Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-14


cities and in the country. Leaving this part
of China. will next go to the north and
again visit the capital. Picking has mill
lion inhabitants, and of these / doubt
whether a thousand think that we Ameri-
cans are anything else than barbarians.
When / was there before, now five years
ago. / was told that the street on which
all of the foreign legations are located was
called the Street of the Subject Nations"
and today 1000 of the people of Peking
actually believe that the American min
lister to China and the ministers from Rus
STA, France and England are at the capt.
tai to pay their respects to their emperor
and to give tribute to him. l will take 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 Cantonese Chinese,
who come to America, the inhabitants
of North Germany are different from the
short and small boned The Tartars and
the Chinese of the north have many men
six feet in height and they are as strong
in intellect and physique as any people in
the world. At Picking are the great univer-
stiles 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 astron-
omy as we'll as the essays. Of Confucius
The hatred of foreigners is great and the
majority Of the people would like to see the
Americans and Europeans excluded.
The Ocean Voyage.
more like voyage to the north pole than
a summer journey across the placid Pacific.
took the Canadian steamship line
The cabins are lighted by electric
ity and they are twice the size Of those of
the Atlantic lines. The officers are all En-
glish, and the ships form a part of the
British naval reserve. They carry the Brit
ish mails and receive subsidy fl om the
English government The servants are
Chinese. and you are waited on in your
room and at the table by yellow-skinned
boys in pig tails and gowns, and you lind
their service far better than that of the
greedy eyed, fee-soliciting stewards who
wait upon you when you go TO Europe.
The vessel has butcher shop, bakery, car
penter shop, Chinese and European
kitchens. and a whole summer hotel of
rooms for sleeping, eating smoking and
reading. If permitted, you would go from
story to story, as 1 did down into the
very bottom of her, where a plate of steel
as thick as your finger is all that keeps out
the water, and inspect her great engines,
which almost noiselessly but irresstibly
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 calculations were
correct you would see that 10000 horses all
pulling at once would represent it. You
would find that she carried enough weight
tc load down 6.OoO two-horse wagons and
1t would probably surprise you to know
that of this vast amount one-third has to
be made up of coal. 1t requires 1000 tons
of coal to start out on such a voyage, and
the steamer burns from 100 to 200 tons
every day. 1t is big dwelling house that
requires ten tons of coal a year This
steamer uses single voyage enough to
lies with fuel the year round, and 1t would
take as much coal to light her fires as you
use in whole year. Thirty-two Cinnamon
are kept busy shoveling coal into her fur
nACeS. ana ShOypllnR
night from the time she starts till the end
of the voyage.
During our journey the engines were
pushed to their fullest We had a head
wind the most of the way and for twelve
out OF the thirteen days which 1t took to
cross 1t was stormy in the extreme AS
we neared the Alautian Islands it became
bitterly cold, and the ship was covered with
snow and ice. The sailor in the crows
nest. among the rigging, nearly froze to
death and he was so cold he had to be cal FRIED
down to the main deck. 1 shall never for
get how beautiful the ship looked on the
morning after this cold snap The sun
rose and painted the ice-clad ship with dia-
monds. Every rope sparkled with a thou
sand prismatic hues ard the masts Were
great poles or precious stones. There was
fierce wind blowing and as the sun came
up the Ice melted and the sailors chopped
it from the hurricane deck and swept 1t
them as we rose and fell in the waters and
1t almost freezes me in the remembrance
as look at it.
In Harbor.
We came into the harbor here however
with the sun shining. We got a splendid
view Of Fugiyama, whose snow-clad beauty
rose 1900 feet out of the sea through opal
escent clouds. and rode in sampans to the
shore. to find ourselves surrounded by the
queer sights of Japan in winter We saw
the rich Yum Yum rushing along the streets
on her wooden clogs. with only her bright
eyes showing out of the well-wrapped face
for all the world like the yelled maidens of
Egypt, and we saw her poorer sister caught
by the wind at a corner. and her paper UNI
brella torn from her hands by the storm
while she bent over and tried to keep her
klmona from blowing up above her bare
Knees We Americans would freeze in jan
anese dress. The common people of both
sexes wear neither drawers nor under
clothing. and the long, warm stockings
which our maidens affect are unknown in
Japan. Both men and women wear shoes
of white cotton. which just clasp the ankles,
and which are kept off the ground by SAN
dals of straw or of wood. Above these to the
waist there is no leg covering except the
loose silk or cotton gown known as the
kimona. This Is fastened at the front. and
II Is sometimes wadded. 1t Is worn by both
sexes, and as they push their way along the
streets the raw cold wind of winter dra gs the
folds apart at the front, and you can see
the amorous snow flying about the ROSY
bare calves of the maidens
Among the poorer classes thero aro manu-