The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-13

SOiUIeTS
downright, 1909, by Frank O.. car
penter.)
PORT ARTHER, Manchuria, 1903.
spent his morning on Quail Hill,
where the Japanese are erecting a
memorial in honor of their heroes who
died at Port Arther This hill IS a
saddle-shaped elevation which rises
to a height Of Il thousand or more
feet out of the arena OF the .
theator in which Port Arther is lOcat-
ed. 1t faces the narrow entrance TO
the harbor where the japanese n
Russian gunboats shoWered shells up
on one another and about it may be
seen the hills forming the rim of the
am~phitheator upon which were the
fortifications taken one day by the
japanese during the siege.
Quail Hill from now on will be call
ed Monument Hill. 1t is a fitting site
to mark the glorious victory Of the
soldiers Of the mikado. 1t Overlooks
Golden Hill and the Tigers Tail, which
with their Qualifications protect the
harbOr entrance, and it is the first ele-
walton to be seen coming in from the
sea.
It is right upon it's top that the
monument is now going up. A great
temple OF silver gray granite, 1t
will be about 800 feet high and will
cost almost two hundred thousand dol
lars. The stone for it is coming by
the shipload from ~Shimonosekf, ia
pan, and hundreds of huge granite
blocks are now scattered about the
harbor and at the foot of the hill.
Many Of them are as large as a library
table, and not a few weigh several
tons each. A cable road has been con-
structed from the harbor to the site Of
the monument. and a steam engine
dragS up the blocks on low cars.
The monument is already about one
third completed. The pedestal has
been finished and the first series of
Ionic columns erected. The scaffold-
ing about the structure can be seen
for miles around Port Arthur, n the
will command both land
and sea. When / visited 1t to-day zoo
Chinese mason's were chiseling at the
stones and the great blocks were ra-
pidly rising into place. The work is
being done by Manchurian-Chinese,
under Japanese overseers.
Twenty-Five Thousand Heroes.
I have visited the worlds most ia
nous monuments from the mighty
shaft to Washington, which rises from
the base of the Potomac in our own
capital city and the great sarcophagus
Of Napoleon in Paris, to the gigantic
boulders on the Rhodesian Hills,
which mark the grave of Cicil Rhodes,
OuI i 1idpe never Sccu hOtI1li16 ~ I'LL
pressive as this. AT one end Of the
mighty elevation stand the monument
and at the other end, perhaps eight
hundred feet distant. Is a Shinto shrine
Of the same silver gray granite. under
which lies the bones Of more thar
twenty-five thousand japanese heroes,
who were killed at Port Arthur. The
platform upon which the shrine stands
is reached through a great copper
bronze toril; and at each side Of the
latter IS a granite lantern. like those
one sees at Nikko and about the other
form must be more than one hundred
feet square,. although the shrine itself
Is comparatively small. These two
monuments cover the whole top of the
hill. They are reached by military
roads, which wind their way up the
mOuntain and also by steps for foot
passengers.
The Battlcfields of Port Arthur.
Come with me to the foo IF the
monument and tax a bir[ view
of the battlefields of POr- IT. as
they lie here in this quiet IF our
Lord. 1909. We are right it, the midst
Of the amphitheator in which, for
eight months, day and night, went on
the greatest gladiatorial show the
world has yet known. Just under US
is the harbor which was filled with
Russian gunboats; and on its shores
are the Ola ana new Towns men were
occupied by the soldiers during the
siege. On that sea, outside, lay the
~hlockading Japanese squadron send
ing it's shrieking shells at the ships
at the ships and the city. On the
hills all about us were Russian sold
iers. and on their opposite sides, the
japanese armies, crawling and plow-
ing and tunneling their way to the
forts. The story Of how. inch by inch,
every bit of the ground was fought
over and how at last, Japan was sue
cesSful has been told in song and story:
ana you may find it today in the books
oescIto1hg the war. I doubt, however,
Mnether any such story can show the