The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-19

tion of the Tartar citv's great wall. nm
the cast. north and west by much lower
but likewise battIcmented dcfenses and
a narrow trench.
Along the walls of this little inclos.
ure one can see gunrdhouses at inter
vals: where strange soldiers, foreign
to the country, do sentinel duty night
and day. And all the houses within Ibe
lnclosure-onc can see them on lookinp
down from the wall-arc peculiar 10
tins quarter. No two of the great res.
idences here arc similar in design, nor
are the soldiers at any two of the outer
| guardhouses the same
If one starts along the oreat wall
from the Chem Men one finds, beneath
the Chem Men pagoda. a contingent
of khaki clad fellows with broad Texas
hats and Il banner, floating near them,
of Stars and Stripes Beneath the next
pagoda, that of the Hata Men, at the
southeast corner, haxen haired men in
green uniforms and green helmets pace
near the Nag of the German father.
land.
One must descend here and pass
northward along the broad open space
preserved by treaty round this, the Ie-
CATION quarter. for the other walls in
closing the little compound, constructed
by foreigners, are only modern de.
lenses, low and unimposing compared
with the mighty pile built by the me-
dieval Chinese.
A few hundred yards TO the north
floats the Austrian eagle; then, turning
towards the east, one sees the Italian
and the British flags in succession and
turning south again. the Russian stan
dnrd. No sections of the legation outer
walls are held by the Japanese OF the
French, as their legations lie in the
heart Of the quarter. Of course the
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foreigners on every side. are also for
tined, though quite absurdly Inside
some of the gates, beneath the high
pagodas. may be seen long, pointed
pixies and, sometimes, ancient bows and
arrows such as would adorn the walls
Of some feudsl European castle now
turned into show place. But. to draw
an accurate picture, 7 must state that
these are really little more than ex.
hibits in Pekin TODAY, for the govern
ment has learned by hard experience
the value of modern weapons
At intervals on the broad paved top
OF the Tartar wall are guardsmen who
belonged IN former generations TO the
Manchu clans, and being descendants
of the conquerors still receive allow
ances of the tribute rice that comes TO
the capital annually But these men
are now only pensioners without wea-
from foreigners walking OF riding past
their little paper -windowed houses be-
meath the now unnamed pagodas, crum-
bling with decay. And in the loop
holes of the hitter one can perceive an
other mockery of vanished glory-the
muzzles of cannon painted on wooden
shutters.
Forbidden City.
The famous Forbidden city. the city
within cities, is no longer shrouded in
deepest mystery. Many tourists of dis
tlnctlon as we'll rs all the foreign min
listers have been within its walls. Pho
togTaphs of its palaces, its gardens
and it's little lakes are sold by Japanese
and German photographers who OBJ
tanned access when the foreign armies
were in occupation. But the traveller
finds, if he rides up to any of the gates
through its walls that even its grounds
are still forbidden to the ordinary NOR
tai.
If you are stranger and do not
know Pekin too well you may happen
by accident to direct your obedient
rickshaw boy to one of the sacred