The Washington herald., 1908-02-01
AT THE HOTELS.

Nhihd IiduilS Company at shanghai,
China
Mr.. De Gray is on his annual vacation
and Is visiting his home in New Jersey.
as well as the headquarters Of the COM
pany at New York. Dir. De Gray is reg
istered at the Cochran.
Germany is making great headway in
China. The German consulate at Shang-
hal is a most pretentious building. on the
river front in the best part Of the city;
the Germans have now also erected a fine
church opposite the consulate. and. in adj
dition to that they have put up a post
office.
THE Germans are progressive. and.
making this big show, naturally most IA
yorably impress the Chinese. England
also has "A magnificent consulate COM
pound. So has France and Japan. It is
but natural that all Of these powers
should be rated as irst-class in the Chi
nese mind, which divides the standing OF
the nations into three classes.
"On the other hand. take the United
States. which is the wealthiest and most
progressive country Of them all. one
would naturally think that this country
| owned a building for her Official repre-
sentatives at Shanghai commensurate
with her standing No such thing
THE United States does not even own
the unpretentious and undignifed build
ing located on a back street and occu-
pied by her consul It is positively a
disgrace, and the consequence is that
America is looked upon by the Chinese
as a secOnd-Tate power.
1T is but natural that the United
States. under the circumstances, should
be under a great disadvantage. Congress
should do something, by all means. 10
elevate the. United States TO that place Of
influence and power in the eyes Of the
Chinese to which she is entitled This
would only rebound 10 our profit
Judge Wiihey, against whom, I under
stand. complaints have been lodged with
the government here. is the best possible
man the United states could have sent
10 China TO occupy the place he does. He
had a most difficult task 10 perform when
he took matters into his own hands 10
clear the court and Shanghai Of a class
OF the most disreputable and dishonest
Americans and establish the good name
of this country in China.
Judge Wilfey has been fearless in his
methods, but withal unbiased and abso-
lutely honest. The government. I am
convinced, will find that he is the right
man for the place and will retain him
there.
Il am against the Chinese exclusion
measure for many reasons. prominent
among which is the fact that it is against
American commercial interests in China. %
I was in New Orleans a few weeks
ago" said Francis II. Mccormick, a
civil engineer. of New York, last night
at the Cochran, and while there I took
some little interest in matters concerning
the health conditions
q understand there Is considerable
sickness here 1 remarked to an old col
ored porter at the hotel where I was
staying Is that trueT
Well. boss he answered, I mus ad-
nit dat dey is considuble sickness in dis
town
And a good deal Of yellow fever?
questioned further.
Yes boss. sum yaller fevah. One sea-
son dey won be much and den agin de
mex season dey'U be a whole lot: but
takin' all in all, dey's considuble fevah in
New Orleans
And what do they take for it?' ] In
quired. still in search Of specific inf0r-
nation.
Well. I'll teff- you. boss he respond
ed; 'dey is several things dey takes for
yaIler fevah. but all what kin affo'd il,
takes de fust train foh de Norf-'
According TO NJ. }. Long, a mining ex-
pert Of New York. who is Just back from
the Sierra Madre Mountains country. in
Western Mexico. a serious Indian war is
on there.
Mr. Long is registered az the National
He is here on private business.
The Mexican government" said Mr
Long. has forbidden the employment Cf
Yaqui Indians. II has confscated every
thing the Yaquis ever owned, IS captur-
ing or deporting or otherwise getting
away with them as fast as ruraIes can
get hold of the Indians In retaliation
the Yaquis have gone on the warpath,
and are keeping on IT,
only a day or two before / reached
Guayamas on a visit TO friends there. an
employe Of one of them had been wound
ed. his wife narrowly escaping. and there
were eight dead men on the spot
THE employe and a friendly Mexican
had started from a mine 20 the church a
Guayamas 10 have the mans baby chris
tened. Yaquis opened fire on the Mexican.
That was the signal for his friends party
10 get on the lee side Of the buggy, by
which they were travelling. and begin a
defense.
The Mexican was nearly killed The
employees wife's clothing was shot
through, and her husband received a flesh
wound At the end of the fight. besides
the Mexican, there were seven dead Va
Quis. There had been eleven engaged in
the sklrmish.
They all go armed down there" said
Mr.. Long. and they would need 10. on
arriving at Guayamas I told some friends
that Mrs. Long and I would like 10 have
some drives through the suburbs.
You can drive only up and down tie
beach. on account of the Yaquis they
told us. To our amazement we then
learned of the war.
The Yaquis think highly OF Americans.
but fight even our people for their rifles
and revoivers. They fight Mexicans on
sight. The American sympathy is almost
entirely on the side of the Indians. who
have been deprived Of everything. and
are driven into the bush.
Il am told that captured Yaqui has
no idea what will happen him 1 hear
the roll called in one prison Sew
1aquis were ordered out. We suppose
they were being taken out to be goad,
into an attempt to escape. so they COT
be killed in their flight OF fight
The government iS sending the VpT
old and the very young Yaquis to Yuca-
tan, to starve there. And starve they
do, so ] am told. II is a vicious state Of
affairs. and can end only when the Yaquis
are eXteTmnated
The fact that they are not allowed
employment makes tEem bIshmen, and
keeps them on the WaTpath. There are
some employed, but they declare they are
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