The river steamers which pass up and down probably do not have a, worse stopping place between Hankow and Shanghai than they have Huang-sikang (just above the%ironworks). The current is so swift that when the river is at its lowest for about three months the down steamers leave Hankow in the morn. ing so as to get-past here before night and the up steamers drop an anchor and wait for the day. In the ordinary way both up and down steamers pass in the night. The getting in and out of the shore boat much dreaded and every now and again we hear of goods lost and sometimes of a person drowned in performing that feat.
Now we hear that one rich man, whose near relative recently lost his life in this way, has started a subscription list with $10,000. to. wards getting a hulk at Huang sikang. May the whole sum needed soon be forthcoming! Which steamer company will have this benefit we have not heard, but there is no doubt that if one company gets it the others will have to get the same as at Wusueh.
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