RANDOM REFLECTIONS.
The stray tourists in search of sunshine were about the most miserable people on earth throughout last week, and those who have left our island to continue their search for the sun elsewhere have taken away with them, to spread broadcast, the opinion that Hongkong is a place of rain with a perpetual dome of leaden skis come here to enjoy the less fierce rays of the sun are visitors to be sorry for when the melancholy weather which prevailed
The bleached Americans from Manila who
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 21st 1914.
HONGKONG QUARANTINE
STATION.
REPRESENTATIONS BY THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
WE HAVE NOT THE SEMELANCE OF A
QUARANTINE STATION.
The Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce sends us the following corres- pondence with the Government with reference to the Quarantine Station:
It is certainly up to the young and active men and youths of the Colony to see that there will be no necessity to shut down the gymnasium at the V.R.O. The halance-sheet which was presented to the members at the annual meeting reveale z vad lack of support in this most important. section of the Club's premises, and the Secretary, after regretting the continued "stagnancy in this section," meaningly added, I trust the young members will take full advantage of the opportunity offered them, otherwise the Committee
Letter to the Government. will have seriously to consider the ques
Hongkong, 24th June, 1914. tion of converting the space to some other I beg to inform you that the question purpose." The utility of a gymnasium of this Colony passing a suitable cannot be over-estimated, and I will just quarantine atation ready at all times for add that a Club of the nature of the immediate use was considered by the Com- mittee of the Chamber of Commerce at their V.R.C. is essentially first and foremost fast meeting and I am now directed to a recreation club. Many Colonies would address you on the subject. pay a great deal for such a well-equippedsions, in recent years, boon oxprossed by
Further letter to the Government.
Hongkong, 16th July 1914, ***Sın‚---I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the Oth instant, which purports to be a reply to my letter of
the 24th June.
HOME AND CHINA AFFAIRS.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT-]
LONDON, Juno 4th.
THE RUBBER EXHIBITION.
The second paragraph of your letter would appear to evidence n misreading of the
At the Rubber Exhibition which opens fourth paragraph of my letter which clearly refers not only to plague, but to cholera to-day at the Agricultural Hall there and small pox, and by implication to any are more varieties of exhibits, especially other epidemic which can best be dealt with in the manufactured article, than at any in a quarantine station. T
I am directed to point out that your letter other show of the kind up to this timo. contains no statement as to when the pro Sir Henry Blake, a former Governor of sent quarantine station, now in use as a harrack, will be available for the fulstment Hongkong, is one of the loading spirits, as in former years, while the organiser, of its proper functions in case of need.
My Committee are glad to learn that the Mr. A. Staines Manders, has had c question of quarantine of patients suffering wonderfully wide experience in matters Plantation rubber figures from yellow fever is engaging the considera-- of this kind." tion of the Government have the honour at its best, but the natural Brazilian article is also shown in excellent shape, to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
and in spite of the recent troubles in connection with the collection and trans- port of the South American product, and the export dues that have to be paid on it the representative of Brazil at the Exhibition predicts that botter conditions will shortly prevail and henceforth the wild rubber will give the plantations a run for their money. The Federated
(Signed) E. A. M. WILLIAMS, Secretary/
The Honourable, B
The Colonial Secretary,
last week considers it At to make an objectionable stay. They come here intent upon just lounging about the Peak and being gently brought back to a natural colouring by a more paternal climate. One can imagine their feelings when each day brings forth rain and more rain. And quite naturally the holidaymakers cannot take the philosophical view of this continual soaking which residents do. We either jump into a ricaha or chair, or obscure ourselves with waterproofs and Positions at the Government Civil Hos. purchased from the Transvaal Labour with behaving in a disorderly manner on
twear that fixed looked which conveys
nothing.
There are
some youngsters in the vicinity of Gleneally who could inform you that there is no necessity to go so far away as West or North Point for a dip. The Bullah in this neighbourhood, along with a small wall and a hole intended to catch refuse, does it all for them. The water rashes down, refuse collects and becomes on compressed that very soon the water refuses to pass through the hole, With the help of the small wall it rises to a height of several foot and continues to run away over the wall. But a lovely
gym.
With reference to my note last week on the subject of the appointment of three local medical practitioners to honorary pital, I am informed that it is a fact that these appointments are connected with the teaching of surgery and medicine at the University, but it is not a fact that paying patients and charity patiente alike are to be turned over to the medical students and their professors." I under- stand that paying patients in the Hospital will not be visited by the medical students and that the work of the students and the honorary visiting medices will be con- fined to certain Chinese wards. There is much to be said, of course, for giving to the medical students at the University these facilities, but it would have saved a lot of misunderstanding if the powers that be had prepared the public for this change in the Hospital administration by some public statement on the subject. An official explanation is still due.
RODERICK RANDOM.
THE GENERAL RELIEF FUND,
The views of the Committee have on two
the Chairman in his annual address, extracts from which are enclosed.
In consequence of the representations made
to the then Governor of the Colony in 1908, the Quarantine Station at Lai-chi-kok was Importation Agency but very shortly after
rented to the Military authorities in whose possession it has since remained.
Even if this station could be ovacanted in the event of an outbreak of cholers or plague, this would presumably be a matter of some little time, the result being that we are practically without any Quarantine Station in what is the second largest shipping port of the world, and when from geo graphical and climatic reasons we are liable at almost any time of the year to a serious outbreak of such epidemics as bubonic plague, cholera and small-por,
To these dangers must shortly be added, with the opening of the Panama Canal, the grare possibility of the introduction of yellow fever, a discase which happily up to the present has been unknown in the Far East, but which if it once obtains a footing here may spread throughout the whole of Asia and Malaysia.
The Chamber of Commerce ure of opinion permanent modernly-eihipped quarantine station should be set up in the harbour.
It is possible that objections may be raised to the uso of the Lai-chi-kok establishment
AN ECCENTRIO DEFENDANT. At the Magistracy yesterday a Chinese was charger by Acting Inspector Kent
promises of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. It was stated that the defendant was formerly employed as a servant boy at the Bank, but was recently dismissed. He went to the Bank with the object, apparently, of seeing friend, but the watchman refused to grant him admittance. The man then became noisy and struggled with the watchman and was ultimately taken into custody by an Indian constable.
Defendant's behaviour in the dock was
On rather eccentric.
one occasion, the Magistrate asked him when through a Chinese interpreter if he was disorderly at the Bank, the man struck
up an attitude somewhat similar to that in which Napoleoni is usually pictured, and answered in English: Yes, that
is so."
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Malay States are making a fine display of plantation rubber, and it is largely from such rubber and the rubber of Ceylon that the interesting variety of manufactured articles shown have been made. There are, of course, surgical and personal articles, and furniture largely made of-rubber, but perhaps the greatest public interest is being shown in the rubber floor coverings and the full size rubber tennis court on which games are to be played during the week. This educative side of the exhibition, as show- ing the great and varied utility of rubber, has been cordially supported by the Rubber Growers Association, which
is, in fact, the introducer of the rubber flooring and has sundry other new ideus in hand for popularising the product.
pool has this been formed, and some THE WEST RIVER FLOODS. that the time has now arrived when a observant youngsters, without a thought. of bathing conventions, and not at all influenced by local Ordinances, take full advantage of the open-air bath uninten. tionally created. Of course, we all know it is very wrong-but that wall and rofase. River, Mr. A. G. Stephen, of the Hong Bites could be made where matsheds might He further volunteered the information Salvation Army, which the other day
The Hon. Treasurer of the Fund for relief of distress caused by floods in West
kong and Shanghai Bank, kindly sends us entching arrangement must surely be far the following list of subscriptions received
by him to the above Fund from right!
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank-
ing Corporation .....
King
When eye caught the heading Reckless pony riding at Kowloon," I must confess to being startled. But this particular pony did not belong to the see- tion I had in mind. I pictured one of those poor haggard-looking ponies, ponies with many points but all of bone, which are. held up by the shafts of a gharry, and would surely be a danger to themselves if they galloped of their own free will. The condition of some of these gharry ponies is really pitiable. No doubt in days now vory historical they pranced round Happy-Valley-with-all the free. abandon of young and healthy young ponies. Then they became old and, as with human beings, age brought stiff joints and a by no means perfect digestion. Eventually, through a Chinese enterprise, they have been harnessed to gharries-they should be carried really-and have been allowed to get into such a condition that ribs may be counted at a distance, and lustreless eyes seem to hold a story which must indeed be snd. And, the way these shadows of what once were quie plump ponies shamble along with a load gives a good indication of their generally im- paired constitution.
There would surely be some interesting developments if the British Government suddenly thought fit to adopt a policy on the lines of the Chinese Press Laws; and wonderful use could be made of the rules leid down, say, by a Liberal Government which was desirous of getting rid of some precocious Tory journals which were far Loo enterprising either for the peace of mind of Liberal members and security of office; and vice versa. One of the Chinese ideas of things which go to the making of a safe journal-safe to the Government at least is that the President should know all about a man's antecedents, etc., before deciding whether he should be allowed to labour in newspaperdom as an editor. This leads une to surmise what kind of antecedents a good editor should have. There are juniors in the Press world whe would tell you that some editors must have sprung from a family of butchers judging by the inhuman mutilation in variably meted out to their own special productions, That others undeniably derived their being from a family brutally opposed to dream-stanzas on the moon and stars and sun, and to whom un brycale Laureates were like so much red
rag to a ferocious ball, Young aspirants to high places in the world of letters would May at once that an editor must be proved
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TUNG WÄ HOSPITAL FUND.
The Tung Wa Hospital bogs to acknowledge with thanks the following further donations to the Flood Relief Fund:-
8111,466.93
Already acknowledged Nga Lok Lan The Staff of Watson's Aerated
Water Factory Yeung Sun Shu Suk Mr. U Pak Hin Messra. Kwong Tung Tai Wong Wing Shun Tong Messrs. Yu Lung Hing Kee...... Second-hand Clothing Dealers'
Guild
Chinese Catholic Union, Hong-
kong
Mr. Leung Yiu Ping Mossrs. Kwong Keo... Messrs. Ting Woo Yuen Mesars. Kung Yau Yuen Messrs. You Loo Hin Messrs. Wa Cheong Tai
To To Siu Kun Restaurant Messrs. Tung Cheong Company .... Collected by steamer Fat. Shan
(3rd instalment) Collected by steamer Tai Shan
(21st instalment):
Shuen Wing Mr. Wong Messrs. So Sui Shang Messrs. Wo Lung... Mesars. Yee Cheong Messrs. Wo Fat Mr. Li Pui Ching and
Studente
Lai Him Yu Tong r. Yung Cho Ving Messrs. wrong Lun Tai Mr. Hung Chung Ming Mo Ming Shi Mesare, Yee Shan Yuen Messrs Sun Tak Lung Mesars. Lee Ching Chan Messrs. Man Lee Chan Messrs. Wa Tak..... Messrs. Yau On Tong
Collected by steamer Kin Shan
(7th instalment) Mr. Leung Wa Hing Mosers. Sing Kee Yau Mung 8ku Shut Messrs. Wing Wo Shang Yuk Po Lau Restaurant Messrs. Kwong Wing Cheong Messrs. Teenag Woo Messrs. Tak Cheong Long .... Messrs. Kwong Mee Cheong Messrs. Yee Shang Yuen Messrs. Yick Mow Bfessrs. Wing Mow..... Messrs. Tak Wa
Messra.
Tin Hing Lang Messrs. Ws On
Kwong Wing Cheung
to be full of genuine sympathy for all Messtong Hing Lung
poetical and other callers before he passes the sensor. Also, that he must be able to say "yes" as well as "no" to those who know that their own pet effusions would bring fame to the paper and the author.
Editor, please notę.]
MUGSTS, Messrs.. Sam Tuen Messrs. Sam Dor Mosers. Tin On Messrs. Who Shang: Compradore, E.S. Fu Fin 24 donations of 85
and that a more suitable site might be found on one of the islands in the harbour. Here
be erected as required, or where permanent iron and concrete. shelters could be set up as in, it is undersond, done or the quarantine island in Singapore.
As His Excellency is no doubt sware, wo have recently been subjected to oven stricter quarantine by surrounding ports on account of bubonic plague then formerly and this is particularly shown by the new regulations recently brought into force by the Japanese Government against vessels arriving from Hongkong.
It is imperative therefore that we demonstrate to all our neighbours that wo are doing all possible to set our house in arder and keep it so.
It cannot be claimed that we are noting in such a manner as to minimise the possible transfer of disease from this port when we have not even the semblance of a quarantine station.
When, however, we come to consider the question of the possible introduction of yellow fever into this port the matter assumes n very grave aspect indeed, and for this reason alone it would appear esseptial that steps should be taken to set up a station with as little delay as possible.
:
While the initial cost need not be possibly very great still it will be considerable and 860.30 it would be only reasonable therefore that this charge together with that of upkeep, eta, -118.40 should be shared by others.
108.00 On the opening of the Panama Canal, we 100.00 will find ourselves as an out-post, so to speak, 100.00 of the British Empire, whose duty it will 100.00 be to keep a keen lookout to the Eastward 100.00 to see this terrible scourge does not come upon us and through us spread to other 96.00 British possessions further to the Westward. In fact in this respect we will be geting 85.00 as a Quarantine out-post uxactly as we are 50,00 now Military out-post for the British 50.00 Empire.
50.00
00'09.
The quarantine, like the military expenses are incurred not on behalf of the Colony 50.00 alone, but in the general Imperial interest 50.00 and the cost therefore of our station should 60.00 for this reason be shared by our sister 50.00 Colonies and British India
44.85
37.70 30.00
30.00 30.00 30.00
As we may now within a year expect to see vessels striving here from Panama, the Committee tabs that th's important matter
should receive the earnest cousideration of the Government.
The Committee are aware that the question has already boen under consideration and 26.00 are writing in the hope that their repro sentations when forwarded to the proper 20.95 quarters will accelerate the establishment of 20.00 this much nerded protection to health, life 20.00 and the general trading interests of our 20.00 Colony, have the honour to be, Sir, your 20.00 obedient servant,
20.00
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20.00
20.00
20.00
20.00
(Signed) F. A. M. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
The Honourable, Ad
The Colonial Secretary.
Reply from the Government.
20.00
Hongkong, 9th July, 1914 SIE-I am directed to acknowledge the 16.47 receipt of your letter of the 24th ultimo 16.00 on the subject of the facilities for quarna- 15.00 tine in the Colony. GARY CRE 10,00 2In reply I am to inform you that while
10.00 the Government is fully alive to the necessity 10.00 for taking every possible step that is likely 10.00 to be effective against the recurrence of 10.00 plague, quarantine is not a measure that is 10.00 considered practicable under Jocal conditions 10,00 in that behalf. The Observation Station at 10.00 Lai-Chi Kok was not established for use in 10.00 respect of plague bat in connection with 10.00 cholers and small pox, for which purpose it 10.00 is not unsuitable
As regards the question of the quar 10.00 antine of patients suffering from yellow 10.00 fever or of contacts with that disease 10.00 to state that the question of establishing a 10.00 station for the purpose is under considera 10.00 tion. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 10.00
(Signed) CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary."
Chamber of Commerce,
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$.50
120.00
The Secretary,
Hongkong
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INTIMATIONS
BAD ERUPTION ALL OVER BABY'S BODY
Hardly Slept at All. Completely Disfigured with the Spots. One Box of Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Sarp Completely Cured.
67, York Rd., Waithoaustow, Essue, Bog. --"Xły baby was cured after two weekKO' atinent, with Cutleurs Soap and Cuticura
· Ofntment, ". Al the begin- ning of the summier she had a very bad eruption alf over. chce body, 'even hoe finger
} tips being afflicted." "It came
the form of spots which
Tu sikita, Ulko pin fleet.
formed. commenced
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પોપ pott auatchus. The child was completely dia Agured with the
tits
"I saw the Cutler advertisement and sont for samples, and after her fist bath with the Cuticura 'Soap and application of tho Outleurs Ointment I know shỏ feit voj Def. For fortniglit I esntinued the baths with Cuticum Soap, and applio the Cutl cara. Ciniment gently after. I tueil only one box of Cutleura Ointment and Cutlers Soap, and they completely curent her." -(69)gned). Mr. M. Sanidors, Jia. 23. 1012
Cutletra Soap and Cuticura, Ointment are sold throughout the world. A sample of“. each with 32-p. Akin Book free from naur. est lejuit: F. Newbery & Sons, 27, Charter- Bouyo B., London; Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. Boston, U. S. A.
Wir Tender-faced men should sksvɑ with Cuticura Soap Shaving Stick Sample free
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CHS. J. GAUPP & CO.,
The most WATCHMAKERS
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JEWELLERS.
SHOWS AND CONGRESSES. Asked if he had any relatives in the This is, in fact, a great time in London Colony, defendant, with a great show of for shows and congresses. indignation, said that of course he had. effective, of course, is that of the that he had made a resolve to scold every-held a demonstration in Hyde Park that ene he met, and that his row with the drew a greater crowd, and was more any other outdoor watchman was premeditated. Then, ap- impressive, than Parently marvelling at the strange work- gathering that I ever saw in London, State ceremonies, The ings of his mind, he asked the Magistrate apart from to explain why he should determine to do Chinose, Japanese, and Korean con- such things. His Worship, not being a tingents were very popular with the SURVEYING AND NAUTICAL mental expert, declined to tread on this crowd, and the whole event
tremendous success, in striking contrast to the former years of the Balvation Army, when they were subjected to
Defendant was bound over in the sum of $100 to keep the peace, and strutted out of the Court, holding his arms skin general ridicule. to the intense amusement of all in Court,
THE SECRET OF OLD AGE.
DR. METCHNIKOFF'S DIET OF BENEFICENT BACILLI.
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Professor Metchnikoff's theories longevity are, of course, well-known, and a recent article on the subject in The Time, à propor of the savant's 70th birth day, has attracted considerable attention, According to the Professor the phenomena
was a
INSTRUMENTS.
SUN GLASSES.
A large part of the ZEISS PRISM BINOCULARS. change is doubtless due to their own achievements, but King Edward also did much to make approval of them fashion- able. Then we have the Congress on tropical subjects of health and develop- ment, in which Mr. Harcourt is taking SILVERAND PRINCE'S PLATE. a great interest, and also a congress of the blind. The blind are well in tho public eye nowadays, owing to the genius of Mr. C. Arthur Pearson, whose news- paper activities have been cut short by
Representatives
of old age are the result of contamination failing sight, but who has now turned these one of the chief is Indol,
of the blood by intestinal poisons. Among his energies and organizing ability to the MAPPIN & WEBB,
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In a conversation which I had with benefit of those similarly afflicted. This Professor Metchnikoff," writes the Paris congress is international, too, and more correspondent of The Times, he assured than twenty foreign delegates are pre- Among the communications read me that this poison could be eliminated by sent. careful attention to diet along the lines were some from China. A demonstration indicated in his books and articles. Tho object of the diet is to introduce good of the Morse code by Lady Algernon microbes into the system. These are of Foroy attracted a big and fashionable Four blind and deaf girls had two kinds, the one producing sugar and crowd. the other lactic acid. He continued:--
For 17 years I have eaten nothing electric instruments applied to the backs except what has been cooked; no raw food of their hands and the teacher ticked out of any kind, in the form of fruit or other messages to them. The expression on wise. I find my sugar in dates surrounded their faces eloquently testified to their with Bulgarian bacilli; the lactic acid understanding of the messages. The comes from the well-known preparation of soured milk, This I take in the early usual basket work and needlework were morning at my first breakfast. I began supplemented by furniture made by the with a plate full of vegetable bouillon. blind, reporting and typewriting by After my pot of soured milk I drink a blind operators, and a lecture on poultry MACGREGOR&C.
cup of weak tea--not black, as you have it in England."
farming by Captain Peirson - Webber, a director of the National Service Poultry Club, who proved how readily he could test the age and characteristics of any fowl placed in his hands, by means of the delicacy of his touch and the sensitiveness of his hearing,
PARAGUAYAN TEA
CHATER ROAD,
CALDBECK,
(ESTABLISHED 1864).
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Prolessor Metchnikoff is notoriously vigorous for his years and seems to find. no need for holidays. He tells me that he will absent himself from the Pasteur Institute during the month of July and take up his residence in the forest of Rambouillet. There he intends to devote himself more ardently than ever to scientific research. At the Institute," he remarked, "I am subject to mapy. interruptions. I look forward to my holiday because it gives me a larger free don for my particular pursuits.
Professor Metchnikoff says that he persists in his regime because in his own case it has given such good results. He comes from a shortlived family; he is thused two or three times. It is rather an only one remaining, and he attributes this acquired taste, I hear, but it is claimed fact to his system of diet. Many savants to be a good stimulant. Brazil exports but of his generation are unable to continue 10,000 tons of it every year, their labours, whilst he supports with ease the close and exacting labour of the Argentina takes most of it. In Italy it laboratory. He takes meat and veget is steadily gaining in favour, the chief ables at his two principal meals in the attraction being its cheapness, but no
fess an authority than day, lunch and dinner, but his consump-
Mr. Oscar tion of meat is very restricted, though he does not insist that it shall be white. Browning, the well-known Professor from Campite of fruit forms a part of each Cambridge, has written to The Times to PRICE: repast,
say he has taken to the habit in Italy. and asking if it will do him any harm. A telegram to The Times last month It has a bitter taste, and he feared it in connection with the inquiry into the might have some ill-effects attached to disaster in the River St. Lawrence said it, but South American residents have The testimony of Mr. Hillhouse, of the quickly written to say that it is largely Fairfield Shipbuilding Company, who used in Peru and elsewhere and is cop- constructed the liner, that if the two sidered a corrective to the excessive largest watertight compartments of the consumption of meat in those regions. Empress were filled the ship would still So if the taxes go higher still in our not sink below the safety line, has raised land, we may be all acquiring the Maté a difcult cstion, as the evidence tends habit, to the detreat of the China tea to show that ly two compartments were trade. smashed in.
Mate or Paraguayan tea may one of these daye attract many buyers in these lands, if the times grow harder still. It costs about a fourth of the price of ten FALCON from the East, and the leaves can be
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