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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1929-10-17, Page 3Baronial Castle is Fit for a King But Price Calls for a Miiiionaire 'Ancient Post -Norman ;Edifice in SussexBuilt by Hero of Within, Agincourt, Though IJ -to-Date Conies • Into the Market in Britain ondon, ,.- Hurstnioneeux Castle, susses, famous as one of the finest beautifuland most' s ongholdsin thSt outhof England, 'has come into the market, after hav- ing been restated to something like' its originalstrength and beauty by ;Colonel Lowther, its last owner. 11 was only natural that a castle which was built in the time of King Henry VI, by Sir Bogor de. Fiennes,. a hero of Agincourt, should show the ravages of time and possibly' the neg- lect of successive, owners. The castle is constructed entirely of brick, tclr and is 1lielievod to have been the largest post - Boman building of the material in England, It : has been described as practically a little town. Within its rough square were to be found four 'courts, larders, laundries, a bakehouse, a dairy, a guardroom,: a Chapel and, of course, a dungeon, Upstairs there weto lords' and ladies' apartments, "capable of quartering an array," the Bird Gallery, the Armour Gallery, and the Green Gallery. Entrance to the castle was by a main gateway, with flanking towers 84 feet high, and 'entrance was not 'easy, for the 'whole place was built for defence, with battlements, turrets a nd;i h e Pep of s galore, re, though in alI its five centuries, it has never had to resist a siege, - Hurstmoneeux had fallenmuch into Margate After decay toward the end of the eentnry. When Horace W ed it in 1.262 he found tha (str action had gone on, a stained glass that adorned "we actually found St, Cal another gentlewoman with her hand, exiled to the butt of the floors had fallen aw ing the walls "in their na hood," and great trunk'. of be red t d ab ou the h e r i c' n 1 r a a principal Wyatt, the architect who Windsor Castle so badly, in, and on his advice the in demolished, leaving little the outer walls, a marvelon lel to the skill of the Pettis who served them. A short time before the w Lowther bought what was p a shell of a castle overgrow and poked with rubbish. that he spent £200,000 in to old castle into a residence th sed all modern comforts and ienees, always careful that struction should be in keep the character of the old buil So Hurstmonceux Castle Practically as it was, It is fit for o a king; but ' kings are. ished nowadays, „ and the castle looks for perhaps ami to become its owner,and-utab glories intact eighteenth alpole visit- t much de- ad of the the chapel, theritte, and a church in Ory." Many ay, reveal. tine brick. ivy clam - at r en p m t,. s. 'restored" was called terioi• was more than. a memo° h' builders ar, Colonel ractloally n by ivy.. It is said ruing the at posses- conven- the molt- ing with ding. stands a place tt r poVer- ancient lilonaire itain its makeup Is du these shelves, lc Mr. Law, aia "front a commutator to a Midnight signlit pili? And no matter' what de. the chassis or Engine may be, all its Obntpnnents are obtainable here."' It was shortly alter three In the' morning when we returned to the main 'aectiib0 of the garage, where the air was filled with sounds of ham- mering, tapping, racing engines, and .the ringing of telephone bells, "What's that?" :I .said, referring to a long thin hiss that could be stn ides• As ! entered the Dane Road garage gu shed above motorem-pump all ..of, the least Gent a a nal Co A special es" the we use for , whose re� balloon tires," rs fen ask buses serve this replied. "Passengers often aswc tow part of coast, an 'empty omnibus swung to Prom the we painp there up. The answer is road and, like a. horse returning to I that here one man is kept hard at it eta stall, made for its allotted place, all ureas doing ,notbing but -testing Zero Hour in the Garage the pressure of every tire in service "That is the'flrst," said Mr. A. Law, pressure 1150 kept this depot. Our tire -^-the garage s at an average g superintendent; "about 1b:,nearly five bates .that of the �ordl 8,15 p,m, is our zero hour. Then the nary small ear tire!" buses begin to eotrte in for the night,) It was hard to believe amid this and atter that, we get them In a bustling scene that it would still be steady stream for three hours," two hours or more before the earlies I watched the arrival of these red riser in Margate'wc,ttld. awaken. t chariots at regular intervals while, these r �.' +•--- Sat the sky deepened and the sounds of snerrttneut faded from the town. By midnight the garage resembled EP - nom Road on Derby Day, _Trp to tip and aide by side they stood, empty, and silent, and cue wondered how on earth the drivers would sortthemout in the morning, At 12.15 a m the last bus came le and a tired driver clambered from his hox. He had been to London and back that .day— no mean run, The London bus aecupied the last -remaining space, There were now fifty -flue red monsters with dust and mud upon their coachwork and wheels =the dust of _Westgate, Ramsgate, Monis Bay, Deal, Broadstairs, Dor- Or Faversham, Canterbury and even 02 London, Brighton, and Portsmouth. The Driver's /Last Duty • By CLAUDE LUKE It was shortly after nine in the eve. tang when, leaving Margate Station, 12 turned towards Dane Road, which is on the fringe of C1ilatonville, Down on the beach groups of bathers were having their last dip, while on the promenade hundreds of families and couples were making their way to- wards Deer cafe, or danee:halL tat day was ly approaching and much remainedtobe done. Two were going from one bits to another playing a hose upon the wheels and coachwork, while two more followed them and attached the windows with leather and ' cloth, Paintwork 'began to gleam and the window -panes shone. Soon the metal- work was glistening also, Dawn Over the Sea Meanwhile, the clop -clop of brooms orously applied brushes he rtsoued nded evek of rywhere as the insides of the fifty -flue buses were swept clean and each of the 2,000 seats, and cushions beaten and dusted. On tete "Tiger," a new dou- ble-decker to hold 46 passengers, a main was testing the small reading. belbs with which 'each of the outer An hour or so previousry the nightie e luxury, incidentally, thas at uI London le open top sta.E had come on 'duty, and now then has yet to enjoy, last of the seventy'drivers bad goneI -Only then, as tete dawn was begin- ning .to steal ftp itonithe sea, did the First, however, each driver had telePhote bell cease to ring. Through-, Made his report for, the day, This out the night tnessages Itad cot Is a nightly duty. If his engine is from private houses, hotels, a troublesome, or a bolt work lose, or boarding -hooses in Margate and 0 a brakeshoe is worn, he notlfles the tonv1Ile reserving seats on tete night staff, who have tate defect over- row for late arrivals. m hauled by the next morning. If it About .five o'clock the buses w 10 a serious matter, the omnibus is thoroughly sprayed,' inside taken out of service and given a dock with disinfectant, and for a space tl Overhaul during, the day, garage smelt like a hospital ward, When. They Close Down A few minutes later a new d had begun. The first driver and c doctor signed on, and the first bus Ramsgate moved but into the'mor ing su«. According to the time their duty, the drivers appeared. Slo ly the packed garage began to so c.with self out, At 3 a.m.' I bade farewe ars replenished the machines with to the night staff, who went off to bed oil and petrol. Trying the Tires as the day workers arrived. At 10,15 a,m, the last bus was out, My last view of tate garage was of a bus set aside for a dock overhaul belug rapid- ty dismantled, and of another three buses receiving new coats of paint. Outside the garage gates three girls and three youths in summer dresses and flannels paused on their way to the sea. Tttey looked curiously in- side. "Rum place," remarked one, "Cushy job, I should think, looking after buses:"' I looked at the superttteademt and we both yawned expressively. "Don't you ever Mese down Isere?" I asked him. "Certainly! This piece is desevt- ed at 5 p.m, ou Christmas Day," "And when do yea open again?" I said,. "Oh, at 5 4.01,,on Boxing Dayl" BEARDS o peracm. there was a marvellous array of spare, al bgt'atifcationthat oort reward, at solo tth t does parts in upwards or 6,000 plgeon-1 not make distinctions, and that Doles, I leaves behind ne heartaehes, eau bo rEVet'y single detail of au omnibus' oiled divlhe, "Trim" Hair Cuts Are Not in Order Noris "Smartness" Required CHINESE BORDER TROOPS AT TROUBLED AREA Members Of Chinese Frontier contingent at Haller, against the Soviet, under command a , HeflungHHHang province, chief concentration point . of Gen. Chang TsoHsiang, t tt for de- fence That B .__ ®nnie Fight monsenee test of facts, M, Polo/Ire last soldier—British, Bel- ts not the man I tikish, Ercall, or Bel - to give away a' 1 Y 0 nt 'ta P fig n. A t the Hague. lie negotiations: Yet, as is now known That ill preliminary urinary agreen t shall Pirates' Isle At Longwoo Touxiets Cad Visit a ,Real sea1 After par brief tear or the town WO 1#s where Napoleon s i t t QWn Klug � the time of 1 exile. !t is situated 4 South Sea Islands 1P volt want re. tOWn 011 Itlatrt twDtirOna• Robbers' Stronghold,•, started for LOrgwond, the objective of II Which Still Has " our visit to St. Helena, tete bowie. .. ten praet ally all tis ex There is no Meed to pine for the about four miles inland front amines., n aft elevated stance—go to Luudyl ' .land feet high, 011( the load leading to This little island, twenty-one mho's It Is s'ery steel! Gild zigzags as it t Y sea front Ilfracombe, and twelve I clinlba, Driving tip the valley we Mut miles N,N, W, of Idartlaitd Point, oric1nto to "Tile Brti , ," ilia house ti0 lovely Devanslhire coast, stands; 1vh01'e fvapoleon lived 101, several out of rue 19rletol Chaawei Bice tt rut • it;riciiii eokswhileLongwoodwasbeinggadbastion,11(10readyfor Ole,ThisplacenowPer eent«a'ies- it wasono0PtitsOlollgstorueEastern'Peleg•raplemnortuotOrfousttauuts ofseadespora•°ttipaag:It couststsofsottlOwtlite•dons in British water's. The ruins ofashEdbungalows etudeePvolcanicaaittal1castle,700 years01(1,areail ctc,wttlttin roofspa1uled retl,lorethatt'otuains0YlIlestrongholdbuilose o1 many 01'Cho houses, ori rue by the first of Lundy's pirate "'kings," 111151111, 011 the waY UP we also iraw William de 'Wallace, who made the in- the alarm house where In olden tlu,,-s accosting island his refuge after a a gun was fired -to warn the natfvee conspiracy against henry 112. Ire was that a ship was approaching tate is- foliowed by a long and unsavoury sue- laird' cesalou of wreckers, pirates, smug- The bare hills reminded me some. glens, and privateers, chat of the Canary Islands. Cattle On the Shutter Rock and sheep were grazing in the fields. Many a ship, blinded by treacherous 1Little Yellow birds and birds With fog, or blown by fierce gales, has gray and pink bills fluttered about, awl crashed on Lundy's jagged pinnacles, We saw reit birds and weavers, called No further back than. 1906, the 14,- Napoleon's birds, and heard the coo - 000.10n first-class battleship Montagu ing of doves. Pheasants and grounded on the Shutter Itocic In a log pare and was totally Iost. But to -day two et'e, and Cafe polony duck levo were, also deer and mine birds, which, lighthouses guide a g em'' are n len finer n it s t t they « u e 1 D the Y is e become eCome Channel 121111 warn them of the dam- pest' We were passing among hills gers of the rocks. covered with roaolred a it 7i w be cite uegtnuing, Wer Though It Is only about three mites with Britain * 111 li Spa percentages shall have l have un utthe war, We 1 long by one mile wide, with an area with not be titahged. They have eThereshill !still organize the peace, pl some 1,000nacres, the island des. be no real thought of peace `plays an Bowers variety. of Utes are been changed and they have not been while the troops of three cation aro ahs restored. To make up for their Emit. encamped on the territory and wild dowers. Its antiquities are utIon We are offered irrelevant figures fourth. piles the armies t, oP ,bel o a great attraction. Tumuli, round teN' e1. s rocking oeldn drawn t n Y•r g from 0 stone, o n tria Within e Duand Enemy standing din yProperty. g a:t c hats ownstate fires frontiers all oelstelling ouand11 n eta E I 0 combined atone ceases abound, g Prue storied past, to think in terms of. military saue•I tions, it can devote itself to exhibiting Even its rocks have a value. Lundy the real meaning of its peace agencies I granite was very largely used in the the League and. the Pact. Tlie aims 1 construction of the famous Victoria will then come when it wilt be pos. I Embankment, in London, stole to view the international sit -t The island has a population ti uaP P ation of about fort Ey J, L. Garvin Not since 1914 has August made his- tory as now, The Hague Conference aims at the full liaeifleatlen of Europe, and its m eft fiber s r ealiz' nr g that this is indeed the golden moment, are strly-' ike ing .that its achievement may not fail calculations Or srpiusea owith n the tlex- short of its aims. The cardinal issues parts' estimates.' Such paltrydevices are Reparations and Disarmament, at !will never secure that whole -hearted ea which Versailles, Spa and Geneva 10- British su • tssential'tto bored in vain, But to -day, with await which 0 essential to e. minds schooled to wisdotft by ten i me 11. Certain minion' rights settle - years of experience and disepp0fnt- ghts war ment, they are ripe for effective treat- ment. secured to this country at Spa. In re - Hance upon them Britain has settled I tuna het• debtors s o t n terms the I let ns Yours of un g Plait was exhibited leled paral• as'the ark of file financial covenant, generosity, The COUutrY is b on which 114r. Snowden had laid a rash Philistine I111114, Self-luterest has in 5Dlt•ed H, on as a whole, when Mr. Hender- son's negotiations with M. Briancl and Its Present owner, Herr Stresemann will link themselves hr organically with Mr.1825 for £1 MACDO 000 i n al ' a s 111 - s Y an emissionsvie it M15+ t C - Itlh u sir G m .hindOne General to Mr.I1 Snowden in his refusal to till then will statesmen enDawes. Netcall himself "Icing of have them whittled awe Lundy. put their Y, Tlie- buildings coinprise -a church, a farm, and a few cottages, i` who bought t it in s Entitles, b Y• hands..to the true work of reconskrttc. Lundy is in one respect a is find The BritishiWe I Perfect efensible contention. case against deliveries tion. must build patiently if we' paradise, for it has neither rates Let us get back to common sense, to kind has had a more sympathetic are to build lastingly; but with so taxes' nor The plan Embodies the recommenda- tions reception 11 Graham presented it much to be done it would b tions of experts with 111 his t yeare well if upon a P Y his could special caIu d mat of aspect , persuasive roast see the b the eu begin- Abilities r t li problem. t ire fn — a I t g. i1?o ntreal Standard. Every person is responsible for all --.a.---- per the good within the scope of Ills abili- Life ties, and for no more, and none can Life is like a library owned by an tell whose sphere is the largest. --Gail author. Iu it are a few books which Hamilton, he wrote himself, but most of them But it. is not I witch has most sacrosanct, On the contrary, it is the _ Y the duty of statesmen to reanould it in 50 system—for a fattcontractt3n delivery far as it fails to harmonize with aver- , diel not seriously contest it, Its arms age opinion, the ultimate sanction of It is, ill - any 'sentiment, 'heed, out of the question that a wag - British opinion, whose detachment 1 flee developed without due controle renders it amake-weight fn Europeanand as a desperate expedient in the peace, has a special right to be sates- I 'evil days of collapsed no and adeae ing Red. Mr. Snowden had to make it I clnt en nds, Sven t noyear'made ►egin• clear that the British Government mate and given ten years' law, It. Gr ower O exposition, Even the German delega- tion,os to gain h as not only uncommitted, but Thos• On the commercial, no less than on us o tile. It was indeed q 011 the flnanct o n a long le were written for him—Rev. Harry Teacher:—"linty were you not at .Emerson Fosdick, D• �' school yesterday, Tommy?" TOnitnq —(knowing that the teacher would Stnoe few large pleasures are lent se for the side, the Britislt case is 'trate a large underge roswtwh of e o lron:haud ungloved. strong by virtue of its fmmttnent jus. pleasures. --Mary A. Livermore. was The, Chancellor's arstinreut i when war -exhausted Germany far ince. From the very outset, Prom the too strong to be countered by any in -,days I vocation of the experts' formula. Our (t+as services, a treasury of wealth war loans to the Allies were enor-land services, the issue has never bleu thous, li'e bear their burden• But we insist that we will not also .liqu t 'leis, At last we have made a be. knowledge, that we may impart elate borrowings s latefence of our insular !t-Iazlftt. n t Those w examined in the cold light of in ' no curiosit g made on their behalf, d stand In Silence ho can keep secrets, have Y. We only wish to gain culti- small de It is the fashion to spear: of Eure ]deal of fair -play. America. lygr, F I payments toPe s The straight and narrow The political committee has worked g path is Hest has given figures Which reveal in a calmer atmosphere. Quietly 000 of the few roads that are still the emptiness of the phrase. Up to functioning under the I safe for now the presidency of pedestrians, paymetts have bort British.1hir• Henderson, it has squarely Paced rather than European. h it— Ont of 1,159 t e fact tlhat anything short cP 00211- Brother] million dollars paid up to April 1 last Y Advice:—There is a car- plete evacuation would be an idle gas• fain curate, who is of a painfully ter - 94Q millions were found by London.' tare. Here' too, the British Govern, vows temperatneut, and iu cons - It cannot be supposed that Br men tltas ivet queace e will Britain g t a notable le is coustan wipe this enormous sum, found g y leas madea1 Cleae me til making coma - during the years of severest economic IFotei n Secreta° 1 ward remarks —intended as compli: that the British occu iatibn of German I nts—to the Bishop and others. Up - struggle; clean off the slate and start territory cannot be prolonged. Evac - Ion one occasion, having distinguish - afresh. (nation, it is reported, will begin in !n himself in an unusual degree dur- IP it were, indeed, tete case that the mid-September; and the last Bettslt g gathering of clergy to an bull' of our' clai ms had been conceded soldier will be ironic for Clltistmas; noon tea at the Bishop'spalace, he er- we should be the first to urge a settle - 10n the other hand the Was- taken to p he trent. We should ` 1 e situation will task for his fain Could. bid I ass by ops go and to was One of his rid Mr. Snowden not be mended if our trb 111 senior ctuate wl 111- be content with the honour and vie.'the French troops remain indefinitely or- toryhis totnnanions, 4n the way hems "Look courage had achieved, We In the Third oohs. Mr. Henderson's i�iet'e," said the senior, decidedly, . would have him remember that - task f t t n and peace are tar 1 crepe° of , " Why cannot you ere cilliat'b tat con s o exercise the wart I "Yon are an assn Wl ut, worth more ch the Rhineland occupation is the keep quiet, instead of making your than money and not push his sland.I symbol and the inspiration. He will asinine remarks? I am speaking to to point to x11 -advised extremes. But leave don a real work for You as a brothe—" here, again the Peaoe lP the sLoudpoi laughterd newGermany terruPted him at file la- te lies to the oom-, Year sees free of the, point, and for a moment It e w ay on- to of w•. rt. 11 Out -on the road a late reveller hunt - Med his way homewards; and while Margate and Cliftonville slept solid- ly, in the Dane Road Depot things moved with increasing speed. IF'irst, there were the minor repairs to be. done, and a fitter and his mate work- ed at a rare pace, passing rapid]y from one to notlter while Otlier we Each car holds from thirty to flft.V gallons of petrol; the London bus alone, with its 1,000 mites a week, consumes about 140 gallons, ittci- itentally, it 18. a crime to smoke with 4n tete garage precincts. Beneath the floor is a small lake of petrol -3,000 gallons—which Is forced up into Mite engine tanks by a special pump. While this work was in run swing Mr. Law took me to tete club -room, ,where a handful of Hien, who had finished their duty,. were playing bil- liards, darts, and • rings. Then he Showed me the room where 800 spare. cushions are stored against e111er• gency; the carpenter's shop. where Coachwork repatt•s are effected; and Che upholstery shop 'where ten melt are' constantly employed melding and resp2(ttging wore and torn seats 9n11 cattalos. Iu anetiter place hen- (bods or spare tires and tubes were stacked, while in the general slot• Canada's Wealth Spreads Farther North say ay ire must not stay away for every t little ache),—"Please teacher—I had appendicitis," More than 7,000 cases or eggs have been stripped by the Saskatchewan Egg and Poultry Pool to London, Liverpool and Bristol buyers, Thel Saskatchewan Egg and P gold -red 'acts bion. some,. pink and red aloe, patcites of wild geranium, oleander, and wild art• ton, and meeting picturesque coWntry people with loaded burros; Who bolded and smiled most politely, We saw . the natives gathering fibre or flax, which had been spread to dry a a d loading adi n g it in t0 wagons a v o ns a dr • 1 drawn ib y e «, s Tilly is, made Oslo hemp rope and exported. As we rode along we met a settool teacher—a white woman —riding a donkey, and a plantation owner on a Rae horse, while natives were gathered at various• pointe to watch the tourists. Finally we came to a gate that led to a grass road and down through a pretty lane to a beautiful little dell, one of the most secluded and serene spots in the world.. , During Na- poleon's stay at Longwood this hol- low was his favorite spot• He would ride to I • to almost every day, drink. front the spring, and read under one of the willow trees. Another drive and finally we came to Longwood, situated on a high pla- teau overlooking the sea seventeen hundred feet below. It was wind. swept and somewhat misty. Although the one -storey farmhouse may once have been a barn, it was neat and clean, with a walled garden t0 one side. Longwood . • a bit of France in the midst of an English island, for they were presented to Napoleon IH, In 1858, and are now in the care of the French Consul Monsieur Colin, who with his wife and childreu has Iived Isere for about eight years. They re• ceived us acid showed us over the house and seemed h0pny at tits chance to talk'Frenclt. Monsieur Col. 0('in had prepared with touching kind. is a co-operative marketing organize- nese for the coming of the touriste— tion controlled by women, Partners'Imore, perhaps, than had visited the Wives. Only one man is on the boardplacein al the years before. IIe ltad cP. directors. For ttvo years a certain actor had been out of work until, Paced with utter poverty, he accepted a small part at £4 a week, Hls luck seemed to have changed, Por om the same day he found a wallet containing £496, Meeting an acquaintance who asked lhim who things were in the theatri- cal profession, Ile replied: "0, very good indeed. I am getting £500 a week now."—London Answers, The club members were discussing southern exposure... . Here the two laziness. One family told about his boys constructed a. beautiful igloo, hiking trip through the South. Cominglwitu lligh-be4 platform en to a stream, lie saw a mountaineer ' gently sloping walls, and an almost fiat roof , the sitting on the bank against a tree, his hat over his face and a fishing pole A blocks Ging Ina ;Athol.' stuck under one knee, the line in the a pleasure to see water. "hello" an Eskimo cut and handle snow. One said the visitor; cannot but admire the skill and dex- "beau here alt day 7" "Y "+ terfty with which he cuts it on the surface, breaks ft out with his toe, lays it up on the wall, bevels the edges, and thumps it into place with his hand. I wonder If there aro any other people in the world who attempt to build an arch or cone without sup - Port Starting from the ground in a spiral from right to left, the blocks mount higher and higher, ever assum- ing a more horizontal position, until the last two or three appear to bang in the air, the last block locking the whole structure. This work can be done by two good men in about an hour. Entering a newly cOnetructed igloo seems Iike a vision. of fairyland, the light filtering through the MOW a beautiful ethereal blue; everything— the bed, the two side platforms, the wall — absolutely spotless. -- Frons "Pour Years in the VVltlte North," by Donald B. MacMillan, RtG,F(T Whenever We vary frotu the highest rale o2 right, just so far we do an In- jury to ,hie world: Ilawthorno, Southern Judge—"Now Jake, these bilis ought to be paid up. How much do you earn a week?" J'alce—Well, ledge, some weeks it's mo' ,den Were and some weeks leas, "Yeti ktlow, Bob, I lova Sybil fright. fully but her father objects to Oar marriage, and If he doesn't give in I'll—well, I'll have to commit sutrkte, What would you t.dvise?" "Well, oar. bolt' OM does very waft, hear." ready seeds and slips from the flowers in the garden ..', which he hoped would be replanted and thrive is American gardens, To us,: who were fortunate in` being the first to arrive, , he gave a slate from the roof of bra poleon's time,—Isabel Anderson, in "Circling Africa." Our Igloo Proceeding for about hall au hour, we reahed a well -sheltered spot with P. was the why.Catch anything?" `•Dunn° " r. response from the motionless fiche Construction camp at Isiaud lr'niie, ou r...�... 10.9 --,n,eibtAL WHERE. THE POWER COMES FOR FLIIV FLON MiNES iturcltlit River, la wilds of northern Sasicatohewan, from where newer Is conveyed over 70 relies to Finn Pilon miuea