New Plant Eventually Completed: People Unable to Buy Rice: Foreign Lady Robbed Fret Cun Own Commroment chang, May 25.
Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, Mr. J. C.
'After many delaye the' Yung Yao Fleming carved a niche for himself Blecirie Power" Company set thole In the business life of the port. He new plant in operation during April also found time from his office duties The official opening was performed by to render signal service to the com-General Hisa of the locat headquarters munity. Quiet and selle in disposi tion he did not take any active part electric light has had a somewhat sports, but he gave much of his chequered career in Tchang. Nearly spare time to the work connected fquarler ofa century ago © public wits the erection of @ clubhouse for Spirited Ceinese conceived the idea the Ichang Recreation Club. His wise of such a lighting system for the! foresight and business acumen en-town. He was a man of considerable abled him on the eve of his transfer means and put a lot of money. Into to Hankow, to hand over to his. the scheme." For the solution of the successor in office a club in a very any problems he sought and_cbtaine flourishing condition. In recognition the advice of Sir Meyrick: Hewlett, of his public service in this and many Ertorts were made to oBtain a Britse other directions he was presented. engine and plant from Shanghai but with a silver cigarette case and a war had Wroken out stocks were! sured of the best wishes of all for of on hand. his future, "Unwilling fo await a shipment from Economic Conditions Great Britain this gentleman pur chased a secondhand "German plant In this district economic conditions fand Insialled it. For sometime the are very bad and not for many years Hight was excellent, but gradual ov has there been so much abject poverloading' took place' snd tke light bely as is to be found in Ichang and came very poor, 29 that users hod the districts round about on both Fecourse. to 110 volt lamba in place banks of the river. The present, of the original 220 volt ones. Ichang suffering is In all probability the e-was Tooted in 1820 and again in 1921 ult of the extensive flooding of last fand after' the second looting the year when so many people lost their Plant ceased to function. al, and are now without any seed sow or money to buy. To make Private Systems Employed matters worse the price of rice is Many Chinese and several-foreign-prohibitive to many. The price seems rs fond that the return to all wes rise every week with the result hot convenient and. therefore te that an increasing number of people small electric plant became very Jare unable to buy. mon in the town—Delea, Petter and Li fs, therefore, not surprising that Tatterly Deutz engines al being in robbery with violence is once more favour, One 1922 Peter is still in rearing its head. While armed rob-use and in that time only two batterbery is not common, yet it is disturbjes have "been required, Jing to think that on the river within 1051 the Yung Yao Company was ten miles of the town armed robbers organized and under its direction 2 have their appearance and held up. 1300. aw.
Plant was installed. "So a boat in whit a foreign lady and great was the demand that it soon a Chinese teacher were travelling. Became evident that the plant was They did no violence but at the {co small for the requirements of point of pistol the lady had to part} city an seps were taken 10 acquire more powerful equipment wit her gold watch and about $100 'A fine reinforced concrete building in cast,
was creeled on the Imam and here!
Visitors to the Gorges the. new plant is" housed. Messrs.
With the advent of summer the Arabold & Coz received: the contract larger steamers have returned from {fora Metropolitan Vickers 500 ow. winter quarters and have drought, {urbo-allernaior set with Babcock quite a number of passengers. Un-Wilcox boiler and Green Economtser. fortunately people who elect to make This set is suliclent 10. provide full the journey so early in the season, power 220 volts for' 28,000 16 ep. are apt to find that It takes longer than the time advertised by the vari Mr. P. K. Zung of Shanghai is to ous companies who after all have no congratulated. on the. completion say in the rise and fall of the great of the work and the providing of 3 Fiver. Among those who have passed fine light forthe town. We would through Ichang recently were Mr. and Wish the company all success in this Mrs. T. A. Clark of Shanghai. These New' venture and express te hope two worthy people are on the eve of that they will not be too much! retirement after. many years in {reubled by those who like to obtain China. Tkelr days have been spent their light for nothing and think tle the busy mart and at the end they. of tapping the wires while the engine have elected to visit one of nest silent during the day." At present Sights in the world, so quiet and awe the plant only operates during the
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