NEW SYSTEM OF
TRAFFIC CONTROL.
Though erhaps our railway system in Ubina does not yet profets the complexity of the home lines and will not require any very elaborate system of con- trol for many years, it is interest- ing to study the new methods | lately introduced on the L. and N. W. R. at home.
A typical control office, cou- tains a large working diagram measuring at out 20 ft. by 4 ft. of the motions of the line under control. Every track, aiding, loop line, station, and signal- box is shown, as well as the innumerable private" branches| running to collieries, lostories, and so on. Small brass sockets are let into this beautifully-made. and coloured diagram throughout the lines, and every gcode train and light engine-in fact, all traffic that is not run on a fixed time-schedule is shown on the
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1913.
This Space is Reserved
FOR
THE PROPRIETORS
OF
MILKMAID
PRODUCTS.
MARKET
Hongkong, May 31, 1913.
BUTCHER MEAT,
Beef Sirloin & Prime Cut,Mei Lung Pa
Corned-Hom Ngau Yukj...
12
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Breast,-Nagu Lam
Soup,-Tong Yuk
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Steak, Ngau Yuk Pa ́
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,, Sausages,-Ngou Chaung
Bullck's Brains- Know......
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Tongue fresh, NgaL ...
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corned,Ham Nga Li
Head-Ngau Tan
Hump, Salt,-Ngau Kin
Feet,-Ngan Kask
Kidneys,-Ngan Yi
+
, Heart,-Ngau Sum.
in
$1
crew je
12
"
Tail,-Ngau Hei..... Liver,-Ngau Kon
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肉食
PRICES.
Balmon.—Wa Yan Y
Shark, Sa Yu
Skate,-Po Yu
Shrimps, Ha
A Snapper, Imp Yu
Turbot,-Cho How Yu
Turtles, small, fresh water,-Kork Yu
White Bait-Ngau Yu Chai
Ota.
lb. 18
18
5les, Tat Sa Yu
18
#
Tench,-Wan Ya
12
15
18
字数
28
牛柳
20
150
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牛腿
each 45
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茶牛利
60
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11
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15
牛腩
17
Small, Hoi Tong
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Cocoanuts,-Yeh Tse
set $1
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board by means of pegs placed by each signalman was an autoorat whether passengers or the operators in the rockets, and moved from place to place se each in his own section, governed not yet known, were seen swim train proocsde on its way.
by the absolutely necessary ming from the lighthour and were Each class of train has its own law of allowing sufficient clearance rescued by a boat sent from that illustrative peg.
Tripe (undressed),--Ngau To between trains, but in effect at place. The unfortunate people A regular,
endless friction with all other un- had been in the sea for at least Calve Head & Feet,-Ngay-ohai-tau-kark' numbered local goode bas a squaro brass peg, with a number itsand without means to cx operate five hours before being rescued, Mutton Chop,-Yeung Pei Kwat in it, showing the number of intelligently with them.
and the saving of four who were The system reduces labour en- without life saving appliances of trucks; an "unnumbered goods" is illustrated by a small square ormously; it saves engine-drivers any kind, must be largely attri-
end shunters. But so far from buted to their powers of en-Pigs brass pegi
A regulor" or "special" is abown by a diamond reducing employment it increase durence. shaped peg; a "special fast" has it, for it enables the railway to a circular g, with the letter "S"de with a much greater amount in it; a light engine is shown by o traffic, and particularly it in a small brass disc. An engine cresses the amount of "spacial
tbat must be relieved is shown
A Telephone Innovation. What makes this surveillance of the whole line possible and it ia far more effective even than a bird's-eye view is the tele- phone arrangement, and it is upon the ingenuity of this that the whole system is based.
traffic.
THE PEKING PLOT. Charge Against Gen. Huang Hsing.
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Pork,
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Shoulder, Yeung Shou Chitlings, Chu Chong Brains, Chu Know Feet, Chu Kark Fry-Chu Chak Head, Chu Tau... Heart, Chu Sum...
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Kidneys, Chu Yin...
Liver, Chu Con
Chop,--Chu Pai Kwat
Corned,-Ham Chu Yuk ́......
Leg,-Chu' Pe.
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Fat or Lard,--Chu Yaa
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Sheep Head and Fest, -Ve. 15 Tan Kark
Heart, Young Sum Kidneys,-Yeung Yiu ... "Liver, Young Con Sucking Piga, To Order-Ohu Cha... Suet, Beef-Sang Ngau Yan...
The Cormorant cruised round in the neighbourhood for fifty, minutes in the hope of picking up others of the shipwrecked crew, before coming onto Bangkok. The by a reri square, and there are The men who work the system captain and others of the Bang pegs with slots to receive carda are a new kind of chem-player, bert were landed at Pagnam, and illustrating other details. Every They are in a very real sense the Cormorant duly reported the second or so the pegs are being controllers of traffic, and they disaster on her arrival in Bang moved, and the four or five must have a thorough knowledge kok. The Harbour Department operators are kept constantly of railway working only obtained in the afternoon, sont a tender to busy.
by years of practical experience. the bar to investigate the cause They have to know the capacity of the disaster. of "engines, to calculate the speed of trains of different kinds, to have in raind the accom- modation available at loop lines and refuge sidinge, and, among many other thinge; to know the difference between a "piped" train and one that is not "piped." Each signal-box is connected Now a "piped" train is one pro- by telephone with the control vided with Westinghouse brakes, office, and each of the operators and it may travel at a greater ean instantly speak to any one or speed than its less efficient to all of the signal-boxea. There brothers, is no need to ring up any "ex-
The men are recruited from the change": connection is instant- traffic department, but with the ant Jus. The passageal every train extension of the system it is from ono bluck to another is likely that there will not be immediately telephoned to the enough really qualified man proceeding during the past Doves,-Pan Kau control where the news is dealt available. It is hoped to complete the control system for the whole Each operator sits at a desk of the Load N. W. Railway furnished with a row of telephone during the present year.
with in the following manner:
switches and
་་
eye-ball" in-
dicators. Signal-box No. 16-is
speaking, and the white disc drops
200
Veal,-Ngau Chai Yuk
Mutton, Sang Yeung Yau ...
Sausages,-Ngan Chai Chaung
* POULTRY,
As was to be expected mach attention is being paid in political which Peking has asked to be circles in Shanghai to the charge brought against General Huang: Heing in connection with the alleged plot against the President. Among the supporters of the General's party indignation is felt, and whole matter is regarded Chicken,
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110
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140
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Almonds,-Hung Yau...
Apples (California)-Kam San Ping Kho
Chatoo )—Tin Chan Ping Khổ
Custard,-Fan Lai Chi
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lb, 28
25
each
Bananas, fragrant, Canton,-San Shing Houng Chiu Ib.7
(brides), Masso, San Heung Chiu
Chestnuts, Chinese, Foong Lut
Carambola, Yeung Tue...
Lemons, China-Ning Moong
1
America, Kum San Ning Moon
Licheca Dried,-Lai Chi, small Stone
Limes, (Saigon)-Sai Kung Ning Moong
Mango, Manila, Lui Sung Mong
Mangosteens,-San Chuk Tee
Oranges, (Canton)--San-shing Tim Ching
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Pears, (American),-Kam San Shoot Lay
(Canton), Cooking,-Sa Lay
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Persimmons Large,-Hung Chie
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Pine-apples, 1st quality,-Poon Ti Paw Law each
2nd
Plantain,Tai Cheu
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Plans, Swatow, Hung Lai
Pamelo, Siam, Chim Lo Yau
Shanghai-Lo Kwat
Walnuts,-Hop Tuo
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27.
Green, Sang Hop Tuo
Water Melon,-(Am.) Kom San Sai Kwa
(China) Sai Kwo...
Grapes, Sang Po Tai Tee
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Artichokes, Shanghai, Sheung-hoi Ah Ühi
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VEGETABLES," &c.
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生牛油
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Beans, (French), Macao,-Oh Moou Pin Tau
(French) Shanghai,-Shoung Hai Pin
10. 美門邊重
14+
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Red, Hung Ker
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Cabbage, Shanghai,-Yeh Choi
Cabbage Red,-Hung Yes Ohoy
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Cane Shoots, bunch-Kau Shun
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Cauliflower, Large size,-Tai Yeh Oho Fa
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but
each
Small size,Sai Yen Choi Fa
Medium size,Cheung Yeh Cho Fa
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Cucumbers,Ching Kwa
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HEHKU BN654REE HERER SK RKERK
紅菜頭
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as but another move in the game Capons, Large, Small,-Sin Kai of high politics which has been Ducks,Ap
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months. Another view is that Egge. Hen-Kai Tán the demand for his arrest is in Fowls, Canton,-Kai the nature of a red herring across
Hainan, Hoi Nam Kai trail of Chao Ping-chun, for Geese,-Ngoi ...
on No. 18 on all the desks, but STEAMERTURNS TURTLE says the North China Daily Partridge, Che Khoo
only the operator to whose division No. 16 belongs attends to it, He simply places the receiver to his ear, notes the laconic message, returna it, and moves one of the
pege on the board. In each con trol office some 500 messages tre
taken in an hour.
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Cta.
lb 34
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per doz 24
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whose trial as an accomplice in Geese, Wild S'hai, Shang-ho Yea Ngoi the Sang murder the party in Musk Deer,--Wong Keng Shanghai has been clamouring, Hare, Shanghai,Tu Chại News" of June 3.
Pheasant, Shan Kai The facte, concerning the Pigeons, Canton, Pak Kup demand for the arregt of HoihowHoi How Pak Kup, General Huang are perfectly Quail,-Um-Chun clear. The arrest of the alleged Rice Birds, Wo Fa Cheul followed by instructions to the Turkeys, Cock-Phor Kai Kung women plotters in the capital was Snipe,-Sa-Choy the night of May 22 by which it Procurator-General in Shanghai
Ben,
Large Loss of Life off Bar at Bangkok.
the bar of the Bangkok river on A terrible disaster occurred at
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feared some fifty-four people lost to take measures to have a war- Wild Ducks, S'hai-Shang hoi Sui Ap..." The talephone arrangement is preuliar in that the system of their lives. As far as can be ascer: rant issued for the General's ar- Teal,-Bui Ap Chai, lings has a constant potential." tained, says the "Bangkok Times" rest upon a charge of complicity. Wild Ducks Canton-Sang-Shing Sui Ap... This ia unlike any other telephone of May 23, the coasting vessel The Procurator accordingly took
line in use. It saves a battery at
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to
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FISH.
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Bangbert, belonging to Phys Ma- the castomary steps, laying the every station, and requires only bibal and duly licensed by the request for a warrant before Mr. one battery instead of 20; it saves kok yesterday afternoon
Harbour Department, left Bang- Ivan Chen, Commissioner for
out- Foreign Affairs, with the docum- Barbel, Ka Ya in batteries and their maintenance,
One of the operators attends toward bound for west coast ports.ents in the cass. General Huang Bream,-Bin Yn enginos, and he can at any mThere were in all some forty-nine is a resident in the Settlement Canton Fresh Water Fiab.-Hoi Sin
appréhension a ment say how many hours this passengers and a crew of eleven and for
| Carp, Li Ya.. ·mi warrant would Catfish,-Ulrik Ya.... or that engine has been at work. on board. All went well until the Mixed Coutt Another observes the engine-vessel had crossed the bar. There have be obtained. Mr. Codfish,Man Yo... drivera, and makes it his business was no wind, but a big swell, and Chen has now forwarded the
according to the narrative of the documents to Mr. Kuan Chun, Cattle Fish,-Mut Yu
Orabe,-Hai to prevent their exceeding time, as well as ensuring the presence of captain who was rescued, it was Mixed Court Magistrate, with Dab, Sa Mang Ya
an order of the comprador that led, the application for the warrant. reliefs at the desired ep it.
Dace-Wong Mei Lan... Some details of the alleged plot Dog Fish-Tit Tu Sa A chief controller has a similar to the vessel capsizing. It is said desk as the others, and he knows that the passengers were suddenly have transpired in Shanghai. It is Eels, Congor,--Hoi Mann all that is going on, besides hay- ordered to move from the star-stated that the services of a num- Fresh water-Tam Sin Yu " ing a thorough knowledge of the board to the port side of the vessel ber of women were secured, and Bala, Yellow, Wong Sin number of trucks, or engines and such was the effect that the that they undertook to convey Frogs, Tien Kai
ship capsized forthwith. This bombs to the capital for a sum of Garoups,-Sek Pan..._... available at every point.
$300 spiece. This was bat a pre-Gudgeon,-Pak Kup Yu Across the diagram the straight was about midnight.
Next morning at five o'clock liminary payment, Some time ago Herrings, Tao Pak... quadruple main track-four par- allel black lines stretch, and the Cormorant, inward bound, we mentioned that such a plot, Halibut, Cheung Kwan Kup when one of the 3 lines is seen to poticad people in the water, and necessitating the manufacture of Labrug,Wong És Yu... be clear of pega.it is b.cause it is immediately took steps to rescue a quantity of bombs, was afoot, Losch-Wa Ya open for a passenger train. One them. The captain of the Bang-and there seams to be no doubt
Lobsters,Lang Es finds an extraordinary fascination bart, who was supporting himself that the information then obtain Mackerel,-Chi Yo... .. in watching the diagram and with a life bucy, was picked up od referred to what has now been Monk Fish-Mong Yu observing the manner in which aby means of the heaving lead discovered in Peking.
Mullet, Obat Yu great railway system is scientific-line, and two others were alac The "Shenpac understande
ra cued by the same method. that Mr Kuan Chan, Magistrate Parrotfish, Kai Kung Ya ...
Oyatera, g Hoo The chief engineer, who was of the Mixed Court, upon receiv Perch, Tau Loo
a life belt and ing instructions from the Com- Pike, Fa Paw Foong clinging to The work of the signalman is was pretty far gone, was being missioner of Foreign Affairs, wrote plaice,Fan Yu... now rendered more efficient, and tossed about some distance out an order himself requiring Pomfret, Black, Hak Chong be can give more attention to his from the Cormorant and a boat the General's attendance at the Pomfret, White,Pak Chong legitiora's duties of facilitating had to be lowered to pick Court for a preliminary inquiry. Prawns-Ming Ha..... passenger traffic. The old system him up. He revived somewhat He has forwarded the Order in Ray Pai Pa 8
ally directed and controlled.
Safer Working Secured.
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Carrots,-Kam Shum
Celery, Chinese, Tong Kan Uhoi
English,-Yeung Kan Choi
Chillies Dried,-Gon Lat Chin
Green, Ohing Lat Ühin**
Curry Stuff, English,-Kar Lee Chu Liu
Garlic, Que Tau
tak Ginger, young, Sun Tse Keung
old.-Lo Keung
Horse Radish, Shanghai, Lik Kan
Mandarin,Kwai Lum Ma Tai
Mush Melon. Amer-Kam-san Hong Kwa.
Okrood.
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Oniona Bombay-Young Chong Tan Groen,Sang Chong
"Shanghai, Shang-hoi Chong Tau Papaya, lat qual.,-Tai Man Saa Kus...
2nd.
Chang
Paraley, Kun Cho
Green Peas,-Ching Taue
Potatoe, Sweet,Fan Shu
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Indian Corn,Suk Mai
Ota.
Water Chesnuts,-Ma Tai ̈
Lettuce,-Yeung Sang Choi
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Mushrooms, Fresh, Sang Cho Koo
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Focohow,Foo-chow Shu Tsai
Pumpkin, Tong Kwa
Radish,-Hang Lo Pak Teai
Rhubarb (Fresh),-Tai Wong Sage,-Tee So
*
-400
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440
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28
Shallots,-Gon Chung Tau ·
BR Spinach-Yin Choi
Tomatoes,Fan Ker
B Taros, Wu Tau
Empr Punti, (Long),-Lo Pak
English, Young Lo Pak
Vegetable Marrow,Chit Kwa
(American), Kam-gan Chit Kwa
Eater Cress,Bai Yeung Cho
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$40
20
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the
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s quote
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Semetry, Sanitary Bourg,
of telephoning by the sigualmen after treatment on board the question to the Senior Consal for Rock Fisher Ke Kung ** was oumbrous in the extreme¦ Cormomat. Two other men endorsement,
Bosch Chen Yus vos
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