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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-15

and Cincinnati are in the same class. while Dublin has only q few thousand less than Pittsburg. Have you ever heard of Westham? 1t is as big as Washington. Hull ranks close to Milwaukee, Bradford is about the size of New Orleans and Nottingham is as large as Newark, N. J.. Stafford, Leicester and Newcastle-on-Tyne each have over 100000, huggfng Minneap- olis: and Portsmouth and Bolton are each larger than Kansas City. . r
 Here are some towns whose size is not appreciated in the United States: Birk- enhead has 1000. Blackburn 127.0o0, Brighton 12S. 900, Croyden 133,00O and Derby 105. JOG people; Gateshead has 109000 Hal flax 104000. Norwich 11l,000. Oldham 13I,- GOO and Plymouth 107, ,00O; Preston has l12.- Southampton l04, 900, Tottennam 102,000 and Willesden 104 900. Iscould give four times as many other towns which range between 5000 and 100000. and the. names of most of them would be as unknown as any of the above. These islands have changed of late years to lands of city dwelers rather than country dwellers. Seventy seven per cent. of all the British live in towns. while 24 per cent. are housed in municipalities of over a quarter of million population each.
 Cities That Do Their Own Business.
 One of the chief troubles in getting con sessions for railroads and other public works is that the towns like to do their own husiness. They want to operate the railroads. telephones and electric hghfs themselves and furnish transportation and lights at the lowest possible rates to their people
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hut on the contrary. for the benent or the whole forest. of from S to 8 an acre per year net. after paying all the eN- penses of their care. - rescued to the West. there has been noun Ing done in the East.
 "The Appalachian forest preserve as proposed in the bending measure IS dp2ut ,,tl II Is from 100 to GOO feet above the sea. If runs through the States Of Virginia West Virginia, North and south caro- lima Georgia. Alabama, and Tennessee.
 'Srhe streams from this mountain for est are the tributaries of these important rivers: The James, the Roanoke' tne Catawba, the Savannah, the New lhal- awha), rhe Tennessee. the French Broad, the Coosa, the Yadkin, the Chattahoo- chee. the Broad, the Hiawassee, the ISolichuky the Pigeon, the IuckaseSee' the Wata lga, and the Holston. The re- zion affected by these streams IS from loo to l5O miles in width on the Atlantic side and more than that on the other. IL comprises part ot the T1eaest agrlcultu ,dl country in the United States. The tim, her in this forest is all hard wood. and Is the largest body of hard wood on the North American Co 1tinent. It is a mu- scum of forest growth, embracing, tn account of it's location, the woods which can be grown in temperate. seml-tropica gal and tropical countries. There are 137 va rieties, making this forest one of the most interesting in the world. The deep soil has been forming for thousand wears or more, and in it's interlacing of tree roots and humus, of grass and leaves, there has been created an enormous sponge for the absorption. retention and distribution of the rainfall.
 Great Degree of Rainfall.
 "The rainfall in this region is greater than in any other part of the United States except the North Pacific Coast. It ranges from 60 to 100 inches year. The downpour at one time during the
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Low Fares for ,workingmen.

'"Take. for instance. this Hamilton tramway which was recently built An a small city near Glasgow The act of Parliament granting it lies before me. It has all sorts of provisions as to fares. It provides that from until 2 o'clock every morning and at o'clock in the afternoon the company shall run cars for artisans mechanics. daily laborers and clerks at fares not exceeding one ha'penny. or one cent per mile 1t re- quires that no baggage shall be taken into the cars that cannot be carried in the hands, and also that the company shall not use the line as a freight line. although it may carry parcels up to twenty y-eight pounds. The rate for such parcels is fixed at cents up to seven pounds 10 cents to fourteen pounds and IA cents to twenty-eight pounds.
 There Is provision that whenever the the capital certain amounts shall be paid to the municipality and district through which the road runs corresponding with the increase of the earnings. and also a provision that after period of twenty five years, and at periods of seven years thereafter the company shall sell the road to the locality at fair market value if the municipality wishes to buy 1t.
 How Roads Are Equipped.
 "Another important matter is that of construction and equipment. The plans for these have to be presented to the London Board of Trade and the rails and equipment must correspond with It's ideas of what Is necessary. On this Hamilton Railroad to which I have referred the company had adopted rail similar to
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ligion, medicine. art or the handicrafts.
 The work was divided into 22.S77 Sec- lions. and bound in n 900 volumes, which all together contained 9i7. 4S0 pages. When 1t is remembered that the great "Eincy- clopeda Britannica" contains only 25000 or 5000 pages. the immense size of this compendium of Chinese learning and ht- erature may he imagined. More than a century after the original work was com- pleted two copies of 1t were made. The original and one of the copies were de- stroyed at the downfall of the Ming dy- nasty in 1644
 Five volumes only were saved from the flames, and these are now in the pos session of Professor Giles, of the Uni versity of Cambridge. It Is possible, how ever, that these five slender volumes will be of more service and interest to the world at large than the complete work has ever been. for so jealous were the Chinese scholars of their venerated relic that no foreigner was ever allowed so much as to look upon it, It should be added that the allied troops were not re- sponsibIe for this act of vandalism. The Hanln College was fired by the Chinese themselves during the disorders of the siege, either through the lawlessiIess of a riotous mob or else because the schol- ars, jealous of their venerable and almost sacred storehouse of national literature, preferred to see the books in ashes rather than exposed to the contaminating touch of the foreigner.
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the Glasgow rail. It was an excellent rail, but the Board of Trade objected to it. and it was only because the road went into Glasgow and connected with the road there having the same rail that 1t permitted it. tet
 Nearly all the cars used in England are double-deckers, Those of suburban London have twenty-two seats inside and twentv-four above. and there Is a differ ence on some roads as to the inside and outside fares Some of the roads are trolleys and some run by third rail like the underground.
 John Bull Versus Uncle Sam.
 I am surprised at the backwardness of street railroad building in Great Britain. During a tour which | made through Ire land in 1886 l took d trip over the first electric railroad of the United Kingdom This was one eight miles long running from Portrush to the Giants Causeway. It was opened in 1883 at time when there were many electric railroads In the United States. The Portrush track has d narrow gauge of three feet and it's electric cur rent is applied by the third rail system with shoe collector.
 At present many of the towns outside London are far better equipped as to rapid transit than London itself, but nearly all of them leave much to be de- sired. There are now in the United King dom less than 1000 miles of street rail ways, and of these only half are worked by electricity In the United States there are over lS,000 miles of electric roads alone. or nine times as many as in Great Britain and Ireland.
 We have less than 1.500 miles of horse railways and more than 20OO0 miles ot street railroad tracks. Our capitalization of street railroads is ten times as large as that of the street railroads of Great
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A DANGEROUS ADVERTISEMENT
Paris Police Keep Tab on Requests
 for Wives.
Londnn Telepranh.

lAOiuOn IelegraDn.
 Never advertise for wife. Such is the wise advice given today by q Parisian paper to it's readers But nobody would ever guess the reason why Parisians are to beware of the offer-of-marriage column which regularly appears in some journals here. It is not because young men in search of good wives will not by this means discover what they want. The reason is that the French police use the said column as d cheap and efficient method of obtaining priV3te information about people. The story goes that when any promising advertisement of the kind apears the police prnfects clerks answer 1t on behalf of an imaginary lady, asking in return for accurate and confidential information about the young mans life, habits. occupation and so on. When the correspondence has continued for some time the detective service Is in posses sion of a complete "dossier' about the unsuspectlng individual. The principle of the French police, according tO the story in question, which l repeat as related by French newspaper appears to be that 'dossiers about anybody are always useful" The person may not happen to be ''wanted' just now, but one never can tell.
 Bella-He said his ears burned awfullv last night. SteHs-Well. I'll sure he's got ears to- burn.-Nenkers Statesman.
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The London County Council made a profit of about S350,000 last year of of it's tramways and gave the lowest rates ever known. It is estimated that the dif- ferent cities who handled such things last year saved over $20. 100000, and that they have reduced their tax rates at least 10 per cent by so doing. Leeds runs it's own over $l00oo0. Manchester controls its gas works, electric lights and markets and makes money off of all of them. The same is true of Nottingham and Bolton. the two towns making q profit of some thing like a half million dollars year and giving a good service, and low rate for gas. electric lights. street cars and markets.
 Hundreds of Millions Invested by
 Cities.
 At present the money invested in mu- nicipal undertakings amounts to more than $400 O00. .00O and the average annual income of. these Is more than $40,o00,e0 while, ass have said the profits approx adding to their holdings from month to month s Glasgow has now municipal farms and IeIchester owns oyster fish sriess There are eities which own min eral. spffREs Hafpwgate. for instance. making f75.0o alsysar. out of it's baths: Chester h6s d raee. course, while Hull has municipal Srernatory. Sheffield. Liverpoob Bearn smodth. Leicester and md Glasgo z are putting up crematories for the benefit of their citizens, and num- Der of cities are discussing the buying of coalzmines and furnishing their peo- ple coal at cost This question arose on account of the high price of coal. and it has only abated on account of its fall The municipal telephones are considerably
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FOREST PRESERVATION
SENATOR DEPEw SPEAKS FOR
 APPALACHIAN PARK.
To Cost $1o,ooo, ,ooo-Conservation of Woodlands an Evidence of Civ ilization-No Parks Yet Set /
 Apart in the East

The Senate a few days ago took up the bill providing for the purchase by the United States of national forest reserve fin the Southern Appalachian Mountains. MT. Depew. member of the Senate Com mittee on Forest Reserves, made long address in it's favor.
 The bill provides that the sum of SlO,- OO6 00O shall be appropriated and that 4,- 0n0000 acres of land extending 200 miles along the Appalachian Mountains through several Southern States, shall be pur-
 The object of the park Is to preserve the gigantic hardwood forest of the re- ,,iou one of the finest in the world. not GGnIv for itself. but for the protection of the water supply of the Southern States. Tb" hill was reported favorably by unanimous vote of the Senate Commit tna nn Forest Reserves several months oon and has been on the calendar since that time. .. ,.,,o.;,o, ,,.o..,,,,,,. pnosevelt:s commendation of the plan in bjs annual message, and referring to the interest taken in it by Secretary Wilson, said ,., -, ,rodigsI in ber siftq of forests to the United States that k-a AnortAnt question of their preser-
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bounds 5000. 900. and the stock is held not only in the United States and Great Britain, but also in France and Germany. although the operations are confined to Great Britain and Ireland.
 The chairman of the board is a mem Der of Parliament. W. A. McArthur. The company has been paying dividends for years and as far as 1 can learn is in excellent condition.
 Mir. Lewis tells me that the field for the sale of electrical machinery in Great Britain is large and constantly growing. His company is not trying to introduce American machinery nor to crowd in American goods to the exclusion of Eng fish. It's aim is to find out what the people want and give it to tho n as they eant 1t. In the new Rugby factory the most of the machinery will be American,
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past year was thirty inches. Where the forests are intact the water finds it's way through this thick and porous soil, goes Into the crevices of the rocks and into the gulches and forms springs ana rlNu- lets. Nature. always beneticent in her operation so arranges this asst collection of the rainy season that during the rest of the year it flows out naturally and equablv through tho riVulets into the streams and through the streams into the rivers. and waters and fertilizes half a dozen States. .,.,. fortress created by nature for the pro lection and enrichment of the people IS more disastrous than the sweep of an invading army of savages over a lhlckly populated and fertile country; ~
 ''The trees, young and old. Dig ana little. surrender to the aX and the saw. Then the soil is sold to the farmer, Who finds abundant harveSts Tn US prlmeNal richness. For about three years ne gdth- CTS a remunerative and satisfactory har- vest but he sees, as the enormous rain fall descends, his farm gradually disap- pear. At the end of three years ne can no longer plant crops. but TOT two years more if lucky, he may he able to graze his stock. At the end of five years the rains and floods have washed clean the mountain sides, have left nothlng but the bare rocks, have reduced ms farin 10 desert. and created a rulh WHICH can never be repaired.
 This destruction cannot be repeated many years without turning into q desert the fairest portion of our country.
 Appropriation of Slo,ooo, ,ooo'
 "The proposition in the blil IS to au- an expense not exceeding slO,OOo:ooo, to niircbase 4O00 000 acres of these forests. They are held now ill large tracts or ranidIv honpnt LID by lumber companies at pfr5 from sf "a to $3 an acre. The owners, as I am informed, would much prefer
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commissioners it is necessary to have
 good counsel to present it. and this is
 expensive. At the same time d deposit of
 per cent of the estimated cost of the
 undertaking has to he made as a surety
 that dama ges to public and private prop erty will be repaired if the undertaking is not carried out. This amount IS re- leased when the road is completed. but If abandoned so much of il as is neces- sary to indemnify damages and losses is forfeited. Quite lot of printing and advertising has to he done, and the result is, as have said. that the cost is from 5000 to le.000 pounds before you really know whether you have anything or not.
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INCL NDS STREET RAILROADS a w s* % p 4 AMERICAN MONEY AND BRAINS

Britain and we have about ten times as many cars.
 The English are. however. rapidly awak- ening to their need of rapid transit, and from now on electric roads will he built in all parts of the empire. It is esti- could be put in every year. and within the next decade at least the United Kim. dom will have network of such trackA Tho towns are so large and so close to-. Is bound to be the motive power of the future. The American electric works which under British names are already in opera ton will have more than they can do to supply their share of the ma chinery, and such concessions as arc granted under favorable terms will prob- ably pay good dividends. In the far fi- ture. however, it Is probable that nearly every town will control it's own railroads
 Frank G.+ Carpenter.
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A Dainty Letter.

A letter should be full of bright talks A friendly letter may be very Intimate. but 1t need not he gushing. Tell about yourself. Do not neglect the little things. Write as you would talk.
 Your handwriting must be legible and your spelling fdultless. Avoid eccentrici- ties in note paper Plain white unruled paper of medium size or delicate gray or very pale blue paper may be used. bus anything startling is in poor taste.
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allow a space of nine feet on each side of the track. If they are not so wide you will have to tear down buildings and widen them. and, of course. build new buildings and pay the damages necessary to put the property in the same condi- ton as before you began work. In con structing the Chatham Railroad it cost the British Thomson H Houston Company $50, 900 for widening a street. Maps show ing ar this must De laid before the Com missioners of Parliament. The plans must be gotten out by civil engineers and filed with the commissioners.
 After all this is done notices must be served upon the landowners and the To- cal and railroad authorities. and upon all parties who may be affected by the road, and they all have the right to oppose the granting of the concession.
 When the matter comes up before the
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as the Ameri ans are farther advanced along such lines than any other people, but the output will he made hy British labor and in this way the sensitiveness here as Co the American invasion Will he catered to Indeed. the company tsj using British labor as far possible and SD far no trouble has been experienced with the workingmen.
 The British ThomSonH Houston Com- nanv has some interests in tram hnes and other undertakings in different parts of the united kingdom, but it's chief bus mess will be to make and sell electrical machinery, appliances and supplies It is a manufacturer and seller rather than
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sion. giving the dinerent steps that are absolutely necessary before such con cesslon can be granted We took up one car line which has been recently built braced detailed maps and plans made by civil engineers of high reputation,
 showing every inch of grade, every street corner and every detail ot the line ot
 the road There was a great deal of printed matter necessary to present the matter to Parliament. and the special act which had to he made before the work could be begun covers fortY-etght fools
 cap pages and embraces all the details
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and upward to test any sort of a street railro9d concession You have to pay that much before you can know whether the concession will be granted. It takes months and months to learn, and at the close there is a fair possibility that the undertaking is one not worth carrying out. Both promoters and contractors have all sorts of difficulties which are unknown in the United States. 2 No con- tracts or concessions are awarded ex- cept by special Act of Parliament, and that only after a costly and thorough in- vestigation undertaken at the expense of the promoter.
 A Talk With a London Lawyer.
 I had a chat yesterday with MT. A. K. Monks, the solicitor of the British Thom. son-Houston Company on this subject. He showed me the methods of procedure
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of inc construction of the road and it's oneration. including regulations as to the dividends on the shares and the fares Tor the Iaboring classes as well as 10 sun days and holidays.
 Said Mir. Monks: ., cession in England, you must frst tske your civil engineers and go oyer is sne route and make out plans showing that the road will he built according 70 ..aSr .aW meassre and the streets wide enough to
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selling them to the Government than to individuals or corporations. The reason IS obvious. It is estimated by the De- partment of Agriculture that within five years the forests would be self-sustain- ing, and after that source of increasing revenue for all time to come. It is i'm possible for the States to undertake this work 70
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American Shops at Rugby.

had chat with MT Howard C.. Lewis. the managing director of the British Thomson Houston Company. He is well known in connection with the General Electric Company of New York, by whom he has been employed for years. He was very particular to say that the British concern. although a large part of the stock is held by the General Electric Company of New York. 1t has capital in debentures and shares of about 1 .000. 900
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The Horse Cars of New York.

HarperB 8 HWeekIy. I9t4 .ss n. ' 7q
 A New Engiander who has been Ieok-! ing about bit catalogues as among tha that he has seen in four cities the horse cars and the s'bread-line' In New York. the glory of department stores in Phila- delphia. the dish-water running in tho of the United States who insist on say- ing deepo, when they mean railroad sta- ton, in Washington. Not that there ara not other sights which are better worth inc Attention and admiration of intelligent Americans bent on the improvement cc their minds. and intent on learning some what of the giories of their country bN means of travel. Still, any one of these
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n operator of concessions.
 Concessions Hard to Get

There is one thing 1 want to emphasize as to the electrical field here. This is that it is entirely different from that of the United States. Americans are com Ing to England with the idea that they can get concessions for nothing, and pen niless promoters land expecting to go back on the next months steamer with valuable charters in their brooches pock- cts. There is no chance whatever for such men It costs from s25.O0o to s5O, 900
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It Is funny. but there isn't half aa much ceremony and red tape to marry ing these days as there Is to graduating