NEW YORK LETTER:
[By J. W. Dean for the Telegraph.)
New York, Sept, 3.-Politicians, at least, take their politics serious ly, and nowhere mere so than In this city which is supposed to regard all things with intelligent;
disdain.
The city just now is undergoing the pain of selecting "a mayor. There are on exhibition, in conse- "quence, dozens of devices which might serve as local colour for 3 political novel of the hinterland a generation ago.
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Red fire is the flaring illumination for the scene. Bands and parades, of course, A modified ealliope towed by motor through the streets serves to-day to attract attention to the banner of one candidate and to-morrow, to that of his rival. Celluloid campaign buttons rain down from upper windows as one: Toaf at a street corner. A displayi advertisement in the papers, enfls) attention to the present mugör's) free picnics and boat rides for mothers,
It's the Roman public tables and riots in the form all over again.
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With the throwing open of in- come tax returns to public Inspec- tion the local office is thronged with. divorced and separated wives hunt- ing for Information. regarding the financial status of ex-husbands. When one of them was told that it
night take her, more than a month; fnd her husband's ame shu answered, "I don't care if it takes a year. He held out on me when we were married, but now Pe goi him where he can't hold out--and] that's in court."
The ordinary citizen just trying to get along can console himself at the lack of a motor cay more easily! here than almost anywhere elsz. He can tell himself, with sincerity, that he wouldn't know what to do
with a car if he had it. If he lives
in downtown Manhattan the "argu- ment is more convincing, for trallie congestion between home and the open road is the sort of thing to break a driver's heart,
One motorist 1 known woman→→ keeps her car over in Jersey' near one of the tubes. She uses the sub- way or occasionally a taxicab for Then of, an all practical purposes. evening or for the week-end she goes to her car and takes it spin- hing through the country on ueces. sible roads which eruse all thought of the city.
Another car owner, and there are many like him, simply, keeps an automobile as an investment and
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THE HONGKONG TEL H.
ATTRACTIONS OF CANADA.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1925.
Ontario's Many Summer Resorts Afford Varied Pleasures
ON, BEAUTIEN GEORGIAM BAY.
A QUARIST OF BIG BASS
| COZY FRENCH RIVER, BUNGALOW
nearby waters, while Trout Lakь affords plenty of small-mouth bass. Bon Echo, an out-of-the-way, re- reached from Kaledar, On- sort, is tarlo, by automobile which passes along hillsides carpeted with blus Every summer tens of thousands men; others delight a sailing and flowers and seeming to emanate a of visitors neck rest and recrea- paddling canoes. The summers are blue haze. The Ina is located on a tion, health and happiness in the all too brief to satisfy these lovers spit of land that separates the Mn fascinating hinterland of Ontario, of Ontario's out-of-doors.
zinaw Lakes two lovely sheets of where woods and waters abound on Camps hidden miles deep, away water. They are of great depth and hand, each with its especial from the railway lines. yield excep- from them rises a sheer rock to over Every charm.
tionally good fishing and wholesome 200 feet, possessed of a three-fold A fascinating retreat for fisher- food. Such a one is Billy Burke's echo. It bears on one face a bas- men in this part of Ontario, is the log camp on Trout Lake, reached relief of Walt Whitman, to whom French River district. Sinco the by an 8-mile launch ride from Paget (the rock is dedicated.
Bass fishing of rrection fous bungalow camp which opened in den away from civilization, is about one af deep water that delights a comfortable, commed-station. Ka-Wig-A-Bing Lodge, hid- is good. There are two fine beaches; 1923, visitors have flocked there in 8 miles from Pakesley, and transpor divers, and the other has a vast, sile numbers that have taxed its capactation is via the Key Valley Rail-ver sandy floor with shallow water, ity. Fighting bass, grown strong in way, owned by a Milwaukee funiber and makes a safe, ideal beach for the swift waters of the river, and concern, which operates a railway women and children. huge muskellunge are caught in bus, mounted on railway car trucks, Port au Baril on Georgian way, is large numbers. Other species are and fitted with a Ford motor for unique in that its capacious rustic
At the sawmill town, this hotel is located on an island, Fisli power. of the Ontario places are mode of locomotion is post too. easily reached from Toranta. The a motor launch that carries gedeforing, bathing and boating are its chief
guests attractions. Georgian Bay with Muskoka and Kawartha chains of to Ka-Wig-A-Mog Lodge, an at- thousands of islands and indented laken are the annual haven of many tractive structure devoted to dining shore-line, is a paradise of beauty visiting families who occupy cot and social affairs. In addition to the and sport, and is sought by many tages, camps and hotels of varying Lodge, there are a number of cot-visitors from the States with sum- degrees of comfort and luxury. All tages built about an eighth of a mier homes on the islands, Those enjoy the dry, fine-scented air that is a Aure remedy for hay fever Many vacationists are ardent fisher
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mile apart, on both sides of the long, who prefer, the mistuland, will find a narrow lake, thus insuring privacy. string of summer resorts dotting Mixed fishing is good here and in the shore-line for 100 miles
ahead to the day's work with little. FACELESS " has a driver operate it for hire on need to the rising sun painting its
a fifty-fifty basis. But the arrange colour poem'in the sky, Unly ment is more profitable for the pallid light of murky Canal Street driver than for the owner. And was reflected in their patrid laces. the owner never gets a rife.
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SURGEON
CAMERA PICTURES.
Austria
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
HEAD OFFICE: HONGKONO, Authorised Capital
$80,000,000
| franed and Fully Paid-up • $20,600,090
Reserve Fund Sterling.
giver -
£ 4,500,000
- 618 800.000
$20,000.00
Reserva Linbility of Proprietors”
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COURA OF DIRECTORS;
G. M. Young, Esq. Chairman
BANKS
INTERNATIONAL BANKING CORPORATION.
(Owned by the National City Bank of Now York).
Ospital & Surplus ...U.S. $1,000,000 HEAD OFFICE :
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60, Wall Street, New York.
LONDON OFFICE : 1
H. P. White, Esq. Deputy Chairman; Barahona
D.G.M. Bernard, Esq Hon. Mr. A.O. Lang Barcelona
W. L. Pattendan, Esq
A.. Compton, Esq. J.A. Plummer. Eaq: Bombay Hob.Mr.P.H.Holyonk T. G. Weall, Eng.
36 Blahopagata, E.C.'
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BRANCHES **
Osaka
Рапати
Paking
Puerto Plata
Rangoon
W. II. Boll, Esq.
Batayla
Calcutta
Cauton
San Francisco, Cal.
Coba
Colon
Dairon
San Pedro de Macoria Sanchez
Hankow
Chief Manager
A. H. Barlow, Exqu
Manager: Shanghai-0. H. Stitt, Eng.
Harbin Hongkong
LONDON BANKERS: WESTMINSTER BANK LTD. CURRENT ACCOUNTS.cpen- | Kobe ed in LOCAL CURRENCY and La Vega FIXED DEPOSITS received for Madrid one year or shorter periode in Local Currency and Sterling on terms which will be quoted on application.
Hengkong, 21st. Feb., 1924.
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San Francisco de Macoria
Santiago de los Caballeros Santo Domingo Shanghai
Singapore
Tiontain
· Tokio Yokohama
BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE (BRANOH BANK.)
HEAD OFFICE:
96. Boulevard Hatsaimann, Pari
Capital Fre. 72,000,000.00 Paid-up Capital Fr. 60,400,000.00 Besarves
----........................ Era. 69,667,283.64
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BRANCHES & AGENCIES:
Bankok
Hongkong
Battambang, Mongie
Canton
Nouns
Djibouti
Papeeta
Haiphong
Paking
Hankow
Hangi
Saigon
Shanghai
Singapore
Tiantain
Tourano
Paom-Penh Tladivestock Pondicherry Yuunaafu,
BANKERS:
In FRANCE:- Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris Credit Lyonnais Banque de Paris et des Paya-Bay Credit Industrial Commercial; Societe General.
I LONDON-The" National Pro vincial and Union Bank of England, Ltd: Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris, Credit Lyonnais.
In NEW YORK -J. P. Murgan & Co. Interest allowed on Current Accounte and Fixed Depoelts according to arrange
ment,
Commercial and Travellers' Letter of Credit, Bills of Exchange and Cable Transfers bought and sold.
Current accounts and Savings Bank accounts opened and Fixed Deposite in local and foreign currencies taken at rates that may
ascertained be
Icu application to the Bank. We are also able to offer our Customere exchange business transacted, the services of Branches of the Nationa HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK City Bank of New York in the principal
countries of South America West Indien.
on
The Business of the above Bank is conducted by the, HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPURA. TION.
Rules may be obtained "pplication.
INTEREST on Deposite is calculated un the lowest balance during each com plated Calendar Month at 31 per cent per anure. Should there be no balance on any day in a
A month no interest will be allowed for that month.
Depositore may transfer at their option Balance of $100 or more to the HONO- KONG AND SHANGHAI BANK to be
places on FIXED. DEPOSIT at CUR-
RENT RATES.
For the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank- ing Corporation.
A. H. BARLOW,
Chief Manager, Hongkong, 7th. January 1926.
And
in
the
G. HOGG
Manager.. Queen's Rand Central, Hongkong.
THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK LTD.
Established 1830. Capital (fully paid up). 100,000,000 Y. 83,500,00G Reservo fund.
HEADOFFICE :-YOKOHAMA, Branches and Agencica at
Kobe
Sematang Bombay
London Soerabays
Rangoon Buenos Ayres Lyons Calcutta Los Angeles San Francisco
Manila Seattle Canton
Nagasaki Shanghai
Batavia
Nagoya Singapore Newchwang
Bh
Shimanoick
Dasya Sydney
New York Tiontain
THE BANK OF CANTON LTD. Dsiren
Head Office Hongkong.
Changchun
Fangtion
(Dainy)
Makden
Authorised Capital..
£1,200,000 Hamburg
Peking
Rio de
Janeiro
Karachil
Saigon.
Paid Up Capital...£1,081,876 Hankow Silver Reserve Fund
$700,000 Honolulu
Harbin
Foreign Exchange & General Banking Kai Yoen business transacted.
Intercal allowed on
CURRENT ACCOUNTS
7% per annum on daily credit balancer
of over $100.00:
SAVINGS
4% per annum DEPOSITS
for 12 months 5% per annum
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an Demand
4%
3%
% per annum
BRANCHES - Danton, Swałów, Shanghai. Hamkow, Bangkok, New York. and San Francisco.
LONDON HANKERS-The Lloydı Bank Ltd.
LOOK POONG SHAN, Chief Manager.
$18,278,600.00
$9,679,475.24
Every description of banking and
A. LECOT.
Manager"
NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL MAATCHAPPIJ.
(Netherlands Trading Society).. BANK.
Established 1824 Hongkong Brunch' established 1906. Authorized Capital Quildera-160,000,000
(£12,500,000) Fold-up Capital Guilders.... 80,00,000
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(£-6,566,670) 20,536,861 (1,711,405)
Reserve Fund Guilders
Special Reserven Guilders 22,660,000.
( 1,888,330) HEAD OFFICE AMSTERDAM. Eastern HEAD OFFICE :-BATAVIA,
BRANCHER :- Bandjarmasin Kota-Radja Bolterdam Bandoong Bombay Calantta
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Macanara Semarang Aledan Shangha Padeng Singapore Palembang Boerabais Pocalonan Soarakarta
Togal
Choribon
Tokyo Teinantu Tringtau Vladivostock
Djember
Djokjakarta Penang
Koho
The
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Intoret allowed on Current Accounts. Deposits received for 5xed periods at
rates to be obtained on application.
Mr. C. ARIMA,
Manager
Hougkong, March 11th 1928.
司公理管鐡法中
SOCIETE FRANCAISE DE
GERANCE.
DE LA BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE.
ETABLISSEMENT FRANCO CHINOIS.
(Incorporated in France)
5) Chater Road, Victoria, Hongkong.
HEAD OFFICE:
74, Rue St. Lazaro, Paria.
Capital Franca... Bossie Franca
Fem.10,000,000.00 Fr■.10,790,000.00 |
working fund provided by THE BANQUE INDUSTRIELLER
DE CHINE
Francs 50,000,000
BANKERS.
de
FRANCE: Societe General Banque Nationals de Credit, Banque Paris-et den Pays Has.
LONDON Mjelland Bank Ltd. NEW YORK-Irving Bank, Osiumbia Trust Co..
A. BOLLIN, Manager.
Corre
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Pontianak Tilden
Hague Rangoon
London Bankers :-National Provincial
Bank, Ltd.
Correspondents all over the world.
BANKING BUSINESS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
M. J. HERBSCHLEB,
Agent.
THE P. & Q. BANKING CORPORATION, LTD.
(Incorporated in England (1020) With which is adiated
THE ALLAHABAD BANK, LTD. INDIA.
Authorised Capital.........................
Subscribed and Paid-up
Reserve Fund.....
£5,000,000
82,594, 150
.......... ́160,000
HEAD OFFICE: 122, Leadenhall London E.C.. WEST LONDON BRANCH: · 14-16, Cockapur Street, Loudon 8.W.LT EASTERN BRANCHES: Bombay, Calcutta, Eucbi, Madras,........
Colombo, Singapore, Hongkong, Canton and Shanghal
The Corporation undertake General a Banking and Exchange Business of every description and is addition to its Branches bas Agencies in all the principal cities of the world.
L. E. HOPKINS,
Manager.
22, De Vanz Band Central, Hongkong.
THE HO HONG BANK, LTD, (Established 1917.),
The Extreme of Modesty. Japan At International Salon.
Doctors are strictly forbidden From every part of the British THE BANK OF CHINA. Only a week or two ago immense to advertise, or in any way to Empire, as well as from the A very definite idea of the size fortunes were being piled up in court publicity for professional United States, Japan, Italy, of New York's population is to be paper profits through the great purposes, but the limit in medical Spain,
(Specially authorized by Presidentini had at any of the subway stations, Hud rush at the Rockaway, Longrandesty is reached in a
Switzerland, Mandate of the Republic of Chine on the Denmark, recent Holland,
Czecho. 2aid of November, 1917.) For two hours in the morning and Beach and other nearby shore com-issue of the Lancet,
Slovakia, Sweden, Hungary, two in the afternoon 12 turnstiles munitier. The boom has been de-In an intensely technical dis- Poland, Belgium, and France, Authorized Capital $66,600,000,00 in one station revolve without lated and the res'dents of the course on Fractures, by Sir camera workers have sent con- Paid-up Capital moments' let-u Four persons boom communities are holding William de Courcy Wheeler,tributions to the Tondon Salan of
Reserve Funds...... puss through with each complete nightly meetings to devise ways there is a photograph of the ap.Photography in Pall Mall.
HEAD OFFICE: PEKING. revolution of a turfintile.
HONGKONG BRANCHES: of restoring business to normai. | plication of plaster for a factured
The avowed aim of this salon ('anal Street is the Borla alany strange tales are jevealed ir hip. But the face of the surgeon is to exhibit only that class of
4, Queen's Road Central.. through which New York each these meetings. "
performing this operation is most work in pictorial photography in China and correspondents in Europe. 1 Branches and Sub-branches all over?
Every description of Eanking", and, morning pumps its life blood into
carefully blanked out with A rezident of Edgemere owned white strip.
"which there is distinct "ovidence America and other parts of the World. Exchange Business Transnoted. its great" ́arturies of commerce.
of personal, artistiofeeling and ex- LONDON BANKERS-The National spondents throughout the world. The subways disgorge their great a $12,000 home. He was offered
The discourse, though of the ecution, and the most enjoyable Provincial and Usion Bank of England masses of humbas like spawn $18,000 cash the first day of the greatest interest to the medical feature of the exhibition is the
Ltd. spewed from holes in the ground. boom and refused to
sell. On profession, is hardly fikely to fall prints sent by the Japanese Tork.
The Guaranty Trust Company of New boom into Men, women, girls and boys pour the third day of the
the hands of potential photographers, which: betray NEW YORK BRANCHES :-The close patients, so the anxiety of the their Far Eastern origin by the Trust Company of New York. forth in a solid body and gradually the owner was about "to.
The Equitable Irving National Ranks.
THE CHARTERED BANK OF Authorised Ospital
Issued break into groups, stringing out for $35,000, of which $10,000 faceless figuro in the picture to same faultless balance of decora-
cash. avoid advertising publicity tive arrangement
INDIA. AUSTRALIA & CHINA. | Pald-np Intoc allowed on Current Accounta would have been paid in in all directions, I
that dis-and Fixed Deposite. Torms on applica Those you see on Canal Street A speculator offered $40,000 and must certainly constiture & re-tinguishes the colour engravings tion.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter 1553.) are on their way to jobs, not posi- gave a cheque for $1,000 to bind cord. This loss of face could and paintings of the Japanese,acted.
Every description of Banking business the deal. The next day the bank | hardly be understand in China, are wage-earners,
who have an infallible instinct Loans granted on approved securities. Paid-up Capital. not salaried employees. They are revealed that the man who signed It will be remembered that for design. Here, of course, Special facilities for Home Exchange, Reserve Fund. the lowliest of the lowly. I be- the cheque had never carried an
Bonic time ago a prominent Nature is the designor, but the
.. PEI, Reserve Liability of Proprietors,£3,000,000 in the principal cities of the world. lieve more common people are bot account. The boom was over. doctor advocated the mission by Japanese photographer never led up in the confines of Canal Nou the owner cannot find a pur- members of his profession of any fails in pointing his camera so
Every description of Banking degress after their names in the that the section of Nature which
Exchange business transacted.ţi. Street during the rush hours than chaser.
announcement of their daughters comes within the range of the
B.L. HUANG in any area of similar size any- One Rockaway woman
Misdagar. four lote, but a lot owned by a weddings in order to be free from lens forms a picture" in accord- Young girls predominate, Most non-resident divided them in half, the merest taint of self-advertis-ance with aesthetic principles by of them are hardly in their teens, A speculator wanted to buy all spindle-legged, colourless drawn-five lots. Unable to locate the out little creatures. There they owner of the middle lot, the wo-
tions,
where.
They
owned
ing.
GREEK GOVERNMENT TO AUCTION TREASURES.
go, running, hurrying, hurrying, man sold all five lots at an enorm- WILHELM'S ART TO BE SOLD hurrying. Pell-mell they go, sous profit. The next day the other children run to play; yet it owner of the middle lot showed is not with a zest for work that up.. With a threat of prosecution these young girls rush to their and possible jail sentence for joba. They are racing against the misrepresentation of ownership, he time-clock they must punch. In demanded and received the profit five minutes I counted ten crippled | made on all five lota, and deformed girls. And many others gave evidences of dull intel- lects.
Another speculator, who made
which the Eastern artist is guided.
SYNTHETIC BEEF PREDICTED.
ilanger.
ORIENTAL COMMERCIAL BANK, LTD.
HEAD OFFICE:
50 Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong.
BRANCHES-BANGKOK- SHANGHAI Correspondents:-London: Weat minster Bank, Ltd; New York: National City Bank; San Francisco: "STEAKS FROM
Union Trust Oo, of San Francisco; The Daily Express says that
Canton Bank. FORECAST. the art treasures of the famous COTTONSEED
Authorised Capital
$5 000 000 palace on the, Island of Corfu,
Paid Up Capital..............$1.800,000 Synthetic boolstoaks made from owned by William Hohenzollern
Modern banking in all its branches when he was Emperor of Cor cottonseed are forecast by Dr.
Current accounts savlugs secounts and fixed deposits solicited. Loans a deal for Long Beach property many, are to be sold at auction Davis Wesson, of New York, There were quite a few and found himself without funds by the Greck Government, which former president of the American
granted on approved secreity.
Overseas banking a speciality. women in widow's woods. They to go through with It, refused to acquired the property during the Institution. Chemical Engineerя, INTEREST.—Current accounts & per; do not watch and weep; while they ace a visitor fearing that he would war weep they must work. And there be served with a subpoena.. Later
Speaking before the Ottawa gavage & per cant,. Fized Deposits, par 6 months 44 per
cent, In the scurrying throng word bag- he learned that the visitor was of pictures, statues and estimate Industry, he said recent investi
The artioles include hundrede section of the Society of Chemical cent, one year 6 per cent, gard, wrinkled, toll-worn old wo" messenger, with a box of cigars relics of the ex-Kalsor and his 'gations by the United States Our Vaults safeguarded by time:
Bafe Dercaits, Boxes for Rent,
and a quart of diaper from t the family, as well as of the Empress Department of Agriculture show- plooks and": "Zouble'n combinations
men, women who had come to Toute when rest should have
Unzählt. Elizabeth of.
oent
Arms of plate sies! doors and
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builted that the protein of cotton needs
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CAPITAL:
$20,000,000
8,000,000
€,000,000
Reserve liabilities of
Shareholders Surplus
$,000,000
825,000
£3,000,000
HEAD OFFICE SINGAPORE. ......... ̈£4,000,000. Branches, Agencies and Correspondoula
Foreign Exchange and General Banking budiness transacted, ven
Current Accounts opened and Fixed Deposita received for 2 year or shorter periods at rates which wll be quoted on Application.
A. II. FERGUSON, Bf snager.
THE BANK OF EAST
LIMITED,
HEAD OFFICE-HONGKONG,
Authorised Capital
Paid-up Capital
Bosorro Fund-
DIRECTORS
$10,000,000 5,000,000 1,000,000
Successful experiments are be- ing made in building chalk houses ASIA in districts where the material is.
available. The Ministry of Agri- culture, it will be remembered,' conducted successful experiments in building cottages of two storeys at Amesbury, and since that time: there has been a revival in the und of one of the most ancient of English building materials, which can be found in the foundations of Stonehenge and in the roof of Balisbury Cathedral. The town ohalk house at Marsh Court, Hampshire, designed by SirEdwin Lutyens, has aroused a good deal of interest among architects. Ono of the advantagce of B wall made of a mixture of twelve parte of chalk to one of cement, is that it' fis extremely warm. Di Kari
Hon. Mr. Chow Shou Son-Chaleman. Fung Ping Shau Mok Ching Kong. Li Koon Ohun Wong Yun Tong P.K. Kwok Hayah Tal Ng Ching Luk Kan Yan Po Pong Wai,Ting... ́... Chan Ching Shak Every description of Barking and Brohange business transacted-Leaps granted on approved boourities.
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