To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cumxa Dany News."
Su,—The International Settle ment has a new system of house numbering which "is excellent far as main roads are concerned. Since the Special Committee on House Numeration recommended it, neither T nor anyone else has suggested that it should be changed. Where it has been applied, as on Bubbling Well Road, Kisngse Road, and Yangtszepoo Road, its advan: tages.are apparent. For example, jon Yangtszepoo Road, where houses Joceur. at twelve-foot Intervals. on one side of the the road but where there are few houses on the other side of the road, the numbers are nevertheless held opposite each other. That is 422" is opposite 421, ete. The reasongof this is that the numbering is by sections of 12 feet, and if no door occurs re a number falls, that number id at the start that I had two suggestions. The second deals with this painting of Lane numbers Jon alley plates. And for fear of tiring the reader I will illustrate my meaning by an example instead lof other explanation, On Yantszepoo Road there was jo fire a few months ago after the Rew system of house numbering had been applied there. The news-Papers reported the fire at La Yangtszepoo Road, Now there ate about }30 Lanes on Yangtszepoo Road and of course each has an LA (just as jon Kiangse Road there are ten Lanes each having B2 and B3), What I wish to sec is the It prefixed by the Lane number, $0 that in one Lane it would become 321L4 and in another Lane 54L4 fand in still another Lane 957L4 according to the number of the Lane. (It is understood of course that the Lane takes its number from the main road and is the same as that lof a house would be if a house were located where the Lane is.)
It is true that the Lane number reserved and not used until there ix_given in Chinese, but if in a door there, if ever. So on one Chinese why not inthe English Side of such a road as Yangtszepoo namber with its Arabic. figures foreign Lanes have no. such letter. Lane number on the plate, some That is to say that While there is an I, on Yangtszepoo Road before. all alley numbers" anda BY on Kiangse Road and a Con Babbling Well Road to prefix before Chinese numbers in alleys, yet some foreign houses have mo such letter prefix. Bot the letters A and X could asi be reserved for use in stich eas whereby as above a Number 7 would become: in "the shortened address Twill close this letter with an illustration of an address envelope by the present method on Bubbling Well' Road and. by. the suggested shortened change.
resent Method:
Mr, John Doo House' Number 7 Lane 338
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.