The sun., 1910-07-10

country.
Prime Minister Fisher. realizing the
pAncity of news and ApprcciAting in cost.
osers = subsidy of $4,000 q y~Ar Tor three
years TO any existing news agency that
vail undertake 20 cubis .eOO words \ day
! from London. The only cOnditioa - that
! Lhe service shall be non partisan and that
the dispatches must be scot by the all
! rsd route that u by an English cable 20
/ Canada. over Canadian telegraph wires
TO the Pacific coast. and thence by the
Pacific cable. THIS route will insure that
/ the salhsidiRed service would pass over
/ British owned wires and cables only.
Tho free City of London. the freedom
Of which was extended TO Col Roosevelt
| In n gold caskst, has an electiOn once
/ year Tor Sheriff. To b. a Sheriff Of the
city Of London u an honor coveted by
successful merchants and brokers. Usu-
ally IL lsads 90 tho cunferrinG upon the
hOlier OF a kniGhthoOd. with thu right tn
BE- called Sir. and a broker who Is SIR
John Margin u a much moro important
man on the stock Exchange and IN his
social s-t than plain John Margin.
The sheriff also Is entitled TO wear a
gorgeous robe. with n dazzling golden
chain and badge % office, and he can nde
about to cornerstone hyings and state
dinners in gilt coach with hveried fiunkies
fore and aft. Because of all this honor
the once Of sheriff Is greatly coveted by
successful men IN the city.
IL 10 the custom for the Lord Mayor an
nuALy to nominate two candidates for
sheriff. and usually they are elected.
rhi. year there was an insurgent among
! the freemen Of the City Of London. He
was Henry Buckingham, q silk merchant.
He thought he d like to be Sheriff.
He. with two other candidates. was
nominated at tho annual meeting of tho
fresmen Of the City Of London at the
GuildhaI. The Lord Mayor selected
two candidates from the three nominated.
The election was by a show Of hands.
The Lord Mayor declared Buckin ghAm's
two rivals elected.
BickinRhAm wouldn't stand for the
Lord Mayors count. He insurged and
demanded a recount. He got IL and IL
wAs plainly shown that he wAA hand
somely elected.
This is the first time a man not in the ring
has ever been elscted Sheriff. Al the
Guildhall they know how TO play prao-
tioal politics as well as any Of Big Tim
SullivAnis captains at q Bowery district
primary. but never before did the Guild
hall gang run up against an insurgent
who knew what he was about.
Theodore n. Vail. president Of the
American Bell Telephone Company. Who
vas in London for some time en route
tn New York. had some expsrience OF the
London telephone system. He told
reporter that Londoners were 10 blame
for their faulty telephone service because
they didnt z know how to use the phone.
They haven't been educated up 10
them he said. I've seen your people
keep . phone waiting ages before at
tempting 20 answer Again. I've often
observed q psrson answer . call and
then put the receiver down and keep |
the caller waiting seeral minutes
NO matter how efficient the central
once may Be the system must be bad
n the public 10 slack. You people want |
educating In the Ar. for art it most
certainly is. oG using the phone.
In New York the people know how TO |
Use the phone because they were born |
and grew up with it The telephone is
installed In every little tenement in the
city and n quite universal. In fact |
there are moro telephones in New York |
city than In the whole of Europe. startling |
though Il may seem 90 say 90.
your system isnt slow it's the people |
that are. and they want hurryins along. |
Ny advice 20 English people 10. Learn
how 20 use tho phone"
Berlin before the summer Of 1919 win be |
a seaport. Il has besn oficially stated |
that the ship canal from stettin to Berlin
will be complsted and ready for trafic by
the time mentioned.
Tho IenRth Of tho canal is eighty-tvo
mib,s The completion OF the canal will
enable Berlin 20 receive cArgoes without
breaking bulk from ports throughout the
world. Tho canal won't accommodate
gigantic frsikhters. hui il will he sum
ciently dssp to permit the passage OF the
ordinary freighter.
Two new aviation prizes founded by the
Automobile Club OF France are worthy
of the attention OF American long distance
Airmen One il OF 90. .OoO. called the Grand
Pri1 d'AeroplAne and 10 offered 70 the
first asroplAns nying with a passenger
from Paris 70 Brussels and back within
thirty ak hours beforo January |. 1911.
The ssoond prize. OF $4,000. will be
AWARDED 20 the diriKibls balloon which
in the shortest time be- :,
tween now and January 1. 1911. the
Journey from Paris 20 Rsims and back
will have n mako a stop at
Reims and return with passenger.
Reginald Enock. q member Of the Royal
Society. suggests that Il will
not he ~ dificult as has been imagined TO
hy from Europe to America. He doesnt
wan. u understood tha, the easy route
In from the English coast 10 the American
coast. BY studying tn. map. he has
found that the flight could be accom-.
plishsd with q greatest width of landles-
pNa % only about soo milcs Describing
a great half circle from the northern isles
Of Britain. by way ~ Iceland. GTeenland
and Labrador COR the land north of it. an
asroplane would reach America. and so
mile. must soon be within a practical aero
radius.
This he says. would not he an all
English route exactly but the two termini