To the Editor of the "NoRTH-CHINA DAILY News."
Sir,—Coming to town this morning on the bus No, 97, Route 9, I noticed a posted inside the bus informing (passengers that owing to the heavy depreciation in the copper currency, the company re-grots to be compelled to increase fares. The increases are by 20 per cent. on Route 1 and by 268 per cent. on Route 9, While admitting that transportation fares are quite low on these conveyances I cannot refrain from remarking that if the management was desirous off raising them a more plausible reason should have been given than one so easily disproved by reference to your esteemed financial column, on consulting which I find that since the inauguration of the fares now found to be inadequate—somewhere about the beginning of this month—copper coins have depreciated by just two-thirds of one per cent!
Being of a timid nature I dare not contemplate the consequences should logical conclusions be deduced if the above facts were to be put syllogistically,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.