During his lengthy service in China Mr, Petersen has seen many and great changes both in the country and the telegraph administration.—To take only one example: when he arrived in Peiping in February 1901, the railway station was at the Temp! of Heaven, and he had to take a Peiping cart over bumpy and unlit roads 1 the small Hotel clu Nord, then the only foreign hotel in the place, The efficiency of the Chinese Telegraph Administration has, in his view, been greatly improved, though im recent years the too meticulous iierference by Nanking with ibe running of the branch offices has made it less efficient than it was the last years of the Peiping régume. Among ihe Chinese rectors under whom he served w the late Mr. Chow Wan-pang and Mr. P. Chiang.
Attnough 8 years of age, Mr. Peter sen oF "wick Pei rer "as ne is known to his {riends—for Hie -has not a grey hair on his head and looks forty if day—is @ man of iron constitution. His walks over China had given him, taste for "hing" which has been his chief form of exercise is Peiping, and he would think norning of doing
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