| Show F REPORT t t It Recognizes the Marital Relations Rela Relations Relations or of Seals Some Pre Preferring erring ferring Bachelorhood Bach I WEDDED SEALS COUNTED COUN ED Last Year Ye tr There Wore One Thousand j And Happy Families 1 On St Paul l Island Islam y lS Washington ton D C Dec Dee 12 About t this time every ever year rear there thelt comes COInes from tro tho government printing office a host of oC lather rathor docu documents ments annual reports reI setting forth the and amI results of or thu activities of or hundreds of ot govern goorn government government ment officials In corner of oC tho the national territory Behind the long columns of oC figures underneath the serried dollar and other forms forma of or statistics between the lines limes of oJ I bare and often orten official al statements of men whose forte Is not literary stories which if IC f fone I one had time to dig them ou out would be he as Interesting as Robinson Crusoe or II any an other othol of the tho famous tales of or adventure Take TaI c for Instance the tho report t of or the secretary of oC commerce and labor Charles Nagel addressed to the president president dent and fist first made mude public tonight The Tho following paragraphs Indicate the scope of ot the activities of ot this department depart department department ment and some of or the entertaining material with which It deals In the course of oC a years rears work worl MARITAL RELATION OF SEALS For or example who in world east oust ousts of the Rocky O mountains 1 l al would have havo suspected s te that t some seals I voa are mar married married l i I ried and some are arc bachelors and und so recognized officially by b Undo Uncle Sam Yet It seems that there are arc at least 2000 bachelor seals on St Pauls and St Georges Islands Some 2000 of oC the seals are arc benedicts of ot a n polygamous temperament and have havo among them about wives classi classified classified fied fled by the government exports experts Into harems and spoken of that way wa when they the are arc officially talked about It also nl o appears that there thero are only seals left len now on Islands and the tho deduction must fol Col low that at the rate of oC decrease In Inthe InI inthe the last lust 10 years ears It Is only a ques question I tion of oC time when tho the seal will be a I memory and another of ot the tho mammal family will wilt have hUe become extinct by bythe bythe bythe the greed of oC nun man manThe The Tho question arises who knows all nil this Up on tho the barren reefs of tho the there Is II a i band of men call called called called ed the Alaskan A Fur Seal service rhese These men counted time the married seals seuls last year yen I and found COund there thero wore 1071 happy families on eu St Paul P ul island where one pater lives In serenity with a dozen Wives They ThO Thoy found fount 2000 little bachelor seals and promptly tagged them as il immune from flom the hunters because Uncle Sam wants to encourage en every evoly bachelor to get a hat haven harem em of his own So much for or the top to of the sens seas The bottoms do not escape es investigation Down at Woods Hole Holo Mass und and at Beaufort N C there thero are aN ar two seaside laboratories litt where a set oC of experts eq ett study stud the tho mysteries my of oC tho the deep Off On the coot coast cocu t of Florida a n series of or cx ex experiments have proved pr that we w can I pm our own sponges They have discovered dh that In 9 a sponge Jong can be coaxed to grow so big that It will wUl weigh an ounce and a n quarter when it Is empty Somewhere between bet n Hatteras teras and Labrador there Is an expert ex expert pert for tor tho the government beating his way up the coast on a n windJammer looking for a very elusive fish the tho mackerel macrel When ho learns his tricks the UIO government will tell tho the fishermen Upon the coast of oC Alaska at Afognak Afognak nak there Is a new salmon station statton n which has liberated more than O young red l d salmon to tho the rivers and during durin the tho year all nil over ocr the United States the government deposited in various waters more than fish fishy NEW y W LANES IANES S FOR COMMERCE COM Finding their way through the tor tortuous tortuous tunas channels channel In the waters of the Philippines I a group oC of hardy men from the coast end and geodetic survey are arc find finding ing new limes lanes for tor commerce Waters Voters hitherto uncharted and a fL mystery to the mariner will trill be easy cas of or navigation Another group Is s working its way up the rocky coast of Alaska On the northern edge of oC the tho United States a n band of oC explorers has cut its way ny through h time the forests to the time peak of the tho Rocky hooky mountains marking th lIl the boundary line of or tho the United States with Canada The rime old monuments placed years arll ago and hopeless burled buried In the tangle or of mountain undergrowth have been recovered and anal now ones emmes set setIn setIn In their places Wherever tho the line hue runs tuns through wooded sections a It lane of or I clearing has been chopped up one onu side I of the tho th mountain and down the other Along the Yukon river the U en engineers pincers with transits and have been h n locating the time meridian mem Idian of longitude The he basis for all nil future land surveys In time the valley valloy of oC one of or the greatest rivets rivers In tho the world Is s 5 being laid there now no Each aspect a Deet of oC this work comes under some ome one of or the 16 bureaus of oC the tho de department department department They cover coer everything eer thing In Inthe Inthe Inthe the bureau of ot corporations the proper control ot of the tho great Industrial and financial forces of the time country Is tho time absorbing problem A system of oC stat statutory statutory publicity by which will be required to repot report t the essential facts of oC their organization and condi condition condition condition tion is suggested This must be done by the time federal government Secy Sec Nagel believes and his report says any at attempt attempt attempt tempt to solve tho time problem through state action will ill be futile because no number of states can ever eer agree on es establishing establishing and maintaining one system The bureau of Immigration shows In cold figures that the longer the strang stranger er stays stas in the United States the more unlikely he is to go away There leas has Imbe been bean be on during the year ear nn an increase in the Immigrant population of oC tho the United States of more than More than thana a quarter of a million immigrants went back home and of them had been here less than five years ears There were only 2000 departures of oC those w who ho havo have been here 20 The rhe eta sta statistics show it Is IB the time unskilled Immigrant Immigrant immigrant grant who Is the bird of or passage and that the mechanic and the artisan stay In their new homes The effectiveness of the Immigration limitations agreed upon between the government and Japan Is demonstrated in the reports which show that of oC 2654 2664 Japanese who applied for tor admission to the country 2342 23 2 had mad the proper propel pass passports passports passports ports from their home government and only were barred baiTed In the division lon of or naturalization it is shown that aliens allens applied for Cor citizenship papers which was more I than over oer tho tine number of oC applicants applicants applicants cants during the fiscal year ear preceding FOREIGN COMMERCE The magnitude of ot the foreign com commerce commerce merce was more moro than During the year rear more than bulletins from the bureau of oC manufactures manufactures tures tUles carried the news of or business op opportunities opportunities opportunities from the tho corners of the earth to American capital and labor laborThe laborThe laborThe The bureau of navigation shows that wo we build fewer steel ships for foreign trade than we did 10 years ago be because causo cause our shipbuilding Is confined to the tho needs of oC coastwise and domestic transportation During the fiscal year ear 1909 our shipyards built only 1247 12 7 mer merchant merchant chant vessels with tonnage of oC the smallest product since 1898 The rhe protecting waves of or the tho wireless telegraph have spread themselves over the tho sea Bea and formed a Of OC steamships that carry earr steerage passengers pass passengers en engelI gers gelI to and from Crom tho the United States State half have been equipped with wireless and the proportion unequipped is a small figure Tho Time mainland of oC Alaska the th United States Hawaii Porto Rico and tho the Panama canal zone has been equipped with wireless wheless land stations and a vessel at sea within miles of shore can communicate Time The department has hns made official tests of mucilage steel mils rails soap wap for Cor use on the Panama canal silk and many other othel things It has established a n bureau of standards for honest hon st weights with which some of oC the states are aro cooper co operating aUng And when the department has cared for Ol everything else In Us its Juris Jurisdiction jurisdiction diction Secy report calls at attention attention to the fact that It has accomplished accomplished accomplished the work worl with appropriations which have Increased only a little more moro than 3 per cent in the time last four foul years ears |
