ITEMS OF INTERST September 9, 1911 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Hearings by the government commission on second class postage rates, which have been held in New York for the last month, have ended and Justice Charles E. Hughes, chairman of the commission, said that he would receive briefs from those interested at his summer home in Bridgehampton, L. I. After the close of the hearings was announced the postmaster-general officially indorsed the idea of a parcels post.

"I am very much in favor of a parcels post," said he, "but it must be established in a way that will enable the postoffice department to care for it without interfering with the great volume of other classes of mail matter. I would like to see an enactment by Congress for a parcels post that would enable the department first to install it locally on the rural free delivery systems. Then it can be extended as time and conditions permit to the deliveries of the smaller and larger cities."

In 1908 the biological survey estimated that the total number of antelope in the United States had been reduced to seventeen thousand. Of these about ten thousand were in Montana, Wyoming, and the Yellowstone National Park and the remaining seven thousand were distributed in twelve other states. On the Wichita, Okla., game refuge, where eight antelope have been placed, it is hoped that they will find themselves in surroundings suited to their increase. The Wichita is really a national forest. There are over one hundred and fifty national forests, but only two national game refuges. The Wichita is also notable for the fact that it has a small herd of buffalo upon it. They were donated by the American Bison Society and shipped from the New York Zoological Garden in 1908. They then numbered fifteen and have since been increased by the addition of ten calves.

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