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WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1933.

THE CHINA MAIL

P. & 0.-British India THE UPPER The Magnificent Morgan

Apcar and

BERTH

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Then another blow fell, The Com- United States Shipbuilding

financed strangely a

Morgan company,

Then he requested me to search the state-room thoroughly, an operation pay very soon Recomplished, as it consist $10,000,000. ed merely in looking beneath the low-crashed.

berth and under the couch bolow the porthole. The spaces were quite

gan the Magnificent."

He looked upon himself as a modern - counterpart of a "gors] geous Renalasance prince, and beamed with pleasure when com- pared to Lorenzo the Magnifi-

Gift To A King.

cent. Next came the great insurance scandal. A Government... inquiry

Eastern Australly impossible fold for for any the "Big Three" US. compaules, be sent him 100.000 tapestry.

Lines

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND).

MAIL AND PASSENGER, STEAMERS.

TAKING CARGO FOR

STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND

QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.

ing to

human being to open the port."

*

a

Morgan

He grew, both in the estimation

"Very good," said the captain calm with one of which Morgan was He paid for the electric light in- stallation of St. Paul's Cathedral. ly. If we see anything now, it must, closely identified.

It became a legend that the key be either

President Franklin Roosevelt Is Imagination or something| supernatural

launching the offensive against the political job in the United States, sat down on the edge of the low.

the Secretaryship of State, was al- banking houses to-day. er berth.

"The first time it happened." said In 1903 President Teddy Roose-ways given to some one the captain, crossing his legs and velt launched the first offensive supported... leaning back against the door, against the house of Morgan. In March The passenger who slept here in the apper berth turned out to have been a lunatic at all events, he was known to have been a littit Northern Pacific and Great North Beside J. P. Morgan, financial

he had. touched, and

his pass. taken

king of U.S., there was J. P. Mor age without

the knowledge of hern Railroad companies, friends. He rushed out in the middle Morgan furiously dashed to gan, a virtual Pope of the Ameri- of the night and threw himself over- Washington, strode into the White can Episcopal Church, and J.-P.. board before the officer who had the CUBI

House, and had a tremendous Morgan the Great Lover. We stopped watch could stop him.

He would go into an empty quarrel with Roosevelt. night, just before that heavy weather The case dragged on for two church and begin singing hymns summoned the organist to ac- company him, Few women could resist · his} leonine Jove-making. He had A curious disregard for,what

It took the form of a legality of himself and others, almost into test for the recent merger of the a god.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY and lowered a boat; it was a quiet

DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS.

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From Error About

1933.

5,200 4th May 17.900 0th May 14,000 20th May 6.800 27th May

3rd June 10,000 12,000 17th Juns 6,500 24th June

Destination.

Straits, Colombo & Bombay, Bombay, Marselles & London. Bombay, Marsefles & London. Bombay

Mles, Havre, L'don, H'burg, R'dam, Antwerp & & Hull. Bombay, Marseliles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London.

arseim Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London,

Hourg R'dam

Bombay,

camo

on;

but we could not And hyears, and in the end the Gonarn. alone until a deferential parson| or course, is suicide was afterwards

accou» insanity.

"I suppose that often happens?" 1Morgan captured the railroads of remarked, rather absently.

for on the ground of his ment won.

But in those two fighting years

"Not often--no,” said the "never before in my

captain; experience.

America.

In October 1907 Morgan's sat on

REDUCED ROUND TRIP FARES

ON SALE FROM JUNE 1st.

TO JULY 31st.

WITH RETURN LIMIT TO

SEPTEMBER 30th.

Hong Kong to

First Special Class Class

A

Honolulu and Return

Victoria and Return Vancouver and Return

Seattle and Return San Francisco and Return Los Angeles and Return ..

G$360 G$196

G$432 G$240

G$432

G$240

G$432

G$240

G$450

G$240

G$450 - G$246

any

though I have heard of it happening top of the world again. It was the one thought. He went to a church

by convention accompanied on board of other ships. Well, as

'great crash. was saying, that occurred in March.. On the

All sales stopped. The heart of famous beauty. next trip--what are you looking at?" he asked, stopping sud-Wall-street ceased to beat. Inter denly in his narration.

est rates leap to 150 per cent.

! 1 believe I gave no answer. My

eyes were riveled upon the porthole,

"While he conferred with men of, the cloth, the beauty waited out-

J. P. assumed despotic powers, side in the carriage,

It seemed to me that the brass loop-In his £70,000 New York library.

nu was beginning to turn very slow-surrounded by art treasures,

$20,000 Dowries.

be Tales of his Lucullen banquets.

the screw so slowly, however, that dealt in a paternal manner with spread; the favourite gifts to the was not sure it moved at all.

fixing its position great money barons, who clustered ladies were bracelets and necklaces

Antwerp & Hall, watched it and trying to ascertain round him like frightened little of diamond and pearl was the bur-

London. Marsellies & Bombay, Marseilles & London.

Havre, London,

in my mind whether it changed. Seeing where was looking the captain looked, too.

"It moves!" he exclaimed, in a tone of conviction. "No, it does not," no added, after a minute

"If it were the farring of the screw," said I, "it would have open- ed during the day; but I found it this evening jammed tight as I left,

this morning.

children. He allocated their pool-den of the tales,

ed resources as he though fit.

He was genuinely pleased when

J. P. Morgan, farmer's grand-Jone of his old favourites made a son, was, for the time, virtual happy marriage. dictator of U.S.

Ex-Morgan mistresses did not After that crisis he became enter matrimony penniless.

Morgan gave them £20,000 dowries. known as the Man Who Saved His Country.

11,000 1st July 17.000 16th July 6,800 22nd July Bombay, Marsterdam.

Hamburg & 17.000 20th July Bombay, Marseilles & London. 17.000 12th Aug. Bombay, Marseillen & London.

6,000 19th Aug. Bombay. Marseilles, Havre, London,

R'dam, Antwerp & Hull. 17,000 20th Aug.

London. 14,000

9th Sep Bombay, Marseilles & London. 6,000 10th Sept Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London,

H'burg, R'dam, Antwerp & Hull.

I rose and tried the nut. It was That was a change from a few

He died in 1913 aged seventy- 10.000 23rd Sept. Marseilles & London

certainly loosened, for, by an effort 14,000 7th Oct. Bombay. Marseilles & London.

could move it with my hands, years before, when they had sung six, leaving sixteen millions sterl 6300 14th Oct. Bombay, Marseilles. Havre, London,

Harg, R'dam, Antwerp & Halls that the second man who was lost

"The queer thing," said the captain, in the music halls, "Morgan, Mor-ing as well as his colossal busin- 11,000 21st Oct Bombay, Marseilles & London.

is supposed to have got through that gan, the great Financial Gorgan," ess.

In arrangements for his Some years before his death J. We very port. over it. It was in the middle of the P. Morgan senior could raise in a funeral he loncluded the recessional Who From night and the weather was very single day £100,000,000 for any ex-"For All the Saints heavy; there was an alarm that one!

Their Labours Rest"! terprise he liked to favour,

That was the great Morgan. of the ports was open and the sea and found running in. I came below

All Powerful,#

J. P. Morgan, the Second Was everything flooded, the water pouring

the contral of! she rolled, every time

nd the

He had a voice in

forty-six when he succeeded to the whole port swinging from the top properties worth £2,000,000,000- financial throne. Half his Ve bolts-not the porthole in the middle.

That was double the combined was spent in the shade Well, we managed to shut it, but thei water did some damage. Ever since revenue of the forty-three greatest father. that the place smells of sea-water nations of the world, nearly three:

The old man was gruff and im; We supposed from time to time.

the times as much as all the world's perious, of lightning decisions. The passenger had thrown imeek out, though the Lord only knows how he gold, coined and uncoined.

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1933.

6th May Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. 8,000

2.30 7,000 17th May ingapore, Penang & Calcutta. 10,000 24th MET Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. 10,000 10th June Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. 8.000 24th June Singapore, Penang & Calcutta, 8th July Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. $,000 7,000 22nd July | Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

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polite, deliberated long, uld it. The steward kept telling me Before he died his power became middle-aged man, was surve that he cannot keep anything shut such that it was well known that here. Upon my word, I can amell it he and his associates wielded a great hunting grounds of the world& naw, cannot you?" he inquired, sniff.;

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ye-distinctly.

that same odour

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94, the world before.

181 and 2nd class passengern,

I said, and I any set of private individuale in ja year.

In the war the house reached the When he caught a cold markets greatest heights of its history. the cabin. "Now, to smell like this,1

Shortly before his the place must be damp," I continu- weakened.

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jed, "and yet, when I examined it with death he could not visit the Tem- Through his house were negotiat- EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South), the carpenter this morning, everything ple of Karnak in Egypt because theed credits for some hundreds of

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3rd May Manila, Rabaul. Brisbane, Sydney, &

10 4.171. 7,000 2nd June 7,000 30th June

Serolar monthly sailings from * Hong Kong to Australia.

Hong Kong to Bydney-19 days.

Melbourne

was

jordin Perfect. It is most extra guards there would not allow him millions. These credits were not

My

lantern, which had been to drive round in any carriage ex for gold. They bought munitions reading placed in the upper berth, was sud- cent an invalid chair, and he knew from United States firms.- The denly extinguished. There was still a the disastrous effect it would have munitions went to France and good deal of light from the pane of ground glass near the door," behind in the New York stock market if

Italy, but the negotiations which loomed the regulation lamp, he rode in an invalid chair.

made by Britain. Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan The ship rolled heavily, and the cur. Never was the power of money so

berth swung far out upper Into the state-room and back again.. magnificently displayed as in "Mor

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I rose quickly from my seat on the

edge of the bed, and the captain at

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with a loud. cry of surprise.

were

The profits of the Morgan house on these deals have never been disclosed.

J. P. Morgan is one of the most I had turned with the intention of struck a violent blow at the dead be serious-minded men living. Other taking down the lanters to examine ing, and then, he, too, fell forward latter generation members of in- when I heard his exclamation, and upon his face, with an inarticulate ternational financial houses may

ery of horror, immediately afterwards his call for The thing paused an instant, scem spend their time in dissipation, but

towards him. He was

hover over

his prostrate body, J. P. Morgan to-day spends his restling with all his might with the ing to brass loop of the port. It seemed to and, I could have screamed again for time 5ghting the efforts of the I had no voice left. United States Government to make fright, but

turn against his hands in spite of all thing vanished suddenly, .and it)

Now the wheel has turned the full circle.

his engris caught up my cane, b heavy oak stick I always used to seemed to my disturbed senses that it him publish his accounts." All

made fis exit ring.

the through open port, through the history of the company carry, and throat it through the and bore on it with all my strength, though how that was possible, con- these accounts have been kept 10,000 3rd May Amoy. S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.

But the strong wood snapped sudden aidering the smallness of the aper-secret

than anyone Cent tell. 16,000 4th May Shanghai, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama. ly and I fell upon the couch. When ture, is more than 7,000 5th May Shel, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yhama rose again the port was wide open, lay long time upon the floor, and

my

Genace and 5,300 10th May Shai, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Nagoya, and the captain was standing with his the captain lay beside me. At last I 8,100 18

18th May Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. back against the door, pale to the partially recovered

moved, and instantly I knew that my 10,000 18

18th May Amoy, Shal, Moll, Kobe & Osaka, pa

There is

arm was broken the small bone of something In that berth!" 12,000 18th May Shanghai, Naji, Koba & Yokohama.

1st June Shanghal, Moji. Kebe & Yokohama. his cried in a strange voice, his eyes the left forearm near the wrist 8,000 1st June Amoy, S'hal

almost starting from his head. "Held I get upon my feet somehow, and June

rafen the S'hal, Moll, Kobe, Kobe & Osaka,

Kobe & Yokohama. escape us, whatever it is!"

This place, But instead of sprang which lay

the

n the Kaba & Orske led

berth

11,000

16th June Sha

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HONG KONG TIDES

Osaka & Yokohama (the door, "while I look it shall not with my plain, and Titried tanke paa

2000 18th June Shanghay Kobe & Yokohama, DET 17000

Cargo only.

June Amoy, S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Quaks.

Kobe

004. 29th June Amoy, t'hat, Yokohama

20th June July

€6,000

17,000 27ERM

-6,000.

9th Aug. 14,000 101% ARE.

18,000 24th

6,800 6th

14,000 7th Sept

11,000 21st Bapt.

4,100

17,000

Kobe & Kobe & Yokohama.

Takobama.

Kobe & Yokohama.

& Yokohama:

He groaned and Time Meridian. 120 deg, E. (Zone- came to himself 8); ooh. Is midnight, 12h. is moon. and at Inst

he seemed bad- Keights are referred to the datum stunned.

hear any the place and should be added to made to Well, do you

nothing more. That depths, unless preceded by an asterisk There more? It was something ghostly, horrible

end of my story The carpen() when they should be subtracted. moved in my is the words, and it

the body of grip

a man ter carried out his scheme of running It was like

May 2 to 8, 1983.03 long drowned, and yet it moved, and half dozen four-inch screws through

the had the strength of ten men

High Wat

A wood the largest seals "Admiralty chart" off

beyond

Kobe & Yokohama, jbuj 1 gripped it with all by might door of 105; and if ever you take

Kobs & Yokohama.

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me out of the dunk;

the

pulzid odour

advis

of rank sea water, was about. it and dead, thin its shiny hair hung in foul wat curia & finished over its dead face. I wrestled with cabin.

upon and a the dead things it, thrust itself

nearly and and, forced me back and broke my arms; it wound its corpse's arms about my neck, the living death, navas- and opertowered me so cried aloud and

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