Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-24

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/ flights of stairs with high, narrow
steps, up which climbed slowly to n
| great drum which is hung among the
| pigeon roosts under the roof.
Suppose you stand there beside me
and look over the city Below us ex-
| tending ont to the wall or all sides Is
| a gray mass of low ono story brick
acres. Through il run vide streets cut
ting each other at right angles and
over the whole rise the red walls and
yellow roofs of the imperial palaces.
The common buildings are Of the.
same architecture. They are Of gray
brick With ridge roofs Of black tiles,
the&round comb of each roof sloping5 up
into little horns al the ends. The wider
streets are lined with stores, and these
have double roofs, so regularly fitted
from house to house that they 9orus
sharp valley, banked with tiles, run
ming through the all. along the roadway
from ore end of the city ia the Nther
Flowing up and down the street IS
n wide stream of white, h1ne ard black,
made by the clothes of the people as
they go back and forth. There are 4
carts and horses by scores, and the
scenes are as busy as in the busiest ci-
ties in China Mukden is one Of the
richest places of the whole empire. 1t
has N vast trade. and It's reopl, are
on the go from, daylight todark
THE STREET TRAFFIC.
But let US crawl down the steps and
take a walk through the streets, The
Manchus are quiet, and we can go 4
where we please, We shall have to pick
our way, however, and must now anu
then jump into the stores to keep
from being crushed by thu. crowc In
addition to the freight cars carrying
bean cakes, coal, grain and all sorts OF
merchandise, hauled by doiikeys and
mules. single or double or three or four
tandem, there are innunerablc pleas
ure vehicles, great two wheeled cabs
without springs. covered with blue cot
ton, drawn by superb mules, which so
on the trot. Some of the cabs have out
riders wearing white hats and red
plumes; and now and tten there Is q
foreign carriage with coachlnan and
lfootmnn in livery. The town has some
droschlsies left blythe Russians, the
horses of which have great hoops over.
their shoulders. There are numerous
iinrikishas brought In by the japanese.
There are also huge wheelbarroWs
pushed by sweating Chinese, and last
but not least, must mention the long
sthree-seated blackboard of the Astor
hotel. This was brought to Mukden by
an American patent medicine man, and
for long time 1t had the name OF
President Roosevelt painted upon one
of its sides. 1t is now the hotel bus,
and 1t makes daily trips to the railroad
station four miles away.
AMONG THE TARTARs.
The crowd on the streets is far differ
ent from that of the cities OF China.
These Manchus are not like the smali-
boned, sawed off 9Celestials we have IN
America, with yellow complexions,
snub noses and eyes which look out of
5button-hole Sits In their faces. They
all have more or less Manchu blood
and many look like pure Tartars. They
remind one of our American Indians
They are giants in comparison with
the people of Canton. | see many men
who are six feet tall, with big frames.
heavy bones and large heads fastened
to broad full shoulders. Their conf
#plexions are more like copper than
cream; their eyes seem wider apart
and their noses are often quite prom
inent They are not unfriendly lookinS:
and as a rule they do not run whea
we point our cameras their way
FINE-LoOKING MANCHU MAID
EMS.
The Mukden women are especially
fine They are bg-framed and broad