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Nat. Pendleton Minna Gombell Based on the Afyatery Novel by Dashiell Hammett
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
KLONDIKE AREA
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1934
could not be seen, the day and night LOCAL THEOSOPHISTS. blended in variations of perpetual twilight and only the clock time
VISIT DESCRIBED TO ROTARY showed where one began and the
other ended.....
CLUB
dressing the Club.
WINTER SESSION TO HEGIN TO-MORROW EVENING
Stern Work."
The local Theosophical Society Something of the former glamour and romanco of the goldfolds of From White Horse, so called bo-will commence their winter session the Klondike was imparted by cause of the white horses found in to-morrow, when Mr. John Russell, arca, shallow draft stern the President, will deliver a lecture Professor W. Brown to fellow this Rotarians in an address at the wheeler steamers maintained navi on "The Value of Theosophy" at weekly luncheon held at the H.K. gation 040 miles down the Yukon the Lodge room, No. 17 Queen's Hotel Roof Garden yesterday. The to Dawson City and 2,000 miles Road Central, at 4 p.m. speaker was called upon at short down to Behring Sen. The con-
On Thursday of each week up to notice to deputies for Dr. John Wstruction and handling of these
Including December 27, Inzer whose unexpected departure amazing steamers was fascinating and for Manila prevented him from ad- to watch. They would have been lecturca will be delivored by the top heavy in any but sheltered following: Mr. W. C. Folshow, Mr. The President, Mr. M. K. Lo, waters. They were too big to go Denis H. Paul, Mr. P. A. Paxto, Bev. N. N. Thello, M.A., B.D., Mr. and per- presided at a well attended function, easily round corners, and among the gacats present were formed this manoeuvre by lovering K. B. Vaidya, Mrs. Olive M. Parkinson, DA, Rev. E. L. Allen, the banks. Dr. Liang, Mr. George She, Mr. themselves against William She, Mr. E. Lewis, and Often they went 40 miles storn first MA., P. Mr. Donald K, Paul, Rov. K. L, Reicholt, p.D., and Mr. J.. Mr. G. J. McCarthy.
before they could turn round.
Russell. Entitling bis talk "Some recollec-
Dawson, located at the junction tions of a trip to Klondike," Pro- of the Klondike and the Yukon fessor Brown described a voyage rivers. had ahrunk from a popula- to Skagway, made in the summer tion of 40,000 in 1900 to about 600 of 1922, and beginning auspiciously in 1922, and was still shrinking in the maiden, run of the Empress The day of the individual prospec of Canada. A record voyago was
evenings, st. 6 p.m., in the Lodge,
Lectures are hold on Thursday Room at 17, Queen's Road, Contral public who are interested are in- (First Floor). All members of the vited to attend. Discussion on the
marred, however, by a youngster/for, was over and the extraction of subicct of the lecture will be held
int each meeting, or questions may who contracted chicken pox and the precious metal was carried out caused the whole ship's comple-wadays mainly by hydraulic be asked on any other theosophical
By this process, powerful ment lo remain in quarantine at hoses were directed on the gravelmatters about which visitors would William Head. Tive days were hillsides, forcing the earth into like information: lost in quarantine, and all civic lulces from which the gold was receptions which had been ar-eventually recovered,
ranged had to be abandoned,
Record Trip.
An informal study class for reading and discussion is held on Mondays, at 6 p.m., and on Fridays Never Really Wild.
at 5.30 p.m. thoro la a class for the Contrary to general opinion, he study and practice of mathods of With great difficulty, continued the speaker, he secured a passage thought Dawson was never really meditation. Both these meetings in a Canadian Pacific Raliwaya wild place. The North West are held in the Lodge Room, and vessel and proceeded vin Alert Bay, Mounted Police had the situation are open to members and friends of Prince Rupert, Kaska Kotchika, well in hand from the beginning, the. Society. Wrangle, Juneau, and Skagway, and soon evacuated the "bad" men. The 1,000 miles journey from Van. Further afield an abundance of
almost completely fossil ivory, the tusks of mastodons PLAYGROUNDS FUND. sheltered by pine-clad shorce beyond of a past ora, could be dug up, some Others which towered the snow-capped in highly preserves state. mountains. The time occupied, in were found to be much mineralised to by their stay in the earth, and Hongkong getting from Klondike was 21 days, which, he formed suitable material for the
settings of ornaments. thought, must be a record trip.
couver was
Tho
DONATIONS INCLUDE BIG ROTARY GIFT
The Hon. Treasurer of the As they advanced northwards the
trip was one which he would Children's Playgrounds Association scenery became wilder and the climate colder, Skagway itself prov. always recall, concluded the speak-begs to acknowledge with thanks Ing rather wintry and bleak thougher. He found no gold-in fact he the following subscriptions, receiv the month was July. They saw the lost some in entertainment in the ed in September:
hospitality of the crude hotel at Previously acknowledged $1,855.00 rough country and hills over which Skagway, where at every steamer The thousands of prospectors had tolled
In the days of the world's greatest visit the inhabitants gathered for a night of celebration, in this ense gold rush at the close of last cen consisting of a night-long dance. tury, and the romantic places where John Service lived and Mr. T. B. Wilson, in thanking the wrote his poems and where the speaker, said he was acquainted scene of Jack London's stories had with the country Professor Brown been laid.
had described, when he was a boy Although at Skagway the actual and had three uncles who were midnight sun of the Arctic region there in the '90's.
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