5 Years Ago, Twelve and What He Finds Now Few men can beset of having Visited China during three stages aa: widely different as the China. of 25 yorrs ago wes from the China of 12 years ago and the China to-day. "Yet, Professor Jeromi Jenks, Research Professor of Bolities. at New York University, has. had just such an ex: perience, His first visit to China was in 1903-4, when he came as representative "of the Monetary' Reform, Commission, with the abject placing China on a gold basis.
1916, Professor Jenks returned advisor of the Peking. Government, His present visit has ap political significance, a fessor Jenks travels as' a tourist and: an old-timer come to see it all again, "The startling facts of changing China become evident the moment. one sails up the Whangpoo. The development of this tremendously vital city, from what was even 12 years ago a comparatively small town. and 25 years ago a mere village, into an enormous, moder: metropolis is little short of o8- tonishing. Even 12 years ago, after one; reached Bubbling Well "Road, tone struck small houses, and: th fends of roads, but now Shanghai seems to stretch itself interminably.
remember going to St. John's University in 1904, a. long, arduous trip from the city. Wa stumbled along country roads and were almost upset into a ditch as we came upon slumbering cows in the: (path, There are probably no cows: in the streeta of Shanghai to-day.
remember the Astor House when was considered the finest, hotel en China and yet was little enough of hotel, with a garden in front and not avery lange building inside the garden,
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