The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-08-24
SOUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Impartial Review of Doings at Our Seat of Government

NnGH l was Iner6. through the door came a regular stage English | man. With stiff neck and tilted nose
 he stopped just inside the door with | a pose reflecting a fear that he ex- pected a most disagreea b1e experience 1 wondered if he was going to see me at all Finally he opened up with | the broadest kind of cockney, I spoke | of the letters I held and he said in a | superior manner he did not care to see | them. He knew I wanted a seat in parliament, he said. The Embassy | had three seats at it's disposal but he | didn't know whether he could let me have one. and I might call in a few | days All this with a contemptuous | and supercilliouS manner and in a | dialect so broad I could hardly un- | derstand. I told him Automatically | few things and left the place I me that when an American visits | United States Embassy he has the right of decent Urea tment and not to 1 be treated by foreign flunkey as though he were a began or an in- i truder-
 An echo of the boom in rubber that | extends all around the world is given | in a report from Consul General J. | T. Dubois at Singapore. An increase | in demand has caused extremely high | prices in the rubber markets and one l I0Sull lldS OCCn lIlG pldnt1HS Ol 1uOOO1 l trees on a tremendous scale where yer the soil favorS it's growth. | Dubois says that the eastern rub | Der boom has caused the floatation 1 of 75 companies with 35 million shares, capitalized at nearly $50, 900 O00. gold. The amount actually expended by | the companies, the Consul General says, represents only modest part 1 of the total value set upon these prop
 critics by the speculating world Wide reaches of waste land on the l Island at Singapore, formerly used l in the growth of coffee and pepper are being planted with thousands of
 rubber plants. In Malaca there were formerly many square miles of land
 covered with lalang, the hiding place l of the tigers. which have been trans | formed into fine rubber plantations. Rubber has transformed Malacca
 which has for years been largely neg Iected into a flourishing and prosper ous community.
 The last touch of perfection to the use of the wireless as a safety appli- | ance to ships has been added by sev- eral Italian scientists who have cola
 borated on compass actuated by | Hertzian waves.
 This compass differs from the usual
 needle used in navigation in that it is not sensitive to the earthSi magnets | but to electrical currents. With this device aboard, a ships captain in the foggiest weather, can, locate any near
 by vessel that is sending out wireless | messages as the needle ploints direct I ly to the center of the electric cur rents sent out from the other ves- sell
 Likewise when vessel in distress sends out the wireless C.. Q. D. call | for help, an approaching rescue ship
 is directed by this compass directly | of +I,n HnCr handicaps heretofore has been the de- lay which has occurred during the
 search for the wrecked ship through repeated wireless directions. In the
 instance of the sinking of the Steam
 ship Republic, one of the most not
 able instances or the value or the
 wireless in calling aid to wrecked
 ships, the vessel drifted a great dis
 tance after sending out the c. Q. D. call.
 This necessitated a four-hour search
 by the rescuing ship after it had
 reached the original location tele-
 graphed by the Republic. Had the
 condition of the Republic been more critical, the result of the delay might | have been disastrous With this new
 compass this difficulty would have been obviated.
 A curious instance of the rounds a.
 bout' channels of commerce is given , in the report of an American Consul
 stationed in the Malay Peninsula.
 The Malay Peninsula, he states. produced about 65 per cent of the worlds output of tin. The total pro-
 duction is valued at some S41.0O0,00O
 The United States consumes one fourth of this. Now nearly one-half
 of the total exports of the country to the Malay Penisula are contained in tin cans, the same tin sent from
 them in the crude form. A great . part of this export is in one gallon tin buckets containing petroleum. Af- , ter the contents of these cans have ! been used, the natives convert them into every conceivable household uten- , sill The interior of any Malay or !, Chinese home in the Peninsula, says | the Consul is filled with American tin cans of every size and shape. Holes are punched in them for sieves. they
 are fashioned into dust pans, baking , and cooking utensils and water buck , cts.
 , Indeed the demand has become so I great that it Is branching into an in- f | duStry and many are employed into making household utensils out of sec . ond hand American tin cans, the tin |, for which was mined at their very l | feet.