The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-28
English Gouernment Is
 Alarmed Ouer Its Big Deficit

plane succeeded again in leaving the ground for quite two and a half yards. and. as result, was smash ed up again. Colonel Capper expressed him. self as completely satisfied.
 A meeting of the Turf Guardian So ciety was held at Longs Hotel, New Bond Street, the other night for ths purpose of considering measures to repel what the society termed 'the threatened attack upon the liberties of those engaged in turf speculation. MT. $. B. Jevons. who presided, de. scribed the position as 8 serious one, and said if they did not stand shout. der to shoulder at present they nigh. not have the chance to do so later on. The great question was to who were their friends. They certainly were not in the House of Commons. The proposed bill would go through thai House. and then 1t would go to the House or Lords. Had they any friends there? It had been said that 1t wal proposed to confine betting to clubs, put such proposal would only have the effeet of bringing bogus clubs ints existence. He did not think the biIj would deal with the publication of any sporting news, but 1t was proposed te restrict betting to the race. courses Alter discussion, committee. con sisting of the following gentlemen was appointed to take such action a, might be considered necessary: Messrs Joseph Thompson, Leo Harwood. Rob- ert Topping, A. J. Thomas, H. Slogan G. P Smith. J. E. Pickersgill. I. Casssini and J. Marshall (of the Ma. ttonal Sporting League), A. Skooen. A. Heathorne. and W. J. Randall, (of ths Turf Guardian Society,", three repre-. sentatives of the Race Course Book Makers Association, and representa-. ttves' of The Sportsman, The Sporting Times and The Daily Telegraph.
 The development of electric tube railways and tramways systems hay. proved disastrous to the financial snc. cess of the old suburban railways which, up to a few years ago. were utilized daily by hundreds of thous- ands of Londoners in their journeys to and from their homes. The first of the railways to adapt itself to conditions which will enable it to compete with the new traffic, Is the London, Bright ana south Coast line. which runs a circular railway from Victoria to Lon don Bridge. This section has been electrified" and the first electric train carrying passengers was run oyer ths line Saturday night last. The experi. ment was in every way successful. x
 Chemists have concentrated their a.t. tention on the production of radium from the uranium ore. but up to inc Deem a L. most purely for scientific purposes. ana It Is only comparatively recently that the production has been conducted on commercial scale. It Is the exnen- siveness of the process which contrib- utes to the almost fabulous price of the element.
 Among those who have been exnerf. menting with the ore with q. view to producing radium both cheaply and quickly, Is MT Henry Bailey, a young technical chemist, who claims to have arrived at solution of the difficulty He has informed a Pail Mall Gazette representative that his investigations were made with View of separating radium as primary product. leaving uranium as by-product, instead of the contrary. as at present
 '"rhe work has taken many months of hard calculation and experiment he explained Tt was fascinating to a degree, because I approached it from scientific standpoint. My labors re- suited in the elaboration of a process whereby the radium. in conjuctton with one or two other associated ele- ments, can be completely separated from the orc. leaving the Valuable uranium to be subsequently, treated bv itself just in the same manner as 1t is dealt with now. The process is so sim pie that it can be worked by any or dinary intelligent workman accustom- ed to the routine of chemical works and the impure radium extracted from the ore Is afterward dealt with by the purifcation process adopted by Mime. Curie, which, of course, required a skilled scientist