Evening star., 1924-11-30
By FRANK G.. CARPENTER.
SHANGHAI, China

SHANGHAI, China.
T% AXE your motor car and drive
down to New Orleans. There
dig hole Of something less
than 5000 miles straight
through to the other side of
the globe. If your angle is right you
will come out IN Shanghai. city FIVE
times as large as the one from where
you start. and the chief port OF a
river mightier than the Mississippi
Missouri You will be in just the
same latitude and on similar soil, for
the land will be the delta of the
Yangtze- -kiang.
Shanghai is the child of the Yang
TIE. Ages ago this was a part of the
ocean, and from here out to the sea,
a distance of about 60 miles. the soil
has all been built up by the river.
Since then another river has cut Its
way through, and 1t is on that, the
Whangpoo, about IA miles from where
it flows into the Yangtze, that the
heart of the city is situated. | say
the heart, for the Whangpoo is now
lined with Wharves, warehouses and
factories for 10 miles or more. 1t is
filed with every kind of craft Of the
Far East and the West, from huge
Chinese junks with an eye as big
around as dinner plate on each
side the prov to great steamers
burning fuel oil from the ports of
America Asia and Europe.
Formerly the ocean steamers had
to anchor far out in the Iangtze and
passengers and freight were taken
up the Whangpoo in launches. Now,
by an expenditure>of tens of millions
of dollars for dredging, the ships are
enabled to come right up to the city
and anchor in front of bund that
n nf Pa at
the lower end of New York.
The Whangpoo is wide, and as we
make our way through the shipping
we see on each bank -four mills, saw
mills. cotton factories and the tank
farms of the two great oil compa-
nies. the STANDARD and the Dutch
Shell Company, which compete for
the job of lighting the Orient.
Farther on are the silk filatures.
tries employing tens Of thousands of
hands. Shanghai has now IL modern
rice mills and 16 great -four mills
eou:pped with steel rollers just like
those Of Minneapolis or Duluth. 1t
has Sc cotton factories, which pro-
duce much of the yarn consumed in
the valley Of the Yangtze-kiang. II
has knitting mills that are making
silk stockings for the United States,
weaving mills lnat compete Win
Manchester, Fall River and Osaka for
the cloth used in China, and mills
making bean oil from cotton seeds
and beans.
On one bank of the Whangpoo. in
the midst Of these, is an electric
power plant whose capital is about
S25,000,000. That plant is producing
more than 120, 900 kilowatts. 1t runs
the street railways and furnishes
power at low rates to most of the
Industries.
In this ride from the Yangtze-kians
up the Whangpoo we see but few in
dIcations of the old China. The fac
tories are modern and their signs are
in English. There are steam dredges
at work in the stream, and a steel
pipe, as big around as a hogshead
and about a mile long, carries the silt
above the water over the banks to
where 1t flows out to build up new
land.
AS we look out over the landscape
we will find that most of the grave
mounds have been sliced away and
that modern buildings with smoke
stacks have taken their places. II
we take a field glass We can see au-
tomobiles chugging along through
the mills and can pick outNthe rail-
way locomotives dragging the train