Passing a block west of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce Building on the corner of North Honan Road, where the creek below was usually thronged with steam-launches plying upriver, the three cars slowed down.

• 过了北河南路口的上海总商会以西的一段，俗名唤作“铁马路”，是行驶内河的小火轮的汇集处。那三辆汽车到这里就减低了速率。