Rickshaw Fares:
Are They Too Well Treated To the Editor of the "Nonrit-Cinna Dany News"
Sim,—May 1 suggest that the present rickshaw fares be revised and a unlform faro charged all around. At present the fares on some rickshaws fare listed at 8 cents per half-mile, while others are listed at 10 cents per half-mile, For the past three years 1 have been paying 10 cents for a short ride of less than half-a-mile. Lately 1 have been paying 18 cents for this ride; some coolies are quite contented with this sum but others roar like bull are very insolent, and at times use obscene language, and demand 20 cents for this short ride.
Having resided in various parts of China for over 30 years, I have come to the conclusion that these rickshaw coolies are too well treated in Shang hain no other city do they enjoy such privileges as they do here. A large number of them are rogues, thieves and vagabonds, and before "the Sino-Japanese trouble, many were procurers for certain brothels in Hongkew, especially those who used to park around the Navy Y.M.C.A.
"You occasionally hear of the honesty of a rickshaw coolie turning a package containing thousands of dollars, but what about the hundreds of parcels left behind in their riekshows by passengers?
T have" been wondering if the Pullers' Mutual Ald. Association have posted any notices in their rooms to the effect that "Honesty is the best Shanghai, May 1.
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