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HERE THERE
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Who's Hitler?
When the tenth edition of the German "Who's Who" appears this: autumn, it will contain for the first time the name and record of Herr Hitler.
The German "Who's Who": is a peculiar publication, more remark-
FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1933,
BRITAIN'S RICHEST
MAN
WONDERFUL ROMANCE OF
LATE SIR J. ELLERMAN
REPUTED WEALTH OF £30,000,000
John Ellerman, the clerk of twenty years before, made bec tween £1,000,000 and £2,000,000 on this deal!
'The wonderful romance of the life able for its omissions than for its of the late Sir John Ellerman, Et., inclusions. Hitherto( no Nazio, who until his death at Dieppe, not even the socially ambitious Cap-¡ France, on Sunday last, was head tain Goering, have been included. of the great Ellerman shipping in- Soon after he bought up three The new edition will not exclude |terests, reveals how a youth who new lines-the City, the Hall, and Jews, Communists and Socialists started life at a desk in the city of the Bucknall. He was able to supply provided their importance in na-Birmingham, rose to be the most the greater part of the capital out tional affairs" warrants their pre-successful business man and the of his own pocket.
wealthiest man in Britain. The fol After that his successes tumbled But there will be one distinction, lewing article was written some days over one another, Every biographical entry will carry before his sudden end. the notation: "Aryan" or ""non- Aryen."
BeDice
By C. A. LYON
Steamship lines that were not pay- the ing came to John Ellerman, Sir John Ellerman, Bt., C.H., is steamer wizard, for help. He took “Sir Nigel Playfair's Piece" probably the most successful busi-them, over-and in some magic way
ness man, and is reputed to be by they made profits. Viscount Grey of Falloden, Chan-far the richest man in Britain.
He owed much of his success to his cellor of the University of Oxford, He is head of colossal shipping in-almost incredible memory. presided over the general meeting of terests, be is one of London's two A few years after he sold the the Oxford Preservation Trust, held or three largest landowners, he was Leyland Line he was controlling be- in the hall of Magdalen College onjuntil recently a brewery magnate, tween 200 and 300 ships. June 9.
and is probably the greatest Invest- Knew Where Ships Were The Trust has now bought about ment holder in the country. He is
It is said that from day to day he 56 acres of South Park, Headington, richer, indeed, it is sometimes said, carried in his head exactly where and has therefore preserved as an than any man has ever been in Bri-each one of them was and knew what open space for all time the slope on tain before.
Because he was interested in noth-
the south side of the entrance to And he is practically personally freight each was carrying. Oxford from London. Another unknown to the general public. achievement during the year has He is said to be worth £30,000,-ing else, the information he picked been the removal of the ugly shacks 000. A thousand times as much is up about ships was prodigious.
Naval architects who had spent at Godstow Weir.
heard in Britain about Henry Ford, The land is now to be called "Sir who lives 3,500 miles away, as about their lives designing ships would Nigel Playfair's Piece," in remem-Sir John Ellerman, his British bring their plans to his office and be would turn the plans inside out, sav- brance of the efforts which this equivalent, who lives in London.
ing an inch here, and an inch there, making complicated stipulations
popular actor and his friends made to remove the blot upon the beauty of the landscape.
Your Daily Smile
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SHE: I can't tell you. HE: Can't tell me?
SHE: No, it's too expensive.
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mil-labout engine power.
When the Boer War broke out
By 1920 Sir John was worth probably £32,000,000. His ship- ping lines had £11,000,000 In hard cash assets alone.
Most of Sir John Ellerman's
Yet, when he sets his heart on money was made in shipping, but be something he is extraordinarily carried his wonderful attention co
detail into everything he did. generous.
In the war he started a hospital Foresaw The Slump for shell-shocked men. He paid for And everything he did was suc- everything out of his own pocket, cessful.
Only One House solved in a day, and will be one
Sir John is probably the only for continuous experiment and Prof. G. M. Trevelyan and Col. Bonaire living in only one house.
other development. Hitherto the traffic Joha Buchan were the
His house is in Mayfair, where he be rendered an inestimable service demands of London have grown speakers at the annual meeting, lives a simple life.
by placing his fleets at the disposal too fast for any effort to cope
Once he had a Scottish castle, but of the Government- with them. The Tubes, with
The sold it after three years. He baa During the Great War he controll- an eighth of the entire their millions of passengers, have
no racing stud and does not keep aled about spread out underground in every
yacht nor do many of the other shipping of Britain. The majority
· MY ADVICE. direction in the last forty years.
things the world expects millionaires of It was in a sense his personal pro- perty, in that he himself owned all The slow and cumbrous horse. My wife frequently attacks me to do. omnibuses have been replaced by What should I do?" Have gas-terest him.
with a poker,” said a man ix court.
These things simply do not in- the Ordinary shares. Control of practically the the large and swift motor-
Sir John Ellerman's income is whole of the London transport omnibuses. The tramways have area installed at once
estimated at £1,000,000 a year. undertakings is now in the hands been electrified and multiplied,
But he spneds only 3 or 4 per cent. of one central authority. The new lines of coaches have been public knows no immediate dif- established. And the end of it HE: Why are you crying, dar of it. The rest is reinvested. ference. Railways, omnibuses, all is that the traffic of London ling? tramcars and coaches run as thev is more congested because the were running before the change-population travels more and the over, but within an area of facilities of quick transport have! thirty miles of Charing Cross they enabled it to live further out in] now move under the direction of healthier and better surround-
He: It costs a great deal more and it cost at least £15,000 a year. Until recent sales he was interest- a Broad of seven men sitting in ings. The problem would seem [Broadway. The change makes interminably baffling, but it must than one would think to become a He also subscribed largely to the fed in six breweries. Relatively he was not interested largely, but only the biggest revolution in passen-be solved if London is not to be broad-minded and intelligent man of Red Cross.
the world.
How did this business magnate to the extent of a few milliona. ger-carrying that has ever been strangled by its own growth.
But it is said that he would go She: attempted. Its working. will bej
I suppose so, and I don't build up his colossal interests?
He was born in Hull in 1862. His round in his car to inspect himself blame you for saving your, money.
father was German Consular public-houses his company proposed official there. His mother was an to buy, Those were his methods.
In one year of his control the prin- "I see from your advertisement Englishwoman, the "daughter of a
cipal brewery made a bigger profit in the the movement to and from its
newspaper that you have Hull merchant,
than it had ever made before in its daily work of a population that South Africa House, opened just received two hundred hats
435 years' history! Those were him has spread far beyond the indus-by the King recently, stands as from your Paris branch."
results. trial and commercial areas. a symbol of unity at the very "Yes, madam, that is correct." London has been the first to face heart of the Empire, fronting "Very well I would like to try to London. He took a job with a the necessity of central owner- Trafalgar Square. The building, them on." ship and direction, because the which his Majesty finely describ- growth of London has given ajed as "a monument of commerce greater scale to every difficulty, and amity," is answer sufficient An experiment of such vast pro to those who are sometimes in portions has been made possible clined to doubt the permanence pily married." by an outstanding achievement of the Empire because its young- of private enterprise. The case er members develop aspirations for unification was established by of their own. South Africa ex- Who gave You those flowers,
this architectural | Florence?" the success of the combination of presses in
watched the world over, for the
problem with which London is A Symbol Of Imperial
secking to deal is the dilemma that afflicts every great city-
Partnership.
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"Not Good Enough” He went to school in Birmingham. While he was still a youth he came
firm of accountants in the City sa a clerk.
LITTLE WONDER.
He was so good at his work that "Why do you best your wife?" soon they offered him some slight "She keeps saying she is unhap-promotion. Young John Ellerman
MOTHER KNEW.
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countered this with a suggestion that they anould take him into part- nership!
He was one of the few who fore-saw the present alump on its way,
He could always deduce price- less information about world af- fairs from little economic signs- that meant nothing to other people. Six months before any one else expected it, in 1928, he saw the world crash would 'come.
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Personal Pa
His father had died leaving him iz`modest sum of money. With this
start he began business in ti \City, Mr. Clarence
They did not think he was good Jenough for this, so in the early the underground railways, tubes achievement the permanence "A certain young man, mother." twenties he started as an accountant
with Great and General Omnibus Company of its link
“Remember, my dear, no young for himself. which has given London a trans- Britain. Five
who man is certain until you have mar- port service swift, efficient and have been Governors-General of ried him.” cheap. It is well to remember, South Africa, attended the open-
Chan, General when exchanging one kind of ing. They were happy as men FINAL PREPARATION
He had an extraordinary fore Manager of the Asia, Commercial enterprise for another, that Lon-must be who see in their own MOUNTAINEER GUEST: Insight. By the time he was twenty- Co., was among the passengers who don owes to Lord Ashfield, chair- lifetime, as the King put it, "the tend scaling the summit of your five he was making some thousands disembarked from the s.s. President man, of the London Transport fulfilment of their cherished famous mountain tomorrow. What a year, it is believed m
Pierce, yesterday. Board, the pioneer work. If his hopes." Thirty years ago, the preparations should I make? At twenty-seven he started his conception of unified traffic has unity of South Africa which the INNKEEPER: Pay me in ad-[first trust company. By the time he Mr. Andrew Chrystall, Depart come to be replaced by a still new building affirms seemed the vance.
was thirty he was head of four, and ment Manager of Balfour Guthrie larger combine the principal rea-remotest of hopes. Men like
the biggest shareholder in all of and Co. Ltd., arrived in the Colony son is that success in transport Cecil Bhodes and Sir Starr Jame
yesterday by the sa. President has at all times presented a son might make it part of their temptation to competitors with dreams and labour for it in their jamaller interests to serve than lives, but the internal divisions the public welfare: The London of the country appeared to offer. Despite their proximity, to Russia Passenger Transport Act is based an insuperable barrier. To Finland and the Baltic States obtain solely on public interest; and one three men born of another race most of their petroleum and its pro-a syndicate which was buying an an Kong yesterday, by the sa. Presi- qualification for a director is that -Botha, Smuts and Hertzog-ducts from the United States. The shall hold no shares whatever, we owe it that the South African
Facts You Did Not them.
Know.
In twelve years he had so promper-Pierce.. ed that he had become a millionaire.|/
so that all his attention may be Union has been given what we a new gas heating system for fixed on giving the public the best believe to be arm and enduring residences also can be used to cool service. The Board is one of foundations. Others have play-a house, sending air cooled, by an able men, from which all repreed their part in the transforma auxiliary system through the same sentatives of the interests taken tion, but without the help of pipes over and of the trade unions have these the Union could not have
When he had started his first com-Comdr, Cleveland McCauley, U. pany at twenty-seven, in 1889, be 8. Naval Attache at the U. S. Em- was able to take a large interest in bassey, Peking, arrived in Hong
Atlantic shipping company, the Leydent Pierce, |land · Line....
John Ellerman knew nothing what ever about ships at that time
Secured Control
Mr. B. Bates, General Agent of the Dollar Steamship Lines Inc., jat Singapore, is on a short visit to
the Colony with his wife and But he was so confident that be could make a success of it that hehey arrived yesterday by the 6.5.
President: Pierce, been alike excluded. Its work, been brought about in such For use in different kinds of gradually put almost all his money as laid down by the Act, is to manner as to make South Africa wasther an Englishmen has invent in the line. He became the biggest create the best service at the loyal partner in the Empire, ed a hat with a detachable crown shareholder and secured control He lowest fares while earning an South Africa House has been that when removed leaves a perfor-was a genius in business. He ran agreed return on the capital in-raised as an acknowledgment of ated top,
News In Brief,
the ships better than other com For driving his car No. 945 ou panies bould, and quadrupled the May Road, above the Ladies Tennis W Club, which was closed to 'frafie," dio Then, in 1901, he sold his en- Mr. D. E. Dixon, of Messin Wallace can be tire interest to an American Harper and Company, was fined $15 been syndicate headed by J. P. Morat the Central Police Court; 11
morning
vested. Whether the experiment what has been accomplished, but Is to be the success that all hope, in at least equal degree it is the Occupying no more space than the value of the line. there will be no immediate means expression of a beller in a pro-ordinary storage battery., a of judging The task of fitting sperous and glorious, fature for transtor o the boɑds of the greatest of the new densty pulated area, cannot be Domini