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ENGLISH RAILWAYS UNDER WAR CONDITIONS.

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AMERICANS REPLACE IT.

The manufacturo in America of dye- stuffe has progressed so remarkably that Government chemists assert that the United States will henceforth be quite independent of the imported article

Dr. Thomas E. Norton, the dyestuff ex- pert, who is directing experiments from his offices at the Custom House, has for warded to Washington a report on the ex- periments of the last two years. Ho says: there is strong ground for the optimistic

future can dyestuff industry of the Ameri In the history of the world's in dustrial progress there are few instances which can compare with the remarkable evolution of the American manufacture of artificial dyestuffs, he told a reporter for The World, Two years and a half ngo, directly or indirectly, we were do pendent upon Germany for almost every Our correspondent, Mr. Acworth, ap-in a sixth place, before finally the finished pound of synthetic colours which form a

Bailway Executive Committee. And it MRS. MALAPROP IN AN AIR exercises supreme control. Its nominal! chairman is a Cabinet Minister. But the deputy chairman the real head of the ons of the general organization, is -(To the vizitur in Englund at the out-managers. The Executive Committee is with her charming array of misÜSOŠ break of the war the sudden and efficient in almost constant session, and its task terms, did not pass with Sheridan

is to insure that all the railways of the: taking of the railways under control by country work together as one harmonious evidenced by a recital of the incidents of an air-raid as it would be done by the Government, was astonishing--that is whole if he know anything about it. To most visitors it occurred unnoticed, unknown, so smoothly did this almost Socialistic operation work. In fact, Englishmen themselves knew nothing, or almost no- thing, of it at the time. In the follow try itself is enormous. Steel is cast in one considerably unstrung. We gather a fu ing account of what the British Govern-place, and made into shell in another; therealisation of this deadly instance

come from a third district, and ment did and is doing with the railways explosives from a fourth the boxes and Teuton frightfulness when we hear

baskets to hold the shells have to be fady remark:- there is suggestion for the United States.

brought from a Ufth the filling is done.

or more names.

* To bring about our present success i was necessary in the first place to enlarge vastly the output of our coal-tar industry s us to furnish the few crudes from which numerous useful products dorived. Benzol, fuluol. napthalesie, phenol and their homologues are no produced on a scale adequate for the world's needs under normal conditions.

geared for many years in railway committees, and also before the Railway Commission; has given evidence to the House of Commons in England on

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The task is not light. Not only have that gay and affable lady. She has lost- troops had to be moved to the ports by none of her ease at inept expression the million, guas by tens of thousands, and military stores in millions of tons, even though the shock of the Zeppel-u' but when every factory in the country it visit was disturbing, and though ma impressed into military work the amount be surmised most of her nerves wer of traffic back and forth within the coun

of

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had retired to bed about ten o'clock on Saturday night, when I was thrif into a state of permutation by the so through the air. 1 had just raiscel pious partition that this night not hostile air-ship when my solidity broken in upar by a loud tuba on bedroom door. With frenzy eligible her face, my maid Jane entered. perilled as she was in white robes has snatched from her bedclothes, she look like Casabianca predicting the fall ancient Troy. She declared that a 2 pelin of compendious size was cruisi overhead.

I am not, my dear Lydia, congeniall small but practically indispensable part

shell can be delivered at the port of ship- nervous, but ever since this terrible cate ment. And similarly with all the other of the budgets of our texile, paper, lea

necessaries of the armies and the flerts,

chism has overwhelmed Europe 1 hare ther, ink and allied industries in which

And this is not all, Railways, like any been a prey to torpid apprehensions. millions of operatives are employed."

When the busbreak of the was caused a

other business concern, as they grow on Thinking that dissection was after all dyestuff famine in America, Dr. Norton

develop an organization to meet

the better part of valour, I consulted the and assistants set about creating in this American railway law and practice, and requirements of their normal business. country a firmer dyestuff industry than in America before a Senate committee and And he requirements in England nowa placenames in a gasalier and removed my existed at that time. There were only the Hadley Commission on English rail-camp of twenty or thirty thousand men

days are wholly abnormal Imagine a household penances--pardon this classical six manufacturers of dyestuffs in the United States, then ind they employed away cars and practice. He was and supplies, plumped down along side miles from the busy necropolis. Here, I with all their multifarious needs in food illusion-to u quiet provisional town fifty total of 398 operatives. Today there are ber of the Royal Commission on Accid 150 manufacturers, and in more than one

a petty way station, whose accommoda establishment, the pay roll comprises 1,000 ene to Railway Servants in 1889, and of tion was meant to suffice for a score of facilitated myself, no Zeppolins were the Commission on Irish Railways, 1906; enre. Imagine half a dozen important

passengers a day and three or four freight likely to perpetuate their murderous deeds. My conclusions have proved Germany, which held practically a world monopoly at the outbreak of the also of Government Committees onports taken up wholly by naval needs and sadly farinaceous. I have just preci the whole of their normal traffic diverted pitated in a Zeppelin-maid that may be war, will find herself confined largely in Light Railways, 1894, and on Accounts to an adjoining port, or, it may be, te hysterical in days to come. As I do not exportation of dyes to the Scandinavian. countries, South America and Austria and Statistics, 1906; member of the Royal a port on the opposite coast of the island. wish to be paralysed by the Censor Great Britain, France, Japan and Hol Commission of Enquiry into Railway and reads that they never handled before, phien! details, and will content myself Aguin, traffe has been thrown upon the refrain from giving exquisite geogra land and, to a lesser extent, Bassin 'and'

Transportation in Canada, which has just The collieries before the war imported with a general perversion of the alarming Italy, are making experiments with view to independence of Germany. made its report; designated Commissioner pitprops by the millions of feet from the experiences I have had.

Germany," said Dr. Norton, has to inquire into railway matters in Rhode. Raftic through ports close at hand. That lost her dyestuff grip forever. it niy sin. He was a delegate of the British traffic has been stopped, and pitprops not be long before America may repent in Government to the International Rail-have to be carried long distances by rail foreign lands the successes won by Ameway Congress at Washington in 1905, and from remote parts of Great Britain of some powerful mesmerism travell prieun textiles, iron and steel, rypewriters, ut Berno in 1910. He is the author of Nor are these the only difficulties sewing machines. barvesters, machine The Hailways of England,” The Rail-agnins, which the railways, have to con Louis aml other industries.

ways and the Trader, Elements of tend. With more traffic than ever to Railway Economics," and of many handle, there are fewer men to handle it. articles on railway matters in the London One man out of every five and they not Times, the Quarterly, the Edinburgh the least active and efficient has gone to Hevier, the Vineteenth Century, the fight. Shops that should be building new engines and overhauling old ones are given up to making shells or building air planes or motor lorries. Steel that should be rolled into new rails has been com mandecred for ship plates and guns and shells. But somehow the railways have

T hastily dresed, and illumina: pulled through. The employees who are very peep of light in the house. Th left, feeling that their Services are in durincas, and trembling with aggra England is an island. But only twenty essential to the state, have worked their tion, we slipped out to the front porch miles of sea separate it from the Centin. best and hardest with conspicuous loyalty wait possible devilments.

We ent of Europe. In the year 1870 war Wourn, as porters, carriage eleaners easily make out the general outline of broke out at a few days notice between ticket collectors, and in various other giant airship, cynical in shape, wi France and Prussia, and within six weeks capacities, are lending a willing hand Blunted enda. Beneath the huge body the Germans were in front of Paris. Eng. Military traffic of course comes first. and could dimly desery the gorgonzolas th "One of the land took alarm. It was not possible that if freight is delayed and passenger trains hold the weary the e a great ariny could invade England, Chirare overcrowded and behind time, nobody terrible inisalves fell near our hon

exploding with a deafening, discuss fleet could take care of that. But it was grumbles. And indeed there is not

excuse for

So far freight grumbling.

and dazzling polytechnical display, t rates have been left unaltered, but crash, Lydia dear, must have been edi possible that a few score thousand men might evade the feet and effect a landing passenger fares have practically been in London itself. I rushed with Ja in England. And on provision against doubled. Before the war the nortini fare both of us on the verge of asterisks-to this possibility was at once made. A was two cunts mile. But there were so cellar beneath the kitchen. Five time NEWS OF THE FAR EAST

A very few colours of recent inven Act of Parliament passed in 1871 gave many concessions from the normat fare all we heard bombs explode with tion and of pronounced permanent value, the Government power to take over by in the shape of commuters' tickets, work-splitting fumigations. Then the dour ls given in the

notably in the anthracene, indanthrine royal proclamation all or any of the rail- men's tickets, work-end tickets, excursion was rung perennially by a special and carbazole groups, will continue to ways of the United Kingdom in time of tickets, etc., that it was estimated that stable, who cautioned us for leaving

the average passenger did not pay more front door open. He told us tha ONGKONGWEEKLY hase patent protection for from one to

eight years or $0. But we may look to some forty years later, when the con-than twelve wille per mile, Early in the chief damage done was wrought 1923 at the year when American produc stant shaking of the Prussian mailed fist war all cheap fares except commuters three-story temperament that had tion of synthetic colours should suée for and the constant ratting of the Prussian and workmen's tickets were cut off, and struck by a defamatory bomb. The the entire American dend. Surely by

few months ago the ordinary fares were fire-brigade had been moralised to 1820 we will be manufacturing the great sabre wire alarming all Europe, maiterscreased fifty per cent, So the ordinary with this confabulation.

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Plucking up courage, we posted Befor the war the United States in some twelve general managers of the

10 obtain ported some 5,674 different grades, repre-principal railways was formed (the Eng- reduce tra as

we had a pantomimic view of the he and composition. Many of these are the American president), and detailed very greatly reduced; the express trains

Shells were burea duplicates. Dr. Nortem estimated that schemes of railway mobilization were stop at more stations and take longer on martial spirit the number probably was not in excess of drawn up.

their journey. Dining cars and sleepers around the menster, and cavalcade little stars streamed like meters dow 3,000 different kinds. Of these sorio, 1,000

The general manager of a railway of have been almost entirely cut off. have been worked out in America and which I am a director, which, though Under the Act of Parliament of 1871 *ky Some of our gallant little ind chemists are now experimenting for the small, is not unimportant, as it runs the compensation to be paid by the ads, too, had appeared on the

were flying above the Zeppelin other 2,000 formulas.

through one of the great training grounds Government to the proprietors of a rail-amazing attitude. The enemy, rea of the British army, told me that he way taken over was to he fixed by arbitra that the situation was vicarious, was

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Then came the manufacture from the crudes of the intermediates required to make not only dyestuffs, but also synthetic medicinals, high explosives, photographic chemicals and artificial per fumes. The only intermediate mannfac tured here before the war was aniline, of which there was a modest output of 800 tona. To-ray the rearly production is 25,000 tons...

A large number of other interne diates which were not made regularly in the United States three years ago are now currently produced here Before the close of 1917 there will be few, if any, cat tar intermediate not regularly made by

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senting the entire range of colours, shades/lish general managers corresponds to Gradually the passenger service has been The spectacle was one that roused:

Of course American manufacturers are not yet entirely comfortable," said

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Dr. Norton. Prices are still high, and freesived the origina! scheme some fourtion in default of agreement. But when ing to escape, but his object was hit). (one can't be comfortable under high years before the war. It was a sealed ull the railwayz werd taken over for a suddenly an anonymona cheer frok

prie s. Textile mills are not grumbling. Packet, and he was instructed to place indefinite tibe it was felt that this would onlookers announced.

in not be fair to the of of the next year or two be received several an agreement was at once made that all and within a few minutes the great

of stock and bond holders. Accordingly began to leap from the monster's ha is about 20 cents' worth of dyes. The

in dyer supplements, to be placed beside the Government traffic should be carried tree was in a hopelessly inchriate condit individual auit expenditure doesn't mean in the country is high. We complete new schemic and was told to Government should take all receipts from skies, as Shakespeare says, like Lu doesn't mean much, but the aggregate for original. Finally, in 1912 he received a

and no. account rendered; that the its stem being broken. I fell from have to look at it from a national point destroy all the former papers unopened. ordinary traffic, pay all operating never to rise again.'

In the

morning I visited the 50.

of view. We expeniled 820,000,000 a year. On August 4th, 1914, England declared expenses, and guarantee to the próprios for dyes before the war and now those war on Germany The same day the ruiters of the railway the same net revenue along with hundreds of others in ques dyes cost $50,000,000. The pinch, how | ways were taken over by the Government, as they had earned in 1913, the last com- ever, will be relieved shortly."

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and the mobilization scheme came into plete year before the war. And, subject of momentum. The field where the wreck. operation. The general manager opened to minor adjustments, this agreement has fell was strewn with half insinuated bis packet and read his instructions, been adhered to ever since. If, after the material that was being sifted by a savage Within a week he despatched ninety mili, working expenses and the guaranteed net corps of military. I was lucky in accur tary trains. Each train ran to its fixed revenues of all the railways have been ing a fairly large piece of that light metal schedule. Each train was made up of the wich, there is a surplus, the Goy rnment albumen, which I have ordered to be made into two immature drinking cups.. Ono precise equipment assigned to it. And takes it. If there is a deficit, the Govern each carried precisely the troops which the ment finds the money to meet it The of these I shall send you, dear Lydia, is

actual result has varied at different an intangible remembrance of our escapic. /* scheme. had laid down for it.

periods. Three separate all-round Within some ten days of the declaration increases of $1.25 a week in the wages of Noon-Amotiur of Valuable, Lesseboki Proof war the whole of the first line British the employes, the last of which has only or modification of the order.

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tholisand men, was landed in France operating expenses. But as a whole, the The main point of embarkation was the arrangement has been satisfactory to the the accommodation provided for his irate colonel who was so dissatisfied with 13th Aug Hongkong Cotton Spinning Weaving Port of Southampton, which was closed to parties. The shareholders as a body feel favourite charge that he was left expostu And Dyeing Co. Ltd Extnordinary all except military traffic Eighty that they have General Masting st the files of Mestrains each day, coming from a though, doubt been fairly treated, for. Fating on the platform alongside his horse-

tless, in some companies hey art of the British Isles, and bring would have done much better hit they ing many thousands of men who had been paid by results, in others, where ald ulready crossed the sed from Ireland pleasure traffic was killed and he not converged upon Southampton. They were traffic took its place, they would have Of course, Great Britain, with twelve scheduled to arrive at intervals of twelve done much worse. And the Government, per cent of its total population under- minutes during the sixteen hours from whose vast military traffe is carried for arms, and with almost as many more dawn till durk A special instruction nothing has probably paid Iron than it engaged in the manufacture of military

would have done had each soldier and, supplies, is in the war deeper than thế, provided that if any train was as much as each ton of stores been charged for accord United States is ever likely to be. But twelve minutes late it was to be regarded as having missed its turn. It was to being to the regular military tariff if the experience of the United Kingdont have laid stress on the fact that the has any lessons for the people of the side tracked at any convement spot, and railway officials manage their own lines United States, they would seem to be two- the transport was to leave without waiting exactly as before. But naturally the fold(1) Even if the Government should for it. The instruction was not neces relation between the War Office and the think it to take over the railways, it sary. No single train during the whole railways is close and constant. And from should, feave the management and opera embarkation period failed to fall into and the Director-General of Military Trang tion wholly in the hands of the old staff. keep its appointed place in the procession. port at headdusrters, through the colonel; and (2) if it does take them over, or if,

The railways have been taken over hy in charge at the divisional commend, without taking them over, it so far inter

down' to the subaltern transport officer at feres with the normal traffic as to ngiset the Government, but the management has the local entraining station, there is a the customary balance between income and born left undisturbed in the hands of the whole hierarchy of military officers whose expenditure, it should at once come to a old men. There is nothing by which a business it is to interpret the military fair agreement with de proprietors, shipper or a passenger can recognize that needs to the railway officiels, and the securing the result that they receive the any change has taken place. Each gen railway possibilities to the military normal return of income from their pro- eral manager with his own old staff nuthorities. The point is that it for perty, and not wait for subsequent dis panages his railway as before. But there the soldiers to say what they want dene, cussion and possible litigation is with 3s for the first time an authority behind ↑ for the railway officials to decide how to heated charges of black-mail on the one ken. The inforng) escrittre of gendra! | do it, or, it may be, to explain why ft hand and confiscation on the other. managers that existed before the war vas cannot be done and to suggest a revisión, W. M. Acworth, in the dan York Out, at the outset given full powers as the = (Continued at foot of next column.) - Tour

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