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HOROUGHBREDS
DONT CRY
• Adapted from the METRO GOLDWYN MAYER
HALSEY RAINES
(What has happened so far: Falling family finances make appear unlikely that Bir Potor Calverton will be able to fulfil his cherished hope of taking his favorite racer, The Pookah, to Amerton for another try against the best horses on the other side of the Atlantic. But rather than disappoint his grandson Roger, Hir Peter arrangea a loan of a thousand pounds on his ostāte, to defray the cost of the tripf
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Jeol. He had decided that it would be a good idea to have a look at The Pookan
"I just looked at him a tie while ago, pleaded the boy.
Well, there nothing wrong with When Sir Peter reached the stall. my sesing him too, in there?”
whare his prize horsO was quar tored, The Pookah was in the act of bending forward to bestow a great, slobbering kiss on a form that crouched in the darkened corper.
Before Air Peter's astonished eyes the form took on recognizable ikonowe. Bit by bit he discerned the ears, the hair, the shoulders And finally the prodis of Wilkins. Polve proof whe rendered on the protesting tones of a familiar volca rang out...
saying, "I ain't no bloomin' blarney "Ey, get away." Wilkina Wart
With an Indian-like whoop that was singularly in contrast to le trattal reserved British demeanor, Roger burst into Wilking cottage, The buller was engaged in tratatonel's ferring the foamy contents of a bottle of Dasa Alo from bottle to tumbler. As he turned to avoid a collision the glass slipped from his hand and was shattered on the
floor,
"Now look," sald Wilkins, rather pathetically.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Wilkins," said Roger, "But I just had to come and tell you the noWB."
"Wol news?" The trainer biinked. "Oh, nothing very much," an swered the boy, slowly recovering his composuro. “It's Just that we'r going to America, to win the Cup." To h'America?" gasped Wilkins, In jaws foll apart, and be couldn't quite ne them together. Beantime Roger had spun on his heel and started for the door again.
"I'm going to tell The Pookah!" he cried, disappearing.
Peter, turning on Roger. "I
"Well, young man" cried Sir your hand in this."
the top of the stall, toger expected Wilkins sheepishly looked over
bravely. the storm to break, buť ho faced it
"All i loaned him was's sover eign," he said simply.
The lines around Bir Peter's face relaxed. He clapped the boy across the shoulder, then took his arm.
"Bout lad, he whispered.
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Air Peter Calverton shared front page space in the New York dailles with lateat war Orient, la arrival was the signal nowa front the for such flaming streamers "British Sportsman Confident of Winning American Cup."
an;
At the Longmont race course Bir Peter and toger were given their Wilkins, overjoyed at the unex- first official welcome by Track Bu-
tidings, repaired pected speedy a fashion as was consistent who begged for "Just one more In asperintendent Bloane. Photographers with his position to Bir l'eter's pieturo" wero gradually whoood living-room. The head of Calverton away, Reporters decided they hind Hail was in the process of being bothered the Calvertons enough for fucked in his armchair, while Polone day, and, eventually permitted Juck. the butler, was reminding him them to concentrate on the string
Wilkins sheepishly looked over the top of the stall
climax of the day, a medal event for two year-olds.
focused
of the doctor's orders in regard to taking certain pills at certain hours, Bir Potera heart didn't have Timmie Donovan is riding num quite the stamina it had once pos ber eight," remarked Mr. Sloane. nessed, and he had been told to take certain tablets to help make tey inquired Roger.
"Is ho an especially good jock- behave. Pollock had his hands full, "One of our best. There however, gaining the desired co-right over there, on Blasting." operation.
"Doctors aro no infernat good," on a sturdy, blond, tow-headed cool.
Roger's attention was Sir Peter was in the process of looking youngster who sat walling saying a Wilkins arrived. The for the starting signal. trainer stopped forward with n "He does alt his horse wall, expression of apology mixed with doesn't ho?" he commented. elation,
"He's "H'I 'ope you'll forgive me, sir,"
a good rider, sti ·right,” answered ie began, "but I do want you to "Gives us more trouble.
the track manager. know ow 'appy I am about it all." than any boy in the profession. though, "What do you mean?" countered He's what they call a swellhead' Sir Peter.
|øver here."
The Pookuh, air," replied WB- king. "I know you'd decide to take broke, to an accompanying roar The gun went off, the horses him." He pointed to the mantle. from the crowd. Number Eight- "The cup'n practically sitting up and the redoubtable Timale Dono there right now."
Sir Peter pulled at his chin, and turn. But slowly Timmie Increased Van-were far behind, at the first scomed at a loss for a reply, while the pace of his mount. Down they the trainor continued.
came to the two-thirds mark. Ono
"Eve never boon to Anierica, Jockey, running his first big race nir, as you know, and I must con- went down in a nasty spill, It tess to a kind of hankerin' to see seemed impossible for Timmie to it once. It's just like the answer to avold the fallon horse. But he did. a prayer, if you'il excuse the band, putting on an amazing burst erty, pir."
Wilkins, cut in Bir Pater, with neck and neck with the two pace- of speed, came down the stretch Aquaver that he couldn't quite setters. Fifty yards from the an- control, "I'm very sorry. but I int he pulled ahead, and bot over won't be able to take you with me the finish line a winner. this year."
The problem of just whom to en- Wilkins was apevolitess. His face trust atop the Calverton entry in bore the look of a dog struck for the challenge race had been both- the first time by an indulgent masering Roger. Now he tapped Sir ier.
Petor Well, air, of course" he finally shoulder. managed to stammer, "If you don't want me to go"
"I lon't that, Wilkins. We just can't manage it this time. I'm per
ry."
Sir Peter didn't see Roger in the
see him, as he made his despon-
од
tha
enthusiastically "Grandfather." he cried, "couldn't Pookah in the Cup?" wo get Mr. Donovan to ride The
"From what Mr. Bioane says, our stable cape would be too small for his head, sald .Bir Peter,
пуст
doorway, and neither did Wilkins twink you decussed the mat-
"Thit dent exit. But the youngster had ter with him-"perslated Roger. hoard the conversation, and he "Why don't you?" countered Sir now bounded forward disbelieving- Peter. ly
"Grandfather,"
The next instant Roger had tak- criod, "ten him at his word, and was off break his heart if he doesn't go back of the stands.
"Look here, Roger" responded dimrutty spotting Timmie. The fat- He had no Bir Pater, "I want Wildan with us iter was telling his agent, in no ns much as you do, but it just uncertain way, that from now on, can't be done."
his minimum price would be forty
ho
"But he's trained The Pookah all dollars a race any race. this time. All he's thought of ta winning the race for you."
"Wilkins cannot go with us to America!" declared Bir Peter ara
"Maybe you don't need a mana-
ger any more!" was the retort.
"Maybe I don't."
THE HONGKONG
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TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1938.
WHO
OWNS
THE TOWNS?
of the 45 million
people who
live in Great Britain 43 millions do
not
own
α single inch of it
JONES
BRITAIN
woke to the startling fact recently that our old landed aristo- cracy can still put across deals rivalling in size the more publicised efforts of the new industrial aristo- cracy.
by EMRYS
The front pages of the news in roughly £300,000. papers told that the Marquis of
coronation of Richard III., went over Fashionable Berkeley-square, now to the alde of Henry VII. Bute, descended from one of the under the builders, and a few of the ancient kings of Scotland, Robert adjoining streets left the title of the out of the deld Lord Stanley re- By keeping his Loncashire troops I was selling half the city of Car- Earl of Berkeley in 1010 and went celved as his reward the Earldom of cliff, worth £20,000,000, for an un- to Lord Bearsted, former stated sum.
London Derby and the lands of the Lanes- Lord Mayor.
shire families who had picked the losing side.
In the news
now is Mr. Henry Talbot de Vere Clifton, concerning a £30,000 poker loss la Afteen min- ules in Amerien, power
He is a rich Lancashire land- and certainly more influence owner whose property extends for the sensational deals you some are the great town landlords outside five and a half times read about involving our in London, Most potent
miles along the Wates is the Marquis of Bute, fer Lytham St. Annes.
South coast, including the whole town of dustries.
Similar deals have been made
It is estimated that even then the over this last twenty years, for in freehold value of the land and houses that time nearly a sixth of the was more than £5,000,000; land of England has changed hands. Unspectacularly planned and executed, they are as import- ant to the life of this country as
WIELDING as much
In
Important, because of the forty- not very much can be done in those he sold the ground Last October
class.
of
of
estate for £500,000,
from the
rents
of the
conse→
Ave million people who live in parts without consulting him. Great Britain, forty-three million In Cardiff's main street the out- Apart do not own a single inch
sacini It, standing building is a huge, spick- quences plenty of romantle stories This 19 socially important and, and-span castle,
argue, politically dangerous, minder
constant re- get into this business of the buying SOMO
to the citizens because most of the land involved milifonaire landlord in their midst.
the and selling of towns. is agricultural, and you need only
At the end of last year you may To South Wales the Bute family remember reading of the death of half an eye to see that the trustee are us inuential
15 the Stanleys Samuel William Copley who began ship of that land not always first- are in Lancashire. What the for- life as a lather boy in Huddersfield
tunes of Lord Derby are you may and then emigrated The landlords also wield immense gather from the deals in town lands He returned with
to Australia. powers in the elties. Look at the he has innde. He has sold towns..
Fortune lint so city of London to start with. Of
many go to seek and few find. Just over twenty years ago Lord the eight million inhabitants only Derby owned practically the whole financier's office in 1910 he heard As he sat one day in a London 40,000 own any of its vast and rich of Bootle, with the exception of the that Sir John Ramsden, virtual docks. He sold t with other Lanca- owner of iluddersfield, was think- shire property for £1,750,000, ex- ing of selling the town. plaining that he did so because on "Dammit," MOST important of test 10ter his death it would be necessary for "that's my home town. I'll buy it." said Mr. Copley, is the Duke of Westminster, his son to sell much of the estate who a few years ago was regarded as to pay deaths duties.
He did, raised £1,350,000 in less the owner of most of the West End
than forty-eight hours, bought the
acres.
A
of London and of large tracts of The purchaser then was Mr. town, and then transferred it to the
land round Vauxhall Bridge-road and Millbank.
mlic land
of
an
So
though, to Lake London
Philip E. Hill the Anuncier who corporation, came from Cardiff. He made At that time about three of co
Immense fortune from the building
NO Huddersfield, like most of quarters
concrete ships. of a Square London's most valuable
was Before that Lord Derby sold 5,000 the citizens through the corporation. our towns, now belongs to in the duke's estate, so valuable that acres in Bury, Radcliffe, Whitefield, This is the trend, the statisticians put it at a worth Manchester, and Saiford. That deal owners are going out and the cor- the big land- of £20,000,000. Some of it has meant the sale of the town of Bury porations are coming in. changed hands, and in 1930 eight with a population of 58,000 people. For acres of ground at Millbank went for about a million pounds.
was paid a million pounds, but he lords, the biggest landlord of all is How did he come by his riches? himself said it was considerably less. the L.C.C. with an eye on 280,000 Well, back in Commonwealth times
The Bury and Pilkington estates tenints and despatching rent bills the head of the Grosvenor family came Into the Stanley famliy
by for £1,000,000 odd every year. married a Miss Davies, who owned force of arms, or rather not by force a tle property called Ebury Farm of arms, for they didn't fight for it, of taxes and death duties, and they The private landlords go because They got it after the defeat and complain bitterly about It, most of in what we now call Belgravia.
The farm was only valued at 4s, death of Richard III, during the them.
However, those that remain a year, and for hundreds of years Wars of the Roses in 1485.
are still better it was not worth much more.
The Lord Stanley at that time, majority of us, so there's no great off than the vast But as London
who had been a mace bearer at the need for worry on your part. spread the of the little form became the resi- dental quarter of London's richest and noblest citizens, and as the ten-f tacles of London stretched out sa did the fortune of the family go up. Let us say this about the duke, he is a good and generous landlord, He replaced the ruined furniture of thousands of his
It was rumoured that Loid Derby alone, there are a few great land-
site
when the Thames burst its bank in
done as much with their money.
DOGS ON THE LEAD
SECOND in the hierarchy of wise to keep a dog on a lend.
Portman
means
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
20
ACROSS This throws light on interlor workings at sca (0).
5 This and others may make the difference between a weak and a strong suit (0).
9 In England the talking of this is
rising custom (two words 4. 4).
10 This Eastern servant
Agures in cheques (8).
often
11 Apathetle, but apparently up-
right (8).
An extra (two words-2, 4).
14 This la reversed in 9 across (3). 16 Were he shut up it would be a case of "out of sight out of mind" (6).
10 This kind of train does not figure in the time tables (7). 20 Actually (two words-2, 4). 21 Wherein
the honest ite (3). 20 You, for one (0).
even
27 Craft that seldom has a smooth
journey (8)
28 For exploration by politicians?
(0).
20 George Robey hardly is it, but
has !! th.
30 Fasten with more than spirit
(6)
31 Find beer" (anag.) (8)..
DOWN
1 Preserve, in a way (8).
2 Enjoy a description of 1 down
(0),
3 Hardly to take effective steps
(8),
4 This style is what every lady
wants (6).
6 I so strictly temperate why is
that "tot" included? (B).
7 Sharp-tailed reptile (B).
MR. PEPYS in
walk
the
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und
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Being accidentally hit by a horse shoe perhap! (two words
4,4).
13 Where the schoolboy stores his
knowledge (7).
13 Cure about it to take (3).
10 Wherein an inch may be as
good as a mile (3).
17 It helps workers in the mine to get down to it (two words- 3. 5).
18
Not a poor tributary (8). 19 List that affects the sailing of
Niners (8).
22 Geographical feature as mathe-
matical instruction (6).
23 Chonge the head of 30 across
and get on animal (6).
was
24 What the sallor with the cold
came from
ashore др- parently (0).
23 More than what the engaged girl reasonably hopes is packed (8).
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And I had omitted to mention Itt, and I doo most heartily trust I may bee forgiven for the oaths I did use.
6th-My sinus trouble heavy upon mee until five of the clocke when it abates somewhat, and I am due to to Sir Cecil's Ride with Mr. A. Jay to
search the
place where I did eat my nuncheon, but hee comes late and when Mistress Ann had come back, by the time wee reach the Ride it is and afterward I do set Mistress dusk and though wee walk for two Diana on her way home...
miles out or more
cannot and the 5th-Up betimes and, it being And when I
placo and
so home by moonli holyday, I doe settle myselfe to write climb up, I doe find my mayle, but the trouble in my and in turning dee silp and
LIT Wrong foll sinus doth Irk mee sorely and I do heavily to the path and cut decide to walk in the sun, it being a and hands. And I am minded that knee notably hot day. So, after going there is some curse upon mee and down to the Clubbe to buy stamps that I should doe well to buy mee a OING well on the lead is one of ndjusted by Millbank tenants:
of additional for the first "all up" aire mail(and new case and overinsure it heartily. the first things a puppy ought holes; and for a few pence we can Lord! how 1928.
the master of His But so, it may bee, I should break to learn, not only for his own safety make the strap round the chest ad- Majesty's Posies will profit upon its playin-Home with Mr. A. Jay and Later be made a gift of land and for the sake of his owner but justable. Any saddler will put on worth £200,000 and more than for the benefit of the community at a buckle and pierce the other end Bowling Alley and then set out in
drink a
a glasse or two the with the dogge 113,000 in cash for rehousing 2,500} large.
Yet so many people seem to of the strap for us.
doc
heartily wish hoo were a re- people. Many rich men have not neglect this part of a dog's educa- strap, like the belt, can be let out
Then the chest a motor Hackney for Wang Nai triever and not an Alsatian." tion. Some, indeed, regard the sug- as the dog grows. Treated in this.
Chong Gap, living my knapsack, my 7th-My trouble very heavy upon gestion usa slur on their
And so, mee and I doe And it passing hard stick, obedience, if one hints that it is ever for a very small puppy until he is
pet's way, one set of harness will serve being my sunglasses.
como to the gap,
doc to doe ought but sign my name. nearly grown up.
along Sir Cecil's Ride for Home early from my office, hating London's owners are the. I think that the sooner a puppy
If we prefer we can make har-
зрасе of about (wo
itt and the world most heartily, and miles, family. who have sold gets used to the lead the better. ness by crocheting strong wool or
wishing that I had been given so to bed. much of their estate. In this they We can begin with a collar or har- string and making it fit the dog, and
the twenty thousand florins are following n fashion which ness in the house to let him get fastening the belt with a button and makes the problem of finding who accustomed to the feel of something loop. This can be added to as the a little brook
that were wasted up a place where tion. Anon T I come to a place Exactly owns our great cities dim-round his neck. But I do not think Puppy grows, and the cost is negil with a curtain wall cult. Personal ownership Increas this is advisable. I always use har- gibic,
fell down the ingly gives way
at the side to syndientes, and ness in preference to a collar, as a Unless there is a fear of a dag room to lay my body in the shade of personal direction gives way to puppy is so ap: to strain at Arst, tting out by himself, it is well to
guard
against floods, and enough board of directors.
The Hongkong Stock Exchange may nearly
take of his harness or collar in the Therein
the wall beside a pool of clear water. official summary issued at 3.15 p.m. The family, however,
himself. originally owners of a little land, without any fear of injuring our spoil his coat. Besides, there in the were With harness we have full control use, as it always tends to rub and
do place my flask of strong yesterday, reads: waters for coolth, and fell to upon empire that stretched north from pet.
additional advantage that in training
cold sausage, bread and butter and volume of business transacted was During the week under review the Oxford-street to Marylebone-road, i
Besides, if we intend always to the lead, he will associate "walk" a puppy to wear harness and go on
mustard, while I did read in Mr. Con a restricted scale with slight and included the three. squares of Portman, Bryanston and gin with it, for I have known adult that he never goes out without being my life, the mountain stream chilling
famous use harness, it is much wiser to be and "harness. He will soon realise
Doyle's excellent romance of the Auctuation in prices. White Company. And so I did enjoy Montagu.
The Manila market showed signs This land; too, was founded on a dogs who refused to become recon- "dressed,"
ng fine nuncheon as ever I did . in
of Improvements. clied to harness. farm. Nearly two hundred
and learn to tolerate Many people start with a collar on a walk, ago when one of the family was ill the plea of economy.
those tiresome straps for the sake of I did smoke a pipe of tobacco and my liquor to a marvell. Afterwards the family doctor prescribed asses three shillings or thereabouts, while come when he is on the lead. "Pick got up I did walk on, but
Harness costs milk. It was dimcult to get, so then sixpenny "ent's collar" will last in him up and carry him. He would passed that way I did miss the smail Never tug a puppy if he won't closed my eyes for a space. Being head of the family bought for growing puppy for
it being £2,000 a form and fields to pasture we have two alternatives.
ome time. But much rather walk, and if he finds
some five years or more since I had drove of asses,
elther make harness for ourselves, or tugs or scratches or, misbehaves in per Reservoir and so am forced to We can he is not allowed to wolk when he path to the East of the Taikoo up- High up in the list
the name can cut down an old full-size one any way, his lesson will soon
walk on and on until I doo come to the Mount Parker road, where I may turn down to the Tramme. But Lord! what a muck sweat I am in and
so being set upon
bath and clothes doc gee up to a dwelling house standing upon the side of the rond. And there the master doth not only lend me his telephone for the ordering of my gear to the Clubbe but insists that I take a glasse two of cold liquor with him, for which kladly act my the blessing of St. Jullon, the travellers' saint, ever reat.
patron And if ever have
21
beg your pardon, Mr. Deno-
ty. It was a final order of devan," said Roger polttely. "I want mingai.
•
•
to see you about something-"
"Look out, punk," morted Tim-
And
The ship was rolling in a heavy tie, brushing Rager aside, trough, but Bir Pater kept his son with this he went atriding off to- Jegs. Twenty years seemed to have ward the jockey room. dropped from his shoulders with
"If you want to see the greatest
the approach toward the American rider in the world you got to write
shora.
him a letter explained the agent
(To be, continuo:l)
Roger seemed inexplicably ner-caustically. You as his grandfather turned his stops toward the hold of the 'veo-
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and
choke
of Lord Howard de Walden, once if we have it. After all, the strap learni described as "London's richest land- round
the dog's middle lord, with an Income of £400,000
a year."
Up until 1925 he owned a goldi mine round about Oxford-street, forty ueres of It, which he sold to n trust at a price sald to be. £3,000,000.
The trust was largely owned by Sir Jahin Ellerman., That fol- lowed reporis made a few years before that he had sold a stab at London's West End for £4,000,000. That makes £7,000,000.
I la ten years now since the site of London's new univer- sity in Bloomsbury was bought from the Duke of Bedford for £525,000, In the years just before the war the Duke of Bedford did quile a lot of selling.
In 1914 he was the owner of 41,890 acres of land, ten years be fore it was 87,000 acres, valued at £142,000 a year. One deal alone In 1013 when he sold blocks of pro- perly on the Bedford estates' brought
can bo
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