Just Fifty Years Since He Landed in Shanghai Half a century ago!
When one thinks of it like that it seems a lon, time. But in Shanghai one liv 80 much in the past, in many cases past which one never knew, and on every hand one hears it recalled often and the good old days brought back to mind, that 50 seem to lose their distance, Certainly, in talking with Mr, James Ambrose, who Ianded in this port from Marseilles exactly 50 years ago on Sunday, on- February 26, 1878, and who can thread his way back through those years with such ease, one really comes to think, in some respects, "Well, really, what is 60 years after all."
Speaking of travelling, one seems inclined to expect that anyone going from country to country 50 years ago must necessarily have used sailing ship and probably "rounded the Cape." But Mr. Ambrose did neither of these things. He boarded his steamer, M. M. Amazone, comfortably at' Marseilles on Jan-vary 12 and sailed to Shanghai via the Suez Canal, which had been opened nearly 10 years earlier, and arrived in Shanghai late in February after n very agreeable trip, not much different from the trip of to-day.
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