FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1931.
THE CHINA MAIL.
DRIVERS' BOYCOTT LONDON'S LATEST LIFE OF A MOTOR | SOME ODDITIES OF
OF LADY.
FIRE ALARMS.
What Is "Reasonable | Reducing False Calls to
Excuse."
A NOMINAL FINE.
"A reasonable.excuse, as I define it, is when the fare and the driver
a Minimum..
NO SCARLET PAINT.
London's circular shaped
fire
alarm boxes are to go, and probably cannot agree" ruled Mr. W. Scho- their attendant lamp-posts will lose field in the Central Magistracy this morning, when the case in which their coat of scarlet paint.
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Mrs. G. L. Matheson, of "Hunting-
SHIP.
Is It Longer Than a Steamer?
THE CENSUS.
Fierce Opposition When First Proposed.
.
SHADOWS BEFORE
.COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL.
Social.
FIRST BILL IN BRITAIN. ⠀⠀
From the Sunday Observer:
To-morrow Hotel, Cecil-Prof. The census met with fierce op A. Barna, cymbalist, at, dinner position when it was Arst proposed dance. in Britain. When, in 1758, a Bill for the purpose wne ·In- troduced into the House of Com- mans Mr. Thornton, the member for York, said:
Entertainments. Today King's Theatre; "Laughter."
Today Queen's" Theatre; "The Lottery Bride,"
The cost of motor ships is gen- erally considered to be higher than that of steamers. It is, however, inexact to generalise, and it has already been establish ed that high-class fast cargo liner tonnage can be built at prices The present alarm boxes-or, which are approximately equal, whether Diesel motors or geared ton." Stubbs Rond, is complainant rather, the open circuit system on turbines be installed, if all con- against Lei Fui, driver of a public which they are worked--are responditions be made similar. With a "I did not believe that there was vehicle he is accused of having refused to take Mrs. Matheson's sible for half of London's 2,500 false fall in speed and reduction in a man, or indeed, any individual of power the balance generally the human species, 30 presump. fare without any reasonable ex-alarms a year. It merely requires favours the steamer especially if tuous, and so abandoned as to make cuse, was concluded. The Magis vehicle or lightning to strike a reciprocating engines he used. such a proposal. I hold this pro- trate pointed out that the defen-street fire alarm, n short circult, or The assumption in such com-ject to be the total subversing of -dant's failure to report to the Police about the alleged underpay- Post Office electriciane to mistake a parisons is that the two classes the last remains of British liberty.
Today Star, a point which went wire and cut it for the brigade to be of ship steam and motor The new Bill will direct the im- have useful lives of equal length, position of new taxes, and, indeed, states the Motor Ship.
the addition of a few words will make it the mast effectual engine of rapacity and repression that was ever used against an injured people. Moreover, the annual re gister of our people will acquaint our enemy abroad of our weak ness,"
ment was
against him. On the other hand, needlessly turned out. Each turn hia Worship was certain that drivers had grounds to complain out costs about £12.
against Mra. Matheson. He would Impose a fine of $5.
LONDON'S MAD HATTER,
The system chosen to replace the
as the
one now in use is known closed circuit, and it works almost uncannily. Not only does it watch itself and report any attempt to in- jure it, but it reports only two kinds "Mad as 'n hatler," they say of alarm-the genuine and the Well, can you wonder at it? Look maliciously false. It cannot confuse a Mad Hatter would have given the a call, and it will not allow a call to
at London's funny hats. Who but.
boxes
is to be erected
Actually, the oil-engined vessel equipped with motors of a gond type can reckon on so many more years of useful economic activity that this factor greatly out weighs any extra capital cost that may be involved,
This is a point which has not previously been brought forward, because time has been too short for suitable evidence to be ac quired: Motor vessels have, how
Mr. Matthew Ridley also oppos ed, stating that "his constituents looked upon the proposal as ominous, and feared lest some public misfortune or an epidemical
distemper should follow the num bering.""
To-day- Contra! Theatre; "A Man. From Wyoming,"
To-day Majestic Theatre: "Tom Sawyer.":
To-day- World "The Cock-eyed World."
"Wild Company."
Meetings,
Theatre;
Theatre
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To-day Inward from Europe (Shinyo Maru and Katori Mura); from Europa. via Negapotam (Hakone baru
ever, now been in service suf
To-morrow---Outward for Europe reficiently long for a reasoned opin-
via Marseilles (Katori Maru), 9,30 Ition to be given which confirms
The Duke's Entry.. a.m.; for Europe via Siberia (Pres the statement we have made. At every census. a considerable sident Jefferson), 5 p.m. · Last month a prominent British number of people are found to be
Lammerts' Auction. shipowner, with experience of a in Ignorance of their birthplace.
June 17-18-Metropole Hotel very large number of steamer Eyen the great Duke of Wellington and motor ships remarked that was uncertain on that point, for furniture, 22, Ice House Street, the life of a motor ship again in his consus paper of 1851, filled 10.30 a.m.
Sports. with the condition that the en in by his own hand--it was ex gines are of a well-built, well-hibited at the Royal Military Ex designed type was, to be rec-hibition at Chelsea in: 1890-ho
oned as 10 years greater than answers.
Guards those enormous bearskins, be mistaken. Everything it that almost obliterate the head, and purts is definite and positive. then doomed the messenger-boy to has never been known to fail wear a silly little pill-box that The first of these new fire alarm makes him look almost bare-
near the beaded?
headquarters station in Southwick There is neither rhyme or reason Bridge Roat. The box is somewhat
of Loudor'a bats. Go down to Billingsgate and look at the like the front of a miniature cot. tage. The pupporting pillar will be fish-porters hats. Those men have to carry loads on their heads; carried above the box, and be sur and so the Mad Hatter has given mounted by a fire brigade red them hats which weigh eight crystal glass globe, which will be pounds! Every one of these hats illuminated during the night, contains five pounds of leather and
In some
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that of a steamer.
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See Sports Diary on Page 9.
and
the question. "Where Forn?" with the words: "Ireland Íod in 1821 the Registrar-Generat The machinery of the Selandia, believe in Athy." His biogra acted with extreme caution. OKA -Code Number System. which has been in regular trade phers shares his doubt, but they the ages of the several individuals some four hundred solid copper Calls transmitted from any of the for almost 20 years, is now run all agree in locating his birth can be obtained," he wrote to the rivets.
26 new boxes. in the headquarters ning with equal economy and re- somewhere, in Dublin.
enumerators, "in a manner satis But the Mad Hatter can be pic-area will be simultaneously repeated liability to that shown in ita first A Bristol Coincidence;
factory to yourself and without turesque when he liked. One is and recorded in the Whitefriars, or year of service and could certain. In a district of Bristol, compris any inconvenience to the parties, glad that he has preserved some. of linked, fire station, which, accordingly be relied upon for satisfactorying three parishes," the census please get them." the quaint hats of the Middle Ages. to routing, dispatches a motor pump and efficient operation for at 1861 revealed the population to be De Quincey, and fils Daughters. He has given the Beefeaters at the and crew to all calls in the head-least another 10 years the bull precisely the same as in 1851, A celebrated man who found the Tower quite a pretty Tudor bonnet: quarters area.
would stand it.
namely, 14,379. The sexes, how filling up of his census paper dim- and the Lord Mayor's coachman The principle on which the new At Belfast during the course ever, changed precedency, thero cult was De Quincey. He entered looks very fetching in that three-pystem works is that a number of of last month we inspected three being in the latter year 181 more himself as "writer to the maga cornered hat of his.
boxes, up to 30, form a circuit single-screw British-built motor males and 131 fewer females than zines" but was quite at a loss to At the Bank of England, too, through which a gentle current of ships equippped with the first in 1851
describe the occupations of his where you would not expect to see electricity is always flowing. Each Harland-B. and W. engines yet
A One-Man Parish,
three daughters. Finally, ho anything in the fancy-hat line, you box has its code number, which may constructed, and which were The parish of Aldrington near thought of a' suitable periphrasis, may sometimes catch a glimpse of he any number that does not con placed in operation 17 years Brighton, is the only parish that bracketed the three names, a gorgeous scarlet Beale, with ntain a cypher.
ago; whilst no work of any im has ever figured in the census with Wrote slowly apposite to the brac- goldbraided cocked hat. Bul you!
Suppose Box 24 is pulled. Aportance was needed on the pro- a single unit of population. That ket: These are like the lilies of will see that only when chance gives toothed wheel inside the box breaks pelling engines, new boilers are was in 1841. Owing to the on- the field; they toil not, neither do you a peep into the inner courts of the circuit in the following manner: being installed to supply steam croachment of the sea, this village, they spin.". the Bank.
11. 1111. These breaks are instant for the auxiliaries, which is an together with its ancient church; : A Problem in Feminine Age. But where did the Mad Hatter ly recorded at the receiving station, indication that the owners anti- was destroyed, and consequently, The only point upon which any get his inspiration when he de-where they appear in a large frame cipate many years' useful acti- the parish contained neither "feeling" now seema to remain signed those towering, white linen box as 24, are beaten on a large vity.
houses nor population at the four anywhere is that of age. The most hats that chefs wear? Did he go alarm gong, and punched on a tape. Other similar evidence is accu- previous census. When the road glaring example is found in the to the Eastern church, whose The call is repeated four times to mulating that motor ships long from Brighton to Shoreham was fact that the number of women re- patriacha wear mitres remarkably eliminate
the slightest possible outlast steamers, and, what is made a turn-pike, the trustees turned as aged 20-25 at every similar to them? He has been chance of error, and, by means of a equally important, their economy erected a toll-bar in the parish, census exceeds the number of girls more re-repeating instrument, it can be remains unimpaired and the re- and the, tali-house, of course, had returned at 10-15 at the previous
simultaneously recorded in every pair bill does not rise, for in- an occupant. Thus the parish be селив.. Look at the London fireman's fire station in the brigade. The creasing age, calls for no large came again inhabited, and the
Dickens and Carlyle. helmet, for example, It is modell-recording tape is at the same time replacements as in a steamer. If census of 1841 gave the population There are some interesting re ed almost, exactly on the lines of a stamped with the exact time at at a moderate estimate the eco- as one. By 1851 the populationcorda, most of them relating to Roman soldier's helmet. And the which the box was pulled. The nomie life of an oil-engined had risen to nine-eight males and the censuses of 1841 and 1851, in City policeman, whose arm holds clock which does this is of such vessel be set at 25 per cent.. one female. In 1901, it was 6,840. up the traffic, is hatted much like ingenious construction that when greater than that of a steamer the Roman Horatio who held, the Leap Year comes round February built to an equally high-class bridge.
29 is automatically inserted.
specification, it is evident that London's hats ecclesiastic are sober by comparison with the Mad odds that two boxes can be pulled cost of a ship resolves itself in Nothing la left to chance. The the question of the real capital Hatter's whimales. You may pass simultaneously and cause a con- favour of the motor vessel, nu a bishop in the Strand and not fusion of codes is about one in a matter of what class. And this notice the curious way in which the million. Nevertheless the system is a matter upon which too brim of his top-hat is corded to the protests itself against such a con- much emphasis cannot be laid in And you never see the flat tingency. It selects one of the calls, the near future when the pro- "clerical hat in the City, notwith- transmits it, and then sends the blem of the construction of ton-! atanding its 52 churches. But you next, and it also reports at once the nage of the most economic type may catch a glimpse of the Roman alightest damage that may have will have to be considered on all biratta sometimes, if your way been done to itself.
aides. takes you past any of the "High" If a fire alarm box is knocked churches.
Let us be thankful that the Mad dintely one blow on the gong in the
over by a lorry, there comes imme Hatter has not exercised his fire station. The fireman on duty freakish Invention on our hats, patches" the line by inserting a meaning yours and mlue John plug in the switchboard, and the box Citizen's two sorts of hat are always is in a position to transmit calls. the same so much the same that It will continue to do this until the I lost a perfectly now soft felt in a electricians can reach it and repair restaurant the other day.-G. H. in the fault. Evening News.
known to go to sourcer mote in point of time.
aldes.
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·MAN. IS DOOMED. Natural Extinction From Within Predicted.
Mankind is gradually becoming weaker and doomed to complete extinction, says Dr. Otto Grosser, professor at the German Univer aity of Prague,
He bases his prediction on a long study of embryonics. Spécialised types, he says; have always been
The system was invented in Ger many in 1849. It recorded calls on i
a tape by means of the Morse code. The Americana substituted numbers for the Morse code letters, introduc ed the gong and visual annunciator, and made the system what it is to-day.
IRON DUKE.
To Be Used As A Training Ship.
mors susceptible to the forces of The battleship Iron Duke,
nature
which was the flagship of Earl He believes that men will die out Jellicoe in the Grand Fleet dur from Influence within the racoriting the War, will not be scrapped esif, rather than from the physical, under the London Naval Treaty,
orces of the carth,
DEVIL'S DYKE HOTEL
Proposal for the erection, hotel at Devli's Dyke,
to mal
uch like a
but is to be "de militarised and used as a training ship, reports the Journal of Commerce. She is the last of her class, her, three. antsister ships, Benbow, Marl
borough, and Emperor of India, having been withdrawn from the Third Battle Squadron to be broken up. The Iron Duke will.
reduced to a non-fighting.
converted into
shippat Davon
the temporary exhibition which Cobbett's Prophecy.
has been opened in the museum of Some ancient prophecies read the Record Office, Chancery Lane, curiously to-day. Cobbett thought of specimen census returns of past surdity when he pointed out that. instance, gives his age as 29 and he had reduced an argument to abgenerations. Charles Dickens, for on the basis of it the population his profession, as gentleman." of England and Wales would reach Catharine, his wife, is registered a total of 29,000,000 by the end of as 26 years old, and the household the nineteenth century. The ac- consisted of the four children, four tual figure was over 30,800,000, female servants, and one
man-
The Pollte Registrar.
servant Thomas Carlyle entered
not touch on the delicate question "author"; but in 1851 he put him- Originally the census paper did himself in the census of 1841 as
of age. Even when it was broach-self down as "man of letters."
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