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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, MAY" 10, 1935.

LONDON LIFE

PASSING OF THE

ORGAN-GRINDER

The organ-grinder, once a pro- minent Agure in the street life of London, is gradually disappearing. Bays a writer in a Home paper. Half a century or more ago, when many of them lived amongst the Itallin colony in London, there were 200 persons engaged in mak ing and repairing the instruments, Signor Pesarcsi, about that period, was pricking the score of the popular tunes on the organ roll, and even to-day if you go to Arlington-road you may stil seo the happy tnsk being carried on by his descendants.

But the organ-grindera aru fewer and the industry has be come more and more British. The Italians number to-day no, more than a dozen, and two of them, are women. They hire their instru- ments by the day, and wild horsea would not drag from them the amount they pay for hire or the sum of their takings, although the fable that they make anything up to £5 a day may be disregarded. One day in the Long Ago when Robert Louis Stevenson we a ing through Russell-square, he was so struck by the wan appear. ance of one whom ho saw playing there that he "filled his hand with money-ton to thirteen shillinge, I } should think," but that

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happened often, and certainly it does not happen to-day The pianola, the gramophone, and wire. less have all contributed to the disappearance of the Italian organ-grinder, and there has also been the competition of the British ex-Service man, who cheerfully trundles the street-organ to any suburb where there is a chance of An audience.

Dame Sybil, Dictator of Surk.

Yankee's Visit Hathaway, and her maiden name

To England

VOYAGE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC

When Yankee joins the big British racing yacht this season she will have what is without doubt the strongest combination of talont over seen on board one vessel. Her skipper is to be Mr. Charles Francis Adams, u Cormer

Beautiful scenery unmarred by modern conveyances. Roses (1465 to 1487). By way of On this woman-ruled island, gas, taxes, each landowner gives a electricity and, running water aro thirteenth of his crops to Dictator unknown. Chief city and port is Hathaway. She accepts no money, the village of Creux. Island is a prefers to encourage cultivation by mile brond, three miles long; popu- demanding produce only. Smoke-tation 640, of whom 40 are far- stacks are a liability: for each mers, the remainder consisting of smokestack on his house or shop, their families, fishermen and their every citizen must pay to Mrs. families, merchants and theirs, Hathaway a tax collectible in The farmera constitute the court chickens. No property may of chief pleas, main Judicial body change hands without her consent, of island still live on original pro- and in the event of auch an ex-perties given to their ancestors In change, she would receive a com-sixteenth century by the first ruler mission.

(or seigneur) of Sark.

In feudal Sark, transportation On their statute books, the depends on horse or man-power. original rulers of Sark scribbled Her full title is Dume Sybil of the English Channel, in island The importation of automobiles is quaint laws, most of which are Surk, thirty-second Lord of Sark. three miles long and one mile wide, forbidden. The laland's scenery still enforced. No one but the Her rent name is Mrs. Sybil Mary with a population of 640.

is among the most beautiful in laland's ruler may keep pigeons; Sark's 40 farmers and their Europe. Such rends as the one na one but the ruler may keep a Was Sybil M. Collins. She Is de familles live in qunint

stone shown in the accompanying layout, female dog. Sark was given to scendant of Heiler de Carteret. houses which are spread over the cut through brilliantly-hued rocks, Mrs. Hathaway's ancestors by who in 172 became first ruler of island. Landlord of the tiny state are common. Technically citizens Queen Elizabeth of England in six- Sark,

In Great Britain (who owns it), of England most Sark natives teenth century; she inherited die- but the King of England is "boss" speak French; all men serve in the tatorship from her father six years All of which is to say that shein name only. Still in elfect a militia, and each must spend, two ago; her husband is regarded as the world's only woman dictator. the strict feudal system that in days a She is ruler of the Isle of Sark, in England died with the Wars of roads,

year helping to fix thea consort only, has no ruling

Crimean War Veteran

Secretary of the United States CHIEF OF HISTORIC

Navy, whom many believe to be the finest helmanan in America. It will be recalled that in the inst trial to select the America's Cup defender he was defeated by Mr. Vanderbilt by only one second.

Yankee's designer, Mr. Frank C. Paine, is another member of her "afterguardas 11-Amer- icans style the officers and ama- teurs in their vessels. Mr. Paine's knowledge of the rigging of big vessels is unrivalled. A other distinguished amateur sailor who will sail in Yankee is Mr. Jack Parkinson.

services

CLAN

SIR FITZROY MACLEAN

lean, one of the survivors of the When Colonel Sir Fitzroy Mac- Crimean War, celebrates his 100th birthday at his ancestral home, Duart Castle, tale of Mull, on May 18, he is to be the recipient of a were requested for Rainbow when signal tribute of affection from she defeated the British challen-members of the clan of which be ger Endeavour. He is known to is the twenty-sixth hereditary many English yachtsmen, for he chief. was aboard Higland Light in the Atlantic race of 1931. The owner of Yankee, Mr. Gerard B. Lambert, who, too, is a talented helmsman, will take part in all the contests over here.

voyage

During her Atlantic Yankee will be commanded by her designer, Bir. Paine, Yankee's new steal must has been unshipper ready for transhipment in the Olympic, and she will make the ocean passage under jury rig. This new mast is a spar similar to Endeavour's.

SEEKING FOR "IDEAL VOICE"

TELEPHONING TIME

WITH CHARM

Macleans in all parts of the world have contributed to a bound volume containing their alena- tures, and this will be handed to Sir Fitzroy as an expression of the delity of the great family over which he traditionally presides.

Recently Sir Fitzray was slight- ly indisposed, but he is happily improving, and his birthday will be duly kept with members of his family, including his twenty- years-old grandson, who is heir to the Scottish baronetcy created in 1631.

Throughout the акен the Macleans have been, warriors. The founder of the elan was Gillean nan Tuaighe (Gillean of the Battle Axe"), whose grandson fought at Bannockburn. Other Fifteen thousand Post Office clan leaders fell · In subsequent women telephonists In England | battles. The family suffered will soon be taking part in n com- greatly for their adherence to the petition to find the perfect tele- Stuart cause, and the fifth baronet -phone voice.

was imprisoned for two years at Edinburgh for his part in enlist- ng Scotsmen for the French army in aid of the Jacobite cause.

The "Ideal volco" is needed to make sound film records in connec- tion with the automatic, "talking clock" system, which Post Office enginoora havo deyised to tell sub- scribers the time when' they ring up their exchange.

...

Prizes will be offered to the first soven successful competitors, consisting of £10 108. for the "Ideal volco"; £5 6s. for the next best; and-five prizes of £2 2a. each to the "talkers up."

treasured relics of ancient Scottish Sir Fitzroy, who possesses many

days and wars, as a youth of soventeen joined the 13th Hussars, which, nearly twenty years after wards, e, commanded. It was with the 13th Light Dragoons, however, that he saw service in Bulgaria and the Crimea, and it is

The final test will be carried out laconically recorded that he was In London. The voice of the win: present at the cavalry affair at ner, It Is stated, will possess purity, Buljanak, the battle of Alms, and

of tone and clarity of enunciation, the sloge of Sebastopol."

together with a charra which will

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[STRAIGHT) ON

power.-R.C.P.

Great crowds watched the elimination issts for the 1,000 miles Rally at Eastbourne, which recantly took place on King Edward's Parade.

Thousands of workmen are working day and night to complete the buildings for the great exhibition in Sia Diogo, California, which has to be opened on the 29th May. The picturs above abows workmen paving » street in the Spanish town of the exhibition

divulge her desire to serve the He is one of the last living linka mission in 1852. myblic in a manner worthy of the with the Duke of Wellington,

the family seat, was seized by the one years ago, when Sir Fitzroy

great organisation she represents." from whom he received his com- Macleans took part, Duart Castle, There it lay humbled until twenty restored. amou

After Culloden, in which many English and razed to the ground. nequired it, and had the building

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