Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-26


cred with buildings. There was a hill close
by, where he might have located the estab-
lishment. He chose, however. the low bed
of the river, which Is overlooked every
spring, and went to work to make it safe
from the waters. Laying out his founda-
lions he filled in this vast area to height
of fourteen feet, the dirt being carried by
coolies at 10 cents a day in little shovel
like baskets hung to tie two ends of pole.
which they rested over their shoulders. 1t
must have taken an army to do it, but 1t Is
done, and there Is now a railroad running
upon 1t distance Of perhaps a quarter Of
mile from the rolling mills to the water.
Upon this there were about 100 steel cars
and a steam engine or two of European
make at the time / entered the yard. The
cars were loaded with machinery, and We're
being hauled to the rolling mills in the rear.
Vast Machine shops.
I followed one Of the trains. We FIRST
came to eight large boilers, near which
were what looked like vast hay stacks. but
which were sheds Of mats, in which the
coke was stored. Beyond these there were
two massive furnaces for the smelling of
the ore. Each was a hundred feet high and
/ climbed to the top of one of them by the
spiral steps on its outside. Below me 1
&C uld see the roof of the vast machine shops
which are now being filled with expensive
works. These shops cover at least twenty
five acres, and there are here that many
by their side, and smoke stack $50 feet
high rises In the air behind them. Beyond
them in the distance you see the buildings
of this viceroyS arsenal, where he is max
ing modern rifles and other guns, and near
this is a brick works, where bricks are
beirg made with the latest of improved
European machinery. 1 entered the ma
chine shops. The din of an immense boiler
factory greeted my ears, ard / found my
self in the midst of hundreds of Chinese
machinists who were working in putting
up all sorts of rolling mills and machinery.
A large part of the works is already up.
but Ii takes time to build shop of this
magnitude anywhere, and in China things
go very slowly. The vIceroy has been spend
ing so much that he has reached the end
of his pile and he is now waiting to get
an advance from Peking. The govern
r-ent, however, Is getting ready for the
celebration Of the sixtieth anniversary of
the birthday of the empress dowager, and
upon this will be spent enough to build q
read from Picking to Canton, and the peo-
pie will be taxed in consequence. 1t is not
so easy, however, to overtaX the China
men, as 1t is in other so-called savage coun-
tries, and the government is trying to
econCmiZe in every way. There Is a rail-
read being built In the northern part of the
en- pre- and the regular appropriation set
aside for this has been 1000, 600 a year.
see by today's translation of the Picking
Gazette that 1t has been decided by the
be ard of revenue of the emperor to omit
tie appropriation this year in order to use
the money TO whoop ii up for the old dow
ager. II Will put the read back ten months,
but this makes no difference to the Chinese
The Northern Railroad.
This northern railway Is the only working
road in China 1 expect to go to Tientsin
and travel over It, understand that It has
been pushed rapidly within the past year OF
so toward the Manchurian frontier, and tina,