To the Editor of the "Nonri-Cunsa Dany News"
Sw—Being a tenant of Burlington Court myself, 1 offer my sympathies to Cumtous, but how long has the poor {fellow lived in Shanghai? Surely he Knows that this fe the period when the P.W.D. and landlords hibernate and that when the temperature rises bit they have a siesta of several months owing to the neat and humodity.
'Many times have I got up during the night to go and remonstrate with the engine-room hands of the Cosmopolitan' Apartments because of the noise they were making and now we have the water gadget to add to our worries. Actually the tenants of the "Burlington Courts and Cosmopolitan Apartments have the remedy in their own hands by getting together and deciding not to pay their rents until whoever is. responsible Puts the matter right. The person Fesponsible would soon be found.
The Tsangchow Road people have still more to contend with in the matter of the road and it will not be ong before there is a nasty accident. for everyone, pedestrians and vehi
spots—that are not there—irrespeecles alike tres to pick out the good tive of trae rules and regulations Goodness knows the crowds of Chinese "refugees"—so-called—in the formerly regarded derelict houses have been a menace in themselves what with the mahjongg playing, roller-skating, wallah-wallahing, etc., tle, ele, that have been going on since Auigust, 1897 to say nothing of the garages occupied by peop!
of the apartments not cine, in the sumner the tenants the doors of the buildings owing to the crowds of Chinese garage wetlers who were oft times reluetant to make way. It we of Interest to now whether landlords have the right to let garages out a: dwellings, without proper sanitary faellities, etc, to anyone who in turn allows so many people to live in such small cubic space per capita, especially in a so-called residential area, We know who the agents are, but who are the owners Ur ano Ar'
Shanghai, Nov. 1.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.