The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-05-26
THE PASSING TRRoSG.

II an anxious to CAT to Chicago 70 - she :es
kiosks from our coausry q the fair. said A.
Spence. tea planter from Ceyion. ~ the Raj
nicr last night IL is only within the pass few
yesys tia: ne have gone into tee in Ceyion- We
used 70 raise coffee bat the plant Was ruined
b. disease. and we pat tea in over the ccn.e.
However, We are nov raising some OF the finest
Tea In the world. The plantations average about
so acres In extent each. although have CON-
ing on . thousand. We work them all ourselves
with Tamal or eooiie labor. TIE native Singa-
!ess sre very incident race. while the cooiie
IL . splendid workman who viii work in al
sorts OF weather. In fact the sirg aicee arc fast
losing their importance IN Ceyion, and the Ia
NAL language 10 far more important to know
there One can get along very we'll without
moving WORD of singalese. but he nnsf
know Tamai to do business. Men. women and
children are employed on the plantation, a.
when the plant IL well started the women and
children can pick nearly the year round. We
pay this labor on an average. including men.
women and children. shout six pence day. gold
value, but, OF course. We pay them in silver. We
have TO advance them money 20 come over
from the mainland in India. and furnish them
rice until they are able to pay OF their debt
Our plantations are in the hills, where We have
plant which produces . fine leaf, which has .
delicate favor and aroma. In the iowisnds .
strong tea 10 grown, but our tea and that OF
India 10 far superio: to chinese or japanese tea.
ant Il ID purer. ln india they pick their tea q
little finer than We do in Ceyion, and get a bet
ter price for it. We use no coioring ingredients
whatever in our teas, whereas III Cnina and
japan have seen them coiored. Most OF the
process Is now done BY machinery. After pick
Ing the leaves we let them lie Q short time TO
wtthef q little. When they feel Ike kid glove
they are rolled By machinery and then allowed
to fesment short time, when they are hred and
then sorted by machinery. We arc making .
fine exhibit OF this product at your Worlds
fair. half the expense being borne BY the gov
eminent and half by the planters. The export
OF tea from Ceylon has grown very rapidly dur
ing the last few years"
'My sister is still in Japan, whete left her
with several other Detroit ladies" said Ashley
Pond, IT,, o. Detroit. who is at the Rainier. II
couldn't stand the climate over there myself,
and SO / came back, and viii stay around here
until she comes over. intend 70 hunt up some
good fishing place, let my father know where l
Am, and then he will come out aud meet my
sister. W hen We left here we first went down
into China I was quite surprised to find
Hongkong such . beautiful city The weil-to-do
people live on the sides Of q mountain back OF
the town, and there 10 q superb view from this
elevation Ny sister and five other ladies got
up an excursion to 60 TO Canton. and escorted
them. II was vary risky thing to do.
and had my hands full. Very
few foreigners ever go into the
inner or Chinese part OF Canton,
and the entire day we were there We didn't see
single white face. The other ladies in the
party have travelled nearly everywhere in tho
world and have plenty OF seif-reliance. but
when our party were surrounded by hundreds
OF insolent Chinese in the narrow alleys, they
had many misgivings a. to the prudence of the
step they had taken. However, we put the
whole day in ana it was hard work to keep
track of our leader. We were all in sedan
chairs, and II one OF US should have missed fol-
lowing the chair in front 1t q turning be would
have been lost entirely. Great hostility toward
foreigners exists in Canton, aud il We had Of
fered any excuse for violence to the inhabitants
We would have been roughly handled. Japan,
however. 10 very different There are great
pose from the fact that we met i've ladies from
our own home there who were travelling with.
out escort"
"Outside OF the Worlds fair grounds did not
find any great extortion practiced at Chicago"
said Deputy United States Attorney James Kie-
fer yesterday, who has just returned from .
visit to the great white city. ''But inside the
gates 1t costs like everything to see the shows.
There 10 no place to sit down and rest unless one
sQuats on packing case or mortar box. and
the rolling chairs cost IS cents an honr. Tho
gets onto the scheme There are free public
closets, but they are placed just behind those
where an admission fee 10 charged. without any
sign to indicate what IL IL, 80 that unless per-
son 10 posted he would never know that there
was such thing as q free public closet But
the place whore the stranger 10 hold up Is on the
Midway plaisancc, where all the foreign viii
lagos and side shows are located Here one
must pay for rything he secs. and sometimes
double. A. an instance. went into one show
where the admission fee was p cents. The door
led into little room about ten feet square.
which thought was sort Of ante chamber or
hall. Opposite the entrance was another door,
at which stood q man who demanded 50 cents
moro to see the show. On demanding an ex-
PLANTATION was told that the first fee only paid
to see the museum. asked where the museum
was and learned that II was the room was
standing in, and the doorkeeper waved his hand
around at dozen pictures and stuffed birds
around the walls. And % il goes. 1t would
take over so for admission fees to see all the
shows on tho plaisance. The cost OF food on
the grounds 10 about three times what it 10
outside"
Rev W. G. Eliot. of the First Unitarian
church, leaves for the East this evening TO be
gone about five weeks. During lis absence his
pulpit will be filed by a number OF Unitarian
ministers and laymon. Among them will be
Rev. William Mitchell, of Puysllup, who will
preach on June &: Rev. David y. Utter, OF Salt
Lake City. who will preach on June IL: Dr.. H.
darcy Power. a layman, who will speak on
June Is, aud probably the Rev T. L. Eaiot
of Portland, on June % Dr. Power 10 an
Englishman by birth who once belonged to a
league of Unitarian lay preachers Mr.. Utter
was one OF the first Unitarian c'ergymen on
Puget sound. preaching at olympia fifteen years
ago. NJ. Eliot is the father OF the pastor OF the
First church of this city.
Rev. Robert Boyd, OF Port Townsend, was At
the Grand last evening on his return from sum
ner, where he served OF a committee appointed
by the synod OF Washington on visitation TO
Whitworth college. He spent two DAYS hearing
several examinations. ana reports the students
OF that institution as proficient mentally ~
their representatives were physically when they
won so many first prizes at the recent inter
collegiate athletic contest in this city The
faculty. with Rev Calvin W. stewart, Il. D.. a.
priacipal. 10 doing an excellent educational
work. This is clearly shown in the readiness.
originality, accuracy and completeness OF
answers given by the scholars In the oral and
written examinations. Rev. 1. J. Lamont ana
Hon r. NJ Reed were the other members OF the
synodteai committee. and they were much in-
teEested and pleased with the work OF the
co.iegr
Charles Meal ;ster chef clerk In the United
States land ot'iee. returned yesterday from a
naca;hs trip l. the last lie wen. 20 Detroit TO
attend the national convention OF musicians on
the oh inst. Since then he has been visiting
friends aud a.so took in The Worlds lair Tor
lev days. lit would fake q man month and
pocket fail OF money TO see the lair, said ne
"ia the few days was there didn't even get
The lay OF the land. Why. man could spead
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