HONGKONG
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
BOOKBINDING
DAILY PRESS" OFFICE
The only office in China having European tanght workuise. Equal to Home Work
BUILDERS
KANG ON,
Contractor; 30, D'Agullar Street. Local and Court Port Buildings, Timber, Brink
and Granite.
Mechaalcs engaged, Estimates given. CHEMISTS DRUGGISTS, &c. "THE VICTORIA DISPENSARY
Chemists and Druggists, High-class - Aam- ted Waters, Dealers in Photographic
Ragnisites, Queen's Road
FURNITURE WAREHOUSEMEN
A CHEE & CO., Established 1959,
Every Household Requidte. Depot for Rastman's Kodak Films and Accessories;
17a, Queen's Road Central.
JEWELLER
MAISON LEVY HERMANOS,
Diamond Merchants and Watchmakers, 40, Watson's Building, Queen's Road. Also at Shanghail, Manila, Paris and Iloilo
PHOTOGRAPHERS
A FONG,
The largest and most complete Studio in Hongkong. Established 1859. Viem, Enlargementa, Ivory Ministares, Oil Paintings, &c.; Ice House Street.
MEE CHEUNG,
Ice House Street, Top Floor Farmanent Enlargements, Groaps, Views, ste; Devel-
opment Works, Amateurs Requisites
M. MUMEYA, JAPANESE ALTIST.
Bromide and Crayon Enlargements and also colouring Photos and relief Photos. Views of China and Manils. Work done for Amateurs; No. 84, Queen's
Road Central.
PRINTING
***DAILY PRESS OFFICE. Proofs read by Englishuden.
STOREKEEPERS
P. BLACKHEAD & CO.,
Navy Contractors, Shipehandlors, Sail makers, Provision and Cost Merchants, Prays Central, next Hongkong Hotel
(BISMARCK & CO.,
Nary Contractors, Ship Chandlers, Provision and Coal Merchants, Sail- makers, &c. Fresh Water supplied to
Vessels in the Harbour
I WONG BANG & CO Shipchandlers,
Sailmakers, Hardware, Engineer Toole, Brass and Iron Mar
chanta, 144, Des Toux Road,
MORE & SEIMUND,
43 and 45, Das Your Road, Shipchawlers, Sailmakers. Riggers, Commission Agents and General Storekeepers: Sole Agents for Shipowners Composition (“Gray- hound Brand" and Blundell Spence & Cora Composition TAILORS
.R. HAUGHTON & CO.,
Naval, Military and Court; 16, Queen's Road,
Opposite Kahn's Carld Store::
TOBACCONISTS
D. S. DADY BURJOB, Los FILIPINOS," Importer of the Best Manila Cigans;
25 Pottinger Street.
WATCHMAKERS
'DROZ & Co.,
10. Queen's Boad Central, Bopairs of Watches and Clocks by competent. European experts, né zaoderate rates.
YEE
怡生號
COAL MERCHANTS,
have always on hand
LARGE STOCKS OF EVERY DESCRIP- TION OF COAL.
Address--Care of Messrs. KwƠNG BẰNG & CO
No: 144, DES YEUX ROAD.
FOR SALE.
($33
THE WALER KISMET," Winner of THE
the Maiden Stakes and Derby, Hongkong Meeting, 1901,
Apply to-
JW. KEW. No. 20, Des Voeux Road. Hongkong. 10th September, 1901
THE NEED
08
INSURANCES
SALAMANDER FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11TH, 1901
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. ~ |- Drzal la the name given to salloylate of
PORTABLE ACETYLANE THE LIGHT CURE
MANY-HORNED SHERP—AN AIE-MAKER FOR CTOBE
AFAGES-SCIENCE AIDINO LAW-A NEED OF IRELAND-A NEW STORM INDICA - TOR--IVORY IMITATION—A NEW DRUG-AN
IMPROMPTU PHOTOPHONE,
the manufacture of gaslight mantles. It has proven a useful remedy, its effect being drying and antiseptis, and in the form of a ten por cent. pomade it has given excellent results in cases of burns, ulceration and irritation,
dhlymiam, which is obtained from the waste of THEODORO
by men on ontpost duly three miles from a, A curious phenomenon has been raported military station in the Transvaal. On still, weldt, a distinot "parting" was heard as the Asilent nights, such as come often in the high
station's searchlight was turned toward them the sound increasing until the light my passed directly overhead. The observers were inclined to attribute the sound to light waves imping- ing against the air,
THE
THE Undersigned, having besh appointed repared to ACCEPT FISKS against, FIRE AGENTS for the above Company, are: at Current Rates.
HOTZ, JJACOB & CO. Hongkong, 2nd April, 1900.
(33 The plan of making acetylene portable by TRANSATLANTIC FIRE INSUR-up on accenat of the dangers of explosion. TANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG
compression and liquefaction was speedily given more satisfactory solation of the problems was roached five years ago by Mesere. Claude and Hess, who found that a quart of acetone at pressure of 10 atmospheres would dissolve 8.5 cabic feet of acetylene, with an increase of volume of 18.8 fuid ounces, and that the gas would be given off on release of pressure. The mixture has proven to be quite inexplosive. To remove the slight risk from free gas in the con- taining vessel and the inflammable character of now conceived the idea of completely filling the the liquid when spilled, a French company has ceptacle with a special porous brick, which is made first to absorb the acetone and then the gas under pressure. With certain precautions in using the gas, almost absolute lack of risk is 24 claimed.
The Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the abova Company, are pro pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE a Current Rates.
SIEMSSEN & CO.
Agents. Hongkong, 18th November, 1872. a AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN-
SURANCE CO. ***
OF AIX-LA-CHAPELL.
*
THE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the abovu Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates,
REUTER, BRÖCKELMANN & CO..
Agents. Hongkong, 214 April, 1897 PEE
HENIX FIRE OFFICE The Undersigned are
The treatment of skin disease by concentrated now prepared GRANT
chenical raya filtered from sunlight and the POLICIES of INSURANCE | Wight of the electric arc has proven most effec- against FIRE at Currant Rates,
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.,
tive in cases of lupus. The results are usually
VAFIADIS & CO.
MANUFACTURERS OF
HIGH CLASS
BOMBAY CALOUTTA
A WONDERFUL MACHINE. world is one in the physical laboratory of the The sacand most delicate machine in the
its diamond point this machine can rule from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. With 15,0 10 to 125,000 lines to the square inch, and light into its component parts. So delicate the machine that the boat of a human, lody
aid in dividing up a ray of sun- 1981-1 will throw it out of gear.
is used as an
is
The Brat most intricate and delicate price of mechanism in the world completely eclipse few tiny grains might cause it to break down. this. It can carry a heavy weight, and yet n It controls every muscle in the world, and all that wonderful grey and white substance that is known as brain.
It encompasses your existence from the day
Agents for the Phonix Fire Offen excellent, but in bad cases the application for when frst," mewling in the nurse's arms," you
one hour at a sitting must be repentad once or
Hongkong, 17th August, 1887.
"L'URBAINE"
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Ln. (Established 1838.)
twice a weak for many inonthe. Some of the earliest cases treated at Caponingen, where the system was originated five years ago by Prof, recurrence. Finson, are still free from any symptoms of
THE Undersigned, having been appointed Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKB GENERAL AGENTS for the above at current ratos.
A curious modification produced by domesti P. LEMAIRE & CO.
cation, says Prof. R. Lydekker, is an increase Hongkong, 7th February, 1901.
in the number of horns. A fine four-horned (439
ram from the Idle of Man is now in the British INSUR.Museum, and skulls with extra horns-the maxima number being five-are also sliowa. Four-horned shop ars known to be of great antiquity.
ORTH GERMAN FIRE
ANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG
The Undersigned AGENTS of the above Company are PREPARED TO ACCEPT First Class-Foreign and Chinese Risks at Current Rates.
SIEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong, 29th May, 1895.
In 300 years 355 West Indian hurricanes have been recorded. Of those of the last century f3133 occurred in the month of July.
SUN INSURANCE OFFICE, LONDON
FOUNDED 1710,
AGENTS for the above Company, are pre The Undersigned having been appointed pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
SIEMSSEN & CO.,
Agente. Hongkong, 16th May, 1892.
Tho air-regenerating apparatas of Messrs. Desprez and Balthazard makes air as it is without connection with any outside source. needed, keeping up the supply in a close space It depends upon bioxide of sodium, which, en being thrown in small quantities into water, disengages sufficient oxygen for breathing, and 1.30 at the same time formas soda that takes up the THE WESTERN ASSURANCE COMxperiments, saimals were kept alive for hours carbonic acid of the air expired. In the fast PANY OF TORONTO, CANADA,
in close vessels. The apparatus now takes the INCORPORATED 1851.
form of a cirentar aluminum box weighing
·CAPITAL....
£410 GOO.
about 26 pounds, which the diver, fireman,
her carrier is the act helmet won upon the bond. A little steel box within the nected by tubes with the closer helmet worn aluminum contaluar carries the binoside of sodium on ten experposed shelves. Atregular intervals the shelves are tiltod in turn by clockwork, and each charge of binoride falls into a stee! box containing water. The oxygen passage through a enitable refrigerator, the air generated is cooled to normaal temperature by
1. AUTHORISED CAPITAL... £3,000,000 0
being kept in circulation hy a tiny electric fan. SUBECRIBED CAPITAL 2,750,000 00inches, and six onuces of binoside revivities it The volume of air enclosed is about 303 eubio. PAID UP CAPITÁL...... IL FIRE FUNDS..
697,500 0 0 for one hour. 2,633,718 14 4
With a larger quantity of the chemical, life can be sustained for two, three, or d more hours,
TER Undersigned, haring bou "anointed prepared to ACCEPT RISKS agniust FIRE
AGENTS for the abora Company, ar at Current Rates.
-Wa. METERINK & CO.,
Agents. Hongkong, 18th May, 1900.
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NORILE INSURANCE COMPANY
TORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN TOTAL FUNDS AT 81ST DICEMBER, 1900, £14,732,681,
--
The Undersigned, having AGENTS for the abov pared to ACCEPT RIA Current Rates.
SHEWA Hongkong, 3rd July, 199..
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MITSU BISHI DOCKYARD AND ENGINE WORKS, NAGÁSAKI.
CODE WORD: "DOCK." NAGASAKI
A.1, A.B.C., Scotts' and Engineering Codes
Used.
DOCK No. 1 (at TATEGAMI.J
Extreme Length....
523 feet. 513
*
Length on Blocks
Width of Entrance on Top
2383
Width of Entrance on Boitom
77
Water on Blocks at Spring Tide
201
DOCK No. 2 (at MUKAIJIMA.)
Extreme Longth...
Longth on Blocks
"
Width of Entrance on Top
€8
21
Width of Entrance un Bottom
33
Water en Blocks at Spring Tide
24
TH
MUNICIPAL FREEDOM
*IN
HONGKONG.
RT.
SCRUTATOR.
With Leading Articles and Correspondence thereon Reprinted from the HONGKONG DAILY PRESS and CHINA MAIL." Price 20 Conte per Copy or Six Copios for 81. THE SANITARY CONDITION
HONGKONG
REFLY TO THE OFFICIAL
MEMORANDA).
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With Articles Reprinted from the "HONG. KONG DAILY PRESS" -
Price
conte
371 foot. 350
PATENT SLIP (at KOSUGE), Can tako vessels up to 1,000 tons gross.
EGYPTIAN CIGARETTES. FACTORY, CAIRO (EGYPT)
CLOSE TO HE. NUBAR PASHA'S PALACE.
BRANCHES,
20, Esplanade Rout
JRANGOON.
4, Dalhousie Square. LONDON
19, Basinghall Street, E.C. 7. Merchant Street,
ALWAYS FRESH AND RELIABLE AT THEIR AGENTS.
MESSRS. KRUSE & CO.,
HONGKONG.
BRANDY.
OTARD. DUPUY & CO.
outer life to your last proximate indrawn breath. CHOICE OLD LIQUEUR, 1865
makes gastric juice, the liver bile, and the The stomach," says Health of this machine, brain thought. The brain works in response to touch. A well-ordered well-nrished brain will the sense of bearing, sight, smail, taste, and respond in s way that will beat sorre the individual's interests.
Per Des
A GOOD SELECTION OF OTHER WINES AND SPIRITS IN STOCK.
$65
PROMPT DELIVERY OF ANY QUANTITY FROM ONE BOTTLE UPWARDS.
For Price List, apply to
The stomach receives food, digests it, and makos blood; the bain receives impressions, digests them, and makes thought. make good blood, neither cau nu exhausted. hausted, worn-out or diseased stomach cannot
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worn-out, or diseased brain make good thought."
The onfirmed dyspeptic has a worn-out diges tive machine that is unable to make good blood, and, therefore, an exhausted brain that cannot think, and a body that is a physical wreck. He can't work,
But his case is not hopeless while he has the money to pay for a bottle of Seigel's. Let us quote an example.
Four ur five years ago I had a dangerons atlack of rheumatic fever, which left me in a had gone, it is true, but nervous debility and very feeble state of health. The rheumatism indigestion set in and seized me in their very werat form,
¿LINSTEAD & DAVIS, AGENTS.
JAPAN
THE
The pain in my chest and back after eating. look at anything solid, and eventually my New was such that, after a while, I did not dare to appetite completely vanished.
Once or twice, from sheer necessity, I tried
no sleep that night, and the tortures I suffered to swallow a little meat, but the way it punished me soon made me repent of my rashness. I get defy description to the trouble in the chest and back I had a sharp shooting pain in the side of my stomach. It was so severe that. I could hardly draw my broath, and I got that nervous be left aloze. Often I got up with my husband and timid that I was positively frightened to between fire and six in the morning, afraid to tay in bed by myself, and to be left alone in the house would almost drive me mad."
(This story of a deranged digestion is told by Mrs. Neala, 07, Penistone Road, Sheffield, and dated November 30th, 1900.)
and seeing me look so very ill, said, "Why "In this terrible state one of my married daughters found me, She had come on a rísit, don't
you try Mother Seigel'e Syrup
the papers, but it never struck me that it might I had often read of the wonderful euros in dome good. I resolved to try it, and I got a bottle..
"The effect it had upon me was marked. A young fellow we had living with us said he had never some such a change in his life, and
COALS
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA
(OR MITSEI & CO.)
HEAD OFFICE-43, SAKAMOTO-CBO, TORTO. LONDON OFFICE: 34, LIME STREET, E........ HONGKONG OFFICE:-6, luz HOUSE STRKET..
BRANCH OFFICES:
York, San Francisco, Hamburg, Bombay, Singapore, Sourabaya, Manila, Amoy, Shanghai, Hankow, Chefoo, Tientsin, Newchwang. Fort Arthur, Seoul, Chemelpo, Yokobams, Yokosuka, Nagoya, Osaka; Kobe, Kure, Shimonoseki, Moji, Wakamatsu, Karatan, Nagasaki, Kachinotan, Sasobo, Müke, Hakodate, Taipeh, &o.
Telographie Address for all the Oficos: "MITSUL" A.B.C. and A: 1 Codes used.
CONTRACTORS OF COAL to the Imperial Japanese Navy, Arsonals and Railway Buran Principal Railway Companies and Industrial Works; Home and Forsigu Mail and Freight Steamters. SOLE PROPRIETORS of the Famous Mike, Tagawa, Yamano and Ida Coal Mines; and SOLE AGENTS for Fukumo, Hokoku. Iehitaura, Kanada, Kishima, Manmour, Onoura, Otsuji, Tohmiyamá, Panbakuro, Yoshinotani, Yoshio, Yunokibara, and other Coal Mines. Hongkong, 1st August, 1901.
N. INUZUKA, Managor.
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PUT LOG
LOG CABIN Smoke a
IN YOUR PIPE
he was right. I took about a dozen bottles in Manufactured only by LAMBERT & BUILER, LTD., LONDON, ENGLAND. [2303-2
all, but long before the twelfta bottle the pain in my side and chest had gone and I would ent as well as eror. Life and anorgy soon ro-uraed to me, and a load was lifted off my chest.
A striking illustration of the value of X-rays in detective work has been furnished by the post office at Buenos Ayres. Jewellers have found that smuggling in rogistered lotters from Europe was very safe, as the government officiata could not legally open such letters on Spring and fall of the year I suffer somewhat I am getting on in years now, and in the suspicion, and it was finally resolved to inveSyrup never fails to set me right, and I would with the old enemy rheumatism, but Seigel's tigate the evil without violating the law. The not be witho it for anything you could give X-rays promptly revealed watches, chains, me. rings and other valuables in astonishing I have no objection to you publishing this let If you think others would benefit like myself, tity. This evidence was sufficient for a court order to open the packages, unil more than $20,000 of property has been confiscated in a single week.
Cooper firits a fanril to be unproductive but Of Ireland's 20,808,271, deres, Dr. R..T. capable of tree-bearing. Yet in the year ending June, 1900, only 620 neres were planted with trees, while 1451 as were cleared of timber A científio resto muon of forestry is urged as a romedy for much of Ireland's distros.
The new meteorological apparatus of Sig.. Taramasina is an adaptation of Marconi's re- coiver, and consists of a coherer with its vertical wire, an electro-magnet, a dry cell, ouil a telo- phons. Tests in Switzerland are reported to have given quite remarkable results. On the passage of a thunder-sterm, lightning was indicated by an electric kell, which mug with greater or less THE WORKS are well equipped with the
vigour according to the energy of distance of execute any kind of work in SHIPBUILD.thunder-storm gave a paculiar crackling in the
LATEST IMPROVEMENTS and can
the discharge. A change of weather without a ING and MARINE ENGINEERING as we The COMPANY has a POWERFUL, SAL ss in REPAIRING of SHIPS,
VAGE PLANT READY at SHORT: NOTICE.
K
WONG FUNG
telephone, and from this rain could be predicted Fer uoting distant electrical disturbances and with great certainty twelve hours in advance,
coming rain, Tammasina believes that the apparatas should be of special value to mariners, offering greater accuracy than the weather YUEN.instrument now used.
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TIMBER MERCHANTS. No. 253, DES VEUX ROAD WEST, Hongkong, Hare always on hand a Largo Stock of the following Timber:- AMERICAN PINE and FIR, BANGKOK TEAKWOOD, HARDWOOD, &c., &c. (in Loga and Planks). An Inspection is reaportfully, solicited Hongkong, 5th September, 1961. [2232 CEMENT
Copies of both Pamphlets bound in Half PORTLAND
Leather Cases, Lettered, 31.25
On Sale at this Oce, Local Booksellers,
sad H. KUTTONIRE'S Store, Kowloon.
Hongkong, 19th August, 1901.
BROS
J. B.
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SOLE-AGENTS FOR CHINA,
HOLLIDAY, WISE & CO. Hongkong, 16th September, 1899.
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ter, because it it were not for Beigel's I should today be in my grave or an asylum.-Yours truly (Mrs.) C. NEALE."
Disused brains and worn-out stomachs are rabbisk heap. like so much scrap iron, fit only for Carlyle's
foctire digestive machinery. No woman can No man can fight the battle of life with de- keep her house spick and span who is tormented and driven crazy by a ringing in the ears, bank- ache, headache, side-note, neuralgia, and the thousand and one complaints brought on by Spring olimantic effects on the bodily organism.
When the system gets clogged up, or runs down like a two-and-sixpenny watch, then you are on the way to the great Sage of Cholson's scrap-heep-
Dostor it in time. Seigel's is a Spring tonic and resiver; it stimulates digestion, and is an oil bath to a clogged mechanism.
worth living for, lise in keeping a clear brain, The Road to Success, and to everything and an internally cleansed and invigorated system.
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USED FOR UTAS TWENTY YEARS. (ARBOLINEUM-AVENARIUS
Throughly reliable preservative for Wood and Stona against White Ante, Decay, Fangue Rot, and Dampress.
Sole Agents for China, -- LUTGENS, EINSTMANN & CO., Hongkong, 31st August, 1897. LIEN TING.
SURGEON DENTIST. No. 10, D'ÁGUILAR STREET. TERMS VERY MODERATE.
Consultation Free. Hongkong 2 September, 1931.
RJ. REMEDIOS.
IDEALER
Artificial ivory, it is stated, was formerly lime mir great pressure, but French manu made by injecting whitewood with chloride of facturers now use mostly a material prepared from the bones of sheep and the waste places of dear and kid skin. The bones are macerated FOREIGN AND COLONIAL STAMP
and bleached in chloride of line for a fortnight,
then hested by steam with the skin until
a
faid mass is formed, when & little alum is added. The product is filtered, dried in air, and hardened in a bath of alum, the white, tough plates resulting being more easily worked than natural ivory.
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No. 37, CAINE ROAD, HONGKONG. to any address on receipt of untisfactory refer- Will be glad to send STAMPS on approval onces.
ramps ir large or Small Quantities for Cash. Is also prepared to purchase used POSTAGE
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15 to 25 per cent. Discount Allowed
HAVY
NAVY CUT
ATC
ATC
AGENTLEMAN'S/
SMOKE
Supplied in Three Grades. Mild Medium & Strong.
PACKED IN
AIR TIGHT VACUUM TINS
MANUFACTURED, BY
THE AMERICAN TOBACCO CO. USĂ
SWEET
MILD & EXTRA, FINE
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