Inasmuch as 80 per cent. of the hoods in the store are of British manufacture, it Was not surprising to Gnd quite " number of foreigners amongst the large crowd that packed the pavements around the store on /Thibet, Nanking, and Lloyd Roads, where' the various entrances were 10 bbe found. At times, the crowd swelled ut on {0 the roadway, and vehicular trate had to slow down in order to avoid accidents, The management placed, at a eonservative estimate, the number of people to visit the store during the day at about $0,000 altogether.
In keeping with the times, there Was no expensive ceremony at the opening at 10 sin, when the doors were flung open and the huge crowd flocked in. Instead, a sum of money equivalent 10 the' cost of such ceremony is to be placed at the dis-ossal of General Wu Te-chen, Mayor of Shanghai, and is to be devoted to charity "purposes. "It is understood that this sum will be about $9,000,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.