The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1912-01-16

lnuTSudy.
..We have had an eyentful week
Our families left on Thursday OF last
week. the Murdochs and Grays on
Friday. / was alone until Monday
when Mr.. Gray got back. Traffic has
been Interrupted on the railway ana
] have had no mail since Saturday
last. and ] am on my way TO SING
hwai now to see il cannot find Out
what Is the trouble.
u am we'll and going on with our
work, yesterday did an operation. we
are like Mahammet's coffin, neither
on earth or heaven. We have no con
neetion any more with the Imperial
government and no Revolutionary
committee has come to take US over.
We are governed by our local SEN
governing society, which has changed
its name to guarantee saIely com
miffpe' or as we should say in Engllsh
committee OF public safety and the
MAGISTRATE now governs in connec-
ton with il under the title of sPresi-
dent OF committee OF public safety
He has a force of soldiers sufficient
for present needs and all is peace
ful in town, but there is much rob
berry in the country. | fear.
Gray is with me and as we nave
the supplies of three families to fall
back on, we are well provided for.
| am glad to know my family is safe
in Shanghai, for can get away easily
enough myself. There seems abb
solutely no anti-foreign feeling, and
foreign property enjoys immunity
when other property is destroyed.
THE future is of course unknoW7
able We hope that the new party
will soon get a grip of things The
great danger is from disorderly elez
ments who are kept at bay with some
difficulty in China, in the best OF
times. 1t would be an awful pity IL
we should have a long period OF uis-
order
A#'I am on the motor boat, which
H{1as served us beautifully since get
ting back this time, and SO far we
have made eight or ten trips and
had very little delay. | slept on
board last night We reached Sing
Hwai at $50 and | hope to get back
by one or two O'Clock.
These days between have been ex-
citing enough got back To IA. Y.
on Thursday p. M, having found out
nothing at Sing Hwai except that
) - trains We're not running and the
che che vssa.sls deserted, ,, .oey even ,wa1 all
as,;,,g stock havfisS.-oe oeeI seile ,'%ag ,s.
.,,a,t to, Thursday afteA Aiool s.-,l;,s, anu 49,
sap settling up my deSh, h,l,sfi,,f, .atti,,f,
al nv correspondence anu $500 t,,9,
nv accounts in shape. 1o5pay - .n1 ~,
iast of the Chinese monlh anu 81,
lass ,.;os are paid, but ! anticipated
the the errso,ssibiIity of trouble and paid
OF, everyone on Friday j. m. and
evening, no small job indeed. as |
had practically all servants, teachers
and people of all sorts to settle with,
perhaps twenty or thirty In the
evening disturbing news came III OF
band of robbers being formed ten
miles to the west, 1000 10 5000 IN
number. The country people nave
been robbing everywhere, roads be-
ing unsafe for any one with dol
lars worth of goods, for several days.
Now they are getting bolder and
there is too much reason to fear
their threat that they would clean out
Hwai Yuan There Is no anti-foreign
feeling. but these local bandits are
a cruel lot often and like a horde OF
locusts. they would make short work
of everything Chinese and foreign
DIR. Cbu urged Gray and me most
strongly to leave We have the
reputation of having money in band
and Chn said they might resort to
verys strenuous methods to get us
TO produce it but, as matter OF fact,
had only left about 800 Mex. after
paying the servants, a mere drop be-
side what they will expect 10 reap
from us The news of the band WAS
brought by an evemployee, Ko Cheng
Hal, who had been through their
4 nil "a
hated to think of leaving for we are
a source of confidence to everyone
while we stay; boys like T.. in the
hospital, our servants, etc, who have
no place to run to and must weather
the storm. p. our amah, X. in the
hospital with an unclosed wound. M =.
in the chapel with his family, all
look to us for confidence. Then our
things are more likely to be looted
and prehaps the houses burned, il
we leave. But Chu was very decided
in urging our departure. s.. on the
other hand, was clearly of the opin-
ion we should stay, and that alarm
was foolish.
we did not decide that night, but
set up till two or three settling up
our accounts and making memoranda
to carry with us, and getting things
ready to put in the safe. The ques-
tion of route was difficult To the
best of our knowledge, no trains were
running and we did not know when
they would run. Next morning, Satur
day. we sent for Messrs. G. and w.
who were naturally very anxious over
their families. and had a talk with
them, about s a. m. while talking a
man named Wei came from Nanlxing
with letter The news he brought
was rather alarming He is a police
sergeant in charge of a police office
right by the Theological seminary.
He is a Hwai Yuan man returning
home, being out of job, because
of the rebellion. He said trains
were not running but the road was
very dangerous to travel being lined
with robbers. He attributed his com
ing through with a party TO the fact
that he knew the Triad society pass
words. AS a matter of fact | am GER
tain this means he is Triadist him
self. Chu thought this good chance
for us to get down and engaged him
as an escort to use his spells to get
us past the robbers, as they are
most 'Tsai Pang' We were to go by
railroad, as the old road was worse
even than this. So it was decided
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