New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-14
RELIEF Works ~ INDIA.
THE NEW JHELAM CANAL AND THE
NATIVES EMPLOYED on 1T.
METHODS or HOUSING AND PAYING VAST NUM-.
BEERS or MEN WHO WOULD OTHER
WISE sI.Apx.r
WISE sTARyE.

BEERS or MEN WHO WOULD OTHER
WISE sTARvE.
Phelam Tunjaub, Correspondence Of the Brmns.
During ihe last two days Sir A. 5 Le,hbridge.
member Of the Niccrogal Council accompanied by
Mr.. Thorburn Commissioner for Rawal Pndi;
Brgade-Surgeon Colonel Roe, Sanitary commits
sioner for the Puniau): Afdal Khan. Deputy Com
missioner for GuIrat: Kur,hl singh Fannie ON
GER. ana other officials, have been making N ex-
haustive inspection OF he vast relief sorks BY
far The largest IN the Puniaub on he new Jhcam
irrigation canal. Forty thousand coolies are here
couErcsatcd. including 1900 infrn aged ana Blind
persons. VINO 1re cdssed as nOn-w0rkcrs The in
speeding officials comparing existing arrange
monts with ,he famine works OF iS75-lo,ed IN i'm
tho iabors of the Famine Commission and suisse
quent researches Sir Bcnuls Fitzpatrick Ono Lieu
tenant-Goyernop ana The PunMub Government
having closely adopted all the improved -xecu.iye
and sanitary methods that were recJmmen led. Tire
Official party, which ! WAS permitted ID accompany.
approached the works just ,he coolies were be
ginning TO 'eay" OF labor for ne day.
The scene recalled great Russian peasant fair
or Orenta! n,ela GostivaO. Thcro immense
preponder % women ana children " ali ages.
by IN" Jlolam River Is AZ Japan Village. a point
present WORK. .x,crds oyar one and haf miles
along The alignment ~ The future cana. and Ia the
mds, OF an extensive sandy plain. II is some two
miles distant from The river ON The southern side
tn" nrs, visit pdd was 20 'h" ten's ~ the OIL
cials ana engineers. Hard 10y is ,ne bazaar market,
tratch"d grass. running along each side OF the
swceI Mos, Of the hu,s aso occupied by traders
IN grain and u front ~ these ls1f- 0i wheat bar-
cs,r t5at mics 1a,. -,il- ,'tl,. o., ,uercs
of recent rains; bit modern railways lni other
me- tbo i,r[5o, ~ .,,l ,f r.. up l1oIi,y
tend 10 keep prices up % one level everywhere.
maj loEei Is no" tIrloH hl@l. ana ao1Ne, ue
tho relief works. The last quoauOn We obtained
for he chcapes, sort Of grain was Ten seers about
t~'"N pounds t}r I.rr, t1' h-t normal rae
OF over twenty sDofs The reg liar tfa. rs ln the
hazt1r D." furnished WI NUS ut ihf Pot'rhH'Hl
% Cd q 81
erected similar structures for themselves. There
is also curious collection Of itinerau c1uoers and
s,"wed eoits ac,b. and ol5cr mxurlcs offered for
sale. The members OF the honorary staff and tho
toners for these commodi,.,+. We ncNl vleWe1
the hospital icGts. u which tho are two-one for
t." |''i .'' ,. --r,i,I oss n s,ck
no. .r. s,rt m fr. Mn. p.sr,7-.ry tyy, miles
Of. \ third Isolated hospital ls also being prepared
against the possibility ~ an outbreak OF any l"iec-
tiJus disease
THE COOLIES Ht'TS
On the second day "e Inspected the huts nhab-
ited boy the coolies who were working on inc canal
vhich is nov over haif milo in length They are
capable Of indcint" extension ". additional "c1
fae, broad ana is kept scrufulously clean. The
atuosnh.re Is uhiaIht'd 'L oven we Su0in ION OF a
bad smell: the huts each side are strongly buit
of mats or matched grass. They are 80 clear feet
apart ana ar" p'lic'l} dIy. c''ii ana "'dI t
rr,. coolies who are distributed bv families some
i hye 'foiSn win 5 are Go in cS S9rl or or
the children while the poa~aut- AZ work, Hnt 49,.
T.s 5rlDrIiy TeseraIo NOS Of .,,p-v encan7p-
uout. but they are far cleaner and % more
est hat are series Of atrines constructed on the
dry earth system. ThrsO-3fd. iuded the entire
9TS1[lG ,so % ,ni,,r can c6rnieiocr TMrnyysRx
attendants OF the M,htar or scaycugor. class
on constant duty
Leaving thi, section Of the vast cncampment.