National

According to the announcement recently made, the Lincoln highway, which is designed to be a memorial to the martyred President, will pass through thirteen states. Where there are good roads they are included in the route, but where good roads are lacking, as in sections of the West, a first-class road for motoring purposes will be built. For this purpose the Lincoln Highway Association has already raised five million dollars, largely through contributions by manufacturers of motor cars and others associated with the industry. An effort is now being made to obtain a large sum through popular subscriptions among motorists throughout the country.

The states through which the highway is to pass are New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California. The route will start in Jersey City, following well-known roads through Newark and Trenton over the customary route to Philadelphia. From that city it will run west to Pittsburgh, thence through the north central part of Ohio to Fort Wayne and South Bend, Ind. The route will skirt Chicago, pass through Joliet, Rochelle, Sterling, and other Illinois cities, to Iowa at Clinton. Traversing Iowa the road will leave that state at Council Bluffs. Omaha, Neb., is the next large city that will be touched. From there the route is westward through Denver, north to Cheyenne, west again through Green River and Evanston to Salt Lake City. Entering Nevada by way of Tippet's Ranch, the highway will go to Reno, Lake Tahoe, Cal., and down the Pacific slope to Oakland and San Francisco. In plotting this route the Lincoln Highway Association has had in mind the desirability of easy grades and of reaching some of the most interesting scenic points in the country.

In its flight to compel domestic steel manufacturers to lower their prices, the navy department has accepted a bid of Cammell Laird & Co., Ltd., of Sheffield, England, for furnishing turbine drums for the battleship No. 39. The bid of the British concern was less than one third of that submitted by the Bethlehem and Midvale steel companies, and in addition included the payment of the duty by the manufacturers. The agent of the British company offered to furnish the drums for $57,436. While the officials of the navy department would prefer to let contracts to American concerns, they felt that the domestic bids were so excessive that in fairness to the department the lowest proposal should be accepted.

Piling which will occupy an estimated area of one mile and a quarter in circumference and extend half a mile on the esplanade will be required for the foundation of the new buildings of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the Cambridge side of the Charles river. Ground has been broken for the first of the new structures. Members of the corporation hope that the buildings may be ready for occupancy in 1915.

At the national conservation congress to be held in Washington, Nov. 18-20, the subject of forestry will be handled by a main committee, with subcommittees which will report on federal and state forest policies, forest taxation, fires, lumbering, planting, utilization, forest schools, and scientific forest investigations.

The Senate is at present seriously considering the proposition of having decisions of the United States Supreme Court printed at the government printing office instead of being let out by contract. Senator Overman is of the opinion that one hundred thousand dollars a year could be saved by this change.

The belief that more ponds on every Kansas farm would have a permanent value and be especially useful in seasons like the present when local water shortage forces thousands of cattle to market, has prompted Gov. George H. Hodges to urge the people of his state to build ponds everywhere.

From January until July, 18,792 visitors inspected the great work on the Panama Canal Zone. In the past four years 68,024 tourists have landed in Colon on the Atlantic side, while only a few hundred arrived in Panama city at the Pacific entrance.

By a vote of 286 to 84, the House of Representatives passed the administration currency measure last week. The bill now goes to the Senate for action, and after following the usual course, it is expected to become a law about the middle of October.

The estimated population of Chicago is 2,388,500, according to the city directory for 1913.

International

As all vacant land in Bolivia belongs to the republic it can be acquired by purchase or lease, subject to special regulations. The unit of measure is a hectare, which is 2.47 acres. Any one may acquire as many as twenty thousand hectares, paying cash at the rate of ten cents the hectare for farming and grazing lands. If the land has rubber trees the price is one boliviano (forty cents gold) the hectare.

The Spanish government has not yet reached a decision with reference to participation in the Panama-Pacific exposition at San Francisco. Lack of funds through the drain on the treasury caused by the African war is the chief obstacle, but the government is still considering the report drawn up by Marquez de la Viga Inclan, who has strongly urged that Spain be adequately represented.

The third annual observance of Pilgrim day took place at Southampton, England, Aug. 15, when the American ambassador unveiled the memorial to the Pilgrim fathers, which has recently been erected near the west gate, looking down Southampton water. Many visitors from all parts of the world took part in the proceedings.

On Sept. 17 the new treaty of Constantinople was signed between the Bulgarians and the Turks. This absolutely abrogates the Enos-Midia line settled upon in London, and substitutes for it a new line including Adrianople and Kirk Kilisse, giving the Turks an area more than twice as large as that fixed in London.

The railways of New South Wales, which are state-controlled, show a remarkable growth of late years. The number of passengers carried for the six years ending June 30, 1913, was three hundred and sixty-three million, an increase of 72 per cent compared with the previous six years.

The various technical difficulties which were met with in running trains on the Loctschberg line, and which obliged the government railway department of Switzerland to forbid trains to travel over the line by night, have been overcome, and a full service is now possible.

Industrial and Commercial

"The Flying Fisherman" is the name given to a freight train which runs from Boston to New York on the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway. It covers the two hundred and thirty-four miles in eight hours and five minutes, including the time taken in making four stops. This is believed to be the fastest freight train in this country. It makes a mile in sixty-nine seconds on some parts of the road. While it does not carry fish exclusively, its schedule has been arranged mainly with a view of handling this business, and hence it has been given the name of "The Flying Fisherman." Every day from fifty to three hundred tons of fish leave the South Boston terminal on this train bound to New York fish-dealers.

Depression in the world's rubber trade has caused an economic crisis at Antwerp. Many rubber companies in the Congo have discharged their European agents and large bodies of native rubber collectors. It is said that overproduction has caused prices on the international markets to be reduced below the cost of gathering and transporting the rubber.

The importation of foreign meat during June, July, and August approximated three million pounds. Most of this came from Australia and Argentina. This nearly equals in the three months the amount brought into the United States during the entire fiscal year ended May 31, last.

The United States produced pottery during 1912 to the value of $36,504,164. Ohio was by far the largest producer of all the states during the year 1912, her production being valued at $15,508,735. New Jersey was second with pottery valued at $8,000,000.

The Alberta Farmers Elevator Company, authorized under the farmer elevator bill passed at the last session of the Alberta Legislature, will construct forty-six line elevators in Alberta, Canada, in time to handle this season's grain crop.

Two million two hundred thousand dollars will be spent for permanent road construction in Illinois within the next two years.