The evening times., 1895-10-23
JAPlI's REAL HoDERIIfY
She is Right Upt Date, Even to The Ey.
tent Of Lab)f Strikes.
The "Jijr' Daily Newspaper Buys a
Hoe Press and Adopts American
Methods Even to illustrations.

An incident of some significance has
| just occurred in Yokohama-an incident
which carries out the theory that there is
nothing reprehensible In Western civili-
/ zatiOn, so called, that the Japa nese dc
| not readily take up with, writes John A
Cockerill from Toxic to The New York Her
aid.
A new manager having been engaged
for the Club Hotel, the change was sig nal
lied by the discharge of half cozen
japanese waiter boys, In hotels here all
| ciiamberwork, and. in fact, work or all
kinds save executive is performed by
native boys. AT the dinner hour on the da y
OF the discharge OF the worthless servants
in the Club Hotel every employe in the
house Quit work. Guests were compelled
to forage about the town without food.
The manager refused to reinstate tue
lazy touts whom he had dismissed on the
demand Of the revolted serva nts. and
q regular olG-fashioned American strike
was "on." The strikers Invested the
hotel on all sides nd preyente ed the manager
from securing outside help. Several
Cinnamon seeking work were mobDed.
and some Japan nese boys who were EN-
gagged as walters were roughly handled
on attempting to enter the house. A small
squad of policemen was sent 10 protect
the place, bat the performances OF the
strikers were SO novel or SO interesting
that the guardians seemed filled with ad-
miration. Vicious assaults were calmly
overlooked, and Tor four days the hotel
was in a state of siege.
The manager held the fort. and although
his business has been temporarily broken
up and he is undergoing a steei-riveted
boycott, he is firm in his determination
not 10 be dictated TO. or course the for
eign company owning the hotel. doing
business in a foreign settlement. under
solemn treaties, has claim for dam
ages against the Japanese government
bcacuse of the failure OF the government
to protect it from n lawless mob. But
it may be doubted that the claim VIII
be liquidated. This matter is important
because it demonstrates that the mob
boycott is steadily growing among Jap
ancse laborers-
If a man in Yokohama dsmisses betto-
that is, a driver or stable boy-he is sub
Jected to the wrath OF secret, vengeful
guild, which docs not even hesitate at assas-
sination. Woe betide, the native who takes
the place of the discarded servant unless the
guild approves.
As the spirit of the boycott is growing.
the relations of capitaland labor are becCn.-
ing somewhat estranged, and as Japan is
just entering upon an era of manufacturing
and development of new Resources IL is
possible that Parliament, at its coming
session, will have recourse to some lc-
pressive legislation.
That very excellent and well-keyed Dews-
paper, the Jill. is about to revolutionize
Journalism in Tokyo. To appreciate what
il il about To do one should unders'a nd that
the morning newspaper III the capital Is
really a newspaper OF the day before The
rule is to close the pages at about
O'Clock p. NJ. No news is written or put In
type after 8 O'Clock, unless some ex-
igency arises. The office is closed, and all
is silence a fter 10 p. NJ.
Next morning the pressmen run the papers
Off. and they arecarried even asfar as Y oko-
hnma in 1inrikishas. The Jill shimpo has
just brought out from England rapid
Hoe press. Its presence here is great Sc
cret. 1t will be quietly set up. and a bout the
verted into an actual. bona fide morning
newspapers. Reporters and editors are
TO he kept at the office until o'clock in the
morning. and the LEGAL news Of Tokyo is
10 he gathered up to midnight.
have had the pleasure OF imparting to
the ma nager. by request. considerable in-
formation as to how these things are done
in New York, and have placed him In conn
nunication with people who ocanprovidchini
with a plant for niakinng Illustrations by
what Is known as the zinc process. This ap-
para tls will be imported at once. and then
the Jill will be prepa red to astouiHl the
na tives and amaze Asiatic contempo-
raries.
The cuts now used in the newspapers Of
Japan are engraved on wooden blocks.
some W hat after the fashion employed by
the Picking tChina) Gazette a thOut and
years ago. or course, " hen the jill Shimpa
blot SONS into q genuine morning news
paper its newspaper colleagues will be
forced TO catch the ftep or quit the field
prcdic, that its departure W il. be p rompt-
ly followed
This revolution win be quick and sharp.
ah,. ". l...-.h IA i-u,H il ai'ant bfs-
tory. Ii " Ill give 10 the PREF s new activity
and power. What the Japanese news
papers require, in addition to little more
alertnets and enterprise in the gath
ering OF news late and printing it early.
Is cheaper printing paper.
While the Japanete make the most dur
able paper in the W orld 1t is by no means
cheap nor well finit ithed, as a rule. Mr..
Okaw n, the bright young manager of the Oil
Paper Company, tclk me that his concern
only III cs American machinery, but that
he is goiEg TO the United States pretty |
soon TO pick up some new ideas and new |
apparatus which he hopes win cheaper |
the product of news print paper.
On Monday last. the 23d inst, another
holiday paralysi is struck Japan. All banks |
were clos ed and business was very generally |
suspended. The occasion was the autum-
nal equinox, or fes stival of the imperial |
ancet tors-the Buddhist "Higan." This
t anne thing is observed on March 81, the
vernal equinox.
When the sun crosses the line in the spring |
and autumn the dead are supposed to cross
the ocean of existence and reach the other
(hi) shore tganl; that is, Nirvana. The
beauty of these Buddhist mysteries is that
nobody is quite able to explain them. I
have yet to find a student who can clearly
elucidate anything concerning Buddhist
That Is the reason, presume.
why they are 30 very dear to the people
who cannot be expected to know anything.
Japan's great drawback at one time was
her muititudinous holidays, which enabled
the masses toavoid manual labor about one
third OF the year. Many OF these senseless
fes tivals have been abolished and It