Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-10-30
AMERICAN ENGINEER FROM CAN
TON DESCRIBES ROAD.
CONSTRUCTION ADVANCING
Outbreaks Are Not at an End by ANY
Means-Treachery Biding Its Time
New Lines by Other Nations
Oriental Contempt for Other
People.

Grant B. Caylor, civil engineer in
the employ of the Anglo-American
Construction and Development COM
pany, now building a railway from
Hankow to Canton, China, has just
arrived in Minneapolis. In an inter-
view Win a representative of the press,
Mr.. Caylor described his adventures
In the celestial empire in graphic ian
guage. In regard to the advance of
railway construction he said:
Il have been working on all sorts
of railway surveys and similar enter
prises since l went away. l was for
two years at Kait-Chai, running lines
In the German concession, but more
recently have been hammering away
at the Picking Syndicate route in
Shansi. For two years | was associat-
ed with the Hankow-Canton survey
and construction
The Chinese don't love US Christian
pigs a BIT better than they used to.
We often had to fight our way arounu
villages on the Hankow proposition.
The natives didn't use firearms
against us, but they had all kinds of,
clubs and stones, and innumerable de-
vices for making life miserable to for
eigners.
Railway construction is going on at
a rapid rate, in fact, and if all the pa
per railways arranged for Chinese ter
ritory were built, there would be as
many miles of railway in China as
there are in the United States. AS to
the lines actually built or building,
there are the German KiaoChow-
Yichon Tsinan, a triangular system in
the Province of Shantung; the Lu-Han,
or Picking ankow lines, 1000 miles
long to connect Picking to Hankow;
the Shanhailkwan-Niu-Ch wang route, a
kwan coal fields with Niu-Chwang;
the Stretensk-Vladivosto line of which
l 900 miles are in China territory; the
Russian anchurian railway, to con-
meet the Stretensk-Vladivosto line
with Talienwah and Port Arthur.
Among the projected lines which
will be built are the Talyuan Flu
Chengtung railway, a branch of the
Picking Hankow line; the Tien-Tsin
Chinkiang railway, an Anglo-German
enterprise, and about a score of others
which may never reach the grading
stage.
"The building of railways and the
opening of the country will, of course,
do more to modernize China than all
the missionaries and ministers we can
send there. A regulation Irish con-
So tafs
over the head with a shovel when he
gets gay, is more really respected than
a courteous minister of state.
"The fact is that the Chinese laugh
at us when they are not mobbing us.
The Chinaman has point of view that
no white man can understand. He
thinks he has the laugh on you when
you would swear it was on him, but
what fun is there in having the laugh
on man when he points his finger at
you and does most of the laughing
himself?
"The Chinese seem to be saying to
themselves: Well, we'll let these
fools dig and sweat about here for a
few years. and then tear their old
Talking about being ready, the
Chinese are not ready. They were not
ready when they started the boxer out
breaks, but they thought they were.
The military demonstration of the
powers merely showed the patient
Chink that he had been premature, so
he apologized, sat back and began his
preparations over again. Now he is
drilling himself in European military
methods and tactics. European officers
are Coaching him. European rifles and
ammunition are pouring into the coun-
try in ship loads, despite the terms of
settlement, and some day-it may he
twenty years-there will be another
Chinese outbreak.
THE next time it will not be easily
suppressed. If at last it is suppressed
the Chinese will sit back again, apollo
gize few more, and make their prep
arations on still greater scale. There
are hundreds of millions of people all
of one mind about foreigners. 1t is
impossible to defeat people like the
Chinese permanently.
There is constant strife between
railway and mining syndicates all over
| the country where Europeans have en-
tered. Vast sums have teen expended
in surveys. The Russians had the
whip hand in the north until the Anglo
Japanese alliance put a check on
them, but the Russian and the China
man have a good many traits in COM
mon, notably in their talent for wait
l To-.