Directory_and_Chronicle_1911 — Page 899

SHANGHAI

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A. A. S. Barnes (Wiltshire Regiment), with Major Brodie A. Clarke as second in command. It consists of Staff 16, Light Horse 47, Artillery 48, Maxim Company 57, “A” Company 99, with 8 reservists, "B" Company 56, German Company 57, Customs Company 49, Japanese Company 61, American Company 38, Portuguese Company 63, Chinese Company 101, Engineer Company 56, Buglers 16, Reserve Company 92, German Reserve 40, Mounted Scouts 2, 12-Bore Company 36, total 51 officers and 920 non-commissioned officers and men, and ten retired officers. These numbers are exclusive of the Medical Staff and the Band. Originally formed in 1861 the Volunteer Force gradually went to decay, until the fear of attack after the Massacre at Tientsin in 1870 caused its revival with considerable vigour. It again dwindled in numbers, but the last re-organisation under the late Major Holliday proved successful, and in 1900, during the China crisis, the membership of 300 was more than trebled and included a Naval Company, since disbanded. The annual inspection was made in April, 1910, by Major-General Broadwood, c.B., the General Commanding the Hongkong Garrison, and the Corps was awarded high praise. 46 officers and 624 men were present on parade. The infantry is armed with the Lee-Metford rifle. A separate Company of Volunteers, under the order of the French Consul-General, was formed in May, 1897. The Fire Brigade consists of 67 Foreign volunteers with a paid departmental Engineer, and 84 Native assistants, and is composed of three Fire Engine and one Hook and Ladder Companies, a spare fire engine and fire float and 9,000 feet of hose. It attended 111 fires in 1909. It is pronounced to be one of the most efficient volunteer brigades in the world. Owing to the increased numbers of fires an indepen·lent brigade for the French Settlement was formed in April, 1908. There is now a Public Health Laboratory at which bacteriological investigations and chemical analyses are carried out, vaccine lymph prepared, and the Pasteurtreatment of rabies undertaken. The Settlements are well provided with hospitals. In addition to the largeGeneral Hospital, recently rebuilt and forming a four-storied block on the northern bank of the Soochow Creek, there is the Victoria Nursing Home, presented by the community as a Jubilee Memorial, with 25 beds and an efficient English nursing staff available for outside attendance, and a large isolation hospital for infectious cases, native and foreign, all these being directly under Municipal control. A bungalow to be used as a sanatorium in connection with the Nursing flome was purchased in 1907. There are likewise several private institutions under the control of the various missionary bodies. The other public institutions may be enumerated as, a Subscription Library containing about 25,000 volumes, a branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, with the nucleus of a Museum, a Masonic Club, a Sailors' Home, a Polytechnic Institution for Chinese, a Seamen's Library and Museum, a Wind Instrument Band of ten European and twenty-four Filipinos, paid by the Municipality, which gives concerts in the Public Gardens every day during the summer montlis, a Race Club, possessing a course of a mile and a quarter, which holds race meetings in May and November, a Country Club on the Bubbling Well Road, Parsee, Portuguese, and Customs Clubs, also Pony Paper Hunt, Cricket, Rifle, Yacht, Baseball, Racquet, Golf, Skating, Football, Swimming and various other Clubs, Philharmonic and Choral Societies, English and French Amateur Dramatic Societies, and other institutions for amusement and recreation. There are sixteen Masonic bodies, with over 500 members. In 1876 a District Grand Lodge for North China was constituted under the Grand Lodge of England; and in 1902 the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts also erected a China Province with a District Grand Lodge under a District Deputy Grand Master, both having their headquarters in Shanghai.

INDUSTRIES

There are tive Docks at Shanghai, The one at Tungkadoo, opposite the city, has a length of 380 feet over all, with a depth at spring tides of 21 feet: the Old Dock at Hongkew is 400 feet long and 18 feet deep at springs; the New Dock at Pootung, at the lower end of the harbour, measures 450 feet on the blocks, 50 feet wide at bottom, and 134 at top, is 80 feet wide at entrance between pierheads, with a depth at high-water springs of 22 feet; the works connected with this dock cover an area of 16 acres; the Cosmopolitan Dock, on the Pootung side about a mile below harbour limits, is 560 feet long on blocks, and 82 feet wide at entrance. The International Dock is a new and larger dock. All steamers and most sailing vessels now discharge and load at the various public and private wharves, The premises of the Associated Wharf Companies have a frontage of about three- quarters of a mile. The Chinese Government has an Arsenal, Dock, and Shipbuilding establishment at Kaoch'ang Miao, a short distance above the native city. It com- menced as a small rifle factory in 1867. The Great Northern Telegraph Com- pany's cable was laid to Shanghai in 1871, and that of the Eastern Extension Com- pany in 1884, and in 1906 was opened a German cable line connecting Shanghai