New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-05
ruEYANG-TSE TREATY PORTS
uow ENGLISH SOCIETY EXISTS IN THEM
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- he average English reader the very at
~, IN pronounce the names OF Chinese cities
vital and the remembrance OF them or their
Ssherea bouts is out OF the question IL Is only
VIZ bv consideratc forethOught some new
We snch rs Port Arthur or Port Hamll-
No. is given by the foreigners-the real name
Ssinr ignored altosether-that there Is any
ves"S of general interest being aroused over
sa unless some handy corruption OF the ma
.,.s name be forced upon us by circumstances.
:. This we follow the Chinese who hardly at
Inn. ~ reproduction Of foreign sounds so strange
" Trponosyllabic trained ears. and make such
racornizabe substitutes for the nomenclat-
~ ~ the West that in reading translated
rrs A special key is needed to the proper
s.mes which not infrequently vary with diff
s.-snt writer's Nor do the Chinese try TO mas
a. IN. names If the Europeans among them,
ss are. therefore. compelled to adopt Chinese
Games, whosOeer they be. which can be ascer-
aimed By reference TO the directory.
Rut. while We in England are prevented by
,,s nominal impedment from even following
nth interest the histories of treaty ports In
Ch,na our fellow -countrymen the spot to-
se.her with all sorts of foreign DEVILS are
engaged in steadily changing the face Of China
sself 1t is true that they hardly mngle at
al with the natives that their business is
transacted almost entirely through 'compra-
aores"-trained Chinese agents who are in
tr,sted with all kinds OF negotiations and sell
dom fail in their trust-and that hardly any
Europeans but the missionaries and the Gus
TOMS or other foreign officials have any knOwl-
edge Of the real China. but they make their in
nusnce both felt and seen.
A treaty port in China Is not a delectabe
Mace In the eyes of the foreigners resident
there. the original native city is hideous ex-
rrescenCe TO their noses ii is more than may
BE- told Live there they could not. and would
not to save their lives: they never enter its
gates. Many boast that for twenty or thirty
years they have lived beneath the shadow OF
the city walls without once passing within
them: that is left to tourists. missionaries and
officials whose duties call them 10 the yamen in
their snug and swiftly borne chairs. The mar
row. crowded streets. with numberlesS hang
hg shop signs. od0riferous cookshops and stalls
perpa,etic BARRIERS. cOrpulent tradesmen. street
cries and Omnpresent dirt. are abhorrent TO
them. and. in their particular settlement. woe
betide the Chinaman who ventures even TO sit
On one Of the public seats.
ASPECT OF THE FOREIGN SETTLEMENTS.
These foreign settlements are strange by con
tast and except where they have been invaded
by busting natives. as at Shanghai. where
large part Of the European concessions has be-
come transformed into additional Chinese quar-
ters they preserve a sedate dist!nctness which
makes them seem quite out Of place. Here.
along wide tree planted streets. at right angles
to one another. in ample residences with vast
Compounds" and "gO-dOwns'' or stores the Eu
ropean merchants spend their days. their even
ings passed mostly at the clubs. The lives rhey
live ale entirely exotic. everything being
planned 20 turn their thoughts from their sur
roundings 10 their distant homes. for few for
eigners make homes IN China. Their icehouses.
their raCecOurses their travelling arrangements.
their distra tons things apart. 10 under
stand which the Chinese have 10 he brought up
In Singapore and educated at the Rallies School.
The days IN which the Yang-tse was threaded in
native bottoms are past. and to-day three com
panies each run bi-weekly service Of excellent
steamers as far as Han-kow. luxuriantly fitted
up in many cases, and with tables not TO be
surpassed In some one may have natives OF