Nearly Three Quarters of a Million Orderly Visitors During the past two months 725, 000 visitors have been reco having strolled in Shanghai parks, a number which, when compared with figures of previous years, will show to what a large extent' the' Chinese community are making use of the various parks of the city.
In the Public Gardens alone, during the month of July there were 282,900 Chinese and foreign visitors, while 67,000 are reported at Jessfield, and a total number visiting all parks for last month is given as 420,000.
Those in a position to judge the situation state emphatically that Chinese visitors although new to the whole idea of park regulations are proving amenable to the restrictions obtaining about personal conduct. Not only are they well-behaved for the most part but any breach of reulations if brought to their attention by the park authorities has been seen to be principally ignorance on. the part of the offender who receives. the information politely that he is breaking the rules. The authorities go a step further and point out that cases of offending foreigners froquently implied a noisy argument, which has not proved the ease with Chinese visitors.
Moreover, since admission of Chinese to the parks, the open spaces are considerably cleaner than hi: thereto, for the reason, principally, that more guards are employed to cope with the increased vi because foreigners of the beach-Jcomber class do not make as much use if the parks as hitherto and therefore create less litter. No cases of flagrant destruction of park foliage or properties have been reported during the period under discussion, Mr. Wang Chia-yen, manager of the Chefoo branch of the Bank of Comnmunications, has come to] Shanghai,
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