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| THE ADVENT OF PETROLEUM
LBS BAR MAROOR SAMUEL, BART.]
Sixty years ago, 1 think it would be safe to say, petroleum. at all events in Ure umny nes to which it is devoted to Motoring was not day, was unknown. even thought of: the heavy combustion oil engine was not invented; and the advent of aviation was even more remote Deliberately considered, it appears ex- nordinary that so much of the develop.
CANADA FIFTY YEARS BENOE
12
GREAT FUTURE OF THE DOMINION.
thy RT. HON. SIR GILBERT PARKER, ST.]
GERMAN SUBSIDIES. EFFECT ON PACIFIC TRADE. AUSTRALIAN LINE OUSTED. We quote the following from the South- land Daily News:
Light is shed on soine aspects of State- subsided German supping enterprises before the
ko the detriment of
WIL
It may be said that prophecy on such So far as & matter is all guesswork. population is concerned that may be so, and yet we can make a profitable purse British and Australian trade by the area on that. Tuking the experience of
report of the Commission appointed by
Customs, in 1816, to inquire into British the South and Australian trade
nent work, both in the production of the United States, as well as of Canada, the Australian Minister for Trade and
petroleum and its ner, should have been performed by Englishmen, seeing that
the immigration and the increase of births over deaths would warrant a in
they had none of the incentives of either believing that the population of Canada Pacific Islands,
the Americans or the Russiana, who had large supplies available, and to whom, consequently, the world might well have looked for pioneers in progress.
in 1968 will be not less than twenty-five millions at least, and as for industrial, commercial, agricultura) and other in terests, there can be no doubt of the im meuse strides that she will make.
GT BRITAIN AND AMERICA- COMMON AIMS.
By D. J. FORT NEWTON.)
(THE DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN PASTUHL OF THE CITY TAMPLE).
What is the strongest bond between Bri. tain and America? At a time when we which the are seeking every bond by world may be united and held together socking, indeed, to weave them into a new and lasting fellowship it is well to ask such a question and try to find the Answer. For all real ties will be needed in the days that lie before us. when there will be so many opportunities, not fo say templations, to swing with of each other in matters of trade and other things that divide.
The strongest bond? For one thing
will come inmediately to the development Lalready been enormous, and in fifty years and knick-knacks from abroad Cupra it is not geography, even in face of the
of oilfields in the Far East.
As this article is intended for a paper
In agriculture her production has having a large Eastern circulation, I
When the from, now, she will feed herself and the "Shell" Company first started the bist United States (for it must be remember ness, which has grown to such enormoused that the United States has already proportions, the East was supplied from taken up all her agricultural land, with the United States and from Russia with little to spare, while hundreds of thou sands of American farmers settled in oil packed in cases; two tins to a case.
Canuda during the past few years-42,018 entered in 1905), and all that is needed to England, and export in other coun- trics as well.
Far
'MORK PRODUCTION.
fact that one of the longest routiers in the world is that between the Empire and
The islands depend chiefly for their support and Leading facilities on outside NOUTOS They import all kinds of foods, machinery, clothing, implements, timber, and a very great variety of cheap goods their main product is exported from all
the Republic-almist 4,000 miles without n fort, without a gun, without a mitle Ucean the islands, and, in addition, sugar and
Island
and bananas from Fiji, Raratonga, ete; rock Nauro; cocoa from Samon; and minerals ship; a line as invisible as it is unguard ed Nor is hoe or language, much as phosphate from from New Caledonia. The total trade of the islands included between 30deg. south and ludeg. north is not less than
123,000,000 inwards and 24,800,200 QML-
Putippe wards, LaDUM.
the exchang
ike an ine little doubt, according to Lne the ruuasiul, Laat he trade of
The prairie that was once called "a wedge of the groat American desertooth racine must largely be donated gow yields imetise crops, and the now area opened up by the Grand Trunk Pacific flailway stretches wider still the prea of production.
The inception of the bulk oil trade arose from the restination by the writer that overy time a native bought oil he did not require to buy tins and a case, any more than would a man who bought a pint of beer need to buy a pint pot. And so it cate about that steamers were de signed which were specially constructed to carry oil in bulk, and a system was claborated for erecting large tanks for the storage of petroleum in bulk as prac
thic tically every port throughout East
The expectation that the genuity of natives would provide utensils for the containing of oil in small
immediately LICH Was although from the very first oil lips Berved over and over again.
The business would searixiy have paid had the steamers been compelled to retomis, turn in ballast to the Black Sca porta to load, and so they had to be so co- etracted that they could be cleaned, and, being so cleaned, could transport, general cargo home even of the must delicate And this was accomplished oharacter. by the "Shell" Scams, which repeatedly loaded rive, and even ton, without any deleterious effects to the cargo.
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The old figure used to be of America That picture of her is fading world. as a bous loaf-giver feeding the A great change has 16 is not alone that the side of before our eyes.
It is more rapidly. production slackens; it is that consump
that
services
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Salmon
not only real, but effective and fruitful, toned language, in which Bungan dream these have to do in making friendship
od and Carlyle thundered and Lincoln and especially one great, rich, may
uttered his simple, haunting eloquence,
IDEAS AND TURALS.
No; in the end only spiritual ties buld when all alers give way m are furgot?” two peoples, upon whose sympathetic and intelligent fraternity so tauch depends, ten; and the strongest. land between theses
is a common and high ident of life, of civilisation, of hotne, State, and Church. André Chevrillen used lase words 10 a Letter: You English are so strange to us French, you are so utterly diffrent from any other people in the world."? But it is not. wo as between Briton and American; they think in the same world of ideas and ideals--our instincts and
entiments are the same.
by te nation wise ships can give die
the lowes Before the war, the British tag reight. whos flown by most of the ships trading waong like: 191kies and groups of islands, Speaking of the United States, a Now York newspaper of high standing said at a raga element, though consider fow years ago :
auty Hulised, had secured what appear
Sopping that ed tube bran looting. entered and cleared Germun
was represented almost wholly by ent
Dun Now 151 German british vessels, bal
Our differences are superficial, our like- Guinea and neighbouring German pos-
tesses fundamental. There is the ne Sessions Lue whole of the steamshups tani entered and cleared appear to have been sturdy independence, the same grit and under the German flag it was from this nothing do Americans value more than
thus
Germans drove angrit the same respect for individual quarter
A German conscience, the same insistence on think. official publication gives the following ing for ourselves and on knowing why we do a thing before we do it. Even the Australian shipping firm. particulars relating to steamships?
nationzi election, with all its mudsling. Under German May.
ing, docs but betray our kinship. It Art. Possessions.
makes an American homesick; it is so like our way of doing it. It is as though a man went out and encountered in the atreet what he thought for the moment was himself.
Lion grows even
bo wholly due to a smallish yield that we exported more fruits to Great Bri tain than of wheat 10 all the world lost year, we shipped more value of cotton cloth
than of hour."
of
Why, Alberta und Saskatchewan are each ave Lames ns large as the State of New York, as Ontario, a splendid ogri- than the cultural province, is larger
Now Maine,
Hampshire, States Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Florida, and Dużo combined.
Manitobs alone has a greater wheat- than the whole capacity growing 16,000,000 acres under cultivation in the United States, and Canada has $30,000,000 acres of the Anest agricultural land in the world still to be settled.
LIGHT AND POWELL.
over
Tone.
1,043
Samoa **** Bismarck Archipelagu,
Solomon Islands, and
Kaiser Wilhelm Land 676
431,110
Not Luder German Flag. Possessions,
Samoa
Arr. 107
Tons.
122,400
Bismarck Archipelago,
Nit.
Solomon Islande, and Kaiser Wilhelm Land Nil. All the vessels, under steam, cited as not under the German flag, ware, in fact, ali under the British Bag.
ATTRACTIVE TERMS TO SETTLERA.
service,
BOLIDARITY.
of
When one seeks to define the ident which underlies our deep, mysterious kinship it
and through Funguage breaks Eson pes. It is more real Dhian words; it is spiritual reality, living, growing, uniting many men of many races, many languages, in a solidarity of memory,
thing and aspiration a vision, of sentiment, of dreien, which finda The North Quruan Lloyd, by institut expression in private liberty and public ing service to Sydney, via Germae New dar at home, in friendliness and fair dealing abroad; in the conception of a t very serious com and Guinea, introduced
commonwealth, the service of inan to his There is no which drove the shipping of neighbour, near and far. petition, un Australian firm out of the German need to define it, because we know what Therefore WA muet stand together New Guinea and the German islands it is as we know our names trado. The German feel, consisting of
against absolutism and anarchy, In 1898, the
guardians
This state of things might have tinued, but for the diacovery of oil in Sumatra, and so long as the Royal Dutch Company continued their business in
Shell 1
114 Lhe antiquated
fashion, the Company could spets, with Russian oil, even though hopelessly handicapped by the geographical position of their sup plies. When, however, the production of the Dutch Indies increased, the Royal Dutch Company followed the methods of the Shell Company, and began
Industrially, one has only to think of transport and market their of also what: Canada has produced in the way bulk. And so it became necessary for
electrical theShell Company to find, if pos- of munitions since the war began, and Niagara alone gives un- sible, il-producing territories also of the water-power and the
power she hus the East, and we were fortunate in ob
mense industrial power, as well as light
of Ontario, cities for taining these in Kolci, in Dutch Porneo,
Buccess in striking oil was attained, heavy
Shawinigan gives Montreal and district very but the petroleum proved of
gravity, and it threatened great vast industrial force while the falls specific difruities in ånding a market. So we formed by the waters of Lake Superior decided to adapt our ships to burning flowing into the St. Marie River at Sault
under their boilers. it as fuel cessful that we urged it upon the British Government, giving them every oppor. tunity for seeing its working and for their better conviction, bringing hote steamer under liquid fuel from Borneo, vid the Cape, to London. And no ene
Company to have
the
This St. Maris offer immense opportunities three modern steamers, of over 3,000 Loes, equally of the main line of human
method of using petroleum was so will be the centre of
great
Tho
posibility; we cannot evade it development. We did not week, this very genius of our common inheritance self helpful, self- live and let live" ideal of and aspiration-ur governing,
was heavily subsidised. enterprises. Pulp mills and
trade with German New Gainca and aiuminium works have flourished from Australian firm sent their steamers to other German possessions, and continued the Shawinigan power, and this will ex tend, and hus extended, to other indus
do so, in spite of opposition from the resources of German Jaluit Company, till 1007, when fife-requires of us a leadership of ser- tries.
director of the North German Lloyd vice in the reorganisation of the world.
Think of the mineral Canada--good coal cast and west, iron
W
CIL, Shell would, dispute the and steel works on the Atlantic coast and went to Rabaul, und undertook, in con-
of the
tons
Eboll
11 27
Cost
648. Of
Bd.
per
It
án
dit-
ton 11
No differences of manner, no diver-
muat
operations.
The Jaluit
Buch was tho
The Australian and New Zealand ship. ping community, if not well-informed
the missionaries in the cause of liquid at Sault St. Maris, nickel mines at sideration of the settlers agreeing to sign gences of material interest.
veloped, coke furnaces at Camox, and that company's steamers for five years, and, if we are faithful to one another, the fuel and its practical use now through Sudbury which British capital has de undertakings to ship exclusively with allowed to mar our spiritual agregatenb out the world. The ateamer which ac
to grant very favourable shipping con. Eternal Goodwill will find in ue an in- complished this historie voyage brought iron furnaces at Bt. Maurice, Hull, and
it had elsewhere.
and from Germany, without the petrol in bulk the first time that.
As for, capacity for industrial producditions, and specially low through rates strument for the blessing of all mankind. ever been so curried, constituting, another In those
osetion, Caunds is as happily placed as the record for British enterp
lands and New Guinea. daya, the consumption of petrol in the United States, and that is saying much option of a British port, but with the United Kingdom did not exceed 20,000 Commercially, too, hy hor tariff carried option of selling copra in Sydney and Sydney, vid Caroline and Mareball 18- German navy, chartered sailing vesacla world's caption was under 200,000 Bir Wilfrid Laurier, just as the late Sir did not pay, however, to sell in Sydney Gesellschaft, who supplied coal to the tons a year, and probably the entire on by a Free Trade Prime Minister like cancelling the through hill of lading.
to bring Westport coal from New Zea George Reid, & Free Trader, continued with the through freight concessions.
These undertakings were readily enter
land to Penape and Jaluit, and loaded The necessity of marketing the petrol a Frotectionist policy for Australia, vast
Company to merchanting has been built up, and ed into by Gorman and other settlers. compelled the "Shell
Canada no longer to buy cheap cot-The freight for copra was to be 208. from these ships with copra from those ports, of the world. By this method, they ob- accept low prices for their product in
marke (138 d.) a son through from
tained the best steaming con in the competition with the Standard Oil Com-tons from the United States, and she has German new Guines to Sydney, and 16 and also from Butaritari, to all port pany, and it may again be truly said great department stores in Toronto and
men, or Hamburg (optional), including Southern Hemisphere and shipped thoir
copra at cost of transhipment in Sydney. Freigate Germans seem to have had the only com- very cheap rates. In fact, tha that the motoring industry would never Winnipeg which vie with Selfridge's, Gorman New Guinea to Antwerp, Bre have reached the proportions it has since Harrod's or Shoolbred's. —Express.
From German New Guinea to Sydney plete shipping organisation between the attained if the writer had not bad the courage and the enterpries to bring the Far Eastern petrol to Europe.
German pre-war competition, a European parts by any cargo line, 40%. spirit is now known throughout the which great self-respecting companies were £1 per ton, and from Sydney to Islands and the East.
thecould not associate themselves with, and world
the best that exists, and the it is only the advent of the internal.com- per bon upwards, in addition to which tion which, though serious compoti
thore wore transhipping expenses trade in petrol has reached stupendous bustion engine and aeroplanes, which re- proportions, and, probably if the co pumption of the United States is takenquire supplies of lubricating oil in auch Bydney, 4s, por tori, making a minimum seed only the beginning of wider against 55 marks (59. d.), ton in know at least that the Germans were con- into account, is not less than five millior quantities as to render is capable of total
ference ot 108, tune a year': Another result of the being conducted on sound ordinary busi-
favour of shippers by the North Ger- templating schernes to capture a larger New Zoaland diaracter of the oil discovered in Borneo nes principles that will lead to its ox-
pansion.
The discovery of oil in Egypt, also duoman Lloyd Line. The German's fleet was share of the Australian and
extensively their was the necessity of extracting the para he wax from the crude oil in order to
to the "Shell" Company's enterprise excellent, his subsidy ample, his cargo trade, and to develop make this liquid. This, too, was
adds another link to the long chain of assured, his organisation complete. The commercial influence by affording greater South Pacific, even as far as their pos fully accomplished, and the sale of paraffin wax produced throughout the bases from which the East may be supresult was that his Australian competi- trading and shipping facilities in the
plied, for, in the Pacife, we have Cali- tor. bad to withdraw.
This home demonstrates the value of swions in Samoa.
intending that East, including Burmah, is not less that formin, in the Persian Gulf, Abadon, in 20,000 tons a year, and the value runn Rangoon, the Burush Oil Company,
Company dominate organised and co-operative methods, in posed a serving to pey had also pro- Shell
The German ling of ships the line from Bingapore should, after into many millions sterling.
whilst the
bonts wore The peculiar character of the Borneo e Dutch Indies and Sarawak, and, in bipping.
actually en route for one of in direct connection with the main lines the new services when the war broke out. oil has led to the discovery of extremely the West, vast supplies will be furnished running from Hongkong to Sydney was calling at Rabaul, go on to Fiji, Two
The point out that, by valuable by-products, and great indus by Mexico and Venezuela, tries will arise from them. Printing ink,
michners are boing fitted to day for burn to Hongkong, so that cargo could be law of June 10th, 1914, thre Chancellor
No wonder, then, that hundreds of from Germany to Sydney, and Germany varnish, and last, but by no means lanat,
quid fuel, dust front plans exist taken from, or to either Sydney or Hong of the Gorman Empire received power bong to suit the convenience of the main to subsidise for Bfteen years, the postal a great series of base dye products are manufactured from this oil, whilst B
for building ships with internal-combag
lines of steamere to Europe or the local services of the Empire with the Far chancy discovery of human interest has tion engines for the use of heavy oil, been found in the fact that one, printer and that vnst preparations are being line, and not only emmere to obtain an Rast, Australia, and the Gorman porn fraction of the oil in the most knir restorer that is yet known to NA made for developing aviation, by which wige, but annhla steamers to obtain asious, in the Pacific, the subsidy to bo There was no similar arrangement be-sum of the subsidy to be 1,200,000 marka turs; and, after the war, this boon will pinces, unknown either to motor traffic or fuller cargo at either-end as required. I paid to'n German.company, and the total
to railway, may be rondled, and some of
(L0b0,000). Further, the Changellor was. twoan British ships. be placed before the world, for it is not the advantages of civilisation carried to The whole
authorised to maintain, until March 31st, only applicable to human beings, but for any manished natives. all animals.
There was ether, but not so serious, 1917, the subsidised line to Australia. I constitutes a gigantic subject, and Bitter In due time, the Far East will be freed these few lines oan only be taken as a
on the Hongkong Rabaul-Bydney lipe from the nouity of importing any hero, compendium of a question so vant competition. Hernsheim & Co., of Clor-was stipulated that regular maximum Inbrienting oil, for the Eastern oils con- that it would require a volimo to ex-an New Guinea, had two, auxiliary servions were to be made every four works
schooners trading in the British Solo- tain this in large quantities, and it in
I ner, naturally, proud to havo, played mons with an established depot nt every eight weeks on the Singapore-Nam Gundalennar, and the Jaluit Gussell Guinea Samoa line, and every three almost surprising that this important prind it thoroughly. branch the business has not reghod wo prominent a part in the creation ofschaft hand six auxiliary schooners trad months in the German islande; the mail Ker proportions earlier, but the com
nothing but blessing to the human race, and I will emoluck by adding that only
HINOR CERMAN COMPETITION.
dilion attaching to the sale of lubrians. # very great industry fraught wilting in the Carolino, Marshall, and the oats were to be of German construction,
but they provide a useful warning. Gilbert and Ellico groups; and maintain, and of a speed of 64 knots and 11 knots. n insignifienst part has been played by small service from Hongkong to Tha war put a stop to these projects, (Continued at foot of next culuma.) Goruinny in petroleum, production."
ing oil, as those in the trade know, Ten derrd it business requiring methods (Continued at foot of next column.)