000. Exports to the United States in 1918, $69,797; imports, $672,454. Chief exports, mate (or Paraguay tea), tobacco, hides, timber, oranges; imports, cotton goods, machinery and provisions. PERU. President, Don Jose Pardo; capital, Lima. Area, 722,461 square miles. Population estimated (1912) at 4,500,000; Lima, 143,500; Callao, 34,346. Total exports in 1916, $82,705,000; imports, $43,415,500. Exports to the United States in 1918, $41,439,218; imports, $22,011,583. Chief exports, cotton, coffee, sugar, cinchona, india rubber, dyes and medicinal plants; imports, woolens, cotton, machinery and manufactures of iron. URUGUAY. President, Dr. Feliciano Viera; capital, Montevideo. Area, 72,153 square miles. Population (1915), 1,346,161; Montevideo (1916), 378,446. Total exports in 1917, $67,516,000; imports, $37,212,000. Exports to the United States in 1918, $23,530,682; imports, $18,061,880. Chief exports, animal and agricultural products; imports, manufactured articles. VENEZUELA. President, Gen. Juan Vicente Gomez; capital, Caracas. Area, 393,976 square miles. Population (1915), 2,816,484; Caracas, 75,000. Total exports in 1916, $24,968,500; imports, $17,711,500. Exports to the United States in 1918, $13,287,738; imports, $7,823,007. Chief exports, coffee, hides, cabinet woods, rubber and chemicals; imports, machinery, manufactures of iron and steel, provisions, furniture and mineral wools. MEXICO. Government-President, Venustiano Carranza. The republic of Mexico is divided into twenty-seven states, three territories and one federal district, each with a local government, but all subject to the federal constitution. Representatives are elected for two years each and are apportioned at the rate of one for each 40,000 inhabitants; the senators, of whom there are fifty-six, are elected by the people in the same manner as representatives. The president holds office four years and may be elected for several consecutive terms. Area and Population-The total area, including CENTRAL AMERICAN STATES. President, Don Alfredo Granados; capital, San Jose. Area, 23,000 square miles. Population (1914), 420,179; San Jose, 34,784. Total exports (1917). $11,382,000; imports, $5,595,000. Exports to the United States in 1918, $7,615,482; imports, $1,903,224. Chief exports, coffee and bananas; imports, cotton, machinery, iron and steel manufactures, woolens and worsteds. GUATEMALA. President, Manuel E. Cabrera; capital, Guatemala de Nueva. Area. 48,290 square miles. Population (1914), 2,003,579; of the capital, 90,000. Total exports (1916), $10,637,500; imports, $6,725,500. Exports to the United States in 1918, $7, 822,960; imports, $6,292,760. Chief exports, coffee and bananas; imports, cotton and cereals. HONDURAS. President, Dr. Francisco Bertrand; capital. Tegucigalpa. Area, 44,275 square miles. Population (1910). 553.446: Tegucigalpa, 22,137. Total exports (1917), $5,353,250; imports, $6,293,000. Exports to the United States in 1918, $5,437,809; imports, $4,618,729. Chief exports, bananas, coffee, cattle, cocoanuts and wood; chief import, cotton. NICARAGUA. President, Gen. Emiliano Chamorro; capital, Managua. Area, 49,200 square miles. Population (1914), 703,540; Managua, 34,872; Leon, 62,509. Total exports (1916), $5,284,750; imports, $4,777,500. Exports to the United States in 1918, $4,590,037; imports, $4,377,688. Chief exports, cattle and coffee; imports, flour, wine, beer, barbed wire, cotton goods, sewing machines, kerosene, calico and tallow. PANAMA. President, Gen. Pedro A. Diaz. Independence of Panama declared Nov. 3, 1903; constitution adopted Feb. 13, 1904. Legislative power is vested in a national assembly composed of deputies elected by the people. The ratio of representation is one deputy for each 10,000 inhabitants. The term of office is four years. The area of the republic is 32,380 square miles and the population (1912), 336,742; city of Panama (1915), 60,028; Colon, 26,000. The exports to the United States in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918, amounted to $7,845,390, and the imports to $23,638,116. The chief articles of export are bananas, rubber, coffee and pearls. SALVADOR. President, Carlos Melendez; capital, San Salvador. Area, 7,225 square miles. Population (1915), 1,267,762; San Salvador, 66,800. Total exports (1915), $10.588,000; imports, $4.002,000. Exports to the United States in 1918, $6,870,432; imports, $3,479,332. Chief exports, coffee, indigo, sugar, tobacco and balsams: imports, cotton, spirits, flour, iron goods, silk and yarn. CUBA. Gen. Government-President. Mario Menocal: vice-president, Enrique Jose Varona. Under the constitution the legislative power is exercised by two elective bodies-the house of representatives and the senate, conjointly called congress. The senate is composed of four senators from each of the six provinces, elected for eight years by the provincial councilmen, and by a double number of electors, constituting together an electoral board. or The house of representatives is composed of one representative for each 25,000 inhabitants fraction thereof over 12,500. elected for four years by direct vote. One-half of the members of the house are elected every two years. The salary of members of congress is $3,600 a year. Organization of the Republic-The organization of the republic of Cuba, begun in 1900, was practically completed on the 20th of May, 1902, when the military occupation of the island by the United States came to an end and Gen. Tomas Estrada Palma was inaugurated as first president. Area and Population-The total area of Cuba is 44,164 square miles. The population in 1914 was 2,471,531. Population of provinces (1914): Havana 651,266 Matanzas 270,483 Santa Clara..... 567,277 Pinar del Rio.. 257,893 Oriente 567,639 Camaguey 154,567 ... Imports and Exports-The total imports in 1917 amounted to $261,377,000 and the exports to $357,040,000. The imports from the United States in 1918 were valued at $235,682,045 and the exports at $264,024,006. The principal articles of export are sugar, tobacco and cigars, iron and manganese ore, fruit.. coffee, cocoa, molasses and sponges: of import, animals. breadstuffs, coal and coke, iron and steel, wood, liquor. cotton, chemicals and vegetables. about 2,500,000. Coffee, cocoa and logwood are the leading articles sold. Total exports (1916), $1,837,744; imports (1916), $1,925,255. Exports to the United States in 1918, $4,815,544; imports, $8,359,922. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. President, Federico H. Carvajal. The republic has an area of 19,325 square miles and a population (1913) of 708,000. Santo Domingo, the capital. has 22,000 inhabitants. In 1916 the exports amounted to $21,851,250 and the chief articles shipped were coffee, cocoa and mahogany; imThe area of ports, $11,664,250. Exports to the United States Haiti is 10,204 square miles and the populationin 1918, $8,061,412; imports, $16,011,019. HAITI. President, Sudre Dartiguenave. NONCONTIGUOUS POSSESSIONS OF THE UNITED STATES. THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. The Philippine islands were ceded to the United States by Spain Dec. 10, 1898. Maj.-Gen. Merritt was the first military governor. He was succeeded in August, 1899. by Maj.-Gen. E. S. Otis, who in turn was followed in May, 1900, by Maj.-Gen. Arthur MacArthur. The last named remained in office until July 4, 1901, when the military authority was transferred to Gen. A. R. Chaffee. By order of the president Gen. Chaffee was relieved of his duties as military governor July 4, 1902, and the office terminated. The Philippine commission was at the same time made the superior authority. By act of corgress approved Aug. 29, 1916, the legislative authority is vested in the Philippine legislature, composed of two houses, one the senate and the other the house of representatives. The senate consists of twenty-four senators and the house of representatives of ninety members. The legislature created under this law opened its first session on Oct. 16, 1916. and on its being organized the Philippine commission ceased to exist and the members thereof vacated their offices. Officers and Salaries (1918). Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources Director of Education-W. W. Marquardt. Area and Population-The total land and water area of the Philippine archipelago is 832,968 square miles; land area, 115,026; population (estimated 1916), 8,826,552. The population of Manila in 1910 was 234.409. The population of the principal islands in 1903 was: Bobol, 243.148; Cebu, 592,247: Jolo, 44,718; Leyte, 357,641; Luzon, 3,798,507; Marinduque, 50.601: Mindanao, 499,634, of whom 252,940 are uncivilized; Negros, 460,776 (21,217 uncivilized); Panay. 743,646 (14,933 uncivilized); Samar, 222.690. Products and Climate-The chief products are hemp, sugar, coffee, tobacco leaf, copra, cigars and cocoanut oil. Between 600,000 and 700,000 bales of hemp are exported annually. The mean temperature in Manila ranges from 77 in January to 83 in May, June, July, August and September are the rainy months. March, April and May the hot and dry, and October, November, December, January and February the temperate and dry. Trade with the United States-The shipments of merchandise from the United States to the Philippines in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918, amounted in value to $48,423,400, as compared with $27,206,612 in 1917. The principal articles sent were: Cotton manufactures, $17,257,410; iron and steel manufactures, $9,260,284; mineral oils, $1,688,086. The imports into the United States amounted in value to $78,101,412, as compared with $42,436,247 in 1917. The principal articles imported were: Unmanufactured manila, $30,375,300; sugar, $7,913,247; tobacco, $5,021,597 fruits and nuts, $9,949,785; vegetable oils, $18,204,019. Imports and Exports-The total imports of the Philippine islands, in the calendar year 1917, amounted to $65,797,031; total exports, $95,604,307. ISLAND OF PORTO RICO. Porto Rico was ceded to the United States by Spain Dec. 10, 1898, and was under military rule until the Foraker law went into effect May 1, 1900. In accordance with the third section of that act, the legislative assembly of Porto Rico having put into operation a system of local taxation to meet the necessities of government, President McKinley on the 25th of July, 1901-the anniversary of the landing of American troops on the island in 1898-proclaimed free trade between the United States and Porto Rico. Government-Under the new organic act of March 2. 1917, the legislative power in Porto Rico is vested in a legislature consisting of two houses, one the senate and the other the house of representatives. The senate consists of nineteen members elected for terms of four years by the qualified electors of Porto Rico. The house of representatives consists of thirty-nine members elected for a term of four years by the qualified electors of Porto Rico. The members of the senate and house of representatives receive compensation at the rate of $7 per day for ninety days of each session and $1 per day for each additional day of such session while in session. Regular sessions of the legislature are held biennially, convening on the second Monday in February. (See also page 49.) The present officers are: Governor-Arthur Yager. Attorney-General-Howard L. Kern. Commissioner of Interior-Guillermo Esteves. Commissioner of Health-Alejandro Ruiz Soler. Executive Secretary-Ramon Siaca Pacheco. Area and Population-The area of Porto Rico is 3,435 square miles and the population in 1910 was 1,118,012, of which 65.5 per cent was white, 30 per cent mulatto and 4.5 per cent black. The cities having more than 5,000 inhabitants in 1910 were: San Juan, 48.716; Ponce, 35.005; Purchased from Russia in March, 1867. Organized as a noncontiguous possession July 27, 1868. Made a civil and judicial district June 6, 1900. Organized as territory of Alaska by act of Aug. 24, 1912. Capital-Juneau, Governor-J. E. A. Strong. Treasurer-W. G. Smith. Area and Population-Area, 590,884 square miles (land and water); population in 1910, 64,356, of whom 25,331 were Indians. Legislature-Senate has eight members, or two. from each judicial district; house has sixteen members, or four from each judicial district; term of senators, four years; term of representatives, two years; compensation paid by government, $15 a day to each member during attendance at sessions and mileage at the rate of 15 cents a mile: sessions biennial, beginning on first Monday in March of odd numbered years; limit of regular sessions, sixty days, and of special sessions. fifteen days; delegate to congress elected on Tuesday following first Monday of November every second year, beginning with 1914. Commerce-The total value of the shipments of domestic merchandise from the mainland of the United States to Alaska in the year ended June 30, 1918, was $44,280,075. The principal articles were: Breadstuffs, $1,683,989; manufactures of cotton, $1,932,962; manufactures of iron and steel, $17,750,680; meat and dairy products, $4,052,328; wood and manufactures of, $2,537,090; oils, $1,941,193. Total value of shipments of domestic merchandise from Alaska to the mainland, $71,595,414. The main articles were: Copper ore, $20,217,635 canned salmon. $41,892,292; other fish, $1,465,056; furs, $1,125,082. Gold Shipments (1917)-From Alaska to the mainland. $16,093,353; from the mainland to Alaska, $1,698.702. The total gold and silver shipments, including foreign, to the United States were $19,801,974. TERRITORY OF HAWAII. Annexed to the United States July 7. 1898. Created a territory June 14, 1900. Governor-L. E. Pinkham. Secretary-Wade W. Thayer. Population-According to the federal census of 1910 the total population of the territory was 191,909. In 1912 it was estimated at 200,065. The only large city is Honolulu, which in 1910 had a population of 52,183. Commerce with the United States-The total value of the shipments of domestic merchandise from Hawaii to the United States for the twelve months ended June 30, 1918, was $79,392,926. Brown sugar was the principal item, amounting to 1,053,701,147 pounds, valued at $62,076,956. The other articles of importance were: Fruits and nuts, $8,525,676. The total value of the shipments of domestic merchandise from the United States to Hawaii was $43,646,515. The principal articles were: Iron, steel and machinery, $7,741,112; oils, $4,089,927; breadstuffs, $3,634,427; lumber and manufactures of wood, $2,393,375; wines and liquors, $734,528; meat and dairy products, $1,618,554; cotton goods, $2,895,748. RESIGNATION OF SECRETARY M'ADOO. William G. McAdoo, secretary of the treasury and director-general of railroads, resigned his offices in November, 1918, soon after the close of the great war. The announcement was made Nov. 22 when the appended correspondence between the secretary and President Wilson was made public. Secretary McAdoo to the president: "Dear Mr. President: Now that an armistice has been signed and peace is assured, I feel at liberty to advise you of my desire to return as soon as possible to private life. "I have been conscious for some time of the necessity for this step, but, of course, I could not consider it while the country was at war. "For almost six years I have worked incessantly under the pressure of great responsibilities. Their exactions have drawn heavily on my strength. "The inadequate compensation allowed by law to cabinet officers (as you know I receive no compensation as director-general of railroads) and the very burdensome cost of living in Washington have SO depleted my personal resources that I am obliged to reckon with the facts of the situation. "I do not wish to convey the impression As a that there is any actual impairment of my health, because such is not the fact. result of long overwork I need a reasonable period of genuine rest to replenish my energy. But more than this, I must, for the sake of my family, get back to private life to retrieve my personal fortune. "I cannot secure the required rest nor the opportunity to look after my long neglected private affairs unless I am relieved of my present responsibilities. "I am anxious to have my retirement effected with the least possible inconvenience to yourself and to the public service, but it would, I think, be wise to accept my resignation now, as secretary of the treasury, to become effective upon the appointment and qualification of my successor, so that he may have the opportunity and advantage of participating promptly in the formation of the policies that should govern the future work of the treasury. I would suggest that my resignation as director-general of railroads become effective Jan. 1. 1919, or upon the appointment of my successor. "I hope you will understand, my dear Mr. President, that I will permit nothing but the most imperious demands to force my with drawal from public life. Always I shall PRESIDENT WILSON TO THE SECRETARY. "My Dear Mr. Secretary: I was not unprepared for your letter of the 14th because you had more than once, of course, discussed with me the circumstances which have long made it a serious personal sacrifice for you to remain in office. I knew that only your high and exacting sense of duty had kept you here until the immediate tasks of the war should be over. "But I am none the less distressed. I shall not allow our intimate personal relations to deprive me of the pleasure of saying that in my judgment the country has never had an abler, a more resourceful and yet prudent, a more uniformly efficient secretary of the treasury, and I say this remembering all the able, devoted, and distinguished men who preceded you. "I have kept your letter a number of days, in order to suggest, if I could, some other solution of your difficulty than the one you have now felt obliged to resort to. But I have not been able to think of any. I cannot ask you to make further sacrifices, serious as the loss of the government will be in your retirement. I accept your resignation, therefore, to take effect upon the appointment of a successor, because in justice to you I must. "I also for the same reason accept your resignation as director-general of railroads, to take effect, as you suggest, on the 1st of January next, or when your successor is appointed. The whole world admires, I am sure, as I do, the skill and executive capacity with which you handled the great and complex problem of the unified administration of railways under the stress of war uses, and will regret, as I do, to see you leave that post just as the crest of its difficulties is passed. "For the distinguished, disinterested and altogether admirable service you have rendered the country in both posts, and especially for the way in which you have guided the treasury through all the perplexities and problems of transitional financial conditions and the financing of a war which has been without precedent alike in kind and in scope, I thank you with a sense of gratitude that comes from the very bottom of my heart. "WOODROW WILSON." SUCCEEDED BY CARTER GLASS. Representative Carter Glass of Virginia was, nominated to succeed William G. McAdoo as secretary of the treasury Dec. 5. 1918. Mr. Glass was born in Lynchburg, Va., and was educated in public and private schools and in the newspaper business, becoming owner of the Daily Advance and the Daily News in his native city. He was a member of the Virginia state senate in 1899-1903 and of the Virginia constitutional convention in 1901-2. For eight years he was a member of the board of visitors of the University of Virginia and a member of congress from the 57th to the 65th congress. At the time of his nomination as secretary of the treasury he was chairman of the house committee on banking and currency. PRICE OF 1918 WHEAT FIXED. President Wilson issued a proclamation Feb., 23, 1918, fixing the basic prices for the 1918 wheat crop at the principal primary markets. After reviewing the food law, empowering the president to act in the premises, the proclamation continued: "Now, therefore, I. Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States, by virtue of the powers conferred upon me by said act of congress, and especially by section 14, thereof, do hereby find that an emergency exists requiring stimulating of the production of wheat and that it is essential that the producers of wheat produced within the United States shall have the benefits of the guaranty provided for in said section; and, in order to make effective the guaranty by congress for the crop of 1918 and to assure such producers a reasonable profit, I do hereby determine and fix and give public notice of reasonable guaranteed prices for No. 1 northern spring wheat and its equivalent at the respective principal primary markets as follows: Chicago 2.15 San Francisco.. $2.05 reasonable profit; the guaranteed prices in the principal primary markets above mentioned being fixed by adopting No. 1 northern spring wheat, or its equivalents at the principal interior markets, as the basis. "For the purposes of such guaranty only, I hereby fix the guaranteed prices at the respective principal primary markets for the following grades of wheat-to wit: No. 1 northern spring. No. 1 hard winter. No. 1 red winter, No. 1 durum, No. 1 hard white. The guaranteed prices at the respective prin cipal primary markets aforesaid of all other grades of wheat established under the United States grain standards act approved Aug. 11, 1916, shall be based on the above guaranteed prices and bear just relation thereto. "The sums thus determined and fixed are guaranteed by the government of the United States at the respective principal primary markets of the United States above mentioned, to every producer of wheat of any grade so established under the United States grain standards act, upon the condition that said wheat is harvested in the United States during the year 1918, and offered for sale before the first day of June, 1919, to such agent or employe of the United States, or other person as may be hereafter designated, at any one of the above mentioned cities, which are. for 2.00 the purposes of this act, hereby declared to 2.00 be the principal primary, markets of the Spokane 2.00 United States, and provided that such proPocatello, Idaho... 2.00 ducer complies with all regulations which may Fort Worth 2.09 be hereafter promulgated in regard to said 2.27 Oklahoma City, guaranty by the president of the United States. 2.27 Okla. 2.05 "In witness whereof I have hereunto set my 2.05 Wichita, Kas...... 2.08 hand and caused the seal of the United States to be fixed. .$2.20 | Seattle Omaha Kansas City St. Louis 2.18 Galveston 2.17 New Orleans. Philadelphia.. 2.27 Baltimore 2.27 Newport News.. 2.27 Charleston Portland "The guaranteed price for other grades established under the United States grain standards act approved Aug. 11, 1916, will be based on said price for No. 1 northern spring wheat at the respective principal primary markets. "The United States will assure the producers of wheat produced within the United States a "Done in the District of Columbia. this 21st day of February, in the year of our Lord 1918 and of the independence of the United States of America the 142d. "WOODROW WILSON, "By the President: Robert Lansing. Secretary of State." GENERAL EVENTS OF 1918. FIRE LOSSES AND CASUALTIES, Alvin Siding, Nova Scotia, March 15-Twenty persons burned to death in lumber camp. Baltimore, Md., Jan. 25-Shipbuilding plant and woolen mills burned; loss $700,000. Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 16-Warehouse containing government food supplies burned; loss, $500,000. Noxen, Pa., June 2-J. K. Mosser Tanning Co.'s plant burned; loss, $3,000,000. Ottawa, Ill., March 9-Pianophone factory burned; loss, $100,000. 25-Chocolate plant Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 26-Westinghouse repair plant burned; loss, $150,000. Burlington, Vt.. April burned; loss, $1,000,000. Camden, N. J., Jan. 24-Two war manufacturing buildings burned; loss, $500,000. Canton, Ill., March 5-Part of business section burned; loss, $200,000. Canton, O., Jan. 14-Miller Pasteurizing Machinery Company's plant burned; loss, $200.Co. warehouse 000. Chicago, Jan. 3-Swift & burned; loss, $150,000. Jan. 9-Five firemen killed in Chicago avenue theater fire. Jan. 12-Two South Water street buildings burned; loss, $275,000. Jan. 20-Independent Button and Machine company_plant burned; loss, $300,000. 15-Pugh warehouse damaged; loss. $300,000. Feb. March 13-Federal Electric Sign company's plant burned; loss, $400,000. April 23-Griswold & Walker burned; loss, $400,000. warehouse July 25-Forest park structures burned; loss, $200,000. Aug. 16-Building at 120-130 West Austin avenue burned; loss, $200,000. Cle Elum, Wash., June 25-Thirty business and residence blocks burned; loss, $1,500,000. Columbia, S. C., May 29-Fire in insane asylum causes loss of sixteen lives. Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 13-Hawkins block burned; loss, $150,000. Harrisburg, Pa., Jan. 2-Munitions burned; loss, $250,000. plant March 27-City Garage burned; loss, $100,000. Hershey, Pa., Feb. 24-Chocolate plant burned: loss, $500,000. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 13-Industrial building burned; loss, $2,000,000. Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 16-L'Engle office and store building burned; loss, $200,000. Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. 23-Shoe factory in penitentiary burned; loss, $250.000. Jersey City, N. J., March 26-Explosion and fire cause destruction of Jarvis warehouse; loss, $1,500,000. Johnstown, Pa., March 17-Business buildings burned; loss, $500,000. Kansas City, Mo.. April 4-Eighteen business buildings burned; loss, $2,500.000. Lima, O.. April 25-Lake Erie & Western shops burned; loss, $500,000. Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 13-Nine business buildings burned; loss, $100,000. Marble City, Okla., Jan. 12-Thirteen boys burned to death in Indian school. Marquette, Mich., Jan. 29-Pioneer Iron Co.'s chemical plant burned; loss. $500,000. Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 14-Sentinel and other buildings damaged by fire; loss, $250,000. Minnesota, Oct. 12-Forest fires in northeastern part of state cause 800 deaths and a property loss of $25,000,000. Montreal, Que., Feb. 14-Grey nunnery building burned; fifty-two children lose their Newark, N. J., Jan. 26-Oil barges and pier lives. burned; loss, $1,000,000. Sept. 17-Eleven persons die in factory fire. Newburgh, N. Y., Feb. 6-Wharf and warehouses burned; loss, $500,000 New York. N. Y., Feb. 9-Five lives lost in burning of sailors' boarding house. Parsons, Pa., April 25-Trethaway Bros.' tin factory burned; loss, $500,000. Peabody, Mass., Feb. 22-Nine lives lost in burning of residence. Peshtigo, Wis., Feb. 2-Times and other buildings burned; loss, $100,000. Pa.. Jan. 24-Three firemen Philadelphia, killed and fifteen injured in school fire; property loss, $150,000. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Feb. 12-Fire in main building of Vassar college causes loss of $300,000. Rondout, Ill., Sept. 5-Meeker mill burned; loss, $500,000. Mich., Jan. 15-Business Saginaw, burned; loss, $165,000. houses St. Louis, Mo., May 5-Packing company warehouse burned; loss, $2,000,000. June 2-Government warehouse burned; loss, $1,000,000. Werthan Bag company's plant damaged; loss, $1,000,000. Toledo, O., Jan. 19-Ohio Dairy company plant burned; loss, $200,000. Toronto, Ont., April 16-Harris Abattoir plant burned; loss, $2,000,000. Vancouver, B. C., May ware 15-J. Coughlin & Sons shipyards damaged by fire; loss, $1.500,000. Washington, D. C., Jan. 14-Part of Washington barracks burned; loss, $1,000,000. Waukegan, Ill., May 3-Government houses burned; loss, $1,000,000. Wheeling, W. Va., Jan. 14-Stratford Springs hotel burned; loss, $150,000. Feb. 4-Street car barn burned; loss, $200,000. Winnipeg, Man., Jan. 11-Enderton building burned; loss, $750,000. MARINE DISASTERS. From non-war causes. Almirante, American steamship, sunk off Jersey coast, Sept. 6-Five lives lost. Alton, packet, sunk by ice in Ohio river, Jan. 29-Loss, $100,000; no lives lost. Ascania, British steamer, wrecked on coast of Newfoundland, June 14-No lives lost. Aurora, antarctic relief ship, lost at sea some time in fall of 1917-Twenty-two lives lost. Batiscan, British steamer, lost off Nova Scotia about March 18-Forty-one lives. lost. Bisso, W. A., tug, sunk in collision near New Orleans, La., March 11-Thirteen persons drowned. Blackford, American steamer, foundered in storm off coast of Lower California, Sept. 17-No lives lost. Cherokee, U. S. naval tug, lost in storm off Delaware capes, Feb. 26-Twenty-nine lives lost. Chutai, Chinese gunboat, wrecked in collision off Hankow, April 25. City of Athens, American steamship, sunk in collision off Delaware coast, May 1-Sixty. six lives lost. City of Louisville, steamer, sunk by ice gorge at Cincinnati, O., Jan. 30-No lives lost. Columbia, river steamer, sunk in Illinois river at Wesley City, July 6-Eighty-seven lives lost. Coos Bay, American steamer, foundered off coast of Lower California, Sept. 17-No lives lost. Florizel, Red Cross liner, wrecked near Cape Race, N. F., Feb. 24-Ninety-two lives lost. |