THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH.
CHINATOWN IN LONDON. such spectacle of degradation'
An Orderly and Clean-living Colony.
arrived in New York was shown the
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or rowdyiem as my be seen nightly in almost any public house.
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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1914.
and what not, soup of which bo chef world need to be ashamed, and, if you cannot face the ordin- aty Chinese sweets, groat ble ska of light sponge cake £31 red amok- ing hot. The best China tes is
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SPORTING GOSSIP.
time pursue the matter further. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Everton have, it-is-aaid, express- ed a desire to get Scraggs pro- vided they and Glentoran oan come to terma.
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SWIMMING,
This book does not bring Mr. Roosevelt's story down to the pre- sent day. Except for a couple of unrelated appendices and occ86- ional incidental reference in the tex, there is little or nothing Ex-Prosidant Boonevolt has referring to the five years which
Autoblography of the Ex-president
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Concerning Track and Path. 80, 107, with the gambling. The public playing of fan-tan was
The annual dinner of Birchfield Middlesbrough have been no There is an old story which definitely suppressed by the police good and the coffee more than Harriera, the winners of the gotiating with Sunderland for the tells how an Irishman nowly last year; and, so far as can be passable. You can have a knife National, Midland, and Midland transfer of their half-back, Horry already had not a few biographers, have elapsed since he left the
discovered, there is nothing in and fork, a Chiners spoon, and a
Low. The negotiations have, but no other book, though written White ifouse. But we do get an sign outside a Chinese laundry and the nature of a "bell" now in paper table napkin, but tayond Junior Cross Country Champion- however, been suspended, and like those by Mr. Jacob Riis and extremely interesting study of asked if he could read it. "Read existence in London's Chinatown. these the visitor will be embarships, was held at Birmingham, there is not much likelihood of by Mr. Loupp. can have the the growth of his political con- it!" said he "Faith, no! But Bat on any afternoa the visitor rassed by lack of implements and Sir Francis Lawe, M.P., presid- Low changing his quartore. I authority or interest of the story vidus, especially in relation to if I had my fi ldte here I'd play it can find the gambling even legs the necessity of eating pic meal
be chairman congratulated appears Low was dissatisfied at of his life as told by himself, the "big business." for ye.
concealed than the opium smok-from a common bowl; and bising. The
There are a number of exoellod baving to play with the reserves, which was published last mouth. To the great majority of the ing, the most popular game being party will be the only pereans in the club upon their wonderful and this led to the Teas-siders Not that Mr. Roosevelt's character stories of political life: of the English pasrors-by in the streets a simple form of domiuose, ku- the rooms who are not using sucress during the season. Sir making enquiries about him is of so enbilen kind as to need "bossos" and "machines," of his ex- about the docks, says the Times, pai, played by parties of from chop-sticks. The place is scrup. Francis Faid he had always takes Sudnerland are by no means anx much elucidation. It is recorded periences in the State Legislature, the sprawling characters display threa to balf a dozen for insigni ulously clean, and you may ses
ious to part with such a fine of him that when he was elected as Police Commissioner in New to the Garnorship of the Stats York, on the National Civil ed on boards and windowpanes ficant stakes. More money the kitchen, if you will, and will a keen interest ja races of every player. are not much more intelligible passes over the little table in any find it the cleanest part of the kind. The club had won every
of New York he said, "I know the Service Commission, as Governor, Young the Wolverhampton than they were to that. Irishwan; city coffe-room at larch-time establishment, The walls are thing that was to be won in Wanderers' half-back, has been very ordinary kidd of man and aq Assistant Secretary but it is not necessary to be able than is lost and won here in a hung with notices and advertite cross-country and dat races, and compellad to have one of his kneer I am to fill this great office." in the Navy Department. It is to read them. The visitor fami day at ku-p'ai. Neither in its ments in Chinese characters," an
placed in plaster of Paris. A Io his childhood he can have well known how largely he helped liar with the emell of opium nced earnestness nor in the size of the announcement of an infalible he was proud of them as the Birmingham specialist, who has given but little promise of the to put the American Navy in a hardly turn in at the door of any arkes does the playing compare care for opium-smoking and champion olub.
examined the knoe, fears the man that he was to grow to be condition of something like readi one of half a dozen little shops in with what goes on at 10,000 another informing you that the
ness for the war with Spain which At a meeting of the Birming-displacement of a ligament, and
I was sickly, dolicate boy and he saw was bound to come. In either of the two small, streets bridge tables in clubs and draw proprietor is prepared to fucuish ham Centre of the Nationalt will be quite two months before. which ran off on opposite sides oling-roome in London every night. whole "golden" pige, properly
Young will be seen in the ranks
suffered much from asthma, the story of the war itself, it is and had to be taken away on interesting to have here the the West India Deck-road to be Sometimes there are quarrela; conserved and glazed, for care Cyclists' Union it was reported again. informed of what is going on in- but in the vast majority of cases monial purpor38, of any size of by the I sicester Centre that U.
trips to find a place whore authentic records of Mr. Roose- Manchester United yesterday
could breathe. One of my volt's owu share in it, and side. Unless it be very cold the the spirit of cheerful recreation 18. 41. per lb. Your are askod A. W. King (Handsworth) and signed on a new outside right
memories is of my father especially of the episode of San door will probably be standing and the orderliness would com- not to spit or rines your mouth. E. Giffin (Bromegroves) bad named Norton, of Nuneaton Town. opan, and the odor, pungest but pare only too favourably with with ten upon the floor, and polite suspended until Augast, Norton who is also capable of walking up and down the Fann Hill. It is often asserted, clammy, is noticeable on the behaviour of any half-dozen ly zotified that "guests bring their 1914, for not having paid entry filling the outside left position, Toom with me in his arms at and is by many good people be night when I was a very loved, that he was not at San doorstep. Nor is there any at- English wailormen foregathering own manners." The whole is pre-ft at Melton Mowbray sports played for Stockport Country tempt at concealment within. In for a game of "Nap" on shore. aided over by a large picture of on Bank Holiday. The Chair- the seasons ago.
santail porson, and of sitting Jaan Hill at all, but that all the Who shall say that the the little shop, with its high deal
Confucius; and at the head of the man:
up in bed gasping, with my story of his heroism is a fabrica- Mr. J.A.H. Catton, president of counter and its piles of glittering
father and mother trying to tion: The official documenta An Orderly Community, sinire hangs a diploma estting Birmingham Centre Esatencsa are Referees Uni a, speaking at
help me.
given here should set that empty tins stacked up behind,
The police, indeed, give the forth that Mr. Chong Chu is a savere? The accounts for the gathering of Blackburn referee:
wished the air is heavy with the fumes. Chinese in Limehouse an excel-member in good standing of the M.C.A.A.A. and N.O.U. joint said
calumny at rest for ever. the
In those days he seems to have championship sporte, at Aston, Lancashire Football Association You have only to lift a curtain to lent character. Overcrowding, Ancient Order of Druids! an inner room to see the rites in which, according to our ideas, So well patronized is the re were presented, and showed a would follow the example of had two passions. The frat was The Cowboy Marshal progress. Probably there are two has always to be guarded against staurant that nothing but the profit of £14 163, 91.
Many of bis old friends of the Belgium and Denmark, and make for natural history. The second smokers; perhaps in another wherever the Chinese congregate, exceeding moderateness of the According to the report sub would-be referee pass a practical was an adoration of the fighting cowboy days Mr. Rocaevelt, when room beyond there will be two has been checked. The houser charges and the regular remit mitted at the first general meeting est before passing them as men and men of action, whose ex- he came to be President, appoint- more; and that they are no no generally are extremely clean. tances to his parents in China of the Swedish Olympic Com qualified. Mr. John Lewis, who ploits impalle l him, conscious ofed to places of trust and honour, vices is plain from the gentle Crimes of violence are rare and can prevent the proprietor from mittee, the training proceding in presided; appealed to referees to his own feebleness, to get himself and generally with conspicuong way in which they play with the and there is practically no desti-growing abominably rich. But the different sections under quali-do their duty. At the present resolutely to train and discipline uczesa. A huge man," who precious paste, twirling it a tution, the members of the Colony what one guesses to be more profied trainers is progressing in a time they were shirking respon and harden himself so that in bad spent a hot and lusty youth deftly in the flame of the little being very helpful among them.fitable than any item on the bill satisfactory manner. Already pre eibilities, which was neither good time he might be able to emulate on the frontier in its viking age,
was chosen by the President to be lamp and smearing it with loving selves. Political feeling bas rau is a penny-in-the slot machine liminary stops have been taken for the game nor themselves. Some the fonts of his hereen.
That disciplinary process heMorelal of one of the Western tenderness in the bowl of the high during the recent stirring upon the wall, wherein, by with regard to the housing of the referees were to much concerned
with extraordinary States:- thick-stemmed pipe.
events in Chins, in which the pulling a handle, you send a little Swedish team at Berlin. The with watobing for appeale from carried out members of the Colony have ball spinning round a circle sub-committee were enttasted linesmen instead of deciding for pertinacity and doggedness. He forced himself to loorn to box and Oplum Versus Whisky,
taken an absorbed, and seriously whence it may or may not drop with the task of preparing themselves.
wrestle, though never with hope If you have any curiosity to simple and uncomprehending into a lucky niche; the reward of estimates of costs for each 1 sution
or promits of becoming firat clus know where the opium comes interest. They appear to be success being twopence. But the of sports, which were to.La handed
at either sport. So with every from you may find difficulty in exclusively Cantonere, as might ball, of course, hates that lucky before January sad will
thing elee-"I never became more Batisfying it. That it is Indian be expected from the way is niche and prefers to lodge in any form the biers of the general
Another Record Threatened.
then a fair hunter, we are told; and not Chinese the proprietor which the Kuang Provinces other ill-considered spot; and estimate of the cost for Sweden's
I know que a outlets more pennies must go into the perticipation in the games. The
and again, Inever became a good large number astures you readily enough; but are monopolizing “the beyond that, as to the channels of for emigration and business slot in the course of the evening preliminary trials in the moden of swimmers who are going to topor (ie., with the lariat on the most than are won at any ku-p'ai game nthelon (riding, swimming, high-street Baths, Manche terrier. In the same way he fproed plainsor more than an avarage its importation, if you ask in Eng-overseas.
ravaing, skooung, tencing) ended on Wednesday next, to witness lish hie understanding unaccount imperfect knowledge and child in the street.
in the victory of Lieutenant de one event alone writes
himself to epesk in public, to face ably fails him; if you ask in like views of public affairs,
Diver," in the Sporting Chroniclearly, say what he had, to say, an andience, to order his thoughts Chinese he merely does not know. the majority profess themselves A Comparison with America. Laval, One may conjecture that it is admirers of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, who Perhaps because the community
and ait down. bought in small quantities by is generally believed, in some is small and because the Chinese the same class of men who smoke vague way, to have done much in London are not all concentrated The following note are from it; for the patrons of the ee-for China, and, as Cantonese, they in one solid block for these two a recent issue of the Sportang mon is on hand besides the the man who unconcernedly with
sea faring men-sailors, north, to a man. The late Em Chins that there is in the Eset. Duting yesterday the applicants aight 8.0. zala. The megnet is firemen, and towards in the ships peror was a very weak man and end) there is nothing here of the fo: Preferenca shares in the Bary Mr. Baxter hae eranged between who, a pistol in either hand, ter a 220 yarde scratch race, which his fists "knocked out the bully which come to the docks. In the present Government is vastly ruffianism and thuggery which Football Club r. sived their lot-J. G. Hatfield and Harold Aunrrorized the inmates of a frontior these two small streets there are better than the old; but Yuan have given the San Francison anders of allotment. The directors some 30 Chinese shops and Shib-kai also is old, very old, a New York Chinatowns such a bad offered. 3,000 Five per coat, Pre-
Боц. As a climax to a brilliant ealoon. The "timid and nervous" restaurants; and the floating quarter of a century older than namo. The colony is orderly, ference shares of £1 e1ch, and as season for both champions, no- youth, not much of a rider, only population may average 300 or his real age, and crippled, de- clean-living, after its national 51) have been applied for they bod, and as each has made earned and held, in spite of the
thing more interesting could have an average shot and poor "roper," 400, but varies according to the crepit, and about to dio. Much ways, and very gentleman have gone to allotment. The number of ships which happen else the visistor may be told, nored. The visitor may guess
a big effort to ger thoroughly ridicule to which his eye glassess to be in the river. If you speak equally remote from fact, and that he is not over-welcome, for applications for the sharia con fit for the distance, a capital exposed him, the respect of the
sidered very disappointing. The to one of the smokers who is in showing an elementary misunder the intrusion of inquisitive instalments of 53. per share had straggle may be looked for. cowboys in all the rough and Personally, I shall attend in an- tumbla of a "cow-puncher's life- a condition for conversation he standing of the probleme and strangera has too often been to be paid on or before December ticipation of the record being a respect which helped him enor- will answer you readily enough. situation of China; but it is followed by an outery in the pram, 20. Yes, he is a fireman. His ship, worthy of note that, the Colony by routinge-out of peaceful house
broken, because I am fully con mously in bis later life, as when. the Singapore Castle, came in the no longer anbauribes regularly to holda, and fierce measure of signed on a new goal-keeper in mer is capable of demolishing Riders for the Caban campaign, Huddersfield Town have vinced that if any modern swim it came to raising the Rough reform. So the news that strangers the person of Edwin Davis, of Lane's wonderful figures, that and in day before yesterday. Oh, yea; the Republican political fands.
successive political Chinatowns all over the world are about soon spreads, and as the Clapton Orient club. Davis, have stood since 1902, Jaak conflicts in opiam is good, but... so ie
the Western English whisky. And at the have lost immensely in picture they emerge from one door or who is 21 years of age, stands Hatfield is the individual who can States. The sadden irruptions of retort, evidently familiar, the queuess of late by the disappoa. another they will be conscious of 5ft 11in., and weighs 12st. He do 20, provided he can only get these friends of the Plains gave little group of Chinese who have rance of the pigtail and the baing watched by little knots of followed the visitor in from the adoption of European dress. Now idlers in the roads. But on the stated to be a very promising the necessary spur from an oppon- & picturesque tonch to Mr. Roosevelt's occupancy of the street roar with laughter. Nor and then one may ree here a surface the visitor will be met Custodian, but with Hugall pay eat in bis class.
ing to well he had not much Now, Audison, fit and well, is is it easy to find a reply, beyond small child gay in Chinese with nothing but smiles and chance of making his mark with just the right type of youth for u
White House. remarking that the whisky is a costume; but most of the child-courtesy. There is opium amok-
the Orient.
mission of this sort. His record good deal obosper. 6
ren are clothed like English Loyaling, certainly, and there is gam and girls of the same oge, while bling of a sort; but one wondere Harry W. Mountford, whose of 1913 acade little to emballieh many of the men are neater and whether so long as the quarter is truefer from Butaley to Third it. We know him to have beaten. There indeed is the kernel of more dandified than are the same ne clean and the community of Lanark was announced yesterday, a minute for the 100 yards be the problem. We may call these classes from British mauted ebips decent-living and as orderly as will operate at one of the inside has covered 150 yards faster
now, there is not more to be lost positions in the match against than ever. Fred
Lans did places "dens," for all that they in a foreign port.
than gained by harping the pipes Queen's Park, to-day. It was bere; whilst his performance in are so clean and orderly and Fo
and dominces ont of their present rumoured in Glasgow. yesterday the Southern furlong champion little withdrawn from public A Chinese Restaurant. gaze. We may deplore the in- The visitor may do much worse semi-publicity and driving them that third Lanark had bean ne ship proves that sprinting is not jurious physical effects which than take a meal, in Mr. Chong for they cannot be exterminated gotiating for the services of B. C. his only accomplishment. I'll be follow overuse of the drug, Chu's restagraut. Oo the ordia into boles and corners in the Hamilton, of Dundee, but on in-bound that Annison will move however small the proportion of ary bill of fate few dishes figure outhouses of the yards and to quires being made in was stated Hatfield at a page that must be of definitely traceable which are priced at more than remote chambers in the upper by the manager that there was the stergest test that the Middles absolutely no foundation for each brough youth's stamina has un- injury may be either to the 4d, the cost of a cup of storeys of the houses."
dergone this season. It my pro- number of smokers or to the "Pu-erh" medicine tea, but Mr.
Though Liverpool fancied the gnosticat on is an accurate fore- Chinese population, But Do have Chong Chu's cook is a man of to recognize first the universal resource and will produce epcial Yarmouth Leaving for Home.play of. Scrogge, Glentoran's cast, we only require Hatfield to Inter-League centre-half, and Mr. | be in similar form to what ho H.M.S Yarmouth is due to human tendency to some form of dishes, if forewarned, for European indulgence in stimulants; and visitors, large and repellent leave Shanghai for England Tom Watson was to be in Balfeet showed at Hyde for now figures Although she has to-day with a view to Bocuring to come along. We eball see. secondly, the fact that all the messes of singularly ined ble to-day. "dens
in these two streets Chinese xan brems, sharks' fins, only been at Shanghai for a short his services, it transgires they Anyhow, Mr. Baxter has asked for together will not furnish from sea slugs, savoury messen of time she has been a long while feel they are well enough off in the best watches to be put on this
half-backe, and will not mean pair of champions. one month's end to another any chicken and young bamboo shoots, away from her home port.
With the
tablishmente are almost exclusive are for the south, against the streets are far from being all of Chronicle.
ly
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The "Dens".
a rumour.
Football,
"The
of November 20. Some of them are travelling a long distance for the purpose, which is sufficient evidence that something uncom-
Ranch Life.
So in course of time he became
I told him that an effort would doubtless be made to prevent hia confirmation by the. Senate, and therefore I want- ed to know all the facts in the case. Had he played faro ? He had; but it was when everybody played foro, and he had never played a brace game. Had he killed any- body? Yes; but it was in was in Dulge City, when he WAS Deputy Marshal or Town Marshal, at a time when Dadge City was the toughet town on the con tinent and arowded with man-killing outlaws and road agents; and he produced tel- egrams from Judges of high charactor testifying to the need of the actions he had taken. Finally I said, "Now, Bua; how did you lose that hall of your ear?" To which, looking rather shy, he re- sponded, "Well, Colonel, it was bit off." "How did it happen, Ben ? Well, you see, I was sent to arrest a gentleman, and him and me mixed it up, and he bit off my ear." "What did you do to the gentleman, Ben.?". And Ben, looking more.coy than ever, responded, “Well, Colonel, we broke about
even.'
Japan-India Service. I remember one of them who
A Company called the Japan appeared at Washington one ese-Indian Mercantile Steamship day just before lunch, a huge, Company has recently been or poworful man who, when I knew him, had been distinot ganized and is expected to com- mence a regular service between ly a fighting character. It Japan and India. In such circum- happened that on that day stances the keenest competition is another old friend, the Bitish expected among the Calcutta Ambassador, Mr. Bryce, was liners of the four companies con among those coming to cerned, the BI, N.Y.K.,
Indo lucch. Just before we went China and the new company. in I turned to my cow
Repairs to Jutlandia, punchor friend and aid to
Temporary repairs to the Danish him with great solemnity, motor ship Jutlandis having heon "Remember, Jim, that if you completed, the vessel proceeded, shot at the feet of the Britishi on November 28, for Bangkok. Ambassador to make him A few hours altor aniling the dance, it would be likely to ressol had to "pat back to St, cause international compli-Nazaire, the port shaft working cations" to which Jim neatisfactorily. It is thought responded, with unaffected that permanent repairs will have horror, Why Colonel, to ho carried out and that the shouldn't think of it I Jatlandia will be delayed about shouldn't think of it !"-
a month at St. Namiro,
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