Reader of the "North-China"
Since Year 1895
A man who is probably tone of the oldest regular readers of the "North-China Daily News;" having. been a subscriber to this journal for the past forly years, will be leaving Shanghai shortly. inthe person of, Mr. A. Dahl, who retires: from the Reventie Department of the Shanghat Munfelpal Council. at the end of the year. Apparently his only complaint is that he finds so much interesting mews in the" "North-China" in the morning that it often makes him tate for the offs, interview, Mr. Dahl spoke reminiscently of Shanghai in the "Good Old Days," when booting, uriting, ud volunteering were the chief amusements of the young man About Town, and it was "considered the height of enjoyment to stroll up and-down the Bund. Foreshore, ion covered with a rich coat of ross, to the musie of a brass band.
Inniss younger days, Mr. Dahl's chief sport' was found on the river, and he recalled with a. chuckle Tittle incident in connection with the sale of his first motor-bot which he built locally and which was one of the first in Shanghai Wishing {0 dispose of it for something in the way of a house-boat, offered it to a Scotsman friend of his, but the latter balked at the prriee, $500, which he said was exhorbitant, "The following day. the boat was put up for auction, netting the nice sum of $750, The purchaser, lo Mr, Dahl's great amusement, Ww: the same Scotsman, who confessed simply had to have the boat, Mr. Dahl still prizes the smart Hussar's uniform—blue, with yellow trimmings—that he wore when he Joined the artillery section of the S.V.C, in 1896 "and with which company he remained until he fired im 1928 with the Long Service Medal. As a member of the Pounder company," he took part the defence of the Settlement' during the Boxer Rebellion, when, until the
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