Mr. Bernt Rein Recalls City 28 Years Ago Mr, Bernt O. ¥. Rein left Shang-hal on Friday in the s. Tarn, after 2% years here with Wallem & Ca. He has seen every change in the world come (o this elly, but on the Pacific things are much as they were <that is, passage from California not much more swift than it used {o be.
"Shanghai itself is completely changed," said Mr.
Rein, when first arrived it was a small town and you knew everybody. Now it's a big western elly. Tam sorry for that, because it has made business much more diMeult. T don't know why they talk about modern effidency. Progress has slowed us up in Shanghai. In the old days when 1 Knew everybody I could get something done' in five minutes. Now 1 must find out where the office is send word, get_an the time the thing is begun the day over. Transportation is a bad pro blem here.
"Perhaps the biggest change in shipping is the development of busi. ness" among the Chinese. When 1 arrived here in May, 1907, there were very few Chinese vessels on the China coast; actually the only companies re. presented were the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company and a few individuals. In later years the companies have sprung up like mushrooms und China's fleet has enlarged considerably; i is still doing so con-
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