Omaha daily bee., 1889-04-21
YANKEES AMONG The MONCOLS
How They Live in Japan, Korea
Siam and China
AMERICANS WHO ADVISE KINGS
Brother Jonathsn's shrewdness In
Demand By Mongolian Royalty
Judge Denny and Mr..
Dennison.
Americans in Asia.

BANGKOK, siam, rep. oU'-lopeClal SoI
Fespondence of THE BEE. Hon. Jacob Il.
Childs, our minister 10 the court OF siam,
was in the United States at the time OF the
presidential election. Upon the announce
ment of the result he at once sent in his
resignation to Secretary Bayard, to take
effect March next, and he has just returned
TO Bangkok TO complete work which he Is
preparing on Siam and the Siamese. He has
been gathering notes for this book during
his four years stay here and he writes at IL
daily, clicking out his poetic opinions OF these
strange people upon an American type
writer. II G tells me he has enjoyed his stay
IN Siam, but that he is glad to go home and
that he will again take his char as editor OF
the Richmond (Mo) Conservator with pleas
ure. The mission to Siam is worth 5000
gold dollars year, and Bangkok is one OF
the few places in the world where Uncle
Sam owns his own house. The lega-
zion building is a big, rambling two-story
structure with wide yerandas running
around both stories and with great porches
looking out upon the waters OF the busy
Menan river and its thousands OF floating
houses A garden of tropical plants and
great trees surrounds the house, sloping
down to the banks Of the river in front
THESE trees are filed with birds, which keep
up continuous singing the year round.
Gorgeous flowers bloom in tho gardens and
the grass 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 col
ored cotton and when he takes drive his
carriage is managed by Malay coachman,
who drives like Jehu and cuts the Siamese
vagrants to make them keep out OF the way.
Bangkok has pleasant foreign colony and
the climate though hot in the summer is on
the whole healthy and pleasant.
The minister to Korea gets $500 year,
and Mr.. Dinsmore, the present incumbent,
Is one of the most popular of our foreign
ministers. He was appointed through the in
fluence of Attorney General 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
to make foreign medicines. Mr. Dinspu-
more is an Arkansas lawyer of about thirty,
five years, and if he goes back to America
he will probably resume the practice of the
law. There is q prospect, in case Judge
Denny should conclude to resign, that Mr..
Dinsmore may succeed him as advisor to the
king.
THE CLIMATE OF KOREA.
The climate of Korea is fine and the lega-
tion establishment is compound of yard
surrounded by high wall aud containing
half dozen one-story Korean buildings.
The residence Of the minister has many
rooms finished with the great vanished
beams of Korean architecture, and his par
lor and dining-room are so arranged that
they can be thrown together. There is q
guest house at the back for the use Of the
minister's friends, and the ships, which
arrive every ten days or two weeks, bring
all sorts of dellcacies from Shanghai, which
Is the great foreign residence place OF the
Western Pacific. The minister to Korea has
o guard of twelve soldiers furnished by the
klng When he goes out to ride through the
city he has eight men in livery to carry him
IN his sedan chair and his soldiers march in
front and behind him.
The diplomatic places of Japan are gen.
serally esteemed more desirable than those of
China. The Japanese are pleasanter peo-
pie, and there is no danger there of being
Enobbed or stoned. Still the Chinese consuls
are better paid, and the minister getl s!2, 900
n year. Colonel Charles DENLY of InG,ana is
our minister TO China, and he is so we'll liked
chat during my stay paper was gotten up,
eigned by the missionaries and others, ask
ing the government at Washington to
continue him in Office. He is q tall,
fine looking man of sixty, with smooth
ehaven, statesmanlike face, a bright blue
eye, and rather judicial aspect. His home
|nt Picking is IN the legation buildings, con-
eisting Of a number of one-story brick struc-
fures, covering several acres and surrounded
by an imposing wall of blue brick. The So
cfety of Peking is made up of the mission
Rries. the diplomats and the foreigners en-
Iployed by the emperor. The minister is shut
of during three or four months of the year
from visitors, ns the river is frozen up, and
during this time he gets his mails about three
weeks after they arrive in China. The min
Sister to China gets no favor from the court.
He is not received by tho better classes of
Nhe people and his standing is humiliation
10 the United States. He has good markets
and can live, as far as the creature comforts
arc concerned, as well at Peklng as at home
This matter of living well is the same in
Japan. Our minister has as good markets as
fnose of Washington or New York to supply
his table and he has big house rent free
Minister Hubbard receives $4,000 year
and this, it must be remembered is in gold.
Silver is current in Japan and the rate of ex-
change adds at least one-fourth to the pur-
chasing value Of our consular and diplomatic
( Aalaries all through the east. A salary of
~, 500 out here becomes about forty-five
hundred dollars, and salary of Sl2 900 in
gold is $4,000 In silver. Servants are
diplomats have, as rule, three servants
here where they have one at home. In
Korea, China and Siam Chinese servants are
used and all ministers and consuls use Chi
nese cooks.
The consul general to Japan is Mr.. Great
house, u Kentuckian by birth, who was ap-
pointed by President Cleveland from Cali
3ornia, where he has been living for some
years. He has a comfortable home at Yoko-
hama and the foreign community there Is the
largest in the empire OF the Mikado. Consul
: Jernigan, OF North Carolina, has pleasant
station ut Kobe, ana his salary is x3, 500 a
year. He is tired of consular work and ia so
anxious TO get back to his law practice In tho
United States that he told me he intended to
. resign. whether President Cleveland was
elected or not. He has made an excellent
consul and ms reports are among the best
that have come to the state department.
Consul Birch. at Nagasaki, is another pop
ular consul. He is IA young West Virginian,
who believes in American rights and who
will stand up Tor them Not long ago there
was dinner given at Nagasaki and MIR.
q Birch asked permission to bring Admiral
6hufeldt with him to the dinner. The Eng
lish consul, who had the dinner in charge,
objected, saying that none but residents OF
Nagasaki were to be invited. Upon coming
20 the dinner Mr.. Birch was surprised to see
this same English consul bring TO the table
. captain from one Of the English men-of-
war in the harbor. He at once rose and left
Che table and the other Americans who were
present as soon as they