Ningpo has been "covered" in the quite books and all the information fit to print can be found therein. That is to say, all the accurate information. For no one expects a guide book to read like the Arabian Nights. To get tHe Arabian Nights version of the somewhat humdrum But Ningpo itself is not attractive. [Ht says a great deal for the industry. jand foresight of the municipality that it is mot even less attractive. The ancient walls of the city, one? considered a wonderful relic of the past, have been removed and in their place has been constructed a comparatively wide highway. Scenically the city may have lost, but the convenience of residents and visitors has been considered and city on the muddy river that leads Into the heart of Chekiang province, one must be prepared to forego, sleep. The ships that carry one to the district that excited the interest of the British empire long before Shanghai was taken seriously by anyone at all, leave at the hour of 5 pam. and rive at the mouth of the Ningpo river somewhere before the crack of dawn, hooting their way through junks and fishing boats until they reach the half constructed bund of the city itself and settle down peacefully upon the sloping mudbanks until the late afternoon when they bestir themselves and set out on the return journey. They say—and it is the. pride of the shipping companies—that you can sot your watch by the Ningpo steamers every evening as they leave Shanghai, They leave on the tick of the hour—all of them. For no one seems to have thought of leaving for Ningpo at any other hour. One after another the ships cast off from the French Bund or much improved. There is a benton, bridge joining one half of the city to the other—a rickety contrivance, but strong enough to bear the load Jof traffic. The pontoons can be swung back to allow a junk or a steam launch to pass in a very few minutes and there is practically no delay in the trafic from this ouse. Otherwise Ningpo has little to interest the tourist except its historical associations and thes? are' not easy to come by. There is a jeemetery where foreigners who occupied the place eighty years ago are buried. There lie a number of members of the British services, jand some of their tombstones make jquecr reading at this time. They serve as a reminder that Ningpo was once considered a better settle ing place than Shanghai.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.