Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-12

kong. Tho city is governed by tn,
British and public transportation is
| regulnted by law. The town Is so steer
that 1t is almost impossible to gel
about except In chairs or Jinrikishas
| The 1inrikishas are baby carriages OF
wheels. with barc-leggcd. bare-hcaded
| coolies az horses. They will carry you
! anywhere In Hongkong for about ;
certs OF our money trip, and for II
cents they will go on the trot for al
hour. You may hire one a halliday for
quarter. and u hours for a dollar In
silver. which means about 45 cents
gold. Some of the streets arc so steep
that the jinrlkishas cannot so up them.
In such places sedan chairs carried
on the shoulders of men are for hire.
The Hongkong chair OF this kind is
made OF wicker, 1t is n box with a
chair inside 1t, and n soft wicker back,
against which one leans as he rides.
1t has arms for the elbows, and TO
these elastic poles about as big around
as your wrist and is feet long are
fastened. Inside the poles, In front and
behind. stand the two bearers. bate-
headed. yellow skinned coolies with
their pigtails tied around their heads.
They rest the two poles on their
shoulders and trot along single file.
The passengers are otter heavy Brit
ishers or fleshy Chinese, and the poles
rub the skin off the shoulders, or make
Ii ca1lous so that il grows as thick ag
your heel. The usual rate for these
chairs is about cents a trip and
can rido about all day in one for 10
cents an hour. The men are anxious
to work. and when I raise my hand
three or four sets of bearers come up
on the trot and fight for my custom.
HoNGKoNG AT NIGHT
1 took a tramp about Hongkong last
night to see how the city looks after
dark. 1t is not as wide-open as Chi
cago, New York. Paris or London. al
though am told that all sorts of wick
edness goes on in the narrow alleys
winch climb up the hills. Last night
everything was quiet. The great build
inSs were as dark as a pocket, and the
pigeon hole balconies appeared to be
dead eyes in the rays OF the electric
lamps. A gloom covered the noun
tains back of the town, the green woods
turning to blue in the darkness and the
house lights shining like stars below
the clouds which enveloped the peak.
l walked along Queens road to the
Clock tower and stopped there under
the electric light to watch the night
crowd as it passed 1t was a cosmopol-
han one such as you will see nowhere
except In Hongkong. There were red
turbaned. black bearded Sikh police
men guarding the traffic, British SOL
diers in uniform who belong to the gar
rison. and sailors in tho different dress
OF n half dozen nations. The navies OF
the world come to Hongkong and their
cadets and marines may be seen any
night on the streets. There were many
East Indians clad in their caIicoes.
brown skinned Malays from the Philip
pines and Rorneo. Japanese just off
the vessels. and Europeans from al,
parts of the west Sampan women in
wide calico trousers and cotton chcmises
moved along here and there on bare
feet, and rich Chinese merchants
took UP the greater part OF the side
walk with their silk gowns and cloth
boots. Tho mid-strccts were filled with
coolies. and over the roadway passed
an endless procession OF rickshas and
chairs, One long line of the latter was
filled with English young men and