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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 121, 15 February 1919, Page 9

Henry. Ford, who revolutionised automobile construction, wants to revolutionise railway car construction. Ho criticises present-day rolling slock, as quoted in "Engineering, and Contracting":— "Passenger trains veigh 50 to 150 times as much as the passengers iii thoni. Four-fifths of a railway's work to-day is hauling the dead-weight of its own wastefully heavy engines iuid cars." The editor of "Engineering" comments: "If given adequate incentive, it is probable that in tho next twenty years there will he little left of our present railways savo their rights of way and station grounds." Dr. (loorgo Gibior Rimbaud, who lias been at the head of the Pasteur Institute on West 23rd Street, New York, for the past eight: years, has closed tho institute, laecepted n commission as major in the United ftlates Army, and has beeit ordered to France on active duty. In closing the institute he said that, it had served its purposo in introducing the Pasteur treatment, which is now available in all the lavgorjiospitals. During the past eight years the institute has cared for 10,020 -patients;'" &M 2 of whom wero treated without charge. (The cable news in this issuo accredited to the London "Times" has appeared in that' journal, but only where expressly 6tated is' such news tho editorial opinion of tho "Times.")