The Elbert County tribune., 1905-07-27
Shanghai and Annoy, China.

SHANGHAI, China, is one of the main
porss OF the Orient, being one of the
ports OF call OF ali steamers arriving in
the Orient. Shanghai lies about Ia
miles up the Wangpoo river. The city
is nicely laid out ard is kept in fairly
clean condition. Every nation has a
part Of the city to itself, each part being
called settlements, such as English set
tlement, american settlement, etc Each
nation has its counsel, the American
being the senior counsel. There are nc
street cars in Shanghai, all work and
travel being done in ricachas and cabs
Ricachas are a two-wheeled cart and are
drawn by Chinese coolie: and the same
with drays, which are also two wheeled
carts
Inc Wangpoo river is The worst of all,
being death trap as well as dumping
place for trash OF all kinds. The river Is
running out all the time and the tide is
coming in and going out. The tide
turns about twice day. When it CONES
in tue river runs out underneath the
tide, and anyone falling overheard from
a vessel is Immediately sucked under
meath by the river current. Every day
dead bodies can be seen floating down
the over. Most of these are Chinese.
but occasionally we noticed white
man floating by. The American fleet
has lost its share, six sailors being drown
ed that ] know of. There is no safety
against these fatalities, although the
river police 60 up and down the stream
in sanpans or native boats.
Shanghai is a port open to all nations
OF the world us n commercial center and
there are no customs to pay on goods ex-
cept opium and tea. At Yokohama, Jap
an, il costs 500 to get case of Durham
tobacco through the custom house.
There is only one theatre in Shanghai
and there is a performance there every
two or three months, and sometimes six
months. During the summer a band
plays on the bund, or water front park
Aside from these there are no public
places of amusement.
Annoy, China, is small place located
about 100 miles north of the Formosa
islands and about 200 miles east of Hong
Kong. There is not much of interest to
be seen there except the leaning rock
and some old writing on the rocks which
is said to be the oldest known writing
in the world. We stopped here
on the monitor Monadnock on our way
to Cavite, Philippine Islands, to coal up
and get fresh provisions. We passed
near the Formosa islands on our way to
Sd'itc. IHeTe arc dDOuu - Europeans
here and of the other nationalities, the
majority are Americans and English.
We left Annoy on January 81, 1905, for
Cavlte, where we had target practice
winning the trophy from the Oregon
We made l.79 per cent. OF hits out OF a
possible 200. The Oregon made LIS
and the Wisconsin 1..3l. They called oui
vessel the mud scow because we laid in
the mud at Shanghai so much But w
could shoot, anyway.
W~feit Cayite for Bremerton, Wash.
on the Zapiro at 10:30 o'clock on the I7tf
Of May, arrived at Yokohama on the 24tl
and left on the Both. On May 10Th VIZ
ran into big whale 60 or 20 feet long
and went right over him. The propeller
struck and cut big hole in him and he
was spouting blood as long as we could
see him. We saw several herds oI
whales, waterspout and several ice
bergs, all of which were grand to lool
upon. Our trip home was the finest
ever made at sea, having only one day ol
bad weather and two days of fog.
JOSEPH WHEELER.
Late of the u. S. Navy.