Show TRAMWAYS IN SHANGHAI Dally Daily Consular Reports Consul Wilbur Gracey Grace of transmits an article from a local news newspaper newspaper newspaper paper in China relative to the comple completion completion tion of ofa a tramway In Shanghai from which the following extracts are taken n The construction of or the Shanghai tramways has been practically corn com completed om The cars for the service have all arrived In Shanghai and most of them have been put together All that thatis thatIs is now awaited is the current to sup supply SUpply supply ply the motive power for tor the trams i Two or three weeks must then elapse before the service is inaugurated as asin ash ast in h t order to minimize the risks rinks of ot acci accident accident accident dent the company desires to make the native drivers thoroughly efficient before the trams are allowed to trav tray traverse traverse erse the busy streets of ot the settlement The current It Is expected will be switched on in about a fortnight and the motor drivers will be trained up and down d wn a convenient thoroughfare for the purpose Upward of ot twenty three miles of track tr ck have been laid and there remains little to be fie done but butto to complete the overhead cable work on two bridges both of t which are near ing completion The train routes have been divided Into eleven elev n sections ns over which the passenger Is entitled to travel The sections on each route are posted in InC C I conspicuous places In each car and printed In English and Chinese The first class fare for one section is two and cents for tor two sections five tive cents and so on The drivers and conductors will be Chinese but cars will wili be visited by for foreign foreign foreign eign Inspectors at least twice on each Journey The terms of the concession do not allow any exterior disfigure disfigurement disfigurement ment meat by advertisements Each car Is divided into two compartments with twelve first and twenty second class passengers respectively respective The seats in inthe Inthe inthe the first class compartment are cov coy covered covered ered with rattan those in the second class are of wood The cars are lighted by electricity and notices in English French and Chinese warn passengers against smoking spitting or bringing doss dogs do s on board |