Fifty-six years ago, on March 9, 1860, the Rev. J. M. W. Farnham landed from a sailing-ship in front of where the Shanghai Club now stands, and the first thing he noticed as he walked ashore was that piles were being driven for the first club house. The building was completed, outlived its usefulness, and another massive structure has appeared in its place, Meanwhile Dr. Farnham has been in Shanghai all these years watching new things come and go, and he has seen many changes.
Some Chinese friends of this venerable missionary who celebrated his 8th birthday last September, mostly men who were once lus pupils a generation ago, have issued invitation cards for what they call @ "meeting" to be held this afternoon at Martyr's Memorial Hall, "in honour of Dr. Farnham's Ninetieth Birthday and
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.