Items of Interest July 29, 1905 Issue

Items of Interest

An attempt to secure laborers in large numbers to work on the Panama Canal is to be made at once. Bids will be asked by the acting chief of the office of Panama Canal Commission, for two thousand each of Chinese, Japanese, and Italian laborers. Bidders will be requested to submit separate bids as to the amount per day for which the laborers on a certain nationality will work, and also the amount the Government will be required to pay to get the laborers on the isthmus of Panama. Under the plan proposed the contractor will land his laborers on the isthmus. These laborers will personally apply for appointment. Appointments will be made out the same as in the case of every other employee of the Canal Commission. The Commission believes that the price asked for the laborers will vary from seventy-five cents to $1.50 a day. The bids will be opened August 15.

There is a rumor that the chairman of the Eastern Yacht Club is endeavoring to interest Sir Thomas Lipton and other prominent yachtsmen on the other side in an ocean cup to be offered and raced for next year, the trophy to come either from King Edward or Sir Thomas Lipton, the Eastern Yacht Club to have charge of the affair, with the start off Marblehead.

There is also another rumor that arrangements are now going on for a series of international races between boats of about thirty-one feet length, to be raced annually and alternately on both sides, the first race to take place at Kiel for a cup offered by the German emperor.

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