The sun., 1908-05-31
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MORALS OF great men.
II Is far cry from the smart Vanderbilt
coach OF 2eos TO the pack horse that used
TO trudgs along the narrow muddy lanes
between London and Brighton up TO the
year 1850. In that year the first eight
horse ny wagon was put on the road, and
held IL for the next forty eight years.
Than came The Princess Of Wales pair
horse or post coach. IN 1901 two OF these
were running between Brighton and London
on alternate days, one up, the other down
The run from London took twelve hours
and was evidently looked upon more as
| pleasure trip than anything else.
The start was made at A. NJ. from the
Blossoms Inn. Breakfast was taken at the
Cock at Sutton at 0; hot elderberry wine
was drunk at the Tangier on Banstead
Downs. and the next halt was for luncheon
at Reigate. At Staplefield Common there
was q stop Of two hours for dinner the
| digestion Of which was furthered by stop
at Handcross for neat liquors. Everybody
walked up Clayton Hill, after which came a
cup Of tea at Patcham. Brighton being
eventually reached at P. NJ
In 1908 a little company Of gentlemen
| subscribed Ell 900 and established two four
horse coaches This effected revolution
in coaching
In 1915 an enormous coach called the
Beilerophon, q huge structure with two
compartments. took the road. It was soon
given up, az the demand for pace grew more
| insistent every year. By about 1920 the
| time Of the run had been reduced from
twelve to five hours.
From 1892 onward there were at different
periods OF the year sixty coaches on the
road, thirty each way. As to speed, II is
recorded that the famous coach Quick
| silver, with Kings speech Of William Nv.
on board made the down journey in three
hours and forty minutes. Hine. the driver
Of the Bellerophon, says Brightons his
torian. Erredge. must have brought into
the town more than 100000 persons and
that without an accident
As It was In 1908 that the little syndicate
Of gentlemen put the first two four horse
coaches on the Brighton road, Mr. Wander
bilt may be said this year to be celebrating
the centenary Of the London to Brighton
coach and four.
man has been the subject Of considerable
discussion recently. The Paris correspon-
dent Of the Pau Mall Gazette thus gives the
impressions Of Frenchman, long resident
In London, who has made large fortune,
thanks to his shrewd comprehension Of
foreign markets:
English commerce and industry, he thinks.
are suffering at the present moment from
lack Of native pluck. The Briton has Lost
his old nerve. That Is especially 30 on the
Stock Exchange, where men are terribly
afraid to speculate.
This absence Of the Adventurous spirit
Ia present In all clauses. Il attacks man
when he IL down. Public opinion In par
ticularly cruel toward the man who fails
In business, from whatever cause. Yet it
q Impossible for a man 70 conduct buai-
ness nowadays without taking rishs. and
considerable risks.
'Eyen Ia France, conservative France
he says, 'the world Is less down upon the
| man who fails honorably The reason Of
the enormous success Of the Americans, the
reason Of their growing wealth and power
on the continent Of Europe, is their willing
ness TO take risks. They are brave and are
prepared TO shoulder responsibility.
when a merchant fails In business banks
are found to advance him money to put
him on his feet again. Not 80 In England.
A bankrupt is pariah; the banks will not
give him the least help; his failure creates
terrible fuss.
I'VE are better, protest. in France,
where, as you see. men like Rochette and
other adventurous fnanciers can always
ret money, even when down. to help them
with their projects 1t seems to me that a
wider and more generous spirit is needed
in England, which will encourage a man to
speculate and not take the pluck out Of him
by the knowledge that II he fails he may as
we'll abandon all hope of succeeding ever
AFTER
The expression blowing down before
money bags may be observed in not
few German papers this week. 1t is ap-
piled with reference to the attention paid
by certain newspapers to j. Ogden Armour,
head Of the Chicago packing firm, who
arrived at Berlin hotel last week.
That particular old fashioned section
OF the German press which deprecates
what 1t calls the new personal journalism
does not do so from any personal antipathy
to Mr.. Armour, but sensibly enough objects
to the mobbing Of American millionaires
by newspaper reporters, who ply them
with fatuous questions. In an interview
published In one Of the best known Berlin
papers,. Mr.. Armour, in reply to some
ridiculous inquiries, was obliged to confess
that he was juet an ordinary mortal and
lived in much the same way as others.
The interview closed with more than usu-
ally impertinent query on the part Of the
reporter, namely, how much ready cash
Mr.. Armour happened to have on him.
Mr.. Armour is stated to have looked amazed,
then to. have laughed goodnaturedly.
After rlmn,aging through many pockets
in vain, he finally ,fshed ten mark gold
piece out Of his ticket pocket, held it up
between thumb and forefinger and solemnly
said: THAT Is ALL
In a book Ernest Daudet has just written
about Joseph de Maistre and Comte Blacas
he relates an amusing story OF an occur
renee which happened at the court Of the