1—Lord Stamfordham, Private Secretary and Friend Caricature by Tom Coterett two men are talking across 4 desk littered with papers, Both are dressed with a touch of old world precision in their grooming. Ons slight, bearded and. grizzled, sits reading a document. The other, taller, white headed, venerable and wise, bends over his companion, ex plaining a point of precise tones, The ma the desk looks. up at hin "round is Jolly hundred tiny wrinkles creasing Who are King G Land sleepers in the main tracks, This deficianey lies entirely at Chinese wwgham Palace, and their: dffires are the lust' word in' modern peuetice. Land Stamford. iam brought the first typewriter: locomotive perfor nance and be inquired -no doubt found wanting. jency here is all a question of nto Buckingham Palace; and he has: has) margin, and in Chi this has been followed ep this act by installing always judged there the most up-todate methods] veneral standards.
Thus for deal-office routine.
He loves efficiency, he is a stickler Slovenliness im work, in dress, in attention to the smallest hhrings those heavy. brows toa forhi He the most of and 50 ton, Me will 80 why should th world by less exacting? ne approximately the same Iwhile freight was handled by 10 wagons of an of ALS tons against. Chi average of 23.
These figures relate to the year 1918 regards China and sine, then of course the posi-has grown vastly worse Aged Locomotives Then the age of locomotives isa greater than have filled the
ety, it is his ritteeeenl te ware than his date pir eloquence. was 10 ph Me bax addi ti worked, he favs advised, fe has ate little inevease in mileage. Here it may be said that the only departments under purely foreign control in this respect have been the Permanent Way and Locomotiv Stores, trafic, police, telegraph, administration have always been under Chinese control almost eu-tirely The personnel of the Permanent Way and Locomotive Departments has been controlled by long exper lence of the capabilities of the Chinese railway man, All Departments have been ce yelled to absorb an increasing num= her of returned students, for whom there was no adequate employ'
That such a cond due to th fof new construction the Ras been wy men rust in rout ecause China cannot bring ty borrow money on Feasona terms with adequate safeguards, Ax oan indication of foreign Profits of Bygone Years covement the following statistics are MeAeey bans het the manaute ar ber euccecsted hie almost as a matter '90 of hi Six years later. the master's brow than wu that of an] ly hie} the four sears he. joined the pre- [Of Rig predecessors Ie can see the tives, EAS: an avernie, 1 Ott of e errant for ant Que!
Toco years is no gauge of his activity ant] Queen ted. One he Snel ce HE) ina hundred] built, Indicating entire renewal of me and the return on wal of evoeeed $8,000 per mile of in capital Vigour. Ho fiat became secretary ent King 1 to the King, then Prince of Wales, HM ever since.) ituenead counties decisions, real tite, he haa all locomotive stock in about 24] quctuated between 10 and 20 per treenty-sevenyenrs ago, and hin What exactly are, Lord Stave] (UNG jax moiied the history locomotive of 12 years only. each ¥ears, or givin an average als, per cent. for each Pur, The Chinese railways wore than tha elastic and modern with ch year tind seems to have grown more) ede is the easiest job in the of that long service.
A Personal Servant sometinies he walks on a sunny] Mind Ais renewals by over 900 there was"" wonder] ther, although retirements exceeded ost profitable in the world. nett increase of tractive powe ustache Finally it is suggested that erty over the period considered of 20 We know that the new sen. Meeting him casually, you would wining from his quarters An accurate answer, I am afraid 203,000 pounds of average tractive of ad 'MI not be of take him for a Chairman of Lloyds, James' Pala: from or a Director of the Bank of could only be given by himself at Palace, ready For another busy day. power rer locomo! east the armchair order, but there is never ive its He is not. the England, or the distinguished hea!
He has only one hobby, by the by—average little danger of thole being car~ technically a servant of state, but of the Chinese way by the atmosphere in of & world-famous firm of solicitors. hard work. personal attender of the King's") was 24,000 Ibs. cism will be made, That rue, he started life as & soldier, (Copyright) Iti office deed was created only lar tonnage per atmosphere will be sycophantic, hut years of high affairs have moved all traces. of hiv nillitar; 9m accident, When, tu 1805, mile of Tine, will be enthusiastic, unanalytic an career from his manner und hear. o0r blind' old King Georme 111, Further the mar in of surplus hysterically condemnatory of the fig. Cook at him standing in his tired to Windsor. Sir Hubert) the railways of the present foreign employee of all 'Taylor was appointed his private RAILWAYS, Chinese Government Services, favourite attitude—one United States ix ov per cent. sri a troumer's pocket the other ig" coul 8 trouser' hand buried han ouried) and personal secretary, hheeause the no see eter to read] Tasks of the Foreign Adviser even when traffic is at its peak.
Chin: has_ne cee had any margin His large head is slightly thrust forward, its domed and furrowed ¢, tte ud pit dist: vet) worth speaking of, ame it speaks A wor
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