The morning call., 1894-04-15

the centers OF anti-fOreign influence.
will take trip along the Grand canal, II
possible, and will tell you how this won
deriul artery Of Chinese trade is managed.
About 700 miles from this coast there is a
Vceroy. who is famous all over the Celes-
tlal world for his progressive ideas. shall
snend some time at his capital, the city OF
Hankow, which, with its suburbs. con-
talns more than a million people, ana
thence will push my way further into the
interior to Ichang, where Is some OF the
most wonderful scenery in the world.
The gorges of the Yang-tse-Klang near
this point are thousands of feet deep, and
they are said TO have no superior 10 their
picturesque grandeur. / Will have my
photographer with me both in the cities
and in the country.
Leaving this part of China, ] will next
go to the north ard again visit the capital.
Peking has a million inhabitants. and OF
these l doubt whether thousand think
that we Americans are anything else than
barbariaDs. When was there before.
now five years ago. / was told that the
street on which all of the foreign lega-
lions are located was called the street OF
the Subject Nations" and to-day 100000 of
the people of Peking actually believe that
the American Minister to China and the
Ministers from Russia, France and Eng
land are at the capital to pay their re-
spects TO their Emperor and 10 give tribute
10 him. | will lake some trips through
this part of China and Will describe the
Chinese OF the north. who are as different
in their appearance, manners and customs
from the Cant tonese Chinese, who come TO
America, as the inhabitants OF North Ger
many are different from the laZzaron OF
Naples. Our Chinese are short and small
bOned. The Tartars and the Chinese of
the north nave many men six feet ln
height, and they are as strong in intellect
and physique as any PEOPLE in the world.
At Peking are the great universities of the
empire, and in some of these they are now
teaching our sciences, and the big Chinese
examinations of the future will probably
embrace geology and astronomy as we'll as
the essays OF Confuclus. The hatred OF
foreigners is great. and the majority of the
people would like to see the Americans
and Europeans excluded.
After leaving North China / shall sail
for Korea, where there is another live
news center. The King is in favor of
foreign methods and these people. who
have civilization about 400 years behind
that Of the China of to-day. NAV yet OUT
strip them in civilization. The King and
his queen and the thousand odd eunuchs
of the palace now conduct all the business
under the rays of the eleclrir light and l
understand there is an American en-
ployed to build an electric railroad at the
capital. The ant-foreign influence exists
here as we'll as in China, but the people
are more kindly and l hope that such ar
rangementS can be made as TO enable me
to go right across the kingdom from one
side to the other. 1t will take several
mule-loads of money to pay my expenses
on this trip, for the only coin in circula-
tion is the copper cash and twenty-five Of
our dollars in this would weigh at least
800 pounds.
From Korea / may 60 to Siberia and give
a letter on the trans-Sbe rlan railroad from
.t.Nr,c .ti alr
direct for Japan and visit the Alaska of
that country, where are the hairy Amos,
who worship bears and keep themselves,
as far as possible, drunk from one years
end TO the other. Ny tour will be an out
of-the-Nay one from beginning to end. and
/ hope | shall find much that is new and
| unwritten.
| The trip from Vancouver to japan was
| more like a voyage to the North Pole than
a summer Journey across the placid Pacific.
took the Canadian Steamship line, and
| had 1t been summer there cnuld have been
o voyage more pleasant. The officers ara
all English, and the ships form part of
the British naval reserve. They carry the
| British mails and receive a SUBSIDY from
| the British Government. The servants
| are Chinese, and you are waited on in your
room and at the table by yelow-sknned
boys in -pigtails and gowns. The ship on
which | crossed was the Empress Of
Take the street in front of your house. If
the Empress could be dragged up to it her
sides would scrape the walls of the houses
and she could look over the roofs of any
of your business blocks of less than seven
stories.
Her length is such that she would fill the
roadway from one enc Of the block 10 the
other, and ii you examined her you would
find her to be great steel shell, filled with
a little world and run by some of the most
wonderful machinery that the modern
| nina can invent You would find in her
butcher shop, bakery, carpenter-shop.
Chinese and European kitchens, and
whole summer hotel of rooms for sleeping.
eating, smoking and reading. If permitted
you would go from story to story. as l did,
down into the very bottom of her, where
plate of steel as thick as your finger is all
that keeps out the water, and inspect
her great engines, which almost noise
lessly bu, irraslstiDlv screw her on across
the Pacific on the longest ocean route
of the world. You might begin to
figure on the force that moved her.
and if your calcuatio were correct
pulling at once, would represent 1t. You
to load down 5000 two-hnrse wagons. aud
that of this vast amount one-Ihird has TO
OF coal to start out on such a voyage, and
| every day. 1t is a big dwelling house that
requires ten tons of coal year. This