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TUESDAY, JULY, 10, 1928.

SALE

OF

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at a

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Sale commenced on 1st. June, 1928.

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Sailors and Soldiers' Home Arsenal Street,

THE CHINA MAIL,

LANCASHIRE TO-DAY eral bread-and-cheese trade, it

STILL A GOING CONCERN.

INDUSTRIAL PEACE.

BEADLE ADAMS.

DEATH OF OLD TIME FUNCTIONARY.

might be quite true that there were some lines in which they might come in competition with the labour of the East, which they must make up their minds to let go, because to retain them The good fortune of the fine-would necessitate cuts in wages spinning section of the cotton in-and increases in the hours of la-senior beadle of Ely-place, Char dustry and the misfortunes of bour to an extent that none of them would contemplate. But the course-spinning were among

ELY PLACE GUARDIAN.

By the death of Frederick Adams,

terhouse-street, Holborn, EC., many old memories are revived.

the chief subjects commented this, he was convinced, did not until the war period Beadle Adama apon by Mr. Herbert W. Lee, apply to the bulk of the trade.

It was not true, he continued, not only cried the hours in Ely- chairman of the Fine Cotton Spin that the trade was making no place from ten p.m. to five a.m..

ners and Doublers. Association, Ltd., at the annual meeting of the serious effort to meet the dif- but he also added a statement as They might have been to the weather at the moment, such shareholders of the Association ficulty.

in the Memorial Hall, Manchester, a little late in doing so, but during as "One o'clock and a fine night.” the past year every section of An old artilleryman and a widow- on May 26.

In the history of the Associa-the trade had'seriously put their er, Adams had for thirty years tion, he said, there were only two minds to work to see how the carried out this duty. He is suc- years in which this year's excep- necessary cheapening of the ulti-ceeded by Mr. Dykes, who, starting (says. a tionally good profit had been ex-mate prices of cotton textilea at ten o'clock recently

The Govern writer in a home paper to hand), eeeded. It was not the result of could be achieved. any boom in trade, but was at-ment had promised valuable help will now call the hours.

Ely-place, now a precinct to it! tributable to a variety of causes. in rates, the finishers had shown They had had peace generally in a willingness to co-operate. The self, used to be part of Cambridge- industry during the past year railways had at last put in their shire, owing allegiance to the Dlo- throughout all the market with contribution; the merchants and cese of Ely. It dates back to the which they dealt. They had had shippers had been studying the thirteenth century, when Bishop the trend of fashion rather more problem with a view to helping Kirby, who died in 1290, bequeath- in their favour than had been the in surmounting the difficulty;ed, to his episcopal successors a case for some years in the past, and the spinning trade in Ameri- messuage and nine cottage in Hol- with the consequence that al- can sections was daily consider-born, One of his successors, said to be William de Luda, built a though they had had to work ing the situation.

hard for their orders they had "Our colleagues in this coarse chapel on the site, and dedicated it been able to obtain sufficient spinning trade," Mr. Lee con- to St. Etheldreda. Bishop Hotham, weight to keep their machinery tinued, "seem to have come in who died in 1836, added a garden, well employed. And, in addition, for the greater part of the public orchard, and vineyard. Ely Gar- they had had throughout the condemnation that has been heap- den was at one time celebrated for ed on the trade, but it must be 'its flowers and fruit, and particu- year a rising market.

In analysing the accounts in remembered that they have a larly its strawberries. considerable detail Mr. Lee point- most difficult problem to grapple Bly-place was occupied by many dif- notables in history. But it had ed out that with the £30,000 now with, rendered the more

the financial muddle many vicissitudes, and ultimately recommended to be placed to the ficult by credit of the welfare fund for into which a part of their trade its grounds became Hatton Garden, and Little Kirby-street, the work-people the total amount has been plunged by gentlemen, Great

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. In more recent times it was a

so devoted would be brought up no longer connected with it. We Charles,street, Cross-street, Hatton to £100,000, and said that in the do not approve of every proposal wall, and Ely-place, its old build- view of the directors this fund they have made, but I am sure inga, with the exception of the and the pension fund were among they deserve the sympathy and chapel, all disappearing. the best investments that could any help that can be given by be brought up to £100,000, and those of us who are in more for-sort of Crown Colony, administer- ing its own affairs in matters such said that in the view of the direc-tunate circumstances.

The effort to make larger as rating and lighting. Within the tors this fund and the pension fund were among the best invest-groups of the trade seems to go past twenty or thirty years, under ments that could be made for the in the right direction, and if any a Local Government Act, it was general welfare of the Associa-help can be given from those of swept into the larger. net of the tion. In some references to the us who have had thirty years' metropolis. But it retained some. subsidiary companies, he said the experience of working on these of its ancient privileges. Its gates mills in France had again given lines it will not be withheld, are closed regularly at ten p.m.. exceedingly good returns, and al-Hear, hear,) The readjustment though at the moment the trade in the finance of the trade will and, as already. stated, the watch- man, or senior beadle, calls the in France was not as good as it have to be made. If it cannot be hours till five a.m. had been. they found no such done by agreement the relentless

Although Ely-place opens on a falling off there as was experi- force of economic law will come great City thoroughfare, a City enced in England, and there in, and the survival of the fittest policeman may not enter the pre- will settle the question. I do not cinet unless requested to do so by seemed to be every reason for expecting that they find that the workpeople's repre-

a qualified authority, which in this would continue to contribute sentatives have as yet given any their full share to the profits. On help even in the minor points case is the watchman or beadle. the other hand, the cotton planta such as the rearrangement of tions in America had been so ex-cleaning and other technical mat- tensively damaged by the Missisters that are hampering opera- sippi floods that it had been con- tions in the milis, but I do not sidered desirable to write off a doubt that in the end they will do sum of £150,000 from the year's 80. I am quite convinced that if all the forces of the trade pull to profits.

gether, and especially when peace ed to have been built on the crypt

ARTIFICIAL SILK.

obtains in China and Russia is

A suspected criminal, bolting through the gates of Ely-place, could not be followed by the) police or the Flying Squad unless they were asked to enter by the beadle.

The chapel of St. Etheldreda, while a modern building, is believ

Dealing with the subject of re-opened for trade, there is very and foundations laid by William de artificial eilk, the Chairman said little fear of the loss of the bulk Luda. It was acquired in 1874 by the directors were convinced that of what we call the Lancashire the Roman Catholic Fathers of this material was bound to play trade." (Cheers).

Charity, who restored it, and it was re-opened on St. Etheldreda's Day, June 28, 1879, the late Cardinal

Ely-place possesses many

an important part in their future EGYPTIAN COTTON DEAR. trade, and would more and more Speaking finally of their own Manning officiating at the cere come into relation with cotton in section of the trade, Mr. Lee said mony. the manufacture of dress gooda. The whole question was not whe they were fortunate in not having offices and a school, and its only as yet to compete in any great reidents are the Fathers of Charity ther they would use it, but whe-measure with the East, but they and caretakers. ther they should themselves had their own particular difficul- manufacture it or buy what they ties to face. Quite apart from the required. There was something competition they experienced and to be said for both points of view. which they felt confident they The manufacture in some cases could surmount, they were affect- had been profitable, but it could ed by the fashion of the hour. At not be started as simply, a little the moment trade was not good. adjunct to the Association. It! They ran into April well, and then! different trade entirely experienced a great reduction in from cotton-spinning. It requir-demand, and he thought the great cd the knowledge and training of increase in the price of Egyptian the chemist, and to obtain and to cotton had had something to do pay for that knowledge to manu with this. The material facture on a scale that would stood at a level that was command success a concern of a justified by the figures of supply few hundred thousand pounds and demand which usually gov. would be quite inadequate.

erned it, and the difference be-

was a

now not

It would be necessary to install tween American and Egyptian a very expensive plant, running cotton was far too great. Buyers all the risks of obsolescence of had had such disastrous experi

HER RESPONSIBILITY. machinery and all the risks that ences in the past, brought about Hor children is a never-ending attended the development of what by the fall of values, that they source of joy and a never-falling was a new and unsettled industry.were afraid to operate; and until responsibility to the fond mother. Another difficulty was that there it was clear that either prices It not. infrequently happens that were three or four sorts of arti-were likely to be maintained or minor ailments of the child distress ficial silk, all with properties and fell to the limit that gave the and puzzle her; she does not know characteristics of their own market confidence he was afraid just what to do, yet feels them not They would have to choose one of business would remain restricted serious enough to warrant calling those, and their production would He believed also that the unfor- in the doctor. At just such times be useful only in so far as they tunate negotiations on the sub- as these it is that Baby's Own could use that particular style. ject of wages had had a most un- Tablets are found to be mother's For the present, therefore, they settling and bad effect on trade greatest help and friend. had decided to regard artificial

in textiles.

silk

Most of childhood's' maladies, as a raw product, to be

Colonel R. W. D. Philips arise in the digestive tract. bought in the same way as cot- ton, without being tied to one Brocklehurst, in seconding the concern or to one style of mater-adoption of the report, complain-

jal.

BABY'S OWN

TABLETS

immediately begin their beneficent

ed that of late there had been a serious deterioration in the qual- TRADE PROSPECTS.

ity of Egyptian cotton, which Turning to the prospects of probably started not so long trade, Mr. Lee said he approached ago, when there was admittedly them with great reserve, because an admixture of sced on such a it seemed to him they were hav-considerable scale that it was im work by gently cleansing the bowels and aweetening the stomach, ing a great deal more discussion possible not to come to the con- in public upon the subject than clusion that it was intentional. rellaving collo and correcting When teething is the was to the advantage of the in- Mr. William Howarth, manag-digestion, dustry. (Hear, hear.) Articles ing, director, explained that the trouble, there is nothing else like appeared in trade journals and Egyptian Government had under them to quickly allay the pains newspapers on the decay of the taken to make a careful survey of and to help the teething process. Lancashire trade, on its inability, the seed that was now being They check diarrhoes, cool fever, to compete in world markets, planted, and he expected that an expel worms, soothe the nerves and and were copied into foreign improvement would result. On promete peaceful health-restoring papers, encouraging our com- the other hand, in Egypt they sleep.

petitors and leading our custom- were a long way behind what had Guaranteed perfectly pure, and ers to think that Lancashire was been accomplished in the Sudan. absolutely safe even for the young- a spent force and that they must A dividend making a total dis- est or most delicate, infant, Baby's look elsewhere for their future tribution of 15 per cent on the Own Tablets are obtainable from supplies. In this way, he was ordinary shares for the year was chemists everywhere, or post free, aure, they were greatly adding to declared, and the retiring direc 60 cents per vial, from the Dr. the difficulties of their trading, tors and auditors were re-elected. Williams Medicine Co., 60, Klang (Hear, hear). Taking the gan Manchester Guardian." 36 Road, Shanghai,,?

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