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HONGKONG
A. D. C.
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Open 25th November, at 10 AM.
Hugssag. 16th Nove in her, 1908.
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SOLE AGENTS.
TO BE OBTAINED EVERYWHERE.
DRINK
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AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN. SURANCE CO.
OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE.
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prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE
at Current Rates.
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Hongkong, 5th September, 1908.
NATIONAL GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD, OF LONDON.
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HE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, re prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates,
REUTER, BROCKELMANN & Co.
Hongkong, 14th November, 1908.
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OF HAMBURG..
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THE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for abore Company, are
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH, 1908
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CHANGING CHINA
unable to pay up their small yearly subscription of the 10s. per year this last three years because. of passengers stingine. British Stewards and books are a fins and larga body of men, the majority married and keeping respectable homes. They should either have wages or decent tips as men, not childrın.
THE TRAVELLERS CLUB.
Some observers of Chinese affairs (remarks the Times) eron those possessing a long and intimate squaintance with the country and He people, are apt to sorry the passage of events in rather. narrow spirit, and to allow this tendonoy to warp their views regarding the Tutare. Much stress la often laid on the tem porary insidents of the day, while the great and
We will Much in the bathroom," said permanent forces at work are ignored or treater Captain T. M. Langton, the secretary of the with insufficient consideration. Sir Robert Chub, and when I stared he laughed. We do Hart's attitude to the problem of China is very
not use it is a bathroom now," he explained as different. There is probably no man living who has a grater knowledge of the Empire, mors, he led the way to it, and when we were, seated especially of the inner working of the system around the table he moved a erishioned seat on administration, and of the weaknesses and which he sat and showed me the bath underneath defects by which it is characterised at present. it, a bath of onyx with gilt bronzo taps (each tap But he does not allow a mass of detail to with six turquoises in it), silver and 222-1 obscure his vision over the situation and to rents, all of exque design. The room itself prevent his forming a broad and comprehendes a great room, with a high coiling. Rare judgment regarding the trend of events. As his marbles on the hearth and mantelpiece, marbles past declarations have shown, Sir Robert art of different leurs, onyx and rave Venetian is optimistic regarding the future of China. He ceramics on the walls, and charming little look- is confident that a great destiny ties before hiring-glasses with rose marble pillars. The door people. A Belfast he declared that the develop was of massive out, with Moorish incrustations ment of the Empire, flow, would besteady, Tast and gilt handles. The chimnody was of onyx, China will go forward seems almost assured and on either side of it were two great marble when regard le had to the great resources of the Hous. The room looked like a room out of the country, to the vastuces of the population, to the character of the people, and to the powerfal iullaences now brought to hear upon them Fow who know the Chinese weald dare to assert that they are a decadent race. On the contrary; they are credited with much latent vigour and rawgnition that their prostat peak nad
bis- attributed to the ciremstances of their past tory, and especialite their long isolation from the outside world. Sir Robert Hart dravs attention to the remarkable chongos which have Many taken place in the hst fow deindes. foreigners are apt to regard from the point of view of their own corvomience the thousands of ships that eater Chinere ports, the river steamers that pass for hundreds of miles ning the water ways of the Empire, the new railwayedaid cross. great inland provinces, the telegraph-lines and post-olcox that have become a common feature
Arabian Nights," and I should not have been at all surprised if Harcunal Raschid had popped out of the bath tub when the seat was moved.
And in one say we were lunching in fairyland the fairyland of luxary For the Travellers' Club in the Clamps Elyses in Paris now owns the palace which the famous Marquise de Paiva the millionaire. The story of her building it is pretty..
eapsoily, and there isward state is to be built for horsdf after the death of Heari Herz,...
consider
One day she sat upon a bench in the Champs Elysees Abandoned and poor. A man-Heuri Herz-come cal sat next to her, nad they began to talk. Years afterwards, when she was rich and powerful; Mme. de Paiva bought the piece of land on which her fortanes had begun to prosper, and it a grature on it. She was a curious woman. In spite of her reputation, she whom had an indesse circle of friends, among were M. Thiers, Arsène Honasaye, Théophile Gautier, Pan de Saint Victor, and many other Sho had well-known men of art and letters.
of the country. Few, perhaps, flopments Read in many corners of the world, and during
extended to Cants in
the Second Empire the Marji, who had
. relation married the Count Henckel von Donnersmarck, received all Faris, and became a near Prince Bismarck. In this connection an amus ing story is told of Napoleon III. diplomacy At the Opera one evening the Countess Henckel von Donorare occupied a large box opposite that of the Emperor and Empress. The Empress had forgotten her fan. One of her suite offered to
M
Bring us pretty a fan as that of Mine. know de Paiva opposite. The young neu Muo. de Pairs-all Paris knew her and went
When he round to her box. The Countess asked him to beg the Empress to accept her fau. returned with it the Empress, furiously angry at what she considered an insult. would have broken it across her knes, but, knowing the pride of their opposite neighbour (and Napoleon III W knew Mme. de Paiva very well) he made the Empress keep it in her hand. But as soon as she could des the Empress Eagènis left the Opera, leaving the fan behind her.
the tremendous effect which these must exercise, and are exercising on the mid and spirit of the Chinese rece. Not long ago the only way of getting from the capital to the Yangiso Valley was a long and weary journey by native cart. Today the train tales pe- sengers from Peking to Hankow in thirty-six hours, and before kag this great line will be
the south.
The rapid extension of communications helps to promote the astonishing development of the native Press, with the resuls that provindale and fetch it, and the Emperor, laughing said. barriers are being weakened, while the santi. ment of national solidarity and pride is growing fast. In some directions the prospect of a reorganised and rigorous Chinees Empire has The called forth apprehension and foreboding. spectre of the Yellow Peril has beau conjured up by some who had hoped to reap alvantage from Chinese decay. To some extent the far of hordes of well-ared and disciplined Chinese marching on Europe to avouge the wrong of their race, has been encouraged by some wards used by Sir Robert Hurt in 1900. But he has since stated that he has been misunder. stock, and he now seems to consider that the advance of the Chinese people will be most marked in the manufacturing and commercial spheres. Though the standards of Chinese con- querors were once carried far and wide aress Asia, the race has shown itself for centuries aminoatly pacific in ait and selivity, it is true, there are signs of the gray. As SUPPLIED TO THE HOUSE OF military spirit. The most vigorous oficials are employed in training and arming troops ou modern
drill is actively taught in the uew lines, schools, and military ideais are inculcatel in text books and in the Press. Taught by a long course of bitter experience, the nation is anxious to fit itself to procerreite rights mi in terests. But there is no need to assume that this movement will develop an aggressive side. The race is more likely te ad ope for its energies and to work for its developmet on peaceful lines. The Chinese are already fanas as shrewd and reliable traders, and with their in- telligence, common sense, and great skill in handicrafts, they seem likely to advance rapidly in manufacturing power: No doubt they will endeavour in the future to exploit their own wants, sod capture as much of the foreign trade of the Empire as possible. Such tendencies are siready visible, and they seen bound to develop rapidly. But when it is remembered that silar movements in Japan have served to sell the volume of imports into the country, there seems. every reason to hope that the development of the Industrial and commerical aptitudes of the Chipeso will exend the market for foreign goods among the teening millions of the Empire. English manufacturers and marchants must sparo no effort to make the best of the rich
COMMONS.
THORNE'S
PRE OASE
OLD VAT
$15'
ME VRT WAS STARTED BY THE LATE ROBERT THORNE OF SAZENGEN AND HAS BEEN SOLDA NYO AIMEZ 163)
prepared to ACCEPT RISK SCOTCH WHISKYying before them
st Current Rates.
CARLOWITZ & Co.
Hongkong, 13th August 1905.
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【ORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN
NORTE INITISANCE COMPANY.
TOTAL FUNDS AT 31st DecпMBER, 1907
£18,114,624.
Authorized Capital.
Subscribet Capital Paid-up Capital
II. Fire Fals
£3,000,000
2,750,000
687,500 70 0 3,065,374 15:7
The Undervigued, AGENTS for the shore Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
-SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
Agenta,
1019 Hongkong, 2let July, 1909. NETHERLANDS LLOYD OF AMSTERDAM & BATAVIA THE Undersigned having been appointed THEAGENTS of the above Company, aro prepared to ACCEPT FIÉE and MABINE BISKS at Current Hales.
CRUZ, BASTO & Co. 1648. Hongkong, 11th November, 1908.
TRÓN, STEEL, METAL and HARD-
701 SOLE AGENTS IN HONG KONG, CHINA & MANILLA:
A.S.WATSON & CO, LTD..
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ITSUBISHI GOSHI KAISHA
STIPPING ON BOARD SHIP.
To
It would take a book, and books have been writton, to describe the artistic glories of the Travellers Club. The ceilings are painted by Baudry and Thirion. There are splendid pictures on the walls, the woodwork is every chimney piece in magnificent, and. the great buildup is a work of art in marble. In the dining room the chimney-pieco was ceiling But perhaps the most wonderful sculpted by Dalou, nod Dalon decorated the thing in the house is the great onyx stair case, with its great marble statues of irril, Dante, and Polarch by Anbé Cugniet. and Barrina.
And now this palace where the Marquise entertained all Faris has become a club where The member list is. Ike an other naticialities. Englishmen and French meet mon of all extract from the Almanach de Gotha and Debrett. Among the members are wach names as H. H. Aga Khan, the Duke of Argyl, Johu Jacob Astor, Prince Alexander Barintinsky, Don Jaime de Bourbon, and very many others. But it is not only by reason of its aristocratic member- now the last is ship that the club is remarkable or by the wondere of the building, which word of modern confort.
The Travellers' Club is remarkable in that it is torching, club life as we understand it to Parisians, and in so doing is doing much for the Entente Cordiale. Frenchmen know little of club life. A stranger never penetrates into the roots of the Epatant or the Jockey, and when a member enters a roots in which he does not know al who are present the formality "of introducus is a nenssity. At the Travellers' Club, I need hardly say, such a state of things would be unheard of. The club is English in every way, hail the Frenchmen who go there dohght in the faet. On the day that I lanched there I hear one of them who was leaving remark: Ah well now I must go back to though he were on Paris. He spoke oxic-ly his way from Pall Mall to Charing Cross. JOHN N RAPHAEL in the Pall Mall Gezeits.
WEATHER REPORT..
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday insted the following report
On the 17th at 11.55 a.m.-The depression over 8. Lazan appears to be filling up.
Tha brometer has fallen in Japan owing to a depression which is moving Eastwards over the N.E part of the Sea of Japan.
The president of the British Stewaris and Cooke Association writes to the PressThis tipping of stewards has been very much before the pablic of late, but the public know very little of the life at sea amongst stewards." begin with, these men are signed on Board of Trade articles of agreement to proced on. voyages across the Atlantic at terribly small month, find their own usiforms, 898£3 which cost from £2 to £3, have plenty of white (MITSUBISHI CO.)
drill suits, good clean lines, boots, collar, & QAL DEPARTMENT have to look pick-and-span at all times, and work 15 to 20 hours per day for this large salary-23. per day. Burely it is scarcely to be wondered at if now and again a steward worries a plesenger for a tip that he has possibly worked hard for during the passage across. If these men were paid a living wage say, £4 per meith, and £ a year for uniforms, they would then not have to clings to passengers for tips (which, in my, opinion, takes away the manliness of any. gratuitous part of his salary), Besides all uni- Hongking & Neighbourhood. No wind
who has to eavil to passengers for a forms they hate to provide, they have also to
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Preasure is high-over China to the North of
the Yangtze,
Song monsoon may be expected in the Fare Channel and strong N. and N.E. wind to gales over the. N. part of the China Sea..
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 am.to-day, 0.00 inches
The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noen N.to N.E. winds. today is us follows
N.E. winds,
pay for all last ship's linen and talle silver, Formic Channel
South coast of China between I Same na No. which often enough is destroyed and carried tlemiselves, dway na sduvenirs by passengers
that the
have Hongkong and Lamecks. stewards not knowing
South east of Chinn betwean | Same as "No.:1 to pay for them
smandl of: ost
their
Hongkong and Hainan... Is
and tips (if they received any) I have much pressure in recommending that
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For Particulare apply to
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silver;
Victoria and Yokohama on the 16th inst. for rato of wages would be a recognised form
All beginrers (apprentice stowards, the first Vancouver
The Silk ox CPR. Ar. Empress of India. 42 per
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MANILA Messia MacqNDEAY & CO 18 months, par month; serenda ES VA Am the 17th land
B-CISHI, Manager,
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all the rest at above rates; bedroom from Yokohama spectively
The str. Fumeric loft Moji on the 17th ins. tbe. ration. Barkooters, store. stewards, same CORSAR & SON 8 keepers, ensoke room and library stewards, dure for Hongkong. DMERCHANT NAVY
mostly all chosen, well-trained; and trasted men HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL-Keep your co- who should at least have trusted salaries. All nieron, Mrs. Ellen's Crime Charmante. Lait the twaddle about stewards and their suburban Charmant and Bjeciul Skin Tonic and Foudre villas and other things must have been in the Chamant will enable you to do it. other world I find, as a life long cook and Specialities for the Skin are the study of a ARNHOLD, KARBERG & CO. steward, that many hundreds of the members of lifetre, A. B. Watson & Co., Ltd., Spłe Agers.
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