Connoisseurs Send Out for Complete Sets Many Shanghol residents, in their youth, spent their leisure hours in the pursuit of such trophies as postage stamps, and tram tickets, The latter had, perhaps, a more particular sigaineance. if for instance a holiday was spent by the seaside, and tram tenets of a place miles from home wore secured, they could be produced with a flourish-as conerete evidence of travels far afield. Perhaps it thought by some that collecting tram tickets is a child's pastime, and one which, in any case, has long gone out of fashion. "But occasionally Shanghai there come letters from those Who are evidently connoisseurs in the art of tram-ticket collecting, Not content with the tram tickets of their own native land, they venture much farther afield, Since they cane hot themselves make trips to China and other parts especially to secure tram tickets, (which are not 90 very valuable, after all), they send letters to tram' companies in various parts of, the world, The Shanghai tramways company receives on an average about two such Tetters a year asking for complete sets of Shanghai tram tickets." They fare not wanted for anything of particular interest in the tickets themselves, (Shanghai tickets are quite ordinary in appearance), but to paste tram ticket albums, alongside those from the Malay States, Japan, and other parts. Last year, for instance, Mr, G. Pollock, manager of the Shanghai Electric Construction Ca, received letters from America and Copenhagen. 'The enthusiast from Copenhagen' was himself an employee of a tramways company, and sent a complete set of his own company's tickets, which are carefully Kept in the Shanghai company's offs, Alongside these are. specimens of London tram tickets, and tickets from other places.
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