Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — Shanghai. [ARTICLE]

Shanghai.

Shanghai was a very small city in China forty years ago, but now it has become the largest and principal port. The native city is surrounded by walls and has seven gates. The streets and houses inside of the city are very narrow and small. Three settlements—French, English and American —were made some years ago outside of the north gate and on the bank of the Whangpoo River. They are separated by two small creeks and joined by several bridges, the largest of which is the Garden Bridge, so named by a foreign garden aside of the bridge. There are many wide and long streets in these settlements, lined with beautiful shops, both Chinese and foreign. The most beautiful street is called the Nanking Road, but still another runs along the Whangpoo bank, containing most of the great banks and hongs; it is called the Bund. At one end of the Bund is the foreign garden, that permits no Chinaman to enter, but foreigners are alwavs to be seen roaming there. The principal exports are tea and silk. Its population is about mOOO.—[New York Voice.