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THE HONGKONG TE LEGṛAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1938,

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BESIDE THE SEASIDE

REMEMBER it all so well.

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Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1930.

WHO SHOULD RUN THIS RAILWAY?

station yard.

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

Том

'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.

grim's stuff and wallet-the I did not read in the train: I round-trip season tick, of those

now

Sea-

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

Broadstairs, Cromer, Dawlish,

Eastbourne, Hastings, Ifra- combe, Ramsgate, Southend,

Teignmouth and Yarmouth, and

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

BY

ARTHUR BRYANT

liberately.

Bathing was only considered de- The book gives some interest- safe if taken slowly and ing details about bathing. At

For over a century the Brighton the gentlemen resorted English watering-place offered to machines on the west side of little to holiday makers beyond the town and the ladies on the its bathing beaches, cliffs and enst. "Thus public decency is preserved, without which

caves, a visit to the circulating well-bred society can exist."

no library and an occasional dance At Blackpool, where the sexes assembly rooms,

and a game of cards at the shared the same machines a bell

was rung at the hour set apart joie de

But lately our old English

commit

coloured bathing dresses gleam

A

Home-

for Indies.

vivre has begun to If after that any reassert itself. To-day, as the gentleman WAS seen on glued my nose to the window days-and tramp or ride in parle he forfeited a bottle of and streamers and brightly the speed-boats fly through the surf land kept it there. There I great companies to Our Lady's wine. remained in a kind of ecstasy, terbury or some other famous "many gentlemen walk along the oneself for a moment back in Shrine at Walsingham or Can- Except at Cowes, where in the sunshine, one can fancy isering the fields and hedges

ying past me as the milestones resort or pilgrimage,

sequestered beach towards what Merry England. to paradise. Even the crumby After the Reformation, when is called Egypt, and

nodern watering - place jegg sandwiches eaten out of 4 the days of pilgrimage came to themselves to the waves with offers its clients a great deal

between Salisbury and an end and the holy wells and out any ceremony," bathing

more than the sea. There are Yeovil Junction scarcely broke springs were voted idolatrous, machines were de rigueur,

so many fine shops, cinemas, Įmy trance.

English doctors found an excuse

bandstands, Bloodlit bathing- Later, as the slow train be- for

pilgrimages by pre-

poðls, amusement parks, winter tween the main line und our tending that the waters wer

At Margate, where a daily gardens, and hotels that even destination wound its way down medicinal. In the seventeenth

invasion of Londoners arrived the ocean has to take a back some deep green western valley, century England possessed hun- I would lean out of the window dreds of inland watering-places throughout the summer in the place. As in the Queen Mary,

one knows that it is famous "hoys," a lady bathing came for their It is only a question of time to catch the first sniff of the where people

in a machine was charged 13. to pass one's time ver, agree where near, but it is possible and until

Every now and then a health

exorbitant paid the Canadian Nationen.

and a gentleman la. 6d. This Railway system is absorbed by smut from the engine would get prices for lodgings.

included the cost of a guide, ably without seeing much of it. The most famous of these was without which this

Both for

and the Canadian Pacific Railway, in fin my eye and half blind me, but

grown-ups new sport children, the seaside is a far the view of many of the leaders nothing could make me with Bath, where the waters

rose was scarcely considered safe. "like in Canadian public fe. This draw my hand till a line of blue bubbling hot and tasted

For royalty, bathing entailed more amusing place than it was water that bolls

eggs."

twenty problem of the Dominion is one horizon told me that my goal the

even greater ceremony,

or thirty years ago. not generally understood outside was reached. I remember that Here the English first acquired know from an entry in Fanny dom, more gaiety, more bright-

as we There is more to do, more free-. its borders and one which has always used to run behind the their love of bathing, solemnly Burney's diary about George

"The King bathes and day a good English seaside re- ness, and more cameraderie, To- very little apparent interest to tap that bore my parents and going into the water dressed in III.: an outsider. But the fact is their luggage from the station stiff yellow

canvas garments with great success; a machine sort is as gay as any but the that it merits a little study, for to our lodgings. for 1 was far which, when submerged,

blew follows the Royal one into the smartest continental plages (and here, it seems, is a perfect too excited to finish the journey out like balloons, "so that your sea filled with fiddlers who play far gayer, in my experience, * example of the advantages of in any other way.

shape is not seen."

"God save the King as his than most of the lesser ones) private as opposed to public

The bath was patrolled by Majesty takes his plunge." ownership of

male and

and a great deal more clean and female guides to Committing oneself to the systems.

tidy. Superior people often say that separate the sexes. Afterwards bosom of Neptune, The experience of Canadians with their national the English don't know how bathers were carried to their ancestors called it,

A year ago I watched the Yet lodgings

an Bank Holiday | to enjoy their holidays. railway has not been happy.

crowds chair, elaborate business, and occupied famous watering-place. In the the intensive has cost them many millions of prior to

com- wrapped in a sheet and sweating a considerable part of the day. midst of so much happiness I dollars annually. It has never petitive struggle and fashion- profusely.

One generally begin by spending could not help recalling the the able Puritanism of the Victorian even

It was not till the eighteenth an hour in the bathing rooms, rather drab caricature of such genius of Sir Henry Thornton, period, the English were re- century that our ancestors first reading the papers, "thrumming a scene in a fashionable London directing the affairs of the vastned 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 ses as an excuse for an annual with fellow-expectants,"

the world.

while see in it a multitude of unhappy the Government, could get IL

holiday. Scarborough became waiting one's turn for "out of the red", much less pay In the Middle Ages the famous about the time that machine. anything towards reduction of English were famous for their Britons began to sing, "Ruic, its enormous indebtedness. So habit of going on pilgrimages. Britannia."

Weymouth was

transportation

made a profit. Nol

It

in

it

sedan

it would appear, on the face of I wasn't so much that they made by King George III who things, rither that national were particularly pious as that went there regularly for its aea doctor's to-day, railway is not good business or they liked the journey and the bathing.

ns our

Was

at

a

a people, smelling of perspiration, with bad teeth, ugly, pale pin- ched faces and jarring voices.

Yet for almost every member It was not unlike going to the of that crowd that day and

and was still place

meant a glimpse of regarded more as a form of paradise-the idle, blissful hours else that Canadians Inck some-holiday. An soon IN spring His son, the Prince Regent, medical treatment than ан thing essential in the organisa-came round they would leave crowned the vogue by making pleasure.

of sunshine and fresh air, the release from the monotonous tion of profitable transportation, their villages and set off, care a Sussex fishing village, called

"What," asky our author, imprisonment of office and fac- the latter suspicion the

Brighthelmstone, into the "can be more prejudicial and tory, the joy of new places and Canadian Pacific system protracks run parallel and only a Brighton. All who could afford who have perspired for the round shops and promenade, and fashionable watering-place of preposterous, than for those new faces, the leisurely saunter vides an answer. There is prob-few miles apart. Morcover, they to do so followed his example. ably not a more efficiently run roaintain, if the Canadian Pacific organisation anywhere. Its ger- can take over the Canadian vice is beyond reproach. But,

To

then, the Canadian National National and make a profit out

greater part of the night in at the close, the strains of the crowded and unwholesomely- band under the starlit night heated rooms, to expose their sky:

O listen to the band,

By 1816 the seaside resort bodies, relaxed and feverish, as

O don't you think it grand!

an

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 say that it has not. It would Before me is a book published morning to the shock of bit as well equipped and probably be true to say that the in that year entitled "A Guide abrupt immersion into the sea?" organised. Why, then, does one Government has allowed too

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.PR. there would be none Canadian experts for 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 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 it: Thirdly. the Canadian to Sir Edward, a profitable one. National was tupping now 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 that is the C.P.R. and con-is costing the taxpayers millions. sequently fed that company, the From the standpoint of an out- C.N.R. either had to serve the side observer it would appear new, raw north and west, orjelementary that the Government else come into direct and close should jump at the chance to competition in centres 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 tlon to this plan, and the mere the time to build up slowly, for fact that the C.P.R. seems 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 publle ownership failed way has not been property 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 geta tent sufficient to support both it finally. The lino will continue railroads, even where their to serve Canadians.

By Lichty

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

HUMOUR IN COURT

WHETHER the prize for Encon-

sclous humour should go..lo children or to defendants and wit- nesses in courts of law is a mdot point, Instances of child humour appeared in these columna recently. Here are samples 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 smile when she announced that "I did not know that they were police constables. thought that they were gentlemen. The constables took it in good part, for they knew the way of witnesses, and remembered die one who a short time before lund 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 dino be reduced because all his hire pur- chase payments had become due. But the woman who, stated, "My husband wanted to start a money- lending business, but he couldn't. And anyone to lend him the money to start it, rocked the Court.

A motorist, on being asked by his solicitor whether the constable had naked him whether he had read, the Highway Code, smiled brightly

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