NEW
ADVERTISEMENTS.
WANTED.
APPLICATIONS for positions
wanted torm L.C.S. students who bave completed half or more Send of course of training. particulars in writing to P.C. Bax No. 455.
WA
JANTED:- Godown-keeper, Indian preferred, must be strong, energetic and willing. speak and write English and furnish bond or chop guarantee $5,100,00-good prospects. for
P. O. Box No. 370.
WASTED.- EUROPEAN
(Roumanian Carpenter), 18 years in Europe and two years in China, with experience reinforced
Concrete
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122
building. averseet.
seeks position Apply Box No. 172 co "Hong. keng Telegraph."
WANTED: StopuRrapher and typist to do special piece of work, in pure time.--Apply by letter only V., 179,3rd. St.. Heng- kong.
WANTED-Chinese Swalow
Dialect Teacher required. Apply to Box No. 117 c & Hong kung Telegraph'
TO BE LET
THE GRECO-EGYPTIAN TOBACCO GO,
128. Queen's Road.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
BEG TO ANNOUNCE to the general public the arrival of their new coffee roasting machine for the best quality Mocha and Java coffee, which can be bad at the above address. Fresh Coffee roasted daily.
A PERSIAN PROVERB:
"à cup of hot coffee without an Egyptian cigarette is like meat without salt."
ANY SHIPS FOR SALE ?
ISHING to buy two Iron or Steel steamers of 1800 to 2000 tons carrying capacity, eca! er oil burning, double bottom, about 10 miles speed and about $1 years old. I shall be pleased to! receive offers, to Bax No. 775 eja)
Hongkong Telegraph."
HONGKONG CLUB
NOTICE.
|TH FAVOURITE INVENTION OF THOMAS A. EDISON
"THE PHONOGRAPH WII H
A SODL" IS HERE
THE EDISON MUSIC STORE 1ST FLOUR, POWELL'S BUILDING.
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
AN INTERIM DIVIDEND of
ONE DOLLAR ($1) per share for account 1922 will be rayable on MONDAY the 18th. September 1922.
Shareholders are requested to apply for Dividend Warrants at the Company's Office St. George's) Building. Hongkong,
MONDAY.
SEPTEMBER. £
1922
DR. BELL'S CAREER.
R.
i
NOTICE.
RABIES. A case of rabies having been verified in May Road the attention of dog owners is drawal to paragraph of the Dogs regulations requiring owners to rapori any suspected case to the gearest Police Station.
The Public are also requested to report any suspicious case that comes to their notics either to the Police or the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon direct.
G. R. SAYER. Head of the Sanitary Department.
NOTICE OF REMOVAL
HONGKONG HOTEL COM- PANY, LIMITED.
His First Attempts at
Telephony.
V
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, died at
am, on August at Balon Breagh, his estate near Baddeck, Nova Scotis.
Although the inventor had been failing in bealth several months, he had not been confined to bad and the end was unexpected. Late on August 1 his condition became serious and Dr. Ker, of Washington, a cousin of Mrs. Bell, a house guest and a Sydney phy- sician, attended him.
With Mr. Bell when be died, besides Mrs. Ball, were a daugh ter, Mrs. Marian Hubbard Fair- child, and her husband, David G. The Fairchild, of Washington. inventor leaves another daughter, Mrs. Elise M. Grosvenor, wife of a Washington magazine editor.
Dr. Bell was buried on the top; 1922 the HEAD OFFICE of Mount Beinn Breagh, a spot THE TRANSFER BOOKS of AS from the 1st September. the Company will be closed from of the above Company will be chosen by himself.
9th. September. to located on the Second Floor of The grave is as point over. Saturday.
September Powell's Bulling. 12, Des Voeus loosing the
Road. Monday, the 18th 1922, bath days ine usive.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. General Managers.
Monakorg. 29:1. August 19ge.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON LTD.
J. B. LAI, TREMPLE IN TAN PHYSICIAN AJAN
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVES Vladi
that an EXTRAORDINŢeatme HE-Second Yearly DrawingARY MEETING of the Society of 2D-bentures (1920 issue will be held at the Head Office of $ vacil of the Hongkong Club, the Society, Vos. 3 and 4 Queen's Payable on Saturday, the 30th. Buildings, Hongkong, on Tues- September 1922, will be held in day, the Fifth day of September 3 tooed house, the Cith H use at 11 o'clock, 1922, at Noon, for the purpose of
Newloon, 8. Th Itu.
on Friday, the Sth. Septem-receiving a report of the proceed- ings at the Meeting held on the -From-la fintober: Apply L. P.ber 1922.
Heaters of-Debentures are in. 15:5. day of August 1922, and of Vieira, 3 Wyndham Stree
conarming if thought A-thef vited to attend the Drawing.
fallowing Resolution as a Special Hurgador
By Order,
Resolution---
TO LET
To
Nathan
O LET. — N. 14. Lochiel Two Terpark. Kowlron Rooms and a Bath room on the "gromad risen Suple to let Fioer.
To
O LET-FANLING, A New Burcalow situated on Wo Hep Sex. Apply to Tsang Foo
Pr
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE-Steam Launch 1st. Class Condition. For full particulars apply Box No. 8 ela "Hongkong Telegraph."
A. H. ABBAS.
Secretary Hongkong. th. August, 1922.
S. STENGSHING."
STRANDED IN SWATOW
HARBOUR.
"That the aew Articles' al. ready approved by the Meeti g And for the purpose of identi tication subscriber by the Chairman thereof and the same are-berabg-adopted as the Articles of the society to the exclusion of and in substitution for all the existing Article thereof.
MESSRS. Jardine Watheson Dared this 19th. day of Aug. 1920.
& Co., Led-General)
Indo-Chica Steam Managers Navigation Co., Ltd., Hongkong.į are prepared to receive Tenders) for the temporary repair, floating, and delivery of the above steamer
By Order of the Board,
C. MONTAGUE EDF.
General Manager.
her stores, apparel and tackle, BRITISH TRADERS' afloat, in the Harbour of Swatow, ANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. in a condition for proceeding to Hongkong.
THE COWIE HARBOUR COAL application to the above.
COMPANY LIMITED. SILIMPOPON COAL.
THE undersigned are prepared to quote prices for best quali- 1y freshly mited SILIMPOPON COAL, trimmed into Bunkers at SEBATTIK от SANDAKAN
L
SANTREN 70
1
J. B. LAL.
$300 5.00
6 -
KANG EDWARD HOTEL
Ret No s
FILMING _THE_PHILIP- PINES.
town of Baddeck, Cape Breton. The sweeping vista from the mountain tay, so admir lid by M-. Bell, stretches far over Sanset, the Bras D'Or Lakes, chosen as the mement when the! nody will become forever a part of the sturdy hills, gilds the waters of the lakes until they are really Fat their name means" The Lakes of the Arm of Gold."
THE FIRST TELEPHONE CALL.
Forty-seven seatle ago a young man working in the cellar of an
For Sale
THE
PEAK HOSPITAL
The
Suitable for Mess or
Private Boarding House.
DON'T
Read while riding
SAVE YOUR EYES.
CHINESE OPTICAL CO.
will give you the BEST ADVICE
regarding your eyesight.
67, Queen's Road Central.
ld New England homestead, after inois College. Harvard, Ambers, xperimenting turteen months. S. Andrews, "Edinburgh, Queens, Toronto: George Washington). picked up a length of wire a spoke through it. The words Dartmouth and S. C. D. Oxford.
The news of Dr. Bella death were not important."
"Mr. Watson," he called to his prompted many expressions of Thumas A. Edison, from assistant, come here. I want regret
West Orange, N. J., telegraphed you."
have always regarded him very highly, especially for his extreme modesty."'
NEW ZEALAND LINER IN COLLISION.
--Pussy foot's" Story. On July 21 the Weymouth pleasure aleamer. Victoria brought of nearly 300 of the passengers of the liner Remuera, of the New Zealand Shipping
In a dense for between Ushant
The nett
South as follows: Sear the
"I am sorry to learn of the death brought his invention to this city to the Centencial Exposition, and of Alexander Graham Bell, the while scientists, emulating those inventor of the first telephone. Company. who scoffed Columbus and Goodyear and Fulton, said "it could not be done." be showed could be cone. In 1913 the inven ter stood in New York and talked to San Francisco to the man whoj had been his assistant just forty eminent husband's death comes
years earlier.
even
President Harding, in a message to Mrs. Bell, said:
"The assouncement of your
In com
and Portland Bill the Remuera was struck on the starboard side | by the Marengo, of the Ellerman- Wilson Liae, and drove a six- foot hole in ber plates, Roadiog No. I hold and making No. 2 bold also leak badly.
for
The Remuera was able to make Portland ander her own
steam, although tags which had come out from Weymonth and Portland, in response to be wireless signals, stood by bar i
one the way.
as a great shock to ine. An Elaborate Scheme,
Mr. Watson, are you theresmen with all his countrymen I During the early part of next)
had learned to revare him as one The Answer came back year the picturing of all scenic) Fiews and historic points in the plaiter than it was in that first of the great benefactors of the Philippine archipelago will be experiment From the few feet race and among the foremcs: Americans of all generations. He Phi Pathe Frezes motion of wire there has grown in foxy will be mourned and honoured by picture company, it was announc-seven years a gigantic utility with ed by L. C. Hutt of that commillions of miles of wire covering humankind everywhere a
THE JOYAB.” INSUR-pans, who arrived at Manils on the continents in every nook and who served it greatly, untiringly
and unselfishly." cranny of the world where man
She has now been barthed fo the T. K. K. liner Talgo Maru.
Leonard H. Kinnard, president Mr. Hutt was in Manila two bas need or desire to talk to his
of the Bell Telephone Company repairs, and will then go into dr of Pennsylvania and Associated dock. As early as 1880 Dr. Bell was! views of the city and the sor
Mr. "Passyfoot " Johnson, wh Companies, paid the following Permits for inspection of vesselOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN years ago and took some serial fellow.
bis was on tribute:
way out to Ne that an EXTRAORDINARY
rounding provinces from an aero experimenting with a radiophone; as she now lies, will be issued on
The GENERAL MEETING of the
of Alexander Zealand in the Rammers, caci passing Company will be held at the plane. He said that he will make in 1884 be wrote a monograph an
an extended stay in the Philis Communication With Vessels at Graham Bell is cause for profound off to Weymouth with the fir Head Office of the Company pines touring the islands from Sea by Radiophone." He was the
associated with the great industry No. 3 and 4 Queen's Buildings, the north to south and picturing first to suggest the use of X-rays feet on the part of every one batch of passengers. Hongkong, on Tuesday, the Fifth points of interest, after returning and radium in the treatment of built up as a result of his inven-
and if I had been thrown to ti day of September 1922, at Noo9. from Incis and other places in cancer. He roads notable improve tive genios.
the lifeboat, which
*Dr. Bell was more than a whales this would not have he for the purpose of receiving a
result of his inventive genius.
1 per ed report of the proceedings at the the far east, where they will be ments in
"Dr. Bell was more than a Meeting held on the 18th, day of the guests of royalty, at tiger suggestions were utilized during August 1922, and of confirmiux if hunting in the Straits Settle the World War. He also had a thought fit the following Resoluments, Sam and India. at pres-part in promoting naval efficiency scientist and inventor. He was right enough, because I was rig ion as a Special Resolution:-
"That the already approved by the Meet ing and for the purpose of: identification subscribed by the Chairman thereof be and the same are hereby adopted as the Articles of the Company to the exclusion of and in substitution for all the existing Article thereof,"
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CU.. LTD.
NOTICE.
(British North Borneo) or to INTERIM DIVIDEND of Fifty cents (5 cents per contract for reculer Bunter Sup-share bas been declared for the plies for 6 or 12 months at favour-half year ending 30th. June 1922. able rates.
Such Interim Dividend will be payable on and after Monday the 11th September, at the offices of the Company.where shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.
Steamers calling a SEBATTIS or SANDAKAN exclusively for Bunkers are exempt from pay meat of ordinary Port Charges. The minimum draft of water longside the Company's Wharf at Sebattik is 28 feet at low water Spring Tides. Charts of Cowie Bay (Sebattik Harbour) and any
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be closed, from the 30th. August, 1922, until] the 11th. September 1922, (both)
required information concerning days inclusive), during which the port can he had on applica-period no transfer of shares ran
he rezistered.
tion to
BRADLEY & CO. LTD.
Arents,
The OWIE HARBOUR COAL CO. LTD.
Ching-Kee S. N. Co.
res
156. Want to St. W, "Thon 1250 Regular Serene betweens 1.5. Newchawag. „North Chin
YEE TAI HON. Phone 13.
CHEONG YUE S. S. Co.
, 14. Einn Vorna Prad. 6. 89, PERANANG Finster&argloon 2, en trestay mothai.
the dark amylant For Freight Passare apply CHEONG YUE S. S. Co.
Hongkong-South America.
SS, HAH PING" Roding 12th, Auz. Railing 20th, For Freight ann, apply CHANGWHA NAVIGATION CO.
Bank of China Bil,
*Phone 157.
Hongkong-Saigon Line.
8. 8. **TELEMACHUS Loading 12th, July.
Sailing 19th.
For Freight etc. Apply
WO FAT SINO
'Phone 5.5.
Kwongchowan & Fort Bayord
B. 5. "SUE ON** Loading Maint.
Sailing 20K, İsat.
For night apply
LI FAT S. S. Co.
By order of the Board of Directors.
SHEWAN TOMES & Co., General Managers,
The Kwong Wing Co., Ltd.
3. ManzAH. 8. Konw Refutar ice to Wochow nied, Clus Pusenger kemummiskatash, 25. Den Preux Bd. W. Phone 893**
Mee Wah Knitting Co.
613, Fableway Esv. 'Phona 1501. Kanufacturers of Bocki, 810 gieta, Sweats and EnderWERE. YEUNG PO KWAN, President
THE SAI HING S. S. Co.
23. Connaught Red, W.
new
Articles
Dated this 19th. day of Aug., 1922,
By Order of the Board,
published
L
other
a man with a most attractive per- sonality, an affectionaté disposi
sad kindig, considerate tion, courteous."
"They told me I was the Jens
on board," he said with a chuck
"The other boat bit Jool
there where she struck.
*Splinters of glass flew all ov my bed where I was sleepior,
“Yes, I had it in the neck ri enough.
"Not a drink ? the intervie? hazarded.
16
ent he and bis colleague are on by his speed-bost and his portable their way to fulfill a coumission target.
Dr. Bell's One of For the Pathe Moving Pictures] Corporation which has ordered special interests continued to be
Dr. Bell's death recalls the
**There was no panic. Eve He organized the American Asso-litigation that extended over a several films reproducing exciting the teaching of speech to the deaf. events in the jungles.
While in the Straits Settle ciation to premote the teaching period of eight years to determine one bebaved very nicely. I w ments, the travellers are to be of speech to the desfand founded whether Dr. Bell or Daniel Draw-up on deck and bad a look rou entertained by the sultan of the Volto Bureau in 1887. In con-taugh, of Eberlys Mills, Cumber and went below to get— Johore. In India the two cinema nection with these activities he land County, was the inventor of The Education cfthe telephono. Mr. Drawbaugh men are to be the quests of the
Deaf Children and a number of died eight years ago. Mabarajah of Gwalior.
The United States Supreme other books which are standard
Court decided in Bell's favour in works on this subject.
Bell had keen interest in the Mir. Hatt stated that the Pathe became active in the intellectual success of the Sesqui-Centennial Motion Picture Corporation goes life of the capital city.
Exposition. Such interest was establish Science. &
expressed by bim in a letter which out to make films for 16,000 movie helped
scientific
be sent Mayor Moore on March theatres in the United States. weekly journal of Each of these theatres has a seat-progress, which leter became the 22 leat from his home in Was log capacity of from 500 to 2.000 official journal of American ington. Mayor Moore bad asked NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN persons, so that ion of it in association for the advancement Dr. Bell for a first-hand account
EXTRAORDIN course of operation of a im in of science. Dr. Bell was also an of the demonstration of the ARY GENERAL MEETING of one night the scene ju any active promoter and experimenter phone here in 1876.
country presenting the actual life in aerial locomotion. In 1881 he the Company
C. MONTAGUE EDE,
General Manager.
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
that
&n
be will
In Siam the king is to be the host, and has promised to show the Americans some intimate details of tiger-hunting.
After taking up his residence 1888. in Washington in 1881, Dr. Bell
He
SOCIETIES..
"No," said Mr. Johnson,
JaA. They cigar. Ob, serving out brandy and coffee, I didn't have any.
"A few women began cry and the children did not m like being taken out of bed.
"After staying up over £n ́b
I went back to bed again and s so soundly that I lost my bre fast.
"The watertight
bulkh saved the ship from sinking. Dr. B fog was very thick when was
CHANNEL SWIM FAILURE.
ship as she grated by.
"Oh strack. I could just see the o no, this won't stop going to New Zealand," said Johnson.
"If the worst comes to the Y
I get an aeroplans or a there."
held
to prepare such an account, but the S uel Pierpont Langley, then he added, "If I am bere in 1926. at the Head Office of the Comet the people is laid before more placed a fund at the disposal of eplied he had not sufficient time
Smithsonian will consider it again.” pany. Nos. 3 and 4 Queen's Build.than 30.000.000 people in
United Staten.
secriary of the ings, Hongkong, on Tuesday, the
Institution, and now dead, to aid Fifth day of Septembe: 1922, at
the pioneer stady on aviation. "" Noon, for the purpes of receiv
CONNECTED WITH LEARNED edings & ing a raport of the p
CHINESE COOLIES AND the Mesting béld on * 18th. day
RAILWAY.
After being in the water for of August 1922, and confirming
Dr. Bell formerly was president 1614 hours Michel, the French that made the trip to Weym following
Ignorance and sheer luck are
Geographic
awimmer, had to give up his to catch two specials at Resolation as a Special Resolu- the outstanding features of a rail of the
way ory which comes from Society, and was senior trustee of attempt to swia the Channel. town station for Eastleigh tion:-
Save for piles of logga Articles Newcbang Two Chinese coolies the society at the time of bis He entered the water at Cape London. "That the new already approv
by the seem to have gone to sleep on the death.
The list of "oncore.conferred Grianez at 8.40 p.m. The con-
usual
CANTON-WUCHOW LINE.if thought fit t
5.8. NANNING **
8 8.SAINAK '
Xonday, Wedserday. Friday,
HONGKONG-W CHOW LINE.
8.5. "CHENG FIN **
*Phon+ 1770,
THE hippier and Insurance Arukers, "Phase 3413.
No. 17, Wing Lok Btreet.
KWOK HIN WANG.
Proprietor.
HIN FAT S. S. Co.
On Hing Co.
10. Hies Long Street
Metal & Hardware Merchant, Flectri
Beard Engineers & Convirmekzem
Meeting and for purpose railway line just outside the city.
and the
National
It was a cheerful, happy c
The Bemuera was chiryud
a steady breeze caused a little crowd doing the of identification subscribed but while one used the rail as a upon Dr. Bell include besides the ditions were fairly favourable, might have been a typical he by the Chairmer thereof be pillow, the other was contented Volta prize and the honor broken water. After daylight be noon sea trip round Po
was about 10 miles from the Harbour. To hereby with poorer accommodation for degree from Heidelberg, the dis- same adopted as the Articles of the his head, and adopted the extreme tinction of Officer de la legion French coast. The flood side took Company to the exclusions of end of the sleeper. An express D'Honneur, the Albert Medal of him upchannel, but when it turn-emigrants in the steerage, at and in substitution 107 all the train came along. And the coolie the Society of Arts, London, theed the the swimmer caught the first and second class passe
who had selected the rail had bis Elliott Cresson Medal from the set off of the ebb tide about four existing Articles thereoL"
head ground to pulp. According Franklin Institute of Philadelphis
Lo was being taken gradually to reports from the scene of the and the Academy degree of miles off the Foreland, and as tragedy the other coolie was not honorary Ph. D.,, National Deaf from the shore it was useless to
(now Gallaudet
continue. even awakened by the passage of Mute College
College), Wurtzburg, LL. D. II- the train.
Dated this 19th, day of Aug. 1992.
By Order of the Board,
C. MONTAGUE EDE
General Manager,
There were 90 cbildram,
Captain J. J. Cameroissa
12 years of age on board this was the first accident
kind he bad had in 26 ye