Now that a scheme for the improvement and conservancy of the Huangpu bids fair to be shortly undertaken in earnest, remarks are (heard that the public of Shanghai has never been sufficiently informed jon the subject. It is difficult to understand how such remarks can be seriously made, considering that the question has been constantly discussed for nearly forty years in the Chamber of Commerce, the Municipal Council, and the Press, has been a subject for humorous songs in burlesques, and has forced itself on the notice of everyone who uses the river for business or pleasure, or even walks along the Bund or in the Pablic Garden, or crosses the Garden Bridge.
is impossible to conceive that there is any person of ordinary intelligence in Shanghai who does not know of the reiterated efforts that have been made to prevent the Huangpu from degenerating, as it must do if it is left alone much longer, into a mere canal, when Shanghai will cease to be seaport and become like Foochow,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.