Peking, March 3.
The Beggars Guild in Peking is in imminent danger of complete extinction. At the instigation of the guilds and various charitable societies, the metropolitan police have undertaken to establish and maintain a workhouse on what is now waste land behind the Temple of Heaven, to provide opportunity for all who are capable to earn food, clothing and lodging when necessary and to take care of those who are genuinely helpless and incapable. The funds are to be provided in part by the municipality, in part by the charitable societies and in still larger part by public subscription. Subscription books have been printed and issued to police and gendarmerie headquarters in every district in the metropolitan district so that collections and accounts can be readily audi ited.
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