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THE

AMERICAN EXPRESS.

COMPANY, INCORPORATED.

INTERNATIONAL BANKING,

SHIPPING AND TRAVEL

.

Head Office: New York City.

Hong Kong Branch Des Voeux Road, Ctl.

* Telephone 22089

THE TEXAS COMPANY

(China), LIMITED

Petroleum Products

ASIA LIFE BUILDING,

14 Queen's Road. Ct Hong Kong.

Cable Address

~TEXACOTM

DOLLAR

Telephone 28094

STEAMSHIP LINE

Pedder Building

Hong Kong.

Cable Address

"DOLLAR"

THE

Telephone

28171.

AMERICAN-EASTERN AVIATION CO..

J. W. FISHER, MANAGER

Hong Kong Office68. Luna Building, Kowloon

Telephone 56298

MAIN OFFICE FOR SOUTH CHINA

CANTON

THE

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TEMIT ED

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CHINA MAIL HONG KON THERSDAY

BETSY ROSS DID

NOT MAKE FIRST

-AMERICAN FLAG

RESEARCHES BY INVESTIGATOR

"OLD GLORY”” DESIGNED BY PHILADELPHIAN

"B

ETSY Ross did not make

the first American flag.” With this booming broadside of verbal grape and canister. Capt Byron McCandless, USNJ rakes one of America's oldest traditions. Even at the risk of being set down as an unpatriotie inconoclast, the naval captain stands by his guns, believing he has sufficient evidence: to make Hong Kong. that school book legend strike its

flas

According to Captain McCand-

Charles

Hoover,

American ~Consul-General at

less Francis HopkinsonTM of CONSULAR

Philadelphia designed the first American Flag, in 1977, while he was serving in a position that corresponds to the present office

of Secretary of the Navy Judy

ing by the evidence ‹ which the naval skipper has gathered, his- tery does afford the sweet little

Philadelphia seamstress SEAN

measure

seems of renown. It

OFFICERS AT

HONG KONG

FULL LIST OF US.

OFFICIALS

AMERICAN FIRST CONSUL OF ANY COUNTRY HERE

"INDEPENDENCE

HALL STANDS IN

PHILADELPHIA

Famous Building's History

REVERED AS HISTORIC LANDMARK

THE famous *Independence

T Hall" first known as "The

State House of Pennsylvania,. is still standing in Philadelphia

It is the scene of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and is revered as a historic land- marks Y

It now comprises the main or centrals, building (Independence Hall, two arcades connecting it with two "two-storey buildings called the Wings or Province Balis, and two separate carner buildings, one Congress Hall, the fother Old Fall, one on the corner of Sixth St. and the other on the

corner of Fifth St., facing on

Chestnut Street

af

buildings was designed and built

The State House group

by Andrew Hamilton, a Philadel- Dbia -lawyer, who bought the land. for which he created a trust.

that Betsy did make a flag for

Original Group Congress and City Halls were. George Washington's footyuard. {"but.” Captain McCandless - em- The following is a complete listin Hamilton's original scheme of phatically asserts. "there is no of the American Consular Officers the State Horse group, but were not built until after the close of evidence that she had anything in charge at Hong Kong to do with the design or making Thomas W. Waldron, Consul, the Revolution of the Stars and Stripes." from Nov. 15, 1843 to Sept, 8, 1844 The group of buildings covers. Be was the first consul of any a frontage of 396 feet on Chest- "History of Flags

country at Hong Kong. He died aut Street. Captain McCandless, whose

The original building Inde- at Macao on September 8, 1844 and hobby it is to search into the was buried there in the Protestant Pendence Hall) in the group was significance of flags of all ages Cemetery of the East India Combegun in 1732 and was opened and all nations, is a jolly, dyed-

jand first put to use in September, in-the-salt seafarer in charge of the Boston office of the United Consul on July 16, 1845.

Frederick T. Bush, appointed 1756, when William Allen, Mayor and prominent merchant of Phit! States Navy's hydrographic

adephia, gave a dinner to the citizens. Pra service.

pany.

James Keenan, Consul from 1850 to June 30, 1861...

His ambition is to write a Conger, Consul from June series of books on the history of,

30, 1862 to March 31, 1865. dags, which he insists shall not! F. D. Williams, Vice Consul be started until he retires. He from April, 1865 to July, 1865. has photographs, prints, photo- Edward J. Sage. Acting Vice stats and etchings of flags of all,

Consul from Aug. 1 1865 to Sept. nations, from a period 3,000 or

30, 1865. more years B C to modern times. With the patience of a true col- lector, the captain has pushed his- hobby at every port he has visited, for many years. At Gibraltar he

David H. Baley, Consul from left his ship for a short visit to Dec. 10, 1870 to Sept 19, 1877. Granada. Spain, and unearthed H. S. Loring, Acting Vice Con- four flags of Ferdinand and Isa- sul from Sept. 20, 1877 to Feb. 2

bells that were in use when

In October, 1736, the Legis- lature, of which Benjamin Frank- the lin was clerk, moved into

completed part of the structure,

then known as "Bast Room.”.

"Liberty Bell”

A new Province bell was order- Isaac J. Allen, Consal from Dec.ed from and cast by Thomas Lis- 1865 to Sept. 1867 -

ter of Whitechapel, London, and C. N. Goulding Consul from arrived at Philadelphia in Az- Dec. 1869 to Dec. 101-1870.

gust, 1752

1879.

Columbus obtained backing for Col J. S. Mosby, Consul from the voyage of discovery to the Feb. 3, 1879 to July 21, 1885. American continent. They were

In a test the bell was cracked, and only after being re-cast twice by Pass and Stow, two local workmen) was it finally success- fully rang.

This is the bell now known as the "Liberty Bell." In June, 1753.. R. EL Withers, Consul from July Pass and Stow placed in position in the State House steeple the

in the Cathedral stored carefully 21, 1885 to March 31, 1889. away in a chest, with the jewel RE Withers, Jr., Acting Vice Liberty box in which Isabella kept the Consul from March 31, 1939 to pounds. jewels she had pledged for Co- Oct. 14, 1889.

!lumbus,

At

O Simons, Consul from 1889 ito Dec. 23, 1893.

Bell, weighing 2,080 The State House was practically completed in 1759.

Historic Scenes

The Declaration of Indepen ¿dence was signed there- Congress and the U. S. Supreme Coint met there, at times, until 1899; the

At Constantinople Constantinople-when Is William E. Hunt, Consul from tanbul was known by that name 1893 to Sept. 10, 1897-***

he studied the flag of Moham E. Wildman Consul from Sept med in a palace where it is care-:10, 1897 to June 30, 1893. fally preserved. It was used by R. Wildman, Consul General from Articles of Federation were sign- the Ottoman Turks in their drive July 1, 1898 to Dec. 31. 1900,1ed there, and many other histori- to conquer Europe, and the siege First Consul General, he was lost cal events and gatherings occur of Vienna 300 years or more ago with his family on the as. Rio de red within the walls.

There are many historic "oll In Egypt a piece of slate was Janeiro on March 21, 1901 found representing flags 3,400 W. E. Aldrich, In charge from portraits in the National Portrait rears B.C., by chiseled impres-Jan. 1, 1901 to Mar. 19, 1901. sion of a King of North Egpyt W. A. Rubles, Consul General going forth to battle with four from. Mar. 19, 1901 to Oct 31, standard · bearers.” In Christians, į 1902.

jas it was called when he was John E Bacon, In charge from there, he found an old bronze Nov. 1, 1962 to March 1, 1909.200 flag recovered from a Viking ship

Galery, including

Washington

and other early American public

Independence Hall was formal

thrown open as a public bis- torical museum on July 4, 1876. Gen. Edw. S. Bragg, ConsulThere are no pay days. Thi that had been buried deep in a General from Mar. 1, 1903 to Feb. Museum is open to the public daily throughout the year from mound.

-15, 1906/7

Symbolic of the motto "United Wilbur Gracey Vice Consal We Stand-Divided We Fall," as General from Feb. 16, 1906 to May The interprets it, was a sheaf of 14, 1906

arrows held together by a ribbon Amos. P. Wilder, Consul General

19 am to 4 pm. including Sun-

days.

on i flag of Ferdinand of Spain. from May 14, 1906 to Apr. 15, 15, 1910-

in his search for evidence of 1909. Father of the action, Strert J. Falk

Vise Consul

the origin of “Old Glory" Cap Thornton Wilder, he is now living General' from Apr. 15, 1910 to tain McCandless unearthed what in Connecticut

Ang 15, 1910.

is said to be the only and pro- Stuart J. Fuller, Vice Consul Algar E. Carleton, Vice Consul bably, the original Liberty Tros General from Apr. 16, 1909 to General - from Aug. 15, 1910 to Flag, now held by the Bostonian Dec. 9, 1909.

Society and privately displayed W. A Rublee, Consul General by a Boston citizen es late as from Dec 9, 1909 to Apr. 15, 1910. 1862. This flag consisted of four He died in Hong Kong on Ay white and five- red vertical stripes, which he has evidence warranting him to believe was emblamatical of the

Jobu

Sept 13, 1910.

George E. Anderson, Consul Genexal from Sept. 13, 1910 to Apr 21

Vice Canani

to Nov 21

SINCE 1866

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Hong Kong.

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Telephone

26638

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