The new iron works stretch along the river bank for nearly two miles, with the Fuyuan Company's coal mines for next door neighbours. The old railway line, built by Germans in 1891, has been extended along the river bank, and joins the new iron works to the old railway terminus as Shih-hui yao. This railway line is the only road possible, save of course the river, and along it foot passengers wend thely way in imminent-danger of their lives from the passing us. A smal] foot path by the side of the rails would cost little to make, but it has not been done. In order to protect life from the perils of the railway track, the people have erected—a temple Had they spent the money on a road parallel) with the railway, they would probably have found it a much better investment and a much surer way of preventing accidents. But the old jostles elbows with the new wherever one turns in China to-day, Whoever wag responsible for the laying out of the new iron works was. blessed with vision. The arrangement of everything is of.
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