1918-12-31 — Page 4

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NOTES AND

CHAIR COOLIES,

Some of the replies given by the Colonial Secretary to the Hon. Mr. & H. Dodwell's questions at the Council meeting, yesterday, anent the local ricksha service, go to show how very much out of touch

SCOTCH WHISKY. the Government is with the

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TUESDA

DAY

FERRIES TO KOWLOON

WES

RING OUT OLD SHAPES OF FOUL· DISEASE,

RING OUT THE NARROWING LUST or GOLD;

RING OUT THE THOUSAND WARS OF

OLD,

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BING IN, THE THOUSAND YEARS OF PEACE

To-morrow's Anniversary. To-morrow is the third anniversary of the torpedoing of B.M.S. Formidable.

The Dollar.

The opening rate of the dollar demand today was 38 4-7

No Issue. To-morrow, being New Year's Day, there will be no issue of the Telegraphe བྷཱུར

true situation. For instance, one of the statements was that the scarcity of chairs on wet days was due to coolies being worn out by incessant work etc. This is a very naive way of putting it. If the coolies are worn out by over-on work, it follows that their pockets 168. have become equally overburden- ed by the heavy receipts. As a matter of fact, the coolies do not knock off work on wet days be- cause they are tired; they lay back because they have made sufficient moner to enable them to do so. On a wet day, at about goon, chairs are hard to get, un less one is willing to pay a price which amounts almost to blackmail. If the necessary tempt- ation is forthcoming, plenty of We have received from the coolies can be found and none of them show signs of over-fatigue. N. Y. K. and OS. K. Offices On the contrary, they are partic-pretty wall calendars. They are ularly energetic and get the job beautifully coloured and are in over as soon as possible to gain typical Japanese design. the quicker the rich reward.

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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1918.

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THE DYING YEAR.

Annual Dance.

The Royal Naval Quadrille Club is holding its annual New Year dance to-night. It will begin at 8.30 and last till2 ani. Calendars

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THENEW PEOPLE'S FERR

On New Year's Day an entire fly new service of ferries will be inaugurated between the City of Victoria and the west side of the Kewloon peninsula. This is the first series of ferries under the Ferries Ordinance, 1917, by which the Government secured control of these communications with a view to securing the safety and convenienre of the public, and improving the speed and regularity of the services. Three distinct ferries will be rak sa] follows:-

(1) To and from Jubilee Street Pier Central Market) to Public Square Street Yaumsti, every 15 minutes from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. and every 20 minutes from 9 pan to midnight.

(2). To and from the New Western Market Pier (Morrison Street) to Shantung Street Mongkoktsui, every 15 minutes from 5 am to 9 pm, and. every 20 minutes from 9 p.m.

11.p.m.

(3). To and from Eastern Street Pier. (West Point) to Samsuipo every 30 minutes! from 5 3.m. to 10 p.m. paying the coolies, it must be The engagement is announced

The Government provides and admitted there are some who are between Miss Charlotte: Wahr not over generous, but, on the and Mr. Willem van Peruis, Jr.maintains the piers, and the Kau other hand, those who over-The marriage will take place on Leung Sze Yeuk Kai Fong Ferry pay their bearers are so much in the 16th January."

Co., Ltd., whose tender was ac the majority that in the long run

Rifle Meeting Score. cepted, have prepared twelve thechair coolie is well on the right side. It is difficult to understand In the H. K. Defence Corps large launches for the service. how in the present circumstances. Rifle Championship, the second anybody can hold that the matter place was secured by Cpl. J. A. lies largely in the shande, of the yon, with a score of 88 and the public, and better reasons than these given in the Legislative third place by Sgt. S. E., Green, Council yesterday, by the Govern- with a total of 87. ment, must be forthcoming before frequent users of chairs are to be convinced they are to blame for the present unsatisfactory state of affairs.

OUR RICKSHA SERVICE.

Passing from chairs to rick- shes; another statement by the Colonial Secretary causes one to wonder whether officials are in the habit of weighing their words

out of Hongkong in recent years

East we have not the faintest

Each launch is required to be over 70 feet long, to pass a speed test of 974 knots and to be fitted beads and grille to the satisfac with a navigation bridge, bulk- tion of the Harbour Master.

an

upper

deck

for

The launches are painted grey

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MODERN MODES.

AN EFFECTIVE O ESS OF BLACK VELVETE EMBROIDERED

BLACK AND OLD GOLD””

"DESIGNS OF THE MOMENT BY

*SACHA "

Our illustration above shows a very smart combination of black velvet and old gold. The dress

which has the popular tunic is carried out in velvet and has applied bands of braiding in old gold and black. The blouse is fashioned of satin in a soft. shade

of tan almost matching the old

WITH-

Another very simple dress made of light grey silk Jersey has a high neck, stand-up collarblouse, which buttons right down the front and comes over into a little peplum effect at the sides. The sleeves are long and tight. The overskirt falls from the peplum pieces on both sides, and there i

sash tied in back. Large but

the front of the bodice are the tons on the slit-open cuffs and on only cramentation.

There noticeably are three

prominent and give a little variety

silhouettes this season which are of course one is the straight u and down line with no widenin

Telegraphic Addresses.

All the launches have been From January 1, 1919, an thoroughly tested by the Govern abbreviated telegraphic address ment Marine Surveyor, and most of may be registered for those firms them are considerably in excess in Hongkong that do not already of Government requirements in possess a registered address. size and speed. Each launch Registered addresses are not has allowed as the signature of first class passengers for whom also the bow space is reserved. telegrams.

The second class accommodation The Colony's Health.

is under the bridge and the rest before answering questions. We During last week there were of the launch is available for have no quibble with Mr. Fletcher notified five non-fatal cases of third class passengers. when he says there has been an spotted fever, four "fatal ec improvement in rickahas during currences of enteric, one fatal with yellow funnels bearing a gold braid, and is carelessly the past ten years, for we remex-case of plague and one non-fatal arge $, and carry the design of caught at the front by an ora- ber the iron-tyred vehicles which case of diphtheria All the a flying ship ou, their Bag. The anent and two long ends of braid bave passed outofuse in thatperiod. sufferers were Chinese. Since largest launch "Fee Wan" The models for Paris shown in fout at the shoulders. In another But how anyone who has moved then, one fatal case of diphtheria (Flying Cloud is the flagship of the autumn openings have turned the wide capes and the contees

fur worn overs narrow skirt resul be fleet; she is 90 feet long and many women to the consideration in a silhouette widened out as th can say that the existing service (Chinese) has been notified.

will be employed on the run to of velvet and satin not merely top, particularly if a wide brim "compares favourably with the The Poor Box Replenished. service in any other place, in the If Hongkong was to trust Yaumati.

as a fad, but seriously as a med hat forms part of the picture

Costa are seen quite as Punctuality of service is secur- We have come to the end of the most eventful year in the idea. What about Shanghai and wholly to Mr. J. R. Wood to fill

poor launches are kept in reserve in so very slight was the proportion another shaped silhouette, "fo they are of the latest mode, wide retors of the world, a year in which we have experienced the Singapore? There the public is the Poor Box, it would apparently ed by heavy penalties and two substitute for heavier materially as suits and there frequent greatest sorrows and the greatest joys, a year out of which we have served with pneumatic-tyred rick-be a black day for the

needy. A Chinese case of accidents. Altogether the of all wool shown..

Velvet dresses are particularly just at the hip than above o

below. emerged gloriously triumphant and proud in the knowledge that our shas which are comfort itself, and and

the former good looking, and although not great efforts have been crowned with success. The year 1918, will compared with which the Hong-gambler when arrested by the service promises to be a vast

Many costumes are distinguish always remain in the annals of history as the year in which was kong vehicles are of a prehistoria Police in Haiphong Road for improvement

quite as practical as serge in re-ed by some sort of embroider decided once and for all whether the nations of the world were to type. Even at Macao, the rick- gambling had 11. cents on his haphazard arrangement.

As its name (the Kowloon Four gard to wear, are quite as warm which reflects the Orient, althoug The very charitable be free, or whether they were to be ground under the heel of Prussian sha service can give Hongkong person.

Gold apparently is to be themost it may be anywhere from Japa autocracy. Four years of war have taught us the greatness of the many points. The Colonial thought flashed through Mr. Districts People's Ferry Co.) cause for which we have been fighting: four years of German fright Secretary suggests that any im-Wood's mind, Oh, the Poor implies, the capital is held by important colour note, and every to Egypt.

Turban shaped hats are popula fulness have made us concentrate all our energies to ensure the provement in the type of ricksha salvation of the world; that is the object that was at stake, and the might lead to an increase in fares Box." He ordered the 11 cents the people of Kowloon West, sort of gold cloth is being exploit-

rather for the convenience and that it is something in which the by such constant repetition To great menace of German domination has been dispelled for ever. which would not be popular with to be paid into the Poor Box. whose aim it is to run the ferries ed, as the makers plainly state but the very small shepes has The last four years have been like a nightmare. Civilisation. and the public. But past improve- Hear, hear!

development of their districts public will have to be educated some of their smartness and mus led to 201 progress have been at a stand-still: it seemed as if humanity had ments have not

The Beginning of Strife.

than for the sake of earning before they will be willing to wear be particularly different in orde

whole frocks of this fabric.

to look well. Satin, velvet az "A soft answer turneth away dividends. gone back to the barbarous ages when Sghting and cruelty and increase in fares: why, therefore, destruction were the order of the day. International trade and should we expect the future to be wrath, but grievous words stir

The Yaumati Ferry will pro

Although all the brilliant beaver are among the mo commerce almost perished: only the ceaseless vigil of our great otherwise? In any event, if any Navy kept it alive, and made possible its continuance in the face of advance in fares were sanctioned, up anger. Two ricksha coolies vide an alternative route from materials are shown, what are popular materials, and the

of velvet.

dull blue, grey, taupe and brow a ruthless submarine warfare, which has accounted for thousands the public would have the remedy considered themselves wiser than the City to King's Park and its being actually worn are the frocks assume soft, dark tones, such

The majority of blouses th it its own hands by merely adher Solomon and ignored his advice. surroundings, and across King's

Callot used black velvet for of the great ships of the world.

As The result was that they paid Park to Hunghom; the Mongkok Industry had stopped except in as far as it was necessary to ing to the official tariff.

R. Ferry affords the and

with embroidery or beads, always distinction, There is a mark fact that the great nations of the world were at each others' throats, rather than the exception to pay Wood, $5 each. It appears quickest route to Yaumati Station models and combined it either smaller details. for their claims filled with a lust to kill and destroy all the teachings of an double the legal fares. That fact that

two and its environs and also to the using her new chemise dress as a preference for the narrow ploc

ruffles on collars and cutr money Taipo and Kowloon Roads. foundation.. advanced civilisation were lost sight of, on the part of at least one alone justifies the demand that owed

outline yoker, and often tamat of the beiligerents, in an overwhelming desire for death and blood-the Government should insist on and when the creditor demanded. Those who travel by the Sam-

The maz popular dresses are tucks, for this is a form of - shed and cruelty. It was a terrible sight to see the flower of our a better type of rickaha being it the debtor told him to go to ipo Ferry will find themselves neither very full nor narrowming which is always effecti manhood hourly dying, and once flourishing and peaceful countries placed at the disposal of the long, whereapon the two be handed within a few minutes neither tightly waisted nor baggily and generally becoming. utterly despoiled. But the glorious end is worthy of all our efforts suffering public.

Jaboured each other and in spite reach of the Laichikok and Taipo waistless. They are medium and present version of the tailo of the remonstrations (vide a Roads, and the charming foot-temperate. There is little decora blouse is very sm Chinese constable's evidence) of hills of the Western Kowloon tion, but what there is is truly the rapidly increasing

decorative and in good barmony of uniformed wat

black satin the Police, the persisted in having range.

Bre perhaps their full.

The fares, which are as low as For instance, a A Bed of Thorns. . possible in these days of dear waistcoat embroidered with silver the extensive showing of thread worn with a blue velvet of this type in the shope. overhauling The present scale, The life of a keeper of dogs is coal, are as follows:-

frock. The waistcoat is cut square lare developed in many To-morrow, the first day of 1919, ushers in a year, which, like whether adequate or inadequate, not always a couch of roses; it is CENTRAL YARKET TO JAUMATI. and low at the neck and comes materials, ranging from the one which we have just passed through, is pregnant with great is never observed. It has become!

10 cents. down about the hips, wrinkling wash fabrics, such as line things, for it is the first year, of the building up of a new and the custom to pay more than the sometimes a bed of thoms. Keep 1st class.

*****5 cents. slightly at the waistline. The madras, to Crepe de Chine better world. All the initial steps in this stupendous work must be prescribed rates, especially in dogs only when you are prepar- 2nd class

3 cents. bodice is perfectly plain, with a satin. However, the favor taken in 1919, and there can be no shadow of doubt that the future regard to rickshas, and the resalted to pay Mr. J. R. Wood an 3rd class daylight

afier 6 p.m.

cents collar rather high and rolling at silk is undoubtedly silk depends too great extent on these first beginnings. What a field of is that if anyone makes a point occasional visit in his Court. A

on the waistcoat, the underskirting it, such as ra possibility lies open before us, and if the great and noble energies of abiding by the official scale, well-to-do Chinese is wiser to WESTERN MARKET TO MONOKOKISU the back. The overskirt is shirred and the various weave which we have shown in the war, are given unreservedly to this he is a "marked man" for ever day than he was a week before, AND EASTERN STREET (WEST

is plain. This waistcoat has the

pussy willow, and new task, we will have nothing to fear. We in Hongkong have by coolies who show their disinfor, besides having to pay for the

POINT) SAMSUIPO.

Blin lines of a slip-on sweater. been more fortunate than many, and the new era finds us in a very clination to accept hit as a fare. dog's "chow" he has now to 1st class happy and prosperous condition. We are firstly and foremostly a For instance, there is no such give the Government $5 for 2nd clase commerical community, and it is commercially that great things thing, legally, as a ten cent fare can be done under the new conditions. Already the effect of the in Kowloon, but the man who indulging in this hobby It 3rd class daylight 4 cents

after 6 p.m..... 5 cents cater for all classes of the Wong Tai

Hung: 9,Eb lightening of shipping restrictions is being felt, in a few months the naturally objects to paying fifteen appears that our friend's dog was organisation of shipping must make a tremendous difference in the courty object ride and therefore found in the streets without a Police and postmen on duty, community

This, enterprise is entirely. It is to commercial activities of the Colony. We have much to be proud offers the prescribed five cents for number on his collar. Sergeant soldiers in uniform and children of during the past year, for in many ways we have done our bit. quarter of an hour or less, can Aris said that a certain gentle will be carried at kalf price on Chinese in capital and manage emment We have given our brothers and husbands and friends to fight for reckon

mant the Board of Directors being and remo on having a rather man, Mr. Stackhouse, complained arst class decks, the Empire, and the huge sums which prosperity and generosity has unhappy time. What is, the use to the Police that a dog had been. It is hoped as the districts dess follows-1, Li Fung Shan the enabled us to send to the Imperial Government, have demonstrated of an official tariff unless it is let loose by a coolie in Chater velop to put on additional ferries, (President); 2 Cheng Yuet Bun our patriotism and desire to help to the utmost. And we can look generally observed? The public is Hoad to attack other dogs. The and, when ship-building is cheap Hung (Manager): 3. Wong Lu also forward cheerfully and confidently to a bright future, in which we to blaine in this matter, we admit. Aive orders to have the er, to provide larger boats, the Tung (Treasurer), 4 L. Ping will continue to maintain the great traditions of the Empire. We It has spoilt the market by over

dog brought to the station. subject of the Company being to 5, Kwok Kan, 6, Chik King 7 tex with our readers a very happy and prosperous New Year.

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and sufferings and sacrifices, and on this the last day of the great

year we can look back with clear minds in the knowledge that we THE MATTER OF FARES.? have done nobly in the greatest cause that one could fight for. Whatever the beartaches and sorrows which are still with us, that The fact of the matter is that knowledge of great things worthily accomplished, will enable us to the whole system of chair and look forward with confidence to the new and great era that is dawn-ricksha fares needs complete Wing for the world.

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