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Monday, 19th. July.
Sunday, 25th July,
HONGKONG.
THE GITY OF CONTRASTS.
By Mare T. Greene in the
"China Press. "I
The palaces
THE CHINA MAIL.
of Hongkong look down upon its hovels as the golden
houses on the Palatine Hill must
Far be-
tion unique among the hotels of the world, and is airy: anough to in- sure its guests comfort even in the hottest of the hot season, low may be seen the roof-garden of the Hongkong hotel, now rebuilt after the fre of December, 1825, under the samy management, the Europoun gathering-place of the capital.
Incomparable Beauty of the Hills.
corners at night like weary dogs, as he wanders through the Chiness districts. And he glances above at the dreamland up there on the hill, ablaze with lights. Its music and ite merriment coming faintly down Into the seething Oriental streets and the hovels, and he finds that Hongkong is a city of contrasta as sharply-drawn as anywhere the world over. Yot that is not to say
One should uncend "The Foak" have looked down upon the huddled that the Chinese of Hongkong are tenements of Rome, and quite as
not well off under British rule, or Just before sunset, that byo and indifferently. Up there stop "The
that it has not brought them many byo he may see the dreamy beauty. No traveller is without of night's coming to the harbour Peak" that glorious hill where benefits. abide the rich Europeans of Hong- his impressions of the beneficence and elty of Hongkong. Then over! kong. and not a few of the rich of English administration through the bay, the most active in the And it world, lights break out on world- Chinese also, there are such castles, out the far-flung empire. ||with,their Italian gardens and their
is strikingly apparent in Hongkong, harbour sampan, until they seem Roman baths and their swimming-
as comparison with the conditions encircling liner, ancient junk and numerous as the very stars. Over poole as would have not have in Peking or Canton, or even shamed Hadrian's villa at Tivoli, Shanghai, immediately reveals. The the city below and upon the broad As one comes into the picturesque traditional and storied unsavor! sweep of hillside, that constitutee ness of the East, both literal and "The Peak" there is presently a and forever busy harbeur he re- gards "The Penk" and thinks of figurative... is notably absent in glow like an Arabian Nights dream.. the hillside above Monte Carlo, the Hongkong. The English; wise and In this wondrous transformation to which seems to come about when gorgeous villas about Cannes, the efficient colonizera, haye heen
Hongkong's climate is be-day yields to night in Hongkong one entrance to the port of Genoa, the that. gardens of Florence. And, if per-yond words. Nothing like it exists segms to find a very epitome of the chance he comes by night, there is anywhere elac-fortunately, for it magic of the Orient, its beauty, a picture before him, with the city is a very paradox in climates, and ita fnacination, its ever-olusive ap Hillside ablaze with lights, that lies heavily upon inany. But east peal. seems to defy contact with reality. urn indifference as to custome and It is a dream, one of the rare sights habits favoured of Europeans no longer adds to the burden. Again, of the world.
English have seen to that.
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"Snobbishness" a Master of Caution. And all this is England, mind you, an English community more Engilah than England herself, more jealous of its traditions. more pros nounced in a prejudices. Indeed, you will have been told, perhaps, that Hongkong is the most "anob "But that bish" city in the world. is chosen word. Hongkong is conservative with a conservatiam that outdoes even that a Mayfair.
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The glory of Hongkong is how at its zenith, and nothing you have over read or imagined about the East can have prepared you for 1. it is well worth crossing the Every artist knows the efficacy world to see, indescribable, never- of portraying contrasts in develop-to-be-forgotten.
"The Peak" then, is the first thing: ing his effects. Sharply-drawn and
Everybody to see in Hongkong. vivid, they emphasise the point he ia serving for. And so in Hong-will tell you that: It should be kong, where contrasts, in a manne ascended by the railway and then of packing, rub elbows with one by motor along the winding drive, which lend colour to one of the most another, the effect of the extremes picturesque of all the tourist's ob- jectives throughout the world is everywhere emphasised by the pro- sence of something quite different
which reveals the beauty of the hills above Muntone and the shady gardens and glens and nooks of the,,Tuscan hills. And, to consider the material necessities for a bit, One hus but toxie in Hongkong are but 26 cents, gold, for the first mile, and ten cents thereafter, 'Rigsha and step from Des Voeux Roud around
sedan-chairs are only Torty cents. a corner to find himself in a nur
Your name may be familiar to two continenta, or maybe to all elone at hand. them, but should you descend upon it unarmed with the proper et ters Hongkong will have none now, fervid Chinese street, ablaze "Mex," or about 22, gold, an hour
you. Yet there is a certain defence
with banners and lanterns and the advertise.
to this attitude. Hongkong is a far clamorously-coloured set outpost of empire and as such, ments of shops containing certainly
"It is
requires to be cautious. The re
everything under heavens, putation of "anobbishness" has the life of Poiting and Canton with grown, I think, out of the attitude out its redolence, somewhat expur
can
-unless the 'ricsha wheedle more out of you, and he
generally can, being well-versed in
Then, continuing to the ways of tourists, especially deal with material things, there are
American.
of a very small group of persons gated as it were, and withal quite faw, if any places,, in the world
who have left. England usually" for their own and England's good, and are very much on the defensive us a logical result. They have little or no visible means of support, they neither work nor spin; yet one finds them, attired in evening clothes, in the lounge of the Hongkong or Peak Hotels on any evening. And should you be so indiscreet as to ask of them simple question, or, let us
May,
VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER-Via Shanghai and Japanply to these gentry is "prig."
Porta
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M. TAKEUCHI, Manager.
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SHOEMAKERS (Japanese Hand Made)
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CHERRY & CO.,
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Hongkong, March 20, 1914,
LEE KEE
Agent for
HENRY RICHARD
TILE CO'S.
We have a largest stock of White Glazed Wall Tiles Colour Glazed Wall Tiles
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request a match for your cigarette, you will be met with a stare'ns gold as a Port Said dance hull girls smile. The word to ap
worse.. Nothing could compliment them more highly than to be called | "anoby." That is exactly their
But that isn't Hongkong, ang more than an ape is the human race; and a Hongkong "prig" is the nearest thing to the missing link yet unearthed: On the con- trary everything that is best, in English life is represented in this Crown Colony in the Orient. And here in the midst of Chinese-lifu with its vivid, teeming streets, its ceaseless activity, and its kaleidos copic colour, the English have. builded them a city beautiful For their afinirs they have provided the structures of Brussels or Berlin or Stockholm. Ane street", broad spaces, Rowery parks; and for their homes they have transformed barren seraggy hillside into a very Parnassus of villas and gardens and And, well toward the sep glens. they have placed a definite line, be- yond which the Orient cannot g). proclaiming that this, at least, is "forever England!".
A City of Sharp Contrastų. Wards of empire, mere than a illion Chinese are crowded into the rest of Hongkong and across the barbour in Kowloon, puct of the Colony Many of them are poor, desperately poor, and finds them huddled in doorwaya and
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where exquisitely-carved Ivory safe to contemplate and to mingle
eurios can be purchased to better in, as life is not in the aforesaid citles just now. In Hongkong one advantage than in Hongkong, des- may go and come as he will anypite the effect off, the advent of any where at any time and with no more precautions than would be sxercised in any city of Europe Nothing more menacing than the at tempts to overcharge by every ricsha and sedan-chair man will be
encountered.
Mount Parnassus Come To Life Again.
of world-cruises" upon number, prices in general. The curio shops of Hongkong are quite enchanting and never unduly insistent. They are museums of beauty and trea-
opre, everyone of them,
And then, you still would seek contrasts, you can step around the corner and ace twenty Chinese, with their chop- Yet the chief charm of Hongkong sticks and rice, huddled in one cor les, after all, not in It's Orientalism. nor of value to Orientals but which but in its natural and developed to your will be singularly bare of. It is in China, but scarcely appeal. But take another step or beauty
It is essentially Eng-two, and you are in the "atrect of of China. lish, and the things that the Engflowers where, sweet and redolent ish have done, chiefly the building blossome of fifty varieties are piled of the matchless residential dis- high before you and purchasable" trict, are the things which first for even less than the price of a After attract the visitor's attention and ten-minute ricsha ride. which leave the deepest impression. which, if you should crave fruit There-is-a-funicular railway up-and-are-willing-to-brave-other-and- "The Peak", giving access to homes lesa seductive features of the native and hotels and apartment-houses market, there it is just yonder half For those disinclined to the climb.
A dozen rods, piled high with
It ascends through such a fairyland oranges apples, mangoes, papaias. as a funicular up Mount Parnassus-from-Mantha melons, bananas might have revealed to a wanderer and pineapples. And, still speak- from Athens. Frequently it pauses ing of contrasts, in another part of at terraces and at the several drives
the market--but let that pass. which encircle. the mountain and climb ingentic spirals to the sum- mit.
It passes through half-wild leas where nature has not been too hard-pressed, by Italian gar- dens, and English gardens, too. It gives intimate peeps into pretty dooryards and cozy verandahs which overlook the efty and harbour; and last it terminates upon the platform S.S. "WEST PROSPECT" July 20. of the Peak Hotel which has a loca-
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