The Marshal is greatly concerned with the drought and the attacks of grasshoppers on the prospects of the Autumn crop in North Honan, The Joint Committee of the Famine Relief Association. and the Honan Chen Wu Chu, that administered the surtax funds, has been petitioned by the Marshal to undertake the ing of a thousand or more There forty-five thousand dollars, tunexpended, and the Surtax mittee is considering, very favourably, granting a subsidy of $30.00 a well for fifteen hundred wells, tributed over the more affected districts.
Feng's Good Works want to thank you for your kindly reference to the good works of Marshal Feng, in a recent I ex. You are quite correct. In spite of the intensely tight financial situs tion in which he always find self, he feels, and has always felt, that the public, and especially the poorer public have the first claim on public funds, Despite the great needs of his armies, he has consistently allocated funds for public benefits that others, less consol tious, would have dropped into the military treasury.
Public Not only have the proper organization been active in park and road building, in planting trees without the city and along the great high: ways, in cleaning out temples, Sots them int ochosia Bisioie, lecture halls, and museums, in multiplying play grounds in every available spot, in effecting important sanitary improvements all over the city, in building a theatre to seat cover 2,000 people, at a cost of over $100,000 but now an army of workmen are engaged in building a 500-room house "to be allocated to the poorer families that cannot the rent, This building is being erected south of the railway, near the Baptist Mission compound, on fine open area, with a well at present being sunk in the central space. We reckon that "one chien", "room" of Chinese building costs about $100 on an average in this city. I asked the official, referred to where $50,000 was coming from, and he assured me that the Great Headquarters was providing the money. And this at a time when his best men, military, medical, educational, and "ficial are.content to receive from $12 to $80 4 month, whatever there may be to divide.
Not only in this city are these things, at present happening, but a Chinese guest in from Chengchow {informs me that the same process is going on there, and I know too that similar movements are being starting in other cities in the east. have heard many expressions of, appreciation of the Marshal's lead in these matters, and hopes expressed that, in the division of districts and*power, he micht' remain i= this
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