The death of Congressman John Jacob Rogers of Massachusetts on March 28 will come as a. shock to members of the American diplomatic and consular service all over the World as he was the author of the Nex "Rogers Bill" under which the diplomatic and consular services were united in ¢he Foreign Service with merited increases in rank and in pay.
Congressman Rogers died ina! Washington hospital after short diiness and his funeral was held at his home in Lowell, Massachusetts on March 80. In the House he was leading member of the Committe Foreign Affairs and took a deep interest in all things pertaining to international affairs. Largely as a result of the Rogers bill, several aac promotions in the datowati ye recently, been made, and Resistant Seoretsry of State Job V. A. MacMurray is sent. to Beking: ky Gallagher, U.S. Steel Ca, 30 "York, Egan 3.0.0.0. 26 Broadway, Gibbon:
152 East 42nd Street, Jof the Church who issue indignant Jmanifestoes are merely kicking Jagainse the pricks. In any ease we seem fo be at the beginning of a long. period of internal strife, very undesirable in view of an unrepent-lant Germany and a harassed Treasury.
The Boulevard Haussm:
Promenaders on the Boulevard Trays New' York Yew George Hunt & Ca, 27 des Italiens now see signs of one of the biggest street improvements attempted in Paris for many years. Every visitor knows the Boulevard Haussmann, the fine avenue that Jextends in a straight line from the Avenue Friedland, near the Are de /Triomphe, to the Rue Taitbout, a Rumi Sigs OFO ven7-litaliens, on the north side. The SFcomansjanele with the Boulevard des street forming almost a right-
Watbsh Hanah, Lave & Com sreone is muued after Baron PAL ps Mares a2 Melon Avene, New!
Jmann, who planned and carried out the modernization of Paris in the York.
Harfeld, St.
Second Empire. The original plan ign Both, Now are MeCietond, '& June was that the avenue should cross the Rue Taitbout and be continued Place, New Fort.
Slin'a straight line until: it met-the JOrigins of the Revolution in China." Though he could hardly be called a sinologue, M. Cordier was a professor atthe School "of Living Oriental" Languages, and he was also - President of the French Geographical Society and a member of the Académie des Inscrip. tions et Belles Lettres, one of th five academies that make up th Institut de France.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.