The Garden bend and past it... here is a new Bund. It has forced its way further into the River, and trees that were are now no more, at least it seems so, for what is left of them adorns the flank of a new road, the one time broad, asphalt pavement. Great buildings rear themselves bluntly against the skyline, and that one time pride of the water-front, the Russo-Asiatic Bank, is now one of many prides, many monuments to the City's skill and desire for beauty. On the masts of large steam launches moored alongside of new jetties are to be seen house flags of new Hongs Where is the little 'Ripple'? The "Clutha X" and perhaps another have taken her place. There is an ever-increasing launch service between the wharves on both sides of the River. B. & S. have the ''Pootung,'' squat and methodical-looking, and the Dollar interests have their sign on the funnel of a towboat that verily breathes of her owners' adaptability to modern developments.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.