Mr, Robert Lincoln O'Brien Writes About Shanghai The following ie a letter writen by Meston icrald™ te hie paper, ring is visit here boat March in the course Shanghai, March 28, Color and contrast are the chara Aevistics of this International city, near the coast of Asia, destined Become, some people believe, the Ereatest commercial port on! the Why. not?" it ies onan the Yangtze, the third river in volume in the world, and lovat the entrance. toa, valley peopled by half of China's 400 odd millions of "men, 'The Bund Shanghai is lined with buildings comparable, except in height, with those of Michigan avenue, Chicago, and. "resembling—that' famous thoroughfare in all except in the distance to the water.
Here, close to the street line, lies the most crowded water-passage ima with forests of native craft strange design, beside the merchant ships of all Jands, and sprinkled among them the battleships of the great powers.
One new bank building on the Bund, not more than six stories high, cost $5,000,000, measured. in American "gold. The Shanghai Club, nearby, famous for the Jongest bar in the world, in other respects deserves pre-eminence, At Jeast one hotel in Shanghai, in ex-wag ance of furnishing and might well challenge comparison with any public house in the world, If there is anything modern in the earth that Shanghai does not possess T have yet to.see it. Automobiles of latest design flash Past automatically regulated street signals, as black-bearded Sikh policemen, imported from India, guido the encompassing masses of Jinrikshas into havens of safety, All the latest devices of electric refrigeration, and other household conveniences are the vogue: here.
Even the Chinese newspaper, printed in the 4,000 characters of the strange language, has a manu facturing plant superior in equipment to that of the "Boston Herald" even though it sets its type by hand, ite reporters have a type-welter, with 4,000 characters used for the sake of distinctness.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.