ITEMS OF INTEREST May 8, 1909 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Two hundred and twenty-six commercial organizations, representing a membership of several hundred thousand merchants, manufacturers, and business men of various lines throughout the country, have joined in a movement to stop the present tariff agitation and provide for a board of experts to study the whole question and revise the schedules in the light of their researches. The movement has grown out of the national convention for a tariff commission held in Indianapolis last February. Some of those who are interested in the subject estimate that about $10,000,000 a day is lost to merchants and manufactures by the bickerings in Congress and what they call grasping selfishness of overprotected interests.

The Board of United States Army Engineers which was recently designated by the War Department to make a survey for the construction of a continuous water-way, inland were practicable, along the Atlantic coast, met at Providence last week. The proposed water-way from Boston to Long Island Sound includes a water-way from Narragansett Bay through ponds and lagoons lying along the southern coast of this state, from Bissels Cover at Wickford, to Watch Hill, the route to be continued to Fisher's Island, thence to New York bay, across the state of New Jersey to a suitable point on the Delaware river, or bay; thence to Norfolk, Va., to the sounds of North Carolina, and Beaufort Inlet.

With a view to reducing the number of fatal accidents on street-car lines, the Public Service Commission of the First District of New York has issued orders that every street railway company operating within the limits of greater New York must equip its surface cars with fenders or wheel guards, and in some instances with both. The devices must be approved by the commission, but various types are offered for selection.

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