The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-18
MIR. WANG WILL
 TELL STORY OF
 WORK IN ORIENT
Cultured Chinaman is Secretary of the
 '. M. C. A. at Seoul, Korea.


 -Four brilliant speakers, two Thurs day night at a banquet at the Strat- field, and two Friday night at the Japanese Evening at the Young Mems Christian Association, will tell of those mysterious nations and peo- pies toward which the eyes of the civ ilized world are anxiously turned with mingled anxiety, apprehension and hope. One of the speakers is a native of China, two are Americans who have lived in the Orient for many years, and one helps to control, from New York city, one of the most astounding pieces of work being accomplished in thesns the world & today; fhs These ps men are re Japan, Gillett of Korea and Colton of New York.
 MT. E. T. Colton of New York, and MT. c. V. Hibbard of Tokoyo, will be the speakers at the banquet at the Stratfield Thursday night of this week. MT. Cotton is a splendid speaker and has been heard in the city before. He is one of the most finished young speakers in the country and his trav- els and supervision of the foreign work of the Y. M. c. A. around the world give him ample material and in spiration for his magnificent talent as a speaker.
 MT. Hubbard is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin where the head of the chemistry department counts him the finest student in chem istry the university ever graduated. retary of the Y. M. c. A. at Tokoyo where there are 100000 students. He was the pioneer in the work at the front, with the Japanese army, which has made 1ne foreign work of the Y. M. c. A. famous and which drew from the Emperor and Empress of Japan the most hearty thanks and a personal gift of $50OO from their own purses. vii fo war are intensely interesting. He has a most wonderful story of the land of the rising sun.
 Friday evening at the Y. M. c. A. the affair will be a most happy combi- ation of a social evening and one of instruction and entertainment Re- treatments, ladies in Oriental costume, Japanese decorations and eloquent speakers will all contribute to the complete success of the event.
 The speakers will be MT. P. L. Gil- lett, of Seoul Korea, and MT. c. T. Wang, a native of China, now taking lett is a graduate of Colorado college, the Springfield Training School, and took special work at Yale. He is sec retary of the Y. M. c. A. at Seoul, in that work a large part of the cabi- net and great men of the country. It is said that the association in Seoul ''iS the most conspicuous institution in the ndIlOndl Cdp1Cdl, dS1O0 ITO1n the government, itself. One is safe in say ing that the Seoul association has a larger influence upon the life of the country in which it is located than any other association in the world.' MT. Gillett's story of Korea reads like fic- ton.
 MT. Wang is considered one of the most brilliant Chinamen studying in America and his election to the pres idency of the Alliance of Chinese Stu dents in America supports this claim. The Chicago Commerce, published by the Chicago Association of Commerce, tells of the address which MT. Wang was invited to give under the auspices of the Ways and Means committee of that association. They say of his speech: ''One of the most interesting meetings held was last Wednesday, when men of personality and with a message gave power to the meetings. MT. Wang refrained from intimate characterization of his own country men, but described great lines of growth in the steadily opening empire. He exhibited in his absolute command of correct English his intellectual con- trol and directness of speech a strik- ing instance of the sort of men China is selecting for eventual service as statesmen, teachers and men of af- fairs. Long was the young Oriental anDlanded''