The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-28
DrS. Dozier @ Go.
 Offices-l 2 } A. and G. 20272 lSt Ave. Birmingham, Ala.

follows: Japanese, 12O per cent; Russians Al per cent; Shinese, Is per cent; average of women 14.3 per cent
 Harbin is the center of the entire rail- way administration of Manchuria and, as the Russian commercial enterprises of the far east are under the direction of the railway company, it will also be the cen ter of Russian industrial and commercial development. It is the headquarters of the civil courts and the chief military post, and the main center of control of all the vast army of railway guards. The administration city, therefore, con sist of all of the public and private build ings and shops necessary for these vari- ous departments. Residences for the em- ployes cover the largest area of this division of this marvellous city
 Some Costly Buildings.
 The administration building cost $61S,- GOO; the railway shops s1,2S7,0OO; the hos pitals nearly s4O,OOO; technical school SIPS, ,750; commercial and girls school s25S, ,00O; eight schools for teaching the Russian language to the Chinese and the Chinese language to the Russians s50,0O0; a hotel $S4000; a store and club for employees $200 900.
 There is superb system of railway and steamboat transportation in all di- rections. There are also in the city about four hundred nesoshticks, or Russian car riages, for public use and the average earnings of these vehicles is five rubles ($25S) per day. There is an automobile laine ready to start foru machines to op- crate between the old town and the ad- ministration city; each vehicle will carry ten persons These machines are now on the ground and will carry passengers for twenty kopecks (ten cents) each way This line is in connection with an cleo tric tramway that is to run loop line through the river town, or Perstin and a double loop or figure-eight line through out the administration town. This is a private corporation, with capital of 250, 900 rubles BPS, ,750). The same company is to provide an electric light system for all three sections of the city.
 Harbin was started primarily as a mili- tary center and an administration town Tor the government and direction of rail- way affairs. Its growth into a splendid commercial and manufacturing city was not originally provided for by the promo ters, and 1t has been somewhat of sur prise to them; but the fever of making it a great Russian commercial and manufac- turing city has now taken possession of the railway management, and every sys- tenn of promotion and protection that can
 
 these lines is being energeticaly en- couraged.
 The capital for most of the private en- terprises is furnished by Siberian Jews. Chinese are furnishing money for the con structfon of some of the finest private buildings, such as hotels, store rooms, and so forth. In the administration part of the city no private buildings of any kind are permitted. The administration has <4.- D 030,000) for land sold to private parties Many elegant residences and substantial structures are in course of construction in the additions adjacent to the adimnistra- ton town. A hotel and theater combined was built at cost of eO.000 rubles s3O,- ooO and rented for $25.0oO rubles $n2.s75) per annum. All of this land is secured on an eighty-six years lease.