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ABOUT "SPEED"

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TELEGRAPH

HISTORY OF THE EASTERN MAILS:

FROM PADDLE WHEEL TO TURBINE STEAMERS.

TRAVEL DISCOMFORTS.

An interesting account of the development of regular mail ser- vices to the East is given in a brochure prepared by the P. and O Company, mainly for the In ternational Postal Conference which is now being held at Home: Extracts are given below.

SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1929.

across the isthmus of Sues by rail can form Httle Idea of the dis comfort of the journey in pre- railway days. In those early days, aftor landing at Alexandria, the first part of the transit was by the Mahmoudioh Canal, whitch: connected Alexandria with the Nilo and by means of which the produce of the Nile Delta was diverted to that-port from Rosetta, the former emporium of trade. This journey of 48 miles was ac- complished in a bla, mastless canal boat, in form not unlika, the de- habesha used to-day upon the Nile, tawad by a steam tug at the rate of Ave miles an hour. From Attah, where the canal debouchas The first contract for the con- from the Nile, steamers started voyance of mails, dated August for Cairo, a distance of 120 miles 22, 1837, was made between the and accomplished the journey in Peninsular Company and the Com-about sixteen hours to Boulne, missioners for Executing the near Cairo, where passengers land, Office of Lord High Admiral of ed. Passengers had then to re- the United Kingdom, of Great, main the night in Boulac, but Britain and Ireland' for and sometimes two or even three days on behalf of the Queen's werd' spent at this place. Most Excellent Majesty, and was From Cairo to Suez the routa for the weekly conveyance of Her lay across the desert for 90 miles, Majesty's Maila and Despatches and the journey was performed in from Falmouth to Vigo, Oporto, two-wheeled omnibuses holding six Lisbon. Cadiz, and Gibraltar, and persons, and drawn by four mules vice versa "with good, substantial, or horses, the road being, merely and efficient steam vessela with a track across the desert. There engines of not less than 140 wore various stations at which horse-power to each vessel,' the horses could be changed, in from time of the voyage from Fal-eight to ten minutes, and the mouth to Gibraltar not exceeding journey took about 10 to 18 hours, of which Lime about 10 hours were

210 hours.

This contract provided that each occupied in actual travel and the shly should be fitted with a power-remainder in stops for rest and ful armament consisting of six refreshment. It may therefore be guns of nine or twelve pounds, said that at this time a very effi twenty muskets, twenty pistols, cient system had been provided by twenty swords and thirty rounds the P. and O. Company for tho of powder and ball, and it was conveyance of malle, passengers and provided that on cach ship a cargo across Egypt. On arrival at naval officer and his servant (Suez mails and passengers were em- should be carried to sce that a barked for the journey to India, due and strict performance of the conditions of the contract was made.

First P. and O. Proposals.

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The transport of cargo by these primitive methods was even moro difficult than that of passengers and mails, more especially between Cairo and Suez, where every pack- age had to be carried on camel's back, a distance of nearly 100 miles, Many thousands of these animals were employed in this work, which embraced, in addition, the carriage. of water from the Nife for the sev cral desert stations and for Suez.

In the year 1839, the British Government effected a convention with the French Government for the transmission of mails for and from India through France via Marseilles. From Maracillos a British Admiralty vessel conveyed tho mails to Malta, whence, with the larger and heavler portion The mail from the East, made up which by arrangement was con- at Bombay, consisted of bundles of voyed by the P, and O. Company's letters which were packed in strong steamers via Gibraltar. But these fron boxes of about two feet by arrangentents did not work. re ane foot, and eighteen inches in gularly and the P. and O. Com-depth, securely bound and sealed pany was asked to submit a plan with solder, as it was said that wax for establishing a more rapid and would bo melted by the heat of the regular means of transportation to climate. The number of boxes vari- and from the East The proposals ed from 30 to 40 and together they made by the Company being satis- constituted the mail conveyed fron factory, this service was under Bombay to Egypt. taken

As time went on further improve. in the Tha East India Company, coalin-ments were offecled and, ing that communication with India spring of 1851, the P. and O, Com- was now placed on an offelent pany made arrangements for the basis, mando an arrangement with construction of the railway between, the P. and O. Company for ser- Alexandria in 1859.- vices between. Suez and Calcutta, Things continued pretty much In und, ultimately, regular steam ser- this condition until the opening vices were inaugurated between the Suez Canal in 1869, in which Southampton and Alexandria and the P., and O. Company had a between Suez and India. This very special interest. The first P. was the commencement of the and Q. steamship to pass through Eastern mail service which has the canal was the Delhi in 1870: worked now for between eighty The P. and O. Carthage was the and ninety years.

first mail ship to pass, through the canal in 1888, and made the transit in 16 hours.

effect,

Lions.

Much eloquence had been ex- pended by stateamen in India and

The P. and 0. Company's con. In England on the benefits which rapid and regular utenm communi- nexion with Eastern mail transit cation would be likely to achieve, hus now lasted for nearly a hundred und many enterprises were proyeufs, and the evinpany was really jeeted with a view to the attain the pioneer of the mail service to ment of so desirable an ond, but and from the East. The whole it was not until the Peninsular and course of travel has undergone a Oriental Company undertook the great change, and during all this maintenance of the service that time the company has been continu- this idea was actually carried into ally increasing its fleet and extend- ing its mail services. No other company has a record of the same Steam Vessels Ordered. The P. and O. Company consi-length of public service combined dered that this enterprise was & with such a wide range of opera- necessity of the age, and likely, In 1928 the company performed sooner or later, to prove remunera in the course of its mall contract tive; they also considered that the services no less than 2,634,032 miles traffe of an Indian servico would and provided space for mall matter materially assist their existing totalling approximately 100,000 Mediterranean line. With this tone, comprising nearly one million conviction they applied for and and a half of mail bags. obtained a Royal Charter in 1840.

A comparison of the accommoda The Charter was granted on the tion of the Royal Tar, a paddle. condition that the company wheel steamer built in 1882, and tablished steam communication the latest P. and O. steamship, the with India within two years, and Viceroy of India, shows the great the directors at once act about progress which has been made in implementing their engagement by just under a century. The Royal building the Hindostan and Ben-Tar, whose plan of accommodation tinck and purchasing the Precur- | had 6 cabing for a total of 83 pus- ser. These vessels were of 1,800 sengers, while the, Viceroy of India tons and 600 horse-power., has accommodation for 673 passen-

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At this time the directors of gera in 811 cabins,, 415 of which the P. and O. Company had an are single-berth cabins.The Viceroy intimation that in the event of of India, Is propelled by Lurbo propor facilities being provided electric machinery which enables by the Company for the convey hor to travel at a speed of nearly ance of Her Majesty's Mails and 20 knots. Despatches on the Nile, this ser vice aloe would be transferred to the Company. No time was lost, therefore, in contracting for an iron steam vessel and the service across Egypt was taken over. Other small vessels were acquired and several special steamers were constructed for the Nile work with' the object of improving the transit through Egypt which had been initiated by the enterprise of Licu- tenant. Waghorn a few years pre-

viously

The Hindostan was the first steamer despatched by the com- pany to India, and her departure. from Bouthampton for Calcutta on Sept. 24, 1843, marked an epoch In the annals of steam navigallon. This enterprise was publicly treat- ed as one of national importance. Pre-Railway Days.

Those who have known the over- land route only by being whirled

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then by any other known combination. Sopurely en scoordance with the direction O- Companying willikettoradiaald be restored THE EXPIRING LAMP OF LIFE LIGHTED UP AFRESH, and Know Binace isa parted in place of what lad ́s lately seemed worn-out, used up, and valueless. This wonderful soedicamentis suitable for allsson nomaŽitolioms and conditionu, ka eluser man ; MIŠ IZ de diffords to Emagins a diurasă orderangement whose main feature is weakness; that will not be speedily and parmanarily overcome by this KooperatFrasesinos, wizickristlastinad locatio WitƐcion avaagching that had preceded fi for sala wile-upread Saumaronsclose of human allments.

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During the two or three days available, travellers may disembark at Suez, take motor car or train to Cairo. Sufficient time is available to 500.

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