Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-08
Picture of J. P Morgan on an Adver-
Using Poster. :.
NO LIMIT TO SIZE OF STEAMERS
Vessels of 10000 to $4,000 Tons.
Some Health Statistics-Motor
Cars Place in Art.
Special Cablegrsm to The Star:

PRESIDENT OTHSley OF the l nlteU states steer
Corporation. IS soon to be installed IN the
Cardiff mills of Guest Keen & Nettlefields,
Limited. the largest concern Of it's kind in
Great Britain. And in this connection it is
interesting to note that this particular con-
Germ Is the most formidable competitor of
the steel trust in Europe.
Many interesting things could be written
regarding British and American business
methods If those best informed upon these
subjects could be induced to talk In
neCtion with the recent business exhibition
at Olympia the influence which America
eXerts upon the business men of the old
world can perhaps best be illustrated by the
fact that the great posters advertising the
exposition. which stared at passers by from
all OF the billboards. contained the picture
of J. +. Morgan as a centerpece.
Perhaps no greater unconscious tribute
has ever been paid the great American who
is better known in Europe than most of the
great captains of industry. Undoubtedly
most of the business men of London would
agree that John d. Rockefeller of Standard
OIL fame is the riches, man in the world.
but. inasmuch as he has confined his ener-
gies more to the United States and has not
established International banking houses.
has not undertaken the floating of so many
companies international in plan and scope.
and has not been as liberal patron of the
arts and the sciences as Morgan or Andrew
Carnegie he is naturally not so well known
on this side of the water.
Inventiveness of Americans.
In connection with the business exhibition
at Olympia 1t was quite generally admitted
that modern methods owe a great deal of
their effectiveness to the energy and in
ventiveness Of the people of the United
States. And for this very reason consider
abe space was devoted to appliances which
had their origin at all events on the other
side OF the Atlantic.
Great gossip continues anent the new
gyroscopic monorailway. which has recent
~ been invented by the Irishman, Mr.. Louis
Brennan. The Indian government has de-
cided to make a financial grant to Mr.
Brennan to enable him TO continue his ex-
perimentS. For" says the writer. IF the
system be ever brought within commercial
possibility there are many hill stations IN
India where such a railway would be of
the greatest benefit. since they are cut off
from all railway communication owing to
the vast cost of building an ordinary raft
way. In particular the little state of Coorg
may be mentioned. 1t has been proved that
the country here is one of the best in all
India. but it is held back BY want OF rail-
way communication with the commercial
Centers of India
When the Teutonic and Majestic of the
White Star line We're being built at Belfast
years ago Mr.. Pirrie NOW Lord
P1rrieJ declared that the only limit to the
proaches to the harbors between which they
were Intended to trade. There was no rea-
son why boat 900 feet long and pro-
portionately broad and deep should not be
maritime and financial success, provided
access to the principal docks and harbors
o: the world were o5tainable.
Some Big Liners
These liners were practically 900 feet long
and OF 1900 tons burden. Since then
increase in size has been gradual. The Gel
tic. 1000 tons; Baltic, 100 tons: Amerika
CIamburg- American line). 23.OCO. and Ad-
ratio. $500 tons gross, and 72S feet long
followed. The tonnage OF the new marine
leviathan. George Washington. to be built
for the Hamburg-A American line. as just
made public in the reports of the company,
is $500 This r. the vessel which Lord
Prize and Herr Balm said to have dis
cussed recently at Hamburg and Kiel. Such
a vessel with the huge. heavy Lighthouses
Uh!ch Messrs Harland and Wolff are now
making a feature in all their large liners,
would have displacement of between 40.
go and $1,000 tons. and in this respect
would probably be the heaviest vessel in
the wor.u. the new Cuncrders not ex-
copied
Mr. Carlisle managing director of the
firm. explains that the model has not yet
been made. He says that there Is really no
limit to the SIZE of modern ocean going
steamers. but. until docks and harbors are
built OF sufficient size and depth. IT Will be
said Mr.. Carlisle. is where the shoe
pinches." He added that he expected one
of the vessels about to be ordered by the
International Marine Company would be
even larger than the George Washington.
Mortality in England and Wales.
A valuable contribution to the national
health statistics has just been issued by
the registrar general of births, deaths and
marriages. in the form of report drawn
up by DR.. John latham dealing with the
mort ality In England and Wales especially
in the ten years. 1S9l-19Ol. Much congrat-
ulation has been spent on the falling death
rate showing the benefit accruing from
advances In sanitary and medical science
Or. latham makes II his first business to
point out that there IS less cause for pride
In this respect than Is commonly supposed
for there is an interdependence between the
birth rate and the death rate which has had
distinct influence on the figures.
With the decline In the birth rate the dis
tribution OF the sexes has been materially
altered and the proportion OF the people of
the more robust ages among the total
living has increased while the percentage
OF children has become less This makes
an uudoubted difference In the calculations
the mortality rate OF - ~ for the ten wears
lSIl-JO failing to 2l.I4 per 1000. II II be CAL
culated ON the age distribution of the pres-
ert day. But. as nearly can be figured
making due allowances and corrections
forty years have seen an indubtable fall in
the mortality OF both sexes of $50 per 900
Inhabitants or about 1853 per cent.
The motor is at last beginning to take
Its definite place in art. At the Ryder gal
lery. in Albemarle street. an exhibition has
been opened which is exclusively devoted
to pictures and drawings which deal with
the car from every conceivable point of
view. though IL would appear that up to
now the humor of motoring appeals more
strongly To the artistic instinct than it's
purely picturesque instinct.
or "a has
been published in Germany which Is ex-
ciuslvely devoted to the humorous side of
automobilism. and. judging from the ire
sLstible humor OF the works shown at the
Ryder gallery by Messrs. Tom Browne. J.
Hassan w. Owen. C. Crombe. Lawson
Wood and others II Is not the lack OF ma
tive talent which has made a similar pub
LEGATION Impossible In England These are
the things which must be seen to be appre-
ciated. however-the fun of them would be
lost in tho telling. But every kind OF a
vehicle has been turned to artistic account
at this show. There racing cars and
touring cars. motor omnibuses and taxi
cabs. motor bicycles and prehistoric auto
mobiles
why did you feel SO badly when you
read OF the suicide OF those two young