Rebuilding the Quinsan Gardens District The "Pearce Apartments" now adding their quota to the li Proved appearance of Quinsan Gardens and: the vi ity of Boone, Quinean, Chapoo and North Szochuen Roads, due to the considerable building. activity: that has occurred recently. Most' of the building in the nelgbourhood hasbeen carried out by the Shanghai Land Investment Ca., who have replaced old foreign and Chinese houses with, Duildings of modern type.
This district in the old days. Shanghai was considered one of: the Dest residential localities of the city. Most of these have now become obsolete, and though still retaining: much of their old dignity, not conform to the times. Many fof these have either been pulled down and' replaced with modern structures or have been rebuilt. Still others will be replaced: with, new buildings in the near future, into the inadequacies of the present Galting system; enough has been fsaid'of its shortcomings already. Shanghai should take a leaf from other" large cities and instal a.
Admiral's Yacht: Reconditioned for Going to Sea Réconditioned for uso as a sen. going vessel, the U.SS. Isabel, Gialling system that works. Surely former flagship of the U.S. Yangtze the one we have does not, 'The Patrol, left for Manila, answer to it all is the sale of the in company with the USS. Pitts-company. burgh, The Isabel now enters a 'The Sixth' Largest City new sphere of useful activity the yacht of the Admiral in Miss Virginia Cowper: Surely' mand-of the United States Asi Shanghai cannot be expected to Fleet, who is now Admiral Charles Delieve that the present system under which our telephones are run The Isabel was originally design-is the best that can be had, Other ed as a yacht for Mr. Willys, of the cities do not have the trouble that Willys-Knight motor-car firm, and fs Shanghai's and: while 1 cannot was under construction and nearing give the solution, still. I know that Completion when America entere Something is wrong and should be the world war in 1917. The vessel Yeetified. For the sixth largest city was immediately taken over by the in the world Shanghai is woefully 'S. Navy, slightly altered, and behind in. the telephone ceryl completed "as a destroyer. Unfit renders. To me the answer is in the end-of the war it operated in new. management and @ more French waters, out of Brest. modern system. My number has In 1021 the Isabel came to China Fecently been changed and yet T with Admiral Buller, and was fam still getting calls on the old altered in Shanghai for service with number: aswell as the new. As the Yangtze Patrol. A deckhous~ things are the telephone is of very twas built up aft to accommodate the questionable use from.a business Rear-Admiral in charge of the standpoint, Patrol and his staff, with all the Mr. 0. B. Gainsborough, Shang-necessary quarters and offers, and hai Stock "Exchange: The only the Isabel became the flagship For solution for the Telephone Company eight years it was-a familar sight fand its shareholders is the sale of fon the river, until orders came to the company according to its fran-refit the vessel for sea-going work chise. and the installation of an efficient. management which will not once more.
Reasons for this included, prin-Tet it deteriorate as it has been fallowed qo in the past. There is n2 cipally, economy. The Pittsburgh, Yeason why Shanghai should not fang ship of the fleet, is of an old type, burns coal, and is very ex-have n telephone system second to none in the world and the question pensive to run. The Isabel was of raising rates on subscribers will easily transferable into a convenient Vessel for the Admiral to use in his not answer the problem. That mussy far-reaching trips over his scattered be dono through a more up-to-date command, atid coald still be used for management and one conversant with modern telephone methods. 1 travel up the Yangtze as before. addition the Isabel, after all the Unhesitatingly favour the sale of the company to the interests best anges carried out, still retains the speed of 26 knots, and therefore filter to serve the people; I believe the Admiral's trips will be carried any one of the three foreign bidders fut mitch more quickly than on the capable of fulfilling the order.
Pittsburgh. The same draft as before Tt ig not a large one. has been maintained, weight former-Mr. V. T. Gordon, Foreign Y.MLCIA.: The solution of the Ly on deck having been moved down telephone problem as I seo it lies
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