Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-01-20
CHARMED WITH THE PEOPLE
Thrilling Experience in a Collision Will
a Man-of-War-In the Imperial
Household


changing the course of Oriental traffic
from the Suez canal to the Straits of
Juan de Fuca, more literally the far
West-Japan and China-the land of
the setting sun, rather than the land
of the rising sun. They were Joined
at Vancouver, where they arrived,
about 9 o'clock Wednesday morning
by Mr.. Waldron, who went there
to meet them upon their arrival.
Wednesday evening they attended a
a reception given by the Vancouver
hotel in honor of the passengers of the
Empress of Japan and the guests of the
house, an elaborate and enjoyable af-
fair. They speak in the highest terms
of the service aboard the splendid Can
adian Pacific steamships, and the polite
and assiduous attention of the officers
and employees of the company. Miss
Waldrol has travelled throughout
| Europe but declares that she saw moth
| ing there to compare with Japan in
interest, and she shares the enthusiasm
of Sir Edwin Arnold in her admiration
of the land, the people, their customs
and their arts.
They left here on the 18th of October,
embarking aboard the Empress of
India at Vancouver for Yokohama.
"There are no wharves in Japan,"
said Miss Waldron, in speaking of
their Journey to a HERALD reporter
last evening, land upon arriving at
Yokohama we were put ashore
i'm sand pans, small flat boats. We
spent more time at Yokohama than
any other place, making it our head
quarters and making excursions from
) there to the principal cities and places
r of interest to tourists. Yokohama has
large European colony and the finest
hotel i'm the East-the Grand. We
visited Toxic, Kobi, Kyota, Nagasaki
Maiyanashlta, a charming resort up in
: the mountains, and several othel
places. 1t was while en- route from
Kobi to Nagasaki that we collided with
i japanese man-of-war. We were
aboard the British steamship Ravenna
q At 4 o'clock in the morning, when the
I passengers were all I'm their state rooms
we felt terrific shock, and everyone
hastened out on deck. | think
, was the third or fourth person &c
gain the deck. The scene from
there was the most awful and un
4 earthly / ever expect to behold. The
. dynamo was not working and therewert
: no lights except the colored starboard
e and port lights, and the lights of the
1 lifeboats, which were just being
lowered. / could see the black headi
of the struggling seamen dotting the
water, growing fewer and fewer as one
e by one they sank for the last time.
, heard their frantic calls for help, anC
their despairing wall of sayanari! (gooC
bye) from those who realized tina
II there was no help. We struck the
e man-of-war amidships, cutting he
Is clean in two, and she sank instantly il
r twenty-four fathoms of water. Whel
is | reached the deck, but a few second
o after the shock, there was nothing o
the ill-fated ship to be seen above thu
a surface. Out of the hundred soul
d aboard of her only sixteen were saved
y including the captain. A large hol
p was made i'm the bow of our ship
s While examining the injuries afte
d daylight, japanese seaman fron
y the lost ship, who had save
70 his life by crawling into the hole wa
n found. Our vessel was found to b
Is leaking, and her passengers were trans
le ferred to the Empress of India, whic
y came along bound for Shanghai, AM
er this is how we came to visit this gres
le Chinese port, which was not on on
10 itinerary. We found 1t very inter
esting place and spent week ther
We were enabled to contrast the Jt
panese with the Chinese-the cleanl
Of ness of the former with the filthine'
ut of the latter, and the aggressive con
m mercial activity of the latter with II
- lack of business enterprise of Il
n former. Shanghai is monopolizing ii
ss business of Yokohama"
=. They were fortunate in falling
y with agreeable travelling companion
= - on their outward voyage in the famil
=, of Robinson Lock, editor Of the ToieC
W Blade, and a son of the late ID. X. Loc
Ae better known as Petroleum V. Nash
'r- with whom they journeyed nearly q
~ the time they were absent, returnir
W with them to Vancouver on the Ell
ro press of Japan. A pleasant incident
~ the tour was their entertainment !
Capt Gridley on board u
United States flagship Mario
Nv. now stationed at Yokoham
" Through the kind offices of Washin
l'e ton friends they we're enabled to obta
te: permission to vii tn Imperial pala'
an at Toxic and give entertaining descri
10 tions of the comfortless splendor of u
err. Mikado's household. They saw q
Is Mikado and the Empress attended
lt- her English maid and retinue at
charity fair. Like all travellers thu
were charmed with the overwhelmii
politeness and poetic oriental custor
ng Of the japanese people. They express
all their admiration Of japanese art