The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-09-26

Is. davenport. alLtT uluucT uo WAS
kept busy greeting friends, and it was
only by tearing himself away that he
was able to leave ut 5:i0 p. M. for C!ays.
Vile, Pa to visit his aged father.
To-day Mr.. Birch will return 10
Wheeling. lie will to day visit Linsly
Institute, OF which he was once, at It's
most furnishing stage, the Principal.
| and faniliarize himself with its condi.
| ton aud his duties when no assumes
again tho principalship, which he ex.
poets to do on Monday. The last Of
next week he will go to Washington,
submit his final report and receive his
release from the service,
A formal reception 10 talked OF by
Prof. Birch's friends, to be rendered him
at m early day. 49,
He paid a brief call at the %IHTELLIGEN.
GER office yesterday, and a reporter had
q rather hasty--for he VA on his way to
the train-but extreQely interesting
talk. Mr.. Birch looks, perhaps, a triile
older. There are more lines Oh his face,
but they seem rather the lines OF thought
than Of clre. He is stouter, apparently,
than when bis form WIS a familiar sight
on the streets OF Wheeling, and he says
this appearances is justified by the facts.
He gained thirty.tive pounds in the first
week OF his stay at Naga9aki, and has
retained the incteeged Gyordupoia ever
since. He was'neyer sick q day while
in Japan, though both cholera and
smallpox, ragged in Nagasaki, and the
steamer following the one on which he
came to San Francisco Was detained in
quarantine there,
In response TO the inquiry, "How do
you teeip" Mr.. Birch said:
First rate, but a little tired. I am
very glad to get back to Wheeling aud
to have some %cengeHial work to do. Not
that | WAS glad to leave the c~onsulars ser.
vice, for | Tas not. IliSedi it very much,
but / mad not been home for I'VE years,
and | was very eager 10 return"
"How do you find the old town."
"Why, as | stood u moment on Market
street tEis 2iterpoon and look up and
down, it seemed very much as II / had
never been away"
Ibid you have o pleasant trip over?"
"ies; for the most part, though we
wero caught in n OF those terrible ty-
phoons, and detained thirty.eix hours.
By q strange coincidence, ! experieced a
typhoon both going out and returning"
AIR. Birch was very well pleased with
Nagasal;i, and NaGGsaki, from all indica-
tions, was equally well pleased with
him. The English.speakiDg population
OF the city does not exceed $50, and
theae are mainly English, yet twice he
was elected President OF their club over
the English Consul. Oilhe $50 referred
to, nearly al! are missionaries or mis-.
siou teachers. There ara three large and
tlourishing Methodist churches in the
city.
There are few merchant vessels touch
at Nagasaki, but owing to it's fine harbor
and its proYlty to Corea aud China it is
an important point for naval vessels, and
4 great many government vessels
touch there. Mr.. Birch's description
OF the formalities which are undergone
when an U. $. vessel arrives in port is
interesting. The officers send word to
the coneul, who returns information as
TO when he will call. Hegoes aboard in
full dress, and pays m extremely formal
call to each officer, from the Admiral
down to the Ensigns. Immediately,
almost, on his return 10 his residence,
all arrive in full dress uniform to return
the call. This formality gone through
With, the officials and the consul inform
ally proceed to get well acquainted.
MIR. Birch formed n very pleasant init
macy with Rear Admiral Beiknap, aud
made several short tours on his flagship,
the Omaha.
His descriptions OF MANNERS and Gus.
toms in japan are interesting. Arricul-
turc is oil by hand. In Yokahoma and
Toxic there are carriages, street cars and
electric lights, but Nagasaki has so far
resisted tho onward march OF such i'm
provements, and the main mode Of con.
veyance there is by the jirinski, q car
risse propelled by hand.
Mr.. Birch brought home some yery
handsome views by native artists, aud
some photographs OF himself by II,
Uyeno, Of Nsgaskaki, which would do
credit to an American photographer.
Some oithe vieTa are in the sacred city
OF kioto, where is the great golden TEN.
pie.
Dir. Birch metin Japan 4 Miss Russell,
formerly OF Wheeling, and NOW of Ohio,
who is q mission teacher ia that land.
She told him aho used to attend the
Zane street church here.
He speaks enthusiastically OF the eli
mate OF Japan, Of tho fine harbor of Ma.
gasaki, and OF the consular service. he
wGS 4 Of two Of President Cleyelaod's
appolntees us consuls to eastern conn
tries remaining when DR.. Abercromkie
was nominated to succeed him. The
other, MIR. GreenIeaf, q San FRANCISCO
journalist, yet remains rs consul at
Yokohama.
Mr.. Birch is deeply impressed with
the fact that the New York and other
eastern papers make Il mistake in their
decrying Chicago as a sitefor the Worlds
Fair. Alitheir slurs and jesta Of Chicago's
expense are reproduced in the English
papers, which so around the world, and
the impression is gaining ground that
Chicago is q sort OF a rough, bscsyoods
place. Most OF the trade in Japan is
English, except in tho finer lines Of
the higher wages paid here prac.
tically pafllnS auierlca out OF competi.
ton. -
Mr.. Birch expressed hlmself as we'll
to note the growth OF the Lins(y,
and the signs that It has increasing re.
concentrations to public favor, and that
it commands the patronage which it
merits. He asked anSiousfy when he
met Superintendent Anderson, OF the
schools, as to their prosresu, and
papers, which he read regularly, that 80
interested him, as the slight men.
ton Of the city schools.
Few men ever returned to Wheeling
inter an absence Of five years to receive
general and 80 cordial a welcome,
Entertainment by tho Ladies'.
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