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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
TROUBLESOMT FIREMEN, ALLEGATION AGAINST CHIES
· ENGINEER.”
As a result of some trombis on board the
If the Russian Opera in suited from the pessant class they are the ɛ most wonderful passante I have over scam. As a matter of fact, I am told that, our good: fortune in seeing and bearing to wall- balanced and generally excellent a crowd 1. Za Song, 19 firemen of the stormer is due to the fact that a number of rowers prosented yesterday morning, bo fugee musicians banded themselves toge fore Captain Basil Taylour, R.N., Marine thee to form this company, Whereever Magistrate, at the instance of Captain they spring from, it is obvious that the R. A Matthews, master of the vessel, for producers and managers know their job, willally disobering his lawful comman The orchestra and chorus would be difi- on the 12th inst., in Victoria Harbour. cult to beat anywhare. Many of the soloists have glorious voices and the whole company sets in artistic unison.. the most ordinary, semi-trained music lover is carried to an almost unknown and unsuspected height on the plane of artistio sonsation and enjoyment.
Mr. J. H. Gardiner defended the first defendant,
RANDOM REFLECTIONS. WOMEN IN HONGKONG. January 19th, 1990. When some of our friends who live at
Jecking back to recollect the events of the Peak And themselves crowded out of the cars at one o'clock or thermabon and each week takes some doing those days hare to wait ten minutes or a quarter The ripples of the festive season sent to of an hour on their way to tiffin, maybe taking a long time to sit down into Expect things to happen. Tramways are peaceful normality. One begins to doubt democratic institutions; there are no whether Hongkong does ever settle down reserved seats and in the scramble for socially. It is a very gay little place accommodation it is very often the lusty if you once let yourself go, and it seems Junior who secures the" prize and has the to be a case of peck or nothing.
You supreme satisfaction of smiling genially have to take a firmos stand it you want at the taipan left disconsolate on the a quiet life, refuse all invitations and platform. But, of course, this ought not hide yourself, in which case you must be to be: it is subversive of good, order and prepared to be very bored and very dull dignity, and for days I have been expect. In these little outposts of the Empire, ing the matter to be brought to the notice far from kith and kin..far from the of the Government. Apparently, how centres of art and music and theatres, over, the Government has escaped censure
cut off from politics and from social in this instance, and it is only the Super work, the inhabitants depend upon each intendent Engineer's life which has been other for entertainment, and make a pro threatened. They tell me that the most found study of the art of killing time vercmous complaints have poured into Domestic labour and the comparative the Company's offices, and the genial Mr. cheapness of the luxuries and the append. Buyers-deiring, as always, to please
ages of entertainment, make the propos, and singers have had their full share of and cach man retused in turn to do any everybody and, as invariably happens tion easy and attractive, failing has decided to run a ten-minute serving from 12.30 until the crush is over..
This
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Even
Captain Matthews said that st`5,30 L. III. on Monday the No. 1 fireman told him he would not work any longer on the ship,. that he was sick, sad, that if he won i sshare, the rest of the fremmen: would go
the
As usual, the chief supporters of the with him. The fremmen had a fortnight opera are members of the Portuguese dongo falan down the bunker and was sent
· and resumad" duty two days before the munity, many of whom have had to make to the ship's surgeon and had recovered considerable sacrifice to pay four dollars
The orchestra hip arrived in port on January 8th. Lightly for their seats
Complainant then had all the firemen ap. appreciative criticism in the daily press more work. He sent for the Police and notices appearing after each performance, they all again refused, giving reason that price of food and clothing had Looking back upon the variety of fine but I have not seen any refereges to the gone up and they wanted higher wages. tions, private and public, I have attended beautiful dancing, which is so great a The firemen had been on the ship since September 3rd and were getting the usual in Hongkong. I am once more struck by feature in some of the operas. The manages tbe port. They were on aix
articles the ease and comfort the women enjoy,bers of the ballet are beautiful young months: Numberless servante, at a comparatively women possessing the inborn grace of Captain said he had not engaged another Cross-examined by Mr. Gardiner, the low wage and of a very fair intelligence, the Russian dancer, allied to a techniqueatozehold are. There was anuber lot on One is continually re of exceptional quality. Had these women board, but they were not engaged by him. surround them. minded of the Arabian Nights." The appeared as a separate turn in a variety They must have been engaged by the old
lot; ther modern electris-bell, takes the place of the show their performance would haveing. The reason the old crow gave him at magie ring or carpet, or of the clapping evoked much applause and subsequent first was that the No. 1 was sick and they to us without him. is was Fed kwould not
when hands, which summoned the slaves. You
the Police came that they gave the second feason. what to dance! You press your ball Enter, No,' 1 Boy.
You say the word and, presto! bs departs to return with Coolies, who have apparently risen from the bowels of the earth, Your room is
discussion.
May I suggest that the better plan would be to run an extra car between 12.45 and 1.15. Now that the depressor has been removed and the journey occupies only seven minutes it would be a simple matter to squeeze in an extra non-stop express to the Peak, say at one o'clock would
congestion relieve the materially.
The fact of the matter, of course, is that we have outgrown the Peak Trem way service with its limited capacity for taking forty people to the Upper Levels one cannes help regretting that Mr. every ten, altean, or thirty minutes, and Findlay Smith scheme for providing an alternative
Glenealy was rauto through scotched.
from Ice House Street, tapped the Caine Road and May Road levels at very con- venient points, and discharged its load sociew here near the terminus of the pre Bcat line. If st
f such a venture under another to your destination do you need to spread Saturday night the management of had been operating now it is tables and wash up dishes; the rough the Peak Hotel sportingly placed their Company likely that we should have been more than able to obtain tickets for considerably and tumble of the picnic in less favoured dining room at the disposal of Mr. War less than $144 (or £40 a year approxi- countries is entirely lacking. Yachts, wick and his company, and a very bright mataly)-the sinount we are charged at launches or motor-curs wait to take yo little farewell entertainment was present
There is, af Cours. the present possibility that one of the enterprises to fascinating and alluring spots-little of to a fairly large audience, sevéráj al of rate-cutting and the other would have
came on board on Monday morn-
·
It would have, taken people cloazed: you dance. Your want to pienio pany was cleared off the boards in fav told the second engineer on 1hursday, on
Again the magic. You do not need to worry about packing your baskets, of securing porters; neither, when you get
From Opera to Variety Shop is a long, Chan downward step, but each man
to his that on the No. 1 fireman, said way down from Japan be met with an accident and was still suffering taste, in this marry old world, and for from the effects of 20 On December 27t tunately there are enough varieties to last be told the chief engineer that he please everyone. The Vanity Fair Com could not work. He resumed duty a few days before arriving at Hongkong. He our of the Opera Company and some of arrival at Hongkong, that he could not the members have been delighting local the ship and that all the others.
would leave TOO. He told the thre audiences at Wiseman's and other places.Engineer the same thing on Saterday
the reason for his wanting to leave was that the Chief Engineer demanded $300 from the firemen, and, not having encagh money, they wanted to leave a talp to and pey No. 1 forewar une on
paying at 6.30 on Monday morning, and the lafter told him, that
A gang en
Doard
would. hava gone'"* phut in the process bays where you can bathe in summer, or the residents taking the opportunity. Lake over the work they were going to recouped itwalf afterwards, but that is not land on acme lovely island, and in winter entertaining their guests to dinner before a consideration likely to weigh beavily climb a mountain or lazily rest under a the show,
with the man in the street.
tres.
י.
But, by the way! Speaking of the ↑ In the house again, a sudden unexpect at the Kingsclere Fancy Ball- All the truster, at any port the matter to
The other defendante had nothing to Captain Basil Taylour gave the follow- Way. ing decision: a of Spinion that no sedhi ranuaal of duty sccurred. It seems to have breed a case of waxokehold staff, beaded by the No. I, wish to be
Cross-examined by the Court, defendant. said that when the master sent for him on Metidas, And way anything about anneer having demanded. Everyone seems to have had a good time this, used bance be
mey. He did not
It was a dirty Torgotten plan of building ed arrival of a ship with globe-trotting girls say they had the time of their and preferred to leave his job. He had not mention it. Hing He dared
not report it to the master, second Peak tram-Line reminds me that whell it was abandoned certain obliga friends, need not dismay the house-keep-
lives." The girls out here are supposed been working on board Jardine's ships tions were laid upon the present Conor. All that is wanted is a word to the to be spoiled and to be hard to please, for long time and had never been asked pany, with the idea, presumably, of giver Boy." Six men dinner! Boy Bays but one must say, in their defence, that practice as far ne as knew.
#for money before. It was, not a common ing
them
a menopoly only, on speciñed
"Can do!"—it is done No wonder Was it not stipulated, conditions:
as long as each dance continues to be instance, among other things, that the people like entertaining. Women who
the most glorious event in a glorious and pront track should be continued to
have entertained in countries where redelightful life, there is not much wrong Queen's Road at some convenient date i If it was, I suppose we must presumevante are scarce and wages high, know with them. The supreme test of healthy not yet that there are compensations in the life minded youth is the power to enthuse. that the convenient date bas arrived, owing to the continued occups in Hongkong, Many who have retura Carping critician shows the cloven hoor tion of the sites flanking Garden Road by the military,
ad from long, so-called holidays, în Eng- land, spent in lodgings or houses, where servants were scarce, coal the price of gold, and butter like a long-forgotten dream, are glad their holiday is over and they are back in their little far-away casis of luxury and leisure, I'do' not suppose they will be glad for very long Later the fog-will come and the floors will be too damp for danging Books, treasures and frillfes will be packed away and the long, long grouse will start will be forgotten and everyone will again; the discomforts of other countries wonder why they ever left home.. But that is life David Harum told us very truly that a dog must have fleas just to keep him from forgetting that he is a dog.
I would like, before leaving this very. important and battling problem of quick transport, to put in a word for the ladies, They have been very much maligned because they have travelled at mid-day round robin of protest has been suggested, and the Company has has even been asked to stipulate that ladies' stason tickets should not be available during certain hours. Poor things I saw six or seven good ladies waiting on the Tramway station for the car at one o'clock. They had, perhaps, been on some errand of mercy, or had been delay Wisoma. They had not the heart to household affairs at struggle for a seat Two conscience: sarily
creatures who had gained entry gave up their places which ware seized at once by greedy males, And, instead of the raising of hats and of gratitude, ribald Tomarky expressions were passed between the passeng
passengers ta the tram moved off. The shame of it! How we have degenerated since te war! I would have given up my seat with plen sons, but, unfortunately, i was squeezed sure and set an example to my compan:
in the coolie quarters and my action would have savoured of something alm.si. approaching diarespect. Buch an inten- tion was, naturally, farthest from
my thoughts and 1 could only sit still and zullor.
What
If there
To return to the chronicle of the doings of last week I find thas everything, in- cluding St. George's Bad and the fancy Dress Ball at Kingsclere, sinks into in treat we have had in the Russian. Optra significance in comparison with the great season at the Theatre Royal 1 Tong was such B thing as artistic life kong, one could describe this event is land-marks but there is not much to
alive here, and it is apparently too much an effort for the majority of society people to break away from a round of diners and danced to devote "a low evenings to one of the greatest artistic delights ever offered to the Colony, Ba
*The
off, and going about it in a irregular or old age Mrs. Bavecek Davies, who ner As to the accusation brought against the Chief Engineer, there is no took tho first prizo, represented si evidence in support of it, and Bacchante, and not a prehistoric woman greatly doubt that any such thing happen- VERY as reporte There is a sigut difference : ne conduct of the men was, if not tume costume; the lady of the graperlined, greatly palliated by the Chier wore more clothes than her prehistori ngance waving brought of a new staff ancestress; she was already beuzer versed im regular manner. in the joys, and vices of the slightly mori The defendants were. discharged. advanced period of civilization. primitive covering di tas predistorie woman might have been consuted in a modern bau-room, todagh the modera stage sets an example or scanty clothing 1 bear that some one went a Pussy foot and that many people ineu, cleverly carried out is a bit of an led to see him take a prize A topical achievement when laney dress Balls are the order of the day.
would have pa
COMPANY MEETING. CHINA. BORNEO CO., LTD,
the chown company was held in the offices An extraordinary general meeting of
of Mears, Gibb, Livingston & Co. yea terday afternoon, Mr. J. W. C. Bonnar presiding. The others present were Bir Paul, Chater and Mr. AE. Grifin (Directors) Mr. H.-W. B. Kennett (General Manager), Mesare. M. S. North- cote, A. C. Kennedy, A. W. Smith, LEN Loefe OL Ellis, O. Baptisto, L. W. Sang, and L. I. Fo (shareholder)
Before concluding and withdrawing into another week's privacy, 1 muse apologise to the gentleman wao aliuded tone beribblerin, unparliamentary language because i caught the 12.55 car on one occasion, very shortly after my re-
sourd, in the first instance, have exaluf Thaubesiness for which this meeting has marks, anent woman and the luncheon car had appeared in these columns. The CHAIRMANT aid:-Gentlemen, ea business women, for they, of court; been tested is of a formal nature only. ara bound to the same hours as business At the meeting held on the 20th. December men and their hours for luncheon areas an traordinary resolution was passed keep the remembrance of artistic feeling restricted as the men's. A certain dum that the Company be wound up volun Der of women living on the Penk do work and have to arrange their days with antarily, and that Mr. F. A. M. Williams "yo in the clock.
be "appointed Liquidator, and it in neersasry that this should be confirmed as special resolution. I have, therefore, to propons that the following resolution, nary resplution on the 29th December be which was duly passed as an extraordi
confirmed us & special fesolution:
THE SCRIBBLER.
about the trams for Kowloon Mr. Landake, I think, raised the question some time ago in the Legislative Council Unless my memory deceives me, he stated, In effect, that the Hongkong Tramway & matter of fact, quite a me of HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI Company were prepared to embark upon society people who tuned themselves up the venture instanter. The Government to the necessary pitch, did not take long replied
that they wanted to go os dieno
to run down again, and quite a number in the matter granting monopolies to did not survive more than a couple of
enterprise when the work should acts. One private
realises, of that grand course, undertaken by the authorities in the opers is not a form of entertainment that. We are officially authorised to state that general interests of the community.
Aappeals to everyone.
ne. One must have a subject to audit, the Directors of the rrect and admirable answer it
ora
'BANK!
DIVIDEND ANNOUNCEMENT:
That the Company be wound up voluntarily, and that Ernest Alfred Mountford Williams of the firm of Lowe, Pincham & Matthews of Chartered Bank Buildings, Queen's Road Central, Vic- for the purposes of such winding up, st such remuneration as may be arranged her the silt Harrisons & Crosfield, Ltd. and the Liquidator."
but in the circumstances, the natural for highly educated † Ogong and dhanghai Banking Cortoria, aforesaid, be appointed Liquidator. We should make a special effort hans of undiluted music, in "an unoxa-
and developed taste for music to appreciate person will recommend at the fort
coming meeting-
There has been
A final dividend for the year ending 31st December, 1919, of £1 5/- per state and a bonus of 23. 10/- per aliare, sio-† This resolution was seconded by SI jess to deduction of income tax.
...” Add to the Silver Reserve
Fand 2,000,000 Write off Bank Promises: $1,000,000 and carry forward about 7) lacs:
·∙to to trabsinto
theory into practice. Govern fortable and draughty, theatre, especially ment-owned trams may be the ideal to when the stage setting is poor and every Aim at-I have an open mind on the thing depends
Taking subject tot probabis Kowloon residents all these ads upon the artists.
into com would prefer private enterprise to none sideration, the triumph
of the Russian Upers Company is great, for mig
night after RODERICK RANDO Hight large audiences Lave listened and [The appearance of these notes in print not only listened but striven and fought has been, inavoidably delayed. Since they for the opportunity to listen again. were put in type the Feak timetable has
complaint from m bond changed as foreshadowed in the first who ought to know better about the price Bots. A ten-minute service between 19.30 of oats, One or two bave gone ai far. and 2 o'clock instituted on Monday as to describe the company as consisting hot the one c'clock car on that day had to of a lot of Russian peasants who should Josse host twenty persona bokind, and for not demands dollars The contention The 1:10 car there were sine Europeans who absurd, for
performance could not be taken ap. Yesterday none Covent Garden would not be seen at the crowded out, and possibly when people price. It is customary to pay more for ustom themselves to the altered times grand opera than for comic opers, drams may be able to catch earlier cars and or comedy for apart from an other
resson, the cost of prediction in greater a bonus of $5 per share
similar
at
HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT CO.
FINAL DIVIDEND.
Babject to audit, the Company will pay
dividend of $4.00 per are and
Paul Chater and carried unanifously.
Thero being no- further bosiness, the boting termicated
HONGKONG TRAMWAY CO. LTD.
The approximate statement of traffic reonints for the,week ending January 10th
ecofpta
SPECIAL REDUCTIONS
IN
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