1934-09-25 — Page 7

Engineering and Building

SHANGHAI'S LATEST APARTMENTS

Imposing Block On Seymour Road

SPANISH TOUCH EMBODIED

Towering high on Seymour Road near Bubbling Well facing the east stands the palatial and im- posing Cosmopolitan Apartment, Shanghai's newest and one of the most up-to-date residential build- ings in the city.

Anyone motoring up the semi- circle driveway and taking a cas- ual glance at the structure cannot but fail to see n Spanish touch in the architectural work. Looking at it from the centre this building is grand; it stuk like a tall giant with outstretched arms which form the two 4-story wings,

Spanish house are commonly own to be low and artistic. The Cosmopolitan Apartment is artis- tle, but far from being low. If it were built in Spain it would pro- bably be called a "skyscraper.": But it is distinctly artistic; the root and caves are effective; the balconies impressive while arch-windows give a real southern touch to the whole almosphere.

Forms A Big "II"

he

Looking at the apartment from the architect's sketch from the sky the plan of the building is like a big "H". The two wings!

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1934. -

Prince Ernest von Starhemberg, 35, now Austrian Vice-Chancellor, is an avowed enemy of demo- cracy. He was an alde of Herr Adolph Hitler in the beginnings of Nazism in 1923, but he now is n For of a German and Austrian union and a partisan of Archduke Otto, heir to the Hapsburg throne. The Prince ruse to power in Austria as lender of the Heimwehr (Home Guard), which he started by organising 800 retainers in his federal Darony.

Ford Co. To Smelt Own Iron PEAK PARTY CASE

are linked by inclosed hallways New Industry For South known as, the upper bell, which

leading into the main lobby in the central unit. A bird's-eye- view of the building "gives away,"

so to speak, the clever scheme of

Of England

BIG BLAST FURNACE

automatically opens to receive the charge, below it, inside the furnace, is a rotary distributor known as the lower bell, which distributes it) evenly to every part of the furnace.

CONCLUDES

NEW MOTORSHIP. ARRIVES

M.V. Hai Lee For China- Siam Service

AT KOWLOON WHARF

WORLD'S BIGGEST HOTELS

. Chicago Colossus Of

3,000 Bedrooms

BRITAIN LEADS EUROPE

COTTON BOOM IN SHENSI

125 Ginning Machines Arrive

Slan.

A consignment of 125 cotton gin- The new motorship Hai Les ar-

ning machines ordered In Hankow rived here this morning from Nor- The news that one of London's by the Association for the Improve- way after making her passage out best-known hotels is to be en-ment of Cotton Production in to the East by way of the Panamalarged and will possess 1.174 bed. Shensi Province has arrived in Canal. On arrival here she berth-rooms when the work is comWeinan, a station not for from Sian led at the Kowloon wharf.

pleted, has prompted the ques-along the Lung-hai Railway.

A fast passenger and cargo tion, Which is the world's Another consignment of cotton vessel, she was built to the high-largest hotel?"

packing machines ordered at Cheng- est class of Lloyds Register. She Naturally the mind turns to chow is due ahortly. will maintain a regular service the towering skyscrapers of the The Association has sent men to from South China ports to Ran. United States, where buildings Weinan to distribute the gins among clouds. the various cotton co-operative The cot-

shake hands with the

goon, via the Straits..

The new ship has a length, on The Stevens, in Chicago, can offer accieties in the province. water line, of 350, a breadth of 3,000 bed rooms, each with its ton crop in Shansi is stated to be 48'10", a depth to upper deck of own bath-a complete township booming this season and purchas 29, and her loading capacity Is

within four colossal walls. Close ing orders have been sent in by

about 4,300 tons, deadweight. The runners-up are the Pennsylvania merchants from Shanghai, Hankow, propelling machinery consists of and New Yorker in New York.

Tlentsin, Kalteng and many other Despite this lavish display places-Central News Agency, two single-acting Diesel engines,

each having 8 cylinders, develop-England is not far behind the ing 6,250 I.P.H. in all, which give United States in providing com: DRYS PLAN BAN ON PICNICKERS her a service speed of 15 knots possesses the three largest hotels

modious hotels. London herself

The speed obtained on her trial

in Europe the Regent Palace

York, Pa. irun was 18 knots.

The owners are Mesara. Bruns-berland with 1.000, and the prompted the founding of the with 1024 bedrooms, the Cum liquor law by week-end picnickers Alleged violations of the State

Prohibition League Several hotels in other parts County, which opened its

of York

cam.

gaard Kiosterud & Co., Drammen, Strand Palace with 950. Norway, and the general agents for the Line in Hong Kong are of the country have round about paign by offering U.S.$50 reward Messrs. Thoresen and Company. 500 bedrooms, and many have for evidence in Sunday law viola- more than 300. Although it has not the greatest number of bed-

tions.

LOCAL NEWS · BREVITIES

"

rooms, the Cumberland · រឹង

actually the largest in Europe, turned Continental travellers, Sentence of two months' hard and has a bath to every room, who tend to confuse unusualness Visitors this year find that with comfort. The hotel indus- labour was imposed on Tang Chung London, more than ever before, try of Great Britain represents junemployed, by Mr. E. W. Hamilton] Judgment Reserved For at the Central Magistracy this is playing the part of hostessa capital of £300,000,000, employs during the holiday month. Ha-half a million workers and ranks morning, for the theft of 11 pounds bitual visitors to the métropolis as the fourth largest industry. In Saturday

of zinc plate, the property of the declare that they have never the country. Taikoo Dockyard yesterday. Mr.known so much pains taken to C. F. Bird appeared on behalf of study and gratify their tastes.

American visitors, despite the absence of radio and ice-water in the Taikoo Dockyard.

Righ English Standard all bedrooms, and the cafetaria, A Dinner Dance will be held at world the English as

Among the nations of the which are essentials in hotels of hotel a similar type in the United The "Andetonians" Band will be in the periodical complaints of re- British hotel enterprise. the Repulse Bay Hotel to-morrow. keepers hold a high place, despite States, are highly appreciative of.

DEFENCE'S SUBMISSION

was reserved until

the enves. Instead of running pke most of the roofs like the

The Ford Motor Company have The slag and molton metal from Judgment shape of an umbrella, the eaves just completed the erection of the the furnace are run off into differ-9.30 am. on Saturday by Mr. E. only cover a very narrow section latest blast furnace in Great Bri-lent troughs from which they fall W. Hamilton in the summons Dagenham. This furnace into separate ladles mounted on againat Messrs. G. W. Sewell, H. around the edges providing a wide tain at flat of on both the wings and which has a capacity of 500 tons in bogie railway trucks of special de-C. Meeke and A. L. Sullivan for Jattendance.

in the central building.

tracy yesterday.

The R.M.S. Empress of Russia arrived in Vancouver at 3 pm, yes- for Hong terday and will leave

on October 24. She will sail for] Manila on the next day,

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HONG KONG MARKET PRODUCE

24 hours, is the first blast furnace sign. The stag is sold for road making or permitting a noise, cal- to be put into operation on the making while the molton metal (sculated to interfere with public This new residential apartment banks of the Thames. It brings a transported the short distance tranquillity, at No,, 286 the Peak, Building is the property of the

new industry to the South of Eng- which separates the furnace from on August 31, at the conclusion Cosmopolitan Trust Company and land for, hitherto, iron smelting the hot metal shop. Each ladle has of the hearing at Central Magis- Kong on October 6, arriving here was constructed with the object has been confined to the North a capacity of 75 tons of metal. of keeping with the trend of hous-Country the Midlands and South An electric hoist lifts the ladle "I submit that this case has ing accommodations in Shanghai Wales. It completes the chain of by hooking on the trunions at its been brought by the Police under and also with the present cost of plants which gives the Ford organ-side and a further hoist tips its pressure, and in the absence of living in this time of generalisation complete control over every contents into the 600 ton hot metal the real complainant, who appears labour were imposed on Chan Hung Chicken

Sentences of four months* hard business depression.

stage of the manufacture of the mixer. There it is mixed with ajto be sheltering behind the atraen

and Leung Man, two unemployed,, before being of public tranquillity, I suggest by Mr. Q. A. A, Macfadyen at the car from the iron ore to the com-proportion of steel plete vehicle.

used in the hot metal shop in the this case should be dismissed," Ford engineers have tackled the making of castings for Ford cars. said Mr. D. B. Evans, defending Central Magistracy this morning, for the theft of a purse containing problem of iron smelting by apply

48 cents, the property of Ng Kau. Doves jing processes new to the industry

After hearing five witnesses for in Great Britain.

the defence, and the closing in Des speeches of the prosecutor and yesterday. the defending solicitor, Mr. Ham- ilton reserved judgment until 9.30 a.m. on Saturday.

ART CENTRE BUILT

BY STUDENTS

90 Busy On Toronto Project

The furnace is located approxi- mately midway between the jetty where the ships carrying the ore. Toronto-Toronto's new art cen- coal and limestone are unloaded and tre is being erected by some 90 the foundry where the castings are students of the leisure time activi- made. Adjacent to it are the coke ties clusses, who studied last win-jovens which supply, the high grade, ter at the Grunge under Mr. Ar-coke fuel necessary for the blasti thur Lismer. The site was donated furnace. This arrangement reduces by the Board of Education, and the handling time to a minimum.

The

CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY

Bridge Proposed For Yangtsze

WIDE INTEREST AROUSED

Hankow.

solicitor.

APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES.

Sept. 22 Sept. .1954 1918 Cts, Cts.

Sept, 22 Sept.

1934 1918

Cts. Cta.

POULTRY.

BUTCHER MEAT.

lb.

50 30

Capons, Small

Beef Sirloin

Ib.

84

1t

50

28

+3

Large

54

Dack

82

Prime Cut Corned Roast

80

42

each .30

Soup

Breast

Bleak

[4]

Vœux Road Central Egge, Hen (cooking) per doz, 39

Eggs, Hen (fresh) Fowl, Hainan

www.

A meeting of the Sanitary Board wil be held at 4.15 p.m. to-day.

Mr. H. K. Holmes, Crown Soll-

One case of diphtheria and two citor, prosecuted, and Mr, D. B. Evans, of Messrs. Johnson Stokes cases of meningitis were reported in and Master, was for the defence, the Colony during the ended September 29. ▸ There was a large attendance of Europeans who followed the proceedings with keen interest.

The 8.4. Bennevis, from Leith, Middlesbro', London, and Straits, left Singapore via Manila for this

* * * *9*** 8 8 8 15 18H

Steak Sirloin SQUSEIN!.... Bullock's Brains

Tongue, freab

Hond

corned

Heart.... Hump, Balt "Klanaya

TOOL

per set

H

180

Calves' Head & Feet set $1.80 $1.00 Mutton Chip

40 2

45

Canton

84

Geeze Pigeonis, Canton

12

89

ench 36

Hoihow

23

*

#

Turkeys, Cock

D.

75

48 hours

한

Hen

70

Snipe Pheasant Quali

each 20

Tail Liver

pair 2.00 2.20

f

Tripe

each 28

Partridges

80

5

Leg

帽

FRUITS.

N

ib.

Shoulder Saddle Brains

**

per set 5

Jan. 6, Jan.

Pig's Chitlings.

88 27

"

#

Feet Fry Head

16. 15 15

H 24

T2

15 29

Kidneya Liver Pork Chop

12. 10

45 80

#

30.

Lion

曲

Le

त्र

Fat or Lard

SHAMSHUIPO CRIME port on Friday and is due to arrive

RECALLED

here on Monday next. Petition For Mercy Is Being Considered

these students are demonstrating

Electrical Machinery their bullding abilitics.

Two electric unloaders, each "shuck" is to contain an eight-foot)

An ambitious project to span the stone fireplace, numerous windows capable of dealing with 300 tons Yangtaze between Hankow and

Almonds and much cupboard space.

The per hour, unload the abipa into elec. Wuchang by an iron bridge is being

Apples (California) work was sponsored by the central tric transfer cars which carry the mooted here., General Chang Chun,

Bananas (bride's) their third annual aquatic sports Coconuts

The Chung Nan College will hold Carambola committee and the Workers' Educa-coal to the coke ovens and the ore Chairman of the Hupch Provincial and limestone to the stockyards Government, recently held a meet- tional Association.

The need for an art centre for which have a capacity of 100,000 ing with Mr. Li Helen-keng, Man-

meeting at the South China A.A. Lemons, China

Lemens, Americas Pavilion to-morrow, commençcing Lichees, Dried leisure time activities has arisen tons. Here an electric travelling aging Director of the Canton-

and limestone Kowloon Railway, and Mr. Lin It is understood that, a petition at 12 noon. Mrs. Wong Kwong Oranges (Canton) following the interest shown by crane lifts the ore these classes, which started last into hoppers from which clectric Hung-haun, Chief Engineer of the for mercy and reprieve of the Tin has kindly consented to dis- Oranges February, in sketching, drawing,railway trucks carry it to the Canton-Hankow Railway, at which death sentence on Keung Chi-pan, tribute the prizes. oils and water colours, clay-model-charging skipa that lift it to the they decided to propose to the 'convicted of the murder of Keung

Central Government the construc-¡Wai-lan, a 25-year-old woman with For stealing a leather suit-case, ing, linoleum blocking and wood-top of the blast furnace.

iron bridge linking whom he had lived at one time, is containing 12 pieces of Chinese carving.

The pressure of the air blast in tion of an Real talent has been found among the furnace has, in the past, made Wuchang and Hankow, in order to being considered on behalf of the clothing valued at $20 from No. 114 it difficult to utilise ore dust, coke establish through traffic on the condemned man by members of Yes Kuk Street, Chan Cham, a 34- these leisure time pupils, the ma- jority of whom are men, and it is brieze and iron borings from the Canton-Hankow Railway after, its the local Protestant clergy, both year-old unemployed, was sentenced

European and Chinese.

to three months' hard labour by Mr. probable that samples of their best factory because the light nature of completion..

The project has aroused consider- The matter has not advanced E. I. Wynne Jones at the Kowloon work will be exhibited at this cen- the material allowed it to be blown

able-interest-in-local-commercial beyond-the-embryonic stage, but Magistracy-this-morning-- tre. In the fall the responsibility out of the furnace.

To overcome this the iron bor-circles, as the construction of such a statement by those interested in for these art classes will be as-ings, ore dust and coke brieze are a bridge is bound to increase the connection with the proposed pet! Pleading guilty to the charge of sumed by the Workers' Educational | Association, and it is hoped that each loaded into an appropriate prosperity of the Wuhan cities. tion will probably be forthcoming stealing a radiator cap from private

in the course of a day or two.. hopper. There are

car No. 8918, belonging to Mr. five of these (Chekini- Agency). this centre will become a

each opening on a rotating tablę munity centre for the district.

Jonto which the material is allowed

TAO FONG SHAN CONSECRATED

com-

LUNG-HAI RAILWAY

PROGRESS

Sian To Be Reached By End Of Year

SCRAPPED

Blow For Tyneside Workers

t

Bishop Hall At Shatin Ceremony

to fall at a regulated speed. A STEEL WORKS TO BE scraper feeder directs the material jonto a belt conveyor which deals with the five tables. In this ́ man- her the correct proportions of each material are assured. The matérial] is then thoroughly mixed in a rotary mixer and fed onto a wide Peiping. chain grate and baked into a cake Bir. Chien, Vice-Minister of under a burner fired by coke oven Hope that work would be resum- day, at 11 a.m. The Bishop of Railways and concurrently Manag-gas. This cake, termed sintered at Palmer's steel works and Hong Kong, the Right Bev. R 0. ing Director of the Lung-Hal Rail-after being cooled, is broken up blast furnaces at Jarrow, which Hall and the Superintendent of way recently, declared that work ready to be taken to the furnace. were taken over recently by Thomas the Tao Fong Shan Christian In- on the Lung-Hai Railway is making This process, which is known as W. Ward and Co, of Sheffield, was stitute, Hey. K. L. Reichelt off-

sintering results in considerable disappointed recently, when it was ciated.

rapid headway.

The consecration of the new temple-building on Tao Feng *** Shan, Shatin, took place last. Sun-

Hebburn-on-Tyne.

The section between Tungkwan economy in the operation of the learned authoritatively that the The Rev. N. N and Weinen has already been com-blast furnace,

Sintering PrecCULEVA

pleted and it is expected that the

Line will be extended to Slan by the

left here for Tientsin en route to and the charges of Link

end of the year. Mr. Chien has The skips that carry the ainter

Hsuchow in connection with attairs ore, and coke

of the railway (Chekiai Agency) furnace discharg

plant

s to be dismantled and Rev. Stig Hann

entatives

of Dr. Belchel hoeWard secretary of the site, and ment. Mr. C. pray

chara

and

each

b.

BATTATARISH

Pears (Canton) *Peanuts Persimmons, Large Pumelo, Siam Walnuts

each

#

Grapes VEGETABLES, ET Bean Sprout

Artichokes

Long Beet Boot Brinjain Green

Red Cabbage, Chinese

(Shanghai) Cauliflower (Largo) (Medium) (Small).

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197

H. G. Lange, of No. 10 Tak Shing Carrots Street, Ho. Wing and Ng Kam, two Celery, Chinese unemployed Chinese youth, were Chillles, Dried

Red sentenced to three months hard

Green labour, by Mr. E. L. Wynne Jones Curry Stuff, English

morning.

at the Kowloon Magistracy this Cucumbers

Garlic

KEROSENE PRICES

A.P.C. Amended List Published

Ginger, Young

Old

ו

Sheep's Head & Feet per out

Heart

" Kidneys

Liver

Sucking Pige to

order ....

Suet, Beef

Suet, Beef

each

lb.

8888888A528-IRAAAAN”ŞKER | | (SAHRESA 1848*22′ MGÅR || ** 19982224-98-08ANSAR-BAKEZ -

Mutton

Véal

42 20

Sausages

No. 1

FISH

32

Barbel

..lb.

Bream

Canton Fresh

1b.

18

K

Water Fish

28

8.10 20 25 16 18

Codfish

84

J

Craba

Cuttle Fish

24

10. 8

Dace

108 Eela, Conger

Yellow

Frogs

Carospa

Gudegon

Harrings

Halibut

Lobster

Lettuce

Mackerel

*Okroes

Onions, Bombay

Green

Mulist

Oysters

Shangail

Pearch

8060

Pike

Plaice

Pomfret,

Pomfret,

PTAWRE

Roach

Balmon

- Shark

188

18 Scripmis

鹦

Horseradish, S'hal

Indian Corn

Potato

Petroleum Company (South China),

"As, from to-day's date the Asiatic Pursley Limited retail prices for Kerosene

will be as follows Crown New Ting Grown Bulk”

Pumpkli

$200

returriable

Srimps

•