Although the coast line. of this "settlement". ranges only about five or six miles from the Peitaiho railway station, when the rains begin it is difficult of access—sometimes the road is impassable till the water subsides. On account of this, and the large amount of trafic created by the resort during the summer, the Railway Company is constructing a bridge across the stzeam which gives nae to the station, and a road across the very low ground adjoining this stream, which is muddy with a slight rain and flooded with a heavy rain. This road and bridge will be of great the travelling" public of this seaside rest, and indicates an accommodating spirit on the part of the railway which should be duly acknowledged: and which every one is ready to recognise, For the improvement, I understand, the Railway Company propose adding "a few cash" to the present fare to and from Peitaiho. While recognising this ublic-spirited action on alway Company which i est as well, attention needs to be called to another "crying evil" which the Company ought to remedy—also to its own interest. Tt has been suggested more than once that there are so many foreign passengers now between Tientsin and Tangku that a first-class car, or at least half of one, should be reserved for them alone. The reasons for this are not entirely nor mainly race sengers generally manage to occupy about or class prejudice, but that Chinese pas-
the space called for by four tickets for every ticket purchased, and with "traps" that cannot be piled up so xs to economise space, In this regard, foreigners are not wholly without blame. Then they are always smoking, with not the least regard to the presence of ladies or others to whom tobacco smoke is annoying if not sickening. But here again foreigners are not wholly without blame. But worse than these, the warm weather the average Chinese sits in such a condition of deshabille as to be positively repulsive to ladies or any one of delicate sensibilities. Other points might be mentioned, but to those who have travelled on the railway—in the North at frequently ridden in the second-class cars least—they are familiar. The writer has
and very often with much less personal di: comfort than in the first-class car when it was a trifle crowded with igher class" Chinese. Two years ago, I think it was, the Railway Company intimated, so I was told, its thought of running such a car: it is doubly needed now between Tientsin and Peitaiho during the season, and it would be to the honotte and interest of the Railway Company to do this much for the comfort and couvenience of its many passengers. Let this reform be added to bridge and road improvement, and I am sure many hearts will be duly grateful and appreciative.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.