March 20.
The Nanking Board of Trade gave a feast this afternoon in recognition of the services of resident foreigners during the rebellion two years ago and of the medical work, relief work and educational - work that is being done by foreign residents in general. The feast was given in the buildings of the Board of Trade at Fuchenchiao. Twenty-four representative missionaries were present and twenty-one Chinese merchants, forty-five in all, and seated at nine table. Mr. Soo Heih-tai, Chairman of the Board,|! tao.
949 acted as chief host, delivering an address of welcome to which Dr.
Macklin responded for the guests. The feast was a sumptuous one and the good fellowship better than the feast. Afterward a photograph of the company was Besides the goodwill thus manifested, there was a practical outcome of the meeting in the agreement to set apart an carly day for the planting of trees on North Pole Star Hill which is now the property of the Colonization Associa tion and which is to be turned into a public park.
Later in the afternoon there waa meeting of the authorities, and of the missionary doctors, at the invitation of the authorities, for the consideration of measures for the promotion of public health throughout the city.
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