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SATURDAY, JULY

1931.

"RIDING THE BALL" BY SKY BOYS

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Men Who Cannot Afford to Fall. BUILDING IN CLOUDS.

Like little spiders they toiled, spinning a fabric of steel against the sky, says the Literary Digest in a summarised story of sky scrapers: Crawling, climbing, swinging swooping-weaving a web that was to stretch farther heavenward than the ancient Tower of Babel, or than all the older towers of the modern Babel, as Manhattan has sometimes been tagged.

All weathers alike, close on a quarter of a mile skyward in a year - foor a day coming up the straight, and that takes some spin-

ning.

Up to where "Bryant Park is a pancake," us The New Yorker puts it, "and the Statue of Liberty something to throw at a cat."

"Growing up with a building this! way is like the account of the strong boy (was it 'Hercules?) who began lifting a calf each day so that when they had, both reached maturity he could shoulder the bull," said the photographer to a Survey Graphic writer, who con tinues:

SOPHISTICATED

CEYLON.

Cannot Really Credit

Mermaids.

"NOT SO BACKWARD.”

THE CHINA MAIL.

VOLUNTEER CORPS.

Orders for the Coming"

Week.

AQUATIC SPORTS DATE,

♪

Orders by Lieut-Colonel LG. Bird, D.S.0,, 0.B.E, commanding Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, are as under

PARADES.

Corps Signals. Parade at Corps Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, to proceed to Kennedy Road Range,

Parade at Corps Headquarters at 6.30 p.m. on Friday, for Signalling Instruction,

Armoured Car Company. .ac-

Д

Judge delivered the following in-ver.

Instructors

-DEAD COLONEL

MYSTERY.

'Gurkha Charged with

Murder.

AN ACCIDENT?

Rangoon, June 10. It is believed in some quarters that, with the arrest of a Gurkha ex-Sepoy employee of the late Colonel Morshead on a charge of the latter's murder, the mystery surrounding the Colonel's death has been solved.

That not even the most ignor- ant villager in Ceylon believes in the existence of the mermaid is the view of Mr. A. G. Ranasinha, Police Magistrate of Badulla, be- Five Deaths in 6,000.

fore whom a man named K. Don Hine is fult of Interesting in-de Silva, of Badulla; was

running formation that he has picked up, on charged with

Show. The

It appears that the Gurkha his way up, such as that the girders Mermaid

the building in cused got a woman of Miraha-

Car Section. Parade at Headquar-was out' shooting wild-fowl with were in place on New York eight hours from the watte, In Bandarawela; to act ters on Monday. Those who did his master's double-barrelled gun time they were finished in Pitts- the part of the fabulous cren- not fire at Kennedy Road last Mon- when one of the shots was dis- day to proceed to Kennedy Road charged from the gun stock, 'The burgh; that with an average of five ture.

employed...on the In acquitting the accused, the to fire Part 1. Instructional Revol- Colonel, who was coming upon thousand men

Remainder Revolver Drill. him, remonstrated and the in- building as it rose to its 102 storeys, only five men were killed, an un- teresting judgment:--

Class-Friday atcensed Gurkha, it is alleged, And with them rose a cameraman, usually low number. But he is most "It must be presumed that Headquarters at 6.90 p.m.

thereupon fatally shot the Col- in the actual Ceylon is not so backward a coun- Machine Gun Company. oncl. always on the job-Lewis W. Hine, of all interested

Parade on Tuesday, at 5.30 p.m. the pictorial historian of the build-human beings he is photographing: try that even its most ignorant

he calls these workmen "the spirit villager should not believe that an mufti. ing.

He, too, learned to be a spider, a

of the sky-scraper."

mermaid is a creature existing N.C.O.'s under C.S.M. Slattery, watchful one, smuggling his camera

He is full of admiration for the in a mythological universe only. Recruits under Sergeant C. E. M. to all kinds of dizzy porches. And nonchalant way in which they defy There is no evidence that these Terry. thus he built up a unique album of the law of gravitation. "These ex- who went to see the accused's Signallers as detailed below: the human side of tower construc-periences," he says, "have given me show did not pay the 15 cents Ptes. S. A. Gray, M.C., W. D. tion. The New York Evening Post a new zoet of high adventure, and, per head willingly for the plea-Johnson, R. S. Meadows, G. C. Moss call it "a anga of the men who, perhaps, a different note in my ple- surable satisfaction of momen- and J. E. Richardson. outlined against the sky on dizzy torial interpretation of industry." tarily transporting themselves Company Rifle Club fire on the

And now that the great silver from the sordid material work Peak Range on Sunday, July 12 at Colonel H. T. Morshead, Direc trimmed shaft is cleared of debris of cares and troubles into an-19 a.m. for individual Spoon Shoot tor of the Burma Circle Survey and full of inquisitive humanity, other world of mythical fancy. and Company Commanders' Cup. of India, went riding in the what is the attitude of the men who In other words those who paid Range Officer-2/Lieut. V. C. morning of May 27, at eight

o'clock. did the job? A seemingly semi- the money to see the ingenious Branson, M. C.

of their device of the accused consented The Officers commanding the inspired Interpretation point of view is offered by Earl to be deceived, so to speak, I undermentioned Units will leaue Sparling in the New York World- discharge the accused. I can their Orders separately to their

see very little difference be-commands: Telegram.,

tween the conduct of the accused and that of any theatrical mana- ger or of a dexterous conjurer. No offence, in my opinion, has been committed."

.heights, fuse the iron of their

continues:

nervce with the steel of the girders They build into modern cities, and What Carl Sandburg has done for the Age of Steel in his poetry, Lewis W. Hine has tried to do pictorially.

He has focused his camera on the "aky boys" who "ride the ball" to! the ninetieth floor- or higher and defy death to the staccato chatter riveting of 1 pneumatic

ing hammer,

From every height Mr. Hine has snapped these adventurous youths. He has caught them gliding con- Adently across narrow girders with only the wind at their backs for support, where a slip means a hor- rible death.

-He his pictured them swinging on slender wires over streets a hundred

stories below.

These pictures make it easy to understand the speed and skill with which modern sky-scrapers are erected.

For the men who appear tiny as flies to the spectators in the streets beneath are shown here as muscular, clear-eyed, poised, and self-confident creatures whom Lysippus or Phidias would have delighted to model in imperishable marble.

He couches his story in terms of an imaginary monologue from one skyboy to another, in the mood of emptiness and depression that comes when the big job is done, and life holds nothing but a vague thought of the next tower to be built.

Reminiscences,

Even the weather is all wrong. It seems to this "morning after"

pessimist that fogs and rains will always conspire to shroud the noblest trophy of sky-boy tall. And

.BO:

Up here, 102 storeys high, a quar- ter of a mile above the sidewalks, you really can't sea very much.

That, Joe, is the joke of it. Remember, we talked about that

BRITISH DANCERS.

Fine Perforinances at

King's Theatre.

An excellent show la provided at the King's Theatre by Peggy and Guy, British acrobatic dancers.

Though handicapped by the smallness & the stage the caveman

Even scanty

1. Corps Band.

2 The Battery,

3. Engineer Company,

14.

Machine Gun Troop

5. Armoured Car Company

Motor Cycle Section,

6. Scottish Company,

7. Portuguese Company.

Struck of the Strength. Having completed 3 years' ser- vice No. 868 B. Q. M. Sgt. J. P, A.; Davis, Battery, from 26.5.81.'~

Permitted to resign-No. 1869 Pte. B. P. Massey, No. 1 Flatoon, as from 27.6.81.

Strength. The following have been taken on Corps Strength

F. E. Filmer, Sigm. H. J.

It is further reported that the Gurkha made a statement alleg- ing that he was out shooting when he accidentally shot Mors- head. The Colonel remonstrated and, while he was attempting to pall the gun away, a shot from his left barrel was discharged and the Colonel received a fatal wound..

Later his pony returned rider- less and bearing bloodstains.

It was subsequently reported that Col. Morshead's body had been discovered lying on a side of the track on one of the hill- rides out of Maymyo town, with gun-shot wounds.

NOTE ISSUES

Official Monthly Returns,

OVER $161 MILLIONS.

amount of banknotes in circula-

The returns of the averaga month ago, when you and the rest and the cavewoman dance is parti-Fountain, Tpr. B. C. Field, Tpr. D.

tion and of specie in reserve. ing. of the gang were topping out on the cularly effective"

K. Hislop a steel w leopard skins must be trying to eighty-sixth floor.

You said, "We'll build them wear in this weather but nothing (gd) W. H. G. GOATER, Captain, Hong Kong, during the month Adjutant, H.K.V.D.C. ended June 30, 1931, as cer- tified by the Managers-of-the-res-- NOTICE AN higher than this some day." And daunts these energetic performers. you added, "But what's the use?

Aquatic Sports The Carpspective Banks is as follows:

Average Specle When you get up this high, all you

Aquatic Sports will be held at the

Banks

Amount. In Reserva get is rain and fog."

V.R.C. on Saturday, July 25, at 0

Chartered Bank p.m. and all ranks will be sent the

of India, usual circules for entries. All Australia and ranks are particularly requested to keep this date free.

Mr. Hine, who has developed for himself the profession of sociolo-

It seems a long time now, that gical photographer by using his camera to record social progress, day when the forge fire glowed right was commisstoned by the builders of in the middle of the eighty-sixth the Empire State Building to ple-floor and the tower was still just a ture each step in the erection of mass of steel girding against a that tallest sky-scraper.

• White Hot Rivets in the Clouds.

The result, we learn, is amasa of photography, all of which will be preserved in the building as a memorial to the men who swung the huge girders into place and fastened them with white-hot rivets. In particular, The Evening Post speaks of one of the photagrahs, thus:

One of the pictures which has attracted attention is of a workman swinging out from the building at a terrifying height, to which Mr. Hine has given the poetic title of "Icarus." The name was suggested by the fact that the figure expresses the sense of flight.

In photographing workers on the mooring-mast, Hine was swung out over Fifth Avenue in a specially adapted' basket.

CHURCHES

A CHARGE OF ONE DOLLAR 19 KADE FOR ALL NOTICES UNDER TH‍IS HEADING.

ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL HONG KONG

July 5, 8th Sunday After Trinity,

Holy Communion, Bam Holy Communion (Peak Church),

Children's Service, 10 a.m; Choral Eucharist

MET

¿Bcar.

rainy sky. It's different now.

over

Everything is warm and cosy up here now. Men in spats are stand- ing in line, at $1 per, to look out the bulwarks, and young mothers are bringing their children on one of the soft up, and over bamboo settees two young tourist newly-weds are making love shame- lessly,

Secing those mothers with their children reminded me of something, Joe. You didn't say much that day, but I sort of got the idea. It wasn't what you said but the way old Freddy hunched over the wheel- barrow fire when I mentioned the Ilves lost.

I got to thinking to-day and I tried to pick out the shaft that carpenter went down. I couldn't

find it.

LONDON GARDENS.

Never a Complaint of Destruction.

A PROUD RECORD.

China $28,990,208 $8,800,000* Hong Kong and

Shanghai

Banking Cor

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Breastila

Bank of In

dis, Ltd.:,... 6,829,088 1,850,0005

Total $161,958,806 $121,650,000 In addition Sterling Securities are deposited with the Crown Agents valued at £1,986,000. In addition Securities deposit

By the alde of flower beds now ined with the Crown Agents and

Btrafts Government valued at $2,932,618.

§ In addition Securities deposited with the Crown Agests valued. at £180,000. A

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Sunday, July 6, 1921.

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