The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-19

built upon some, natural or artificial
Knoll, to and from which the inhab-
ltants are compelled to go in boats
until the waters subside, and it is a
concltion of this kind in Shan Tung to
which the present uprising is more or
less due.
There are two other methods of max
ing the trip from Ten Tsin to Pekin by
dirt road. srhe one is by horse, mule
or donkey back. and the other is afoot.
However, l have known members of
our university in Pelcin who, when
going from the city to the western
nils on horseback had to dismount,
STRIP and tie their clothing to their
horses head and swim with their
morse across the roads which had
turned into rivers. In such a condition
OF aua1rs IL is easy to understand what
would be the difficulties of making a
TRIP 10 Pekin in the heat of August,
Dy soldiers who are unaccustomed 10
the climate, where a drenching rain
comes up in half an hour, and ones
SHOES are covered with a green mould
over night, when they are compelled
10 carry with them their bedding and
dra@ after them all the accoutrements
OF ol an army and be prepared to resist
the attacks of a hostile army strongly
ntrenched and accustomed to all the
surrounding conditions. Those who
crltlcise the allied troops for saying
II Is impossible to go to Pekin before
september do not know the existing
conditions in North China
To Pekin By Railroad.
The third method of going to PeHin
from Tien Tsin is by railroad. By rail
we are able to make the trip in from
three to four hours with all the COM
forts attached to railroad travelling
Second-class the fare is seventy-five
cents, first class twice that amount
and in the postal car, which cores
ponds to our parlOr or sleeping cars,
the fare is two dollars and seventy
hYe cents. And yet this is the method
the conservative Chinese are fighting
as compared with the other two | have
Just named. Their practice, however.
is better than their theory, for when
they wish to go from one place to the
other they go by train and not by boat
or car, and the railroad as a cOnse-
quence, in spite of all the cheating
done, has been paying, some twenty to
thirty per cent. on the investment
OF course under the present condi-
tons it is unnecessary to speak of this
as one of the present methods, for the
railroad is more or less comparatively
destroyed, and probably will not be
used until peace is restored and the road
repaired. 1t is folly to talk about the
Chinese having burned the large bridge
at Yang Tsun, because it is made of
iron and could not be burned. A few
or the eross-tieS might be burned, but
otherwise it is fire proof. The smaller
bridges over small streams, and places
where streams are allowed to pass un-
der the railroad during the rainy sea-
son might easily be burned if they
could get other fneI to pile up round
them. But this is not an easy matter
in country where one may walk miles
without finding piece of wood large
enough for a walking stick. However.
1t is certain that both the railroad and
some OF the bridges are destroyed and
that when the allies wish to go to
Pekin they will have to go by dirt
road, which is the worst of bad meth
DDS of travel in China