The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-09-03

Protestant, Catholic and all others there Is to be no favor, free hano tp all.
 To the east of the promontory, where
 it joins the coast line, the railway IS te
 run down to a main station adjoining
 the wbarves, and from the wharf are tc
 be run out two piers. They will be lz0l
 feet and 1000 feet long respectively, and
 off their ends at 24o feet distance is tc
 be built a breakwater at right angles
 to them, so that it practically forms
 an mclosing basin with an opening at
 each of its ends for ships to pass
 through to go alongside the piers
 Further to the west of the long pier
 and breakwater are to be constructed
 two d1ydocks; one, which it is thought
 will br completed at the end Of this
 year, IS to be 250 feet long, A wide and
 + deep; the other will be a giant dock,
 T50 feet long, 70 feet wide and 26 feet
 deep al low water. It Is to be- fitted with
 Q middle door, so that two ships of 36O
 feet can be in together, and the outer
 one taken in or out without disturbing
 the inner This deck is not expected to
 be finished for another three years.
 All these great schemes are at present
 on paper, though a Goliath Is at work. A wooden pier has been run out, and the breakwater Is commenced, but
 though the scheme is on paper, it is not
 a parallel case to a booming Australian
 or American township, where streets
 are laid out by pegs, and blocks of land shown on paper and sold as
 though they were contained by made
 streets No, here there is the plan on paper but the money is forthcoming for the creation of the towns and all the
 works, and they are being rapidly con-
 struc.ed.
 Dalny should be the great port of the
 far northeast, tapping Manchuria, I Tartary. Two things only humanly speaking, stands in it's way: There is
 the threatened trouble with the Japa-
 nese, and supposing that the Jap
 anese do not turn the Russians out of
 Port Arthur and the Liao-Tong Penn- sula, there is always the doubt whether the Russians, after they have got their town built can bring themselves to of fer fair trade privileges to all. At present the founders think so, and in tend that 1t should be SO, but from all | we iielNG iichit, tNcil tliVs eiiioW lii1iii~ selves to be carried away by their in- tense protectionism, and will not pur- chase British articles direct if they can avoid it. They order, for example ce- ment from odessa, instead of getting it from Hong Kong. although they are obtaining an inferior article at a higher price. Their want of practicality will delay them in all their works, but, de- spite that, the works will be construct ed. The theoretical head of Dalny Is pleasant, bullet headed Russian, emil nently fitted for explaining what is to be- the practical head Is a Scotchman, at whom you only have to look to see that he will carry through whatever he undertakes s
 We were anxious. after having seen what was going on at Dalny, to go back by rail to Port Arthur, but the railway had the day before been damaged by ballast train running off the line. It is nothing. said our informant Ca foreign engineer) 1t happes daily; they build railway, or, rather, we build 1t for them: before the line is set or ballasted they run eighty-1ve ton Baldwin loco- motives and trucks loaded with ballast upon it. The consequence is that -'the line is ruined and in constant need of repair before its completion; the same thing runs through everything they lin- dertake We were informed that had we travelled by ran the same procedure as when we were going by the steam launch would have been followed as to payment. The launches and the railway are only running for the ser vice of the company, and no charge is made against the casual passenger.
 Back to Port Arthur, along the bar ren coast line, between islands with hissing, churnng tides whirling through them, through the narrow en- trance with hundreds of colies working hard upon gun positions to the right and on the high hill to the left, back to a hurried tiffln and then to visit the shops. They are not enticing. Some of the Russian general stores are neat clean and well stocked. and one cafe was attractive for it's bread and patis- ! serie, but there Is no regular street of shops. A decent store lies cheek by | jowl with a dirty little Chinese den, so that the general effect is not good.
 Thanks to the hospitality of the lit- tie mess of Britishers, we had not to | sample the solitary hotel, but report | said that 1t was an impossible place, | and 1t certainly did not look attractive. | At 10 o'clock we went on board a nice | little steamer, the Soongari, which. we | were told, was the Mail rechristened. and that in days gone by before being bought by the Russians, she had been employed crossing the Channel to Ant werp. She was nicely fitted, but the cabins were without ventilation and kept insupportably hot with heated air.
 Crossing to Chee-Foo we thought over all we had sean-Port Arthur, the strongest naval base In the Far East. and Dalny, the coming commercial city. forty miles further up the coast of the peninsula. Will either of them Justify or repay the enormous amounts ex- pended upon them, and is there any object in making Port Arthur such an strong fortress7 We think not, for it's fall, if it is ever to be taken. will be brought about by it's supplies being cut off and not by a direct at tack-a thing that no fleet could afford to undertake. The contrast is curious between Port Arthur and Wei-Hai- Wei Both are easily defended, and both are easily improved at a not very large ex- psnditure, Tn Port Arthur money is be- Ing poured out like water, while at Wei Hai-Wei we are still thinking as