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• THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1938.

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BESIDE THE SEASIDE

REMEMBER it all so well.

There was the sense of growing excitement, the spades of many sizes which I carried com-like golf clubs, the two (or was it three?) blasts of the whistle which on this great occasion I

summon

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MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1938

WHO SHOULD RUN THIS RAILWAY?

The next half hour was a kind of delirium. I can still savour the pungent delicious smell of trains, and the sense of Paradise Regained with which I sank into my corner of the carriage when the train had at last backed

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O-DAY is Whit- Monday, and in England, hundreds of thousands of holi- day-makers will trek In to the seaside. this article, the wri- ter traces the history of the seaside resort until to-day when it has become the fa- vourite rendezvous of England's holiday- makers.

down the platform and the free and happy, with the pil

battle for seats was over.

my trance.

to all the Watering and Sea- Lakes." It mentions not only Brighton, Margate, Weymouth and Scarborough, but Bognor,

Broadstairs, Cromer, Dawlish,

Eastbourne, Hastings, Ilfra- combe, Ramsgate, Southend,

Teignmouth and Yarmouth, and

BY

ARTHUR BRYANT

Bathing was only considered liberately. safe if taken slowly and de-.

what is even more astonishing, that last word in modernity, Blackpool, which is described as an "abode of Hygeia."

The book gives some interest ing details about bathing.

For over a century the Brighton the gentlemen resorted English watering-place offered to machines on the west side of little to holiday mukors beyond the town and the ladies on the its bathing benches, cliffs and

east,

At

"Thus public decency is

caves, a visit to the circulating preserved, without which no library and an occasional dance

well-bred society can exist."

and a game of cards at the At Blackpool, where the sexes assembly rooms.

shared the same machines a bell

was Been on

Shrine at Walsingham or Can- Except at Cuwes, where in the sunshine, one can fancy

new

Came

were

any ceremony,"

A modern watering place

bathing more than the sen. There are

arrived

This

was rung at the hour set apart joie de vivre hus begun to But lately our old English grim's staff and wallet-the for Indies. If after that any reassert itself. To-day, as the the speed-boats fly through the auri I did not read in the train: I round-trip senson ticket of those gentleman

or ride in parade he forfeited a bottle of and streamers and brightly glued my nose to the window days and tramp

great companies to Our Lady's wine. and kept it there. There I

coloured bathing dresses gleam remained in a kind of ecstasy,

some other famous "any gentlemen walk along the oneself for a moment back in seeing the fields and hedges terbury or

resort or pilgrimage.

sequestered beach towards what Merry England. flying past me ns the milestones

commit After the Reformation, when is called Egypt, and to paradise. Even the crumby egg sandwiches eaten out of the days of pilgrimage came to themselves to the waves with- offers its clients a great deal

Salisbury bag between

and an end and the holy wells and out Yeovil Junction scarcely broke springs were voted idolatrous, machines were de rigueur.

so many fine shops, cinemas, bandstands, Boodlit bathing- English doctors found an excuse pilgrimages by pre-

pools, amusement parks, winter Later, as the slow train be for

gardens, and hotels that even tween the main line and our tending that the waters

At Margate, where a daily the ocean has to take a back destination wound its way down medicinal. In the seventeenth

invasion of Londoners

place. As in the Queen Mary, some deep green western valley, century England possessed hun-

one knows that it is some- I would lean out of the window dreds of inland watering-places throughout the summer in the famous "hoys," a lady bathing

where near, but it is possible for their

in a machine was charged Is. It is only a question of time to catch the first sniff of the where people

and paid exorbitant

to pass one's time very agree- Canadian

Every now and then a health

and a gentleman 14. 6d. antil the

National sen.

ably without seeing much of it. included the cost of a guide. Both for grown-ups and Railway system is absorbed by smut from the engine would get prices for lodgings.

The most famous of these was without which this new sport the Canadian Pacific Railway, in in my eye and half blind me, but

children, the seaside is a fur me with Bath, where the waters TOSC was scarcely considered safe. the view of many of the leatlers nothing could make

"like

more amusing place than it was For royalty, bathing entailed twenty or thirty years ago. in Canadian public life. This draw my head till a line of blue bubbling hot and tasted

uven greater ceremony, problem of the Dominion is one horizon told me that my goal the water that boils eggs.”

as we There is more to do, more free- I remember that Here the English first acquired know from an entry in

Fanny dom, more gaiety, more bright- not generally understood outside was reachel.

George its borders and one which has I always used to run behind the their love of bathing, solemnly Burney's diary about

ness, and more cameraderie, To- "The King bathes and very little apparent interest to tap that bore my parents and going into the water dressed in IL:

garments with great success; a machine sort is as gay as any but the day a good English seaside re- an outsider. But the fact is their luggage from the station stiff yellow canvas

blew follows the Royal one into the that it merits a little study, for to our lodgings, for I was far which, when submerged.

smartest continental plages (and here, it

a perfect too excited to finish the journey out like balloons, "so that your sex filled with fiddlers who play far gayer, in my experience, seems, is

'God shape is not seen."

BRYC the King' os his the advantages of in any other way. example of

than most of tho lesser ones) The bath was patrolled by Majesty takes his plunge." private as opposed te public

and a great deal more clean and female guides to male and

Committing oneself to the ownership of transportation

tidy. Superior people often say that separate the sexes. Afterwards bosom of Neptune, na Our The experience of

A year systems.

ago I watched the were carried to their ancestors called it, was Canadiane with their nationalthe English don't know how bathers

an Bank Holiday crowds at Yet lodgings in

sedan chair, elaborate business, and occupied famous watering-place. In the railway has not been happy. It to enjoy their holidays.

the intensive com- wrapped in a sheet and sweating a considerable part of the day. midst of so much happiness I has cost them many millions of prior to

It has never petitive struggle and fashion- profusely.

One generally begin by spending could not help recalling the dollars annually,

able Puritanism of the Victorian

It was not till the eighteenth an hour in the bathing rooms, rather, drab caricature of such made a profit. Not even

re-century that our ancestors first reading the papers, "thrumming a scene in a fashionable London genius of Sir Henry Thornton, period, the English were directing the affairs of the vast owned as the greatest lovers realised the possibilities of the a pianoforte, or in conversation revue, whose author could only network of railroads owned by of good living and merriment in sea as an excuse for an annual with fellow-expectants," while see in it a multitude of unhappy

holiday. Scarborough became waiting one's turn for the Government, could get it

a people, smelling of perspiration, In the Middle Ages the famous about the time that machine. "out of the red", much less pay

with bad teeth, ugly, pale pin- anything towards reduction of English were famous for their Britons began to sing, "Rule,

ched faces and jarring voices. Woymouth its enormous indebtedness. So habit of going on pilgrimages. Britannia."

Yet for almost every member that they made by King George III who- it would appear, on the face of It wasn't so much

It was not unlike going to the of that crowd that day and things, either that national were particularly pious as that went there regularly for its sea doctor's to-day, and was still place meant

of a glimpse railway is not good business or they liked the journey and the bathing.

regarded more as a form of paradise-the idle, blissful hours else that Canadians lack some-holiday.

His son, the Prince Regent, medical treatment than NA a of sunshine and fresh air, the thing essential in the organisa-came round they would leave crowned the vogue by making pleasure.

release from the monotonous tion of profitable transportation. their villages and set off, care- a Sussex fishing village, called "What," asks our author, imprisonment of office and fac- To the latter suspicion the

Brighthelmstone, into the "can be more prejudicial and tory, the joy of now places and Canadian Pacific system pro-tracks run parallel and only a Brighton.

fashionable watering-place of preposterous, than for those new faces, the leisurely saunter vides an answer. There is prob-few miles apart. Moreover, they to do so followed his example.

All who could afford who have perspired for the round shops and promenade, and ably not a more efficiently run

greater part of the night in at the close, the strains of the organisation anywhere. Its ser- maintain, if the Canadian Pacific

crowded and unwholesomely- band under the starlit night can take over the Canadian vice is beyond reproach. But National and make a profit out

heated rooms, to expose their sky: By 1816 the seaside resort bodies, relaxed and feverish, as O listen to the band, of it, why cannot the country do railway is every bit as comfort the same? It is no answer to was an established institution, they cannot fail to be, the next able, every bit as fast, and every

end say that it has not. It would Before me is a book published morning to the shock of an bit 88 well equipped organised. Why, then, does one Government has allowed too

probably be true to say that the in that year entitled "A Guide abrupt immersion into the sea?"

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the

then, the Canadian National

the world.

As soon ан spring

was

line make money and the other much of politics to enter into the lose every year? It is running of its railway. Under GRIN AND BEAR IT problem which has worried the C.P.R. there would be none Canadia experts for

it.

many of that. If Sir Edward Beatty,

years. In the first place the President of the C.P.R., thinks Canadian National started out as he can do it, it would be a good a Government-owned enterprise thing for Canada to put the under the handicap of a running of its line into the hands heavy indebtedness. Secondly, of this private company whose it was running in opposition to a experience assures at least as line whose reputation was that satisfactory a service as is pro- no system in the world surpassed vided at present and, according

Thirdly, the Canadian to Sir Edward, a profitable one.} National was tapping new terri- Canada cannot afford to experi- tory, and whereas Canada had ment any longer with the developed along the line of steel Canadian National railway. It

and that is the C.P.R.

con-is costing the taxpayers millions. Bequently fed that company, the From the standpoint of an out- C.N.R. either had to serve the side observer it would appear now, raw north and west, or elementary that the Government else come into direct and close should jump at the chance to competition in contres where the shed this responsibility; but be- older line was already so well cause the line is valuable to established. It did both. More-political parties there is opposi- over, the C.N.R. could not afford tion to this plan, and the mere the time to build up slowly, for fact that the C.P.R. seema will. in order to compete at all it had ing to take over probably causes to offer at least equal quality certain suspicious persons to be- service to that of its competitor.lieve that the value of the rail- And so public ownership failed way has not been properly ap- to make much of a showing-in preciated by its present owners. figures, However, it is a fact That is just possible, but does that opponents of amalgamation not enter the calculation, have argued, that the country is obviously. The C.P.R. will not bound to grow in time to an ex-transplant the railway if it gota tent sufficient to support both it finally. The line will continuo www. Trallronds, éven where their to serve Canadians.

Cope, 1818 19 Bridal

By Lichty

"What if I am an hour late? I'm not one of those loafers who's always watching the clock!"

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O don't you think it grand!

HUMOUR IN COURT

WHETHER the prize for uncon-

WH

#cious humour should go to children or to defendants and wit- inesses in courts of law is a moot Instances of child humour point.

appeared in these columns recently. Here are sampics of the "evidence" in favour of Court humour. Weigh both sides up carefully and be the Judge,

The other day a woman defondant, a club secretary, raised a stallo when she announced that "I did not know that they were police constables. I thought that they were gentlemen." The constables took it in good part, for they know the way of witnesses, and remembered the one who a short time before had said: “As I passed the spot I noticed two police cars standing talking to one another."

Most touching was the request of the motorist who asked that his fina be reduced because all his hire pur- chase payments had become due. But the woman who stated, "My husband wanted to start a money- Jending business, but he couldn't find anyone to lend him the money to start it," rocked the Court.

A motorist, on being naked by his solleitor whether the constable Ind naked him whether he had read the Highway Code, amiled brightly as (Continued on Page 4)