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XMAS HAMPERS.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 222D," 1924
We beg to Notify Customers that Assorted Hampers suitable for the Festive Season may be obtained from us at the following Reduced Rates:--
No. 1 HAMPE-$36.
1 Qt. Moet & Chandon Dry Imperial
1 Qt. Superb Tawny Port.
Champagne.
1. Pt. Blackberry Brandy,
Pt. D.O.M.
1 Qt. Martell's XXX Brandy.
8 Qts, King Geo, 1V. r Perfection
Whisky.
No. 2 HAMPER-$30.
10. Guillemart Champagne.
1 Pt. D.O.M.
1 Qt. Burgoyne's Burgundy.
1. Qt. Martell's XXX Brandy
2 Qta. St. Julien Claret.
1 Qt. Old Brown Sherry R.8.
1 qt. D.C.L. Old Tom or Dry Gin.
1 Qt. Burgoyne's Burgundy.
1 phial Pomeranzan Bitters...
No. 3 HAMPER—$26.
1 Qt. Burgoyne's Burgundy.
1, Pt. G. F. Peppermint.
1. Pt. D.O.M.
Qts. Sup. RO. Port.
Whisky.
" 2 Qts. King Geo. IV, or Perfection
Whisky.
2 Qts. King Geo. IV. or Perfection
9 Qta. Taway Dry Port
2 Qts. St. Julien Claret.
1 Qt. D.C.1..Old Tom or Dry Gin.
1 Qt. Vino de Pasto Sherry.
1 phial Pomeranzaz. Bitters.
1 Qt. Engrand'. XXX Brandy. Qt. Amontillado Sharry WS.
1 Qt. D.CL. Old Tom of Dry Gin. 9 Qta. Medoc Claret.
1 phial Pomeranzan Bitters,
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THE
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Farm Fed
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TOKYO A CITY OF SHACKS.
GRANDIOSE TOWN PLANNING SCHEME ABANDONED. TARIFFS AND PROHIBITIVE COSTS.
The other day the Takjo dashi publish- ed a photograph showing an extensive area in Fukagawa, Tokyo (one of the districts burnt out after the earthquake), covered with stacks of timber, which, the paper said, was rotting unused in the rain. It is to be feared that the criticism is only too well founded. After the great fire, that swept away nearly two-thirds. of Tokyo there was a wonderful effort to get things going aguia. With timber and corrugated iron a city of shacks was built with great rapidity, and an active civic life was resumed. Since then, how- In Tokyo! ever, there has been a check. and in Yokohama alike orders were issued that, while buildings that were more than half finished and bad escaped the disaster might be completed, no permis- sion for permanent buildings was to be granted for three years In Tokyo it was desired to put into effect a grandiose town-planning scheme, with roads of an- necessary width and unprecedented symas metry. Both the Council of the Recon struction Committee and the Diet turned down the scheme, and the Government now in office, while maintaining the three years' rule, has given up hopes, appar ently of town-planning.
It must not be supposed that nothing. There were all sorts of is going on.. ruius to pull down, and this has mostly been done. There were a large number of buildings that could be repaired, and this is going on, though more slowly. Some! of the large buildings that are still in use look so badly shaken that surmises are entertained of special favours being granted by the official engineers whose to condean unsafe struc duty it was tures.
LIFE IN THE SHACKS.
Costs, naturally, are enormous, and while one est admire the energy and indomitable.conrage shown in the rapid construction of a city of shacks, one is also struck by the lack of anything like: communal work displayed. In various places the municipality built long rows; of barracks." in which the floor are still living in a condition that is squalid in- deed. but not half so squalid as it would become Were a European population Apart from housed in such conditions." these larracks, however, nothing like any lun rows of inporary building is. 15 b. As Tokyo was, so it is vast aggregation of single buildings. Every singis sliep, especially on the mere in portant streets, stands by itself, though it may be touching the next one, It is an outward ard Visible sign of the in- dividual retentig of ownership the ns- sertion of which wrecked all town-plan- ning schemes,
Now, as Sards life in these shacks, there are many signs that the whole po pulation has accepted and accustomed itself to a lower standard of comfort, but there are also signs that the desire to live better has not been extirguished. The barracks are generally kept fairly tidy, and in great numbers of them tho thick mat (falami) which in oblongs of six feet by three covers the floor of the Japanese house is now ftted in. This 1s a great step. for it is a strict rule that tatamis must be kept clean. Indeed, the cleanliness of the Japanese where there are fat mis end their dirtiness where there are none form an unfailing and extraordinary, contrast. As regards the shops, they are well stocked with a great variety of goods, jewellery shops being by no means lacking, and there is a great display of attractive signboards-mostly of painted canvas.
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The internal strains that have to be straightened out are costing another five million "yen-so altogether she building has doubled its original cost as the result of earthquakes, and this is a case where there was neither collapse or fire.
LITTLE PERMASENT BUILDING.
Those who were
Quite apart from the question of pru hibition, there would be a great reluct ance on the part of many people to put at liberty to do so. up permanent structures even if they were burnt out but who were anxious to get to work again put up wooden one god two storey structures, which are perfect- ly serviceable, and which frequently cost Repair works varies greatly, according more than the permangas buildings that to the nature of the damage suffered, they replaced. On top of this great ex Where business can be carried on some penditure-not 5 per cent. of which was how, all else awaits a lowering of costs covered by insurance-few are prepared I visited, for instance, a large firm of to undertake permanent building, espe time when carpenters and makers and suppliers of office require-cially at a ments in the oldest ferro-concrete build-masons can get any wages they ask for. ing on Ginza (sometimes called Tokyo's It will be largely by the compulsion of
rebuilt. This place was burnt insurance companies and municipal re- Regent Street). out the only thing besides concrete left gulations that Tokyo will be
Outside Tokyo and Yokohama there in it being certain windows of wired glass, which had withstood a beat that have been a few large buildings con. caused steue to flake off. They were structed. At Kawasaki, on the fine be- big cracked, of course, but they still let in tween the two cities, the Imperial Sugar the light and keep out the weather. Company, for instance, have built
a desert Business was" as usual," but desks and place.
Yokokaina, which was still
covered with counters were made of empty boxes, and there had been no attempt at making the long after Tokyo was walls and ceiling docent. And this is shacks, is daily becoming more like About a third of the Foreign the case in all the houses that survived Tokyo, the fire. In the great Mitsukoshi depart-Settlement still consists of rains, which ment store, which also survived, quake are gradually being cleared away, The and guttieg, there has been hardly any rest has wooden structures and one or attempt at repair, though parts of the two patched-up wrecks, The bund is ex building are boarded over, and all sorts tended about fifty yards seaward by the dumping of rubble. The piers are partly of pretty things are on sale ngain. the odice of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha repaired, but are still genes of disorder, Steamship Line, which was not burnt, with sunken und twisted sections just ne On the bluff there is a wooden bridge over the big the earthquake left them clerestory above the main office, which is there are a few foreign houses, and the still full of rubbish, the work being done Japanese part of the town is like Tokyo. The repair of ronds progresses very All the slabs of coloured upstairs marble have fallen off pillars and walls, slowly. In Yokohama they are still bogs and the joint of the building page. It and morasses. In Tokyo they are hardly must have been terrifying during the few better. But the Tokyo roads were a poto rious scandal for many years. Money seconds when all this damage was done.
Right opposite Tokyo station is the was voted, but was misappropriated. At great Marunouchi Building, an encr-fast, however, a beginning is being made. mous block of office eight storeys high, Before the Imperial Place there is a with arcades räang through the base. road 150 feet wide and a couple of miles It is the biggest building of its kind in long, which is being coucreted by de Japan, and was always regarded as grees. This thoroughfare is one of the something that would be dangerous in examples of overdoing. town-planning, an earthquake. It cost eight million yet and it is rather fortunate that the first to build, and an earlier quaks did strue-post-carthquake schems, which was all on tural damage that it east two millions such lines, felf through, for there is a to put right. In the great quake it stood limit to the advantages width of roads. though some of the banging lights in the But pending good road-making, there is much better than had been expected, a terrible amount of wear and tear of though some of the hanging lights in vehicles, especially of the motor traffic.
Work in the ravaged cities is going on the rooms left their marks where they swung up and broke against the ceiling steadily and rigorously, but it will be! The place was a godsend when there was a long time before they are really re- so much destruction, and it escaped the built, and there will not be may grená fire. The facing of imitation brickwork town-planning schemes. Moreover, all fell in enormous patches, but that, of kinds of activity are severely restrained course, though the most conspicuous, is by a"Government which is pledged to the the least serious part of the damage. (Continued at foot of next Column)
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