THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1935
P. 2 0.-British India ON THE BRIDGE OF
Apcar and
Eastern Australian
&
Lines
THE QUEEN MARY
Progress Of The Work
On Stately Liner
VAST ARMY: OF WORKMEN CREATING MARVELS
Only 200 yards, from where the great Cunard-White Star liner Queen Mary lies in her Sttinrout
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). basin. Clydebank, another liner-
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From Toi Hon Tons
Abent
1935. 16,000 19th May
5,000 25th May
1st June 17,000
17,000 15th June
7,000 22nd June 11,000 " 29th June
14,300 13th July 6,000 2011, Jaly 17,000 27th July
*6,000 17th Aug.
11,000 -10th Ang
17,000 24th Aug.
16:00 31st Ang
Destination
Bombay, Marseilles & Londen
Marseiles, Havre, London, Rotterdam
Antwerp & Full Bombay, Marseilles & Loadon.
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Marseilles,, Havre, London, Hambur
Rotterdam, Antwerp & "Hall. Bombay. Marseilles & London.
Bombay, Marseilles & Londoz. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London,
Retterdam, Antwerp & Hall Bombay, Marseilles & London -
Marseilles, Havre, Londor, Hambur
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Ho Bombay. Marseilles & London Bombay, Marseilles & London.
her namesake is safely at rest in John Brown's yard.
Early one morning I saw them both, writes a special correspondent of the "Morning Post" But while lit took me a quarter of an hour to
scale the wooden ladders.
to the
bridge of the first Queen Mary, it was possible in less than a minute
around the
other to walk twice įvessel.
The Model
This second Queen Mary is an oficial model, 21 feet long and nearly 5 feet high, which has just been finished. When it is taken on tour later, people all through Bri- tain will see this "Rampart of'al ship as she will look next year whez she is in commission.
porthole even to miniature. life- The model is complete to the last
belts. It was a shock to leave her there in Lilliput, trim and newly I painted, and to see outside the shed the mighty grey bulk of the real Queen Mary looming through the morning mist..
More than five months have pass- ed since "the "stately Queen of Clyde" was launched This morn- ing sparks glimmered behind the rows of portholes with which the liner stares, Argus-eyed, across the town of Clydebank. As I pass- led up the gangway hammers drum- med on the steel plates, drilling Bombay Marseilles, Harve, London and caulking machines added to Hamburg, Antwerp. Rotterdam, & the din, lights danced weirdly in the semi-darkness within the hull, Bombay, Marseilles & London. and a welder slipped by in the sha- Bombay Marseilles, Harre, London dows wearing a hood shaped for all Hamburg Antwerp, Rotterdami & the world like some mediaeval tilt- Hell
jing helmet.
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BANCHI
*BEHAR
NALDERA
*SOUDAN
16,000 7th Sept 6.000 14th Septa
Hall
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.-
TAKADA -
TILAWA
SANTELA
TALMA
SIRDHANA
1935.
2000 11th May
10,000 24th May Singaport, Penang. Rangoon
8,000 7th June Calcutta
10,000 21st Jame !
8,000 5th July
...
Calls Port Swettenham & Rangoon
"Come this way,” said a voice. L followed blindly down a long cor fidor. For a few minutes it was difficult to see clearly, so sudden was the change from the "misty morning to the dim red-hued in- terior of the Queen Mary.
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Inside View
Inside, the vessel was like a vast steel cavern divided by dozens of
and partitions smeared with red lead
and covered with chalk marks. Here
The American observance of the 75th anniversary of the first "pony express" was kept at the beginning of April. These historic draw- ings and photographs illustrate the steps by which the nation was welded together by swift communications (top to bottom): Over- land Mail, 1856; “"pony express," 1860; saluting the telegraph, -1861; joining of railroads in the transcontinental system, 1869, over which streamline trains began speeding in 1935; and a UAL mail plane, which now spans in 10 hours the distance it required the
"pony express” 10 days to cover.
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THE SUNSHINE ROUTE IS T
SEATTLE, VICTORIA
To - San Francisco Via Shanghai, į THE EXPRESS ROUTE 17 Days
Kobe, Yokohama and Honolulu
Fortnightly
Pres. Hoover ....May 18, Noon Prez, Taft June 4, Maigħ
To Seattle Via Shanghai, Kobe and Yokohama
Fortnightly sailings:---
Pres Grant
May 25, 1.00 am.
Pres. Jefferson
Jm. 7, Maight
m.
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"TRICOLOR"
on
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a brazier smouldered in the gloom. we were utterly assured (thought and these Vats their very silence There a hooded welder worked how, I know not) floods, beyond held us spellbound, as were the Isles among a hissing shower of green measure, of the waters for which before the Sirens sang. and blue and violet sparks. Cables our souls had pined.
But how, it may be asked; No! Waters, imoginably so clear as sound? No spectral, tread? No to be dense, as if.of melted metalį faintest summons? Gradually, as eyes become accus more translucent even than crystal; minutest Fota of a superscription? And not the tomed to the half light, it was pos-of such a tenuous purity that not None. I sank my very being into
BL. Apear Line steamers hate excellent accommodation for and piping lay at our feet like coil- 1st and 2nd class passengers.
1835
ed snakes.
end"
MAY 18th
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EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, sible to read the stencilled direc-ere the moonlit branches of nothingness, so that I seemed to be tions and the chalk marks on the dream would spell their reflex income. but a shell receptive of the walls. "Pantry
one them: so costly, so far beyond least of whispers. But the multi- "Stores end" a second, "Galley end" price, that this whole story world's tudinous life that was here was
(Continued from Page 8) 3rd May Manila, Robaal, Brisbane, Sydney a third. Twelve months from now rubies and sapphires and amethysta utterly silent. No sigh, no ripple, these rooms will bear some resem-of Mandalay and Guadalajara and no pining chime of rilling drop
stood his prolonged trial in West- Lawyers may still dispute minster Hall, where Burke, with blance to their names.
Solikansk, all the treasure-houses within. Waters of life but
whether the hanging of Nuu-half the orators of a great age The Queen Mary, in the hands of of Cambalech and the booty of fitely still
comar was justified thousands of workmen, is taking King Tamburlane would suffice to
under the of oratory, thundered against his law as it then stood, there can oppressions. He was to see his shape fast. Although a few months purchase not one drop.
I may seem to have used extra-be no question that Nuncomar as private fortune wrecked, to be
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7,000 7,000
1st June 5th July
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SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
1935.
Plumbing Statistica
tion
God knows there
seven and, seventy score growths, of of steel. a Nebuchadnezzar's talons down to
with all
Regular monthly saflings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan of riveters and caulkers and ship-imagined, the untold of, the fabul
jago she held only the "black squad" It is indeed the unseen, the vagant terms. My friend and I richly deserved death ́ ́as any cold-shouldered in spite of his used none. We merely stood in man that ever adorned the gal-triumphant acquittal, "to spend wrights, workmen of every trade aus, the forgotten that alore les dumb survey of these crusted, lows.
the closing square of Daylesford. around her twelve decks and in and and craft are beginning to swarm safe from mortal moth and rust, butt-like domes of stone, where
In this unequal contest Hast-the ancestral home whose re |slept Elixir Vitae, whose last echo out of the network of corridors and
had been the Choragium of the to win him victory. His appar-
fings had one advantage that was covery had been his fixed ambl
tion since childhood. passages which makes the unfinish boiler-rooms. The main work since morning stars.
His death was recorded in a ed ship as perplexing as the maze the launching has been the installa-
ently frail frame was of whip- ¡of the minotaur.
are potent ex-cord. In the sultry heat of Ben-dozen lines by the leading jour- of machinery and auxiliary plosives in these latter days. My gal his energy was never impair-nal of the day. His tombstone The Union S.S. Company's stemmers to the United Kingdom via Now
equipment, and already 27 hage friend and I had merely the nails ed.. Soaland
Where younger men died bears the simple inscription, San Francisco, etc.
"Did I tell you," said my guide boilers are in position. They oc- upon our fingers, a pen-knife and a like flies he retained his amazing "Darren Hastings, died August The 2. &0.
Royal Mail Steamers to London and
as we climbed another of the tem-cupy five rooms in the "machinery broken pair of scissors in our poc-capacity for work and has zest and 1818 Those were the re- The P. & D. Branch Service of stammers to London is Szer The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and Prary wooden ladders which con- spaces," which are nearly 600 feet kets. We might have scraped for the battle. And his will was wards of the man who gave
nect deck with deck, "did I tell you in length.
Britain its most splendid: heri- the for the plumbing we shall have
Auxiliary Engines
dtage to lay:
My guide was speaking again the quick, and yet have left all but cumbed to the climate, first that Indian government might One by one his opponents, suc Speculation as to the direction "Fifty miles of pipes:
He pointed out the main steam pip-unmarked and unscarred those Monson, then the ungracious and have taken had Hastings's work "The electric cables will meaning which totals more than 2,600 mossed and monstrous laminae. nearly 4,000 miles of wiring, feet in length: He went on to talk But we had tasted the untastable, years Francis betook himself ed is idle. Parliament had inter- arrogant Clavering. After six not been interrupted and wreck- “We are using thousands of of the fitting of auxiliary and were refreshed in spirit at home, loaded
machinery this has meant the in- least a little more endurably than material that was to provide the from his faith in Indian institu
the vened tons of paint and—”
His successors turned He broke off. We had mounted stallation of over 100 different are the camel riders of the Sahara brief for the accusers in the tions and Indian men another ladder to stand on the red-types of pumps-and the comple-dream-ridden by mirage.
State trial of Hastings on käs stained planking of the boat deck tion of another important task, the| We knew now and for ever that return home Henceforth Hast-be any going back. His anta- It was long before there could high above the grey and wind-installing of turbo generators in Time-pura is that here -some-ings was free to pursue his gonists in Council saw, perhaps ruffled waters of the Clyde. Still the two great power stations. where awaiting us and all forlorn course in India, and to rescue more clearly than he did, that another ladder scaled and we were; Presently the work of "dressing" mankind lay hid the solace of our what he could from the wreck a new course had been set. All standing on the bridge itself. the Queen Mary will begin. There mortal longing, that doubtless the that had been made
Vulcan's Forge
are public-rooms and state-rooms Seraph whose charge is the living Unavoidably, the ram interest to the present debates and con- that has happened since, down Below us Clydebank was spread to construct, miles of floor covering waters will in the divine hour-fetch in the career of Hastings has fict in Parliament, was the out in the haze like a contour map to be laid, hundreds of windows to down his iron key in his arms, and centred in the epic struggle in inevitable outcome of what Par We were keeping our watch on be fitted, a thousand and one otherwell, Diver, rich man and crumb the Council Chamber of Calcutta lament had done ¡deck” high above the latticed cranes things to be done before the liner waster that he was, pleaded out of and the drama of his seven-
in the shipyard, and a din & Osako.
as can finally leave the river, the flames for but one drop of years trial and acquittal in the though Vulcan, was at his forge. As we emerged from the awe them. Neither my friend now I was great Hall of William Rufus at seeing the great mass of steel some depths of the machinery a Dives then, nor was ever Wely Westminster. In what lies his into shape." "hammered, hammered. hammered spaces the noon booter blew. In- to be. And now only 1 remain. true greatness only those who A radio telephone service is to stantly from the sides of the ship We were Children of Lazarus, read the fall history of British be opened between China and the The immense masts and the the workmen poured out like ageing, footsore, dusty and athirst rule in India will understand. Philippine Islands shortly. funnels have still to be fitted. The swarm of anta. For more than ten We smiled openly and with an maxts, now almost ready for step minutes they streamed down the lext ping, will rise 234 feet from the gangway into the yard. Silence.
inary gentle felicity at one his eyes and mine as we [Queen Mary's keel-
For an hour at least the ship and turned away from the Vats. We began the dizzy descent to the builders of the ship were at rest
{THE END]
*SOMALI
RAJPUTANA
SANTHIA
MANTUA
TALMA
NANKIN
*BANGALORE CARTEAGE
SIRDHANA
7,000 14th May
17,000 16th May
2,000 16th May
11,000 30th May
10,000 30th May
7,000 sth. Juma
6,900 11th June
14,500 13th June
-8,000 13th June
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Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
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S'hai, Kobe & Yokohama,
Shanghai Kobe & Yokohama.
Amoy, Shanghai, Mofi,
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Seven Years Trial After labours so arduous and The sx Tai Yang sailed from Maniin so triumphant Hastings return this mobi She is berthed fatty a on auraday afternoon and arrived here ed home, expecting honours and busy in the Dangerous Goods public acclamation Instead, hel change