To the Editor of the "Nontu-CuiNa Dany News.
Sim—Your elucidatory leader Civiliz in Monday's issue under the title of "Jinrfesha
reminds me of the important. part played by the so-called "pull-man ear" in the development of eivilization Japan is enjoying at the! present "moment, Tt fs really still fresh memory that when as boy I Jinriesha ubiquitous and. in" able as a means of conveyance, cacy as well as popular, on the then slushy, narrow thoroughfares and byways of Yokohama. That not very long after the vehicle was] brought into existences by an early foreign settler in Jzpan, those days of "Jinriesha civilization" every practising doctor over there had a private car of sumptuous appointments complete with a travelling rug and pape Jantern, on the latter of which Ws written' down in quite bold style the family name of the owner-rider.
'Ax may be imagined the one-man power conveyer in fast disappearing from the country of origin. aubsequent to the introduction of more efficient and economical transporta. tion systems.—Physienl power is certainly no' match to" machine! capacity. Consequently in many of vig Japanese towns what they ealt taxi" with uniform fare is literally driving. jinricsha pullers out of the field of vehicular competition.
It is with a good deal of congelation that one witnesses the! Jinrlesha, that has - outlived its} practical usefulness in Japan, doing its bit in foreign cities bent on the} progress of civilization Wke here in Shanghai and a few other way ports East of Suzes.
Tam, ete, A Jinnicsita Fare.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.