Items of Interest October 2, 1902 Issue

Items of Interest

President Roosevelt has chosen Charlemagne Tower, ambassador to Russia, to succeed Mr. White as ambassador to Germany. Notification of this decision and that Mr. White's letters of recall had been issued by the State Department has reached the Foreign Office at Berlin. This will involve promotions as follows: Robert McCormick of Illinois will go to Russia; Bellamy Storer, of Ohio, to Austria-Hungary; Arthur S. Hardy of New Hampshire to Spain; Charles P. Bryan of Illinois to Switzerland; David E. Thompson, of Nebraska, to Brazil.

Major J. W. Powell, director of the Bureau of Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institute, at Washingtion, passed away last week at his summer home at Haven, Maine. Major Powell stood in the foremost rank of geologists and anthropologists of the world. His most notable scientific work was the exploration of the Grand Canon of the Colorado in the sixties. This exploit marked an important contribution to the geological, ethnological, and geographical knowledge of North America.

A new transcontinental railway for Canada is proposed. The project involves the construction of a line from Chicoutimi on the Saguenay River, a little below Quebec. westward, skirting the southern shore of James Bay, and running almost due west on the fifty-fourth parallel, through the famous Saskatchewan country, and via the Peace or Pine River Pass to the nearest point on the Pacific. According to reports construction will begin at once.

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