LAW OF THE PAVEMENT.
HINTS ON PEDESTRIAN
COURTESY.
PASSENGER SERVICE TO PACIFIC PORTS.
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PROGRAMME OF ADMIRAL LINE.
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The Admiral Line is making a Below we give an article from the Daily Chromide on the Law big bid for the Pacific trade. It of the Pavement," which has been is at present operating here some
ships belonging sent us from a Hongkong resident eighteen
United States at present cn Home leave. He the
Ship Board. Each month forwards it to us in view of the ping rules issued some time back by it is getting additional vessels. the Captain Superintendent of They are at present operating ten Police. Hongkong, in regard to ships from Hongkong to Seattle pedestrian traffic. In a covering and five from Hongkong to letter, this Hongkong resident Portland. This permits of a raore says he has had many a discus-frequent service between Hong- sion on the subject, his contention kong and the Pacific Ports. Each being that "the rule of the road" of thess vessels is of 10,000 tons for pedestrian trathc is the deadweight... reverse of that which obtains, for vehicular traffic, which idea is supported by the article mention- ed. He adds that on many of the prontenades at South Coas: watering places the caution "Keep to the Right" is prominently dis- played on lamp-posts, etc.
The article, which is written by G. S. Street, is as follows: –
"I can do nothing to avert the bankruptcy and starvation with which, according to all too expert authority, my unhappy country is threatened. I cannot solve the Irish Question. But I can do something in my small way to mitigate a nuisance which allies my fe low-citizens.
We may as well be as comfort able as possible until we are ruined and starved. and we ought to keep for those terrible emergencies at the nervous energy we have and not to dissipate it in unnecessary
irritations.
The Admiral Line expects to buy up practically all these ships from the U. S. Shipping Board very shortly, because it will be more satisfactory to have their own vessels. The Shipping Board has not put the vessels
is
THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH.
CORRESPONDENCE.
To the Editor of the Hongaa Tekgraph.")
SHANGHAI BOWLERS' THANKS.
Sir.-May I crave the publicity|
of your columns to express my heartfelt thanks to the Hongkong) community for the splendid way they have entertained the Shang- hai Bowlers during their stay in the Colony? Nothing was left undone to give us a happy time, which we have had, and we will always look back on our visit with pleasure and look forward to the time when we can recip rocate their kind efforts.
Yours etc..
F. L. MARSHALL, Captain, Shanghai Lawn Bowls
Team.
FRENCH AIRMEN
on the market as yet, but it Hongkong. Oct. 14. 1919.
expected that the lines operating these vessels under the control of the Board will be given the first opportunity to purchase them. These vessels were built by the U. S. Government for transporting food and supplies to the troops in the different theatres of the Great War. The American Government's idea at present is to establish American trade, and, consequently, the Govern- ment is operating them all over the world-across the Pacific.
61 PER CENT. CASUAL- TIES.
Official statistics of the losses of the French Flying Corps have now been published for the first the Orient to Australia, across time. From August 4, 1914-to the Altantic, and South America November 11, 1918, the losses in with the sole object of captur-army zones were-1.945 pilots and ing the trade of the world.
observers killed. 1,461 missing. whose death may be regarded as certain. and 2.922 wounded. Outside the army zone 1,927 pilots and observers were killed. bringing the total losses in killed and wounded up to 7,737.
Now one of those irritations, A number of local shipping companies are acting as agents and an extremely annoying one.
for the U. S. Shipping Board. the is that we are always getting in one another's way. Here in Lon-agency being worked on the don there are myriads of people all day long in the principal
streets,
one jostling against another. scowling at one another, saying "sorry" in angry tones, stopping in front of one another uncertain which is to give way or in which direction, striving to pass slower walker going the same way, and dodging from side to side of them in the vain effort
to
cargo next be
commission basis. The vessels consigned to the Admiral Line
of 10,000 tons, for Are
The passengers. and
rive will vessel the Seattle Spirit, which is rather a peculiar name for a vessel. The reason for naming her the Seattle Spirit was we are told, because Seattle made a great record in her subscription to the Liberty And all the time there exists Logh, and the United States a simple rule which should Government. in appreciation of named her the make most of this unpleasant- this fact, ness quite needless and which Seattle Spirit. She is due here at everybody ought to know. Only about the end of this month. Her
know it entire crew is composed everybody doesn't
of
obviously.
nutive-born Seattle men. This is rather an exception.
As the full strength on Decem- ber 1, 1918, was 12.919 men, the War losses represent 51 per cent. which is believed tp be the Greatest proportion of losses in an arm of any of the Allied
armies.
The industrial effort made by France to keep the Air Force well equipped is shown in the following figures. The produc- tion of aeroplanes was 3,460 in 1915, 7,552 in 1916. 22. 751 in 1917, and 34.219-during the first nine months of 1918. Aeroplane works employed 12.650 workers The Admiral Line has been on January 1, 1915, 30,960 on the established here for just a year. same date in 1915. 68,920 on the although its vessels had been same date in 1917, 131,551, on operating here two years ago. the same date in 1918, and 180.- Their own fleet comprises. 23003 on November 2, 1918.- ships, and are at present on the run between Seattle. Portland, San Francisco. San Diego and ports in Alaska, covering the com-
The rule was established abour 150 years ago. Before that time our amiable ancestors gave or took the wall. You! walked along by the wall until you met another man who seemed to be
whom for your superior, or reasons of prudence you affected to regard as your superior: then you made way for him. If you did not make way and he took plete Pacific Coast. Hongkong .a different view from Fours was the first place where the
of his relative importance. he Company established an office quarrelled with you very often in
the Orient. The Com- Oriental headquarters located in Shanghai,
he fought you; innumerable pany's duels arose from this cause of are dispute.
"TAKING THE WALL."
and it has offices in Vladivostock, Yokohama, Kobe, Shanghai, There is a passage in "Boswell's Manila and Hongkong. All these Johnson" relating to this. After branches were established within a single year. The Company Dr. Johnson had lived a little while in London his old mother anticipates opening an office in wrote to him inquiring if he took Singapore as well, some time in or gave the wall. But by that time, the passage relates (and this 6xes the datel. the convenient rule of the pavement had been established.
near future.
a year.
The Company expects to put on a passenger service between Hongkong and Seattle second to none, within
These vessels will call at all the ports The rule is simply-the
Probably there opposite of that of the road in this of the Orient.
three large country that you keep to the will be at least
first class passenger ships right.
Walkers in the opposite
with a speed of at least direction should pass on the left. on yours and theirs if you over18 knots, with accommodation take slower walkers; you should for 250 to 300 first-class passen. pass on their left and your right,
It has nothing to do with the wall as such. If the wall is on your right, you stick to it: if it on
your left, you keep to the opposite side of the pavement from it. And It has nothing to do with sex. Women who think that merely because they are women they are entitled to the inside of the pave- ment are a nuisance.
Of course
a polite man will break the rule
gers and the usual capacity for steerage passengers and a cargo capacity of approximately 10,000
tons measurement.
The Admiral Line at present has only a freight service.
GREEN APPLES.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1919..
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PINKETTES
It was the hour when the early to avoid making a woman-or an bird comes to the orchard in ald man or a cripple-step into search of worms and the early the gutter, but that is the only boy in search of apples.
This boy crept very lightly exception.
These dainty little sugar-coated Surely the rule is simple along. the hedge, peeped over, enough. You always know it? took a clear coast for granted, pilules dispel constipation, cure Then do go and tell other people; and jumped the ditch. He came biliousness, sick headaches, torpid down badly on hands and knees, liver, pimples and ill-smelling I assure you they don't.
That he breath. If you cannot obtain, The other day I was walking cutting one of each.
Pickettes where you live send 60 by the wall, as I should, because was hurt seemed evident, that he
vial to the Dr. it was on my right. A fellow had pluck could not be questioned. cents for a
Williams' Medicine Co.. 96 met me, also walking by the wall, Rising, be shook himself like a in which he was wrong.
Ispaniel from the water, and then Szechuen Road, Shanghai. thought he would make way; he limped forward and snatched a did not; we jostled together for a couple of large windfalls from a
moment.
"I beg your pardón," said I instinctively, though I was in the right.
"Granted," said he who was in the wrong
This annoyed me, and Grant-
ed be hanged! It was your fault," said. I. But such painful
tree of cooking apples. One went in each pocket, and he made haste to where there is a gep in the bedge.
Once outside forbidden ground he pulled down a damaged stock-
unripe apples that might yet: inflict a penalty of their own; but he was moving when I saw him last with an all-conquering air. He had surmounted a difficulty, run a risk, and endured pain.
The oddest part of the business
ing and tied a grimy handkerchiefs that he knows perfectly well be over the cut knee. Then, sucking could have had a couple of wind- the hurt place on his wrist, he fall apples from me for the asking. incidents would not happen if we passed out of sight. As I saw it. L. B. in Daily Chronicle
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