THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1938.
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BESIDE THE SEASIDE
REMEMBER it all so well.
There was the sense of growing excitement, the spades of many sizes which 1 carried When you dress your car, do a com-like golf clubs, the two (or was Don't stop with polish it three?) blasts of the whistle pleto Jah... ing or waxing the body and cleaning which on this grent occasion I the windows... dress the tires als was allowed to blow at the street with WHIZ WHITE TIRE COATING.
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Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1938.
WHO SHOULD RUN THIS RAILWAY?
station yard.
The next half hour was a kind of delirium. I can still savour the pungent delicious smell of trains, and the sense of Paradise Regained with which I sank into my corner of the carriage when the train had at last backed down the platform und battle for seats was over.
my trance.
rae
I
"O-DAY is Whit-
TODAY is Whit
England, hundreds of thousands of holi- day-makers will trek to the seaside. In this article, the wri- ter traces the history of the seaside resort until to-day when it has become the fa- vourite rendezvous of England's holiday- makers.
new
Sea-
to all the Watering and Lakes." It mentions not only Brighton, Margate, Weymouth
BY
and Scarborough, but Bognor ARTHUR
Broadstairs, Cromer, Dawlish, Eastbourne, Hastings, Ilfra-
BRYANT
combe, Ramsgate, Southend, Teignmouth and Yarmouth, and, what is even more astonishing, that last word In modernity, Blackpool, which is described as
Bathing was only considered an "abode of Hygeia."
safe if taken slowly and de- The book gives some interest- liberately. ing details about bathing. At
For over
century the Brighton the gentlemen resorted English watering-place offered to machines on the west side of little to holiday makers beyond the town and the ladies on the its bathing benches, cliffs and "Thus public decency is caves, a visit to the circulating preserved, without which no library and an occasional dance and a game of cards at the At Blackpool, where the sexes assembly rooms. shared the same machines a bell
enst.
well-bred society can exist.”
HO many fine shops, cinemas, bandstands, Bloodlit bathing- pools, amusement parks, winter At Margate, where a daily gardens, and hotels that even. the ocean has to take a back invasion of Londoners
and
arrived
This
IN
gome-
the free and happy, with the pil was rung at the hour set apart joie de vivre has begun to But lately our old English wallet-the for ladies. grim's staff and
If after that any reassert itself. To-day, as the round-trip season ticket of those
gentleman WAS
оп scen the speed-boats fly through the surf I did not read in the train:
ride in parade he forfeited a bottle of and streamers and brightly glued my nose to the window days-and tramp or
great companies to Our Lady's wine.
coloured bathing dresses, gleam it Jund kept there. There
Excent ni Cowes, where in the sunshine, one can fancy remained the and her terbury or some other famous "many gentlemen walk along the oneself for a moment back in
in a kind of ecstasy, Shrine at Walsingham or Can-
sequestered beach towards what Merry England. flying past me as the milestones resort or pilgrimage.
commit lo paradise. Even the erumby After the Reformation, when is called Egypt, and
A modern watering place its clients a great deal jegg sandwiches eaten out of a the days of pilgrimage came to themselves to the waves with- offers
any ceremony," bathing more than the sea. There are bag between Salisbury and an end and the holy wells and out Yeovil Junction scarcely broke springs were voted idolatrous, machines were de rigueur.
English doctors found an excuse pilgrimages by pre- Later, as the slow train be for
waters were tween the main line and our tending that the
In the seventeenth destination wound its way down medicinal, some deep green western valley, century Englund possessed hun-
it one knows that famous "hoys," a lady bathing where near, but it is possible I would fean out of the window dreds of inland watering-places throughout the summer in the place. As in the Queen Mary,
for their
in a machine was charged 18. It is only a question of time to catch the first sniff of the where people came
and paid exorbitant
to pass one's time very agree- Every now and then a health
a gentleman 1s. 6d. until the Canadian National sea.
ably without seeing much of it. included the cost of a guide, Both for grown-ups and Railway system is absorbed by smut from the engine would get prices for lodgings.
The most famous of these was without which this new aport children. the seaside is a far the Canadian Pacific Railway, in in my eye anti half blind me, but
with- Bath, where the waters rose
was scarcely considered safe. the view of many of the leaders nothing could make
"like
more amusing place than it was For royalty, bathing entailed in Canadian public life. This draw my head till a line of blue bubbling hot and tasted
twenty or
ago, thirty years even greater ceremony, as we There is more to do, more free- problem of the Dominion is one horizon told me that my goal the water that boils eggs."
I remember that Here the English first acquired know from an entry in
Fanny dom, more gaiety, more bright- not generally understood outside was reached.
George ness, and more cameraderie. To- its borders and one which has always used to run behind the their love of bathing, solemnly Burney's diary about
"The King bathes and day a good English senside re very little apparent interest to tap that bore my parents and going into the water dressed in .:
garments with great success; a machine sort is as gay as any but the an outsider. But the fact is their luggage from the station stiff yellow canvas
blew follows the Royal one into the smartest continental plages (and that it merits a little study, for to our lodgings, for I was far which, when submerged,
perfect too excited to finish the journey out like balloons, "so that your sen filled with fiddlers who play far gayer, in my experience, seems, is
shape is not seen."
"God SAVE the King as his than most of the lessor ones) example of the advantages of in any other way.
The bath Was patrolled by Majesty takes his plunge."
and a great deal more clean and male and female guides to Committing oneself to
the tidy. that separate the sexes.
Afterwards bosom of Neptune, £19 our
A year ago I watched were carried to their ancestora called it, Was an Bank Holiday crowds nt & how bathers
Yet lodgings in sedan
chair, claborate business, and occupied famous watering-place. In the com- wrapped in a sheet and sweating a considerable part of the day. midst of so much happiness I has cost them many millions of
It has never petitive struggle and fashion profusely.
One generally begin by spending could not help recalling the Jable Puritanism of the Victorian It was not till the eighteenth an hour in the bathing rooms, rather drab caricature of such made a profit. Not even the Iperiod, the English were re- century that our ancestors first reading the papers, "thrumming a scene in a fashionable London genius of Sir Henry Thornton,nowned as the greatest lovers realised the possibilities of the a pianoforte, or in conversation revue, whose author could only directing the affairs of the vast of good living and merriment in sea as an excuse for an annual with fellow-expectants," while see in it a multitude of unhappy network of railroads owned by
holiday. Scarborough became waiting it the Government, could get
A people, smelling of perspiration, "out of the red, much less pay
Ages the famous about the time that machine.
with bad teeth, ugly, pale pin- anything towards reduction of English were famous for their Britons began to sing, "Rule,
ched faces and jarring voices. Weymouth was its enormous indebtedness. So habit of going on pilgrimages. Britannia."
Yet for almost every member It would appear, on the face of It wasn't so much that they made by King George III who
It was not unlike going to the of that crowd that day and national were particularly pious as that went there regularly for its sea doctor's to-day, and was still place meant # things, either that
glimpse of railway is not good business or they liked the journey and the bathing.
regarded more as a form of paradise-the idle, blissful hours holiday. As ROON as spring His son, the Prince Regent, medical treatment than 08 a of sunshine and fresh air, the else that Canadians lack some- thing essential in the organisa-came round they would leave crowned the vogue by making pleasure.
release from the monotonous
our "What," asks tion of profilable transportation. their villages and set off, care. a Sussex fishing village, called
author, imprisonment of office and far- Brighthelmstone, into the "can be more prejudicial and tory, the joy of new places and Canadian Pacific system pro-tracks run parallel and only a Brighton. All who could afford who have perspired for the round shops and promenade, and fashionable watering-place of preposterous, than for those new faces, the leisurely saunter vides an answer. There is prob-few miles apart. Moreover, they to do so followed his example. ably not a more efficiently run maintain, if the Canadian Pacific organisation anywhere. Its ser can take over the Canadian vice is beyond reproach. But, National and make a profit out then, the Canadian National of it, why cannot the country do railway in every bit as comfort the same? It is no answer to was an established institution. they cannot fail to be, the next able, every bit as fast, and every say that it has not. It would Before me is a book published morning to the shock
here, it
private as opposed to public ownership of transportation
Superior people often say systems, The experience of Canadians with their nationale English don't know railway has not been happy. I enjoy their holidays. prior to the intensive
dollars annually.
To
a
The latter suspicion
the
the world.
In the Middle
#
one's
for turn
the
greater part of the night in at the close, the atrains of the crowded and unwholesomely- band under the starlit · night heated rooms, to expose their sky:
O listen to the band, O don't you think it grand
By 1816 the seaside resort bodies, relaxed and feverish, as
of an
bit ая well equipped and probably be true to say that the in that year entitled "A Guide abrupt immersion into the sea?" organised. Why, then, does one Government has allowed too
line make money and the other much of politics to enter into the
for
the
Jose every year? It is running of its railway. Under GRIN AND BEAR IT problem which has worried the C.P.R. there would be none Canadian experts
many of that. If Sir Edward Beatty, years. In the first place the President of the C.P.R., thinks Canadian National started out as he can do it, it would be a good a Government-owned enterprise thing for Canada to put the under the handicap of a running of its line into the hands heavy indebtedness. Secondly, of this private company whose it was running in opposition to a experience assures at least as line whose reputation was that satisfactory a service as is pro- no system in the world surpassed vided at present and, according it. Thirdly, the Canadian to Sir Edward, a profitable one. National was tapping new terri- Canada cannot afford to experi- tory, and whereas Canada had ment
any longer with developed along the line of steel Canadian National railway. It that is the C.P.R. and con-is costing the taxpayers millions. sequently fed that company, the From the standpoint of an out- C.N.R. either had to serve the side observer it would appear new, raw north and west, or elementary that the Government else come into direct and close should jump at the chance to competition in centres where the shed this responsibility; but be- older line was already so well cause the line is valuable to established. It did both. More-political parties there is opposi- over, the C.N.R. could not afford tion to this plan, and the mere the time to build up alowly, for fact that the C.P.R. seems will- In order to compete at all it had ing to take over probably causes to offer at least equal quality certain suspicious persons to be- service to that of its competitor. lieve that the value of the rail- And so public ownership falled way has not been properly ap to make much of a showing-in precinted by its present owners. figures. However, it is a fact That is just possible, but doen that opponents of amalgamation not enter the calculation, have argued, that the country is obviously. The C.P.R. will not bound to grow in time to an ex-transplant the railway if it gets tent suficient to support both it finally. The line will continue Trailroads,
their to serve Canadians.
oven
where
Lapr. 1010 By Unidek Failure | spanla
By Lichty
"What if I am an hour late? I'm not one of those loafers who's always watching the clock!"
HUMOUR IN COURT
WHETHER the prize for uncon- W sclous humour should go 10 children or to defendants and wit- nesses in courts of law is a moot polat, Instances of child humour appeared in these columns recently. Here are sumples of the "evidence" in favour of Court humour. Weigh both sides up carefully and be the Judge.
The other day a woman defendant, a club secretary, rolsed a smile when she announced that "I did not know that they were police constables. I thought that they were gentlemen." The constables took it in good part, for they knew the way of witnesses, and remembered the one who a short time before had said:"As I passed the spot I noticed two police cara standing talicing to one another."
Most touching was the request of the motorist who naked that his fine be reduced because all his hire pur-
due. close payments had become But the woman who stated, "My husband wanted to start a money- lending business, but he couldn't find anyone to lend him the money to start I," rocked the Court.
A motorist, on being asked by his solicitor whether the constable had asked him whether he had read the Highway Code, smiled brightly us (Continued on Page 5.)
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