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289

261

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391

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187

101

174 101

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381

481

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1935...

OF A VISIT TO

RECOLLECTIONS OF

Interesting

Mr.

Talk L. W. Amps

ROTARY AND THE FAR

EAST

The speaker at the weekly tiffin of the Hong Kong Rotary Club held at the Hong Kong Hotel yesterday was Mr. L. W. Amps, O.B.E., M. Inst. C. E. who rave an interesting, talk" on "Recollec tions of a recent visit to Cailfornia.

Mr. M. K. Lo presided and the meeting was, as usual, large- ly attended, including the following guests: Mr. H. E. Harris, of Whittier, California; r. Tsai; Mr. G. C. Moxon, Mr. W. R. N. Andrews, Mr. A. Hung and Mr. M. W. Gittins.

Before calling upon the speaker to deliver his address, the "" President introduced Mr. Harris who, he said, was president of the. Rotary Club, California district, and who was the first chair- man of the International Service Committee of the Rotary Ire fernational. In co-operation with Mr. Jim Wilson, the founder, Mr. Harris had written pamphlets. for International Rotary Ser vice.

Hot Dogs And Bill Boards

roads such as we have in

many

places in this Colony. One of the steepest and most winding roads

the

The President also mentioned that he had written a letter to His Excellency Sir Thomas South- orn on his assumption to the highI have ever driven upon s

West office of Officer Administering the Khyber Pass in, the North. Government and that he had re- Frontier of India and yet, owing ceived a reply expressing apprecia- to the skill of the engineers in tion and wishing success to the providing correct super-elevation. the corners can be negotiated with Hong Kong Rotary Club.

only two Angers on the wheel and without the excessive wear and tear of tyres which is experienced on curves that have rios, this ad- vantage. While on the subject of Addressing the gathering Mr. motoring should like to refer to Amps said:

MR. L. W. AMPS

the

We who live in Hongkong are wonderfully well placed for seeing

world. Through the

big steamship, lines which touch here we are within easy reach of many of the most interesting places in world, and we have every opportunity of studying the pro- gress which civilization has made In other countries.

the

This spring I had the oppor- tunity of paying my first visit to the Pacific Coast of Canada and America, and though some of you are no doubt familiar with that part of the world, others may find some interest in the impressions which I received on my short visit to that country. Those who at- tempt to discuss a country in which they have only spent short time are trequently subject to ridicule from these who know it well, but although "my stay on the Pacific Coast only lasted five weeks I am emboldened to make these few remarks to-day owing to the interest which I myself found in "the first impressions of the well-known author, S.P.B.Mats, in his recent book "A Modern Columbus," written after

America.

in new

the

you

the use of bumpers in the States. English cars nowadays are mostly provided with bumpers, but average Englishman regards them but recessary as an unpleasan

an article öf safeguard. not as

In America cars are daily use.

streets usually parked along the in an almost unending line par- allel to the sidewalk and when you want to get your car out you

till backwards Ko just strike the car behind. then back and forth in this way till

car is clear. your

The first in. a time I experienced this was friend's car and I had a sudden we had sickening sensation that probably damaged the car behind, but my friend was quite uncon- cerned. On another occasion I was driving in someone else's car when he ran out of petrol. He just stop- ped another motorist. on the road and got his car pushed by the bumper of this car a distance of about 14 miles to the nearest pet- roi station!

There

are in America

a great many unemployed-I have heard it said that they exceed 12,000,000 and as there is no regular "dole" as in England many of these men

one

warned never to

I left Hongkong by the "Em- press of Canada" at the end of January and in eighteen days I landed at Vancouver, With the friends I hired an assistance of 501

excellent car-a Ford V8 Saloon I can com condition. fidently recommend this method of seeing the country to those con- templating a visit to America. The cost of the car for a contem- plated tour of 4,000 miles lasting of all your cash and drives oft in scut a month was only Can. your car leaving you in a lonely $150 and I never had a moment's spot miles from anywhere! How- trouble.

ever, after driving a few hundred I started off down the Pacific miles I couldn't help reeling it was Highway through Seattle and rather selfish to drive alone all the Parland. The roads are marvel- time, and after that I pteked up lous, driving is a pleasure and several men with whom I had some one can cover 250 or 300 miles very interesting conversations. One dally without feeling any fatigue. of the things which astounded me The traffic moves at high speeds in America was the cheerfulness but the rules of the road are so displayed. by the unemployed, scrupulously observed that accid- many of whom were down and out dents are remarkably few. All and frequently, hungry. I learnt the important roads are divided that 'It was no uncommon thing for down the centre by a white Bre. 200 or 300 men to be turned off not only on corners as in Hong freight trains by the police when Kong, but along their entire taking an unauthorised ride and length, and cars mostly keep to sometimes when the trains passed their own, alde .even on_straight | through mountains men could no 134

roads when there is no approach longer hold on to their precarious 34

ing traffic in view. All curves are

positions on account of the cold 341 properly banked not only on the and dropped off when the train

inside of the curve but uniformly was in motion and were killed. 131 right across the road, BO that there is no tendency for a driver 31. on the outside of a curve to cut his corner in order to take advan- tage of a more favourable slope on the inside.

Into the air as high as 350 feet, their bases being as much, as 1 or 20 ft. in diameter. There is a dig- nified silence in these forests and an awe comparable to that which one experiences in the silence of an ancient cathedral,

By this time I was in the State of California, and the air was get ting warmer and more mellow. I passed large stock ranches, which reminded me of park land in Eng- lang. vineyards, with vines stret- ching endlessly as far as the eye could see, and large orchards with

mile after mile of fruit trees. So important is the fruit industry to California that special precautions are taken to avoid the spread of disease and pests among the fruit trees. When I crossed the state boundary all my baggage had to

barbour

CALIFORNIA

and there is as 7-knot

of a place is not to he spoiled! current running between Oakland¦ At Del Monte too is the Pebble course, Bay and the open" Pacific. This Beach championship golf channel is shortly to be crossed surely one of the most beautiful by a bridge of one single span cources in the world. I arrived In the dark at Del Monte Lodge, which is to be the longest in the world. This amazing span is the hotel and dormy house, which 4.200 feet long, which, is almost is really more like a country club.. the full distance from one Star and when I came down to break- Ferry berth to the other. The fast the next morning in the sun- height of the towers 13 746 feet, lit verandah overlooking the fam- roughly as high as Wanchal Gap ous 18th green with its closely- on the Peak, and the deepest pler clipped turf among the pine trees extends 235 feet below the surface and the white surf of the Paciãe of the sea. The dificulty of con- structing such a pier in a 7-knot current open to the full Pacific gales can well be imagined. The suspension cables which carry the six road tracks over this enormous span are each three feet in diameter and, owing to their

be taken out of the car and open-colossal weight have to be fabri ed to see that I had no

cated in position. foreign shirts which trees among my might introduce the dreaded dis- ease. The orchards are also con- stantly sprayed to keep down pests. This is" frequently done by caterpillar-tractor passing up and down between the rows of trees dragging a spray apparatus behind it, but recently a more

breaking beyond it I held my breath for the sheer beauty of it all. One thing struck me parti- cularly about most of the beauty spots I saw during my visit and that was the care with which the authorities preserve and enhance the natural beauty of the place.

SUGGESTIONS FOR HONG KONG

Ore has heard a good deal late-

The Oakland Bay Bridge another wonderful engineeringly about the desirability of at feat connecting the city ol San Francisco with the mainland to the east. Its length is 8 miles of which about 4 miles is over the sea, and it will provide for 9 road tracks for motor vehicles and two tramcar tracks. The maximum spans, though less than the Gold- rapid method is gaining in popen Gate Bridge, are greater than larity. The spraying apparatus is that C the Sydney Harbour carried on an aeroplane which flies Bridge, and the roadway will be up and down just over the trees carried high enough above the leaving a fine mist all over them. When the pilot sees some tele-

sea to

clear even the largest

tracting tourists to Hong Kong and I have read with interest the Report of the Committee which considered this subject. No doubt the new Travel Association is tak- ing steps in a number of ways to encourage the tourist. After see ing some the most popular places on the Pacific Coast it occurs to me that a good deal might be done to enhance the beauties of Hong Kong by estab-

shing a central nursery for groW-

ing shrubs and trees for planting

graph wires ahead he just hops ocean-going vessels. In this bridge are many isolated plers and when

out at strategic points. There are over like a well schooled hunter I was in the bridge engineer's so many beautiful shrubs 'which taking a Leicestershire fence. To affice in San Francisco a demon-

are easily grown here and labour the less alrminded of us this might stration was given me of the me- Is so cheap that a great deal seem somewhat hazardous. but 'thod of communication between could be done at small expense. For they assured me it was rapid, effi- i them and the office. Wireless example, whenever a new road lạ cient and economical. They are. telephones are installed at the [ made, the conventional uniform.

Course. thoroughly air-head once and at each pier and minded in the States. There are alo on all the launches employ frequent services between towDS of any size, and people think no more of going by plane than we In England do of travelling "by train. You can cross the Ameri- can continent from the Pacific to the Atlantic, a distance of 2,500 malies in under 20 hours, safely and in perfect comfort.

SAN FRANCISCO After travelling 1000 miles from Vancouver, I'entered San Fran- cisco late one afternoon.. It was an impressive sight." white and grey buildings rose high into the air in the setting

Countless

sun from a series of sheer hills ranging between 300 and 1,000 feet in height at the end of a narrow rocky peninsula. Except from the south one has to reach San Fran- Cisco by one of a feet of huge ferry boats somewhat similar to the vehicular ferry here, but large enough to take over 160 cars. 1 was particularly impressed by the and rapidity with which these enormous vessels are berthed

ease

ed on the work. The engineer picked up a telephone on his table and was at once in speaking com- munication with an isolated pier six miles out in the Bay to whom he was able to issue instructions as easily as if it had been in the next room!

GRAND COULEE, DAM

grass-covered bank or stone wall could perhaps be varied by a Uttle simple landscape gardening. The gardens in Statue Squares too would make a Ane opportunity for a really attractive central dis- play. and cannot help thinking that if the Peak Tram were in a pleasure resort in California the banks on either side would transformed by the judicious planting or shrubs or specimen I was fortunate in being able trees. We who live here get to inspect a number of large ex-su accustomed to looking down gineering works in various parts upon Hong Kong from above that of the Pacific Coast. Including the we do not perhaps appreciate it colossal Grand Coulee Dam where to the full, but I venture to think 15,000,000 ea. yds, of earth are that the view from the Peak Tram now being excavated. I also made or the city at sunset with the an interesting study of various harbour and Kowlout hills behind modern methods of carrying out rivals the famous beauty of Monte

the big. earthwork projects which Carlo might well be adapted for use in when seen from Mont Agel after Hong Kong,

and

Mediterranear

the height of 쇼크 afternoon"&

One is struck by the magnitude round of golf or that well-known

THE OXFORD GROUP

of these works compared with mountain ́ course.

undertakings GT othe. similar

in the continents. New arrivals States sometimes find it difcuit Speaking as I am to you Rotar- to adjust themselves to the great tans whose organisation. I under- aim the size of the American continent, stand, has as its main and the stupendous scale on which furtherance of rational and inter- American undertakings are car-national fellowship throughout ried out but we cannot but ad- the world. I would like to make s mire the courage" · and resource reference to a movement which I which they bring to bear upon was 'priveleged to observe at close these colossal projects. One won-quarters and take a

small part San Francisco is a fascinating dets whether one day projects or in while I was in Canada and the city. A few years after the Brl-

equal magnitude will be put in States, namely, the Oxford Group. tish came to Hong Kong it sprace hand in the vast country which The Oxford, Group. is. In my opin suddenly into being, following the is China, with all its undevelop lon, by far the most vital and discovery of gold in California.ed resources and countless inha-

at each end of the run. They come in at some speed and almost as soon as they touch the tenders the cury

khay.

stream of on to the

There was a frantic rush of ox-

horsemen. wagons, mute-teams,

norde.

bitants.

far-reaching movement

-fear for civilisation-fear

in the

that

country"

world to-day. Many of you will I stayed in San Francisco and remember how WE fought and equally rapid journey through spend their days moving from and all the appendages of a gold- the neighbourhood for a fort- gave up everything during the

place to płacę by getting seeking

Anything that night and had many opportuni Great War in order to make the tree rides either by road could be made to float entered ties of experiencing the kindness world "a place at for heroes to OF railway, All along the roads the harbour from all ports in the and hospitality of Americans to live in." And at the time we be-

finds them standing in Pacific even from

China, and wards strangers. There are also lleved in all sincerity that we were San Francisco became the centre the characteristic "hitch-hiker's"

£ considerable number of British- doing It. But what is left to us. interest. attitude with one thumb in the air of world

Millionaires ers in San Francisco, many cf now of those" bigh hopes? 'Dis- were made in a few weeks and whom like to uve in or near Bau- usonment, disappointment, per- signifying that they would like a

the pioneer city became the ob-salito in Marin County, just across vous anticipation and fear of the lift; but I was

ject of their lavishness. As the the Golden Gate; in fact I was

future all the minds of all pick one up as it sometimes hap-

years went pens that the "hitch-hiker" sticks

un the first plain informed by a waggish American The position was aptly describ- birch and frame buildings a pistol in your ribs, relieves you

rave friend that so many English haded by Mr. Baldwin in the House way to ornate structures, and the settled there that the authorities of Commons in London a few days new magnates of finance began to were considering the appointment ago, when he said, "The greatest crown Nob Hill with palaces which of an American Consul to Sausall- danger in the world to-day is fear were renowned throughout the to world. By 1908 prospèrity seemed

is pegetting war. I have beep oc- "IN OLD MONTEREY" when suddenly

cupying myself by studying the permanent, April 18th all that had been Within a hundred miles to the question of air raid precautions achieved lay in ruins the great south of San Francisco is the and I tell this House that I have Its toll. lovely crecent Bay of Monterey. been made almost physically sick earthquake had taken The work of reconstruction

to think that I and my friends WAS or whose shores the gay, roman- begun without a pause, and within the life of old Spain-In-California and statesmen of every ten years the great Panama- used to nourish. For many years in Europe, two thousand years Pacific Exposition, commemorating under the flags of Spain. Mexico after Our Lord was crucified at the Panama and the United States, Monterey | Calvary should be spending our the completion of Canal, was opening its gates in remained the capital of California, tire seeing how best we can take.

has what was one of the world's most and nowadays it

become the mangled bodies of children striking cities.

to hospital and prevent hideous famous as one of the most beauti- ful and attractive residential sec-poison gas from going down the tions of the Padic Coast Along throats of our people.?? A description of present-day the picturesque, 17-mile drive at

AN ACT OF FAITH San Francisco would not be com- Del Monte are the homes of 80- plete without a reference to two clety leaders from the eastern What is the solution? I believe major engineering projects which states and from other parts of it to be a new social order, mak- Pacific "Coast, constructeding for better human relation= are now in progress the Golden the Gate Bridge and the San Fran- among the rocks and cypress trees ships, for upselfish co-operation, cisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Be-overlooking the blue Pacific. Here for cleaner business, cleaner pall- ties, and for the elimination of tween the most northerly point of are all types of houses, some cost-

others political industrial and racial After travelling southward about 800 miles down the Pacific High-of San Francisca

the peninsular forming the City fig huge fortunes while

and Maria are comparatively modest, but antagonisms,” I Imagine the prin- way I turned along the coast Country, is a narrow stretch of they all have one thing in com-ciples of the Rotary Club are through the wonderful virgin Red- water, of "about the same width mon which the authorities firmly closely linked with objects such wood Forests. The Redwood tree as Hong Kong harbour, along the insist upon they are all well and as those. While I was in Amer- is one of the oldest living things; route of the Star Ferries, which attractively designed and are in les I saw something of the new these monsters of the forest were traffic going north and south at keeping with the beauty of their spirit which is abroad to day. A already old at the time of William present has to cross by ferry, surroundings How important t

(Continued on Paze 3) the Conqueror, and they now tower The water is deeper than our that is if the astoral attraction

THE USE OF BUMPERS Modern highway engineering re- cognises the importance of this superelevation on curves, and it is particularly necessary on hill

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