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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1931.

THE CHINA MAIL.

RIDING THE BALL" BY SKY BOYS MID-LEVELS AFFAIR'S CHEUNGCHAU NOTES PROBLEM OF CHINESE

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-serpers

Crawling, climbing, swinging, swooping weaving a web that was to stretch farther heaven

ward than the ancient Tower of Bubel, 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 a floor a day coming up the straight, and that takes some spinning.

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

And with them rose a camera- man, always on the job Lewis W. Hine, the pictorial historian of the building.

He, too, learned to be a spider, a watchful one, smuggling. his camera to all kinds of dizzy perches. And thus he built up u

unique album of the human side of tower construction. The New York Evening Post calls it " saga of the men who, outlined against the sky on dizzy heights, Luse the iron of their nerves with the steel of the girders they build into modern cities," and continues:--

What Carl Sandburg has done for the Age of Steel in his poetry, Lewis W. Hine has tried to do pictorially.

Defy Death,

He has focused, his camera on the "sky boys" who "ride the ball" to the ninetieth floor or higher and defy death to the ataccato chattering of a pneuma- tic riveting-hammer...

From every height Mr. Hine has snapped these adventurous youths.

He has caught them gliding confidently across narrow girders with only the wind at their backs

for support, where a slip means

a horrible death.

He has pictured them swinging

on slender wires over streets a hundred storeys 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 aa muscular, clear-eyed, poised, I

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swung out over Fifth Avenue in a specially-adapted basket.

"Growing up with a building

DISCUSSED

Extensions to Motor Road Wanted.

CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND.

Concert and Guessing Contest.

RATEPAYERS' MEETING.

[From Our Own Correspondent.] Monday, Aug. 3.

On July 29 a concert was held in the Assembly hall. The Recrea tion Commitee arranged the pro- The Mid-Levels Residents' As-gramme the many items of which this way is like the account of sociation held its annual. general were well received. the strong boy (was it Hercules?) meeting in the Board room of who began lifting a culf each day Messrs. Shewan, Tomies & Co., lows so that when they had bath reached maturity he could shoul- yesterday afternoon, there being.a der the bull," said the photo- grapher to a Survey Graphic writer, who continues

fair, attendance.

In moving the adoption of the report and accounts, the Chair man, Mr. A. L. Shields, said in part:-

!

Five Deaths in 5,000. Hine is full of interesting in-

Our first business is to adopt the formation that he has picked up, Report and Accounts fer the past on his way up, such as that the year. There have been printed and girders were in place

on the circulated, as usual, to all members building in New York eight and residents of the Mid-Levels so hours from the time they were far us we know, therefore everyone finished in Pittsburgh; that with an average of five thousand interested has been informed of the activities of the Association for the men employed on the building as it rose to its 102 storeys, only betterment of the district in which five men were killed, an unusual-we have, our homes. Following our ly low number. But he is most usual custom, I will touch on some of all interested in the actual of the matters which have engaged human beings he is. photo-the attention of your Committee graphing; he calls these work- met. men scraper."

IN MEXICO;

Agitation for Expulsion Renewed.

BITTER DISCUSSION.

Mr. Samuel S. Young, former Chinese Consul-General at New

The programme was as fol-York, who is now the Chinese Minis- ter to Mexico, is finding the "yellow peril" a topic of increasingly bitter

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Part I

Depressed business

1. Trick Solo-Mr. M. W. Rankin, political discussion and agitation in 2. Recitation-Billie Kelly, Donald that Republe.

Becking, Dennis Bray, Wallace

conditions Desterhaft Junior Rankin, throughout the country recently Harold Stores...

have accentuated the difficulties of and the problem created by the resid-

3.

Guitar Duet-Mr. Doyle James Rousseau,

4.

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Monologue.

Guitar Solo-Mr. M. W. Rankin,

6.

7.

8.

Reading Miss White. Trombone Solo-Mr. Rankin. Guitar Dust-Mr. Doyle and

Mr. Rankin.

9.

Representation of Characters In History and Mythology.

cnce of many thousands of Chinese in Mexico,

Expulsion of the Asiatics for the benefit of Mexican business men.

labourers and domestic servants who presumably would fill their places, is being discussed constant- ly by the Press and the politicians. Mr. Young.. who spent several months in Mexico' Charge

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Part II.

1.

A monologue--Helmet-Saures.

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3.

A sketch-Ruth Mitchel, Fage during his brief stay in Mexi Rankin, Doreen Watson. Character Impersonation, Song ating somewhat

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Our efforts in impressing upon, "the spirit of the sky-Government the urgent necessity He is full of admiration for for adéquate transport facilities to the nonchalant way in which the Mid-Levels eventually bore they defy the law of gravitation. was completed and, as we all know, fruit last year when the motor road "These experiences," he

says,

in use. It has "have given me a new zest of it is very much high adventure, and, perhaps, a

been suggested that certain different note in my pictorial inprovements might, with advantage, terpretation of industry."

be carried out on some of the bends And now that the great siker-leading up from Bowen Rond, but trimmed shaft is cleared of de-before approaching the P.W.D. we bris and full of inquisitive hhave thought it a good opportunity to manity, what is the attitude of ascertain your views at this meet-9. the men who did the job? Aing, when it is' thrown open for dis- seemingly semi-inspired inter-cussion. pretation of their point of view

When the plans for the motor 11 is offered by Earl Sparling in the road were originally drawn up by New York: World-Telegram. Government, they provided for 12..

He couches his atory in terms facilities from Magazine Gap and of an imaginary monologue from through Queen's Gardens, and it is one skyboy to another, in the hoped these extensions will be put mood of emptiness and depression in hand as soon as funds are avail. that comes when the big job is able. done, and life holds nothing but a vague thought of the next tower to be built.

Reminiscences.

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Bus Services.

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13.

taken by local officials to drive

Duet and Recitation-David Chinese from their homes and

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places of business evoked A and highly satisfac- itory reply from President Ortiz Character Impersonation and Rubio himself. The President's Song-Dan Ray,

word, which

addressed. Sketch-Paul Kelly and Eliza-

to, the chairman, of 森 Chin- beth Rousseau

ese committee in Mexico City, gave Character Impersonation and assurance that the rights of for Song-Francia-McMillan. Violin Solo-Charles Morrison. were to be respected scrupulously.

feigners, regardless, of nationality, Monologue-Doreen Watson,

Instructions Violated. Helgo Franze. J

It was announced that instruc- Character Impersonation with tions conveying the sense of the Chorus-Alvin Mitchel.

Sketch-Junior Kelly, Cornella President's message were sent to Leavell and Seven Little Girls; but the Chinese Legation in Mexico Jofficials throughout. the Republic, Muriel Becking, Verna Mc- Clure, Esther Burt,

City has been informed of cases in Jean

which the instructions were appar- Shence, Evelyn Rousseau, Sybilently violated, and the popular de- Chorus by all of cast. Rousseau, Barbara Bray.

mand for expelling the Asiatics or boycotting their business enter-

Senor Jose Angel Espinosa, for- prises appears to be gaining ground. mer member of the Sonora legisla

15. Sing.

As mentioned in the circulated 14. report, The Inspector General of Police turned down the Hong Kong Tramway Company's application cial interest as the children who The guessing contest was of spe-

pessimist that fogs and rains to May Road, the reply being that led and sustained their characture, in an interview just published

of a bus service took part had been carefully train will always conspire to shroud Government did not see its way to

Even the weather is all wrong.

It seems to this "morning after" for consideration

the noblest trophy of sky-boy permitting such a service at the era" very well. toil. And go:-

present time-this was on Novem-

cision.

in the most important dailles of Mexico. City, has renewed the fre Typhoon Damage.

quently reiterated charge that Up here, 102 storeys high, a ber 24 last. Nothing has happen quarter of a mile above the side-ed since and I think the Association done to gardens and tree planta-siding illegally in Mexico.

Apart from considerable damage many thousands of Chinese are re- walk, you really can't see very might approach the Authorities and tions, the only serious loss was the The former deputy declares that much.

ask them to reconsider their de-destruction of a small motor yacht careful estimates indicate that the That, Joe, is the joke of it. Remember, we

owned by Mr. Doyle, the engine-of total number of Chinese in the coun talked about Children's Playground.

Of that months ago, when you and

which may be salved but the beat'try is approximately 250,000. The next matter I would like to is completely wrecked. the rest of the gang were topping, say a few words about is the need

¡these scarcely one-third are able to out on the eighty-sixth floor.

Telephone communication with prove that they were admitted leg- for a Children's Playground. This Hong Kong was interrupted for a ally as immigrants while the other and self-confident creatures whom You said, "We'll build them has been emphasised for the past short while owing to the typhoon. two-thirds entered aurreptitiously. Lysippus or Phidias would have higher than this some day."

five years, but we do not appear to delighted to model in imperish-And you added, "But what's the get any further. We have had

many with the connivance of Mexi Religious. use? When you get up this high, great hopes on each occasion that

'can-immigration officials who were On Sunday the usual Sunday bribed. Mr. Hine, who has developed | all you get is rain and fog.”. the vote was included in the draft school was held. There are fewer Espinosa urges a speedy check of for himself the profession of It seems a long time now, Estimates, but ultimately we have children on the island than last the credentials of every Chinese in that day when the forge fire always, been told that, owing to year, when they numbered over 80. the Republic, with a view to the im glowed right in the middle of the more pressing wants, this very The Rev. J. A. Kempf opened the mediate deportation of all unable eighty-sixth floor and the tower

able marble.

sociological photographer by using his camera to record social progress, was commissioned by the builders of the Empire State Building to picture each step in the erection of that tallest sky- scraper.

White Hot Rivets in the Clouds. The result, we learn, is a mass 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 Even- ing Post speaks of one of the photographs thus:-

'ence..

was still just a mass of over necessary adjunct to the amenities adult Bible study of the season, and to prove the legality of their resid- girding against a rainy sky. It's of the neighbourhood has had to be in the afternoon Rev. J. C. Mitchel

shelved until the next year. If conducted the service. The service; Officials at the Chinese Legation different now.

the need were apparent five years next Sunday will be conducted by at Mexico City said that they have Everything is, warm and cosy up here now. Men in spats are age it is doubly so to-day with the well-known evangeliat, Rev. Ley records of only 20,000 Chinese liv- standing in line, at $1 per, to look motor traffic on the road; con-land Wong. This will form a fitting ing in Mexico, and that of this out over thebulwarks, and sequently I enggest that the Incom- introduction to the Bible Confer number approximately 1,000 reside] young mothers are bringing their their particular attention

ing Committee give this matter ence, commencing on the following in Mexico City.. children up, and over on one of feel that something must be done several meetings will be held each as we Monday in connection with which the soft bamboo settees two and that quickly to minimise the day until Friday. young tourist newly-weds are risk of accident to children playing making love shamelessly....

Seeing those mothers with on the road by endeavouring to keep

their children reminded me of

them off it. It is hoped that Gov-

Residents Association.

The great majority of the total number reside in the northern States, where they are farmers, shop-keepers, labourers, servanté and laundrymen.

At least 18,000 of the 20,000

The annual meeting of the something, Joe. You didn't pay ernment will reserve a alte before Cheung Chau Residents Associa much that day, but I sort of got all likely places are taken up for tion was held on Monday morning. Chinese registered at the Lega- A fair attendance of membera and tion are men, a fact which has the idea. It wasn't what you garages, etc.,

house owners was present. The created one of the most serious Unnecessary Noises.

One of the pictures which has attracted attention is of a work- man swinging out from the building at a terrifying height, said but the way old Freddy to which Mr. Hine has given the hunched over the wheel-barrow My next remarks concern un-chair was taken by Rev. J. C. Mit problems connected with the Chin- nootic title of "Icarus." The fire when I mentioned the lives necessary noises in the neighbour-chel who was supported by Mr. A. ese population of Mexico. Inter name was suggested by the fact lost.

hood-L. refer to the Police Revolver C. Frank, Hon Secretary and marriage with Mexican women— especially marriage by common law I got to thinking to-day and I Range. As the report discloses, we Treasurer, tried to pick out the shaft that wrote to the Colonial Secretary The Rev. A. H. Bray was elect--is widespread and has aroused In photographing workers on carpenter went down. I couldn't about the nuisance caused by ed President. Reports of the vari- strong opposition even in quarters the mooring-mast, Hine was find it.

revolver practice carried on in the ous Committees were given by Rev. where the competition of Chinese building adjacent to the LRC. A A Kempf (Reyigious Services in business or agriculture has no lack of consideration was shown in Committee), and Mr. Becking (Re- effect. Even at the present level of the choosing the present spot In such creation Committee). franc, this was an expensive ser-close proximity to a residential The following officers were elec- vice, but, on the other hand, the area, and although the banging has edi

that the figure expresses the sense of flight. **

AIR MAIL SERVICE.

Aeroplane Catapulated from Ship.

There is a lot of interest in

really satisfactory six mall service

ting short the mail time by

Finance Committee-Rev.-A., F.

company has to consider its finances been restricted to certain hours President-Rev. A. H. Bray, let. Desterhaft, Mrs. Kelly, Mr. and Mrs. as a whole, and there is no doubt following our representations, even Vice-President Mr. H. W. Becking; Franklin. that the placing of the catapult in now much irritation is caused when 2nd Vice-President--Rev. A F.

Mr. Franklin presented a balance the middle of the passenger accom-firing takes place between the Desterhaft medation is no convenience. To hours of 5.80 p.m. and 7.80 p.m. A special vote of thanks was sheet which, in spite of unusual out- Western Ocean circles in the begin with it was good publicity, at a time when most of us are offered to Mr. and Mrs. Franklin ay was in a satisfactory condi- various attempts to maintain a but that side is finished now, and it entitled to a little peace and quiet for their past services, and they ten

is purely a matter of finance; whe He formally proposed the adop were re-elected to the offices of Hon. A special vote of thanks was ther a satisfactory compromise can tion of the report and accounts for Secretary and Treasurer, passed to Itev. and Mrs. Desterhaft "In conjunction with the linera, cut be reached remains to be seen. 1950.

The following were nominated for their generous gift of an organ Mr. Lobel Seconded. Carried. and elected on the Religious Ber for use in the Hall,, also to Mrs. The following were elected on the vices Committee Franklin for the offer to meet the Committee VERA SYThe Rev. J. A. Kempf and Rev. expenses of a thorough overhaul.

Messra. A L. Shields, J. HAF. Desterhaft (re-elected), Mr. The meeting then adjourned and are approaching the United States per a

H.B.Mriver gunboat Teal is for Backhouse, JT Bagram, Chan Greene, Rev, WW Clayson and was followed by the meeting of Lim-pak, L. Dunbar, Henry Hum Rey, Geo, McNeures du house Liners and Mission repre

On the Recreation Committen:sentativos, phreys, HHH Stokkink, J. Stuart, TA, Martin, Mrs. MT. Rankin, Mr. Becking, As Mr. Wetton was no longer a Hrs. G. Harman, and Miss M

rs. Jolinson; Mr. Dayle house owne

owner, his name and that of Russel

Rev. E. C. Mitchel were withdrawn, foot of next Column from the Board of Management. Dr. MeCluze was elected as the British Representative and Rev. Rousseau

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