The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-13

party OF the year registered saturday Al
the Knutsford. under the leadership OF
George vlckore of Castledene, Hanworth.
England.
Mr., Nickers is n typical English busl-
ness man. keen and ohservant, and tells
OF tho long voyage as follows:
I'VE left Tinbury, near London, coming
down the channel and taking depart
lure from Dover. headed for the Rock OF
Gibraltar. We had beautiful weather
even In the far-famed stormy Bay OF Bis
cay. and at no time in rounding the
whole world have we had moro thua the
ordinary gales.
Stopped at Cairo.
we stopped at Cairo and tho usunl
stopping PAGES till We reached the oueG
canal. after leaving which occurred the
first sad slight OF the voyage, Some ma
tiyes OF 1naia oied in the steerage and
were buried at sea, In the manner GUS
tomary with them anc very dinercnt from
that used by Christian people. They
avoid the eyes or Christians. and TOOK
a. time when one was on deck TO per-
form their rites.
The bodies were wrapped In canvas
TO the ships side. The ship was stopped
and the planlls hoSted over the side.
When they touched the water they were
turned over and the bodies dumped in the
sea, where they foated. TO be caught by
the sharps that always follow n snip on
which a death occurs
Other Points Touched.
I'VE then went on 10 Bombay having
passed through the Straits Settlements,
then on TO Hongkong and Macao, in
China. and Nagasaki, Kobe and Yoko-
hama. in Japan thence on to Honolulu
and finally to San Francisco. From
ship Dorc. Capt Harry Smith, and all
are agreed she ran tho very best OF them
an
Missionary Question.
The missionary question? I know
from seventeen years OF round-the-world
travel that there tx bitter hostility
among business and professional men In
foreign countries toward Christian mis-
ord as believing Ii Is not Justified. j
have seen men and women In missionary
work whom 1 know could make double
tho money at homo employments, and
such devoted people do not needlessly
give onense to foreign peoples.
First News of Quake.
I'VE first heard OF the earthquake at
Yokohama, and the dispatches would
alarm any man, The city was swept on
The earth and thousands were killed.
People were very sympathetic, and the
American colony was disrupted, the larg-
er number OF tho colony taking the nrst
Yokohama for relief, FOR there were then
IN the harbor American ships loaded with
supplies for Japanese poor who were vic
TINS of the northern drought.
Learned
ION arrival at Honolulu we learned all
the particulars OF the horror, and, later,
found them all only too true. The, peo-
pie of Honolulu were very active in
measures OF relief. and forwarded large
sum of money. We also took good col
lection on the Doric. which the purser
turned over 10 the relief committee.
Jap-American Commerce.
"Japanese-American commerce? We'll.
] heard report read of the work of the
Yokohama Chamber Of Commerce. and
in 1t was stated that American imports
into the Japanese ports was 200 per cent
greater than for last year, and l believe
that tells the story. 1t Ia remarkable
IN Yokohama and Kobe, and on the way
there, You see, the war has wrought
great changes in the manners and GUS
toms OF that people. The women. for In
stance, now do up their hair like Euro
lpean women, and it came about In this
way: While the war WIS on the wo-
men. who had to pay for the fancy
dressing of hair, discarded the practice
to send the money to the front for help
for tine soldiers. They now continue the
practice, so far as dressing hair Is con-
cerned The men want finer and more
stable houses and so the American for
este are being transferred TO Japan to
build homes. The habits of economy for
money for war purposes touched all the
pleasures and luXurIes Of the Japanese,
30 that theaters. parties, etc were all
cut out and the money sent to the front
Crossing the Meridian.
I'VE had the usual fun In crossing the
meridian. and 1t was a difficult matter
as II always ls-to get people 10 sec how
we came to have two Fridays. II is
equally diffcult when going westward
and crossing tho same meridian. to get
them to see why, II 1t Is Monday before
we cross. 1t becomes Wednesday after
we cross. though only a few minutes OF
time elapse. OF course. the officers had
a telescope with horsehair across the
lens, and got credulous passengers to
look through 1t and see the meridian
Eager to See Frisco.
After leaving Honolulu all eyes and
hearts were intent on seeing the ruined
city, Capt. Smith meant TO raise the
land IN the early morning: and all hands
see the nc eg on IN the the dd od 1f c house e0pq bu9
only the great. bare cross on Lone noun
tain was the remaining land mark TO
those OF US who had come through the
Golden Gate before
THE great cross Is always an awe-in-
spring thing from scaward, but II was
terribly gloomy this time Fur as We
could see was desolation, and distance
did not lend enchantment to tho scene.
AS the big ship ploughcd her way past
at her rails who paid the tribute of tears
10 the stricken people and the destroyed
Housed at Oakland.
"our party was housed In Oakland at
the Metropole hotel. and We took autos
TO travel about San Francisco. All The
Tribune has had cannot describe the ruin
and desolation. They are moving how
ever. and in three years ne shall gee a
better city on the ruins
1--WE. who are travelling conductors OF
these around-the- world trips believe In
noscots. and | have mine on my watch
chain, 1t is little golden heart l found
on deck the day we left London. and for
which I could not find an owner, and II
has charmed good weather and smooth
seas for US all the way. we go to Chi
cago. New York and home again"
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