The chronicle=news., 1914-08-15

island, one at San Carlos, one at Port
,idia. one at Port Posada. two a,
Aquadulce. one at Chitre at the en-.
trance to the la villa River, two u,
Mensabe. one at Santa Lucia river
and two on Linartes Rock.
Berlin. Aug. l5.-Almost 61,OG0
students were enrolled at Germany's
81 universities in the last semester,
and 1000 more attended certain lee
lures without being regularly in
scribed. The smallest university,
that of Rostock. has a trifle more
than thousand students, and the
University of Berlin leads with s.
53s. Only 5000 of the $1,000 wero
women. Recalling the outcry of last
years or two against foreign students.
one is surprised to find that there
were only 5000 foreigners enrolled.
Medicine attracts the greatest num-
her of students. but philosophy. phil
ology and history are not far behind.
Most of the universities are crowded.
Paris, Aug. 5.-Monsieur Rene
Viviani. president of the colncil of
public officials in France, recently
decliued to be decorated by the en-
peror OF Russia. 1t was on his visit
to St. Petersburg with President
Poincare that Monsieur Viviani in
dicated that he could not accept one
of the Russian orders which was
about to be offered him. Viviani
thus follows the democratic ideas of
Gladstone and Arthur Balfour, the
leaders who refused til
ties. The emperor OF Russian, in
I lace of a decoration. offered Mon
sieur Viviani an object of art as
souvt mir of his visit to Russia.
Panama. Aug. ia new census
of the canal zone has Just been conf
plcted by the canal police. The to-
tai population was found to be 81
aG1, composed of 1900 Americans
ard 27,S31 aliens. A comparison
February. 1914. shows that during
the interval 335 persons have de-
parted from the canal zone. The
previous census showed a total popu-
iation OF 1926 Of whom 1886 were
Americans and 35,4O1 weer aliens.
London, Aug. 15.-The grouse
shooting season opened in Great
on August 12. but the pros
poets are for smaller bags than usual
owing to two misfortunes.
The cold spell Of last spring wiped
oussthe- sars,-s4oods m certain 'areas
and destroyed the clutches of eggr
in exposed places. In southern and
eastern Scotland, a mysterious dis
ease. believed to be due to the bad
weather and unsuitable food. destroy
ed many birds, Worst of all was the
loss of about half Of the breeding
stock.
Geneva, Aug. 15.-More than L.
500. 900 persons climbed the Alps by
funicular railways last year. accord
ing to statistics just published. There
are now As of these mountain rail-
ways, and the authorities have be-
fore them demands for seven more.
If this continues every Alp will have
its funicular in the future.
Panama, Aug. 15.-After having
spent the better part of week In
an extended examination OF the Pan
ANA canal, Philip Bunau-Varilla, ex-
chief engineer for the defunct French
Panama Canal company, is still OF
the opinion that ultimately the 18TH
mus of Panama will witness the con-
struction of sea level canal. He
declares that at the end of the first
20 years of operation of the present
lock canal 1t will be found necessary
to reconstruct that waterway In or
der to take care Of the increased
traffic that will use it.
Bunau-Varilla is emphatic in his
statement that within 20 years the
present Panama canal will have
reached the limit of its carrying ca
pacity. $4,000, 900 tons annually, and
that then it will be found that only
sea level canal will adequately care
for the traffic. The former canal en-
gineer makes 1t plain, however, that
lie does not mean to criticise the
construction of the present lock canal
but maintains that this is merely
the secondary period in the construc-
tion Of a waterway across the 18TH
mus.
Bunau-varilla has spent most OF
his time since his arrival on the 18th
mus in making voyages of inspection
along the canal. In many of his
trips he was the guest of Col. George
w. Goethals, governor of the Panama
canal, who explained the work to his
distinguished visitor. He has made
a number of motorboat trips through
the Culebra cut and Gatun lake. Be
sides this he spent many hours In
careful examination of the Gatun
dam and the spillway. and wtching
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