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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1938.

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Sketched by Mr. F. R. Monti

THE RICKSHA— Symbol Of The

By T. Paul Grogory

EUROPE'S WAR CYCLES Treaties designed to change B 8719—Chloc. Fox Trot ... Benny Goodman & His Orch. the face of Europe have seldom,

Jam Session. Fox Trot

if ever had more than a trans | ghould be perverted into airing down to his last few vents, so it

B 8745-One O'Clock Jump. Fox Trot

Loch Lomond, Fox Trot

B 8746-Little White Lies. Fox Trot

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YORK BUILDING

and

nullers,

There is, moreover, un inevitable

05

pre

East

new

per year (a fair assumption), the owner gets back $330 per annum on an investment of $70. The average Hre of a publie ricksha is six years. Allowing $10 per year for main- tenance-painting, repairing, parts, we can estimate that over the six year period the owner has invested $130 In each ricksha. In return, he gets back $1,080 in rentalz. There is one other item of expendi ture which must be included and that is the licence tax of approxi- mately $12 per year. When this is deducted, we have an average pront month per rickali. A of $24 per month

of

$24

profit

per

on

an in-

estment to yield of 1200 per cent

of $2 per month comes to

the

(Michael Pell: The Ricksha Coolle.)

Nowadays, however, owing to the rapid mechanisation of most of the great port cities, there is a tendency to restrict the granting of new ricks licences, and consequently it uy be said that the balmy days of big profits are over.

His Every-Day Life

A little space might be given to # discussion of the every day life of coolle. the average publle ricksh The normal conditions of his work require that each puller as he walks about the streets between the shafts of his vehicle keep a sharp took-out for possible fares. He must, more- over, bo quick on his feet, lest some

one

of the rivals In the profession gets there first in the usual mad scramble for "pick ups." Just as soon as a passination, the puller steps board, and states

result of a collision, and finally be must keep on running no matter how for the distance or what the state of must pay back the loan.

the weather. Consequently,

when

with

$1 A Day Income

he has completed his twelve hour shift with intervals for meals he

during the time, he

of

has

hls

Ands himself work working brethren between the

[ew.

currency per 12-hour China, while the ricksha itself will

MR. PEPYS in

HONGKONG

15th. September.--Very ill news where I fall to ordering my papers. this day from Europe where the and later a large book-case

THE ricksha has been called ricksha pulling, and before a Chi-

Ile must, also feed and clothe him- to his bunk in the doss- the symbol of the East. It nese will submit to becoming one of

these mo-met-ma, or "allless horses" self, and pay rental for the "op" in dead- He is not, however, without is in fact, as much a part of he has exhausted practically every the doss house where he sleeps Ite hous Oriental life as incense, tea, and possible means of employment. But has perhaps a family or relatives his amusements, but these are gener- gambling pastimes, and if the Pro- ally farmers, whom he wants to support.

coolic is "down on his luck he rice. But it is more than this: it the numbers of destitute

who

bably, too, he has other loans which generally runs deeper into debt thin is a

badge of the. grinding petty artisans and labourers

crowd into the cities ruch year are he must repay. His gross income of gener poverty which stamps the great so formidable that there is no dearth perhaps a dollar or so per day, with ever.

The life of the puller of a private occasional $2.00 in case of incle recruits, lunger is the masses of Oriental peoples; for of

grim an

ricksha on the other hand is entirely it is only in those lands where master which drives them into the rent weather just barely manages different. He is the recipient of i

begins ranks of an over-crowded profession, to keep him; for usually he the scale of living is unduly low, and unhappily, too, it is fated that with hope to meet. The sad result hours depend solely upon the whim fixed monthly wage and his working more obligations than he and where there are vast quanti- many should fall victims to ruthless

he is that he

his employer. Usually leisure, and no wo

wonder ties of cheap labour that the exploitation.

harder and harder, with the terrify- ricksia flourishes.

Although It requires only good ing aspect before him of never being shafts of the public vehicles regard wind and a sturdy pair of legs to pull quite out of debt. These years of him with envy. Private ricksha It certainly was not the intention a ricksho, it is iniperative that one toil are for the poor coolle miser-

tre comparatively of its inventor, the Rev. Jonathan and a vehicle to pull. This is the able; but for the rickalin owners on pullers Goble, American Bapilst missionary crux of the problem. To get a rick- the other hand, they are eminently gregating only about 10 per cent. in Yokohama and ex-marine under sha one must either buy or rent it satisfactory, as far as their profits of the total number engaged in the Commodore Perry, that the vehicle it is obviously impossible for are concerned as the following will

profession. which lie deviser, backs in

Undoubtedly the future will see 1869 to poverty-stricken coolie to purchase a show:

the gradual disappearance of all vehicle outright, and often as not he provide his invalid wife with

"It is estimated that the average rickslins, both public and privite, and investment in a ricksha is about $70. the ricksha coolles of the present tory effect, and history would enterprise on a wholesale scale, and difficult to rent one, Then how is he The offeint rental fer in Chinese may hope eventually to be absorbed seem to indicate that the latest as a means of exploiting the coolie going to manage? To rent a Vehicle cities is stated to average about 55e. Into the industrial fabric of the new

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well. Fate, however, decided from a ricksha hong requiries, In Chinese developments in Europe are otherwise, and the vehicle which he addition to the 55 cents fee charged shift, or $1.10 per day. Assuming be relegated to limbo as a symbol almost regular processes with created spread with great rapidity in most Chinese cities for a working the rickshu in rented out on 300 days of it unhappy past.

into those, regions of the globe where day of 12 hours, a character refer- Tears in My Heart. F.T...Tommy Dorsey & His Orch, many precedents. Frequently transportation is Loth backward and ence and guarantee as well.

since the days of the Normans, primitive. From Japan it was in-

In despair he turns to the ricksha troduced into Hongkong and Sang- B 8747-Baby, Won't You Please Come Home.

perhaps long before

hai

und from thence into practically co-ar-lel, or "middlemen" and these I just Couldn't Take It, Baby. Fox Trot

that, the phenomenon of one every city and town in Ute Pay individuals are willing to advance the coolie enough to pay for the first Lionel Hampton & His Orch. state absorbing its neighbours

day there is scarcely a community

day's rental and also procure hlin a of steady ricksha to pull. For this has been witnessed, until finally Fickshas, and the number of men en-

1 specified a_conflagration of greater or gaged in the industry in China ex- they usually require

Uhat of any other, if one amount of ch'a-ts'in, or "tea-money"" lesser degree has undone de- counts not only the indispensable per day as a sort of "service fee" and but also the vast numbers of frequently demand that those who cades or centuries of intrigue jabourers engaged in riekaba mabu- avail themselves of these offices, pay and diplomacy by ambitious or facture and repair, the swarms of (Film: "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm")

$5.00 per month: a approximately Bunny Berigan & His Orch, patriotic statesmen, and redis- agents, contractors, ele, concerned sort of general "retaining fee." Oc-

tributed once again the limited believed to exceed the million markice a loan of my $20 or so, on-the Sudetens riot and evidently seek to brought and a mass of bookes being

in its exploitation, the total number is casionally, as a special inducement

certain Individuals wit offer land with greater regard for

condition that the applicant

will rent natural ethnological and geogra-

Inevitable Stigma rickshas from the creditor, and shall bring Herr Hiller to their old which the library of the Dramatick Clubbe phical boundaries. But, there-

under no condition pull vehicles for doubt not they will effect. At the which I am minded to house in my Clubbe there is much talk but as it ofce. But Lord! such a mass of old upon, the process immediately stigma attached to the vocation of any competing heng. This is to ns-

the junk in paper covers that I am fain sure an adequate labour supply; for seems to mee all doe expect

ricksha, in order to be a profitable matter to be arranged without war, to have burnt, but Mr. John will CHATER ROAD, recommenced, and those states

investment for its owner must have whic may God grant. This day I not have 80. But I must needs most gifted with natural again have slowly and painfully steady pullers. Two coolies

uld make some provision for my set out my furniture afresh and, resources, the will to rule, won independence, and whose found, one to pull during the day, wife, poor wretch, in case the worst may bee, hang some more pictures, befall and then home somewhat so that I doubt my room shall not military prowess or capable

melancholique. very life blood is Versailles. It and another during the night, and

The ricksha is kept

But Inter service for 24 Creed

comes bee orderly these several weeks, and

doe show him how At six of the clock to the Peake leaders, have begun their climb would appear that Europe is hours daily. Lest one should gain to pre-eminence and the right to ready to face the same solution, the idea that the relationship be strong my dahlins grow and thus Clubbe where I doc counsel a friend tween "middleman" and client is

glasse or two of Hollands to buy some San Mauricios, not wit- dominate, and eventually to watch the process, of growth

waters I doe absorb, their weaker and less and anticipate another debacia servolltruistic, it should be ob- cul mood. Yet I am very wrath that parent Company and was profound- come to a more cheer- ting that he was a director of a that It Is nothing more than a "hard-boiled" business transaction

of my plants have been versed in what was happening. distribution. that allegedly savours of exploita- and I doe blame the gray And this Indeed I am not, though I tion; for not only must the coolic hill-side, and indeed I fear it is not hope to bee more so. To drink a ent that sometimes comes down the am ten points the better and doe must pay any fines Imposed by the

of the King's officers and his Lady otherwise little changed from statesmen's astuteness, has suc- police, should the puller unwittingly children and so to bed.

commit some traffic violation or other 16th-Up very betimes and did and there find pleasant Company the days when the Caesars con- cessfully evaded the conse-

fault. He is also expected to pay for examine my radishes but they are but not a many of my acquaintance. quered continents and Romans quences of the European any damage done to the vehicle as a not yet ready for table. To my office Home betimes. were citizens of the world, or cycle, though with increasing

17th-This day I doe feel in ex- cellent health and I am persuaded it when Napoleon grouped all frequency she has had to

is well suited to my stomach to cut Europe under one flag. More | participate in it Perhaps

no breakfast and to touch no liquor until seven of the clock, though this, im- recently, Prussia rose to power, the explanation of her

I perceive, I cannot always su order. master of the fates of many munity lies in the fact that

At nuncheon time comes a fair lady races. She, too, was an exam- she is essentially, peaceful and

of my acquaintance and wee had been minded to watch the Krickett ple of the process of gradual | democratic, for it is a curious

at Sookunpoo. But the rain which aggrandisment

had fallen early in the day did pre- and eventual thing that the most militant

vent play, so home, and the sun com- disintegration and the diplomats | are those who have failed to

ing out wee did take a dish of ten at Versailles who drafted the maintain, their position of

under the trees in my garden, being cheered

with better treaty which once more redis-

It would seem, also,

newes Later I do on my garments tributed Europe, were unable to that the process is growing do so in a manner that would rapidly wider in scope, and the assure everlasting peace. Cer-aggrandisment of the British tainly the results of the last Empire at the end of the Grent redistribution have been less War may well have helped bring lasting since to-day no nation England within the orbit of this appents willing to defend the repenting evolution. It is cer boundaries they imposed lesstain, at least, that Germany, than a quarter of a century ago. rapidly rebuilding her prestige As in the case of the Treaty of and power in Europe, will not Vienna, Europe has not been long delay in extending her aims [long at peace before the neces-beyond the continent. If that sity has arisen to defend the threat to the Empire is to be conditions imposed in 1918, and averted, strong measures must to try to end that process of be taken, and England to-day is assimilation and disintegration. being called upon to make a Formerly the process took many difficult decision. Her desire decades, but since the Trenty | for peace is undoubted, but her of Versailles it has taken but 25 good sense should indicates that years; to-day Europe is once to take a firm stand at once is again an armed camp in the better, polley, Mr. Anthony timidated by Powers who seek Eden will find many sympa [to 'control 'and absorb those | thisers for his plen for

smaller states which time and action before it la too late.

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fortunate neighbours.. To-day before another the process is more rapid and England, either by reason of her

a

much wider in its scope, but | isolation, her good luck, or her Pay the rental fee demanded, but he tong for this world. Dined with my glasse of the wine of Xeres with one

power.

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By Lichty

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Ospr, 1951 39 Eladial Fibers Brudila, Las

44-23

"New-I don't like itman' what's more I oughta have some sasi,"

since it'll be handed to un to me eventually M

rope

from from

of ceremony and wee all doc visit Mr. A.

A. Jay's dat where be greets us with much good cheer, as does the dogge Martin though i perceive hee will ever bee a nervous hound, though

very friendly. But

even at four month's hee is a Lady's dogge, for hee alts beside Mistress Barbara all our

visit and doth make

love to her. Later com

comes in the Major

and wee talk of the European

*mee hee

situation, and hee tella likes it not even though Mr. Cham berlain doth make

Arent

gesture.

and

Later Mistress Barbara and I join Mistress Diana and Mr. dine in the Grill-room, which some

Mr. Griff, doe call the Grips I learn. A pleus- ant evening, the first I have there these two years on 1, bellever but Lord! the 1 behavolur of some of the younger folk did frk mee zore, and had one wench been my daughter- she" had been, trounced soundly, Home very late.

18th (Lord's Day)—This day I lay late, it having been three of the clock before. had fold down my booke the night before. The nows better, I think and so I doe feel more cheerful,

Walked upon the Peake where I did meet some of my ne quaintance and so hono about seven

(Continued os PA

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