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A.B.C., 5th edition. Western Union Telephone:. No. 1
The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1913.
THE LESSON OF STANLEY,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1913,
Mail Yagarles Again.
The irregular delivery of the Siberian mail is attracting atten tion at Home equally with the
DAY BY DAY.
"The key to every man is his | Far East. We observe that the thought"-Emerson. Manchester Chamber of Com merce has taken up the matter
The Malls.
and has appointed a committee French Mail of Juud 17.-De- livered in London on July
18.
Foglish Mail.-Despatched per
e:s. China at 1 p.m. to-day.
Australian Mail. Despatched per 8.9. Eastern at 11 a.m. to. day.
to investigate the question of delays. The Manchester Chamber is a particularly alert body and it will probably sift the whole matter to the bottom before it gives up. Why it should be so interested is clear on the face of it. The trade between, the Far Esat and Lancashire is Siberian Mail.-Closes por. s. 8. very considerable, and delay Liuan at 5 p.m. to-day. ia the delivery of lettors American Mail. Due per s. becomon matter of serions Chien on Monday at 9 a.m. consequence. To the ordinary individual, whose letters are if n purely personal character. late delivery is a matter of discomfort and irritation. To the business an it is a deal more By the way, and hot for the first time, a
mail arrived unexpectedly vester-
by the a.s. China. The blame here reats at one of two doors. Either
Shangbai failed to notify Hong kong or it notified Hongkong and selip was made at this end. In any case, the mater. should be explained in the interests of a patient and long-suffering public.
Dogs on the Ferry.
The dog anisaro on the ferry- boats which run between Hong kong and Kowloon luas more than once been commented upon in this. ebluma, but the trouble remains unabated none the less..
Summer Sale.
Mosara William Powell's sum.
mer asle commenced on Monday,
Owner Wanted.
The police have a 'red blanket for which they await the claim of
the owner.
Plague.
Fuur inore cases of plague occurred yesterday: bringing the year's total up to 219.
No' Name.
If "John Bull" will forward his name, not necessarily for publication, we shall be pleased to pablish his letter.
· Chemists' Register,
The name of Mr W. Kornatz, of the Medical Hall, has been added to the Register of Chemists
and Druggiate.
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The Knitting Factory Fire. The damage done to machinery and property by the fire at the Knitting Factory, at Mong Kok Tui, is estimated at $120,000.
STANLEY.
the bumping of a ghostly football. the enervated residents from in The barracka.au Kipling's general dulging in much physical exercise, romarke, were built upon the and lawn tennis, boating eto nro ground: we oau still see the confined to the enthusiastic flow; floors, although most of the The rest baguile the long in Bayatone-work that composed the tervals of dulness by less beneficul
[Sercin Auricck}, "We found a village' Rudyard Kipling, “which they
called Stuley: Tantless build-walls has been absorbed into the pursuits. Sometimes, as has been ings of brown, swne (this was in dwellings of the fisher-folk. The the case during the last few 1889) stared seaward from the cantonment well is still there weeks, a run of amusements will them a strowh of weather-basten tors. And just over the knap of or variety shows. No doubt the low dowas, and there lay bebind with its roof intact, for soms suddenly set in, in the varied reason resprated by the desecra-forms of opera, horsemanship
hasten to
wall. No nesd to nak what these
things meant. They cried aloud: the bill, less than a stone's throw public
I
welcome
It is a deserted cantonment, and from the barracks, is the ceme the entertaining strangers and the population is in the cemetery.tary, a grim remind else thus it tunity for diversion. oppor
troops
diemial
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of man's avail themselves of the
Thie
"I asked, 'What regiment?
"No.-The company is not yet "The Ninety-second, I think,uggests a desire to "speed up"
But that was
procosses which must formed that can please the much-. said the goneml.
seven-timea retined in the old times in the sixties have been all to familiar and de-expecting,
believe they quartered a lot of pressing to the wretched garrison. Englishmen of Hongkong. The
bere and built the barracks One of the regiments at Stan-prices are too high-too low ; - on the ground; and the fevere the 18th Royal Irish, is of always some excuse for withhold- having ing the patronage which might corried off all the men like flies, "pecial interest
been пре of three British be expected from the increasing Isn't it a desolate place?"
regimentà that came "My niod went back to a
with importance which Hongkong or neglected graveyard a stone's the first expedition despatched by rogates to itself.. throw from Jehangir's tomb in Lord Palmerston to China, arriv-conservative, never-entisbal trait the gardens of Shalimar, where ing at Hongkong in Jane 1840 is visible amongst the English but nowhere the cattle and the cow-berd look and at once doing good work in elsewhere,
BS in t at Canton. after the last resting-places of the Elliot's attack on the Boyne Forts so undisguisedly troops who first cccupied Lahore.
Hongkong. They rush to attend There seems small prospect whero H. E. the Governor, with We are a great people and very that Stanley will ever again be kindly sympathy, is " strong, but we build our Empire other than a small fishing village. ising" they show up strong al a in a wasteful manner on the bones of the dead that have died The scenery and its military charity concert in aid of some of disease."
associations, however, make it sufferers from earthquake in That in brief is the tragedy the small tablet, 10 be unveiled ate professional claims on their well worth a visit and perhaps the South America; but the legitim- and not only of Stanley, Stanley, but of all the militby Genoral Anderson in the support are ignored with a mean- ary barracks in the Island during Cathedral tomorrow will remind nees which cannot be too indign- the last century, when malaria's a of its existency, so that even on antly condemned.....Companies caness remained hidden from a bathing pionic we may learn which are coldly condemned here, mankind and the very disease something of the hardships our are highly successful elecwhere; was only vaguely identified being soldiers suffered in the labour and the only explanating we known here as Hongkong fever. founding this outpost of the can find is that the public of Up till 1848 it was customary to Empire.
1984,
HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE
YEARS AGO. ·
patron-
Hongkong is both unreasonably expectant and miserably mora. V
Oplum Smokers. Nine frequenters of an opiun On one of the boats from Kowloon divan at Wanchai, were finod this morning there were no fewer each, by Mr. Hazelund, at the than five dogs rouming about on Police Court, this morning. - the first-class deck. Not only were they a source of annoyance by constantly scampering but one "Au ignorant officer," says Ruskin, "is a murderer, and while, of them had only just come out of for others, all knowledge is often little more than a means of ainuse-he water and was dripping wet. ment, there is no form of science which a soldier may not at some People using the ferry ought, to time or other find bearing on business of life and death. Your have sufficient common-sense to knowledge of a wholescino herb may involve the saving of an army; keep their dogs under restraint and acquaintance with an obscure point of geography, the success when they take them on board, of a campaign. Never waste an instant's time, therefore tho sin of At present they do not, and it Kowloon, as subordinate officers $3th regiment lost 257 men by 12, 1888, the Telegraph" editor exclusiveness which, though ex- idleness is a thousand-fold greater in you than in others." Reading seems that the only way to secure the article we publish elsewhere in to-day's lesne une is greatly im- this being done is for the Ferry pressed with the truth of the artist-philosopher's romarks. It was. Company to issue a regulation to
a
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at
Those
To Consignees.
Consigneos of cargo by the s.s. Lennox are reminded that goods remaining undelivered after Mon- day will be subject to storage
'Silk Delivery.
Leave.
Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the Week Ending July 19, 1888,)
Cholera and the Chinese.
In a leader published on July
numerous victims; and
be more than sufficient" iaduce-
amusement,"
1/8 8 8
SHARE REPORT.
attribute the disease to exhal-
"Yet it would appear that there ations from disturbed virgin soil
is no place where travelling com- after exposure to the rain and sun; but in that year the Colon-
panies ought to fare better than in Hongkong. The dearth of ial Surgeon annominced the sar prieing discovery that it was dus
amusements, the heavy routine of Civil Servants' Quarters. to the prevalence of electricity in
business, the oppressive "contact- Tenders are being invited for the atmosphere. At any rate there
with the Chinese population into which everyone is brought, nolens, the erection of a terrace of eight were no doubts about its ravage;
colens, the scantiness of female houses adjoining King's Park, for abortly before that date the
society, the objectionable class death in 21 months and the writes: quarters.
- The Squall.
Artillery out of a strength of “The natives, are by far the ceadingly comical in itself, ia According to the police report, 135 lost 51 men in two years. In most
nevertheless keenly felt by thous who are not disposed to storm sho open to any surgeon of those days to make the discovery, now only this effect.. The above will apply there has only been one body 1843 the total garrison was 1,526, why? Because their surround-en-oalled social baights, these sixteen years old, of Captain Konald Ross, of the ladian Modical in part to the Peak Tramway found as a result of the recent but the military hospitals had ings invite disease and help and various other facta ought to
spread of epidemics; Service, who, at the suggestion of Sir Patrick Manson, studied the where, again, some very incon-squali, and that was near the s.s. 7,893 fever admissions during the the
year, so that on an average, een because, through their proverbialment for the inhabitants to avail nosquito. und after several years of patient research conclusively siderate pereon's travel with their Seang Bee.
man was only down with fever negleos of bygienic necessities; therosalves of all chances of demonstrated that the anoplieles mosquito is the prime agent forloge, in some instances claiming spreading malarial fever. Why on earth don't we honour thie man right to a free passage for the
more than five times. In 1850 they....live in the midst of while he is still with us? Read the few random figures of mortality | peto
the 59th Regiment was more than contagion, and die from it, as if decimated, having 43 deaths in nothing extraordinary had hap- called in our article and considor how many lives Professor Ross must have saved. Are we to wait for obituary notices before making For Fighting Tropical Disease.
six weeks; whilst in 1853 the pened. It may be said that death rate among European they are. after all, fully a fuss about this truly remarkable 'benefactor of humanity? Look Surely one of the most practi-charges.
troops rose 23 per cent. We entitled to live and die as at the death-rate of a single town and how it was affected by his cal forms that philanthropy has
need not follow up the ghastly they please; but we question The quotations which follow discovery. In Havana, in the year 1898, there were 1.907 deaths from ever taken is that reported in our malaria, and in successivo years down to 1906, the figures run: 209, wire to-day, whereby an ancay- steamer Tacoma Mart, which left hidden and unknown, built over in close contact with Europeans graph" for July 19, 1888. These The silk shipment ex 0.8.K tale. Their graves are mostly ese rights of their while living are from the "Hongkong Tele- 344, 151, 77, 51, 44, 32, 26. Then, take the case of Colonel Gorgas inous American bas undertaken here on June 12th 2, p.m., was and forgotten.
and in a European Colony. That quotations will appear every of the U.S. Ariny. To him we shall owe the Panama Canal. In to help the cause of Tropical delivered in New York on July Bat Stanley remains and is the Chinese population with week, and comparison of the French attempt to cut the isthmus, yellow fever and malaria Medicine to the extent of amil-15th, p..
their monument. A little fishing which we are caused more than 50,000 deaths. Colonel Gorgas specialises in lion pounds annually.
surrounded in quotations then obtaining with Restrictions Removed. village from tho earliest Hongkong will become a terrible those of to-day should prove of drainage and general aanitation and concluding a report, he says of our readers who remember It is notified that information time it is mentioned in focns of infection,uuless prompt mach interest. with justifiable pride, "I think the sanitarian can now show that the excellent papers read last
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, the Hongkong has beer received from the Co- the Ming records of the 13th and sweeping sanitary measures any population coming into the tropics can protect itself against year these two diseasen by measure that are both simple and inexpensive." medical conference are aware that, lonial Secretary, Singapore, to the century after a generation of be brought to bear on them,161 per cent, premium, sellers.
Union Insurance Society of And his canal record amply proves it.
great though the progress in the effect that the quarantine res misguided military experiment it unless their habitations, their
per
share, Consider, again, the history of Malta or Mediterranean fever, understanding of tropical diseasestrictions Imposed against the has lapsed into its pristine quiet. made of living, their eatables, and Cauton-$871-2 A naval and military commission discovered in 1905 that the hes been, those bost qualified to gort of Hongkong on secount La the second issue of the Hong-particularly their water supply, sellers.
China Traders' Insurance Com- disease was carried in goat's milk and the admission figures peak are satisfied that, in reality, of small-pox were withdrawn on kong Government Gazette, pub be controlled by an energetic
lished May 15, 1841, it is shown Sanitary Board, there can be no pany.-873 per share, sellers. in military hospitals dropped from 643 in 1905 to 161 in 1906, scarcely more than a beginning the 7th instant.
in the first census as possessing manner of doubt. Cholera, like North China Insurance-Tl6. 11 in 1907, and the dreadful disease has now "practically has yet been made, for it is only
2,000 Chinesa, inhabitants-a fever, small-pox and other con-285 per share, buyers. disappeared. It is
Combined leave for three clerical blunder (it has never had tagious diseases, flourishes most surprising but evident fact that any during quite a few years that any
Canton Insurance Company, ordinary individual, perfectly ignorant of medicine, but with medical mon, save a few special months to the neighbouring more than a few hundreds) which amidst dirt, bad ventilation, foul Ltd.--$76 per share, sellers. good powers of observation and a reasonable familiarity with ists, thought it worth while to countrics, as follows, has been
Yanglaze Insurance Association statistical logic and causal connection, should have been able dive below the surface in enquir-granted to Captain de L. Wained it the false title of the air and impure water. With auch
capital of Hongkong.' As bath glaring causes of the spread of Tls. 100 per share, sellers. to discover that malaria and Malta fever were due repectively to ing into the cause and prevention Passy, 25th Punjabis:Privilege ing parties know, it is beautifully disease among us, have we any Chinese Insurance Company mosquitoes and goats. Which makes it quite clear what Ruskin of the fevere, skin diseases etc. leave from 17th July to 14th Sep-aituated and one can well under-reason to complain of the de- $185 per share, buyera. means by saying an ignorent officer is a murderer." He might that have made life in the Tropics tember, 1913; leave on private stand that it should be selected terioration of the climate of Hong-
Hongkong Fire Insurance Com have said with equal truth "A lazy officer is a murderer," for how so uncertain a thing to the white affairs from 15th September to as a military settlement from kong, of the increase in the rate of pany $347.1-2 per share, bayers. officers can be for an instant, idle with all the miserable diseasen and the native alike. See 16th October, 1018...
the earliest days of the mortality, and other woes ? Hong China Fire Insurance Company amongst their men which is certainly avoidable by research anding that this is an age of colonial life and enterprise, and that
Colony. They only look-kong is healthy enough but for 877 per share, buyers. laborious sanitation, passes ocmprehension.
most of the colonial territory of) His Excellency the Governor ed on the mosquito as a nuisance; ita inhabitants, a large number of Hongkong and Whampoa Dock It also passes comprehension how our ancestors lived in the Great Britain, America and the has given his assent, in the name not as a peril. Whether they lived whom are the direct causes of Company-30 per cent. premium,
sollers. Y tropics at all. In addition to bad habits, such as eating heavy food Continental nations lies within the and on behalf of His Majesty the in tents or houses we cannot say all our epidemics,"
[Now that we have a competent Hongkong, Canton and Macao). in vast quantities, an inordinate propensity for drinking fruity port, Tropics, present and future pro- King, to the following Ordinances probably matabeds. wearing unsuitable clothes and headgear, and living in badly venti-gress must be said to depend passed by the Legislative Council: rate, on March 8th, 1847, the and energetic Sanitary Board, and Steamboat Company-$222 per lated houses, what they suffered from their dootare! We do not almost entirely on the conquestAn Ordinance to send the military authorities decided to now that over-cowding is abes-share, sellers.
China and Manila Steamship blame the latter; because these "Leeches" were up to the standard of Tropical disease. All honour, New Territories Regulation Or-build the 'defensible barracks lately unknown in Hongkong,
of which we of their time and one cannot be more; but listen to the treatment then, to the large-hearted bene dinance, 1910.
can still see the this warning from our former Company $95 per share, "From a factor who has done so much to
foundations and trace the plan. editor has, of course, only a sort of buyers. of a recruit by an eminent physician in the Orient:
Ricksha Boll Nuisance. recently-arrived Englishman with the plague, I took in six bleodinga make that conquest possible. A new traffic regulation pro to have been called
The chronicler tells us they ought historia interest. It would be Hongkong Gas Company
soldiers' dreadful if any of the above could 135 per share. vides that:-"No horn, bell or
They were not apply to conditions in this year Hongkong Hotel Company-- Secretary of Chinese Affairs," giron shall be carried on, or used graveyarda."
finally abandoned till 1869 when of grace, 1913.]
$175 per share, söllers. We are glad to know that the by the driver or occupant of any salubrious barrack accomodation Happy Hongkong ti
Indo-China S.N. Company-12 There is nothing new under the per cent, die,, sellers. to be changed to that of "Seere or siren shall be carried on, or leased Kowloon Peninsula. sun. Most of the evils, or dis- iary of Chinese Affairs." The used by the driver or occupant of
We can picture these poor be- comforts, or drawbacks of Hong- $57 per share, sellers. It is pathetic in Stanley Cemetery to see the large proportion former designation was absurdly any bicycle or tricyole not pro-shakoed warriors at Stanley in kong to which the Telegraph China Bagar Refining Com of young women and children, and to think that all this mortality misleading involving much waste pelled by mechanical power." the perspiring splendour of their of to-day is, from time to time, pany, Ltd.-$180 per share, might have been so easily avoided. The lesson is that money of time both for the public and
stuffy European times
obliged to allude, seem to have sellers, reg should not be expended in frivolities compared with the stamping for the Registrar himself; for A special film is being shown We can imagine them strolling existed twenty-five years ago; as Lazoa Sugar Rofining Com out of preventable disease, especially when the measures necessary people 36 'a whole were at this popular place of amuse-along the pretty roads and not the following, from a leader in pany, Ltd.-860 por share, are both "simple and inexpensive "the main one, trouble; which decidedly hazy
will sellera costs nothing in money.
de to ia ment.to-night, entitled "On the straying too far afield for fear of our issue of July 19, Hongkong Ice Company-$80
We can Steps of the Throne. It is in pirates--for not all the graves help to show The soldiers in the garrison (for practically every man has understand a Registrar General's three parts, and the military are due to fever. We cannot That Englishmen take their per share, sellers,, helped) are to be congratulated on raising this memorial to their being responsible for the chronicl spectacle which it presents will doubt that they had a taste for pleasures sadly was never truer Hongkong Rope Manufactur noble predecessors and our thanks are especially due to General ing of births, marriages and be well worth seeing. Some new bathing not less marked than than when applied to thoes ing Company, Ltd. $82 per Anderson for the enthusiasm and encouragement he has given to the deaths, and having certain legal comic pictures will also be shown, their khaki-coloured successore in the Far Eset generally, share, sellers project. It must be a pleasure to him to see this small tributs to duties, but the connection between and the two lady artistes, Miss and we can still trace the parade and in Hongkong in particular Hongkong and Kowloon past loyalty completed before he sails away for Moerat. It does us these and having to control every-Raynor and Mide Montez, will ground where even now per. The facilities for recreation Wharf and Godown Company good to be reminded how much of our prosperity we owe to the thing Chinese, from rickehas to supply new dances and songs. chance, on dark night the villagers can be countert the 68 per cent, premium, sellers, quiet merit of humble man who lived in the treablous times of Shok-tong-tsui, seems a trifle In future there is to be a change bear shopted long-forgotten fingers of one hand. The Hongkong Dairy Form
obedure,
of programme thrices week, words of command" and over exigencies of the climate prevent Ltd.-81a per share, mallere England's early days in China,
in five daye, 120 ounces of blood. In the same period I administer- ed to him 150 graine of calomel with proportionate doses of scam- mony and gamboge." The oase-book fails to record the fate of this poor man. What ghouls they were for blood, and it is a fine tribute
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Ordinance Approved.
At any
to Nature's persistence that any one was able to survive such title "Registrar General" is likely ricksha or carriage, and no horn had been completed on the newly
medicine.
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powers and duties.
Victoria Theatre.
On
Douglas Steamship Company-