The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-09-14
ST. LOUIS MEN ENCOUNTER PECULIAR DIFFICULT TIES
IN TRAVELLING THROUGH REMOTE PARTS OF RUSSIA

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teous. besides being intelligent and anxious
TO please strangers. There are endless
things Of interest TO see throughout the
land.
In China our visit was cut short by the
cholera At Shanghai, the first Chinese
city We reached. We were greeted with the
where we had rooms engaged. had been at
lacked with the plague at . O'Clock in the
morning and die before 10 2. M This was
4 the day before our arrival People were
being carried OF at the rate OF sixty &C
s~eventy-tive per lay
We hurried through Pekin. Hankow,
| Tien-Tsin and q few other cities In all OF
these We observed enough filth and dirt to
produce cholera all the year around We
managed to get many good photographs In
compelled US to hurry through that country
On our entire trip Doctor Martin and ]
took some 5000 views.
From Tien-Tsin We proceeded by boat to
Korea We Travelled by camel
to Fussn. at the extreme southern point OF
the peninsula Here We saw remote and
native Korea. What struck US most forci-
bly, at trst wal seeing all the women Win
faces covered Ii Is the custom for women
married or have become quite old. Lovers
Go not see their brides faces until after
the marriage knot Is tied All marriages
up matters between the prospective brides
and their husbands and the parents OF the
contracting parties. Love Is not an I'm
were told a majority Of the marriages
turned out happily.
Korean gentlemen think much Of dress.
and their costumes are unique. They wear
white silk or linen coats, in length about
like our frock coats. Their trousers are
very wide and baggy., measuring In some
wear straw sandals and cloth bound around
the lower part OF the limbs and the foot
with wide brims and. strange to say. open
az the top. so, they AFFORD no protection
from sun or rain
"A very strange thing Is the Korean
which 1t X 40 to make 80 cents. The
COINS are strung on wire. and suspended
When one has a large bin to pay. he Is
forced to employ a coolie to carry his
money. In the shops we saw great heaps
Koreans We found exceedingly polite. They
appeared anxious to please US. and would
invite ,.lss US into their shops And houses
very fond OF having their pictures taken
The. Celestials dislike being photographed.
while the natives OF Korea would flock
around US in great crowds whenever we UNI
covered our cameras We observed that
the natives eat their fish. a staple of their
S Si15 Of 5ff hash hh Which ehO ihe up e anew rit tSO a s ,poS =
for viadivostok. Siberia The "trip is across
voyage sos sss was va 'a anyth ing but a ,1 pleasant SAINT ) o aH.
Our crew were Japs. and the vessel was
dairiy running AVA 2 reaches. Inc
served I had a mind to Try some Of these.
but when the dish was passed ] discov-
cred several reaches among the Salnuts-
rms p s Mss r 1ah.snea air @y s ana reti Ied p te my
cabin early. On turning down the covers.
four or five big reaches scurried away into
being tired 1 determined to chance the bed
i turned out the light and stretched out 10
sleep. Presently I dozed. when / felt a
roach run across my face That was too
much. / jumped up and struck a match.
and by its light ! must have seen at least
loo large black reaches running about the
1T dressed and went up to the smoking
room My friends laughed at my minding
a few reaches. but my mind was made up
part OF the ship. Soon they went below.
but returned one by one TO the smoking
reaches. In the four days Of the voyage
we remained away from our state rooms.
sleeping IN chairs on the deck or In the
BUILDING BOOM AT vLADvosroCK-
"On reaching. vladivostock we found a
marked change in the aspect Of things The
city was alive with activity Of all kinds
docks and barracks and S~ordacations. WITCH
the Russian Government Is erecting. All
The ia6Sr On these I9rxs Is done TX en-,
fine horses seen everywhere In the city. The
'drosky' drivers. of which we had heard SO
ing their horses with the reckless speed for
which they are famous These drivers,
SranSe to say, are usually the heaviest
men In the community. often weighing up
in the harbor Of vlsdivostoek when we
arrived were fifteen Russian fnen-of-war.
This. we learned. was not an unusual num-
Der. The Russian government Is sending
numerous troops TO this point II appears
to the traveller that there must some day
the possession OF Corea. One feels that the
peninsula should never have been there and
peace OF the Far East II it did not exist at
prepared and Japan. on her side. Is not
-Viadivostock IN beautifully situated and
Is q most important city for nan reasons
II Is the eastern terminus OF the Trans
eastern port The city Is building
and becoming important as a COM
point The town Is indellhly i'm
pressed upon my mind as being the START
fng point of our 6.o0o-mlie journey across
and Eastern Russia to St Peters
I'VE left vladivostock in the evening ana
to Nlkolsk. AZ. which place our hard-
ships might be said to have begun We
fhs-. ss ss9ne NO spstrciass on eI I'M ffs,n
midnight the train stopped and the con-
ductor let US know that we had 70 get out
iugxage was bundled out on the tracks and
the doors OF the ~second-class carriage
The third-cisss carriage TO which we
were assigned was a sight. 1t was packed
peasants. Chinese laborers and land
seekers Of the owest and dirtie<t order.
available space was taken and after
Chinamen by paying them literally. |
the train started the conductor came
to lock at our tickets He found these TO
b ~seconc-ciass and would not accept them
were obliged to purchase third-class
tickets before he would . 4 Us along.
After q delay Of two hours We finally got
way.
I'VE were two and q half days In this
thsrd-class carriage. which was nlthy and
alive with vermin- This was an expreSs
rad. average thirty miles an hour. The