KAR STEAMSHIP
The Lure of the Sea
There is a real thrill to sailing on a President Liner! These giant ships possess a personality that is pleasing and inviting. You become conscious of feeling right at home. Your voyage is sure to be a pleasant one.
The magnificene President Liners are broad of beam and expepelocally sady. All are dil burners, swift express linen.
The public rooms are luxuriously appointed and inviting
All searrooms are outside, splendidly Furnished and equipped with beds-not heaths. Each room has hot and cold running water, also fans, wardrobe, thermos bortles and reading lamps. Private bath and showers in connection with many rooms perfect the travel comfort of these giant passenger liners.
The Cuisine is world famous. The ddiciously prepared menus will delight you. And how the orchestra adus est to your dining.
The decks are spacious. The Glass-enclosed Promenade always popular. Deck spons, open air swimming pool, movies, evening dances, everything has been done to make your trip a happy one. Unexcelled anywhere-is the courteous
4 and efficient service accaded you by the trained personnel aboard the President Lincra.
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The great frequency of sailings and the liberal stopover privileges of the Dollar Steamship and American Mail Lines have made these giant passenger liners out», standingly popular among travelers.
WEEKLY TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE
TO SAN FRANCISCO and
LOS ANGELES
The Sunshine Bail via Fionolulu Fortnightly sailings an Tuesdays
TO SZÄTTLE and VICTORIA'
The Short, Atraight Route to Amarios Fortnightly legs on Wednesday's
Pres. Jackson ...Wed., Oct. 19th Fres McKinley... Wed., Nov. Sad Pres. Lincoln Wed, Nov. 16th Pres. Cleveland Wed, Nov. 30th
Pres. Pierce Tues., Oct. 11tà, 1 am. Pren. Taft.......Tuer, Oct. 25th Pres. Jefferson............Tues., Nov. Huh Pres. Grant.........Tues., Not. 22nd
Special Through Rates to Europe, via United States, £120, £112. Direct connections with all Atlantic lines. Choice of railway nes across United States and Canada, with liberal stop-over
privileges for sight-seeing,
To EUROPE and NEW YORK ·
ROUND THE WORLD
Fortnightly selling on Tuesdays via Manila, Strait, Colombo, Sum Canal, Alexandria, Nagles, Gos, Mersalles, Boston and New York
Pret. Wilson...... Tues., Oct. 11th, 6 am | Pres. Polk ..............Tuer..Nor 22nd, 8am. Pres. Van Buren Toes: Oct. 25th, 8 mai | Prea. Adams ...Tues., Dec. 6th,8am. Pres. Hayes.... Turs., Nor, 8th, 61.7 | Pr. Garßold... Tues., Dec. 20th, 8 a.. TO MANILA
Free, Wilson Oct. 11th, 6 m Pros. Van Buren. .Oct. 25th, 8 mm. Pres. Jackson.....Oct. 11th, & p.m. Prer. McKinley ...fet $5th, 6 pm. Free. Taft..........Cet.' 17th, 8 p.m.l Pres. Jefferson ... Oct. 31st, 8 pm.
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Dollar Steamship Line
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6th, 1927.
OLD NAVAL TRADI LILY ELSIE'S POPULARITY.
TIONS.
MANY "LINKS WITH THE PAST" BROKEN,
DRINKING "THE KING"
SITTING..
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FAMOUS ACTRESS GIVEN GREAT OVATION.
" IDOLIZED BY THE COMPANY."
LONDON, Aug. 29th. There was a remarkable scene ai the Prince of Wales' Theatre on Saturday night, when "The Blue Train came to an unexpected end after a run of only Sfteen weeks. The decision to terminate the run was arrived at owing to heavy overhead expenses, totalling £2,060
The theatre was crowded all last
Of itself the passing of limejuice in the Royal Navy is a matter of absolutely no moment. Orange juice, which is to be substituted for it, is distinctly more palatable and, werk. which were so high that according to medical evidence, Mr. Philip Ridgeway, the manager, quite as effective
anti-preferred to take the "production scorbutic But. sentimental on tour rather than carry on, al grounds the change leaves room for though he had successfully passed regret. I marks the disap- through August, the worst month. "pearance of yet another of those
apidly vanishing links with the week, and on Saturday night, nt romantic past. Nobody wants the end, streamers were thrown limejuice these days, and by the from the gallery to
the stage: same token nobody wants orange bouqueta were passed up and there juice. It is only issued on foreign were also loud cries for Lily Elsie, service, but the corditions which | who bud returned in this play after rendered it a "necessity in bygone an absence from the stage of same times have gone with the barness- years.. cask and the water-butt. A modern. warship is very seldom more than
a week on end away from port, if for no other reason than that her Inel endurance will not let her re- main longer at sea. Very rarely is he short of fresh provisions and "water. Scurvy has becothe almost a curiosity in the sick returns, and probably but few men of the pre- Sent generation have ever seep a weevil. The older ones still talk about salt horse out of which you could carve snuff-boxes, and biscuit which had to be broken with a ham mer, but it is more than likely that they are drawing upon tradition rather than experience.
Old. "Tack" Not So Bad Curiously enough, such articles
The Stage Applands.
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Miss Elsie wis erbraced by many members of the company in full CONSIGNEE NOTICES. view of the audience. and was ap plauded by all the people on the stage.
She broke down after a few words of her speech, burst into tears, nad was so visibly affected that the curtain was dropped. Then, holding a woolly dog that had been given her, she made an- other try. With a wanderful charm
most gracious modesty, she thanked the audience for the love and affection" she had received from everybody, said
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
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Frox EUROPE
Hem Steamship THE
"CITY OF SALFORD" having arrived, Consignees of Cargo by her are informed that all Goods are being kaded at their risk into the hazardous extra-hazardous Godowns of Holt's
she was proud to realise now she hence Delivery may be obtained.
had bean remembered "after so
many years," and added, "I feel
very
of ancient dietary as still survive miserable although I look Goods remaining undelivered after 11th
Miss Elaic and her husband, Major Ian Bullough, afterwards entertained the entire company in the foyer. All the time a large crowd waited outside the stage door and then cheered the star to her motor-car.
on
Although Miss Elsie is now going
Goods har
Claims will be admitted after the left the Godower, and "all Octbear, 1927, wil be subject to Rent be presented to the Undersigned on or
All Claima before 18th October, 1927, or they will not be recognized.
broken, shafed and damaged Goods are so be left in the Godowns, where they will be mined on any Tuesdays or Fridays, between the hours of 10.45 am, some Weck. the Free Storage
several offers from other manage
period of One a holiday, having refused
expected.
in the victualling of the Navy are very popular. Pen soup is in great demand on such occasions as the galley serves it, The disappear ance of salt pork caused many groans of regret. When all is said and done, salt horse was quite as good as bully beet, and Navy bis- cuit was more satisfying than fresh soft tack, if only for the exercise whith it demanded of the jaws.
The canteen, of course, supplements, her early return to the stage ments the Navy man's fare to-day She did not miss a performance in a variety of ways which are during the run of the play, and really only limited by his taste and pocket. But the fact is that, unless she was ddolized by the rest of the we stretch back into very remote company.-Daily Bavre. times, food in the Navy was never so bad as the sea writers have pic- tured. The real trouble lay not in quality nor sufficiency, but in the necessity for pickling and brining.LIVED FOR FOUR DAYS ON From Plymouth to Rio or Table Bay, without touching, anywhere, was a very common voyage in the
"ARTISTS MAROONED ON ROCKEY `ISLAND,
ONE DAY'S: RATIONS. www.www.dam
days of sail, and if the weather After four days on a rocky islet were at all adverse the passageing which they had little food or off the west coast of Scotland, dur- might easily last o couple of months.
water, two English visitors, Mr. L. F. Flexman and a friend, were re-
to Oban.
Bad Old Days.
No Fire Insur-nce bas been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
THE BANK LINE, LTD.,
General Agenta. Hong Kong, Sth Oct., 1927. [5395
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
AMERICAN & ORIENTAL LINE.
FROM NEW YORK.
THE Motor Vessel
ELMBANK"
her aro informed that all Goods are being having arrived, Consignees of Cargo by landed st their risk into the hazardona and/or extra-bazarrions Godowns of the and Kowloon Wharf and Godowa be
scued by a motor-boat and taken Hour Body whence Delivery may
The island is one of the Greay group off the Island of Lismore, about seven miles from Oban. The men, who had been living in a tent a rowing boat on a sketching ex- at Gantvan, near Oban, set out in pedition, intending to spend night on an island.
be obtained.
No claims will be admitted after the Gooda bays left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after 7th October, 1927, will be subject to Rent
• In the Mercantile Marine, of course, old-time conditions in the matter of victualling prevailed much later. We are told that the present race of seafaring men are much healthier than their fore- fathers in consequence of better dietary, and medical atatistics are
All Claims against the Vessel must quoted in support. It would be
be presented to the Undersigned on or ridiculous to question that present- They took their tent with them, before 14th October, 1997, or they will day feeding at sea is very much
not be in addition to provisions for 24 better than it was in the past, but hours. The crossing was made in Goods are to
All
broken d
chafed and damaged left in the Godowns,
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to attribute improved health entire delightful weather, but next morn: where they will be examined on Friday, ly to this is rather to jumble cause
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE, and effect, Life in a steam veesei iha, the, set was very rough and 7th October, 1957, at 10 am.
INCLUDING
they were startabound. During the offers no parallel to the exposure eecond night the storm bocama and discomfort of life in mail.
worse, and, to add to their difficul- Those who have seen the lower tier, there was a mist. The pros- decks of a wooden line-of-battleship pect of making Ganavan in a 12- and realize that upwards of 1,000 foot rowing boat was so hopeless officers and men were housed in her
that they were compelled to remain on the island.
HUGO STINNES LINIEN cramped and low-beamed interior
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do not need to be reminded of the primary cause for the improved health of the Navy..
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THE BANK LINE, LTD., General Agents. Hong Kong, let Oct., 1997. [6391
They run short of food and water, HONG KONG METEOROLOGICAL
and drank rainwater from a bollow of the rocks. They had a fishing rod, but it was impossible to use if owing to the heavy seas Seeing a few rabbits the men, in desperation, madē & share with the fishing line, but no rabbits came their way,
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Drinking "The King” The foregoing reference to the low-beamed interior of the old-time ship-of-war leada, by a natural as- sociation of ideas, to an historical-
Barometer... On the third evening the gale was ly interesting question. What is
Temperatury the origin of the naval custom of
at its height, and the marooned,
Humidity drinking the health of the reigning men got no sleep, having the Wind- Sovereign sitting! Some naval,
greatest difficulty in keeping the Direction E archaelogiat may be able to answer tent in position. On the morning
Force the question, but it is a curious
of the fourth day there was 20 in Weather! B Cloudy fact that the present writer has ask-provement in the weather, but they RAM ed it of many naval officera with managed to sleep till poon. out eliciting a definite answer. course, there are obvious theories on the subject. One is that the old wardroom was so low-beamed that it was virtually impossible for the officers to stand upright. Another is that in dirty weather the eld
The old superstitions for such ships wallowed so much that stand they really amount to about the ing was reduced to a much more | King's quarter-deck are still loyal-
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of When they awoke they decided | Highest open-air Temperature, 4th : 12 to risk the journey to Lismore, and Lowest open-air Temperaturs, 5th: 77 were making preparations when a motor-boat strived from Ganavan and took them to safety.
undignified process than sitting.ly observed. On emerging on to A third (and inevitable) suggestion the quarter-deck, never mind how "is that the old race of naval officers many times in the course of the drank so heartily at dinner that day, an officer is supposed to--and a good many of them were incap usually does-touch his cap out of able of standing by the time they respect to the monarch. came to the löyal toast..
B-Blue sky; C-Cloudy; D= Drizzle; F-Fog; L-Lightning; M-Mist; O-Overcast: P-Paming Thunder showess; Q-Squalls; É-Bain; T~-
HONG KONG TIDE TABLE.
From October 8th to 19th. 1927. HIGH WATER. LOW WATER.
| Date of
Hong
Bong
Standard
Time.
Hnight.
6408
Kong
Hong
Standard
Timo.
4 9.10 50
75 31.7 1 1 14:
Down to within a few years ago Jealocaly Preserved.
it was a common practice, in drink- ing the Royal toast, to touch the Anyhow, the privilege of drink deck beam above with the rim of ing the Sovereign sitting is one of the glass as symbolizing a salute which the Navy is very jealous.. to the King's quarter-deck. But When the Prince of Wales was in this has largely died ont, probably The the Renown word was passed in the because the wardroom is nowadays wardroom that it was the King's very seldom under the
Fri. wish that his health, should be deck On the whole, it is very deat
quarter. drunk standing. Put in this way, sirable that these ancient customs there was no question but to com- should be retained. The German
.9 Sua, But whenever ply.
the Prince Nary must find life a little dall chanced to be out of the ship the now that they no longer have a Mon. 10. mers prezident invariably announc Kaiser to drink to before breaking ed, Gentlemen, in accordance their glasses that they shall never Ther. 11 with the custom of the service, the again be used after the All-Highest health of the King will be drunk | tozat. But duller still must be Wed. 12 sitting."
mess life in a dry "
Navy (Continued on mext Column.); Naval and Military Record..
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