The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-07-08


carries that TO the next station and delivers
il up To the station master, who gives IL To
the next train going back. Under this sys-
TEN II is Impossible 10 nave COLLISION
between stations.
The expense of doubling the track OF
this railroad will be heavy, owing to the
number of bridges and tunnels. Yet Its
earnings are very large. Labor being
cheap, operating expenses are cheap.
10 buIid anu EQUIP, ali the rails ana
running stock being imported, the chief
engineer informed me it would cost $200e
mile; that is in Japanese silver dollars,
the same as the Mexican dollar Ralls
cost $40 a ton.
The section Of road between Toxic and
Yokohama, which IS now double tracked,
earns about 80 per cent; that between \ o.
kohama and Kobe, from IL to Is per cent.
The passenger fare is sen, first GLASS; :
sen second class, and l sen third class.
Yet the operating expenses are very
small; Japan having exhaustless coal fields.
coai is cheap, ana labor Is almost DOWN
TO the bulb. For instance, engineers get
$50 month. or about SIS in our money at
the present value of silver; conductors,
from $40 to Sl5; train hands and station
men, 81 to 50. and section hands and la
borers, % TO 30 sen day.
ON the trip from Yokohama two young
Californans, who came over from Hawaii
ON the steamer with me. We're my compan-
ions. We had left Yokohama at . O'Clock
in the morning, and were due at Nagoya
at o'clock in the evening. There 1t was
necessary to lay over three hours, and the
train was scheduled to arrive in Kioto at
6 o'clock in the morning. During the day
with us. We also had to bring along
Hirano water, Japanese water similar
to Apolinars. You cannot drink the
water in Japan with safety to your health,
especially now when cholera is every
where. The returning army from the in
fected districts is spreading it throughout
all Japan.
They Smoke Cigarettes.
A lunch is necessary because you can
get nothing along the road except Japanese
gnpx Nl,nf icfc # ,trt,. oF
rice and vegetables cooked together IN a
neat wooden box, and sold for sen. with
each box are chop sticks. The station boys
also sell Japanese beer, a very good arti-
Gle. and Duke cigarettes imported from
America. The latter sell for 10 sen
package, and millions of them are con-
sumed annually. With the adoption of
western civilization tie Jap has adopted
the western cigarette and like the Ameri-
can Indian, he smokes all he Is able to OBJ
tain. and he smokes everywhere except In
the temples. lie even smokes in the din
ing room of his hotel during meals. There
was one in the little car with US who spoke
English and smoked cigarettes inces-
sanity.
The one good thing sold by the boys at
the stations | have neglected to mention.
1t Is boiling hot tea. You buy small
china tea pot fun and cup for SEN
the pot and cup as well as the tea becoming
you know. is Of a very light color and is
drank without either sugar or milk. Its
taste is very mild and delicate, being made
from the green leaves
Though the tea was good the trip was
tiresome and when We reached Nagoya
an hour or more late we decided to spend
the night there and continue the next
morning. The hotel advertised having
European accommodations; that, we found,
meant bed. a candle ana a wash stand;
and one female attendant, who understood
a few English words, but could speak none.
Suii she showed us TO rooms, TOOK cur
passports and left.
In the morning she called me. In re
Spouse to II request for bath she led me
across the yard into another building
whore ! found the regulation japanese
bath tub. 1t is great wooden tub, very
deep, IN which you Sit down, i nor b'luS
sufficiently long enough to stretch oue.
The water comes 10 your neck ana Is az
most scatiing hot. After the balh your
attendant, with a large dippcr, gives you
a cold shower from an adjoining bucket.
The remarkable part Of II is that at SF-
cry Japanese hotel this attendant is fe-
male, ana that naturally Is embarrasS .ng.
Eut ycu must submit II Is tn" custom
OF the country wherever you are TO see that
You have a bath in the morning ana tAe
attendants ar-s almost .HTart.3ts ttftla! &,
who insist upon giving you the regulation
Japanese bath and never appear TO CON
ceiye the idea that there can be anything
immodcSt about il.
while the bath was refreshing the break
laSt one gets IT one OF lntSN lUNtitbi Jlt-
tells, where foreigners are not permitted
20 live. but only to visit, Is only TO bc
compared with that 70 be had at the al
legged hotel up at Jellco. Tenn. That is
the worst in America If you have never
been there go up TO visit the coal mines
once and try it. This IS better than that,
because what you get here is clean look
ing but absolutely indigestible.
After the alleged breakfast we were pre-
scented bill in Japanese characters. which
the girl managed TO make us understand
was one yen and a half each. We saw
the old castle, surrounded by a moat ana
great wall and capped on either emf Of the
roof with u great dolphin of solid gold,
which was in ancient times the property
Of the ruling shosuns Then we had six
hours more OF penned-up jostlng to hloto
kioto Is at present The temporary seat OF
government The emperor and empress
and all the ministers are here.
At the station while waiting to get our
baggage | saw the great reception given
to Prince Komatsu, the general-n-chief of
the army. lie arrived with his staff from
Port Arthur, ana was met at the station
by Count Ito and other ministers and de-
tachments of troops from the imperial
guard. The state carriages finished in
gold and drawn by respectable looking po-
from the station. There We're as many
as four carriages. all that could be mus
tered in a city of 100000 inhabitants, and
all the property of the emperor and the
ministers. Officials and officers who had
horses rode them. one general rode a
little humped-back gray mule which he
seemed very proud of, but which he had
great difficulty IN mounting. rs the mule
would shy off each time he ATTEMPTED to
get near the saddle. The other great peo-
pie OF state rode in ilurckshas
And. by the way, the jinricl<Sa is the
poetry Of riding There is no motion TO II,
ana il is extremely convenient You SIM
ply tell your man where You would go
and at a fun run, be il two blocks or two
miles. he carries you. yelling for the peo-
pie to make way in crowded streets,
through which he never slackcns his speed,
and he never runs into or against any one.
Tt IS unsociable. as two cannot ride In
'rickisha but it is a delightful method of
transportation. You find stands at every
street corner and the fare is cheap as
street car fares in America, except for very
long distances into the country About
the cities. shopping or visiting places or
interest. YOU pay but 10 sen an hour.
Played "Marchfns Through Georgia."
But to return to Prince KOmatsu's re-
ception As he stepped from the train
a Japanese army brass band greeted him
with Marching Through Georgia" the
favorite band tune of Japan.
The ministers and war department ofll-
cals greeted him with their peculiar low
bows, and then, in carriages on horses and
in jnirckishas, the entire outfit struggled
up the gayly decorated street from every
shop of which loated the Japanese white
flag with a red ball in the center.
Beside the horses of each carriage
cool,y trotted and beside each horseman