The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-04-21

,orIiament looks toward allowing the
Jews TO live in all parts OF the en-
pire.
the new republican government
M Portugal is thus far only pro
yisional' government, made hastily
IN the revolution. The first elections
are set for April 80.
Secretary Meyer, in recent adj
dress at Harvard, declared that the
navy should have battIe-ships Of 3d.
no tons each with twelve 14-inch guns
that can all be fired at one time.
closer quarantine watch Is to be
kent on steamers coming here from
Greece. 1t seems that most of the
cases If cerebo-spinal meningitis, or
spotted fever" have come in On
Creek steamers.
One hundred and seventy new
towns will be started in western Can
ada this year, an average of one
every two days. The railroads have
MANNED to do it, and already know
lust where the towns will be and how
many inhabitants they will have at
the start.
A complete up-to-date telephone
plant has been installed in Picking,
China, by the American Western
Electric company. There are al
ready $500 subscribers, though the
wires do NIT extend beyond the city
limits. Until now Picking has had On
" a few telephones, and these of the
model Of thirty years ago.
The first Japanese dreadnought,
the Aki, has had its trial trip and
showed speed Of twenty knots an hour.
The Aki was built in Japan, but its
turbine engines and other machinery
came from the Fore River shipyard,
in Massachusetts. The armament is
heavy, including four twelve-inch and
twelve ten-inch guns
A new tunnel through the Alps, the
Loetschberg tunnel, was completed on
March 81, after five and half years
work and the expenditure Of $4,000
OOO 1t is the third longest tunnel
in Europe, measuring about nine
miles.
The next great aviation meet will
be held in Chicago next summer, and
prizes amounting to 100000 will be
tffered.
The art of aviation has now cost
forty-siX lives, the last aviator to
perish being M Ceij Gel who fell from
O height of 1900 feet in France On
March %. Six aviators have lost
their lives during the first quarter
of the present year.
Two famous New York hotels clos
ed their doors recently-the Gilsey
House and the Hoffman House. Both
had been improbable, and both will
give place to office buildings. The
Hoffman House was for many years
the national Democratic headquart-
ers, as its neighbor, the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, was the national Republican
headquarters. The Fifth Avenue al
SO has been pulled down and replaced
by an Office building.
New Mexico lands aggregatlng l.
576,064 acres were withdrawn from
all forms of disposition BY President
Taft upon the recommendation OF Sec
rotary of the Interior Fisher, pending
a field examination and classification
as to their coal value. Facts already
gathered by the Geological Survey in
dictate that these lands contain valu-
able coal deposits. They are in
Northwest Mexico, just south Of the
Colorado line and in close proximity
to the coal lands underlying the Fort
Lewis Indian School Reservation,
Colorado.
AT Huntington, Mass, last week, q
remarkable feat of engineering was
performed. A three-span railroad
bridge OF steel, 294 feet long, and
weighing more than 1000 tons, was
placed in position for use, to take
the place Of an old bridge which was
removed at the same time, and the
whole operation lasted only 40 Sec
onds In less than half an hour the
tracks had been joined and the new
bridge was ready for the passage OF
trains. There was no interruption
to travel The new bridge had been built
beside the old, On rollers, and the two
fastened together. At the signal
both bridges were rolled a. short dis
lance, and the new bridge fitted ex-
actly in place OF the old.