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LAMMERT BROS.

ACOTIONBEER, AFPRAIRIES AND SULYATOR. Public Auctions-

☛ Sudarmigand bare roosivad (ozkropi apata mall by Pablla Azetion,

FRIDAY, October 6, 1922,

nt 12 o'clock (noon)

at their Eales Rooms, Daddell Street,

• Accszat of the Concerned),

The Steamship

"OBOYSANG"

(with all gear and equipment) es ebe now lies on Fort Joland (dear

Swalow)

Terms: -Chek on fall of hammer when steamer will be at purchaser's risk and account. Buyers will bo rs qairel to foraish an undertaking that Vessel will be broken up.

For further patienlars apply to

LAMMERT BROS, Auctioneers. Hongkong, ut tembar f. 1927.

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TRADE. SECRETS.

BUSINESS METHODS THAT HAVÉ MADE FORTUNES.

pay

THE CHINA MAIL.

ess criminal brains in the world-have time and again been baffled In their efforts to make it.

·A RICH PRIZE:

MAIN.

One of the richest mercantile

Another invaluable escret exists at A TRUE TALE OF THE SPANISH Laversteke in the printing ink, which is one of the most peculiar in exist- ence. What is it made of Ab1; that's the rob. All that is known to the outside world is that charred, captures in history was made on Juns busks and Rhenish vines are among 21, 1742, when H.M.8. "Centurion," the ingredients.

under the command of Commodore Uncle Sam, too, bas his bank note Anaon. captured the famous Acapulco sailed in paper and ick trade secrets. The paper is, of course, specially made, galleon, Anson bad

which caused but and wild horses could not drag the squardron which had been loudly secret of this uniquo process from the advertised,

in Brain makers.

something of derision

REED that it con- when it was There is only one man in the worldsisted of crazy ships, half manned who can make the printing ink which by convicts and landemen. It the United States use for their back would have been a matter for laugh- notes. The secret of the method was

A ONE MAN MUNOPOLY,

The American Government capopt

It is not without very good reason that the inside" business methods of certain famous firms are jealously guarded. Fortunes ars involved in Buoh secrecy, nad any infringement, or alleged infringement, of these lucrative methods is liable to 'te | followed by legal proceedings.

A case of this description was heard recantly in the Court of Sesaloa, the Order of Edinburgh, when Carthusian Monks in Italy worogranted an interim interdict against a certain Scottish firm of wine and spirit dealers. The complainers are the makers of the world-celebrated liqueur, "Chartreuse," and the interdict eccks to pinhibit the de-imparted to this man by his father, ing were it not for the fact that it was fendante from the alleged use of the inventor, on his death bed, on pommanded by a stumpy, red-inced, their trade-mark, and from the alleged the understanding that he would little man named George Anson who, never disclose it except to his-the although perhaps not brilliant, was making of certain sweetened spirits described as "Chartreuse," and which don's-on or other nearest relative as dogged a sailorman as ever wore

when he in turn was dying.

the King's uniform. Ship by ship is being marketed in this country.

THE BENOWNED "CHARTREUSE."'

do without this ink, as it is the only his squadron diminished until he Everybody has, of course, heard of one winch will print on the peculiar only had the flagship "Centurion" the famous Carthusian mouke and surface of the paper which is employ-left, and she is in a somewhat their equally renowned "Chartreuse." ad for the poles, and that would be parlous condition, with only Frior to 1903 the monks bad their forgers, with unique paper and unique about two hundred and twenty-five seat at a monastery near Grenoble, in ink to contend against, ure set the men left of her crew, and many of Franco, where they carried on, by stiffest task imaginable. Before the these Lascare and Negroes. Anson soms secret process, the manufactura war the Government paid their ick saw that it was his business to of their widely known liquénrs. In man £10.000'a year,

succeed and accordingly he succeeded, the year mentioned, however, en ac

for he arranged his time table so count of religious differences, they

Just a month or two ago the United satisfactorily that on this date he were expelled from France, and transferred their basinces to Tar States Steel Corporation agreed to came in sight of the regalar Spanish ragona, in Italy, where Chartreuse is, pay 1 000 000 dollars in addition to treasure gallern on her way from still manufactured.

two cents a 21 royalty, to Walter Acapulco to Manila. Nuestra Senora Bunton, 1 young ex-Service de Covadonga was her name, and she For nearly ten centuries no outsider bas ever succeeded in learning the mechanic, with a wound stripe, for was one of the fincat units in the

the secret of his newly-discovered Spanich merchant service. recipe for making Chartreuse. one occasion, it is said, the Rothschild process of tempering copper-a lost Crowded with men, and feeling secure family offered the monks a huge som at sings the days of the ancient in her size, she was quite game to take on the battered little "Centurion" Egyptians, (some say a million pounds in cseh)

Few trade secrets have had a more and gave battle right gallantly. But if they would disclose the secret of romantic origin than young Banton's she was only an armed merchantman the preparation of the famous liqueur.ich has made him a rich man at after all, and as auch unsuitable for The offer was declized.

the age of 23.

engaging men-of wat, cepecially when It is believed that all the mechanical they were under the command of Indeed, beyond the fact that Chartreure is flavoured with more arta will benefit enormously. by man liks Anson, who was long ahead than fifty varieties of seeds and Bunton's new metal, which is said to of his time and had polished up his flowers, and that even in pre-war days be the bardest known, except for one seamen's gunnery until many of them it made an annual profit of nearly called "steelite." It means cutting were

really first-class shote.

decis £200,000, no outsider knowe anything tools for lathes that will not strike The Spaniard's of its inside history. It ought to be sparks; it means bearings for littered with merchandise stated that most, if not all, of the automobiles, marine engines, locomo contemporary accounts make profit scoring from the liqueur is tives, and electric motora machine great point of the fact that her rigging distributed among various religious parts that will not craok.

was garlanded with strings of onions. and charitable bodica.

The "Centurion" just stood of and-

ANOTHER LIQUEUR.

Benedictines,

TEMPERING COPTER.

DISCOVERED BY ACCIDENT.

.

were and

An accident called Bunton's st-battered her until, with sixty-seven Another order of monks, the tention to the possibilities of tem-men killed and getting on for a huo- possets an equally pered copper-a trade secret that dred wounded, the Donstruck. Two valuable trade secret in the mann has baffled metallurgista for cen- killed and seventeen wounded was the Jacture of a liqueur scarcely less turies. He chanced to find a few price the British paid for a prize that profitable than Chartreuse Tradition pages torn from an old encyclopædia was worth well over three hundred has it that this recipa was lost lying in a rubbish pile ready for a thousand pounds, in addition to the during the French Revolution, match. A picture intrigued him, and fact that the Spaniards in the Pacific. during which time manufacture of the he picked up the crumpled sheets and were otit pled by being deprived of all liqueur was suspended. The priceless began to read. It contained an ac- the sinews of war for the year. formula turned up again, however, count of an ancient metallurgist, in- and the monka retumed their lucrative oidentally a murderer, with whore industry.

death the secret of hardening copper

For centuries, also, the Chinese and the Turks have "kept dark" two trade secrets that bid inir ever to remain mysterious, except to those immediately concerned.

was lost. It interested bim, and be tively poor man, and almost his last penny had been spent in perfecting set to work.

There are three steps in Banton's his invention. £10,000 meant to him progress, it is understood. The first provision for life. But he stuck to treatment of pare copper makes it the child of his invention, and even- One is the Chinese method of mak- bar'er than copper has been made tually Armstrong's feeling they must ing the bright and beautiful colour before, but keeps it still dactile and have him at any price, gave him his known as vermillion, or Chinese red, pliable, the second makes it almoet ferma-a partnership in the and the other is a Turkish secretas kard a steel, and the third so hard the inlaying of the hardest stel with that it cannot be out by the best steel gold and ulver. Among the Chinese saws, files, or chisels. and the Turks these two secreta are guarded well.

APPRENTICES' QUALIFICATIONS. Apprentices, before they are taken: for either trade, muit swear an ironclad oath to reveal nothing of what passes in the workshop. Not only so, but the apprentices must be long to families of standing, annet pay a large sum by way of guarantee, and must furnish certificates of good character and bonesty.

business,

A TOUCH OF BOMANCE.

It is here that the touch of romanos

"Jacky"

Is it any wonder that the United comes in, and with it the figure of States Steel Corporation took only a the late Lord Fisher. few hours to consider Bunton's terms of 1,000,000 dollars and two cents a £1 royalty i

COLORSAL FORTUNES AMA SBED.

Many colossal fortunes have accrued from the secret processes of the mechanical arts.

was then only a midshipman, but he happened to be in a position to materially influence the decision in connection with "Vavaateur's gun. carriage; he did much to convince Armstrong's of its superior merits,

Vavasar learnt of this-and be never forgot it. The men became Krupp was the poor of a trade great friends. Later, when "Jacky secret which was responsible for a married he had a son, who was given great part of the enormous fortune of the recond Christian name of Vavas That three conditions appear to nearly forty millione sterling which he sour, the now wealthy and prosperous have been strictly observed is borne left behind him. It was a method of partner in the gun factory standing out by the fact that the two secrete hardening steel, which made the godfather, And at Vavasseur's have been handed down faithfully Krapp armont immensely superior to death, a few years ago, it was found from one generation to another for anything else of the kind that had that he had left his splendid estate hundreds of years.

ben then made-uperior even to the and mansion in Norfolk, comprising Harveyised steel which was used in five square miles of the richest land our own Navy. Herr Kipp having in the country, to bis naissake,

OTHER EXAMPLES. obtained a unique reputation for his amour by means of his new process

There is however, no end to the

Bank of England's secret. The Bank of England has a trade Fecret which all the wealth of the Indies could not purchase, nor all the untold treasure lying at the bottom was clever enough to make still more interesting and romantic stories with of the seven seas. We refer to the money out of the invention by selling which treasured trade secrets are link- manofactore of the paper whereon it the right to us it to a number of od up,

Lord Loverhalme, for instance, pants ile bank notes. No trade other firms. fecret in this isles is more jealously In our own country the Crawlays could tell you that the foundation of and more carefully guarded. Cunt have amassed prodigious wealth from his flourishing business was the recipe less attempts have been mae to the iron med in our Navy, all of which for a new soap. He invested all bie imitate it; counterfeiters the clever come from the great works owned by slender capital in it, preserved his this well-known family,. The metal secret, extended his business and went mady there is purer than that on from one big'anosess to another. produced chewhere but the secret of th's purity has never been disclosed, though enormena prices have been of fared for it. It remains in the family, to whom it must be worth some

GUARD BABY'S HEALTH

IN THE HEAT.

The hot months are the most dangerous to children. The complaints of this seas, which are cholera. Infa tum, coffe, diarrhick and dysentery, millions come in so quickly that often a little jose is beyond aid before the matri realizes ba is ill. The mother innat be

· THE GREAT GUN-MAKERS.

It goes without saying that a

in her guard to prevent these troubles, geganto indu trial conon like Aim

or if they do o me on uddenly to car strong's the great gun makers, mat hem. Nother medicino is of soch aid ahve many very valuable trade

to mothers durin. hot wrather as in

Besoam's Pills in another excellent example of successful trade secrecy. So is Wiltshire bacon which is cured by the Brandenburg process. I post the firm which holds the renipe £10, 00 to acquire it; so, naturally, they do not proclaim their method from the housetope.

Bovril is another big business built Mr. Lawson on a rade secret. Johnston's fluid teef was only a very Haby' Own Tables, the Canadian acra. A romantic story is associas qualified success antil a Canadian doctor generously gave him the tip oblidren's recordy. They maulate the ad with our of thess. stomach and bowels, corn indigestion Many yesta a o Armstrongs offered bow to improve it. In its improved and oo stipation, relibre colic, check diarrhoea, allay bething paine, dispel a man nuknown, in the naval and form it "canght on "it was Bovril as olds and croup, bench worms, and bro Facientific world-£10,000 for 63-parent we now know it. When the bussene amolutely in fold by medicau of a bew invention in gul-estringas, was converted into a company Mr., lowers, or by mail at 80 vents the vis Vava enne was the name of the un-Johnston received £2,000,000 for From The Dr. Williams Medicine. Known inventor. He was a comparatames H. Young $5 Beectroen Road, Shangtal

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