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TALK ON CHINA. 
Lieut. Farnham tells Wednesday Evening 
Club of Manchester of his Experiences 
in Far East. 
The third meeting of the Wednes- 
day evening club in the chapel in 
Manchester, Wednesday evening of 
this week, was even more successful 
than the ones preceeding, and so pop- 
ular are the meetings and so large is 
the membership becoming, that it was 
voted to find larger quarters for the 
next meeting. 
Besides being a grand success social- 
ly, the evening was most successful in 
point of entertainment furnished. 
The committee was very fortunate in 
being able to secure Lieut. Charles A. 
Farnham of Beverly, who gave a de- 
videdly interesting talk on his recent 
experiences in China where he has 
been engaged as engineer in the con- 
struction of a railroad from Canton to 
Hangtcheou. 
All the musical numbers were very 
finely rendered, the vocal solos by 
Miss Annie McMillan of Gloucester 
and Frank A. Rowe being especially 
pleasing. The entertainment opened 
with a drum solo by John Crombie, 
with Miss Hattie Baker, piano accom- 
panist. Miss McMillan’s first selection 
was the “ Nightingale,’ which was 
very sweetly rendered, and as an en- 
core she sang ‘‘ White Rose.” After 
the intermission she sang Macdowell’s 
cS Tavile 
Miss Abbie Rust, one of Glouces- 
ter’s leading young violinists, played 
charmingly. Her first selection was 
« Ave Maria’’ and as an encore she 
played “‘ Teasing,” and in the second 
part of the program she played the 
“‘ Gondolier.” 
« Sing me to Sleep”’ sang by F. A. 
Rowe was pleasingly rendered as also 
was “ Over the Harbor Bar,’’ which 
he sang as an encore. 
Patrick H. Boyle read very nicely 
‘‘The Vagabonds"’ and won great 
applause. He gave Shakespeare’s 
«Seven Stages of Man”’ in response. 
Lieut. Farnham gave his talk on 
China before the intermission. 
Preliminary to his talk he said he 
would confine his remarks to the work 
upon which he was engaged in China 
and to that portion of the country in 
which he worked — Southern China. 
He said in part: 
“The work of building the railroad 
from Hangtcheou to Canton was not 
actually started till 1902, and the work 
was done on a small line while the 
main line was being surveyed. We tried 
Chinese contract work for a while but 
failed. In July we secured an order 
to do the work ourselves. It was no 
easy task to pick up the force of men 
such as we wanted, especially in China 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
where the natives had never seen a 
railroad. The work is done mostly 
by. manual labor. The 10,000,000 
yards of grading are carried in baskets 
by 10,000 Chinese coolies. 
‘We pay the men off daily instead 
of weekly as we did at the start, the 
amount paid being about 16 cents a 
day. 
“The coolies work in gangs of 24 and 
over each gang is a head coolie, as he 
is called. A white foreman is over 
five or six of these, and the foreman 
is responsible to the superintendent. 
The Chinese coolie lives from hand 
to mouth and it is easiest to pay them 
daily.”’ 
In speaking of the character of the 
‘ people, Mr. Farnham told of a Chinese 
mob that was caused by plowing up 
some graves. It was started by an 
old woman and before it was ended 
the engineers were driven across the 
river, stoned, threatened, but they 
finally reached their camp, which was 
in a temple in another village, and 
here they had to remain all one night. 
Finally when things were looking blue, 
the heads of the village came out and 
persuaded the crowd to go back across 
the river to their own town. 
* On another occasion,” said Mr. 
Farnham, “ata place 15 miles from 
Canton we had 5000 coolies at work, 
and these with thousands of others 
broke out in insurrection. I had no- 
ticed for some mornings previous, the 
coolies were out before the foremen, 
but Icould not understand why. It 
seems the soldiers in charge of the 
tools were not supposed to let the 
coolies take their implements of labor 
from the sheds until just before 7 
o’clock, but there were so many after 
the jobs that by the judicious use of 
the bribe the soldiers for a considera- 
tion of 20 cents a gang would let the 
first ones who came along take out 
the tools, and, as a matter of course, 
the first gang on the work were set at 
work at once to digging and the other 
coolies would be out of a job. 
“The soldiers got too avaricious and 
demanded too much, and the gang 
struck. 
‘Out boats were stationed down 
the river,’ said Lieut. Farnham. 
«And when we heard the gang coming, 
we pulled out into the stream and 
drew our rifles and revolvers. I gave 
orders to shoot the first man who at- 
tempted to swim out to the boats. 
This was communicated to the mob 
on shore through an interpreter and 
they were quieted”’. 
The program for the evening was as 
follows: 
Drum solo, piano accompanist, “ Diamond 
Medal March: aes ccr sts Englehmann 
John Crombie and Miss Hattie Baker. 
Vocal Solo; Nightingale,”.. ..'. 6. <8'..% 
Miss Annie McMillan 
Wiolin Solo, “AvadMatia, tos. so... Gounod 
Miss Abbie Rust. 
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Lieut. Charles Farnham of Beverly. 
Vocal Solo, “ Sing me to Sleep,”....Greene 
Frank A. Rowe. 
Intermission — 20 minutes. 
Violin Solo, “ Gondolier,”. ... 3... Miss Rust 
VOCAL SOW lUyl, se. see ees MacDowell 
Miss McMillan. 
Reading, “ The Vagabonds,”...P. H. Boyle 
Violin Solo, selections from ‘‘ Rusticana,” 
_ Miss Rust. 
The committee in charge was com- 
posed of Howard M. Stanley (chair- 
man), Alex. Robertson, Frank A. 
Rowe, Mrs. Howard M. Stanley and 
Mrs. John Baker. 
Joint Installation. 
Lhewrecently, elected ~ officersman 
Magnolia Lodge, 149, I.O. O. F., and 
of Liberty Lodge, Daughters of Re- 
bekahs of Manchester, were last night 
ushered into their various offices at a 
joint installation, the exercises in con- 
nection with which were conducted 
most successfully. 
D.D.G.M. Mrs. H. E. Clayton and 
suite of Gloucester installed the offi- 
cers of the Rebekahs, and following 
this, D.D.G.M. Frank Robinson and 
suite of Gloucester, installed the offi- 
cers of the Odd Fellows lodge. 
After the exercises both lodges and 
their friends adjourned to the hall be- 
low, where awaited them a bounteous 
spread. 
W. R. C, Installation. 
Mrs. Eva Cook of Gloucester in- 
stalled the recently-elected officers of 
Allen Relief corps of Manchester, 
Thursday evening, at G.A.R. hall. 
The installation was preceded by a 
turkey supper in the banquet hall, 
and was followed by some _ bright 
speechmaking, at which time remarks 
were made by Enock Crombie, James 
H. Rivers, Charles Stone, members 
of Post 67, G.A.R., who were guests 
of the evening, by Mr. and Mrs Cook 
and others. During the evening the 
installing officer was presented with 
some beautiful souvenirs of the town, 
and Mrs. Floyd, the retiring treasurer, 
was presented with a handsome opal 
ring. The officers installed follow : 
Mrs. Ellen I. Horton, president : 
Mrs. Mary Lane, senior vice-president; 
Mrs. Julia E. Reed, junior vice-presi- 
_ dent; Mrs. Eliza Crombie, chaplain ; 
Mrs. Hannah G. Tappan, treasurer ; 
Mrs. Flora E. Hersey, conductor ; 
Mrs. Alice L. Salter, guard; Mrs. 
Jennie Dennis, patriotic conductor ; 
Mrs. Helen L. Willmonton, secretary ; 
Mrs. Walen, musician; Mrs. Grace 
Bell, assistant conductor; Mrs. Charles 
Morse, assistant guard; Mrs. Lizzie 
Floyd, press correspondent; Mrs. 
Cook, Mrs: John Babcook, Mrs. Har- 
lan Preston and Mrs. James Crocker, 
color bearers. 
