Fron 4 Conntsronoexr, Swatow, Oct, 13, In Swatow the summer hai ended and the thermometer has fallen below 80 degrees F. We have had tone or two gales, but fortun no typhoon has come net to do any serious damage, Municipal road-widening schemes fare being mercilessly carried out fand very shortly Swatow will ha tone of the finest highway systems in the world, even. though many owners of property are being ruin-the process.
country, bandits and civil interfere with trade and pre ity in the same way as in other parts of China, but in spite of them and of bad times in general, trade has increased and new firms are opening offices here, Given peace and good governs ment, Swatow would soon become one of the most flourishing of the China coast ports.
One of the most interesting social events of the port was the celebration of Mr. T. Carr Ramsey's fiftieth anniversary in China, Fifty consecutive years without a single "-|home leave is certainly a recon! for Swatow, and possibly for the whole of China.
On September 24, 1874, Mr. '7. Carr Ramsey landed in Hongkong. After a short stay there he began hhis business career in a shipping office in Swatow. Then he wont to Shanghai where she made a name fas a successful gentleman jockey and lightweight amateur boxer. His next scene of operations. Weihaiwei, where he landed just in time to take an important. part in the handing over of that port by [the Japanese to the British.
Since 1909 he has held position fas one of the most popular anid respected members of the foreign community of Swatow.
On September 24, he was invited to be at the Kialat'Club at midday in order to give some of his foreign Chines friends an, opportanity tures. Meanwhile numerous serolle and plaques, testifying in classic Chinese characters to his many virtues, had been wessived from Chinese business men and officials.
In the evening the celebration consisted of a Chinese dinner, follow-fed by a cinema performance and enlivened by the local military band, trained by Mr. Ramsey himself to give an excellent rendering of Auld Long Syne. Speeches by the Commissioner, Mr. Carey, and others, expressed the congratulations of the feommunity, and the celebratic concluded with an informal gather ing of a few.friends at the Kialat Club.
Tt would be. interesting to know Jwhether any, other ports could beat this record.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.