The Washington times. [volume], December 14, 1928, Page 19, Image 19

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■ DEEPENED RIVER
■ TO LEI SHIPS
TOCINTON
American engineers are about to
* deepen Pearl Rivet so that ocean
going vessels may reach Canton.
China, ninety miles upstream from
Hongkong, according to the Na
tional Geographic Society. Foreign
flags will be a curiosity to the Can
tonese of the present generation,
but the waters of the Pearl off
Canton have reflected the colors of
many Western nations in the past.
More than four centuries ago a
Portuguese merchantman rounded
, the Cape of Good Hope and sailed
up to Canton. The first American
•h!p arriving there, the Empress of
China, from New York in 1784, was
gretted by traders from Holland,
» Portugal and England, who already
F had an established trade with the
Chinese.
Even without Targe ships, Canton
i now ranks with the great inland
’ ports of the East. Travelers ap
proaching the city by boat are be
wildered by the shipping in the har
bor. Thousands of sampans, junks
and other small river craft nearly
obliterate the surface of the water,
while the wharves bristle with
activity. The boats in the channel
move here and ’ there with small
short-haul cargoes, but along the
sea wall bordering the Bund other
> small craft are tied ten deep, float
ing at high tide and settling in the
mud at low.
250,000 Live in Boats
It is estimated that about 250,000
Cantonese are housed in the boats
on the Paerl and in the canals
through the city. Some boats ac
commodate three to four families, as
well as their flocks of chickens,
geese and pigs. Talkative parrots
Are popular pets among the river
folk. Their squawking and the loud
I monotonous chatter of their owners
g create bedlam on the river front
from early morning until midnignt.
Travelers usually see Canton by
way of or.e of the most occidental
spots in the Orient—the foreign set
tlement on Shameen Island. In .the
middle of the last century foreigners
were not safe in the Chinese quar
ter. so they made' an island out of
a mud flat in the Pearl. Today that
flat is a little oval of luxury and
comfort, with palatial residences,
modern buildings and parks, bor
dered by boulevards that In some
l places are wide enough for tennis
b courts as well as ordinary traffic.
I Two bridges span the canal that
separates Shameen from Canton.
k The river front is disappointing to
I any one expecting to see a typical
f Chinese city. Flimsy |>uildiiigs sac-
F ing the Bund have riven* Way to
’ modern, many - storied - structures
housing offices. of. foreign corpora
tions. and here ’and there bamboo
scaffolding indicates that another
bit of the Orient is passing to add
to Canton’s occidental skyline. All
these improvement* have been made
by men and women masons and hod
r carriers, without such modern equip
ment as adeem shovels and cement
mixers, m the street Chinese with* |
European coats add trousers, feather *
shoes an# straw and felt hats rub
elbows with their countrymen in
loose-fitting oriental garments, cloth
footwear and Skull caps. Now And
then a farmer from the suburbs
with his umbrella-like hat mingles
with the throng.
Streets Are Narrow Passages
But from Shameen and the Bund
one can throw a stone into Can
ton, , unchanged for many centuries.
Here many of the ancient thor
oughfares are so narrow f lhat one
cab stand in the middle and touch
th* side walls with the tips of his
fingers. Shopkeepers add to the
congestion by signs which protrude
’ beyond the doorways. Rickshaws
cannot traverse these lanes and
sedan chair* can only pass at in
tersections. Travel-wise strangers
usually takes the chair for sight
seeing tours. Pedestrians dodge the
wood supports of passing chairs and
are jostled about by chair carriers.
Among orientals in the Chinese
quarter Americans may pass many
natives who have spent’ some time
in the large cities of the United
States for most of our Chinese im
migrants are from Canton. Some
of them return and live in luxury i
* but many ■ slip back into the shops
and take up the same work thev
left. The Bund and the new Can- j
ton road on the old walls site ap- :
parently do not have the fasclna- j
tion of the dark workshops in the
rear of the stores.
The traveler wonders whether the !
idea of establishing “automobile
rows” and “real estate rows” in-our
cities did not originate in Canton.
One Canton street is lined with
shops selling articles in jade: shops
on another street display -silks, while
embroidery work shops, furniture
p shops and fan factories are grouped
on other streets.
Delicious Dishes
You’ve been Missing;
’ No. 15
( TRY “Mock Scallops’’—
tiny bits of Gorton’s *
f 1 Ready-to-Fry Cod Fish (
Cakes rolled in bread
crumbs, fried in deep fat
1 and served with parsley
( and tartare sauce.
From tht new Gorton 1
Recipe Book —Fret
Gorton’s
k Gxmsh
* Cakes
» THE ORIGINAL
00MPN-PEW FISHERIES .
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Judge Buys a Coat
For Woman Who
Stole One
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 14.
‘ Pleading that she had stolen a fur
coat because she was cold, ill and
out of work, Mrs. Reba Wheeler.
40, was placed on probation for
three years. Judge McDevitt, in
quarter sessions court, then gave
the woman enough money to buy
a coat.
With her husband. Mrs. Wheeler
admitted taking the coat from a
store. She said they were looking
for work and had gone into the
store to keep warm when the temp
tation proved too much for her.
Her husband,' who is a painter,
has been out of work for some
time, she said.
Sufficient funds to keep the cou
ple until the man, also put on
probation, finds work were pro
vided by Chief Probation Officer
E. M. Hackney.
Father and Brother
Accuse Man of Theft
NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—Facing his
father and brother in Long Island
City Court, Harold A.
of Jackson Heights, heard them ac
cuse him of grand larceny.
The charges were made by Ster
ling A. a Hayward, of Montclair,
Hayward's father, and his brother,
Sterling P. Hayward. The father,
president of the Commercial Sponge,
Iron and Governor Company, of
Long Island City, charged his son,
Harold, removed $450 in material
from the company’s plant.
Hayward was held in $2,500 bail
for examination December 14.
German Autobus Line
Gives Buffet Service
DRESDEN. Germany, Dec. 14.
The state authorities in charge of
the autobns line from Dresden to
Zinnwald have placed In service an
autobus which contains a buffet
where cold food is served. There
are also : noking and no-smoking
rooms, a baggage room and a toilet
room. The new autobus has six
wheels.
A number of autobusses now 1n
service cn different routes in Sax
ony are capable of a speed of 43
miles an hour.
THIEVES ROB SCHOOL
POTTSTOWN, Pa., Dec. 14.
Thieves broke into the Hancock
public school and stole sls received
for the sale of Christmas seals, a
victrola and a number of records
valued at $l5O.
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