On the day following this festival your correspondent made the mistake fof travelling to Wusih by the third and fourth class train, On reaching the railway station half an hour before train time the platform was found to be erovsded from one end to, the other, The train. immediately was packed to the extremities in both classes of "accommodations, with children and baggage being dragged in through windows, and oven after adding several coaches to the train, it was still necessary to leave mi passengers seated on the platform. At Wusih the situation was even worse, Exit for those disembarking was only by windows or crawling over the heads of fellow passens No doubt the prosperous close of the old year had much to do with this Immense amount of travel. No shops are seen closed following the annual settlement period and it seems that conditions in, rural areas are specially good, 'The only marring incidents have been several Ares, one fon the main business street, the Douka, doing damage estimated at $100,000, 'Three entire shops on each side' of the street and directly under the large water tower which supplies water for a large section of the city, were entirely destroyed. These In-eluded our largest and best photo graphic establishment, Rumour has that only about $0,000 in insurance was in force on these properties at! the time of the disaster, many policies having lapsed only a few days before and the renewals had not been made.
'A. section of the water tower itself received damage though not of a very serious nature, and the main street fat this section was closed to traffic' for several days, Several other Ares of less disastrous results occurred Feeently, the onuses of most of these conflagrations being undetermined. The condition of electric wiring In most buildings is notoriously bad and doubt that accounts for some, with, general carelessness during the holiday season probably being responsible for other mishaps of this nature, The local fire department with its hand trucks showed unusually good work in preventing the further spread fof such fires, specially considering the Himited apparatus with which they have to work and the dimeulty in getting it through the narrow and Faugh streets. Fire towers enable the quick spotting of fires and a fairly wide distribution of fire hydrants furnishes the firemen with sufficient water once their small carts have Drought the hose into position. ndustelal Activity 'A walla round the city wall shows a remarkable enlargement in in-Gustelal life here, Factories are gradually and steadily on the increase, products being almost entirely in cot-Yon materfats ud flour.
The road round the cifyris under construction and going forward rapidly. Motor buses run to the railway station
big temple and pagoda is In fine con-the road from that point past the ition, Only six months ago this route was nothing better than a mid ump, hardly navigable in a rickshaw, fand in wet weather the muck was practically impassable on foot.
Officials made an effort to check gambling during the recent festivals with the result that in one case where 'a mahjongg player was put in gaol his follow players stormed the prison. and in the ensuing melee one man was shot, 'A small epidemic of spinal_ men-Ingltis has been experienced by the coal community recently.
Dr. Emily Vu, gynecologist connected with the Stephenson Memorial Hospital here, has recently returned from extended study in Johns Hopkins and other hospitals in Amerlea_and England, her return having been made by way of the The School of Nursing of the Stephenson Hospital held its graduate ing exercises last Monday afternoon, granting caps and graduate diplomas to ten nurses.
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