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DEEP SEA DIVERS.
SEEING "THE WONDERS OF THE LORD."
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NOT COVERED BY INSURANCE.
[United Press,]
New-York-Poots may rhapsodize about the surface of the shining aca, bus it has a floor that only Mother Nature could love, 'accord ing to
Commander Edward Ella berg, professional "raiser, of marines stuck down, under. Its an odd sort of place, down there where the ships go when they get run over by
other rum-chaser ↓ marine vehicle. Everything is topsy-turvy and the laws of "on top do not seem to apply. visit to the moon would be little
queerer.
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1929.
The bottom of Provincetown, where the S-51 rested 100 feet down, 'was different.
It was black," very oozy and muddy," said Elleberg. When you stood still you sank into it from your knees to your waist. In walking, each step meant pulling the entire leg out of the mud in order to plant it again. One man epent his diving hour covering a distance of thirty feet. He failed to find the submarine, which lay but fty feet from where he start ed.
The currents of the bottom act upca divers as strong winds affect wedestrians on street corners. They lean into them and shiver in a temperature of 37 to 39 degrees
STEAMSHIP BROKEN
DURING STORM.
AFTER PORTION AFLOAT: FOR- WARD END TURNED TURTLE.
[United Press.)
North Head, Washington.--The freight steamship Laurel has been ripped into two separate pieses by a storm.
At present the fate of the, crew of 30 members still remains uncer tain.
Although the after portion of the ship is still afloat, the fore part turned over and anyone aboard in that section of the vessel has prob- ahly perished.
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NIGHT LIFE IN MONTMARTRE,
A GAY OLD LADY.
CREATING" FUN,"
[United Fress.]
Paris. The time has come to write a story about Montmartre. There are a lot of places about the world that have got bad names through just being misunderstood, like the old Barbary Coast in 'Frisco, the Old Port in Marseilles, and Port Said. About Montmartre, there are two distinct schools of
Farenheit. They often became con- fused and lose their sense of direc- sub-tion. One diver on the S-51 argued heatedly over his telephone with his watcher, far above, insisting The U.S. Coast Guard is attempt that he was at the stern of the ing to reach the floating section of bout instead of at the how because the vessel in order to girs aid to the bulking of the bow diving rud- such of the crew as may have sur-thought. ders deceived him. Another misrived. took the starboard for the port side and couldn't find a pontoon Although the pontoon was larger
than a Pullman coach.
Ten Fest Leaps. "The most unusual thing on the If you have taken out a life in- ! aurance policy within the last five bottom," said Ellsberg, Is a sen years, and will read the fine printsation of having been transported section closely, you will and that to another world, where the usual you are expressly prohibited from laws of physics do not apply." You can allow air into your suit until fooling around the ocean bottom. even in a diving suit. Just why you are light enough to float, or this is, and a few other oddities of you can make your weight ap- deep sea diving Commander Lin-proximately ten pounds and move cola Ellsberg explained in an inter.like a feather. A diver far below view with the United Press mark. the surface can leap ten feet from ing his debut as a literary celebrity, the ground if he wishes. But it is "On the Bottom," his account of dangerous play. He may keep on. the cruising of the S-51, has been going and blew up." celected as its May book by the Literary Guild,
Instead of octopi' and sharks. one of the two things divers fear most which means
It is called "deep-sea diving "is blowing up," when the bottom is more than 60 feet down. More than 50 feet down t begins, as Ellsberg said, "to get worse."
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The S-31 was canted over on its side on a hard, dark gray sand over dark blue clay 135 feet below the wave-hollows.
Misty "Footprints."
shooting suddenly to the surface without a chance for their bodies to adjust themselves to reduced pressure and which results in the sometimes fatal racking known as bends." The other one is getting caught fast on the bottom. "
storm.
We have on one hand the United Reports from the scene of the disaster said that rescue forces had Press Montmartre correspondent's reached the Laurel's battered after immediate observations and on the portion, which broke away from other, the rather sarcastic remarks the fore section during the terrife of certain visitors who assert that The fragment of the ship which Montmartre is just "old stuff," is still right side up bas now Then we have with is those jolly grounded on a sand ban
Watchers on shore reported that travellers who like to experiment, they had witnessed some rescues who like to believe that a human ad that several of the survivors thrills have not yet passed through had been taken to Fort Canby, Details, however, including the num.their receptive brains... ber of those rescued, were lacking. The crew numbered 30 members.
There is little joking more than 100 feet below the surface but Com- mander. Ellsberg recalled one piece of galety in the salvaging of the $61. It was perpetrated by divers Francis Smith and Jim Frazer to celebrate their rigging of a cover for the gun escape truck by means of a stout cak plank, which project ed like a springboard from the conning tower twelve feet above the submarine's deck.
Smith, his part of the job com
**inflated pleted," said Elleberg. himself until he was just heavy
KNIGHT'S HORSE" ON" A FOOTPATH,
·FIÑED "AFTER REPORT BY A YOUNG WOMAN.
Sir Henry Dennis Readett Bayley, Et, was fined 203., with 55. costs, at Brighton Police Court recently for riding a horse on the footpath a Woodingdean.
His secretary wrote explaining that, owing to the slippery nature of the road. Sir Henry thought it safer to take his horse on the foot- path. He met only one pedestrian, and he took the horse on the road to allow her to pass.
Evidence was given that Sir Henry was seen by a young woman pedestrian, who was surprised, on turning round, to see the horse in- mediately, behind her. amiled and was about to urge the horse forward to pass her when she said to him. "You know you have no right on the footpath."
Sir Henry
Sir Henry replied, "Don't you be ao rude."
The young woman reported the incident.
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Sir Henry was interviewed by a police constable at his hotel and he apologised for his offence.
The Chairman: He apologised to the policeman, but WILA rather abusive to the lady.
In history, it was permitted the young Alexander to look about abstractadly for new worlds to con- quer, It must be remembered that that young Macedonian never got much farther west than his own town of Alexandria. He might
are seen the streets of Cairo, or WIFE MAINTENANCE AFTER their equivalent, but he died young. This does not justify that bored attitude of many of our visiting Americans who say Montmartre is SEPARATION COVENANT NO cheap, tawdry, tinsel and tin pan,"
Always "Open."
"A third danger, more fearful than either of the others but happening more seldom is being squeezed." This is the opposite of "blowing enough to sink and while Frazer indicate otherwise.
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The latest stories of Montmartre Montmartre is
Late
DIVORCE.
BAR.
The House of Lords decided that the power of the court to make provision for a wife on the dissolu- tion of her marriage was a peces-
You could walk along. look back and not see the slightest im | up." It usually occurs when a stood on the deck below with open very guy. It is open at all hours. pression made by your heavy lead diver steps off a ledge and Ands arms, jumped into them like a slow. Early in the morning its inhabit shoes on the bottom there, aid himself falling forty to sixty fect motion picture of Juliet leaping ants are going home. at sary incident of the power to decree Besuch a dissolution, and that the wife Ellsberg. But at a distance of into deeper water with no chance from the balcony. You could hear night, they are coming out. some 20 feet behind you, over each to adjust his air compression, A them laughing through the phones," tween these hours what goes on could not by her own covenant One other bit of information would be marvellous information in preclude herself from invoking the place you had taken a step, would diver who has been squeezed" is be a faint cloud of sandy mist-it always buried after being scraped about the eleven qualified deep sea
jurisdiction of the court or preclude the court from the exercise of that looked like dust on a country road out of his helmet. The pressure divers-all there were in the entire "There was no marine growth, has been known to ram the entire navy during the S-51 calvaging.
jurisdiction: no deposit of large shell fish, star-body into the helmet, from the hips Several of them, more than a 100 feet down, became violently seasick fish, nothing but barrenness relieved up.
"riding" the pontoons. by plenty of fish swimming about."
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the hands of a few enterprising divorce lawyers.
As to the boites de must, which is the very fancy name which the French give their "boxes of night," there are literally hundreds of them. A party of four, six or eight, can tear up Montmartre if they want. The can drop in" one bar after another until they find just the right one to suit their mood. They can be perfectly natural and swarm in a howling arena like the Moulin Rouge ball or in the old Bai Tabaria. These select: establishments are running strong about midnight. The beer is cheap, the champagne is cheap, and the company is interesting and Attractive.
Those dark looking guides who brace for on the Boulevard with doubtful looking postcards, wouldn't take you to the nice, honest, second rate, stupid,
Bai and amusing Tabarin. Where they want to take you is nobody's business, except the polite. At the Bal Tabarin the Can Can still goes on. That's worth the price of admission,
The decision was given in the case of Mr. Maurice Percy Hyman, of Jarmyn-street, who in September 1509 enter 1 into a deed of sepura- tion from his wife, Mrs. May Ward Hymaz, ... of Biddulph-marsions, Maida Vale, the deed containing an undertaking by the husband to pay his wife a sum down and the clear. weekly amount of £20.
A condition was that the wife would not at any time thereafter by any means endeavour to compel the husband to allow her any alimony. further than those sums
The Act giving the right to a wife to divoree her husband for miscon the wife in 1998 obtained a divorce, duct having beer passed meantime,
and Mr. Justice Hill held that she was not precluded from prosecuting. to maintenance. The her claim Court of Appeal affirmed the de- the House of Lords. This appeal eision, and the husband appealed to
was dismissed
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Then there are the regular joy palaces of Montmartre. In fact, the average night in Montmartre either starts or ends in Joe Zellf's -the Royal Box Joe has become a character to visiting millions. There was a time when Jee only the Music Box, the Fantasio, where MS. “ Asia”
crowd, and BAS. “Chile”. know a few thousand people and six people make a
women are known to dance on anly a few thousand knew Joe. If tables in these places, and men are your caricature is not adorning known to actually drink champagne Joe's walls, it soon will, if you are going to take Paris at all seriously. Joe, is one of those Italiana who can still go back to Italy; he was trained in gayent New York, just before the synthetic age, and he took his post graduate course in the Rue Caumartin when night clubs were reviving Paris after the war.
"The Dead Rat."
out af ladies' slippers.
And then we have the Russians. Hordes of Georgians, Caucasiaus, Ukranians, and white Russians, and some not so white, have come to disport among soft toed boots and eit pensively in silk tunics among scener to which they were never accustomed.
Joe has installed that arrange Montmartre now who doesn't wear There is hardly chasseur in ment of telephones on each, table
along Cossack coat and carry so that men can talk together and twenty packages of asperino on his invite each other to "come over and have a drink. Little lanterns chest in lieu of bullets. The Cha
one of the over each table give the numbers, teau Caucasien is
dreamiest of these places, and the the connection is automatic, and sometimes friendships are made in music is excellent and the Russians this way which they say last for are authentic. The Kasber is smal ler and even more Russian, and the years and years.
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It is not that such places as Troika is stil more Russian so Zeili's and the Palermo, and the that serious, grown men have been Plantation, and Florence's and the known to develop a preference for OF EVANSVILLE"
"OUDEEKEEK”' Grand Ecart, and the Pigale and words composed only of consonants. the Dead Rat, and four hundred
Montmartre throngs with might having arrived, Consignees of Cargo by having anired from the above Ports, others are particularly funny or restaurants, but when hunger over her are informed that all Goods are being Consignes of Cargo by her are notified gay. It because they are in Paris takes the fireman at let's say, landed at their car into the hazardous, that all Goods are being landed at their and a te mea speak French and three or four or six in the morn and/or extra-hazardous Godowns of risk into the hazardons and/or extra. nobody cares if your grandfather's ing, one goes to Arsene's Glosbe Holt's Wharf, whence Delivery may be hazardous Godowns of the China Pro-
vident Loan &
the wharves, De red-nosed grand uncle fought in the d'or, where all the dangers from obtained.
No Claims will be admitted after the whence and/or Mortgage Co, Ltd.,- American Revolution or not, or the Folies Bergero go when their even if you had a grandfather at chaperones are out late; and other Goods have left the Godowns, and all livery may be obtained.
Goods remaining undelivered after 30th Goods not cleared by the 1st July, people go downstairs of the Cepi- June, 1929, will be subject to Rent
1929, will be subject to Kent.
All broker, "All Claims against the Steamer Coutrary to this year's pessimists, tal, or at Mitchell's, which is an
chafed and damaged Pack- Montmartre will provide entertain. American quick lunch joint, as no
minat be
presented to the Undersigned ages are to be left in the Gock was, where will be examined on the 29th ment for all size bankrolls. There other word will do.
July, 1929, of June, 1829, as 10 am, by Memra, on or before 7th are big cafes like the Charleston, Some people who have read the will not be recognized like Weplere, like Graff's, the guide books, go over to the mar All broken, chafed and damaged Goods Goddard and Douglas, Hong Kong.
Where they Claims Radio, where one may drink a five-cets, all the way across Paris and are to be left in the Godowns,
all.
against
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cent coffee and sit all night and gaze meditatively on piles of cnali- will be examined on any Tuesdays or prese of Steamer, otherwise they
will not be recognized.
listen to the music of violins flower and turmps and carrots and Fridays, between the hours of 10.45 a.m., after There are underground boxes of find a whole new section of Paris, and Noon, within the Froe Storage fun, damous for their Parisien wit, in and around the Smoking Dog period of One Week A such as Bruants, the Black Cat, the and the Tranquil Father, frequent Quat'o Azity and there led by many of the younger set who trusion 18 only to trance were amor and
instead of black ties, and opera the drinks are cheap.
hata.
(Continued on next Volumn).
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