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TWO VITAL FACTS.
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Lead in Cosmetics.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1925.
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"GREEDY STREETS."
CURIOUS HONGKONG NAMES.
HOW THEY AROSE.
What the Chinese Call Queen's Road.
(Special to the China Mail.)
the centre of the town?
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The local health returns for last week as furnished by the Medical Department disclosed no fewer than nine cases of cerebro-spinal fever, but of course such returns are not of such a detailed nature aa to give the ages of the patients. nor the causation of the fever. "It i would be well, perhaps, if the medical fraternity conferred
How many Hongkong residents not conversant with the Chinese together as the opportunity has been given at the Epidemics language know when they are on "The Great Horse Road," this being Bureau Cenforence in Singapore the vernacular for the Colony's best-known thoroughfare: and how and considered this evidently many are aware of the fact that there are two "Greedy S growing menace to the public health. According to a paper read at the fifth annual meeting of the Association for Research in
Chinese old-fashioned
Chinese Nervous and Mental Disease, held names and Chinese equivalents many
and the significance behind some houses can still be seen. in New York, a startling allegation of the translations. Reference to Street runs from exactly opposite was made. It was suid, that children in Manchuria die in such directory will give most of the the present temporary Central.
roads named after administrators Fire Station (Stephens' Build- large numbers from lead poison- and others prominently identified ing) to Queen's Road," Central. ing, due to the lead-containing with the Colony'a progress. In "Ham U Lane" was once "Salt.. powder used as a cosmetic by the space of this article, only a young mothers, that serious few of the lesser-known names meningitis, as the disease is called, will be mentioned." has become fourth in rank among Strictly speaking, the. Chinose the causes of infant mortality in for Queen's Road is "Great that country. There are, of course Road." Colloquially, it is "The many hazardous trades in which Great Horse Road," all roads in Chinese' engage, and in which lead China of a few feet in width, as and organic compounds of lead are distinct. from bridle paths and used, that there may be additions padi-field boundaries, being class- here to what is called lead dis-led as "horse roads.". Before, the eases leading to cerebro-spinal first, reclamation, Queen's Road fever. The subject is of sufficient was the only road.on the water importance in view of the recent front, hence its importance from number of cases of cerebro-spinal the Chinese viewpoint.. fever in Hongkong to warrant more than passing notice at the hands of the medical authorities and private practitioners.
Hongkong roads and streets, their famous "Man Mo" Temple where
Trade Marks
Many of the Canton streets are known by the trades established in them. There are a few such in Hongkong, but only "unofficial" names. Wing Lok Street West) is Rice Street because of the number of rice firms in it. Wing On Street (opposite the Lai Wah
Photo by Mae Fong.
fish Street" but its houses have been dismantled and it has de- generated into a scavenging lune for houses backing on it.
Century Crescent, Fung Wong Tol meaning Phoenix Terrace and Blacksmith's Lane all require ex- planation, as their origins are lost in obscurity. On the other hand, there can be little doubt about Chiu Lung Street, which is one of the many side-strects in town, joining the tram route to Queen's Road. It is just outside A Tack's store and the Chinese name of the firm is Chiu Lyng Tye.
Names which have impressive literal translations include Pak Tsz Lane, which is near Queen's College. and means "Hündred Sons" Sam" Ka Lane, meaning "Three Families:" Sze Kan Lane (For Houses"); Tai. Wong
Flower Street, the origin of whose name is patent to everyone.
The British law appertaining to trade mark and "passing off" cases. would not appear to be very clearly defined judging from the time that it has taken courisel to argue the "match case" before the Supreme Court, and even more obscure is that relating to the protection of industrial and intellectual pro- perty in China. A few weeks ago a book published by Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., was reviewed in these columns entitled "Protection of Trade Marks, Patents, Copyrights and Trade-nures in China." This contained information. which should prove of the utmost value to firms in Hongkong and "else- where as to the best measures to be taken to protect their interests, for there are to laws as we know them. affording protection; what there has been is more in the store) is "Flowery (Design) nature of diplomatic protection, Cloth Street" because it is the It was the opinion of the writer of home of local piecegoods dealers. the book, Mr. Norwood F. Allman, Silk piecegoods shops are known that the matter had not been given as "Soo Hung" houses; "Soo" bliss Besides which wars, adequate attention in the past by stands for Soochow" and "Hong" when they do come nowadays, are merchants, who are mostly con- for Hangchow, the centres of terrible enough to endure without cerned, or by officials. The Chinese Chinese fashion and elegance. it is asserted, do not manufacture Hidden away in the Chinese city the spirit having first been worn fraudulent imitations of foreign is a small street tunning into out by anticipatory anxieties. If articles, and redress should thera-Square Street and commonly this has been painfully true of fore lie in taking action in the mentioned as "Cow Hide Street
country of their origin or in the because of the number of leather past wars, it will be even more Consular Courts of those countries merchants who once transacted painfully true of future wara, whose nationals import such goods business there. They have since when the civilian will find, as some and sell them to the Chinese. migrated to other parts of the candid prophet has said. the front There are many of these imitated Colony.
One "Greedy Street" is in that and flene articles now on! line will be his own doorstep. But the market in China, and, as firms part of Stanley Street just above will there be any future wars? are liable to suffer greatly in this the Central Market and the other Remembering H. G. Wells's sage respect, any steps would be is beyond "Paddy's Market." In remark that nations armed for welcome which would contribute either place will be found count
to a better understanding. It is less stalls purveying cooked de- war will make war as surely as hardly a matter in regard to which licacies, ranging from a bowl of we should be the Hongkong Government can plain rice to the most mysterious inclined to say quite emphatically: move, but rather one for the mer- dish. yes, there will be more, many chants themselves' to take the more, wars before the world finally initial steps, at any rate.
hens lay eggs,
struggles through to abiding
sanity. But there is just a chance that it may spare itself the horror of further wholesale murder. Thoughtful people realize to-day two vital facts which have only to be grasped by the masses for war
BISHOP OF VICTORIA.
INCORPORATION BILL FOR
COUNCIL.
"OBJECTS EXPLAINED.
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Street ("Great. King"); Ping On Lane. ("Peaceful"); and Tai Ping Shan Street-Tai Ping Shan means "Peaceful Mountain" and. refers to the hillside extending anywhere from Blake Gardens up to Breezy Point and half-way up Patches here and the Peak.
there, however, are called "Green Grass Mountain" although no- body knows just exactly where.
LUCKY NAMES.
Newcomers" are apt to be mis led by the number of streets and roads with almost similar desig nations. In different parts of Hongkong there are Albany Lane, Albany Road, Albany Street which is now the new Tai Yuen Street, The Albany, and Upper Albany. But Chinese names are worse from this point of view and nearly all the confusing ones bear some lucky imputation. Typical examples are Cheung Fuk Lane, Cheung Hing Street, Possession Street, where somes Cheung Kan Lane and Cheung On body first hoisted the flag, is de- Lane; Fuk Hing, Fuk Luk, Fuk serving of a better colloquial On, Fuk Sau-all Lanes. "Fuk" equivalent than "Sui Hang How" in each case implies "blessing:" which, literally,,
for On Hing Terrace and On Lan stands
Street (close by the "China Mail" "Mouth of the (water) Nullah.” "THIEVES' STREET."
office) and On Ning Lane, On Tui Lhecar Rows Upper and Street, On Wai Lane and On Wo Lower-are fampus all over the Lane in other districts; Sai Hing world, being integral parts of Lane, Sai On Lane, Sai Street, "Paddy's Market" or Hongkong's Sai Wa Lane, Sai Woo Lane "Thieves' Street" as many will (named after the famous lake
to be abolished altogether. The A Bill to provide for the incor- have it. Time was when Lascar near Shanghai renowned for its Mrs. W. A. J. Cooper desires to first of these facts is that the portion of the Bishop of Victoria and other coloured seafarers wonderful scenery, but in reality convey her heartfelt thanks for world is an economic whole, and in the Colony of Hongkong is to be found sanctum actually in the a dirty and dark slum) and Sai the many expressions of sympathy she has received in her bereave the smallest, much less the introduced in the Legislative Coun- streets in that part of Hongkong Yuen Lane: Chatham Path is by
cil shortly.
and, later, boarding-houses for May Road on the Upper levels ment. She wishes especially to greatest, war to-day deranges the.. The object of the Bill is to in- Malay seamen sprang up there. and Chatham Road is one of Kow- thank all who attended the funeral life of every single nation, the corporate the Bishop of Victoria in The Chinese forthwith dubbed it loon's main arteries. and also the large number of victor perhaps more than any order to enable him to hold im-Me Lo Kai ("Indian Street") and "Tong" can mean either ter- friends who sent wreaths,
other, As the late Anatole movable property in perpetual suc- thus paved the way toward the race, lane, or avenue and is gen- cession, and in particular to enable official designations existing to erally used in Canton's western
suburb for residential areas for a France.put it, all wars are now him to hold the site of St. Paul's the present day.
Several of the island's roads the elite. Hongkong has follow- Hongkong, Saturday, February 14, 1925, civil wars. The second fact which College; which is being vested in
may serve to banish war lies in with the consent of His Grace bear their names on account of ed the fashion laid down by hav-
the Archbishop of Canterbury, the local peculiarities.
Castle Road, ing Po Hing Fong, Sau Wa Fong, the knowledge, steadily growing present legal owner.
on the upper levels, has been asso- Sui Wa Fong, and Wa In Fong, greater for all the reticence of the
The Ordinance, in general, follows ciated by tradition-with a fort but they have not all retained their dignified appearance. Fung nations about their warlike inven- the anal form of incorporation up there, which was probably a Nations do not make a practice. tione, that the next conflict will Ordinances. Clause 4 is new, pro-pretentious "taipan's mansion Un Terrace is named after Can-
ton's Park Lane, viding for property transferred to with an embattlement on the roof Richæcker Street was very of broadcasting the details of be ao terrible that it might quite the corporation to pass to the the better to impress the natives. likely named after a German or their warlike inventions. Occa conceivably result in race suicide. Bishop's successors. It annars with the firm's solidarity-an im Austrian merchant. At any rate, sionally they do let drop a hint This is no idle fear. Aeroplanes that at common law a corporation portant factor in the early days toward the end of the war this that they have perfected. some to-day could wipe out whole cities sole cannot take a term in its cor of trade. Holy Infant Lane-a
name was changed to Mui Fong porate capacity, and therefore that Wanchai by-way-owes its name.
Street. terrible new weapon, a specially in a few hours and nothing could a tense mated to a corporation solo to its connection with the French Chinese residents, not by devastating bomb, say, or a deadly stop their deadly work. The only passes to his personal representa Convent and Chapel before their virtue of public service, but by gas. But these hints, when they defence, if such it can be called, is tives and not to his successors: see removal to Causeway Bay.
reason of ownership of houses in Arundell's Case (1515) 1 Roll. near Robinson Road is a Moalem newly-opened streets, have left do get into public print, are soon to destroy the cities of the enemy br. 616, cited in Fulwood's mosque; close by are Mosque their names in Lee Tung Street. forgotten.. The multitude has in a like manner. Truly a dread- Case (1681) 4 Co. Rep. 66, note Street and Mosque Terrace. Ho Kwok Lane, Leung Wa Tai much more exciting things to ful outlook, for civilized man A, 70 ER. (K.B.) 1083, note Ladder Street is a flight of about Lane, Li Chit Street, Li Po Lung Therefore, once these two factsThe rule is given in Halbu a thousand stone steps extending Path, Tam Lane and Chan Tong new Test match score, and cross are generally realized, that all Laws of England, Vol. 8. page 371. from Caine Road, through a for-ath,
mer hotbed of plague, down to
Catchick Street, at Kennedy word puzzles. Nations do not wars are civil wars and the very
Queen's Road. Smithfield la Town, was once known as Chater make a practice of broadcasting fate of mankind may hang on the TROUBLESOME COUGHS.
A troublesome, sleep disturbing night where the slaughter-houses are Street, but the change was made the detalls of their latest warlike next struggle, the world tupy cough can be easily and pleasantly situated.
presumably, to avoid confusion with Chater Road, which runs Inventions, else would our days be finally look for busting peace. stopped by taking Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. You will like the soothing, vastly more troubled than they That day is not yet. Nor will it being coating it puts on an infamed
from the Post Office, through are. Perhaps this reticence is just be, we fear, to-morrow But it is tickling throat and the promptness with by the name of “Bamboo (Tros) Statue Square toward the Naval which the troublesome cough is stopped.
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