Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-04-01

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The reform abolishing walters tips
begun in the Senate restaurant at Wash
ington, cannot too quickly extend TO
every corner of the United States.
The long hatpin having been spared by
the Chicago aldermen, because it serves
as weapon of defense for women, it is
now 'up to- the women to make it safe
when not in action. The weapon should
have a scabbard where it is not sheathed
in hat or rat"
Canal enlargement in New York is
making Syracuse ambitious to become
a lake port than can receive craft draw
ing twelve feet of water. Why not?
Twelve feet is the depth at which most
of the lake business was done during the
palmy days of sailing vessels
The use of vile drugged whisky in
candy drops sold to children in Chicago
shows to what ends constituencies men
will go in their rage for the acquisi-
ton of money, and justifes everything
that has ever been done to place the
manufacturers of foods and sweets I'M
der the supervision of the law
The record of seven miles in five min
utes made by the Menominee ice yacht
Sirius is evidence that ice yachts can be
speedier than the wind. Seven miles ev-
cry five minutes is equivalent to eighty
four miles an hour, and a breeze of that
strength would be hummer" in which
sport of any kind on open ice would be
impossible.
President Taft's consent to the naming
of a $4,000 gold trophy for transat-
lantic yacht race from Cowes to Sandy
Hook will doubtless stimulate the in
terest of owners of sea-going yachts and
lead them to enter their craft 1t is
planned to pull off the race next year
and to have the competing yachts engage
in a week of subsequent racing off Sandy
Hook.
The cross-town branch of the Third
avenue street railway, New York, has
been equipped with cars which get their
fractional power from small motors driv-
en- by gasoline engines. This makes each
car an independent unit, and disenthralls
traction service from reliance on power
houses. In the case of this particular
line, however, the new cars release
horses from work between the rails.
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The assertion of Lancy Evans. the rice
statistician, that farmers might feed
low-grade rice TO cattle with profit, be
cause it is cheaper than corn or oats,
will conjure visions of rice-fed pork.
The high price of corn has been the main
cause of the decrease in the supply of
hogs. and anything that will conduce 10
an increase in the number of hogs on
Western farms will be welcomed by
meat consumers,
The introduction and favorable report
ing in one day, in the United States
Senate of bin providing for
the installation of apparatus far RADIO
communication on passenger steamers is
evidence that the public generally is con-
WINGED that the time is ripe for such inn
provement. The bill provides for the in
stallation Of instruments capable of COM
municating over a distance of one hum
bred miles on all steamers which carry
fifty or more persons, including passen-
gers and crew.
The injury of Charles *. Hamilton,
the aeronaut, by the overturning of his
biplane at Seattle, was due according to
report to an indulgence in capriciOus ma
noeuvering on the part of the aeronaut.
The areoplane is Il thing that is still
lacking in one important particular, and
it will not be safe as an airship until
somebody inventS cOntrivance that will
automatically keep it right side up while
the operator attends TO the engine and
to the steering. Where is the inventor
with his little gyroscope?
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Again there are fears regarding the
state of King Edwards health. 1t was
vi the hope of escaping the rigors of the
English spring that he went TO BiarrltG,
from which place come rumors that he
is confined indoors with cold and is
chatting at the restraint and likely To GU,
short his stay. There is a tendency OIL
the part of health resort correspondents
TO deal in alarming reports regarding
distinguished patients. Perhaps lib
eral discount should be figured off the
Barritz dispatches on this account.
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President Tafts recommendation thai
the government undertake the protection
of the seals in Behring sea- at the ex
piration of the contract with the Alask,
Commercial Company on the Both O
April. should be adopted by Congress
The Commercial company has had
good thing" in the contract, but it hu
not appeared that the seals have bee