New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 14, 1929, Page 12

b3 34 Tam Bl Just Ao Water Washingten, D. C. June 14— Wuchow, whence American citizens ‘were recently urged to flee before thy city should be bombed by Can. temese airplancs, is one of the chief commercial distributing points west of Canton, according to a bulletin frem the Washington, D. C. head- quarters of the National Geograpic Soclety. Wuchow lies on the nortn bank of the Si-Kiang or West river which is connected with the Canton post by a canal “There are no railroads within 200 miles of the city,” says the bul- letin. “Roads radiating into the surrounding region are almost im- passable for vehicles, so Wuchow really lives by its riverfront traffic. Dilapidated Boats Fill Harbor “Junks, sampans and many other | types of native craft fill the harbor. Ocean-going vessels can navigate the West river to this point and frequently a huge, funnelled craft noses its way toward the city. The U. 8. 8. Guam now is anchored at Wuchow to protect American citi- sens. “Another touch of modern com- merce penetrating the depths of China's waterways, is the increasing number of motor boats that skim over the river, passing through lanes of anchored native boats and dedging others that lazily float here and there under the muscle power of ene or two half-naked. yellow- skinned coolies. “Laden with lumber, indigo, rice and tea, many of the boats come from distant provinces. Here is an old junk with gaping holes only a few inches above the water line. It it ever had a coat of paint, there is no evidence of it. Swall Boats Swarm Ocean Craft ‘“The smaller boats clustered to- gether near the shore, also are dingy in appearance, but now and thena red and yellow painted craft #adds a gay touch to the riverside morama. When a large boat ar- tives at Wuchow to transport car- goea of the smaller ones down- siream to Hong Kong and Canton. there iz a rush of small boats which woon entirely surround it. ‘“To the average traveler. the sing seng chatter of the familics abeard the native hoats is all alike. One. familiar with Chinese dialects, tinds that Wuchow harbor is a jumble of natives from many re- giens. The dialects of Kwangsi province, of which Wuchow is an important gateway, dominate but there iz also the chatter of the Kweichew natives and even that of the matives of Yunnan, indicating that seme of the boats in the har- bor have been drifting downstream for weeks. Part of City Occuples Pontoons “Wuchow itself begins before the viver ‘bank is reached. Now and then In the summer the West river £0e% on & rampage and rises 40 to FO feet. So the business houses that were inundated during these annual floods built offices apd ware- houses on pontoons which are tled to the shore. “Beyond the pontoons, Wuchew presents a picture of a typical Chinese city that the outside world has net yet marked. There is no wide quay or bund but from the river bank the marrow, tortuous, ill- smelling streets begin, offering ne breathing spaces until one emerges from the other side of the city. Fifty thousand natives and a hand- tul of foreigners live in these mere ays. “Wuchow's history is one chronic rebellion which has tarded its growth. PATTENS ISSUED of re- (List compiled weekly from the | Official Gazette by the office of Hareld G. Manning. Room 405, City Hall Building. New Britain.) L. Hinman and F. E. Greene, assignors to The Greist Mig. Co., New Haven. Combination robe rall and handle. Robert O. Miller, New Britain. Power transmission mechanism. Charles A. Rossbers, West Hart. ford, assigner to Veeder-Root. Inc. Hartford. Nut lock. Austin L. Stewell, New Britain, as- signer to Thé Stanley Works. Line level. This week try oven fresh Newtons REC.US. PAT. OFF, Fig Little brown muffs of cookies wrapped around fig jam. And what good figs go to make them! Buy them by the package or the pound. NATIONAL | BISCUIT COMPANY | “Unssda P {104, | Some of the waxwork sights at duke of Wellington viewed Napoleon lying in state. —Ileft of tne Pope is Cardinal Bourne; on the right are the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London. London, June 14 (®-—Many pres- | ent day celebrities, from Babe Ruth to Mussolini, would see themselves in wax if they came to the famous Madame Tussaud's. “Haven't found myself ye 8ir Oliver Lodge on his first v “and perhaps it's just as well. H. G. Wells took a cursory look at himself and then scrutinized Bernard Shaw, who was reading | a French Bible (in effigy.) | Jimmy Wilde found his likeness | within a straight left's distance of Jack Dempsey. Sir Thomas Lipton and Joc Beckett also have come to see themselves as others see them. The seriousness of the exhibi- | tion is striking. From Valentino to Vaquier not a smile illumines the faces of these waxen men and wo- men. After three-quarters of hour's search we may find a flee ing smile, and it is on the face of a man in the chamber of horrors. He is in the process of being guil- lotined! The royal it, | family group is in- teresting. The queen has expressed her admiration for the beauty of the $2,500 court gown displayed on the wax model of her majesty at Mme. Tussaud's exhibition. This is claimed to be the finest dress fabric woven in England since the special hand loomed bro- cade was made for her majesty's coronation dress. The queen herself, through her lady-in-waiting, supervised the dressing of the wax effigy. i Madame Tussaud's was the old- est waxwork exhibition og the,eon, tinent. It first was opened on the Boulevard du Temple in Patis in 1780, and came on to the Lyceum; Strand, London, in 1802. Madame was born in Switzerland in 1760. She was taught to model by her uncle, M. Curtius, and made heads of his friends, Voltaire, Rous- seau, rabeau and Lafayette. In the revolution she began to model the severed heads of vic- tims. She died in London in April. 1850, aged ninety. Her mother lived to be ninety, her grandmother her great grandmother 111, four generations averaging 99 years. It has been an arduous task to dress the royalties, commoners, churchmen, notabilities and crimi- uals of the past 1,000 years; of making them sit in identically the same chairs they would have sat in, of obtaining the correct kind of footwear, of adorning them with replicas of the jewels they wore. Lady Astor looks very busines: like in her “parliamentary black Nurse Edith Cavell wears her uni. form. The men of outfits of modern famous are according to the decree fashion President Coolidge. Bakers® . Wholesome and delicious. | NOTED BECOME IMHORTAL N Mme. Tussaud’'s 1.ondon. Above: Lower left: Tim Healy, H. G. Wells, 8ir Oliver Lodge and President Von Hinden- burg look the same as they always do. Rudolph Valentino “*Monsieur Beaucaire.” p— It has appears and Cl Bakers Representing the scene in which the Mussolini. as |ence which is still studied by stu- ldnnli in America and Europe. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDA WAX Leighton Bumsard, Eng.. June 14 (UP)—This town has a queer same but even queerer in its manper of expressing gratitude. Figuratively speaking the town of Leighton Bus- zard stands on its head (o say “Thank You.” In the days of Chares 1, a wealthy London merchant, Edward | Wilkes, left several parcels of land to Leighton Buzszard, the {income from which was to be devoted to charity. He atipulated in his will that the ceremony of “beating the bounds,” in which the parish offi- cials go over the chief boundaries tapping them with a long . willow, stick on Ascension Day, should be concluded with a public entertain- ment, - For years Leighton observed thiy stipulation and then suddenly de. cided it would be nice to honer the memory of 8ir George by having a boy stand on his head on each par- cel of land during the beating of the bounds. This has gone on for generations, and each year, months before the ceremony there is a strong compe- tion among the boys of the village to be elected the. officlal ‘“head- stander.” A While the parish official reads the clause of the will dealing with each parcel of land on which they are standing. the boy remains in a feet- up position on the parcel. This cus. tom has shown no asigns of dying out. 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