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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1937.
Beggar Settlement In Heart Just arrived!
Of Kowloon
20 HOVELS IN UNIQUE "TOWN" Wretched Lives Of Dregs Of Hongkong Humanity
Special To "Telegraph"
TO-DAY, I saw a. truly queer spectacle-a Beggars'
Settlement in the heart of Kowloon.
It is at the top of a little hill overlooking Hak Po Street in Mongkok; near enough to the Yaumati, Railway Station to be casily reached from it; but so ingeniously disposed behind a defensive ring of rocks as to be effective- ly screened from the general view.
Hard by is a Chinese School which at that hour had sent its children out to play on the hillside.
The way up to the settlement, cunningly hidden by rocks; is by a short, steepy path, cut out between sandstone walls. (Other pictures on l'age 17).
-Staff Photographer.
The average resident of Kowloon has probably never guessed the existence of the Settlement; but you can always depend upon some urchin to show you the way. This one from the School whom we selected, for no other reason that that he was the first with whom we gained contact, took us straight to the Settlement. He led the way with a sprightly, confident step that betrayed more than one surreptitious exploration visit already made.
The way was up a short, steep | But how can roofs be kept down path cut out between high rocky when a gale is blowing? And how walls. Over the summit on the by the combined effect of a molicy Jean such weight suffice as is wrought other side, it dropped abruptly collection of rocks, bricks, old wash- so abruptly that had it been basins, and pots and pang whose itself threatens to other than broad daylight we growing volume
see what it was he could have been mass? the Almay bring down the would
surely stepped | have
I do not know, but to the wretches so preoccupied with. Meat picked through the roof of the first hut who live within, they have served up in a near-by market was being boiled in the pot. One wouki nut we encountered.
us a home these mony years. Within
on the possiblities Ilke to dwell It stood not more than four feet the interior, it is true, there is not there. The meat looked none too high, with a little more then that much room even for a quadruped to clean, but he said it was better than
turn
itself around. Impossible to to have nothing and go hungry. again for width, and 1 poked at it, undetermined as to whether it was stand up creet within and not to in midden heap or a dog's kennel, put your head and shoulders through The little door
the roof; equally Impossible also to creaked noisily. leaped back quickly. umbrella in-stretch your legs and not put them stinctively
So in there you raised to the defensive, through the walls. feeling thankful that I had brought sleep perpetually curled up.
RAG-PICKERS I on that rainy day..
me
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LIVED THERE 6 YEARS
One of the oldest settlers; he had lived there six years. After such a long period, a hovel could become a home-n home to contain only a pot
One-Boy School
£180 A YEAR TO TEACH HIM ·
Port Hope (Ontario),
Mar. 1. Nothing to be alarmed about, as it On that rainy day, the Settlement or pan, with perhaps a little bunk HEAD of the school and junior praved. Only the head of a man appeared deserted. Perhaps,
boy, top of his class and like mised two inches over the damp soul protruding out of the opening, and the first, we might expect all the for a bed; but which, for all that bottom of it--this is the position
sense of pro- it was screwed sideways to direct a other denizens to keep imparts a fools Rot only of surprise but also of Thirty coppers could were insprietorship something vitally lack of Lee Cann, the only buy at reprouch!
noise when jingled in one's pockets, ing in an unsettled existence under the Pine Hill Rural School, near
There Heaven forgive me, I had almost und this alone in the modest form street verandahs,
After nil, that is what u diome real- into which my restricted means had ruined his honne!
MINIATURE TOWN
i promuted
It is estimated that this year his previously to change, ly amounts to.
the I counted more than 20 similar set up a clarion call which surely Once in while, a Sanitary education will cost
ratepayers hovels in This unique Beggars should have been heard from one Department man, who appears to about £180, two-thirds of which will Settlement. Some hud attached end of the Settlement to the other! have had his instructions from those pay the salary of his girl teacher. themselves to friendly, sheltering But most of the dwellers were in authority who evidently know of
The school trustees hoped at the boulders in much the
this Beggars Seillement, that one looks to a big brother for told. The only response was from round to inst that the spaces be- would be a new influx of pupils or beginning of the year that there Others had banded them-a couple of young scallawags He sees to
it would com fatto pussoned i havel between them wen these shelters are kept toler-that some of the older ones would against
and have requnçü unger to finish their a conspiracy of rain and also from an old fellow who, how nbly clean. He also stoops wind that was forever making
ever, could spare only the sentiest pokes his head, I dare-say in the education. Reuter. sport of the settlers' dwellings. The of attention, so absorbed was he same way ag I did, through each rudest possible structures, there is in something being cooked over doorway. and is impressed by an yet unsuspected strength in their fire, very lowliness.
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