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BANKS.

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY,

THE CHARTERED BANK OF HONGKONG AND SHANGHA P. & 0. BANKING

INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA.

Incorporated by Royal Charter 1853,

HEAD OFFICE-LONDON,

Fald-Up Capital

Reserve Pand.....

..$10.000 4,000,000

BANKING CORPORATION.

NOVEMBER

13, 1931.

The Incandescent Lamp, the employment of a steam engine. But from this time onward his he

But it may be said that whatever

touched-Portland career was one of almost unbroken plate glass, the microtaximeter for cemont, success. Eager to exploit his own the detection of minute variations Inventions, he established a factory in temperature, or flying machines in Newark, New Jersey, with ...............0,000, CORPORATION LTDİ

small body of men, but a few years he Improved for the use of the

he was obliged to move to after him.

or are to come, PRO came Park

and afterwards to (Incorporated in England, 1920.) Orange Grove, taking with him on a great seientific philosopher in the It cannot be claimed that he was ench occasion a band of disciples senae that Kelvin was. His view who were hardly less enthusiastic, of 25,000,0000,

and hardly less enduring, than Daconian in its insistence on in- 180.000 himself

Authorised Capital ...... Issued and Faily Paid-op ...................... £9,000,00

Starting

£0.804,000 Allver

$10,000,000

Reserve Liablilty of Proprietors.. 3,000,000 Reserva Liability of Proprietom.UR9,000,09

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CANTON

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kuinens transacted.

Current

Acconals

or your

POOCHOW

Borler

HAMBURG

opened and Fixed KAIPHONG Depontin received for onn Bird L rater which will be quesed on HANKOW application.

RARHIN J. STUART,

HONGKEW Mannger,

11.0110 Hongkong, 17th August, 1931.

THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE

BANK. LIMITED.

Capital (fully rald up)..... Y, 100,000,000 Reserve Fund

...

Y 111,000,000

HEAD OFFICE.-YOKOHAMA.

Branches and Agneles at

Alexandria

Berli

Tombay

Caletita

Canton

Kai Xen

Karachi

Robe

London

Los Angele Iron

Changchun Manila

Daleen (Dabay)

Venetien

(Mulden)

Hainburg

tiankow

(farbin

Hongkong

Ronolul

Nagasaki

NAUJA

Newchwang

Priping

E de

Janeiro

Bairon

San Franelace

Henttie

Hemarang

Shanghal

Kimonoeekl Singapore leasratnya

New York

Hydney

Clarka

Tientsia

Takyo

Tainanto

Tyingiau

Rangoon

Interest allowed on Current Accounts,

Deponita peeled for fixed prefada at rates |

to be obtained on application.

H. MORI,

Manager,

Hongkong, March 11th. 1921.

THE HO HONG BANK,

LIMITED.

(ESTABLISHED 1947.)

Authorized Capital

Jasoed Capital

Paid-up Capilat

Reserve Libilities of share

holdere

Burple

.Atralia $20.000.000

iron

JOHORE

KOBE

KOWLOON

BRANCHES-

KUALA LUMPUR

LONDON

LYONR

MALACCA

MANILA

MUAR (hors) BUEDEN

NEW YORK

FEINING

PENANG

JANGOON

SAIGON

SAN FRANCISCO STANCHAI

SINGAPORE

SQURABAYA

SUNGEI PATANI TIENTSIN

TOKYO

THINGTAO YOKOHAMA

Current Acronis opened in Local Currena and Plaed Deposits received for one you? o shorter perfmila in Loen) Currency and Sterling

| Authorised Daplat

Subscribed and Pald Up Reserve Fund

DEAD OFFICE:

122. Leadenhall Street, London, EC. ..

WEST LONDON BRANCH. 14-18, Cockapur Sireet, London, A.W.1.

Colomblo, Hongkong. Madres, Singapore.

the world.

Shanghai,

transaerd. "Loans and overdraft granted on

mon who

science Was thoroughly

utility as object, ment,

and the pro

Ilis peralatency in admirably the ahown in his work in connexion

the

and

with the Incandescent electria aing one have to thankel

lament, when a number of finan-

General Exchange and Danking Business approved security. Current and Fixed Deposit Recount opened.

BAVINGS BANK ACCOUNTS-Inter the lamp was allowed at rates which may be caused on myplienta.

A

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the aclf-made Thomas Alva Edison lamp. He spent forty thousand for being able to live in a world dollars in trying to find a suitable made

made more

by this comfortable BRANCHER :-Bombay, Calcutta, Calicut for the discovery of a plientions of electricity to which placed enormous sums at his genius, One can hardly imagine

civilisation to-day without the substance which would emit

ahe devoted hla industry and inven- AGENCIES:—in all the principal towns of bright light in vneamised glass tive akill.

bulb by the aid of electricity.

On October 21. 1879, after he has spent four days and nights consecutively in the laboratory, in December of acomplished fact: bis first public exhibition of che tric lighting. At the Paris Elec tricni Exposition of 1881 he won fire gold medals and n diploma of

While he was at work an! Phonour. English physicial, Joseph Wilson Swan, had been engaged on the same problem, and he was certala- by far ahead, in point of time, of EDISON'S LIFE AND the American inventor in realising

TRAVELLERS CHEQUES ISSUED. isang travelling Homeward ar rommended to obtain a Letter of Credit From

om

rip, which can be cashest through the Purser

of any, and G. or B. I. R. N. Her of at anyof the Wrenches of the Corporation.

W. J. WADDINGTON,

Acting GF,

WORK.

elec-

His capacity for work was enor spent regularly in the laboratory moue, Sixteen hours a day were where he smoked innumerable cigars while he could labour, if necessary, sixty hours at a streich. le rarely slept for more than four hours a night, yet he got from his brief rest a sufficient renewal of his vital forces.

His advice to young people who?

to avold templation was to wished to get a job and work so hard at it that temptation could not exist for them. He was a lifelong lento- taler. Smoking and chewing the difficulties to be overcome. For tobacco were his only dis a considerable perind there was rivalry between the two inventors, but ultimately it was arranged that their patents should be worked to

an cerme which will be conted on applHARDSHIPS OF EARLY DAYS. gether.

Hongkong, 8th May, 198s.

HONGKONG SAVINGS BANE

The Business of the above Bank in es ducted by the HONGKONG AND EHANDKA BANKING CORPORATION. Boles may be Jobtained on application.

FOR THE HONGKONG AND SHANGILA | BANKING CORPORATION.

Y. M. GRAYRIEN,

Chief Manager. Howgkong, 10th July, 1985.

ROMANCE OF FIRST PHONOGRAPH.

When Thomas

n

Many honours were upon him, but those that he valued most were the three degrees of the French Legion of Honour and the Albert Gold Medal awarded to him by the British Society of Arts.

The Phonograph,

Another invention, with which

The Rubber Problem, the name of Edison is indissolubly associated is the phonograph. "I In 1928 he received the highest was singing to the mouthpiece of honours his country could give telephone," he said, "when the him. Congress voting him a kold Alva Edison vibration of the votre sent the fine medal. A year later his invention (whose death took place inst month steel point into my finger. That of the incandescent lamp was rom- was born there was light, ne telephone, no tape mathe actions of the point over the

no electric set me thinking. If I could record memorated on a postage stamp

His last years were devoted to chine, uo electric tramway. cinematograph. A comparison of reason why the thing would not mented with a great

name Horface afterwards, I saw the aludy of rubber. He

He experi that day with ours gives the mea-talk.

variety of sure of his services to mankind.,

tried the expe

experiment first plants in his summer home, in or He

en a slip of telegraph paper, and der to discover one suited to the came of sturdy Dutch stock. found that the point made His great-grandfather, a HEAD OFFICE: 55, Wall Strees banker, took sides with the Mother-Halloo halloot into the mouth. He failed to reach a satisfactory an Southern States of the Union from a New York

Yark alphabet. I shouted the wordin

oris which rubber could be obtained. land in the War of Independence. involto Nova Scotia: hetect pointhe paper back over the involved in a Canadian rebellion, Halloo! hallou! in return.

point, and heard a fuint found found refuge on the American side The phonograph, or sound-record of the border, after a tramp of 180er. is the result of the pricking of miles

without food or sleep, and settled

in the Ohio village of Milan. There the famous inventor was

THE NATIONAL CITY BANK

OF NEW YORK.

New York.

Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profts

ARGENTINE DELGIUM 8,400.000 HAZIL 4,000,000 CHILE CHINA

4,000 329 COLOMBIA

3.624.000 CURA

HEAD OFFICE SINGAPORE.

DOMINCAN

REPUBLIC INDIA

Brangbest Agyteles and Correspondents to AN the principal clisen of the world.

Every description of Banking and Exchanges | ITALY business transacted.

TAN ENG HOOL

Manager.

U.S.$224,554,29

Branches in

LONDON MEXICO

PANAMA PENU PHILIPPINE

ISLAND

PORTO RICO STRANTS

SETTLEMENTS

URUGUAY

VENEZUELA

ncerite."

solution at the problem.

علوم

In the summer of 1929 he decid-) ed to adopt a "successor," for whose scientific education he pro- mised to pay. From forty-nine candidates-one from each State- he selected, with the help of a com- mittee, which included Mr. Henry Ford and

and Colonel Lindbergh, Wil bur Huston, aged 16. Age was al- realy telling upon Edison's extra-

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His assistanta laughed at the barn on February 11, 1847. The idea of building a machine that modest amount of education he re-uld talk, het Edison was undis- ceived was given by his mother, mayed, and wrestled night and day and when he was twelve he began when the problems of use At ordinary vitality, however, and the work us a

egaliscovery to practical a seller of fruit und news-

shape. At

of selection proved papers on the Grand Trunk Rail-last he called on a frient in the process

severe strain on his atrength. road from Detroit to Port Huron.ice of the "Scientiae American," Between trains he read omniver-which

with a quaintlooking instrument

His long, active career did not Commercial and Travellers' Leously in the Detroit Library, and

emitted the wonderful terminate until July of this year, tors of Credit, Travellers' Choques when by his business activity he sounds, "Good morning! What do when he decided to go into retire- Bills of Exchange and Cable was making eight dollars a day he you think of the phonographment. ***.*** | Transfers bought and sold. Cur established and printed a little Fe had succeeded; the phonographi BANK OF CHINA. rent accounts and Savings Bank newspaper and set up a laboratory was born!

accounts opened and Fixed De in the baggage van of the train.

But between the original instru- Reorganised October 26. 1428, under special eles taken at rates that may be as posits in local and foreign curren-

ment-now to be seen in the South, A Disaster.

Kensington Museum--and the pers INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE DANK certained on application to the

feet machine, which has recorded. But one day the car caught fire, for posterity the tragic tones of ..$25,000,000.00 Bank. 24.710.000.00 We

able

and Edison, with his printing out-Irving or the golden offer out and chemical apparatus, was Caruso,

notea of 8,920.803.8!

Customers the services of the lung out at the next station, and gulf. bridged only by the genius there was an immense Branches of the Internationa Banking Corporation in San Fran made permanently dent by the of Edison,

vigorous ear-cuffs of the enraged claco, and Spain and also of conductor. Having saved the life after month in making the instru It is said that he spent month Owing to our numeroas branches in Chins (France) S.A., in Paris and Nice taught telegraphy by the father, Intelligible."."

National City Bank of New Yor of a station master's child, he was ment produce a correct "s" or an And year After F. McD. COURTNEY,

and he was shortly able to obtain year was spent in an attempt to a position as operator on the line.

charter of The National Government ne na

Bubscribed Capital

Tald-Up Capital

Reserve Fonde

HEAD OFFICE: SHANCIAL

HONGKONG BRANCH,

4, Queen's Road Central

and large connections in the important mim. merela centres of the world, we am able to ertend to our cilents special fell for domestic and foreign tanking and exchange

We lau handle the lease of Bonda and other Pubile Funits of the Chase Government bath at home and abrumd.

RNOU J. CHEN.

Munozee.

THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD. Established 1918.

HEAD OFFICE: 10, Des Voeux Road, Central,

HONGKONG, Capital & Surplus over H$8,000,000 Total Resources over $30,000,000 Every description of Banking and Exchange business transact- ed.

are alno

Manager,

Hongkong, 20th February, 1931. For some years, he travelled atombine the sounds of the phono

NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL

MAATSCHAPPIJ, N.V. (Netherlands Trading Society.)

DANKETS.

ESTABLISHED 1814.

Hongkong Offee: 11, Queen's Road, Castra Authorised Capital... Gulden 150.000,009.

Pald-Up Capital

Reserve Fund

{£12,500,000. Guliders 80,000,000.

(0,409,170 .Collders 45,015,000.

(5.88€,687

Seat D-AMHTERÅTES"

45 16t

with the movements of the telegraphic, railway.

news einematograph so that we might ilper wor

work

in Canada and the have talking and singing pictures. United States, and on many oe. His work in the perfection of the casions his inventive gealus dis- cinematograph is known all over played itself in devices for saving the world, nor is it work. He was MET

necessary here Mtill in

his teens to

to do more than refer to his car- when he overcame the difficulty bon transmitter, by which he over- caused by a broken telegraph cable came the faintness of Bell's tele- across a river by imitating the phone and eliminated the extrane alphabet of the

on the ons code the Morse

sounds, whistle of a railway engine.

Edison took out more than In 1871 he migrated from Boston thousand patents, and it would be to Now York, taking with him, impossible here to enumerate all among other ideas, the germ of his his devices and inventions. Ever duplex and multiplex telegraph. a practical man, he kept before his

fe became

associated with the eyes the commercial possibilities Gold Reporting Company (the ob- of all he undertook. and for chofco ject of which was to transmit the preferred inventions Bandons price of gold

that Hombar. Calcas Cherbor

of gold to hrokera and money.

ey- useful in tene rather than Jeddah, Djember, Diokjakarta changers), and while acting as

Often too

Kastern Head Offes:-BATAVIA,

Ac-DRANCHES-Bonderin

Current and Fixed Deposit counts in local and foreign cur rencies opened for effents.

Savings Account and Safe De- posit Boxes.

Branches and Agencies all over} the world. .

KAN TONG PO,

Chief Manager.

'PUDLO

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FLOODED CELLARS

Sale Agents for Hongkong & §. China

DODWELL & CO., LTD. Hongkong..........Tel. 28021.

Makamer. Medan. Padang

Rangoon. ILotter

were

in muc”

in war.

was expected of

The Hague, Robe. Kott-Rad superintendent he brought out his him. The announcement that he Palembang, Pekalongan, Pean carliest successful invention, the, and discovered a new storage bat- telegraph for stock qua-tery" was hailed with extravagant So valuable were his many praise, to

by extrava be succeeded by

was found was offered forty thousand dollars that he had only partially solved

Pontianak,

Am.* Semarang, Shanghal Sibolga (Bomains), Piagapers

Terni, Tilinifay and Walter

Boarabala, 504rakarts (Boley to

the Company that he kant disgust when it se

* Thess offices have unte deposti boccan in in for the entire lot. Edison accept the problem which had long worri-

Lid.

Landon Bankara:--Nation Provincial Ded, and so little versed in basiness ed electrical railway engineers, of was he that he did not know what obtaining electrical force direct to do with the cheque when he re-from the oxygen and carbon, with- celved It.

out the heating process requiring

Correspondents all over the world,

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Konekone, 18th August, 1980.

Manerer

THE BANK OF CANTON

LIMITED.

ESTABLISHED (11),

Head Office:-Hongkong.

Authorised Capital

Paid-Up "Fund

Reserve Fund

BRANCHER unau

$11,000,00

1,446,00

1,000,00

Canton, Shanghai, Bankow Swaton

Bangkok, New York, nad Bas Fras

laco

LONDON BANKERS

The Lloyd's Bank, Limfind.

Correspondenta in all Principal sillan of th

world.

Foreign Exchange and Danking Denom | every Smartpilen trezescted.

Bafe Deposit Bonu (variona slam at

| pearly rental of from 15 to $40.

LOOK POONG BIAN,

Chief, MamNESE Hongkong, 19th March, 1981,

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