Items of Interest October 1, 1904 Issue

Items of Interest

After experiments covering a period of twenty-eight months, the United States naval "liquid fuel" board announces that it regards the engineering and mechanical features of the liquid fuel problem practically and satisfactorily solved. The board says: "For mercantile purposes the commercial and transportation features of the problem are existing bars which limit the use of oil fuel in merchant ships. For naval purposes there is the additional and serious difficulty to be overcome of providing a satisfactory and safe structural arrangement for carrying an adequate 'bunker supply.' "

Fifty-five delegates of the Lower Austrian Trade Association of Vienna, who have just completed a tour of the United States to study the industrial and commercial methods of the country, were the guests last week of the Boston Chamber of Commerce.

About thirty-five of the forty-three young Americans who have won Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford sailed from Boston in the Cunarder Ivernia this week. The members of the party represent all sections of the United States, and a special reservation of twenty staterooms was set aside for their use on the promenade deck of the steamer. The making up of this party is due to one of the number, who early in the summer wrote to Oxford asking for the names and addresses of the American winners of scholarships. This obtained, he wrote to each suggesting their traveling together from Boston to Liverpool, and most of them signified their willingness to do so.

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