Business & Finance: Silk

It had come 10,000 miles from its northern worm, raw silk and silk goods, silk for hose and gown and pajama and whatnot. Chinese had tended it; Japanese had borne it across the Pacific of which commerce they are masters. It had arrived at Vancouver, safely unloaded from the N. Y. K.’s* Paris Marn. Safely it was stored in an 18-car train of the Canadian Pacific—$6,000,000 of silk. The world first heard of it when $1,500,000 of it (five car loads) lay wrecked and storm-strewn in the valley of Frazer River, only 100 miles east of Vancouver. Cause: derailment or broken car wheel. And the operators of the Canadian Pacific— than which no railroad is better known throughout the world—how were they to feel? They felt the more distressed becauseof their amazing record of having transported about $25,000,000 of silk every month for 20 years without damage to a single silken strand.

*Nippon Yushen Kaisha, (Japan Mail Steamship Co. ),greatest trade fleet on the Pacific.