Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-08-11
A TENTH BOY
Writes Again From Japan en-
Route Home.

Some Bits of Military Experience
/ How the Boys Jared Crowded Like
Sardines on the Senator-Short Fare
+ and Hard DISCIPLINE Preston Boy
in the Same Regiment-sow in san
! Francisco.
/ YOKOHAMA, Japan, July Il, 1890. -
/ do not know whether you received
my letter from Nagasaki which was
written at that place on July It'll and
/ Sth. But nevertheless | shall write a
brief letter from here, givinga descrlp-
tion Of our trip from Nagasaki to this
place, and also Of this city and the
surroundings OF the city.
The Senator with its load of Tenth
Pennsylvania q, 5. V. boys left Nag
asaki on the 10th of July for Yoko-
| hama
| mentioned in my other letter that
we were to go through the inland sea
/ to Yokohama. We left Nagasaki al
4:30 a. m. and reached the Inland
sea at 1920 p. N. the next day.
When we first came to the en-
trance of this so-called sea we struck
/ a very narrow channel. At the be-
ginning of this channel on our left is
the town Tansan, small town the
size of Uniontown, Pa. This town is
where they manufacture the notable
Tansan water for medical purposes.
It is a well fortified town. On our
right lay the little town of Chimeno-
saki We were in the channel eigh-
/ teen hours. There are small towns
all the way every few miles, and near
/ ly every town OF any size you see has
placed on small eminence five or six
guns ready for action Beautiful trees
and flowers in sight all the way
/ through
The mountain peaks are not so high
as they rein and around Nagasaki, but
more numerous and beautiful. Coal
mines by the hundreds; coal costs
only $l.62 per ton.
Well, [ guess there is but little
more of interest in this section for the
reader, so | shall pass on to the city
Of Yokohama, one Of the prettiest and
most picturesque cities ever saw.
! We anchored in the Yokohama bay
at $3.50 p. m. yesterday, the 18th Of
July. Oh, but the many different col
ored lights looked beautiful. We lay
within 500 yards OF the city. The boat
| had no more than anchored till three
health doctors came aboard 80 ascef-
/ tain whether or not we had any con-
tagious diseases aboard. We dropped
down this morning to within 80 yards
of the pier, and the boys kept the SAN
pans, small skull boats-busy taking
! them ashore, which cost 20 yens each
way, or 10 cents American money.
This is the anniversary OF the new
French Republic, and the flags are
! floating over all the important build
ings of the city. | can sit here where
/ am writing and see the Japanese
grand military school building which
/ sits high upon the hill. The city Is
divided into three distinct sections,
namely Settlement Bluff and Ma
/ tive Town. The Settlement section
seems to be the foreign part almost
entirely as you find all the banks, no.
! tells, post office, custom house, con-
sulate, express and telegraph compa-
MES and threatres, and many other
| things that | shall not mention.
Bluff and Native Town are very at
tractive sections From here | can
see our American consulate with the
Stars and Stripes floating in the
breeze. There are about $500 OF a
foreign population here, mostly
Chinese; some 800 Americans, few
French, Germans, Russians, Dutch,
Danish. Italian, Portuguese, Belgian,
Hungarian, Norwegian, Swede and
Spanish There are about 700 pros
porous Britons here. The streets are
very narrow, but. are well paved and
sanitarily kept. The majority of
the buildings are fine structures OF
stone and brick. The city is well for
titled by shore batteries. As one en-
tiers the bay and looks up at the side
hills he can almost imagine that he
is taking view Of death, for the guns
line the side hills on either side for
two or three hundred yards.
It is quite a comical sight to see
how they travel here; also in Nagasa-
XII. They have small two wheeled
buggies about twice the size OF q baby
carriage. These have shafts. and one
man works in these shafts just the
same as a horse does in our buggy.
The buggy holds only one. The roads
or streets are perfectly smooth and the
human horse trots off at a lively pace.
There is narrow guage railroad from
Nagasaki to Yokohama about the