Out and Home. By "The Extractor."
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When the talk turns to the problem as to which is the most lucra-tive business, every man stoutly -declares that his own particular line is terribly overdone, and, al'though the commercial vehicle is -obviously in the ascendant and is -undoubtedly now on a sound corn smercial basis, I found one pessimist engaged in that branch who sdenied the soft impeachment, and, .moreover, who asseverated that it was the newspaper business that stood out boldly as the ideal owlTation. When they succeeded in -bringing me round again, T explained firmly but kindly how ,Isa,dly things were tangled up in his :mind, and another who was pre-sent said he thought after all that -the best commercial proposition he :knew of was at the Zoological • --Gardens. There, he went on to -.explain, the Zoological people Asather up the broken pieces of -bread and cake which have already --been paid for, make them ap into -small packets, and sell them once .ssisore to a confiding public.
When I rang up Polaek Tyres a Ifew days ago I was told they were -in the throes of a, removal. The s-Polack in London has hitherto -been housed at the prbmises of .;-Poppe and Co., who, as everyone almows, control a most extensive Tubber business dealing largely -with bottle manufacturers and the
like, this business being under the management of Mr. Ludwig Poppe. Extensions of business have made it necessary to move into separate premises. By this Lime this is an accomplished fact, and the new address of the Polack Tyre Co. is Bassishaw House. E.C.
Charming photographs appear one of the recent illustrated papers of the Drummond family at Mole Abbey at Molesey. It was my good fortune to spend a summer day there last year, and the pleasantest recollections are stored irwa.y in the cellars of lily memory.
intimated at the close of last year in these columns that Mr. Arthur Drummond had departed for Australia in the interests of Drummond Bros., Ltd., lathe man ufaCtUrerb. I understand he has now visited the important centres of that colony and is greatly surprised by its resources. lie is now on the way to Canada.
Up to the time of writing, I cannot say that the business side of this journal has been affected much by the coal strike, and as far as I have gathered the consensus of opinion is that a few days will see the strike at an end. If it goes on for many weeks, it is obvious that many motor works must close. Some principals who take a more gloomy view of its possibilities foretell great individual calamities, but such a prospect seems to me extremely remote. Meanwhile railway facilities are shortening, and those of us who take constant long-distance journeys will have to resort to more Spartan methods of obtaining food supplies than formerly, because I note that all luncheon and dining cars are withdrawn. All these happenings, and taking into account the railway strike of last year, point to the fact that each one must provide his own method of road transport, so this present upheaval may prove a blessing in disguise to our branch of business, as did the railway strike in August last. Just as surely as a great devastating fire gives its fillip to the insurance business, so will this coal commotion demonstrate the usefulness of oil power.
I was interested enough to spend an hour or two last week going down to the " Selandia " at West India Dock. That oil-driven vessel is an instructive object lesson. I do not think it is generally known that the motive power in Rosebery Avenue for theprinting of our paper is a Diesel oil engine, the first to be fitted in London and the second in this country. We shall therefore be able to hold out longer than most people, but the community will set themselves to learn, as before, the lesson of the strike,