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p -ITTING it up at a sixty-mile gait
with iced canta!oupe and cup OF
RI coffee before him, the Pullman
car traveller glanCes out of the
window as his train rattles
DANGEROUSLY by long train OF freight cars
standing motionIyss in the siding and
casually wonders If that was the "darned
hing" that halted the flyer at the pre-
cetding block station. Rotten manage
ruent," he murmurs, TO delay a passenger
train by a freight"
The train crew Of the flyer feels the same
way about it, as will also the trainmaster
when he hears il. In rai!road!ng the pas
senger service gets the preference over
everything else Scheduled passenger trains
rule the road Freights and extras must
give them the right OF way.
II is undoubtedly because of this dis
,inctiou tina; the average traveller has come
10 look contemptuously upon the shabby
I'D box car But there is a set Of men to
whom the true value OF homeless Kate.
IS Kipl!ng calls her is known. These are
he. railroad magnatas and the keen, level
headed men they employ to handle the
great freight branch of the service. To
them an old box car is something more
than an ugly mass of wood and iron, a
mere burden carrier. 1t is an integral part
OF the proit-making end of railroadlng, and
IS such is given as much II not more in
dividual attention than one of its plush and
arass-trimmed sisters in the passenger
service.
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Egypt was comparatively uTS%c.,ii.S FOR
Mr.. LongWorth, for after all Cairo Is rather
highly civilized in Its own way He does
not know now how he spent ten years
there before the ''wanderlust' caught him
again. Perhaps it was the constantly chang
ing population from all the ends of the
earth that made it interesting, but two
years ago he determined on another move,
and after casting around for some place
where the talents of a pioneer would be
appreciated lie chose British East Africa.
The Uganda railway was being built
then and he got as far Nairobi, which
had just acquired the dignity of a place on
the map Like true American, Mr.. Long
worth decided that what Nairobi needed
to make it the metropolis of British East
Africa was a newspaper. He had brought
some type and other material with him.
bat what he wanted was power to run the
press. He solved that problem by hitching
up broken down motor car which had
been left in Nairobi by some misguided
tourist who expected to find maCalam
roads in the jungle. The motor car filed
the want spiendidly. and was only dis
placed when the Eairobi electric light and
power plant was installed.
Today Nairobi is a fiourishinS town with
a race course and with an excellent hotel,
lighted by electricity and with electric
elevators. hot and cold baths and all the
other necessities of civilization.
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earnings of this part of the system last
year were sl4S 239 $50 OF this, So, 231 ,0G0,
or 20 per cent, was received from the pas
senser service, and s1O9 ,GG0, SIS, or 10 per
cent, from freight. The rest came from
express traffic, transportation of mails and
miscellaneous sources. The operating ex-
penses were SOL 600 600 The passenger
service did not pay one-third Of them.
Let all the locomotives, passenger and
freight cars owned by the railroads be
brought to a standstill on their respective
tracks and an even better idea would be
obtained of the relative Importance of the
freight and passenger traffic. There are
over 90, OeS miles of road in the United
States. According to the interstate COM
merce commissions report for 1865. there
were 1,692, 1874 freight cars. or between
seven and eight for every mile of track.
TO revert to the bigger roads close at hand,
the traveller might look where he would and
see standing on every mile of New York
Central track at least one locomotive and
one car in the passenger service and TWEEN
ty-one cars in the freight service.
There are more locomotives than passen-
ger cars on the Pennsylvania lines east of
Erie and PittsbUrg. The 6.39I locomotives
means nearly two for every mile of track.
The 5.3I9 passenger cars offer an equipment
OF about one and half for every mile of
track. The same system operates 23G, 1876
freight cars. If these were gathered to-
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to the English language in "safari." It Is
supposed to be corruption of the Arabic
'msa fara," which means caravan, but Its
full meaning is untrans.atable into English
AS nearly as it car be translated 1t means
a hunting party with all the modern con-
veniences and when you hear that one of
your friends is on 'safari" you UNDERSTAND
that he is enjoying picnic de luxe with
big game shooting thrown in.
What the traveller may expect in Mr..
Longworth's country may be gathered from
the following extract from a recent number
of the Globe Trotter describing the expert
ences of a Babu stationnaster at Simba
on the Uganda railway. Simba, It may be
mentioned incidentally, means the place
Of lions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-22

He began life with Barnum Bailey's
circus, and with it learned his first les
sons in the art of booming. He has been
an actor, an author, an editor, stage
manager, and has followed many other
professions. He was the first man to take
an English opera company on tour through
South America, and after disastrous sea-
son from financial point of view the
conyGry was shipwrecked off the coast
Of Chile. Mr.. Longworth says that the
hardest part of that trip was fulfilling his
promises to the mothers of the forty-three
chorus girls, that he would look after each
one personally.
He has tried ranching and mining in
Mexico, and has varied it by appearing as
an actor in the late Augustn Days COM
panies at his London theater. He has
danced for savages in central Africa and
has played before royalty in London and
Berlin.
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Mr. Longworth. although a New Yorker,
has not visited America for nearly a dozen
years He spent ten years in Egypt, ana
for the last two years he has been estab-
lisLed at Nairobi British East Africa. He
is now in London arranging with the colo
NAL office to undertake the booming of the
colony as a pleasure and health resort for
the faded globe-trotter and society man.
Now that the colony has been opened up by
the Uganda railway Mr.. LongwOrth de-
cIaTes il has a future before 1t greater even
than that of Egypt, for it is practically
the only large territory left on earth that
is literally teeming with big game, and is
likely to continue to be wild animals
paradise for many years to come.
Lions. leopards, rhinoceri, elephants, sew
erai kinds OF deer and monkeys OF many
varieties are so plentiful that any one who
cares to take gun and stroll out of a
morning before breakfast can shoot enough
big game to satisfy the greediest hunter.
For SO the traveller can obtain a license
emitting him to Kill or capture, if he can,
tie following animals:
Two lions. two elephants, two rhinocer-
oses, two Appropriateness, two zebras. two
gemsbUCks, one Gland, one sable hippo
TRACES. one roam hippotrages, two kudus,
two tapis, two hartcbeestes. one bongo. two
aard-varks, two chectahs, two aard- wolves,
two marabouts, two egTets, ten antelope OF
certain species, ten chevratains.
He can be fitted cut with a party of SER
wants, Torters, gun bearers and all that is
required for a more extended trip into the
jungle for $50 month, but except for the
joys of camping out, the most ardent
sportsman can get all the sport he wants
from the windows of the Pullman cars
on the Uganda railway or from the YER
anda of the hotel at Nairobi.
The country that Mr.. Longworth is under
taking to boom is interesting enough, but
TO a student of human nature Mr.. Long
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There IS 81 4 LUCE OF talk about the pres
"rvation of old houses in or near London
which have been mad, famous by great IL
-ary lights. Outhe ontsEi"ts OF trwn is Dol
5 Hin House, where Mark Twain lived in
100 TIC house was bgilt som" ninety yEars
go by the Lord Aberdeen OF thu pcr!oi
nd stands in {, 1U'-acrc park now owned
' the v!!laS" council It is suggested
lat the house b. turned into a Gia istuna
'Iussum and tn park b, called Gladstone
ark. after E1G.9nds Grand OF ! Man. WHO
r-aek-euH.d tlsrc for many years. 1t was
here also that G!a3sto1a ana Joe Cham.
aTiaI1 Giu9I together previous u th"!. IS
rarEeIl.tr,t o.vv home rue.
Mark Twain was fascinated by the place
nd wrot" OF l.. Il have lis j in q great
many PLACES. bat have never seen anything
% satisfactorily s!tGatel as this with its
noble trees and stretch o. country, and
every ,hing that goes 20 make life pleasant
. nd peaceful
Honas house at Waastead, also on the
utSki-is of London, VIII so1n be pulled
own TO make way for modern building
operations The house and immediate
rounds were offered the Hood Society for
30. g'o. but the money could not be founl
y fnai &tteynp. is to he made to save the
place, hut l hear il is scarcely likely to
uCCCtl.
Tcunysoas housa at somarshy is the
object ~ an appeal to the public. Many
Americans yearly visit the old place. pay
gcir - cents, and even penetrate into the
''=drU1m where the poet laureate was born.
inis room Is used nowadays by the pres
Mt occupants a their bed chamber. The
sest OF the ho.se j. in sad rep air. Tnc
-alls are losing paper and plaster and the
"oo-s are fJH OF hoies.
As there is q ready a proposal on foot for
ne celebration OF the T=nHyson C=ntenGry
1872, there may lie a chance that the old
nd beautiful house may b. properly pre-
~eryed.
The poet spent his later years-and in
Iced dicd-at Hasl mere, and il is proposed
ar the centenary to enact scenes from the
''Idylls of the King in the grounds and
also TO build n TrnHySon hall a; Hlsl-
mere. Something viii UnGoubtrd!y be done
Dr LORD TenDyso0's memory anl his works
are dearly beloved by the EngIishmaa.
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and Of tic man who travels ahead OF the
c.rc-s making its g,ories known to the
reoTle Of the towns ii intends TO VISIT
Well known, too is the work done by the
REPRESENTATIVES of various great railways
Who obtain publicity for the attractions OF
the places served by their employers, nut
the country boomer claims to have struck
oct on a new Iine altogether. lie is employed
by governments, and his salary would
make the mouth even Of the publicity rep
resentative of a popular operate star water
Th.s pioneer in country booming is DAVID
Garr:2ls Ions worth, Il New Yorker. VINO IS
as we'll known ON the Strand as he used
to be on Broadway, and is as familiar Wlth
the East African jungle as he is with the
boU!evarIs Of Paris or the deserts OF Egypt
There is no country in the world that Mr..
Longworth has not visited, and few with
wuicl lie is nos familiar. He spent ten
years in Egypt, where he edited the SPHINX
in Cairo and Doomed Egypt as a pleasure
resort Lord Cromer, the great British
reorganizeT CT Egypt, has written him sew
eraI letters conplm enting him on his work
which he did in bringing travellers with
money to spend from the end of the earth
to E-ypt. and the khedve has shown his
appreciation of Mr.. Lonsworths work by
decorating him. Every one who has spent
d winter in Egypt in the last twelve years
or SO knows Mr.. Longworth
HIS work in Egypt was purely unofficial.
but it was done with the full approval and
assistance of both Lord Cromsr and the
khedive Now however. he is entering on
the work of developing a country as the
full-fedged Official representative Of the
British government.
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Before the new rule was adopted by the
associations of railroad systems freight cars
were constantly getting lost" which
means that cars We're being used for local
service by some road while the rightfui
owners of the cars were securing the coun-
try for them. Under the new rule a rail-
road that holds the car of another road
has TO pay so cents day, with a daily
increase of charge until the car is returned
to the owning road.
The new rule has benefited every man.
woman and child in the United States. BY
checking the old practice of 'confiscation,"
the railroad men call it. although steal
ing" would perhaps be truer. shorter and
uglier word, the railroads have provided
remedy for the epidemics of car shortages
that tie UP traffic and cause millions of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-22

II was the freight car that earned last
year sll0,C0o00O for the stockholders of the
Pennsylvania railroad, as against $3I, 100000
earned by the passenger car. On the New
York Central the freight car earned $50
in but SIS, 100000. 1t is because of the
immense value of the homely old freight
car to the big railroad systems that within
the last year a rule has been in
effect to put an end to the ''contisCation" of
another roads freight cars-a practice SO
extensive In the old days that a special
class OF railroad men called "tracers' was
developed
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Mr.. Longworth will enter on his duties
as a country boomer for the British govern
ment before the end of this year. He will
sail from England on september % next
with Winston Churchill the under secre-
tary for the colonies. who is about to under
take tour of Britains African possessions,
and Mr.. Longworth will act his guide
during the first part of the tour. II is in
teresting to note in this connection that
Mr.. Churchill, with whom the negotiations
for the creation of Mr.. Longworth's unique
official position have been conducted, is half
an American. His mother was Jennie
Jerome, the famous New York beauty, who
married Lord Randolph Churchill, the
father of the present under secretary. She
is now Mrs. CORVALLIS West.
Mr.. Churchill and Mr. Longworth will
land at Mombasa and will travel direct
to Nairobi, which will continue to be Mr..
Longworths headquarters. Mr.. Churchill
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worth himself is far more interesting. He
is a man Of the type rapidly becoming eX-
tinct, that made western Africa-the man
who always wants to be a little ahead of
civilization.
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the United States is dull should try job
on the Uganda railway for a while.

the United States is dull should try job
on the Uganda railway for a while.
The issue of the Globe Trotter which con-
tains this interesting news story is bound in
bark cloth, and is thus a standing advcr-
tiSemeat of the resources of the country
the natives Of the country. When a native
wants a new suit of clothes or a gown for
his wife or daughter he goes out into the
forest strips tree and pounds the bark
with a ridged mallet for a few minutes
The result is a material something like
crepe in texture, which can be cut or sewn
to any shape desired. 1t Is rich brown in
color and is said to wear well.
, In fact, British East Africa is a paradise
for the lazy man as well as for the sports
man. 1t offers food and drink and clothing
without work, or with a minimum of work
The native has his bananas growing wild
for food, his banana beer for drink and his
bark cloth for clothing. Before the British
but take his food and clothing from the
trees. Now that he has to find the money
to pay the tax he must do a certain amount
CT work, and that he usually does as a
porter, guide a gun bearer for a
traveller on safari. SO that he, too, is made
to contribute to the staple industry of the
country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-22

LONDON, September Is. 1907.
rr@S HE professional boomer of new
3 countries has arrived, and, OF
coarse he Is an American.
q Every enc is familiar with the
NJ =, { tho trcaFrioaI rlreSS agent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-22

Lord A'darham, who has just entered his
.iGhiy-ninth year. is an old newspaper
man. who owes his title TO the old St.
James Gazettr. There is talk that he may
write his "reminiscences, which would be
( intense interest. He was Hank Hucks
jiibbs when during a Law case ne had to
i've an account OF the heavy cost of run
ing AN evening newspaper in London. He
financed the GaZe,t" and lost several bar
els bat as he explained in the witness
stand 70 was devotion TO his political party
md not expectation OF monry-;nakins
which made him continue. His grateful
party had 70 give a!u a title after that!
It IS curious that hitherto there has been
20 fun and adequate lie Of &C; orSe Sand"
n all her amours she imagined herself
making history and took pains to leave ma
'erid for sufficient account OF all these
Interesting episodes. Francis Gribble is
The author 81 George Sand and Her Low
IS" when is just about 10 be given 10 the
.,ubl.C. Il 3 sure OF hearty welcome in
england II not In the United States.
/: Is said tHHt every book has a history.
Certainly 4 most pathetic one attaches to
.EoHsTarte In Egypt and The Egyptians Of
Today II bars the name of Mr.. Hail
sroWue- IL was an Ir.sAIuan. who had
lac most romantic of lives. ending in turn
~ Moaammsian. His tnb.tion for years
vas To- write This book As he finished the
LAST chapter OF the manuscript lie dropped
dead.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-11-30
BRIDGE TO Be REPAIRED
BIZ for Damages Haslens Action
Of Committee.
HORSE BROKE THROUGH FLOORING.
Superintendent Of Streets Aarwood
Authorized to Buy 10000 Feet Of
Lumber and Do All Necessary Work
on Twenty.eiah,b Street viaduct.


Superintendent Of Streets S. ]. Iar-
wood WAS Instructed last night by tho
highways and sewers committee of
The city council TO Immediately pmr-
chase 10000 feet OF oak timber with
which TO make all necessary rcpairs
TO the flooring of the Twenty.clghth
street bridge. This action was taken
after Tho clerk had read Il communl.
cation asking for $50 damages for
INJURIES sustained by his horse as tho
result of his breaking through a
iieco OF flooring OH tho bridge. Tho
committee ordered the bill paid.
After some discussion. the commit.
tee instructed the clerk TO tell CITY
Attorney i. a. Massie to have the
Newport News & Old Poim. Railway
Company take ND the car tracks on
Warwick avenue between Twenty
sixth street and Hampton avenue ut
the earliest practicable time. This
rack is considerably higher in places
than the grade of the avenue and II is
n hindrancc to wagons moving on
the avenue The trnck was aban.
doncd by the street railway company
several months ago.
Tho committee audited q largo
number of regular bills
Those attending the meeting were
Chairman George Il. Via and Messrs.
Chcadle. Robinson. Morgan. Weston
and Wallace.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-11-30
President Tucker Will PFsss Key
and Formally Bring Great
Show 10 a Close
TREMENDOUS CRoHD Is EXPECTED
Special Transportation Arrangements
Have beer Made So That people
May stay On Grounds un,n the
las, chlIdren's Carnival
Feature of Day.

President Harry ST. George Tuck.
or at midnight tonight will press n
Key and eNtinsulsh tho lights OH the
grounds OF the Jamestown Ter.Ccn-
iennial Exposition grounds. and for,
mally bring to close the great his
ioflcal celebration, which In spite OF
All that has been said or done during
the seven months since the gates
wcrc thrown open TO the public. has
been Que of the greatest fairs aver
liuld.
IN eNcellen; program has been ar.
ranged for ,he last day. and it is tx,
pectei that n tremendous crowd will
gather on the grounds to say farewell
10 the Exposition. Special transport
tation arrangements have been made,
so thnt the crowd may stay on the
Eru5tnds until the last minute, aud
witness The distinguishing of the
lights.
The Norfolk and Portsmouth Trac.
ton Company viii provide special
boat FOR the aocommoda ion OF the
reoplc OF this city. The steamer will
leave Pine Beach pier for Ivy avenue
1t 1880 o'clock tonight aud there
Viii be cars on this aide waiting to
receive the passengers.
The Children's Carnival will be the
f7atuiS OF the day.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-11-30
fIRSf BASKETBALL GAME
OF SEASON AT Y. M. c. A.
"kniehts OF tile Golden Key" and
"piratest' Scheduled to
Meet Tonight.

Tho FIRST basketball game OF the
winter season nj the local Young
Mems Christian Association will he
pulled oil in the association gymna.
!nn. 1T : So'clock tonight between
tho "kniEhts OF tho Golden Key ami
the "PiiNtes.' These teams are com.
poseii Of some OF tho best players In
the association and n fast and snappv
game IS anticipated
Following Is the personnel of thu
iives; knights Glider, Meanley.
iiJnsinn, Hughes. Bailey and Thomas
lrratrs- Hamilton Albert Hughes
nurbage, Kildun and Benson.
Tqniaht five basket ball teams will
be formed at tho association ana the
annual tournament will begin within
q week or more.
oFen honse will be held al the as
ISOLATION tonight, beginning at s
O'Clock. Tho basketball game will be
FREQ to all.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-11-30
6S006scOoo6sJo0ea aS6os,
Social
Observation-Disclosures,

'I2SS .opG-QQQ22Q9Q QQQ
Mr. j. II. Dcrring. VINO has been III
Mt His homo on Thirty-fourth street
ior Il Week. is able To he out again.
Dr.. and Mrs. j. II. Mabry have r.
turned home from buckingham coun.
y. where they attended, the Cole
Boatwright wedding,
Miss nor;ha Crump of Alexandria,
Is the guest OF her sister. Mrs, Brad.
10y In East End,
Miss Mary a. Stcnrnes is In LcxlnE.
ton, va. whehc she went 10 attend
INC Thanksgiving hop given by the
Virginia Military Institute students.
Messrs. II. D. Holloway and III. IL.
Richardson have returned home from
a successful hunting expedition into
the country,
Mr.. and Mrs, Richard r. Richards
have returned from their honeymoon
which they spent I'm the North
Mr.. J. p. Wo,ublc IS critically Ill
of typhoid fever at his home OH Twcn-
ty'siXth street.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-11-30
Dropped Dead In Street.

News was received here yesterday
OF tho death Of Alonzo Kinllcr. who
was formerly employed rs machh-
Isl M' the shlpyard, in Richmond.
MI. klnkcr fell III the street and eN-
pred before help could reach him.
lie was about 10 years OF age and is
survived by II widow and several
children, who live in Richmond. The
deceased WAS member of Newport
News Acric. No. $50. +. 0. Eagles, ana
Worthy President j. j. Cherry and
other members OF tho aeric went to
Riehmond yesterday to attend shc
funeral.