The Seneca, specially built and equipped for its service, has just been commissioned as a destroyer of derelict vessels which lie in or near lanes of ocean travel.
Secretary Elliott of the American Automobile Association has sent a warning against reckless driving to the officers of the two hundred automobile clubs scattered throughout the United States, to the effect that drastic anti-automobile legislation will surely be enacted in many of the Eastern States if a stop is not put to the reckless driving.
Postmaster General Meyer, in arguing for the establishment of postal savings banks, notes the fact that fourteen States of the Union have savings bank deposits of over three and a half billions of dollars, or 98.
Comptroller of the Currency Murray, in addressing the conference at Washington of national bank examiners representing practically all of the territory east of Ohio, said: "I say to you emphatically that your work must be improved.
In order to work out a plan of close cooperation between the office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the bank examiners, and the various clearing house associations of the United States, Comptroller Murray will ask the various clearing house associations to send a committee to Washington to consult with him and the bank examiners in the large cities.
The cruisers of the Pacific fleet, commanded by Rear Admiral Swinburne, finished the first stage of the cruise undertaken to test the practicability of towing torpedo boat destroyers, when the flagship West Virginia, the Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee docked at Honolulu on the 2d inst.
The members of the forestry division of the National Commission for the Conservation of Our National Resources, appointed by President Roosevelt last June, have just returned from a trip to Germany, France, and Switzerland, where they have been studying forestry conditions with the idea of adapting some of the foreign forestry methods to our forests.
