The Portland daily press., 1893-06-24
At CHICAGO'S FAIR.
Gath Finds Many Things Of Interest
Inside the Fence.
The Buildings of Different Nations an I'm.
posing and Pleasing Exhibit-China and
the Chinese Some Ancient and
Modern Implements of War.
[coPYRraHr. 1893 /

them in proportions and extent match
the fine clubs of Chicago city, which
hardly yields to any city, London per-
haps excepted, in the number and de-
gree of its clubs. The Art gallery,
which has been erected on the Lake
Front and approaches completion, de.
livered up to the Chicago club, perhaps
the most effective mercantile organize
ton here, the beautiful brown stone
building, with it's Tudorish windows
in stone mullions and high Flanders
dormers. While every quarter of Chi
cage has clubs, there are a number of
these institutions right in the middle
of the town, SO that man can leave
his business counter and in two
minutes be at lunch by appointment
with correspondents or visitors. The
German building on the grounds is the
most ornate construction among its
fellows, and the Germans have long
been alert to do trade with the rest of
the world, and may be regarded at
this moment as standing well abreast
of several nations which have selected
us, from our much buying, to be their
first cousin and next friend. I have
heard it remarked that the Germans
on the ground SO much resembled
Americans that they cannot be told
apart. The German bands which dis
pense music, almost without ceasing,
On the Plaisance, wear high boots,
spurs and white suits and caps
trimmed with red, and yet these
uniforms almost seem to be worn on
purpose to badge them as Germans,
for the moment they take their caps
off, they look like rather we1lfed
Americans.
A fine bright face around the Amer
lean legation is that of Kettler, who
came out here to be the secretary at
Washington, a year ago, upon the same
ship which took home from Spain. ]
think that Kettler is Catholic scion,
though he comes from the Hanoverian
or Westphalian portion of Germany.
He told me about some of his expert
ences in China, where he lived ten
years. Said he:
81 had the China fever there, which
everybody must get sooner or later. if
he stays long enough. It is said to be
caused by the slow and regular decay
of the animal offal, which that popu,
lous people tread under foot until the
ground looks hard, and yet it contains
what in our European countries would
be the sewerage. had apprehended
that this fever would conc, and when
it came, of course, was delirious. ]
had an opportunity to see the fidelity
of the Chinese servants. My man had
been told, suppose, to Lie at my door,
and if he heard me up and about to
come in, for fear I would 60 something
for which I was not responsible. 1t.
therefore, happened that one time
came out of sleep and saw this man
rise before me, and, with my mind
wandering, reproved hiEa for his sur
prising me so. Said he: Master, I am
responsible for you. If do not do
just what you say, it is because am
looking out for you In all those
countries you see strange things; one
day, on my horse, came upon blind
man, who began to make motions, and
he stood in peculiar way. Not know
ing that he was blind, thought that
he was going to waylay me. But /
found that his acute sense had remem-
bered the gait of my horse, having
seen me several times going along in
that country, where a horseman is not
frequent"
''Do you think that the Chinese, if
they would adopt modern weapons,
ETC., would become formidable ma
tion?'
Undoubtedly. They are brave men.
Heredity has caused them to do certain
things in a way like children; and to
adopt modern institutions, which we
might think they could do all at once,
is out of the course of their exercise.
The world knows how quickly they
can initiate any process done with
human hands. I have often talked
with high-class Chinese upon the fu-
ture of the country, and they have re-
marked that it is not to the interest of
Europe and the modern nations to have
the vast population of China suddenly
modernized. That is undoubtedly
true. Such huge incursion as that
able race would make in our nations,
if they come to work in all their econ
omy and saving power, would perhaps
dispossess Europe from it's place. We,
therefore, owe to these old religions
and traditions, their philosophers
and ancient schoolmasters, our exemp-
ton from a competition that might
revolutionize all our lands"
find that Thibet has about six mil
lions OF inhabitants, or as many as the
state OF New York, and that it has an
area OF about six hundred and fifty
thousand square miles, which makes 1t
double the size of Texas, or about four
times the size of California. China it.
self has been variously put down at
from two hundred and fifty to four
hundred millions It's real population
is supposed to be about three hundred
and ninety millions, or two hundred
and thirty-four souls to the SQUARE
mile. When we consider that the pop-
ulation of America rises to only two
hundred and fifty-four to the
square mile in the single state
Of Rhode Island, and New York