Items Of Interest July 4, 1901 Issue

Items of Interest

The advanced course in naval architecture heretofore pursued by the Naval Academy graduates prior to commission in the construetion corps at some of the leading European institutes, because of the superior facilities afforded, which were not believed to be available at home, is hereafter to be given these young men at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where a course of study is to be followed equaling that offered by Greenwich, the Ecole Politechnique, Glasgow and other famous schools in England and France.

By the arrival of the transport Kilpatrick at San Francisco June 27, the last of the volunteer regiments from the Philippines was landed on United States soil before the end of June, as was intended by the War Department. The Forty—Third Regiment was recruited at Fort Ethan Allen, Vt., and is composed almost entirely of Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire men.

At the expiration of its lease of power by act of the Legislature, the Philadelphia Public Building Commission made a report of its expenditures on the famous City Hall, from August 5, 1870, to June 26, 1901. The total was $24,313,445,43. The building is not finished.

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