MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1927.
LOCAL BASEBALL.
**
EASY VICTORY FOR JAPANESE,
A POOR EXHIBITION.
The Japanese nine scored an easy victory over the Hong Kong Baseball Club on Saturday, win- ning by 10-1,
WHITE ANTS IN BUNGALOWS.
PROPER PREVENTIVE MEASURES.
THE CHINA MAIL.
MILLIONAIRES GALORE.
A PEEP INTO UNCLE SAM'S 'MONEY-BOX.
MOSQUITO CONTROL.
INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS
AT HOME.
with
In the calendar year 1925 no We, (the Straits Echo), have fewer than 207 persons paid
been favoured with A copy Federal taxes on net incomes of of a pamphlet dealing United States, according to figures Island, Hampshire, and at casual more than 1,000,000 dollars in the the Principles and Practice of Mosquito Control. at Hayling just made public by the Treasury glance did not entirely apprehend Department. Of these 96 were in the value of the work which this New York.
newly-formed Institute has done in In the same year the gross in-the past and proposes to do in the comes of all corporations was future. It is probable that living 113,692,083,216 dollars.
in a country where the mosquito is Both of these are new records a deadly enemy to mankind we and go a long way toward sub- minimised the potential danger of stantiating the contentions of the pest in England. Sir Ronald Secretary Mellon that the lower- Ross, K.C.B.. K.C.M.G.. F.R.S. at ing of the income tax rates would the opening of the Institute uncover larger incomes and result August 31, 1925 gave us food for in a larger return to the Govern- reflection. In his address he said: ment.
Unveiling the Golden Ones. In the year 1921, while taxes were still at their peak, only 21 persons reported incomes in excess
on.
"Toward the end of last year the work was becoming. so extensive" and interesting that Mr. Marshall thought of establishing a special Institute in connection with it: and we are here now to view the result and to commemorate the
To facilitate examination, the building should be raised on sup- ports, but if this is considered un- suitable, then, after the footings have been completed, a layer of cement-concrete (in Malaya, the [To the Editor, “Malay Mail."!
ground floor is often composed of Sir-At the Imperial Entomo-lime-concrete as a base with a logical Conference held in London cement facing), at least six literature concerning the control over the whole area of the site at in June. 1925. I reviewed the inches thick, should be spread of "white ants," but more espe- ground level, and the entire sur- cially that dealing with the pre- face covered with a stratum of vention of "white ants" entering cement-mortar to fill up all pores The fielding of the Hong Kong buildinga. A few days ago, I was and cracks. This layer should be side left a lot to be desired and reminded of that paper when I spread at the same time in an taking full advantage of this de- visited a property where six com-even, continuous plane, and should fect, the Japanese piled up five paratively new bungalows had be compact; pores and cracks runs in the sixth inning.
been considerably damaged by must be avoided. The reason for Thanks to very bad judgment "white ants." At a time when this is that junctions between the on the part of the right field in so many new bungalows are being sections of cement concrete laid
ground ball, meeting a
Yerected, a few of the principal at different times are sources of Hachiuma made a home run in points which should be considered weakness and have been known to the third inning from a hit which to render them as far as possible be penetrated by "white ants." only deserved two bases.
"white ant" proof might be of If the foundation is well con- Mahon, the Hong Kong Club assistance.
structed and no lime has been in- catcher scored the only run for Two distinct classes of "white corporated with the cement-mor- his side.
anta" exist in Malaya, viz. the tar or cement-concrete, subter- The teams lined up as follows:- non-subterranean and the subterranean "white ants" can only
Japan
Hong Kong
тапсап. The non-subterranean obtain admittance to building of 1,000,000 dollars. Y. Hachiuma t.. Mahon type never burrows in the earth through cracks, which sometimes With the first cuts there was an occasion.
but attacks wood directly. It finds sufficient moisture in the wood and has not been observed to cause much damage. The subterranean type, which is re- sponsible for practically all the
By inserting sheets of galvan- to the woodwork of ised zinc or iron between the damage bungalows, burrows through the masonry and wood-work and cap soil and only attacks wood in- ping the supports with this sheet- directly from the earth, withing, and turning the projecting which it must maintain contact to edges downwards at an angle, the obtain the moisture necessary for its life. These notes deal entirely communication of "white ants" with timber can be prevented, and with the subterranean type of incidentally subterranean "white "white ant." The key to prevent- ants" already in the building will ing the subterranean type from be cut off and die if contact with entering buildings is isolation of the earth cannot be made. all timbers from the ground.
To sum up, all timber, treated on the Happy Valley diamond to the site and its neighbourhood or otherwise, must be isolated the tune of 10 runs to nine. It should be cleared of all timber above the surface of the ground was a very clase game and full of and tree trunks (I have actually by a layer six inches thick of cement-concrete. No lime must interest, and the Recreio came seen bungalows in Malaya built be used in the foundation or sup- near to winning when, in the last over partially exposed stumps!),
Çement-concrete or inning, they put on two runs. The and as far as possible rendered
cement-mortar should only be Filipinos, however, got one in immune by being treated with used and metal termite shields this session and thus won by the some deterrent, such as creosote should be inserted between the (one gallon to'six feet of soil) or}
masonry and all wood-work. The line-out was as follows:-poison, such as lead arsenate.
Recreio
Honda
2b. Lesser
Murata
1b. Muccio
S. Hachiuma
Saido
Takatomi
p. Cockey
Bowker 88. If. Craven
Tajima
Koga
Substitutes:---
3b. Murray
cf. Lammert
Kamanaka rf. Gruld
Yoshikawa rf.
Socjima
cf.
Score by innings:-
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tot. Japanese... 1 0 1 1 2 50 10 Hong Kong, 0 0 0 0 100 1
Filipinos Win.
Yesterday the Filipinos de- feated the Club de Recreio nine
odd run in 19.---
D. Alves
L Rocha
H. Barros
Afl Gosuno
M. Barros
Filipinos.
1b. T. Leonard
Bautista
3.9.
r.f. Arculli
3b. Kitchell 2b. Cruz
C. Pereira cf. Barretto
C. Remedios p. Zafra
J. Noronha If. D Leonard
A. Alvarez c. Fernandez
Umpires: Foreman and Baldo of U.S.S. "Helona."
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Ttl.
Score by Innings..
Recreio Filipinos
3 1 0 2 1 0 2 9 0 0 0 1 4 4-1 10
U.S. BASEBALL.
FULL WEEK'S LEAGUE RESULTS.
CHICAGO'S RECOVERY.
New York, Saturday. National League.
Saturday (August 20):
Brooklyn 7, Pittsburgh 10. New York 6, Cincinnati 2. Philadelphia 2, St. Louis 8. Boston 6, Chicago 6. Boston 2, Chicago 1.
Sunday (August 21):
New York 9, Cincinnati 8.
New York 6, Cincinnati 1.. Brooklyn 1, Pittsburgh 2.
Monday (August 22):
Boston 5, Chicago 3.
Philadelphia 6, St. Louis 1.
Tuesday (August 23);
Philadelphia 3, St. Louis 19.
Wednesday (August 24):
Philadelphia 7, Chicago 6.
Philadelphia 1, Chicago 13..
Thursday (August 25):
Brooklyn 2, Cincinnati 1.
Boston 5, Pittsburgh 1.
Philadelphia 0, Chicago 8. Boston 1, Pittsburgh 8,
Friday (August-26):
Brooklyn 4, Cincinnati 3, Boston 6, Pittsburgh 4. *New York and Chiengo. *Philadelphia and Chicago.
("match abandoned owing to bad light).
American League.
Saturday (August 20):
Cleveland 14, New York 8.
Chicago 2, Philadelphia 5.
Detroit 5, Washington 0," St. Louis 8, Boston 4.
Junday (August 21);
Cleveland 7, New York 4., Detroit 11, Washington 4. St. Louis 5, Boston 0. St. Louis 4, Boston 8: onday (August 22):
Cleveland 9, New York 4. Detroit 4, Washington 2. Detroit 7, Washington 8. Chicago 6, Philadelphia 3. besday (August 28):
Detroit 5, New York 9. Cleveland 7, Washington 1. Chicago 4, Boston 3.
St. Louis 8, Philadelphia 4, jursday (August 25):
Detroit 2, New York 8. Cleveland 7, Washington 5. Chicago 4, Boston 6.
St. Louis 1, Philadelphia 6.
day (August 26):
Detroit 6, New York 8. Chicago 9, Boston 1. Cleveland 8 Washington 7. Bt. Louis 0, Philadelphia 7. —Reuter's American Servicë,
To assist in attaining this end,
occur in the best concrete, or by runs being constructed over the impenetrable barrier. through which they travel to reach the wood-work.
ports.
increase to 75 in 1924, and with a still greater cut, reducing the maximum surtax to 20 per cent, there was a sharp rise to 207 in
1925.
"As you will all able to see, this new house contains a demonstra- tion museum, a laboratory, a draw ing and record office, a photo- and a mechanical graphic room
Figures for 1926 are expected workshop, all on the ground-floor, to show a still greater increase, mittee room and four other roonis, On the first floor there are a com- as the Federal revenue. despite & which will be used as required, as, further tax cut, has exceeded all for instance, by any research- expectations, and a surplus of workers who may wish to avail about 650,000,000 dollars is fore themselves of the opportunities cast for the fiscal year ending July here given. 1.
I should
like to call the attention of the Of course, some, of this increase numerous learned bodies which is due to the great prosperity that grant scholarships for scientific the country has had for the past research to the facilities for it now five years.
obtainable here; and I hope that the new Institute will shortly be humming like a hive of scientific labourers.
no
t
Two persons reported incomes of more than 5,000,000 dollars in
Enemies of the Human Race. New York, believed to be John D.
"Whatever the future, may hold, Rockefeller, jun., and George F. Baker; two in Michigan believed to be Henry Ford am sure you will agree venter med and his son; one in Penn- that all this work just described
believed to sylvania,
has been a very meritorious ad- be
venture. The benefit of it is by Secretary Mellon himself; while there was one in this class also in Island.
means confined to Hayling Here mosquitoes cause Illinois and one in Oklahoma.
only annoyance to residents and Twenty-two women are among to visitors during the summer; but those reporting incomes of more in most tropical countries they than 1,000,000 dollars, while three also carry formidable diseases and of them reported incomes of from in some they are positively the 3.000,00 dollars to 4,000,000 dol-enemies of the human race. Now any knowledge gained regarding lars.
one variety of mosquito tends to help us in gaining knowledge re garding, other species; and I have, therefore, no doubt whatever that
I
These recommendations have The site having been attended
terrier proved successful in greatly re- to, an impermeable through which "white ants" can- ducing the percentage of bunga not penetrate should be construct-lows attacked by "white ants" in ed. No lime should enter into the America, Africa, and Australia, composition of this impenetrable and I feel certain that if they are barrier, as "soldier white ants" practised in Malaya new buildings generally secrete an acid which will be rendered practically im- dissolves the lime in lime-mortar mune from the attacks of "white or lime-concrete. Lime is, there- ants," thus saving considerable HONG KONG HOTEL VISITORS. fore, no material hindrance to disappointment, especially to the their steady advance. Only small investor.
Yours, etc.,
∙G. H. CORDETT, Government Entomologist, -S.S. and F.MS.
cement-mortar and cement-con- erete must be used. Stones, bricks, or similar building mater inl, if used in foundations, sup. ports or footings, must be embed- ded in cement-mortar, and all structures below the surface of the ground should be faced with cement-concrete at least an inch thick. If standards are made of concrete, cement-concrete, not lime-concrete, must be used. If timbers are used as footings or supports, they must be isolated moned by the Minehead Urban Dis- above the ground by at least six trict Council for unlawfully light- inches of cement-concrete. Stairs ing a fire on Alcombe Common, but and wooden supports to porches the magistrate said the defendants and verandahs in Malaya are fre- had made out a claim of right and quently laid on a thin layer of con- the aummonses would be dismissed. crete (generally containing lime) The justices had no jurisdiction to below the surface of the soil.. I try an issue of that kind.
"MAMMA
BEAR AND KIDS,
LAKE LOUISE-
CINNAMON BEAR HEAR BAMFP /
The Domesday Book was cited in support of a claim to burn a common for fuel by the villagers of Alcombe, near Mine head, Somer- set. Two Alcombe men were sum-
August 26, 1927.
Mr. A. E. Atkins. Mrs. J. F. Brown,
Mr. M. A. Cohen, Mr. and Mrs. A. Clioa.
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So the main piers are left free for repair and preservation.
No fewer than a thousand holes have been drilled into the heart of the eight pillars, cach hole marked with its number in broad black figures. The borings go nearly fif- teen feet deep into the masonry.
A little compressed air engine
Our ultimate aim is to control, not only mosquitoes, but all the dangerous, or even the un- Mr. R. E. Francis,. Dr. L. Fisher. pleasant pests which affect us and Mr. Go Chieng An.
our crops and herds everywhere.! Messrs. A. F. Henry, H. Hoene, A far ideal perhaps, but one which G. C. Huntington.
London, July 19, is quite possibly within easier Messrs. J. E. Joseph, L. Jun-reach than we now imagine.
Vast numbers of people wonder never know what surprising pro- what is actually happening within a comparatively small affair of a ninger.
geny Science may not bring forth; the locked and guarded area of St. pump and twin flywheel-standa on and he is rash Indeed who would Paul's Cathedral, whose peril of the flooring below the centre of the prescribe limits to her victories. collapse startled the world two dome, and a flexible pipe line, like Many observations which appeared years ago. The last report of the a fireman's hose, leads from it. quite trivial at first have now given Preservation Committee was mere- Into this engine is fed the specially us immense new continents ofly a mass of technicalities. ·prepared concrete cement, a cloudy knowledge. When Columbus first
To-day the "Daily Expreas" gives | liquid of porridge consistency. The sighted a small island of the West the first description of the progress cement is forced through the pipe Indies he thought merely that he of the remarkable work which, it under excessive pressure, and into had found a new route to China is claimed, will render the parent the holes bored in the plers. Mr. W. Vasconcelės,
he had really discovered a new church of London and the Empire Messrs. F. G. S. Wilson, T. B. World. One often wonders what secure for Ave centuries to come. Wilson, G. Wragge.
Messrs. H. A. Keller, A. Kofer. Misa H. Lillie. Mrs. L. Maurin, Mr. Mansohn. Mr. A. E. Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. B. Pasco.
Mr. J. Rodes. Messrs. J. Ross Smith, M. Selezneff.
Mrs. Turuin, Mrs. H. E. Tracy, Dr. E. S. Taylor.
BIGHORN SHEEP STOP CARS NEAR BANFF
BOZO BEAR TRAFFIC COP.
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Bound By Cement.
the great philosophers of ancient However, authorities may differ
That is the way in which the old Greece would think and say if they regarding the methods adopted to rubble of the piers is bound into could behold our progress of to-safeguard the great fabric that
strength. The cement forces ita day,
rafees its golden cross above the way into all the crevices of the in- They were obliged to walk or to City, they agree in admiration of terior of every pillar, sets and har ride over their little country: we the achievements in architecture dens, so that the crumbling rubble can now traverse it through the and engineering which have been which was the core of each of air in an hour or two. Their poets accomplished.
Wren's giant pillars becomes a solid and orators addressed them only One considerable stage of the mass that centuries will not shake within earshot: we can now listen work of preservation has already or, at least, that is what the ex- to symphonies performed hun-been completed that in the crypt, perts say who are carrying out the dreds or thousands of miles dis-which is now open again to the work.
tant and can end the world's news public.
It is a slow business. More than of yesterday in our newspapers Thousands of Londoners and a hundred men are engaged on the every morning. So, also, I have visitors go there every day-and task, but even so it will be another little doubt that the great diseases pass unnoticed the relics of the two years that part of the cathe- which still oppress us or destroy mighty struggle to secure the foun- dral can be opened again for wor- us by millions will some day fall dations of the cathedral. into our power, or, indeed, be e- Eight immense pillars, designed tirely banished from among us to carry the weight of the soaring Even if this be too optimistic & dome, run down many feet below hope, yet we shall do well at least the surface. Each of these pillars,
ship.
The workmen are picturesquo; white-smoked because of these innumerable whirling particles of cement dust which fall on them, and
to reach towards it. It is ridi- as it passes through the crypt, also wearing. quaint flat-topped culous that mankind, who have scored, with numerous wide holes extended their dominion over the of the size and shape of the open- They look like mechanical millers.
canvas caps, circular in shapo. earth, the sea and the air, shouldings which lepers used in the Mid-||****** continue to be the prey of bacilli,dle Ages for external access to a
£10,000 A Month.
and should even die of such con-church service. These are the More than £250,000 has been temptible things as cold in the holes through which hundreds of subscribed for the repair and pre- head and mosquito-bitest
King Malaria and King Mosquito, tons of cement were pumped into servation of the cathedral. A con- the lower foundations of the siderable part of that sum already "But, as I have already said, the cathedral, and through which rein has been spent, and the present cost object of this fine new Institute is, forcing barg of steel were then is more than: £10,000 a month. primarily, not medical but general inserted.** --though I have no doubt that it will always keep the sanitary ap plications of mosquito-control always within range of its vision,
Closed To All.
Now all activity is concentrated
If the scheme advocated by Mr. John Todd, late district surveyor of the City of London, had been car ried out it would have involved an it only upon its horizon. In all in the space below the dome expenditure of two million pounds. directions, knowledge dovetails' in Around that circle climb the eight. Mr. John Todd, it will be remem- with other. krłowledge. Mosquito primary plers which carry on their bered, served a "dangerous struc control here will facilitate mes-pinnacles the arches of the dome. tura" notice on the Dean and Chap This portion of the cathedral is ter two years ago. He declared quito-control in the most pestifer ous, regions of the earth; and the closed to all except the officials and that St. Paul's would fall down day may come indeed, I am sure the work-people. An immense sooner or later, and announced that that it will come when all those wood screen cuta away the nave, in the only safe course lay in raising fertile tracts of the world which which the ordinary services are the dome, rebuilding plers, and then are now dominated and ravaged held: Behind the screen is a secret lowering the dome by minute frac by King Malaria and King Mos-space of engineering wonder. tions of an inch on the new sup
Each of the spaces between the ports. quito will be laid open to civilisa
Controversy arose over M flon But this happy result will main picre is filled with a lattice only be attained by more thought, structure of steel girders. This Todd's action and pronouncement. by more research and by a firmer structure is like a super scaffolding. There was a wide division of Some determination to make the most of main girders, and cross struts, opinion among authorities. the beautiful world in which we tension stays and buttresses anid he was right, others that ha
There are seven of these miner was completely wrong. Finally in live. A
The pamphlet is prepared by Mr. Eiffel towera straddling against the Mr. John: Todd retired at the end John F. Marshall, MA FLS, eight glant pillars. They support of his term of service to the City. F.E.S and is presented In an ex- between them by their truse" tremely compact and readable form effect that is, their outward, and with 68 original Illustrations. We upward thrust a considerable part wish the Institute every success of the weight of Wien's dome, which The Planter
is a "small matter" of 4,000 tons
In the opinion of the expert com- mittce which is governing the re- pair work,there, are no founda- tions for the alarming statements which have been made,"