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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1913.
THE CAFE ANGLAIS.
Ar awkward occurrence; for FAR EASTERN NAVAL SQUADRONS.
Name
Kent
ewcastle
HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S SHIPS ON THE CHINA STATION.
Surveying ship. 1st class cruiser 1st class cruiser River gunboat 2nd class cruiser
River gunboat Torpedo-boat Torpedo-coat destroyer
Master W. West
900 Lt.-Com. B. E. Prichard
900 Lt,-Com, W, H. Darwell'
1,400 Comdr. H. Williams Shanghai
Yangleze Hongkong
Hongkong Hongkong
7,000 Capt. C. F. Corbett M.V.O.. Shanghai 4,000 Lt Com. F. G. Brickenden West River 3,900 Lt. Com. Boddam Whetham Hongkong 22,000 Capt. Allen T. Hunt 0.8.I. Hongkong
1,200 Lt-Com, H: Marryatt
Capt. F. C. C. Pasco
27,000 Capt. G. O. Gayley,
22,000 Copt. B.H.F. Barttelot.
... Hongkong
800 Lt.-Oom. Alan Dixon 22,000 Capt. FrederickA.Powlott Hongkong
240 Lt-Comdr. M. Murray Yangtze 8,300 Lt.-Com.E.T.R. Chambers Canton 7,500 I-Com. E.J.G.Mackinnon Hongkong
240 Lt.-Comdr. Nash
West River 1,400 Lt-Comdr. N.E. Archdale Hongkong
240 Lt-Com. I. S. Hutton
Class Despatch-boat
Tons Guns I.H.P.
Commander
1,700 12
2,000 Comdr, C. L. Lambe,
Admiralty tug
!
Reported at Hongkong Hongkong
Gunboat
Gunboat
British sloop
Water tank and tug
710 2 710 1,070 300
Yangteze
2 6
Yongtsze
300 Master H. Smith ·
Hongkong
British sloop
1,070 6 360 6 Torpedo-boat destroyer 2nd class cruiser 4,350 10 6 Torpedo boat destroyer 295
280 8 Torpedo-boat destroyer 1st class cruiser 9,000 14 616 4 River gunboat
1,400 Comdr. Mackenzie, D.S.O. Hongkong 6,700 Lt.-Com, Wilkinson
Hongkong
1,040 14,000 0,800
180 2 4,800 12 85 2 385 6 590
River gunboat
.85 2.
Depotship for Submarines 980
River gunboat
.85 2
Hongkong
River gunboat
85 - 2
240 Lt-Com. Maurice Leslie
Yongtaze
Torpedo boat destroyer
350
6,000
Gunner' W. H. Ryder
Hongkong
Receiving ship
4,650
6
Com. R. H. Anstruther C.M.G Hongkong
180 2
800 Lt.-C. Hon. Guy Stopford
Yangtaze
710 2
900 Lt.-C. H.R.N. Cotrell Dormer Yangtze
Torpedo-bost destroyer
500
7,500 Lt.-Comdr. Maxwell
Canton
Torpedo-boat destroyer
355
Torpedo-boat destroyer
500
7,500 Com. Seymour
6
5,900
Com. R. Neville
Hongkong Hongkong
Gunboat
195 2
Gunboat
Woodlark *
Gunboat
150 2 150 2
0.36,
0.37,
0.38,
1.
T.B. 035,
T.B. 036,
T.B. 037,
T.B. 038,
King Edward and King Leopold (as a result of the latter's harsh As I am neither a worldling nor a gourmet, I can bear the treatment of his daughters, also of sinister Congo revelations) passing of the Cafe Anglaia with
were not on speaking terms at tolerable equanimity. Not so that period. It was a case, however, my confrores in the therefore, of the two Sover French Press-who have been signs averting their eyes," of Alacrity writing columns and columns not "seeing" one another for Atlas
Bramble about the famous boulevard re- jan kour or more: and most sus-
Britomart etaurant that opened its doors in cessfully, most admirably did their
Cadmus the year 1802, and now closes Majesties accomplish that delicate
Cherub them, after a century of elegant feat. King Leopold left the re
Clio prosperity. "Tho end of an staurant Girst-only to find him epoch!" exclaims one of my Paris
self seated, half-an-hour later, in Fame confreres. "Also, a sign of the a stall at the Varietes Theatre Flora timen." In other words, supreme immediately below the stage-box Handy elegance and extravagance have
Occupied by King Edward, More Janus had their day, and the worldings averting of eyes." More-- of 1013 like to dine in great glit-
Bat I have strayed out on to Kinsha tering places, to the accompani- the boulevards, whereas I should Merlin ment of tzigane bands and even be recording the last scenes Minotaur in_proximity to the frenzied in the historic career of the Monmoutb movement of a bejewelled Spanish Cafe Anglais. On the eve of its Moorben danseuse. Not that the Cafe closure, and because of its Auglais. was a subdued as it passing, it is being visited by Nightingale looked. Low ceilings, solemn modern worldings and inevi- Otter waiters, restful corners, never tably by millionaire tourists from Ribblo an orchestra; bat extravagant New York and Chicago. Already Robin feasts took place in the private the 90-frane Burgundy and the Rosario and public roome on the first floor, 1848 Liqueur Brandy (reported to Sandpiper often in the presence of Kings, have been reoured by one of the Snipe Grand Dukes, Ambassadors, late
Mr. Pierpont Morgan's Taku Europe's very choicest elite.
Yet, with all its faults, the Cafe agents at £12 a bottle) have dis- Tamar
appeared from the cellars." And Teal Anglais was never vulgar. At no the tables and chairs used by Thistle time was it the scene of the flashy, Crowned Heads and by Europe's Usk delirious revelry that characterises very choiceat elite-they, too, Virago the modern night restaurants of have found purchasers. And the Welland Montmartre. "Discretion," might
"Torpedo-boat destroyer 360 very spoons and the forks, and Whiting have been its motto. No secrets the plates and silver dishes that Widgeon escaped from it: not an observa- have fed the Royal and the Noble Woodcock tion was repeated outside by its and the atherwise Illustrious impecable staff. One might they also are being snapped up as arrange a duel, or fall ill, or thrilling, precious souvenirs. And (if an habitue) obtain almost unlimited credit without the 50, for the first and only time in one hundred and eleven years, boulevarde and the Press being there's a noise and a bustle in the any the wiser. But, tout pass, centenarian Cafe Auglais: and tout casse, tout lasse.. Maxim's dust and straw in that once- Ciro's, the Cafe de Paris, the Blimpeccable restaurant-and Tabarin are now the favourite shrill-voiced street-boys, the pleasure resorts of Europe's elite, Gavroches of Faris, irreverently Dizzy kinematograph shows have cry "On ferme, on ferme" BS come to the Boulevard des they pass down the boulevards; Kaiser Franz Italiens: and motor, omnibuess and husky-voiced, vagabond and ragtime—and away goes the singers appear topically and centenarian Cafe Anglais, to be appropriately on the pavement supereadied by an up-to-date
MICHAEL & CO.,
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OLD POST OFFICE. BUILDING,
(OPPOSITE HONGKONG HOTEL). PEDDER ST.,
S.. L. JOSEPH,
MANAGER.
Studebaker
LAW & SONS.
bank.
Burgundy.
River gunboat
Gunboat
6,300 Lt.-Com. H. D. Adair-Hall Hongkong
800 L-Comdr. J. C. Borrett Upper Yangiars 500 Lt-Com. M. B. Blackwood Yangtze 500 Lt.-Comdr. Lloyd
Shanghai
Lt-Com, Godfrey Herbert Hongkong, Lt.-Com. A. A. L. Fenner. Hongkong.
Lt.-Com. J. R. A.Codrington Hongkong.
Lt.-Com. Handley
Weat River.
Lt.-Com. Stileman'
Lt-Com. Nicol,
Hongkong. Hongkong.
Lt.-Com. H. W. Seymour, Hongkong.
*Flagship of Admiral Sir A. L. Winsloe, K.C.B., C.V.O., O.M.G. Commander-in-Chief.
FOREIGN MEN-OF-WAR ON THE CHINA AND JAPAN STATION.
JosephI Armoured cruiser
with the old, old sentimental song. Duplaix **
"Il etait une faie "-"Once Kleber upon a time."-John Macdonald Lecidee
My own experiences of the resin the "Daily News and Leader. Argus taprant have necessarily been
Boanty. No prices on the menu. It
Vigilante
Peiho
Armoured oruiser Armoured cruiser Gunboat River gunboat Gunboat Gunboat
4,000 45 8,000 Capt. Houta
French.
10,014 30 20,000 Capt. Vargos 9,700 12 19,600 Capt. Gourta
Shanghai
Shanghai Hongkong Saigon Canton
Canton
Tongka
1
645. 10 1,000 Lieut. Vandier 180 8 570" Lieut. Dordet 123 7. 500 Lieut. de Jervillier 130
Lieut. Collin Lient. Dupuy Dutemps Tehong-kin Commander-in-Chief, the French Chins Station.
Lieut. Boluix
Saigon
**Flagship of Rear-Admiral Colloch de Kerillis,
Flagship of Commodore Boucicant, Commanding the local defence Indo,ina,
was Baid with what truth, I do DOCTOR'S BAD WRITING. Dondard de Lagree, Gunboat not know that customers were judged by appearances; and
A story recently appeared in Lynx charged accordingly. Occasional
Paris which will probably interest Protes customers, I mean; for the habi- tues the tariff never varied. At all those who have tried to decipher Styx events, prices fluctuated. On Mon- doctors' hand writing, both on Fronde day, six france for a soup, but bills and prescriptions. It con- d'Iberville
cerns a gentleman who had suf- Pistolet on Thursday behold the same kind of potage jumped up to eight fored from chronic gout for a Monsquet franca fifty-and a further in- long time. Eventually he found Manche crease in the charge for the sole a doctor who appeared to under- au vin blanc, and finally, a total stand the case so well that he most alarming. Also it came to expected a cure. The patient in pass that certain items on the the excess of his gratitude wrote Emden
to the medico making him to din- Gneisenau bill were illegible-five or ton francs for something, but impos-nor. In due course the reply Iltis
came, but in such indecipherable Jaguar sible to discover what. However, handwriting that the recipient Leipzig no one murmured: just a glance could not make head or tail of it. Lucha at the bill, and out with bank was the doctor coming or was Naraburg notes and a pourboire in gold.
Otter he not? SPECIALITY. Only the wine-list bore prices,
The housekeeper, used to the Scharnhorst remained stationary. I remem-
doubtful caligraphy of trades-9.90 The Diesel Motor Co. Ltd. of Stockholm, supplies ber a Burgundy at 90 francs a
men's bills, was called in to Taku Stationary Diesel." POLAR" Motors from 25 to 1900 B.H.P. bottle-ordered for me by an ex- for Electric Power & Lighting Stations, Workshops, Pumps travagant friend. It took two aasist, but could make nothing Tiger
waiters to produce it, in its cradle, of the letter. She had a bright Tsingtan
go into Vaterland Direct Reversible Marine." POLAR " Motors from 60 to 2000 on a shining silver tray. After idea, however, I must
and I roy friend had daly inspected the Paris to-day," she said, bottle (dusty and cobwebby, but will take the letter to a chemist, Calabria not excessively so) away went the who will be used to doctors' writ
ing."
The idea was adopted, Bargundy in charge of the two
No. 3 Duddell Street.
DIESEL MOTORS
Mlils, etc.
A
BH.P., both high-speed and slow-speed types.
Cheap Quality Oil Fuels Used.
Sole Agents.
1st Class References & Testimonials. Pices & Particulars. Also Complete Estimates from
ARTHUR NILSSON & CO., water to be decanted. Back and the housekeeper took it to a "Can you make this out,
General Agents For China,
chemist.
(after a long interval) it came on à smaller silver tray-but always waiters; and up stopped the dis- cary. creet, solemn maitre-d'hotel to.
FILIPINO BARBER SHOP. in the dareful custody of two please?" she asked the apothe
Submarine
Submarine
Saigon
Armoured gunboat
Destroyer
350 7-
1,798 101,700 Lieut. Guillaume-Louis Saigon
303 Lieut. Aurillac
Saigon
Destroyer
Destroyer
130 7
Capt. de Frigate Ronisen. Hongkong 300 Comdr. de Marquessas Baigon
Destroyer
307 8
Surveying-ship
300 1,625 10 9,000 Com. Voisin
Saigon
Saigon
*
Cruiser
Armoured cruiser Gunboat Gunboat
Cruiser Gunboat Cruiser River gunbost Flagship Torpedo-boat -Torpedo-boat
Gunboat River ganbost River gunboat
Italian cruiser
German, 3,600 22 18,500 11,800 36 28,000 900 12 1,300 900 12. 1,300 3,250 24 11,000 900 10 1,350 3,400 22 13,200 11,800 36 26,000
Comdr. Bendemann
Capt. Lient. Firle
Capt. v. Restorff Captain Brnninghaus Comdr. v. Gohren Comdr. Vangelow Capt. Behnoke
Capt. Morsberger Capt. Rosing
Swatow
Tsingtau
Shanghai
Tsingtan
Tsingtan
Tsingtau
Tsingtan
Yangiszo
Shanghai
400 8. 6,500
Capt. Lt. Berrenberg
Tsingtan
223
280 4 900 10 4
6,000
Oblt. z. 8. Claassen
Tsingtau
1,350
Comdr. Bocker
Taingtau
1,300
Capt. Lt. Frhr.Speth v. Schulzburg Canton
223 4
500 Oblt, z. B. Prinz
Shanghai
2,145
Com. Sommi Picenardi Shanghai
Portuguese,
Adamastor Macao Patria
Cruiser
Gunboat
1,757
700
Capt. Anibal de 8. D Capt. Martins
Dias
Масво
►
Maceo
Capt. Jose de Carvalho Crato Macao
Ensign J. McC. Murray
Cavite
Lieut. E. D. MoWhorter
Ensign J. O. Van de Carr
Ensign O. M. Yates
3,430 10
7,500 Commander M. L. Bristol
Cruising
420
7.
8,000 Ensiga H. M. Jones
Cavite
420
7
8,000 Lieut. R. Bl
243 8
Canton
Cavite
Cruising
A-4
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and intently looking on. Then with a package in white 7 he bowed and withdrew. More paper, which he handed over Albany bows from the two waiters, and the counter. "That will be 58. Bainbridge their own softfooted retirement. 6d., please, with the bottle," he Barry And then-and at last-our slow, said, politely.
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frano Bargundy, Yes: very slow and very stately and very solemn was the "service" at the aristo- cratic Cafe Anglais,
Callao
Gunboat.
UNITED STATES VESSELS ATTACHED TO ASIATIC STATION.
Submarino
Protected cruiser Torpedo-boat des. Torpedo-boat des, Gunboat Torpedo-boat destroyer Protected cruiser Torpedo-boat destroyar Torpedo-boat destroyer Gunboat Gunboat
The housekeeper, it is said, Chauncey regarded him silently for a Cincinnati moment, and then fainted away. Dale She received medical attention Decatur. in the presence of a large crowd,
Elcano who suspected a motor-bus Helana acoident.
Station ship Mohican . Monadnock Monitor"
Chinese Chamber of Cem- merce In Sydney.
250 Ensign W.L. Heiberg 420 7 8,000 Lieut, F. J. Fletcher 3,183 1110,000 Com. S. 8. Robinson
420 7 8,000 Lieut. C. A. Woodruff 420 7 8,000 Lient. B. E. Green
800 Lt. Com. V. S. Gannon
Cavite
Cavite
0207 4 1,392
'8
1,000
.6
Monitor Gunboat Sen going-tug
3,990 в 4,084 4 243 8
1,988. Com. G. R. Marvell 1,100 Lieut. R. V. Lowe 3,000 Lieut, E. P. Svarz
Shanghai Shanghai.. Osvite Olongapo
5,277 Com. J. V. Chase
854
2
1,600 Lieut. 8. W. Wallace
Canton
Repair ship Gunboat Orpiɛsr Gunboat
3502
3,085 208 Lient. J. J. Hannigen
Cavits
Shanghai
243 8
250 Lieut. G. O Dichananl 8,115 14 17,401 Commander H. A. Wiey
370 9 208 Lieut, E. Durr $1,302 8
1,894 Commander J. F. Habbard Hongkong 462
Shanghai
Swatow
Shanghai
Lieut. B. B. Taylor
Lieut. W, O. Wallace
4,360 14 1,800 Lt. Com. D. W. Wurtzbaugh Swntow
Last Scenes. Only once have I known Jules, discreetest of maitres-d'hotel, to
Monterey be communicative. "That table
Pampanga over there," he announced, some five years go; ́" that tablo in the The Sydney Chinese have re- Piscataqua corner is reserved for King Ed-cently celebrated the establish- Pompey ward Soarcely had he spoken ment of their Chamber of Com-Qairee than the late King, the Marquis merce by a banquet. Their Con- Rainbow de Breteuil,and Detaille, the great gul-General presided, and many Samár⠀|| military painter, entered the European and Australian mer- Saratoga** Cruiser restaurant; and no sooner had chants were amongst the guests. Villalobos Gunboat they seated themselves than the The toast of the Chinese Republio Wilmington Gunboat Late King of the Belgians was drank, and there was much Womparuok Tug and a friend. took posses talk of exporting wool and corn US.S. Saratoga Flagship Rear Admiral R. 7. Nicholson, Commander-in-Chief, United Skas iatio Fleet, temporarily sion of a table almost opposite, to China,
600 Chief B'awain. P. E. Radcliffe Olongapo
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