Review of reviews and world's work . Cotton prices advance fromtwenty-tive to thirty points on the publicationof a Government report showing a low per-centage of the normal crop. August 4.—The pageant of the CanterburyPilgrims is presented by a cast of 2000 playersat Gloucester, Mass. August 6.—President Taft leaves Washingtonfor Beverly, Western ElectricCompany receives a contract from the ChineseGovernment to install a telephone system inPeking. August 7.—Roger Sommer, in an aeroplane,flies 2 hours, 27 minutes, and 15 seconds (un-official) at Mourmelon-le-Grand, France. .August 9
Review of reviews and world's work . Cotton prices advance fromtwenty-tive to thirty points on the publicationof a Government report showing a low per-centage of the normal crop. August 4.—The pageant of the CanterburyPilgrims is presented by a cast of 2000 playersat Gloucester, Mass. August 6.—President Taft leaves Washingtonfor Beverly, Western ElectricCompany receives a contract from the ChineseGovernment to install a telephone system inPeking. August 7.—Roger Sommer, in an aeroplane,flies 2 hours, 27 minutes, and 15 seconds (un-official) at Mourmelon-le-Grand, France. .August 9.—.An extra dividend of one-half ofI per cent, is declared on the common stock ofthe Canadian Pacitic. August 10.—The Duke of the Abruzzi estab-lishes a new record in mountain climbing byascending Mount Godwin-Austen to a heightof 24,600 balloon Sirius, with fourpersons on board, crosses the Alps fromChamouni to Locarno. August 12.—Fort William, is placedunder martial law because of rioting by DR. NILO PECA.\H.\. (Who as Vice-President of Brazil succeeded to therresidency on the death of Dr. Tenna.) . .. .The American Sheet & Tin Plate Company,in a suit tiled in Pittsburg, asks damages of$200,000 from fifty-six alleged leaders in thestrike at its plants in Newcastle. August 13.—The controversy between theChicago street railways and their employees issettled at a conference of the .Ex-Gov. S. R. Van Sant, of Minnesota, is electedcommander-in-chief of the Grand Army of theRepublic. August 15.—Fire on the Cunard liner Lucaniacauses the vessel to be sunk in her dock atLiverpool. August 16.—Mr. Curtiss makes three flightsin his aeroplane at .Excessive heat isreported in the Middle West, the temperature reaching 110° Fahr. in Muskogee, Okla Walter Wellman starts from Spitzbergen in hisdirigible balloon for the North Pole. August 17.—The railway employees in Swe-den refuse to join the strike. 292 THE AMERICAN REVIE
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