The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-14

It c1sts about 10 cents day to feed a
Chinese steerage passenger, and it costs
a Chinaman $25 to pay his passage
from San Francisco to Hong Kong.
Notwithstanding the immigration laws
more return to America than go away
from it, and this ship carried over LOCO
during its last voyage. The companies
which ship them to America engage to
deliver them dead or alive back into
China, and the result is that if
Chinaman dies on shipboard his body
is never sewed up and cast into the sea,
except in cases of small pox or cholera,
but it must be embalmed and carried
on to China. We had two deaths be-
fore we reached Yokohama, and the
doctor who embalmed the bodies got $2
apiece for doing so. This is the regu-
lar price on all the Pacific steamers,
and the embalming fees amount to
quite al item when you have thou
sand or so Cinnamon on board.
The Pacific steamers mus carry
much larger supplies than the Atlantic.
When a steamer starts out from San
Francisco to Yokohama it has 1900
tons of coal and it is provisioned for
a six months voyage. Our ship carried
live sheep for mutton and the Chinese
butcher killed these from time to time.
1t carried also fifty-four COWS to dairy
in Hong Kong and these supplied US
with fresh milk. Two calves were born
on the trip and the daily excursions TO
see the COWS were one of the excite
ments of the voyage.
1t will be interesting to know some
thing about the preparations one
makes for trip around the world. The
journey to Asia has more requirements
than that to Europe and few of the
travellers who understand where they
are going confine themselves to valise.
The heather countries have all large
foreign colonies. These are made up
of elegantly dressed ladies and gentle
men and l find as finely dressed men
and women here at Yokohama as you
have on Fifth Avenue. New York.
They do not keep their good clothes for
only Sunday wear: and they spend
money freely.
But me give you the necessities
for trip to Asia.
In the first place you want a good
sized letter of credit which you can get
III New York, and which will authorize
you to draw upon banks all over the
world to the amount specified upon it.
You deposit with your New York
banker, say for instance$ $40 600. and he
gives you letter for this amount. The
New York banker will also take several
copies of your signature which he will
mail to his different banking houses
and you will also sign your letter of
credit. When you wish to draw money
all you have to do is to make out draft
in any of the branches of this bank in
the different countries and to sign your
name in the presence of the cashier.
He compares the signature to your
draft with that of your letter of credit
and this forms your identification. It
is on such credentials that all travelling
! is done and millions of dollars are paid
out in this way at foreign banks every
month.
Next, you need passport, and this is
especially necessary in Asia. You get
this by applying at the State Depart
ment at Washington and it costs you
one dollar instead of five as formerly.
This is signed by the Secretary of State
and it gives description of you, the
Oh racter of which can be well under
stood by the following extract from my
own passport which lies before me.
| Age SO years; stature 5 feet 8 inches ;
forehead high; eyes grey; nose prom
inent; mouth medium; compile xion
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