The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1899-04-14
Pert Arthur. China. Feb. o. 1895

"a 81 t4tiA sAJ444Acts A Ot9sGo, 1907
Dear Friend Mac.
Your welcome letters, also pa
pers, ali came in together, unac-
countable because the post is so I'M
certain There are lets Of letters
awaiting me somewhere out here.
liz addition TO the II engines for
the Chinese Eastern road Of which
wrote you, we will have 16 more
for the Chinese Imperial No1thern
road, supposed to arrive at Yntsein
about June. This road runs from
Pekin northeast to Yang-Ku, at
the great Chinese wall. I may
have 3 brick Of that wall yet.
l left Nicolski and Uladivostock
last Nobember, stopping at Nagas-
aki fortnight,and then came here.
l ike Nagasaki. 1t lies IN fine
bay, surrounded by pretty, high
hills all under cultivation. In
very steep places, they are terraced
to allow working the land. The
Japs are very industrious.
NagaSaki is one of the greatest
eoaling stations in the East. The
mines are close by. The coal is
brought in barges along side the
vessels and passed up in small
baskets. Girls and women dc this
work-children not over ten years
old, and women with babies strap
ped to their back, their little heads
bobbing back and forward. Their
pay is ten to twenty "seno per
day, equal to five and ten cents in
our money. One can live cheap in
Japan.
Up to Jan. / this year, it was
necessary to have a passport to
travel into the interior Of Japan.
Now the country is thrown open to
all. l should like very much to
take a trip and remain in the coun-
try while, long enough to study
them. They have fine flowers and
plenty of them, also fruit.
On my arrival here, l found
there was no hotel, but two res
taurantS, one kept by a Frenchman,
the other by a Chinese, Ah-Fu,
consequently moved into one of
the company's steamers. remain
ed there two months, but now am
ashore, having secured a ROOM, l
take my meals at the Frenchman's.
A stranger living here must have
unlimited credit at his bankers
the prices for everything are so
outrageousIy high, and yet this is
Free port.
We have forty engines here.
We tried to get some TO Newell
wang last December, but were too
late. The river was full of float
ing ice and the steamer was COM
PEELED to return here. We are now
exciting FIVE here and Will then go
to Ta-hen-wan with three, after
wards to Newchwang. Ta-heu-wan
viii be the terminus of the Chinese
Eastern road. They expect to
make it a great commercial port.
This place, Port Arthur, will be
the military port. The road will
extend from Ta-lien-wan here.
There is quite an army ofengineers
and worklneR at Ta-hen-wan.
There viii be millions expended in
building breakwaters, dredging,
docks, stations, etc. The Chinese
Eastern is an extension of the great
railway. It Will run
from Port Arthur north and then
northwest TO Strebensk en- the
Amer river. where it viii connect
with the Siberian road. Alta point
midway st Huianehin it runs due
east to Nicolski, about 100 miles
north of UladiveStock. As l said
Ta-Ien-wan VIII be the port, be
cause it is always open, winter and
summer, also because it is closer
to the commercial cities of China,
Japan and the East. Uladivostock |
is frozen solid four months in the