The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-08
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Editor Howe Describes His
Thanksgiving Day Trip.
glish and French Make 1t
Resemble European City.
CONTEMPT FOR CHINESE
Are Much Larger Than the
Japanese But GOWardly.
Vas Much Interested at the
Great Walled City.
CONTEMPT FOR CHINESE

Great Walled City.
Thanksgiving day. When I came on
deck this morning, the siberia was at
enahor of Shanghai. CRsna. Owing to
ae great draft of the ship, we were UNI
atIs to go up the river to the city so
rsssengers were transferred to a. ten
Eafsand freight to lighters, fourteen miles
away. We were at anchor in broad
rsver, and the shores looked like the
chores OF the Missouri river, on the bot
ten side: the same sandbars, and the
same willows and cottonwOOds. This
aeetfon of China is fat The water in
chs river in which we anchored is mud
dvs for a good many hours we had been
ia the Yellow Sea. the water Of a yellow
color, from the mud ia the rivers flowing
into 1t. When the passengers went 10
1ha bath rooms this morning they re-
ba1Ied: the water was as muddy as Mis-
louri river water before it is filtered.
At $3.50 tender came off, and a good
many of the passengers went on board
for the trip to Shanghai as the unload
1n@ Of the ship would detatn III twenty
eight hours. So we fled down the dou-
Bile stairway hanging against the snip S
side, and went aboard the tender, which
was rocking like a chip. BY the time we
roG away the lighters had arrived and
the unloading was under way.
we were an hour and half going up
the river to Shanghai. with Missouri
river bottom land on either side all the
way Some of the houses looked very
much like some of the farm houses to
IS seen in the Missouri river bottoms,
hut generally the houses were covered
with rice straw which is the rule All
over rural China. The river was full
OF Chinese junks; cOasting boats, some
OF which were provided with cannon,
as q protection against Chinese pirates.
which are still numerous. lit is said that
at Canton, tourists may see pirate be-
BEADED nearly every day, on payment OF
Z small sum: if a pirate is not ready for
execution the official VIII get him ready
81 the inducement is great enough
On either side of every Chinese junk s
prov is q great eye to see the way.
m foggy weather, these eyes are given
an extra polish, in order that they may
see better On one junk. we saw sailor
beating q gong the wind was light ana
the god vroTshipped by the crew was be-
ing implOred for a breeze, and q favor
able one. Two crews sailing side by
side viii beat gOngs and pray for a
favorable wind. although one crew may
be going up the river, and the other
down: q favorable wind for one crew
wifi be unfaVOraDle for The other How
they FIX it between themselves, I do not
know.
Behind us came a tender from a Ger
man ship which had anchored near us,
and we "jOllied" the passengers, as our
tender outran theirs. AS we approach
ed the city, we saw many big ships at
ahchor, including many foreign war
azips. We passed several warships fly
INK the American flag: three of them
had been captured from Spain, and de-
voted to the service of Uncle Sam One
of our. passengers an assistant paymas-
ter knew the officers. and they called
back and forth to each other. There
were half a dozen Chinese Warships, a
cable ship, and numerous tramp steam
ers: steamers that do not belong to any
regular line, but go wherever they can
ind freight. On the right hand side OF
the river were immense cotton mills;
raw cotton is shipped here from tbs
limited States, and manufactured into
Gleth by the Chinese cheap labor. Al
1880. we saw a crowd of people waving
handkerchiefs at a dock, and we pulled
in there and landed.
Shanghai is a treaty port. and con
trnlled by the foreigners: the Amer
leans, the English, the Germans, the
French, etc. There are about ter
thousand foreign residents, and a hal
million Chinese residents, but the for
eigners control the city, because o
the treaty If I should have had
fight with an Englishmau in Shanghai
would have been taken before thu
American consul, and tried according
feAmerican laws; the Englishmal
ceu1d have been taken before the Eng
Esh consul, tried by English law.
the modern city of Shanghai look
IKE a continental city, for the Englisl
anu French are more in evidence than
ave Americans; the American popula
ton is only seven or eight hundred
whereas there is an entire section
Known as the French quarter, and tn
aglish are in evidence everywhere
nae policemen are either Englishmen
oe English subjects from India: BIZ
hlack fellows who wear turbans, an,
twist their Whiskers in a curious way
There is an old walled Chinese city a
SHANGHAI, ruled by mandarins an,
thousands Of Chinese live and do bust
ness in the foreign or modern city
Which has fats which remind me o
Kansas City.
The Chinese are a good deal large
imam the japanese. and couldn't hell
thinking: you miserable devils, VIII
don't you whip the Japs? Why don
you try il again2" But the Chimes
seem to lack ''spunk." I went GU
driving with Shanghai man, an
pfnen the driver didn't act right. IN
Shanghai man would grab the Chimes
drlver's Queue and pull it. When W
returned to the hotel. the Chinama
attempted to Overcharge US, whereupo
the Shanghai man paid what n
thought was right, and then kicked tn
Ehfnaman. 1T is quite common her
aars English and Americans to bea
rfeEsha men with their canes, for the
have things their own way and tn
Chinese are very humble.
Rickshas are as numerous here a