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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 
Photo by Rollin T. Chamberlin 
A BASEBALL GAME ON THE NEW CAMPUS OF THE WEST CHINA UNIVERSITY 
It is located just outside the walls of Chengtu. 
Coached by some of the missionaries, 
the Szechuanese students have become quite proficient in the American national game (see 
page II07). 
nevertheless, notably wider than those of 
Canton, or native Shanghai, and far 
more attractive. The principal avenues 
of traffic are all paved with slabs of 
stone, and, what is quite unusual in Chi- 
nese cities, they are now kept remarka- 
bly clean under the orders of an efficient 
chief of police. 
Marco Polo saw a Chengtu well laid 
out and paved just like the present city. 
A stone bridge across a tiny creek in the 
heart of the city stands today just as he 
described it back in the reign of Kublai 
Khan. 
But the clean streets appear to be a re- 
cent innovation due to the enterprise of a 
young Chinese named Chow, who was 
till recently chief of police, but who has 
since become head of the industrial de- 
partment. While chief of police he re- 
organized that department, put in oper- 
ation a system of street cleaning, a sys- 
tem of street lighting, and took the beg- 
gars off the streets, putting the adults to 
work and sending the children to a school 
which he organized for the purpose. The 
result is, for China, a remarkably clean 
and attractive city. 
Parallel grooves in the middle of the 
streets quickly catch the traveler's eye. 
These ruts have been slowly worn in the 
stone pavements by the wheelbarrows, 
which here do service in place of the 
street cars, carriages, and wagons of 
European and American cities. 
The streets are lined on either side 
with shops and blank walls, broken by 
occasional entrances. The shops have 
open fronts and display counters front- 
ing right on the street, so that the stock 
in trade may be viewed by passers-by 
and bargaining done without leaving the 
street. 
But back from the street, whether it is 
