The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-04-10
ENJOYS CHINA
LIKES COUNTRY
FORMER IDAHO UNIVERSITY PRO-
FESSOR NOW In CHINA WRITES
AN INTERESTING LETTER.
Tells of His Work and of Progress
Being Made in Shanghai Re-
Gently Visited Japan and Korea.

The contents of letter received by
[ the Star-Mirror from Mr.. Sidney Robey
Sheldon of Shanghai, China, will doubt
less prove interesting to the many
friends of Mr.. Sheldon in Moscow.
Some years ago Mr.. Sheldon was pro-
fessor of electrical engineering in the
university of Idaho and left his work
here to take up similar duties in a
government school in Shanghai. About
visit.
I'VE have been having very pleas
ant winter, unusually mild and no rain
to speak Of Spring is now upon us
and the trees are all beginning to show
their green says Mr.. Sheldon. Con-
tinuing he says:
81 had a pleasant trip up to Hankow
during the winter vacation with the
students and | was very glad of the
opportunity of seeing the effects OF
the Revolution on Hankow and Hang
yang. | remember that you made
similar trip while you were out here.
However, | did not have to put up with
the hardships that you did. The Han
style guest room that they have in
connection with their office, which
had a bath in connection and even an
electric heater. They also drummed
up cook who could furnish foreign
style chow so that | lived like a prince.
We spent a week at the works and in
visiting the great iron mines at Tayeh,
and | went through the usual num-
Der of Chinese banquets with their long
list of queer dishes. Also visited all
the places in Wuchang and elsewhere,
such as Snake Hill, Tortoise Hill, etc,
made famous by the revolution.
You would hardly know Shanghai
these days. 1t has been growing very |
rapidly since the revolution and 200,- |
300 came into the city after the trouble
last July. Shanghai now claims pop |
llation of 100000 for the combined |
sity International, French, Chapel and
Nantao. Houses are literally going up
1y the thousand. Avenue Paul Blunat
S now solidly built up with Chinese
houses way out beyond where the cars
urn out for Lokawei and old blocks
ire being dismantled and replaced by
lew blocks in all parts of the city.
Three solid blocks of Nanking Road
ire now undergoing the process. AL
10 four or five big modern off =; build
ngs are going up on the Bund.
II don't believe | have written yon
before since I got back from my sum-
ner vacation trip in Japan. | spent
wo months in walking trip up the
vest coast and was away from the
ailroad and the foreign influence most
# the time. Lived Japanese all sum
ner; in fact did not have knife and
ork in my hands for about six weeks.
Also heard no English to speak of so
lad to work my Japanese, though be-
ore the summer was over | was speak
ng it quite freely. Wore Japanese
lothes a good part of the time as !
ound them more comfortable for the
OF weather, and got well acquainted
18th the life of the people. as stopped
/ many very small places.
After doing Japan, | took a little
IN up through Korea, ana spent &
eek at Seoul | found the Koreans
cry different from either the Japanese {
r the Chinese and found the trip
cry interesting.
81 had no sooner gotten back to :
hanghai than / had to go to- Pcking
II a couple of weeks on business for :.
e college. | found Peking consider =
,ly changed from what it was three II
,ars ago when | was up before.
81 keep very busy these days with
e college work and l am also the =
cretary of one of the Famine Relief :"
mmittees and have a good deal Of !.
rrespondence to take care of in con- -
ction with it." X