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A YEAR'S WORK OF LONDON POLICE. London, Doc. 16-According to Mr. Barrie the one thing in London that never fails to in- press a country visitor with tho suproinacy of the great city is the size of the letter boxes at the chief post oflices. Those vast slits appoal more powerfully to the imagination than tho con- ventional "sights” to which the attention of the oxcursionist is ordinarily directed. In the same way, if I wished to convoy a sense of London's magnitude to a correspondent at a distance, I should not quote to him the com- monplace statistics of population, but should casually romark that last year 25,004 ubrellas were loft behind by passengers in Lon;

don cabs and 'busos,

The ascertainment of that fact

is due not to any rosearchos pains fully undertaken in preparing a dissertation on Absont-mindorf- noss in the Twentieth Century,' but to the recent issue of m

annual report of the commis - sionor of polien for, the' ine:

tropolis, published in a foolscap blue-book of seventy-eight pages at His Majesty's stationary office, and "prosented to both ifonses of Parliament by cominand of

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY MARCH 4 1011

of the “noise committee," and mony of these tighteen were sent back soveral times itil the remodinile noise had been in ciently reduced. “

KEEPING EYES OPEN.

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FINGER-PRINTS. nul investigation department

But, after all, it is the "crimi that supplies Scotland Yard with its most anxious problems. How science has come to the aid of the modern Sherlock Holmes is illus favourable comment on tho fin- trated by the commissioner's

gerprint system of identification, which "continues to give un- qualifio satisfaction." One of the most interesting exhibits at this year's Anglo-Japaneso. ox He is hibition, by the way, was sorics this method. Of such identifi- of specimens of the efficiency of cations the metropolitan polico mado 9,960 during last year, an increase of over 500,

clear that there are other places in the civilized world where the task of self-proservation from the en- of greater excitement, omios of society offers a prospect

H. W. H.

FLIES.

DANGEROUS PESTS.

KIAO-CHOW.

FREQUENT OXFORD

years and over. Under the therefore ordered to be “detained THE DEVELOPMENT OF This includes an increase in the lar. Bar interim miglapė, a very present system about 60 por during His Majesty's pleasure","

gross receipts of the wharf and of formidable crow is nasured this cent, of the number available one was discharged by tho magi-

tho, electric sworks, of about for duty in the streets is required strato, and in tho romaining in-

m.1,125,000, E

season. Alrondy the mon are for night duty, from 10. pan, to stanco. the bill was ignorail by hi place of the usual illustrated The report further states that balanced woll, all appbar upt

The romaining 40 for the grand jury.

report on Kino-chow published the extension of the harbour pupils, and Mr. W. Dudley Ward eent, is dotailed for day duty in Far bo it from mer to cast any in brochure form, which is now works, and of the road and canal is bringing thein on in very ap The statistics show that the four roliefs in town districts, and doubt upon the distinction Lon-only to appear in the elaborato gystani hus beon proceeded with. prociable fashion. buran ing a tremendous amount reliefs in country districts-don has gained as a criminal style at longer intervals, the Clor- Privato building notivity increas of work in the constant inspection the country districts, being, of centro. At the same time, when an Imperial Navy Department ou compared with the previous of voluiclos after they have once course, those more thinly populate one beconies aware that every has communicated to the semi- year, and especially was this tho received their permit. Last year, ed sections of the metropolitan your there is only one murder official "Nordd. Allgemeine Zoi-enso with the now Chinese Juild..

CHANGES. there wero 22,884 casos in which area which are swept by the fur-known to be committed for peory tag" some of the main facts re-ings. Amongst the more import tackling his formidable task of President Bourne (Oxford) is. ported unfit for public use, who- a public motor vehicle was rother ond of the fifteen-miles 400,000 of its population, it is lating to the development of the ant odifices completed during the

her on account of excessive noisa,

territory during the last oficial year was the first block of build-onergetic fashion. Wisely, he is crow-making in olunracteristically defective stoering gear, defuetive

your, viz., from October, 1000, to ings for the German-Chinose contouting himself with utilising brakes, tho dropping of oil or

October, 1910. These are, on the High School. It comprises room the servicon of a limited number groase, or miscellanous defects.

whole, of a satisfactory nature. for 120 pupils, reckoning two to of recruits at this stage. Among As the total number of theso vo-

An spite of the financial crisis a room, bosides oight dwellings others who have been tries aro hiclos bearing a license is 5,130,

in North China, the report states for Chinese tenchiers. The second. Tinne, L. G. Wormald, R. it is clour that the Lonton police

that Tsingtau's trado has boon set of buildings, which is to be E. Burgoss, E. Millington-Drake, have been trained to koop their

actically maintained at. the finishod next spring, is to be W. 1). Coleridge (the Etonians), eyes wide open for the protection

favourable level of, roughly constructed in a similar style.W. S. Cushing (from Yale Uni of the travelling public,

$85,000,000 reached in the pro- The Gorman-Chineso High. Hongkong has done much, to vious year. Particular attention School has not yet fully got john (from Melbourne University,

versity, U.S.A.), C. W. B. Little rid itself of the mosquito post, but is drawn to the fact that Tsingtan, through its first flies still flourish. These are a

stage of as the outlet of an important rail development. The extraordinary Old Choltonian), LA Hugh Australia), G. W. Lambert (an serious menace to the health of way system, las boon the princip difficulties of an organisation Jonos (from Rugby), nud. J. W. any household, and much can bo al port for the importation of for which examples and sufficient Heinemann (an Old Marlburian). done to minimize the danger from railway material, for the Tien-experienco is lacking, necossitates From this list alone ho should bo American Civic Association gives ing of this railway, and not lonst loss, the number of scholars has sonts in due course, them. A rocent bulletin of the tsin-Pukow Railway. The build-oxtraordinary effort. Neverthe-able to fittingly fill the six vacant a serios of rulos for dealing with also of the grant bridgo over the increased from 70 to 145, amonget flies. The matter is of such im Hoangho, has given numerous or- whom no difficulties as regarda

His biggest task will be to find portance that wo roprint these dors to German industry and pro-discipline have occurred, and they No. 7 capable of succeeding P. rules in their cutirety..

fitable work to German engine are making satisfactory progress. Fleming. Lambort or Tiune will Flies brood in horse manure, cors. The not profit which Gorman Chinese translations of various probably bo-finally selected, and decaying vegetables, dead animals, political economy has secured works have been published, and a either should couple up the work and all kinds of filthi.

from this construction is to be kind of museum for all depart-woll at that thwart. Lambert

ut Not less than 95 per cont; of the estimated not less than ments of natural und technical showed capital form in this year's m.15,000,000. Materials valuod science las boon established. Trial Eights race in the same ported at Tsingtau in the period the Christuskirche (Church of Henley oarsman. ant about m.4,000,000 were im- The Report mentions further that position, and is a distinguished extending only from May 1 to Christ) in Tsingtau, the site of form alone stamps him as an oars- October 1 lust. Apart from which was given by the Clovern-man right above the ordinary. this item, the total imports of rent, was consecrated last Oc-He, too, inherits the ability of lus non-Chinese goods amounted to tobor. The Observatory founded father the ever-famous Blue of in the previous year. It is re- of construction, and its completion likely to get extended trial is A. $25,800,000 against $25,400,000 | by the Navy Leaguo in in course the 'sixtion. Another Old Etonian markable that these imports, is expected in the coming summer. F. Wiggins (Captain of Boats last which in the whole of East Asia. The population of the town of seasonj. have this year suffered much Tsingtan in the your 1910 num- from the Chinese trade crisis, bered 1,621, including 1,531 and the consequent scarcity Germans; thoro were in addition of money, have in Tsing-2,275. soldiers. The Chinese tat hot only not declined, inhabitants of the town numbor but lvo even risen a little. The 34,180, and of the whole territory most important articles of import 120,690, or u. total of 161,140. up to the present are aniline dyes

The licensing of drivers and conductors is a kindred respon sibility. The first. tost imposed on mi applicant concerns his knowledge of London. whereabouts of the principal expected especially to know the

public buildings, places of amuse ment railway stations, clubs, etc., and the most expeditious routes to and from these places. Out of 2,580 snel applicants who pre- sented themselves for exomination His Majesty, Formally it is last year no less than 2,000 failed. report submitted by the cou oxtonsive and peculiar know missioner to the home secretary, Tedge of London is not so easy to for the reason that the metro aequire nowadays as it was in politan polico force if not, like Sam Wellor's time. There are, the police of provincial cities of course, further tests, in driving under local management, is horses or motor cabs, as the case directly under the control of the government department known y be. The commissioner res ng the Homo Ofees. This loro must be carefully distinguishe

from the City Polien, a force of about 1,000 mòn which is con-

trolled by the Lord Mayor, and

Aldermen, and is in charge ofs the sms contral "City", arou covering daly about 673 acres about 170 neres less than Now

York's Contral Park.

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ports that many applicants for ficouses as motor-cab drivers have had to be rejected altogether, be cause, after savoral trials they do

appear to be capable of be coming ellicient.

If this article should catch the eyes of any one in authority at Mulberry Street, I would respect fact that last your the metropolitan fully invite his attention to the police summoned 843 persons, and secured the conviction of 785 of them, for "wilfully obstructing hotway or carriage-way by expos- ing goods for sale, etc.," that they summoned 207, and convicted 199, for "allowing barrows, etc., to stand longer than necessary for loading or unloading," and that they summoned 101, and convicted for whealing barrow

Apponded to this section of the report is the paragraph from which has already been quoted that astounding revelation" of the number of forgetful owners ofum brellas. The remaining properly found in public carriages an 1 dented with profit. posited with the polico by drivers

and of men's clothing, 4,620; bags

tables are given respecting street neekdents known to the police by which persons were killed or in jured. The death roll amounts

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posts are bred in this stable. manure bin with a door at the side All stables should have and a wire screen on the top, that the larva deposited in the manure before it was placed in the bin will be screened when hatched; and top of the bin, they can be easily as los seck light and come to the killed by burning paper or some other device.

CREWS IN THE MAKING.

LATEST FROM ISIS AND CAM.

Tinne's Eton.

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GARTON ROWING AGAIN.

The rumour that A. S. Gartón (the.O.U.B.O, secretary and Blue) had gone down is, happily, only rumour. He will assist again, and at his old thwart, No. 6. I'rosident Bourne will again 'set final order has boon attained, and tho work, when something like

thero is no doubt that H. B. Wells (Winchester and Magdalen) will succood A. W. Donkin as cox. He is a son of the ex-O.U.A.C is evidently an adopt with the president of that name, and lines. The victory of No. I crow at Moulsford before Christmas was largely due to his skill and oppor tunism.

THE DECLINE OF CHURCHGOING.

or truck on fookway." My memo- The fly has a thirst only ries of the gbstacles one had to oqualled by his hunger; place encounter along the sidowalks of dish of poisoned water in the New York streets not many years stable and a greater part of the ago suggest to mo that in this flics hatchod tliore will be killed. respect the vigilance of the The matropolitan polico, on the

Flies are naturo's scavengers, London constable might be init-fulfilling the same function that olhor land, is responsiblo for a district of 700 square miles, en

some Ixictoria do, but becoine an But whit of the more serions intolerable nuisanco and danger together with artificial indigo bracing the whole region within fifteen miles radius of Charing Watches, 289; rugs, 328; opera-

or conductors is thus classified: offices against property and when ontoring human dwellings ($1,400,000), needles($195,386); and recently also malt (about Cross, with the oxcoption of the

The presence of flies is a direct $75,000). The total import of "elly" area aforesaid. It has glasses, 704; sticks, 1,481; je person Take burglary, for ex-and by contamination of food.

welry, 1,til; pursos, 3,123, arti-ple. In an aroa inhabited by jurisdiction on the river The cles of women's clothing 4,315, oppurtunities for some good hauls, ing and of the existence of filth sequence of the crisis, to only It is now pretty certain that

7,510,273 porsons, thoro must be evidence of careloss housekeep- Chinoso goods mounted, in con- and disclrurges incloutally the additional function of profceting 6,199; and miscellanous, 17,351. 650 disent to the protect and are more dangorous than in the procoding your. On the J. B. Rosher, R. W. M. Arbuth espocially as suinany poople-scem in some form about the promisos, $9,100,000, against $13,100,000 all the available Cambridge Blues, uven as deposited 28,002 wore restored to an 27.364 doorsor windows were found in bedrooms. even as far distaat is Davonport Of the total of 15,375 articles thus in of their own property. No less the good housekeeper's terror atlier hand, exports have again not, G. E. Fairbairn, F. E. Hellyer, and Pembrokò. Exeluiling the

increased by about $3,000,000 R. Lo Blano Smith, and R. Davies the owners, and the remainder found open or insecurely fasten- inen who are thus on duty outside,

Remember that wherever to $29,200,000. The interested will row against Oxford again and others who are specially in were returned after three months od. Yet with all this temptation absoluto cleanliness prevails there firms, spouk in a very contented this year. Davies, Hellyer, and gagod by public companies and to the drivers or ponductors who to the predatory class, there were will be no flies. Look after the way in regard to the Tsingtau Rosher occipiell their 1910 Any sort of critical comment at

had brought thom in. private individuals for the pro-

only 409 barglaries. The houe garbage cans. See that they are export trado. For the first time thwarts during last wook at Nos. this stage of preparation would be toction of banks, wharves, ote.), 7 STREET ACCIDENTS. breakings amounted to 1,673. Cleaned, sprinkled with line or several steamers, fully loaded 2, 3, and 6, but Lo Blane Smith idle. Frequent changes must bo the foren now consist of 27 suporin- Soveral interesting detailed How absenteeism contributes to keresono oil, and closely covered. lofi tho port for the European con-was moved from No. 7 to No. 5, expected for a week or so yet: Nor tendents, 538 inspectors, 2,206

those two offences is shown by Remove all manure from stables tinent. Tho-most important ex- where he is doing excellent work. is the president unduly hurrying us before:- Fairbairn is the now No. 7. mattors. The race is in April, not sergeants, and 1,01 consi ibles;,

the fact that 579 of them were every three or four days, and when port articles aro a total of 16,572. The pay of the

committed in housos loft with no removed koop in a tight pit or Straw-braid, $11,100,000; silk, He is in his fifth year, but, as the March, so there is plenty of time whole force of 18,057 amounts ans

ono in charge. And the London vault, so flies cannot bread in it.$5,000,000, and hides, $2,000,-four years' limit qualification does before him. Bitter experience in nually to about 141,600,000, or to 300 (255 in the daytime and burglar, for whatever reason,

Lye, chloride of lime, or blue 000, also tallow, $505,000; egg not apply to wetbobs, his inclu- the last few years has demonstrat eight million dollars (g.) il at night), and the rell of other knows better than to risk the vitriol water, crede carbolic acid, products, $300,000, and coal sion is quite in order. The olded the fact that there is such a CONTROL OF VEHICLES. casualtios to 16,536. The police, increase of his prospective sent or any kind of disinfectant may $750,000. The cattle export to Etonian is already rowing in most thing as overdoing boat race work. The average visitor to London had the duty of taking to the once by adding assault to his bo od.

Manchuria has been maintained, offective stylo.

-"Pall Mall Gazettö.,' -the average rosident; ton, for hospitals 8,541 porsons injured in original fotony." Violonce to the Keep flies away from the kit despite many disturbances. Schools represented by the that matter-thinks of the polico-, necilentsal 4,417 suffering from person was used in only seven chon. Keep flies out of tlio dining-As regards the local effect of above are Chaterhouse, Hymer's man mainly as the walking diree other cansos. They preventell cases of burglary and three of room and away from the sick; to commercial crisis, this was College, Hull, Winchester, and tory who will direct him to a 590 attempted ticides. They housebreaking. It would seem especially from those ill with heightened by opium speculations Eton. C. A. Skinner (the 1910) missing streot, r us the lene found and restored to friends that in those days the novelist contagious diseases.

and the failure of a Chefoo bank; coxswain) hails from Durb volont despot who regulates the j. 11,579 persons who had been lost.. who takes this type of crime for Screen all food. Apply this of the other hand, relief was High School, Natal. He showed

I fear that the doclino of church- traffic at congested corners. It is They attended 2,929 fires, of his subject must depart widely rule not only to food prepared at rendered..by-the-good-crop in marked ability with the lines last Baldom that the gonorul public, which they extinguished 184 from real life if he is to make his home, Int to foodstuffs offered for Shantung and the help given year, and experience gained in going is a matter which will exer- has an opportunity of watching without the aid of the brigado. writing sufficiently sonsational. salo, and especially fruits, salads, by the German-Asiatic Bank at that race has evidently stood him cise the minds of Christians until him chase a largiar over the roof-They stopped 271 runaway! The, most gruesome work that and all other things which do not the Government's instigation. in good stand. The Josus man at last the empty church will bo tops or arrest a disturber of the horses and seized 10,285 dogs. any police force can have to deal require to be cooked.

The crisis may now be regarded is now about Ost., but should as common as a rainstorm, and peace, but his display of authority In such work as this, to say with is, of course, the tracking of I'revent consumptives from ex- na overcome, although some Chi- train down to his normal weight will evoke as little comment, says a contributor to the "Morning over cabanon au chauffeurs is an nothing of the risks ran in cases of murder. If Scotland poctorating where flios can feed nosp firnis muy possibly not heable of 8st, 5lb. (about).

THE RECRUITS." overyday spectacle.

to Hold out. The increasing im-

Loader." No man of long and arresting troublosomo prison Yard wore inefficient in pursuits upon it. At the head office at Scotlanders, the police naturally do not of this kind, one might, advance To clear rooms of flios carbolic portance of Tsingtau as a trading The 1910 recruits so far aro

extended experience has any doubt Yard, one of the busiest bureaus themselves come off unscathed. in its behalf the plea that it has acid may be used as follows: Heat place is testified to by the increase S. L. Swann (Trinity Hall), win-as to the cause. It is, to put it is that which deals with the. During the year there were no less comparatively little opportunity a shovel or any similar article and in shipping. Spacial attention is nor of the "Colquhouns," O. brutally, the absolute contradic "public carriagos" of London. thm3,310 cases of injury received of practice. Last your hero wore drop thereon twenty drops of car- drawn in the report to the fact Burnand (First Trinity), and L. S. tion between the profession and The report of this burem would while on duty. Of these 2,200 reported within the metropolitan bolic acid. The vapour kills the that the mail stoumors of the Lloyd (Third Trinity). Swann is the practico of Christians. bo conclusive proof of the wore assults by prisoners. area only nineteen cases of the flies.

North Gorman Lloyd now call at bow, Burnand at No. 4, and capture.. of the metropolis' Among the remaining items are: murder of persons above one year A cheap and perfectly reliable glonthly, on their outward and Lloyd ia setting this work. Neither by the automobile, even if Assaulted by persons, not appre-of age. (This return is presum-fly poison, one which is not homeward voyage. Coastal ship of the two first-named are likely one's eyes and ears--and nos-hended, 51 bitten by dogs, 102; ably based on the verdicts of dangerous to human life, is ping suffered during the your to be dropped-on latest form. trils did not find sullicient assisting at fires, 23; stopping coroners' inquests, so that an albichromate of potash in solution. owing to the crisis. The number The old Rugbeinn should develop evidences of it otherwise. Durrunaway horses, 44; assisting with lowance would have to be made Dissolvo one dram, which can of steamers has risen from into one of the best bows of recent was walking with him in his ing 1909 thero were ficonsod fallen or restive horses, 21; when for a certain number of disap-be bought at any drugstore, in 511 to 50S, or an increase of years. Ho evidently inherits the cloister-open then, and I believe 1,711 now calis. Of theso only dispersing disorderly crowds, 17; pearances.) In six casos out of two ounces of water, and add a 67 whilst the tonnage rose by rowing ability of his father, the still, to the public when he was sovon were hansons-ala for the while riding bicycles, 135; and the nineteen the murderers little sugar. Put some of this 136,074 to 806,759, Othor signs famous Blue of 18835. Burnand approached by a poor woman departed glory of the "gondolu by falling down or slipping in the anticipated the course of just solution in shallow dishes, and of the increasing commercial im- hails from Downside, and has for assistanco. His answer of London and forty-one were streets or when examining pre- ice by committing suicide. In distribute them about the house, portance of Tsingtau uro the in- done splendid. work both on the was not a single word, but four-whcolors drawn by horses. misos, 379.

cloron cases out of thro- Sticky fly paper, traps, and cruises in the bank-note circula-Cam and at Henley. A better nurla real, inarticulata All the rest were motor-cabs. The sick list and sick leave maining thirtoon, arrests were liquid poisons are among the tion of the German-Asiatic Bank successor to C. P. Cooke (the snarl. In less than two seconds Licenses woto issued for seven returns show that the daily average made. In one case of the two things to uso in killing flies, and in the Chinese customs Australian) at No. 4 would be he was greeted by a marquis, a toon new motor, omnibuses and loss on the entire force through that have not been traced, there but the Intest, chonpest and venue, At the close of the year difficult to find

member of the old Florentine 241 now mechanical tramway sickness is 2.80 per cent. The was reason to believe that the in-host is a solution of formalin or notes nouating to 075,861 Up to the, prosent Arbuthnot, nobility, more notorious for his cars but not for a single now removals during the year were as jurios that caused death word self-formaldehyde in water. Aspoon wore in circulation, against lins contented himself with soull wealth and looseness of life than horso 'bus or torso car. Further, follows: Retired with a pension, inflicted, although a verdict of ful of this liquid put into a $803,655 in the previous twelve ing exerciso. Ho rowed how v. for his devotion to Holy Church. more than 2,000 horse-drawn 584; retired with a gratuity, 49; wilful murder against some per quarter of a pint of water and months. The Chinese customs Oxford in 1908-10, but is pro- The difference of the reception cabs, busts and cars have drop resigned through ill-health with-son unknown was returned at the exposed in the room will be rovonio increased from Hk. Tis eminently a stroke-as demons was a wonderful thing to sen pad off the license list during the out title to-pension-or-gratuity, inquest Thirteen possons-arrest- enough to kill all the flies. 1,000,278 to $1,193,021. The strated anew in the Trial Eights The effect has lasted me ever year, being apparently unable to 15; resigned voluntarily, 109 od in the eleven above mentioned To quickly clear the room where position of Tsingtau's trade com-race before Christians. He is to since. stand the competition of the new pormitted to resign, 51; dismissed cuyos wero tried during 1900, in there are many flies burn pyre-pared with that of Chefoo is not the work directly serious work fashioned vehicles. Thorpedos for misconduct, 25; died, 42; addition to one prisoner whose thrum powder in the room. This how in the proportion of about bogins, o, when the crow trian who complains of the noiso making a porcentage of 4.69 ro- case was pending at the end of the stupofies the flies, when they may tires to two. The number of Chi- migrates to Ely about February The following will represent of the motor 'busts has, at least, movals to, the strength of the previous year. Of these fourteen, bo swept up and burned, nose landowners has, despite the 11.". Nor will his so doing at all the Hongkong Football Club'in the consolation that things might whole force.

soven wero convictod and sont- If there are flies in the dining-crisis, again risen in the past year upset the rhythm of the oight. their Shield match with tho Naval have baon worso, hnd not Scotland Of the 18,657 mon, now on enced to death, four were found room of your hotel, restaurant, or by 28 (254 against 220). The He find Lloyd have both, beon Yard to-day Kow; Hamilten Yard hoon so vigilant. Of 01 the fores, including those em to bo insane at the time of the boarding-house, complain to the regular revenue of the Kino-show coached from this first on strictly and McCubbins Moon Barlow motor 'busos prosented for license ployed for special purposes, commission of the offence, and proprietor that the promises oro territory rose in the year from Etonian lines; hence their style and Wilkie; Aitcheson, Hedley Jast year, only 18 paused the tests 5,748 have served for Afteen one on arraignment (and were not olgan.

m2,300,000 to m.4,190,005, and methods are practically simi Brown, Goldenberg and Rober

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I remember long years ago, when I used to live in Florence, receiving a great shock from an occlesiastical dignitury, a cele- brated prior and titular abbot. I

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