Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-31
CHINESE COMMISSION
Visited the Library and Capitol
Today.
MARvELED AT THE FORMER
Most Gorgeously Decorated Piece Of
Architecture in This Country.
LEAVES FOR NEW YORK TONIGHT
Many Functions Arranged for Them
in That City-A Constitution
a Possibility.
LEAVES FOR NEW YORK TONIGHT

Forty nine of the imperial Chinese COM
mission will roll out of Washington tonight
on the Pennsylvania for New York after
nearly two weeks of the most strenuous
sort of sightseeing. The commissioners
Spent their last day here seeing the Library
of Congress and the Capitol They went
to the Library about noon and were met by
the librarian and number of the Library
officials They We're shown all over the big
building and for once were more interested
In the spectacular side of the display than
in the practical. They saw the book stacks
and the book elevators, the reading rooms
and the arrangements for handling the I'M
mense business of the Library with speed
and precision. But they were forced to con-
fess that the beauties of the building itself
dwarfed the unitarian side of the business,
and both commissioners, through their in
terpreter said that it was by far the most
perfect and gorgeouSy decorated piece of
architecture that they had seen in this
country
At the Capitol.
From the Library the visitors went over
to the Capitol. where they had seats in the
diplomatic galleries and watched the ma
| tional soons at what they esteem work.
They the arrangements for heating
and ventilating and few of the members,
but not many took the trip to the dome
After going over the Capitol they went to
the State Department and paid their part
ing call on Secretary Root. thanking him
for the courteSieS that had been extended
them by this government and assuring him
that if there was another trip abroad to be
made that they would certsinly elect to
take in America as their part of the job.
The two commissioners before leaving said
that they wanted to thank the newspapers
of Washington and of the country for the
courtesies and attentions extended them,
and to say that America as a whole had
certainly made effort to make their visit
pleasant. The junior members of the party
were rather less formal and quite en-
thusiastic over the way that they had been
treated.
The viceroy's young will go with him
to New York and back with the party to
China His stay of two years in Wash
ington has certainly been experience
for him and the youngsters with whom he
has been thrown in contact There has not
been anything much he wanted, from an
apartment at an exclusive apartment house
to an expensive automobile that he has not
had, and it will be good while before the
irridescent hues that he has plastered over
Mount Pleasant will wear off.
The visitors will have special car to
New York tonight and will stop at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel while there. They will
be in the city less than a week. but will
make a number Of side trips, returning
| eventually u new 1OIk ana SAILING on FeD-
| ruary u on the Butcher for Plymouth.
Functions in New York.
While in New York there have been about
as many functions arranged in their honor
as in Washington. They will have dinner
at the stock exchange and luncheon at the
chamber of commerce. They will have an
other luncheon with the American Asiatic
Association and will visit in turn all Of the
most charitable and educational institu-
lions of the city. There win be special
trips to the Girls School and the Charity
Organization Society, and as many other
points as it is possible to crowd into the
time at their disposal.
The party will make side trips to Niagara.
to Wells College, Ithaca, Philadelphia, Bos-
ton and West Point, and when they sail will
have come about as near extracting all the
information possible out of the United
States as any party that has ever come
here from a foreign country.
They will not make any extended tour
of England. the other commission being
accredited to that country. but will visit
London In an informal way and spend a
few days in the united kingdom They are
especially accredited to Germany. Austria,
Italy and Russia, and will look into the
Industrial political, educational and mil
itary question in those countries, just as
| they have done in America. They expect
to sail in about two months from Genoa or
some other Italian port and will go home
| by way Of Suez and the Red sea.
Their forty rooms at the Arlington this
morning were the scene of about as much
| work as circus striking tents m one
night town. There were agents of steam
| ship lines and railroads and tourist, bag
| gage and passenger agents all over the
hotel. Mr. Wan, one of the English-speak-
| ing secretaries, was knee deep in pile Of
| steamer tables and baggage tags, measuring
| out string, handing around pastors and
| issuing instructions in three languages to
swarm of subordinates, finding time in the
| interval to be interviewed, smoke a few
| cigarettes and crack jokes with the pas
senger agents. and the like. This is his
second trip to the United States, and he not
| only talks English like native but can
make jokes in English, which is something
of an accomplishment, and appreciate the
easygoing ways of the country as though
he had been born here
Mr.. King the Chinese vice consul at San
Francisco, is a more staid and grave little
man. but knows the manners and methods
of railroads and newspapers, and Will ac-
company the party as far as New York to
see that they get everything that is coming
to them and not too much beside.
May Be Constitution.
It was explained before the commission
left that while there is nothing definitely
settled about constitution for China
that that is one of the possibilities of the