The correspondent who complained in a letter to the "North-China Daily News" about a certain nuisance on Route Amiral Courbet in the shape of piles of garbage knew whereof he spoke. There are evil smelly and particularly evil smells and there are others that very nearly approach the unbearable, and this is one of the last group.
pool of water into which the garbage is being dumped is of good size and increasing in these rainy days. The garbage and ashes are not placed in a systematic manner beneath the water of the: pool but piled along the edge, sometimes dumped within in one spot so that an irregular peak thrusts itself offendingly to the air again. The state of affairs is not improved by the fact that beggars, yesterday attired in straw raincoats and galoshes, amuse themselves by raking the pile over and over again, chemical fumes with various formulae escaping as they de so. The area which this nuisance covers is not small. A motor. ist going at a good rate by the place his still to exercise a strain upon his lungs to hold his breath until he is past. And the odours follow for some distance, seeing that they are very penetrating and persistent odours. Let us hope that this interesting playground for beggars may be removed to some less public thoroughfare if it cannot be done away with altogether.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.