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TELEPHONE

AMBITIOUS RICKSHA

COOLIE.

1345.

SUPREME COURT.

WANTED TO LEAR THE WAY.

THE SANDER WEILER

CASE.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1919.

| HONGKONG'S TELEPHONE

SYSTEM.

SOME INTERESTING FACTS.

[Hongkong Telegraph" Special]

Hongkong in common with every other city in the world, The has its pet grievances. weather, the tioverument, the lack of housing accommodation, the commandeering of vessela, the telephone and the electric) Hight services and the late deli. [very of the Tome mail- all form subject for grievances, Ris indeed easy to criticize.

We have to desire to pose as i feritic of our telephone service, land. exascions of the great iffenities with which the Telep- hone, Company is faced, we talá the trouble of interviewing Mr.. A. S. Bemiet, the Manager. During the interview we learnt wesend interesting facts relating

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the many local telephone truiño difficulties, and we also pent an interesting half-hour in seenig *ver the Hongkong Central Exchange.

In this exchange the daily had reaches 40,000 calls and sre witnessed the operating staff handling the mid-afternoon Bad. | Each operator was seated at her wetion of the switchboard! busily manipulating the plugs and con-

In the Supreme Court thineering calls at the ante of nearly Leung Yes is a hard workingerning, before Sir William Rees 200 per hour. Except for the rick-ha coolie who wants to get Paying Kit, Chief Justice, appli- click of the pings and the mpid on in the world. But yesterday, cation for stay of execution in mement of the operators

- in the ease in which arms, there was he put his hot into it. This was

richal run int auther ricksha |

nothing to

* k Hughes. Huidator how that the exchange was busy | Lạc :ra i -1 persons and it is certainly hard to appre in which was Mr. B. L. Fro-t. Lalai's of AW.A. Becker, a patiate that hundreds of subscribers;

From the statedruta makeun juer in the time of Sauder Weiler were actually conversing, Mr. Ortue Court by Mr. Frista Cand Harry Widing Fach telephone subscriber anil the Police it appears that quilating of the trade

tw

distinct pad individual

fir, were und by Chai Wah.wire- canecting his instrument His Leishig having gives with the exchange. These wire

Mr. Fast engaged a rick-ba at

i

judgment fa deden lant.

the Kowloon ferry to do bullis resi-leure. There were number of

other

rick-hus

K. C

are arried under the streets in Th... H», H. E. lllch

paper cure lead-covered cables: for the paintill made thic terminate VAL * te-t hired by other people, and they applicatia that the execution frame in the exchange and of the julguunt be -tayed all proceeded alon

for six menius

T

ai

3

circuit

various distributing points| underside. The working lig roadi 11 1 string. La plaintiff might subitare sorted out in Lumerical order Yee's ricksha was at the tail-en the cast for the opinion of the test frame whence they are As has been alreply mentioned Cunsel in Hugland a-

wired to two intermediate frames Leung Yee is ambitions. He re whether or not the said julge to connect with the apparatus fn-ed to accept the hamiliation of meat should be appealed from used for signalling the calls on in the Pull arcand cocsequent the witchboard. When the remaining at the tail-end re- |ly if an adverse joignent were subscriber rings the exchange, he spectable place at the head was blini from the Full Court, energizes a delicately constructed what he desire... He ran appeal to the Privy Council electro-naguetic relay, which aside from the tratile, put on alat that the

of operation cluse burstand then turned it again and 600 deposited by thead lights A Falling Lamp precipitated himself, hi-passes an agreat dated October pluging in to answer,

defen u with the huidators ou the -witchboard.. la the and ricksha into the head of the 15, 1017, be posited in the Sperator automatically restures procession. with the fall inton-Hagkong and Shanghai Bank at the relay and the calling lamp is trous of forcing for his fa gap two and a half per cent.. in the line. This was a rash art. The application was adjourned. which was bilowed with disa truns on-equences, He crashed

SUMMARY COURT. into Mr. Frost's ricks upset. ting it and throwing Mr. Frost

ou to the road.

SOLICITOR AND CLIENT.

In the Summary Court this morning Mr. Justivo Melbourne guve judgment or plaintiff iri the case in whira Mr. Richard

Mr. Urate, after hearing the story, said to the olie-Ap- parently y were trying tought In front of other people lusteri of taking your tura. You were do- frauding the otherrick-acudies. Faiti fuli, & ficitur, sued Chan fun are fiued, seven days,Cheng-chan alias Chan Cheng chin, coal merchant, for the reco very of $255.30 beings to $190.20 for monies paid by hin at the defendant's request to Messrs. P'Alta la and Mason on May 28, 1918, in order that the defendant might be released from custody and a to $45 thereof for professional services relered to the defendant.

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extinguished. By pressing a key enable him to give the rising same trouble aul our telephone the operator connects her head-tone; forinstance if a Chinese calls service compares very favourably gear teleph ne to the calling" 2334, he says, "Yee sam im sze” with theirs.

bscriber an!

The ascertains the bat.the first figure, Yee, is nsual-

has 3,100 Company hamber required by askingly so faint that the number called subscribers in Hongkong and "Number please." The subscriber, is often 304. Also, a Chinese 500 in Kowloon.

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Telephone 2).

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if he be wise, gives the required rarely correct- the operator if the On the question of whether number slowly and distinctly numbers are incorrectly repeated the wrong number nuisaare is gaming each figure separately and An attempt is a being made likely to abate in the near future, euphasising the

and educate the Chinese in the

Beunet! said "Wrong fives. Each number oncorrect manner of using the numbers will contigue.

We are the .. Bystem is multiplied telephone, and, if this attempt i-doing our best to educate our at short intervals throughout the nut effective, the Chinese num-Chinese abscribers and it is a is able to reach all the numbers entirely from the remaining they have Chines male swithboard so that each operator bers may have to be separated difficult job, indeed. • In Shang- without leaving her seat. Abers on the witchboard.

operators for Chinese abscribers. special motor is provided for When using the local I do not know whether patrons telephone telephones, it should be borne i have the same trouble there. The ringing subscribers bells, and the operators have only the mind that the language policy of our Telephone Company to press a key to ring the required difficulties exist, and each sub- inbers. When the conversa-scriber should speak his numbers tion is completed and the re-slowly and distinctly. Nineshould

There girls all know Chinese. ceivers are placed on the rest, be pronounce Nien" ex use We have hever contemplated say two lump igual glow where the German, and five pronounced departure a far of substituting upon the operator disconnects with a long Land a strong male operators for female.

which

then The subscribera should do their garding the wrong number point, the lines

to co-operate with the fam considering very seriously ready for further calls. In the utmost Mr. Alexander Baird-Carter, of Hongkong Exchange the traffic Telephone, Company in this the removing of some Chinese One of her teeth, this Jermynstreet, S. W., art dealer, staff hambers 34; he operators respect if a good service is desired. sub-cribers from the list. We rather more than human nature left property valued at £81.535 work in team, each of which is There is another point which the are going to rebuild our premises Can stand. The lady referred Ile bequeathed to the London in charge of a supervisor. The Telephone Company states-hoold and put up an up-to-date central to was a Chinese woman, and Mnseam the first state proof supervisors are controlled by the be improved upon by the sub-cr-operating installation within a she took in a longer who agreed mezzotint of "Master Lambton," clerks in charge, assisted by two bers. Many telephones are few years. We will then be able to pay her ten cents for each meal. by Samuel Cousins, after Sir monitors,

answered at pre-ent by unintelli- to instal telephones which will After he had been fattened for Thomas Lawrence, which he The chief difficulties of work-gent coolies with the result that preclude ringing up for a two months and when the bill considers the finest I have ever ing telephones in Hongkong are many cases occur when people ber. You only have had run up to $12, he quictly|bad or seen.. All would-be due to adverse weather conditions think that they are connected to Lake the telephone receiver took his departure and loadednezzotint engravers would do and language troubles. In the a wrong number when the China- and himself scarce. The woman by well to study this beautiful former case a rapid change in tem- man's voice is heard answering. chance met him yesterday at mezzotint."

perature or the occurrence of The trouble that the Telephone Shanghai Street, and when she THE THREE WILLIAMS. heavy humidity are sufficient to Company now experience is that taxed him with his iniquity, he The "following telegram bag cance the Anely adjusted their switchboard is loaded to the promptly and lustily belaboured been sent from London to Mr. relay, to fail. To cope with the highest capacity, owing to the if you need Pinkettes. If your her. After all this show of William M. Hughes, Prime Min-humidity trouble a plant for war, because they have received face is pimply or yellow, if you brutal force one would have ister of Australia, and Mr. William distributing dry air throughout no apparatus from England, and, see slime upon your tongue, its expected him to walk off in F Massey, Pritue Minister of the exchange apparatus has been secondly, each operator is work-answer is your dedicate dise symptoms usually indicate a dis high glee, but instead of taking New Zealand: "One hundred and installed.

ing the highest load possible. A ordered condition of the liver or this course he subsided and fifty wounded Australian and The language troubles are great point that the public fail to bowels. allowed himself to be led off New Zealand soldiers send their very difficult to combat. The realise is that the telephone like a sheep by the woman to the bes: respecte to their beloved Chinese will speak numbers mechanism is delicate and any Police Station.

Williams from down ander, and hopelessly, from ศ telephone big change in temperature or The magisterial mandate to-day wish them every success in their point of view. with the result any sudden heary damage will are laxative perfection and act as was that a sum of $12 should be endeavours to cut the comb of that they frequently call wrong upset the whole telephons apparently as nature. paid to the wousa as compens the other William, late of Pots-nambers. In calling anumber with atus. Delays are liable and can- everywhere, or at 60 cents the ation, or a term of imprisonment dan.(Signed) Turner, chair-figures, a Chinese whispers the not be helped. In Manila and vial from Dr. Williams' Medicine for one aunth would be the result, man."

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