in other forms. in
Guiding snuff. When men ''cut down ON
their 'baccy'' it is sign of hard times.
Herbert Asquith, England's chancellor
OF the exchequer, who is in line for the
premiership by reason of the illness of
Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman, is de-
scribed as man without wealth. cor
diailty or popularity, but of amazing
aoiilty, OF lucid utterance, and incontro-
Vertlbly safe. The last-named quality
is the most important of all in a public
man in responsible position. The Eng
hsh people are fortunate in their pros
pectlve premier.
The war between China and Japan
involved no shedding of blood. but only
a shedding of ink in the yellow news
papers of the United States. China has
indicated willingness to apologize for the
insult to the japanese flag and restore
The captured steamship. Japan will re-
hnqulsh her claim for payment for the
conhscated arms. If the dispute had
been submitted to the Hague or to An
drew Carnegie it could not have been
more amicably adjusted.
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Prof. Alexander Graham Bells terra
hedral aeropane is reported to have
achieved fight of 31S feet IL inches.
at Hammondsport, New York, rising to
height of from ten to twenty feet.
This is an extremely short VOYAGE in
comparison with that the Wright ma
chine is said to have made at, DAYTON.
OHIO. but it is a good beginning and
better results will be expected because
OF the character of the inventor who is
engaged in the experiments
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An Ottawa dispatch to the effect that
fishery treaty has been agreed upon
between Great Britain and the United
States concerning fishing on the in
ternation6l boundary, is of interest along
che Great Lakes. Agreement as tc
regulations for fishing will embrace ar.
engagements for closed seasons that viii
be satisfactory to all concerned Closer
regulations will tend to conserve the fish
supply, and thus make fishing better
during the months in which it is allowed
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The picking up" of wireless mes.
sage from the battleship fleet ON the Pa.
cific ocean by the operator ut the Pen
sacola station, and the establishment OF
communication with the fleet from Mar,
Island. in San Francisco bay. are Incl
dents which reveal the possibilities OF
ETHEREAL telegraphy in highly interest
ing manner. Following close ON tn,
heels of the introduction in Congress Of
the Hale bill to control wireless com
munication. the two sensational long
distance exchanges Of information vii