Evening star., 1924-10-26

| the colony. It is IL miles from Hong
| kong on concrete road 25 miles in
length. At the bay is seaside hotel
| with all the surroundings of a beau
tiful villa. There are gardens of semi
tropical flowers dropping from
porches that look out over the sea,
| and below them lighthouses Of mat
| ting facing a beach. The hotel has a
dance hall and a dining room that
would be considered large in any city
hotel in the States, and at tea time
the veranda Is covered with tables.
The people are as we'll dressed as
those 1t our seaside resorts, and were
it not for the police in the gorgeous
uniforms of the Far East. the walters
servants in livery, one could not real
ize that he was out of America.
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THIS ride around the island is only
L one Of the many motor car trips
of the colony. There are other good
! roads here, and on the territory in
Kowloon. which Great Britain has
| leased for ninety-nine years, there is
| a 60-mile drive. The best golf in the
East is to be found in Fan-ling, about
| 18 miles from Hongkong, where there
are two courses of IS holes each.
There are other golf links in Happy
Happy Valley there Is a race course
with hills on three sides Of it, and
at the time of the races the business
Offices all close and the banks are shut
for three or four days. Every one
goes and at that time there is no
chance to do business. You can get
no money on your letter of credit, and
| cannot even cash check until race
week is over.
Hongkong is a city of clubs. It
has a cricket club, foot ball club, a
polo club. tennis and golf clubs, jockey
/ clubs, rifle clubs and yachting clubs.
Every nationality has it's own club.
and the ladies have their clubs as
| well.
So much for the rich. Now for the
poor. The difference between the
British colonies and those Of the
United States Is nowhere more ap-
Mia, which is city less than half as
big IS Hongkong. The poor Of Ma
nila are well-to-do in comparison
| with the poor Chinese of Hongkong.
There, wages are three times as great.
| The people live better, they dress
| better and the money taken from
| them in taxes goes to build up parks,
! schools and amusements for the pub
| lic. There is no more prosperous col
| only any "hcTc lHdl ludt VI lIS THli-
| ippines, and none in the Far East
| where the ordinary man lives so we'll
| and gets so much from the govern
ment.
Here in Hongkong there are tens
| of thousands of men, women and chill
dren who work for less than cents
an hour. There are many who earn
barely enough to keep soul and body
| together. az you may see from their
faces, which seem pasted on to their
| skulls.
My ride around the island was in
| the $4,000 motor car Of q capitalist
from Great Britain who had an East
Indian chauffeur. The Hindu was a
brown as my shoes, and his livery
was new, spick- -and-span. but on the
| way I passed gangs of Chinese WON.
| en- and girls Of all ages whose thin
cotton trousers tapped around theil
bare feet. They had been working
! on the automobile road for just about
2 cents an hour. Their wages were
40 cents silver, which equals 20 cents
| gold, and they put in 10 hours a day
As we drove by the palace Of q
millionaire I saw q score OF Chinese
girls Of 10 or ~ years OF ago hug
ging the side Of the roadway as we
new by. Each girl had . hammer IN
her hand. and my rich friend told me
they Vere going homo after tan hours
1 Of broAkjng stone for the road The
girls were laughing and smiling, and