Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-30

month. that number has since been In
creased by one-half.
This flood OF immigrants has swept
over the whole peninsula from Fusan TO
the Yalu and the Tumen. The main trav-
eled roads Of these pioneers are the rail-
roads, extending now in an unbroken chain
from Fusan in the south through SEOUL,
the capital to win on the Yalu river, and
the ancient highways leading from the
ports Of Gensan, Chinampo Chemulpo and
Antung back into the interior.
The japanese never goes beyond the
point where he can obtain his rice. dr.ed
fish and daikon from home. Where he stops
there he builds himself a house after his
own style. hedges this about with high
board fence TO keep out the Coreans and
periodically HOSTS the sun flag before his
gateway II It is at Corean walled town,
he builds outside the walls. away from
the dirt. laying thus the nucleus for the
japanese town that will shortly spring up
about his pioneer dwelling
This picket Of the new army Of occura-
ton comes to Corea either as a laborer en-
ployed In the construction work or opera
ton Of the railroad, as a sendo or bargeman
in the japanese settlements at the seaports.
or as a petty trader catering TO his fellow
emigrants or the Corean trade He expects
nothing Of Corean custom makes no con-
cessions to Corean susceptibilities as a bid
for trade treats with the Coreans only as an
inferior and conquered people.
Program of the Trader.
II he be a trader SalSurasan Of Shlmono-
seki displays in his shop a line something
, like this F1annels, cottons and cheap
woolens such as the japanese wear cheap
| figured silks for womens wear; brasses and
copper kettles, pans and kitchen hardware,
together with coarse blue China for table
! service; womens gewgaws and dressing
| table outfits; builders tools and hardware;
picked and dried foodstuffs from Japan.
! 1t is to be noted that none Of these wares
| are such as TO attract Corean purchasers.
! Heretofore the Coreans had bought their
cloth from the Chinese, their hardware and
their household necessaries from French,
German and American traders.
At present the native will not buy from
the Japanese on principle, but that does not
worry Sakurasan Of Shimonoseki. He is
selling now to his countrymen in the boom
times of emigration and japanese ships are
rapidly driving Chinese, European and
American ships out of Corean ports. A
practically closed door TO Corean trade will
soon force the Corean to buy japanese CLOTH
| China and hardware or 60 without.
Where the vanguard OF the Nipponese
! army of occupation has blazed the trail
spring settlements, expanding with mush-
| room growth to the grth Of cities. Thsse
| are in every respect Japanese towns pcs
sessing the hurried hustle and energy of
| any home city In Japan.
| In nearly every instance they are built
| apart from the old Corean town. They are
regularly laid out. we'll drained and clean
with that rigid Japanese cleanliness which
acqentuates the squalor and filth OF the
, Corean community.
| Industrial Activity at ChemuIpO.
! .Chemulpo, the largest seaport of Corea,
ten years ago but collection of filthy mud
huts is now a hustling city of 1900, pos
sessing stone piers, a Japanese rolling mill
and electric light plant Chinnampo. the
northern port selected at the beginning OF
hostilities as point of disembarkment for
japanese troops, has suddenly sprung from
a struggling Corean village to town OF
over 300 houses. A stone ietty is being
constructed along the water front and a
marsh is being filled to accommodate the
outward growth of the town.
Fusan on the southern extremity of the
peninsula, which has been a Japanese town
since the invasion of Hldeyoshi in the
seventeenth century, is now fully as i'm
portant a shipping center as Moji OF
| Shimonoseki. on the Japan side OF the
Tsushima straits. Land along its water
front cost more last year than business
sites in Toxic.
As the southern terminus of the Keifr
railroad, running thence to Seoul, Fusar
takes on commercial Importance second
only to that of Chemulpo. Two regular
Japanese lines OF steamers, one American
and one German line, make Fusan a por
of call. daily ferry service between thai
port and shimonoseki Japan, is main
tanned by the Sanyo Railroad company Of
Japan, which bridging the narrow water
way between Corea and Japan, reduces tn
passage from Toxic to Seoul to sixty hours
Most typical of the striking growth at
tanned by Japanese settlements in Corel
and at the same time marked by the super
latlve in contrast with its environment II
the japanese settlement on Nam-san Hill
within the walls of Seoul.
City within a City.
Elevated above the ruck and filth Of thi
! shockingly filthy city of SPRAYING mut
! hunts, and in q measure hedged apart from
: the main Corean city by the slope of tn
! declivity upon which II stands, this com
munity OF nigh 25.0OO souls Is as we'll or
dered, as comfortably housed as that OF an,
prosperous. district in Japan. Here
branch OF the Dai Ichi Ginko Great FRS
l. bank) of japan does a large business II
deposits and transfers. A modern depart
n ment store, branch Of a large Toxic hous
a which is modelled on American lines, car
e ries full stock OF Japanese and European
dry goods and groceries. A semi European
d hotel with first-class accommodations offer
Judgment to Europeans and Americans. !
n theater. geisha tea houses and a larg