Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27

lows stoically conclude that he has fallen victim to the sea-turtle;
 Chinese equivalent for the legendary sea serpent of the west.
 Near Pageda anchorage rises Sharp'l
 Peak. capped by a tower built by a wife to welcome home an oriental Enoch Arden who, when he saw it, thought he had mistaken the river, and sailed away again, never to re- turn. Amandarin's footprint in a 1 rock commemorates the summary punishment of quarrymen who kept ] right on chopping away it's companion footprint, despite the flow of blood 1 that spurted out at each stroke. When l removed to a place in bridge it reg l istered protest by kicking it's bear CTS into the river, so the companion
 was not molested.
 1 4AThe rivers obstruction at Pagoda
 anehorage is artificial formed when stone laden baFges were sunk there to l prevent French fleet from reaching : the city, during the Franco -Foochow I troubles in 1884. It is characteristic lof the Chinese love for the status quo that FoochoW bushes men have wait ed so long to take steps to clear the channel and thus avoid the needless 4 .tannoyance of constant reloading of
 cargoes. Measures now are being
 considered to connect FoochoW with
 the sea by a channel fit for ocean go- | ing vessels. Boards of trade and lrivers and harbor congresses are re- cent civic concomitants of the nation
 ] that built the greatest inland water way the world has known-the Grand :, Canal
 "But the most conspicuous lack of Foochow, your nose wuold know, upon entering the congested streets of the walled city, is a board of health. Ii has been said that, for toffensiveness $ to the senses no town can compare : with Foochow The older streets art l so narrow. and so tortuous, for the f most part, that wheeled vehicles can : not traverse them, and even were the! I wider their surface SWould be too un : even for passage. Broad streets
 newly paved, now traverse many sec g tions. Underground sewers have { f habit of flowing forth into crampet t thoroughfares, and the suns purify ', ing rays are stopped by roofs iron reaching many of them. Children : pigs and dogs commingle about man q doorways; cholera occasionally reap n an indiscriminate harvest of man an q beast, as it did only last summer whe n the local supply of collins soon wa Ii used up and bodies were carried oi q in baskets.
 "The older city. is enclosed by 'e wall some thirty feet high. twelve fet n thick, and it's circuit of five miles % pierced by seven gates, one of thes > being the North Tower, at which al IS curious spirit shrines. The popua T. ton of Greater Foochow,' inciudin ,u it's. numerous suburbs, is estimated { ie neary 100000: It is the capital of tt -+ province of F'ullien, which produce se the tea that makes Foochow inpor1 ,,sr ant, where tigers are to be hunted, ar '- where formerly grew the poppit | which made it notorious in the day
 when there were said to be more op
 um dens than tea and rice shops
 the city.
 Conspicuous proof that Foocho
 is capable of civic reform when on :. stirred, was it's campaign again sn ,a opium, conducted with posters and O ie ators.. after the manner of a local ol ,o ton drive in the wetter days of O q ~ own country The campaign was su -s cessful first in having license. al -r permit system established and ut n. mately banishing the dens in 1907. VT Foreigners live on a picturesq' ", island across from the city, reach ss by the Bridges of the 10000 Ages "The high popped junks with ella al crate decoration on their sterns for + o+ an interesting feature of the riv be life.
 --0 "Foochow supplies much lumb <- from interior F'ukien and huge lumb rafts can usually be seen in the riv, n, An industry of note is that of laqu ar ware, made by a secret process han od ed down from generation to gener ge tion of one Foochow family"