Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-07-14

money needed Tor the fireworks on the
Empress Dowager's birthday there is
no doubt but that the road will be
pushed onward and that Il will be a
great trunk line through the north.
eastern part OF the empire. AT the pres.
ent writing the work Of surveying the
road and building the entertainments is
going on at a point abont fifty miles
beyond the great wa !. and the road to
the wall is as well built as the great
trunk lines Of the United States. Here.
tulore all the freight to the north has
been carried ON camels and the mule.
liueshas been the Chinese Pullman car.
| travelled over the new line on one Of
the first trains, and have had the best
facilities to make a careful examination
OF IL / am with Cen John w. Foster
our cx Secretary of State, and IL Hung
Chang has put at his disposal his vice.
regal car. Our trip to the great wall
has brcu made ON a special train. aud
we are entertained here by the Chinese
directors aud by the foreign officials
who have superintendent the building Of
the road. Such an excursion has never
been possible In China before. When
Gen. Grant visited ii Hung Chang there
was not line OF track IN operation aud
there were no signs Of any for the
future. When Secretary Seward trav-
elcd through the empire the country
was even more backward, aud the re-.
ception which has been given Mr.. Foster
has included many things which were
impossible to ChiGs's famous guests Of
the past. His trip to Peking, for in
stance, was made In the yicefOy's steam
launch. lie reviewed the troops Of II
Hung Chang's Military School at Ten.
Isin, and saw them 20 through the
modern maneuvefs Of sham battle,
and his visit has been cnlivened with
serenades Of our American national airs
by Chinese brass bands. Tie viccroy's
private car has heretofore been reserved
exclusively Tor his own "se, and the
officials In charge are dir .ted TO allow
no Mandarin or other person TO take IL.
All sorts OF excuses have been made to
keep Il out OF the hands Of the Chinese
officials, and one Of the English officers
Of the works said To me today "You
can't imagine what a series OF disasters
hos happened this car. / venture II has
had is axels broken 500 times aud It's
machinery has been out Of order a thou.
sand times"
We first c me over the road belong
ing to the Chinese Railway aud Mining
Company. This has been IN operation
Tor six years, and 1t Is, / understand,
paying good dividends. Its capital
stock has been watefed ags in and again,
aud there are undoubtedly many Chi.
nese squeezes connected with Il. Never.
theless II pays a dividend to its stock.
holders, and though there was much
corruption IN It's building, IL Is said the
road has been constructed as cheaply as
any railroad in America. The statement
was made to me that the lawyers fees
IN America we're more than the steal.
ings Of the Chinese directors and that
the differences In the prices Of labor
make II possible 10 build roads here
cheaper than "a any Otuer country OF
the world. Today Ii Is found that they
can make cars and engines In Tong
Shan more cheaply than they can be
imported from Europe, and MIR. Church
ward the man Ia charge Of the locomo.
tive works, told me that II America
would take off her tariff he could make