The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-15

the Lazzaroni OF Naples. Our Chinese are
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 uni
versities 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 well as the essays of Confuciue.
The hatred of foreigners is great and the
majority Of the people would like 10 see the
Americans and Europeans excluded.
After leaving North China 1 shall sail
for Corea. where there is another live
news center. The King is in favor of for
eign methods, and these people, who have
a civilization about four hundred years be-
hind that OF rhe China Of to-day, may yet
outstrip them in civilization. The King and
his Queen. and the thousand old eunuchs
Of the palace. now conduct all the business
under the rays OF the electric light and l
understand there is an American employed
to build an electric railroad at the capital.
The anti-foreign influence exis here as
well as in China, but the people more
kindly. and l hope that such arrangements
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 circulation is the cop
per cash. and twenty-five Of our dollars
in this would weigh at least three hundred
pounds.
From Corea may go to Siberia and
give letter on the trans-Siberian railroad
from its terminum, Vladivostock, or l may
sail direct for Japan and visit the Alaska
Of that country, where are the hairy
Aincs who worship bears and keep them
selves. as far as possible, drunk from one
years end to the other. My tour will be
an out-of-way one from beginning TO end.
and l hope / shall find much that is new
and unwrftten.
THE OCEAN TRIP.
The trip from Vancouver to Japan was
more like voyage to the north pole than
a summer journey across the placid Pa
cific. 1 took the Canadian steamship line,
which is the best and fastest that goes
from America to the far east, and had it
been summer there could have been no
voyage more pleasant The three empress
steamers are each as big as the best ships
that sail the Atlantic, and they are fitted
up with all the modern convenences OF
electricity and they are twice the size OF
those OF the Atlantic lines. The officers
are all English, and the ships form part
of the British naval reserve. They carry
the British mails and receive a subsidy
from the English government. The serv-
ants are Chinese. and you are waited
in your room and at the table by yellow
skinned boys in pig tails and gowns and
you find their service far better than that
Of the greedy-eyed fee-soliciting stewards
who wait upon You when you go to Ed
rope. The ship on which crossed was the
Empress of Japan. Let me give you an
idea of her. Take the street in front of
your house If the Empress OF Japan
! could be dragged up it, her sides would
scrape the walls Of the houses and she
| would 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 end Of the block to
the other, and if you examined her you
| would find her to be a great steel shell
| filled with a little world, and run by some
| of the mos: wonderful machinery that the
| modern mind can invent. You would find
| in her a butcher shop, a bakery, a car
| penter shop, Chinese and European kitch-
| ems, and a whole summer hotel of rooms
for sleeping, eating, smoking and reading
| If permitted, you would go from story 10
! story, as / did, down into the very bot
tom Of her, where plate OF steel as thick
| your finger is all that keeps out the
| water, and inspect her great engines, which
| almost noiselessly but irresistibly 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 ii. You would find that
| she carried enough weight to load down
| 5000 two-horse wagons, and it would prob
ably surprise you to know that of this
vast amount one-third has to be made I'D
of coal. 1t requires 1000 tons OF coal to
| start ont on such a voyage, and the steam
| er burns from 100 to 200 tons every day
| 1t is big dwelling house that requires ten
tons of coal a year. This steamer uses
| enough on a single voyage 10 supply a town
| of 1000 people, or 200 families, with fuel
| the year round, and it would take as much
| coal to light her fires you use in whole
| year. Thirty-two Cinnamon are kept busy
| shoveling coal into her furnaces, and the
| shoveling goes on day and night from the
time she starts till the end of the voyage
During 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 it took TO
| cross it was stormy in the extreme. AS
| we neared the Aleutian islands 1t became
| bitterly cod 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 that he had to
| be carried down to the main deck. / shall
never forget how beautiful the ship looked
| on the morning after this cold snap The
sun rose and painted the ice-clad ship with
| diamonds. Every rope sparkled with a
thousand prismatic hues, and the masts
were great poles of precious stones. There
was a fierce wind blowing, and as the
| sun came up the ice melted and the sail
ors chopped it from the hurricane deck
! and swept it away into the sea / took a
| snap shot Of them as we rose ard fell In
the waters, and it almost freezes me in
the remembrance as look at it
| IN THE LAND OF YUM YUM
We came into the harbor here, however.
with the sun shining. We got a splendid
view Of Fugiyama, whose snow-clad beauty
rose twelve thousand feet out Of the sea
through opalescent clouds. and rode in sam
pans to the shore, to find ourselves sur
rounded by the queer sights OF Japan in
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