SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1931.
THE
CHANDLER IN DECAY
A GUST OF RIVERSIDE'S
BREATH.
Ted Kemp and His W'eels,
By Thomas J. Wood.
In every twisted little byway and close-crowded street that reaches down to the river are. innumerabic little shops and dens engaged in a Tague traffic, From these vague and musty recesses comes a smell No original as to be Riverside's own -its breath. It is not old clothes, or fish, or cockles; it is neither savelogs, beer, nor atale cookery; it is net sleep, or dust, or sacking, or chuff:. it is not confined air or frow
iness. It is none of these part!- cularly, but the essential elements of all blended into one great stake sigh, River mist distilled on the cobbles, trodden litter from the warehouses, close moist air com- bine in a perpetual dampnes on It is always a streets and walls. wet day there, though the midday aun of the longest day blaze and in the simmer, writes Mr. Word Manchester Guardian.
Up these streets comes the breath
the
THE CHINA MAIL.
VOLUNTEER CORPS. MR. STEWART ALLAN
Orders for the Coming Week.
Ordes by Lieut.-Colonel L. G |Bird,' D.8.0., 0.8.C., commanding
Hong Kong Volunteer Corps, are issued as under:
PARADES.
Corps Band.
of
ARTHUR.
Yesterday's Funeral.
EXCHANGES.
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.
On London-
Bank, wire
1/3
Bank, on demand ... 1/5 5/16 Bank, 4 months' sight 1/5 7/16 Credits, 4 months'
1/6. 14 Documentary, months' sight
Un Paris-
1/6 %
685
4
months'
765
Nom
27%
The funeral of Mr. Stewart
sight Defence Allan Arthur, of Merars. Gibb, Livingstone & Co., Ltd., whose death was reported yesterday, took place at the Protestant Cemetery, The Band will attend at Head-Happy Valley, last evening.
On demand
There was quarters for Band Practice on Mon-
a large attendance Credits, day, November 16.
friends to may
their last right The Band will proceed to Camp tributes, including the Hon. Mr. On Berlin- for week-end. November 20-22, C. G. Mackle, Mr. M. T. Johnson, On demand
Attention is called to Camp] Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Barker, and
On New York- Orders already issued by Head- Messrs. A. L. Sullivan, J. DOn demand .. quarters.
Butcher, J. E. Way, V. Sorby, Credita, 60 days' sight 28% The Battery will parade at L. C. F. Bellamy, J. W. C. Butcher,
On Bombay- for Corps Headquarters on Thursday, H. B. L. Dowbiggin, H. R. E. Wire ...... It is apparently a matter
Hancock, T. S. Williamson, A. H. On demand pride in Mr. Kemp, and the listener, 19th instant at 5.30 pm.
The Battery.
White, A. G. Coppin, D. H. Blake, glancing at the "'Ull boat," and "
Until further notice Gun Drill C. Champkin, R. E. H. Oliver. Wire remote, will be carried out at Headquarters Allan Cameron, and C. On demand thinking her sinking not
On Singapore- concludes that Mr. Kemp's stock of and not at Gun Club Hill as hers-Frederick.
The Dean, the Very Rev. A. On demand marine stores must be small indeed to fore.
On Manila- Swann, officiated at the graveside.
Wreaths included the following, On demand
On Shanghai- from "Loving wife and child,"
On demand from "Loving Mother."
Dollar
If unable to cope with such a trifling demand upon them.
Engineer Company. Monday, November 16, Miniature Range.
1.
"But," continues Mr. Kemp. "If There will be no D.L. instruction 'e was to come 'ere for w'eels. or at Wellington Barracks on Thurs- jam jars or bones or ould rags, an'day, November 26. was willin' to pay
me proper for The following w
944
944
On Calcutta
944
94
614
544
Tls. 751⁄2 3% dis.
On Yokoham
On demand' Sovereigna
644
(Bank's
1/6 1⁄2 2114
Nom.
Nom.
8% prem.
34% pa.
Mr. and Mrs. F. Synie Thomson, Mr. and Mrs. A. Piercy, Mr. and parade at Mr. Gilmore, Mr. and Mrs. S. the rummagin" is ship woulden Headquarters on Monday nights at Jarvis, Mr. and Mrs. J. Douglas and Mrs. A. L
buying rate) 5.30 p.m. for squad and arme drill, Butcher, Mr. carry away wot I could give 'im.
"That's wet it's come to," goes on until further notice:-
Sullivan, Mr. and Mrs. E. Gross- Silver (per z.) o. 'OW WAR
man, Mr. and Mrs. Allan Cameron, Bar Silver in Hong Mr. Kemp. "Ruination.
Kong Mr. and Mro. P. S. Cassidy, Mr.
Spr. T. Armstrong. Spr. H. E. Beale.
Spr. II. W. Brown. Spr. W. J. Brown. Spr. C. G. F. Crofton, Dress-Mufti, belt,
it in the dull times? Like this 'ere. A ship is in them slips across the river- proper ship. All right. She's ready" to launch. All right.
All right.] Everythink is wanted. Wet's the move? Jus' slip across and rifle. to Ted's an' tell 'im we'll soon be needin' the usual! All right. Ship
by Granby, say, Ropes, 'awsers, cember 20, oil, waste, lamps, shovels, galley
4
Corps Signals,
terest
Paris New York
Montreal
4.20.
and Mrs. S. T: Williamson, Mr. Copper Cash and Mra. R. E. H. Oliver, Mr. and Copper Cents Mrs. R. V. Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Rate of Native in-
Mr. and Mrs. sidearms H. Owen Hughes,
.. 20% dis. W. F. Simmons, Mr. and Mrs. Chinese Sub. Coin Camp-November 27.
C. P. Ress, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Hong Kong Sub. Coln Par.
LONDON EXCHANGES Classification.--Stonecutters, De-Langley, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Arch- of the river, stealthy, feverish,
butt, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Plummer,
Rugby, Yesterday. Into the moist little shops moist.
96 Mr. and Mrs. J. Norrie Owen, Mr. it creeps. and they heave fusty
3.70% yewptensils, oilskins and buets for Muzkeiry Practices will be fired and Mrs. E. J. R. Mitchell, Mr. yawns and go to sleep with
Sunday, and Mrs. Sverre Berg, Mr. and shatters up like so many unwashed crew, compass, log, taller, everythink at the Peak Range on
Firing will com-Mrs. G. C. Black, Mr. and Mrs. Wooden eyelids creeping needful by Ted Kemp. An' to-day November 15. eyelids.
Curative plas- I'm asked to rummage for w'eels: mence at 0.30 am. Uniform is op-C. C. Stark, Mr. and Mrs. P. E. down, day by day. ters inscribed To Lei" pasted all Weels. Let 'em go to Arrerway's ticnal but equipment must be worn. Barker, Mr. and Mrs, and Miss But no awakening. Only for their w'eels. 1 aren't dependent Parade at Corps Headquarters at Mackie, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. F. Mrs. J. P, aloop, stale, long, frovisy sleep, end-on w'eels for my livin'. I'ave a 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, November Bellamy, M.
Sherry, Mr. and Mrs. N V. A. bit put by wot'll do me for as long 17. as ' live. It's bad times, but I'm The Company will proceed to Croucher, Mr. and Mrs. C. Cecil left comfortable fer my ould age."Camp at Fanling on the evening Frederick, Mr. and Mrs. Larcina, And in the smoke of his pipe Mr. of Friday, November 20. Details Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Danby, Mr. Kemp sees many things, past and of trains, etc., have been forward- and Mrs. N. M. Curric, Mr. and
ed to all concerned. yet to come.
over.
ing in death.
Ted Kemp, proprietor of River- aide Marine Stores, sits in the sunshine smoking his pipe. He is stout and purple and breathless, and he resents custom betnuse it requires him to bestir himself.
"Which," says Mr. Kemp, is bad for me breathin'."
Ted Kemp "minds the ould Limes." "Read that," he invites, with an upward jerk of his pipe, "wot I've got wrote over the door there. Marine Stores. Marine Stores, mind, an' I coulden provide fer a ferry boat."
moves
Mr.
1.
"There's Granby," says Mr. Kemp Armoured Car Company. presently nodding over to an empty! There will be no parades until gaunt yard. "'E 'ad that yard over after Camp. there. To-day 'e's broke an thousand men the
und
Mrs. T. E. Pearce.
Mesaro. T. H. G. Brayfield, M. H. Turner, J. T. Prior, E. L. Groome, H. J. Armstrong, A. D. Humphreys, J. R. Coflis, Eric poorer for it. Reminder. Machine Gun Part Grimble, G. Miskin, I., J. Davis, There's shops closin' in every street 11. will be fired at Stonecutters on M. T. Johnson, G. W. Sewell, C. Launch Thwaites, H. Dreyer, J. D. Hum. on the Riverside. The big shops Sunday, November 15,
a
Scottish. Company.
won't be long neither. Take my tip will leave Queen's Pier at 8.30 am. phrey, D. E. Clark, M. F. Key, they won't. Times is cruel. God and Kowloon Police Pier at 8.40 Alabaster, F. H. Crapnell,
elp 'em in Winter, that's all. It'lla.m. go back to residential, this town will. Take my tip."
"That's true," the listener
V. R. Gordon, W. R. Mansfield, P.A. H. White, R. N. Drake, Charles
Range Officer--2nd Lieut. T. Saunderson.
to
The circumstance Kemp's internals in that degree that one expects a laugh; and pre-
The Company will proceed sently it comes up in a bubbling. | agrees.
Camp on Friday, November 20. "Truc?" says Mr. Kemp scorn-members to be complete throaty whisper.
"No," says Mr. Kemp, suddenly fully. "Of course it's true. I don't clothing and equipment. turning to a small boy who is need to be told that. I wouldn't fingering three hot pennies, "no, we've said it else. The road it looks
none.
Black, M. M. Watson, G. G. N. Tinson, A. Leach, A. C. Wilcox, All C. Blaker, D. R. Masson, Donald Forbes, Captain A. Harvey, D.S.O., with!
and Miss B. G. Birch.
Brassels
27%
Geneva
Amsterdam Milan Berlin Stockholm
19 5/16
97
23%
15%
174
Oslo
18 1/16
Vienna Prague
28
127
Helsingfors
1932
Madrid Lisbon Athens Bucharest
434
109/
310
630 (7)
Elo
3 13/16
Buenos Aires Montevideo Bombay Shanghai
282
1/6 5/32
1/10
1/5
2/7 %
21%
20 15/16
Hong Kong.
Yokohama
Silver Spot
Sliver Forward
90%
-British Wireless Service.
WHAT THE PUBLIC DESIRES.
was little need
In the old days, old even Ho Leung, Sham Kam-lal, Hoto Irving, there was very Portuguese Company.
K. W. K. Fook, Ip A-chow, Leung little ducking to The Company will proceed to Fattin, Leung Yan-po, Lau Yung-public, to the man in the Street. the English 'aven' any w'eels. No, we aren't to me," he continued, looking glum-Camp for woek-end, November 20- kee. Li Chack-kfa, Leung Chak-Indeed, there likely to 'ave any a Satad'! No, Ily into his store at mountains of 22. Attention is called to Camp won't save you a pair we'en we get old wheels, "the road it looks to me. Orders already issued by Head-on. Leung Yew, Yeung Yam and to kowtow to him, for in those days
the "office boys."
he didn't like it. That happy man in some, 'cause we aren't gointa "ave they'll all be sellin' weels afore the quarters.
Meeurs.. Goddard and Douglas, the street was privileged to enjoy year's out, an' that's about the price The Officers Commanding the European Staff of Hong Knog Elec- what he was able to appreciate, pro- undermentioned Units will issue tric Company, President and mem-vided he was willing to put up with "They come 'ere," he continues on it." plaintively, turning from the buy It is possible that in Mr. Kemp's their Orders separately to their bers of the Chartered Bank Mess, all the discomfort of a more or less to its listener-in-chief, "for w'ecls.mind second-hand wheels are full of commands:---
Officini Measurer's Office, Douglas ramshackle pit and gallery-he was They make them bogie things of dark significance; for he shakes his
Laprnik & Co., Local Staff of Hong not any softer than were the 'em an' gon' lame theirselves.head sadly and casta a melancholy
Kong Electric Company, Commit-benches he sat on yet he did not They want me rummagin' about in eye over his stock of the article. there fer w'ecls. It's bad for me
breathin.' I've w'eels. I know
Perhaps in his mind he has equipped. Ruin with wheels to speed its
I 'ave w'eels. More w'ecis nor course. Perhaps he fits them men-
U boat yon," he says. "Ah," agrees the listener-in-chief. "If 'er skipper," says Mr. Kemp, "was to offer me the order fer all
the rope an' waste an' gear and such like for that boat, from this day to the day she sinks, I couldn't touch the order."
at last.
1.-Machine Gun Troop. 2-Armoured Car Company
Motor Cycle Section. 3.-Machine Gun Company.
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tee and Members of the Hong
puny,
grumble.
becoming all-important.
Kong Cricket Club, Navy League, Nowadays all this is changed, and Notification of Camp. Wang Kee & Company, Captain. Irving, at the end of his career, was Should any Member of the Corps Committee and Members of Royal among those who were obliged to anythink else, likely. But I aren't tally to some metaphorie hearse that not have received a notification Hong Kong Golf Club, Yue Fat & adapt themselves to the change. gointa rummage. I aren't gointa is to bear away the corpse of Plenty with regard to dates of the Annual Company, Lammert Bros., Staff of
The man in the street to-day has chance bein' teak sudden fer no
Camp he will please apply to The Mackinnon Mackenzie & Company, A gust of Riverside's breath Adjutant at once for same, so that North Point Loent Staff of Hong is a superior
no longer a claim to the street-he Not likely, I aren't." man.
person-so his Mr. Kemp spits towards a dingy comes oozily up from the waterside. administrative arrangements may Heng Electric Co., Chairman, Com-honourable title has gone; ho ja little coaster moored at the "Cor- | It is thick and poisonous and de- be completed.
mittee and Members of Hong Kong now ushered into boxes, stalls, or poration."
pressing. The gulls rise and sail Drawing of Rifles and Bayonets. General Chamber of Commerce, circle. Ile dresses up to the new away from it all, joyful and immune. N.C.O.'s and men proceeding to Chairman, Committee and Mem- | role. As we know, he is rapidly Away. They can leave it all with Camp. must draw their rifles and bera of Hong Kong Club, Wo Fat out thought or regret. To them, bayonets from Corps Stores before Shing, Mackinnon Mackenzie & Outside and inside, he has been the dank smell of Riverside streets, 6 p.m. on Thursday, November 19. Company, Gibb, Livingston & Com- tidied up and softened down: he the corruption and decay are but)
Transfer..
Johnsen, Stokes & Master, cannot abide a bench, and vastly incidents. They rise like dames in No. 1472 Bdr. D. Black, Battery, Stewart Bros., and The Bank Line. prefers to sit in comfort. Plays are the late sunlight und set their is transferred to No. 7 Platoon, Messrs. Hipson, Dun Fat, On
from Yick, Yip Fan, Mak Wing, Li Hin. not less to his liking than Revues or Mow Fung Wo, Chung Yick, Lau Variety shows, provided the house No. 817 Gnr. H. A. Angers. Bat- Piu. We Yee, Yan Shun & Co., HOLLYWOOD HI-LIGHTS. The snappy jazz music, through- tery, is transferred to No. 7 Yeung Tai, and K. S. Tang.
out the performance is ably sup- Platoon, as from 13.11.31. The Hollywood Hi-Lights, con- plied by the girls themselves. Struck Off The Strength. wisting of a amall troupe of talent- The Misses Betty Benn and Patsy Not likely to become an efficient ed artistes, headed by Rex Story Shannon were warmly applauded Volunteer:- and Len Mantell, were accorded a and encored for their violin pieces most enthusiastic welcome at the with dancing 'intermingled, Star Theatre last night, when they
Miss Rose Lee, the personality made their debut to a crowded. girl, captivates with ́ú number of house. Every item on the pro- "skit" jazz songs. Peggy Chann service:- gramme was very well received, delighted with international
course for the nea.
· the audience evidently fully ap-dancing, whilst Esther Valey's
carned preciating Mr. Story's original singing
loud applause. jokes.
Ienbel O'Brien, as a sovelty danc- Rex Story is, without a doubt,er, was bright, and her numbers the life of the merry party of greatly appreciated.
and reverta to rank ДВ 13.11.31.
No. 1578 Pte. H. S. Clipping. dale, No. 1 Platoon, as from 13.11:31. Having completed 3 years'
No. 796 Piè. H. Marriot, Re- serve Company, as from 27.10.31.
No. 1122 C.Q.M. Sgt. C. F. V. Ribeira, Port: Company H.Q. as] from 30.10.31. (Continued at foot of next Column.)
players. Last night ho was in Len Mantell, manager of the arent form, and his anties · and] revue, once again brought the lager, the stage director (Mr. Rex frolics, jokes and Jester-juggling house down wit hhis puppet show. Story), the musical director (Mr. were indeed funny and warmly ap It was, extraordisarily good, es- Harry Story), and the artistes for plauded. His scene with Rose pacially the "toy soldier" number. the very fine show they gave. Les depicting a few everyday hap-Rex Story and the Hollywood HI-Thoy will be playing again to peninga. on Hollywood boulevard lights terminated the interesting night, Monday night and Tuesday was amusing, whilst in the Hotel programme with a sparkling turn, night, and the public, seeking Topsy Turvy scene, Story carried entitled "Making Whoopee."
'bright', entertainment, is advised All before him......... potp
Great credit is due to the man- not to overlook this show.
mer, 13.11.31.
No. 1832 Sigm. J. A. H. Plum- mer, Corps Signals, as from
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Permitted to resign:-
No. 1701 Pte. A. J. Burgess, No. 7 Platoon, as from 5.11.31. Transferred to other port:-
No. 1692 Pte. O. I Fiedler, Armoured Car Company, Car Section, as from 1.11.81. yi
No. 1107 L/Cpl. S. A. Gregory, No. 2 Platoon, as from 10.11.31. Having left the Colony
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Irving to some extent helped to make this trash popular, for he He could not could not prevent it. make the lawa--and the laws have allowed both journalism and the cinema to cheapen the mind of the Hád Irving gone against public.. the public he might have had to starve.
What can a single man do against millions of his countrymen, bent on levelling things down to the main idea-material, comfort? Jordon Craig, in "Henry Irving,"
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