ITEMS OF INTEREST November 9, 1912 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

The United States navy last week opened the new wireless station at Arlington, Va. It will keep every ship of the United States navy and every insular possession within instant communication with the capital. The radius of the new plant will be about three thousand miles when it is in working order. Communication with the Pacific coast will be attempted only at night for the present, but throughout the day the secretary of the navy, at his desk in Washington, will be within instantaneous communication with Key West, Guantanamo, Colon, the naval coaling stations, the winter maneuver grounds, and all Atlantic stations. When the plant is working perfectly and the chain of stations is completed. Washington will be in touch with Hawaii, Samoa, Guam, the Philippines. It cost about one million dollars.

An exhibition of Swedish industrial art, planned to be the most complete seen in this country since the world's fair in 1893, reaching a valuation close to five hundred thousand dollars, will be held at the club house of the Svenska Klubben, Chicago, Nov. 1 to 20. The undertaking, which has for its purpose only to show Americans how far advanced Sweden is in the industrial arts, is the work primarily of a few prominent Chicagoans who are members of the Swedish club. A further object is the encouragement of progress in the arts by the Swedes both here and abroad. The exhibit will be free to the public.

For the support of their postal service the people of the United States next year will pay $283,805,760. Nearly ten million dollars will be required to put into effect the postal legislation enacted this year. It is estimated that seven million two hundred and forty thousand dollars will be needed for parcels post system; one million three hundred and fifty thousand dollars to meet the conditions required under the new eight-hour law; seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars to provide for reclassification of railway mail clerks, and one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to establish the new village free delivery service.

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