Peeps into China . h year only some12,000,000 pages. The £13,000 expended on thebuilding and machinery seem little when comparedwith the good and gain thereby accruing. Even in amoney way this work sometimes pays, for in 1880 thenet gain was £800. The Presbyterian Church madean investment rather than a gift, unless giving ismeant in the words of Solomon, There is thatscattereth, and yet increaseth. Leaving Shanghai, I start on my journey of about fivehundred miles along the coast to Chefoo, in the steamer, Pautah,1 is a propeller, Clyde-built, and inthe charge of an American, one of
Peeps into China . h year only some12,000,000 pages. The £13,000 expended on thebuilding and machinery seem little when comparedwith the good and gain thereby accruing. Even in amoney way this work sometimes pays, for in 1880 thenet gain was £800. The Presbyterian Church madean investment rather than a gift, unless giving ismeant in the words of Solomon, There is thatscattereth, and yet increaseth. Leaving Shanghai, I start on my journey of about fivehundred miles along the coast to Chefoo, in the steamer, Pautah,1 is a propeller, Clyde-built, and inthe charge of an American, one of the most popularalong the coast. It belongs to the Chinese line ofsteamships, a successful rival of two English the manager of the Company, Mr. Tong King Sing,was on board, I gained from him some interesting 1 This steamer was wrecked in the year 1887, off the promontory ofShan-tnng, 14 Peeps into China facts. A few years ago, the most progressive andprobably the most influential official in China, H. fM»^P A JCZ*^C4T% z Li Hung Chang, requested a wealthy Chinaman ofgood business ability to take the management of the The First Peep at China 15 line. The Chinese Government approved of the plan,and lent the Company at the start several hundredthousands of taels. In addition to the thirty vesselson hand, it expects to make many improvements, andto have ready for use in a short time two large vesselsfrom the Clyde of 4000 tons each. I think/ themanager said, f we may run these as a direct line toNew York at quicker speed and cheaper rates than isdone by other companies; but at first we shall runthem to Cuba, to bring home our Chinese, who are notallowed to pass through the United States. Besides Mr. Tong King Sing, there were a few otherimportant persons in our little company. One wasan English engineer, who had been in more placesthan his own land—in Germany, Canada, the UnitedStates, Peru, Eussia, Holland, Australia, New Zealand,and at last was trying a little s
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