Owners Finally Agree: Plan to Avoid Hardship 'An agreement has now been reach~ ed between the Shanghai Municipal Council and representatives of the Rickshaw. Owners' Association regarding the adoption of the new Model rickshaw and the licensing of public pullers, with the result that these reforms will be carried out in the immediate future. The 131 old Hekshaws condemned during the past month are to be replaced by rickshaws of this model within one more month. But in order to avoid undue hard: ship on thee owners who own stocks of new rickshaws of the old type, of which it has been reported the Council that over 1,200 exist, {Mt has been agreed that 250 of them {shall be allowed to be used in substitution of rickshaws which are from mow on withdrawn from service, The licensing of public pullers began on Monday, December 3, \with the full ce-operation of the owners. famous Ming apple-green vases. There is a purple Chin Yao vase; 'a Kien Lung vase with peach and flower decorations; a six-dynasty green glazed pottery eagle and a five gute design large plate of the Kiang period. To. all these and many more Mr. Eickho® will bid farewell when the auctioneer and the buyers go from his house next Friday after-oon, but now he is enjoying them just as much, if not more, than the visitors who come each day before the auction.
According to Mr.
Elckoft, be too many treasures. They' occupy' ell the room in the house. There 1 il his collection left in the United States and a special "squeeze" collection which Mrs. Eickom has made from her husband's treasures during the past years.
Besides his Chinese objects, Mr. Eickhoff also tas for auction some: old and modern European pieces, Including numerous books of which the "Von Lo Coq Buddhistic Antique of Central Asia" is numbered, Dresden coffee sets, old glassware, pianos, and Chinese furniture of later periods are sise for sale,
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