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VENUE OF ROTARY WEEKLY MEETINGS TO BE CHANGED?

A TRIAL TRIP TO GLOUCESTER BUILDING NEXT WEEK

MR. HILL'S ADDRESS ON ELECTRICITY AND ITS DOMESTIC APPLICATION ”

Electricity

The address at the Rotary Club yesterday was' and its Domestic Application," by Mr. D. S. Hill. Mr. P. §. Cassidy presided and explained that he was deputising for the Hom. Dr. S. W., Tse who would be away for two or three weeks. After welming several guests and reading a letter of regret from Sir William Hornell who was unable to attend, Mr. Cas- sidy said that he had received a letter of resignation from the Club from the Hon. Mr. E, D. C. Wolfe who wanted to resign for private reasons. The Chairman, on behalf of the members, expressed regret that Mr. Wolfe could not continue his member ship.

With regard to the venue of future incetings, Mr. Cassidy said. that on account of complaints from members regarding the neous- tics of the roam in Lane Crawford's Restaurant, while the inret- tings had so far been hield, the next meeting would be held in a room in Gloucester Building. This would be in the nature of a "trial trip." The Chairman read the correspondeure between the secretary of the club and the inmunger of Lane Crawford's in which the former expressed his gratitude to Mr. (xdall for the "unfailing attention and interest" which he had given to the sheeess of the Club's Rotary luncheons which had made such n meetings.

The Chairman also stated that the Club had received a letter from the Hong Kong Hotel offering to reserve the roof garden every Tuesday for the Club's exclusive use and requesting a tria),

EARLY ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTS RECALLED

Mr. Hill's address followed the 1881. Another episode of that time business of the meeting. He said:shows the enjoyment with which When Michael Faraday was de Lord Kelvin, confined to bed, would monstrating his famous experiments note the astonishment displayed by to people who were not familiar visitors on seeing an Edison glow; with the ways of science, he was lamp secured to his bed curtain by

means of a safety pinn!

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1932.

ful. One leading authority of the

advocate time used to

"over running" carbon lamps, that is to say, using them on circuits with too high a voltage, on the ground that although they gave up the ghost quicker they wern so much more efficient while they lasted. In brief, "A short life and a merry When the tungsten filament one," came along it was found possible to have both a long and a merry life for electric lamps, and juves tora cast about for some means to run the ordinary tungsten lamps at a still higher temperature.

Peak Residents Please Note, A paper entitled "An All-electric House" by Professor S. Parker Smith, M.I.E.E. was read before the Institution of Electrical En gineere on December 3, 1925 (vol. 64, p.380,) and the following is of special interest to Peak residents:-

Drying facilities become essenti- al in a wet climate. For this pur pose the drying closet has been pro- vided. The clothes are hung over 10 wooden rods, while an exhaust fan draws air over an air warmer of the convector type, rated at about 1 K.W. After an hour the dried" lothes come out as fresh as if they had been hung in the sunshine. Not only is this drying closet con venience at all times, for sundry, articles, but it is a vast improve ment on the unsightly, poles and pulleys often seen in kitchens."

OLDE ENGLISH

FAIRE"

ARRANGEMENT AT ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH

EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGE

LOCAL MANAGER OF SHANGHAI, FIRM.

A charge of cubezzling $17,071.32 from the Sheng To Weaving Fac tory of Y900, Ferry Road, Shanghai,

was preferred against Two Wai Cheung, manager of the Hong Kong' branch of the firm, at the Central Magistracy yesterday.

The Committee responsible for the arranging of the Programme of the Olde English Faire," to be held shortly in the grounds of St, An- drew's vicarage, are making great progress, and everyone interested will be pleased to hear of the work that has been accomplished. "Faire" will be opened at 3 p.m.,

Mr. Horace Lo appeared for the on November 5, by Mrs. J. R. Wood, who has kindly consented to complainant, Ching Lien Tien, sales perform this ceremony, the chair manager of the Shanghai office, being taken by Mr. P. S. Cassidy.

while Mr. F. C. E. Rendall repre-

The

The attractive features of last

At the outset of the hearing, Mr. year's Faire, which gave it its de-sented the defendant finite old English flavour, will be repeated in the dresses, dances, and Rendall asked his Worship's per- entertainments generally. The mo- mission to withdraw the plan of del cottage will again be the rendezvous or home-made ginger beer and brandy snap, and there will be home-grown lavender fresh from English gardens.

The range of stalls provided will be somewhat wider than last year and will include a Children's toy stall, for which the Cathedral Branch of the V.D.M.A. has under taken responsibility; an Ice Cream Stall under the control of St. Pe- ter's Branch of the V.D.M.A., and là "Dollery" for which the Ladies The modern electric fire is a much, Branch of the Y.M.C.A., under more efficient piece of apparatus. Mrs. J. H. Hunt, will be respon. The lamp radiator, having ita heat-sible. Some attractive designs have + been submitted to the Committer ing element enclosed within

for Xmas Cards, and a selection of vacuum, can transmit only radiant!

these will be on sale at the Faire. haat.

Mr. A. C. Jefferies will be in

"guilty" which the defendant had entered at the last hearing when ho (Mr. Rendall) was not present. His Worship agreed and Mr. Rondall then entered a formal ples of "not guilty."

+

Outlining the case on behalf of the complainant, Mr. Lo said: "Your Worship, the defendant in this case was the manager of the Sheng To Weaving Factory, whose address in Hong Kong is 231, Queen's Road Contral. This firm is a branch of the firm of the stme name in Shanghai, the address of The which is Y000, Ferry Road head office in Shanghai has been

Electric Cooking. Although electric cooking is, charge of the side-shows, of which doing business for p great number strictly speaking, merely a branch there will be a great variety. There of years. This firm is really a fuc- of electric heating, it deservca will be Dramatic Entertainments tory which manufactures trimmings special mention. The health and and Dancing and a Fairy Dress and also deals in another branch. in the ovening, at of business altogether, namely happiness of the human race de- Carnival

often asked, "What is the use of it On such occasions he would

The tantalum lamp was the next follow the example of Franklin, and impurtant step in the electric lamp reply with another question, "What industry, and remained in popular pend very largely be the art of which it is hoped there will imitation ivery, the trade name of is the use of a baby 1"

favour until about 1912, when a cooking, and anything that helps be many five specimens of old which is called "Bakelite." Ever When a baby is born, no one can way was discovered of making very the cook to turn out à nourishing English costumes. Miss Margaret since the establishment of the way whether it is destined to make fine wires of the rare metal-tungs and appetizing meal is worthy of Wooley, with a bevy of helpers, has branch in Hong Kong this firm was its name immortal or pass among ten. Previous to this, any method the greatest respect. The old phrase undertaken the charge of provid- in the babit of sending their manu- the unremembered multitude. In of transforming tungsten, which 19 "God sends food and the devil ing tea and supper which will be factures to the firm here for dis- posal. The firm here does no other the same way a acientist who per- obtained in the form of a powder, sends cooks" is very aptly illus. served on the Vicarage lawn.

Folk dancing is in the hands of business than to sell the goods sunt forms a successful experiment can into a ductile iugot suitable for trated in this Colony in many not tell whether he has made a drawing through dies to form a domiciles. In some cases, however, Miss Henderson and Mr. Rupert down from Shanghai, and remit the mes are money back to the head office from discovery which will mark s new fine wire, seemed beyond the skill the poor old cook is not altogether Baldwin, and the programmes epoch in human progress, or whe of inventor. It was found that to blame, and performs marvels in the capable hands of Mr. G. B. time to time..

"The complainant in this case is ther he has merely added his mite a filament, of sorts could be made when one considers the antiquated Labrum. As will be seen, the Com- to the general store of human by mixing the powder with a bind type of stove he has to deal with. mittee has been extremely busy and Ching Lien Tien, who is the sales

Faraday was knowledge.

well ing material into a paste, and

The first oven was a hole in the has put in an amount of good work; manager of the Shanghai office, and aware of the scientific importance squirting the mixture through a

in the simplest form of field wide-spread support for the Faire. by the head office to establish a of his discoveries, and although the diamond die; the binding material up. It is represented: to-day and therefore it looks forward to in 1924 he was scut to Hong Kong apparatus be used was simpler and was then burned out, leaving kitchen" used by an army on the The "Olde English Faire" is in branch. He started this office in more crude than that which many more or less coherent filament of

A hole is dug, covered aid of an extremely worthy cause August, 1924, and he remuined in a schoolboy plays with in his den. Lungsten particles. The lampa made

over, filled with wood and provided and it is to be hoped that a great Hong Kong in charge until the be-

will number

con attend and

ginning of 1825. The defendant was he felt that he was dealing with with this filament

with a vent at one side and an

int- of Isent down by the head office at the what might be a gigantie fore, fragile, and the casualties between opening at the other. After the tribute

enjoyment end of 1924, and when the complain. Even he, however, with all his factory and user were appallingwood has burned itself out and the nocent

ant left Hong Kong in January, fraction of what has resulted installed, the slightest jar was suffot, the ashes are withdrawn and sion. genius, could not have foreseen a Even after the lamps were safelf walls of the hole have become very which should prevail on the occa

1025, he took over from him and There is the production of electric cient to break the filament. In spite the meat, loaves and other things

became the manager of the Hoag ity on the large scale, the fighting of these disabilities the lamps were are inserted. All the cooking is of streets and buildings, the driv eagerly bought, because they were done by the residual heat" in wie operation of a switch, which held from then on to now," ing of vehicles and machinery, the three times more efficient than the the walls of the oven.

the best carbon lamps. As the manu- telephone, telegraph, radio, medical applications of electricity, facture of these lamps proceeded, electric furnaces, electro-chemical the plant used was brought to a

were very

march.

to the spirit mirth and

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electrical appliances. By the sim Kong branch, whicht position he has can be placed in almost any posi- The electric oven consists essen- tion short of in mid-air, light, heat, tially of a metal box containing and power can be brought instant-

It appears that the defendant, heating elements. There is no aneously,

One from his own admission, started to

under control.

processes, electric heating and cook- high stage of efficiency, but almost Auc, and therefore none of the heat switch may be made to operate a embezzle money, which is payable | ing, and many other examples of as soon as this happened, it was given off is wasted in a draught group of lights, or a group of to the business and not to him, i "applied ectricity." The work rendered obsolete by the discovery which draws in cold air and gives switches made to operate ona light. about six months after hoʻhad taken which Faraday pursued in poverty, of a means of actually drawing out hot air. The walls of the oven The fitting of a master switch to over from Mr. Tin-that is, in and neglected by many of the lead tungsten into a wire.

can be made of light steel sheet, the domestic offices curtails the boy September, 1925. ing scientista,

no check over his pecount, and the thus avoiding the need for beating and his merry men throwing an point of that mighty development. |

up large masses of metal. Usually all-night party and wasting inas-head office had no suspicion of any--| the walls ara made double, with

the starting WAS

So it is that we have available

Tungsten,

When tungsten powder is subject for domestic purposes in one and 'ed to great pressure and heated in the same form of energy, light, an electric furnace the particles some sort of heat insulating materi

heat, and power.

First Successful Attempt.

al in between, an arrangement

There has been

LOCAL COMPANIES CRITICISED..

Professor Middleton Smith, on

thing wrong until September, this year when they became suspicious and sent a man down to look into the matter. This man, was taken

cohere. In this way slugs of the which effectually imprisons the heat. metal, about tho. thickness of a In most cases the heating elements being called upon to thank the into the business, as accountant. stick of sealing wax, are formed ; | are arranged on either side of the peaker, said he, was surprised at Ha evidently found that there had The first succesful attempt to and after these alugs have been

oven in groups of three or four, the want of enterprise shown local been something wrong and reported ly on the salesmanship side of produce a source of light suitable violently hammered out into a

each element being separately con- electricity. It was paly recently the matter to the head office. The for domestic uso was made by Bir thin rod the metal is in a condi- trolled by switches on the oven or that showrooms came into ex- complainant, Mr. Then, then came Be arrange to Hong Kong to investigato and Joseph Swan in Britain and Thomas tion to be drawn out step by step on a wall panel conveniently near,istence. There was

ment, for instance, whereby local A. Edison in America. This con. into the finest wire. Lamps made and by manipulating those switches, tants might show their eus questioned the defendant,, who ad- sisted of a thin filament of carbon with this wire are quite as robust any degree of heat can be obtained. compra examples of electrically mitted having embezzled some 82,000 in the form of a loop enclosed in 43 carbon filament lamps, and, as Most avens are fitted with thermo- cooked food,

Professor on that occasion. A few days later It was curious, said a glass bulb from which all the I have just mentioned, are much meters, providing a scientific sub-

stitute for the cook's hand as a Middleton Smith that in our tiny the complainant again confronted air was exhausted. This prevented more efficient.

means of discovering the tempera little area, there should be two defendant with having embezzled competing companies. He did not the filament from being rapidly This marvel was, however, only ture of the interior.

The other domestio usos of alectric understand why the Government more than the sum he previously consumed, and incidentally ruined a stage to another marvel. If we the usefulness of the lamp-sea ask why tuigsten lamps are more heating ato many. There is the should not demand that there admitted, and defendast then asked

friendly electric kettle the should be, after arbitration, one cigar lighter. Lord Kelvin, deter- efficient than carbon lamps, the a toaster, the curling tongs heater company only. It was an axiom the assistant accountant to make mined that his house in the Uni- wer lies in the higher temperature and hair dryer for the missy, the that the bigger the machinery, the out a list of figures, which were un versity of Glasgow should he "the at which they are run. The hotter amah's friend, the electric iron, cheaper the output could be made intelligible and best known to him-

(which incidentally serves her as a available to the public. He added first house on this planet to be en- the filament the more light it will bed warmer in winter) to say ne- that he had nothing to do with sell, and handed it to the complain-"|

he had embezzled.” tirely illuminated by electricity, give for the same current consumpthing of the all important coffee" Bears" or "Bulls" and could rat saying that those were ordered workmen to replace every tion. Many efforts were made in percolator, which defies the cook's therefore speak, frankly...

most strenuous efforts to spoil the After speaking on the wonderful

-After-evidence had been given by *** development, in the field of electric coffice.

In conclusion, I would dwell ity, Professor Middleton Smith the complainant Hearing out Mr. upon the manifest advantage of, moved a vote of thanks to the

on the ontre) of all domatic, epeaker, which was heartily ac Lo's opening, the case was adjourn

corded.

gas burner with an electric lamp, the early days to strengthen carbon There were 163 burners, so 100 efer- filaments so that they could be run tric lamps were installed in that at a high white heat without falling house about the end of the yeni

but were acver very success

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