To the Editor of the Sin,—On Page 729 of this year's issue yon publish a letter which Indies cannot pass through Kiangse Road with safety, it is time that Shanghai should be renamed the New York Bowery of the Exst, oto."
Having had considerable interests the Bowery for many yours, and hai boon actively engaged in business on the Bowery, I feel that it, ia right to ask you toroprove this slur on the reputation of an industrions.street.
There is no hour of the day or night at which an unprotected woman is not as safe on the Bowery as on Fifth Avenue or Broadway. The land and buildings that front on the Bowery are worth upwards of $150,000,000. The business carried on in the Bowery is serious and important. Persons seek some places the Bowery lor social rather than intellectual pleasure, but that is also trae of Broadway and the athar large thoroughfares in our City. It is a serious injustice to confound the Bowery of today with the Bowery of twenty or thirty years ago. You owe it to the merchants of the Bowery of to-day to correct the statement in the issue of your paper roferrail to herein, Tam, ote, Lavrexoe M. D. MoGure.
Now York, 1st November.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.