Kashing, Aug. 13.
During the intense heat of midsummer, the Chinese who can afford it hire a large houseboat and anché in the South Lake, which has an island-near the middle with shady trees and pavilions, Numerous ferry boats take passengers for three cents each way, and on sultry nights, the Island is crowded. The city houses. with low, spreading tile roofs, high brick walls. and stone-paved court, are almost unbearable until midnight. Consequently, the streets and open spuces are often full of people sitting on chairs and benches or sprawled on matting.
An agent for a rice dealer went to Shanghai recently, sold his cargo fand came back on a night train his arrival, he said that two mon in Tong black robes stopped his rickshaw and forced him at the point lof a pistol to hand over $800 to ther. The police found the rickshaw puller, who said that he carried the passenger from the railway station 19 hhis home without Incident of any kind, "Finally, it came out that the agent had lost the money gambling In Shanghai and made up the story Jof a robbery to "save his face.
The city fathers are planning to remove the beautiful high-arched stone bridge over the Grand Canal fand replace it with a modern, lower-level reinforced-conerete structure improve traflle conditions. 'Persons reluming to Kashing after some years' absence are surprised to see well-paved boulevard encircling the city, Instead of walls built wer 800 years ago, The Kashing paper mill, said to be one of the largest in "China is running day and night 10 the profit for the owners. Silk filatures are also going at full capacity, while small /machine shops and iron foundries are enlarging their places on account of increased business.
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