Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-01-17

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A Prohibitionist in Congress casts a
rejection upon the character of Ameri-
can beer by proposing TO make the brew
ers deepen the water wherever navi-
gators demand more 'leg ROOM"
There is always opportunity for
anxiety over yachtsmen who venture into
the South Sea; therefore Jack London,
the rowing author, will have plenty of
advertising during his sea voyage for
literary material"
Tue members Of the Indian National
Congress at Surat who discussed issues
vigorously with parts of the furniture
of their assembly chamber must have
heard how they do things occasionally in
the United States, when Southern de-
baters differ with more than oratorical
energy
The fact that the tide of immigration
during November was % per cent.
stronger in volume than in the
same month of last year, is remarkable,
in view of the tremendous outflow of for
oil Il M
vember. The United States is an ire
sistible magnet for ambitious people of
the Old World.
The We" 5 statistics as to the foreign
trade of The ort of New York do not
comport wIta the fears of those who
have been imagining that other ports
are endangering the city's supremacy in
that regard. But, good thing is worth
guarding and the people of New York
city are justified in their earnest pro-
motion of the canal enlargement scheme
in the interest of exporters and inn
porters.
The California Fruit Gamers Associa-
ton has contracted with a big can com
pany at Pittsburg for the delivery with
in five years of cans to the number of
300, 100000. The fruit-growing industry
of California is growing rapidly, and
the Gamers are trying to keep up with
it. Eventually the needs of the packers
in the way of tin receptaeles will be suf
fieient to keep many tin plate mills busy
furnishing the raw materials.
The governments invitation for bids
to supply the War Department with
flying machine capable of going at the
rate of from thirty-six to forty miles an
hour will doubtless elicit voluminous re-
Spouse. The woods are full of ambitious
inventors who claim to be erecting the
only scientific flying machine yet de-
yised. But there have been no demon
STATIONS of ability to perform in the
manner stipulated by the governments
invitation.
A dispatch from Utica, New York, to
the effect that holders of 100000 bar
rels Of apples in cold storage have been
disappointed because prices have not adj
vanced in accordance with expectation
probably reveals the reason for the firm
ness of apples in New York thus far,
while the fruit in other sections was
selling for lower prices. If the Utica
revelation is well founded there ought
to be a decline in the prices of New York
apples.
A recent severe test on the Atlantic
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service is said to have convinced the
government that such craft can be made
generally servceable in the saving of
shipwrecked mariners. A wel-con-
structed motor boat ought to be able to
put to sea ON rescue expeditions under
the most trying circumstances. She
should have plenty of power, and be so
built that she will not fill with water as
she dives through the waves.
The report of the coaling contest be-
tween the crews of the battleships Vir-
ginia and Vermont at Port of Spain
reveals more cheerful conditions among
the "Jackies," who were moved to de-
sert while at a home port because a
job of coaling was in sight. Plenty of
hard work is done in this world under
the guise of sport, and the men were
probably more fit after their coaling
game than are the members of the aver
age football team after scrimmage on
the gridiron,
The drop in the temperature which ha
prevented n disastrous food along tn
Allegheny river afforded an illustration
of the serviceability of forest covering il
the valleys of big rivers. The thaw cam
TO an end, the drainage into the rive
slaekened, and the river declined between
its banks. With a forest covering, an,
the turf which underlies the trees. III,
water is held back as in "A sponge, an,
reaches the river channels gradually in
stead of being spilled directly and ran
idly into the swelling flood.