Century or More Old SPECIAL ro THE "ceh"
If one takes a walk any morning in winter dlong the moat outside the walls of Peiping, one will notice at certain points a large gathering of coolies busy at work on the frozen surface of the moat. These are the ice coolies, cutting, preparing and transporting the blocks of ice that is to keep the drinks and food of the people cool during the warm weather. For with he exception of the canteens of some of the Embassy Guards and a very few wealthy persons who can afford a frigidaire, the city has still not got as far as to produce its requirements of ite by machinery.
It is dependent for its supplies of this commodity on the rather primiment after they have transferred their respective percentages of property to the new corporation.
It is expected that the revenue from their reduced properties. with the income from the shares in the new corporation which they will receive in return for the transferred properties, will enable them to meet payments under the loan contracts satisfactorily. Later on they may make arrangements similar to those made by the Daido Company.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.