Items of Interest June 4, 1910 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

The measure providing for the acceptance by New York State of the splendid gift of one million dollars and ten thousand acres of land along the Hudson river for park purposes, offered by Mrs. E. H. Harriman, has passed both Houses. This is gratifying to the friends of conservation, as it guarantees advantages to the inhabitants of New York city and residents in the valley of the Hudson, and a pleasing prospect to the traveling public. With the purchase of twenty-five thousand acres more by the Palisades commission, and the probable gifts by owners of large local estates, the tract may become one of the most extensive and beautiful parks in the world.

New Orleans and San Francisco both desire to hold the World's Panama exposition in 1915. The matter is now being considered in Congress. New Orleans claims that sixty million people reside within a radius of one thousand miles of that city as against six million for San Francisco, and that the average railroad fare to New Orleans for over seventy-five per cent of the people of this country to visit an exposition there will be $12.50 against $37.50 to San Francisco.

The United States court of claims has handed down its decision in the Ute Indian case, entering judgment for the Indians for $3,508,611,40. It seems that from time to time lands have been practically confiscated by the Government by minor treaties, which, while ratifying the immediate transfer, have never given just compensation to the Indians.

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