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ENGINEER.

"Road Engine" Did More Than 4 M.P.H.

EARLY CARS.

When I walked into Colonel R, E. Crompton's office in his house in Kensington Court I was ten minutes

late and felt that an apology and explanation were called for, writes M.D. in the Evening News. One does not like to keep a man of eighty-six waiting, particularly when he is as famous a veteran as Colonel Crompton-veteran of the Crimea (at the age of eleven), and pioneer of mechanical road trans- port, electric lighting, and motor- ing.

it seemed that I had a career before along the road. "But the Bedford.

me in Britain. But no-an Aetshire magistrates, presumably not was passed compelling mechanical road transport to have a man with a red Rng walking in front of each vehicle. The Red Flag Act, it was called and it was not repealed till 1896."

Perhaps the sharpest boyhood memory of Colonel Compton's storo of reminiscences is the great Ex- hibition of 1851. "I was only six then," he told me.

"My mother took me to London In a special Exhibition train, which was enormously long and had six locomotives to pull it. The fare from Thirsk to King's Cross, first- class return, was sixteen shillings." (The time-table tells me that this fare to-day is £4 7s. 10d.).

having heard of the dispensation, were told about my exceeding tho four miles legal speed, and they turned out in force with a posse of police to stop me.

"We met, and they became quite heated, particularly as I allowed my engine to move gently forward at about a quarter of a mile an hour, so that they were walking back

wards all the time.

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5-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme. 6-6.30 pm.-Chinese Children's Programme.

7-10.30 p.m.-European Pro- "Finally I said: "Well, geritle-gramme of Victor Records.

7-7.42 p.m.--Variety. men, thle has been very interesting, but now I must go. They shouted Orchestral- to me to stop, but they had to get out of the way. You will be sum- moned, they cried, and that lady too! The lady with

me was my wife, who always enjoyed riding in my road engines. She smiled to them, and 1 waved, and off we went."

Harrow Experiments. "London was deafening in those My blameless road accident, days," said the colonel. "The noiso

On another occasion a toll-keeper damaged wheel, and so on might of steel wheels and hoofs on the

was so loud that I refused to open his gate. This was prove adequate.

granite blocks ... Adequate! The veteran's keen could not make my mothar hear me, in Scotland. "I just had to let the eyes lighted up behind his spec- though I was talking by her side. engine do his job," the colonel told tacles, his white head leaned for- The dresses women wore then fitted me. "Very gently we pressed the ward. "Was this at night?" he close at the waist, came out sharp-gate till it bent, then the engine asked. No, not an hour ago. "Ah,"ly over the hips and fell in straight | burst, it open

the ground over several threw it right over the hedge." & shade or disappointment crossed lines to his face. But the details had all to petticoats. Their bonnets were tied come out-shying horse, backing under the chin and rose to a peak lorry,

eight-cylinder over their heads driver.

awerving

they called them.

spoon-shaped,

with a force that

The Burning Star.

Mi Nostalgio (Homesick), Paquite,

Marek Weber & His Orchestra (V-2-A). Vocal Duct-

Hoosier Hop,

I'm Following. You! Song-

The Duncan Sisters (22269).

Where Can You Be, You May Not Like It,

Piano Solo-

I'm Yours,

Jack Smith. Whispering Baritone (22448).

If I Could be with You One Hour

To-night,

Hurley Kaylor (22570).

"I installed electric lighting in my ❘ Sung- house, 23, Porchester Terrace, in November, 1880, and shortly after

Chorus→→

Blue Again, Lady Play Your Mandolin,

The Revellers (22022).

Desert, Blues,

Jiramie Rodgers with Guitar (V40008). 7.42-8 p.m.-Talkie and Musical Comedy Tunes. Gems from Rio Rits, Gems from My Maryland,

Victor Light Opera Company (35810). Gems from The Desert Song,

"Unavoidable," agreed the colonel. Colonel Crompton began work on in Lord Rudolph Churchill's in "But I thought," he added regret his first full-sized "road engine Connaught Place, Sir William fully, "that it might have been lasta sort of steam tractor during Crocker' in Kenalngton Park Gar night. I am very much interested, holiday time when he was at Hardens, and W. S. Gilbert'a in as deputy chairman of the Royal row.

Harrington Gardens. Automobile Club, in a proposed The engine was completed after "Lady Randolph Churchill was a traffic regulation that I hope will the Harrow period, but during its great enthusiast for the new light Gems from Countess Maritza, shortly come into force. It is to trial the leather driving-belts toro

Ing. compel motorists to use only one away On some rather steep "Chamberlain's silly Act of 1882, deflected light on certain roads, gradients. such as the Kingston by-pass. The "But I made a successful ene off-side light, which so often incom when I was in the Rifle Brigade in modes on-coming trafic, is to be India," Colonel Crumpton told me, extinguished altogether, and the "and a staff appointment in 1869 near-aide deflected Hight should helped me to interest Lord Mayo, strike the kerb a hundred and thirty the Viceroy, and Sir William Mana

Commander-in-Chief, yards in front. I have experiment- field, the

ed with this and found that I could my vision of mochanical road trans pick out the unlighted cyclist quite port for the Army in place of the easily at sixty yards and a cycle alow bullock trains then in use. with a reflector at two hundred yards.

Hue Belle Thrills.

limiting the tenure of electric sup- Ply undertaking to 21 years, tem- porarily killed the spread of electric lighting, and I went abroad to work. I installed electricity in the Opera House at Vienna."

Later the colonel worked with Siemen, putting electric lights Into the Savoy Theatre.

"I remember a very funny in- cident there. Miss Jessie Bond had what was considered a wonderful

Victor Light Opera Company :

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8.03-8.30 p.m.-Waltzes. Unnrequited Love (Lincke), My Hero (Strauss),

International Orchestra (35998). Wedding Dance (Lincke), Blue Danuba (Strauss),

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Violin Solo-

G

tainly the most nerve-racking- method is that practised in British

Ruralis Hungaria (Dohnanyl),

Fritz Kreisler. (1428). | Malaya.

Song

Pais Azul (Fairy Land)

(del Moral),

"Tremendously Dense” Jungle. "The jungle is tremendously

IN A

M.P. LIVES

LIGHTHOUSE.

Fasna Por El Abieme (on the Abyss) dense, and it is not practicable to Lord Elmley's Bachelor

(del Moral),

"hunt" the quarry. The only pos Jose Molica, Tenor (1283).sible plan is that which is followed.

Piano Solo-

On the Banks of the Danube

(Kurucz)...John Kurucz (V12).

Seng-

Parla Valse (Arditi), The Gipsy and the Bird

(Oxenford & Benedict),

Madame Galll-Curci, Soprano (1267).

Orchestral

Serenade (Strau89),

De Groot & the Piccadilly Orchestra (V8). Instrumental Tric

Down in the Forest

(Sir Landon Ronald),

Song-

of Napulitanata

Naples (di Giacomo-Mario Costa),

De Groot Trio (V9).

(Fair

Malden

Oh How Can I Forget

(Marvasi-Barthelemy),

Tito Schipa, Tenor (1415).

Violin Solo-

Minuet in G (Beethoven), Serenade in G Major (Arensky),

Mischa Elman (1434). 9.44-10.30 p.m.-Orchestral. Irish Rhapsody (Victor Herbert),

Victor Symphony Orchestra (35997). (This Record is by Special Request) | Spanish Dance (Granados),

Triana (Albeniz),

New Light Symphony Orch. (85977 & 85978). Two American Sketches

(Thomas Griselle),

Victor Concert Orchestra (28000). Song of the Bayou (Rube Bloom), Rustic Wedding Symphony

Victoria Salon Group (36000).

Bridal' Song (Goldmark), Serenade (Goldmark),

Vietor Concert Orchestra (35988). 10.30 p.m.--Close Down.

"WAITING FOR A

KILLER.

".

International Concert Orch."Big Game Thrills in

(86927).. Beautiful Night (Offenbach),

Malayan Jungles." Spring Song (Mendelssohn),

International Concert

(95880). 8.30-8.48 p.m.---Organ Solos. Proinde in E Flat (Saint-Saens), The Swan (Saint-Saens),

Marcel Dupre (1480), Meditation from "Thais" (Massenet-Crawford), Souvenir (Drdla-Crawford),

There

Establishment.

cosier

The big game hunter locates a re-

NOVEL HOME. cent "kill." Then he calmly hides himself near it, and awaits the re-

is perhaps no turn of the tiger!

"Imagine that vigil! The hun- bachelor's residence in Norfolk and none BO romantic ав ters squatting motionless in the certainly

It is in Viscount Elmley's. noisy silence of the jungle, cars strained to catch every small sound Winterton lighthouse, and he must which may indicate the approach of be the first member of Parliament the fierce "killer." None knows to live in such quarters. from which direction he may come, stealthily and swiftly, or perhaps crashing his way along in proud disregard of the rest of the jungle

lithe

But when his dwellers. striped form is seen, then nerves must be steady and fingers quick on the trigger.

· Hunting Elephants "Another quarry which is seldom seen except by the hunter who goes out after him is the wild elephant. This beast is of immense size, and bears magnificent tusks.

built in

It was

Hia lighthouse home is old and weatherbeaten. For more than . three centuries its light shone fox the guidance of marinera.

1618 by Sir William Erskine, under a patent from James I. Quite a good thing did the shrewd knight make of it, for the tolls he levied on passing coal vessels are said to have brought him £2,000 a year.

Trinity House petitioned against what it considered an invasion of its rights, but not until 1886 did it

"He is fairly easy to approach in get the consent of the Treasury to purchase the light. Candles were the thick jungle of Malaya, provided used in the lighthouse until 1791, one precaution is observed. The when, according to a record, an oil hunter must never get to windward light was installed.

The light

of the beast he is stalking. If he become unnecessary when floating observes this rule he can get as close seamarks in the locality were light-

ed,

to him as he likes.

"This may sound comparatively simple, but in practice it is far from that. In the jungle the wind never remains in the same quarter for more than a few minutes at a time, and the plan of atriking matches to note its variations is one that 13 aften followed.

Lord Elmley is exceedingly happy in the solitude of his home; never more so perhaps than when he is rolling the lawn or tending the flowers in the garden.

Lord Elmley, who is Liberal M.P. for East Norfolk, was anxious to redeem his promise to the electora The elephant, however, first has to live in his constituency, and to be found. If he is feeding he bought the lighthouse as soon as it may frequently be heard as much as came Into the market. Bar! s quarter of a mile away. But if Beauchamp, his father, was he is sleeping, or just idling along charmed with it as WA Lord doing nothing, the hunter may get Elmley himself. very close to him indeed without hearing him.

The Elusive Rhinoceros. "The ideal shot-from the hur ter's point of a view, and not the elephant's is one in which the bullet la placed very lightly 'in front of the elephant's earhole.

The entrance to the lighthouse Is through the hall of a bungalow built against it. Guests may, i they choose, sleep in the bungalow, but most of them prefer the bed. room half-way up the lighthouse tower.

Keen sportamen in Malaya will "My 'Blue Belle," as I had chris- effect in her hair in the part, 1

read with mingled interest and "It also helps one to see the netened my private road engine, could think, of Iolanthe. A burning etar

amusement the following article by turning labourer, whose clothes are run fairly fast, and I was trying to shone there the battery was

Odysseus which appeared in the

Lord Elmley is almost as fond the same colour as the ground, and,} get a set of the new rubber tyres fastened on her back between the

"One of the most exasperating of the neighbouring fishing village Gloucestershire Echo recently. with this regulation in force I think invented by R. W. Thomson for It fairy wings. This was reported all

Sportsmen will learn with inter- Malayan animals to hunt is the of Winterton as he is of the light- the traffic could move at thirty-five The Viceroy's Interest resulted in a over Europe, and I have an amusing

est of the popularity which is being rhinoceros. This gentleman's moun-house. He likes nothing better than' or forty miles an hour with perfect | Thomson 6-h.p. engine being order, cartoon of it that appeared at the

as a big taineering feats are enough to to smoke a pipe and chat with the safety.

ed and myself being officially, ap- | 'time,

Jesse Crawford (22155). won by British Malaya

game hunter's paradise.

break anyone's heart, and imme- fishermen. 8.48-944 p.m.--A Concert. This would be a helpful plece of pointed Superintendent of the Gov "At. one of the rehearsals, I re Song-

"As one who has ampled the diately he becomes aware that be is legislation," he went on, very ernment Steam Train.”"

member, Gilbert and I were stand- Waiata Maori (Alfred Hill),

thrills and dangers of the Malayan being followed he will make for the different from the ridiculous Act of Tests were successful, and the ing on the stage talking, and grave,

Maori Slumber Song

jungle, I can write with some ex-steepest ground he can find, his other side! No ilgzagging about 1875, which put back the era of colonel was sent to Britain to dignified Alexander Slemen ---- he

(Princesa Te Rangi Pal),

perience of the Jungle's inhabitants, short sturdy-legs soon making short for him. Just a sharp dig with his Frances Alda, Soprano (1889). motoring by at least twenty-one develop the scheme, and during the was German born was stooping

"In India and other countries in work of any mountain side, how three toes, and probably a little tests of locomotives in this country down in his rather ponderous way

which the great striped cat, the ever precipitous. A rhinoceros gritting of his teeth, and up be "I had then just returned from he found it necessary to be a trifle examining the lights, when Jesale irresistible, and the dainty fairy tiger, is found, he is often hunted thinks nothing at all of going goes. The sportsman must be pre- India, where I thought I had dis, high-banded. He had a special disf Bond appeared in the wings with promptly leapfrogged over him. I on foot or by elephant. Sometimes straight up

thousand feet pared to follow à rhinoceros for a tinguished myself by showing the pensation from the Zome Office to the lights in her hair. The sight of never saw Gilbert laugh as heartily he is "driven by beaters. But or for the mere ples week or more sometimes if he is

authorities that motor | drive at the high-speed of twenty Slemen's broad stooping back was " as he did then.”

perhaps the most exciting and—cer-I sure "of "going down the finally to "bagh him.

rears.