Construction of' a Modern Plant by City Trust The problem of water supply Pootuing Is expected to be definitely solved in one year with the comple tion of an up-to-date waterworks in the district By the Shonshal City Trust of the City Government. 7 plant will be the first ever built in this area and the cost Is estimated at $500,000.
The construction, which fils a real need, was ordered by Gen, Wu "Te-[chen Mayor of Shanghai, With view to supplying water to the people in Pootung within the shortest por:
period, the City Trust is also Tuilding a temporary. "water station st Vu Loong Wharf, which Is expected to supply Pootung "residents with pure Water in April next year:
According to the present plans of the City Trust, the temporary sta tion will not turn out pure water itself but will get its supply from the [Chapel Waterworks instead. Ferry Taunches, which are being operated [by the same concern, will be used in the evening for transporting the water 'With the completion of a modern waterworks. the City 'Trust expects to supply more than 3,000,000 gallons Jot water daily. The supply will be extended from' Yang Ching Chin in the north and to Pel Lien Ching in the south—a distance of ten and half miles. The area will be furth extended at a later date The City Trust, established by the City Government, is paying particular attention to the development of Pootung. In addition to the con Struction of a highway, public utilies such as telephone ines and the Jelectric power station have been erected. the "Shun Pao," one of the two leading Chinese daily papers At the age of twenty, he passed! the Imperial Examination and ceived the hein teat degree. Five
Mudies and turned his hand" to years hho gave up scholaste sericulture, which he studied at the Chekiang Sericulture College. He then started the Women's. Sericul. ture School in Shanghai, being the first to engage onan enterprise of this kind in Kiangsu Province. Be tween 1910 and 1915 he field several Political positions, including the EMees of Director' of the Salt Ad. ministration Bureau of Soochow and 'Shanghai Circuits: Director Shanghai Loan Aéministration Bureau; and Director of Customs Re. venue Administration of the 'Shani hai Circuit during both the Ching' and Republican regimes.
It was in 1914 that he became the publisher of the "Shun Pao." It was then in a precarious state, but, under his able administration, the paper has grown to be one of the most infuen tial organs in the country. The deceased was one of the most prominent educational, social, and _philanthropie work in Shanghai, and' was director of a number of universities hospitals, and. various societies, besides being a successful business promoter, with financial interests In several banks, drug stores, cotton yarn factories, and book stores. He survived by his wife and a son
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