The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-29
HUNG CHANG EN- ROUTE
Scenes ind Incidents in Southampton and
New York Harbors.

scenes und Incidents in southampton ana
New York Harbors.
Copyrighted 1886 by the Associated Press.)
On Board the American Steamship
st. Louis Aug. pa special correspond
ent of the Associated Press made the
trip across the Atlantic with Ii Hung
Chang and mis- suite The following is
a detailed story of the voyage.
On Saturday, Aug. %, a few minutes
after II O'Clock, noon, the steamer st.
Louis left the Southampton docks with
a full complement of passengers on
board, among whom were many very
prominent people from all quarters of
the globe, but no one who excited more
interest than his excellency, Ii Hung
Chang, attended by his suite and SER
wants The decks were crowded, all
the vessels displayed their bunting and
as the St Louis steamed from the har-
Dor, the yellow ensign Of the Chinese
nation at the fore and the stars and
stripes at the stern, salute was fired
from an English naval reserve train
ing ship and was acknowledged by the
dipping of the ensign on the St Louis.
All through the harbor a large num-
Der of yachts were met, all of them
dipping their colors in honor Of the de-
parting ambassador, who had been the
recipient of considerable attention dur
ing his stay in England.
A short distance out the United States
armored cruiser Minneapolis was an
chored and as the st. LuoiS drew near
it was found that her sides were lined
by the sailors, officers were drawn up
on the quarter deck the Chinese emblem
was flying at the foremost and the guns
were sending out a good solid American
salute in honor Of the prime minister Of
China.
As the st. Louis passed, the band on
the Minneapolis played The Washing
ton Post March This coused loud and
prolonged cheers to swell up from the
passengers of the St Louis, who were
justly proud Of this represen tative Of
the American navy
During this time Ii Hung Chang had
been sitting or standing on the deck. a
very interested spectator of all that
was going on and especially intent on
the antics of those nearest him. AS 1t
was a fine day, full of sunshine, he re-
manned on deck an hour at least and
then retired to his state room.
When the st. Louis reached quaran-
tine III Hung Chang was dining and he
remained in his cabin. The steamer
was surrounded by the fleet of boats,
making it impossible to proceed very
fast. AS she steamed up the bay to-
wards the fleet, there was a continued
loot of steam whistles and some boats
touched off a Chinese anthem in the
shape of several punches of firechackers
When the dispatch boat was reached
a salute pealed forth and a little later,
as the fleet was reached, the New Yorks
saluting guns doomed out the English
salute of nineteen guns for a lord high
admiral. there being no American sa-
lutte that equals that in number
The party OF Americans were ushered
into the aft drawing room and waited
for some minutes to see the ambassador.
in the meantime meeting the members
of his staff
Lii Hung Chang went into his cabin
but soon appeared with his son. He was
attired in the historical yellow jacket,
purple silk trousers, black and white
felt shoes and bDck and red hat,
with the three-eyed peacock plume de-
pending from the back Holing the
jacket in the front was a large dia-
mond surrounded with pearls. He wore
passes and leaned a trife on the at
tendants as he stood up TO receive the
guests.
General Ruger was first introduced.
He shook hands cordially with the gen
aral, who said: Ambassador. am
here on behalf OF the United States |
and President Cleveland to |
bid You welcome to this country"
The translator told the Ambassador. |
who, however, had shown interest |
enough in the statement to state that he |
IT. In Chinese he said: