The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-02-26

Since being in China ! have had il
mind few words of two cities Sc
different that it hardly seems as i
they could be in the same part o.
the world.
Hong Kong as it is called Vic
toria is really the name of the city
is built at the foot and on the side
of an almost perpendicular noun
tain that rises 800 ft. above the
sea. 1t is called an English city
but practically all the business is
done by the Chinese. The city out
side of the cooley quarters is won
derfully clean. The streets are all
of macadam and models of theu
kind.
On the side of the mountain, roads
have been cut at enormous expense,
and here are the residences of the
wealthy. More beautiful situation
can not be imagined.
The one thing that struck me as
most remarkable about the city was
the entire absence of all horses or
other beasts of burden. Do you
want to go anywhere2 The Jinric-
sh aw or the Sedan Chair is always
waiting. Are your trunks to go to
the hotel? Two Cooleys put a rope
around it, sling N on a bamboo pole
and trot off.
The water cart to wet the streets
was drawn by 9 men. | saw heavy
projectiles for the navy being NOV
ed all by man power.
| saw the great granite quarries.
Not derrick and but one iron bar.
Way up on the side of the mountain
great wall is being built. WOMEN
were staggering a few steps at a
time, then setting down their loads of
lime and resting, and then on again.
Outside of the polo grounds, | saw
just one horse and the morning we
left, one automobile and this in
city said to contain 100000.
The view from "The Peak, ,"
800 feet above the harbor is said to
be without rival of its kind in the
orld-though to my mind, New
York harbor from some Of the sky
scrapers, is quite as Interesting. |
the Funicular H. H., you 60
straight up the mountain at times at
an angle of a good deal more than
As degrees. Leaving the r. r., a !
short distance before reaching the
barracks of the English troops and
either take a chair or walk over the
smoothest of macadam roads, wind
ing back and forth for a mile at
least to the top, but if you weigh $50
lbs. beware if you take a chair, for
when about halfway up and the
hardest is before you, your men may
set you down and calmly tell you
they can go no farther. Then you
must walk or pay double for a
silver dollar will add much to the
strength of your men. From the top
the view is Observation-Disclosures Of
boats of all sizes from the little skiff
to the great war ship, lie at your
feet. You look on to the top of the
city and beyond the city to the
beyond that were siezed
and fortified by the English at the
time of the Boxer trouble. And
of Notifications, wherever
you 60 you find them-on the top
and sides of the mountain, at the
entrance of the harbor, across the
harbor, every where are the great,
grim guns, that effectually guard
stronghold in China.
In the harbor, lay nine warships,
mostly English.
The Emperor and the old Dow
ager were just dead. The future no
one could foretell but England,
America and Germany, as well as
Japan were ready. Ammunition was
being put on board.
Does it mean that peace must be
maintained or that PIECES will be
made of the great Chinese empire?
GEo. :. WORCESTER.