The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-10
GOVERNMENT FOR CHINA
PRINCE TSAI> Use ADVOCATES RE-
PUBLIC or CONSTITUTION.
Head Of Second Imperial Commission G ives
RefOrmers Here Something TO Think
About at Dinner In Chinatown as the
Guests OF Sir Chentung Llang Cheng.

DutStb OI SIT SHtntUnB AIlbHk NuonH.
Prince Tsai Use, cousin of the Celestial
Emperor, his two fellow High Commits
s%ioners, his secretary and Sir Chentung
LANG Cheng, the Chinese Minister, de-
soended on Chinatown last night chaperoned
by Detective Sergeants Funston and Fogarty
Of the Central Office
Joseph Singleton, president OF the Chinese
Reform Ass ociation, met the party at the
entrance Of the Port Arthur restaurant
and escorted the exalted one up stairs to
the ass ociation's meeting room, wher re some
fifty or sixty members had been prostrating
themselves ever since they heard the
carriages draw up at the door.
The Prince made a short speech but
managed to say enough in that time to
arouse his hearers out Of their Mongolian
gravity. After oomplimenting the asso-
citation on its potent and far reaching work
and commanding that it should be carried
on with wen greater energy, he said:
Il hope the time is not far distant when
China will be a republic; il not that, l hope
II will have a constitution and be governed
like England"
If the audience hadn't been what they
were, they would have lone what they
ulun uO-CneeT. AS IL was IHey IWlTleu
their pigtails thrice around their little
fingers and shufied their feet. Then the
Prince and the party descended into the
restaurant and settled themselves in one
Of the priva te rooms, while Funston n
Fo garty went on guard in the other. The
Prince picked up the menu, which folded
like a railroad time table, spread it out
on the cloth, and for the first time in the
day his melancholy face took on an ex-
preston OF Oh eerfulness. He ordered the
eight courses, with ~falsetto ordinations
which meant Damn the expense, anyway"
But 1t was Sir Client ung's blow, and it was
his fault that the i'm perial stomach was so
eager, for the Minister had kept the party
waiting at the Fifth Avenue Hotel for
nearly an hour while he was deciding
what particular form Of entertainment
he would offer.
Toward the middle Of the feast the visitors
loosened up and became almost jolly. and
even the young Prince laughed the. Then
walters got so nervous they spilled tea
on the secretary's robes. The feast broke
up early, and after a few polite Orientalisms
to the proprietor the party returned TO the
Fifth Avenue Hotel and retired,
The Prince and his high commissioners,
Shang Chi Heng, Governor Of Shantung
province, and Ii Sheng 70, Chinese Min
ister to Belgium, together with his suite
of twenty-nine secretaries and servants,
arrived dJ UIle NTdnu ISIlIldl IOldIlOu ycSltI-
day morning early on a special train. They
are on their way to visit England, Germany
and France to study the social and political
systems in those countries. They have
already visited Japan, where they were
received with great cordially by the
Mikado.
They vent directly from the station to
the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The hotel entrance
was decorated with a big yellow flag bear
ing a black dragon. The hotel door OF the
rn,,N1I.Nr uptr tya rinfU ptIuDlnl annnn nf
the visitors. But their ready minds sprang
done from right to left? Do we not read
our Confucius from right to left?" they
between the shutters and pushed to the
left. He couldn't move 1t.
"Oh! Cha! Cha! he said under his breath,
q terrible Monaghan oath, and pushed
some more, but there was nothing doing.
A nervous Manhattanite in a hurry began
pushing the door the other way from the
inside. For a moment both strained against
each other, and then the Chinaman let go
and was precipitated backward into the
hotel lobby.
till lunch time, and soon after that ceremony
Major-Gen. Grant, accompanied by his
staff, clattered into the hotel and paid them
a visit. As the Prince doesn't speak Eng
lish. Gen. Grant and he didn't exchange
much conversation. Gen. Grant told the
Prince (through an interpreter) that he
always has had a warm spot in his heart
for China because his father had been
received so cordially by the Chinese imperial
family when he visited China in 1877.
This morning at II o'clock the Prince will
return the visit OF Gen. Grant. Tonight he
and his high commissioners and Sir Chen
tung will be guests at a banquet at the
University Club, and on Sunday morning
the party leaves for Washing ton. They
return to New York Tuesday and will sail
Wednesday on the Baltic for Liverpool.