Show in CL I 1 r A h 4 1 V 4 I 1 won 1 2 M 5 X W A vt orlaf 0 g 1 V W bargain day at a shanghai shop prepared by national society washington D C service VERY day all day 1 y find and tar into E the night dight famous Nanki Nankin noad gOad which leads westward from shanghais Shan ghais hals bund blind later to become bubbling well road is packed to overflowing flowing with traffic especially is this so in the afternoon when offices I 1 are closed and workers are homeward bound only a score or so yeen years s ago bubbling well road was a favorite place for leisurely driving in the cool of the late afternoon the wealthy ve althy then rode ir ic handsome carriages behind trotting horses in charge of finely appareled coachmen and grooms but the city too has grown up along this street that was once largely residential and a country drive large department part ment stores clubs recreation I 1 alls towering apartment houses churches st a Y M 11 C A and commercial houses of all sorts have risen on every side at night the road looks like a well lighted broadway with its profusion of neon leon lamps and moving electric signs in this westward movement and growth business and religious structures have halted alic their ir march only to preserve space for the race course and public recreation grounds and have left this small green island of sport and relaxation in their midst at the time the club was ras established it marked the outward fringe of the city wherever the englishman has come to the east he has brought his sport with him and he could hardly suffer to see the race course and the other places of recreation disturbed by business ness the shanghai races claim a great deal of attention about the far eastern coasts the shanghai sweepstakes have always been an important topic of conversation in the spring and autumn especially among british ship officers rach fach Is always sure that his ten dollar ticket is the one that Is going to win the grant grand sweep of more tai than in hex even the banks and offices def clare halt half holidays when the scull an nual race meets are being held 41 shanghai has also provided parks and gardens where people may loiter and parents may take their youngsters for a happy outing and toy boat boat salling sailing motorists may enjoy a spin over an excellent short circuit of fine road i into the countryside known as the rubicon road i sharp co contrasts in streets ae to the new visitor to shang shanghai lial the street contrasts are vivid on the wide vide streets are window displays 1 worthy of any firth fifth avenue store on t cross streets shops are hung with py bright colored flags covered alth with chi nese ideographs ideography Ideo graphs telling of bargains sales and the nature of the goods supplied plied nearby a street vendor shouts the wares contained in the packs or portable kitchens that swing from the elds of his shoulder pole modern t talking alk ing cinemas presenting the latest flims films and some high class chinese inese theaters debouch their gay throngs tenements close their board r ants darken all and are arc still except tor or a few who try to snatch a little r lo 10 longer ger working time away from the H bright limousines unload a group of jt people at some large hotel along the jound aund to attend a fermai formal dinner other people are frequenting wealthy chinese v restaurants A mission Is giving soup gand religious teaching to a queue of hungry U agry souls L large efficient se schools lloIs and colleges colleg ca amse in stately ely edifices in a single room 0 off an alley youngsters are shouting over and over at the tops of their voices the lists of characters they are learning jazz bands wail at modern night clubs and cabarets while a lone hawker pipes a few wavering notes on a flageolet nage olet and hopes for one more customer for his pickled fruits before he goes wearily to bed A woman beggar carrying a poorly dressed babe holds her hand out toward an ermine wrapped lady who is carrying a pekingese dog day or night summer or winter life glimpses on the street are as diverse and fragmentary as these words I 1 use in trying to suggest them but all summarize shanghai activity on waterways curnin turning from streets to waterways 0 one ne can also observe ceaseless activity on the Soo chow wei and other creeks as well as on the whang poo river at one time creek was a stream of much greater size than it Is 13 now but through the years it has become silted and much canalized canali zed thousands of chinese craft and houseboats aril animate mate this creek which cuts a sinuous path down through the city and joins the Whang poo at the northern end of the bund vegetables rice and other products that supply shanghais Shan ghais heavy demand for food supplies and goods for transshipment are brought in from the country districts an and from way where the creek connects with chinas cainas historic grand canal some of the goods that are discharged from steam ers at woosung are also baroug brought lit down to So cichow creek on smaller boats and u unloaded into warehouses along the waterway thus a constant stream of traffic flows under several bridges that span the creek and its banks always present a busy appearance and the Whang poo more than thir ty five million tons of foreign shipping cut muddy furrows fur rows up tip the Whang poo in a year according to shanghais Shan ghais haiss clearance papers hundreds of bunks junks move up and down the river with the tides and winds some of them are heavy junks high sterns colorfully painted with the phoenix and other symbols transporting poles and timber from other junks are en engaged aged in coastal trading but many of them thein form the large bisbin fleet or do work between clial shanghai and the mouth of the river at woo sung sting large ocean liners and freighters lie a at t dock along the water front the japanese shipping companies have considerable sid erable berthing capacity along the settlement front and american call and other shipping concerns have established wharves and godowns farther up the river on the side across the Whang poo above the th e city lumber ships tankers tramp steamers and warships lie in midstream ships of many flags look to shanghais Shan ghais trade launches lighters and sampans maneuver about along with ferries and large flat bottom river boats that transport numbers of chinese up the aall yangtze Yang tze even women beggars comb the waters and hover around ships to salvage avage in nets food scraps or anything else of use thrown overboard there could hardly be a more dIversI diversified fled grouping of ships in any waters statistics show that the harbor has accommodated as many as merchant vessels and 22 warships at the tha same time besides of course larad numbers of miscellaneous smaller craft |