The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-03-18

miles through the famine districts ana
taking photographs everywhere. though
Two American CORES pondenfs for Harper's
Magazine were expelled from Russia Just
as he entered the country. He has been
half a dozen times TO Europe and be has
written letters from every part of the
United States.
His travels within the past five years
have covered more than 100000 miles. and
the trip which he ha> now started upon will
include from $4,000 to 10000 miles of
travel, much of which is 10 the most out
Of-the-way countries In this world. Dur
ing this Trip he will write from twenty
five to thirty letters. Think of it! He will
travel $4,000 miles for thirty letters;
thousand miles for every letter; 500 miles
for every column he writes. Ii is letters
will average about $500 words IN length,
and at this rate he Will 60 nearly half
mile for every word. 1t is the biggest
newspaper assignment on record and in
proportion TO its extent one of the most
expensive. a large part Of il will be taken
where men and. horses will have to take
the place of railroads aid steamboats,, and
during some parts of it the expenses will
have TO be paid entirely Ia copper and Mir.
Carpenter VIII nave an extra mule or so 10
carry the money required for these jour-
nevs.
The trip begins in America. Striking
the Canadian Pacific in Manitoba Mr..
| Carpenter Will go from here 10 British Co
lum ba aud will sail from Vancouver over
the northern route Of the Pacific Ocean To
japan. He will land at Toxic while the
snow is still on the ground and will spend
some weeks at The Japanese capital.
After interviews and special feature arii-
cles from there he will travel by the new
railroads right through the heart OF japan
10 KiotO. He will probably visit Nara.
where there are far more wonderful
statues than that Of the famed and much
published statue of Buddha at Kamakura
and he will visit the great Buddhist tenn
Pile of Japan, which has just been cOm-
pleted in the holy city of Kioto at cost of
SIS, COG, 000. The Buddhists of this temple
are the most famous in the world, ana the
logs tor it were hauled by cables of rope
of human hair. Two hundred thousand
women rut off their locks to furnish the
material for the rope.
From here Mr.. Carpenter will go to
Osaka. the New York of Japan. and will
write up the japanese as traders, visiting
their stock exchanges and telling all
about them in business way. He ex-
poets to visit here famous monastery On
the top of a mountain, in the walls of
which for 1000 years no woman's foot has
stepped. He will then push his way by
jinricksha and rail further On to the west
ward, out Of the ines known TO the ordi-
nary tourist, visiting Hlroshema, where
the great naval station of the Japanese
empire is, and from here will GO the island
of Kiu,hiu and will probably go right
through ii to the city of Nsgasa XII. During
this whole japanese trip he will be accom-
panied by japanese photogra pliers and he
will illustrate his japanese letters 20 a
large extent with Japanese artists He
will lake Two cameras with him and will
always have photographer to aid him In
his work.
From Nagasaki he will take a ship for
China, landing first at Shanghai. the Paris
of the East and place noted for It's anti.
American influences. From here he will
go about thousand miles up the Yang
tse-Kang River, passing through the most
rebelliOus part OF the Chinese Empire, and
travelling for hundreds of miles into the
very heart of China. Among thu other
Giles which he Will visit will be the old
capital Of China, Marking. whose Porce-
lain Tower was one of the wonders of the
world, and whose ancient ruins are in
cluded within wall thirty-five miles in
circumference. From Cnlnkiang he will
90 to the Gnlden Island aud the Silver
Island, which are Inhabited entirely by
priests. whose temples cover all OF the
land of the islands, and after visiting them
he will make trip into the interior, and
Write letter upon the grand canal. This
canal Is a great artery of China, and in
case of war with the United States it will
be an important highway. 1t is In places
200 feet wide, and II runs on walls through
the country.
Another iH portant stop on this trip up
the Yang-tse- Kiang will be at Hankow the
chief center OF the tea trade of the Chinese
Empire and one of the greatest cities
If the world. There are three cities here
which join each other much like New York,
Jersey City and Brooklyn, which have
population of over 100000. Here the
Chinese are attempting 10 build railroads
They have big cotton factories. and they
make Remington rifles equal to those used
by our hoops. Mr.. Carpenter hopes to
have an interview with the famous Viceroy
Of Haukow, and he will write up the
curious features of these comparatively
unknown Chinese cities After some stay
here he experts to push his way on about
800 milrs further to the wonderful gorges
OF IchaDg, the scenery of which is said to