To the Editor of the "Norra-Cuisa Dairy News."
Sir,—As a personal friend of Captain and Mrs. Plant, and one who has derived considerable benefit from his life's work on the Yangtze, I much appreciate Mr. Smith's letter in your issue of March 25.
1 am in full agreement with his suggestion of a statue to Captain Plant, which will be an assurance that his great pioneer work, above Ichang, will not be forgotten in generations to come.
It will, I think, be very difficult to combine this statue with a beacon or a leading mark, for a dangerous corner or crossing, owing to the rapidly changing cenditions as the water rises or falls, and I would suggest that it, be placed on the hills opposite the anchorage at Ichang. This is the gateway of the Gorges, and his work, and the Grand Old Man of the Yangtze might still watch our every movement, as he did with such keenness when alive.
There is, I believe, some movement afloat among the Shanghai shipowners to buy Captain Plant's old bungalow at the Hsin Tan and present it to the Customs as a residence for the present River Inspector. This appears all wrong, and a better idea would be for the Customs to purchase it, for the benefit of the estate, as an appreciation of Captain Plant's exceptional services, and give it to the two Chinese girls (whom Mr. Plant befriended) as a_ wedding dowry. Both girls have lived there since childhood, and are now homeless, and I feel certain this is, as the Plants would have willed S. Hath. 8. 8. Loong Mow, Hankow, April 4,
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