The Danger to Health To the Ealtor of the "Norrit-Cutxa Darcy News"
Sm—There is said to be nothing new Under the sun; anyway the beg gar problem is" not new, This morning's extract from the N.C.D.N, fof 70 years ago shows that then this town had many beggars, The only difference is that then the Couneit took them away and thus did something positive even if it was cruel, as the writer of 1870 suggests, Totlay the Council does nothing except publish a long report about what they might do, this was neatly six. months ago, The streets fare. still cluttered up" with lame, blind and diseased wrecks adi grace to a town which has enough money to pay $11,000 a month to one lawyer, Apart entirely from the sorrows of these poor beggars what about the health problem?
Fiaht or fair to the rest of us to allow these awful spreaders of skin diseases, typhus and. whatnot to cir feulate freely among the population? thing' of the: spi Corporat Who, "when all "hadiaiten Ge hairist the" vast Yoriouy "nations. and armed the tables 29 eels upon I'L. the hour, not for despatch courage and. Febullding® aad tha dhe"sptr Wh shoud Shanghai, June 23, Tram Fares:
Increase Objected To To the Editor of the "Nonmt-Cixa Darcy News"
Sin—Despite the fact that there has been an appreciable recovery in the Value of the Shanghai dollar since ite last tumble, the Shanghai Tramway, Company announced another increase its fare operative (rom yesterday. This is the second time that the Com-has "revised" its tariff in less months.
from Hardoon Road to Honan Road now costs 12 cents instead of an increase by 50 per cent. This high percentage of increase is in line with the repeated "revisions" of other Publi utilities of this city. The mania of surcharges or increases together with profiteering of daily necessaries by the unscrupulous merchants Rave almost bled white a great number of the ratepayers.
'Every time any. public utility company asked for an increase of charge, our City Fathers invariably granted, ft. This seems to be not in consonance with the' recent Council's policy in Suppressing proaieering and hoarding.
Squeeze by the conductors in the tram-ears and trolley buses is notorious. This is the most rank piece corruption and casts a stain upon the management of the Tramw: Company, The annual loss Venue through squeeze must be grea the company, and yet nothing practical has been done io stop it. there be another increase of charge under one pretext or another, the management should first of all' stop Shanghai, June 18, "Acttox Puease,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.