Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-02
LONDON UNEMPLOYED
Lively Responses to the
Queens Kindly Appeal
FROM ALL QUARTERS
BRIToNs SUFFERING FROM THE
RESULTS OF ExTRAvAGANCE.
China's Progress Under the Guidance
of Japan-Large Credits Opened
Turbine Achievements
Special Correspondence of The Star.

| the unemployed and starting the nst
| with contribution of $4,000, has pro-
| duced a lively response from those
! who either in society or anxious to be
| numbered among that elect. Already the
| fund has mounted up to over G40 Co.,
| and people are hurrying to show their love
| for the unemployed taken up by the queen,
| who probably without this incentive would
| not give their more unfortunate brethren a
| second thought. But it is not unlikely, /
| think, that there viii be any general open
! ing of the purse strings of middle-class
| London. Although. of course, there is a
| good deal of distress. it Is somewhat SIN
gular that statistics have been forth
| coming to prove that it is more acute than
| is usual at this time of the year. There is,
| indeed, some reason to think that much OF
| the agitation of the last two months is the
| outcome of deliberate political move on
| the part of the social-democratic and la
Dor parties. In this way they hope to fur
| Their their policy, which has its result in the
capture of several London constituencies.
But apart from this, London is suffering
just now from the results which always at
tend extravaganza, whether by the indi-
vidual or by the community. The Yarrows
have been driven out of Poplar because of
the high rates. At least two other firms
of Importance in that part of London
would be glad to move If they could find
suitable land farther away from the metrop-
oils. For some years past there has been
steady movement of some trades, notably
the printing, from London, due entirely to
the heavy growth of local burdens and the
Nor does the progressive party, which
| dominates not only the county council, but
| the majority of the London boroughs, seem
| anxious to curb its desire for expenditure.
Municipal. apart from the poor, rates have
| steadily gone up in many parts of this
| town. The county council only last week
| refused to stop the steamboat service;
| though 1t is costing the ratepayers e1,5o0
| a week; and at last Tuesdays meeting of
! the council a proposal was made to pro-
mote bill in parliament to permit the
nn1 To nh liSgb Ire fnt he
of electrical energy, not only in Its own
area, but in the surrounding districts.
| This is to cost, according to the highways
committee, about G6,00,G00; but not every
committee of the county council keeps
within its estimates. Even supposing, how
ever. that this sum were not exceeded. it
would be necessary to sell some 20,oO0,UC0
units of power every year at pence per
unit in order to realize profit of 91sO,000
year, which would just cover the charge
for principal and the sinking fund In this
unpromsing state of affairs 1t is hoped that
the county council will not reject the eau
tious advice of its finance committee and
further add to the burdens Of those upon
whose aid the success of the fund initiated
by the generous impulse of the queen must
| ultimately depend
Of course, there are plenty of unem-
pIoyed and plenty that do not want to be
employed, and it is feared that the cold
snap which threatens London will greatly
increase the distress of the poor, and that
the mob orator. who IS very active and
prominent just now, will intiame feel
ing already sufficiently acute. However,
there are many genuine workers VINO are
destitute and are too proud for charity,
and these are the people who ought to be
reached by the queens fund. AS such mat
tiers are managed in England, however,
much of the money is absorbed by ma
chinery of distribution. One charity be-
longing to the Church of England pays
about So to give away two. This is the
fund for poor clergymen, known as Queen
Anne's bounty. Secretaries with big
salaries and fine Offices absorb most of the
money.
want but the means to earn their living.
Meanwhile the leaders of the right-to-
work committee are organizing branches
in every part of the country where distress
is rife. They demand trade union wages
for the unemployed and the abolition of the
test of restitution in dealing with cases
under the act Their motto is: Eve de-
mand work, and not charity, or, as II was
more crudely put on one of the banners of
the unemployed in the recent demonstration,
Curse charity; give US work.
X
From special reports and other material
which / learn have reached the foreign and
war offices lately it is evident that under
the guidance of Japan, China is making
great progress in the task Of recognizing
her military forces, and placing them in a
thoroughly sufficient state. There is the
authority of M. Takahira, the Japanese
minister in Washington, for the statement
that within ten years China will by herself
be able to defy Russia and M. Hayashi, a
most able administrator, who has been as
| sisting the Chinese government for some
time has expressed the opinion that by
1910 the empire will have a well-trained and
efficient fighting force of 100000 men, with
a reserve of $50, 600 men.
Military academies have been established
at Nankin, Wosung and Foochow. and in
them some sixteen hundred Chinese officers
are now being trained for the most part
hv inSfrnctOrS and in strict
cordance with Japanese methods. Moreover
two gunnery schools are being built near
Picking sufficiently large to accommodate
over 1900 cadets, who are to undergo
three years course of training in the hand
ling and repairs of guns of all descriptions.
I'm this direction, particularly" says one
of the reports, 1.-The Japanese method, which
requires that man shall be as good a me-
chanic gunner, is being copied exactly,
and it Is astonishing even now to see what
alacrity and skill the Chinese students and
cadets exhibit in learning from their jap
anese instructors"
With these facts in view it is all the more
interesting to learn that the imperial Chi
nese government has within the last week
or so made arrangements for the opening
of large credits in London, Paris and New
York, specifically for the purpose of paying
for general military supplies, guns and am
munition which has been ordered from BRIT
ish. American and French firms. All this
wildly shows how much the situation has
changed since the allied powers, after the
Boxer rising in 1900. imposed upon China
the prohibition against the importation of
arms and ammunition.
The equipment of the Carman,a, the
Cunard Company's new turbine liner, which
arrives from the Clyde In the Mersey today,
is the greatest triumph that the turbine has
yet achieved She will be the first turbine
steamer to run to the United States. ana
should her maiden voyage in he first week
of December be successful. as may be pre-
suned, the trip Will mark an important
stage in the revolution that has begun in
marine engineering. There Is hardly an
important steamship firm In this country
that has not given Its sanction to the tur-
hine system. The admiralty, after much ex-
pe1dmenting with destroyers. has decided
to adopt exclusively the turbine engine in
the vessels laid down this year. The maid
en- vnYn3A Of thu furffua hattyeRhip Dread