Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-08-04

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Sooner Than Expected Manner OF
Coaling Ships in Japan Women do
the Heavy Work Interesting and
Readable Letter From the Monon
gala soldier in the Tenth Regi-
ment.
To the Editor of the NV DoMINIov:
NAGAsAkI, Japan, July 7th.--As /
have seen one of my letters in your ex-
eellent paper although | did not know
it would be published, | shall write
again and this time to your paper.
| wish to give the readers OF the NEW
DOMINION a minute description of our
| trip from Cavite, ?. l., to Nagasaki, Ja-
pan, where we now lie anchored in the
bay. | shall first state that the 10th Pa.
/ u. s. V. which has been doing garrison
duty at Cayite since April 18th, 1899, af-
ter leaving Malolos on that date, got or
ders to sail on board theSenator on June
30th for San Francisco.
Our officers wishing 10 see little of
the world while this far from home,
asked permission which was granted, to
sail via Nagasaki and Yokohama j apan,
Accordingly we took our departure on
Saturday, June 30th at ] 20 P. NJ from
Cayite. The trip to here was not very
interesting with the exception of seeing
the many beautiful and picturesque is
lands, and the sight Of various kind of
fish which are to be seen in the great
ocean, or rather the China ocean.
But let us see what kind OF an en-
trance there is to Nagasaki: When you
first strike the entrance to the harbor,
there can be seen on either side noun
tains at least 1000 feet high, and grad
ually rising as you go northeast into the
bay Of Nagasaki.
The water is smooth and placid all the
way into the harbor. The channel lead
/ ing into the harbor is about ten miles
In width at the mouth. but gradually
narrows down till when you come with
in the city limits il is not wider than the
Monongahela river at the Morgantown
bridge, but the water is very deep The
channel is about 20 miles in length, and
j every boat has To be piloted into the
harbor by pilot who does nothing else
! and who stands good for the boat.
After reaching the harbor the noun
tains have risen on either side to q
height OF 3 900 feet above sea level. The
city of Nagasakl is built in close along
the water for two miles, not extending
back to the mountains more than half q
mile on an average. The balance OF the
mountains back OF the city are planted
in different kind OF shrubbery and kept
as clean as any mans garden or ward
in the states.
The Japanese are quite different in
looks and speech from the Filippinos,
but in actions and habits are similar.
The poor class of the Filipinos live in
little dirty bambo shocks and go almost
nude. The poor class of the Japanese
live mostly in straw and mud houses
and go almost naked What either class
! would consider mansion house the
people Of the United States would con-
slider very common dwelling such as
you see in the rural districts.
Any one on board boat in the har-
Dor Of Nagasaki does not need go ashore
to get any drinks, or fruits, or eatables
OF most any kind, for as soon as the
transport anchors there are one hundred
small row boats ready to pull up along
side and throw you rope at the end OF
which is fastened a basket; they put
what you want in the basket and you
draw it up and send the price down in
the BASKET. There are no bananas,
pine apples or oranges raised here all
Transported, wherein in the Philippines
you can get them for mere song, as
they are raised there in abundance
Nagasaki is coaling station for all
vessels; therefore our boat commenced
coaling this morning. Now no doubt
that some who read this will doubt its
truthfulness, but nevertheless it is true.
This morning the coal men ran along
side, in flats over 1000 tons OF coal and
instead of men being there to load it,
there were about forty some women and
girls. Now then, they set up long
ladder with board steps, this ladder
reaches from the fiat to the quarter deck
of the boat. Five or six Of the girls
shovel the coal into strawtbaskets about
the size OF two gallon pan, then they
string along so they make connecting
chain, as it We're. They don't hand the
baskets from one to the other but pitch
it just far enough to keep the baskets
going like so many baskets on a chain.
Girls wages per day is 20 cent while the
men who work at anything at all get
$l.00 per day. Oh, it's terrible to see
young girls-nice looking girls passing
coal as If they were men. The Japs
do not refuse to take American money
here, but they would rather have their
own money which consistsof one yen
equal IN size to our dollar and its value
in our cent.
| shall not have time to write more as
/ the steamer Hancock leaves this harbor
in few minutes for San francisco.
shall write from Yokohama If we go
On our intended route. think we will
be at San Francisco by July Slst.
July Sth. The Hancock did not sail
yesterday but sails to-day. We are
having very heavy storm in the harbor
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