The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-27
LII HUNG CHANG.
How the Great Viceroy of
China Looks and Acts.
"MITKIEWICz NO GENTLEMAN
His Daughters Wonderful Wedding
the spat which He and the Count
ess had Over the Marriage.

TIENrsIN, China, November 80, 1883
Especial Correspondence of THE
HERALD. II have just had most inter.
essing interview with Ii Hung Chang
the great vioeroy of China. Ii Hung
Chang is by all odds the greatest man
in the Chinese Empire. He was called
by General Grant the Bismarck of
China, and in craftsmanship, he ranks
with the greatest minds of the Euro
pean nations. He is practically the
premier of the imperial government, is
the chief secretary of foreign affairs.
and, during the past few years, has been
the medium of communication between
foreign nations and the Celestlals. 1t
was he who was chief
of the imperial forces during the great
TAPPING rebellion, which cost China
10000 600 lives, and which resulted in
the overthrow of the rebels. 1t was he
who settled the difficulties with Russia
In 1881, and it is ne who Is called in to
advise the Emperor when any crisis
takes place ia the affairs Of the nation.
L. Hung Chang carried on all the ne
Rotiations with Mitkiewicz and granted
the charter to the Wharton Barker
syndio ste, which fell through by Mis-
klewicE' lndlsCreLiou and bad character.
Ii was he who introduced the telegraph
into China, about seven yeaFE ago, and
1t Is he who ia now doing all in his
power to have China adopt railroads
and develop itg material resources. LII
Hung Chang is the viceroy Of Chill,
the northern province OF China, which
includes Peking and Tlentsin, aad
which has a population OF IS ,009, 900,
or nearly as many as Great Britain.
Over these people the vlceroy has more
power than has the Queen of England.
He is also superintendent of the north
ern trade of China, and it is said that
the money he receives yearly amounts
to over $4,000. 600.
In China, an Office comes. in the first
place, from scholarship, and Ii Hung
Chang is one of the most noted scholars
of China. He has passed three public
examinations, which means having
been three times one of two hundred Of
the successful out of Is 900 competi-
tors, and at the last one he received the
highest degree. He Is a fellow OF the
Hanlin College, the most learned body
of China, and he is such an important
man in the Chinese government that
when he wished to retire from office
about six years ago, to mourn on the
death of his mother, the Empress re-
fused to give him more than one h1n-
dred days for grief. She then recalled
IN HE TIA ha
was q necessity to China. He now
lives here at Tientsin, ard his residence
makes this point almost as important
in the eyes of the nations as Pekine
Itself.
Tientsin is city of nearly 1000, 600
people. The foreign settlement, where
the leading French and English mef-
chants do their business, and where
the consuIs have their residences, is
three miles from the native city. 1t is
here that the ship lands, and here that
the foreign hotels are located. Be
tween the two cities is a series of
Chinese villages SO closely joined IS to
form third city, and it was through
the narrow streets of these that was
carried by four chair bearers in uni
form on my way to my appointment
with the viceroy. No one walks. if he
be foreigner, through the streets OF
China. They are too narrow, and the
crowd is too dense and too dirty. In
paying ceremonial visits, one must GO
IN stale, and had one of the Chinese
officials of our consulate at Tientsi
riding in font of my chair on a white
Monaghan poaey. He had big rourd
black cap upon his head With its brim
turned upwards, and a gorgeous req
tassel covering its crown. His power.
ful body was covered in rich blue silk
gown, down the back of which hung
his long, thick, black cue. His legs
were clad in pantaloons of wadded silk,
and great fat boots with white soles an
inch thick covered his feet and snkle,
as he rode. My chair was fine sedan
covered with a rich navy blue cloth
and lined with silk of delicate blue
It was swung between poles about
twenty-five feet long, and the four men
who carried it walked in couples, two
in front and two behind, bet 1eeu the
shafts and supported it by great bars
of teak wood which. testing on the
shoulders of the men, were fas ened to
the shafts, ana thus enables the men IT,
move IN single file. 1T took US half al
hour to make the journey bstweeu the
two cities. We were often stopped by
long lines of Hheelbarrows loaded with
merchandise and pushed and pulled by
coolies. The weather was bitterly cold,
and l shivered in heavy overcoat and
under a thick rug which was wrapped
around nay knees. Sill many of these
coolies were bare to the waist, aud
passed Q beggar, who, as naked al
AZ am in the garden of Eden, was cry
inc and shiVering under piece OF coffee
sack which he had thrown about hiI
hare skin. We crossed stream, pass
ing thousands of jinrikshas. and going
ali the while through the most crowded
of narrow streets, and at last came tt
a high wall, on the outside of which
about two score of ponies were stand
ing tied.
This wall surrounded the Yamen, o.
the eubernatorial residence of the grea
viceroy. we passed through a grea
gate and came into court which wal
full of the. servants and lackeys o
mandarins. We stopped for moment
before palrofla rye double doors upor
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