Eighteen Thousand Bathers Last Striking Success of New Ar-
Month: A Record Number rangement After Three Months Three months after the opening of the long distance service cooperation with the Shanghai Mutual In view of the abnormally hot weather which Shanghai has, during the past six weeks, " been experiencing, coupled with the fact] that there is no summer resort or ing surf bathing the immediate tion with Nanking, Soochow, Wusih and Woosung by telephone, encouraging reports are given by the telephone company as to the number of calls which go over these wires daily.
The local telephone company acts as a receiving station for calls along the long distance wires operated by the Chinese Government station and this connexion it is stated that inter-communication between the various Chinese districts, Chapei, Nantao, Woosung and the section included under the general term, Greater Shanghai, has increased by 4,000 calls a month since the opening of the service.
Toll calls, or those to the cities: already mentioned, have practically doubled since the opening of the exchange and an additional feature of interest to long distance telephone users is found in the announce-vicinity of this port, it is not surprising that there should be record attendances at the local swimming baths, but we venture to, think that the most popular—place of all these is the Municipal open air swimming pool in Kiangwan Road.
The pool, which was used by 18,000 persons during July, is in the shape of an oval; measuring 185] feot long and 76 fect wide; it is six feet 10 inches deep at the deep end and but two fect ten inches deep at the shallow end. It fs by far the biggest pool in Shanghai being four times as dig) as that of the Chinese Y. M. C. A., and is probably the Jargest pool Inid out in the Far East. The capacity of the pool is 247,000 gallons.
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