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Show Tehehpw# July £0t*o. Dear Compound family, I expected to get this letter off to you from Lint.sing but here 1 am in Tehohow using- 8 borrowed type writer* I came by boat, starting Saturday morning and arriving Monday morning about eifcht.o*olook; not bad time* Game on a freight bpat with a Chinese acquaintance and had a very comfort sble and pleasant time* The boat trip was necessitated "bj trie fact that last week Tuesday night and Wednesday we J_ad the heavie* storm that this part of Shantung has known fox years, over fifty £ at least, and the auto has not been able to run yet* A cart would want a mint of money to make the trip and wouldn't have been so comfortable• 1 am glad that none of you were 'in Lintsing to see the devastation in the Compound when the wind died down Wednesday about six p.nu The rain started with a deluge (Tries* about six p*m* and poured, all night. The wind was bad thet night but tree*.a did not begin to go down until after daylight «ed* The water had made mush of the earth and then the fierce wind of Viied* beat against #§# everything* walls, trees* roofs, etc* so that about a third of them were laid flat and one half nearly so* One wanted to wetf to see that condition things were in* 1T11 take you from house to house and try to tell you all the damage th&t was done tho all that can be repaired will have been good hold is At whe re Mr * has taken Chu'e right repaired by the time you return* Shis office and his efficiency comes in* of the job of repair with a will* ISvery evergreen along the east wall has gone down as far as the wall would permit and in many places the_jvall is badly brokenB Most of those can be remedied however* Many tiles were blown down off the wall all around and *tr. Ohu his sent out a laf to pick up all that are not broken- fhe Whitakerrs house leakQd less than any of the houses, A there is not&inf to Moulding*e back yard one of the lovely a part of the Y/hita/oar's back fence The good, looking And wall that flax fell with a thud the first niflrt* report there* But in the big trees fell across #f## leveling- it to the ground. enoe t*ut arcund her cowyard The cowhouse is intact* A half dozen of the evergreens along the north wall will have to be taken out as it will be impossible to save them* Moulding* house leaked badly ever the sewing room and in several other places in the roof so that when she comes home and can't find her kitchen pans and kettles, she'll have to search for them in the attic* The Wiokep house leaked tnlj in the basement from which the coolie and x bailed out several inchea of water in the southeast corner * Ot yes, in slice's room there was a bad leak» The ladies' house leaked like a sieve all over. We hadn't pans enough to go around• Places thttt never have leaked before couldn't withstand the driving of this rain» The roof of the new part stood up beautifully, I am glad to report but around each window or the west plenty of water drove in* The beautiful evergreen that Mrs* Sargent brot from T*ainshan was almost flat but we were able to straight en it* The tree beside it was clear town but it was not so heavy but that it solid be repl_.CGd* Munerous frees in the open infroA of the houx. and the girlt! school were almost down but we have most of them in piaca again tho it was neoeaearj to out off branol |
