Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-29

i, as well as fnanciers They need money to
| spend and should dress and entertain in
| good style. AT present the English and
Germans are doing what they to cap
ture the trade. but the Englishman is be-
hind the times and he will not change, the
German is ready to change and does SO to
suit every demand, but he is too tricky ana
cheeseparing. II you can mix your Amerf-
can brains and methods with those of the
German you will have the right combi-
nation to get the trade of this great en-
pire."
Manchuria in 1908
have just received a report from the
finance department. at whose head is Mr..
White. the right hand of the car concern
ing Manchuria 1t is in this year 1903.
The land is but little known. and the
greater part of it has not been prospected
by white men. Even the Chinese operations
have been restricted on account of the
pr1gands who infest the mountainous re-
g1ons, and most of the cities are controlled
by the Manchus
According to this report M,pcbur;o g..
twice as big as Japan and it has 81 nonula
tlon OF about 15,G9U, COO consisting of Chi
nese, Manchus. Coreans and semi-savage
tribes somewhat libe those found in ST.
IBERIA There are altogether about 700 600
Manchus. They live in the towns and are
chiefly engaged in the Chinese army or the
chinese civil service. Some of them are
farmers. living chiefly in the northern prov
mes lnere are ABOUT $1,000 CoreanS who
hKe the Manchus, are largely Buddhists
The bulk of the population is Chinese
some or the provinces being entirely in
habited by them. This is so of the south
ern part OF the country, to which the Chi
nese have been emigrating for the past $50
years.
Farming in Manchuria.
The chief business of Manchuria is farm
ing. The land Is mountainous but il has
rich valleys and its soil will grow any
thing that can be grown in our country
Some of it Is SO rich that 1t pro-
duces two crops a year Much of II
and In the lower provinces corn and
rice are raised. There are large plan
tations of tobacco and opium There are
many orchards and the same kind of fruits
that we raise In the north are produced
there
Every Chinese hut has it's garden, and
IN II the same vegetables that you find
IN the United States. Indeed, many parts
OF Manchuria look like the United States
and were 1t not for the Chinese houses one
might suppose himself at home there A
great many cattle are reared, and in the
north there are extensive horse farms
Much of the goods is carried across the
country on camels, caravans being almost
as common in Manchuria as on the .esert
of Sahara. The chief Russian settlements
SO FAR are in the cities along the Chinese
The Car as an Aladdin.
One of the strangest things in Manchuria
is the city of Dalny. This is a town which
the car has put up. Aladdin built his
palace. almost in one night. Dalny means
far away. The city is the commercial ter
minus of the Chinese branch of the Trans
Siberian railroad. The car gave orders
for 1t to be built Just about three years
ago, and an army of 10000 men was set to
work to carry them out. Since then the
harbor has been deepened, great piers have
been constructed, warehouses have been
built and miles Of docks erected. The city
has been laid out and substantial buildings
for business and residences constructed an
electric light system has been established.
electric railways laid down and all the san
itary improvements of a great city gotten
under way. Altogether more than six mil
lion dollars have been spent on the harbOr
and city, and So 600 600 more will be spent
before the present plans are completed.
This gives you some idea of how the Rus
slams do things This whole town was built
by the government before 1t was occupied.
1t was done, not by contract but by days
work and by the piece. The houses were
sold when all was completed at auction or
privately, according to the orders of the
government, and now a town of $4,000 Ash
atics and 1000 Europeans can be seen
where three years ago the land was as bare
your hand
1t is the same with the Trans-S Siberian
and Chinese Eastern railroads. Twelve
years ago they had no existence except In
the plans of the engineers. Today they
form one of the great railroad systems of
the world. and they are doing a business
which is beginning to pay and this not
W1thStanding they have the lowest fares Of
any long railroad on earth.
FRANK G. CARPENTER