Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-06-26

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The faculty of the University of Mich
igan is out against key parties. In this
effort in favor of the simple life it
is likely to have the moral support of the
parents of the students.
The big piano merger announced from
New York city will naturally be de-
nounced in some quarters as a high
strung trust, although it embraces only
a few Of the large piano concerns.
Further reshipments of American meat
TO the United States from London
is proof not only of the existence of
shortage of meat in the United States,
but also of ability to consume despite
the business depression.
Dun * Co.. s statement OF commerclal
failures in the United States during May,
1908, shows the smallest amount of de-
faulted liabilities for any month since
last July. Another indication of favor
able turn of the business tide!
The big CunaTders continue to break
records. The Lusitania has lifted that
of full days steaming to 641 nautical
miles. or more than 261a miles for each
of the twenty-four hours. This is what
is colloquically styled going some"
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The British government has announced
that the recent reeord-breaking speed of
the Cunard liners Mauritania and Lusi-
tania has earned for them a subsidy Of
$4,000 year. This is a rich reward
that justifes all the effort that was made
to drive the steamers to the utmost.
The cut of four dollars a ton In the
price of bar steel is yielding to con-
ditions that will tend to invite invest
ment. All reductions in the cost of con-
struction will conduce to a resumption of
operations and the unemployment of
labor.
Wireless telegraphy is not to be with
out closer competition from the regular
lines. 1t is announced that a French
system for the use of alternating instead
of continuous currents will permit the
use of twelve instruments on single
wire, and thus conduee to a heavy re-
duetion in tolls
With two-cent rate OH letter postage
between the United States and Great
Britain, advocates of cheap postage will
not rest content until there is similar
rate on correspondence with Germany.
Surely the volume of business must he
sufficient to warrant the concession, and
the distance is not appreciably greater.
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The falling off in traffic through the
Sault canal was tremendous during May,
in comparison with the traffic of last
year. The May tonnage of 1907 was
100000, while that of the month just
closed was only little over 100000,
There will be betterment later on, but
the season bids fair to be dull through
out.
The $4,000 Seeding trees which have
been received in New York for the
Adirondack forest preserve constitute a
start at reforestation that ought to be
visible in the course of very few
years. When trees are planted by the
million, and afterwards given fair
share of attention denuded lands will
soon take on their old-time beauty and
value.
The battleships Maine and Alabama
have started from San Francisco for
Hampton Roads by way of Honolulu,
Manila, Suez and the Mediterranean
ports. This is long run, but the ships
of the fleet that went ''round the Horn"
demonstrated that they can go anywhere
in the world, and keep on the move, so
long as they can get to coal piles occa-
sionally.
Three packing firms at Kansas City
and one railroad nave paid in court $61,-
600 in the aggregate to liquidate fines
for rebating in violation of the. Interstate
Commerce law. The incident marks the
end of certain transactions which were
once believed to be purely commercial
inesse, but which as judicialy inter-
preted have been declared to be violations
of law.
The story of the six Cinnamon who
died in barrels while on the way to New
York from Mexico us freight, to beat the
immigration laws. has not been con-
frmed by investigation; but the arrival
of sixteen starved Celestials in San
Francisco who had been in freight car
for ten days, on the road from Mexico,
is proof that the Cinnamon are willing
to risk slow and torturous death to get
into the United States.
The trolley car collision near Annap-
oils, in which eight persons We're killed,
was due to misjudgment resulting from
disarTangement of the schedule to meet