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

WASHINGTON, July 26.-The
greatest coal-exporting port in the
world. where more business is carried
on in quiet way than in hundreds
OF cities better advertised and lar
more in the public eye, Cardin at
tanned a sudden blaze of fame by rea-
son of its being the center of the
strike declared by British coal min
ers. an action which might have nal
Significant bearing upon the war. Inc
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, HoI-
land, France and Russia -has been
shipped from the Welsh port of Car
an, 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 Its
| docks of any port in the United
Kingdom. With the outbreak or the
European war. with the loss of prac-
/ ticaiIy all of her coal fields by France,
and with a growth of need OF coal
by Russia and by France greater
| than ever before for the manufacture
OF the almost unlimited munitions
that the war is consuming. Card1n
| has become a 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 a center of world Importance
( during two brief generations. In
| 1881, it had a population of 6,1S7
and its name was never mentioned
outside N Wales 1t now has a pop
ulation of more than 165, 900, ire
mendous business, a highly developed
harbor, equipped with the most mod
ern machinery and port appliances,
and among the finest group of pubic
buildings in Great Britain. It's an
nuaI shipments of fuel totalled be-
fore the war about S,500,000 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
4 the British channel, lies In the midst
! of a rich coal and iron country, whose
vast deposits have formed an undf-
minishing 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 wcre 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, 1t has but an inconsidera-
BILE import. Its docks receive iron
ore, pit-wood, grain, -four 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
Lac miles to the west by the Great
Western railway.
"Cardiff owes much OF its progress
to the second marques of Butte, who
realized the Importance of this place
as an outlet for the great stores of
mineral wealth of the surrounding
country, and who opened the first
great dock here in 1889. The pres
ent 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
Ecity,s great development in all direc-
lions, the exhaustion or shutting
down OF its coal mines would rob 1t
of its Importance. During the pres
Russian. French and italian factories