New Year's Party Given to 500 at Schools Serious efforts are being made by Shanghai educators in ce-operation with the "Shun Pao," the oldest Chinese newspaper which recently re-opened its Shanghai plant under American management, to give, an education to the more than 2,000 newsboys in this city with a view to bringing up a few Chinese Edisons it being made widely known now among the newspaper vendors that the late Ameriian inventor was a newsboy before.
A lady supporter of the movement carried a dynamo to the Szechuen Road Y.M.C.A. auditorium the other day and showed ıt to more than 500 newsboys explaining that since the machine was invented by an American scientist who was a newsboy many years ago any newsboy in Shanghai might also show new inventions to the world. Mr. H. C. Chen, head of the Chinese Education Department of the Shanghai Municipal Council, also expressed the same wish in a speech.
The occasion was the new year entertainment prepared for Shanghai's newsboys, about 500 of whom are studying in 10 small schools established by the "Shun Pao" in ce-operation with the Shanghai Children Protection Society which is supported by Mr. Chen. The schools are universally known as the New-boys School and the classes were pened several months ago, although then the enrollment was not big.
Two newsboys made short speeches thanking the speakers and their principal for the encouraging words they aid and they distributed candy bags to their schoolmates. An amusement programme was given to the enjoyment of all and it included singing, classical dramas, magic plays and ers. The two newsboy representatives expressed their wish that soon the more than 1,000 other newsboys who had not yet entered their schools might soon enjoy the privilege Briton Falls from Fi Floor Window Mr. T. G. Brady was conveyed to the General Hospital at 0.48 a.m. yesterday suffering from wounds on the forehead and scalp and a fracture of the right thigh, following a fall from the window of his room situated on the first floor of 106 Peking Road. The cause of the accident is still being investigated. An emergency ambulance w: summoned to convey him to the hospital.
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