Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-09-22
DYING BY THOUSANDS.
Awful Ravages Of Cholera in the Infected
Districts OF China


Districts of China
san Francisco, September 21.-Wm.
y. Curtis. who is the Washington CORE
sp0ndent of the Chicago Record, was a
passenger ON the steamer Gaelic. which
arrived from the Orient yesterday. He
Went tO Japan In May last TO study the
commercial and industrial prospects
Afforded Americans in that country,
and lately be has been in China, which
he describes as the pest breeding CEN
ire Oi the universe. The cholera has
attained fearful proportions in China, %
said Mr. Curtis Chinese are dying
by the thousands. passed through
the streets OF Peking, Shanghai and
Tien Tsin. and saw cholera victims
dead and dying on every hand. lJ is
no uncommon sight 10 see the dead
bodies of cholera victims lying on the
street on one block. and in the next a
lOt of Chinese gOrging thmSe.ves with
raw cucumbers and melons. The chol-
era is sLiu attributable 20 the filthy
habits of the Chinese and the weather.
The summer was quite cool until Au-
gust Then O spell of excessively hot
weather came on and with il the chol-
url
-In Pcking they have q plan of issu-
inc r.ruits for the removal of bodies
outside the city walls. AS is probably
+ vel known no bodies are inferred
/ urt-r the walls. To secure permls-
sion Tor the removal OF the remains OF
I a decreased mortal outside the walls or
f the lI.y O. cash lis dropped IN a box. A
+ cash is small brass coin worth one
twentieth of one cent AT night the
cash recepracle is fuu IL contains
from 2001 t0 600 pieces of coin, and
when 10 is considered that nearly all
/ of these deaths result from cholera, the
enormous extent of the disease can
readily De judged. The disease IS as
bad ef Shanghai and Tieu Tsin, and is
/ also mowiug down Chinese by the hum
dreds in other parts OF the injected
country
Nr. Curtis said that the cholera is
confined almost exclusively 90 the ma
tive Chinese. Tn Pe6ing, where very
few foreigners reside. he had hearu OF
mo deaths among the white popula-
tion. In Ten Tsin only one dedln
am0ug the foreign reputation hl1 DeeH
ra1orfed uD TO the hour he LETT emma.
/ I'm Shanghai. where The cnolerd Is Ias
irz at an awful 0te the fatalities
amoue the foreigners have been much
sreater Nr. Curtis said he nao OeeA
advised of eighteen deaths.
Speaking OF the subject Wnlcn NlI'
Curtis went TO Japan to investigate
the commercial and industrial IuLuIe
of JaDan. be said DE has returned 10
America convinced that America had
no market in the Mlkados realm IoI
manufactured goods.
"Tle japanese make almost every
tbiue they want" he said. They are
stealing our patents and copying our
inventions. and are now almost rea0y
+ no sNuort their wares and thereby enter
into running competition with oJler
nations. There IS. however slle-d'o
I market for machinery as we'll as lot
cotton. iron and other raw Materials
I cDrto0 particularly. The japanese are
now using cotton very largely, ana mere
is a pointer Tor American cotton pro-
ducers. While @ great deal or Amer
ic7u cotton is used ON the Orient, II
b GOES through English hands before II
reaches the japanese and the Amefl
cam grower is deprived of the commits
sion which go into The pocket on Jn'
. British midleman i'm Liverpool. Ou
cotton oueht 10 be shipped direct t'
IaUan For that purpose we need Tho
Nicaragua canal, we need Jne conple
lion OF the Gautemalau railway, anl
/ oneu harbors at the two terminals o.
tle IehuautepeC railway.