The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-07-02

impressions Received by q Local GlOb.
Trotter in the Flowery Kingdom.
/ Most Americans visiting Japan en-
ter the country at Y okohama, but il
one goes by the Eastward route, via
! Egypt. India, and China, Kobe is the
natural port of entry
Il AN EXCITING EXPERIENCE.
j The day before we arrived at Kobe
our ship the Giant g Mongolia" rar
laground in that historical spot, the
i Straits of Shimonoseki, very narrow
tortuous passage way, in the marvel.
lOuSly beautiful Inland Sea of Japan.
i When we struck, we we're not a thou
sand feet from the shore, and how
want to be there, for ] saw at once it
was decidedly the best place to view a
shipwreck, which hitherto, [ had only
seen in oil paintings and chromos.
4 The ship listed frighttully, until it
seemed as it we would be spilled into
the sea. Tables had just been set fol-
titfin, and the crash of China was
awful.
Lifeboats were partly lowered, sev.
eral dressed in life preservers, and pre-
| pared for watery grave.
There were two overdreSSed English
women aboard, who up to date had adj
vertlSed at least seventeen new hats.
They at once doomed something pro-
per, and becoming, to meet their
watery fate, and waited for the inevi-
table, but the Captain sent down word
! we were as safe as if we were in Church;
then they changed their hats again.
/. In the morning, after many at
tempts at flood tide, we were at last
pulled off, none the worse for our
scare. ''All's well that ends we'll"
Kobe had horseless carriages long
ago. 1t is said Missionary invented
the Rickshaw. For one yen $50 cents
gold) you can have one including the
Rickshaw boy, all day. If your ami
ability prompts you to generous deeds,
give him as a tip, twenty sen 40 cents
extra, and he will in return give you
two dollars gold worth of bows and
smiles, and the national sucking in of
the breath, for no people on earth are
as polite as the japanese.
They could give lessons to some of
| our American milliOnaireS. They will
/ jog-trot ten miles without stop, and
then turn about and ask you if the ride
has wearied you.
Osaka, twenty miles away, is great
manufacturing city of nearly million
people, with forests of tall chimneys.
1t is little short of marvellous. that
whereas Japan did almost no manu-
featuring thirty years ago, now all
over the Empire progress is visible on
every hand
KyotO has much to interest all: much
outside as we'll as inside the city.
First, there are about three thousand
temples. / skipped two thousand nine.
hundred and ninety-four because life
has its limits. Still there are many
who prefer temples to cemeteries. The
greatest temple is the Higashi Hong
wanji, and it covers fifty-two Thousand
square feet of ground. There are of
course no pewS, as the people sit on
their soleS, but there is a wealth of
fine lacquer and gilt. At the Chionin
temple There is famous old bell eigh-
teen feet high, suspended just above
the ground. When it is rung, the peo-
pie are not left in doubt, as it has a
tone all its own. There is school of
Jujitsu, bayonet PRACTISE, and fencing,
and afternoons one can see the flower
of Japan engaged in the most Scien-
titic, exciting, and apparently danger
Gus encounters. 1t seems almost as if
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Children cry and refuse to be comfort
ed and don't wonder.
The Arashiyama rapids on the Hodzu
River, tempt everyone looking for ex-
element. You go from Kyoto by
train, by a very narrow, beautiful.
wooded valley, through many tunnels,
and as you emerge into the sunlight,
you look down into a roaring stream
filled with rocks, rapids, and water
falls, and wonder how any boat can
make the descent without being DASH
ed to pieces, and an hour later you are
coasting down over the very spot, dart
ing by dangers, seen and unseen, and
declaring it to be great fun, and one
experience to be quite enough.
Then there is Lake B;wa, Nesting
in the Crater of an extinct volcano,
over the mountains east of KyotO, and
sending it's flood through canal pierre
ing the mountain, and supplying the
whole city with sweet water.
Beautiful Nara lies to the west, with
its park of hundreds of sacred deer,
it's forests of stone lanterns and its
| temples There are score of inter-
esting places adapted for all seasons
of the year, on the mountains, in the
valleys, and by the seaside, for all of
Japan is beautiful, and almost every
thing is cultivated except the noun
tain peaks.
The artist can find plenty to sketch,
for there are no end of subjects.
EDUCATED JAPANESE.
The Japanese are learning English
toe, much faster than we are acquir-
ing Japanese. and the business signs
over the doors show it. One is never
in doubt what the sign over an egg
shop means when he reads Extract
of the Hem" over laundry, Ladies
and children washed here three sen"
| ~ cts. J; over bakery, Factory of
cake;" barber, "Shave hair off," shoe
maker, Drawn works and fur slipper. F"
They are self evident
| Sometimes, however. you are in
doubt when your guide says: "Just
same like that, but more different.
Admission to the exposition in Kyo-
to Is three sen, and worth it. l never
got into such a tangled maze before.
| 1t isn't so large, but is divided into
miles of narrow passage ways, and
either had to spend the most of my
time trying to keep from being lost, or
all my time finding my way out after
l was lost, so / missed some things,
but didn't miss the sound of March
ing through Georgia." a young Jap
continually played on reed organ.
The exposition is chiefly an outlet
| for manufacturers OF all sorts of home