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 because of 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.