Frost Our Ows Comesoxberr Wuchang, Oct. 7.
The schools of Wuchang have all opened after the summer holidays. In spite of the bad conditions among the farmers and merchants, the number of students seems higher than last year. "Only one or two of the private schools, where the fees are fairly high. have a smaller number. Wuhan University has a large increase in students, Among the new teachers there is Mr. Julian Bell who came to the University from England to lecture on English literature. The library building on top of the bill now is completed and adds considerably to the magnificence of the view of the university from the front, The building for the engineering school is more than half finished, The lake below the university was very popular place during the summer with its boats and. bathing. Every Sunday hundreds of people, Chinese and foreign came from Hankow for a bathe and a sail and perhaps a walk on the hills beyond, Aeroplanes used on the services up and down the Yangtze now spend their nights on the lake, rater than on the river where there may be danger from the rough water in a wind, In bad weather they land all their passengers and freight from the lake. A Customs officer is posted at the lake-side.
A new middle school with a good enrolment opened beside the uni sity, It is called the East Lake School. It is under a board of directors most ly drawn from the professors of university, At present it is only a Junior middle school.
The Bureau of Reconstruction continues to develope the roads in Wuchang. A new road is being cut through the Yentzushan, almost opposite the tunnel leading through the Serpent Hill, A cutting about seventy feet deep is being made. It will bring broad road into a part of the city into which it was impossible to drive before. The soil and rock cut out are being used to raise some of the low lying open spaces. Some was used to level the Yuehmachang, which also wis improved by the removal of a dilapidated stage, formerly used by public speakers. There is talk of further improvements and widening of streets on a much greater scale, To this we look forward with a good deal of trepidation, as we do not know whose property will suffer. A Rew provincial library Is being built in Wuchang; the foundation stone was laid last week by Governor Chang Chun,
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