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Hongkong Daily Press.

No.22.177號七拾柒百登仟弍萬式 日式拾月棨年已己

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE.

Os and after Arai 8th, 1929, until further Notice (all previous

ני

Time, Tables cancelled.)

UF TRAINS

STATIONS No. No.

Mato

Bo.No. 15NA. 14

AMAM

A.M.

[6.34. | 4.M. } 2,3G|PM PM PM, PM) P.M.) P.M

Kowloon, Dep. 640 3.25 30 9:15 10.00/12.10 1.15 2.31 8.20 430

YaumatiDep. 6.49||

Shatin...Dep. 7.01

Tipo Dep. | 7,35

Taipo

Market. Dep. 72

Fling Dep 7,30

Sheung-

shui ... Dep. 733

Shut-

dhun

... ANT.741 8,45|

Canton

12.05]

STATIONS

*4.X.

Canton

Soukà Hộla oply

<

925 10.08 13.19 13- 9.33 10,2075018

7.35

€50 60 5.04

7.55

6.13 8.00

5.096.17 8.14 6.186.97 8.31

9.07 10,1510,54, 1.03 2,073.09 —

5.2% 8.83 6.96

968 10.33 12.43 1.49-

9.68 10.57 12.47 1,38

10.10 10.47.12.8719.09-

-

7.18

0.13 10,9110.58 1,08 3,183.15 4.00 5.99 6,388.91

5.48

-DOWN-TRAINS

Ma. * No.15 MÄTN0.17 | HOCHF6, 13

8.25

8.10

Shamchan...Dep. (7.178.03. 10.36-) 11.27; -11,47 +2.03 | 4.89 | 5,47 | 648 |--7.07 - Sheargshai..Dep. 1.35 5.11 10.43 11.353,014,48 | 5,34

7:14 Fanling

7.80 8.15 10.47

..Dep.

Taipo Market. Dep. 2,40 838 10,57 Talpo Bhatin

7,57 844 1114 Yazmati...Dep. 8.11 9.68 11.28

2- Bap. 1,41831 1101

12.003.06 [4.50 +-5,58 13.118.175.00 6.88

· -4° 19.16: † 8,33|8,04 |'6.13

12:30 8.34 517

8.26 13.42 8.49 5.99.99 Kowloon Arr. | 8.17 9,02:11.32 19.07 13.48 334 | 5,95.6.44|· 7.99 7.49

—FOR FIRST Class Passenger ONLY: WILL STOF AT ANY STATION OF REQUER Further information may be obtained at the Railway Offices, Kowloon, from Messrs. Tros. Coox, &. Sow, LTD., Howa Koro, or from Tux AxxxxCAN EXPRESS CONTANT, Howe Koro.

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HONG KONG CANTON LINE.

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HONG KONG-HACAO LINE FROM HONG KONG:

8.80.8UI TAI" from Wing Lok Wharf,

(Sunday. Excepted)'

4.00 PM SUI; AN "

(3undays Excepted)

đại

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FROM MACAO: 8.00 . * HUI AN ”-

(Sundays Excepted) 200 P.X.BUI TAÍ"

(Sundays Excepted)

EXCURSION TO 'MACAO:- Un SUNDAY, 18TH AUGUST

8.8. "SUI TAI *

Will depart from the Company's Wing Lok Street Wharf at 9AM., and From Madio at 5.00 PM"

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ELECTRIC LIGHT'S GOLDEN JUBILEE.

WORLD-WIDE CELEBRATION OF EDISON'S INVENTION.

MR. HENRY FORD TO SUPPORT BIG SCHEME.

SOME WONDERFUE LIGHTING DISPLAYS.

One Blaze of Light." Then we find him inventing stock- Atlantic City will be one blaze ticker, sad, penniless and friend- of light from end to end, with less, munching tea-leaves in New electrical decorations of all descrip-York. A little Inter, however, he tions Innumerable bulbs in every was well repaid for a telegraph possible array, as well as purple invention and was the richer by floodlighting lamps, will be in every | 840,000 in cash. conceivable position on steeples, chimneys, telegraph poles, build-

In this age of science and rapidity of change, the world in general has little QF no time to give dae appreciation to the thinkers who conceive" these changes. When they do wake up eventually, genius as n rule is dead and gone and tribute comes in the forms of bronz, marble and biographies. For once, how ever, the fates have ruled it otherings, bridges, etc. Further, it is

wise."

understood that the Pennsylvania Bailroad has a train known as the

Red Arrow which will be des

On October 21, this year, there will be an exposition of light incribed in light." all its forms the world over as a token of gratitude to Mr. Thomas A. Edison, the famous American inventor, on the occasion of the fftieth birthday of his incandescent electric lampin other words, a Light's Golden Jubilee.

Birth of Phonograph. Moving to bis laboratory in Menlo Park, NJ., he commenced operations with a highly specialized state. Is this small town came the birth of the phonograph, and later the device which astounded even bia scientific contemporaries-the in- candescent lamp.

The jubilee will be ably supported by Mr. Henry Ford, the great financier, and the Edison pioneers. It cost Edison $10,000, or pre- Mr. Ford, is removing the Menlocally the entire proceeds of his Park laboratory to his country invention of the telegraph, to com home at Dearborn, Michigan, complete his experiments and he con plete in all the detail.

ducted no less than 18,000 tests in his endeavour to find a

satisfactory. and commercially successful lamp flament.

On the night of October 21, he Bordering on Gigantic.

will entertain Edison and other contemporary men of brilliance to From reports received from

a dinner party, proposing to take It goes without saying that his America, the construction and ex-back the minds of his guests to life has its humourous features. pression of this Light's Golden those pioneer days when his age When asked for a definition of a Jubilee is to be something 'border-long friend was struggling in the genius, he coined the remarkshe interests of his fellow men. The phrase, following the success of this ing on the gigantic. There will be dinner also will be the occasion lighting campaign, 1 per cent. international festivals commenting of the dedication at Dearbora of inspiration and 39 per cent. per- in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in the complete restoration of Mr.spiration. Such is the simplicity Edison's Menlo Park laboratories of great minds No lesan early summer and rising to a

and other buildings, preserving authority than Sir William Preece, elimax on October 21.

permanently the record of the life the eminent English electrician, and inventions of the great in-announced in a lecture that such

Edison's Life.

On that day, a round-the-world connection will be made by wire-ventor. less, and the voice of the wizard will be featured in the four corners of Forgetting Freud, and setting there is the world. The sponsoring com- aside psychoanalysis,

nothing in the early life of Thomas mittee, for this vast undertaking Edison to indicate the greatness will be headed by the President off his destiny. Born in the little the United States, Mr. Herbert town of Menlo, Ohio, on February Hoover, working in conjunction 11, 1847, he grew up without any with a circle of men of correspond-outstanding abilities. His mother ing prominence.

was a teacher in the local ghool and endeavoured to coach him in Among these are Mr. John D. the general principles of mathema Rockefeller, Mr. Andrew Mellon, tics. Mr. Henry Ford, and Mr. Paul D. Cravett. England and the rest of was his filling of a boy chum with

One amusing story of his childhood

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To-day. (August 18.)

Police. Craigengower, Kowloon Dock . Recreio, Kowloon C.0.4. Taikoo Division II.: Craigen-

Sunday. (August 18.)

Twelth Sunday After Trinity. Golf Bogey Pool, Fanling. Lawn Bowls:

3:----Interdepartmental Queen's Theatre: A Lady of Competition: Police, Revenue

Tea Dance: Repulse Bay Hotel, 14.30 p.m

Christian Fellowship Meeting, gover v. Civil Service, Tako, 'ei Helena Misy Institute, 10.30 am...K. Electric Kowloon Bowling Billards: KO.§.3. c Garri Groen. Yacht Club, Recreio son Mess, Police v. Craigengower, Kowloon C.C St. Patrick's v. Somersets, C. and P.O., Club • Royal Artillery Police Hes. Royal Engineers. Chance."

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