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SUITINGS.
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TWO
64, Queen's Rd. C.
Tel. 21417.
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BRAND
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139, Des Voeux Rd. C. Tel. 25869.
DENTISTS.
HARRY FONG, Dentist,
1st floor, No. 74, Queen's Road
Central. Tel. 21255.
TANG YUK, DENTIST
Successor to
the late SIEN TING, 14. D'Agullar Street.
TERMS VERY MODERATE
Consultation Free.
ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES.
THE GLOBE FOOK CHEONG ELECTRICAL SUPPLY CO., LTD. 72. Queen's Road C. Tel. 23270.
ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS.
W. S. BAILEY & CO., LTD.,
Kowloon Bay. New Work & Repairs. Call Fing "L"."
Sole Agents for Kelvin Motors.
VICE AND GRAFT IN NEW YORK.
Serious Attack on Tammany Hall.
LOOSENED CONTROL.
THE CHINA MAIL.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
HAIR DRESSERS
INDOOR GOLF.
GENTLEMEN'S TAILORS.
LITERATURE
Tronafgure
You
MADAM KATIE'S BEAUTY PARLOUR. $1, Wing Lok Building, Kowloon.
Tel. 66841.
Tel. 56841.
ON LOK
(Ah Hime)
10. Wyndham St.,
1st floor.
Entrance On Lan St. Telephone 22317.
LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN'S HAIR DRESHING SALOON. Expert Barbers, Moderate Charges.
1.EE YEE,
Ladies' and Gentlemen's Hair Dressers & Booksellers, No. 12. D'Aguilar Street, fopposite Queen's Theatre),
GENTLEMEN'S TAILORS
Winter Sult
Made to Order.
Our Measurement is Guaranteed Perfection.
Prices Within the Means of Everyone.
YEE SING
Gentleaira's Tailor.. 14, Wellington St.
Tel. 21882.
assume a more than local signific
ance.
Weakening Control.
If Tammany government is no more corrupt than the governments of half a dozen other large cities, it is more notorious especially
than
any
NOW OPEN.
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There will be no more "What
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JEWELLERY.
EUROPEAN
WATCHMAKER, JEWELLER AND ENGRAVER.
Sale and Repairing of Gold and Silver Goods.
kind
Any
of Watches, Chronontelers. Chronographs, Repeaters. Speedometers, Typewriters and anything in the line of delicate mechanism. All orders executed promptly at moderate rates.
M. BOGDATSKY, No. 58, Nathan Rd. Kowloon.
frowsty rooms of brownstone houses all over New York the people of the district bring their requests and complaints to the Tammany district captain.
"Uncle" Steps In.
*
ailored
at
BROWN'S
FOR PERFECTION IN WINTER SUITS.
2nd Kutton Bldg., 7. Daddel SL (opp Gospel Hall). Tel. 29056.
Points of Appeal
TO UE CLEVER DRESSER
SUITS
Superiority of siyle, finer word. lens and neater tailoring will be noted in our Spring Suits.
MILLEN Co. 14. D'Aguilar St.
Tel. 22774.
OPTICIANS.
THE HONG KONG OPTICAL COMPANY,
'Phone 22232,
63, Queen's Road Central.
BOOKS for All
Bibles, Pocket Testaments, Prayer Books and Stationery, General Literature Presentation Books Chlidren's Books a Speciality.
THE BOOK & BIBLE DEPOT Wyndham Street.
Next to King's Theatre. Agents for
British & Foreign Bible Society and The Religious Tract Society.
SWATOW DRAWNWORK.
JUST OPEN!!!
LAI YANG EMBROIDERY CO.
2. Wyndham St.
(above Book & Bible Depat.) Direct Exporters of Swatow Drawal) Work. Einbreideries Sik Shawls, Irish Linen & Gras Cloth, Handmade Laves & Ladies' Underwear.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
AN INTRODUCTORY
HISTORY
by
A. H. CROOK, O.B.E., M.A.
W. KAY, MA.
W. L. HANDYSIDE, MA, B.Sc.
PRICE $2.00.
NOW ON SALE AT THE PUBLISHERS.
The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd.
China Mail Officer.
would never have had to be paid if the church were not "seriously con- travening the building regulations.
Although many wealthy and res- pectable people declaim against Tammany as though they would not touch it with a barge-pole, the rela-
The "Vite Squad." tions of Tammany with big business
It was the rewlation of the pro- are in general fairly good and oc- ceedings of the so-called "vice A trivini but characteristic in-casionally intimate. If some of the squad" (policemen nominally engag- cident illustrates in a general way largest corporations hold ostenta-ed in suppression of the white slave how Tammany works. There is a
are plenty of traffic) and of the mass of systema- tiously aloof, there news dealer, whom we will call New York fortunes which have been tie and wholesale corruption exist- Janowitch, who has a little shop not built up largely on the basis of a ing in the lower courts, where such far from Washington Square. For close co-operation with Tammany cases are tried, that finally brought some reason, perhaps because Jano- Hall. The connection. involves on public indignation against the city the policeman on the best is an Irish election funds and payments to in- Tammany to a pitch at which con- witch is a Jew and a Radical and the one hand heavy contributions to administration 48 conducted by
stantly being annoyed by the police- tion for what is about to be receiv found that Roman Catholic, Janowitch was con- dividual members of the organisa-certed action was possible. It was members of the vice man. At first the policeman did noed it involves on the other hand a squad, aided and abetted by the than scowl at him in an readiness to refrain from too rigor lower courts, had been making large ances annoying to the corporation prostitutes and women who were not ous enforcement of laws and ordin-sume of money by blackmailing concerned, and to give such advan- prostitutes alike. tages as are in the power of Tam- many to bestow in the matter of assessments on property, city con- tracte, and valuable bits of advance
in those districts of the south Rad west where hatred and distrust of New York are matters of habit and principle. The Republicans were on When Mr. James J. Walker was the qui vive to see that any wash- re-elected Mayor of New York City ing of New York's dirty linen should by a hugely increased majority in be done as publicly as possible. The the Autumn of 1929 the crowds that; Republican National gathered in Times Square singing would have been glad to put Mr. Committee "We're sky high for Walker" ap- Roosevelt in the position where he plauded the results as a foregone would either have to offend his aup- more conclusion, writes the New York porters in Tammany Hall by push- Irritating way and refuse to answer correspondent of The Times, Taming forward an investigation of the when Janowitch passed the time of many had swept the board, and the city or else alienate many of his day with him. Then he began to incoherent forces of Republicanism, natural friends in other parts of the Socialism, and civie reform retired country by seeming to ignore the to the positions of impotent ob- unaeemly rumpus at his door. Beurity from which they had emerg ed to conduct a campaign more like a routine manoeuvre than a serious charge.
But there
Although nobody at that time had
worry the shopkeeper by trying to prevent him displaying his news- papers on stands outside his shop, fered with pedestrians and were on the ground that the stands inter-
against the law.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1931.
"SWATOW DRAWNWORK
FOR THE LADIES.
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Priama Suits and
Shawls.
DRAWNWORK & EMBROIDERIES
Manufacturers & Exporters of ALL KINDS OF
SWATOW DRAWN
WORK
AND
ART EMBROIDERIES
SHAWLS.
UNDERWEAR
PYJAMAS
K'MONOS.
SWATOW WENG SWATOW TRADING CO.
LEE CO.
52, Nathan Rd., Kowicon
For Swatow Goods and Chinese Fancy Goods.
SPORTING GOODS,
ATHLETIC
GOODS
AT
THE LIANG YOU CO..
T
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70, Queen's Road C.
TYPEWRITER DEALERS
HOP SING 28, Pottinger St. Tel. 21420 CANTON-116, Sun Kee Sal Rd.
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6. Pedder St. opp. Hong Kong Hotel Phone. 23303.
SHOES.
Black
or
Pair
Brown Shoes from $6.00. Black. or Brown Boots from $8.00. Children's Boats or Shoes from $2.00.
Eest styles, most complota stock of all sizes. Repairing a specialty. WONG SIU WOON
21. Pottinger St.
OUR
Phone 21374.
LADIES' TAILORING
DEPARTMENT
undertakes to execute orders FOR MAKING DRESSES & GOWNS on latest styles with. in 16 hours.
LOVELY SILK STORE
No. 2, Stanley Street. Tel. 22100. (Adjoining D'Aguilar Street.)
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THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE LTD. CHINA MAIL BLOG. JA WYNDHAM ST.
SELF-MEDICATION DANGERS.
"Remedy" Accelerates Boy's Death.
"EXTRAORDINARY" CASE"
of the business men of the city, including some of those who have had long connections with Tammany Hall. On the one hand, they are alarmed by the growing expenses of the administration and the effects on taxes and assessments. On the other, they are frankly afraid that if the present state of affairs is allowed to continue New York will lapse into the condition of Chicago, which would, first, be bad publicity for New York as a business centre,
A case described as "extraordin- and, secondly, would actually hamary" engaged the attention of the the conduct of business by coroner at a Stepney lnquest on throwing business even wider open James William Law, aged seven- to the depredations of racketeers,
Already all over the city there son Street, Bow.
teen, a tailor's apprentice, of Robe- are racketeering gange (sometimes
sociations"), who do nothing but was being attended by a doctor fur terming themselves "protective as taking pastilles for catarrh.
It was stated that Law had been He exact regular tribute from shop a cold, and on Thursday evening be keepers and other business men in collapsed and died. their respective districts. Benting, stated that he had no idea that the His doctor bombing, or shooting is the penalty boy was taking the pastilles. tion." for refusal to "support the associa
per
Dr. Temple Grey, pathologist, of mortem examination, said that Law Harley Street, who made a post-
was suffering from a fatal condi- tion of tuberculosis of the kidney.
No Similar Case.
If they paid they were released, or subsequently acquitted. If not they were sentenced, innocent and formatory. When the women real- guilty alike, to terms in the re-
ly had broken the law in some way In at least one district of New -sometimes only by selling liquor York the racketeering gang of this the collection of blackmail was sim- description which controls the terri- ple enough, unlew the women hap- tory has become so powerful that it pened to be backed by adme power- does not, so far as is known, even ful gangster or politician. In other pay protection money to the police ing were harmless for a normal The pastilles he had been tak-
time-honoured custom of detectives eases the-vice squad followed the or to anyone else. A short time ago individual, and they contained A man who owns a medium-sized creasate and camphor, which were ed the evidence by means of the in at 4 o'clock in the afternoon to boy had eaten fruit, and the and agents provocateurs, and creat- business on the waterfront rushed insoluble in the stomach. The "frame up."
see his lawyer, a well-known man glucose in this had dissolved some An advance
man gets into the with strong political connections. woman's apartment on some pre- The merchant had had a con- taken it into the blood.
of the camphor and creosote and This text, takes off his coat, puts five or troversy with the transport Arm could not be secreted owing to the 10 dollars under a cushion, and the that handled its merchandise and condition of the kidneys, and caus- waiting detectives, rushing in, find had held up payment of a disputed ed an acute attack of poisoning, the woman in a situation which bill for $8,000, allegedly due to the from which he died. "proves" her
to be a
prostitute. transport firm. At 3 o'clock that of death was tuberculosis of the One woman, herself a prominent afternoon £ well-dressed, quiet- kidney, accelerated by self-medica- white slave traficker, who was spoken man dropped into the mer- tion.
The cause
More important in its effect on the events of the last 18 months
information as to the future status than either of the foregoing ele-
and value of real estate and other ments in the situation has been the To-day the Mayor is compelled to fact that in the last few years the has a much bigger shop and a share
But Janowitch has an uncle who property in the city. abow reason why he should not be internal mechanism of the Tammany in a speak-easy and lives in another Appeals has power
The Board of Standards and removed from office, and Tammany organisation has been working loose. election district two or three miles status of any
to change the Hall is facing an attack as serious Mr. Curry, the present head of to the north. So one Friday night from
district of the city as any it has encountered
"residential" in its Tammany Hall, was
to "business." elected with Janowitch travelled up scarred career. Its strategists may diffealty over strong opposition, and spoke to his uncle about the be the district rises enormously. It town and Thereupon the value of property in yet deflect the attack or at least re- he has not been the all-powerful haviour of the policeman, and the treat in good, order. In any case "boss" that Croker was, or Murphy.uncle, who is a big man in the dis had been getting about $900,000 was revealed last year that one man Tammany will suffer no final defeat. New York has been quieter than trict on account of the shop and the (£60,000) a year for "arranging" will be a political up- Chicago, because in the paat Tam-speakeasy, spoke to his district cap changes of this kind. At about the heaval in the metropolis more vio-many has held unified control over thin, and the captain passed the same time a judge was found to lent and extensive than seemed pos- the political and sible 18 months ago.
semi-political | activities of the city.
message on, and on Monday morn to have received $250,000 from a Now the control has loosened, the newspapers, on
ing when Janovitch was laying out shipping company for arranging the a notion of the magnitude of the Subordinates in the organisation Ballceman passed,
the stands the lease to the company of three of the storm that was soon to gather, there have been getting out of hand, and "Good morning, Mr. Janowitch."
and saluted, city piers. The handling of the were signs even then that Mayor, things have been done that a strong
very valuable city contracts offers Walker's second administration was chief with all the reina in his hand
Every sort of question and re-similar opportunities. unlikely to run so smoothly as ble would have forbidden as being too
quest imaginable is brought to the Although the contrary is often first. The stock-market crash had dangerous, too irregular, too "raw" district captain to deal with. The asserted it is not true that the the already begun. As it proceeded Old Tammany men who have worked most common naturally arise from a fixed tariff determining the judges, magistrates, officials, and for the organisation for a quarter cases where people have become in amount of money that must be paid could do 20. other more or less public figures of a century shake their heads over
volved with the law. Someone's for protection from interference or | who owed their positions largely to the carelessness of them put it the son, for instance, has been sentenced annoyance, or for permission to The police department is under their connection with Tammany and other day, "the big boys have been to gaol, or is under arrest and is in break the law. As a rule, there is the control of Tammany, and the who in the days of riotous prosperi letting the little fellows get away danger of being convicted. It is a payment to be made before the magistrates concerned, like the ty had haunted the lucrative but with murder." Now the resulting the business of the district captain plan of a new building can be up- higher judges and magistrates, pay. He remarked afterwards that far from lucid inter-space between trouble is coming to a head, to take the necessary steps to see proved. On the other hand, a owed their position largely to Tam- if he had not so advised him he felt the worlds of politics, finance," and Even so, Tammany remains an ex-
that the sentence is suspended or powerful or potentially powerful many. But it is extremely impro sure he would have read either of posed to the unfriendly gare of an ways beneficent, administrative ma- needs coal the law, found their operatione extraordinarily efficient, and in many the case dismissed. Someone else person might get his plan approved bable that this system of blackmail the kidnapping of the man's chil-
While steady progress has bean excited and irritable public, many of chine.
The captain arranges merely in return for service render- was in any sense organised by ordren or the shooting of the man It governs a population an informal subscription among the ed or shout to be rendeed. The carried on with the official approval The development of this sort of gan district of British Columbia, himself within a very few days. observed throughout the Okaa- whose members had in one way and larger than that of the whole of leas hard pressed members, and the same applies to the completed build of the Tammany organisation as situation in New York is not the it has been more marked during another been swindled out of most present-day Austria, and
ing. Ab. more coal is provided.
such. It is probabis that the situa- of their money.
heterogeneous, racially and econo- An Immense welfare work is The percentage of graft that has tion in New York was an extreme least of the factors that have lost the past year on the southern ir was forced to resign, a third dis-pire. The city is divided into as.
One judge want to prison, anathermically, than the old Hapsburg Em.) quietly carried on in this way. In to be paid before the building is de- and horrible example of "the little Tammany some of its support and rigation area around Oliver
a time of extreme poverty and suf-clared in conformity with the bulld- fellows getting away with murder." laid it open to the Impending Osoyoos where over 500 acres of Appeared from the Supreme Court sembly districts, each with its disfering like the present, this agency, ing regulations, and hence fit for The policemen almet certainly split Inquiry.
orchard and vegetable land has been taken up by new settlers at bench in the middle of the scandals trict leaders, who are also members like all others, has proved made-uac, `varies" widely. For instance, their profits with somebody, "but
prices ranging from $80 an pero and has not been heard of since, of the organisation's central com- quate to meet the demands for re- when a church was being built Tammany itself was involved only
for raw land to $750 for improv Moreover, as Mr. Franklin Bores mittee. The assembly districts are lief, but even so the assistance that some years ago, the clorgyman for thasmuch as the general laxity of
ad and bearing orchards. Approx- velt, Governor of New York State, subdivided into election districts, Tammany has been able to give its whom it was being bullt paid some the administration permitted these
Imately 25,000 young fruit trees was already & prospective candidate supervised by district captains, people during the depression has thing like 10 per cent. of the total practices to go to nich lengths with
have been planted. for the Democratic nomination for whose business. It is to know all that materially strengthened its hold in cost in graft, but, an experienced such impunity.
In addition, the Presidency in 1932, what hap there is to be known about the many districte.
about $100,000 has heen expended New York architect gives it as his It is the same laxity which has pened in New York had begun to voters in their districts. In the
during the year in building con- Tammany and Big Business. opinion that so large a percentage at length' perturbed a great many
struction
Unofficial Blackmail.
vico squad, was etrangled before she bill. "I suppose," he said, "you was no record of a similar case. about to give evidence against the chant's office and mentioned. the Dr. Temple Grey said that there
want to see your children when you "When patients are under doc- go home to-night? Yes? Well, tor's orders," he added, "they then, I advise you to have that should in no instance take any $3,000 delivered before 6 o'clock." medicine not prescribed by the
The lawyer advised the man to doctor."
A verdict of "Accidental death" was recorded.
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