The Archive · 1936

Modern Railway Station

The Lunghai Railway is building 2 magnificent station at Lienyun, The dining room is going o be a. thing of beauty, and. the whole project foing to be such as would do credit {fo an important entre. They are evidently looking to the future. The fleetrle plant there ts also evidently built' with future development view. "Now they are spending large Sums in making 2 copious supply of {food water available for the Llenyun district. Some of the piping has already been laid and the work the reservoirs is progressing opldly. Botore long, unless there i an un: foreseen. delay, there should "be a steady and abundant supply. of fine fresh' water' coming into" Lienyun from the other side of the mountain. Gna wonderful spring over the mows" tain has always aliracted my atten tion. "its supply of crystal, clear an excellent water seemed to me almost inexhaustible: but they are not depending on any one spring for their Water supply. They' are. building rear reservorrs to catch and hold the water coming down the valley' and they are piping It to Lienyun..

'Because of is isolation in the past, Lienyun has been anything but high {nits moral tone, the. people who fame' finding no- wholesome amuse tment. 'Many' "succumbed tothe Ture. of red lights and other vicious amusements.

Work also has started on a motor road from Lienyun to Hsukow, there connecting with the motor read. Hsinpa and Haichow. The completion of this road. will do much to relieve the isolated bastion of Lienyun. course, the Fallway and the. sieam-Ship lines have been available for jong white; but this does. not take the place of highways as. means of ice and easy communication, Motor transportation fas' done. much transform. this Haichow section. has done much fo control and to suppress the bandits, It has broadened The outlook of the people, specially those in the smaller villages along the motor roads, it has greatly stimulated business and it has added to the pleasure of multitudes.

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