The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-07-09

-RNEST KENDALL. an English
man who has lived IL years in
Japan, arrived in New York re-
a Gently from Yokohama. With
him is his wife. who Is a JAP
anese. That sort of Anglo
Japanese alliance Mr.. Kendall thinks
is all right. but as for the one between
his country and japan he asserts
that II that agreement Is renewed
after the expiration of the term 1t has
to run he will at once take out papers
and become an American citizen.
This is the first time that the pres
ent Mrs. Kendall has been out of her
own country. and she finds 1t difficult
to get used to the change. In the
first place the steamship made one SO
terribly seasick. Then the long train
ride made one SO awfully train sick
Then the changing of the loose and
comfortable kimono for the steel lined
paraphernalia Of the American woman
was a hardship. And when one has
been used to Japanese food all ones
life the meats and sauces of the Amer
leans are q terrible thing to tackle.
But Mrs. Kendall is trying to be
philosophical. She Is amazed at the
size of everything in New York. Il
have been the only man In my partic-
ular line Of business in the far east"
said Mr.. Kendall. "All big business
In Japan with foreign cities Is done to-
day by cable, and l know OF one big
house which spends $4,000 gold
month Just in cables. So got the
idea Of doing cable code work. and
have been engaged In 1t for eight or
ten yeaiv. l have come to New York
under contract to revise the codes OF
several Of your biggest corporations.
Il used to teach in Waseda univer-
sity. which is the school attended by
the young Japanese mobiles. and which
is known as the emperor's own pri-
vate school. l have lived in Tokyo,
Yokohama and Kobe. and as a place
OF residence l prefer the latter. 1t is
built on q hillside by the sea. Yo-
kohama is a rambling sort of place.
and except for the two bluffs is built
on an old rice field on made ground
"A serious thing for the foreign col
ony has just happened In Yokohama
They have had for many years a rec
reation ground where football. base
ball. cricket and tennis were played.
with fine pavilion and turf that has
taken 40 years to get into its present
condition. The lease was taken on
periods of ten years, and when the
last period was up in October the JAP
anese refused to renew the lease. In
dignation meetings were held. to no
purpose, and now the most attractive
feature Of the life is gone. One rea-
son why the lease has been taken
away is that land is becoming 80 val
uable
Then the japanese everywhere are
suffering for the want of money, and
they are doing everything they can
to get 1t. The foreigner In business
who doesn't know the Japanese Ian
guage has to employ a banto. which
word means Interpreter but the
banto is really go-between. He gets
his squeeze out of both the foreigner
and the japanese with whom the for
eigner does business. It often hap
pens that the banto gets away with
lot Of money. The business question
out there is very complicated.
Why. II you want to do any great
amount of business. you absolutely
must give 'gisha SPREE and even
then your competitor who offers the
banto a larger percentage may get the
order. / know whereof l speak, be-
cause for three years l was connected
with one Of the biggest houses in
Japan. The big Japanese houses often
pretend to underbid each other and
then square the deal afterward.
you may take 1t from me that the
Japanese dislike foreigners thorough
ly, and II they could do 1t without get.
ting into trouble they would kick
every foreigner out Of the country.
They have sort of innate Jealousy
Of anybody who can do something
they cannot. and when they think
that they can do as well as the for
eigner they have employed they dis
charge him. They are replacing the
foreign captains and engineers Of their
merchant ships as fast ~ they can
train up young japanese to take their
places. I used to hear the japanese
teachers In the university discussing
getting rid Of the foreigners on their
star.
Their successes I'm two wars have
made the japanese thoroughly con-
ceited. They believe they have only
got to make big effort and they can
conquer the world You do mot hear