Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1923, Page 80

6 Traveling About With King George and Others on - £’ BY SIR PHILIP GIBDS. 1 { MONG royal events which I had i to record was King George's coronation progress (hrough‘ Scotland, which was full of picturesque scenes . and romantic memories. The Scottish people were cager to prove their loyalty, and for hundreds of miles along the roads of | Scotland they gathered in vast cheer- ing crowds. while all the way was| guarded by Highland and Lowland | troops of the regular and territorial | armies. For the first time I saw the fighting men of bonnie Scotland, and | little dreamed then that T should see | tielr splendtd youth in the ordeal of usttle, year after year, and foreign flelds strewn with their bodies, as often I did, in Flanders a.:l in France. There were four or flve corre- spondents, of whom I was one,.al- lowed to travel with the king. We had one of the roval motor cars, and wherever the king drove we followed next to his equerries and officers. It was an asfonishing ex- perience, for we were part of the royal procession and in the full tide | of that immense, clamorous enthusi- | asm of vast and endless crowds which | awalted the king's coming. Our | eves tired of the triumphal arches, floral canopies, flag-covered citles and hamlets through which we passed, and of those turbulent waves of human faces pre:s @ to ouy carriage. Our e of the unceasing din of cifeers. toe nolse of great muititudes, the skirl of the pipes, the distressing repetition of “God Save the King” plaved by numerable brass bands. sung for hun- dreds of miles by the by masges of school children. by Scottish maldens of the universities, by old | farmers, standing bareheaded as the ! king passed. We pitied the man who had to pass his life In such a way, smiling, saluting, keeping the agony of weariness out of his eves by perate efforts ok % % I AM bound that spondents’ car brightened up the roval procession considerably. One of our part respondent was an Edinburgh cor- who has been made by nature in the image of a ¢ actor of great fatness, with ing «lr rs wearied in- crowds, des- to say the corre- ain film a full- G GEORGE AND QU KD moon face of benevolent aspeci. The appearance of this figure imniedi- ately following the king, and so quick | upon the heels of solemnity, had a devastating effect upon the crowds. They positively velled with laughter, belleving that they recognized their “movis” friend. Highland fers with rifles at the “present.” stiff and | impassive as statues, wiited, and grinned from to ear. Scottish lassies from the factories and farms, | whose eyes had shone and cheeks | flushed ‘at the sight of the king, had a quick reaction and shricked with | mirth. | They could not place the corre- spondents at all. Some thought we were “the foreign ambassadors. Others put us down as private de- tectives. We dined in ear old castles. lunched with Scottish regiments, saw the old-time ~splendor of Holyrood at night, with old coaches filled with the beauty of Scottish ladies pass- ing down the High street where once, in these old wynds and courtyards the nobility ‘of Scotiand lived and quarreled and fought, and where now barefoot bairns and ragged women Awell'in paneled rooms in direst pov- erty. Again and again they sang old Jacoblte songs as the king passed, forgetting his Hanoperian ancestry. and one sweet song to Bonnie Charlfe -“Will ye’no come back again?'— haunts me now, as I write. With the king, we saw the great shipbuflding works on the Clyde, where thousands of riveters gathered round the king, cheering like demons, and looking rather like demons with their black faces and working over- alls. The king was admirable in his manner to all of them, and, though his fatighe must have been great, his #ood nature enabled him to hide it. His laughter rang out loudest when he pagsed under the hulk of a ship on the stocks and saw scrawled hugely in chalk upon its plates: “Good old George! We want more [ing from MARY NATION. nese Dragon, the tricolor of France. the imperial colors of Germany, were | among the flags, which included those | of little nations with a few destroy- | ers and light oruisers as their naval strength. All the ships were “dressed” and “manned,” with saflors standing on the yard arms and along the decks, and as the king's yacht passed each ship the royal salute was fired and the crew cheered lustily in the echo of the guns—all but one ship, which was the Von der Thann of Germany. | No sound of cheering came from that | battleship, but the German crew | maintained absolute silence. Few noticed it at the time, but I remarked | it with uneasy foreboding. | 1 also contrasted it later with the | greetiug given to the kaiser by a| group of English people at Hamburg, not & year before the war, in which | Eugland and Germany devoted all| heir strength to each other's destrue- tlon. T was on a voyage in one of the | Castle line boats, and we put off at Hamburg to be entertained by the mayor in his palace of the Town Hall. The kaiser was expected, and: we lined up to await his arrival. It was | heralded by the three famillar notes | of his motor horn, and when he ap-| peared there was a loud “Hip, hip. | hurrah!” from the English party. | The emperor acknowledged the greet- | ing with a grim salute He ad love for Eugland then in his heart and believed, | think. in that “unver- meidiicher Krieg"—that “unavoidable war'—which was already the text of German newspapers. though In Eug- | land the warnings of a few men like Lord Roberts seemed,to be the fo ishness of old age, and popular imag- ination refused to believe in a world | gone mad and tearing itself in pieces for no apparent cause When that war happened, T caught a glimpse now and again in lulls be. tween its monstrous battles. of the | man I had seen when he went weep- | the bedside of King Ed- ward; whom 1 had seen bowing his head under the burden of the crown which came to him vhom 1 had fol- lowed in triumphal processions | through his peaceful kingdom— | peace seemed so lasting and secure, then—-and who had come to visit his youth of the empire, dying in heaps | | | | no in | away before the Germans had Ie: | guards, | camp behind | remember T at ease and lingered. far too long, as' the generals thought. among the ruins of a convent, reduced to the gize of & slag heap. on the top of the hill looklng over the German lines. | As though they were aware of his Vislt, the Germans put down & very stiff dose of five-point-nines on the very spot the king had been standing. but a few minutes too late, because he had just descended the slope of the hill and was examining one of the monster mine crat which we had blown at the beginning of the battle. lle was there for ten minutes or so. and had hardly moved th- The a where ened their range and laid harassing fire around the crat, king adjusted his steel hat, laughed, while the Prince of W strolled about. looking rather bored The prince did a real job out there. as an officer of the “Q" side of the he was not supposed to o Into the danger zone, he was con- stantly in forward places which w not what the Tommies called resorts.” I met him one day into Vermelles, which was a ve ugly place. Indeed, with death on the prowl amid its ruins. He and a divi- sional general left their car on the edge of the ruins while they walked forward, and, on their return. found that their poor chauffeur had had his head blown off. e NOTHER time when the king saw | A a little of the “real thing” was | when he visited the guards,in the lines near Pilkem their Their headquarters was in an old monastery, and the king and the offi- cers 100k tea in the garden. while the band of the grenadiers plaved selec- tions from Gilbert and Sullivan it was when th 1th Eoing | playing “Dear Little Buttercup” that HORTLY AFTER THEIR CORO. defense of their race and power d tradition, as they truly belleved and as. indeed, was so, whatever the wickedness and folly that led to that magsacre. on the part of statesmen of all countrles who did not foresee and | prevent the world conflict. * ¥ ¥ ¥ N his first visit the king was mot O allowed to get anywhere near the firing line, but was restricted to base areas and hospitals and con- vrlescent camps, and distant views of the battlefields. On his second visit he insisted upon going far for- n PRINCE HENRY. Beer! * ok ok K NOTHER great scene of which I was an eyewitness was the king’s coronation review of the Brit- ish fleet at Spithead. 1t was a mar- velous pageant of the grim and silent power of the British navy as the royal cht passed down the long avenues Baatleships and cruisers, in per- ~ect line, enormous above the water iine, terrible in the potentiality of ward, and would not be déterred by the generals, ‘who . naturally, were! intensely anxious for his safety. With another war correspondent— Percival Phillips, .1 think—I went with the king over the Vimy ridge, where there was always at that time the chance of meeting a German shell, and to the top of “Whitesheet hill," which was a very warm place, in- deed, for a few days after the battle thelr great guns Every navy in the world had sent a battleship to salute the king-admiral of the British navy. The Stars aid Stripes, the Rising Sun 9t Japan, the Jong. colls of the Chi- |t which captured it. The Prince of Wales was with his father, and by that time well hardened to the nbfse of guns and shell bursts.: Toithe kiog s all ney, but he.was perfectly. three German airplanes came head, flying very low. To our imagi- nation they seemed to be searching for the king, and we expected at any moment they would unload their bombs upon his tea table and his| body. Our antlaircraft guns imme- diately opened fire, and there was a shrieking of three-inch shells until | the blue sky was all dappled with | the white puffs of the “Archles.” The | enemy planes circled around, had a good look, and then flew away with- out dropping a homb, much to our relief, for one good-sized bomb would have made a horrible mess in the guards’ camp, and might have killed | the king. That afternoon T was trapped into | a little conspiracy against the king by the old abbot of the monastery. | He was immensely anxious for the| king to sign the visitors’ book. but the officers put the old man off by| various excuses. Feeling sorry for| his disappointment,-I promised tosay ! over- a word to the king's aide-de-camp, and advised the old gentleman to intercept the king down the only path he could use on his way out, carrying the great leather book and a pen and ink, so that there would be no escape. This little plot suc- ceeded, to the huge delight of the abbot and the monks, who afterward gave me their united blessing: On'the king's first visit to the army in France a.most unfortunate acci- dent happened, to' him, which was very painful ,and serious. He was reviewing, the:Brigade,of, Guards on & road out of-Bethune, mounted.on & 'like an ordinary HE ' SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, KING GEORC horse which ought to have been proof gaiust all the mnoise of military maneuvers. But it was too much for the animal's nerves when, at the con- clusion of the review, the silent lines into deaf- + horse reared three of guards suddenly broke ening cheers times and the king kept his seat per- fectly. But the third owing to the greasy mud. the horse slipped and fell sideways. ling over the king nerals dis nted and ran to where he lay motionless and a lit- tle stunned. They pleked him up and put him into his motor car. where he sat bhack feebly with a look of great pain. 1 happened to be stand- on a bank immediately opposite, of the xeited, 1 time, and a nd on to and ert war ran men possible for me. as a t. to give any such or- der. and_ indeed, it was too late, for when thé king's car moved down the road the other battalions, who had the accldent, with mense vollevs of enthusiastic The king tried to raise his hand to the salute, but had not the strength. He had been badly strained, suffered acute pain and that night was in a high fever. On the following day saw him taken away in an ambulance Ity and no sol- diers in the little old town of Bethune knew that it was the King of Eng- land who was passing by x % % % up not see cheered im- noise. FORE the end of his second visit the king received the five war correspondents who had followed the fortunes of the British armles in France through all their great bat- tles and he spoke kind words to us, which we were glad to hear. Looking back on carecr as journalist. T know that I would not change for any other. Fleet street which I called In a novel the street of adventure, is still my home, and to its pavement feet turn again trom whatéver part of the world 1 return. When T first entered the street twenty years ago, alas! the social status of press men was much lower than at present, when the pendulum has swung the other way. so that newspaper proprietors \ear coro- nets, the purlieus of Fleet street are infested with barons and baronets and even reporters have been knight ed by the king. In my early my a my journalist did not often get nearer to| a cabinet minister than the hall por- ter of his office. Tt was partly his own fault, or, at least, the fault of those who pald him miserably, be- cause the old-time reporter—before Northcliffe, who was then Harms- worth, revised his salary and his status—was often an ill-dressed fel- o i T S CHILDREN OF THE KING AND QUEEN. OF ENGLAND IN SCOTTISH DRESS. LEFT TO RIGHT: PRINCE GEORGE, PRINCE ALBERT, NOW DUKE OF YORK; PRINCESS MARY, THE PRINCE OF WALES AND low, conscious of his own social in- feriority, cringing in his manner to the great and content to slink round to the back doors of life rather than boldly assault the front-door knocker. Having a good conceit of myself and a sensitive pride, I received many hard knocks and humiliations, which, no doubt, were good for my soul. I resented the insolence of soclety women whom I was sent to interview. Even now I remember with humili- ation a certain duchess who demand- ed that, in return for a ticket to her theatrical _entertainment, I should submit my “‘copy” to her before send- ;E AND HIS STAFF AT ARMY MA king's aide-de-camps, | days a| JUNE 17, ERSIN E ing it to the paper. Weakly I agreed. My annoyance was extreme when an| insolent footman demanded my art cle and carrled it on a silver salver, at some distance from his liveried body, lest he should be contaminated by so vile a thing, to her grace and her fair daughters in an adjoining room. I heard them reading it and | | | their mocking laughter. 1| raged at the haughty arrogance of| young government officials treated me as “one of those damned fellows the press. I laughed bitterly and savagely at -a certain mayor of Bournemouth who revealed | in one simple sentence (which he| | thought was kind) the attitude of| public opinion toward the press, which it despised—and feared “You know,” he told me in a mo- ment of candor, "I always treat jour- nalists as though they were gentle- | men.” For some time I disliked all mavors because of that confession, and a | vear or two later, when conditions were changing. I was able to take a | jovous revenge from one of them, | who was the mayor of Limerick. | He did not even treat journalists as though they were gentlemen. He treated them as though they were ruffiians who ought © be thrust into the outer darkness. * ok ok % i NG EDWARD was making a royal progress through Ireland— it was before the days of Sinn| Feln—and, with a number of other correspondents, some of whom are| now famous men, it was my duty to await and describe his arrival at Lim- | erick and report his speech in an-| swer to the address. Seeing us standing in a group, the mayor demanded to know why we/ dared to stand on the platform where the king was about to arrive, when| strict orders had been given that| none but the mayor and corporation| and the guard of honor were permit- | ted on that space. “Get outside the| station,” shouted the Mayor of Limer- | ick, “or I'll put-my police on to ye!” Explanations. were useless, = Pro- tests did not move the mayor. To |avoid an unpleasant scene we re-| tired outside the station,indignantly. | {But T was resolved to get on that platform and defeat the mayor at all costs. 1 noticed the appearance of an officer In cocked hat, plumes and full uniform, who T knew to-be Gen. Pole-Carew, commanding the troops in Ireland and in charge of the royal journey. I accosted him boldly and told him the painful situation of the correspondents who were there .to describe the king's tour and record his speeches. He was courteous and kind. Indeed, he did a wonderful and fearful thing. The mayor and cor- on poration were ‘already standing on a| red carpet inclosed by brass railing 1923—PART -5. Adventures of the Correspondents Who Were Permitted to Accompany Parties Describéd by ol One of Them—LExperiences With the Kaiser in His Days of Association With: Britons—Insol- ence From Petty Officials Which Is No Longer Tolerated by Representatives of the Press— Turning the Tables on the Mayor and Corporation. : ¢ ¢ TSI DDA T AT DDA AT DA A DA DA DDA AN immediately opposite the halting place of the king's train. Gen. Pole- Carew gave the mayor a tremendous dressing down, which made himgrow first purple_and then pale, and or- dered him, with his red-gowned satelite, to clear out of that space to the far end of the platform. Gen Pole-Carew then led the newspaper (| the wrong costume. | elifte (then Alfrea Harmswosth). who .&ave me good advice on the subject |at the outset of my journalistic ex- | perience. “Always dress well,” he said, “and| | never spoil the picture by being in| 1 like the ap-| | pearance of my young men to be a| | credit to the profession. It is very | important.” | | That advice, excellent in its way, | was sometimes difficult to follow,| owing to the rush and scurry of a| reporter's life. It is difficult to_ be| | correctly attired for a funeral in the| | morning and for a wedding in the, afternoon, at least 8o far as the color| of one's tle. | I remember being jerked off to a | shipwreck on the Cornish coast in a| tall hat and frock coat, which startled | the simple fishermen who were res-| | culng ladtes on a life line. A COLLEAGUE of mine who spe-| | clalized in dramatic criticlsm was | suddenly ordered to write & bright| | article about a garden party at Buck- | | ingham Palace. Unfortunately, he| | had come down to the office that! | morning in .a blue serge suit and { straw hat, which is not the costu worn on such oceasions. One of the king's gentlemen, more concerned, 1 am sure, than the king, at this breach of etiquette, requested him to con- ceal himself behind a tree. | I once spent an afternoon with the | | King of -Spain and his grandees, though I had no right at all to be| in their company. It was at the mar- |riage of a prince of the house of | | Bourbon with a white-faced lady who | |had descended from the kings of | France in the old regime. This cere- { mony was to ‘take place in an old| English house at Evesham. in the orchard of England, which belonged to the Duke of Orleans, by right of | blood heir to the thirone of France, as might be seen by the symbol of the | fleur-de-lis carved on every panel and | imprinted on every cup and saucer | in his home of exile, where he kept| up a royal state and looked the part,, | being a very handsome mam and ex-| ceedingly like Henry IV, his great| | ancestor. | The Duke of Orleans could not! ,abide journalists and strict orders were? given that none should be ad- | mitted before the wedding in a paste- | board chapel, still being tacked up * ok x x | ~ To Assist ORE PRINTING for dogs is the latest {dentification de- vice to be perfected, to pro- 5 tect the claims’ of legiti- mate owners and blast the hopes of | the dog thief. 4 Fred Sandberg. police headquarters |expert in identification work, is the father of the new system. He takes the nose of the dog and makes it tell the same story that the finger of the | | | |human tells for identification work. | demonstrated Need for such a system has been with cumulative fre- | quency in recent years, according to experts in dog breeding and fancying, because of the numerous disputed court claims as to ownership of dogs, as well as because of the prevalence of 2 practice of selling non-pedigreed dogs with a spurious claim to descent from .noble canine forbears. For {nstance, Mr. White and Mr. Black hive a case in court regarding the ownership of a prize poodle. The | poodie has been in the illegitimate custody of Mr. Black for several | k8. Mr. White finds his missing | dog, held by Mr. Black. A court case | results. How is the ownership of the | dog to be provea? J Generally, the case simmers down to | |2 point where Mr. Black and Mr. | White are placed side by side and | instructed to call the dog. Often the KING GEORGE AT THE TIME OF THE WORLD WAR. men to the red carpet fnclosed by brass railings. It was.to us that the address which was handed to him, while thé mayor and corporatior glowered sulkily. * * o * TNDULY elated by this victory. perhaps, ohe of my colleagues, who had been a skipper on seagoing tramps before adopting hazardous profession of the press, re sented, a few days later, being “coop- ed up” in the press box at Punches- town races, which King Edward was to attend in semi-state. Nothing would content his soul but a place on the roval stand. I accompanied him to the fun, when. without challenge, surrounded by princes and peers of Ireland, at the top of the gangway up which the king was to come. I think thiey put down my friend ‘the skipper as the king's private 'detec- tive. He wore a blye reefer coat and a bowler hat with a curly brim. By good luck I was-in a tall hat and morning suit, like the rest of the com- pany. = Presently the king came in a little pageant of state carriages, with out- see | riders in scarlet and gold, and then, with his gentlemen, he ascended' the gangway, shaking hands with. all who were assembled on the stafrs. The skipper, who was a great patriot| and loved King Edward as a “regular fellow,” betrayed himself by - the warmth of- his_greeting. -Grasping the king’s hand In a sallorman’s grip, |'he shook it long and-ardently- and| expressed the hope that his majesty was quite well. King Edward was startled’ by this unconventional welcome and: a.téw | moments later, after some whispered words, one of his equerries touched the skipper on the shoulder and Te- quested him politely to seek some other place. I basely abandoned my colleague and betrayed no kind: of acquaintance with him, but-held to the advantage of my tall hat, and spent an interesting morning listen- ing to King Edward's conversation with-the Irish gentry. Prince Arthur of Connaught .was there, and I remember that King Id- ward clapped him on the ‘back and chaffed him betause he had not yet found a wife. “It's.time.you got married, young_ tellow," sald his fllu trious uncle. = . That memory brings:me to the im- portance of.clotbes, in the.career:of the more I but regretted | we stood, | | dog runs up to them and hands one paw to each. Suppose Mr. White is allowed to call his dog and the dog runs to him, and the same thing hap- | 1 pens when Mr. Black repeats the per- | formance, Who owns the dog? Again, how {s-a man to be surel who | King dward read out' his reply to| that when a dog is being sold to him it has a real pedigree, especially | when the dog is somewhat advanced ' in years? What is to prevent some dog quack from substituting a npu-l rious dog for a genuine blooded dog | which has died in puppyhood? It was these questions that started | Frea Sandberg working on a method of assuring identity of blooded ca- | nine pets. He went into conference with C. R. Rose of Ttaca, N. Y. ex pert in dog breeding. As-a result it| | was discovered that by. taking prints of the noses of .dogs the identity | could be established without fear of | future contradiction. Al The prints resulted in discovery | that numerous, dots, all of various | types of formations, make up a dog's | nose.. At first it was thought lhl(' thfs would ‘not aid materiaily In establishing..dog identity. Later re- sedrch, however, developed the fact that the dots were different not only in number, but also in size and form and alignment. Y Two police dog thoroughbreds which had been attracting attention in Washington by thelr exhibitions were gelected for the experiments. When it was discovered that such prints could.be made the-mext step was, to forniulate 'a’ plan'whereby they could be put to practical usa, i tlemen 1 Royal Visits [P DISOTTOT T U OTTUL OO I STV ITST OSSOSOy | 4 journalist. 1t was Lord .\'ort}a-land painted to represent a roval and 9 § é ancient . chapel. on the eve of the ceremony. For fear of anarchists and journal- ists a considerable body of Dollcs and detectives had been engaged to hold three miles of road to Wood Norton and guard the gates. But I was under instructions to describe the preparations and the arrival of all the princes and princesses of the Bourbon blood, who were assembling from many countries of Europe. With this innocent purpose, I hired a re- spectable-looking carriage at the liv- ery stables of Evesham and drove out to Wood Norten. As it happened, i fell into line witn a number of other carriages contalning the King and Queen of Spain and other members of the family gathering. Police and detectives accepted my carriage as part of the procession and 1 drove unchallenged through the great gild- ed gates under the ‘crown of France T was received with great defer- ence by the duke's major domo, whn obviously regarded me as a Bourbon. and with the King and Queen of Spain and a group of ladles and ger inspected the pasteboard chapel, the wedding presents, Ui floral decorations of the banqueting chamber and the duke's stables. Tie King of Spain was very me bright, and believing, no doubt. that I, was one of tiie duke's gentleme addressed various remarks to me i a courteous way. I drove back in dark, saluted by all the policems on the way, and wrote a descripti of what T had seen, to the great su prise of my friends and rivals Next day 1 attended the wedding and saw the strange assembly of ti old blood royal of France and Spa: and Austria. One of the Bourbor princes came from some distant par of the Slav world, and. in & heavy fu coat reaching to his heels, a fur ca drawn over his ears, a gold chai round his neck, and rings, no! only on all his fingers, but on his thumbs as well, looked like a bea that had robbed the jewelers' shops in Bond street. At thf wedding bar quet one of the foreign nobleme: drank too deeply of the flowing cup and, upon entering his carriage after ward, danced a kind of pas seul and hummed a little ballad of the Paris boulevards. to the scandal of the foot- men and the undisguised amusement of King Alfonso. (Copyright, 1023, by rights a Sir_Philip Gibbe. eserved.) Al Nose Printing Adopted Dog Owners Rose, who is occupied in dog breed ing. decided that in the future, whet a litter of pups arrived, each would be nose-printed, and the photograph « the nose dots would be placed in corner of the pedigree card Thus= the following result will be establish ed in ca a dispute regarding th- dog's antecedents or ownership arises in some future time: The dog’s owner will simply show his pedigree card with the nose marks &9 proof of ownership. The dog will be called into court and a print of his nose taken. If the animal in ques tion matches the nose print, the dis pute is solved without further dela: One handicap faces the present sys tem. The prints cannot be classified as a human finger ‘print can. Ther: are no whorls, or loops. or arches or deltas to allow classification as in the fingerprint alphabet. When a strav blooded dog is picked up, it cannot be identified immediately. “The classification of nose prints may be worked out in the future Mr. Sandberg declared. however. “We may be able to discover some means of segregating and classifying the dots. We are working on that now and may have something to announce before very long." Sandberg was formerly secretar: treasurer of the International A: clation for ldentification, and he member of the advisory board of the University of Applied Science of Ch cago, specializing on the latest dis coveries in identification work. He has alfeady succeeded in deve oping a system for taking prints of the noses of blooded cows and, for finger printing monkeys. His lates addition, dogs, however, promises fo eclipse his previous performances, Lifetime of a Watch. +XPERTS say that the lifetime of a good watch is fitty vears. Iu its dally. duties the balance vibrates 18,000 times every hour, 432,000 times a day, or 157,580,000 times a yea: The hairspring makes. a i number of vibratlons and an equa number of ticks from the escapement It it is & specially fine watch, mul- tiply 137,680,000 by 50, which gives 54,000,000 pulsations for 50 :eara The chances are that the watch. may even then be in serviceable condi- tlon. This is a marvelous record considering ‘the small gquantity of food that has beem eonsumed by its constant action. = Wé say food be- cause whatever labers must be. fed, and the watch “lives” on about 16 inches of mainspring every 24 hours, which furnishes the power. Oldest - Locomotives, HE' record for long life among raliway ‘locomotives s probably held by some of those running in Spain,” where engines built.in " 1849 may. still~be.seen at work, ;