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SHANGHAI
Sir Harry Parkes, British Minister to Peking, was erected in 1890.– „A bre in memory of the heroic death of the crew of the German gunboat typhoon off the coast of Shantung on 25th July, 1896, was erected o the end of the Peking road, in November, 1898. The principal bu French Concession are the Municipal Hall and the Consulate. A bi Admiral Protet, who was killed when directing an attack on Nan-yao 1862, stands in front of the Municipal Hall. The Public Markets Concession are large and well built and are perfect as regards san
ments.
The Council of the French Settlements, Shanghai, voted in 190 of 90,000 Taels for the building of a street tramway-line from the via the French Bund and the Rue de Consulat to the French Camp automotor system will be adopted. The line, which will be built first, long. It is estimated that the rails of a single track will cost 28,000 T down, etc., 11,000 Taels. Four cars with 21 seats each will cost 30,000 Tacl expenses 16,000 Taels are provided. The Shanghai tramways concessi 21 years, the tenderers paying a royalty of £150 per year per mile of do £100 per year per mile of Single track. They propose to lay at once al double and 83 miles of single track. The overhead trolley system is and the cost of construction, including powerhouse and plant, is estimat Single-deck cars accommodating 6 first-class and 40 second-class passen used, with fares for a course of about 15 miles of 6 cents first and 24 cen The routes are not yet definitely decided, but it is proposed to lay lines Creek, to the Bubbling Well, and for a crosstown inner loop, and these r in working order within two years,
INSTITUTIONS
Among the institutions of the place may be mentioned the Volt Force, under the command of Major W. M. Watson(Riding Regiment)wit A. Clarke as second in command, It consists of Staff 10, Light Horse "A" Company 110, B Company 67, German Company 40, Cust 63, Japanese Company 54, Reserve Companies 144, Medical Staff E ranks 600. There are also a General Service Company, 164 strong, for duties, and a Small Company of Scouts, who find their own mounts. These numbers are exclusive of the Band. Originally form Volunteer Force gradually went to decay, until the fear of attack sacre at Tientsin in 1870 ezsed its revival with considerable vigour. It in numbers, but the last re-organisation under Major Holliday proved su 1900, during the China crisis, the membership of 300 was more the included an American and Naval Companies since disbanded. The an was made in 1902 by Colonel Brown of the Hongkong Garrison, and awarded high praise. The infantry is armed with the Lee-Metford rit Company of Volunteers under the order of the French Consul-Gener in May, 1897. The Fire Brigade, which is entirely volunteer with mental Engineer, has a strength of 76 and consists of four E Hook and Ladder Companies. It attended 102 fires in 1902. It is pr one of the most efficient volunteer brigades in the world. There is Health Laboratory at which bacteriological investigations and che are carried out, vaccine lymph prepared, and the Pasteur treatm undertaken. The Municipal Nursing Home has existed for six ye much satisfaction and the Victoria Nursing Home has
now be There is a Hospital for foreigners, the building for which, completed in 1877, is already found inadequate and several a been made. There are also several Hospitals for natives and t Hospitals for infectious diseases. The other public institut enumerated as. a iL Subscription Library containing
Library containing about 20,0 branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, with the nucleus of a Muser Club, a Sailors' Home, a Polytechnic Institution for Chinese, a Seame Museum, a Wind Instrument Band of thirty men, paid by the Muni gives concerts in the Public Gardens every day during the sum Race Club, possessing a course of a mile and a quarter, and whi meetings in May and November, a Country Club on the Bubbli Parsee, Portuguese, and Customs Clubs, also Pony Paper Hunt, Yacht, Baseball, Raequet, Golf, Skating, Football, Swimming and