the night for the opening came with the establishment booked up {o its limits, and the dinner was to be feast for the gods. Unfortunately, however, before the guests arrived a posse of Chinese troops and police marched in, backed by all the authorly of the law, and the place was not allowed to open for its intended purpose. Nor was it ever permitted to: open _as such.
The committee in charge of the American Ball for that year seized the opportunity to hire the entire building for one evening, and so were able (0 boast of holding a Ball in probably the most luxurious sur roundings ever known in Shanghai. That, so far as can be ascertained,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.