1939-02-09 — Page 2

Thursday

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WHILE most of the thousands who work or live in Westminster are asleep the City Council nightly carries out a tremendous task.

To keep everything spick and span involves the sweeping and washing of nearly a hundred miles of .streets and moving 400 tons of refuse every 24 hours.

To do the job properly the council has just built a new cleana- ing and transport depot with a river dock near Ebury Bridge. It has cost £260,000.

A demonstration was staged re- cently. Covered vans, drove up and the contents Upped onto carriers. These transferred the refuse to a big barge waiting in the dock under- neath.

A loud of decayed frult was tired, followed by loads of house and hotel refuse from other shoots emptying in at endless cataract,

FORLORN SPECTACLE Christmas decorations formed large part of the barge's cargo. A forlorn #pecinele it was.

MARRIED

SECRETLY

11 11.

At a previous hearing Mr. Cole's

Most of the Westminster cleansing and refuse collecting has to be done at agreed hours because of trame and general conditions and much of the 12 weeks. work is done at night,

FREE CLOTHNG

when their names were called.

of

1,520 Miles

the

Workless Man

Returns Reward

WORKLESS John Shore, thirty-one, staying in a shilling-a-night Hammersmith hostel, received a cheque

For A Party for £500-payment for a good deed he had done sent

it back by the next post and walked to the West End to earn half-a-crown as a sandwich-board man so that he could pay for his next night's lodgings.

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The man who sent him the cheque was Mr. John R2383. Simpliclus Waltz Son, (Strauss.) Poweys-Rea, who lives in the South of France.

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OLDHAM, LANCASHIRE. CLINGING to the arm of her 17- years-old husband kere recently, a slender brunette revealed how she

A tangled heap of wreckage is all that remains after a passenger was secretly married early in the

and freight train collided head- morning at an Oldham church, when Up went the portculils and the her flance's widowed mother had

on near Barbacena, Brazil. This wreck, in which the death toll barge, with a cover on top, aalled bem persuaded to agree to the away down river, where the refuse

was expected to reach 100, with is used for the reclamation of marah-

another 100 injured, Was ne bride, Mrs. Eva Cole, who is

worst In Brazil's history. Among land,

18, was surprised that the name of Now take a day-or a night her husband, Mr. Frederick Cole, was

the passengers was a delegation the life of a dustman. (Interlude: called out ut

of Boy Scouts, Jamboree-bound. Oldham magistrates' "Why do you wear the slouch bat, enurt recently regarding his appll- dustmon?" "They came in after the cation for permission to marry her. Boer War. The ordinary round caps

MOTHER RELENTED with the shiny peaks were knocked off every time we shouldered mother, Mrs. Mary Ann Cole, load.")

Carlisic-street, Oldham, opposed the marriage on the grounds that the thought her son was too young. The magistrates adjourned the case for WHEN ho was working in Southampton last year Mr. Mother and son. did not answer F. Clark, an Imperial Airways The dustman of to-day has boots Said the young Mrs. Cole at her station officer, attended a tail home in Hollins-avenue. party at the South Western and special clothing issued free. He mother's comes to the depot and puts his Waterhead, Oldham: "We have been Hotel. It was such a good party clothes in an electrical drying room, married for nearly a fortnight,

that he decided to go to another

He met Shore recently, lis-, ward. But this is a case of human and has his own shower baths. Up- "We went to see Fred's mother,

tened to his point of view and life," he said. told him he was a fool.

"It was my duty to help. I did stairs he has his own restaurant cen- and she relented. Getting her ap-event, and was among those trally heated and run by his own We are deeply in love.

proval has made us both very happy. present."

what anyone else would have done But Mr. Clark is now on the In- Last summer Mr. and Mrs. in the circumstances." committee.

We are staying with my parents perial Airways staff at Marseilles, Foweys-Rea were staying in an ex- Later he said: "I admit I was found that these night for some time. My husband has not and to attend the party he flew 700clusive hotel on the sea front at tempted. It would be criminal of wan workers often woke light sleepers big wage. So the Westminster Council have put

miles to Southampton by Empire fly-Southsea.

the money. me to accept

I know their cleaners in rubber-soled boots ding, as I was married on the name

"Few people knew about the wed- | Ing-boat.

In another hotel John Shore was what it is to go hungry. I know I R2142. He had only four days' leave, toworking as receptionist. and run silent electric cars instead day as my sister Ethel, who is 20, had to fly back again.

could do a a lot of things with £500. of motors with noisy exhausts.

We held a joint reception here. It Fifteen hundred and twenty miles daily before-breakfast dip when he having

One morning John was taking his But to-night I am much happler for R2340. The depot is also the garage for is a relief that our romance has end-is a long way "but the party was saw

refused it. the council's many vehicles. It has ed so happily."

woman strolling "I treasure my Independence. My worth it," he said. its own repair workshops and stores.

father is a retired Civil Servant Ilv- Suddenly Bl.c collapsed. In a ing in Exeter. He has asked me to moment,

ent, John was racing up the come home. But why should I be deserted beach to help her. He lift- come a burden to him at my ogc? ed the woman to her feet, then half-

Binme

my Christian upbringing if ted, half-carried her to her hotel. you like, but I just could not accept

That woman was Mrs. Poweys-Rea, the money." She and her husband have bcen Said Mr. Poweys-Rea; "He is a grateful ever since to the young man fool. I made no stipulation about whose prompt action probably saved his use of the money. her life.

"I thought he would like to start a little business

of his own or something of the sort. "After all, his action saved my Five Poweys-Res and his wife went to wife from a lengthy illness. live in Lourdes. John Shore, his hundred pounds is really a small re seasonal Job over, returned to his, ward.

But I felt I had to recognise

OLD WOMAN

FOUND SHOT

A woman of 74, found dying from revolver wounds at a hospital naked the doctor to "Anith her off."

This story was told n at the SI Pancras inquent recently on the wo- man, Ignnein Dofter Gardner, of Wellesley Road. Chiswick, who died in University College Hospital.

A verdict of "Suicide while of un-

sound mind" was recorded.

Mr

Mrs.

He

Gardner for about 60 years.

Zerland.

Blind Man

Was Forced

To Leave His Wife

GATESHEAD.

REFORM of the Blind Persons Act may result from the case here of Mr. Harold Watson, who has been forced to leave his wife to obtain the full statutory grant to

enable him to live.

an

along the centende

KEPT HIS SECRET

When the summer was over Mr.

London.

| sorry I have been unable to per- The grateful husband and the suade him. I did my best." workless man wrote to one another. But John never breathed a wordj about everything except work and

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Johri Holt, ΟΙ Hoylake. Mr. Watson, whose sight was partly restored in "mir-long, u dreary days of job-hunting in his good deed in a niting way. I am Cheshire, said that he had known acle" operation four years ago, is only allowed 5s. a week pension believed her husband was in New for his infirmity under a "means test" regulation which rules that £1 a week, earned by his wife for acting as caretaker to a Dr. Roderick Payton, surgical blind social centre, must be taken into account as his income. registrar at an ophthalmic hospital, said he found Mrs, Gardner with a Mr. Watson notified the authorities His case is, however, being taken revolver by her side. She said to recently that he is leaving his wife up by Alderman Peter Hancock, him. "I am quite incurable. Please and going into lodgings to obtain the chairman of Gateshead Corporation Anish me of."

full grant of £1 a week.

Blind Persons Committee, who said: “It is wrong that a blind man-for Mr. Watson is still blind to all intents and purposes should be penalised because his wife is making a little money.

Further Reductions

during

Thursday & Friday

Last Two Days

of

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Alexandra Bldg. Des Voeux Rd. C.

"When he leaves his wife he will save to apply to my committee for the full grant of £1 a week. I in- tend

to ree if something cannot be done to circumvent the red tape with which the Act is bound."

money.

Mr. Powcys-Ren did not know that every morning John tramped from Ilammersmith to King's OR London Transport 1930 will Cross on the off-chance of getting be the busiest year since the a`day's work as pantry boy aboard Board was established. one of the expresses.

Then when day after day there was no work for him, he walked round the big West End stores look- ing for jobs addressing circulars at six shilings a a thousand.

Underground developments which will be completed during the year include.

January: Opening of recon- structed St. Paul's station.

May; New Eastcote station Reconstruction of King's Cross.

June: Northern line to East Finchley,

October: Bakerloo trains to Stonmore,

December: Northern line trains to High Barnet. New Harrow-on- the Hill sttion.

Son To Be Lashed When it was returned he came to

But Air, Poweys-Rea was wonder- ing how he could reward the modest Faling a satisfactory outcome of young man who had probably shved) Alderman Hancock's efforts the his wife's life. National League for the Blind may Thinking that a hotel receptionist take the matter up with local M.P.a. might have ideas of running a cate on his own, he sent him a cheque for

£500.

Road: Trolley bus routes extended London to meet John Shore hoping' by 33 miles, with 400 new vehicles; In an effort to avoid having his son he might change his mind.

(340 new buses and 87 new coaches. associate with criminals, William Recently they went to see a fim Ball: Recently the Southern Rail- Forrester suggested that the 24- together and then had tea. But John way's new electrifled line from year-old youth receive lashes instead was adamant

Virginia Water to Reading and from of a prison sentence. The son was "IC had found a wallet of yours Ascol to Ash Vale and Brookwood charged with stealing a golf stick. I would have readily accepted a re-¡will come into operation.

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