The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-10-19

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is surrounded in two sides ~ a brick
wall twelve feet in height, which the
wall OF the Tartar city afjoints at the
south. 1t faces the r adWay which the
Chinese used to cali She Street of the
Subject Nations in their efforts 10
make the natives believe that all the
foreign governments paid thu TO
PeklnS. IN this compound there are
five large buildings which have been
put up since the seige. Each is OF
two stories, built OF gray brick. faced
with stone, after a simple, but beau
tiful style. They are the residences
of our minister and his secretaries
and the chancery Of the legation. The
minister's house is the largest. 1t has
q Uid Teranda Of stone and brick
facing the compound. with a double
portico upheld by stone pillars at the
side. The ground floor rooms are all
large and Well adapted TO the enter
tainments OF q live, social. diplomatic
center, such as the Legation city is.
They are beautifully furnished. con-
tanning many curios and rare bits OF
art, collected by the minister. The
liangingS are largely embToiderieS, the
floor coverings rare rugs from Persia
and Turkey. Against one wall of the
large drawing room is what might be
called a Qua throne, witt a table be-
tween. This consists Of two immense
Chinese seats, such as the highest
II oSt. II Ii l1ltIt tIld IlS
minister sits with his silk-gowned Of
fetal and chats about matters of state.
The houses OF thc secretaries are OF
fairly good size, and the chancery
building has two stories and is Well
equipped with typeWriters, ~fle-cases
end the other neceSSarieS of an up
to-date office. These buildings were
Well planned and constructed by Mr..
Sidney Nealy, an American architect,
assigned to the work of the Treasury
Department. They have cost, all told,
about $180.O00, and they could not be
fnilt fer twice that sun in Washing
ton. They are among the best build
ings Of the Legation city.
Legation at Picking.
The new minister, Mr.. Crane. Will
be in China by the time this letter is
publish@. He will FIND a good staff
awaiting him at Peking. and VIII be
able to do much for the United States.
The China of today is business
throughout, and in connection With
the new nation which is coming intO
being there Will be vast opportunities
for American money and American
rains Minister Crane is a usiness
man. and he will demand that Uncle
Sam have his share in the new con-
cesSiOnS and loans. In this he Will
have the assistance of the first secre-
tary of the legation, Mr.. Henry r.
Fletcher, who has been III China for
several years and has repeatedly act
ed as charge d'affaires. Mr., Fletcher
comes from Pennsylvania. He was =
Rough Rider during the Cuban war
and served in our legation in Portu-
gal before he came to China.
Our Chinese Force.
The new minister does not speak
Chinese. as did his predecessor, Mr.
R~Ockhill, who was an able Chinese
scholar. He has connected With him.
however, quite q force who under
ST n n no ~ he 1Da1 of
this branch Of the legation is DR.. g. D.
Tenney, the Chinese secretary. who
has been in the diplomatic service for
many years, having been closely asso-
ciated in an educational and advisory
capacity with Ii Hung Chang and
Yuan Shih Kai before he came here.
DR.. Tenney graduated with high hon
OrS at ROWdoin College and shortly
after he came to China, was a tutor in
Ii Hung Changes family. He was soon
made president of the TientSin IniVer-
sity, and as such had much TO do with
the training of the most progressive
of the young Chinese officials. lie was
at the head of that college while
Yuan shin kai was viceroy of Chihli,
and aided the latter in his plans for
the reorganization Of he new schools
of China. Dr.. Tenney has Travelled
through a great part Of north China
and Mongolia, establishing schools,
and has writtef several textbooks in
Chinese. which are now largely used.
About two years ago he was sent by
the Chinese government to take forty
or fifty Chinese boys of high class to
the leading colleges of America and
England and to superintend their edu-
cation there. 1t was while acting in
that capacity that he was appointed
first Chinese secretary to take the
place of Hi. E. T. Williams, who is
now our consul general at Tientsin.
The second Chinese secretary is Mr..
w. r. Peck, Il graduate OF Berkeley
University. He was born in China but
was appointed from California. He
speaks and writes the Chinse, and is
a valuable man.
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