Dr. Hawks Pott Surveys Historic Scene Over Half a Century: Vast Changes Witnessed 'Members of the Shanghai Rotary' change which ook place from the Club, which held its usual weekly: tifin' rewinion meeting at the Metro-Commercial Development pole Hotel on Thursday, under the vice-presidency of Mr. C. M.. Wentwortn, About 10 years after I came to] were entertained io " highly interest"
China that change began, and was] ing address by Dr. F. L. Hawks Pott, brought about by an article in she! Lite. pao, President of St, John's Treaty of Shimonoseki, a subsidiary University," based upon. "Changes ip treaty that was made'at Peking on Shanghai during the past 50 years."
July 21, 1696, in which the right to] carry. on trades, industries and Introduced by Mr. William Vinson' manufactures was conceded, The Lee, Chairman of the Entertainment original idea had only been that Committee, Dr. Potts said: Wishing to perfectly honest, I might say that T have only been in Shanghai for and "according to the most the past 48 years, but perhaps. that favoured nation clause, of course. the Is near enough to the half century Tapanese were not the only ones to to enable me tp talk upon the subje: t derive benefit from that but it spof my address. plied equally to all nations, and 30]
There ave indeed been many to what. we might well changes, and I wilt deal with them all "The industrial" revolution in funder the headings of "Industrial Shanghai Factories went up, British and commercial changes:* "Social and fand Japanese taking. the lead. Of cultural changes" and. "Political _and course there had been Chinese factor governmental changes.' And first, 1 fee before that—the rst factory, Will picture Shanghai as T found mill, which T remember, was' that When T first came here 48 years ago. exacted-by Li Hung-chang in 1889, Twas told it would be as fat as a which was afterwards burnt down—panetke, which description was justi-t Dut foreigners, up to that time, had fed. Coming up the Whangpoo for engaged "in industries of thai river, one didn't see any tall chim-sort, From that date China developed heys' Belching' out'smoke, and _he ingrowth industrially. No longer} approach to the Bund was not very was it a trading port simply, but a Impressive: there were no tall chimnrear industrial centre, and with al noys in those days, and the most the consequences that implied. pretentious building was that Rustell & Co—now occupied by the Some Statistics P, & O, bank, The style of architect Some interesting figures are to oe ture was largely that of godowns. found in the last report of. the and the International Settlement only Whangpoo Conservancy Board, extended to the Defence Creek, by which it Is stated that at_preseni the side' of the race course, and that there are 3,118 factories in ghanghal was not enlarged until 1898, -when employing "froma dozen to some the great extension took place. thousands of workers each in the 'The residential district, in those port, Including 61 cotton. spinning days, was that of the Bubbling Well and weaving mills, representing, about] Road, and I often compare the Hung-3,000,000" spindles, consuming 4,000, jao Road with what' the Bubbling 000. piculs of cotton, and. producing Well Road was at the time I came 12,000,000 pieces of colton cloth, Shanghai. There were no auto-each of about 40 yds, and. 4,000,000} mobiles-—they didn't come until 1902: 1b. of yarn. Exports of local. origin there were only rickshaws, carriages 1981 amounted to. $806,970,467, and and. wheel-barrows. Streets were coal imports amounted to 3,353,000] not widened as they are at the pres tons. The Shanghai Power Compaay ent time, and one was. struck by Eenefated 753,586,000 Kilowatt hour, the fact that inthe Settlement life, while the "Gas Company pro-people were very largely limited to duced 15,000,000 eu. fi. of aas. the boundaries of the international 'You can see something from those Settlement. 'The only external road figures of the growth industrially of was the road leading out to Jessfeld'
China, and how, throughout this halt railways, The short tine that century, that has been going along had been built between Shanghai steadily, gradually, "and increasing and Woosung fad been torn up, aid all the time in extent. That report was not again in operation until the {ells us, in regard to the population year "1898." The bridge crossing the now, that Shanghat is the Aith city Soochow creek was a wooden one In the world—London, New York, Berlin, Chicago, and Shangnai—which 1s, 'As to Post offices, we had to indeed, a most wonderful growth for] the last 80° Consular post offices, and our local rpanage our foreign mall through the 'This industrial revolution has had! mail" through the mualeipal many' far-reaching consequences. otice. "There "was. no" gene fam not going to refer to the troubles) Stee system in China. "The between capital and labour, nor Svere, of iit by electricity "as the exploitation of the labour of} Dat by as, and, of course, the women and children, but I want to) Femarks applies to the houses of the refer to. two consequences, that 1 {ime-either ges or all. "On the fore think have had very great influence Shore was to be found a" Tong line upon the growth of Shanghai. And of opium hulkes the foreshore, ws the frst is, that Shanghai really. fot'te it is at. the" present time, came a great port for shipping. The heather was the Bund garden trouble always was with the. bars, now, one and the silting up of the channel, and the important question became. {othe sao of town, As to the large village it had hardly. yot come With this industry growing, how was Shanghai to handle shipping? It al= Both 'Chinese "and Yoreign, of. thal opulation—I speak with hesitation giant looked as it the attempt 0 bring up large ships. here on the ras' about one-sixth of what Whangpoo to Shanghai would bs at the present day, that is to impossible, and that they would fuaging fromthe census taken have to'Fesort to using lighters. for all time, but after the Boxer trouble, Now, "Shanghai was strictly a the protocol that was drawn up, trade centre. Industries had. begun there was a clause calling for the Ju" bat avery small way: there was revision of commercial treaties, and chemical" works, and there were for the formation of the Whangpoo engineering. works' for. the building Conservancy Board, and we owe of this, but there. was "very. lottie the labours of that Board the fact the way of industrial develop. that Shanghai is to-day a. great shipment, and the frst change of which ping port—I will not call it a. tea Tam going to speak is that of the Port, because it is not directly on the great and commercial industrial sep.
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