From End to End of the River: What the Conservancy Board Is Doing to Tame and Train It By Low Wher: the Empress of Australia glided up the deep channel of the Whangpoo River a few days ago, the world-citoling tourists on her decks stood aghast—although many were the wonders they had seen—Yangtze Mud. The mud which polluted the blue brilliance of the ced, and continued its homely swirls Gs far og the eye could reach! When the silhouetted contours of te Bund sky-line came into view, all this, however, quickly, was for-flow from the pipe. As time goes on they present a _bespattered spectacle, but few are the particles of coal, from out the mud, which their sharp eyes miss. This salvage ing is, moreover a second phase, the first having already been enacted, when the mud, lifted from the river gotten.
But the story of Yangtze mud is to much longer than that, that St must be carried further than is the itinerary of any tourist' to Shanghai to do. Tt 4s, a story bound up with the past, present and future of Shanghai, one of the great ports of the world. Moreover, a proper perspective on the subject of mud mikes one feel almost epic about it. Or, rather, about the work which is Doing done to harness it to other uses than blocking up the water approach to Shanghai, a process Asown in past decades by. the Chinese, as the "Heaven-Sent Ba rier" to foreign trade.
It is superfluous to point out that the Whangpoo Conservancy Board is the agent at work on this, Like most of our greatest blessings, the Conservancy Board is simply taken for granted. But a review of its work makes a fascinating study.
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