New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-19
THE PASSING THRONG.

Clarence F. Fiske of Shanghai China is at tn.
Hoffman House. Mr.. Fiske is native of wiscon-
sin, and for many years in
PRAISES business in Minnesota and the
GOODNOW'S Northwest He went to China five
WORK years ago. and is identified with
important American interest, with
headquarters at Shanghai Mr.. Fiske left China
on August l. and will return by way Of San Fran
CISCO on November / 1t is impossible" said Mr..
Fiske. for to contribute much 10 the fund OF
information appearing in American papers concern
Of information in China, it should be obvious.
FoI open 20 me average citizen; eItner nauye or
eu1anatlng from diplomatic representatives or con-
sular officials goes first to the heads OF their re-
spectve governments. and is filtered back through
the various news agencies, and so We get II sec
ond hand and after II has become public IN Amer
lean and European capitals The sources OF re
more reliabie information than Shanghai In the
on was. at the time the trouble broke out
within two hundred miles Of Tibet. and had TO
make my way down IN a small boat six hundred
ton. I was in and about Picking and Tientsin as a
trader and non-com0atant during hostiliues. and
taken by the allies and while the Americans
tSaT SfriegeT toner was 6ee guere in PeiIng
and Consul General John Goodnow was practically
re and h. measured Ip t. every TesponSibflIty
his administration Of the consulate He has IL
comprehensive grasp Of conditions in that myste-
10 Americans and American interests and has been
overworked 70 q degree that has aroused the so
ucitude Of the American Association Of China,
nal services he has rendered. not only to his own
country but broadly 10. tie business world; Min
Consul General Goocnow to thresh out the details
and ne has proved himself both forceful and
ter1uL Where the Chinese had outwitted sir James
Mckay and retained the "likin' stations for the
collection Of internal taxes on opium and salt.
Go9anoW stood like rock against TIE pTlnclp44e
struck down the hateful and obstructive system.
i iI Droded that Wherever custom house should
be set up in the interior 60 exact revenue even on
their own products. such IS opium and salt. the
IL devised ALTERNATIVE ne has opened China 10 the
trade OF the world. for. under the favored nation
clause. others viii benefit by the splendid bargain
he made. And it should be remembered that while
the trade OF England. Of Germany and Of the
Enlted Slle 5 T IN s oS S'le bSvs
not yet touched the low places. 70 say nothing OF
the high ones"
Jorge DIbos a native Peruvian. who has been In
business with an American associate in Lima for
something over d dozen years Is
BETTER At the Fifth Avenue Hotel He
TIMES was educated in Paris and spent
FOR ten years in the French capital.
PERU but Is making his first visit
to the United States IT is only
said Nj Dibos since have been eIectng our
Presidents from civil life that Peru has made any
substantial progress. Peru has been republic for
eighty years but in all the time up to 1885 we had
military men 1T the head ot the government, and.
Followed another. tnaI not single President
IN over seventy years was permitted 10 nj out ms
foIr-y.ear term. Ii 50 happened. however that We
elected a man from civil life in 1870 and we got
~id al The military element The next election
-r9ssad Dea cefully. and only last month again
elected a President without q sign Of revolution.
~ changed conditions. the stability OF the gov
e----7enr have established confidence. and q great
1u0oIIr.t of capital has come ln.O the country.
Efuri of il is from the United States chiefly for
fbe dek eIopuent OF railroads and mines. We have
ma bi-test railroad construction ia the world,
fag,1n by an American and completed by American
5rs6 and fifty miles east up the Andes. At
Mount Neiggs, which bears the Of the pro-
iectOr OF the railroad, the altitude is 1900 feet.
me building OF the road involved wonderful
qrgiueerinE. Il was begun IL 1872. interrupted BY
rhe war with Chill, and completed il 1874. New
YORK capitalists now extending q branch line
into the rlch copper and silver producing country.
and are planning TO handle eight thousand tons or
ore daily our west coast country is very fertile
and Yields Iarg- quantities of sugar. cotton and
rubber our sugar Is marketed in Chilli Newly ork
and Liverpool our cotton goes 10 England
our business a much satisfactory
TX Years ago. We are compelled 10 give credit.
and with silver that worth only the market
value Of The metal never knew. BEhen We y
tended credit what would be- the value in echiLi5S
Of the money would get when II would Dc pt4tl1..
We buy goods in New-YOrk Tor c3lsIl! DuL
buy more IN Germany, where we can get loNeI
prices and are given "a credit OF SIX months. 10 q
wear by paying per cent year interest IL Us
country would have more OF our trade. me All,sll
can merchants must consider a. honest anu si'7
longer terms Of credit