Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-02-04
Returns FROM ORIENT
Miss Margaret Tittemore Home
From Trip Thru China and
Japan.
The "stowaway" Dispatch Ex-
plained.-JourneyI In Celestial
Land.
Visits Minister Conger and Fam
ily--Returns With Relics and
Trophies.

Miss Margaret Tittemore, sister Of
General Traffic Manager J. N. Title
more, of the Iowa Central railway, a
young lady who has been TALKED
about, no doubt, more than any Mar
shalltown girl in the last decade, owing
to an alleged fact that was made promi-
rent in press dispatches concerning her
passage on "a battleship' as a stow
away in male attire, arrived home SUM
day morning from Ashland. Ore, where
she has been visiting friends since her
arrival in this country on Jan. 25. Mr..
Tittemore. who left Friday morning for
Fargo, N. d., TO meet his sister. accom-
panied her.
Miss Tittemore has had one of the
nest delightful trips ever taken by an.
Iowa girl. Her visit in the orient from
September until November, 1899, was an
opportune one and gave her a chance to
study the country when in the midst of
turmoil and International strife and her
Powers as All observing American gill
lad full sway. Miss Tittemore was the
only American girl, in fact, aside from
Kiss Laura Conger, daughter of Minis
ter Conger, and the latter's niece. Miss
larry Pierce, in the north of China dur
ing the late hostilities.
Miss Tittenures trip was Of six
Months duration. lacking just three
days. She sailed on July rs. 1899, from
Frisco on the Hancock, arriving IN
Nagasaki. Japan, on Aug. To- With
her chaperone, Mrs. Dean. she remained
in Nagasaki until the first week IN
September, when she sailed for Taku,
China. 1t WAS on this trip to China that
the circumstance occurred that has just
eliminated in the undesirable new spa-
per notoriety. Miss Tittemore wanted
to go to China and the boats We're, at
that time, few and far between, unless
she chose one of the many little Japan
csc vessels. that were not considered
Very safe. The old transport Indiana,
n service as a cattle boat, WAS getting
ready to weigh anchor and, With The
aid Of Charles Talbot. Second United
States Infantry, of this city. and Louis
gson on the Sherman, who spent sum
l.er before last in this city, whom She
rlet unexpectedly in Nagasaki, she was
.lshered on board the Indiana, known,
however. to some of the under officers,
presence Gen. Sumner. who was or
beard, thought the incident a capita
Joke, and there was nothing too good
TOR the only lady guest aboard. She
was not, however, disguised in any way
and did not don mems clothing.
WAS NOT TO Sci, LONER.
The trip 70 China, however, was not
for the purpose of seeing her supposed
fiancee. Lieut.. Warren S. Dean, of the
Fifth Cavalry, as the press dispatches
have stated, for, in fact the engage
sment between Miss rittemore and
Lieut.. Dean had been broken. Lieut..
Dean at that time WAS with his troop
"a. Yang Tsuan, acting as an escort to
eN- Minister Rockhill, the United States
Special commissioner sent to assist
Minister Gonger. Miss fittemore went
10 Tien Tsirl almost Immediately after
her arrival at Taku and was there
Joined by Mrs. Dean and later by Lieut..
Dean. after his duties with the escort
We're concluded.
~ stay of seven weeks was made at
Tisn Tsin, at the conclusion OF when
Miss Tttemore was invited by Capt.
Nittennlyer, of the Fifteenth Infantry,
ard adjutant general, as a guest on
hoard house boat for trip up the Pei
Ho river to Pekin. This was in the lat
ter part of November and the trip lasted
five days, the house boat being pulled
BY q band of coolies. Tung Chau was
the terminal point by boat, the remain
der of the journey, eighteen miles, be-
ing made on horseback. Upon arriving
Lin Pekin Miss Tittemore was the guest
of Maj. Roberts, of the Ninth Infantry
also Of Minister and Mrs. Conger and
Misses Conger and Pierce. she having
known the latter IN Des Moines. The
sojourn in the capital was comparative
ly short, only three and one-half days
Tut the time WAS probably spent.
VISITS FORBIDDEN CITY.
The forbidden city, or the inner com
partment of the walled city. was among
the interesting places visited by the
young woman and the party. Miss Tit
temore played on the empress organs
and, by the way, found only one in tune
sat i'll the chairs of both the emperor
and empress, and, in fact. saw all there
was TO see. The Tartar city, the prov
ince inside the outer wall, which was
occupied by American troops under the
command of Maj. Robertson. of the
Ninth Infantry, was also visited In
the palace of the eighth prince. Duke
Tung. which was the headquarters OF
Maj Robertson. Miss Tittemore was q
guest at a luncheon given by the major
&c party of friends in the throne room
After the conclusion of the Pekin visR
the trip down the river was made on the
house boat, landing again at Ien Tsin
The following day Miss Tittemore left
for Shanghai, spent a week there, Their
vent on to Hong Kong. from where she
sailed to Manila, remaining In the Phil
lippines q fortnight Returning to Hong
Kong she visited Canton and Macao, The
eldest European settlement in the
orient. Dec. Is she sailed from Hong
Kong on the Pacific Mail steamer
China, stopping en- route at Shanghai
and Nagasaki again. and visited Kobe
and Yokohama. The China was in port
at Yokohama three days. and in that
time she visited Toxic. On the return
voyage She visited Honolulu, landing al
San Francisco on Jan. 25
tCONGER'S MESSAGE EXPLAINED
sDecidedly the most interesting facl
In learned while in China, said Miss
Tittemore. was the explanation of the
message of Minister Conger that caused
SO much worry in this country. Mai
lConger told me of 1t himself at Pektr
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