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TIME also reported: "Porter Smith protested that he had been arranging baggage for the woman, that Conductor English had started the fight." Last week, Pullman officials would make no comment on the above points by President Randolph, pending disposal of Porter Smith's case by the Utica grand jury.—ED. Optimist Sirs:
We understand that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has tuberculosis. Will you p'ease inform us when St. Gandhi contracted the disease and what his condition is at present, if those rumors are true? We should like to have this information immediately as we wish to use it in connection with an article to appear in the coming Optimist. We should also appreciate other details which you may have available concerning Mr. Gandhi's tuberculosis.
VICTOR A. GREULACH
Editor
The Optimist Mount Yernon, Ohio
In Manhattan at the India Freedom Foundation, President Sailendra Nath Ghose of the Indian National Congress of America affirms that St. Gandhi is not tuberculous, brands all such rumors as ridiculous.—ED. Hoover Dam Silt Sirs:
I have been a reader of your publication for some time and have a keen appreciation of your outlook on national problems. I have just been talking to a man who has been on the job at "Boulder [Hoover] Dam." His contention is as follows:
"The water that is coming down the Colorado River at the present time and which will come down all the time, has a mud content of from 5% to 8% and that the lake which will be formed back of the dam, to be built, will fill up with mud and silt and make same a mud lake within ten years."
I would appreciate being enlightened on this subject and feel sure that I will receive a real unbiased answer from your staff. I cannot believe that this problem has not been solved, but would like to know, inasmuch as I am a tax payer in Los Angeles, which city is contemplating a large bond issue to construct an aqueduct to bring some of the Boulder Dam water to Los Angeles. . . .
JOHN E. STEWART Los Angeles, Cali!.
The Hoover Dam reservoir's capacity will be 30,500,000 acre-feet, of which between 5,000,000 and 8,000,000 acre-feet will be a silt pocket. Estimates of what the annual silt deposit will be vary from 80,000 to 250,000 acre-feet, but Government engineers opine that the total deposit in 50 years will not exceed 3.000.000 acre-feet. Reader Stewart's friend's figures for the silt content of the Colorado River look high. Government observations at Yuma, Ariz, noted .48% silt in 1928, .8% in 1929.—ED.
Cat-Rat
Sirs:
I am enclosing strip of film of a cat-rat [sec cut].
This was obtained at a wharf in one of the small creeks which flow into Delaware Bay, being the last village (one store and house at the wharf) on this creek beyond and all around are vast meadows (salt meadows) where many muskrats live and a great many are trapped up in this section.
This cat is evidently the outcome of breeding between a cat and a muskrat as the tail of the cat is a true muskrat tail.
The name of the creek is Cohausie and the wharf Greenwich Pier. HARRY M. ARMSTRONG
Fish & Game Commissioner Jersey City, N. J.
New Game