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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1919.
CHEAPER HOUSES.
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NOTES & COMMENTS.
THANKSIVING DAY.
Our
THURSDAY,
DAY BY DAY.
THE POWER TO DO GREAT GENERALLY ARISES THINGS FROM THE WILLINGNESS TO DO SMALL THINGS
NOVEMBER 27. 1919.
MUSICAL JOTTINGS. TROUBLE ON TROOP
SHIP.
A TRIMMER CHARGED.
HONGKONG HOTEL SENSATION.
EUROPEAN SKIPPER BADLY
INJURED.
[BY ENHARMONIC "] Fifty-five years ago, Abraham Lincoln ordained that the last
The week has been another Thursday in November should be
very dull period musically, but W. Reynolds, trimmer of the The serenity of the Hongkong observed as an annual festival of
6.8. Trazos Montes, was prosecut Hotel was disturbed this after- thanksgiving in the United States. Once again, the return of com.signs show that better times are
Chapman ed this morning before Captain noon by a strange occurrence. coming. Since Mr. It has so been observed ever municable diseases yesterday
gave his organ recital in the Basil Taylour, R. N. Marine At a quarter to 3 o'clock, Captain since. In essence, Thanksgiving was bank
Union Church las: Wednesday, Magistrate, for assaulting the J. A. Taylor, of the Indo-China Day is a national harvest cele- bration, and was first observed Mr. J. Pringle left for Home by nothing public has occurred in a third mate on board the same S.S. Company, fell from the
musical way to enliven us, and, ship at 11 8.01. by the Plymcath Fathers at Ply. the Rhesus yesterday. Mr. N. Salthough it has been said often instant, whilst the vessel was Hotel, just in front of the on the 18th verandah of the second floor of the mouth in 1621, after they gather Brown travelled to Singapore by before, the truth of it demands on her way from London to entrance on Pedder Street. ed their first harvest. Once the same boat.
the re-statement that it is time Hongkong.
Thefirst personto notice the fall again. “Thanksgiving" has come
that things were different. Thomas Henry Jones, third was a Hongkong Hotel runner. round, and though it is not being
The Panama Maru, which
In connection with the arrival of mate of the Trazos Montes, said He found Captain Taylor lying officially celebrated locally, most arrived yesterday from Singa- the Wiltshire Regiment residents that on the 18th instant, while the on the ground unconscions. A of
American friends pore, sustained severe damage generally must have been greatly ship was at Singapore lying motor car was immediately re are foregathering at private owing to a typhoon.
heartened to learn that the regi- alongside Tanjong Pagar, he quisitioned and he was taken to functions. Here in the Orient, far from the Homeland, their memor-
A report and criticism of the ment brings with it a very fine was on duty on the gangway the Government Civil Hospital.
hand, and we can safely say that Ho SUB defendant ies will take them back to days pianoforte recital given at the Bandmaster Easton and the men shore, against orders.
on He soon regained consciousness. He told gone by, when, amidst joyous Helens May Institute last even-under him will receive a very glad him to come on board and he did ture of the left leg and severe He sustained a compound frac- surroundings, families were re-ing by Professor Sklarevsky will united and a spiri: comparable be found in to-day's Musical welcome when they make a public so He asked if he was aware eats on the bead.
appearance. They come among that he was not allowed The Police arrived on the scene only to our own feelings at Jottings.
us at a time when there is a real on shore. He did not soon after and instituted ex- Christmastide prevailed. It is on
agitation for a public band, and answer. He walked along ahaustive such days that the American Mr. Justice Gompertz, who has they will fill a want that is un-few yards then turned round Taylor, it is expected, will be enquiries. Captain community here gets closer resumed bis duties as Puisue
doubtedly keep.
and said something and in hospital for many weeks. together, realising the bonds of a Judge at the Supreme Court,
gathered a crowd of soldiers: common nationality, than at must bave created something of a
Witness told him to move along other time of the record on his arrival bere on One wonders whether their quietly, laying his hand on
Thoughts
Monday. Although he did not advent will cause a sheiving of his left shoulder. will homeward to-day, but, though in land until practically mid-day, he the question of the Colony having turned round and struck witness self-imposed exile, Uncle Sam's was presiding in his Court at a real band of its own. Personal- on his upper lip, and two sentries citizens know that they are 2.15. After long leave this certainly, I hope that it will not, for in CamS and
took him sway. amidst true friends in this British Iy is "getting a move on." addition to the presence of a Witness could not say whether Colony. On this their day of
military band there is ample room he was sober or not.
This afternoon, at the Central happiness and joy, we extend to
here for a band that could be
Police Station compound. H.E.) them our felicitations, glad in the official public celebration by the utilised on all occasions, such as How did I gather the soldiers to-ary 31edal to Sergt. Hutchins, of
Cross-examined by defendant--
the Governor presented the Mili- knowledge that never were American community of Thanks Theatre
engagements, dances,gether?--You were saying some the Police Force in the presence Britishers and Americans more giving Day there have been quite etc. Concerts in the Public thing I could not hear, as I was of a large gathering of members. frmly bound together in ties of a number of private functions Gardens could easily be made a too far away, and they stood round of the Force rue friendship than at the pre-held. The offices of the American feature of summer evenings in laughing.
Consulate General were closed. fact there is not much need to go sent time.
and the day has been observed into arguments; they are easily Regiment, said he was standing L.HR. Hicks, of the Wiltshire as a holiday by most of the apparent.
talking to the last witness on the | American business men.
Buy year.
A DANGEROUS TRESPASS.
women s
the Canton City Police Officers those present discussed *the
Although there has been no
SPOT.
A gentleman, who has been in
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MILITARY MEDAL. PRESENTED TO HONGKONG
POLICE OFFICER.
Sergeant.
saw
Italy.
promoted Lance
will be more fully reported in to- This afternoon's proceedings
morrow's issue.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
It would seem almost incredible were it not vouched for on good authority (says. the Manchester Guardian) that women touring the battlefields have been seen removing steel hemets from the
de crosses marking the lonely
be taken as another proof that ing of their trophies. It must Taves of soldiers, and that parties of tourists have been met boast-
there is no law of decency gov erning the tourist who is also a confirmed souvenir hunter. In these people is the true embodi- home and in their ordinary con- ment of Jekyll and Hyde-at duct they may
be excellent citizens. with at least the ordinary
bunting they are entirely different standard of public and private
people. decency when they are souvenir
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Sergt. Hutchins, who as a con- war for the Front, joined the 1st stable lett Hongkong early in the King Edward's Horse on Decem- When mere man begins to talk
starboard side of the deck. He alout ladies" fushions he is
ber 15th, 1915, and As I predicted last week, the heard Mr. Jones give an order The Panama Maru, which band of H.M.S. Hawkins will to come on board, but he took He was demobilised in February
service in Southern trespassing on a very righteously- held prerogative of women folk, King Edward to lie alongside the fortunately be available for the no notice.
The order was repeat of this year and on return to the and he is also treading on vers Blake Plex so as to obstruct the St. Andrew's Ball which takes ed and obeyed. Defendant re-sear a
The writer free access of other vessels there- place to-morrow night. A themained on the gangway and refus dangerous ground. does not pretend to know any-to at 11.45 p.m. on the 19th in practice dance on Tuesday last led to go any further. Mr. Jones
all about
stant, the master was to-day fined the band was in attendance and then ordered him forward and thing at fashions, and he must instantly $20 by Captain Basil Taylor everyone present was delighted defendant turned round and struck, say so. or Sacha" of our Ladies' R. N. Inspector Cashman said he with the dance music it played. him in the mouth. Paze will begin to feel a found the defendant's launch tied This was its second appearance Defendant, eramined, said be animosity for which there is up alongside Blake Pier, causing for local. dancing purposes (it went ashore by a gangway. He no cause. Man is only privi- obstruction. She was not landing played at the U.S.R.C. dance had cot received any order about leged to talk about fashions when or embarking pessengers or cargo.on Monday), and some other man has had the She had been lying there twenty the whole of those
practically going ashore, and had no permis- on the sion to go ashore. While he was on temerity to raise the topic, and minutes.
floor spoke of the pleasure they the wharf Mr. Jones hailed him to that is the present writer's excuse,
deriving from it. To go on board. He went up the In yesterday's Canton Times it says that at the 64th meeting of HONGKONG'S PLAGUE night will certainly be gangway and Mr. Jones asked night but I must talk him whether he did not know music and not fall to the tempta that he was not allowed ashore. tion of prattling about my per- Defendant replied that he did not scandalous trend of the present AN OLD RESIDENT'S VIEWS. sonal pleasurable anticipations. know saything about it. When fashion in women's dress, They
leaving Mr. Jones, defendant claim that the coats of the ladies äre getting shorter, as are also the Colony for very many years, last evening a real musical treat lets; asking him if he had go
At the Helena May institute whom he had bought some si
spoke to one of the soldiers for the trousers and skirts ". The interviewed on the vice question, was given one of a kind too in them all right. Defendant then enterprising reporter of this expressed himself in the following frequently heard here. It had walked away. Mr. Jones came meeting goes on to add a few terms If you abolish these been announced that Miss Betsy after defendant and punched him Hongkong is not by any means the only place where the "To the unacquainted this actionsly brothels. Many years ago recital, but, owing to the fact that him back.
thoughts of his own saying houses, you will have a lot of Wyers would give a pianoforte twice on the neck, so he struck housing prehlem has reached an acute stage. and a decided scarcity of dwelling-places are common to most strange, but the fact is that our compulsory, the women used to Professor Sklarevsky, deputised. to-morrow morning.
High rates of rentals of the police will seem very when medical examination was she had not arrived in the Colony, civilised centres at the moment. At Home, various schemes are policemen, who are evidently go to the hospital once a week. Readers require no introduction
The case was remanded till under way for the purpose of bringing relief to householders and to zealous opholders of the Confucian which was those who cannot find accommodation, whilst in America experi- precepts, see danger in this trend caution.
a necessary pre-
*0 this talented ments are being carried out with a view to cheapening the cost of of fashion.
But this practice has.
pianist, construction. The era of high rentals and increased cost of building much of his time as to the pro places recognise the evil, but put Professor has had a long stay in charm. In direct contrast to the
The Sage gave as I believe, been abandoned. Most;
who is well-known by reason bas stirred thinkers to action for faster and more economical priety of dress as has any moralist it out of sight, although in some Manila recently where he has majestic Funeral March came
of his previous visits. The construction. We read. For instaner, that the yther day, under the of standing in the Western world, they do not. personal supervision of Edison, the inventor, a cement house was unless it be Addison with his legislation you bring about, you has also made a big name for "Spinning Wheel," followed by I do not care what given a number of concerts, and the light and essentially active begun and completed in the States just ten days after the first tea-table philosophy. But for cannot stop it. It is an evil himself as a teacher. material was delivered on the site. That shows what can be Kwan Chung,' said the master which will not
The girl in one corner of the done by standardisation. We realise, of course, that what is we should now be wearing our out in any country.
be stamped in Hongkong a few days ago, and ing rythm of the piece was well Bronte's "Villette." Her compan- He arrived the "Hunting Song." The gallop-carriage was reading Charlotte possible in Europe and America may not be possible here in Hong-hair unbound and the lappels of danger to health, on which there is Feak Club. He left by the En-theme is sustained by the left of "Sinister Street" remarks the
Most of the kong, though we should like to feel that there are alert minds in our our coats buttoning on the left so much pious indignation, is
lest evening gave a recital at the emphasised, especially where the ion was buried in the first volume midst turning over the question of reform, both in the interests of side Readers of these notes from the sig houses and not the press to-day for New York. rapid construction and cheap building of houses. The other.day, a will be inclined to remark on what public ones.
hand-a passage difficult of Daily News. Desultory fragments correspondent suggested that frame dwelling houses might be a terrible fate was thus averted. that these houses should be allow- I personally think
execution. An encore simply of converstion, only possi- introduced here. We should like to hear the views of local architects If it were possible we should like ed to remain.
Before dealing with the actual had to be given and Chopin's ble
when there WAS and builders on this point.
to give the hint to Canton Police practice of these women to make May, one
As regards the music played at the Helena Valse was the selection. I might simultaneous turning of leaves, In Europe and the United States, whilst the building industry officials that if they are seeking visitors sign chits for drinks, I protest regarding the piano which Chopin player that Sklarevsky is employed in a Government de- heve mention that, it is as alindi ated that they were both has made great strides in the last generation, yet it has not advanced to stay the "progress" of women's cannot express an opinion. If it Professor Sklerevsky was asked as other industries where parts are highly standardised and made fashions they have embarked on is true, the authorities may inter- to perform upon. Without mine-Skylark" was a wonderfully corner, who was obviously a clerk well liked. Balakirer's partment. The girl in the opposite interchangable and to economical quantity production. Buildings a very hopeless task. The Rev. vene and stop it. are still made" or built" rather than manufactured or construct F. B. Meyer has been holding Police office those duty it is to insult to the artist and a disgrace of the composition proving in this from the pages of Mr. Conrad's There is a ing words, it was a positive played little work, the difficulties or typist, never lifted her bead ed as in the case of cheap watches or clocks, sewing machines, forth lately on the fashion ques- watch bese places, I believe." typewriters or low-priced motor cars. Most of the reforms in build- tion, but except to make himself
to the Institute. It may have case 00 bar to B free and "Victory." It made one doubt ing methods have been for monumental, commercial and industrial even more notorious has not cut
been a good one once, but last sympathetic rendition. "In the whether one could find a penny structures rather than the average dwelling houses that most people much ice. Does he ever hope to ?
evening it was in a shocking Convent" gave the artist au ap-novelette in the whole length of can afford to occupy. And the reason has been a good one. Up
A MAIL MUDDLE. state-not in want of tuning, but portunity to show his ability to that suburban train. A suburban until now there has not been the economic demand. And with the THE ONLY RULE.
in want of repairing. All the render pianissimo passages, but bookseller. on being questioned, demand there will be the supply of reform. Economic necessity is
HONGKONG, LETTERS
of the bass passages that wretched piano!! I might remarked that the sale and circul- the mother, father, nurse and school teacher of accomplistment.
WHICH CAME BACK.
ruiped-but the whole go co for a long time, but I hope ation of the more ephemeral type In America, the steel, stone, terra cotta and wood parts of a
of what сле could say to have further opportunity to of novel it as extensive asever, but structure are now cut or formed in well ordered manufacturing
Registered letters posted here a
summed up inspeak of this brilliant pianist.
its chief patron is the middle-aged plants, equipped with power machine tools, they are numbered, taken
the word "disgraceful" "Men-|
woman. He would not, however, to the building site and put into place. But it still requires from 90 kong, and in the many Ports out before reaching their destination. busy asking a
One sees here in Honz. in August last for Home willbers of the Institute ought to get
have travelled over 30,000 miles
The full programme was
go so far as to assent to a gener- to 120 days to build the average frame dwelling house. Moreover. East where Western women have
few questions these dwelling houses cannot be economically constructed one or come to stay, that their Easter via Suez, brought back to Hong-
Beethoven. 22 Variations in Calisation that the mothers are They were carried to England
reading the light and popular minor. two at a time as is usually the case. According to the standardised sisters-the
Mendelssohn. (4) Barcarolle. (6) devcting themselves to a study of fiction, whilst their daughters are. plan they must be constructed in large numbers and all at once. section of them have freely kong by the same ship and have
As an artist Sklarevsky cannot Funeral-March. (c) Spinning the younger and more serious Either a large number of individual owners must agree to build at adopted Western dress, at least so now been despatched via Canada.be questioned. He infuses into all Wheel (d) Hunting Song.
school of novelists-" although it once, or the project must be in the hands of a real estate agent far as the skirt is concerned. That is what the following noti-his work a depth of feeling and an Rachmanivoff.... Melodie. who will complete the houses and sell to individual owners accord- The Chinese
sometimes seems like it,' Balakirev.. have discarded fication issued by the Hongkong attention to expression thatstemps
Skylark..
he ing to demand. In this way the property agent will perform a func- their trousers,
Post Office amounts to
him as a player with a soul. His Scriabine the Japanese
....3 Preludes.
cautiously added. tion much after the manner of the merchant who assembles a stock their kimono, and the Malays of mail for London containing duction of written music, it is the
Notice is given that one bag is not just the flawless repro- Borodine........In the Conreat. of standardised manufactured goods for the convenience of the com- their Barong, and one is
Wagner-Liazt......Death of munity.
Isolde. Whether it is possible, to reduce the cost of building locally by will ever bring about a
given to wonder whether time registered letters, despatched by re-imbodiment into a work of the 8. Kitano Maru on 8th August very spirit of the composer. A. the introduction of new methods is a matter which is best dealt versality of dress among the last, was accidentally miscarried meater of technique, he is at ease with by experts in the question, though we can conceive that the men and women of the earth. by that ship back to Hongkong. in the most difficult passages. But that a very serious effort is being kong Government were the par-
I notice in a Shanghai paper Colony's building regulations would have to be very much modified Certain it is that if that time The bag has been again despatch-there is something more than bril-made by the organisation of the chasers at $7,500. before anything in this nature could come about. With cast of ever does come it is a very loaged to destination to-day per s. s.liant execution there is a positive Shanghai-Scottish to recruit a labour much cheaper than at Home, the question is often asked by way distant. Perhaps it is that Empress of Asia.”
individuality. Ido not intend to go pipe band, and the journal, in laymen why building should be so expensive here. Possibly the climatic conditions will always
into detail through the whole commenting on that fart, wishes music. It gives a very martial slowness with which the native works and the immeasurably larger govern the style it certainly man who tries to interfers is programme, for I should be the movement every succes touch to things and when they are number of workmen required on s job then at Home árs the always will govern the amount. going to have a pretty warm tempted to say more that couldBecause I personally have not on the ewing to its strain the sight principal factors. In the Straite, when the Housing Commission Humanity would lose a good deal time of it as well as having bis be encompassed in the space very keen appreciation for beg is eminently pleasing. The writer sat, it was discovered that prices of materials were being kept high of the picturesque and artistic, advice ignored. Men who think allowed me, Below I will give pipe music I simply don't like of the article in question has by a ring of contractors. Possibly that is true of Hongkong also. and after all is said and dose that women are going to perdi- the full programme, but must first it-that does not prevent me incorporated The Government might do worse than look into the matter, dress is in many cases a national tion because of the fashion of refer to one or two pieces that
some interesting anyhow. Be that as it may, present circumstances demand that characteristic of undoubted value, their dress had better wake up to were particularly striking.
from saying that I hope facts and reminiscences, and fresh ideas shall be brought to bear on this housing question. We There is only one rule to lay the realisation that women are
the Shanghai-Scottish will get after such a support Shanghai must keep abreast with the times. Otherwise we cannot hope to down in this connection-let the always a little more civilised
their band, for there is nothing Scotsmen should find the in- see the problem solved,"
The suite of four compositions more appropriate to a body, of centive to get together for this women please themselves. The than men.
by. Mendelssohn were of great Scottish soldiers than good pipe purpose.
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There is a train of thought suggested by the above in con- nection with the adoption of Western dress by various Eastern
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Messrs. Hughes and Hough to- day sold. by order of the Marshal of the Prize Court, the steam launch Blackhead. The Hong-