The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-05-21


Recalling ChemuIpo Hattie Incidenta
While yietors We're Recovering
the spoiIs-Two Japanese Torpedo
Boat DestrOyers sunk -A ReIic
From the Korietz-Method Of Dis
tinguishins cody workers.
Two men from the American gold
mines in Korea, one with a camera,
one with a desire for loot. wanted what
they called "a chance at the Russian
wrecks Of the cruisers yariag and
Korietz, writes the New York Posts
correspondent from chemulpo, Korea.
/ took sampan with them, three Ko-
reans with sweeps making it 90 faster
than an eight Dared barge. Ebb tide
lowers tie bay water thirty feet or
more. almost as much as In the bay Of
Fundy, and leaves the ruined ships Of
war stark ana mangled and naked, ex-
posing their extraordinary wounds
some from japanese fire, but most
from the explosions the Russians set
Off when deserving them
There are iunks from down the
coast filed with fish dried in their nat
ural state and bundled in five hundreds
with hemp string. The quays are piled
high with dried fish, spreading nau-
seous odor through the town. There
are mountains Of sacked rice. Seven
new wooden warehouses are crammed
with supplies what they are / have
not seen. Ride ammunition boxes.
filed, make a two story half block.
The sloping rock pier that forms a
landing place suited 10 all tides IS
thick with white bashi bazouk Korean
coolies lugging dried fish on crotched
stocks fastened to their backs
tn the China war the japanese paid
the coolies; probably they are doing so
now. for ia order to distinguish their
Korean workers from the multitude
they tie cords about their arms. the
color indicating the regiment and ON
their yellowish cheeks the quartermas-
tiers paint III scarlet Arabic figures the
number Of each cody
The workers are wondrously strong
They carry on their backs blocks or
cut stone than weigh 500 pounds. Yet
they are small men. somewhat taller
than the japanese. but NOT so sturdy
or muscular. for the common Japanese
look like lot Of wrestlers, hard flesh
ca, bullock headed foreeful animals
with a sort of cunning bruisers. The
japanese soldiers are 4 grade above,
You would have them ais gardeners
perhaps. but the others, the ordinary
immigrants. you would stop at Ellis
island, San Francisco or Seattle aud
send home
iii get q souvenir from one Of those
wrecks. said the rough Michigan MIN
err lie seemed one Of those Americans
that need to be apologized for abroad
That's lootiRg. he was reminded.
I'll get only photographs said the
other, which Is not forbidden by the
INV NA hhtlOtAa
We crossed under the bows Of a lap
anese warship IN slate war paint and
uD 70 where a Junk with a Rhode Is
land windlass operated by hand was
trying to extract a Russian gun from
Its bolts on the perpendicular deck of
the overturned yariag, which was ~
ing prone on its port side ia mud, I'M
covered by low tide, like a dead strand
ed whale and on The top side were
a hundred OF more japanese -Lilipu-
tians on a CULVER doing what2 Lift
ing from the portfolios Of her upturned
side the coal which had filed her bunk
ers, those bunkers which were design
Cd to protect her from piercing shells
Protection by the arrangement Of
coal bunkers and by Krupp steel deck
one-fifth to three inches is how the
naval registers describe her. and here
were her destroyers placidly taking
her 500 tons Of coal protection"
AS the sampan drew close Japa-
nese sailor with megapbone shouted
some warning We knew 1T was a
warning from the tone he korean
boatmen were disturbed They com
pretended.
go on commanded the camera
man. There came another shout in
more imperative voice. Go on,s said
the calm camera man, feeling Of the
bulb Of hls instrument and taking
sight
An officer ia long gold braided coat
came and stood on a gun rampant Of
the Variag, glared through his marine
glasses and gave a signal
We had now come around to where
one OF the screws Of the PROSTATE ship
lifted above the water, a powerful tail
fin, now a mere obstruction 70 nayiga-
ton. on the other side the round
hull was slick and clean-copper below
its water line and dull black new war
paint above All its wounds were on
the side now under There were only
two large holes there, General Allen
told me later. The rest were small
two inch holes TINT made the port side
look like a great pepper box One Of