THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1985.
LONDON LIFE
PASSING OF THE ORGAN-GRINDER
The organ-grinder, once a pro- minent figure in the street life of London, is gradually disappearing, caye a writer du a Home paper. Half a century or more ago, when many of them lived amongst the Italian colony in London, there were 200 persons engaged in mak ing and repairing the instruments. Signor Pesaresi, about that period, was pricking the acor of the popular tunca on the organ roll, and even to-day if you go to Arlington-road you may still see the happy task being enrried on by his descendants,
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But the organ-grinders Aro fower, and the Industry has bo- come more and more British. The Italiana number 10-day no more than a dozen, nil two of them are women. They hire their Instru ments by the day, and wild horses would not drag from them the nimount they pay for hire or the Rum of their takings, although the fablo that they make anything up to 25 a day may be disregarded. One day in the Long Ago when Robert Loula Stevenson wo mass- ing through Russell-square, he was so struck by the wan appear- ance of one whom he saw playing thera that ho "Alled his hand with money-ten to thirteen shillings, I should think," but that never happened often, and certainly li does not happen to-day. The planola, the gramophone, and wire- less have all contributed to the disappearance of the Italian organ-grinder, and there has also been the competition of the British ex-Service man, who cheerfully trundles the street-argan to any suburb where there is a chaner of an audience.
Dame Sybil, Dictator of Surk.
Yankee's Visit Hathaway, and her maiden name
To England
*VOYAGE ACROSS THE
ATLANTIC
When Yankee joins the big British racing yacht this season. she will have what is without doubt the strongest combination of talent ever seen on board one vessel. Her skipper is to be Mr. Charles Francis Adams, a former
Beautiful scenery immarred by modern conveyances.
Roses (1455 to 1487). By way of On this woman-ruled Island, gas, taxes, each landowner gives a electricity and running water are thirteenth of his crops to Dictator unknown. Chief city and port is Tinthaway. She accepts no money, the village of Creux. Island is a prefers to encourage cultivation by mile brond, three miles long: popu demanding produce only. Smoke-Iation 640, of whom 40 are far- stacks are liability: for onch mers, the remainder consisting of amokestack on his house or shop, their families, fishermen and their every citizen must pay to Mrs. familles, merchants and theirs. Hathaway 28 tax collectible In, The farmers constitute the court chickens. No Property may of chlef plenk, main judicial body change hands without her consent, of island still live on original pro and in the event of such an ex-perties given to their ancestora in change, she would receive a com- sixteenth century by the first ruler mission.
(or soigneur) of Sark.
In feudal Sark, transportation On their abatute books, the depends on horse or man-power. original rulers of Sark scribbled Her full title is Dame Sybil of the English Channel, an island The importation of automobiles la quaint laws, most of which are Sark, thirty-second Lord of Sark. three miles long and one mile wide, forbidden. The island's scenery still enforced. No one but the Her real name is Mrs. Sybil Mary with a population of G40.
is among the most beautiful in island's ruler may keep pigeons; Sark'a 40 farmers and their Europe. Such ronda as the one no one but the ruler may keep a was Sybil M. Collins. She is de familles Hvo In quaint stone shown in the accompanying layout, female dog. Sark was given to scendant of Heller de Carteret. houses which are spread over the cut through brilliantly-hued rocks, Mrs. Hathaway's ancestors by who in 1572 became first ruler of island. Landlord of the tiny state are common. Technically citizens Queen Elizabeth of England in six- Sark.
Great Britain (who owns it), of England meat Sark natives teenth century, she inherited dic. but the King of England is "boss" spenk French; all men serve in the tatorship from her father six years is name only. Still in effect is militia, and each must spend two ago; her husband is regarded as the strict feudal system that in days a year helping to fix thea consort_only, has no ruling England died with the Wars of roads.
power-B.C.P.
All of which is to say that she is the world's only woman dictator, She is ruler of the Isle of Sark, in
Crimean War Veteran
Secretary of the United Staten CHIEF OF HISTORIC
Navy, whom many bellove to be the finest helmsman in Amerlen. It will be recalled that in the last trial to select the America's Cup defender he was defeated by Mr. Vanderbilt by only one second.
Yankee's designer, Mr. Frank
G. Paine, is another member of Der "afterguards the "Amer
CLAN
SIR FITZROY MACLEAN
When Colonel Sir Fitzroy Mae-
Crimean War, celebrates his 100th birthday at his ancestral home, Duart Castle, Isle of Mull, on May 18. he is to be the recipient of a signal iribute of affection from members of the clan of which he is the twenty-sixth hereditary chief,
icans style the officers and amalean, one of the survivors of the teurs in their vessels. Mr. F. C. Paine's knowledge of the rigging of big vessels is unrivalled. An- ether distinguished amateur sailor who will sail in Yankee is Mr. Jack Parkinson, is services were requested for Kainbow when she defeated the British challen- ger Endeavour. He is known to many English yachtsmen, for he was aboard Higland Light in the Atlantic race 1931. The owner of Yankee. Mr. Gerard B. Lambert, who, too, is a talented belmsman, will take part in all the contests over here.
During her Atlantic. voyage Yankee will be commanded by her designer, Mr. Paine. Yankee's new steel mast has been unshipped ready for transhipment in the Olymple, and she will make the ocean passage under jury rig. This new mast is a spar similar to Endeavour's.
SEEKING FOR “IDEAL VOICE” ·
TELEPHONING TIME
WITH CHARM Fifteen thousand Post Office women telophonists in England will soon be taking part in a com- petition to find the perfect tele- phone voice.
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Macleans in all parts of the world have contributed to a hound volume containing their sina- tures, and this will be handed to Sir Fitzroy as an expression of the
delity of the great family over Which he traditionally presides.
Recently Sir Fitzroy was slight ly indisposed, but he is happily improving, and his birthday will be duly kept with members of his family, including his twenty- years-old grandson, who is heir to the Scottish baroneley created in 1631.
Throughout the
itges the Macleans have been warriors. The founder of the clan was Gillean nan Tunigke ("Gillean of the Battle Axo"), whose grandson fought at Bannockburn. Other clan leaders fell in subsequent battics. The family. suffered greatly for their adhorence to the Stuart cause, and the fifth baronet was Imprisoned for two years at The "ideal voice" is needed to Edinburgh for his part in enlist- make sound film'records in connecing Scotsmen for the French army tion with the automatic "talking clock" system, which Post Office in aid of the Jacobite cause. ongineers have devised to tall sub- scribers the time when they ring up their exchange,
Prizes will be offered to the first seven successful competitors, consisting of £10 104. for, the "Ideal voice": 35 5s, for the next best; and five prizes of £2 28, cach to the "talkers up."
The final test will be carried out In London. The voice of the win- ner, it is stated, will possess purity of tone and clarity of enanelation, #together with a charm which will
treasured relics of ancient Scottish Sir Fitzroy, who possesses many
seventeen joined the 13th Hussars, days and wars, as a youth of which, nearly twenty years after- wards, he commanded. It was with the 13th Light Dragoons, however, that he saw service in Inconically recorded that he was Bulgaria and the Crimea, and it is prosent "at the cavalry affair at Buljanak, the battle of Alma, and the siego of Sobastopol.":
STRAIGHT ON
Great crowds watched the elimination tests for the 1,000 miles Rully at Eastbourne which recently took place
on King Edward's Parade.
Thousands of workmen are working day and night to complete the buildings for the great exhibition in San Diego, California, which has to be opened on the 28th May. The picture above shows workman paving a
street in the Spanish town of the exhibition-jy nog
divulge her desire to serve the Ho is one of the last living links mission in 1852. public in a manner worthy of the with the Duke of Wellington,
the family seat, was seized by the one years" ago, when Sir Fitzroy great organisation she represents." from whom he received his com- Macleans took part, Duart Castle, There it lay humbled until twenty restored.
After Culloden, in which many English and razed to the ground, acquired it and had the building
KLIM-
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The special process used in making Klim greatly reduces the size of the butterfat globules and makes the curds fino and soft and easy for the baby to digest,
Recently three Japanese scientists have studied the digestibility of Klim, and have stated in a scientific article that "Klim showed the highest apparent digestibility."
KLIM
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