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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER

VANDERBILT FORTUNE

FOUNDER ONCE

A "PIRATE"

STARTED TO BUILD NEW

FORTUNE AT 70

£1,200,000 ́IN A POCKET ANOTHER. Vanderbilt has come into his own. George, the son of Alfred Vanderbilt, who

age was drowned in the Lusitania, came of week and inherited the fortune of his father.

last

The figure is not known, but estimates give it us £4,000,000. Twenty-one-year-old George Vanderbilt thus takes his place ns one of the headmen of that tribe that has been called the America.

:

He will succeed men who have given fetes that recall the pageantry of Versailles, and for whose daughters' hands princes have clamoured and been re- pulsed.

ultra-conservative aristocratic uncrowned Royal Family of his ships and put all the money, into railways,

He put his whole life's, work into this grand last throw. People said it was senile mad-

nesa.

-Actually the septuagenarian Vanderbilt doubled and redoubled

fifteen years So much grandeur is the his fortune in

railways. heritage of a Vanderbilt.

From what source does it all come? From the efforts of a farmboy who started running a tiny ferry-boat and developed

into

a selfish, blasphemous, dyspeptic, and determined old man who lived to be probably the richest man in America. This old man, Cornelius, was born to a family of farmers in Staten Island, N.Y., in 1794,

At the age of sixteen he began to run his own smiall salling ferry

of

Even in his first five years he made a clear profit of £5,000,000.

One midnight during these. five years he walked home with £1,200,000, his share of profits, in his pocket in notes.

WAR At the age of seventy ho

but millionaire, just another gradually he became something legendary, a man famous even in. Europe.

Yacht Like Liner

A. D. 1935

1936.

AUSTRIA AND

These two outfits may look like diabolical war inventions, but are in reality for use by fremen. One is an asbestos suit and the exhibition at Olympia, other a gas mask and were shown at an London.

ATLANTIC AIRWAY

50-TONS FLYING BOATS AND £83 FARES

buat between Staten Island and by building himself Iarge and New York to London

New York.

He sailed it sixteen hours in the twenty-four. He gave his mother £220 at the end of the first year, and bought a part interest in three more boats,

,

A Doomed Trade

Ile astounded the whole world private yacht which was as luxurious as the best Transatlan- tie liners of the time. Nothing had been seen like it before.

At eighty he was richer than ever, and still as straight as an Indian.

across the richest country in the

By the time he was twenty-world from New York to Chicago. three ho was worth £1,800. He

In 26 Hours

Non-Stop

New York, Oct. 28.

Opening Kowloon To-night, 7th Nov.

THE WAR HARMSTON'S

EVROPE

ON THE

EVE OF 1914

WHAT A GERMAN

JOURNALIST SAW

war, as seen by an influential

CIRCUS

AND

ROYAL MENAGERIE

Location:Corner Chatham Road

and Cameron Road, Kowloon..

THE events that led up to the The Biggest, Brightest and Best, still maintaining our old reputation.

Do not fail to see this magnificent array of talent." Nightly at 9.15 p.m.

German journalist, are described

in "The Eve of 1914," by. Herr Theodore Wolf.

Herr Wolf has not only the qualification of a historian's mind for sifting and interpreting evid- of the Berliner As editor Tangeblatt. he saw at close quar- ters many of the events he des- cribes.

ence.

Thus his pages are enlivened with many vivid impressions. Ont Aug. 2 ho learned that the Minister

of War would like to see him,

MATINEES

Every Saturday & Sunday at 4.30' p.m.. Children Half Price to Matinees only.

Herr von Falkenhayn was stand- Full Box to hold six Ing in a close-fitting white drill Single Seat in Box uniform, slender, spruce, youthful,

by a table. on which a large milit-First Chairs

ary map was spread. The picture

of the commander standing at his case to receive the visitor who happens to have come in. The most the handsome and elegant of Kaiser's Ministers of War received me with smiling amiability, and when I sald I had been afraid I should be disturbing him and that he must have so much of more im- portance to dp that day, be replies: are not disturbing me in the least, I have finished my job and have nothing at all to do."

This combination of qualities makes it the easier to accept the definite opinions which Herr Wolf, uulike some commentators on the beginnings of the War, is quite emphatic that William 11, dld not desira war: he is equally sure that a strong and eventually successful party in Austria-not, however, in- cluding the Emperor-did.

The Austrians withhold for tw daya, even froin the Germans. tho text of the almost abject Serbian reply to their ultimatum. On the next day they published it and de- clared war at the same time. William said it was "a great moral success for Vienna; but with that every reason for war disappears." But for those two vital days he had

an-been cajoled blindfold along the

path which led to the cataclysm.

Emperor's Dofusion

He owned 978 miles of railway THE National Aeronautic Association

nounces to-day detailed plans for a 50-tons And he had never read any book flying boat, to carry loads of passengers, mail, had been making £600 a year. But except the "Pilgrim's Progress." he sensed he was in a doomed At the age of eighty-two ho died, and express freight between New York and Lon- trade.

leaving £20,000,000.

The bulk of his money went to don on regular overnight schedules. his son, William K. Vanderbilt. The association states that the new boat is to finest house-in-America-on be developed by the Glenn L. Martin Company,

Out of it W. K built the

Fifth Avenue.

Steam had arrived. So he gave up all the position he had created for himself and took a poorly-paid position as captain of a small steam boat in another man's feet.

He stayed, learning all there Six hundred men worked on of Baltimore.. was to learn, for twelve years. He

it, and it cost £500,000. saved money steadily.

When he gave a banquet in it They were exciting years.

the guests ate off gold plate and IIIs steamer

a. "pirate"

ithe flowers

from came

the running without a licence, and the Southern States at a cost of £800. New York City ofcials were

He only lived eight years after constantly trying to catch him. his father. In that time he had For sixty consecutive days 80 lended the fortune that his will officers boarded his boat with disposed of £40,000,000.

Was

writs to arrest him. At first he

would hide near the gangway,

and then, as soon as they had Crusaders'

come aboard, slip off on to the

dock.

Later he had a secret cham-

Pledge In

ber, with a sliding panel, con- Cathedral

structed in the hold.

In 1829 he started to build

steamboats on his own account.

His boats were faster and more

A sword was laid upon the

luxurious than those of his rivals, altar at Southwark Cathedral

last month.

whom he gradually bought up.

Before he was forty he had twenty bouts, and WOA worth £100,000.

Twice as large as the 51,000lb. "clipper" ships now being built for the Pan-American Airways for use on the Transpacific route, it will weigh, empty, 48,000lb., and will carry a useful load of 52,000lb.

Equipped with four Diesel engines, developing 6,000-h.p., the giant flying boat will have a wing span of 180ft.

Air Mail 3d. An Ounce

Perhaps the most revealing ple- ture in Herr Wolff's book is that

or the Emperor receiving from the hands of Sir Ernest Cassel the British Government's proposals for an agreement. They went no. far-

ther than a suggestion of reciprocal Assurances debarring either Power from joining in aggressive designs. or combinations against the other" William chose to read this as "a formal offer of neutrality in the

event of Germany being involved in war at any future date" and he and Bethmann-Hollweg and Ballin -evidently, says Herr Wolf, "in a state of pleasant excitement"-set.

to, work to draft a reply on that quite unfounded assumption. With such pathetic frivolity did the Government of the Empire stray towards its fate.

The average number of hours for the eastbound trip is Writ Issued

estimated at 26.7, and for the westbound trip at 31.5.

According to technical reports, first class passengers will By A

pay as little as £83 for the one-way trip from New York to Lon- don at the start of the service of two round trips a week, but this rate may be reduced to £53 when nine or more trips are made each week.

Air mail will be carried for as little as 3d. an ounce. It was the sword of the Tenth

The promoters of the service estimate it would increase in Crusade, founded in 1921 to carry on the chivalrous 'ideals of the frequency with gradual increases in traffic until, with 169 round For Afteen years more he .ax-

Crusaders of eight centuries ago. trips weekly, using 210 of the projected new flying boats, it tended his steamboat lines.

200 would be possible to carry by air the entire passenger traffic at Call-und while it lay in state came the great Then

van modern crusaders from all parts present handled by the six largest Transatlantic ocean liners. fornian gold rush of 1849. derbilt found a shorter way of of the country renewed their vows getting to the West than any one of Barvice to "King, country and

"Jumpad" Rapids

fellow-men."

solemn moment

the was

A Day Saved

Prince

ALLEGED LIBEL IN 'RASPUTIN' FILM

A second sensational lawsuit arising out of the "talkie" film "Rasputin" is pending in the High Court in England,

A writ claiming damages for alleged libel has been issued against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lao. It involved sailing down to A

Mr. Glenn L. Martin declares that no addition to present

Pictures, Ltd., by Prince Jacob Central America, going up a rapid, minute's silence in memory of the knowledge or technique is needed to build the ships.

Chegodieff, a Latvian barrister, dangerous river, and crossing to dead. During it the sword and

who contends that his character the Packie const by coaches,

They can be constructed, he says, in the next few years, and has been defamed in the film. the pennons of the different con-

Ho alleges that "Chegodleff" their gilt symbolic will be independent of the control exercised by foreign Govern- claves with figures

in the film is depicted as the of the star, crescent, ments over Bermuda and the Azores. The engineers reported that the portcullis and visor, were raised

While the non-stop route would be more expensive than stop-murderer of Rasputin and says river could not be ascended. So aloft. Vanderbilt took the wheel of his Much valuable volunteer work ping in the Azores and Bermuda, the time saved-a whole busi-that he did not know the "Holy Monk" and was never in any own boat, tied down the safety has been done throughout the ness day--would be more important. valves, hauled the boat over the country by Crusaders, including Mr. Martin adds: "The non-stop direct route is 3,600. miles position in the court of the Tear rocks in the river by cables, and an organised blood transfusion to be covered by our boats at an estimated average speed of 130 of Russia.

Hoaring Next Year? Prince Chegodleff's name was frequently mentioned during the hearing of a High Court case brought in March last year, by Irina Alexandrovna Princess Youssoupoff. She was awarded £25,000 damages against Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Ltd., libel in the for alleged "Rasputin" film.

jumped" the rapids.

Having proved that the passage could be made he started carrying such adventurous souls as would risk the journey,

This line was soon paying its founder £100,000 a year!

In his fifties he was one of the richest men In New York. Ho came to bo known as "the" com- modore," and no one had any reason to expect that this elderly man would be remembered as any thing but a successful steamboat ||

owner.

But instead. a few years later

he did an extraordinary thing.

He was nearly seventy. He was

service.

Prince, Nicholas

miles an hour."

Father of Duchess of Kent Writes a Film

Prince Nicholas duction, which will be

personally

of Greece, father supervised by Prince Nicholas, at of the Duchess of Elstree towards the end of the year.

has written

Ho is negotiating with two famous British actresses for the leading role of a middle-aged woman in love with in young sculptor, who, in turn, is in love with a girl of his own nga. •

"Prince Nicholas has written. some

Kont, a film which is to bo

produced by a British company, Tho title The Glow Be ngth the Ashes,"

worth £5.000,000. He had always the Bottings modern Greece really first-class dialogue," sold Mr. declared he would never go into and tho Bohemian quarter of Paris, Schacht. rallways.

with a good dramatic ploE, " Then without a

qualm he changed his mind. He sold

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says

"I am much impressed with the Mr. Max Schacht, of Capitol Films, effective way he has handled his

that he proposen to start pro-youth calls to youth scheme."!

AUTOGIRO AIDS GOLD PROSPECTORS

Having formed a company to prospect for gold in Central and north Australin, Mr. Smith Ro- berts, a geologist and mining on- gineer intends to do it as scienti- fically as possible,

He will use autogiros, for the frat Umo in gold-mining history, says Austral News. He is con

Prince Chegodieff was born of

a princely Tartar Russian family lin 1886..

IN

PRICES OF ADMISSION

(Including Tax)

$20.00 Second Chairs:

4.00 Carpets Gallery 3.00 Gallery

Booking At Moutrie's, Sundays At The Circus

Soldiers and Sailors in Uniform

Half price to Carpets Gallory and Second Chairs, only. Menagerie Open Daily From 8.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.

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arlene

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THE DEVIL IS A WOMAN'

with

LIONEL ATWILL - CESAR ROMERO EDWARD EVERETT HORTON AUSON SKIPWORTH - DON ALVARADO Directed by Josef von Sternberg A Paramount Picture

QUEEN'S

COMING

BRITISH

BRITISH

MALT

HOPS

THERE'S NO FAULT

$ 2,00

1.00

.50

ALLSOPP'S

SOLE AGENTS:

The action he is bringing Caldbeck Macgregor & Co., Ltd.

against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

vinced that fast landing and take-will probably be heard by a

off aeroplanes are useless, as the most likely spots for the occur rence of gold are Inaccessib'a"to anything except an aeroplane that can land vertically.

special jury in the King's Bench

Division.

It is not likely to come on for trial till next year.