ITEMS OF INTEREST January 15, 1910 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

"We have already discovered that the farmer is not getting the exorbitant profits out of the beef he raises," says Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture in discussing the high prices of food supplies. "I have no doubt in the world," he continues, "that the same conditions will be found to prevail in most of the other lines of farm products. There is ample excuse for some of the increase in the cost of living over what it was years ago. The farm area is not keeping pace with the demands for foodstuff. The cities seem to have more attractions for the laboring man than do the rural communities. The horde of immigration, as well as the ever-increasing native population, must be fed, and the farm is expected to furnish the food."

Mrs. E. H. Harriman has offered to the state of New York for park purposes one third of the thirty thousand acres included in the famous Harriman estate in Orange county. The acceptance of the gift will probably mean the beginning of a great public reservation which will take in the Hudson river country with its magnificent palisades from Cornwall, eight miles north of West Point, to a point in New Jersey about opposite 130th street, New York city.

By a majority of seven thousand in a total vote of thirty thousand, Kansas City, Mo., has refused to grant a forty-two-year franchise to the Metropolitan Street Railway Company of that city. The result was a decisive victory for civic decency and for the principle of the referendum in city affairs. It indicates the growing tendency of American cities to retain control of their streets and to refuse to make long-term franchise grants.

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