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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1927.

FREEDOM OF CITY OF EDINBURGH.

SIR HARRY LAUDER HONOURED.

Both Houses of Parliament were thrown into darkness at about I have spent a lovely time in! 5.30 on the evening of Nov. 24. the bosom of friends. This is There was no electric light for the greatest day of my life, and I nearly an hour, and though eandles thank you all for helping to make were procured the sittings were it so. auspended.

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It is believed that the fallure of the fighting was caused by the fusing of cables outside the central station of the Westminster Electric Supply Company in Horse ferryroad, S. W.

Since Edinburgh, had conforred this honour on me, I should like to do something for the city, said Sir Harry Lauder at a luncheon given in his honour at the City! Chambers after the freedom' cere- Churches, hospitals, hotels, cine-mony in the Usher Hall, Edin-

burgh, recently.. mas, shops, and streets were all affected in an area which included the whole of Victoria-street, most

Continuing, Sir Harry said:-I have not the slightest idea of how

Great the nut. In the shell.

of Whitehall, St. George's-street, to do it, but I have the kernel of Charles-street, Smithstreet, and

part of

In Charing Cross-rond.

a few premises I want to give h ̋sum of money to create one, two, three, or four. The complete failure of the as the case maybe, Trinity Hos- electric light in both Houses ofpital pensions. (Loud applause.) Parliament plunged the Palace of

I would like somit tangible way Westminster into complete dark-

of perpetunting the name of Lady ness for rearly an hour. Big Ben's Lauder, and I will go into the light, too, went out.

In the House of Commons Com-matter with you, my Lord Provost, mander Kenworthy was attacking and my friend, Councillor Hastie, the Government and out of the at a later date.

Concluding. Sir Harry sald:- darkness he said. "I am going on with my speech, Mr. Spenker," but Now, folks, I am going to drink such a course was obviously. im- your health, but before I do I wish possible, and the Speaker, his voice to sing you a little song I have just written. The song was sung. coming out, of the blackness, un- nounced that he wonkl" suspend the and after the second verse, the silting until the lights reappeared.company, captivated by the lilt. Some members groped their of the chorus, sang it along with way into the lobbies, where they Sir Harry. collided with each other in the darkness. About 100 preferred to remain in the House, where they could be heard laughing and jok

"Keeping Us Sane,"

Lord Provost Stevenson presid-

ing, but remained unseen to eached over a large gathering, which included many leading citizens other..

in ansociated with the theatre. In No a single member was pussession of an electric torch.addition to the members of the Several of them struck matches in the earlier part of the darkness, ind Commander Kenworthy tried to continue his speech with the aid of a matela held in front of him. but someone immediately blew it out.

platform party at the Freedom ceremony, the following were also present:-Lady Sight, Mrs. Wau- chope, the Very Rev. C. L. Warr, Dean of the Thistle, Mrs. Warr, Sir Malcolm Smith. Mr. J. Rac King, Moderator Edinburgh High Minutes passed and then there Constables; Mr. C. W. Allan, Mas- was a cheer when from the centralter of the Merchant Company: lobby appeared the dim figures of and Mr. A. Henderson, president the Chief Whip, Commander Eyres of Edinburgh Chamber of Com- Monsell, and Sir Harry Brittain meree. carrying a larga brown bar. This englaing candles, which were placed on the table, som two dozen in all, and for the first time the scene was revealed.

Candles were guitering on the table. and even on the famous Despatch Box, till Miss Bondfield, with a woman's practical mind, saw the possibility of the grease ruining its polished surface and came forward with order papers, which she placed beneath the candles.

In proposing the health of the youngest burgess, the Lord Pro- ost said Sir Harry no doubt in his youth had his dreams, but he did not know if he ever imagined the great ceremony in the Usher Hall that day. It was a great honour. doubly so, because they were speaking that day not for Edinburgh, not for Scotland only. but for Scotsmen all over the world.

Few men had secured the affee- Many more minutes, passed while tion of the people of Scotland in the dim light Ministers and as Sir Harry had done. There Opposition leaders faced each other was no secret in it. It was be- and joked. Mr. J. H. Thomas cause Sir Harry's songs and drifted in, and Mr. Lanshury stories gripped the heart. He jocularly proposed that he should looked upon Sir Harry Lauder take the chair or anything else as a great national asset he can."

"What would this great drab A1 6.18 p.m. a cheer greeted the world of ours be without Sir sudden reappearance of electric Harry Lauder?" asked the Lord light, and at 6.23 p.m. the Speaker, Provost in conclusion. "In the amid loud cheers, again took the chair and the debate was resumed. past we have not given full credit The cause of the breakdown to the, men like Sir Harry who being at first unknown, the uni- have helped to keep is sane in formed and plain clothes police this world of stress and strife."

(Applause) aquads undertook an Intennive

patrol of every part of the build- "Characteristic Stories.

ing, which was only discontinued when it was known that the fault Sir Harry, on rising "to reply, lay murtside and not in local failure. was received with loud applause. In the House of Lords the lights Before making, the announcement. failed while Lord Olivier was of his contemplated gift" to the" speaking, but he continued in dark-city, he told some characteristic ness for six minutes.

stories, the best of which was one about an old crofter, Sandy, who fell ill at the age of 96, and asked the moenister to call api cheer him up.

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A happy idea occurred to the authorities. On each side of the Throne hang two giant candelabru, and it was discovered that they were fitted with candles, lover

The meenister's method ring of 20 and a higher ring of cheering the old man up was to 10. Steps were brought and these were lit, and with the light of 60 remark:-"Ah, weel, it will not be lang before you are crossing the candles the House of Lords an- River Jordan." Then he wont o Hpeared transformed into a strange

to tell of the golden strand, the spectacle of medieval beauty.

For a little while an attempt was silver organ, and the singing of made to continue the debatt, but the angels-all pletured in Sir after another five minutes the Lord Harry Lauder's best vein. Chancellor thought it wiser to suspend the proceedings.

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fireside to charm away" the sad Scotty's execution. thoughts" of happier Christmases

He was a little pickpocket, race- from that sombre audience at

course tout, and picker-up of un- Pentonville.

They fairly worship Miss Tubb considered trifles. He

was &

at the Ville, says Major Blake. humorous little fellow with KILLED HIS OWN SON.ing: "If I am to farm there, I

want 3 different arrangement "Quod" the slang word for One appreciative old "lag" once morry, face; everybody liked him. aboot the rent."

gaolis the queer title of a re- remarked. "It seems na if she Ho murdered an ex-Pentonvillian The story caused great merri-markable book which has recently took us all right up to 'caven for known as "Soldier" for "robbing him while he was asleep in an East ment, and it was some time before been published. It is the story an hour." Sir Harry could proceed.

of twenty-four years' experience A queer character is. Tommy End lodging house.

Scotty told the chaplain that he In proposing the health of the of prison-life--the human diary Green. He has a record of some- Lord Provost, Sir Alfred Ewing of a famous prison governor, thing like a hundred convictions did not mean to kill "the blighter" of but to "learn him not to pinch In Peck Seah Street, Singapore, said. Harry Lauder(I dropped Major Wallace Blake, who was and an ever-present sense last week, a father had the terrible for he is too great for for seven years in charge of grievance. As one of the mala- his money"

stays of the prison system, "At midnight," continues Major experience of unintentionally killing titles) as an artist has reached Pentonville.

his own son

a pinnacle of distinction in art The book, which is full of good Tommy considers himself entitled Blake, "I paid a visit to the prison, The father is a Javanese chauffer.

stories, is published by Hodder to considerable respect. Ee ob- and, looking into the condemned His employer did not require tho which he occupies, quite alone.....

Before Sir Harry left the City and Stoughton. Its 350 pages jects to being called Tommy, cell saw Scotty sleeping peace the deputyfully, which is very much more cameos and once when se of the car that day, and he

Chambers he walked across to the are crammed with little decided to give it some necessary

right, quarters." attention. He went about his City's Stone of Remembrance ac-

companied by the Lord Provost, of prison life. Major Blake has governor listened to his usual than I did when I returned to my

met at one time or another Lon-grouse and said. "All work, and his children were playing For a moment Sir Harry.. stood don's greatest criminals, and in Green," he snapped out, "Mr. Scotty went to his doom like the

He was applying paint, and to bareheaded and paid his tribute "Quod" he draws aside the cur- Green, if you please" Avoid the little ones coming into the city's dead. contact with it, ho decided to move the car.

about the gargo entrance.

He pushed it backwards against his first intinuation that something a wall, all unaware that his infant had happened.

son had toddled to the rear of the He ran round, to find he had vehicle. It was the terrified crushed the life out of his two soream of another child that, was years old son..

Major Blake saw many execu- tain and introduces to the world' the crook as he really is in gaol. tions, and his stories of scaffold Miss Carcie Tubb. dramas are probably the most Many celebrated artists have gripping narratives in the book. sung at the "Ville," as Pentonville "Scotty" was the first man Prison is called. Every Christ Major Blake escorted to the gal- mas Day for the last six years lows at Pentonville, and he tells Miss Carrie Tubb has left her with graphic detail the heart agony he endured on the eve of

"oro" he said he would be. "Good- "Good-bye all!" he shouted as he stepped on the platform..

"Plucky little chap, wasn't he?" remarked the chaplain afterwards, Major Blake said, he felt, a bit of a murderer himself.

"By Jove, so do II" exclaimed the chaplain--Daily Express.

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