Twenty years ago last Tuesday, that is, January 6, 1900, the Chinese Young Men's Christian Association of Shanghai was organized. The meeting for organization was held in the Royal Asiatic Society's. Hall on Museum Road, and 50 members signed the roll as charter inbers. In honour of this occa sion a meeting was held at the Chinese Y.M.C.A. on Tuesda at oon when the chief address was made by Secretary S. K. Tsao, who with r. R. E. Lewis, th General Seer of Cleveland, the organization and has continued from that time as one of its secretaries, Mr. Tsao in his address traced the growth of the society which began at that time without even a meeting place until to-day it occupies two buildings on Szechuen Road, the property of the organiza. tion and has a membership of 3.532 and staff of 30 secretaries. The Association had its hardest year daring the first year when the prostration of business due to the Boxer troubles would have broken the organization had it not been for the faithfulness of a few of its staunchest friends who came to the rescue and helped tide over this difficult period. The organization is today one in which the Chinese community takes just pride, and those present at the meeting yester: lay wished greatest prosperity for the 20 years in the future.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.