Last. year there were over 2,000 motor cars operated by Chinese in Nanking as well-as hundreds of rickshaws, Today both are pitifully few in number. The greater hardship for the poor comes from the scarcity of rickshaws. They supply transportation for. those with a few dimes only for travel.
The booths and stands which have been put up where people are gathered in greatest numbers are the most conspicuous objects in Nanking. They are built of the most motley variety of materials, salvaged in.very many cases from partly burned houses or shops and even from buildings not damaged but standing untenanted Many handsome buildings now are merely a shell of four walls, with doors and windows gone, flooring prized up and taken away, tiles removed from the roof and plumbing fixtures and locks stolen. All the building material is used for putting up temporary huts, while plumbing fixtures are on sale in them.
In the South City, one of the most thickly settled districts in Nanking, there are a few shops open. The goods displayed consist of food, chiefly rice, salt, biscuits and dried, salt fish. Other' articles of common use displayed are cloth, and no cloth shop has its shelves full, straw hats of local manufgeture, cloth shoes, soap, matches, paper, candles, baskets and native medicine:
The merchants have in many cases opened for business in partly burned buildings, Side by side with a shop, trading in such things as are to be had, will be a toppling wall, with burnt timbers standing out, or the shell of a fine bank building. Very little is being done in the way of rebuilding, either of shops or re-
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