The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-27
BLAZE
OF FAME FOR
CARDIFF CITY
Greatest CoaI-Exporting Port
in the World Center of the
Recent Coal Strike.


greatest coal-exporting port IN the
world. where more business is carried
on in quiet way than in hnnareds
of cities better advertised and far
more in the public eye, Cardin at
tanned sudden blaze of fame by rea-
son of it's being the center OF the
strike declared by British coal min
ers an action which might have hal
significant bearing upon the war. me
story OF this mushroom growth IN
the heart of ,England's richest coal
fields is told in bulletin Just issued
by the National Geographic Society
which reads:
For years a great part OF the coal
that has driven the industrial ma
chinery of Germany, Austria, Hol-
land, France and Russia has been
shipped from the Welsh port Of Car
diff That city became the first port
in the world for the shipment OF
coal, and so vast was the quantity OF
this export that, including the docks
at Barry and Penarth as part of the
port, it saw the greatest quantities
of foreign shipping clear from It's
docks of any port in the United
Kingdom. With the outbreak of the
European war, with the loss of prac-
tically all OF her coal fields by France.
and with a growth of a need Of coal
by Russia and by France greater
Ethan ever before for the manufacture
OF the almost unlimited munitions
that the war is consuming. Cardln
has become place of first strategic
| Importance, a heart-Source OF energy
| to the Entente powers.
Best American Tradition.
The Welsh port conforms to the
best American tradition, in that It
has grown from an insignificant VII
lage to center of world Importance
during two brief generations. In
1881, it had a population of 6,lSI
and it's name was never mentioned
outside az Wales. 1t now has pop
ulation of more than 10000, ire
mendous business, a highly developed
harbor, equipped with the most mod
ern machinery and port appliances,
and among the finest group of public
buildings in Great Britain. It's an
nual shipments of fuel totalled be-
fore the war about S,5OO,0O0 tons.
THE growth of Cardiff began when
Great Britain started its career of be-
! ing the factory nation of the world.
The port, situated upon the river,
Taft. a mile above it's outflow into
1.-The British channel, lies in the midst
of a rich coal and iron country, whose
vast deposits have formed an undt-
/ diminishing stream of lifeblood, not
only to British industry but to the in
dustries of many other countries.
| The whole region surrounding the
town is honeycombed with coal and
iron mines, principally coal mines.
These minerals have been mined here
for centuries, and we're formerly
brought down from the hills on the
backs of mules and in rudely con-
| structed wagons. With the rise of
the star of industrialism, the con-
struction of an up-to-date harbor
and of efficient means for transporta-
ton, Cardiff came into its own; be-
came big, prosperous, rich, renowned.
Export is Enormous.
while the export of this port is
enormous, it has but an inconsidera-
BILE import. Its docks receive iron
ore, pit-wood, grain, flour and cattle.
An industrial region of increasing
| Importance has been growing up all
| around the city. Tin, copper and iron
works are established here. There
are also large wire factories, general
| boundaries and engineering works.
Many of the city's general manufac-
| turnes are sent to London, which Is
l146 miles to the west by the Great
Western railway.
"Cardiff owes much of it's progress
( to the second marques of Butte, who
realized the Importance of this place
as an outlet for the great stores of
country, and who opened the first
| great dock here in 1899. The pres
emit Lord Butte owns the docks and
basins of the harbor proper, five in
number and covering 10 acres, while
numerous other docks extend down
into the Bristol channel. Despite the
city's great development in all direc-
tions, the exhaustion or shutting
down of its coal mines would rob It
Of. its Importance. During the pres
ent time the value of its exports to
Russian, French and Italian factories
| 49,. 1,n...s1rr H,n crar-aEtimafRd y