MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1918,
"ENTERTAINMENT.
HARMSTON'S
AND'
CIRCUS
ROYAL MENAGERIE
OF
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PERFORMING WILD ANIMALS, LOCATION: CAUSEWAY BAY.
GRAND OPENING NIGHT - SATURDAY, NOV. 1st at 9.15 p.m. TARMISTON'S CIRCUS have much plussare in prosenting to the Pablic of Hony
30 IN NUMBER 30
OAMBLING DENS OF CALCUTTA,
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There are few, if nay, gambling dons, Thore Br.perly speaking in Calenta. are no gambling saloons bilden away in the alloys and by-laws of Calcutta where gabing and erine go hand in kend. It is trise, The Englishman says, that people gamble in Caleasta as they do in other parts of his world, but 'gam. bling in Calcutta la not associated with violent crime. The race-course and the houses card table in private clubs er
HINA MAIL.
No ons is forced to gamblo, anyons can leave tho tabk" whenever he desires
Almerity Atins
Houg for the Fiess Time the following all star Company of London and Contin-waits the erwing of Calcutta's gunblems More, the Chinese observe a restrains
Night Scenes in China Town Described, to do so. What is bemarkable for a gun- ng house, thero ago never any disputes aliout atakes. Eveil the roughest book- ing Chizes in the crowd tronta tho stranger with constey. Of course, there ars hangers on who volunteer to win a fortune for the novica for a considera. then, but they are also polite khates Bramble and want nothing more than a low cop- Britomart pers. Samatiraes, Burnsinn were froCadmus the kihtals also visit these ders, but they Cherub walk in, stake their money and go out, Clio
Fame the winners or losers, without anyone taking the slightesh artice of them.
Hampshire Kinsha Thom hre, however, a few places in gambling which is surprising to y
the feast of it. It is not uncommon to Molin hinapars, the China town of Calcutta,
see one of them losing consistently and Minotaur * wlacze night large sums of money pass from had to hunt. Situated out of the retiring empty-handed from the table Monmouth benton Bruck, unidse à maze of sorrow, with a smile. They may be bubbling Moorhen
over with excitement- but thiợp, in lan
Newcastle wling, fishy lanes, those places "are
Nightingale the ordinary citizen.shanting and wild gesticulations.
The Chine who frequent those places
Otter thods of the keepers of these gaming to all pisbatarebs, Ived working Morever, the tuneetanty as to the me- tuses keep away many who would peplo aul they gamble to while ass otherwise become frequent visitors. These the time-
ontal Artistes:-
Acknowledged by Press kud Palie to be the Finest Circus Touring the East.
Branko Y
THE COTTRELL TROUPE
(in Number).
It their Marvellous and Astounding Trampoline Acrobatic Acts,
Diable, Triple nail Testing Sersaalis to Shoulders, & More Detail
THE GAIETY GIRLS.
DIRECT FROM THE CRYSTAL PALACE, LONDON, Where for 20 consecutive weeks their superior Lancing, Graco and lexuty won for them the unstinted praise and admiration of a critical public.
THE DELROYS! THE DELROYS
Mest ap-to-dale JUGGLING Act in the World, Also that EXCRUCIATINGLY FUNNY QUARTETTE, SHADOW, MICKEY. LITTLE BROWNIE AND ROCOCO. Celebrated Clowns, Aciolate and, Grunts. GAST AND VORTEX
Champion Trick Cyclists.
AMBROSIA,
The Kilk of Roman Ring Performers.
T. RICHARDS,
Animal Tuner with his Performing Lions,
+
MASTER C. BRUCE
The Midgut Wonder
and the Well-Known Champion All Round Duo, MISS
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JENNIE AND W. HARMSTON.
innedible to
dens, if they can be called, are easy to final. Every gharrywall in the city knows them, but if one goes with a pre- ronevived picture of "dismally lit rodu. filled with eplem fgas and sinister hoking individuals his douted to dis appointment. These gaming houses are m a public thoroughfare, they am bril luntly it and the habitues ar rot og derers, or even thieves. No one asks the stranger in and no one encourages it to temp fortune either at fun-tan the other game played there which EMU, a convenience sako may be styled the Red Horse game. A notice is promi
OUR BEAUTIFUL ARAB STALLIONS AND PERFORMING PONIES.
OUR MESAGERIE CONSISTS OF PERFORMING
ELEPHANTS, LIONS. TIGERS, BEARS,
LEOPARDS.
BABOONS, MONKEYS, DOGS, Etc.
1L
.
WANTED-BARS OF MELODY.
The Essential Element of All Music.
Madseno Wala Luzdowska sets her self to answer the often-asked question.
Eis Britannic Majesty's Ships on the China Station.
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Tons. Guns I.H.P.
Commander
despach-venng" Admiralty tug
1850
9. 2000
Comdr, Arahibald Cochrane
Master W. Wout
river gunboat
710
2
900
Lt.-Comdr. E.
Priobard
Cruising Bongbong
#! Shanghai
river gunboat
10. 9
900
Licut Comdr. W. H. Darwill.
•Bangha
sloop
1070
8
1400
Commar. H. P. E. T. Williama
Shang
water tank and tug aloop
390
306
Master H. Smith
1070
1400
Comdr, Colin Mackenzie. D 8.0.
Shangla
torpedo bost destroyer
6200
Bongb
cruisor; 1st class
10,800
10 20,500
Capt. MR.
Hoogk
river gunbant
Kie
1900
Zt. Comdr, £. Ď, Marryat
Yang
leop
1040
Capt. . . . Pisco
Lačno
ervisor, 1st clase
14.800
27,000
Capt. E. B. Kiddle
Cruising
Ribble
cruiser, 1st class. river gunboat ..cruiser, 2nd class river gunboat torpedo boat destroyer torpedo boat destroyer
nen
92,1041
Capt. B. H. F. Bartislok
Hangker
180
NY
Com Alan Dizon
€
4800
12 23,000
Caph Froderick A. Povleti
Cruising
# 28
240
Lieus-Com. Malcolm Murry
Yangiama Khan""
..350
$300
Gt-Comdr. R. Wilkinsors
Hongheng
7800
Lt.-Comdr. E. J. G. Mackinnon
Rosario
depot ship, submarinos
980
1400
Comdr. N. E. Archdale
Hongkong
Robin
river genbost
25
9
It.-Comdr. Nash
Racdpipar
river gunboat
#5
2
240
Lt. Com. I. A. B. Hutton
Ronghany
Snipe
river gunboat
85
$
240
Lt-Comdr. Maurice B. Lesli
Tinglum Kumar
torpedo boat destroyer
330
4.
6500
Gunnse W. B. Ryder
Tamar
receiving ship
4650
-
Teal
river gunbont
100
BOC
2
Thistle
river gunboat.
710
960
torpedo-boas desti oper
15:00
7500
Hongtang
torpedo lat destroyer
355
*90*
Lieut.-Com. Boddam-Whetham
torpedo-bost destroyür
800
7,500
Comdr. Seymor **
torpedo boat destroyer
sen
5900
Lt. Col. R. Neville
river gunboat
195
9
BC0
180
$
500
It-Com. M. Blackword-
150
500
Et-Comdr. Lloyd
Taku
Usk Pourquoi notre musique n'estelle pas
Virago meliique in the French Tommal of Welland Whiting the International Musical Society,
The lament for the host art of melody Widgeon
the Hardiest of all anausis, anys the Woodcock
And a Waterproof Tents, which, unlike others, we have and will Guarantee nently displayed in the hall which was Nation. Peccini, has recently bom tell. Woodlark
to keep Everylady absolutely dry.
N.M.-Special Trams will Run to an from Ciress here and after exch Performance, Bucking at ROBINSON PIANO, CO. MATINEES-Every WEDNESDAY nil SATURDAY AFTERNOONS.
Performance st 4.v. Sharp, Daurs Open at 3 P.M.
Children Hali-Price e Matinees Daly. PRICES OF ADMISSION:
Fell Bos, 6 Senta, $15: Single Set Box, $3; Chairs, $2: Stalls. $1; and Gallory (Natives only), 80 Cents.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform Half-Price to the $1, and $2 Seata.
N. B.-Our Menagerie is opened daily for a small charge.
W. HARMSTON, Proprietor.
Hongkong, October 26, 1913.
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the visitor that only members of the ing us that all the theories in the world C.36 club ar slowed to stake omney at fangent to nothing without the one essen. C.57 tan or the Red Horse game. If visitors tid gjement of musie-melody '; and 0.38 we allowed to gamble, it is more brough Pad Dukan prophesies that the future035
the the innate Oriented courtesy of
of music is with the composer who will Chinamen than through any desire to
give us twenty bars of melody—ood win their money. The stakes are selad original melody. For melody, thes dem large, never more than five or six started souls are always insisting, is the rupees, and the total winnings for a
vital thing in unsic, the equivalent of right seldom rise higher than, say, fifty the idea in Buratare. They quote ap- sixty rupees. Even at times when provingly a remark attributed to Haydn. to the effect that melly is the chief thing, harmony serving merely to gra tify the car while Vincent d'Indy lays it down that is only melody that never grairs old."
excitement rims high there is no trace of over an attempt at cheating; the 'pro- codings are orderly and above board.
FAN-TANY
In fun-tan, a ghlong high table is, divided by two diagonal lines into four sections, bearing the numbers 1, 2, 4,
Madame Lankowska answers the query"," why is modern music lacking in me and The banker, who represents the lody with a delicate irmy. Because It is always club sits at one end of the table heart is nedern," she says,
the section hearing, the number 1. He the music of yesterday that is melodic, has a pile of toppers and a few rupees byar, to multe quite sure, that of the day
his side and a banketiul "of enwries (shells.) He takes some rowries out in a small basket, at random, places them on the table and covers them up with another basket. The betting then begins;
within a short space of time, nach soe- tion of the tubli ecntains its pile of coppers, each pil representing the amort staked on the particular member which the section bears. There are some who back two numbers 'nt a time, and
before, yesterday. How long is it since
the critics were railing at Wage for
river gunboat
river gunbeat
aubmarine
abmarice
abmarine
torpedo boat
torpedo bost
torpedo best
torpedo bost
240
Commodore R. H. Anstruther, C.M.t.Eongkomit
“It. Comdr. Hon. G. Stopford Upper Tangkem 3li
LA-Com H. R. N. Cottrell-Dormer Cruising
Lt. Comde. Maxwell,
Lt-Com, J. G. F. Berrott
Lt. Comdr. F. J. McGillowin
Lt.-Comdr. J. Grimes
It. Comdr. R. E. O. Pope
Lt. Comdr. Handley
Hoogtang
Honglow
Bong Long
Upper Yangice Blan
* Yangtane Hioner
Fangio Bear
Bangl
Hongking. Kongkong
Hongkong
Lt. Comdr. Stilemen
Lt. Comdr. Nicol
Lt. Comdy: H. W. Segraon
Flagship of Fico-Admiral T. H. M. Jorram, C.B., Commander-in-Chiod
Name
Kaiserin Elisabeth
Foreign Men-of-war on the China and Japan Station.
his unmelodiousness? Eren Strauss is Kaiser Frbz Joseph 1 Austro-Hungarian cruiser out moled already to the worried man
in the street, perpetually hanging on to Dupleix t the cont-tails of music and perpetually Kleber being whisked of his fact, Strauss is Decidee
transparent classic compared with Scriabine or Schoenberg. So has it all Argus. ways beón. Every great musician in Vigilante tum has been the murder of melody- theke put their money, not on the Wagner, Bethoven, Gluck, Back, and Peito tion but on the diagonal line between goodness only knows how many others. Dosdard de Lagree the numbers they fancy. There is noid not Bach's own sons go to Padre noise, no excitement. Tenso Laces, Martini to learn the secret of beautiful Chinese preponderating, only surround melody? the table. There are also a jet Euro pene, Eurasiars, West Indians, Malays, and Burmese occasionally to be seen play ing the game, but they come more out of curiosity than for greed of money. Slow-
*
Yet the vitality of melody must be enormous. It positively scene to thrive on assassination; for in spite of so many deaths and burials it is still alive, or at any reta was "alivo yesterday. Truly,
West Bloom
Weat R Borgkong.
Pag and description.
Tonsi
A.C.
Austro-Hungarian cruiser
4000L
4000
Daplains. Capt. Makorita Capt. H. Nauta
Last report ma
Fortbew
French armoured cruiser 10,014
30 20,000
Capt. Darclay
i
Rongkong
French stmoured cruiser
9770
12 19,600
Capt. Gouta
French gubboat
345
10 1300
Liedt. Vandier
Saigya
French river gunbost
180
5
570
Lieut. Dordet
Cantor
French gunboat
500
“Lieut" du Forvillise
Canton
Franch gunboat
Lieut. Callin
Tongk
French gunboat
Lieut. Dapay Datempe
Toaong
130
+ Fispship of Rear-Admiral Colloeb de Karillis, Commander-in-Chief, the French China Station,
Lynx
French sub-marine
Lieut. Bolais
Proteg
French sub-marino
Saigon
+ Styx Fronda
French armcored gunboat, 1788 french destroyer
10 1700
Lieut. Guillaume-Lonia
Saigon
380
7 30x
Lieut. Aurilinor
French destroyer
Cape de Frigate Romisen
French destroyer
130
300
Coudr. de Marquemar
French destroyer
3:07
6
300
French surveying-ship "
1825
LO 9000
Comdr. Vaisi
ly and imperturbably, the banker girosas Madame Ladowska says; Melodic T'berville
the sign that he is going to count the music is the music of yesterday: the Pistolet couries and asking the gamblers to keep music of te-day is not yet melodie; it
Mousquet their hands of the table. All eyes are will be so later on." now turned towards the basket contain- ing the couries. The banker takes a stick and with it be separates the couries in piles of four. As the big pile dimi
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It is noodless to dwell upon a pheno. Manche thenon that is ouo of the commonplaces of musical history, the fact that what is melody for one man is not melody, for another. But can wes not carry the mat. ter a little further still, and say boldly that melody, in the crdinary acoeptation of the word, has nothing whatever to do Jaguar with charm of the power of some of the Leipsig If there are two facut music in the world?
So adept are some of the Chipese gain blars at tho" business that long before the banker has come to the end of the pile of courics, they can tell one which nadkiber has woo.
22 13,900
Comdr. Vansdow Capt Bohncke Comdr. Bondenoun Capt. Mamborger Capt. Liest, Firle
Capt. Rösing
Capt. Liout, Berrenber
3600 Gennan cruise: German armoured cruiser 11,600 *
German gunboat
German gunbost
900 12.
22 13,500 36 28,000 900 12 1300 1300
Capt v.
Captain Bruninghaus Comiz, v. Grearen
*German craiser
Cacha
German, gunboat.
Nürnburg.. Otter
German craiser
3250
900 10
$400
24 11,000
1350
German river gunboat
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Scharnhorst 8..90 Taku Tiger
Jerman tagakip
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38 20,000
German torpedo-boat
400
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Gerama torpedo-Lot
280
6000
Obit. v. B. Claimees
German-gunboat
900
10.
1350
Comdr. Böcker
Tsinglaz
Vaterland
Calabels
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Italian cruiser
1900
Capt. von Moller
500
Oble. z. 8. Frie
4145
Portuguese cruiser. Portuguese gunboat Portuguese unboat.
1767
700
couries left over after dividing the pile into lots of our each, number 2 is de- clared the winner, if the remainder is 1, then number 1 wins and so also with 3. Bad when there is no remainder, num. ber 4 pays its backors. Number 1 te- taris even money, number 2. 2 to 1, number 3; 0 to 1 and number 4, 4 to 1.aloquence in scorch of emphasis is prome, If a rupee is placed on the line between without the least ides that it is indulg. 2 and 3, and 3 wins then eight annas ising In what is technically known as counted as lust and the remaining right thesis."!
Hoony! hooray thoo-bally. Arune 79 sad 60, fronting annas brings in one rapoo and
my!" is another good one. But tho very CONDUIT TO LOTSNAL ROAD, Both with 3 sight, less about four pice commission text, perlangs, in its triumph of convine Adamastor
ing vigour over, pedantic defensibility in Macro "Not at all not. a blooming tall!""* On" | Patria
recent rainy evening," a writer in the
BRITISH CONCESSION. “ SHANLEY, CANTON.
frontage of ninety feet on the road, and which the club taksos. with depth of 140) feat, together with the BUILDINGS aracted thereon. The
Nōke viscaTING STUL
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Capt. Anibal de 8. Di
Capt. Martins
Captain José de Carvalho Crato
Ensign 2. Mol. Murray"
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TO LET.
#EIRION, Nos. 9 & 10, Peak, un- furnished, Roots. Cheap rental, fres 1st December Newly Painted and Colourwashed.
Chancey Cincinnati
PERS
562
Loza will be sold either separately or The Red Horse for the Led Orz," together. This property will be up for a tao Chinese call it) game is more Chronicle goes on to say,
the ale at PUBLIC AUCTION, on premises cominerting at 11.60 .assinating than funtan. This also bus savour of the split adverb. It was lu THURSDAY, the 30th of October, 1913, s banker, & meraber of the club. Some framear, and the young lady from the
A6 if not sold privately before that date. The of the gamblers sit round an oblong table, sweet factory was anxious about her Undersigned reserve the right to reject all others stand around. In front of the bat. Sho sekid her companion-of bids if no scceptable birds are offered. ankees there are twelve dises bearing course she could not see her own but Parties interested may obtain particulars from
somo Chinese designs, six in red, ein in Is it spoilt abac-bally well-notly ?** THE CHINA BAPTIST
black. These are the King, the Queen, PUBLICATION SOCIETY, Tung Shan, Canton, China, Hongkong, Sept. 23, 1839.
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No. 68 Peak, MOUNT ELLETT, (Church Mision Society Bungalow) from 1st October 1913 till th May 1914, partly furnished, Cheap sont-
FOR SALE OR TO LET.
(From 1st November 1913.)
the Elephant, the Curt, the Horse and the gun in red and black. The banker 1149 hus smaller discs bearing these designs, is a big; he puts his hand in to jag.. selects one of them and pula Chem' in a small black box something like auft bok, and places the bor in the table in ful view of the other After every one has backed his fancy as they say
LESSONS IN CHINESE,
FR LA BON FAN, a Chinese graduate
Weed in literature, has been a torches
No. 1 GOUGH HILL, No. 103 Pak Bungalow containing Drawing, Diniogan Smoking .ums and Bve Bedrooms. With ground for Tennis Court.
·TOR BALES
!HARTING and BOUATE, on part of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1164,
pply to
LINSTEAD & DAVIS, Led Floor, Alemanden Balldings,
to European officials and merchants in Sale on the race-course, the healer Akow Colony ler over on yours, was small black box.
He has a good method of training Earoot the box open, end de disc. pans to paintha Chinses arazidemtion, and I the dine bears the Hed King's
possessed, of a list, made certifiante na 3 địa bäckors of
Chinese toschar. Be has also a good know that ataku mont ledge of Mandarin and Bakk
of the stako monogobe to the
Those who fatend learning the Chines
Fanguage" "are-requested a to write dare oś upo utaicas are very China, Mall-otics, of direct to
wood Road, Labor
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