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AMERICA'S TRANSPORT

PROBLEM.

WHOSE FREIGHT SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY?:

Within, the next few months the rail- rowds of the United States are going to be called upon to render their greatest service to the nation. Also within the nest, Tew marks, perhaps even within the next sixty, or ninety days, they are going to pass through, the most critical period in their entire history. To an abporiad traffic- coming at a time when they are fitted to any even permal bas een added the military demands of a way nod alone the most serions in bur history bag. in die history of the entire world. Canada's milroad system

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The railway.

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of the conflict; how America is to Railway Our wrighbour to the north become both a workshop and a larder for Thods howwell bu-day-cothe very threshold the Allies how the problem of bringing both food and supplies overland ranked of giverightent ownership of the greater part of her nitroad wenge--wit, with that of their fraasport, overseas absulmets he preparation against the The ocean problem as greatly magnified problem. And there are those who so the by the ranges of the submarine is a task mipwacking crisis in our own mitread themwly-created United States question as

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to cope with 1,

will bring the freight from the interior of the country To the ships that weit at its rim

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[BY ERP IN THE MANCHESTER GTARDIAN !!] National Defenes. Mr. Willard is, in addition, cofficio, a member of the exe-

On Authority the Street is generally inclined to look with some suspicion. cutive committee of the American Railway

One policeman it will tolerate as a Association which, headed by Fairfax

Luognised trial of life, like bad weather Harrison, President of the Southon

or Anding a part of your stock in trade Railway, is in direct touch and commun-go had upon your hands. But two police, hough we nearly ali survived it, cafion with the various railroads of the men togther draws perilously

Thanks to one of those inconspicuous laud. These units must be held in line insult, and the appearance of more would ausiliere ships that now belong to the ip the national war transportation plan in the ordinary way seem simply a British Navy, fint Lwill maintain that to make that pins a real suçues. In it liberate challenge that honour wonjid je the sensations of being torpedoed are not a great railmad ten thousand miles of quite the Street to take up on the spot nearly so bad as these reserved for you on

or live disgraced for ever after

shtire. People who have not been tor track and perhaps employing a quarter As for sucial constables. The Street, pedoed do not realise how submarines and of a million men--breomes as one soldier, after all, has his living to mas like other developed in these days as a subject of tolerant of the ordinary policeman, who sings and explosions and torpedoes have It is highly important that he become a fulk, considers them to be meddlesome in- general conversation and meditation. good soldier, ready to take orders and hind is treatment all too gentle. Yet to of living, torpedoed and want to get the Morlopers for whom a brickbay fran la When you have had personal experience day the arriva of two regulars and five disagreeable recollection of it out of your shown Specials is watched with benignans ap-mind as soon as possible, you suddenly proval as a fitting tribute to the import find yourself brought up against this world are the Street has a hom

by the explo general obsession, Listen to thi arra phasssion in its midst of a

fire of fact: While we were in the boats The Street, inderd, pleased with the we naturally talked about the torpedo cognition thus bestowed upon it by that had just struck us. When the patro Authority, is inclined to be friendly and ship picked us ap w tdiseased with her communicative Always intensely social officers, while enjoying their generons greater than that known as "koping a certain port, ----Ah, hea tur regarding, very rightly, no crime sostitality the technical side of this Torpedoing. We landed at detached and meditative model the pedoed? said the harbour officials yourself to oneself," it gossips freely in 15 events of the day, and the only jar in cheerily as our bedraggled, add garmient the harmony of the evening comes when red throar crawled down the gangway. of beer loudy demands a revolution.

gentleman in shirt sleeves and an area They aid it in inach the same tour as you

might say

Missed your train ?! That's what we wants," he cries; bu shared, and Audiority listens with band difference till he seems to wish to drive

argument

horne, in the pacifist, styje, even financial and we had all of its fest No inter now if tallic s run t

by main fore Then Authority in the all tür kit). We wanted to hear nothing form of a giz-loop policeman kestis is toure about torpedoes, sulgurines, or Hood Wight for a full twenty-four lazily, and three of the revolutionary's kindred instruments of marine frightful- months, no matter if bust winter the lade relatives seize bim, cholgbin, pass for a very long time. But the people - For a dozen years the wiser railroaders; Freight rose to a figure fully a third man handle him with a dexterity the skip in the hotel insisted on having every detail have seen this eridis coming. They have higher that, ever before reached in the pur of a Yankee down caste night of the story out of as-not, we heard nude no serve of their alarm, The lake terminals at sidings were ecagested in six-foot paliceman apologetically the of the survivors of the

history of this country, if yards and y, and hustle him, within dros. Inter in svinpathy for our woes, but so Had to inke notice of it says, the that they might compare it with the story. James J. His said on or five years the throes of a long and merciless winter Street, him kicking up a row like that." earlier in the week, and explain to us betore his death that the railroads would

, tørperloed- need $300,000 a year to rehabilitate at ears and engines and railroaders and recognising the policeman had een than theirs.

as never before day had been congested; j

The Street, graciously accepting the how much less thrilling our experience their propertik against the first return of alike were fagged out no matter lautan adherent of its favourite doctrine, Passengers from the torpedoed, vessel - prosperity. He revised that Grid after- warts and played it at 4,100,000 a year.

any of these things now. The question is Live and let live shows its regret for swishing to bend telegrams can hand them. But people paid fitile attention to him will bis mori traffe, vasily are trafic constable and special indoors examint sunt free of charge

of the fabug nut of the past. There

the temporary unpleasantnes by inviting in at the option office, and they will in Or said that he was growing old or seck-in the winter which ushers in 1918, hau dagage inflicted, and displays with pride manager of the hotel in a

ausiombord the. ing publicity. But still knew. So did there was in that which astered in 1917 twer vases that one fragment at being has voices every other far-sighted railsoner in the And the traffic ust move. Troops that pierced clean through

rentine sort of United States. And knowing, they did have cost both money and time and

will be wishing "to "get some not hesitate to speak their winds

They copped it fair," says the Street, clothes, sir" inquired the hot-porter, trouble to chilize facilities, or what is a one uzay muse on the majesty and rather unnneessarily, as tho I was wear far worse-held, tired and linngry, on might of the German Empire which has ing at the time-high noon consisted of can the purely material things that go to wrath and lightning to break in a bumble railroad sidings while in transit Northus, stretched forth an arm clothed widi pyjamins, dressing-gown, and a lifebet. the making of an army or

I can recommend Messrs. Sogud-So. delayed a single annecessary hour. And news scarce to be believed till seen

a navy in London home two china vases of an ugli Gentlemen who have been torpedned what of food-the fuel that keeps going

usally go there, the humans of battleships and fighting minals. They did not get these either is, of gun-shops and shipyards, that And the essen when these things could keeps partly filled at least the lockers, at be builded it reasonable est enimendittle branes on both sides of the Atlantic? went. The nations of Europe sterk upon the brink of war and pushed one another in. You know the rest; how, long before it was itself einbroiled, the United States became a Rigantic workshop in which the things of war and those that to the per tain were given precedence over all the things of peace. It was this very con-

well is a task well worth the distinguished morning with £50 worth of stock and exprevious midnight. dition which, on the one hand, prevented attention of all the experts of the Council pect to turn it all over in a day at a felts-I saw it coming-suction-un; so, them from adding to their tradlie Facili

of National Defence. Mr. Willard and profit of which a fair proportion speins no sur it was two-surface explosion, ties; on the other, so greatly swelled the Mr. Harrison and the able railroad to be spent on very brightly painted-boats--hailing." trafie demands upon them. Comfortable manufacturing towns such as Bridge, Xentives who are associated with thern-chia.

Parson come and said we ought to port, Coun, or Wilmington, Del.. or than the solution of this problem. Nuray

Jean do no, better thing for their country.

Dean't stand this any longer," said remake the wner; but why someone; we want something to take our Bothlehem, Pa., or. Akron, Ohio, were

Thank God, we're all minds right off it all, something to dis one is more alive to this than they them should I pray Brasformed most overnight into metropolitan centres of industry. The selves. And, in a quiet sort of way, they Thank God, we're all alive. go to a cinema and see a funny fir

I ain't religious, but I do say, tract our attention to new ideas. Let's demands such places made upon the rail

And these last words she repeated with The Suggestion was welcomed with relief. roaris were as enormous as they were un expected.

To begin wild a plan. I have told you at fervour, nor dreamed that, denying Wo went straight from the tailor' to the

prayer, she prayed.

biggest citing in the town and took, a After munitions-food. We became not already how the railroads, big stad little- And, thank God, adds the neighbour, box. Then we waited for the show to only the graiary of the world, "but its

the men who hend them at a salaries my dear little parlour's safe, though I begin. It began. The first picture was most important slaughter-house and truck ranging all the way from 830,000 to do wish as you could see my bedroom, of a man drowning, it was not a Boche

it" gardent As anany steaners carried food $75,000 a year-crowded up against the what fair copped

affair at all; as a matter of fact, it took

SANITARY BOARD OFFICE, east across the Atlantic as carried muni enlistment desk at Washington, like The safety of this parlour is owing, it place, in a sower where invong

HONGKONG. tions. For each of these steamers eight young rookies around the table of a Fies, to a little twelve-year old nige, attempting to murder him. It his con- To the

gurgling and OWNERS OF DOMESTIC BUILDINGS. of ten or twelve or fifteen long freighteruiting sorget how they pledged their who ran out and closed the shuttere just vinding, imitation of brains. No wonder the railroads groaned, faith, their loyalty, their all; how these in time, being herself hit, but luckly not struggling was so exceedingly like what

we had all existed at any misment to findAKE NOTICE that under No. 5 of the that they kept every old wheezy locamo pledges were accepted and they were told ladly hurt, by a bit of flying shell... sise that still was capable of dragging to go home and there await order. The by-stander, as Kaiser Bill would come hardly sit it out.

remarks sympathetic purselves, dring last night that we DOMESTIC CLEANLINESS and cars behind its tender, hard at work.

VENTILATION. BYE-LAWS (Amended), orders are now beginning to come. The walking down this street. I hy there The next hu repressured the mastery Domestic Building or part of such Cars were patched and repatched, and first of them have covered the pure mili

wouldn't,

be nothing left of him but the of a cincin theatre where one scene of Building within the EASTERN Division were kept &ternally at it. Perhaps it was bary use of the roads--they consist"

the pilot was laid, and largest of all unhong of the City of Victoria, and the EASTERN just as well that the railroad shops had ake up of a train to carry infantry, Indeed, the only anger expressed seams, the film-posters displayed on the board Division of howloon and New Kowloon; crased the inerciless wage competition at artillery or a cavalry regiment; the to be against Kaiser Bil," for the ings of this theatre was one showing a swapied by Members of more than que family, against the munitions factories. There txact locations of the various mobiliza Etreet has a simple mind, and it with huge liner, lows in air, with a gigantic except those within the European Reservation were no cars or engines to go to them, ion camps or cantoniments and the prob requires a denne object. furnished, in explosion earring alongside and scores or in Kowloon South of Austin Road or So argued the authinking railroaders able movement of troops to and from the absence of any nearer Teston. by the of tiny figures dropping from a great shop, Office or Godown, must be CLEANS those parts of a Domestic Building used as a The wise one said nothing, they kept them. As I write, the Senate has figure of Kaiser Bill."

height into the water. However, that he will over come for a their worries and their troubles to then passed the measure which officially accor

In the train coming to London the word ED and LIMEWASHED THROUGHOUT selves. They had seen how little, good it plishes all din semi-official Advisory stroll down the Street is generally re-seemed to have spread through every com- by the owners during the months of October had done to peddle them about.

Council of National Defence has been cognised as improbable, and conversation partment who we were and what we had and November. trying to accomplish in a semi-official ratarna to the subices of the bomb. Our experienced. How very, very fortunate Notice mucans that the Houses should be Lime N.B.-The word "throughout" used in this way. This messure gives the President elderly gentleman, kennt all as Char you have been said an elderly lady to mehed in respect of all the Walls of each Rooms, Partitions, Stair Cawings and Stair not different from a horse or an autemno railroads or any part of their workings ouring and friendly territory for the tell me just everything about it.

I have been home for nine days now, Roofs in Main Buildings, Offices and Servants

Linings, a

al bile. It, too, must have its periods of rest for the purpose of the national defence. Erect has its areas allied or hostile

is a bad one to live in and has constan: succession of propile everything hour who, having done her washing and now even get into the water they smile hung it out to day, has found it roll reassuringly at the end and say. Well, sumed & vivid

green,

it wasn't so very exciting after all, was Every blooming thing,

Charley, it

Exciting I wish these tiresome green as grass-towels and cloits and perle would let me forget it. It was

THE SEED ARISER

The warnings of these men were ignor ed. They needed engines and they needed cars; by the thousands and tens of thou sands. But they did not get them. They meded vastly enlarged yards and ter

TIRED LOCOMOTIVES,

THE MASTER PROBLEM.

Here then, is a master problem. To take a tired and overburdened carrier and make him bear a load such as bo one has ever before dared to place upon his back, and to make him carry it promptly and

not without confidence in their

Are

811ecess.

of

You just ought look at my bedroom, says a neighbour, slightly envious of C

we damaged vases; that's a sight, that is. Thank God, my dear little parkour

in't touched, but my bedroom's fair

red

it."

But the parlour next door is shown in all its glory of shivered glass and shit tered ornaments thick as the leaves of Valambrosa, for the Street, though a busty observer might judge it plunged in dire poverty, has its proportion of mer chants who will set out their stalls of a

alive.

Just wish

buttons.

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So there we went in i closed cab w hide on unusual dress. The shopman smiled as if welcoming old, familiar eusters. food morning, gentlemen," he said. Brei torpedoed, I sec. Fiat so. Now have a niec line in ready-made, mitings here which I find invariably gives satis faction He even showed us the names of distinguished victims of previous tor pedoings who had been his patrons.

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topic would head back somehow to the

And meanwhile, of course, every single. sane infernal subject, the event of a Submarine life

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Applicants will be required to produce. Passports or identification papora.

All persons with certain exceptions who remain in the Colony for more than 7 daya are required to Register themselves ander the REGISTRATION or PERSONE ORDINANCE 1916.

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For a Jucomotive of a' railroad car is 1 nuthority to commandeer any or all of the ley, and come on a visit from a rich me with great feeling Now do piense Cubicles Ceilings and the Undersides of VEGETABLE AND and repair. If it does not got those it is a measure that would seem to drive humorously his opinion that the Land all tire time I have been telling at Quarters and inclusive of Verandahs, will go to picces That is what has been in line and keep in line any railroad that tale to tell of the misfortune of a neigh sixut it, and beenuse I survived and did Limewashed up to the level of the First Floor,

began to be recalcitrant to the plan in anguented at Washington. It is a club however, which, many men hope, will never need to be used. The Jution'r Business

MR. REDMOND ON THE WAR.

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all. What's the ta do 1"?

says

The Strect considers the problem with interest, and is more excited by in than by the fact that an unexploded nevial tornedo is lying not twenty yards away and would should it chance to explod do all the damage it failed to effect in fall Just like them Hans," says one lady on the Somme," by Mr. Machiel Macmore in sorrow than anger. going and

taiming folk's washing green,

happening recently to a great part of the railroad equipment in die United States, On some roads the record is better, on many it is worse. On none of them is it any too good, And this very question of the condition of its agaipount is one of the largest factors in The perilous situa tion of the American, railroad to-day- although the American Railway Associa tion, which officially represents all of then, is now making Tremendous efforts to rectify this condition and has given figures that show that it may yet solve it. New cars, new locomotives, too, ure to-day being contracted for and rushed through to completion in sufficient quantities not Donagh, Mr. Redmond says: only to handle the flood-fides of war" Thew is genuite enthusiasm in traffic soon to descend upon car roads but Treland on the side of the Allies. For the also to relieve large numbers of worn-out first time in the history of the wars of cars and engines for repair and recon England there is a huge Irish Army in struction in the shops. Such shop work the field. The achievements of line drish very properly, will rank as war work Army have covered Ireland with glory

and as such will be accorded every govern. mental facilityg ngala ka

+1 QUEEN RAILROAD.

The railroad to-day is a fundamental part--and a mighty important fanda, mental of our great national war game President Wilson recognized this fact when he took a big railroader Daniel Willard, President of the Baltimore and Ohio-and made him not alone his repre. sentative in charge of - national trans,

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Mr. John Redmond has written an in Froduction for the volume, "The Irish

exciting enough, for me:

would fare badly could the Street clan hands on him to-night. But there is little anger expressed, and no fear at all the whole is neceptel as something that has happened, and there's no more to be said

The Backyard must have its containing Walls

good condition, however, need not be Time Carved, Painted or Polished Woodwork in

washed, but must be Cleansed,

The Board is prepared to limewash FREE OF CHARGE limited number of Buildings

FLOWER SEEDS.

FRESH

RESH CROP of 1917 having been just collected" orders

as those Divisions. OWNERS who desire to solicited for Autumn or early ivail themselves of this offer should apply in writing to the

City of

List will be mailed free or

of October creary on or before the 7th Spring sowing. absolute discretion of the President

Choice

applicants will be in The EASTERN Divino de the Victoria is bounded on the West by

into the EASTERN Lnd WESTERN Divisions by Nathan Road and a straight line drawn from the NORTH the NORTH Vaumati srrvice reservoir to the NORTHERN Boundary of Kowloon.

AAL GALE Secretary

except chatter about how one has Street and Feel Street the West by Gilman application.

and another, has esca Kowloon is dividen

The conversation turns to the wat in A mini come to menys the mer general, and on philosopher, the owner, chant who leads nowadays, a a gentleman's of the damaged china vas and now life, and he says. You and your bro perseveringly intent on distilling a soul ther's copped it. I says to hini, Gar,n. of good from evil things, claims that he hut when I come to look, so we had. and his brother-merchants of the adjacent. You copped it, you and your strest-market lead a gentleman's life siger, be says 10 11 and 1 bays Cache before the world, and have thrilled our

late trading has been forbidden. And in that ** Garn a philosopher heats with pride. North and South have by iten Saturday nights when we asen't of the Englishman towards raids.

Why, we're back, to supper at home, might find expressed the whole attitude vied with each other in springing to arms, to think of packing up till past twelve.

Gradually the Street quierens, people and, please God, the sacrifices they have he says, and you gets your Sundays, drift indoors, and the six foot policeman, made side by side on the field of batte too, now you've got to shut up at one-with a sigh of relief, bleses the law that will form the stress bond of a united a contleman's life, who closes plic hours early to the special, Irish nation in the future The national Since these are a people who seldom Only for that, he says to the special rights of Ireland are recognized but they read the papers the burning topics of the have not yet come into operation. Yet press are never mentioned. Reprisals it is true to say that the overwhelming are scarcely thought of, though either sentiment of the Irish people is with the

Kaiser Bill or any other German Empire for the first time.

(Continued at foot of next column.)

all of em would have tren sitting out still on their doorsteps drinking beer and treating each other, and there would have been bound to be trouble, while now it's all been as mics as pic.

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