Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-05-11

and the old nag was cheered with one
continuous hurrah al the procession nov
ed down the streets
Il remained In MarseilIes i've days
and made enough to pay my passage on
a steamer that would take me through
the Suez canal. giving me time to re-
port Mt Alexandria, Jerusalem. Port SAID
and Alden. made short tours near each
Of these places. and then started for
Singapore on the same steamer.
According to my contract. I was to re-
port at Colombo. Singapore. Hongkong.
Shanghai. Nagasaki, Kobe, and iokoha-
ma before starting for America again.
1t did not matter how I reached those
places. so long as I made the circuit and
secured the signatures OF the consuls
at each of the cities az proof that had
accomplished the purpose Of the trip.
FOLLOWING THE JAPANESE ARMY.
when / reached Hongkong ! con-
sidered that IL was about time was
beginning to prepare for the great
struggle OF earning the necessary money
required in the wager. did not hope
TO make very much I'm the part OF the
tour then completed. but up TO that time
I had sent sl.500 10 Boston to be placed
TO my credit ! was looking toward
earning the money between San Fran
cisco and the Atlantic coast. and TO do II
! must have some means Of entertaining
the public.
Lecturer on the Chinese-Japanese war
I thought would be the proper role TO
play. and determined 10 acquaint my
self with the subject. ! took the first
steamer for Nagasaki. and there ] met
two correspondents who were bound for
the front / received passports from the
japanese Government and started with
them No "a nAaI Port rthnr with
the second Japanese army that was sent
to the war. and Wei-Hai-Wei was their
objective point.
THE two men rode on ponies while
used the bicycle The roads were wery
poor and II was hard work. but I man.
aged to keep up with the rest, and was
in al the fight az Gasan.
That was the first taste Of the battle
/ got. and II was all over before the
rear part OF the army could reach the
front. The slaughter OF the Chinese
there. l thought. was awful. but II was
nothing TO what | afterwards saw at
Wei-Hai-Wei. l, like the two correspon-
dents. was not allowed very close 10 the
actual line OF battle. but I saw enough
OF it to know what the horrors OF war
are. After the forts had fallen the two
correspondents and I returned to japan
by way OF Korea. We landed at small
port from a japanese transport steamer
that was delivering supplies to small
force stationed there and we started in
land to visit the battle-fields Of the last
summers campaign.
SAFE ON AMERICAN SOIL.
at took us a week before we reached
Che-Foo. and ] thought we would never
accomplish the journey. The cold was
intense. and the food we could scare up
was not sufficient for one person. let
alone three.
"All the buildings along our line OF
Journey had been destroyed. and only a
few shacks remained TO give us shelter.
In some were the regular Korean fur
mace beds. They are constructed so that
n fire is burning under the sleeper. We
used them the best we could. but while
the side resting on the furnace was al
most roasting the side away from IL was
freezing, so that IL necessitated turning
around nearly all the time to be In any
thing like n comfortable warmth"
Miss Londonderry will go East through
the Southern States. until the Mississippi
is passed. She will take her time and
endeavor to collect the $500 necessary
TO win the wager.
If she succeeds she is to have the
purse that prompted the journey. and
another victory will be scored for the
new woman.