An excallont system of providing employment was adopted. Repressentatives of the Mission interviewed the headmen of each of the 13 villages allotted as the Committee's sphere of work and these men were asked to supply estimates of the number of needy or starving people, of tha work required to he done to restore the village to something like its normal condition, and of the number of men available, The information was promptly given, and unemployed villagers were set to work clearing up the debris, burying the dead, people and beasts, and_ clearing cut the creeks, Another important work they were set to wag that of restoring the dykes, all of which had been flattened out by the force of the typhoon. One dyke over a mile long is now being reconstracted, replacing an old dyke known have existed for 200 years.
Complete reconstruction the; devastated area would cost millions of dollars, and the Committee found it manifestly impossible to attempt restoration of all the ruined homes. But an ingenious way out of the difficulty has been found. A great many of the suf-fevers aye destitute through having lost the beat upon which a family depends for its livelihood, and they are of course unable to pay for the building of a now boat. Accordingly. the Committee have made to these people a grant amounting to the difference in the vast of building a boat before the typhoon and now, and builds them a new boat. to be paid for im instalments of $4 per month. The money received in this way will zo towards the establishment of an orphanage, exclusively for children whose parents were lost in the disaster, and work on this institution has already been started.
Altogether, we are informed, the amount of money subscribed and promised from all sources, foreign and Chinese, reaches $1,000,000.
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