The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

f1rSt class line OF goods, sometimes a
little out of date, from Paris, London
and New York. The best rickshaws
in China, with wide seats and fat
rubber tires wriggle their way at all
hours between carriages and motor
cars. Small drays lumber about with
merchandise, and painting coolies trot
along all day under their long poles
laden at either nj with packages.
Launches and tugs shrek up and
down the river from morning to night.
Big Chinese. and Indian policemen
stand at busy corners and direct traf-
fic with all the imperious grandeur of
a Fifth avenue copy. but foreign SER
geants n inspectors are their supe-
riors and instructors.
All the banks, leading business
houses and principal clubs have their
own buildings. There is a plentiful
supply Of newspapers in English,
French, Chinese and Japanese. The
North China Daily News, a typical
British organ of the colonial type, is
a powerful daily with a record Of 40
years of publication to bolster UP it's
conservatism. The China Press, an
American daily, started two years g
by Thomas F. Willard, is already a
huge success by virtue of hard work
and good editing on the best Ameri-
can lines, and enjoys the largest cir
culation Of all foreign journals in the
far east.
Chinese faith in occidental methods
is shown IN the way the natives have
flocked in to the settlement. Their
stores ara caap ayarvUhoro opd ccoreS
of ex-officials of wealthy men own
and occupy palatial residences. APP
proximately $4,000 Chinese live there,
while the population Of the old Chi
nese city with it's typically dirty
streets and cluttered up stores is
about $4,000. Foreigners in the set
Element number 1000 Britishers, 5000
Japanese, 1900 Portuguese, 1000
Americans, possibly 1000 Germans
and over 500 Indians. The Chinese.
who hav a right to vote and other
wise control the settlement, and there
are thousands of them, are so well
satisfied with matters as they are
hat they leave public business en-
tirely to the foreigners. This is
worthy Of note inasmuch as the total
assessed valuation at the present time
is $50. 900, 900 gold.
One of the interesting features of
Shanghai is the composite judiciary.
BY virtue of their extra territorial
rights the nations have their own
consular courts. To bring criminal
prosecution or civil suits against a
foreigner it is necessary to try him
before his own consul or consul gen.
IrJ TsIor. -, "A ~f r, .~ %L~t
one sees IA sets of national laws in
operation side by side.
There is a Chinese mixed court
which tries Chinese who are prose-
cuted or sued by foreigners. The
judge is a Chinese with a foreign as
SCISSOR on the bench with him. this
associate being the consul of the for
eign plaintiff. In addition to all this,
the British maintain a supreme court
and the Americans have the United
States court for China, from whose
decisions appeal is taken to the Unit
ed States. Americans and their in
stitutions hay always exercised great
Influence. II common with MANY other
nations, we 'nairtain our own post
office, so that a letter will go there
from the United States with an ordi-
nary 2-cent stamp.
Shanghai flourishes as a seaport, in
spite of being 20 miles from the ocean.
All the big ships anchor at Wusung,
and their passengers and cargo are
taken up by tug. The tonnage Of the
port grew from practically nothing in
1912 to over 5000, 900 tons in 1884, and
now it is about 10000. 900 ton annu-
ally.
Shanghai exports silk, tea, rice, cot
ton. hides, skins, furs, wool, wheat.
beans. OF the total, Great Britain
takes Is per cent, the United States
II and Japan 10 per eel The rest is
scattered. Its imports are principally
cotton yarn, metals, sugar. petroleum.
coal. OF the total Great Britain sup
plies 81 per cent, Japan IS and the
United States II per e American
imports could easily be doubled if our
manufacturers would only go after
the business in a business like and
whole hearted fashion. A number of
manufacturing concerns in Shanghai
. turn out clothes. cigarettes, pianos,