Items of Interest May 6, 1905 Issue

Items of Interest

The recommendation which the Naval Board of Construction has made to the Secretary of the Navy for the construction of the three scout cruisers—Chester, Salem, and Birmingham—contemplate that the Fore River Shipbuilding Company build two of the vessels,—one equipped with reciprocating engines, the other with turbine engines; the Bath (Me.) Iron Works to build the third with a different type of turbine engines. The bids favorably recommended by the Construction Board are considerably under $1,800,000, the maximum price fixed by law. The turbine engine will be new to the American Navy. These scout ships are required to make a maximum speed of twenty-four knots. One of the turbine engines to be installed is an American type, while the other is English.

A gift of $10,000,000 by Andrew Carnegie, to provide annuities for retiring college professors who are not able to continue in active service, was announced last week. Professors in the United States, Canada, and Newfound-land will share in the distribution of the income of the fund. The fund applies to teachers in universities, colleges, and technical schools without regard to race, sex, creed, or color. "Only such as are under control of a sect or require trustees (or a majority thereof), officers, faculty, or students, to belong to any specified sect, or which impose any theological test, are to be excluded."

Augusta Victoria, Empress of Germany, in recognition of the heroism displayed at the time of the General Slocum disaster, has presented diplomas to the fifty-one nurses of the North Brother Island (N. Y.) Hospital. The head nurse was given a golden brooch on which was emblazoned in enamel the German coat-of-arms, in the center of which was a large emerald surrounded with pearls.

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