Show A A 6 E t I 1 chinese boys learn embroidering Embroider ing prepared ared by tint thit national society D C bervice first foreign trade as a newborn new born was with china from amoy aboard british vessels had come the tea which was dumped overboard nt at the famous boston tea party within st six months after england hail had accepted the independence of the thirteen colonies our own first merchant vessel the newly christened empress of china was already on the lit high 11 seii sea bound for canton and tea both canton and macao then figured prominently in early american trade one can picture the feverish activity of new york harbor during those early days of when the little SOU ton ship was reaching the final stages of her overhauling and was being loaded with 30 tons of ginseng chinas cainas Ch inas lose dose of immortality fur sk kinq ini camless cam cant lets and small quantities of 0 cotton lead and pepper then come came sailing day birthday the departing empress of china voiced a salute of 13 guns the battery responded with 12 in its his pocket captain green carried carded a sea letter penned by the young congress and addressed to tile the most serene most puissant high Illus illustrious trInus noble koble honorable wise and prudent lords emperors kings republics Republic ks princes dukes karls barons lords burgomasters Burg councillors as also judges officers and re ke gents of all good cities and places vi bether ecclesiastical or secular who shall see these patents or hear them read 1 thirteen months later after tour four months nt at khampoa Wham poa anchorage for canton the sturdy ship was back in new york her holds tilled filled with pounds of tea pieces of chinaware pieces of silk 42 nankeens nan nari keens Reens and 2 2790 pounds of cassia her successful voyage signaled tile the expansion of our merchant marine tiny sills manned by youthful amerlean american sailors were soon prowling tile the eastern seas beating the monsoons up the china coast and cluttering tile the canton harbor the china trade was on swift growth of trade in salem anil and boston IS uston and to a lesser degree in new york anil and philadelphia became veritable museums of chinese goods and curios in the china trade represented approximately one seventh of our foreign imports within another fifty years v cars our vessels were bringing 0 n ie li gibout about KO pounds of tea i annually n n u this trade also gave birth to the swift clipper ships american enterprise however came to china much later than that of european nations for be it remembered the disappointing new continents wil der nesses inhabited by savage red skins appeared on tile the horizon when old world adventurers sought china riches by sailing westward but what of the china coast codly tile the lodestar which blell attracted those early explorers macao today Is a transplanted alt a bit of medieval europe tucked in a chinese setting the pink blue and other pastel colored bullian bul buildings lIln i that una tile the water wi tor front and dot tile the hills up tu to I 1 the walls of historic monte for fortress tresi the weathered chur churches rhes and government offices are portuguese true the majority of shops are bull hung with chr chro matL signs bearing chinese tile ide for the lie cites population Is 97 07 per cent chinese but the banner that floats over tho the tiny area of tile ittle more thin than 11 square nilles miles Is the red arid and green emblem of here it wis was thit that early in the sixteenth century traders extending the oriental sea route which vasco da lama gaina had carved around cape of good hope to india first opened commercial coin mere ill relations with wit opulent cathay here they founded the pioneer european settlement in the far east and held the alie monopoly on chinese trade until the eighteenth century in 1557 15 ia the he portuguese received conditional dit ional cession of this territory because of liehr their assistance to the lie CIA riese nese authorities lu oil an attempt to sub due the lie pirates that infested the hie coast and the river approach to canton pirates still lurk jurk just around the island corners to plunder hapless ves gels and the still control the rocky peninsula and two bearb islands where they rained gained their lisl ili foothold macao still important here came the dutch to be repelled by portuguese battleships battleship i wild and the monte guns liter later the long aim of the last east india company stretched str etchel across tile the sea to reach into macais rich trade pocket to all early sea trade with canton macao served as gateway kven even tile the empress Ciu press of china had to stop mop hern here to get the off official lelal chi nese permit before she could proceed to Whar notia anchorage how truly the little possession served as tile the china outpost Is revealed by reading the epitaphs carved on some of the tombstones in the little protestant cemetery names of sailor nned men and merchants from boston salem and british ports appear frequently here too rest robert borrlson Morr lson the e noted british missionary edmund roberts special diplomatic agent ii ent of the U S A to several asiatic courts courts thomas waldron first consul of th tha united stites states for hong kong and others who featured in the early intercourse ter course wah china macao has lost much of its commercial luster since liong hong koug not sipped sapped its vitality yet today its volume ot of commerce is greater than in ili early years although altho dinst insignificant ant in proportion to the total trade now carried on in this region with recent harbor constructions at the cost of some and a reclamation matlon project of acres acrea it again makes a bid for greater attention fish firecrackers opium and gambling tin are now macais chief stock in ili trade the important colorful fishing industry employs some junks and men and women it if recent years have brought little change to the same cannot be said of canton the ancient southern metropolis tins hag been undergoing long iong needed beauty treatments and from it new canton canto Is emerging little littie more than a decade ago canton presented much the same appearance is as when the clipper ships were lading ailing their cargoes from its musty godowns vilo wils it was chinese deliberately stubborn jy chinese today old suspicions have been minimized mazed the bund formerly a muddy track lined with rattrap rat trap buildings Is row a wide well paved thoroughfare fronted with modern eight and nine story hotels department stores coin commercial houses and an up to date custom house narrow streets and alleys accessible only to the traffic radio of wheelbarrows and sedan chairs have given way to wide streets to such tin an extent that tour conductors find difficulty dilli culty in playing up the tortuous channels of old canton canton as it Is today tile the visitor who a few years ago wrote that you have to choose your place to knock the he ashes olt off your cigar or they will alight in a dish of 0 soy or dried duck on the one hand or a pile of 0 wonderfully wrought silk embriel embroidery em brill d e r y 0 on n t the h e 0 other t r c could 0 n BOW 0 w h tie el th through r 0 ug h c CO 0 1 miles n le s 0 of f wide d p paved a v d streets is in one of the thousand or more motor cars that honk their wa way Y through the city thousands Thou sunds of buildings were razed and much of the oli oil wall demolished to provide for these modern arteries of bustling canton the great fire of 1927 also assisted in clearing ground for these 9 sweeping changes everything new originates in canton say the chinese politically there theo Is much truth to this statement here is where sun san yat sen sell found followers for his three principles of kuemin tang fall liy by popular subscription a modern monument and memorial auditorium in which new political ideas are born and talked into vigorous activity has been built as one of cantons forms of recognition of the late leader two new bridges are being constructed ted across the chu klang pearl river linking canton city with gionan island some of tile the old temples have been couver converted ted into school rooms and the cantonese boys and girls enjoy tennis handball and basketball ou on courts laid out in tile the ancient enclosures all of the old however has not dis appeared in narrow lanes out one finds finda secluded restaurants selling snake meat served in broth elsewhere lilse where men and buys boys work elaborate embroidery patterns on silk in halt half lighted rooms boat life on the river another feature of canton that has baa changed little through the years Is the teeming boat life of the pearl river and interlinking system of canals ca nils big boats little boats nay gay boats and tawdry boats canton has them all here Is a city in itself with a population estlina estimated ted between unit anil people formerly there were many more but a destructive storm a few years ago capsized and demolished many of the craft tiny sampans sain paus serve as taxis through t this his aquatic city housewives cooking ou on small charcoal braz braziers lers on oil the stern decks of their floating homei need n 1 aea only lean over the gunwales gunzales gun wales to do their dally daily shopping venders benders of vege tables fables foodstuffs cooking utensils and other household necessities paddle alongside to tc supply every need on many of the boats one sees chickens and babies tied by leashes leas bes sufficiently long to give them the free dom of the deck but preventing them iron from falling overboard here ami adf there a small flower box bravely flaunts its foliage and color |