The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-21

izon, and that was no improvement
upon the distant signalling in Nelson s
time. Now all this is changed, and
King George may take his fleet to sea
for days out of sight of land with the
knowledge that at any moment he can
speak to his ministers at home. and that
the object of the naval machine he IS
handling can be easily changed in ac-
cordance with the demands of the po-
litical situation as any simple evolution
he may wish to order can be performed,
Turning to the constitution of the
force, there were embraced in the home,
Atlantic and Mediterranean fleets
that is, nearly all effective vessels not
on foreign stations. On the occasion of
the maneuvers moro than 100 vessels
were placed on a war footing in q few
hours and left harbor for specified rem
devious. Those ships, with the ships
which are already supplied with full
crews, have gone through three weeks
strenuous work and arduous exertion.
and only two out of the whole number,
The Grafton and the Sutlez, have been
reported as having mst with mishaps to
the machinery.
The force under Sir William May was
remarkable because. while it serves to
present in concrete shape the de-
velopment of naval material. it did not
contain single ship which can be
were actually in this force thirty-six
battleships, twenty three armored
cruisers. and six protected cruisers. In
addition to these sixtyfive vessels
there were some forty. eight Iestroyers,
with their parent ships and scout, sub
marines of the latest type, and fleet
auxiliaries.
AS to Antecedents,
Links with the past are comparative
ly numerous, but it is astonishing to
find that there are many people alive
with only three bandshakes between
them and King Charles II. Several re-
'murkable instances are given by cor
respondents in the Times. The Rev.
Daniel Radlord of Papworth st. Agnes
rectory, Cambridge. writes;
"My great grandfather was born in
the reign of Charles II. If this savours
of antiquity it is partly explained by
S3rd year, the youngest child but one
of my father, who had ten children, and
who was himself the youngest but one
of twenty-five children by the younger
of the two wives
Another correspondent signing him
self CO.. writes:
"The late Lord Granville told the
writer that in 1914 John Bright went
to Bradshaw, in Lancashire. to shake
hands with j, Horrocks, aged 105, His
father had seen Cromwell. Horrocks,
Sr., had married when over SO, and
the following year had this long lived
son. Thus two lives overlapped Crom-
well and Victoria. There is the case
Of the late Lord Lovelace, living
quarter OF century since, who sat
IN the lap of Lord Onslow, who knew
Colonel c.. the officer at the exc.
cution of Charles l. The eldest broth
er of the late Sir F1tzroy Kelly died
lI6 years before Sir Fitzroy."
The supremacy of the dark type over
blonds in the tropics was affirmed at
the British Medical association. when
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Havelock
Charles, speaking at the tropical medi. |
cal section, describes the kind of man
best suited to take up the white man s |
burden In the tropics as a good ordin. |
ary type of Britlsher, with good head |
well screwed on. a good temper, but
not over intellectual - He should have
a mouth full of good teeth a healthy |
digestion, a chest with plenty of ex- |
pansion and he should not be over much
of tho blond type Such "A one would !
bear with honor to himself and to the |
country the white man s burden
The best type of woman would be |
built on similar lines, and would be "A
true help to her husband. His observa.
tion had taught him that the very best |
asset n working man could possess in |
the tropics was a true woman Her |
chief danger would be lack of occupa.
tion, but If she interested herself in her |
house and pursued some hobby to while |
away the time, she also would receive
her reward and find the tropics not |
unbearabe The type of woman not
wanted was the irritable and capricious |
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