To the Editor of the "Norrn-Caisa Datty News."
Sin,—May I be permitted to join my protest to those already made, through your valuable paper-to the failure of some of those driving motor-cars in Shanghai to draw up behind a standing tram car Yesterday while waiting at the Astor House corner I saw a tram car stop at the usual stopping place and passengers were course of leaving and entering the car, when @ motor-car appeared on the' scene driven by a foreign lady, who promptly sounded the "charge" on her motor horn and then proceeded to charge the crowd whic. had to scatter in all directions to avoid destruction, and one elderly foreign lady only escaped by what like the clever combination winkle" and a "Jazz Roll." only an instance of a gaily and continual occurrence _in Shanghai and what puzzles the uninitiated is why should those who drive motor-¢ars in Shanghai be exempt from the laws which would govern them in other civiliza ed cities and be allowed the luxury of endangering the life and limb of their fellow beings just to suit their own whim or conscience. Motorists in Shanghai cannot sure ly be of so much greater importance than their more humble tram brethren as to warrant this: bes: these latter (to motorists) unimportant people may also pressing engagements to keep. is not the Chinese but the foreign drivers of motor-cars who are the principal culprits and the soot the authorities take the matter in hand and make and enforce regulations sufficiently severe to put a stop to this state of affairs the better.
The tramway islands which have recently been made in an cndeavour to safeguard, to some extent, the travelling public are possibly an inconvenience to on their heads by the conduct of the-inconsiderate ones amongst them.
I am far from complaining of the motorists of Shanghai as a whole and it is the innocent amongst "them and the general public who are going to be made to suffer for the delinquencies of a number of either incompetent tr grossly inconsiderate drivers unless something is done to bring these last named to reason.
In large towns at Home all vehicles, whether public or private, have to draw up behind a standing tram ear and it is high time they should be forced to do likewise here.
Lam, ete..
Shanghai, Jan. 97.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.