ITEMS OF INTEREST April 6, 1907 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Changes in the local government on the Canal Zone, which will result in the harmonizing of various parts of the Zone, are to become effective April 15. The five municipal government will be replaced by four administrative districts. which will be under the direct control of the Canal Commissioners. It is estimated that the total saving to the United States under the reorganized government will be about $100,000 a year.

The universities and colleges in the North Atlantic States enjoy an income of $11,000,000 a year, those of the South Atlantic $2,620,000. The North Central division colleges have $11,496,000 a year, those of the Southern Central division $2,333,000, those of the Western division, aside from California, $1,416,000. The whole country yearly spends $376,000,000 on public schools.

The seventh inter-collegiate chess match by cable between picked teams from three American universities, Columbia, Harvard, and Yale, on one side, and Oxford and Cambridge on the other side, resulted after a hard contest in a draw, each side winning two games, the other two games being drawn.

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