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World Fair I Sa Moral.

There are almost as many pre- cautions for protecting the pockets and morals of visitors to the Chicago World Fair, now in full swing, as there are efforts to enter tain them. The roulette wheel; the dice board and other games - of chance, which have proved pitfalls for the unwary at some other ex- hibitions, are absent,

TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1933.

LONDON KEEPS THE WORLD WARM

ROMANCE OF GREAT

FUR AUCTIONS

BUYERS FLOCK TO BRITAIN

(By George Godwin.)

London. Just as they did in the early days, Only one tent bears the legend One of the great fur auctions of to-day the Hudson's Bay Company "Danding girls" and the pictures the year began here. recently. It collect the trappers treasure at outside would not shock the most will go on for three or four weeks. their far-flung trading posts, trad prodish visitor.

During that time around £2,000,000 ing posts that pepper the frozen Games of chance are confined to worth of furs will change hands. North from Baffin's Bay to the a place where baseballs may be At the long counters of the vast Athabaska country. And that is thrown and a tent where the visitor fur warehouse of the Hudson's Bay farther North than Central Green- may sit on a long, circular bench and Company at Beaver Hall, Little land. ·

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wager 6d against en aluminium Trinity-street, E.C., I watched the In these. fur-trading centres saucepan or a metal mixing spoon. white-coated dealers as they ex thousands of pounds change hands. And if a visitor should be given amined the furs with shrewd eyes In the old days there were wild short change he or she need only under a hard north light, and races by runners to meet the trap- shout. At least one of 3000 soldiers marked in catalogues as big as the pers and secure the cream of the for one of hundreds of police main-London Telephone Directory their]hunt. But that is all gone.

tained by the Century of Progress valuations:

Even so, to watch an Indian should be within hailing distance These men were the bidders at trapper playing commercial man is Detectives, with keen memories the suction. In many ways a fur still an impressive sight. He will for faces, will be at all railroad auction is unlike any other. Any-come, followed by his squaw and stations and keep out the persons body can go into this great ball, children, all gaudy in their silken who might try picking pockets or but the wise observer will keep his scarves, and squat upon the ground. selling public buildings to simple- hands in his pockets. Not because About him he spreads his catch. minded visitors.

he is likely to have his pocket pick- The trader, notbook in hand, ed, but because bidding at a fur casts an expert eye upon the wares. How London Helped. auction goes by signs almost imper: Very often, if he is dissatisfied The purchase was rendered pos- ceptible a mere movement of with the price offered, the Indian sible owing to a residue of profit still finger or a held pencil...

will pick up his wares and, follow- available from the exhibition ・ of That is why the auctioneer on the ed by his chattering family, go Italian art held in London in 1980. rostrum is flanked by clerks. They away. To this were added contributions are watchers, alert for the small But later he will return and take from the Italian Ministry of Educa-movement that may mean another what has been offered him..

Changing Fashions The China Mail more strongly in its favour, andtion and from Milanese patrons of £20 on the price of a coveted sea

fotter, most rare of all fur-bearing Fashions in furs change. They animals, a single specimen of which also vary from country to country. Metches about £200.

A Parisian woman likes · nothing Formerly the great fur maits of better than fisher-another fur we the world were at Leipzig, Berlin get from Canada-but English- and Amsterdam. The centre shift women scarcely know the name, and ed to London. The auction hall at even more seldom wear that fur, Beaver Hall is the central reservoir

The fisher is the king of the into which flow the many streams martea family. It resembles the of the fur trade, and out from it European fitch, and is one of the again.

most fashionable furs in Italy, to- la recognised exponent of fast

on March 17 published the White A census of the German popula-

For although the bulk of the day. ing for political purposes, seems Paper embodying its latest proton is to be taken in June. It may world's fur trade comes to London, Fox-silver, blue and cross-is | lately to be overstepping the] limit, both of safety to himself Posals, which give autonomy to surprise some people to know that most of the product is exported, the steady trade stand-by. It is

the Provinces and set up a Feder- Herr Hitler will only count as one. efther made-up or otherwise. and of effective policy. His

always popular, and to-day, because al Government, responsible to the

In those great store rooms, cover of the fall, in price and larger sup- gesture on this last occasion was Indian Parliament save on.cer-

· SPEED.

ing some 64,000 superacial feet of ply, fe more than ever. not directed against the British tain reserved subjects finance, They're pushing houses up so zelentiacally cooled floor space, you Ermine, too, bolds its own, partly Government. About the begin-defence, and the protection of fast in some parts now that when may hear many languages. These perhaps because it is the only fur- ning of the year, indeed, the minorities. It is said on good I go along in a morning they're buyers who are bidding have travel-bearing animal that will continue to "Mahatma" expressed his dis-authority that the Viceroy's digging out the foundations, and led from all over the world.

breed near man, and so is more approval of any revival of terror-powers had been made much when I go home at night they're The musk rats which have come easily trapped than others. Ism, while after the publication greater in consequence of a last-ejecting the tenant for not paying a 7,000 mile journey from Northern The black beaver is among the of the White Paper late in minute revolt which broke out his back rent. March he was in the main not among the Conservative support- ill satisfied, and declared that ers of the National Government. Congress was willing to co-oper-That revolt, which, had long been

sale at

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that lawlessness is now almost

The Commendatore visits Lon- solely confined to those racial Hong Kong, Tuesday, June 27, 1933. and religious feuds with which do quite frequently, and last year

the inhabitants of India continue he "dropped in" at a

Sotheby's and gave. £1,600 for from time to time to annoy one

powerful portrait by Tintoretto.

Your Daily Smile

NO. 1.

The Long Indian Drama.

another. Some people think that Federation will cure that and other evils; many are still un- convinced. Adhering, however,

Fasting, like other habits, can be carried to excess. Mr. Gandhi, to its pledges, the Government

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Canada will be re-shipped to New rarest of coveted furs. For exam- York Musk rat is more popular ple, of the 25,000 I saw a few days on Fifth Avenue than it is upon the ago in Beaver Hall only 50 were banks of the Severn.

black. Beaver is exceedingly popu Silver Fox Boom

lar in the United States. There, Although the depression has by the way, much money is being affected the fur trade, other factors invested now in furs, Wife: Oh, dear! Why didn't have compensated for the decline in "Of the hundreds of thousands of pelts that will change hands at

OH, DEATH. :

ate with a view to full dominion simmering, showed itself in the to-day, and the poor fellow was very Husband: I met Bolton in town status. So it is not of Britain Commons when, on February 22, despondent. He said he toas per- that he is at present complain-Sir Henry Page-Croft moved to fectly willing to die. ing. No, it is the old question experiment only with the Pro-

of the "Untouchables" that vinces and not with the central you ask him to dinner! started him again on a protest-Government The motion was

*ATISHOO.

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DEVIL-MAY-CARE.

prices.

Take allver fox. People in the Beaver Hall during the next few ing hunger-strike. One looks in defeated by 297 votes to 42.

trade to-day can remember a time weeks the buying public will hear vain for any promise of results. This, however, was not the end. Despite certain illusory and It soon became plain that the 42 never nearer death than when we the market. The metal racks I saw undergo a transformation before A scientist states that we are when not more than 2,000 came on nothing. These furs have yet to. short-lived signs of reform, the who voted were expressing the anceze. Surely our sneezes don't were. Laden with 800,000. The they reach the show-rooms of great depressed millions are still where mind of many more. A week annoy our Heighbours to that rapidly-increasing popularity of the stores and the glass cases of shops. they were when the issue was later, at the annual meeting of extent.

silver fox farm has made this Those who buying one day, will first raised, and only in January the National Union of Conserva-

difference.

send their purchases to the dresser last the "orthodox" Hindus of tives; a resolution. by Mr. Madras were able to set aside a Churchill demanding that the

Experts, however, will tell you the next. He in turn will send the bill for the relief of their out- Government's

A vicar confesses that when he that the farm-bred animal does not furs to the manufacturer, having Indian policy cast fellow-countrymen, .. If, should be submitted to a free And that, girls, known as the wilds.

wants excitement he plays croquet. grow so fine a fur as one bred in first converted the pelt into wash- feather. The manufacturer will cut therefore, Mr. Gandhi succumbs vote of the House was defeated making Hoopee!"

One fur that has not declined the garment for the trade. to the exhaustion caused by his by only 189 votes to 165. When

much in price fr the chinchilla, the In from six to nine months' time fast, his death will be solely due the matter came actually before

rodent of the high Anden. I was the buying public will be able to to the obduracy of his Hindu the Commons, Mr. Churchill re-

shown, some of these furs. They choose from the shops the finished brethren, and responsibility for peated his attack, in spite of an it will be divided entirely be-appealing speech by Mr. Bald

"I asked Muriel to marry me and were taken reverently from a locked product the product of a world

metal compartment-small pieces of trade that is under a London roof. tween him and them. Yet, so win. The Government's motion she refused.”

That ought not to worry you", pelt, about nine inches by six, soft

so sorry for Muriel" Facts You Did Not Know.

HER LOSS

“Why so zadtea

incalculable. are the ways of In-¡committing the bill to a joint "I don't mind for myself; but' pay a chick's down and coloured like

a pearl-grey sea-dawn.

`PISTOLS CONFISCATED

How much? Thenty-five pounds aplece. How many to* make ^s woman's coat? About 80, or 23,000 An order for the confiscation, before the furrier starts his work of two automatic pistols was Like any other, the fur trade as made by Mr. Wynne Jones at the

dia and so susceptible its people select committee was carried by to what Westerners call “stunts," a majority of over 400 — the ex- that it would be the most likelyplanation of which, says the "Na- thing, in such an event, for tional Review, is that the mere Gandhi to be canonised as a mar-setting up of a committee could tyr, not to Brahmin intolerance, scarcely antagonise any section, but to brutal British despotism, and was viewed by numbers as An English transportation com-its surprises for the layman. I was Central Police Court this morn Fortunately, latest reports indi-ja happy adjournment. The appany is experimenting with appare lamb offered at Beaver Hall ever geant Ellis, cate that the "Mahatma is on proval given by the House of tas that automatically changes ail

fold, for instance, that no Persian ing on the application - of Ser- the way to complete recovery Lords synchronised with renew the air in a moving street car at saw Persia. They come from South The pistols had been brought from the effects of his 21-days' ed racial riots in Calcutta. The three minute intervals and at the

West Africa, where the arid table to the police station by Mr. Louis. fast. The political situation, question now arising, according same time disinfects the car.

lands are similar to the Fermian L. Daung, of the China Optical meanwhile, has fared none. the to the "Spectator," is whether

félime, v worse for the holy man's detach- Indian policy will prove an in- Tubes made of laminated paper Canada has a magnificent crop of left at the shop last January by Company Des Voeux Road C, I learned, too, that the beaver of who stated that, they had been ment. On New Year's Day it digestible bone of contention befor I rays have been found to be was officially reported that so tween the Government and its stronger and capable of withstand-hair that sprouts through his pro a friend, Shipg Lung Kin, who steady had been the decline of Conservative supporters. On the ing higher voltages than glass tubes, and that before the buyer sees the

tective covering of funy fur bel civil disobedience that many answer to that may depend both having withstood 300,000 volts in a nished prodest of the furrier's

had not réturned to claim, them thousands of prisoners had been the fate of the measure and the Massachusetts laboratory, released on promise of better fate of the Government itself, in

that hair is carefully removed to

behaviour. The same guarantee its present form. The die Completion is expected In Novem posa the beauty of the fur, of permanent amendment could hards" (who retort that they ber of Fallway. In French, Equa

at any moment, secure the release prefer that title to the risk of torial Africa

of all the others. But “suspen-dying soft), are plainly more fall Braz sion" of disobedience is not of fight than they were. Recent go, with Point worth much, and the Government events in more directions than deep water por has wisely declined to recognise one notably in a Hitlerised

It, either in ita original form of Germany have certainly given Because four weeks or with the addition them the right to say that their shai

al fortnight which Congress has views have proved more corre Just tacked on Both from that than the views of the sentimen sign and from many others the tal school Is it impossible. Government is well aware that they may be right about the tide of events is running too 74A

The First Mari

with connect· The frat fur chart - was held in

Middle Con-London in Garraway's Coffee House. "'n="modern 260 years ago. Among those pre- the Atlantic. sent were the Duke of York, and

Prince Rupert.”

the

Bloce then the fur trade. In Hons atates: Canada han increased until to-day it

shares with Busala: the premie tyres place. Of the 212,000,000

bout trade that is transacted in

don fur market, more than with the great-Dominion.

BIRTH

(URPITY.—On June 24th, 1933 at

Shanghai to Mrs. J. D

wifepf Mr. D. Murphy Canadian Pacific Ballway, a sØJL

DEATH

8 At Kowloon Hospital

Harbert Austin?

Monument