In the same civic connexion it! interesting to know that the Council maintains a, number of the gardens of public Buildings ap a part of its admirable purpose to keep the ever thickening congestion of a big city from impairing th bits of breathing space which a city must have in order to maintain its mental and physical health. Among these buildings are the Vu Yuen Road School for Girls, the Victoria Nursing Home, the Isol tion Hospital, the Public School for Boys, and the Public School for Girls Booze Road, the Thomas Har bury School for Boys and the Ellis Kadoorie School for Chinese.
In the French Concession the same tendency is noted to increase park space, and two comparatively new parks have taken their well '<quipped* places in the community the last two years. One is the Square Paul Brunat, founded June 16, 1924, and consisting of 33 mow of garden plot lying in the triangle formed by Avenue Joffre, Route de Gustave Boissezon and Route Ale fred Magy; the other is Pare Edan, founded on April 16, 1925, and haying an area of 26' mow at the juration of Avenue Petain, Route Picard Destelan and Route Jerome Scandal Point ing.
Among the minor park points, seems apropos to mention the Bren. on Road Piece because of its former Popularity. At one time this now Chinese coolie ridden bit of green was the western park for the city. From about 1909 to 1916 after which its popularity yielded to the Jessfield Park, it was a pleasure sort throughout the day for many Shanghai ladies who, it is supposed, dispensed the knowledge of their fellow's foibles from this discreet garde spot. The "Scandal Point" was the name by which Brenan Road Piece was known throughout the eity—and where there is smoke, is commonly believed that there Another small ares, hardly a park, is the Warren Road Piece, row used as a works' yard, but in time to yield some vf its garden beauty to the city when the city has grown to its western. girth.
Still more diminished spaces of} green are represented in the Bubbling Well and Hart Road Carri age Turn which the Parks Department keeps pleasantly groomed; in the Cathedral Compound which open to the children of the vicinity in exchange for the work of the Council in keeping it in order. Tifeng Road Children's Playground, now in the making, is another recent effort of the Council to provide Jmore playing space in the western. districts. When completed—this [will be sbout the size of the Nanyang Park and it will lie between
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