Shanghai

Section of Burial Procession above French Town, Shanghai Shanghai By H. F. Gordon Shanghai the melting pot of the Orient. A city wherein i9 represented every nationality but the Eskimo and Indian. The place where Christian minister, and local harlot rub shoulders in the public gardens, where poor and rich alike gather after a stifling hot day, to relax in the cool of the evening. Shanghai where, by journeying from the old Mandarin City to the in- ternational settlement on the "Bund," one may see medieval Orientalism and modern Occidentalism, all in a few short blocks. The place where Pierce-Arrow, Rolls-Royce, and rickshaw alike obey traffic signals and fight for the right of way. The city is with its beautiful residence district on "Bubbling Well Road," the home of the wealthy foreigner and native, modern and sanitary, and the unspeakable winding alleys of the poor residents, unsanitary and unkept. Shanghai where the flags of all nations may be seen floating from ships on the river, mod- ern steel mediums of commerce and trade, among which wind their way, the old Chinese Junk and Sanpan, truly a great con- trast. A city with its notorious Cabaret district "the Trenches," where the forces of evil strive to ruin the souls of men; while a few blocks distant, agents of good fight a seemingly losing bat- tle. Its tennis, golf and baseball, its gambling, opium and drink-