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Dance Away Those Gorgeous Moonlit Evenings
the peppy music
The balmy evening, an interesting partner, of the ship's orchestra-this will stand vivid in the memory of your voyage aboard the President Liners of the American Mail and Dollar Steamship Lines.
The magnificent President Liners are broad of beam and exceptionally steady. All are oil burners, swife express liners.
The public rooms are luxuriously appointed and inviting.
All staterooins are outside, splendidly furnished and equipped with beds-nor berths, Each room has hot and cold running water, also fans, wardrobe, thermos bottles and reading lamps. Private bath and showers in connection with many cooms perfect the travel comfort of these giant passenger liners.
The Cuisine is world famous. The deliciously prepared menus will delight you. And how the orchestra adds zest to your dining.
The decks are spacious, The Glass-enclosed Promenade; always popular, Deck sports, open air swimining pool, movies, evening dances-everything has been done to inake your trip a happy one. Unexcelled anywhats the courteous and efficient service accorded you by the trained personnel aboard the President Liners.
The great frequency of sailings and the liberal stopover privileges of the Dollar Steamship and American Mall Lines have made these giant passenger liners out.. standingly popular among travelers.
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CHIMNEY BOYS OF OLD.
HORROR OF A HUNDRED
YEARS AGO.
It is difficult for us to imagine that less than a century ago. chimneys were swept by poor boys, who were trained to climb up the inside of the vent and clear away the soot, comments a Home paper.
Exactly a century has elapsed since John Bentley, a London man, invented his machine for sweep- ing chimneys. But long after 1827 the scandal of the chimney boya still persisted. Indeed, little more than fifty years ago in 1875, to be exact a chimney-climbing boy was suffocated while pursuing his calling, and the sweep who employed him was aantenced to six months imprisonment with
hard labour.
a
Bentley's invention was quite a simple one, consisting of circular brush attached to the end of a long rod, which, made in sections, could be lengthened or shortened as desired. The brush was pushed up the chimney and moved. ap and down. As one section after another of the rod was detached, the whole of the chimney was swept.
There was little regard for the welfare of children in those days. and Bentley's invention made little or no impression upon public opinion. It was not, in deed, until the horrors of the life of the chimney boy, and the ob- vious advantages of the new mechanical contrivance, were, con- tinuously dinned into the ears of the public through the efforts of an organisation called the "So-1 ciety for Superseding the Neces sity of Climbing Boys," that people began to take an interest in the evil and in Bentley's means of removing it.
Years of Agitation.
It required seven more years of agitation, however, before Pärlia- ment was prevailed upon to pass an Act dealing with this matter; and even then the Legislature went no further than to prohibi the sweeping of chimneys by boys if they were under ten years age. Not until 1864 was it made a crime to send lads up chimneys to clean them, and were magistrates em powered, in cases of convention under this Act, to substitute'n sen tence of hard labour for a fine on the offending employer.
Yet the whole story of the mis- serable chimney boys is such that one wonders that the practice
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1927.
BACK TO JAIL.
HIDING-PLACE DISCOVERED.
£750,000 BUILDING IN LONDON,
WORK ON BAKER STREET STATION SCHEME,
The two convicts, John Wilson and Arthur Sidney Stanger, who escaped from Strangoways Jail,
Works has new begun on the Manchester, were recaptured about nine o'clock the following night in large plot of building land. ad- Baker-street Station, an empty house in Glazebrook Lane, joining near Cadishead, between Manches- London. When completed, the building will include shops, fints, a ter and Warrington."
public hall, restaurant, and other amenities, which it will be pos-. sible to visit without leaving the shelter of the station.
Shortly before this the Leigh (Lanes.) police had been informed by a Cadishead resident that two men answering the descriptions of the fugitives. had been seen in a field in the Glazebrook district.
Supt. Whitehead at once rushed by motor car with a posse of police men to Glazebrook, and joined a body of Cadishead police officers, They made an intensive search of the neighbourhood, which is fairly pen country, and the convicts were seen hiding in a cornfield.
The men evidently saw that the policemen had discovered them, for they ran away, and in the dusk sought cover in one of several part- ly built houses."
No Resistance.
The site, which is bounded by Marylebone-road, Upper Baker- street, and Allsop-place, is the property of the Metropolitan Rail- way, who hold the freehold, and has been vacant for several years.
The scheme now being carried out will, according to the architect of the Metropolitan Railway, cost approximately £750,000.
"It is proposed to erect a block of seven storied buildings," he teld. a newspaper representative. The scheme will also include the extension of some of the station accommodation."
It is understood that the total floor space will exceed ten acres. About 200 flats are to be provided, and these will have direct munication with both the shops and the station.
Com→
More than a score of villagers had joined the chase, and one of them saw the convicts enter the empty house. They at once told the police, and Sergeant Jenkinson,
Last month the vast cavity pre- of Cadishead, and a constable rush- ed to the house, where they arrested pared for the foundations was a Stanger in the porch. Wilson hive of industry.
Messrs. Higgs and Hill (Limit- bolted from the house into a field nearby, but several villagers and ed), who have secured the policemen were hot on his track, tract, anticipate that the work will and in a few minutes he was over-occupy about two years. It will taken and surrounded. Neither of be facilitated by the fact that a the convicts offered any resistance railway line will be available when being arrested.
alongside the work for the trans- part of materials.
Stanger and Wilson were taken to Leigh Police Station.
The men were taken to Manches- ter later.
When caught they were still dressed in prison grey and refused to give any account of their move- ments. Neither had had anything to eat since escaping and they were ravenously hungry.
J
in
THRIFTY BRITISH
RAILWAYMEN.
con-
OVER 154,000 DEPOSITORS WITH 2100.
They were apparently seen Manchester early in the morning by a newspaper worker on his way Railwaymen appear to be the home. His attention was attracted thriftiest of Britain's workers. by the suspicious behaviour of two
The Report of the Chief Regis- men and a woman standing beside trar of Friendly Societies, issued a two-seater car close to Victoria recently, states that during ten! Station. The men were barehead-years the number of depoaltors ed, wore grey suits, and had their nearly doubled and about £100 was
Hoping due to each. shirts open at the neck,
Workers of the London Midland for a possible lift home, the news- paperman made towards the motor and. Scottish Railway easily head car but as he did so the two men the list with 73,468 depositors and But the jumped in hurriedly, followed by a total of £6,813,415 dne the woman, and the car, apparently highest average accounts is held driven by the woman, wheeled by employees of the "London round and went off up a side street Chatham and Dover Railway,' at a great pace. The escape will
the bars.
It
be the subject of an official inquiry: whose 1.176 members had an aver should have been tolerated in
How the men got the tool with age of £210 ds. due.
In the year reviewed (1926), the any civilised community in the which the cell bars were cut is un number of deposits made with nineteenth century. Lads of nine known, but it is believed that they the Railway Savings Banks again or ten years of age were regularly were aided by someone outside the employed in this unhealthy and prison, for it would be difficult for largely increased, although the
than in ly less dangerous occupation. Even mere them to conceal in their cell for any average sum deposited was slight- 1924. With infants of four years were known length of time an implement capa drawals increased in number but
ble of cutting to be so engaged all too often.
Training for their revolting would be almost impossible also for were smaller in amount. Interest task often consisted of sheer them to have scaled the prison wall on the accounts averaged 4 per In 1925 deposits exceeded with- terrorisation, and stories are told without a rope or ladder.
drawals by no less than £375,000 and together with interest brought the total sum due to the railway- men" depositors to £15,043,813, or £97 83. for each of the 154,376 members.
of cruel and callous employers who, in order to "encourage" an
apprentice who had been driven further, kindled wieps of straw some little distance up the chim- in the fire-place with the object
fear ney and either from
oof farcing the lad to proceed to defiance, refused to climb
any the top.
ceat.
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