The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-04-03
YAKIMA BOY
IS IN CHINA
Located in Shantung, Province
-, Leased by Germany for
4 T.. Ninety-Nine Years
FIEDLER'S VEIN
IND BEER STUBEN
The Write States the CT. .r,a,,s
Have Made Many Improve
ments Throughout the Country
Where They Have Footing


ments Throughout the Country
Where They Have a Footing
Tsingtau, Shantung, China, Feb 10
Editor Herald
AS 1 have spent the best part o
my young life in North Yakima ant
have watched the growth Of the cit.
from small country village, to The
fine busy place it now is, and still be
lieve that the Yakima Valley is tn,
Garden Spot of America, ! hope YOU
will allow me the use of the space
in your paper for this letter
/ might claim that | am writing
from China, and ! might claim that
am writing from Germany. and boil
claims would be substantially correct
The part of the province of Shan
tung, China. in which | live has beer
leased by the German government fol
ninety nine years. AS a young Co.
man said to me the other day, "Wher
] came here from Shanghai, / wa:
astonished j wrote my father II
a
Father, / am yum Vaterland gege.
ben. That is he was given back
to the Fatherland, because the build
ings, the shops. the people, and tht
atmosphere is German The ship or
which he arrived is German. The
first thing he saw on arriving Was
the German national flag, and group
of German soldiers. He went ur
through town and he was met OF
every hand by German signs on build
ings and in front of the shops. And
if he wasn't convinced already, he
was completely satisfied that he was
In the 'Vaterland when he came &c
large sign reading Fiedlers Vein
und bier-stuben.'
What Germans Have Done
But the Germans have done mors
than make merely an atmosphere
They have been here for only ter
years, but in that time have changed
the appearance of the country from
raw, barren, rock-covered group OF
hills, with a small, dirty, smelly Chi.
nese fishing village at the foot, INC
a beautiful and modern city. Count
less millions OF young evergreen
thorn, acacia and locust trees have
been planted over the bare hills. Or
the peaks some of these hills, where
the ever present rock crops out IL
huge masses, in sharp peaks and
rough craggy formation, reminding
one forcibly of the famed palisades
of Colorado--the orderly and eco
nomic mind of the German has
planned and built signal stations
wireless stations, observation towers
forts, etc Doubly happy is the stu
alton of these buildings; first, on =
count of the peculiar lay of the land
they overlook not only the bay, hut
the city, and behind, the interior val
leys and hills, and back to the Laus-
chen mountains fifteen to twenty
miles. Second, being built on the
solid live rock, their foundations are
as firm and unshakable as the hills
themselves
Have Built Good Roads
Then since their hold here is mil
1tary, and some day may be depend
ent upon their ability to quickly
transport and shift troops and para
phernalia from one place to another.
the German government has spent
millions in surveying, blasting and
laying out over one hundred miles of
fine roads. To say that over all thes.
roads automobiles can run with no
fear of accident due TO lack of repair
of the course, is saying what can be
SAID of nthar
chinese roads are not worthy of tho
name. They are knee deep in mud
In the wet season and of dust in the
dry. Usually mere paths, scarcely
wide enough to allow two donkevs Tn
pass.
And Improved the Harbor
IslhStau, which by the way, is UNI
reasonably pronounced "Chingdow "
Is situated at the head of a Inc large
landlocked bay. Nature has made a
harbor which cannot be eoualled in
many parts of the world, and the Ger
mans nave assisted nature with over
ten million dollars in deepening.
dredging and building wide moles or
jettys, inclosing two ports. The larg-
er of these harbors is about a miIe
In width and is roughly circular in
shape ana the smaller is perhaps half
the size. The largest ships on the
Pacific can tie along side of the ,ana-
ing wharf in the large Hafen. The
Germans have a huge dry dock of
the floating type. which often era dies
a battleship and ship repair works
which is of the most modern TYNE
Good Water Supply
Their activities have not stopped
here. We have city water works
which furnishes pure water to all
houses, and government bacteriol-
ogist examines the water daily. A
government electric lighting plant
gives us electric light day and night.
IL we wish, and furnishes current fo~
any and all the modern household OF
shop conveniences. The sewer system
Is complete and adequate, and tele-
phone system gives instant communi-
cation all over town, for the German
speaking resident
The single tax plan is used here
so 1t is cheaper to build than to own
vacant land. and to build good
houses than To put up flimsy struc-
lures. A building police oversees and
regulates all building thus insurins
that the houses In any portion OF the
city viii be practically the same IL
cost, and in this way keeping land al
property values equalized. As woo1