Your correspondent has just cross ed the ferry at Nanking for the frst Ume, The crossing consumes what appears to the traveller an sary amount of time but is accomplished with no flurry or discomfort The train is separated into three div visions but all taken across at the same time. To an. "old timer" in China who travelled for years slow boat and wheelbarrow, to ride bby train across the Grand Canal, and across the Yangtze by train on a steam ferry, makes him wonder "con these things be?" Truly China has changed.
The numbers who ride on the Peking—Shanghal express are astonishing. A' gentleman in Peking vied for four days to get a first class passage and failed. But at pre-Sent, because of the crowds,—three people travelling second class are not allowed to occupy a cabin which has four berths—this means a family of three, both men and. women, Husbands and wives must separate, This fs a good rule and the only way to prevent strange men from being put the cabins with women.
First class passengers, of course, have no trouble over this arrange: ment but in these days of depression many first class people travel second or even third. We recently heard of a lady who had travelled third class and, on being asked why, naively re~ plied "Because there was no fourth!" Be it said to the credit of the Chinese people that, on the third class coach, are found many real ladies, fand gentlemen and one can travel with them and receive no offence.
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