ITEMS OF INTEREST November 23, 1912 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

President Taft has issued a proclamation fixing the rates that the foreign shipping of the world shall pay for passage through the Panama canal. The provisions of the proclamation are as follows:—

First, on merchant vessels carrying passengers or cargo, one dollar and twenty cents per net vessel ton—each hundred cubic feet—of actual earning capacity; second, on vessels in ballast without passengers or cargo forty per cent less than the rate of tolls for vessels with passengers or cargo; third, upon naval vessels, other than transports, colliers, hospital ships, and supply ships, fifty cents per displacement ton; fourth, upon army and navy transports, colliers, hospital ships, and supply ships, one dollar and twenty cents per net ton, the vessels to be measured by the same rules as are employed in determining the net tonnage of merchant vessels. The secretary of war will prepare and prescribe such rules for the measurement of vessels and such regulations as may be necessary and proper to carry this proclamation into full force and effect.

The plan has recently been revived of continuing the original Washington street of Boston, which now runs as far south as Providence, R. I., from the New Hampshire line, north of Lowell, through Massachusetts and Rhode Island and across the Connecticut border to New London. If the plan is carried out, Washington street will be approximately one hundred and fifty miles long, one of the longest thoroughfares under a single name in the world, and a very effective memorial to the name and fame of the father of this country.

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