Dr. J. ©. Ferguson Speaks to American University Club That the time has come when there should be a regularly monthly meeting to be attended by the chair~ man of the Shanghai Municipal Council, the French 'Municipal Council, and the Mayor of Greater Shanghai, In order to evolve a modus operandi by which the interests of all may' be served, was emphasized on Mar. 23 by Dr. John C. Ferguson at the con clusion of his speech at the Ameri University Club tiffin held at the American Club, Dr. Ferguson was introduced vy' Judge Millon J. Helmick, President of the American University. Club, as American who has been pre= eminent in a wide variety of activities in the Orient: ranging—from polities 10 art for half-a-century, "Shanghai, Old and New" was the subject of Dr. Ferguson's talk which wan heard by about eighty members and guests of the club. He began by saying that he hod had the honour of being one of the charter members fof the "organization when it was founded sometime in 1898. The only person that he could point to at the Sresent time as having been at the curly meetings was Dr. F. L. Hawks Pott.
The First Trade tem The topic given him was an agrecable one, he said, for Shanghai hho had always found an interesting cily—about the most interesting in the world, The first trade of Shanghai was the bean curd trade, he. said, the bean curd coming, to Shanghai by junks from Shantung. And the first silver currency In those old days was the bean curd tae). Shanghai being built up on the bean curd tael.
The outstanding change that Dr. Ferguson noticed between the Shanghhal of the caniest days and" the Shanghai of to-day was the transformation of the city from one of Venice-like waterways and "water transportation to one of London-like ronds and land transportation, pointed out many changes, saying that what is now Nanking Road. was then known as the Lee Family: Water way. What is now Avenue Edward VIE was formerly a canal as were many other roads. "Where the Garden" Bridge now stands was then a small wooden affair, privately. bull with toll takers at ach end, The Shanghai Mind Dr. Ferguson, who Is the founder of Nanyang College and Nanking University, then spent some time in recalling the names of the men who sare chiefly responsible for the growth of the elly to its present
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