Dance Away Those Gorgeous Moonlit Evenings The balmy evening, an interesting partner, the peppy music of the ship's orchestra-this will stand vivid in the memory of your voyage aboard the President Liners of the American Mail and Dollar Steamship Lines.
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The magnificem President Liners are broad of beiin and exceptionally steady, Alle oil burners, swife express liners.
TL public room are luxuriously appointed and Inviting.
All staterooms are cutside, splendidly Furnished and equipped with bedspot berths. Each room has hot and cold running water, also fans, wardrobe, thermos bottles and reading lampa. Private bath and showers in connection with many rooms perfect the travel comfort of these giant passenger liners,
The Cuisine is world famous. The deliciously prepared menus will delight you. And how the orchester adds new to your dining.
The decks are spacious. The Class-enclosed Promenade always popular, Deck sports, open air swimming pool, movies, evening dances,everything has been" done to make your trip a happy one. Unexcelled anywhere-is the courteous and efficient service accorded you by the trained personnel aboard the President Liners.
The great frequency of sailings and the liberal sopover privileges of the Dollar Steamship and American Mail Lines have made these giant passenger lines out- xandingly popular among travelers,
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The Short, Straight Route sa America Fortnightly sailings on Wednesday's
Fres, McKinley... Wed., Nov. 2nd Pres. Grant Wed, Nov, 16th Pres. Cleveland ...Wed., Nov. 30th Pres. Pierce... Wed, Dec. 13th
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Fortnightly sailings on Tuesdays vs Manila, Straits, Colombe, Sper Carai, Alexandria, Naples, Gerson, Marseilles, Boston and New York,
Pres. Adams...Tacs, Dec. 6th,8
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Preg. Van Buren...Oct. 25th, 8.m. Pres. MeKinley. Det. 25th, 8 pm.. Pres. Jefferson Oct. 31st, 8 pm.
Pres. Hayes Nov. 8th, 6 am Pres. Grant.......Nov. 8ta, 6 pm Pres. Lincola Nov. 14th; 6 p..
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Telephone Central 2477, 2478 and 795
Cable Address "Dollar"
Dollar Steamship Line
and
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HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE,
INCLUDING
HUGO STINNES
LINIEN
COMBINED FREIGHT: AND PASSENGER SERVICE CABIN CLASS ACCOMMODATION FOR 50 PASSENGERS. FARE FROM HONG KONG TO GENOA,£73, 01. 04.
OUTWARD.
Sailings from Europe for Shanghai and Northern Ports -
A8. "PREUSSEN" KARAMBES" STS: “ ERMLAND"
384YOGTLAND " B.B.ALBERT VOGLER 85 "OLDENBURG"
HOMEWARD.
due here on or about the 25th Oct.
... due bare on or about the 17th Nov.
dae here on or about the 30th Nov.
due here on or about the 14th Dec.
das bere on or about the 31st Dec.
... dus here on or about the 12th Jan. 28.
Sailings for Europe via Manila, Singapore,
Colombe & Port Said:--
18.8. EMIL KIRDORF"
8.8. HESSEN
18.8. "SACHSEN"
6. "FREUSSEN
IMB." BAMSES"
MEERMLAND"
...zailing from hers on or about the Ziná Oct. ... sailing from bere on or about the 1st Nov. ...sailing from here on or about the 15th Nov, ...sailing from here on or about the 29th Nov, sailing from here on or about the 20th Dec. sailing from here on or about the 3rd Jan.,'.
1 Calling at Genos, Botterdam and Hamburg,
For Freight, Passage and further Particulars please apply to
JEBSEN & CO.
1. Pedder Bireet
ON SALE.
Tel. 0, 9995 TEL 0. 4754.
TAX NEW · FEKNOI IRMUDY.
THERAPION No. 1 SOUND VOLUMEH of the HONG | THERAPION No. 2 BONGWEEKLY PRESS, THERAPION NO. 8
Jaly to December, 1926.
WITH INDEX, FRICE $7,50, On Bale at the Bono Kano Daza
PL15 Odies.:
· No. 1 Joe Madder Osterchi . Va. * for Mood ✯ Skie 20. B-for Chronda Wakneston... NEGO KE GELSCHOQERISTA, PRIZE SI MARADI, 16 DA. L.R DARO My Do, Baverzonk Md. 175, Leodes 17 Mask, BERKKAN Dr. Kre Tos⋅ O EX 57 6 BEST TEAMS, SIN FRAKOSING.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20th, 1927.
A HERMIT FOR 50 YEARS.
JUNGLE FASTNESS IN
ESSEL
DEFENDING ARMY "OF WILD
BEES.
GREAT CANFIELD, EBRES,
September 4th.
Filty years ago to-morrow in this parish a healthy but somitive young man named James Mason had his love for a woman rejected. On the impulse of the moment he made a vow to isolate himself from the world för the rest of his life in such a manner that he could never look upon the face of 'a woman again and never scc -or speak to any man except his brother Thomas.
The brother, who is now 63 and two years younger than James, also vowed that he would devote his life to the service of the hermit and guard him always from intrusion.
A Fortress Built,
On the afternoon of September 8th, 18, they purchased two acres
Cuticura | CONSIGNEE NOTICES.
SOAP SHAVING STICK
SHAVING
STICK
Cool Clean Refreshing Shave
Every morning, or aftener if de- sired, is afforded by the Cuticurs Shaving Stick. Containing the medicinal properties of Cutièira, iz makes abaving easy for tender- faced men, and leaves the skin best and clear, free from any tense; dry feeling.
Soen. Ointment, Talcum sold throughour the world, British Deute 1. Sower & inn Lib. 15, farbar 26, Lisans. 3. 4 *B*Try the Cobenen Shaving Stick.
REGISTER.
of ground remote from the possibi- HONG KONG METEOROLOGIČAT, lity of human association, and at night began to build a fortress in which James would be secure against intercourse with mankind. There cannot exist anywhere a home with such extraordinary sur- roundings.
Hong Kong Observatory. October 19th.
Previous On Date Or Dato
Day
st
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE Steam bip
SACHSEN" having arrived, Consignees of Cargo ara hereby notified that their Goods ar being landed and placed at their risk in the Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf d Godowa Company's godowna at Kowloon,
where Dalivary can be obtained as the Good we landed.
Optional Cargo will be landed, unless Notics has been given prior to Steamer's arrival.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered alter the 20th
1927, will be subject to Oataber, 1927, Beat.
Al broren, chafed and damaged. Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on 19th October, 1927, at 10 am by our Surveyors, Messrs. Goddard and Douglas.
All Claims muri reach ta before the 4th November, 1927, or they will not be rocognized.
No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned.
DODWELL & CO.,
LTD.
NEW YORK BERTH.
FOR NEW YORK & BOSTON vir SUEZ,
LLOYD TRIESTINO.
REGULAR MONTHLY PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICE for BRINDISI, VENICE AND TRIESTE (FIUME), TAKING CARGO ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING. TO.. GENOA, FALL ITALIAN, ADRIATIC, LEVANT, BLACK SEA AND. DANUBE FORTS.
REDUCED PASSAGE RATES.
BRINDISI, VENICE & TRIESTE
LONDON
NEXT SAILINGS.
£72.10.0. £80..0.0.
OUTWARDS FOR SHANGHAI. YOKOHAMA, KOBE AND MOJI.
JEESEN & CO
Agents Hong Kong, 13th Oct, 1927, (5426
8.9. -” VENEZIA M.V. REMOTM
M.V. "VIMINALE "
From Hong Kong,
Baila bence on or s'bout 10th Nov.
Sails hence on or about 8th Deal
Baila hence on or about 5th Jan., 1998
HOMEWARDS FOR BRINDISI. VENICE AND TRIESTE,
at 2 pm. 6
30.0! 20.06
$0.05
74
63
75
43
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
70
49
Direction
E
NE
·East
1
GORAN STEAMSHIP CO. LTD. AND
M.V. "ROMOLO`**
B
B
C
0.00 0.00
In the half century thai has Barometer.. elapsod it has been necessary for Temperature James on two occasions, both in Hamidity... the last few months, to relax his | Wind- row to permit him to be seen by two men. For years he has been Τοπο tortured by rheumatism and now | Weather Rain... paralysis is claiming him for a vietim
'ORINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO, LTD.
FROM UNITED KINGDOM VIL
SINGAPORE.
CONSIGNERS per Co.'s Steamer
**TEIRÉSTAS **
He refuses steadfastly to be ex-Highat open-air Temperature, 18th : 75 amined by a doctor, but, believ Lowen open-air Temperature, 19th: 67 ing at the time that death was near, he had a message sent to the
B-Blue sky; C-Cloudy; D- Rector of Great Canfield, the Drizsle; F-Fog; L-Lightning; Rev. J. Maryon Wilson, who is also Mist; O-Overcast: P-Passing are hereby notified that the Cargo will be lord of the manor, asking him to showers; Q-Squaika; R-Rain; Tdcharged into Hell's Wharf, Kowloon, visit the strange habitation for a Thunder.
where it will lie at Consignsert rak and brief confidential talk.
subject to Terms and Conditions of Storage at Holl's Wharf... The Cargo will be ready for Delivery from Godawn on and after 17th October,
Pension Ofcar's Visit.
Some months ago James became entitled to an old-age pension, and as the few shillings that Thomas- earns weekly were insufficient to. maintain them both, it was decided to make application for the pen sion. When it was explained that it could not be granted until James had been interviewed by a pensions
| Days of
HONG KONG TIDE TANLAR
From October 8th to 26th, 1927.
HIGH WATER.
Date of
Month.
Hong
Kong
Standard
Time.
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Height
Hoight
Low WATIL
Boug
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Standard
Time.
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officer he refused at first to make Thur 20m 5 1965 the concession; bue necessity corn-
7 29 5 5
pelled and for a few minutes the F. 21 m 3 166 60 11 48 inspector was allowed to penetrate
to the hermit's abode to satisfy Bat himself that such a person as James Mason really existed.
So for 30 years, apart from his brother, James has only twice seen a fellow man.
- Secret Entrancas.
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1922
7 10 8 6 16 48 4122 Bun. 23m 80 65 m 1 83 3 7 8 86162 2,124 204 Mon, 249817 6 4 2 30 32 5385
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Tues, 25 m 9 80823 628
9 11168
On the 30th anniversary of his wed 26 m10 7 6 1m self-imposed exile I visited Mason's
9 307 prison, intending to invite him to sond à message to the outside world.
627 41 184 3130
The most direct approach to the revealed a man with a long white amazingly conceived retreat is narrow cak-lined lane off the lonely beard lying in what appeared to Dunmow-Great Canfeld-Bacon End
rond.
This track vanishes, into what appears to be a pleasant piece of meadowland. But the fact that it
be, an orange-box resting on its eide. He was bolding canvaa curtain aside from the open end of his ample bunk, and with his other haud he flashed the lantern towards
the window.
suddenly ceases is a warning to the
*** Please Go Away." visitor who has been cautioned agrinst cunningly laid traja. A I told the bermit who I was sad hundred yards or so ahead is a five asked if I could enter and speak barred gate in a narrow clearance to him.. among trees, and the enticing strip! A thin and tremulous voice of meadowland which appears to answered," "Stranger, you cannot afford an easy access is the first de come here. Please, pleato go away, fener of the hermitage. In reality stranger." it is morass, and it is curious that the ground has been deliberate ly flooded by drainage from sur rounding streams.
Optional Cargo will not be landed here, anies Notice has been given prior to Steamer's arrival, but carried on from
the
port to port to the final port of call to which
opticu estanda. All broken, chafed and damaged Goods
in the Godowns, where are to be left
they will be examined on any Tuesdays and
between Fridays both the Free Storage period.
the hous
of 10.15 Ax.
and
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Steamer's Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered: after the 24th October, will be subject to Rent
AB Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 7th November, or they will not be recognised..
No Fire Insurance will be effected..
·BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents.
17th October, 1927.
[3448
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN.
HE Steamer THE * AACHEN*
baving arrived from, BREMEN, HAM. BURU and Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified that their Cargo in being landed at their risk into the Go- dows of the Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon, where Delivery can be obtained.
All Goode samaining undelivered after 54th of October, 1927, will be
Reat
Thom 1s Masos told me that exubject tɔ cept fr himself, the rector, and the old-age pensicas offer, I was the only person who had ever seen
No Fire Insurance will be effected by inany case whatever, Die ged
At a point farther back in the the hermit's home and spoken to Godowckages must be left in the
its occupant since he withdrew from the world. h
lane there is a hola in a hedge, and it proves to be the safe method of approach.
A ploughed field has "Tommy," as the brother is next to be crossed, and at the far known in the parish, makes light end of it a wooden plank forms a
of the devotion he has shown to bridge over a wide water-filled his brother for 60 years. He ex- ditch bringing the visitor out in plained that "Jimmy" as he calls front of the gate. The gate is sur the recluse, was a highly strung mounted with barbed wire to a boy, and even until the age of 50 height of seven feet and the wire he was constantly ill-treated by a continues to the right and left and brutal father who had been a ser- is woven among the trunks and geant in the Crimean War branches of the trees surrounding the grounds of the hermitage.
The Sentry's Box. The gate was partly open and a stout on chain dangled from it as if the last person who passed out had not considered it necessary
Although at the best Jizomy lives in prepetual twilight-until par alysis seized bim be used to go out for an hour after midnight for exercise his eyesight is good. During bis 50 years seclusion he has read only the Bible and 1. to secure the entrance during chlains for him weekly. Every Bigious journal which Tommy brief absence
In the middle of a small feld copy of this journal fer the past was a corrugated iron hut aur-half-century is in the hermit's hut, rounded by many years' accumula and they lie stacked around the tion of debris, a row of tumbledown walls as a shield against the wind
and rain. pigstyes and disused clay ovens.
Aus but is Thomas Mason', bomens Mason a retiring nature as the scntry-box from which he James maintains guard on his brother a youth is evidenced by the novel secreted somewhere beyond. Every-magner in which he conducted the where round there is barbed wire, courtship that led to his severance and years of laborious work must from his fellows. Immersed in his have been spent in erecting it... garden and separated from out
There is more corrugated ironsiders by a high hedge, his solitude and another frap-door covered with used to be broken by a soft whes barbed wire. Then the final and tle which the young women gave even more remarkable defence as an indication of her presence
Courtship.
for examination by the Con- and the Company's Surveyors, signerder on
& Aabe at 10 am, on the 10th of October, 1927.
No Claim will be admitted after
انشه
the
Goods have left the Godown sad all Claims must be presented within Two Weeks of the Ship's arrival here, after which date they will not be recognised,
Consignees are requested to surrender their Bils of Lafing to the Undersigned for countersignatore.
MELCHERS' & CO.,
Agents, NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BIENEN, Hong Kong, 16th Oct., 1927, (5447
PRINCE LINE.
"NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM NEW YORK
Motor Yerel
harieg arrived from the above Fort
THE CHINESE PRINCE on 15th instant, Consignees of Cargo are bereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hong Koog and Kowloon Wharf and Godown
Company Limited,
Kowloop, and stored and expense, Consignees risk -
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods
they will be examined on
E
chain of hives and black swarts To this be responded by throwing are to be left in the Godown.
All Claims must be thin
Fifteen
the
8.S. VENEZIA,"
From Hong Kong.
Fails bence on or about 15th Nov, Sails hence on or about 13th Dec.
NATAL LINE OF STEAMERS
FROM CALCUTTA & COLOMBO TO SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS
B.S.UMZWMBI”
Baile from Calcatta
*
2nd Nov,
Regular Passenger and Cargo Service to South African Porta
Through Hills of Lading issued from Hong Kong.. For Freight or Pasage on any of the above lines, apply to
DODWELL & CO., LIMITED
Agenta
Telephone: Central 1030.
JAVA THE WONDERLAND
SPEND YOUR SUMMER HOLIDAYS
IN JAVA.
BEAUTIFUL HILL RESORTS
GLORIOUS SCENERY.
Next Sailings from Hong Kong:-
88.TJISONDARI'
20th Oct. to BATAVIA direct
8.8. "TJIKINI"
27th Oct. to BATAVTA direct,
Special Return Tickets Issued.
For full particulare regarding fares, hotels, motor trips, etc. Apply to-
Les
arrival
the 2nd instant, will be subject to Rent."
of wild bees. There are thousands over the hedge & missive, which, in Friday, 21st instant, at 10a.m. of bees in a space of 4ft. square, addition to containing terms of
days and to pass safely through the bar dearment, also contained ocassional
cannot rage they form the visitor has to gifts of money-mostly a sixpence.
nce. bete, after which date they pull bis coat over his head.
This original method of pure recognised.
No Claims will be admitted after the Behind the bees is the hermit's ship was, however, rudely broken hut, but before the front of it can by the arrival of a young man from Goods have left the Godowns and be reached another 2ft high trap- Walthamstow to whom the mall Goods remaining undelivered after door in an iron wall was to be transferred her affections. They found and opened.·
married and both are still alive. No Fire Insurance has been effected." Their golden wedding will be cele
Bills of Lading We
will be countersigned brated at their home in Tottenham this year
FURNESS (FAR EAST) LTD., 2nd Floor, King's Building,
Connaught Road."" Telephone No. 3165; Hong Kong, 15th Oct;1927, 15444
The door is at the far end, and there was no response after I had knocked several times. Then I tapped at a tiny, window, and a match flickered inside. A candle was lit in a lantern, and the light (Continued on nest Column.)
James Mason has never once in quired mor been told anything about the welfare of his former sweetheart-Daily Mail,
by
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
YORK BUILDING.
Telephono C. 1574.
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