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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY. SOME FAMOUS "CHASSEURS”

OF

PARIS.

TIME TABLE.

On and after DECEMBER 6, 1929 til Farther Notice (all previous

Time Tables cacoiled).

UP TRAINS.

STATIONS No. No. 36.10 No. No, 12 No. 14 No. 18 Nais M.AM. A.M.! A.M.A...M... | P.M.¦ TM.

No. No. No, No,J)

Kowloon. Dep. 840 8.03 8.30 9.08 9.15 10.00 12.10 1.15 3.25

Yaumati. Dep. 649!

Taipo

Fanling.Dep 7,30

9.25 10.08 12,19 1,23

0.38 10.20/12,30 1,33|

9 53 10.33,12,43 1.49

9.58 10.87 12.47 1,52) —

10.10 10.47,12,57 2,02

9.07 9.4310,15 10.52) 1,09 2,07

Shum:

chun... Arr. 7.41 8.45 9.13 9.51 10,21 10.38′ 1,08 2,13 3.10

P.X. P.M. PM) XX.

2.50 4,80 5,407,86

4.38 5,46 7.44 4.50 6.00 7.56 5.04.6.13 8.00

5,08 6,17 8,13

GERARD OF MAXIM'S AND JULES OF MONTMARTRE.

RED-COATED DIPLOMATS OF THE RESTAURANT FOYER.

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OFFICIALS WHO SEE LIFE'S SMILES AND TEARS.

Shatin...Dep 7.01||

Taipo...Dap 7,15

Market. Dep.7.20

Sheung

Rhni...Dep. 7.35

}

6.19 6.27 8.33

3.98 5.23 8.34 8.27 3.34 6.29 6.3 8.33

Cantop Art. 12.05

5.45

6.30

DOWN TRAINS

STATIONS No.1 No.3 No. 7

20

A.M. A...

Canton

... Dop.

[United Fress.]

Pants. In some of the che re-all the worth-while telephone num- | staurants of America and Loudon, bera in their hands. They know the She managetnent boasts A "chas. telephone numbers of all of the clients and habitues of their cafe, They can tell who is telephoning, whether it is the clients wife, or not his wife..

Some are contented with porters, and see are satished with merely an officious and elegantly

No.11 No.8 No.11 No.1 No.10 No.11 No.2 No.11 No.11 superior head waiter, whose ac-}

A.M. P.M.P.MP.M.

P......

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quaintance costs a lot of money and is not worth it. In Europe, and 8.25

especially Faris, no restaurant that 6.19 6.4216.3 has any respect for itself, could get

8.87 | along without its chausseur.

AMAR.

+

8.10

11.37 11.47 2.46 4.89 8.47

11.55 2.54 4.4 6.54

8.25

12.11 8.11 5.00 6.08

"Shumchun...Dep. 7.17 0.03 10.34,11.05 Shoungahui..Dep. 7.25 8.11 10.491 Fanling

Dep. 7.30 9.15 10.47

TaipoMarket.Dop:: 7,40 7.26 10,57

Tripo .. Dep. 7.44 33111017 Shatin ...Dop. 7,67 9.44 11.14 Yaumati Dop. 9.112.58 11.261

12.00 300 4.50 5.58

19.18 8,18 5,048,11

12.30 3.32 5.17 6.26 13.42 3.44 | 6.296,38

Kowloon Arr. 8.179,02 11.39 11.45 12.07.12.48 3 20 5.35 6,44 7.00 7.22

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TEL. K. 155,

Monsieur Armot.

The Gentle Art.

The Napolitain is now an ex-

client enfe, but its chasseur is a little dwarf of a fellow who has a fine poker free, bus who doesn't come up to Jales or Henri.

Another Classic."

Jules left the Napolitain to take up an important post on the Boule They are expert fixers. They un-vard Montmartre, where men and women dine and wine and become derstand the fraility of mankind and they never grow cynical. Al gay and needs errands rum Jules ways at the door, they make mental dresses always in the chasseur ens; tums of neat fitting uniform with antes on those who come in and go out. A word to the Chasseur, and laced up boots. you are either in the cafe or not in the enfe, if someonè comnes,

You can even be in America of

Africa, if the chasseur thinks you really want to be so far away. The gentle art of lying is one of the first accomplishments of the chasseur. But the must notable quality is their Floyalty to the regular clients. In

this they are superb.

When Jules "sees

ung of the old clients of the Napoli- tain in his Montmartre restaurant he immediately informs the patron and that visitor is well treated.

Henri was the clasde of the He never returned Napolitain."

after the war. There is no doubt that something violent happened to Heari. He probably performed his * stuff" at the front. Henri's The red-coated Armot at Masims charm was that he could do any Paris" næst famous chasseur is, knows the tastes and Habits of all thing. No commission was Loo of course, Gerard, or rather Getard the habitues of this inmoing restaur-difficult or too complicated "for Armot, the fifty-years old red-ant. He stands out among Chas-Henri. In little things like fixing uniformed chasseur at Maxims, ours, breause of his distinguished ¦ up a rendezvous for tea, he was about whom plays and hooks have clientele and beenuse he is the perfect. And when branking a date been written the most notable being, chasseur of Maxims. But there are over the phone for a respected Le Chasseur de Chez Maxims.", odors in this festive capital who client, Henri would'ålmost weep, 50 Armot has been at Maxim's door for could probably rival Armot. the past thirty years, and his those days before modern art wreck memoirs ought to be good.

ed all the cafes of Paris, there was a fanious chasseur at the Napoli-,

In fact there were two.

The Haunt of the Press.

Insincere were his tones, so adequately did he convey the regret of his friend and client.

at his

Recently the hotel and restaurant

A well known British journalist proprietors of Paris awarded Armotain.

z was moving one day, and he casually a medal of honour for his logal

dropped the remark that, he would ervice and his babitual courtesy,

Jules has but recently departed. ¡like some packing boxes, which are particularly as he represents A Perhaps it was because Jules anti-

rare in Paris. The next morning Vanishing type that kind of seeipated that the cafe was going to the journalist was awakened by a citor who was satisfied to keep his sold and enlarged and repainted

terrible din. Henri was place and do it well. The after-war and redecorated. Anyway, whatever apartment, with two or three willing | prosperity and inclinations toward happened to the Napolitain, it lost slaves, all dragging huge packing more vulgar pursuits never touched its character and it lost its chasseur. buses. After receiving his tip, Armot He remained at Maxims

It used to be filled with journward this helpers and dismissed he swept his hand majestically and now he has five assistant cha..

alists. actresses. playwrights and evars all busy chasing for him and learning what it is to be a good famous names of the Paris Press work for me.

aspiring the spians of sorts. Many

used to haunt its old rooms. In the days when dramatic critics used to

chasseur.

The chasseur is really a diplomat. Absolute confidence is required as write their reviews over a black well as patience, speed, intellígenes, coffee and send the manuscript off to courtesy, inventiveness, discretion, the newspaper, it was the chasseur philosophy, hoarsty, and an unfail who frequently performed the com- ing memory Some chasseurs have ! mission.

them.

"That's nothing," he said, "they

Henri was almost too. good. He preferred doing the shady things,

there was more sport, more adven- LUTE. He loved risks better than

tips, and that's why Henri will never again adorn the Napolitain

door.

Diary of Coming Events.

To-day. (December 9.)

Sale of Crown Land, Kowloon Inland Lots Nos. 2235, 2238, P.W.D. Offers, 3 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "Behind that Curtain."

World Theatre: "Saxaphone Susie."

Star Theatre: "Give and Take." Ten Dances: Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels, & p.5.

Dinner Dances: Hong Kong, Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels, 8.30 p.m.

Tides: High, 1.12 a.m.; Low, 16.03

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European Mails:-Outward: Europe via Victorin, B.C.. (Pres. Grant), 8 p.m.; via Siberia (Pres. Grant), 6 p.m.

Tuesday, (December 10,) Sanitary Board Meeting, 4.15

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For Stutramruni-gen meeting, Jardine Matheson's Board Room, 5.30 pm

Lecture: Dr. Shellahear "Pre- Queen's Theatre: "Behind That history of H. and the New Ter-Curtain. ritories." Helena May Institute,

World Theatre: " Two Lovers,” 5.30 p.m.

Star Theatre: "Fire Brigade, Ten Dances: Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels, 5 p.m..

Queen's Theatre: "Behind that Curtain."

World Theatre: Two Lovera," Star Theatre: "Fire Brigade.” Ten Dances: Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels, 3 p.m.

Dinner Dances! Hong Kong, Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels, 8.30 p.m.

Tides: High, 2.32 am and 3.53 D.; Low, 19.17 a.m. and 10.30 p.mn.' European Mails:-Outward: Europe vid Marseilles (Perscus), 2.30 p.m.; Europe mit San Francisco (Asama Maru), 3 p.m.; ví Siberia (Asama Maru), & p.m.

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