Echoes of the Mokanshan swimming pool affair have reached us occasionally through the summer: the trouble is, apparently, that visitors on the mountain are many and the pool crowded and hence the move to make a club, limit the membership and exclude other bathers, of which a correspondent complains to-day. We have not yet heard the case for the club, but on the face of it, our correspondent's complaint seems a just. one. The upkeep of Mokan-j shan as regards paths, stairs. ete. ig maintained out of a small poll tax, and if we are not mistaken it was out of this revenue, supplemented by a subscription from users of the pool, that the latter was constructed. If we are correct in this belief, the pool was made out of public funds and it would therefore seem wholly illegal for any body of residents to ar-togate its use exclusively for themselves. If they want less crowding when they bathe, the proper course is either to enlarge the present pool or make themselves another.
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