FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION-Continued, proceeding shall be reduced to writing and filed in the omce of the commission. If upon such hearing the commission shall be of the opinion that the method of competition in question is prohibited by this act, it shall make a report in writing in which it shall state its findings as to the facts and shall issue and cause to be served on such person, partnership, or corporation an order requiring such person, partnership, or corporation to cease and desist from using such method of competition. Until a transcript of the record in such hearing shall have been filed in a Circuit Court of Appeals of the United States, as hereinafter provided, the commission may at any time, upon such notice and in such manner as it shall deem proper, modify or set aside, in whole or in part, any report or any order made or issued by it under this section. If such person, partnership, or corporation fails or neglects to obey such order of the commission while the same is in effect, the commission may apply to the Circuit Court of Appeals of the United States, within any circuit where the method of competition in question was used or where such person, partnership, or corporation resides or carries on business, for the enforcement of its order, and shall certify and file with its application a transcript of the entire record in the proceeding, including all the testimony taken and the report and order of the commission. Upon such filing of the application and transcript the court shall cause notice thereof to be served upon such person, partnership, or corporation and thereupon shall have jurisdiction of the proceeding and of the question determined therein, and shall have power to make and enter upon the pleadings, testimony, and proceedings set forth in such transcript a decree affirming, modifying, or setting aside the order of the commission. The findings of the commission as to the facts, if supported by testimony, shall be conclusive. SEC. 6 provides: To investigate, from time to time, trade conditions in and with foreign countries where associations, combinations, or practices of manufacturers, merchants, or traders, or other conditions, may affect the foreign trade of the United States, and to report to Congress thereon, with such recommendations as it deems advisable. SEC. 10 Any person who shall neglect or refuse to attend and testify, or to answer any lawful inquiry or to produce documentary evidence, if in his power to do so, in obedience to the subpoena or lawful requirement of the commission, shall be guilty of an offence and upon conviction thereof by a court of competent jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $5,000, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. SEC. 11. Nothing in this act, approved September 26, 1914, shall be construed to prevent or interfere with the enforcement of the provisions of the Anti-Trust acts or the acts to regulate commerce, nor shall anything contained in the act be construed to alter, modify, or repeal the said Anti-Trust acts or the acts to regulate commerce or any part or parts thereof. THE PILGRIMS. THE Pilgrims was organized in London during coronation year, 1902. It was born of a desire on the part of a few Anglo-Americans, who foregathered in London at that time, to have a society that would stand for the promotion of good fellowship and friendship between Britons and Americans as individuals. The British Pilgrims has a membership of 400. The American Pilgrims was organized in 1903 and has a membership of 600, which is the limit specified in the rules. There is a long waiting list of applicants. The society takes no part in politics or affairs of state or church, but simply and solely the cementing of friendship between citizens of the United States and its dependencies and the subjects of the British Empire. It exists for the one purpose of fostering by social means a friendly understanding between the people of the United States and those of Great Britain, and to bring distinguished visitors from Great Britain into contact with leading citizens of New York and the most eminent men of the country. The citizens of the United States and its dependencies and subjects of the British Empire, and others prominent for their sympathy with the objects of the society, are eligible for membership, and membership in one society ipso facto constitutes membership in the other. The officers and Executive Committee of the Pilgrims of Great Britain are as follows: Vice-Presidents-The Archbishop of Canterbury; Field-Marshal Lord Grenfell, G. C. B.; Admiral the Hon. Sir Hedworth Lambton Meux, K. C. V. Ö. The officers and Executive Committee of the Pilgrims of the United States are as follows: Treasurer-Wm. Curtis Demorest, 60 Liberty Street, New York. Executive Committee-George T. Wilson, Chairman, 165 Broadway, New York. INTEREST LAWS AND STATUTES OF LIMITATIONS. Under seal, 10 years. Unless a different rate is expressly stipulated. Under seal, 20 years. Store accounts; other accounts 3 years; accounts between merchants 5 years. tt New York has by a recent law legalized any rate of interest on call loans of $5,000 or upward, on collateral security. (d) Twenty (c) Witnessed 20 years, # Becomes dormant, but may be revived. Six years from last item. (a) Accounts between (b) In courts not of record 5 years. (e) Negotiable notes 6 years, non-negotimerchants 2 years years in Courts of Record; in Justice's Court 10 years. able 17 years. (4) Ceases to be a lien after that period, unless revived. () On foreign judgments 1 year (1) Ten years foreign, 20 years domestic. (m) Subject to renewal. (n) Not of record (p) Foreign. Domestic 6 years. (g) Varies from 3 to 30 years. California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts 6 years. (e) No limit. Penalties for usury differ in the various States. (except on loans of less than $1,000), Montana and Nevada have no provisions on the subject. Loss of principal and interest is the penalty in Arkansas and New York Loss of principal in Delaware aud Oregon Loss of interest in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona. District of Columbia, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina (double amount if paid), North Dakota (double amount if paid), Oklahoma, Porto Rico, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, Washington (double amount if paid), Wisconsin, Hawaii, and Wyoming Loss of excess of interest in Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Hampshire (three times), New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, and West Virginia. Loss of principal and interest in Rhode Island, also fine or imprisonment. WORLD'S DEVELOPMENT OF POPULATION, PRODUCTION, VESSEL TOMNACE, AND COMMERCE: 1800 TO 1912. PRODUCTION OF COT-Gold Pro b Soetbeer's estimates prior e Based on Michelet's a Mulhall's estimates except for 1830, 1890, 1900, 1906, and later years. d Based on Balbi's estimate for 1828. 9 Levasseur's estimate for 1878. to 1860. c Malte-Brun's estimate for 1804. k Figures of estimate for 1845. f Based on Behm-Wagner estimate for 1874. h Royal Geographic Society's estimate. the Bureau of the Census, representing net weight for mill consumption. Figures of the Geological Survey. n Preliminary estimate of the Bureau of the Census. FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. (Compiled by the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce.) EMPLOYED. Persons Tons. Employed. (1) Capital 5,029 17,961 $2,324,000 Value of $4,034,000 Gulf States (1908). 915 13,665 15,387 3,901.000 4,824,000 Middle Atlantic States (1908) 3.165 45,208 54,163 11,105,000 16,302,000 New England States (1908). 1,623 44,219 22,157 11,970,000 15,139,630 Great Lakes (1908). 319 4,499 8,533 4,814,000 3,767,000 Mississippi River and Tributaries (1908) 39 273 11,825 1,440,000 3,125,000 Pacific Coast States (1908)... 294 15,618 13.855 6,468,000 6,839,000 Alaska Territory (1913)*. 444 93.800 21,721 37,047,305 +15,739,068 Total.. 7,333 222,311 165,602 $79,069,305 $69,769,698 (1) The figures for persons employed are not comparable with those of prior reports compiled by the Bureau of Fisheries, as the figures for 1908 do not include those employed in packing and canning establishments. (2) The figures for amount of capital invested are not comparable with prior reports, as the figures for 1908 do not include the investment in packing houses and canneries. Pacific Fisherman's (January, 1914, issue) estimate of Pacific coast (including Alaska) canned Chinooks and king. 244,423 cases; sockeye or Alaska red. 3 671 247 cases; salmon pack in 1913: cohoes, silversides, 230,211 cases: humpback, 2,199,279 cases; chums, 354,847 cases; steelheads, 9,539 cases. Total, 6,709,546 cases. 1 case 48 pounds. † Does not include $54,579, the value of seal skins taken in 1913. Estimated. (a) United States figures are for 1908; Alaska for 1913. UNITED STATES BUREAU OF FISHERIES-DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. The work of the Bureau of Fisheries comprises (1) the propagation of useful food fishes, including lobsters, oysters and other shellfish, and their distribution to suitable waters; (2) the inquiry into the causes of decrease of food fishes in the lakes, rivers and coast waters of the United States, the study of the waters of the coast and interior in the interest of fish culture, and the investigation of the fishing grounds of the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific coasts, with the view of determining their food resources and the development of the commercial fisheries; (3) the collection and compilation of the statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations. The burean also has jurisdicCommissioner, Hugh M. Smith; tion over the fur-seal herds and the salmon fisheries of Alaska. Office, Sixth and B Streets, Washington, D. C. The official force of the bureau is as follows: Deputy Ammissioner, E. Lester Jones; Chief Clerk, I. H. Dunlap. Chief, Division of Alaska Fsheries, Assistants in Charge of Division: Inquiry Respecting Food Fishes, Henry F. Moore; Fish Culture, Robert S. Johnson; Statistics and Methods, A. B. Alexander; Architect and Engineer, Hector von Bayer. THE LIFE-SAVING SERVICE. THE Ocean and lake coasts of the United States are picketed with the stations of the Life-Saving Service attached to the United States Treasury Department, Sumner I. Kimball is general superintendent, with headquarters at Washington, and there is a corps of inspectors, superintendents, station keepers, and crews, extending over the entire coast line, together with a board on life-saving appliances, composed of experts selected from the Life-Saving Service, the Revenue Cutter Service, and the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Army. At the close of last fiscal year the life-saving establishment embraced 285 stations, 203 being on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, 62 on the lakes, 19 on the Pacific coast (including 1 at Nome, Alaska), and 1 at the Falls of the Ohio, Louisville, Ky. In the following table are the important statistics of the service: In addition to the number of disasters shown for 1914, there occurred 1,415 casualties to small craft, such as launches, sailboats, rowboats, etc., on which were 3,757 persons, of whom 12 were lost. The cost of the inaintenance of the service during the year was $2,309,317.41. Introduction of present life-saving system. President-James U. 8. VOLUNTEER LIFE-SAVING corps. R. Howe. General Superintendent-Charles E. Raynor. Headquarters, 63-65 Park Row, New York City. Three hundred First Aid stations where equipment is placed. Twenty-five stations owned by Corps-twenty-two houses, three houseboats. Fifty boats owned by Corps which do patrol work along the 450 miles of water front in New York City. Three hundred boats owned by volunteers carrying Corps flags do patrol duty along New York City water front. These boats decrease the number of drownings yearly by rendering assistance, and also by preventing people from going out too far, thereby taking great risk. Eighteen hundred enlisted men. Swimming Instructors who act as life guards in city baths. First Aid cases in 1914, 5,000. HOUSES OWNED BY CITY DEPARTMENT OF U. S. VOLUNTEER LIFE-SAVING CORPS. Orchard Beach. W. 99th St. Bay Ridge, 65th St. Raritan Bay Sheepshead Bay Point. Thalls Sheepshead Bay Hills. Rockaway, W. Harway Ave., Coney Isl. Creek. Houseboat, Bergen Landing. NATIONAL WOMEN'S LIFE-SAVING LEAGUE. Organized for work among women and children. Its purposes are: To encourage swimming by women and children; to co-operate with other organizations, whenever advisable, in the dissemination of knowledge on life-saving from drowning and "first aid to the injured; to encourage interest and promote efficiency in swimming and life-saving by the holding of annual competitions for medals, prizes and the like; to encourage and advocate simplicity and rationalism in bathing and swimming costumes; to establish an athletic branch for the supervision of athletics for women by women, in order to raise the dignity of such branch of outdoor sports so that all women may participate in the healthful and instructive exercises of swimming and life-saving; to advocate the general adoption of swimming and life-saving-Rescue and Resuscitation-as a branch of elementary education. It conducts free classes of Instruction in swimming at all the municipal plunges, free competitions for the entertainment and benefit of its members, and public exhibition drills for the purpose of public instruction. The dues of the league are 50 cents a year, to cover postage and incidentals, bringing the membership of the organization within the reach of all working women. President-Katherine F. Mehrtens Thorman. Vice-President-Florence West Hastings. urer-Sarah L. Marrin. Secretary-Adeline Trapp, 143 Havemeyer Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Headquarters, 25 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. THE SOUTHERN -COMMERCIAL CONCRESS. Treas President-Duncan U. Fletcher, Jacksonville, Fla. First Vice-President-Thomas S. Southgate, Norfolk, Va. Second Vice-President-Albert P. Bush, Mobile, Ala. Managing Director-Clarence J. Owens, Riverdale Park, Md. Treasurer and Resident Director-William H. Saunders, Washington, D. C. The headquarters of the Congress is at the Southern Building, Fifteenth and H Streets, WashIngton, D. C.; Clarence J. Owens, Managing Director. Among the purposes of the organization are the following: (a) To promote and develop the Interests of the following sixteen States of the United States known as the "Southern States," to wit: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. (b) To collect and disseminate information regarding the resources and conditions of the said States and the opportunities and advantages offered in them for the safe and profitable Investment of capital; the attractions offered in the South to the homeseeker, artisan and laborer, and the importance to the National Government of enacting proper legislation looking to the conservation of the natural resources of the South and the improvement of its rivers, harbors and transportation facilities. (c) To encourage, promote and foster the development of the resources of the South with its own capital and by its own inhabitants. (d) To encourage and obtain the establishment in the South of commercial, manufacturing, Industrial and other enterprises, and to foster those already existing therein. (e) To encourage, foster and promote the creation and establishment of Institutions and organizations whose energies shall be principally directed toward the development of the material resources of the South. To promote and develop proper Immigration to the South and to promote and foster the establishment of such organizations as may bring about the development of desirable immigration to the South. (9) To encourage the movement for the construction of good roads and for the extension of rallroad and trolley transportation. (h) To encourage, foster and develop patriotic and national sentiments throughout the South and elsewhere in the nation, and particularly to promote, encourage and foster the feeling and desire for a greater nation through a greater South. (0) To promote the improvement of educational and other conditions which tend to develop the material resources and happiness of the residents of the South. THE UNITED STATES REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE. THE United States Revenue Cutter Service is a military arm of the Government attached to and under the direction of the Treasury Department. The Service was organized in 1790 and constituted the original naval force of the country. There being at that time no Navy Department, the Service was placed under the Treasury Department, where it has remained ever since. It is charged with the enforcement of the navigation and customs laws of the United States, the assistance of vessels in distress, the protection of the sealing industry in Alaska, the enforcement of the quarantine laws, the destruction of derelicts and other floating dangers to navigation, and numerous other duties appropriate to its class of vessels. Each Winter, by direction of the President, a number of the cutters patrol the coast for the special purpose of assisting vessels in distress. The Service co-operates with the Navy when directed by the President and has so co-operated in every war in which the United States has been engaged. The officers of the Service are commissioned by the President and hold rank by law with officers of the Army and Navy as follows: Captain-Commandant with Colonel in the Army and Captain in the Navy; Senior Captains and Engineer-in-Chief with Lieutenant-Colonels in the Army and Commanders in the Navy; Captains with Majors in the Army and Lieutenant-Commanders in the Navy; First Lieutenants with Captains in the Army and Lieutenants in the Navy: Second Lieutenants with First Lieutenants in the Army and Lieutenants (Junior Grade) in the Navy; Third Lieutenants with Second Lieutenants in the Army and Ensigns in the Navy. There are now in the Service 228 commissioned officers and cadets on the active list, and 1,500 petty officers and enlisted men. The officers are: 1 Captain-Commandant, 6 Senior Captains, 31 Captains, 37 First Lieutenants, 42 Second Lieutenants, 34 Third Lieutenants, 8 Cadets of the line, 1 Engineer-in-Chief, 6 Captains of Engineers, 28 First Lieu tenants of Engineers, 22 Second Lieutenants of Engineers, 17 Third Lieutenants of Engineers, 4 Cadet Engineers and 2 Constructors. Commissioned officers of the line are appointed from Cadet graduates of the Revenue Cutter Academy at New London, Ct. The Cadet course covers three years and embraces professional and academic subjects. Cadets are appointed after competitive examinations, conducted by boards of commissioned officers of the Revenue Cutter Service. Candidates must be not less than eighteen nor more than twenty-four years of age. Appointments to the Engineer Corps are made after competitive examination, and successful candidates are appointed Cadet Engineers for a period of not less than one year prior to being commissioned Third Lieutenants of Engineers in the Service. Candidates for the Engineer Corps must be not less than twenty-one nor more than twenty-six years of age. The present Commandant of the Service Is Captain-Commandant Ellsworth P. Bertholf, U. S. R. C. S., and Engineer-in-Chief Chas. A. McAllister. U. S. R. C. S., is head of the Engineer Corps. The organization of the Division of Revenue Cutter Service is as follows: Captain Charles E. Johnston, U. S. R. C. S., in charge of Personnel and Operations; Second Lieutenant William Williams, U. S. R. C. S., Assistant for Personnel. THE UNITED STATES LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE. BUREAU of Lighthouses. Commissioner, George R. Putnam; Deputy Commissioner, John S. Conway; Chief Constructing Engineer, Horatio B. Bowerman; Superintendent of Naval Construction, Edward C. Gillette; Chief Clerk, T. S. Clark. The Lighthouse Service is charged with the establishment and maintenance of lighthouses, light-vessels, buoys, and other aids to navigation on the coasts and rivers of the United States, as authorized by Congress, and with the direction of the offices, depots and tenders required in this work. The field work of the service is divided into nineteen districts, each in charge of an inspector. |