Behind the matter-of-fact report of 2 Land Commission testing appear= ing inst week's" sfunseipal Gazette" ies the history of one of Shanghai's most interesting Jand-marks, which Is now to be removed.
'The' proceedings which appear under the simple heading "Race Course Road Widening" involve the Chen Chi Benevolent Institute, near the intersection of Vu Ya Ching' Road, which has the famous "baby drawer" into which unwanted infants are placed by timid mothers who cannot afford to rear them. The Institute cares for hundreds of foundlings who xg prepared for useful positions in Mie at the institution itself or are adopted by childless families through the efforts of the home.
Under cover of darkness, poverty richen mothers daily approach the baby drawer" with bundles containing. their unwanted infants. Quickly the @rawer is pulled out, the warm little parcel is placed In it and the drawer then shut again, The mother furtively goes away, knowing that she will never recognize her child again in this warlld. The pressure of the new-born on the bottom of the Grawer sounds an electric bell inside the building and an attendant goes to the drawer immediately and picks up the baby, which is most likely iti, The charity of the persons who Support the institution provides for the chile's keep.
Now that the land on which the Chen Chi Institute stands is needed for the widening of Race Course Road, the institution will have to remove elsewhere. The Land Commissioners have awarded §22,000 as compensation for the surrender area of mow 0.412, the amount being. about $7,000 tess than the claim put forward by the Institut will pass, perhaps to another part. of
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