The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-10-06
c1rRRENT NEWS.

r.ited States already has two
lAs woman aviators, ana france
I, si bsif dozen
-o,nan mayor of HunneWell,
lhs sO inaugurated sturdy cam
E1e na L,inet Sunday card-playing.
n,r+ua7,ese republic was re-
lie simultaneously by Great
El:1l 4 Germany, Austria, Italy and
gntaiD, ~ A-'
sd1-
uzsanger steamer Lusitania
lDs tbree trips from New YORK TO
Ig5srpool III three weeks rhls u q
sard
w NV 100000 school children
Vl I. VI vi New York City, 10000 are
afons.u lime for lack of school build
P1 In philadelphia 10000 OF the
sa0o school children are on part
Ia
INV aaoIogist, DR.. Douglas Mawson,
IN lercas that he has discovered in
australia vein of radium
S." miles long. He calculates the
\, a'T profit PET Ton Of crude ore at ST.
"A "A
nrae beautiful new buildings are
md INA for the national government
.A Washington. These will cost S.
a@0 They will provide Offices for
M departments Of Justice, State,
Tomnerce and Labor.
r5o largest molasses depot in the
-,-d hurst in New Orleans, on Sep
,.mber VI. letting out more than a
riIIion gallons, and flooding large
,artion of the city to depth varying
Ann several feet to few inches.
English cotton mills use each year
large amount of the cotton grown in
AMI Southern States. Now they are
trying land on which to grow their
oTn cotton. They have just paid ST.
$4,000 for cotton land in Mississippi.
Negroes are buying many farms
throughout the South and especially
in South Carolina. From 1900 to 1910
tbe farms owned by negroes increas-
" w 1926. There are now 176,180
arms in that State. More than half
Of them, or 1896, are owned by the
alOred people.
Keen interest is felt about the phys
cal condition Of Pope Plus x. He
lss been Ill several times during the
last summer at his home in the
-atican, Rome His health is now
etter, and it is believed that he will
We to occupy his eminent position
Or many years.
The latest scheme for handling the
immense traffic in Forty-second street,
lew York City, il to make an under
round way for vehicles. Then that
ireet would have the subway tunnel
y trains, over it a subway for ped
stEians, at the surface a road for We
icles, and over that the elevated rail
az.
Naval experts are experimenting
18th hydroplane or craft that will
ide over the surface Of the water
stead Of blowing through it as all
Nats do. Tests were recently made
which the hydroplane successfully
sSed from water onto land and
ON land onto the water.
New York is among the first of the
ates to meet the need for conserv-
its natural resources. a new law
nsOlidates the State Forestry, Fish
d Game Commission, the Forestry
Board, and two Water
pply Boards, into single board of
re members, called the State Con-
walton Commission.
Plans for the highest Office build
in this country, and consequently in
world, have been announced at
W York. 1t is said that the struc-
q will be one hundred stories, or
w feet high.
According to the ideals Of the best
&c engineers, buildings in crowded
streets should not be higher than
and one-fourth the width of the
Get on which they are situated. In
way sunlight ana air are not shut
from neighboring buildings. With
A a requirement the proposed
W York building would have to be
street $50 feet wide.