Evening star., 1909-04-24

You can compare the prices with those or
our American restaurants or OF our cars
at home. Soup costs 6 cents, good
slice of fried FISH Z cents: or for the same
money you can have an omelct. dish OF
curry and rice or meat croquette. An
ordinary beefsteak on an American liner
costs from 50 cents to $1."3 Tho price
of steak here is 10 cents and OF roast
beef O. Roast chicken costs 1Oicents and
a slice OF ham with salad Ia. Tho portions
sold are much less In size than ours. but
the steak and fish. and indeed almost all
of the eatables. are delicious. There IS
an extra charge for bread and butter.
but this only 21a cents. and tea and cof-
fee cost the same. The price OF cake IS
2ls cents and fruit may be ordered from
u. cents upward. The same price list
used on the first-class diners OF that
country. One can also have meals table
dhote. breakfast Of three courses with
dessert and tea or coffee costing 35 cents.
a luncheon Of four courses 40 cents and q
dinner of five courses so cents.
On the fast express trains Of Korea
and Japan a pair of slippers is furnished
each first-class passenger for use during
the trip The porter takes ones shoes
and blacks them whether he rides over
night or not. and is we'll satisfied If he
porters are japanese boys in blue uniform
and red caps. Their coats are decorated
with silver buttons and both body and
clothes are as clean a pin. They are
very polite and keep the cars free from
dust. rubbing off the furniture at every
few stations.
At all the Japanese railroad depots thers
are porters in red caps and blue clothes
ready to buy ones ticket. carry the bag
gage and show him into the cars. a
fee of s cents Is always satisfactory.
Jinrikishas for the various hotels can De
had at the stations at from to Is cents
a trip. and the rates for baggage are low.
The second class cars OF both Korea
and Japan are about as comfortable as
the first. Those OF Japan are not unlike
our street cars in shape with long bencnes
length of the cars and an aisle IN the
middle These benches are cushfoneo
lust as our cars a. home. and are COM
Portable in that one can stretch nimselI
out at full length when there are but re"
other passengers. .
The first-class cars are patronlzed cnlef-
ly by foreigners and high oncials ana 'h9
second class by well-to-do japanese.
often go second class and find 1t quite
comfortable. Ones fellow passengers
usually take off their shoes or shed their
sandals and sit on their heels on the
seats :,
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rough. They have wooden benches and
are used only by the poorer classes
most Of whom are dressed in native cos
tunes. In the Korean cars the men wear
tall black horse hair hats and long gowns
OF white or pink. which reach 10 their
feet. They have full white trousers iled
in at the ankles. and stockings OF Wadded
cotton half an inch thick. Their shoes
are low and heavy and often hob-nailed
There are also women dressed in white
with green capes over their heads. and
porters who look dirty enough as they
take the luxury OF a ride from one station
to another. There are gayiy dressed boys
who wear gowns OF bright colors and
part their hair in the middle and plait 1t
in one long braid down their backs. There
are Japanese Of the lower classes In
kmonos and many Japanese private
soldiers on their way from post to post
There are Buddhist priests and pilgrims
who travel third class both here and IN
Japan, and altogether a fair sample or
every type of the common people OF Doth
principalities.
The new stations on the Korean rail-
roads are well built. The roadway Is
graded SO that it is level with the cars.
and 1t is separated from the tracks by
stone facings. There are military guards
at every depot, and the Japanese and
Korean flags are often crossed over the
entrances. This is especially so when
the army officers go over the road The
train which brought me to Seoul had sew
eral companies OF privates in its third