SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1927.
NOTABLE RECORD.
The Optical House of, Lazarus.
PIONEER ENTERPRISE.
CANTON BUILDING.
Hong Kong & Singapore Enterprise.
TEACHING CADETS CANTONEŠE.
Few firms can boast of such a The "China Mail" is privileged Fing association with business in to-day to publish photographs of e Far East ns can the optical the $100,000 building erected by Loune of Lazarus. Over forty the Hong Kong and Singapore! years ago, the present businesses Governments for quartering endets were established throughout the learning Cantonese. Work on the East, and have remained as great building was commenced in 1924 landmarks of pioneer enterprise. but was interrupted during the It is with pride that this firm both troublous times. However, opora. in Hong Kong and Shanghai
tions were resumed last year and nounce themselves as "the oldest
the bullding has now been com optical house." The traditious of this British, concers have been pleted. The contractor was Chung maintained and the standard of ser-Ah Chung, of Canten, who has to his credit also the Customs House vice rendered has always been
nn-
of
very
the highest character. Within and several other large buildings the past few years, the most modern in Canton, the British Consulnte, equipment and machinery has been and the residences of the British installed bringing the house right Consul-General and the British up to date and favourably com- Vice-Consul in the Shameen.
The site of building erected paring with any of the great op- lient establishments in London, for the Hong Kong and Singapore historic. New York, or in fnet, any city in Governments is the world. Strangers of the East Formerly used by the Tartar Gen- are often concerned as to how they oral for his headquarters and his will obtain the same eye-glass ser-harem. it was Docupied by the vice that they have been used to. Rritish about 1860 as a military The "China Mail" interviewed Mr. hospital and later by the British Ralph A. Cooper, the popular Man- Consuls before the occupation, of nger of the Hong Kong branch, re-the Shameen. On the gates to-day garding this.
are two figures of medieval Chinese) warriors,
"Suppose I broke my lenses, how long would it take to replace them
Mr. Cooper replied: "We can, in an emergency, supply the most com; plicated lens within 24 hours. If
Reference to the site is to he found in John Henry Gray's "Walks In The City of Canton" in which the nuthar says:-On with- drawing from the Fa-T'aan, or we are very much pressed for time. "Flowery Pagoda." and the Luuk- we have not the slightest hesitation Yuung-Taze, or "Monastery of the in opening in the evening-in faet we were open several evenings lastix Banyan Trees," we entered the month for this same reason."
Tai-Yini-Kwok-Ling-Sze-Fou,"
or
The
THE CHINA MAIL.
HONG KONG AND SINGAPORE GOVER
T' BUILDING IN CANTON.
Erected by the Hong Kong and Singapore Governments. at a cost of $100,000, à building has been completed in Canton for cadets learning Cantonese.
The Two Star Block, s.tuated rear the Flowery Pagoda, is semi-Chinese in style. It contains eight flats of two rooms "There are not many bustness British Consular Yamun. houses in Hong Kong who enn say yamun in question forms a portion each with modern European sanitary arrangements. Camp, cuous on the lower front verandah is the Taishan (Bɛ Hil)
of the that their nusiness necessitates of the Bleis! residence
stune which is greatly venurated by the Chinag Tartar General, This official rp working over time?"
"Quite frue, but our business ins sidence was erected during the remained normal in spite of recent reign of Kunghi, who, as eighth troubles,"
sovereign of the great Tsine Our representative asked Mr.dynasty, began to reign A.D. 1602. Comper if it were pustible to dupli-ad died after a reign of sixty-one Cate lens without the prescrip years. It was first of all occupied | Lite and was shown a surprising-in-by a son-in-law of the emperi in strument which accurately analyzed mostian, who, for the purpose of Leptirely subjugating the province
any fans.
"Sa interesting fact about the firm of Kwantung, and placing it un- is that the proprietor. Mr. Heary der Tartar rule, was constrained -Tobias, who is a-Aidlow_of_the_Bri- to visit this, the most southern por. tish Optical Association and tion of the vast dominions of his Freeman of the City or London, is royal father-in-law, Attached to related to Mr. Lionel Lawrence. probably one of the greatest optical the British Consular Yamun is a authorities in the world and the small part which, by lofty and principal of the London Selwool of Opties, so that it may be said that "opties" run in the family. Tobias, who was Home last year, seized the opportunity for further study and passed successfully the most difficult examination for op. ticians that in act in London.
wide spreading banyan trees. i well shaded. In this well wooded enclosure, a few deer are kept. Deer. being regarded by the Chi- ese as auspicious animals, are, as
are It
rule. kept in small numbers. within the grounds which attached to each large yamun. Talking of qualifications, the firm is also. more or less, customary. only employs managers who are on account of the same reasons. thoroughly qualified opticians. for private gentlemes to have one two deer in their respective The present manager of the Hong or
During the occupation Kong branch is a Registered Op-gardens. tometrist, having passed the exam-jof the city of Canton by the allied ination set by the Canadian Gov-armies of Great Britain and France. ernment, in this science, na well as the Tartar General's Yamun was two other examinations by optical the residence of the allied commis- colleges. Mr. Cooper attended the sioners.
University of Manitoba until early Portions of it, also, were convert- in 1916, at which time he joined the led into barracks for the accom- service. He resumed and complet-modation of British and French ed his studies upon his return in troops. That portion of the 1915, and has now had approxi- vamun which is now in ruins, mately eight years' experience in and which was destroyed by fire the various branches of optics. The on the twenty-fifth day of Decem- former manager in this Colony, Mrber, A.D. 1859, was, when intact, R. V. Meyer, who is now in the employed by the British as a hou Shanghai office, is an Australian, afpital. It might, indeed, have been that the Empire is well represented well said, in the language of one of in the house of Lazarus. Mr. Meyer our own poets, that, to its four walls holds the certificate of the British and many rafters. "Silent bats in Optical Association and is also a draway clusters cling." Freeman of the City of London.
For, in short. with such cren-
The "China Mail's" representatures, it was literally swarming, tive went in to see the workshop: Bats, being regarded by the Chi- and there found n veritable hive of
neae as animals of good omen.
industry. The process of grinding, polishing, and edging lenses was ex-are,
in consequence, by them,
plained to him and although he had never destroyed. Thus, as a mat
in
ter of course, the bats, which had to confess that such terms 18
"base
made their nests in that portion of "cylinders," "axcs," prisms," and "minus six base the building of which, as we have curves" left him somewhat mysti-lready intimated, very little more fled, he could see that here was an than the name now remains not up-to-date shop that would favour-having been disturbed for many ably compare with any at Home. years--had increased, and multi- Another interesting point that plied to such a degree, as to render Mr. Cooper told the "China Mail" no longer habitable on the part man is that in the strike and boy-of man; At the command, how- cott of 1925 he lost only one work-ever, of the allied commissioners. man, in spite of many threatening these creatures were forthwith "dare to die" letters that were seat destroyed and the abode of which. to the staff. The courteous treat- for a very long period of time, thev ment that our representative re had been the sole and undisturbed ceived at the hands of the staff noseazors.
WOR converted into honnital
alck spoke well for, the "esprit de
fot corps" that exists between mannger here of the British contingent. and workmen. Our representative When the officials, and citizens of wended his way back to the news- Canton heard of this wholesal paper office foosing that it had been destruction of the bats, on the part a very profitable half hour. and of the foreign invaders, they were that, in future, a pair of eye horrified at an act so sacrilegions. glasson would have more than or- And when subsequently the build- dinary interest for him.
-"SCRIBE."
POCKET PICKED,
mem-
ine was destroyed by fire. thev, one
pri all. attributed the disaster to the previous miless destruction
on the art of the British; of such
A vast number of sacred, or
A carpenter living at the Tongausnicious creatures. In this hon-
An old gate Trading to deer park. It is many hundreds of years old.
The old building used by the cadeta. This is net so old as the ruins in the present grounds of the building burnt
ARMED ROBBERY.
Kwong Boarding House, Connaught nital, several British soldiers died. down about 1668 when it was used as a British Hospital, Road Contral, was the victim of a The remains of not less than thirty pickpocket yesterday afternoon. of them (it being dangerous at that At 4.30 p.m.; he was standing on time, in consequence of the enemy, the wharf in front of the Harbour to co beyond the walls of the city), I Office when one of the light fingered were buried in the amall park, or which we have brigade took from his right jacket enclosure, to. pocket $200 in notes and two Hong already referred Of French Kong and Shanghal Bank drafts soldiers, niso not less than twenty worth $600. The drafts were sub-were buried in this same park sequently recovered by the polles
and one man was arrested."
ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.
TAXICAB IN FLAMES. According to a report made to A-17-year old Chinese girl living the police: a taxicab caught fire At No. 11: Grakam Street, first floor, outside the Kun Toy Hotel, Nathan Road yesterday, and was attempted. to commit suicide" yce. terday aferndon by jumping into burned out it burst into flames the harbour from the Yaumati ferry immediately after a load of pas wharf She was rescued and taken sengers had alighted. The driver, to the hospital.
managed to fumn clearONA
KOWLOON POLICE MAKE 3
ARRESTS."
Armed robbers raided the ground floor of No, 97, Kowloga. City last night and stole some pra party worth 383.50. First one man came to the place to buy some mineral water then suddenly he drew hirevolver and said he had come to search for oplum This was the signal for four other men to rusby in. They drove all the Inmates Into the kitchen and while
the man with the revolver kept watch the others spent half an hour ransacking the premises. An alarm was raised as soon as the men left and police gave chase and caught three of them. Property worth $20.50, was recovered.
Thieves
their
NEW RECORD.
OVER 103,300 VACCINATIONS REPORTED.
nce
Up to Thursday it is repor that the number of free tions performed by members of St. John' Corps was over 108,300,
new, record: In the
tions in ther y and ought to exercise a moral effect on public
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TRIX SISTERS.
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