OCR Text |
Show SERVES WITHOUT PAY IS ADMIRALTY HEAD Sir Eric Geddes Does Not Draw a Penny From the British Treasury. By International News Service. LONDON, Sept. 2-2. Sir Eric Geddes, the newly-appointed first lord of the British Brit-ish admiralty, who received his training as a railroad engineer In the United States at Pittsburg, Pa., and afterward on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, drawa not a penny piece of salary from the British national treasury. True, there are two or three other members of the cabinet who have patriotically declined to take the salaries attached to their offices. But they are very rich men; as, for instance, Lord Curzon and Lord Rhondda. This is not the case with Sir Eric Geddes. Ged-des. The fact of the matter is that at the outbreak of the war he was general manager of the Northeastern Railroad company of England, one, of the great trunk lines, and when his services were commandeered by Lord Kitchener to undertake charge of the railroad transportation trans-portation of the supplies and of the troops, the company arranged to continue his salary sal-ary throughout bis absence from his ordinary ordi-nary duties. SMnce then he has been a major general in the army and has been given the rank of vice admiral in the navy and has been, serving the government govern-ment in connection with the war in numerous nu-merous capacities, winding up as cabinet minister in charge of naval affairs. But he still remains unpaid by the state and dependent upon the salary which Is paid to him as general manager of the Northeastern railroad. |