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to: CREDIT commercial lines, looking for a joint Apply relation in business with manu-D'EXTREME-ORIENT, FRENON BANK factaron and merchants of different BUILDING, 4TH FLOOK
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Buits, Pyjamas, Gowns, Shawls,
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Enamel Ware, Boots and Shoes, IVE Roomed HOUSE in MIN- Sooks and Stockings, Colton Pleco | L DEN AVENUE, KOWLOON, Woy suitable for
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"PUBLIC AUCTION
THURSDAY, OCT. 15, 1981 COMMENCING AT 11A.ME
AT THEIR SALES ROOM, DONDALL STREET,
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TROUSERINGS
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A QUANTITY OF LADIES
DRESSES AND HATS
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could be more untrue. No other
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DAYS OF OCEAN TRAMP
NEARLY OVER.
WORLD'S TRADE TURNS TO OCEAN LINER.
London. The
tramp
tion than America. The code of manners there is a hundred times more exacting than in England. From his University days the American is a member of clubs, secret societies and fraternities, which impose upon him oaths and customs. Social life is of a strict- nere difficult to conceive, Snobbery is on the grand scale and expressUS itself in strange ways. To have a small telephone or car number is" a sign of aristocracy. A box at the Metropolitan." Opera House is like a coat of arms.
The older an aristocracy is the more easygoing it is. The Amori- enn aristocracy, which is of recent sl'eamer origin, is much more exclusive than which used to ply to the strange the English. I hays been told that ports of the world seeking cargoes at Hollywood the old families are probably son will join the sailing those of the Douglas Fairbanks. vessel in near-extinction,
period; they have English butlers, and they
A calculation made in London quietly furnished houses, and shows that linera, both passenger speak with regret of the good old and cargo, as contrasted with the days of the silent film. In addition there are the parvenus, the families tramp, comprise about 70 per cent.
of the talking film, who form a scin
but tillating, cosmopolitan act, whom the "old families" do not
the "o receive
of the
of the world's tonnage. Liners totaled but 20 por cent" world's tonnage in 1,013.
The change has been pasticular Jp noticeable in the port of London,
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America's Separate Tongue.
And now for my third impres- thero now are very few trumpa us compared with pre-war days. Near.sion. It is often said that America ly everybody prefers to send goods and England until the middle of the last century shared between in "parcels" up to 10,000 tons or more on one of the regular lineation, but that they are now se them a'unique Anglo-Saxon civili-
ships..
parating farther and farther from Canadian "grain for instance, us each other. I do not altogether ed to cross the Atlantic and Paci agree. It is true that, if one takes, fie in tramp, steamers.
Now a language alone into consideration,- large part of it comes across the American tends more and more to oceans in the Canadian Pacific's become a separates tongue it in. fast cargo linora or in the bolda vents its own words and images, of passenger ships. There aro and, that is all to the good But half a dozen regular lines on the if one studies customs it seems to north Pacific, formerly
me, on the contrary, that. I perceive a tramp area, and even the River Plate Americans an astonishing attrac
among the younger generation of
on
the schedules of tion towards an English habit of mind. In American Universities the student magazines extol the football and tennis manners of the English."
ports are now the liners.
Sen affairs in general have been changed considerably by the shift
Mr. Douglas Woodruff, inhis from tramp steamer to liner. The charming little book, Plato's seaman no longer signs on för a | American Republic,,, does not con- ..
code to the Americans the taste for voyage "not exceeding two years,""
leisure which, he says, is the orna but can tell his wife almost to the ment of the English He is right, day when he will return. Jobs are but this taste has developed rapidly since the end of America's heroic atcadior, for cargo liners stick to
pioneer period. As some children, their schedule? 967
in growing increnss their.. react blance to their fathers, so America moves towards an English type of civilisation, gen
'But with the passing of the tramp, steamer passes some of the last vestiges of the pioneering of
The American, of course, is not an Englishman, and England is not awther day and "one of the last America, but in the eyes of a links between the ship, owner, and Frenchman: the two peoples-rozem the merchant adventurers of the than they resemble any other na ble each other much more closely
seventeenth century is broken. Lion.
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