Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-05-17
THAT LICKING DID THEM GOOD
CHINESE EYES OPENED BY THE RE.
CENT AFFAIR WITH JAPAN.
So Says DIR. Boone, n Prominent Ply
stefan and Missionary of Shang-
hal, China, Who Is Visiting
in Kansas City.

DR.. H. W. Boone, of the American Epis-
copal church mission in China, who is
physician in charge of st. Luke's hospital
at Shanghai and dean of st. Johns Medical
college, is in Kansas City, the guest of
Bishop Atwill. DR.. Boone has been in the
missionary work in China for seventeen
years. He talked Interestingly of the work
to a reporter for The Journal yesterday.
Bishop Graves, at Shanghai" he said,
has charge of the Episcopal missionary
work in China We nave at Shanghai a
college and a grammar school, with medical
and theological departments. There are
more than $50 pupils in the various schools,
all of whom are natives of China In the
grammar school and college the course re-
quires twelve years of study. There have
been quite a lumber of graduate. The
Chinese learn easily, and make good schol-
ars. Most of the pupils entering the school
complete the entire course.
I'VE have two boarding schools for girls,
one at Shanghai, known as st. Marys hall,
with fifty pupils, and the other the Jane
fifty pupils. The pupils are given a full
course of instruction.
The graduates of the college enter into
various lines of business. Many of them
secure positions in the service of the gov
ernment. Some of them study medicine
and many become ministers. In the col
leges both English and Chinese are used.
The student are from all classes of Chi
nese life. We have day schools scattered
through China with more than 1000 pupils
and all boys entering the grammar school
or college are required to pass preliminary
examination. The course, while not equal
to Harvard or Yale, is fully up to the
standard of the smaller American colleges,
although We do not teach Latin or Greek.
st. Johns college employs seventeen teacn-
ers, four of whom are Americans and the
remainder are natives, most of whom are
graduates of the college. A large per-
certage of the teachers in the other
schools of the mission are natives.
I'VE have four hospitals in different
parts of China where the poor are treated
FREQ of charge. The well-to-do people are
allowed to pay a small sum Tor treatment.
The lands and buildings for st. Luke's
hospital in Shanghai were given by the
Chinese. the money for the purpose having
been voluntarily subscribed by the wealthy
natives. The work of this hospital for the
past seventeen years has been supported
entirely without help from America. Last
year in these hospitals more than Loo
patients were treated.
lover 1900 people were treated in the dis
pensaries and furnished medicine. There
were a total of 5000 visits of patients to
the dispensaries. Some 300 serious opera
lions are performed in these hospitals
every year. and nearly 1000 smaller opera
tions in the ~dispensary, departments. Thi
relief given to the sick has made the people
very friendly.
THE mission has a number of churches
and chapels ut all the different stations.
There are ten American ministers engaged
in the work and nearly thirty ordained
Chinese ministers. We also nave cate
chists and deaconesses. There are six
American women engaged in the work. The
upper classes in China and the rulers were
very hostile to all Western learning until
lately. After being badly beaten by the
Japanese in the late war. the leading class
es nave changed their minds. The. govern
ment and leading classes are in favor of
Western education. The government itself
is starting some schools. We are complete
ly overrun with candidates for admission
into our schools and colleges. and are. una
BILE to meet the demand that is made on
US"
DR.. Boone arrived in America from Chi
ma, having come via England about ten
DAYS ago. He will not return to China until
next year. His visit to Kansas City is
made in company with Rev. DIR. .Langford.
who is at the head of the American Epis-
copal missions throughout the world. They
will leave for Omaha to-day, and Will go
thence to Denver and other places. The
visitors addressed n missionary meeting at
Trinity church last night.