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orchard and plantation of mulberries on the place, up to 

 that time inhabited only by the ghosts of the departed. 

 It was not until after consultation with some wide- 

 awake Chinese friends that I dared to remo\e the graves 

 scattered over about 100 acres and form a neat little 

 cemetery, thus leaving the rest for the use of the living. 

 This happened close on the heels of the establishment of 

 the republic. 



Though the parties really interested in these graves 

 were perfectly satisfied, others, no doubt, from a sense of 

 mistaken public duty, organized a campaign to stop us in 

 our work. Hearing of this and knowing that any day a 

 proclamation might be forced from the Tutuh' of Nan- 

 king stopping the whole work, I went to Shanghai to ask 

 advice of Chinese friends. One of these, Mr. Huang, 

 then Chinese secretary of the Famine Relief Committee, 

 told me that I could never succeed as I was doing. I 

 asked him what he thought I should do. He put his 

 hand in the drawer, pulled out a sheet of paper and wrote 

 the Chinese characters which form the solid block of 



Chinese on the photo at the top of this article and when 

 he had finished handed it to me and said "Go and get 

 somebody to sign that." I was nonplussed, didn't know 

 where to begin, and with heavy heart, took the document 

 to Nanking. Something had to be done because the 

 forces against us were coming to a head. Dr. Macklin, as 

 soon as I showed him the document, rubbed his hands 

 with glee and said, "We'll send it in to Sun (the provi- 

 sional president of the new republic) before he leaves 

 for Peking." We did so and he wrote the first two char- 

 acters. Sun Wen (the official title of Sun Yat Sen) and 

 stamped it with the seal of the republic. Not only so, but 

 Tang Shao I, who had been sent down as representative 

 of the northern forces to induce the Nanking govern- 

 ment to go to Peking, also signed it, but as he hadn't his 

 seal with him, no seal mark is attached to his name. Next 

 day we sent the document to Huang Hsing, who was 

 then the generalissimo of all the southern forces, and he 

 signed and sealed it. Now we were ready for eventual- 

 ities. Two days after Huang Hsing's signature the con- 



THl': .\A.\K1.\(; Bk.ik.XCH OF THE COLO.\'IZATIO.\ Ab^^OCI.^TlON 



This picture was taken on the occasion of the visit of His E-xcellency Chang Chien, then Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, when he, with 

 Consul Williams, representing the American Minister, Dr. Reinsch, arrived to plant trees commemorating the opening of the School of Forestry 

 in the University of Nanking, March 14, 1915. 



His Excellency is the central figure in the front row. 



Front row — left to right; (1) Dr. Williams, Vice-President of the University of Nanking; (2) Dr. Macklin, who the Chinese say prevented the 

 burning of the city of Nanking; (3) VVu Chi-chang, Magistrate or Mayor of Nanking; (4) Wang She-tong, the Taoyin or official in charge 

 of the one-third of the province of Kiangsu, of which Nanking is the capital; (5) His Excellency Chang Chien, Minister of Agriculture and 

 Commerce and as a private individual the greatest developer of industry in China and National head of the Colonization Association; (6) 

 Yu Chi-chi, representing the Civil Governor who was absent on a tour of inspection of the province; (7) Ma Ting-Shu, representing the 

 General; (8) Wang Kwei-Iing, Chief of Police, Nanking; (9) Tang Tan-yai, Manager of the Nanking Branch of Kiangsu Bank. 



Second row: (1) Pu Chi, Secretary to Civil Governor; (2) Lu Tien-hu, Commissioner of Education for the Province of Kiangsu; (3) Chan 

 Hsish-ren; (4) Wu Tsing; (5) Chen Sien-chah; (6) Li Mun-tsing; (7) Nagan Han, graduate in forestry, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and 

 Secretary in Bureau of Forestry in Ministry of Agriculture, Peking; (8) Chang Tsen-pi, Chief Auditor for office of Road-builder and 

 Secretary for Colonization Association; (9) Kang Hung. 



Third row: (1) Shen Tung-Fang; (2) Ping-sun; (3) Su Si-tai, President of Nanking Chamber of Commerce; (4) Tsui Kuei-sung; (5) Su 

 Chang-sih (6) Joseph Bailie; (7) Tao Pao-tsing, formerly representative to National Assembly; (8) Yeh Hsi-chi; (9) Chu Shou-ren; 

 (10) Yang Hsi-chang. 



Back row: (1) Wu Chiu-hsiu, President of Nitrate Mines; (2) Ku Chi, Investigator at Civil Governor's; (3) Li Si-yuen; (4) Huang Kuci, 

 Director of Agricultural Station of Colonization Association on Purple Mountain; (5) Chiu Tsai; (6) Chiu Fu-ching, President of Law School 

 of Kiangsu; (7) Chiu Lai-chih, formerly Vice-President of Kiangsu Provincial Assembly, head of the gentry of Nanking, and President 

 of the Nanking Branch of the Colonization Association; 18) W. R. Stewart, Y. M. C. A. Secretary for Nanking. 



'The Tutuh was an official position created under the New Republic exercising the power of Governor and General combined. 



