The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-04
.OPT IMIST CLUB IS
DECIDED NOVELTY
In Age OF Pessimistic Clubs for
Men, London Organiza-
zion is Unique.
OTHER LONDON NEWS
FAST TRAVEL BETWEEN NEW
YORK AND LONDON ASSURED,
THE TRIP NOT COVERING MORE
THAN THREE DAYS.
BY Richard Abercorn.

BY Richard Abercorn.
London, Oct. Sin the midst,of hard
times a new club. the Optimistic Club.
has been formed in London. 1t con-
sists of those who acknowledge the
duty of cheerfulness and who make q
point of looking at the bright side Of
everything. One Of the founders of the
club, the bearer of one of Engiand's
proudest names. said yesterdays
Something must be done to coun-
teract the prevailing tendency toward
taking gloomy views. Most clubs here
are in reality, If not in name. pessi-
mists' clubs. The conversation In
them almost invariably works round
to the conclusion that everything, In
Guiding the whole country is going to
the dogs In the Optimist club no, one
will be allowed to be low spirited. Ev-
erything will be done to cultivate
cheerfulness. The hall porter will be
carefully selected. We shall engage
the rosiest, most contented looking per-
con We can find. The club, servants In
the same way will have to be sleek
headed men and such as sleep o.
nights" None with lean and hungry
looks need apply. The decorations of
the club house will be gay and bright.
the furniture most comfortable and at
tractive. The walls will be hung with
such notices as Don't Worry" or 1T
will all be the same in hundred
years. an dwith portraits ,of'the great
cptimists of fiction and history, Sir
John Flagstaff, Rabelais and rDr. Pan
gloss.
Any one who 10 convicted upon the
evidence of two members OF being In
the club for half an hour without smil-
ing will be simultaneously fined and
the penalty for expressing any doubt
as to all being for the best in the best
of all worlds, will be champagne all
round on the spot. From time to time
lectures will be given on current topice
to show that there is no reason for
discomfort, let alone dispair. These
will be reported in the papers and will
spread the influence of the club
through the whole nation"
To travel from New York to Eng
land in three days will be possible as
soon as a new steam engine invented
by Mr.. Very, young Australian.
shall have been built into one of the
largest ocean liners. At least that 10
what the inventor himself claims and
he says that his engine will require no
more coal than the engine of a slow
freighter, and cost even less to build.
The wonderful engine at first sight
seems very little different from the re-
ciprocating engine now in use, but
each engine does the work in two di-
rections at once-as each cylinder is
provided with two pistons and two
piston rods. two cranks and two shafts
being provided.
The enormous advantage Of this Ia
that all shock due to the work done
in one direction is counteracted by that
done in the opposite direction and In
consequence it is possible to run IS
horse power egine of an ordinary table
at full speed without any fixtures, so
| smooth is the running. The engine,
or rather it principle. can be equally
| well applied TO gasoplane motors in
which the wear and tear would be re-
| duced to a minimum, and IL applied TO
automobiles all vibration would b
done away. ~
/ There will be issued privately, as q
! free gift to the ordinary stakeholder
of the richest brewery in the world.
100000 paid up ordinary SIS shares.
which Immediately upon their issue
will be worth double or more than
their face value. This corporation is
so extraordinary, il not unprecedented,
that it seems almost incredible that 1t
should receive so little public atten-
ton. gift of $2JO.OOO,OOO and prob
ably SJOOOO.OOO to the holders OF
brewery shares just at this time when
complaints are heard on all sides OF
dwindling dividends and possible bank
ruptcy in the brewing trade. And II
is no less wonderful in its way that
this amazing tale of prosperity should
come from Ireland. the commercial
Cinderella of the United Kingdom.
The other night a few men might
have been seen assembled quietly to-
gether at Salisbury House. The man
of 1.-THE. fragile frame with finely cut
and expressive features by whom the
chair was occupied, is perhaps the
richest subject of King Edward in the
matter of ready cash and gilt edge Sc
curities. yiscount Iveagh, better known
| in Dublin as Edward Cecil Guinness.
He is Irish of the Irish. His father
was a Guinness. his mother was .
Guinness. his wife is Guinness, all
descended from the sept of the GUM
nesses whose headquarters were in
County Down of which Iyeagh is one
of the existing baronics.