Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-09-21
CHINESE INNS.
rhos. In the Interior Arc About tns
Worst In the World.

Worst IN inc Vo''S'
An amusing picture OF the dilncui-
ties of travel In China Is drawn py
w T. Garnett, third secretary OF inc
British legation in Picking, In a report
,ssued from the foreign office on
tourney he made through Shangtung'
Mr. Garnett had intended to go Iar-
thor than he actually went Dut ne
suffered so much from being 1olted
.hout I'm a Chinese cart that one por-
ZION of his tour had to be abandoned
Innkeeping in the Chinese Interior Is
NOT business that calls for the iaV-
Ish sinking Of capital.
"Nearly every village" says Mr..
carnett possesses an inn, and the
only difference between them Is lne
VARYING amount Of discomfort the trav-
e,er has to endure, for none Is good.
Tho hest room Of a Chinese Inn con-
c,sts Of four walls, matched roof ana
q door though this is not essential
The floor is of mud and very far from
Ibeing level, and there Is the Kang' Ut
chinese bed place, on which camp Deus
can be erected.
"Chairs and a rickety table can ire
louently be obtained, though the Inn
keeper may have to borrow thenl,
There are always windows covered
with filthy paper broken In a thou-
sand places, but rarely Is glass 10 De
mot with The walls are usually OIL
mud bricks. sometimes partially Gov
cred with paper as filthy as that which
acts as windows and usually bearing
few red paper Chinese characters
EXPRESSING happiness and similar
! good wishes. =,
'"In many cases the walls do not all
D touch the ceiling, and the rooms are
, in consequence always open to the all
8 somewhere. 1t Is perhaps needless to
g saw that the dirt Is usually very nor
/ rible and there are plenty of vermln
The door frequently ends a foot IRON
t the ground. and In consequence the
b traveller may find In the morning ina
o no has had visitors during the nigh
:, in the shape Of cats, dogs, chickens
and even pigs.
, 1.-THE question Of payment Is always
/. difficult one. The innkeeper neVe
e likes to tell the guest the price as III
d Is terrified at naming a sum smalle
g than the guest would perhaps pay
loft TO himself to decide, but the righ
nrice seems to be about 20 cents 10
lodging If the travellers consume lal
c. number Of eggs and have fire hgh'
~ ed for boiling their water. Eggs an
10 chickens can nearly always be OBTAIN
cd in the villages; also Chinese Drea'
~ which is by no means bad.
IL Mr.. Garnet was compelled TO TAX
49, 70 q cart between Chinanfu and ID
- Grand canal, and the experience II
es capacitated him from pursuing pa
oe Of the contemplated journey.
W These vehicles are two wheeled an
VI of the rudest description. Ihey d
~, enormously strong to resist the teri
~, BILE humping they have to underg
"a They are also springless. The drlV'
sits on the shaft, and this Is said 10
NC tho most comfortable place. The u
fortunate traveller inside Is pitch'
~ from one side to the other against u
wood latticework of the sides as u
no cart plows its way over every oDstacl
however large or difficult, until he
~ black and blue and indeed sometlm
", breaks a limb.
" AS for the roads, in bad weather tn
90 are practically impossible, being Sc
ed eral feet deep in the thickest lhasil
Of. BILE mud. When there is Drluee w
a stream 1t is in the majority OF cas-
aid avoided by the carts or mules pecau
90 II is either broken through IN pia'
or else in such bad state Oh rep
ran that it would be dangerous to use
lad and so every one fOrds the river as
vas no bridge existed.-Cincinnati Comm
zed cial Gazette.