Race Course was then in existenos while Trinity Church was in the course of being built.
There are some outstanding fects in connection with the history the people who were housed famous hong. For example, it in those offices that the plans v made for the railway line whicl was to be made from Shanghai Soochow in the' early days of tha Settlement, a project which felt through, to give place to the railway, line running down to Woosung, which was carried out by Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Go. and which, years ago. was torn up to ba relaid in the wilds of Formowa, Improving Native Industries 'A long time prior to that, hows ever, the "princely house" hack bcanched out in the work of foster ing and improving native industries. Before the old building had ning years to its credit, the firm had Started the first silk filature ie Shanghai which ran for several years, In. 1882 another was com lineneed which ran 60 basins, 1888 a waste silk cleaning mill waa started.
Commencing, as the firm did int Shanghai with about half-a-dozen employees, the numbers grew to thd proportions known to-day. The elf hong was the contre of many, activities which played a pro minent part in making Shang hai what it is to-day. Within its walls have been matured many: scheme, many a business has boort initiated and controlled to success, cotton' milly started and managed, shipping controlled up and down the coast, wharves and docks cared for, Thus came into existence the sible filature in Chengtu Road, the fore runner of such establishments variously owned in Shanghai; then the Ewo Cotton Spinning & Weaving, Ca., [td., founded in 1895 and ity full running since May, 1897, thal Kung Yik Cotton Spinning and Weaving Ca., Ltd., purchased front its original owners in 1910, and tha, Yangtszepoo Cotton Mill Ltd. founded in 1914 to erect in Shang! a mill formerly situated in Hong kong. It was in 1881 that the offices, of the Indo-China Steam Navigation Ca. were housed in the old building.
'As pioneers of British trade wittd the Far' East, the firm of Jardinoy Matheson & Ca. hus accomplished much, its interests are so varied, and the effects of its untiring orgy, strict integrity, and boundless enterprise s0 far reaching, that has taken a leading part in practice ally all great commercial enterprise, in the Far East, as well as in ress} pect of numbers of important monte cipal and other reforms. Tha activities of the distinguished Neadkt of the fina in Hongkong—which hai,
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