ITEMS OF INTEREST January 18, 1908 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

The Nautical Training School Commissioners of Massachusetts, who oversee the schoolship Enterprise, assert as evidence of the increasing popularity of nautical training school education for the needed preparation of officers for the merchant marine, that requests have lately been made by Cleveland, O., and Seattle, Wash., for United States ships to inaugurate schoolships on the plan of the Massachusetts school. Letters have also been received from France and Belgium for information as to the methods of instruction in this school. Belgium has just acquired for a nautical schoolship the auxiliary ship Rickmers of fifty-five hundred tons, the largest auxiliary ship in the world, to replace its schoolship which was lost at sea last year. New York has just taken the steam sloop-of-war Newport, to replace the sailing ship St. Mary's. Pennsylvania has also applied to the Government for the steam sloop Adams, to replace the sailing schoolship Saratoga, which has been sold.

The proposed reform in New York State affecting the methods of handling in receivership monied institutions organized under its laws, is meeting with general approval. The recommendations of the commission of bankers appointed to consider changes in the banking laws, those of the superintendent of the banking department, and those of Governor Hughes in his message to the Legislature, all agree as to the necessity and wisdom of the reform. Governor Hughes says: "The amount of legal expenses incident to the liquidation of banking institutions in this State is a grave scandal."

Columbia, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton will co-operate with the Triangular College Chess League, with which Cornell, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania are affil iated, in arranging the next international cable match with Oxford and Cambridge. Of the seven contests held America has won only one, in 1902. Three times there have been ties, including the matches of 1906 and 1907, and each time the Isaac L. Rice trophy has remained in possession of the British universities.

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