The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-21
AMERICANS IN ASIA.
How Our Citizens Live in Japan,
Korea, Siam and China
AMERICANS WHO ADVISE KINGS
American Doctors, Lawyers and Merchants
AbrOad-Who They Are and What They
Get-Offices Untitled.

Especial Correspondence of The HERALD.
The Honorable Jacob T. Child, our mir
lister to the court of Siam, was in tn
United States at the time of the presiden
tial election. Upon the announcement 0
the result he at once
STINT IN HIS RESIGNATION
to Secretary Bayard to take effectin Marcl
next, and - has just returned to BangkOl
to compile. =, work which he is preparing
on Siam and the Siamese. He has beer
gathering notes for this book during hi:
four years stay here and he writes at i
daily, clicking out his poetic opinions Of
those people dpon an American typewriter
He tells me he has enjoyed his stay il
Siam, but that he is glad to go home and
that ne will again take his chair as editor
of the Richmond, Missouri, COnSaUGto'
with pleasure The mission to Siam is
worth 5000 gold dollars a year and Bangkok
is one of the few places in the world where
Uncle Sam owns his own house. The
legation building is big, rambling, two
Story structure with wide verandaS running
around both stories and with great pOrches
looking out upon the waters Of the busy
MenRn river and its thousands of floating
great trees surrounds the house, SlOping
down TO the banks of the river in front
These trees are filled with birds, which
2 keep up a continuous singing the year
round. Gorgeous flowers bloom in the
gardens and verdure is always green. The
minister goes from one part OF this city, Of
the size of Chicago, to another in his own
gondola rowed by three dark-skinned men
in livery of colOred cotton and when he
takes drive his carriage is managed by a
Malay coachman, who drives like Jehu
and cuts the Siamese Migrants to make them
keep out of the way. Bangkok has pleas
ant foreign colony and the climate though
hot in the summer is on the whole healthy
aud pleasant.
POPULAR MINISTER.
The minister to Korea gets $500 a year
and Mr.. DinsmOre, the present incumbent,
is one of the most popular of our foreign
ministers. He was appointed through the
influence of Acknowledgement Garland and
others, and he was not an office seeker. He
stands very well with the King and the
court, and it is due to his nerve that the
foreign colony escaped so well the mob
which arose when the missionaries were
charged by the people with killing babies
and grinding them up to make foreign medi-
cines. MIR. DinsmOre is an Arkansas law
yer of about thirty five years, and if he goes
back 30 America ne will probably resume
the practice of law. There is prospect, in
case Judge Denny should conclude to re
sign, that Mr.. Dinsmore may succeed him
as advisor to the King.
The climate of Korea is fine and the lega-
ton establishment is0a compound or yard
surrounded by high wall and containing
half dozen One-stOry Korean buildings.
The residence OF the minister had many
rooms finished with the great Vanished
beams of Korean architecture and his parlor !
and dining room are so arranged that they |
can be thrown together. There is guest |
house at the back for the use of the minis
ter's friends, and the ships, which arrive |
every ten days or two weeks, bring all sorts |
of delicacies from Shanghai, Which5s the |
great foreign residence place of the western /
Pacific The minister to Korea has a guard |
of twelve soldiers furnished by the King. !
When he goes out to ride through the city .
he has eight menin livery to carry him in
his sedan chair and his soldiers march in
front and behind him.
THE AGREEABLE JAPANESE.
The diplomatic places of Japan are
generally esteemed more desirable than
those of China. The japanese are pleas
anter people and there is no danger there OF
being mobbad or stoned. Still the Chinese
consuls are better paid, and the minister
gets S12 900 a year Colonel Charles DENLY,
of Indiana, is our minister to China, and he
is so well liked that during my stay paper
was gotten up, signed by the missionaries
and others, asking the government at Wash
ingtOn to continue him IN Office. He Is tall,
fine looking man Of sixty, with smooth
shaven, statesman-like face, bright blue
eve and rather judicial aspect. His home
at Picking is in the legation buildings, con
sisting of a number of One-stOry brick
structures, covering several acres and sur
rounded by an imposing wall of blue brick.
The society Of Picking is made up of the
missionaries, the diplomats and the for
eigners employed by the emperor. The ]
minister is shut off during three or four
months of the year from visitors, as the {
river is frozen up, and during this time he
gets his mails about three weeks after they ]
arrive in China The minister to China
gets no favOrs from the court. He is not
received by the better classes of the people ,
and his standing is a humiliation to the {
United States. He has good markets and |
can live, as far as the creature comforts are !
as well at Picking as at home. {
THE JAPANESE MINISTER. :
This matter of living well is the same in
Japan. Our minister has as good markets i
as those of Washington or New York to t
supply his table and he has a big house, j
rent free. Minister Hubbard receives t
So, 900 year and this it must be remem- q
bered, is in gold. Silver is current in Japan 1
and the rate of exchange adds at least one C
fourth to the purchasing value of our con l
5ular and diplomatic salaries all through the t
east A salary of s., 800 out here becomes v
about 81, 500, and a salary of 900 in gold t
IS SIG 900 in silver. Servants are cheaper
in the cast than in America and the dip
omats have, as a rule, three servants 4
here where they have one at home. In b
Korea, China and Siam, Chinese servants g
are used and all ministers and consuls use
cooks. S
SOME OF OUR CONsULs. 1
The consul-g general to Japan is Mr. Great T
house, Kentuclkian by birth, who was APP .
pointed by President Cleveland from Cali r
fornia, where he has been living for some :
Tears. He has a comfortable home at q
Yokohama and the foreign community there y
s the largest in the empire of the Mikado. !
Consul Jernigan, of North Carolina, has a :
pleasant situation at Kobe, and his salary +
IS IS. 800 year. He is tired of consular =
work and is so anxious to get back to his q
aW practice in the United States that he :
old me he intended to resign, whether
Cleveland was elected or not He r
las made an excellent consul and his re s
PORTS are among the best that have come n
% the state department.
Consul Birch, at Nagasaki, is another +
POPULAR consul. He is a young West Vir- /
ian. who believes in American rights and :,
Who will stand up for them. Not long ago q
here was dinner given at Nagasali and ,
Ar. Birch asked permission to bring I
dmiral ShHfeldt with him to the dinner. S
7be Nnglish consul who had the dinner in a
harge objected, saying that none but resi- Ii
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