THE CHINA MAIL:
MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1931. `
LONDON NOISES NOT
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
DRAWNWORK & EMBROIDERIES
Manufacturers & Exporters of
ALL KINDS OF
SWATOW DRAWN.
WORK
AND
ART EMBROIDERIES
SHAWLS #
ÚNDERWEAR
PYJAMAS
KIMONOS.
SWATOW TRADING Co; 6, Pedder St. opp. Hong Kong Hotel|
Phone. 23303.
"ATTRACTIVE TAILORING
The Latest in Gentlemen's Outfitting
AT PRICES TO 'SUIT ANY PURSE.
PERFECT FFF
AND
"RELIABLE- SUITINGS.
WING HING CO.
Gentlemen's Oulätters
61, Queen's Rd. C.
Tel. 21417.
DENTISTS,
BARKT, FONG, Dentist,
1st floor, No 74, Queen's Road
Central Tel: 21256.
TANG YUK, DENTIST Successor to
the late S(En ting, 14, D'Aguilar Strest.
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 Flag "L" Sole Agents for Kelvin Motors.
FRUITS.
AMERICAN FRESH FRUITS
Just Arrived
KELSY PLUMS
YELLOW CLING PEACHES
BARTLETT PEARS
SUNKIST ORANGES
SUNKIST GRAPEFRUITS
Wholesale and Retail,
WING COFFEE CO.
139, Des Voeux Rd. C. Tel. 25869.
LITERATURE
BOOKS for All
Bibles, Pocket Testaments, Prayer Books and Stationery. General Literature Presentation Books Children's Books a Speciality. THE BOOK & BIBLE DEPOT Wyndham Street.
Next to King's Theatre.
Agents for
— British_&_Foreign_Bible...Socfetz. and The Religious Tract Society.
SWATOW DRAWNWORK.
JUST OPEN !!!. LAI YANG EMBROIDERY CO. 2. Wyndham St.
(above Book & Bible Depot.) Direct Exporters of Swatow Drawn Work, Embroideries. Silk Shawls, Irish Linen & Grass Cloth, Handmade
Lacus & Ladies' Underwear,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
HAIR DRESSERS
LEE YEE, Ladies and Gentlemen's Hair
Dressers & Booksellers. No. 12, D'Aguilar Street. (opposite Queen's Theatre).
OPTICIANS.
THE HONG KONG OPTICAL
COMPANY. 'Phone 22232.
53, Queen's Road Central,
SHOES.
Or
Pair Black
Brown Shoes from $6.00. Black Boots from $8.00.
Best stylos, most complote stock of all sizes. Repairing a specialty. WONG SIU WOON
1. Pottinger St.
Phone 21474.
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SO NOISY!
New York's Naughty
Dame
Decibels.
"QUIETEST CITY.”
BLAZING CAR VICTIM.
No Evidence of Foul Play.
VERDICT OF SUICIDE.
A verdict of suicide during tem- Nature, although she
was returned at thoughtfully provided us with eye-porary insanity
near
da for resting the eyes, was per- the inquest at Bubbenhtall,
on Mr. Arthur hap little remiss when she omit-Leamington,
a director of an on- tet to equip the ears with a aimi- Matthews, lar device for excluding or mut-gineering company, whose charred ting noise, writes Dr. G. W. C. body was found in a blazing car the Weston-Bubbenhall Road. Kaye, Superintendent of the Phy-on sies Department, National Physical In the debris of the car were two Laboratory in the Evening News. spent cartridges and a revolver. Had she done so,
Matthews was an ex-officer, who many normally placid and unruffled city workers had lost a leg in the war. would not now be finding that the
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KONG MARKET PRODUCE.
HONG
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'APPROXIMATE. RETAIL PRICES.
Butcher Meat.
Beaf Sirloin
Prime Cal
Corned
Roast
Breast
1
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Steak
牛牛
July 29, June, Juno,
11
1931. 1918. 1914.
Cis. Cie. Cte.
Poultry.
lb.
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24 12
80
28
Chicken Capons, Small
93
88
24
80
20
27
20
38
24
77
per set 17 each. 75
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60
60
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Capons, Large
Duck
Dores
Eggs, Hen (cooking).. Egga, Hen (fresh) Fowls, Canton
Fowls, Haina A Geose
Pigeons, Caston
Holbow Turkeya, Cook Turkeys, Hen
Snipe
Pheasant Quail Partridges
July 29, June, Juns,
1931. 1918. 1914.
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Almonds
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Apples (California)
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Afr. Frank Baron said that the strain of the noise of heavy traffe keys produced and the part of an were those of Mr. and other types of continuous din artificial leg
During the tend to leave tham irritable and Arthur Matthews. worn out by the end of the tiny, war Mr. Matthews, was injured by City noises are, of course, noa shell, lost his leg, and had to new thing, and no doubt London undergo fifteen operations, which ever since ithacame a big city has had a serious effect on his health. always been noisy in its business is nerves were shattered. thoroughfares.. Steel tyres, and The day before the tragedy he horseshoes on cubbles or stone was somewhat peculiar in his man- setts were neisy combinations inner and was depressed. His busi Victorian times, Asphalt Orness was sound and in a prosper. Pig's Chitlings wooden surfaced roads and, aboveous state. Recently he was in. all, the pneumatic tyre, brought a touch for a big contract-some great measure of relief.
£12,000.
He was imagining things. Wit |_____Today,__however...._is_a_mnchina.
one of its by ness put that down to the fact age, with noise as products; and the volume of traffic that he could not take any, recren- through London's busier strects is tinn If he went swimming he was such as to create a background of object of curiosity, and he to the conclusion naise, the level of which is brought therefore came home only by a stroll through the that he was being watched,
'F Mrs. Elsie Matthews, the widow, City on Sundays, or even more ou
Fat or Lard....... the occasion of the Two Minutes said they were married in 1918 and Silence on Armistico Day.
had ved happily. Her husband Sheep's Head & Feet Nevertheleas
had had fits of depression, and travellers extol London as the quietest city in the during the last week or so had world-much less noisy, for in-been very quiet. stance, than the cities of the Latin was more nervous than usual and countries or of the United States, complained of extreme pain in the It is claimed that certain street head. vorners in New York are normal-;
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ly noisier than any so far discover-ton, said that a ed in any other city the world wound was found in the right over. The junction of Sixth temple and also the bullet, by. Avenue, Broadway, and Thirty- Fourth Street rejoices in the trame was lacerated and sufficiently in Barbel of three main streets, three double jured to cause death. The actual Bream
cause of death would be attribut Canton Fresh Water elevated railway, and the Subway able to two factors, the gun-shot wound and the injury by the fire. Police "Glared" at Him. Inspector John Grooby said that 21 Leamington
Junc 30 Matthews stopped him in the
tram-carlines,
double-track a
(underground railway).
Elevated "Sinner." Anyone who has tried
to sleep
in a lower storey in the immedi- ate vicinity will not be disposed
on
Carp Catfish
Codfish Grabs
Cattle Fist
to question the truth of the claim! street and said: "I think there Dab
The arch sinner in
straddle its streets.
the elevated
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must be something the matter All you policemen in or Brown railway and nothing, I imagine, is with me.
less likely than that London will Leamington seem to be glaring at Dog Fish
Ecis, Conger Children's Boots ar ever allow anything even approx-
I rang up your chlef con- me. Shoes from $2.00.
imating to an overhead railway to stable and told him all the police
were glaring at me."
His specch
was coherent, but Frogs The loudness levels of noises are
Garoupa measured in terms of a "degree" suggested mental strain.
The coroner, summing up, said Gudgeon called a decibel, which is approx- imately the least change in loud-it-had-been-suggested-that-the-re- Herringa
volver went off through the heat Halibut ness perceptible to the ear.
of the fire, but that was a fantas. Labrus Measurements of city noises have been made in London by the tie idea
he would not entertain. Loach National Physical Laboratory at They knew Matthews shot himself. Lobsters
The fire was caused intentionally, Mackerel Teddington, and in the United
must
that Monk Fish assume States by the New York Noise and they
the person Matthews' was Commission.
who Mullet As far as it is pos- started it. As to his reasons they Oysters sible to draw comparison, it
except Parrot Fish eeems that a street in New York, had no defnite evidence Is on the average, about 10 de-regarding his sad depression over Perch cibels noisier than a like street in war injuries.
SPORTING GOODS
ATHLETIC
GOODS
AT
London (50 to 70 decibels).
Pike Plaice
Although there are thorough rough and ready test. is to dis- Pomfret, White fares in Londen, where at times a cover the ease with which conver- Pomfret, Black THE LIANG YOU CO.. barking dog would not be heard 20sation can be conducted
70, Queen's Road C.
K. FUJIYAMA
PHOTOGRAPHER
ANNOUNCES HIS REMOVAL
WYNDHAM STREET,
3rd floor.
fest away, there are traffic centres
Prawns
With a little practice the obser- Ray
in New York where a tiger could yant Londener will find it inter- Rock Fish roar without attracting the atten- esting to maké rough estimates of Roach
the noises he experiences as he Balmon tion of passers-by!
There is an increasing tendency goes along. For example, he will Shark find the most recent types of Lon- Skata
and some diminution of the traffic
to erect taller buildings in London don bases quieter than the old, Shrimps noise heard would generally be ex- and the new electric trolley buses Snapper
in West London much more sllent. Boles pected in the higher storey. Tho improvement is however, largely than the tramway cars they dis- Teach nullified if there are high build placed
Turbot
He will begin to draw invidious Turtles, amalı, fr. water acoustic comparlaona batween the types of electric traina serving different parts of the London area.
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Celery, Chinese
Chillies, Dried
Red
Gresn
Curry Stuff, English..
Cucumbers
Garlle
Ginger, Young
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Inge on both sides of a street, In such cases, even with sky scrapers, appreciable relief comes only to the storeys just above the first set He knows he can talk comfortably CHEAP SUITS FROM offered then were low in price, but tories have made the quits after back.
RUSSIA.
Latest Development in Dumping.
TRADESMEN PERTURBED.
the quality was impossible.
Hlg Campaign. Experts in Britain have been closely watching the activities of
reproduction fabrica, have been sup- plied from their mills.
Mass Production. ́"These suits aró made on a mass.
Russian Arms during the past production basis by machinery and.
in a modern, quiet saloon car (40. Shrieking Motor Horns.
decibels), but he cannot compete Knowledgeable travellers' book against the noise of occasional bedrooma on 'the' twentieth floor motor bicycles, and ill-conditioned upwards in certain hotels in Now or badly-loaded lorries. He finds
twelve months, and it is known the material is mostly cotton. York and Chicago. In like condi- that conversation languishes in a
that a big plan of campaign has worsted. They are lined with a tions in London the usual remedy tube (80 decibels) though It may
been prepared.
cheap cotton material, la to engage a room opening on an revive when the train climbs into
Agents from abroad have boon "The main point to remember is. inner courtyard; buildings are the open, as at Baron's Court.
obtaining all possible, information that firms who accept these suits effective noise shielders, as is evi "First" is Quieter.
Suits made in Russia are appear on methods in use in Britain and can retail them at under 20s, and denced by the sylvan quietness of In this connection he may re-ing in large quantities in Britain Scotland, and sample suits were still make a good margin of profit. the gardens of the Inns of Court, call, however, that the New York today and the prices are so low, sent to Russia to be copied.
Apart from these suits, which only a stone's throw from heavy Subway is some 10 decibels nols that the security of small whole- The first consignment of these are designed for the market in this traffic.
fer than London's Underground sale clothing firms is threatened, copies of British suits reached country, Russia is determined to Motor horns have also been the When travelling in the compart Cheap foreign clothing from Britain about six months ago, and capture, our oversens trade. Bubject of investigation by the ment of a suburban train, he finds Soviet factories is on offer at was secretly distributed to agents, "They are specialising on a type National Physical Laboratory, at it necessary to shut, the windows the Instance of the Ministry of if he wishes to follow, closely the prices which, it is feared, will com- who then called on firms for orders of guberdine suitable for wearing Transport. The majority of people arguments of his fellow traveller pel these small firms to close their These agents have now stated in the tropics, and samples of seem to find shrill horns more ir sitting opposite. He will discover on production departments owing that the Russian firms are in a these have been offered at the ritating than low. The continuous that a first class compartment with to the impossibility of making position to supply quantities in wholesale price of 68. for a com staccate use of the high-pitched the windows, shut is a little quiot articles to compete successfully bulk of the sample suits, and have plete three-piece suit." horn beloved by Paris and Romeer than a thirdmannenpiteisiin against this menace of dumped quoted prices which are consider taxi-drivors does not find favour All such, noise variations, which tailoring.
ably, lower than those from even A year ago a similar in this country can be expressed in terms of our
menace the cheapest of home firms.
There are incidents in the his- The loudness of noises is usual decibel unit, may help to impart a came from Russia, but efforts toThe trade la faced with a very tory of all parties which we who ly measured by matching them flavour of interest to a familiar place cheap foreign suits on the serious position," an expert said to love our party all regret-Mr. against a standard note, but a journey.
British market falled. The goods a Press man. "Soviet clothing fac- Leif Jones, M.P.
"