The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-03-12

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| the name OF Lu-Shun-Kou The waters of
the gulf entering between the two high
hills. expand into HORROR which is excel
lent though of limited capacity Is is
said that not more than four large battle
ships can find room 70 manoeuvre there.
Many improvements have been made, and
more attempted. The entrance has been
deepened. and the harbCr dredged to thir-
~ feet. There are several costly dry
docks, squays, and a craving dock for
torpedo boats. On account of the great
mud fats exposed at low tide there is
much typhus and 1t has been proposed
to remedy this. as well as enlarge the
roadstead, by making another entrance
through the southwest arm of the port.
This would afford a circulating current
from the sea. A reef of rocks protects
the occupants of the harbor from wind
and hostile attack. However, this protec-
ton especially from the guns OF an en-
terprising enemy, has been debated. and
1t seems likely that from the land side
Port Arthur could be cut off. At the time
of the writer's residence in China naval
experts considered Wei-hai-wef better sit
uated The first modern improvements
1t Port Arthur were carried out for the
Chinese by a French syndicate more than
a dozen years ago
browning forts occupy every mill and
the soldiers swarm everywhere. Viceroy
AleXief's headquarters are here. At last
accounts and the Russians do not favor
knowledge OF such things. forbidding Wis
itors entry to the forts-the batteries con-
soFo H. .F -g.-+x, q
forty-four 6-inch. and fifty-two 4-inch rap
id-fring guns. The Pinch weapons have
n range of more than seven miles The
barracks in times of peace were for 5000
troops
The town is situated a mile to the west
with handsome wide streets. laid out at
right angles. Within the last three years
many public buildings and fine dwellings
have been put up. The population is cos
mopolitan. life reckless and picturesque.
The summer heat is excessive and the
winter sharp. Port Arthur is really a
military and naval stronghold without
trade. Its commercial complement is
Dalny.
This is the port whence the Russian
Cruisers Variag and Korietz were lately
y I
feet waiting outside Here also during the
war Of 1894 the japanese sank a Chinese
transport and marched twenty-six miles
through difficult country TO Seoul. the
capital. defea ting Chinese defenders The /
ship approaches the harbor through a
multitude of small islands in the estuary
Of the Han. The outer anchorage is a (
long distance from the inner, and the /
sampan man is ready to take you ashore I
or even up the Han, but the railway is /
the quicker journey to Seoul.
The sea Is opalescent until towards the /
muddy mouth of the river: there are gor-
geous sunsets among the many small ISL
ands.
One notes cnthing distinctive from other
similar ports the town struggling around
the waters edge with low hills on the
horizon. Trade is quite extensive and in
creasing. The economical merchant dis
Denses with warehouse and dock. piling
MS goods on the shore to be conveyed
% the ships by sampan. The population
has been chiefly native, next japanese
hen Chinese. and a very few westeruers
The Americans constructed the Seoul-C Che
nulpo railway, and furnished the cleo
rical improvements at the. capital Be
des large inland traffic, Chemulpo is the
enter of a. big coastwise trade for which
modern vessels are being used. The royal
rint was transferred from Seoul to Che
Lulpo in 1892, partly because the am
noniated water at the capital was a ham
leap to the chemical processes involved.
liver, nickel. and copper coins are made
10 Loot Sc - 1.ir Z
in 1890. each with square hole in the
enter. for the purpose of stringing them
Ogether. There is complaint that the cop
er currency is debased. though one might
'onder how it would be possible to debase
Upper. a Korean counterfeiter has time
D initiate cash. The native name of the
Ort is Inchun. and there is another Mon ]
olan name, Jenchuan.
Most of the business interests are in the
ands of the Japanese; the carriers, fish ]
rmen, and servants are generally ma J
ives, who dress in white cotton cloth.
added in winter; the industrious Chinese
re found in all walks of life
on the eve of the festival Of Yakushi :
yorai Motomachi, the Russian squadron. !
opposed to be from Vladivostok. threat
ntheir way TO Otaru. a port on the west /
Iast of Zezo Island. were fired on by four
ussian men-of-war. one was sunk and 9
re other captured. The Russian squad
1n. when last heard from. endangered
akodate. and the entire coast Of Yezo.
This picturesque island is in many ways
IL pride of Japan. II played small part 7
the early records. until the Amos or 4
airy aborigines We're exiled to il from /
le main island of the Japan group Poets :
It artists seek it as the abode OF the
,panese Ulysses, Yoshitsune. Yezo was
pverned by Nobuhiro and Matsumac =
oshihiro in its early career. and in 1904 /
as granted to the heirs of these heroes. a
he descendants Of the Matsumaes named n
ukuyama and ruled the west portion
'wn to 1858. the eastern half, with the
.ception Of thirty-four years. being gov
ned by the Shotgun. After the overthrow n
the Tokugawa clan. Yezo was taken in Y
a special department. or the central a
'vernment and called the Hokkaido. or I;
init OF the Northern Sea. 1t had been c
'retofore a sort Of Newfoundland where 3
e country fshed The Bureau Of Coloni-
ton. realizing its possibilities. induced
tiyos from other parts of Dai Nippon T
migrate there and take up agriculture :
d small manufactures
Public works were begun under the adj "
re Of Gen. Capron, an American. and -.
sources developed. Later the division -
vernment was abandoned. and the ISL
d came into the PERPETUAL system OF =
e empire. There are in the neighhor- -
Cd of 7S7 towns and villages the prin- ~