The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-03-09
SEAT1LE'S ORIENTAL TRADE.
Her Prospects Across the Pacific
Never So Promising.
MR.. cARsTENs TELLS OF TRIP.
Capital Kept Out of Manila by
Doubts ms TO Real Estate Titles
The Great Observatory There
Cooifc Labor the Most Desirable
Ii Hung Chang Getting very Old
Some Curious sights of Cities.

Henry Carstens leading business man
OF Seattle. and Mrs. Carstens, have re-
turned home from trip TO the Orient after
having Travelled about 1900 miles. They
visited Yokohama, Tokyo. Osaka, Nagssa-
XII, and Kobe, In Japan. Shanghai. Canton
and Hongkong and other points Of inter-
est In China. Mantia. Cayite and Dagupan
In the Philippines: Singapore by way OF
Sandakkan in British North Borneo. and
IioHgkong again. and thence home.
When asked yesterday what he thought
tho prospects are for development OF Sc
nttle's growing trade with the Orient, Mr..
Carstcns said substantially. at
MY observations in the Orient were, OF
course, limited, for | made only q short
trip. but I would say that Scattes imme-
date prospects for trade there in things
in which we do not now enjoy a large ex-
port are less encouraging than may be
popularity supposed. There are several rea-
sons for this. but the chief one is the
strange anomaly OF freights from New
York We can send to the Orient only
those things produced here cheaper than
on the Atlantic coast. Our -four and lum-
Der trade. for instance, Is limited only by
the capacity OF transportation. There are
more ships OF the Atlantic coast Most
OF the ships in the carrying trade are Brit
ish bottoms, as you know, and ships pre-
fer long hauls 20 short ones.
Take Carso<s AROUND the Horn.
Rather than return TO Liverpool. they
take cnrgoes around the Horn, for they
are almost sure OF a cargo from the ORR
ent back TO England. For these reasons
the people OF the Pacific coast cannot too
strongly urge upon congress the encourage
mcnt of our merchant marine. Possibly
low grade OF salmon might increase our
Oriental trade. for the Chinese are very
fond OF fish. We make paper here and
ynIu
ties OF trade There - no market for fresh
meat, as Il Ia too expensive. Cheapiy built.
light draft steamboats, might ind sale
since the inland waters OF China have been
opened to navigation. We cannot send
over machinery because we cannot com
pete with the East We may when the
iron resources OF Washington are deyel-
oped.
The petroleum trade OF the Orient IS
Immense, IL IS n pity that the petroleum
discoveries which we occasionally hear of
are not developed. But Seattle Is now en-
1oying prosperous and growing trade
with the Orient and 1t will Increase"
When asked about Manila and the Phl!-
ippines, Mr. Carstens said Capital is be-
Ing kept ost of Manila owing to the doubts
as 10 what verihcations will be given to
Spanish titles 70 real estate, The friars--
do not speak OF the Jesuits-seem to have
got hold Of everything worth having. The
would, on account OF the climate, and also
he could not compete with the natives
The best outlook for labor for the Philip
pines IL the Chinese cooiie IL the land is
to be cultivated The little. naked Chi
neso eoolie is the beat human working ma
chine ! ever saw. He Is working unit
The city OF Honekong Is built on what In
called the peak II Is reached by paths
or roads, cut through the rock. Up this ali
tho material, even long heavy, timhers,
used In building tho city. have been car
ried. should say the grade IL 20 per cent.
saw an aduH coOlie carrying forty
NJ each end OF pols--up
that grade. Their brick weighs about the
same as ours-elght pounds"
Saw the Emperor.
One day. when MIR and Mrs. Carstens
were touring Tokyo in jinrickshas, the po-
iicemen made all tho vehicles In sight
stop. Behold. the emperor CONFETTI lie
was IN the Imperial carriage, was accom-
panied by prirec, and escorted by the
imperial bodyguard OF cavalry
They also saw Ii Hung Chang Mr..
shrstens said Id locks very Old now. They
saw him shortly after he had been appoint
ed vicaroy of two kwang provinces, and
was coming down the Pearl river in a gov.
eminent gunboat to the BoRue forts The
forts were gorgeously and Erotesqucly dec
Grated In tho Chinese fashion.
AIT. Aafstona spoke with admiration of
mo observatory at Manila. IL Is very
old. and Is celebrated for les data and it's
typhoon and earthquake Instruments.
which. he said. are celebrated for foreteM-
Ing ,yphoons 80 accurately that ships may
avoid them. The sights are not all aes-
thotic," he said IN reference to China.
Some OF them are grew. oyne enough, 70
which foreigners seldom go but once" lie
visited the execution groanda IN Canton,
which Is one OF the places referred to.
and another Is the gate ia the great wall
o. the old city OF Shanghai In Canton,
when man commits bEamy they take
him down - tide water tie him head down
90 "A stake. and leave him and the tide 70
settle matters 20 finish
Mr.. Carstcns said Il is understood that
leigh Hunt. Formerly owner Of the Post
intelligenceg, is doing well with his No-
rean mines. he said he heard ia Tokyo
THAI Ar. Hunt was one ot the richest men
la tho Orient
IooLtnE Tor Thoms. uReL~tt.
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