SEPTEMBE
19 1919
OTICBE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THE RED HAND COMPOSITIONS LIMITED, LONDON.
By Appointment
To the
-):0:( -
Contracters to the Admiralty, India Office, War Office, Crown Agents for the Colonies, &c.
'THE RED HAND BRAND."
Antifouling Compositions for Ships Bottoms, Antisive Paints, Ready mixed, for all purposes.
Supplies available from:
14
DODWELL & CO. LTD.
SOLE AGENTS.
THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO.
New Schame for Children's Early Endowment;— Principal features: Small Premium, Liberal Surrender Valus, He Medical Examination, Return of Premium in the Event of Death, and Numerous Options at the Age of 25. WRITE, FOR PAMPHLET ANY FULL PARTICULARS TO
DODWELL & CO. LTD. Agents.
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING ...
ESTABLISHED 1883. MANUFACTURERS OF
PURE MANILA ROPE
3
STRAND
14 to 15"
MIRULEJKAMOL
CABLE LAID 5" to 15" CIBOUNFARKTŐL,
STRAND $" to 10" CIRCUMFEREKŰ),
Oil Driling Caklas of any sixs up to 3,000 feet in length, Piow, Suzsplan and full particulars will be forwarded in application.
SHEWAN TOMES & CO.
OWING to the present high rate of EXCHANGE we are now offering our KODAKS. and FILMS at very lowest possible prices. Inspection cordially invited.
A. TACK & Co.
20. Des Voeux Road, Ct."
CREEN ISLAND CEMENT. COMPANY, LIMITED.
PORTLAND CEMENT. “
In Casks of 375 lbs. net.
In Bags of 150 lbs. net.
SHEWAN TOMES_&_CO
General Managers. Hongkong, 16th Angust, 1916.
HONGKONG JAPANESE MASSAGE ASSOCIATION.
HKU. SUGA. Mr. L. HONDA
Mrs. A SUGA Mrs. S. BONDA
8 Queen's Road Central, Hongkong.
METALS
of all kinds, especially for ship building and engineering works. Largest and best assorted stock in the Colony?"
SINGON & CO.,
- (Established A. D. 1880.) HING LUNG ST. Phone 515
-MEE CHEUNG
PHOTOGRAPHER.
FOR ARTISTIC PHOTO- GRAPHS CALLS AT ICE HOUSE STREET OR RING UP 1013;**
General Managers.
THE CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE CO., LTD.
(Capital Paid up...$1,240,000.)
Loans on Mortgags of House Property, du tcode resected on Storage Advance made on MarÁŽEDĀTES Loans made on the Providers Byalagu-
IndiGOTOS OF WORLU, TEUSTES, ATTORNEY, àn. Undertaker and Brained. Chains and Farkonism on applestion) To tha. Defon ot
SHEWAN, TOMES & 00.
General Managern.
NORTH BRITISH
AND
MERCANTILE INSURANCE CO.,
>
1
which are vested the shares of } THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE CO., LTD. AND
THE RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE CO.
The Undersigned AGENTS for the above Company are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates, SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. Agents.
MASSAGE HALL
21. FLOWER STREET, MRT. TAKAYE, - MES. MORITA. CERTIFICATED "MASSEURS. FASIKEIN TREATED 15 Tiềnas Own Boxes IF DESIRED.
PUBLISHED ANNUALLY.
THE
LONDON DIRECTORY,
with Provincial & Foreign Sections. anables traders to cruzounicate direct with MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS.
in London and in the Provincial Towns and Industrial Centres at the United Kingdom and the Continental Europe. The names, addremma and other detalia Are" classified under more than 2,000 trade headings, Incintheg EXPORT MERCHANTS
with detailed partieniars of the Goods shipped and the Colonial and Foreign Markete sazplod;
SUNNY STEAMSHIP LINES acranged under tine Pacia to which they sait, and indicating Que approxiensis Ballings
Queinch BUSINESS CARDS of Pirms desiring to extend their connessione, or Tenda Garde về
·DEALERS, BERKISS, AGENCIES can be printed at a man of #130,0 for eac Kade Junding, znder whính thay, are inserted.
Cat the dictatoryƐmili la sant by pernel
FORDISKOTORY GOULTE
Royal Household
Jeyes' Disinfectants
Sole Agents
ALEX. ROSS & CO.
THE METROPOLIS OF
-THE WORLD.
NEW YORK COMPETING HARD WITH LONDON.
Sold by all Leading Stores.
rivals, but partners conducting
and different branches, each determined to show the other what he can do.
מים
No two cities could well pre- Bent a greater cotrast: Manhat- tan is an island of rock bordering the a bay, opening into Mr. F. A. McKenzie writes ------ Five years ago there were two Atlantic; London is an inland world capitals, Paris, the artistic, valley of sand and clay. Naw, and London, the commercial and York proclaims its majesty and financial headquarters, Paris, de wealth to every visitor by its spite the stress of war, retains titanic sky line, that seems as her ancient place. There is none though it would storm the very to dispute it. Cut London must heavens. London conceals its look to her laurels. New York; wealth behind shabby exteriors has grown to her stature. To-day of low elevation. London is wide: area, New York is nearing London in scattered over
669 square miles; population; the two cities are covering running a neck-and-neck race the majority of the popula- for supremacy in world shipping; tion of New York is crowded and New York has ousted London on three dozen square miles. New from her place as the centre of York overwhelms one with its evidences of power and of human world wealth.
accomplishment; London at first often disappoints, but its charm
Tows the more one knows it.
B
A LOVER OF THE IMMENSE.
New York loves the immense. Ita foremost building one which generations to come. will count among the great monuments of all ages-is 792 feet 1 inch high.
assitilated foreigners who will do it. In addition to this there is the, problem of an older racE, DOW taking more insistent form. Now York has great and growing negro colonies The old negro colonies, in Fifty-ninth Street and in Sixty- second-Sixty-sixth Streets, have a still bigger offshoot sway uptown, between 126th and 140th Streets, East, where there is a real negro city within a city. The war came to the negro as the message of a new era. He is awakening, as never before; whether for good or three years will ill the next show."
London still leads in population, but the difference is diminishing every year: Some statisticians, comparing Greater London with an imaginary area called metro- politan New York, assert that New York is now ahead. Metro- politan New York embraces alt urban districts within ten miles of Greater New York: To make this comparison fair we we would have to add the population for ten miles around Greater London to the British capital. Let us confine ourselves to the real areas of both places.
The war strengthened New York and drained the resources of London. The North Sea. the gateway of the Thames was closed by mine, submarine, and raiding destroyers, while Ambrose Channel remained open. London, long the richest city in the world. pawned her securities, which for centuries had brought tribute Please do not overlook the oneGreater London numbered 3,000,- from the ends of the earth, by inch. London will not permit pr000. The proportion was three to the billion, to pay for gold and vate houses or offices to be more goods for England and her allies; than a hundred feet high. New most of these securities were absorbed by New York,
All the world had to come to In other words, all the world had America for manufactured goods.
York's main railroad depots are palaces of marble, titanic in size, and more splendid than the Cross London, the gateway of the palaces, of ancient Kings, Charing
to come to New York, for nearly world, is a modest, unassuming, ane-half of America's foreign and comparatively small building. trade goes through this port New York; having completed a The elaborate, machinery for hotel of 2200 rooms, now con- world commerce which London templates anether with 2,500. merchants had built up by cen- The costliest hotel in London, in turies of enterprise, from the days which five Kings and ruling when Elizabethan venturers seat Prince once lived apart from each their expeditions to Barbary, the other at the same time, boasts Caribbean and around the Cape less than 300 rooros. to the Indies, rusted. There was co time to manufacture goods,
INHERITED DESTITUTION.
Sixty years ago, what is notÿ
one. In the forty years that followed London doubled and New York trebled its population, making the proportion two to
for every seventeen in London. Che. Fifteen years ago there were 'ten persons in New York In 1911 there were eleven in New York'to sixteen in London. To day there are four in New York to five in London.
תם.
and no ships to spare to carry] Each capital bas its own special even what there were. A man problems. That of London is in cannot tend the counter when berited destitution, the existence the burglar has bis hand on bis of a large class born in poverty throat. The young Engl shmen bred with the aid of charity, who held watch and ward for marrying on nothing, living in London in the outlands of the slums and with little hope, savo world took the first boats back in exceptional cases, of emerging home to doa khaki when war was The war has done more to gal- declared in August, 1914. vanize the very poor of London
More trade is seeking to come to Napoleon sueered at the British- into new life and give them new er as a shopkeeper; but shop-hope than have five hundred New York than New York can take. Waiting ships cannot find keeping counted very small then. years of charity. The large areas dock room, and there is no spare of very poor in London have for warehouse accommodation for SACAIFICED' FOR VICTORY.
friendly generations repelled London emerged from
the stranger, appalled the sympathecargoes. war not ruined-not by any tic,
overwhelmed the social manner of means-but im-reformer.
If war has brought poverished. Over
a-bun- them betterment the war will in red thousand young Londoners the end be London's. gain, not
had lost their. live, at least anLondon's loss.
ever
in
not
not I
am
PROZET
NOTICES:
PIANOS
FOR
HIRE
$10 per month
THE ROBINSON PIANO
LTD.
DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO.
HEAD OFFICE & GARAGE-24 & 25 DES VEUX RD. CEN. BRANCHES 157 PRAYA EAST & 26 NATHAN RD, KOWLOON.
SOLE AGENTS FOR:-
CHANDLER,
53 40
HUDSON,
AND
"
"OVERLAND ***
ELGIN MOTOR CARS
HARLEY DAVIDSON MOTOR CYCLES
AGENTS FOR STERLİNG TYRES
NEW CARS & TYRES IN STOCK
TEL. 482. BEST CARS IN THE COLONY TEL 482.
FOR HIRE
THE SIAM INDUSTRIES SYNDICATE TOILET AND WASHING SOAP
Samples & Prices on Application to
FOOK LEE & CO.
Phone 1174. & 1950.
Sole Agents
London as a free port has be- Gold currency still nominally come the warehouse of the world. exists in England. The man who The merchants of Manhattan presents & Treasury note for a York to bepound at the counter of the Bank the same. Great organisations of England can demand a golden at work to induce Con-sovereign for it. But London's
want
are
`New
TWIN WONDER CITIES, I estimate that New York and Landon will tie in population in the year 1932, when each will have about 8,000,000 inhabitants, the twin wonder cities of the world. It is fair to assume that New York will continue to grow at her present rate. The growth of London will not be quite so fast as before the war, because of the heavy losses of population there. The only thing that is likely to put any check the growth of New York is gress to establish a free zone. reserve of gold was largely dis- the congestion now prevailing. A prominent advocate of the plan sipated during the war. London admitted gloomily to me not long the debtor has to day to pay main heavy interest to New York, in ago that one of the obstacles was the difficulty of place of receiving tribute. Amer- convincing politicians that no ica, and in this connection Amer- attack on protection was intend-ica means New York, has added ed. They would think that & thirty billions to her capital since free port was in some ways con-1911, and will add much more în that landlords are in many cases
the year ahead. -*- raising rents 50 per cent. as leasesnected with free trade!
Despite all drawbacks, New London finance has been badly come to an end. If the present tenants grumble, there are plenty York is running a neck-and-neck hit, but is recovering London more waiting. Men search for race with London for shipping still has credit. Britain is one of weeks for offices downtown with prominence. Immediately be the premier gold-producing na- out finding what they want. The fore the war there was only a tions of the world. Lenten has value of land has reached an
difference of 5 per cent in the still many creditors, despite her almost incredible figure, and this favour of London in the value of debts, allies, and dominions off figure has been reflected in rents. cargoes handled in the two ports whom she squandered money dur- Land around Wall Street has while the net registered tonnage ing the war sold at the rate of $20,000,000
an acre.
Houses are so scarce
· " ༔
-
equal number were permanently New York presents no such stricken. Everything had been spectacle. I have walked through sacrificed for victory. There had miles of east side streets in the been no time to mend the streets, summer of 1919, and have not yet to paint the houses, to build need- ed homes.
seen a really ragged or hungry Men were wearied child.
I do not say that they
of shipping entering and leaving Will New York be able to alter caught up in the inevitable re-do exist, but I have
New York much exceeded Lon- the current of world habit and action that follows a tremendous
dog. The British capital, unlike change the financial centre from yet found them, and and long-continued strain. The
So long as people are resolved New York, only handles a small London to herself! Wall Street to hunt accustomed gold had gone from the bank out poverty in its lair. You caz, to come in they somehow make coffers; the securities had been you will, and one picturesque room for themelves, and with proportion of British export trade, and the Treasury answer. con- not more than shout 12 per cent.fidently Yes Lombard Street depleted; happily credit remained beggar woman on the stone steps readjustment New York can ac
New York will The
soon says little, but is stretching out and character strengthened by of a Fifth Avenue church. She commodate many more.
her world afresh, is amalgamating rival- war. New York emerged scarce is an artist in ber line. There
time is coming when hotels in have to share
more and more with interests, and is on the road to showing a scratch, stronger, are one or two other beggars region of Time's Square and Forty-trade richer, more populous, and more scattered about. A few old men second Street will be turned into other ports. Her proportion is recovery. powerful than
her are to be found around, the one-office buildings, and when the now. declining all the time. history..."
ontside the real social centre of New York Philadelphia to-day has all the WORLD OF HIGH FINANCE...... cent coffee-stand
It may be that the great fight · Today we are witnessing the Tombs or lounging on the seats in will start at the Plaza and freight she can handle. Boston
will become a more and more for supremacy will be fought by slow, steady revival of London, City Hall Park. But poverty is Columbus Avenue and go up.
powerful rival. The ports of the New York and London in the and the efforts of New York to not the problem of New York ward.
South will, in the near future, world of higher finance. As New employ her new strength and The problem here rather is to
take much that comes to New York centralises the financial power to best advantage. In secure stability in local ad-
York to-day. But American control of America, so London these first months of peace Newministration, to suppress conceal-
foreign trade is growing so fast centres the financial interests of York finds her position as advan-ed corruption "în public affairs,
that New York Port must grow the "British Empire and her tageous as in the days of war. and to assimilate the enormous
But what I have For many months to come the number of foreigners who have
with it. The only question is how dependents. world at large must turn to her made New York their home.
far the authorities will make it seen of the financiers makes possible for the growing trade to me believe that they never for aid. But soon' we will see a
fight when they can, smál- renewed London strething itself
THE UNASSIMILATED
continue to centre here.
gamate, and the future will forth again.
FOREIGNER,
see, even more than the past, the union and fusion of Wall Street and Lombard Street.
LONDON'S' ADVANTAGE IN TRADE. London has an advantage over New York as a shipping centre. It is a free port, where the goods of the world can be received to await their ultimate market.
Take, for example, the case of merchant who wishes to dea- patch a shipload of goods to Buenos Aires. There must be an assembling point for these goods. If he tries to assemble them in New York, he at once comes up against the stringent require ments of the customs London encourages this trade. One ship from Kobe will bring silks, a ship from Cadiz wines, another from Philadelphia shoes or cotton.
And if was cost London much, Italians and Syrians, Greeks it gave it much also. It proved and Poles, Slovenes, Galicians, that generations of commerce Ruthenians, Russians, and bad not robbed a people of their Czechs, with the Jew from all Boul, and it gave the British these nations, form communities po ple a new incentive for social of their own here. Many of them reform more drastic than once never learn the American tongue seemed possible. New York and They have their own methods London ass both concerned with their own churches, community the prosperity of each other. If houses, and revolutionary groups, by some strange freak of nature they read their own newspapers, New York were wiped off the and peeling to their own These loads can wait in the map to-morrow, London, would ideals If ever New York London docks until the ship from go bankrupt and vice versa. The City is caught in the new Buenos Aires is ready, with a two are partners rather than world revolt, it will be the un- minimum of trouble
London and New York,will.
THE FINANCIAL CENTRE. When the Secretary of the Treasury recently spoke of New York as the financial centre of the world, some people, expressed reign as twin Queens, the one astonishment. Before the war that dominating in the East and the was London's undisputed citim other in the West. They will London had the money, Loudon find their ultimate ambitions in had the credit, and London held co-operation. Each has much to the hidden wires that control learn from the other. Each a world finance.
sid the other. Between both there
Today, while London still re-runs a feeling of friend way bains her machinery, she has to alliance. They some extent lost the polid rivals; they are f foundations of financial control allies.