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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 12th, 1911.
THE DEAD KING OF CONJURORS."!
LAFAYETTE'S MYSTERIES
DESCRIBED.
oat
and
"The Great Lafayette." The title was a self-applied one at the beginning, when the ill-fated showman-artist came from America to the Coliseum to entertain Mr. Stoll's audi- ences with the longest, strongest, and most. Taried "tura"
ever thought
per. formed practically by one man-his associates on the stage being assistants of the fetch-and-carry kind
not long it was But it not
Lear-before this ortraordinary man, once soon, was allowed his own descrip tion at himself by a thousand mystified apos- tators. "He's great," they said to one another,
BTL
Was
as they filed out of the Coliseum with the smel of gunpowder in their nostrils-for La- fayette always wisely saved up for the last of his programimo his Overture 1912, with Apologies to Tschaikowski." descriptive of the invasion of England by the combined nations, and of their nitimate defeat by the British Army led by Lord Roberts.
There was a great deal in it of the firing of Lurd impossible to guns, which made it a
part of anyone desiring free. follow on the dom of breath. Throughout the various Manobe, surveying ship. 1,825 tons, 10 gans,stages of this elaborate "Overture 1913.
900 b.p., Commander taget de la Touche, which was divided into nearly 20 incidents, Saigon
Lafayette was continually popping to the Mouquet, destroyer, 300 tons, 7 guns, 0,30 front in some new disguise or ether, and popping Commander de la Rocks Kerandraon, off again before you were quite sure you really bad soon him. He was everybody in turn and out of it, and nobody for longer than a flash.
was seated de Maindreville, Upper Yangtie Lient. Olry, river gaubost, 170 tons, 6 guns, 800 hp. Poiho, river gunboat, 130 tons, & guns, 238 h.p. Fizuli while Lord Roberts, mosto upon a
Lieut. Fusch, Tangkt
in itselerance of form and action, and with s Ferle, sub-marine, 70 tons, 40 h.p., Liest. Mon. loss sweeping tail. This was the beautiful
blackened body was
! Alen route to long 15 tons, 1,400 1.3.pier, Saiga, 300 tons 7 guas, 7,000 h.p., animal whose ble on the souldering stays of
Master S. Woet, Hongkong. Bramble, gunbost 710 tons, 900 Lb.p. Liont
MEN-OF-WAR ON THE CHINA
AND JAPAN STATION.
BRITISH
Alacrity, despatch-bost, 700 tons, 4 gane, 2,000
ih.p.. Comdr. A. Lowndes, Wethai wei. Astriha Cos, cruiser, 4,360 tons, 10 guns.
.
7,000 ih.p. Captain E. B. Kicale.
Hongkong.
Coudr. B. G. Washington, en routs to Shanghai. Britomart, gantast, 710 tons, 900 h.p., Liant
Comdr. J. M. Barker, Shanghai. Cadmus, British sloop, 1,070 tous, i.h.p. 1,400
f.d., Comdr. II. Lynes, Shanghai, Cherub, water tank and fag, 390 tons, i.h.p. 340.
Master W. Smith, Hongkong. Clio, British sloop, 1,070 tons, i.h.p. 1400,
Comdr. H. R, Venlo, Shanghai, Fame, torpedo-boat destroyer, 340 tons,,
gun, 5,700 Lb.p., Lt.-Comdr. H. S. Monroe,
Weihaiwei.
Flora, 2nd class cruiser, 4,360 tous, 10 guns, Nicholas Captain J. 7,000 i.l.p.. en route to Hongkong. Handy, torpedo boat destroyer 295 tous, 6 guus; 4,000 hp, Lieut. Comde. Hon, Guy Stop. ford, Hongkong.
Hart, torpedo bout destroyer, 295 tons 6 guna. 4,000 h.p., Lt.-Comer. Hon. Guy Stopford, Hongkong,
Fanne, torpedo-boat destroyer, 320 tons, 6 guns, 3,900 h.p., Lt.-Comdr. M., B. R. Blackrood, Weihaiwoi
Kent, armoured cruiser, 9,800 tons, 14 guns, 22.000, Capt. S. 8. J. Farquhar,. aruising.
Kinsha, river gunboat, 616 tons. i.l.p. 1,200. Lieut-Comdr. T. J. S. Lyne, Yangtare. Merlin, surveying ship, 1,070, tons, & guns 1,40 ih.p. Commr. B. O. M. Davy, Labuan (Borneo).
Minotaur, armoured cruiser (flagship Vice. Admiral Sir A. L. Winsloo, K.C.E. C.V.O., C.M.G..) 14,600, tons, i.l.p. 27,000 Capt. G. C. Cayley, Wailmiwei. Monmouth, armoured orniser, 9,800 tons, ih..
22,000, Captain L. E. Power, M.V.O. eu rosto to Hongkong.
180 tons, 2 guns
Moorhen, river
200, ut Cendr G. P. Leith.
River. Newcastle, 2nd class orniser, 4, 00 tons, turbin
Captain George P. E. Hunt, D.S.O.. en route to Hongkong and Hingapore. Nightingale, river gunboat, 85 tons, 240 h., Lt. Coudr. Claude Hilleradan. Woodward, IL.N., Yangtare.
Otter, torpedo-boat destroyer, 385 Long, 6 gans 6,300 ih.p., Comdr, Lambe, Weihaiwel. Robin, river gunboat, 35 tons, 2 guns, 240 b.p. Tat-Comdr. Como A. O. Douglas, Hong kong.
Sandpiper, river gunboat, 85 tons, 2 gruas, 24.
Lieut. Comlr. E. J. J. Southby. Riser Snipe, rivor gnabeat, 85 tous, 2 guns 240 k.p.
Lt-Comdr. Maurice B. Laglio, Fangtsze Taku, torpeile boat destroyer, 305 tons, i.h.p. 6.000, Gunner E. J. Trillo, R.N., Hong kong
Tamar, receiving ship, 4,650 tons, 6 gan
Commodore Egres, Hongkong.
Teal,
gunboat, 180 tons, 2 guns, 2.P. river Lieut. Comdr. R. J. Buchanan, Yangtses. Thittle, gunboat, 710 tons, 900 h.p., Lieut. Comdr. M. B. Baillie Hamilton, Hongkong. Virago, torpedo-buat destroyer, 395 tons, o gene 6,300 i.h.p., Lieut. Comdr. Harold D. Adair. Hall, Weihaiwei.
Waterwitch, surveying ship, 620 tons, 450 i.hr. Lieut.Comdr. R. L. Hansoek, en route to Singapore, Whiting, to pedo-boat destroyer, 360 tonn,
guns, 5,900 h.p. Lieat-Comdr. G. B. Hartford, Weihaiwei.
reon, gunbout 195 tons, 2 guns, 800 k.p Widgar. M. IL. Wilding, Yangtro
Lt.
sigon
87
Commander Mortenol, Hangay Protée, sub-marine, 70 tons, 60 h.p., Linut
Morris, Saigon Redoutable, battleship (rezerve), 9,330 tons
6,200 bp, Capt. Droast, Baigon guns 1,000 b.p.. Lieut. Seriot, Saigon Styx, armoured ganbast, 1,300 tons, B gane Takou, destroyer, 230 tone, 6 gaus 8,500 h.p.
In Reserve, Baigon. Vauban, torpedo-depot, Commander Mortonel,
Hongay
Vétéran, torpedo-depot, Lent Bibel,
Saint-Jacques
Vigilante, river gunboat, 180 tons, 6 guns,
Llest. Dumanlin, Sikiong
GERMAN,
the Edinburgh Palaco Theatre.
WIR DOG AND HORSE.
It is thought that Lafayette mot his death while endeavouring to pull his frightened horse from the barning building. This is more than likely to have been the case. He was sentimentally fond of animais, and the leath of his pat cream-coloured Tennessee bound a condition of deep molanobuly. With that Beauty, in Edinburgh last wook threw him inter Capostamily (as it was to him) on his mind, the safety of his favourite horse must have been his. 7 h.p one absorbing thought,
Aroons, oruiser, 2,719 tons, Captain rau Hippor
Amoy Iltis, ganboat, 1,000 tour, 10 guns,
Captain Laus
h.p
Jaguar, gunbost, 900 tour, 10 guns, 1,300 bp Chptala Graf von Posadogsky. Wehner
His dog, as well at his horse, took part in his entertainment Bounty mode her appearance in the first part of his programme. A Car- nival of Conjuring." Having caught live
in the
air, and brought fish to his book Pigeons from the same mysterious source, Lafayette od to be an ordinary bit of canras in a thin painted a picture of the dog apon what apppoar frame; and then, hey presto! and a wave of the
Beka moared cruiser. (dagship)eloaring behind her an apparently uzitouched
11,420
tood,
Leipzig, orulser, Captain Engel
notaal beast to jump alive from the pisture, Laoba, gunboat 850 tons, 10 gans, 1,944 bywand, and the "Man of Mystery" caused the
Bölken
This was called "Reincar stretch of canvas. nating my Pat, Beauty,"
There was a portrait of Beauty painted on the front of his house in Tavistock Square, fact going to show that his devotion to animale was something of a craze 2 well as a virtao.
62 guw, 26,000 h.p., Kapitan Zar Bee Mast Taka, destroyer, 280 tuus, guns, and 2 torpedo tubos, 6,000 h.p., Kommandant Kelbe (Hansi Bertram
Torpedo boat "go," Kapitan Lent, Haydan Tiger, gunboat, 900 tons, 10 guas, 1,800 h.p.,
Captain v. Kosa
Talagtan, ganboat, 170 tuus, 5 gana, 1,800 k.p
Captain Ross
Vaterland, gunboat, tous, 3 guns, 500 h.p.
Captain Toussaint
ITALIAN.
Calabria, protected craiser, 2,428, tons, 20 guns 4,000 h.p., Capitano Maris Casanova di Jorgerech Paglin, propected orainor, 2,498 tons, 26 guns, 7,000 h.p., Capitano Gusani Viyosati Mar ches Lorenso
FORTUGUESA
Patris, gunboat, 700 tone, Captain J. Aftroro Reiche D. Amelia, cralmer, 1,000, tone, Captain
C. Lims Tasos da Gama, omnisar, 3,092. tons, Capla
UNITED STATES.
Auguste Jose da Almeida Albany, craiser, 8,000 tons, C. 8. Williams. Arayat, gaubost, Lieut.-Comdr, Matt I
Signor Bainbridge, destroyer, 7 guas and 2 torpedo
tubes Ensign Lloyd W. Townsend Barry, destroyer, 420 tone, Eas. Edmund 8.
Bont Callao, gunboat, 243 tous, Eas. J. R. Murrisson Cleveland, erniser 3,200 tons, Commander
Hogh Rodman, Shanghai Charleston, battle hip (dagstrip), 9,703, toas 21,000 bp, Comdr. John H 58
Ran Gibbion Shanghai Chattanooga, cruiser, 3800 ton Commander
MacDonald, Bhanghai Chauncey, destroyer, 40 tons, Ena 1. N
McNair
Dale, destroyer, 490 tona, Lieut. Norbert H
Michsol
Donver, orniser, 8,200 tons, Comde, Edward E.
Cagehart, Shanghai
FROM CLAY, TO REALITY. Lafayette was a clever modolier of clay, and this accomplishment, as well as that of palating, entered into the scheme of his great" entertain- ment offering" as his show" was billed in the country of his birth. In the second part of his programme we found him at work on a model but by the shape with extraordinary
and the Botnal process of
than, in Boulptor; some mysterions fashion, disposing of his work in a flash revealing to our astonished eyes a living Leda mounted amid cascades of solatil lating waters from the fountain of Iris.
of "Leda and the Swan," brio eg them into
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source of attraction to passers-by On the door was a cooper plate bearing the quaint inscription,
a portrait of his favourite dog figured in medal- lion between the dining room windows. The in terior of the house is painted a vivid crimson, and everywhere are cunningly dorised electric for lights, and illusions in profusion to mystify his
given in dramatic form. His latting.visitors. The keynote to the household was
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His "mysteries, though they dealt with the The Great Lafayetto and his Beauty" while THE DIRECTORY & CHRONICLE 1911- appearance and the diappearance of a man or a woma under amazing circumstances, were very different to those of the ordinary illusionist. They were magnificently spectacular, and often instance, was a romance in Oriental wherein & noble young Persian price resoned a supplied in the following whimsical notice pro- captive maiden from a lion's den, which she had mineally displayed in the entrance hall:-Yon preferred to the harem of a terrible pasha It may sit at my table; you may drink my wine; is called "The Lion's Bride," and its mysteries you may give commands to my servants; but Even his cheques--printed changes and perplexing dodgeries "rospect my dog." and quick were performed by Lafayette amid gorgeous and most elaborate scenery, with slaves, soldiers, guards of the human paraphernalia of Oriental high oftleialism. Alling the stage as in some play of importance.
It was towards the end of "The Lion's Bride" that the fearful fire broke ont, and it was in this that the white horse wuensed for the Jast time. It figured in the illusion as the the Ieroine of
poor Lafayette's means by which mystery-sketch made her escapo from the lion's don and the Royal harem. And it was by the sword he were, as Prinos Hashim No Barl, a Porsien onvoy and the deliverer of the captive maiden, that the people connected with the when it had been discovered by the fremen,
in manve and gold-were specially designed, being engraved with a portrait of the dog sit- ting by the side of bags of gold, and inscribed, "My two best friends."
Galveston, oraiser, 3,200 tons, Commander Edinburgh Palace Thula identified his body proto, and plan made their appesaty both
Jobu A. Hoogewerff, Manila Hulene
1,892 tons, Comdr. Reuben gunboat O. Biller, Shanghai Mindoro, gunboat, Liest, Goorge M. Baum Mohican (station ship), Commander G. R
Salisbury
Olongapo
His motor car, driven by a black chauffeur was more like something from a pantomime procession than from a garage. It was a huge affair, costing a couple of thousand pounds, and in some respecta resembled a travelling miniature hotel. By an ingenious device the car could be converted into adormitory, with accommodation for two or three persone, and even seats because A button. An- washstands by the prossing of other electric button could be toached, and, hey set of Thermos flasks, cups, Baucers and
There were reminders of the dog inside and out. On top of the radiator was a THE DOG BEAUTY, Lafayette's love for his cream-coloured Ten-branze statue of the dog waving the Stars and norsee hound. "Beauty," amounted almost to a Stripes, while in a prominent place in the car was manis. The animal seemed to be his chief a silver-plated figure of Venne, with a silver- plated statuette of Beauty cronching at her feet. terrible blow to him. His fondness for the suimal showed expression in a variety of strange silver horas aboss,
studded
Lafayette's earnings have been estimated at dog ways. He had a collar made for the with gold plates odgod, with diamonds, and in something between £30,000 and £40,000 per each of the plates was engraved o fac-simile of unnum, and since he entertained but slightly, the signature of the proprietor of the hall and lived a life of incessant work, it is belived wherefor he played. When those were filled he that he scoumnlated the greatest fortune ovar
initials
ints of other theatre proprietors ought the dog a gold-onrbad chain bracelet, made by a performer.
Vas
Woodcock, ganboat, 150 tons, 2 FREE, 550 h. Monterey, monitor, 4,000 tons, Lt. D. W. Toda thought in life, and its death last Thursday His favourite white burne was provided with
Yangtsso. Lieut.-Comdr. B. R. Brooke, Woodlark, gunboat, 150 tons, 2 guns, 350 kr.
Lieut. Comdr. G. F. A. Mulock, Yangtare.
AUSTRIAN.
Kaiserin Blissbeth, Anstrlau protected cruiser 4,000, Fregatteskapitan Oskar Hass, Northern Waters Panther, third olams craiser, 1,530 tons, Fre gattenkspitan, Theoder Sker! Bal von Schmidthein
FRENCH.
Acheron, armoured gunboat, 1,833 tons, 9 gaus,
1,700 b.p., Lieut. Bertrand, daigor Alger, 2nd class oraiser, 4,320 tons, 23 800s
5,100 hp., Commander Fournier, H kong Alouetto, gaebeat, 500 tone, 7 guns, 400 hp
Commander Badia, Saigon
Arsent. Audouard Baionnette, gunboat. Cimeterre, gunboat, 140 tons, Hosarvs, Saigon. Caronaldagunboat, 181 tons, Reserve, Saigon Décidés, gunboat, 630 tons, 10 guns, 900 E.p.
Lieut. de Linarde, Shanghai Dapleix, are
armoured cruiser, 7,578 tons, 28 guns, 17,600 h.p. Desaix, armoured cruiser, 7,57 8 tons, 26 guns,
river gunboat, 180 tons, 6 guns, 570 h.p.,
17,000 b.p. D'Therville gunboat Estos, gunboat, 141 tone, Reserve, Haiphong Esturgeon, submarine, 70 tons, 60 b.p., Lieut
Catel, Saigon Fronde, destroyer, 300 tons, 7 guns, 6,300 hp.
Saigon
152
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Heari
i Rivière, river gunboat, 150 tona, 6 gant
Haiphong Lyvx, sub-marine, 70 tone, 6h.p., Lieut. Marrs,
Baigon Montcalm, armoured cruiser, (agship) 9,367 toos, 36 gune, 19,600 hp, Rear Admiral de in Croix de Castries (Commander-in- Chief
Nanshan, transport, 1,577 tons, W. D. Pardeaux New Orleans, oruiser, 3,430 teas, Comdr. Roger
Welles
New York, cruiser (Bagship), Comdr. J. P
Звупо Paraguay, gauboat, Ensign Roy L, Lowinau Ponusylvania, armoured cruiser, 13.680 tons
Capt. A. Ward Pompey, collier, 1,500 tons, James D. Linett. Porpoise, 125 tons, 180 h.p., Ens. Kenne
Whiting Rainbow, cruiser, 6,020 tons Comdr. A. C.
Stolt. Samar, gunboat, Ensiga W. C. I. Stiles Shark, 125 tons, 180 hp. Ensign Theodore G
Ellyron Villalobos, gaubost, 370 tons, Lt. A. Andraws Wilmington, ganbast, 1800, Comar, G.
Sailebury Hongkong
STEAMERS. PASSED THE CANAL
and
stamped on the links,
orer
LORDS AND HOUSE OF COMMONS
In addition to the medallion of the dog in As SUPPLIED TO THE HOUSE OF front of his Ludou house, there was a mette the doorway declaringThe more I sea of man, the more I love my dog." à room in the house was sat apart for the animal, and when travelling Lafayette always stipulated at the hotels for a special room and bath for his pet. The last lottors which he wrote to his friends told of the great loss.
The dog was to have been buried pesterday at Piershill Cemetery, Edinburgh, in a special canlt which he bad had constructed there This was lined with white enamelled tiles, and on the top was a marble alib with the inscrip tion Dedicated to the memory of my darling Beauty."
THORNE'S
OLD VAT..
No. 4.
The cemetery authorities demurred to tha May 16th-Soyo Maru, Alesia, 19th burial of a dog in consorated ground; but this This vat was started by the late Robert Thorn Borneo, Hellas, Menelaus, Nippon, Sikh, Silvi, objection Latayotlee met by the declaration Sigma, Wakasa Meru, Yangtsze. 23rd-Beniarig that his own ashes would be placed there after of Greenock and has been sold as No. 4 since 1831. Briazania, Rheinscle. 26th-Catches, Dumben,
with him path to prophecy, Kano Maru, Pulernis, Pembrokeshire, Tydeus, oration, and be proposed to have the dog
Hele
The embalmed body of the animal is now ly Yorck, Warrior, 30th-Glamorganshire,
Baron Rickmers, bulien, Reigate, Spezia,
Sam Sfinte
Jane Zad-Bellerophon, Bencleuch, at the Caledonian Hotel, Edlaburgh, where,
with his wife, Lafayette was staying. Henturig, Deucalion, Kalinga, Palms, Patroclus. rounded by lilies, with its gold bangle upon its Sazonia, Syria, bidraden. 6th-Cardiganshire,
whereon reets the diamond-studded collar. Liberiz, Nippon, l'atroclus, Fille de la Ciotat, et foreleg, the dog lies in state, upon a pillow 9th-ski Maru, Indrasamha, Kanagawa Maru, Prometheus.
ARRIVALS AT HOME. Jane 9th-Sencyambiu, Tourane.
£40,000 A YEAR.
A man of uncommon ability, Lafayette was also a man of uncommon tastes and ways. He was a showman in private as well as in public. His house in Tavistock Square was always a
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Kongmoon Nanning
Wnokowfa KwangchauwATL Pakhei
Ichang Changking Pakle Bangcher Hoiliow Ningpo Imagchov Wenchow. Mêngtze Saata Fosebow Amoy
Hokow
Tainanfu Mukden
Sremao
Shanghai Swatow
Tokyo
JAPAN AND FORMOSA
Osaka
Yokohams
Moji
Korlung Talzanfa
Hyogo
Nagunaki
Takow
Hakodate Anping
Nicojewsk
Kobe
Shimonoseki Tameni.
EASTERN SIBERIA
Vladivostook.
-Seoul
Chemulpo Кирвал
CHOSEN Wonsant
Funn
Pingyang
Makpo Chinnampo Scagohin
HONGKONG AND ITS DEPENDENCIES.
Macko, FRENCH INDO-CHINA:
Tourna Hanoi
Annam Haiphong
Hag Saigon Tonkin Provinces Quinhen Cambodge PHILIPPINES
Manila
Sarawak
Deila Cebu
BOBNEG Lahnan
Brih N. Barued
BANGKOK STEAITS SETTLEMENTS Singapore, Penang, Malacca, Prov. Wellesley
MALAY STATES
Sungei Ujong Selangor
Perak Jelebu NETHERLANDS INDIA
Samarang Padang
Johore Pahang
Batavia Buitenzorg
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Seurahista
East Coast of Sumatra
Macassar
NAVAL SQUADRONS
British French
German Japaneso Siamese
Austrian United States Italian
OFFICERS OF COAST AND RIVER STEAKER. The Book is printed from New Type specially reserved for the purpose, and uniformity in every armagement greatly facilitates reference.
The features in the 1911 Edition are the LISTS of TRADES sal CLASSIFIED
the larger Commercial PROFESSIONS at
The Centres. ALPHABETICAL LIST of contains the names of over
4
RESIDENTS
20,000 FOREIGNERS, carsfully arranged, with the Initials a well as the Burnames in strictly Alphabetical Order,
that any are man be found instantly.
THE MAPS AND PLANS have been engraved by one of the most eminent Firm's in Great Britain and are corrected and Yanohi up to date. They consist this year of the following -
COLOURED PLATE OF FLAGS OF FOREIGN HONGS MAP OF THE FAB EASA
PLAN OF YOKOHAMA
PLAN OF KOBE AND YOG
PEAS OF FORRIAN ÄITTLEMENTS, THKTHIN PLAN OF TRINGTau (Kiaqcitat)
PLAX OF FORENGA CONCESION, BHANGHAI PLAN OF HONGKEW. (SHANGHAJ) with Inset
Ahowing the ExPENDED SETTLEMENT LARGE PLAN OF TILE CITY OF VICTORIA PLAN OF NEW Tuæritory (KowiIAON) -PLAN OF KOWLŹMIN
PLAN OF MANILA
PLAN OF SAIGON
PLAN OF SINGAPORE
PLAN BATAVIA
The CHRONICLE covers the notable events of the last half century in the Far East together with the Tarts of all the most important Treaties concluded with the countries of Eastern Asia, the various Customs Tarifs, Trade Regulations, Chambers of Commerce Seales of Commissions Consular and Court Fees, Hongkong Stamp Datios, Foetal Guide, Signal Codes, Chinese Festivala, Tables of Money, Weights and Measures, and other Commercial. Information including
The CHRONICLE and DIRECTORY, al- though condensed in every posible manner.com tains every year more pages.
It was years ago universally pronounced to be the cheapest work of the kind anywhere published, and althongh very much enlarged and improved in every way, the price in silver le now below the equivalent of £1 5s, at which it was originally published.
It is published at this Offce of the Hongkong Daily Press, and can be had from, and Adver tisements sent through, the principal Book sellors in Asia and through
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