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HONGKONG A FEW
IMPRESSIONS.
'BEAUTY AND TAWDRINESS.
KIRTEOUS CONTRAST WITH SIDDY SHANGHAL.
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A fine panoramic view of the harbour and of Kowloon on the opposite side can be obtained from the higher levels and the Peak.. The Peak Tramway is an ever. present wonder, to tourists, who " Mess and calculate" its height and steconcss and argue as to the odds against a car To one who hails from Shanghai, and who breaking its enble and hurtling to destruc» has periodically visited places of historical tion down the hillside. The ears rua on interest and scenic anagnificence within the simple systero of the nacending, one easy reach of the metropolis as Hang-being pulled up on the same, cable by chow. Soochów, the Tai Hu Lake and which the descending ear is being lower the country traversed by the Mutuh Creek ed, and the stopping stations for both are Fleading up to that haves of tranquillity so arranged that no-inconvenience or
Kwangfuh. the natural beauty of the delay is caused to either car Island of Hongkong and its surroundings. |- Peak dwellers are wreathed in mist half so highly extolled by its inhabitants the year round, and the họt room, an absolute necessity, is in frequent requisi and by round-the-world tourists, leaves tión for drying out clothes and things strangely uninoved. Hongkong by night. Bonk hindings soon get ruined, and mould forms overnight on footwear and articles however, viewed from the harbour or
of leather. Kowloon side, is like fairyland," the
Down on the water front and adjacent twinkling lights on the hillside secmigrods, trams, double-deckers and single, to meet and mingle with the stars in the Armament above. It is a sight worth sceing.
But what does impress one is that so much has heen made out of a once barren rocky island, especially in the matter of road construction. There are several hundreds of miles of excellent roads, and motoring on the Island is an established form of pleasure, The roads which run parallel to the water front and on the hillside itself are all overlaid with tar macadam and have a firm, even, smooth surface.
The city of Victoria which lies at the water front and of the lower levels is a congested, narrow, confued, untidy area, with the exception of a clear patch or two. The foreign business section covers a space no larger than that bounded say by the Band and Nanking, Szechten and Peking Roads in Shanghai There is no garden or walk on the water front, and Statue Square takes but five minutes to cucircle. The only level open spaces are the Race Course in Happy Valley (a, de pressing spot) and the Cricket Club's grounds, the latter equal to about the Size of three Quinian Squares A
Architecturally, Ilongkong possesses several fine buildings, like the Law Courts, the Hongkong Club and Frince's Building The Hongkong Club, if placed on the Shanghai Band, would stand unt as an artistic architectural conception; but here it loses much of its individuality owing to duplication of its main features in several large buildings adjacent
run to Kennedy Town at one end and Causeway Bay, and further at the other, names which evake as much eurious con jecture in the mind of the new arrival in Hongkong as Bubbling Well and Yang- szepoo would in Shanghai: The service is good, and there is nothing like the overurowding as in the Shanghai trum curs.
Itoud nanies in Hongkong recall former governors of the Colony, illustrions Bri- tish statesmen and soldiers, and honoured residents. We have Des Voeux Road Central, May Road, Chathan Road, Peel Street. Wellington Street, Chater Road and Jody Road, for instance..
THE JOYS OF CHAIRS, `
Chairs are an esential part of locomio- tion in Hongkong. The streets that run up and down are an ever present source of interest, and speculation.ps to their effect on one's physique, to one who has been fund to and brought up on the flatnes of down hill, but going up takes the wind Shanghai. It is an easy matter walking out of the best, and a chair with its not uncomfortable, rhythmic awing, is a great convenience. In Shanghai, you have conte
Pedi already evolved the luxurious Ric. Hongkong (on the level stretones, that is) is sul served by the solid-tyred, vehicle of a decade ago. bumpy, slow-going But we possesy a fine optimism, and im provement is bound to come, even if it takes a long time. Over in. Kowloon side and also in Hongkong, the new roads are lined with saplings three inches to a foot in height, protected by a sort of basket work. The next
under the shelter after that, will stroll write or the one of the trees planted by those whose motto is spero."
have the Univery, Hong- Although we have the kong is by no surans a centre of intellec und Terp is to muse to speak of. lectures like those of the N.C.B.R.A.S. in there
Store few and far betwell.
angle SUPOUS journai published ber and no highbrow oction or associations exist. Chess is not played. and correspondence in the pro do
Hog's not run to the wide range of subjecs av in your northern port There are two or three book shops, but nothing like the Istock to rest from as in and
th
have to
'THE BROKER'S BICESHAPEWN In the business section, no brokers traps race around to the annoyance and danger of a long-suffering public as they do in Shanghai: but a number of so power rickshas lash about with great show of haste, the puller in front and the pushers behind yelling a staccato Eli to clear the way for bis imperious close for Lict of custom... But tas anti- and never-to-be delayed highness, the
que curio stores, which are crammed with broker. Evidently these man-chariots Takes, and the embroidery and silk and is much a nuisance as the brokers apsivery shops, do a roaring traks from the in Shanghai, for it was only the other | round-the-world tourists whose anusa day, that some one wrote to the papers jaunt appears now to be an established regarding the obst.uction and Auisines thing. and great danger to the pedestrian by the brokers of Ice House Street.
Ice House Street, the local Rialto. is the converging point of all gossip and the latest news, and to the query as to whe ther Cements have "hardened friend broker. buttonholes you for a confab on 17 other topics.
SPORT, INDISPENSABLE.
Sport can be had in plenty: er chut, football, hockey, tennis, swimming, etc. Teans is played at the year round; and it is no unusual sight. to se cricket, foot ball, hockey and, tennis being played pil at the same time, there being no wild- defined, seasons for the difference games It is
is absolutely necessary, to unku. up some form of sport to loup unself fit in a con-
2* " fond little plaze ke
For Hongkong. those who love walking, the roads on the hillside and over in Kowloon offer rara opportunity for communion with nature The
climate not disagreable, and bar-
Hongkong is very British, naturally. but the Cantonese element obtrudes ami predominates. Public open spaces may be entered by and sandry; and when you go to watch a ternis match, unicas you buy a ticket for a seat in the stand, you are quite likely to find the office boy or your tailer or some pickpocket-looking ring acodents and with the exercise of personage at your elbow, presumably due care in regard to the use of prohibi- evincing as keel and intelligent an in- terest in the proceedings as yourself.
SHIT IN ALDEWALK
A feature of Hongkong streets is the vernudahs over the sidewalks. In a city possessing wide ronds, it is conerivalse tant, this feature might liaso much to recommend itself, especially to pedestrians, although the loss of light and free air circulation to the buildings them selves would still be apparent In Hong
kong, with its confined ares and furrow streets, this shotting in of the site walks and apper stories: makes the shop fronts dark and stuffy and dismal looking and in the Chinese quarters especially, evil, unwholesome atmosphere pervades One would not hesitate to suggest that the periodical epidemics from which the Colony suffers might be traced to the unhealthy conditions resulting from this ostriding of verandahs over the front of buildings which are already unhygienic from turrible overcrowding
one
poisons, there is no earthy ronson should live to a ripe old age ongkong.
the
social anusments, there are tea dance and dinner daners at the Hong- kong Hotel and Repulse Bay Hotel (a pretty spot). Otherwins the Hongkong tex, publicly at least, are a quiet-living lot. The cinemas and theatres, except for New Queen's Theatre just opened, are mere apologies of show places Thrys and the jazz are no cafes or
would die of en enthusiast from Shanghai would tui in a wrek. Afxe 9 p.nr. there is no place in town (European managed; that get. drink and to My) where one can a bite or a cup of coffffe or an ice, unitas it he at the Hotel; and then not after midnight Night life as known in wicked Shanghai is a fairy tale to Hongkongtos,
THE NIGHTINGALER
West Point, where the Cantonese res taurants are, and wars the nighting airs have their nests, keeps o open in a hlate of light until 2am Night after night there is a tremendous amount "of sung-songing grinE, ON.
on.
dahs, in which the familyyathing is Are let off with East and the inter
Owing to the limited space for build ing, shops and dwellings are of three," | four, and five storeys, even in 'the narrow | Somebody other is either giving a birth streets which aseed the hillside at right day feast or a marriage cast or a Trionik. angles. The architecture here is of aly feast or a feast for no other reasORE deadly monotony stucco Lacings, with than just to feast, which perhaps is the pealing paint of heterogeneous colours, best reason Teng rope of crackers, momne and everywhere the bex-like open veran times reaching down from the sixth storey
of the piece festooned and all manner of odds and mittent bombs create a tin that drowns
réestance, "shark' ends eenmalated, the whole presenting conversation and stultifies the musical
meanly and. minst untidy picture Of the streets which ascend the hillside efforts of the nightingal Sir Wil
the lately retired Chief Bern-Davies, at right angles, some are of tar macadami finish, some of flat corrugations with Justice, wak entertained by the Chinese
community to a farewell dinner at V granite slabs for foothold, some & comPoint, but the erackers and the singing| posite of stretcher of macadams and fights were omitted on this occasion of stone steps, and still others consisting Hongkong people are nice and of tiers of stone steps, like Ladder Street, able, once they get to know von. They
which, in an almost straight line, runs picturesquely by a series of some 20 fights of stairs from Queen's Road near the water front right up to Seymour Head on the middle levels, about 100 feet above sea level
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