The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-21

at Shanghai. He receives 5000 year anC
|, his reputation for efficiency is far above
par. l am told that the people of Shanghai
will petition his retention, but his place is
good one and the fact that he comes from
South Carolina will operate against him
One of General kennedy'S secretaries /:
Mr.. George Shufeldt, the son of Admira
J. Shufeldt. He has been connected with the
Shanghai consulate for the past eight year;
and understands the consular business OF
9 China. He is a graduate of Cornell and as
- he is a Republican, it is thought that he
will be given one of the goOd-p paying con
sulates under the new administration. The
vice-consul, Mr.. Emmens, is fluent Chi.
nese scholar and like Mr.. Cheshire, the Chi
- nese secretary of the legation at Picking, he
is an appointee who gets his place more
J from the necessity Of his services than
from any political influence
e Consul Smithers, of Tientsin, is Dele
= ware man. He has been in the consular
f service at different places for more than a
score of years and is Republican. The
consul at Hong Kong is a Virginia Demo
crat, and the consulate at Fuchau will be
, vacated by the resignation of Mr.. Charles
Wingate, who, though Republican, is tired
of Office and is going back to his farm in
New England. The Annoy consul will
probably be- retired, and all told there will
be half dC1cl fairly good places in China
and Japan open to the Republicans.
sHREwD AMERICAN. DIPLOMAT
Bangkok is the first eastern city have
visited which has not a large foreign colony.
There are thousands OF men and women
from England and America in China and
Japan, and there is colony Of d hundred
or so in Korea. The foreigners have the
control OF the customs service of China; the
b 7ad of the Chinese navy is an English
naval officer, and Americans act as the
foreign advisers to the government of Japan
and Korea Judge Denny, the foreign
adviser to the King of Korea, | met at
Seoul, the capital. He is an Oregon man.
who was judge before he entered our
| consular service and who served for a num-
| Der OF years as consul to TientSin, and also
! as consul-geueral at Shanghai. He is ac-
knowledged to be one of the bright men on
the Asiatic coasts. He is perhaps the only
foreigner who has been able to carry on d
long fight with Ii Hung Chang, and that
with success. Ii Hung Chang is the
secretary Of state of the Emperor Of China
He is the strongest man in the empire, and
it was through his influence that Judge
Denny was appointed to his present posi- |
ton At this time Ii Hung Chang was in
favor Of the independence of Korea, but he |
has since changed his mind and he wants it |
to be looked upon as subordinate to China |
Judge Denny, as the adviser of the king |
refuses to advise his master to acknowledge |
IS doing all in his power to GUST Judge |
Denny but so far his attempts have been in !
vain. Judge Denny lives at the capital of |
Korea and he has there as nice home as |
one could wish. Of one story, il extends |
over several acres and it is a sort of mix
ture OF Korean architecture and American
comfort. 1t is one of the finest places in
Seoul, and Mrs. Denny, an accomplished |
American lady, and not a Korean as has
been stated, presideS over it. l am told
that Judge Denny has a salary of So, 900
a year from the king and he ought to be
worth at least that to Korea. He is a fine
lawyer, man of culture, and through long
training, added to natural ability, one of
the shrewdest diplomats of the east.
OTHER ABLE AMERICANS.
The foreign adviser of the state depart
ment at Toxic is Mr.. Henry Denisons, a
young New Englander, of about thirty-five
He has fine house furnished to him by the
MlkadO and has received a rank from the
emperor. He gets a high salary and he is
esteemed one Of the most valuable of the
foreigners connected with the Japanese
government. He mas more influence than
any Otner American in Japan and he is con
st2ntly dealing with matters connected
with America
Another American connected in a respon-
sible way with the government of the
MiladO is tall, fne-lOOking, gray-mous- {
tached gentleman, who has been in Japan {
for quarter of a century. This is Mr..
PeytOn JOudan, of Baltimore, who came
there as boy and has been employed there
ever since.
In the educational branches of the {
japanese kingdom, Americans hold high ]
rank. There are not so many connected 9
with the imperial university as there were
q few years ago, owing to the principle I
adopted by the Japanese of not allowing {
foreigners to do for them anything that q
they can get or teach the Japanese to do t
otlIl Professor tenalOsSa, of salem, Massa- d
thuSettS, IS now the great art critic Of '
Japan and he is, [ am told, to have the f
charge of the old art works Of the empire, t
which largely through his efforts are now o
being collected by the government and Il
preserved. Professor F'enalOssa looks up b
IN japanese art as the great art develop s
neut Of the world, and he says that Euro t
BEANS and Americans have as much to f
earn in art from Japan as Japan can learn v
rom them. He has made a study of b
Japanese art since he came to Japan. a q
decade ago. to take a place in the univer-
tty, and he is an enthusiast upon the sub b
ect. During my stay in Japan he was t
travelling over the empire IN company with n
,ur late Japanese minister, Mr.. Kuki, col p
Getting the art works about KiOto, and hav- il
nc some of the most noted Of these photo
ira he'd by the court photographers. Mr.
fonalOssa is married. and his wife, a New
England lady, is one of the court circle of n
Toxic. I
The head of the agricultural college of f
-apan is an American, who is also married L
md who has family here with him. Pro a
essOr GeorgesOn was connected with sew o
al of the leading agricultural colleges of L
he United States before he came to Japan n
lis last position was in the agricultural )
of Texas. He now has fine Il
position here and is aiding the Mikado to o
nitro uce improved methods into japanese &
arming and stock raising. A large part of t
apan is uncultivated and the people, owing t
o their Buddhist religion not having been i
nation of meat-eaters in the past, have L
ever paid much attention to the raising of a
attic or sheep. Professor Georgeson be- S
ewes that this will in time change and II
hat vast areas which are not now farlned n
1iIl be eventually brought under cuitiva- "
ion. N
THs AMERICAN MISSIONARIES. IL
There are large NUMBER of American y
lissl Onaries in Japan. These have their Y
ONES AL over the country and there are ~
settlements in the larger cities. u
ike all foreigners in the empire, the mis- al
ionaries have large houses and very COM al
Ortable homes, and were l going to choose III
couItry in which to do missionary work
would pick out Japan. The people here
re more clean and friendly than the
,ninese and they are as far above these .,
eathen OF Siam as we are above the Indians ~ -
our western plains. The field is a good =.
ne, for three-fourthS of the Japanese are a.
ltidels and the other fourth does not more "A
han half believe in the Bud hist religion. "a "a