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Newspaper Page TextTHE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 28, 1008. TTT VTVT IfiTKir TJ 7713151715 mt) TVT-TT-? M ADT T7HT Mexico Pret, On. f Bt EdV in Woijld Harvest From Rullcr Trees ; ' , 'T' rip l!li!li!!l!riinri!(iilrr I. ip" r'"vli" imi A T VT " 1 1 I m II I I I , I ' ' - . i. t s fa. PLiVNTATlOtT tlEA.DQUARTE"Rc5. RANKING with the world's great est commercial necessities, such ' Iron, steel and copper. Id rub ber. While Rngland, Frame, Germany and other Europenn countries have been searching the ut most ends of the earth for local I tie whern, this commodity will grow and can ba obtalnel In commercial quanti ties, the I'nttud filatea Is Just waking up to the fact that at her door In th. "rubber belt" of tropical Mexico Is tho finest rubber growing country In ths world. This valuable article- la obtained by "tappinK." or cutting- the trees from which the milk or latex flows. This Is cnuRht In suitable receptacles and passed through a process' of coagula tion which consists of the separating of the rubber from the water and other ln-Krodlentir- with which nature mixes It. The result from this process forms tho crude rubber of commerce. It la then passed through a vulcanlflng process In the factories and Is sriado into the thousand and one articles re quired by the trade. There are two species of rubber tree fimii which the article Is readily nh tnlned In commercial quantities. Thu 1'nfa Brnsiliensls and the Caatllloa Ivlaatlca. The former Is a native of the AninTon basin, while the latter grows wild In Mexico and Central America. The cantllloa matures at the early unn of five years (and can be tapped at four veftrs) and Is a prolific producer. It attains a ftreat size, up to even five nnd six feet In diameter, ami Is a tree of long life, attaining an age of 100 years at least. It has been demonatrated that these treus are auBceptlhlfi to cultivation &nl respond readily to ordinary care. There la no comparison between the size of the wild find cultivated tree of the sama nR. Iii the case of the former, the seed takes root In the dense Jungle whers the voting plant receives no sunllKht nr.il where It is currounded by a multl tudlniiiiM mass of tropical vegetation, Htid responds but slowly. On the othef hand, tho cultivated tree Is eHrefully tended during Its nursery days nnd is then so: out In a suitably prepared '!ear!r. where it obtains an abundance of sunshine and responds very rapidly to lis cultivation. The world Is and has heretofore ne Tended uron the native aatb supply. i nis gatnerer is an ignorant tneir capitals sinus into iiisigniiicanco native IndiHri with no thought beyond beside that which has been the happy the needs of today. The cbnsequcncn lot of the rubber shareholder. And yet Is that Instead of properly tapping the rubber-plajitlng is, comparatively spenl wlhi tree ha finds while cutting his Ing, an Infant Industry. To what wm- through the dense junglo, he cuta heights of prosperity it will attain them down. Rimply because he can by when Its existence Is measured by do th t means obtain nil tho rubber tho cades and not by years, even the !ea?t tree has In It. This ruthless destrue- sanguine prophet can hardly dare to tlon of those valuable trees has been uav. Kiting on for fullv 60 years and the Ho rapidly has the business dev-eloped world is now fating a" gradually In- that tho British government employs a ct easing rubber shortage. These con- ataff of scientists whosu duty it is to ditions have led to the formation of carry on experiments to demonstrate rubber plantations, which, from what the best methods of growing, cultivating night be termed experiments of a few and tapping the trees ami coagulating ve.irs ago. has developed Into a moat tho milk Into rubber. The results are important anil profitable Industry. given to the planters without charFe. Returns from rubber plantations It wAB through their experiments, ex were first received from Ceylon and the tending over a period of four years, that Malay states, where a number of largo the new or "spiral" system of tapping KiiRllsh plantation companies are In was discovered. This has Increased tim ..! essful operation. All of these are output over tho old "V-shaped" method -joint stock corporations, their stocks as five Is to one, or In other words, a being listed on the London exchange, young tree that would supply one pound ntul It Is a notable fact that during the under the "V-cut" will. under th-j recent panic rubber shares, some of "spiral" system produce five pounds, them minted as high as 10 times their without the least Injury to the tree. j. hi value, were- the only securities that 'j'he tapping of a rubber tree can be before held their own nnu aciuany aavanceu HKonort to the cutting or ones linger, during the general depression. The cut will bleed to a certain limit, The Financier and Bulllonlst, the old- but will then cease. A hard crtist est London financial daily, has this to forms over the wound which eventual say about rubber shares: ly falls off, leaving the new skin or '"Nothing succeeds like success, anl bark as sound as ever. The tree can consequently It Is not surprising to find be cut again and again In the identical that persons who had hardly a good spot. word to say for rubber shares a little The cultivation of this very neces tinie back are now busily engaged In sary commodity In tropical Mexico is pointing out the attractions of such ne- Just commencing to attract the atten curlttes. The gratification which re- tlon of thinking people In the United cent results have excited Is, It must be States. The Industry' has been looked iidnilttel, abundantly Justified by tho upon as being of a more or less freak facts. No newly created or discovered Ish nature, and It Is only those who Industrv has made such progress or are far-sighted who have taken the lies so brilliantly fulfilled the hopes of pains to investigate and then, upon Its sponsors aa that of rubber jcultl- the courage of their conviction, have vntlnn. ComDanles which only a few Invested their money In the entemrlse. Tears ago were virtually unknown and As an experiment the Industry has had UUmSAi:m,4. i yr PLANTATION MXfK ' ' mmssmamm h- : wmmmimm I J I m mmmmmmmmmmmfAtm wmmwi wii .. ; ma. - irzhoii: TOM 18WO. OUX OSSl hMTrlV V 3-' ,vtl . ' 'M- ' ' .,' m t0yoKKZF.s rest. I I: ; vuv: f'f, 1 tor manufacturing companies durin the past vear or so have made hit; erer for Its uroflta. but the return they make on above referred to. In an able editorial which appears In the July number or the India Rubber World, a reeognlied authority on all things pertaining to t ri world's ?nmiol consumption which rubber. It is stated that during 1907 i .r0llnd figures during 19oT was 70.- 1S0 tons of plantation rubber was n(i0 tons. About 38.000 tons of this shipped from 'one town located In the amount comes from th Amazon region. Mexican "rubber belt." One hundred Mexico and Central America. The anil fifty tons have been shipped from Amazon product is known to the trade tne same piace irom January to juue, as t'apa rubber. and when first im ported was obtained from t lie trees growing near the. city of Para at the mouth of the Amazon river. 1 he wim supply is entirely dependent upon the native gatherer who, to obtain tho maximum quantity, has systematically destroyad these valuable trees for two generatwms. The consequence Is that today tho natives have to penetrate fully 8,000 miles Into the Interior of the Amazon country and wade around In morass and swamps to obtain It. There) are no Inhabitants In the section referred to and the natives from the coast have to go after this supply. It has been authentically stated, and there 1908. Now this is more rubber than wps shipped from Ceylon In any- year prior to 1906. It Is more than was Shipped from the Malay states In any year before that date, which, as stated caused the rubber Tioom in Kngland, and it ls coma about so quietly that most persons who read these lines will proba"iy be surprised. One hundred nnd eighty tons or so of rubber considered alone Is not of so much Importance; considered as the product of planted "Castllloa" trees In Mexico and" evidence that such trees can bo cultivated profitably. It is a matter of very real Importance to the owners or e oral millions or planted Is no question as to its truth, that everv trees who have been waiting for assur- ton 0f rubber coming from the Amazon ances that their money had not been region costs a human life. Not milv thrown away. tiat Dut It costs at least 75 cents gold The "Castllloa Elastlca," native of per pound to get the rubber out. Mexico, many thousands of them of all The annual Increase In the world's ages growing wild In the "rubber belt," consumption for the past ten years is Is now known as the most prolific pro- about 10 per cent. Taking this as a ducer and the earliest In maturity of basis, the demand by 1912 will amount tn t ivil AriAelAa Dial ftra i ) H i - 1 ew . . Ann a x' ' , ,, , . . . ... .... - . . . - f " V ' "-' wv.,jv Jl 111 Illlf.lfUU KIMS. i(IW. IT 1? WH1 KT I1U I were n nefftiarime auantuv so iar as us nay ananas now resoivea itsetr inta fnmn.orMnt r v, . i. v,- (. ,".." ., . . the general Investor wa. concerned have a permanent thing. demon.tr.7ed taf thl tr"ee respond, tnV w' Id .,,3v Is rX.dTv , ecrTasini very prollfically to the "spiral," or new and the problem presents Itself to tho runrjer manufacturer as to where this extra JO, 000 tons Is to come from, if liber acrengo acreage that Is In conteni "U. t '.'ft. k V M TAPPING. A RVBBEB.TRB'B. prices. An extract from a brilliantly) complied official report on agricultural In the Malay states during 1906 says: "It has been shown over and over agalrtg that the output from every rubber plantation at present In existence, when every tree Is In full bearing, can-, not possibly affect to any great extent, or In any permanent mannerjthe legltl-; mate profit .which the proprietary!, companies should, and unquestionably , will, earn." ' Imrlr.g the last ten calendar years,' from 1X98 to 1907 inclusive, the Imports) I Into the United States amounted to. 572,300,202 pounds valued at $470,581,-! r,40. a larger amount having been lm-; ported ami consumed In Europe. The prooiem presented to mu manu facturer of rubber Is a serious one, because, he not only has to continually replace rubber articles In dally use, but has to supply the rubber for new arti cles that are continually being offered to the trade. An Iron tire, for instance, (, will sometimes outlast the vehicle, but i a rubber tir2 Is of short life, and they' have therefore not only to keep re J newlng the rubber tire while the sam ! vehicle Is In active operation, but COO-j stantly supplying new tires for. the newr; vehicles. -Ilence, the demand Is con tinually Increasing while the supply !!. not. It Is offlclaly stated that upwards of $1,000,000,000 of foreign capital la invested In Mexico. Of this amount, be tween $200,000,000 and $300,000,000 Is American capital. $30,000,000 of the lat ter being Invested in rubber culture) alone. 'J.'ne owners of this vast amount! of money, which has developed the re-J pumic into us present conditions or ac tivity and business progression, have, and are realizing, large return' on their investments which consist or various industries, such as railroads, man ufacturers, electrical plants, mlnlngv and agriculture. Under our "Monro doctrine" the United States la bound to protect this invested capital, both local and foreign, and the Mexican govern- men i realizing its dependence upon oui side capital to develop the natural re puttlon of planting was In bearing, It producing countries would be greatly sources of the republic has demonstrat Blnce reported nrofit. and declared dlv- Un to 1906 the shimnents of rjlanta- l lends well calculated to make share- tlon rubber from Ceylon or the Malay tapping system. lrCihlers in old-fBshloned industrial en- states amounted to less tnan 200 tons. Th amount rf ni.ni.iiAn -,,, terprlses green with envy. Coal and and It was thl amount coming into the Ing Into the market amounted In 1907 all th present planted rub Iron companies, catering companies, mo- London market that created the "boom" to about one and one-half per cent of and all the acreage that Is null! not nearly supply the coming em-tailed This would cause a shortaee deficit. The condition of the world's of the 88,000 tons from the Amaion market points to only ono conclusion region and the 30,000 tons of natural for the future and for a great many expansion above referred to. to say yearH to come, and that is continued nothing of that from the Congo, which high prices. 1-et us suppose that prices would make the shortage more than the of rubber Should drOn tO 7fi cants nftP nfn-nt wapIiI'b tmnnlv Tt cn ihArA. pound. Tho output of 88.000 tons from fore, be readily seen that there Is no ed its own ability to extend the sama protection and promulgate Impartial laws Just as any of the great powers of the world protect their foreign investors Java has hertofore been considered the most fertile and proliflo of all tropical countries, but within recent! the Amaion region would Immediately prospect for a great many years at years experts have conceded that trop-J cease and a great part of the output least of cheaper rubber, but on the leal Mexico excels In fertility any other from the Congo ami other wild rubber other hand we may look for higher country in the world. J HUMAN NATURE STUDIES IN PORTLAND POSTOFFICETkouSand8 Who Sk ow In and Outs of Character kVliile AVaiting to Receive Letters From Home Bv James r. Howe. world, they haven't the slightest idea HUMAN nature, with all Its joys, wllJ eventually received , .... , ,. a that they have fallen heir to a fortune hopes, .orrows. anticipations and or ,omething equally s;ood will de ' numerous other little attribute, velop In their favor, which go to make up ths way Then. there 1. the girl with the sweet er this cruel, this kind and this Perhaps her parent, object to . her receiving mall from some partlc unsympathetic old world, may be seen ulBr fritni An(J ,h, immediately re sin' dny In the week and on Sunday at ort to Uncle Bsm's general delivery almost anv hour in ths corridor of window. rri-ti,i,v.i nnsinffiM ura it that An' theft there are the married men Portland s postofflce. Here It is that an(1 womnbut tn, Icss ,ald about thousands of people post their letters them the better. and receive their mall which brings But the look upon the faces of tnem bad news and good tiding, from nne?;;rng1t1hbullg Kt dear ones In all parts of ths world. of anticipation. After applying for l;ns, young and old. climb the steps their mail, however, or receiving It, the r.f I nele Sam's building in Morrison face,, n m0st instances, ch.nse ma street, one after the other, all with ths urially. Perhaps it . disappointment hope of receiving some information that Is written on th. feature, because from a relative, a friend or a sweet- there I. no letter. Or even wor.e heart And going in and Out all day parhaps the letter Just received ha. are the glris and numerous old women, brought bad news. Instead of some all bent on the sam mission. thing encouraging t. had been hoped Ferhaps some one of the family who for. Isc been awav for years haso bean Anj than the recipient slowly nd ha?rd from for month.. N.turally, In d!r leave, the building. Eventually such families the member, become wor- courage returns, and the dally trlr. to rifd and more particularly the dear old the general delivery window are con mother. And it Is she the other, are tinned Others ra awav inmruiW the Bontofftce. stande In Hne at the general rtellverv w indow and then goes nwsv sadlv disappointed. M"r persons and f B mil lea Tee! y antrance of Portland', nnatofflea Kuti mstl at the general delivery window ing. Tou will sea life there real hu f"r various reasons. Borne have only man Ufa. All of the little ecenee and re entlv moved tn Portland, and inform Incident, will not be pleasant per their correspondents to addres. them h.pa, and some will sort of stick In Ii. tM way. Hundreds of others are your mind and heart for a while but continusllv moving from ons home to If you stay long enough you will he snother. sna) on thl. account always coma accustomed to It It's Ilf. lunt have their mall sent cars of the general common, plain, everyday life. That's delivery winttow. And than thers Srs all. " the tinfortunstes who hare no home One dally visitor to the po.toffica Is no other pla-e in the world to which sn old man. aged and bent with time they can have their letters addressed. Now and then at long Intervals he re It Is this class priarlpally which reives a letter, but It isn't the one tbst r.uae. a contin-i.l tream of persons he hsa been looking for all tbeaa ynr to be wending th-lr respective ways In Tottering slnng over the well-worn end out of the postofflce all day and pavements, aided bv Mi oane, thl. old fsr into tha night. man has been golns- to the office ao tome people live In the hop of re- long that ba hs. become familiar to all rlvtre a letter Thay anticipate and of the employes. He Is known sa tha log forward with the thought that the mrt regular visitor to the building tr will bTl"r ttKl new. Roma lm- Twenty odd years agn a son th tins thst from somswbsre. In lis one left Fortiand on a sail tog ycsseL -who makes dally trips to happy and much relieved. If you have an hour or two that Sou want to put to good advantige any ay, Ju.t .tend around In the main He never returned. The .hip landed In France; It seems, but the old man In Oregon never received a word from the young man who had gone away. Then he began living lm hope. hopes and longings that some day the boy would send his father word that hs was alive and doing well. But no uch nes ha. ever been received and the old man con tinues to visit the general delivery win dow believing that the long looked for letter will some day come. Days have grown Into weeks, weeks into months and months Into years twenty and mors of them but the old man still believes that the boy his boy will write. But the bo, now a man well along In year. If he is.allve. ha. never written. And the old father atlll walta. Incidentally, It may be mentioned that tha old man is not the only ons who has been expecting a letter for years a let ter that never came. "If yon want to study fsclal architecture-In Its various forms just spend a few hours a day hers each week." sail one. s close observer whose business takee him to tha postofflce every dav "This crowd Is .trlctlr American 6t course. foreigners, hundreds of them, come here for vsrlous purposes, but It Is the people of this oountryHn moat case, who go to rnake up ths interesting are number who never look pleased. Not even when they get a letter with good newa. "I saw a little Incident tha ether dav th.t made tears coma tn my eye. It w aa a meeting between brother and sis ter From hst I could sathr from their srtlona and eonve'aaticm both had left home rears ago. F-ach thought the other ws somewhere in another part of the world "Neither the vourg man ntr the girl had done r- ae! tn life sod each was desirous of k : ir e tve true farts from their parenta 'id other members of th family The giri bed. Keen rood locking at one time, perhaps, but h was worn snd haggard when I saw her. On ber cKeeka were little daubs of pstnt left on from (be night refre "The boy for ha wasn't ranch rora till a Ko nr rlMhea Which wera f rood quality sad at one Un la style. Incidents Rome walk fait, others slow. tuners loog pleasant and thers But now they were old and worn. Here they were, both In line at the general de livery window, because they hadn't a home or any place else on earth where they could receive their mail. "They recognized each other as soon as their eyes met. And then each looked away. The brother saw and he reallite.l that his sister had become one of the underworld. And he had never known It before. At the same time the girl saw that the boy had evidently gone wrone as there were signs of dissipation in his eyes. They talked a few minutes and left the building together. I noer saw the two again, but I have often won dered." Merrily this crowd theae letter seek ers, go In one door and out tha other. It Is the same old, old story e"ery day In the year. Old Uncle "Jam has so manv grand children depending and looking forward to his delivery of their mall that his system has become the greatest in tne world. The people have made, nlr) I'ncle Sam snd old Uncle Sam Is assisting to keep ttjm together as muoh as possible. Cnpld and Spoiling IWorm. "Hands across the sea" are stretched. full majiv a time. I wis And live, are iinked as law provides though Cupid goes amis. All our dally papers ehror.Trla, ever and anon. Some new alliance, made abroad, with duke or esrl or Jon. TVirls Pollare Weds a rmke" Pat ronymic 1s r Ke; Her papa, smiling broadly seven mil lions says hell pay') Feline" lUrkrote and Lord Lackrotn Mat In Sunnv June;" (Her rs'er "pars the pipe--- and flra million. 1. the tune' "TsJy ructa Captj'es Count" -lordly manor rone tn rsrk; (Dueata. fenlor. glvea a ateel plant to gei in casti nara i "Pauline Parker Pllrbra Hr Trth to Price Poormarekl Busted." (Roaslan nobles, tfr-urk with Joy. Ameri cana, disgusted' "CJiadya Oohlmlne Qrahs Hie Orae" reads anoiher f aring head. (And nil forthwith lunps a point or two. so these two may wed' ForsoVKh. Pan Cupid ssrely has reform In spelltna- tried. Ha stl'l spelis bridegroom finance but finasc spells t bne- J. . RauaattaU. AN INTERNATIONAL FOURTH OF JULY--IW Springfield, Mass., Keeps tlie Kids Busy With Games By Mary VI da Crk. IN ALL the clamor against the fire and blood and tentaus of the Fourth of July, there are mighty few prac tical suggestions of new kinds of celebrations. Springfield, Mass.. has such a suggestion more than that, for it was tried this year, and It worked. One of the formulas of Springfield's success appeared to bo, so completely oc cupy the boys and glris as to leave a minimum of time for the devastation of life, limb and prorprty that inevitably results from too much playing with fire. A procession of school boys, forming at 8 o'clock and marching at 9. followed immeo'iatelv by outdoor sincing and speech making with a balloon ascension nt nwn to finish off the morning, games and folk dames, athletic eor.tfsts and boat mces beginning an hour later and lasting until it was time for hand con certs and public fireworks all this gave the boy who was set on blowing up himself or setting fire to his own or his neighbor's house hard work to empty his hands for the works of fiaian. As a result the fire engines stayed in their stations and the doctors to, k a holiday. While th astute committee, which had the day in charge, deserve, credit for Us Indirect life-saving work. Its mora significant contribution to the cele bration of the day was its Interesting conception of the spirit ef nationality that o'ir great American holiday might be made t i express. For one the con tribution to American life t.y the Pil grims and Purttsna was put In Its place, a large and Impiirtant place, but not the whole, and some other and more recent contributions to our civilization were also glvan s placvS?, The various rift finalities represented In th city were Hfvtted to Join the pro cession, presenting themselves In what ever national aspect they might seleet. Poms II reepondct ail In fact, except tha Jew a. who ra obliged t decline barausa the Fourth fell on Faturdar. Tfca cations ram in huge floats sail ing tnateatiralrv up tha main street. First came tha Swedes in a Viking ahlp with, stalwart yellow -haired rowers at tha oars, the English recalled the Magng i hart; tre fMch shewed their Uuera Mary, pread by bare-kneed, aiited Highlanders, swinging along with their tartans flying, blowing real bagpipes; the Irish . delved Into their remote past and produced VoIumLllle Pleading- for the Bards." Thero are some I'.oou Greeks In the city, and the men, whose melli fluous names distinguish our ia:idy and flower shops, arrae.l in classic robes, with flowing bear. Is showed us Socrates. Plato, Pericles anil Lycurgus. and there followed after them, with graceful sym bolism, some F.ii voting Greeks holding the sides of a hupe American flag, while over their shoulib-rs they rarrle.i smaller flags of their'natloTiHl hl(l and white. The adaptable Hailing, eager tn provs their present glorious likn their past, followed up their Mlehelangl." and Gal ileo with Marconi ,The French, coining by way of Canada, with Sf vi-isl appro priations for thus fai. exhibit1 1 I'hain plaln In his boat on the St. I.iwrence. William Tell was re.-aile.i bv tie Ger mans. The Chinese grac.Lpuslv c inceded a native orchestra arid a hux-' barge of wotuierf il tapestries, but showed their personal preference by wearing Amerl tan clothe and riding in hacks. Hug merchants from Armenia displayed themselves and their families in gor geous em brol leries. against a back ground of magnificent hanrlngs. The Syrians posei in a splendid oriental court scene, the poles furnished a hand. A group of fine looking Negro veterans from a regiment that took Kort Wagner was the onl reminder ef the civil war. The procession as further enriched by Buffalo Bills entire show. which rhenced to ha visiting the city that day. with Colonel Cody himself on a beauti ful horse at the head. At th nri of the route the proces sion turned on itself, so that the thou sands of school boya wearing cotton sol dier suits and carrying wooden runs had an opportunity to se ths apotheosis of their "dairri" school matea, and th bovs who represented on barges scenes from the history of Prrlnrfield (nothing has happened In Srrlnrfield worth-dressing up for since the days of the Indians) coult compare their make-up with their paint1 and feathered, prototypes from the wild wast show. Purely no cltiiea of Sprlnrfleld, young er old. could se such a historical pa gear, t rf races and national It tea without raining aoma appreciation of tha nature of tha wiedera eontn button to our Ba ll onai Ufa, or ceuld toelp baring his our look broadened by soma' glimpse of thsii American of the future that is to com! out of this mingling of races and ofi race Ideals, or could fall to see the great I . possibilities for Improvement In thJ , amalgamation of many of these peoploj ' bringing traditions of such beauty and! nobility. , It does the Intolerant young Arrwri can no harm to be reminded that tho ancestors of his Greek and Italian schoolmates may have dwelt in marbl halls while his were naked savages,! roaming In the woods, even though h has a personal preference for tha naked savage. When Kngland Wonld Shlyer. From the Baltimore Sun. The control of the sea, means mora t Great Britain than to any other nation.' If the British navy were beaten end captured or destroyed England's posi tion as a world power would change wry quickly from that af a nation of tne first rank to that of tha second class. With tne British navy out of -istence an effective blockade would soon reduce the people of the British Islea to the verge of starvation. - John Bull can not feed himself. Ills own grata production doe not supply him wit hi bread for more than two months. It has been estimated that slg months af ter a blockade was Instituted th Brit ish cupboard would b bars and John Bull would have the alternative of sur rendering or starving, fid wonder, then, that excitable and imaginative Britons shiver with terror st the thoushl that Esnperor William may some day a navy big enough to try eesrlntiiis with KInr Edwards flet. Brilora jm-a the dinner tabl. It would b the re finement of cruelty for th kaiaer rf Germany to put th British fleet oat t-f action and put the BriHali ration r.n atsrvatlofi diet. B. fr the rairt nines of th fit II dinner pail. . Br, prs spend ll.60 year en rt ships In eomm'loii and adJ.ng ti vessels to their fleat A Xew Alarm dork. A Bohemias Iwventoy Jas C- alarm ei k whir et the sleeper, but a'r a -lishts teri t i t ii i ' tins.