The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-26
CHICAGO's TRAVELLER.
Ex-Mayor Carter Harrison Relates His
Journeyings.
From the Philadelphia Tunes.


From the PHILADELPHIA Tunes
In 1887 the most energetic and restlessly
active mayor Chicago ever had went out of
Office. and almost Immediately after started
for tour around the world-a tour of
observation as well as relaxation. The trip
lasted eighteen months, and one of its re-
suits has been handsome volume of nearly
GOO pages, royal quarto, entitled "A Race
With the Sum-" in which Carter II. Harri-
son records his impressions and adventures
in list of countries worth quoting: Mani
toba, British Columbia, Oregon and Wash
ington territories, Japan, China, Siam, the
Straits Settlements, Burmah, India, Ceylon,
Egypt, Greece, Hungary. Austria, Poland
Trans-Caucasia, Russia, Finland, Sweden,
Norway, Denmark, Germany, France and
England were successfully traversed by
Mr.. Harrison, whose long experience in
public affairs, joined to his quick insight
and literary ability, make him traveller
worth hearing at length.
1t is pleasant to open book of travels
which begins, not with the eternal first
impressions" of Queenstown OF the muddy
Mersey but with the beauties of the Cana
dian Pacific railroad and of our own
Northern Pacific coast, which Americans
are at last on their way toward quoting in
preference to Switzerland. For Mont Bianc
TO stand as the monarch of mountains to us
81,
and Mr.. Harrison properly gives the title to
the latter. Like other far sighted visit rs
to the northwest. Mr.. Harrison is of opinion
that British Columbia and the territories
will in the future furnish the homes of a
great population, which will find in the
valleys and on the bulk of the plains an in
exhaustible soil, wood and timber for all
time, enormous wealth in minerals, har-
bors for the fleets of the world, fish in end
less profusion and scenery of so grand a
character shat everything east of the
Rockies is tame in comparison" Victoria, he
thinks, will be the Newport of the coast.
THE ASIAN COAST.
In Japan and China Mr.. Harrison fol-
lowed the beaten track, though his letter s
always have the novelty of iveliness He
admits the wonderful strides made by Ja-
pan, but records the significant fact that all
the foreign residents believe that Japanese
progress will not last because it has been
too rapid In Shanghai, contrary to the
general opinion, Mr.. Harrison became con-
WINGED that foreign devir' was perfectly
safe among the natives, and says: 81 should
now feel no hesitation in walking alone
through any Chinese city if / only knew
enough OF the language to make known nv
wants and explain my curiosity In
Shanghai and Canton he visited the poorer
quarters and made most interesting notes
on the local habits, dwellings, and methods
of the workmen.
Siam first taught him that a tropical
landscape was not as the Biographies de-
picted 1t. My early impressions. he saws
nave been constant stumbling block to
me In the vastly east" In spite of his dis
appointment, however, he continued indie
fatlgable in his Investigations, and before
he leaves Bangkok has studied it Thoroughly
and described it with his usual swift Amer,,
can comprehensiveness and conscientious
ness-that conscientiousness of ours that pins
down facts. differences, values and con
trasts as naturalists pin down beetles
Prince Devawongse, the Siamese min
lister oil foreign affairs, and Mr.. Harrison