The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-12-20

evsry car, ar q total OF ferry-~sgiSs Der
day. The run. eighteen niles. takes about
Efsy minutes. but coai6 easily be made
tn thirty. Z tine we're any obtsc- The
first train leaves sninbsshi states. To
kyo. AZ - e'caock q m. ard the two lat
est leave Yokohama ~ Il - and Sa.nhss1t
At EsiS ? n The fares Ars very -ccer-
ate. - cents nrsT class and - csrts Sec
end class. The second class cars are pat
roaixsd largely BY respectable people. and
have good zcsonno1z;ions. There are 10
Sleeping cars or any Of the i.nex. ard no
coaches a. a. cozapArzos. 80 . hrsZ-eiasz
American cnAeA.
Locomotives
Public tenders were o2ss~d In Tokyo
on October s ~ the imperial government
railway Department for lot Of eighteen
heavy szx-xxsse. coasrzed tank locomotives.
ard the contract vzs let ~ Ess .aHe each 70
an English FRI The price means iaAd
uaHa cost n Japan. ami to use q mid
term. tae price Is very low, seeing that
SIX ox me engines are to o< delivered in
Japan 81 April. ard the others caoee after
under heavy penalty for each days de-
fay. These engines are 10 De obtained %
one OF six ioe0z1otivs builders named IN
fhe spec aea Ton. ard a. taess xx makers
are English. T-as engines are very pow
erfui. and Of the same type or class as
lot Of six made BY Ducs Il Co. n ISss.
which have given thorough satisfacllos
So the 1-in-49 fncilnes: hence enc present
order and strict adherence 20 she orig
tnai drawings. These engines weigh IA
working order nearly forsynvs tons
Tenders for another lot OF eighteen en-
Rtnes VIII be opened tn Tokyo shortly.
These are 81 another type tour-xheel
c0upied horgie. sgx-w1aeea tea1er. engines
with s-f0ot driving wheels. that asing elk
inches larger than hitherto used on the
same class Of engine. OF wasch there are
rlsny-krsown as the Boyer and Peacock
ciass. The specifications and rendering
are on precisely the same conditions AS
the tank CT xines just set They are in
tended for mail ana express work between
Tokyo ard Kobe.
The scneIne to construct railway be-
tween kiujo and Fusan, Korea, - now
fairly under way A meeting " a. recent
Is aeld IN Tokyo at watch more tnan sixty
gentlemen were present, among teen.
some Of the most prominent tnaIscisrs OF
Japan. IL was resolved TO organise vita
a capital % %. go ysE. wfta view or
beginning the work within three years
and completing II within ten TIE land re-
auired Is 20 BE leased 10 the company
gratis 81 the koresn government
According to tie MainSehi the railway
bureau viii shortly begin the construction
OF an imperial saloon carriage which viii
tbs present ear. which Is only capaols Of
accommodating fifty persons. EN- 5000
has been appropr lated, though 10 IN said
the cost viii be more than twice that
sum.
Ia is estimated that over yen sen, 900
Of damages has been sustained oy govern
ment railway lines throughout the empire
By the recent floods Private lines also
suffered, but are IN good condition. as
their declaration OF dividends VIII SHOW.
The Sanyo Railway Company declared on
October "a a dividend OF 10 per cent. per
annum. The Hosnu Railway Company, OF
Kyushu. declared at It's general messing
held on October u. q dividend of per
cent. per annum Cor zhs SIX months ended
September 81 The net profits Of the com
pAny for the period amounted TO Yen
10 $50 At a directors meeting OF the
Osaka Railway Company, held on octo-
Der 10, an annual dividend or 10 per cent.
was declared The net profits OF the COM
pany for the past SIX months amounted 10
yen iBl. 575.
telegraph and Telephone.
There are now some 3. coo miles OF tale
graphic wires threading japan in a net
work 81 well-orgsnized and much-ussd
communication. Prof. Chamberlain says
that the first telegraphio line IN Japan
Was experimental. being only $40 yards in
vice In lS6a. But IA the following year a
general telagraphie system WAS planned
for the whole empire. and the Isans have
been followed almost without deviation
in that year Tokyo and Yokohama were
connected BY wire. "a we're also Kobe and
Osaka: but the necessary material and a
stan OF officers did not reach japan Till
the end OF 1871. The main line as far as
Kobe vas completed and opened for busi-
ness in iS72, and 30 SagasakI ia 1873. Here
again. as in railroad construction. Eng
land was "forehandesd" enough TO intro
ducs both men and material, thus taking
another step TOW ard impTcsssng the Jap
enese with the idea that they must look 10
England as their commercial and Indus
trial headquarters. and gaining an inhu-
ence which has since been worth millions
TO her ia trade.
But IN this. az in other matters. ss
soon as she received the requisite amount
| Of Coaching" Japan proceeded 20 shake
or the foreign influence. The rapid pro
grezs % her students n technical studies,
both a. home ard abroad, has supplied her
with expert electricians and operators,
and her development OF manufactures en-
ahles her 10 turn o1t fn the workshops
attached 10 the imperial telegraph depart
ruent an kinds q material and tnStru-
| uiengs except that for submarine cables
ana the most delicate electrical measuring
apparatus. The foreign executive stafT has
given way entirely - native officers.
In connection VITA the lard wires cables
are laid across tire straits of shimonoseki.
i connecting the island Of kinshiu with the
main island. across thu Tsugaru straits.
connecting the island - Ys3o with the
main island. and between kiusauL Xxi
and rsushIrna. Submarine CANES also
connect NaRasaki with Shanghai on the
oyia side and Vlasigvos took on Tire other. A
stuf uaore recent tine has been laid by
tbe Jananese government between TsusA-
INA ard Fusan. Korea.
when tho telegraph vas first introduced
ff,ta Jznan there was considerable DIFF
rrat{y in adjusting tha signs % the Morse
felezraphie alphabet 30 the Japanese lam
r,iexe. The Morse code was designed Tor
u lang1iaxs u tweuty-six letters while the
Jsnsna~a kama. or alphabet consists %
rartv-sevea characters. which represent
not letters bat sy}3ahies. The Morse ele-
fnrats were simply reEr9Ups'l, and the
/ Japanese .oparator now scnds a telegram
either TIA English or 10 japanese. The
sender. however, w8Ii ar3 n % his aa-
vantaxe 90 have hts message sent ~ jap
amese as the rate Is much lower than Tor
en- Eagl.sh message
"A soon as the difficulty WIS solved. the
Iarsnese wtres proved a good investment.
SAYS Morris ana tne wires we're kept husy
cav and ulEhE Section after section q
che Maas was thFown op~n Tor business
a. last as The hues cgaIa Pc completed
Tas engineers we're urged 10 push for
ysr4rH The ws~k az All b#zaF3s. Distant
cities beam % petition fer aa evtensi lu
~ sha lac In tAeir dlreoti1n. Offers -
lsi1fgnrs f1~ aIsl~es and Of posts FOR the
lire pouvea n. aod business mean while
frrrea ~s8 raai8.y- f'rom that tsEns 20 tae