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DODWELL & CO.,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20TK. 1991.
LIMITED
REGULAR SAILINGS TO NEW YORK & BOSTON
for NEW YORK via Suez." "BOLTON "CASTLE"
...ailing on or about 9ad Aug.
LLOYD TRIESTINO.
TAKING CARGO ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING FOR LEVANT, BLACK SEA & DANUBE PORTS.
FIUME having bru resopaed for traffic, cargo is alun apcepted for this purt on through Bill of Lading,
FOR BRINDISI, VENICE. & TRIESTE
via SINGAPORE, PENANG & COLOMBO..
**CILICIA"
TRIESTE"
alling on or about 30th July. ..sailing End of August.
FOR SHANGHAI
...iling Middle of August.. **TRIESTE"
Passengers Luggage can be insured at the Office of the Agents..
..
NATAL LINE OF STEAMERS. “
"UMKUZI "miling fm Colombo for South African ports abous 30th July.
Regular Passenger and Cargo Service to
SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS from CALCUTTA & COLOMBO, Through Bills of Laling Ined from Hongkong.
För Freight or Passage on any of the above Lines spply to
DODWELL & CO., LIMITED,
Agenter
N. Y. K.
NIPPON YUSEN
KAISHA
TALLINOR 7562 MONGKONG FÜRJBOI YO ALTERATION.
THE GROWTH OF LONDON.
100 YEARS A00% AND NOW,
We have just heard (says The Observer) some interesting speculations about the London of the future; what this great Metropolis may be and what it may look like fifty years hencel Few of us, Į♪- haps, stop to think what it was like in the past, and how it has grown to its pasitin today, Since the Brst known settlement it has taken London twenty centuries to reach its present state-the London we know to-day with its twenty- bine boroughs, its maze of streets and traffic, its stately buildings and parks. and its miles upon miles of shops, and houses.
No one can tell us more about its
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15th July, Noon
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БАГРНОГО НА HOLHOW. Apartments, Mil-level or Penk Willing to
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growth than Mr. 1. R. Dasidge, late WANTED. - Experienced BOOK OA LOUTTA LINE-This Line afforda regular sailings to Caloutta Penage and
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SHANGHAI
Housing Commissioner for the London
KEEPER desires Work after Office area, and formerly for many you a dis- hours. Wall conversant in Accounting, Type- trict surveyor in London. He is just writing, and Office Routine. Excellent references; back from India, "where he has been commensurate salary expected. Apply Box MG, advising the Government on the town c/o Daily Press Office. planning and development of Bombay.DURE LOTUS HONEY. A tried and and when a representative saw him at PUR
infalliable remedy for all Eye Disenses. his office above The London Society, at 27, Abingdon street, he was looking out Cures Cataract, Glancome, etc., without knife apon London with new eyes for its no harm, no pain. Chre guaranteed. R3 MATILA
per dní. Particulars on request "SBI" beauties.
WORKS, Beadon Square, Calcutta, India, (H). BAIPHONG
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The Arst thing that strikes one," he said, is the enormous growth of Lon don during the past century as enmpared with that of the eighteen centuries that' In the last hundred years preceded it.
the Metropolia has shot out arms in all directions, the length of these, arma vary- ing from ten to twelve or even fourteen miles;
A KUNDIED YEARS AGO.
A hundred years ago London reached barely as far as Hyde Park in the west, and daly "as. far north as Bloomsbury, and as far east as Stepney, South of the river there was practically no build-; Ing outside the Borough of Southwark, and it will be remembered that the couching inns which, provided the rapid transit of those days were situated either in the Borough High-street or somewhere along the length of Halborn.
Compared with other cities the development of London has been very haphazard. No regular plan of growth
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ARGE GODOWN at Wan-chai (known as
Mody:Godown). Appy to
LEE HYSAN & CO..
209, Queen's Roul C.
[1150
| TIENT IN BANGKOK
TO LET.
ODOWN at Yaumati
For particulare apply to- THE HONGKONG LAND RECLAMA-
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has ever been officially carried out, SALE BY TENDER OF H.M.S. "FAME” although The London Society has put forward a skeleton plan in which theENDERS main arteries and railway communica tions have been most carefully consider ed. For the moment all that is being done is that the Ministry of Transport and the London County Council are com- bining in the construction of one or two Forms of terder will be issued on arterial roads of lesser importance, with to the undersigned. A deposit of $100 i a view principally to finding work for required before forms of tender can be issued.
The vessel will be on view from the 4th to the unemployed. If the development of
are invited for the parchase of the above named Bhip with Engines and Boilers and various auxiliary Machinery on board, a she lies at the Naval Depot Kowloon
Fall particulars of the Ship, conditions of Sale, and permits to view the ship may be obtained on application to
to the
underation!
SEATTLE & VICTORIA or VANCOUVER vis Manila, Keelung, London is to be provided for efficiently 30th July inclusive between the hours of 10 AM.
Shanghai & Japan port
Cargo to Overland Points UB. In connection with Gross Northern Northern Enothe
JUWA MARU
and Chicago, Milwaxkon de St. Paul Kallways.
FUSHIMI MARU (omitting Manila) „.
KATORI MARU
"KASHIMA MAHU
44
(omitting Manila)
LONDON & ANTWERP
Friday,
19th July, at 11 am.
Tuesday, Friday, Tuesday,
23rd Aug. 11. 4. 9th Sept., .11 mm. 4th Oct. 13 11 moo
ra Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez
Port Said and Marseilles.
YOKOHAMA MARU KLEIST
MISHIMA MARU
SADO MARU
"
Wednesday,
Sunday Friday, Friday,
'HAMBURG. MARSEILLES, LONDON &
TOTTORI MARU...
3rd Aug. i 11 ̈..
14 Aug, at 11 am
19th Aug, at 11 am
2nd Sep, 11 am. BOTTERDAM.
Latter half of August..
LIVERPOOL & MARSEILLES via. 80ss. MELBOURNE & SYDNEY
vis
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다
F.X. ind tenders must reach the Com-. the first essential as a comprehensive and development plan and the use of town-modore's Office not later than 12 Noon on
MONDAY, 1ST AUGUST, 1921. planning powers.
ROMAN LONDON.
The six Roman roads running to London have been absorbed in the gene- ral system of London streets, and their!
But even to, identity is almost last. day the long, straight line of the Edg Pare-road, the Shooters Hill-road and the Clapham-road point to their Roman: origin.
"London began in Roman days as a fortified camp in the neighbourhood where now stands Cannon-street Station. and about the year A.D. 306 the City was first enclosed by walls. With its.. open sperres n bowshot outside the walls, which in later times formed the City liberties, its area then, us now, was approximately a square mile.
The streets of this square mile, are
...19'5.3/8"
Length between Perpendicular... 210 ft. Breadth, extreme....... Depth in hold....**.
...12'6.1/2" ...308 Toms Propelling MachineryTriple expansion
(Twin' of 2960 EP.) Diameter of Cylinders:-20", 29" Two of $0" Stroke 1'6" -Thorncroft's Water Tube 3 No.
H. G. LOWE, Naval Store Officer,
11129 ae Dockyard,
Hongkong. July 2nd. 1921,
Nominal Diplacement...
SS. L'YSER.
FOR SALE.
BY PRIVATE TENDERS.
As she now lies in the Singapore reads off
Manila, Zamboanga, Thursday still substantially the ane as in the Tanjong Rhu,
Island, Townsville & "Brisbane. AKI MARU TANGO MABU
Tuesday,
Tuesday,
16th Aug, at 11 mm. 20th Sept, 41.11 1.m
NEW YORK & HAVANA VIA PANAMA.
LYONS MARU -
Sunday,
TAKAOKA MARU
SOUTH AMERICAN PORTS is CAPE,
Thursday,
KANAGAWA MARU
Friday,
BOMBAY & COLOMBO ris Singapore.
WAKASA MARU
Monday,
14th Aug. 25th Aug
16th September
25th July
li
OALOUTTA & RANGOON vis Bingapore & Penang.
RANGOON MARU...
M
Monday,
25th July.
HAKODATE MARU
Thursday,
JAPAN PORTSB-Nagasaki, Kobe & Yokohamaa
TANGO MAKU
Friday,
SADO MABU
+
Friday.
TAJIMA MARI. NAGATO MARU
***
IM
NAGANO MABU
+
EBANGHAI. KOBE & YOKOHAMA
4th Aug
19th Aug, at Ila.m
*-22nd July, ab 11 m... Sunday 24th July, Wednesday, 27th July.. Wednesday, 3rd Ang
SPECIFICATION.
old walled city, and one can still trace the line of the old wall from Ludgate" along the Old "Bailey to Newgate and Wooden steamer (teak, oak and elm); Aldersgate, and thence along London Length between perpendicular... 233 ft. 9 in. Wall, Cripplegate, and Moorgate, which Breadth overall in the middle ages led out to the moors, Depth
Fondesi then Bishopsgate and on to Aldgate and Draught the Tower Houndsditch" is in reality Net tonnage
Gross tonnage the old City ditch.
Dead weight Capacity of bunkers
THE MONASTIC: MIDDLE AGES, "In mediaval days the monastic life of London constituted a most important part of its everyday existence, White friars and the Temple, the Charterhouse, the Hospital of the Knights of St. John, the Greyfriars, the Augustiniha or Aus tin Friars, the Crutchet Friars." the priory of St. Helens," the Convent of the Minoresses, now known as the Minories, and many others remind us of Even those days of medieval London.. St. Martins-le-Grand was at one time quite a somnolent monastic establish- ment.
For further information apply NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA ant houses stood out along the Strand
Talephone No. 292 & 233.
K KAMEI, Manager
YAMASHITA KISEN
KAISHA.
(THE YAMASHITA S.S. Co., LTD.)
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REGULAR FREIGHT & PASSENGER SERVICE
BETWEEN
KEELUNG, HONGKONG & HAIPHONG.
Salling from Hongkong.
FOR HAIPHONG via Pakhof
- 8.S. “BOZUI MARU” '...
FOR KEELUNG via Swatow & Amoy
on or about Sist July.
88. "TAIXWA MARU”
on or about 21st July,
For further particulars, loss apply to
Branch Office,
No. 37, Bonham Strand, West,
Tel No. 165;
M. KOBAYASHI,
AGIT, Top Floor, King's Building, Tal No. 140.
Even at the time of Queen Elizabeth the City hnd not grown far beyond the original walls. A sprinkling of import as far as Charing Cross und St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, and houses dotted the fields along the Holborn as far as St. Giles's in-the-Fields, The green fields were within easy walking distance of all parts of the City, and Gray's Ips and Lincoln's Inn Fields were almost rural
retreats..
THE STOLEN QUAT.
caines
... 39
P0
19
...1031
1778
....2000 tonf ... 300 tons.
Built by BROSSARD MOPIN & CO., Hsin- Ho shipyard (Tientsin) in November 1920. Trige expansion steam engine 100: LHP. built by Shanghai dock. 2 boilers Scotch type built by Shanghai. Dock, pressure 185 lbs,
Electric light.
Steam steering gear.
cargo hoists. Capacity of the holda 59,000 cubic feet. twindeck29,80 cubic feet. Accommodation for B first-class passengers. Shelter deck for deck passengers, Certificate of classification Barean.
VERITAS 3/3.0.1/1. Tenders will be received up to the 31st July, 1921, by the Etablissements BEOS-ARD MOPIN, (Incorporated in Tientain), Singapore. Messrs Eta Brossard Mopia do not bind themselves to accept the highest or any tender.
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south and west of London were for the hrst time brought into closer touch with the City. Turnpike ronds were at the same time being constructed in all dinse tions, and an opportunity presented itself such as London has never had since.
FIRST GREEN BELT BUGGESTION.
London's great; opportunity. with the Great Fire, in September, 1868. A proposal was made even at that when four hundred and thirty-six acres day that London should be surrounded of crowded property in the City were by a broad belt of green park land, and destroyed in four days. Sir Christopher that the utmost limit of building' Wren produced a great plan for rebuild- should be Hyde Park on the west side ing the City, but property owners were and what is now Euston-road on the jealous of their rights and privileges; and north. This suggestion bore no fruit at the only part of the plan which was the time, and the belt of green which actually carried out was the construc- London so badly needs must perforce be tion of a riverside quay, forty feet in made farther out.
width throughout the whole length of "In 1890 a similar proposal was again the City from Blackfriars to the Tower, put forward, but the same difficultien This New Quay' for upwards of a cen- and objections were raised which face us tury remained and was much used by now for the financial resources of the river commerce of the time. Little by metropolis were thought, to be insuffic- little, however, owing to encroachmentsiest to provide what we now see to have caused by stacks of goods and tempor been an absolute neccesity. ary buildinga, it disappeared, and in With the growth of London the need 1821 a special Act of Parliament had th of additional playing fields, both big and be passed whitewashing offenders who small, within easy reach of the popula had stolen one of the most important tion, and large breathing spaces for the highways of London.
rest and enjoyment of the young and old Great developments came in just be of all classes becomes more and more fore the reign of George III. The old apparent. The truest economy lies in City gaten were taken down and the looking well ahead and providing for the house on Old London Bridge removed. neode first of the present-day London and New bridges were built at Westminster then of the London of the near future, and Blackfriars, and the whole of the whose wants, we can already forecast with
(Continued at foot of next column.) considerable accuracy.”
Singapore; returning from Calcutta steamers prossed via Straits and Hongkong to Japan, occasionally calling at Shanghai.
All steamers bare excellent passenger accommodation, are fitted with Electric Light and Fans and carry a fully-qualified Surgeon LINE:-Sang approximately every five days between Canton and Shanghai, sometimes calling at Sa ow Through tickets can be obtained and through Bill of Lading are famed to all Northern and Yangtze Parts via Shanghai. LINE A weekly service la maintained with Manila by vessels with good
gassenger accommodation, sailings from both ports every Friday, LINE-Sailings approximately weekly for passengers and cargo,
calling at Hothow when iadacement offers
Mailings to and from Sandakan by two 5,000 tons LINE-Fortnightly
“HINSANG" and ..YANNIS" both steamers having excellent passenger accommodation. Calge taken on through Bills of Lading for Kudat, Jesselton, Labuan, Tawso And Labad Data.
J
steamers 1,5.
LINE-A regalar service is run from March to November between Hongkong and Tiantain, calling at Woibaiwai and Cheloo LINEA weekly service is provided between Hongtong and Bangkok, via Bwadow, by four steamers fitted with up-to-date passenger. accommodation...
CALOUTTA
LINE.
of about 5.5. “KWAISANG” will be despatched on Sunday, 24th July, at 3 p.m., for SINGAPORE, PENANG & CALCUTTA
Through Bills. of Lading issued to RANGOON, PORT SWET- TENHAM, MADRAS and DUTCH EAST INDIES.
ربي
For Freight or Passage apply to
TELEPHONE No! 215.
Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.
GLEN
GENERAL MANAGERS.
AND
SHIRE
Joint Service of Steamers.
U.K.-STRAITS. CHINA & JAPAN SERVICE.
Vessel
M.V. "GLENAMOY "* MY.GLENADE” M.V. GLENARIFFE »
Vessal
M.V. "GLENAVYTM - MV. "GLENLUCE* MY "GLEVAMY M.V. "GLEVADE" MY. "GUENARI FE"
OUTWARDS.
HOMEWARDS.
Leaves Hongkong
Das Hongkong
25th July,
8th Aug.
21st Aug.
Discharges
23rd July GENOA, LONDON & HARUNG 27th July LONDON, ROTTERDAM & HambÜRG..
GLASGOW, London & BorzenLDAM, {KRUG GOTH 19 & Hambur}.. Glasgow & 2ɔTTERDAM.
31st Adg....
1st Sept
23th Sept.
"Movements are subject to change withoan notice.-
For freight or farther partionlara plaase apply to:-
Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. The Glen Line, Ltd., AUNTS.
Tel. No. Il reb. 5 x 23. and 2896.
Cable Addreke --
Kawakiman, Kobe. Bentley's A.B.O. 5th Ed.
qué Bouz's Codes.
KAWASAKI
KISEN
Telephone: Bannemly
2844, 8923.
(KAWASAKI STEAMSHIP CO.)
· CAPITAL FAID-UF.
KAISHA
Y20.000.000
President: Mr. Y. KAWASAKI. Vice-President: Mr. K. MarsuKÁTA.” Managing Director: Mr. Masaya, ÄRI,
The Company has on hand a Large Number" of"
NEW CARGO STEAMERS
ALWAYS READY FOR
CHARTERS of all descriptions.
The following are comprised in the Company's Fleet-
Eleven steamers of 9,100 tons each deadweight.
And under the Company's Management
Twenty steamers of about 9,100 tons deadweight esch. "Two steamers of about 6,400 tons deadweight esoh
(Belonging to the Kawasaki Dookyard Oo, Lal)
For Charter Rates and all other particulars apply to tha
KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA,
á Ná 3, Buxa, Kozu,
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