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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1906
Page
4
Boston officials and prominent business leaders attended a banquet at the Algonquin Club honoring 10 Chinese commissioners visiting the city. Speakers praised China’s history and trade links, with Governor Guild noting shared civilization and the long friendship between the nations.
Richard Olney discusses Sino American ties noting a surge in China’s influence and urging restraint with Chinese immigration laws. Mayor Fitzgerald recalls Boston’s historic China trade, the Columbia voyage of 1790, and profits built by Bryant & Sturgis, lamenting a Massachusetts tax that shifted trade to New York and hoping visitors return to witness Boston’s past activity.
Sir Chentung Liang-Cheng praises Boston’s interest in China and urges free trade and idea exchange between China and the United States. He notes historic commercial ties, the mutual benefits of interchange, and the need to reduce misunderstandings while advancing modernization and a global outlook.
Samuel B Capen expresses gratitude for official recognition of mission work in the city. He commends the recipient for upholding traditions of the Commonwealth and extends greetings on behalf of mission boards active in China. He says the visit honors the Emperor and the Chinese nation with friendship and uplift.
President Eliot argues China’s ancient civilization could gain from Western ideas. He notes America’s freedom and education as tools for a modern state and invites Chinese youths to study government economics law engineering biology and related fields at Harvard.
Amory A. Lawrence of the Boston Merchants Association expresses deep gratification at the visit of the dignitaries. He notes the long history of U.S. China trade dating to 1792 when EK Hasket Derby sent the first ship to China from Salem Massachusetts, establishing Boston as a principal port in the growing commerce. The remark underscores the mutual need for official representation between the United States and China.
Chinese Minister Liang Cheng told the Post the Mills visit will strengthen China United States relations and could boost U S exports to China. He cited the Hamilton mill sheetings display gathered from several factories as a key exhibit likely to expand trade.
Representative Perkins of New York on the House foreign affairs subcommittee proposed placing U S officials in key Chinese locations to issue immigration certificates. These certificates would be accepted on arrival as proof of the right to land in the United States.
Viceroy Tuan Fong, via an interpreter, praised Lawrence and Lowell mills for their vast scale and thorough, simplified operations. He noted Pacific Mills workers run far more machinery, with home loom limits, and expressed interest in more time to study the mills. He hoped to revisit.
Annapolis dispatch reports the U S Naval Academy class of 101 graduates receiving diplomas from Secretary Bo naparte. Six Bay State midshipmen are listed including R C Grady East Boston Whitford Drake Waltham William Alden Hall North Easton Lorenz Carstein Cambridge William Ellsworth Hall Lowell Leo Welch Worcester and others.
Data on the graduates recounts Ronan Calixtus Grady of East Boston and Whitford Drake of Waltham, both entering May 1902 at age 19. The piece notes Drake as top scholar and cadet lieutenant, Hall of North Easton as football manager and officer, Carstein of Cambridge as choir leader and athlete, Welch of Worcester as a popular fast end who played at West Point, with multiple ranks and roles across the class.
Washington February 12 The President pardons Midshipman Minor Meriwether Jr of Louisiana a third class member sentenced to dismissal for hazing. The action preserves his naval career and clears the prior sentence.
Samuel K Williams of Alford was thrown from his sleigh and crushed as his horse kicked him in the head. He died instantly. Survived by a widow and three daughters Mrs Charles Smith of Alford Mrs Stanley Millard of Peoria Ill and Miss Julia Williams of Newport NC.
Chinese commissioners led by Minister Chentung Liang-Cheng toured Lawrence and Lowell mills, saw large scale cotton and woolen production, and spoke at the Massachusetts House and Senate. The party, with Boston merchants and mill officials, learned American industry practices and contrasted them with China’s.
The special train bearing Chinese commissioners and merchants arrived in Lawrence. Mayor Lane and American Woolen Co. president Wood joined at South Lawrence. At Pacific Mills a hundred girl operatives displayed cotton flags, delighting Viceroy Tuan Fong who toured the weaving floor and noted the many steps from raw cotton to finished fabric.
A group of Lowell Chinese laundry workers greeted the visiting high commissioners with quiet respect as they arrived by special train from Lawrence. The visitors viewed a large mill area across the Merrimac, inspected Hamilton mills, and saw exports drills and sheetings displayed in the cloth room made for China. Lunch at the Yarrick Club followed, with Mayor James B. Casey and local officials extending a municipal welcome.
Commander George W. Mentz, chief of ordnance and acting captain at League Island navy yard, died of apoplexy in Philadelphia on February 12. He had been assigned to the yard since July.
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