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THE HONGKONG TEL

MONDAY,

NOVEMBER

*1934.

ANCIENT CRAFTS OF ENGLAND'S CAPITAL

(BY A CORRESPONDENT)

other public buildings.

If you require a hand-made tack that is, band-made throughout It is still possible to find the master craftsman who enn make you one. Machinery has all but extinguished this ancient craft. In the London workshop munter locksmith you may see still In use tools and equipment that

of

There are craftsmen in London who can make by hand a "self- bow" in Spanish yew na deftly as the bowyers of olden days. This fact. I learned while seeking out- among the 20,000 accupations of London's eight millions those an- clent crafts that persist as fegncies of the times when all men wrought by hand. And just as you may buy from the modern lowyer a true hand-made bow, so you may turn to the London fletcher who is inherited the art of gooar-fouther ing an arrow with all the skill and cunning of the medieval worker.

Before the Invention of the steet pen by Bryan Donkin the craft of null-making gave employ-pare with the hand-made article. ment to thousands. There remain In Bondon stili a handful of quill- makera who find a market for their Wares among the legal folk and that small minority of Writers that prefers the goose-quill to the most modern of fountain-pens; The craft has

come down the

been in use Alyce the eighteenth century. Here, acorn- ful of machines, locksmiths, em ployed by a firm that can boast that its faunder made the great keys of Newgate, make locks by hand. No machine, they will tell you, can make a luck to com-

GLASS HOUSES.

first

The wanderer about London's byways may wonder at the fre- quency with which he will come on Glaas-yards, Glassfields, and Glass-streets. These names de- rived from the vicinity of old

centuries unchanged, the quill-London's glass houses. Only one dresser of undern London handles the undressed quill, bakes it, and points it as did the quillmakers of the eighteenth century.

were

In ancient Greece there eraftsmen who could produce gold jenf one hundred-thousandth of un inch. in thickness, Gold-beaters in the Middle Ages performed that miracle, too. In modern London you may see the master craftsm who can surpass all those who went before him, for, using the

traditional

old

methods, the

f these houses survives, though the eighteenth century could show aginas house for every an-named thoroughfare. In those old ginsa houses tumblers, decanters, and entirely by hand, and the craft similar glassware were mude till exists, being carried on quite

Bear St. Paule,

ne

But for the uniform of the Bar craft would by now have ennished entirely. If the wig- maker still flourishes, he owes his Existence to the Inwyers. He

in Paris & race was recently arranged for sporting toys and our picture shows some of the participants driving at full speed on l'Esplanade des Invalides.

modern master-man makes gold- feaf 2900,000th of an inch in thick.

'AN.

STICKS TO METHOD,

As with most ancient Crafts that have descended from genera- on to generation, the gold-beater may improve In handigraft, but he eschews changes of methoil, There are four master gold-beaters - Landon, and it is their last That theirs is the most ancient of all crafts. They point. in evid enee, to the gold-lear that aderna themuminy case of An-Anter, in the British Museum, a specimen of their craft that goes back to 2.600 BC. There is no machinery that can do this work, and that is why you may st ner in London The gold-beater and hear his 8-11. hammer as it descends upon, the marble bench.

re-

It is from the workshops of London's gold-beaters that will rume the gold-leaf for the decoration of the Albert Memorial which is now in progress; it is gold-leaf from these workshops that gilds St. Paul's Cathedral, the Houses of Parliament, and many

Mix Contance Bennett isoke at Paris' modes bafore choosing her winter onsembles.

The mysterious giant pasaunger vasual “No: 534,7 on which the marged Cunar lines of England devoted more than three years' work, finally splashed into the River Clyde, mer and White Star Glasgow, Scotland, whan Queen Mary christened the ship with her own name. Although the most powerful ship alloat, the Queen Mary will be second in size to France's new super-liner, the Norman- die, launched, two years ago.

ZEPPELIN'S VOYAGE

OF DISCONVERY

Rio De Janeiro, Oct. 28.

"FATHER OF THE DESERT"

In a lecture to the Royal Central Asian Society, Major C. S. Jarvis, who has been Governor of Sinai

Ruins of lost cities, legendary monuments like those for twelve years, dealt with the of Easter Island, and strange Indian tribes will be sought Arab and his characteristica, such from the air next year when a new Zeppelin makes three heedlessness of the value of scientific flights over the Amazon and its tributaries. time and punctuality. "Time to

Special machinery enabling the dirigible to remainly a state of mind."

him is not a dimension-it is more-

The lecturer

suspended just above the ground while a Gondola is held the view that the Arab in lowered to land scientists for detailed research will be vasion of the seventh century put installed.

the clock back in the Middle East The expedition will seek detalled (thickly populated districts and the

for thirteen hundred years, and Information of the world-famous richest coffee plantations of the pointed to the past, prosperity of country of orchids in the valley of work, passing over the great water the deserts of the River Madeira. Attempts will falls of Iguasan and Sete Quedas, Southern Palestine, and Libya, Trans-Jordan, be made to locate the ruins fbiggest in the world. anelent elties, are reported exist-

comparing it with their present ent but long since barred from will also fall across the eave city was a misnomer to allude to the

The shadow of the great dirigible deserted and neglected state.

Into the vast territories between ward Into the interior the expedi; for he was, to be exact, the father jacar Curityba, and passing south-Arab as the "Son of the Desert," the Amazon and Bahia the Zeppelin tion will seek the rains of an old of the desert, having very largely scientists wil! cruise hoping to descit elly believed to exist in the

man's view.

It

estulish important historie facts forms of the River Uruguay.ereated it himself by his neglect concerning the age and origin of Lufted Press,

and carelessness, ie, failure to

these "lost cities," such as the well-

known' Sincora,

The mission may even incorpor= || ale rescue with Retence, says iti prospectus, for a trarent is planned in the districts of Matto Grosso, in central Brazil, a land of gold BIR! the mythical

Martyrios amongst whom the British explorer. Colonel P. H. Fawcett, was reported to have disappeared,

FAWCETT'S TALE.

and settlements

It was Fawcett who claimed the existence in these regions of cities and an attempt will be made to locate an old tribe and their monuments of stone be- lieved to be similar to those found

on Easter Island,

for

works by hand, and the horse-hair prodnet of his craft remains un- Efforts will also be made to trave changed. Between this craft and the German explorer Schmidt, who, the making of theatrical wigs like Dr., Ritter and the Galapagos there is a wide difference. Thea- Matto Grosso and according to

Islands, deserted civilisation trient wigs are not made to last: reports became chief of a belli. but the product of the legal wig-gerent tribe and at the age of 601 maker is required to stand up to married his second Indian wife Inny years of service. In the recently. small window of a legal-wignker 1 saw just how well his wares last, for there, good as the day the lehrned judge first donned stands the wig of Sir Henry Hawkins, Inter Baron Bramwell.

WHITE MAGIC.

1.

Among Londlan's old shops one can still come upon those quaint,

Central Brazil to bring about

It is planned on the light over meeting of all accessible tribes of Indian, to have them witness the most modern means of transporta-

tion in the world through a unique Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, the American Mishtor in Denmark, in seen above

reception in the middle of the virgin forest where the Zeppelin wilt land,

HUNTING WHITE INDIANS.

tribes of Indians about whont little The expedition will search for

antertaining some Eskimo children during her recent visit in Greenland.

GERMAN DOCUMENTS

repair dams, water channels, springs, ett... and allowing hie and vegetation. The goat, Major camels and goats to destroy trees German Jarvis-quoting from the Scrip-

"Friends of Europe," in their known. A visit will be made to September surves

Di

-lit back premises whete men still work by hand. For example, ninate's walk from Regent- street there is a little shop where me of the naverest traditional ve Indians and in the districts be-portant reprisentative documents ture-alluded to as "a leader in the region occupied by the "white" publications, have reproduced im- cupations is still carried There, in

ontween Xingui and Tapajoz rivers from the German Press in relation mighty, wickedness," and to a very A workshop littered with precious and semi-precious attempt to trace the in the recept General Election of large extent held this animal stones, with jacinth, jade, crystal, seitlements are

Pygmies. The location of these Hiller as leader of the Third responsible for the

known but have Reich. A lengthy survey appears sand dunes that have, covered so incursions of of a new hook, "Blood and Hon-

and amber, a craftsman caters for never been visited by white men. those who still hold that I the

magic amulet lies power to protrip over Southern Brazil,

The Zeppelin will make a Bonour." by Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, the much useful land in the Middle pitiate the powers of evil. ·

over well-known Nazh leader.

East.

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Here 1 craftsman turns out jewelled talismans, each one accordance with astrological maps and prepare for the

customer whose horoscope acts as guide to the mysteries of fale and futurity. Strange, as It may seem, these costly ornaments go out from London to every part of the world; for not even machines can extinguish credulity,

Which is London's oldest shop? Most people will say. off-hand. that it stands in the Haymarket, adding that one can still buy there the snuffs beloved of the bucks. of Regency days. It is quite true you can buy in that ancient house precisely that snuff used by King George III.

But if you would find the oldest shop In London you will have to wander Enst. Bell-founding is a ancient craft, and in Whitechapel- road there stands the oldest bell:: founders in London. That firm can show a record of trading that goes back in unbroken succession to 1570, though the present pre- mlaes are a mere, two centuries old.

More speed and greater efficiency in the air, is predicted by designers of the “pterodactyl" plane, which eliminates the cumbersome fuselage, tall and rudder of the conventional type of aircraft. One of the odd craft is shown in a test fight at Yeovil, England. It is named for the most primitive flying “andau) known:tè ̈zefence

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