The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-04-04

iG---~-- to many the
A first In CONNER
IN cbal importance.
S7-===zur11S Covering an area
OF elght square
niles and with a population OF hair
s mf3ion Hes on the banks OF the Ia
roas Yodo river. and is Itself not less ceIe-
hfsse9 a. the military capital. in the six
tseuih century. Of the great Take. who
3 TIE short space Of two years built here
IT, xrandest fortress that Japan has ever
possessed. This castle and It's annexed
buildings we're burned by the adherents OF
fae T0kugawa Regents before abandoning
The place IN lsfs. but the wide moat and
colossal batilements are still intact some
Of the granite blocks that compose the lat
Ger Measuring as much as forty feet IN
largth and ten feet In height. with a thick
cess Of several feet a vivid illustration
q the changes that Japan has seen dur
Ink the Neil era Is furnished BY the fact
that the plateau on which Hfdeyoshrs
donion originally stood is now the site OF
reservoir for supplying the city with
pure water. Osaka mas been called the
Fenice az Japan, for. on summer evenings.
the tao streams OF the Yodo are covered
sith boats floating hither and thither,
While their Inmates enjoy the cool breeze
from the river the sound OF music and the
SPARKLE OF fireworks
The Pitt-burs ct Japan.
Yet the city IL chiefly remarkable for the
manufacturing enterprise OF its inhabit-
arts justly reputed 20 be the sharpest and
most daring business men of Japan.
Tasnty years ago the whir OF machinery
ard he throb Of the steam engine were
heard only a. the mlut-where beautiful
enias current throughout the wh0se East
are s'ruck-aud at its associated suipharic
acid works. Ne tail chimneys noll1tea the
sparkling atmosphere OF the city or inter-
faptea the view % the surrounding hills
fus today thousands OF factories pour out
thsif smoke and smuts and 81 90 ''handss'
I've under their shadow. Osaka may well
= called the Piushurg OF Japan. Nothing
afsys the city's rapid rise to commercial
rfeaiaesS except the want OF port ac-
eess.hie to oceaB-going steamers the estu-
afy o. The fod0 river being TOO shallow for
ne purpose. A programme OF harhor con-
arAetion. Involving an outlay Of 20 COO 01
Sen, has DOW been elaborated. and Osaka
shl doubtless soon become the shipping
and manufacturing capital Of the empire.
Aaihing more f0rcibly strikes A foreign
visitor 20 Osaka than tho air Of bfiskness
ard hustle thar pervades the streets In
comparison with the intense urgency and
inpefuous stress OF }ife in an Occidental
CITY, Osaka is. Of course. sfaid and tran
qail. bui whereas iu other japanese towns
Business IS conducted ln q placid manner.
% Vsska things and people az leas. move
iHs'ead OF simply gravltatlng.
CioeL on - strike.
An amusing Incident occurred while
sas n Osaka. 4 Young lad had stolen
COCK. AMI having concealed q neatly I'M
Ger ais Sowing garments. wss making OF
oean The street az a great pace when the
eiocS took notion 20 40 on a strike and
a. i struck some e@a o'clock. Il was prae-
l'ea.lY equal 90 an alarm and gave the clue
= passing policeman. who ran The boy
IN He e only "a wears old. bur thls was
Dis seventh sentence FOR theft
great Industrial Center
have already sal3 that Kobe. or "a
eve L is consular name Htogo. and OSa-
- arr virtually parts 81 the same great
v'nnerciai and Industrial community. So
tsf - concerns fhe In{te,i States they are
&c ias total trade statistics OF HON places
.lrs embraced in tire consular reports.
tANta jointly. they constitute fhe great
Emporium % jan8u within a radius OF 100
m.es ef waich there Is A population OF
AN.en Kobe IS virtually the port Of Osa-
-. aeaFihE 20 the latter much the same ~
aioa as thst ~ Yokohama 20 Toxic The
AAear AZ osaka e. shallow ANA no large
ssNs enter ioere What the contemplate
= asrhor improvements there Will &C.
SaheHsh. e Is difficult as IN the case or
.sSSs 81 Toxic. to forsrc Far the present
80 - ihe port ana t1e shipping IN thc
1Ref ihero as we came into port was a
fN.9 SiE7t. am sorry 90 saN th1t here.
= fa~Nacre in tre orient tire stars and
F.pfs are c'0 FpIruous hy tEedr absence.
70 lAe average man here it seems as
- la''ri States e almost wholly in-