The sun., 1910-05-24
JAPAN now ALL FOR HERSELF
FRENCH ENGINEER SAYS SEE
ISN'T HOSTILE TO u.s.

We Has lAveI IN NlpPsn since lsal-says
CountFy Needs noom fer lis People
Sending Them % the Wcst-she
llas Ne Designs On the PhIilpplnss.
Denys IArrisu. a French engineer
who has lived twenty-siK years In japan;
r. MArtinelh. a wine merchant Of this
same nationality who has lived In Japan
ten years longer than N. Iarrisu. and
Baron De Gamer. a Belgian who II making
tour around the world. arrived yester-
day at the Manhattan on their way %
Europe.
n. Larrieu was limping when he reached
the hotel. They were In a train wreck
early on last Friday morning at a place
$50 miles west Of Chicago.
1T IL curious said NJ. Larrieu. 'but
! have crossed the American continent
many times and this was my first expert
enoe Of the kind. Il is in fact the first
accident have ever met with in America.
! only had my ankle sprSined. but IL was
fortunate. a. FIVE cars wers thrown
upside down.
i went 10 California in isTa and re-
mained year While was getting Prac-
tiOal experience in my profession. some
times | think would have done bsttsr
10 have remained In this country.
first went 20 Toxic In is77 on my way
around the world. Il was considered
then unsafe for a white man 70 20 there
alone. 90 ! entered the city with guards.
The authorities were afraid that for
eignsrs would be killed. In IssA went
10 Japan again. and there I remained.
! worked for a time with japanese COM
panies. but now fOreign companies have
the same privileges a. japanese and
am working Independently. But that
country is for the Japanese.
There IL a lot of engineering work
going on in japan just now. principally
In the nature Of tramways In the cities
and hydroelectnc works. There Il lot
Of water power in the country. for all
the mountains run from north % south
and they furnish watersheds for numerous
streams. II Is estimated that the streams
Of Japan have a combined horse power
Of $4,000 that can be harneassd up.
A. a matter Of fact they are now using
soO.OOO horsepower that they get from
the streams
But the biggest engineering work the
japanese are doing is in Manchuria and
COrea. where they are building railroads
and constructing other works that will
enable them 10 compete with the foreigner.
Il is now realized that IN building the
railways in japan q serious mistake was
made in making them all narrow gauge
Nobody foresaW the great develODment
of the country. N they had the money
10 do IL with they would standardi,e
the gauge of every railway in Japan.
All the railways they are constructing
In Manchuria are of standard gauge.
japan u becoming more and more
EuropeaniIed. Do they like Americana
Well. the Governments are on very friendly I
terms. AZ for the people themselves. |
IL may he different. Japan has done anne
effective fighting and her people have ]
TIN opinion that they have practically 1
conquered the world N they do not /
understand whv your labor unions do |
not want them admitted 20 this country ]
II h impossible 90 explain thus 20 them.
As Tor war with this country. there i
IL not tho slightest possibility n IL. A
FOR the idea that japan would like the /.
Philippines, there is not the shadow ~
a reason Tor Il. a. least a. present Japan
wants now 20 spread northward. She Z
wants ManchuriR and Corea. What she I
will want fifty years from now of course /
One cannot predict. but certainly her /
eyes are not on tho Philippines al present |
All her cOloniEing 10 directed toward |
ManchuriA and COrea. and into these I
countries there has been a great rush ]
ot settlers. People out II Japan do no, I
realize that not more than IS per cent. |
Of her NRole territory is actually habit .
able because the rest 10 mountainous and 4
volcanic. She must have room TO spread I
on the mainland.
-Of course the greatest trouble in .
japan now - the lack Of money and tho 4
heavy taxation She wants 10 repav .
In fifteen years the so 0O0 ON ven that .
the war cost her and Il means straining
svery nerve 20 do it. II would be much .
easier on the country and the people N
they would spread payments over double 4
The lime, but Japan ls anxious 30 say 10 /
lhe rest Of the world Weowe you moth ing. I
What diagusts a person who has lived .
among the Japanese for years is the fact ]
hat - many persons 20 there and stay 4
a few days or few weeks or months /
and profess % know the japanese and .
write books telling all about them The .
only way 20 know any people IL first tO I
earn their language There are very
lew foreigners who have done this with .
regard 70 japanese II makes n lot Of .
difference There we're some globe trot.
iers coming over on the steamship who .
we're full u what they knew about the
country. But YOU 49, ihe visitors n
Japan usually get hold 1t natives Who
AN speak English and they draw their
'pini0ns from them
-As for the changes that have taken
Dlace In Toxic since ! have known IL I
can give YOU no better idea than by 1
Umparing u with san Francisco. | II
ew the latter city first in is7t Twenty
ears later | saw 10 agnin and could still
ecognils Market and kearney streets
he last time saw II was five or six years
60 before the earthquake Up 10 that
lme there had been less change IN San
'rancisco than there has been in Toxic. n
i used n know Toxic perfectly. There
'as not a foreign building there. We
~ still lacking good hotels, but all of the
IOvernment buildings now are Of granite {
= other stone. When I first went there
here was not even a brick building in ,
1e town. The houses were all Of mud ,
r wood. Now they are even using steel
nd concrete. and they are even starting
skyscFaper which. though II will ~
I only eight or ten stories. will he a mar
el for that part'of the world. They are
urrytng this wOrk - get the city IN ne
ne q shape a. possible Tor the exposition
Z 1917