Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-10-17
Worlds News

w UClu ) NEWS
NEW YORK.-The national conyen.
ton OF manufacturers optical instru-
ments and supplies was held here last
week at the Hotel Pennsylvania.
WASHINGTON.--T h sands of
churches will take part in the observ-
ance of Armistice Day, November IL,
as mobilization for world justice
and world peace" proposed by the
Federal Council of Churches, accord,
ing to church officials.
Los ANGELES. - Special features
will be arranged in connection with
the Hawaiian Territorial Exposition in
honor of the arrival of the Chamber
of Commerce excursion party, which
will leave this city October II for Ha.
wall, according to advices received
here.
NEW YORK. - The internationally
famous Waldorf-Astoria Hotel has
been sold. The sellers are Vincent
Aston and the Farmers Loan & Trust
Company. The purchasers are the
Boomer'Dupont interests, who already
operate several distinctive hotels in
various cities. The property has been
in control of the Aston family since
1867.
NEW YORK.-The American Asso.
citation Of Passenger Traffic Officers
held their annual convention at the
Hotel Pennsylvania here last week.
PRINCETON, N. J.-Dean Andrew
F. West of the Graduate School of
Princeton University and president of
the American Classical League, de.
clares that analysis of over 10000 ex-
animation papers of students prepar-
ing for colleges show that students
who have taken Latin make higher
grades in other subjects than non
Latin students. The margin, he de-
clares, will average 10 per cent
NEW YORK.-During the month of
July, 1924, fish valued at 99O,535
pounds sterling were landed on the
coasts of England and Wales, accord
ing to advices received by the Bank
ers Trust Company from its English
Information Service.
CALGARY, Alta.-That the bunga-
low camp system of the Canadian Pa
cific Railway will have to be extend.
ed because Of its popularity was the
announcement made here by G. B..
Foster of Montreal, passenger traffic
manager of the Canadian Pacific Rail
way, after visit to the hotels and
camps in the Rockies.
ST. JOHN, N. B.-What is claimed
to be worlds record for relaying
rails was established by a crew Of
men on the Canadian Pacific Railway,
New Brunswick district, recently. In
two days the men tore up 29.7 miles
of old S5-pound rails and replaced
them with new. There were 22O men
in the gang. According to all avail
able records, the former Canadian rec
ord was lit miles. which exceeds that
established in the United States.
MEXICO CITY.-Rivers of locusts
which flooded the right-of-way near
Munoz, Vera Cruz, almost wrecked a
train on the Interoceanic Railway,
and blocked traffic for a day, accord
ing to reports from Vera Cruz on the
recent plague Of mountain jumpers, :"
as they are called in Spanish. The in
sects have swept clean great stretches
of cultivated lands in Puebla, Oaxaca
and Vera Cruz.
COUNCIL BLUFFS. = The heel Of
her shoe caught in a railroad frog,
Miss Mary Hyde of this city did not
faint at the approach of the train, but
quickly unlacing her shoe, she pulled
her foot out just in time to save her
life. The engine pilot hit her as it
shot past, injuring her severely.
LONDON. = Five hundred peasants
and soldiers have been killed and four
villages destroyed in fighting between
revolving peasants and Roumanian
troops in Bessarabia, according to a
recent dispatch from Moscow.
DUBLIN = Twenty-Five thousand
families, numbering almost third of
the city's population, are living in
Dublin in one-roomed tenements. 1t
is estimated that at least 10000 new
houses are needed. They propose to
clear away old tenements and lay out
10 number of blocks in flats. Temper.
airy structures will be provided to
house the people during reconstruc-
tion.
| always drink some of Boldts good
coffee when In Seattle.-ady.