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THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, MAY 27, 1935

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CHANGING A LONDON NAME

The London County Council has agreed to allow a familiar pièce of (street near the Brompton Oratory

to change its name.

Hitherto it has been part of the

| Fulham-rozd. Now it will rise în the social scale and become the and of Brompton-road.

theme ses concerned

bear the first numbers of Fulham

THE MAN IN THE GLASS BOX

LIFE OF A SIGNAL

OPERATOR

CONFIDENT EFFICIENCY

NECESSARY

(By Ian Coster)

merge verlos Station trains through

Nan average 1,250 trains run in, the left Culver had to see the

every 24 hours, and each one goes The 'planes came over the box road and adjoin the last numbers under the glass house on stilts and let another bomb drop. It just in Brampton-road.

where Percy Culver and his fifteen missed the tail of the incoming No extensive, renumbering will comrades work.

train. made a hole in the perman- therefore be RECESSARY. though Your fate has been in their lent way that would have taken a some future historian of London hands if you have ever travelled horse and cart and smashed all may be puzzled to find that the to or from Waterloo. They con- the windows in the rear of the box. numbers in the Falham-road start trol points and siguals from the The next morning Mr. Culver in the fifties instead of from one platforms as far as Westminster went home feeling that he had had

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VALUE OF AN ADDRESS

Bridge.

enough excitement, to find a hole The atmosphere of "A" box has in the roof of his house in Earls- ffield and an anti-aircraft shell rest- tension one It is said that the change may none of the nervous make a considerable difference in might expect. It seems a casaling on the floor of his kitchen. It had come through the second the value of the property concerned.business, this yanking forward

to a chair and There are two reasons for this, and pushing back of the two long storey, fallen on The first is that the Fulham-road lines of bright metal levers. The rolled off without exploding. Mrs.

ancient, comfor¿Calver was home at the time, t is two and a half miles long. Peo-sixualmen wear ple dislike living in long roads be-tably cracked shoes and glance Safety locks, improved indica- cause their friends may not know with mild interest at the passing.tors and other gadgets to prevent at which end to look for their panting locomotives and gliding accidents have taken much of the human element out of signalling electrics.

since Mr. Culver began

house.

It would be impossible, becauser

The second is the "mob" value) But five minutes observation is of a good address.

Parts of the enough to show that the placidity of the locks, to put an incoming Fulham-road contain very cheap is the result of confident efficiency and an out-going train on the same property. Anyone seeing a Fal-these men know their job by heart-line now, but a bungler could still ham-road address may, therefore. The complex diagram of the tracks make an awful mess of things. form a wrong opinion of the social is engraved on their memories as Mr. Culver earns £4.2 week and

status of the occupant.

good address

Knightsbridge.

Your Daily Smile!

clearly as it is shown on the elec- "Brompton-road" is definitely atrically lighted indicators. They 18s. 70 a week rent for his

can tell you the times and order of 23 years

house. He has been married for and he has no chil- of an Army corps in one of the

Knightsbridge is regarded as ever the regular services backwards.

dren. He finds that he can live worst parts of London. and better, as some shops realise. Some Mr. Calver is in that box almost within his income and save a little showed a courage that gave her of these shops are in the Brompton-by right of birth. His father Hong Kong. Monday, May 25, 1935, the respect of even the most

His hobbies are dogs he has brutal. a generous sympathy and their address is always worked there for a score of years, three-and speedway racing.

and Percy. except for a brief understanding that won her the

He may be promoted to an in- Woman's Position In

period in " box (a bit further spector or he may be a signalman affection of all Further work in

along the line) has been in it for for the rest of his working life, Torquay brought her the rank of The World

commissioner, and for several

the whole of his working life. like his father. years she travelled over Europe,,

A bungalow which slowly revolves

*You ought to be born to signal-. And he says that if he were Nothing is perhaps more as

using zer gift of fervent oratory has been designed by an American ing," said Mr. Calver. It ought given the chance of living his life tonishing among the changes and considerable musical talents are sighted coming up the garden path. By inclination and heredity he is signaller

architect When unwelcome visitor to be second nature to him by now over again he would still be a wrought in society by the last And so at the age of 23 she was the owner can accelerate so quickly hundred years than the new appointed to the command of all that the whole house immediately be a controller of trains. He position of woman in the world. the Army operations in London comes a balling blue.

Then she took charge of the Army In the days of our grandfathers in Canada, and held the leader-

Marine Story and even of our fathers, woman ship for some nine years. Dur. What do you do?"

Lady: “So pon are on a submarine.

In 1899, as 6d a week, he be-] was looked upon as "the weaker ing the gold rush of 1898 she Sailor: "Oh, I run forward, maʼain.|came a signal lad, and had to sit See** Her place was la the organised a mission and nursing and hold her nose when we want to up or a stool at the end of the box heme and nowhere else. When corps, took it herself to the take a dive"

learning the business of “booking" trains or recording their - move- Florence Nightingale took the Klondyke, and shared in all the

Emphasis and Oratory perils and hardships of the lead in organising nursing aid tej

A. Negro was endeavouring to make ments in a ledger. pioneers. In 1905 she became clear to a friend just what constitutes the wounded in the Crimea, she the national leader in the United oratory. 1 will elucidate," he said was regarded as an almost something

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LOCAL NEWS

BREVITIES

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born in Battersea and when he left PORTUGUESE LADY

school at 13 his ambition was to become a signalman, like father.

LAID TO REST

譬

were

Mrs. E. M. V. Remedios

LARGE GATHERING ATTENDS FUNERAL CEREMONY"

Long Apprenticeship

The funeral took place at the A month of that and he was get- eccentric, States, where she improved and you say black am white, datam unnatural even revolutionised the Salvation white an' belles like a bull, an' pounds on the long apprenticeship. After Valley yesterday afternoon of the foolish. But if you says black ating 5s. A week and well launched Roman Catholic. Cemetery, Happy The emancipation of woman came Army, and directed the

vast de table with both fasts, dat am or that he picked up the code of ate Birs. Etelvina MV Remedios. slowly, and only after many bit-work of her organisation during|tory!" ter and long-drawn-out struggles, the war.

signals on the old "single-needle who died at the French Hospital or But to-day woman

Saturday afternoon. not only General

type of machine on which

The Rev. Booth has always takes her place alongside man as been noted for her readiness to

telegraphed the movements Father D. Page officiated at the an equal in the commercial, fundertake the most strenuous or

trains from Vauxhall.

Chapel service and at the grate side. political and intellectual worlds responsible work. and during

Up the ladder....His next job but she challenges his supremacy the last few years she has travel-Moji on Wednesday afternoon.

Thess. Tanda is due here from was looking after and lighting all Mr. Phillippe Remedios, who re

Deceased was the wife of the late to assert her own. Individualled in many countries of Europe,

the signal lamps between Waterloo tired on pension from the General women of genius and ability have and ever campaigned in Japan.

and Vauxhall Two lads were in Post Office and died about two years Itaken the lead in literature, where she was the first womani

Hong Kong rainfall for the 24 charged of 300 of them. Young science, the learned professions, to be received in private audi-bous ending at 10 am yesterday

Fago. She is survived by three- and business. But perhaps there fence by the Emperor.

The total since She has was 0.05 inch is no more striking example of prover that she has a remarkable, January 1 was 1205 inches, against feminine leadership than that combination of qualities, for she rage of 20.15 inches. which is now held in the religious is an expert organiser, powerful

Culver polished up the specks sons, Mr. J. C. V. Remedios, Mr. C to some effect, and eventually be H. V. Remedios, and Mr. A. LV. sazne an assistant signalman at Remedios, who is married; "four" 18s. a week. His yearly rise was daughters, Mrs C. F. V. Ribeiro, Jone shilling.

Mrs. Inez Alves, Mrk. Pomeroy

field by Evangeline Booth, who speaker, musician, composer. as The Women's Auxiliary of the Now he had to wait. for and Mrs: Josaiho, and several was elected to the important well as an inspiring personality. Society for the Protection of Chil-vacancy in "A box to become a position of General of the Salva. She has always shown greatdren desires to acknowledge with fall-fledged signaller, and he had grand children. « tion Ammy by the High Council courage in the face of opposition, grateful thanks the following sums to wait a long time.

Many relatives and friends at- tended, including Mr. and Mrs. E.

in September of last year, and and conquers difficulties by vita-per Miss Helen Yu:-Monsieur When I asked him how long he. Franco, Messrs. C. Marques, G

who, in her new capacity, is now lity, ability, and faith. Here Soulange Teissier, Consul-General had been a signalman he called A. D'Aquino, S. B. de Silva, J. conducting her first oversea can indeed is the secret of her for France, $5, Monsieur Benner, fout to one of the men working the Baptista, A. V. Barros, M. F. Bap paign in Australia where she inspiration. There are many French Consulate, $5.

levers, How long is it since So tista, F. X V. Ribeiro, A. J. Reed- will lead the Annual Congress who do not share the evangeli-!-

and-so died, Bill? The answer J Ward A. Ward, G. F. Vietor, C. campaigns in the capital cities cal creed of the Salvation Army Ng Sam, a Chinese woman, was came back. "About 1920-” General Booth is now in command But to its work among the poor this morning fined $100, in default] Mr. Culver turned to me. That Silva, H. E. Gubbay and F. J. E. Coelho, G. Carvalho, C. Leon, J. of an Army that is carrying on and needy, its self-sacrificing six weeks' imprisonment, by Mr. Qwhen I became one," he said. “I its work in ninety different coun-devotion to the cause, to the belp. A. Macfadyen at the Central was about 35," Now, he explained,

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ARSON CHARGE

Sequel To Fire In Fuk Wah Street

to wait in the same box until some- body retired

Signalmen work in rotation in three shifts, 6 to 2, 2 to 10, 10 to 6, and a curious thing about their hours of work is that, although they get one Sunday clear in every three, on paper they have worked 52 Sendays out of 52. It is like this: A man might work the first and third shift on one Sunday, but that counts as tro Sundays

By request no flowers were sent

Jon the grave,

tries, and preaching its message it has brought to many lives Police Court for having in her pos-vacancies in boxes are, advertised put a few family wreaths were laid in eighty different languages when life seemed hopeless, to its session, at Aberdeen Street, 310 po but in those days it was necessary The Salvation Army conducts genuine Christian charity among piu lottery tickets. 15,931 evangelical stations, and those to whom more orthodox 1582 social institutions General and rational methods were an- Booth is a commander who rulesjavailing, to all these there can over 27,000 commanding officers, be nothing paid but warm appre- 46,000 bandsmen, 68,543 song-ciation. Its appeal is, of course, sters, and 26,266 officers and primarily emotional, and cadets. The responsibility for many such emotionalism remains such an organisation must be something alien But in the tremendous. Yet General Evan slums and the poorer city streets geline Booth, who celebrated her it is appeal to the heart which

A sequel to the fire at No. 104 sixty-ninth birthday last Christ counts. Without such an appeal Fuk Wah Street last Friday occur mas Day, holds her leadership the Salvation Army could not red at the Kowloon Magistracy this unquestioned

have accomplished its splendid morning when Ng Yuk-chuen, a The founder of the Salvation achievement The devotees of cook, appeared on an arson charge, Service During The War Army, General William Booth, the Army are inspired by the and Ng Kam-chin, a partner of the All through the war, as an as- gave the heritage of his genius faith which moves mountains, first defendant, was charged with sistant signalman Mr. Culver to his fourth daughter, Evange and it is the burning sincerity procuring, before Mr. E L Wynne handled his levers in "A" bor. One line, who has now become the of her faith which makes Jones.

night, about nine o'clock, he bad

fourth General of the Salvation General Evangeline Booth such Mr. C. EL Grist appeared for one train going out and another Army. At an early age she as a dynamic force. The work of the defence of the second defendant, coming. The telephone •rang. sisted her father in his work helping her fellow men and while Chief Det amongst the poor of the East women is not with her a business Dorling, of the End of London. She preached or profession. It is.

her first sermon mounted on a words, not only

chair in the street. Whilst still is Life. 18 red

in her teens, she became cap heart beat it is a

tion

warning the men to turn out the lights and get clear, as

thues

zmer you; best în vain this will be