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OUR LONDON LETTER. THE POST OFFICE AND EMPIRE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION. REMARKABLE EXPOSURE OF OFFICIAL METHODS.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. I
LONDON. April, Pth
glimpses of the follies and the passions that swayed men as the centuries passed in these writings on the walls the Jesuits who were confined during Elizabeth's reign, for instance, Hugh Draper, a Bristol man who was put into the Salt Tower for sorcery and magic, дой who drew the signs of the Zodiac and other mystic figures ander date 1361. the names of conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot and many others toe numerous to s mention here.
Sometimes it is said that very lew ever visit the Tower E Londoners Louilon; our cousins from the country and Americans how their way about the winding passages and ander the old arches mitch better than the average Cockney. Now, however, with the "adver tenent the Tower has received by the opening of the hitherto, chosely guarded seret roums it is expected the Landan public will go there in numbers.
SHIPMENT OF GOLD.
EMPIRE WIRELESS,
There was a remarkable exposure of oficial ineptitude at the meeting of the Council of the Empire Press 'nion n few days ago, when it was announced by Lord Burnham, the proprietor of the Daily Telegraph, who is universally known as a moderate man, that he had declined to contine as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Post, Offer because it was waste of time an inposition on the public." This Committer was hp pointed ostensibly as a business body to advise, the Post Offervin the development There has been mild excitement in of wireless communication in the British shipping riveles over the refusal of, the Empire Grent things were expected of 1 & 0. Company to carry a large cou itsdeliberations. According to Lord sigrament of gold in the parrels post from Buruham very little serious business was Marseilles to India. It is evident that submitted to the Committee.and its the idea is to discourage this manner existence was being taken silvantage of of transporting treasures this Being the to persuade public opinion that the Post first time that a shipper has proposed to Office was guided by business experts." relieve himself of high rates by using the This is it serious indictment, but it did farrels post for a consignment of gold
It is fairly, well-known that gold not stand alone, Sir Alfred Mond, the acknowledged business magnate at the enormous vahies is shipped from America The bulk of it is sent head of Brunner Mint & Co., dotted the to India just now. "i's and crossed the "t's" of this ex- to Southampton and there transhipped Fasure, and he did it the more success to the P. & C. or one of the other big Οι fully becatis although he is notoriously lines with sailings to the East. anti-Socialist he was asked by the late course, every precaution is taken against Labour Government to serve on the En-rubbery and it is a very long time since mittee. His business-qualifentions-worey attempt was made in this direction, his recommendation. He, too, said it but the T. & O. have been unfortunate was impossible to do anything effective.in another way as will be recollected in
The last thing.
he remarked, that the case of the crand and the Bypt, was really wanted was to try to intro- both of which went down with large duce any business organisation into the values of gold on board. institution. The majority of the Com! MOTOR CAR LIGHTS. mittee consisted of permanent officials af the Post Offre, and so we were eucher ed all the time," said Sir Alfred.lt was quite clear that the Post Office, does not like wireless. "a
EXTREMELY UNSATISEMTORY.
Now that the motoring senson is about to open, the difficult point about head- hights on motor cars has come to the front again. There is a strong desire to get some settled rule adopted applicable to the whole entry. At present the con I need sehrerly point out that all this ditons of English ronds after dark may be described as chaotic. Some drivers. is extremely unsatisfactory and more will be heard of the subject before long din their headlights when approach- The question which will have to be dehirles, and others keep their head. vided is whether the Post Office bureau-lights full on. Which is the safer plan cracy will be allowed to prevent the free There is no general enstres or regulation. development of wireless for no better and this is the cause of endless cenfu- reason, as it seems than that they are sin, and, it is admitted positive "dan- unwilling to re-adjust the organisation.
of the Department to deal with it. The Three years agh the Royal Automobile Post Office is wedded to cable comunica Club after prolonged investigation by a tion; they regard wireless as a small thingsperial committee reported that head- compared with cables, and the import lights should not be switched of when The com- ance of overseas communications which approaching other "wehicles. could not be cut like a cable as well mitter was composed of experts, who may as the Imperial aspect are entirely over-he supposed to know what they were looked."
doing, and the recommendation was based. The matter is naturally calling for upon practical experience. But as a criticism in the Press, and the Empire matter of fact most drivers on the road Press Luion is not a body likely to let are blissfully unaware of this ruling. I things slide. It is pointed out editor an informed that an effort is now to be ially in some quarters that the trick of made to obtain uniformity in regard to appointing a so-called business committee headlights, and that motorists are to keep on after dark. has been played before with the object their headlights full
ef persuading the public that the dicial Several fatal accidents of inte have been mifi was guided by business opinion.attributed to the practics of dimming The Ministry of Transport oas had an lights while passing trafic.
I believe the question of lights is of Advisory Committee which has been ab sulutly powerless to do anything except interest and importanee to motorists. to serve as a sergen behind which the everywhere, it may be useful, therefore, Minister and the officials de, exactly as if I say that the argument in favour of they please. The only consulatory rekeping headlights full on all the time,is flection at the moment is that Lord based on the known fact that if the lights Burnham's exposure is another, nail in are extinguished the driver, whose eyes the ruin of nationalisation, which doe are and to them. is left momentarily The eye ru trinaire Socialists would thrust upon the blind in pitch darkness.
quires an appreciable time to secustom try. if they could.
itself to sudden decrease in the light, and when the lamps are again turned on it requires further, appreciable time t jeristom itself to the lden increase in During that intensity of lighting.
the risk is considerable. Any dark object in the road in front is indis. tinguishable,
FAMOUS OLD LONDON RESTAURANT.
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18 MEMORY OF JOSEPT CONIAL,
Apirers of the literary work of Josephi Coral will learn with interest that n gravestone in the form of a large block
I hear that Catti's Restaurant in the Strand will soon change hards. The news wili awaken memories in those who knew the old place any time. its his tory before the war. It was started by Augustine and Stefano Gatti as of challenge, to the old choph as by offering a mildly Continental restaurant with conches against the waits and marble-topped tables on the fluer. The place has always had a character of its own. The waiters are nearly all elderly, Cornish granite has been placed ove and are very kindly, and they have an his last resting place near Canterbury, air of the picturesque in the way they The granite has been dressed to allow of inscription composing the great trim their moustaches and brush their na
his birth hair, suggesting service with Garabaldi, novelist's name and the dates
Occasionally I still dine at Gatti's. for and death: and underneath are the "lines the sake of old times; and somehow one by Spenser which are quoted on the title- sees much the same people at the tables, page of The Rover" Conrad's last or on the red couches against the walls,burk, as follows:- doing themselves rather well, while the band plays very agreeably familiar tunes of the last century. There are men wit were probably taken to Gatti's by their fathers when schoolboys
Sleep after toyle, port after stormie
Ease after warke death after lie,
does greatly please.""
on holiday, and now, with lamilies of Therr is auther memorial in the shape their ow for disquered they come and of two pamphlets written by Mr. Richard
STEAM LAUNDRY CO. low and muse over their after Curle, Conrad's, executar and intimate
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dinner cigar in the old-fashioned res-friend, and printed for private cigrule- taurant. It is always" matter for regretftion. An account is given of the closing when. such plates change hands, for it days of Conrad's life with restrained feel- usually means a transformation
ing and real eloquence, an admirable piece of writing which is auch valued. This week parts of the Tower of £GYALTY AND LLOYDS. London that have never beffice in the Next month after the return of the long history of the ancient fortress been King and Queen from their holiday in Mediterranean. which is proving open to public inspection are made free the
THE TOWER OF LONDON.
to visitors. They are the Byward Tower, beneficial to both of them-it is the first the Salt Tower, the Brul Arrow Tower, real holiday King George has bad since. and the Martin or St. Martin's Tower. he ascended the Throne--his Majesty is For many years officers and members of to open the new Canadian Government the Tower staff have necpied rooms, in building in Trafalgar Square. It promix these sections of the great building, and to be the finest building of its kind in have passed comfortable days and nights | London, and has been erected, it is said, where prisoners once drugged ant their regardless of expense though nobody sorry lives in pain and utmost wretched quite knows what it has cost. Then on ness, sune of them the victims of torture Saturday, May 23rd. the King is to lay deliberately inflicted to extract confes the foundation stone of the new head, of "Lloyds Corporation in sion of real or suspected crimes. The quarters Office of Works bas knocked away parti Lendenbali Street. tions and removed wallpaper and chipped It may be recalled that this is not the modern plaster off the walls, with the re- Arst time that Royalty has honoured sult that the original appearance of the Lloyds. Queen Victoria opened the pre- room in 1814, and sent underwriting interior has been restored..
It is a curious fact that there is het King George, when Duke of York, accom a complete list of the prisoners who panied his father King Edward, then' luve heen confined in the Tower of Prince of Wales, on a special visit to London. But many names famous or Lloyds in 1900. The present Prince of notorious in English history have been Wales and the present Duke of York preserved in the records, while many went there in 1919. The new headquar others cut deep in Caen or Gatton stone tera will give accommodation that is in rooms or on stairways by the unhappy greatly needed, and will form a fine ad- prisoners themselves constitute the most dition to the architectural features of permanent. form of identity. You can get the City of London.-H.B
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