Company's Failure to Meet Growing Demands In_the course of his articles on the Compagnie Frangaise de Tramways et d'Eclairages Electriques de Shanghai which he is writing for "L'Echo de Chine? M. A. Chapeaux has the following to. say on the supply of water by the company in question Prior to 1901 the French Concession was supplied with water by the Shanghaj Waterworks Ca., Ld., but in 1900 by reason of the extension of the Concession the French Municipal Council decided to become independent by constructing a filtering station and a water tower and extending the system of distribution. In 1901 this new installation wag set to work and all the main system was used by the Council which had bought it back from the Shanghai Waterworks Ca., Ld, This municipal exploitation lasted from 1901 to 1908 and during this time the principal mains in the Concession and in the exterior municipal roads were laid. The* filtering station and the water tower Becoming insufficient to meet the growing needs of the Concession, the French Municipal Council decided to part with the whole system to a concessionaire and with this end in view favoured a French enterprise by granting the monopoly to the company in ques tion, which, at this time, seemed to be animated with the best in. tentions and whose subsequent mistakes it was not possible to foresee.
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