The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-01
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been due to the fact that MT. Yerkes, whose financial logic finally dominated London, had from the first assumed the position that the men who were skilled enough to do what he wanted were good enough to draw a full and satisfactory share of the millions to be invested.
 This nucleus of the very highest grade of the best labor on earth was used to leaven the somewhat thiclx-headed Brit ish help. The Americans have acted as foremen and inspectors. assistant elec- trical engineers. division engineers, and by setting a true American pace for the slower-moving Britons have enabled MT Yerles to perform this tremendous con tract within the time promised to his stockholders.
 Supplies Five Railway Systems. The power generated in MT. Yerkes new factory will, as stated above, sup ply five great railway systems. These five railways will carry enough passen- gers in 12 months to populate any one of the great countries of the world. It will furnish current for the working of the Metropolitan District Railway and the three underground tubes now nearly completed. It will stretch mysterious channels under the foundations of the historic structures of the British capital, and will be lighted and its station ele- vators and trains will be run by the same force. These three tubes are the Baker Street and Waterloo Line the Charing Cross. Euston and Hampstead Line and the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway The Central London Railway will also depend upon MT. Yerkes' power factory for it's mo- tive force.
 The central distributing point will be located at Chelsea, and will be controlled by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London. This company is a creation of Mir. Yerkes. and its forma- tion and operation actually arose to the dignity of an issue between the two great Conservative and Liberal parties in the British House of Commons. How MT. Yerkes reasoned with statesmen and strung wires that finally moved county members in England and Ireland who still view the railway as a somewhat impertinent and fussy plebelan institu- tion, is quite as remarkable a story as the practical results of all these in trigues
 The work which led up to the fnan- cial possibilities of the biggest power station in the world. and the marvellous insertion of MT. Yerkes' personality into the very core of the British Empire. is another story.
 The task which Mir. Yerkes had set himself amounted practically to chang ing the general trend of British popular thought. and to this was added the ne- cessity of persuading the big financial interests of London to adopt his ideas in regard to backing him in this stu pendous enterprise. Curiously enough, MT. Yerkes' greatest aid in all this proved to be no other than the venerable and potent London Times. Yerkes called in person on the leading spirits of the Times, and presented so clearly his plans for the rehabilitation of London's mu- nicipal transportation system that this all-powerful publication began at once an educational crusade in favor of the clear-sighted American.
 By degrees Yerkes obtained the confi- dence of Sir Thomas Harrison. president of the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway. and MT. Douglas