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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11th, 1927.
THE CHINESE AMATEUR MUSICAL
·ASSOCIATION.
'A TALENTED SOCIETY WHICH SHOULD COME
MORE INTO THE OPEN.
AN APPRECIATION AND A COMPLAINT.
"PRESIDENT GRANT" IN A NEW MOTOR SHIP.
HARBOUR.
SAILING TO-DAY AT 5 P.M.
The
THE CREMER" ARRIVES
IN PORT.
DECK PASSENGER ACCOM: MODATION FOR 9,800.
ANTI-PIRACY EQUIPMENT.
The furniture in the smoke room, and two dining saloons, and throughout the passenger accom 'modation generally is simple neat and comfortable, being of teakwood varnished and enamelled in various tonca of brown. The walls are of white.
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The Deck Passengers.
Admiral Oriental Liner President Giant, came into port early yesterday morning from Manila, under the command of Capt. 3. M. Jensen, and is sailing this evening at five o'clock for Shangbai.
The attention of many peopletween decks, both fore- and äft. " The President Grant brought 19 crossing the harbour yesterday by Some 2,500 can be carried. There
Is electric
What does one know of Hong| "A Charming EL." Kong who only Hong Kong knows?i.. Then there was a classical dance Never before has it been brought by a charming Elf who, as an home to one particular resident in ancore, gave a pas seul from No, cabin passengers for Hong Kong, ferry was drawn to a vessel with "this Colony, as it was, on Saturday No, Nanette which recalled all the and carries through passengers gleaming white upper decks, and a
night, to what an extent we live grace and charm of Kathleen West for Shanghai, 3 for Kobe; for squat yellow, funnel.
Enquiries soon elicited that it was and have our being, each in his when she was in Hong Kong. These Yokohama and 3 for Seattle. She cwn particular little water tight are only a few of the items--one also brought 110 tons of cargo for the new motor vessel of the Java- compartment. And what a number must mention a torch light display local discharge, and 1,070 tons for China-Japan-Lijn, the Cremer, and of these little compartments there that would have brought the house parts beyond. The cargo chiefly she arrived in Hong Kong yester- are, and how ignorant everyone is down in a Western-theatre-and consisted of hemp, tobacco and of his neighbours in the little com- it leaves out entirely the Chinese ropes. partments adjoining, or situated musical side of the program barked steerage passengers here, Unfortunately, as regards this, the and has 20 for Shanghai, 8 for Kobe writer is a mere ignoramus, but and 51 for Seattle
as is probable, most Westerners set their ideas of Chinese music from listening to the blind beggars who manage to extract more or less musical noises out of an old kero sene tin and pirces of string, they would-be na surprised as he at the musicalness of Chinese music,
Across the street.
The good friend who lifted a corner of the veil that shrouds in semi-secrecy the doings of the
AO.
The President 'Groat also disem-
day morning from, Belawan, Delhi and Singapore, following her maiden voyage from Amsterdam, where she was constructed.
Deck passengers are accommodat.
ed on the weather deck and on the
heating and fresk air ventilators, through which elec-
trie pumps forec a plentiful upply of fresh air, at intervals of two
or three feet. This is very useful when all other ventilation has to be shut bad weather. Then there is always plenty of fresh water for these passengers use day and night. Over 80 tons was con- sumed by them daily on the way up from Singapore.
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joining room four women. Next door to the hospital is a dispensary. The vessel also carries a number
Chief Engineer (Mr. Venders) of ship's guards, who have their
By invitation of the master of When she leaves here this evening pass wir oy an additional 50 the Cremer, Capt. H. G. Blits, and passengers who have booked from
There is ample lavatory and bath the local office of the Java-China-accommodation; and a festure is Hong Kong. Chinese Amateur Musical Associn-
Among the passengers booking at Japan-Lijn, Press representatives the deck passengers' hospital, fitted tion was Mr. Tong Sau Man, Chair.
Hong Kong are:- But Mr. Tong has also in-
Mr. J. Botelho, of Messrs. visited the vessel at her mooring at to take eight men and is an ad- curred a deep grudge in that this
Botelho Bros. He is accompanied Buoy A2 yesterday afternoon, where they were given -some-interesting for Shanghai. extremely interesting and capable
by Mrs. Botelho. They are bound
AssEciation has never been brought;
Mr. J. G. McNab, foreign freight information by the Captain and when played by real musicians. agent of the C.P.. also going to into the light of day before.
Shanghai, There were all sorts, performed, Mr. P. W. Cotton, of the Ameri- Truly Hong Kong is extra from pieces that required a com-can Milk Products Co., for Shang ordinarily backward in the Art and
plete Chinese orchestra down to hai Paymaster Lt.-Comdr. F. R Science of publicity.
Porter, going Home... ducts and one must not forget a Who's Who Among the Passengers. One is continually, and acciden-wee mite, about as high as a violin, tally, stumbling across associations, who sang with all the aplomb of most of which can be assumed to Prima Doona! It was very in certain at least the embryo of that feresting too, to hear a typical co-operative and communal spirit Chinese piece played on the piano, without which Hong Kong can and to those who are not versed in never rise above a half-developed the intricacies of Chinese music,
and semi-sterile existence.
Formed in 1921.
there seems no better way of grasp. ing at least an elementary idea of As a case in point, here is an its construction than by hearing it Association which was formed--as on the piano. stared in the programine of the con-
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So much for the concert-as cert given on Saturday night-in concert, but the amazing fact which 1021, and yet how many foreigners gives one furiously to think is that
regarding the ship.
quarters aft on the boat deck, The Cremer, which is named after
Other Details, Jacob Theodore Cremer, in whose honour a bronze portrait in relief vesset for almost everything. An ----
Electricity ix used throughout the
Mr. Donald S. Black is making is fixed on one of the walls of the interesting visit to the engine room, short business trip to Hong Kong.
Mr. Basil G. Butler en route to, £rst class passengers' smoking in the company of the Chief En Hong Kong and China on business. room, will be employed on a com-gineer showed this, and it can be Hongkong from Manila.
Mr. O. E Davies returning to paritively local run. She takes the said that the ship is fitted in every Mr. G. Hume Ford returning to place of the Fan Cloon, and will way for efficiency and quick and Hong Kong after a short business ply between Belawan Deli, Singsmooth working. The cargo winches and pleasure trip to Manila.
Mr. and Mrs. James Kinnaird pore, Penang, Hong Kong, Swatow are worked noislessly and expedi- returning to Heng Keng after & and Amoy. She will carry general tiously by electricity and cargo can shart business, and pleasure trip to Manila.
cargo, and will also do a big busi be shipped or removed with barely Mr. and Mrs. M. J. B. Montargis ness in connection with coolie sound to indicate that work is en route to Bong Kong and South
| transport.
going on. From the passengers Rev China on a short vacation trip,
The majority of her deck passen- commodation the smooth running gers on the present trip are destined dynamos and engines can be hardly
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know even of its existence, or for there are fellow citizens, possess China, on which depends, when one for Doli for work on the Jacob beard. The anchor cables are also
what it stands‡.
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Tonnage Detalls.
ing such talent, existing in our really gets down to bed-rock facts, midst without the majority of us the future of peace and good-will Theodore Cremer tobacco planta- worked by electricity.
in the Far East-dies largely in tions, known as the Deli Tobacco being
Pen aware of their exist-closer co-operation between resid-1
ents of these two countries in Company. China.
Here, to band, if it is only pro
enice.
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A Tour of the Ship.
It is an Association of cultured and, presumably, more less
The Cremer has a gross tonnage leisured Chinese gentlemen whose aim and object is to study, and All that most of us seem to know
On her arrival here yesterday she of 4,550 tons, and nett 2,734 tona. interpret classical and modern of the East is the exploded super-perly nurtured lies the leaven that had no fewer than 1,12 deck pas-She has a length of 300 feet; benm : of 58 fest, moulded depth of 28 feet, Chinese music. At the same time stition that one has "a good time" will in. time leaven the whole lump.sengers on board.
It is entirely up to those of both they have studied Western music there such good times usually con- Nations who have the necessary
and fully loaded draft depth of £1 to such good purpose that they can sisting of dancing, bathing, tennis vision and good-will, to take active A general tour of the ship at once feet. Her cargo capacity is 8,000 reproduce it to an Eastern audience and a few other distractions most steps which will help to bring about shows how admirably fitted she is tons, and she can carry 6,000 tons of a better understanding, the one of in smanner that was to 036. of which can be followed with "far the other. Only with better know for the trade. Ample cargo space, fresh water. Westerner at least, Frankly amız-
more enjoyment if one does not ledge is it possible to have later arranged in such a manner that
The Engine Room. co-operation. Now where have the ing. One moment, they were play come out to the East at all. Mean-kaders of the community been all cargo can be worked quickly and Her engine room, s maze of ing old Chinese music-which was while, if we could but see it, just this while that nothing tangible efficiently and with a minimum of dynamos, switches, shafts, levers, probably composed before we, in the cross the road lies a whole world has been done towards welding labour, excellent first and second wheels, indicators, and machinery,
Hong Kong into
class passenger accommodation, and proved most interesting. The vea West, knew what music was on in- aknown to, and unsuspected by whole? Leadership is an honorary, really fine deck passenger accom- sel has twin screws driven by Diesel struments equally ancient, and the us, and yet, it limas in embryo, and an honourable, position, held modation make hez, & trip of engines, and her average speed is next moment they were knocking the beginnings of the new order in by residents of long standing in the designer's art. Also the deck 14 knots. Her engines develop an
the Colony.
passengers are catered for so that
indicated .p. of 4,800. She has out the latest jazz'in a way that the Far East-as it will be, in years
Such should be in a position to they always have adequate fresh air, two lighting dynamos of 275 would certainly make even Paul to come.
know all, and knowing, should do and plenty of water.
kilowat, and an emergency dynamo all in their power both by speech What strikes, the visitor on first for driving the vessel if necessary. Whiteman sit up and take notice
world.
one corporate
will has been allowed to run to vaste.
A. Contrast. This is neither the time nor the and action, in public and in pri- boarding the vessel is the gleaming The rudder is electrically controll- No Association that the writer place to discuss politics, byt to one acquaintance of the aspirations and "pper decks, and on her boats, etc., ed, and then there are air com
vate, that will conduce to a better whiteness, of her new paint on the knows of possesses such boundless at least, a visit to this Chinese con- desires of are section of the people relieved by the pleasant brown of pressors and bilge pumps, driven possibilities of interpreting one cert served to push ajar a door of Hong Kong by the others.
doorways, etc. On the upper by separate engines.
Wireless Apparatus.. side of Eastern culture to the West through which was caught a fleet- lack of such leadership, so much paratus for the modern direction It is sad to reflect how by total bridge is the latest receiving ap-
The Cremer's wireless room is and an interpretation is an essening glimpse of the possibilities of encounted wealth of opportunity the bridge and boat deck there are, apparatus. One valve sender has a Ander installed on the vessel On fitted with the most modern Marconi tiat foundation on which to build the future in this part of the for spreading knowledge and good of course, the navigating instru- range of about 3,000 miles. Another.. up, first understanding and then,
ments" and chart room. Behind installation, one of the latest of wall hope, friendship between
On the one hand, well in the It is essential that others from these come the Captain's room, Marconi's has a range in daylight the great nations of the East and
Chief Engineer's room, and the deck from 500-600 miles, and at night lime-light, absorbing and giving the present generation should
officers quarters and mess. the West.
The from 1,000 up to 1,100 miles. Then shoulder the burden of leadership out all the publicity possible, we if we are cot to continue to drift, engineers have their quarters below, there is an emergency sender with At the Taiping Theatre, on Satur-have the noisy and ignorant Chinees heaven knows where..
Below is the the promenade deck, a range of 200-250 miles. There is day night, the Chinese Amateur mob; a minority, led by equally Only so can the curse of the etc. On this deck there is also the finder, for use in fogs, which can with plenty of room for deck games, the latest type of Marconi direction Musical Association's concert show ignorant and Fanting Reds, capable which is over everything, be remov- Beth first and second class passen- to 500-600 miles, although usually "water-tight-compartment 'mind,” first class passengers make room. pick up. wireless bearings up ed an aggregation of talent which of one emotion only, one of hatred ed. Lit is no exaggeration to say could-hatred of all law, order, and
There may possibly be dozens of gers have use of the promenade a range of only 100-120 miles is deck, the second class portion being brought into use. News is received excellent societies full of the denice railed off from the other. keep Hong Kong supplied with decency, and of everything and to bring about a corporate spirit
every day on the wireless. from nearly every form of entertainment everybody that stands for it.
A feature of the bost
is that the ia this place, which merely succeed anti-piracy regulations have been on short wave from Australia.
Rugby and the United States, and throughout the winter-that is, of On the other hand, thonning or in revolving about their own axes, fully complied with. Grilles for The Officers. course, leaving entirely out of the not realising the power for good, never rise to the heights of their are fitted at both ends of the
because, failing leadership, they the prevention of attacks by pirates Capt. H. G. Blits in the master. question the probable feelings of as well as for evil, of publicity, opportunities. these gifted Amateurs at the mere and practically unknown outside
upper deck down to the main deck, He has been with the Company so that first class and second class or 2 years, and except for his suggestion of such a thing!
their immediate surroundings, there As a preliminary could not the passengers, officers, and engine last twelve months on this rug, has The mere enumeration of their exist the real modern Chinese, as Chinese Amateur Musical Associa rooms, and all the vital parts of been on the East Indies and Aus." activities is surprising.
tion arrange to give their fellow the ship can be entirely cut off from traiian trade. The Chief Engineer, made visible at the Chinese concert citizens from the West the opporta the fore and aft quarters of the Mr. Venders, was with the ship during her construction in Holland, Appearing at this concert-and-consisting of educated gentlemenity of correcting their ignorance deck passengers.
and came out with her to Batavia, Passenger Accommodation. Her Chief Officer is Mr. Zuidema, heavens only knows what other who have as much affinity to their of Chinese culture?
A judicious blending of Eastern capabilities they have, stowed away countrymen of the first part na and Western musical sed dramatic elas
Bixteen first class and 30 second the second officer Mr. Rutgrs; the out of sight was a brass band, foil has with water.
passengers : con," be acconí- | third ofhoer- Mr. Harteveld; and art, ataged by these talented Ama modated, and the cabins are com the fourth officer Mr. Westerwards string band, jazz band and orches What are we who come from Eng. tours at the Theatre Royal, would fortably and tastefully furnished, The Cremer also carries, ten en- be sure to attract a large audience making for a minimum of fittings gineers, and a wireless operator (all trs. Then there were soloists eu lend doing to stady, and to try to and would be a revelation to most and furniture, yet giving all the Europeans), a Chinese doctor, and the piano, fut, violin, zylophone, understand, the minds and ideas of the residente here. Revelation essentials for comfort on the voyage. & crew of 145. cornet, clarinet, saxophone and of these latter, representing, lends to the breaking of the ice first and second class cabins are for Ames, and returning here sails
would lead to interest, and interest The chief difference between the The Cremer leaves
this afternoon trumpet. In addition there was a they do, all that is best in modern is the intercourse between the Eng that the first class are all two lower from Hong Kong for Singapore, gentleman who appeared to be be China
lish and the Chinese the two most berth rooms; while the second class Belawan-Deli and Penang on morning in Chinese that, yes, he As far as one knows nothing Those who remember the interest capital arrangement is that if more to Singapore is 8125. She connects merved nations in the world. have three berth cabins Another January 20th. The first class fare had no vegetables, to-day; later on but what a ghastly failure in Staff aroused in Hong Kong last winter room is needed for first class pas, with the Royal Packet Navigation ho appeared in a brief sketch work, and to imagination, such an when that delightful Chinese ao sengers, part of the second class Company (.P.M) Service to the
treas, Miss Pik Wen Ha, came to can be cut off by means of which, though in Chinese, was quite power portends-if true
mov-Netherlands East Indies and Aus- the Theatre Royal, bave often able partition. In place of port tralia intelligible to the writer owing to The whole hope of the future regretted and wondered at, the holes, both frst and second class.
In about fortnight the sister the wonderful powers of imper- not only for Hong Kong which, in failure to follow up that successful passengers have in their rooms win hip to the Cremer, the Van Heutar, zonation shown by the players itself is & Email thing, but for good first attempt to bring a knowledge dows which open outwards and the named after the Governor ezeral and that surely is the highest form relations between England and of one side of Eastern art to West- cabitia Aca also: fitted with fans, of the Dutch East Indies, will be electric heating, and an ample sup-arriving here. This ship will re (Continued on nezt Column).
C.J.C.ply of cold and hot water."
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A Suggestion.