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THE LONDON DAILY MAIL
CHRONICLES HAPPENINGS
IN YEAR TWO THOUSAND
A fine piece of imaginative report
ing has been accomplished by the
London Daily News with publication
•f a full 24r-page newspape- dated
January 1, 2000, says the Linotype
» Bulletin.
The paper contains an interesting
guess of what will be newa at the
turn of the next century. Television..j
death rays, super-speedy_ busses., ten j
miiesa minute airplanes, crashproof
lingerie for the air traveler, and
scores of other extraordinary things
make up the news a la Jules Verne in
the Daily Mail for. the first day of the
twenty-first century. ..
There was a fire in Regent Street
in ’the afternoon of December 31,
TJOft, and the- reporter covering it
writes:
“The air fire squad (No. 2 b sec
tioh) flew from its headquarters in
Hyde Park and poured down anti-;
fireo from its chemical extinguishers. I
Little damage was done.”. ■
The paper announces: “Registered |
readers of the Daily Mail will shortly j
be ■ ocereed a special service in -con
. nection with their tele.visors. which
will he modified to transmit seaside
scenes, sounds and ozones-.’!
One ot the reporters visited the
' high speed college in Sutherland shire
and saw the students playing games
during their school hours and learn
ing their lessons while they slept.
“What used to ‘be a term’s work
100 years ago,” the reporter .writes,
“is- now the matter if a single night.
, Wliile the pupils sleep, a sil Rt bat
tery of memory impressors is storing
‘he brain cells with the knowledge
which wwdo hardly won in the early
days of the-old century.”
Scotland Yard detectives axe.invest
Heating the case of a man murdered
by- “suggestion.” It costs 35 . cents
fop a two-minute telephone call from •
London to New York. The-radio pro
gram column has given way* to “to-i
day’s televise program.” The war in .
China is still news.
So is crime. Twenty-two alleged
aar bandits are about to be tried for
* a series of bank robberies, and one .
extraordinary murde (from the twen-1
tieth century viewpoint) gets only
. oassing mention. Among .the list of
eases pending is. “the- notorious .case
of a German-woman who is alleged to|
have shot her husband at Tiflis by a
beam fired from place unknown.”
Some 6,000 persons gather in Tra
falgar Square - to watch the closing j
scenes of a cricket match at Sydney,!
Australia, some 12,000 miles away,
which waa.show.rt on the newspaper’s
bulletin board (which is not so terri
, bly imaginative, considering it merely
combines the-idea of arbaseball score
board and radio, put together by tele
vision, now in existence).
The best news story of the day and
the one getting the biggest space, re- j
counts Ralph Girdlestone’s flight
around the world in twenty-four i
hours, the time remaining noon
throughout the Sight.
The paper was issued in- connection
with an- exhibit of “homes of the fu
ture” at-Olympia Exhibition Hall.
Many persons who have obtained
copies of the twenty-first century
Daily Mail have put their copies1
• away so. that their great-grandchil
dren or" great-great may see how im
aginative the Daily Mail’s 1928 repor
torial Staff was.
WOMAN FOUND GUILTY
OF CENSUS FRAUD
ALBANY.—A jury tonight convict
ed' Mrs. Florence S. Knapp, former.
Secretary of State of New York, of
misappropriation of State census |
funds. Justice Callaghan said he
would postpone sentence until she is
physically able to withstand a prison
term. The maximum sentence would,
be from five to ten years.
f When the* charges were first made
Mrs. Knapp resigned as dean of Syr
acuse University, a position she had ^
long held.
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RAILROADS SPEND MILLIONS
FOR FOREST PRODUCTS I
The railroads of the country in ^
1926 spent a total of $1,559,0112,331
for fuel and supplies, of which $186,
291,234, or approximately 12 per
cent, went for lumber and other for
est products, according to information
furnished to the Forest Service. In
1925 the railroads spent $170,305,031 ,
for foest products out of their total
purchases of. $1,392,043,000. Cross-1
ties purchased in 1926 totaled 93,769,- j
913, at a cost of $101,000,000—an in
crease of approximately 6,000,000 ties
over the preceding year. Other pur
chases of forest products included
switch and bridge ties, lumber and
timber for car repairs and mainten
ance construction.
Average Haul of Lumber Doubled in
10 Years.
The average rail haul of lumber
from place of manufacture to place
of use has practically doubled in the
United States in 10 years, according
to the Forest Service. Estimates for
1924 placed it at 725 miles, whereas
a 1914 estimate put it at only 360
miles. Iiibound lumber to the North
eastern States travels an average dis-,
tance over the railroad of 840 miles;
to the Lake States, 910 miles; to the
Central States, 890 miles; and to the
Prairie States, 1,515 miles. This does
not take into account the large
amounts of lumber that come hy
water through the Panama canal from
the Pacific Northwest to the Atlantic1
coast.
The Northeastern,, Central, and
Lake States were once great lumber
producing regions, but are now pro
ducing only a small fraction of their
lumber needs, necessitating the bring
ing of lumber from great distances.,
Better and more widespread practice
of forestry on farm woodlands andj
the reforestation and protection of
idle, cut-over and burned-over lands
in these States, says the Forest Ser
vice, will reduce this necessity in'
time, as they are still potentially
large lumber producers.
Lumber Distribution and Consump
tion.
Out of a total of 36,935,930,000
board feet of lumber cut in the!
United States in 1926, according to'
Bureau of the Census figures, the
Forest Service estimates that 33,330,
892,000 feet was for domestic con
sumption and 2,699,367,000 was ex
ported. The remainder, less than one
billion feet, was apparently i.dded to
mill stocks.
Over 44 per cent of the lumber used
within the United States, or approxi
mately 14,800,000,000 board feet, was
shipped from the Pacific Coast States i
(Oregon, Washington and California)
and the Southern pine region (Ala
bama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma,
Texas)—the two greatest timber re
gions of the country. These same
States also furnished practically all
of the lumber that was shipped to
The source, destination, and quan
foreign countries.
titles snipped m tne domestic uisin
bution. of lumber are matters of di-,
rect concern to the lumber trade and j
its dependent industries. Consider-■
able interest has, therefore, been evi-;
denced toward studies of this subject.J
lately begun by the Forest Service in,'
co-operation with the Bureau of the
Census, United States Department of
Commerce. For 1926 the Forest Ser
vice has analyzed distribution figures
based on returns from 1,754 of the
largest lumber mills and groups of j
mills, which shipped approximately
two-thirds of the national lumber cut. j
About 33 per cent of the total lumber
distributed within the country does
not go outsides of the States in which
it is cut. In 32 States and the Dis
trict of Columbia the cut. of softwood1
lumber is less than the consumption.
In a somewhat different list of. States,
32 and the District of Columbia con
sume more hardwoods, than they pro
duce.
The consumption, figures da not in
dicate imported. Sawede lumber, which
in 1926..was, .estimated at 1,9^0,410,000
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board feet. With this amount added I
in, the per capita consumption of. the
United States for 1926 is reckoned at
:;or> board feet, a decrease of 15 feet
from the average for the three pre
ceding years.
MIGRATORY BIRD SEASON
C HANGES ARE CONSIDERED
The continental-wide migratory
bird survey started last fall under
the auspices of the United States Bi
ological Survey has attracted wide in
terest, and 3,300 volunteers are en
rolled in making the count in widely
different localities, according to Paul
G. Redington, chief of the Biological
Survey, who is now on his way to the
westward to investigate conditions
there. Reports from Alaska, he said,,
in a statement given to the Juneau.
Empire recently, will be especially
valuable, and information collected
will be of service in any revision that
may be made in the international mi
gratory bird convention when it ex
pires in 1931.
The Alaska Game Commission, Mr..
Redington said, had recommended
when such revision is made that the
opening date, now September 1, for
the hunting of migratory birds be ad
vanced to August 15. The season
here is shirt, and it seems well estab
lished that the supply will not be at
fee ted by advancing the date. Yukon
Territory and Northern British Co
lumbia desire a similar change.
There is an active interest being
taken by sportsmen and their organ
izations in the survey, Mr. Redington
said. Last month 1,460 observers
made reports, and during the fall
months this number will be largely
increased.
“Already much information of de
cided value has been assembled. We
have mapped North America with ap
propriate shadings, showing the bird
movement according to the various
seasons of the year. Over a period
of four or five years we are going to
learn a good deal more about ducks
than has ever been known in the past.
We will get data that will accurately
guide us along the regulatory path in
the future,” Mr. Redington said.
Among other things, the survey is
attempting to determine whether
crows ond gulls, and predatory ani- 1
mals, are making serious inroads on
the breeding grounds. An expedition
is being sent into Northern Ontario
to investigate reports of serious dep
redations by great flocks of crows. In
Alaska a study is in progress of the
damage reported from the inroads of
numerous coyotes. To a certain de
gree these reports have been sub
; stantiated in some areas by an official
investigator. Once definite knowl
edge is at hand, the several Federal
and State authorities can arrive at a
program of combating the menaces !
discovered, Mr. Redington said.
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