To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cinxa Dany News"
As with dog-racing, so with Kindred sports in Shanghai. The chief incentive to a visit is the parimutuel. It is true that a small number of people go to the pony races just to see the ponies run, just og it is true that some folk visit Hai Alat to admire the grace of the polotiers (or whatever they are called); but it may safely be taken that every concern in' Shanghai which "operates a. parlemutuel, maintained in its present state of existence by virtue of that parimutuel. Lucrative appointments, fat dividends, palatial "establishments, are possible only through the oper tion of the pari-mutuel, Subseriptions from members and "subscribers" (the.seeming tautology is unavoldable)' must amount, In the aggregate, to only an infinitesimal part of the money that {is needed for upkeep and other expenses. The balance comes from the pari-mutuel or, in other words, almost preponderantly from the general public. And so it willie if trotting "becomes an established sport (what an. Infinity activities is covered by the word). IL may "flop" eventually, but in any ase the general public will pay, it pays for taking an interest in many other forms of "sport."
Sm—On July 1 the Tokyo Police brought into force a regulation pro-biting the use of electric horns, only bulb horns being permitted on any vehicle. T was in Tokyo at the time, and the result was almost incredible. From being the pandemonum that it has been for years, with chauffeurs blasting their way through the trame with a finger pressed con-Linuously on the electric horn, Tokyo came a quiet city, ninety per cent. of the noise disappearing overnight.
In Calcutta electric horns have] been absolutely prohibited within city limits for many years.
Why cannot similar regulations be introduced into Shanghai, whereby we may be delivered from the fiends who drive on the horn, spoiling our dive, and making our nights a tor-
Electric horns, when used indiseriruinately, as they are in Shanghai, Geteat their own object, as there so much noise and racket in the streets that the voice of any particular horn is swallowed up in the general din and has no significance for the particular person for whom it is intended, resulting in many pedestrians being run down and inured: The only At place for electric horn is on the open road for long-distance warning.
Shanghai, Aug. 19, Cuneo, Shanghai, Aug. 15.
Pax mr Unne,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.