The daily sentinel., 1913-08-28
L.J.CR0WN, ON WORLD TOUR, WRITES
LETTER TO SENTINEL FROM CAIRO.

put thtS dIS Always III sHdll DuHCueS,
and are always straw thatched both
roof and sides.
We stopped in Seoul a town of
several hundred thousand for several
days. Before Corea belonged to ia
pan it was as much as a mans life
was worth to go thru Corea. Trans
portation and labor in Corea as well
as in Japan is very primitive. rick
eshaws are used in both countries as
well as in Manchuria. In Corea they
practically have no saw mills-logs
being sawed into boards by hand. In
Seoul We saw six men tamping the
bottom of a small shallow ditch with
stone weighing about so pounds.
Six short ropes were tied equidistant
TO a heavy wire around the flat
round stone. One man would chant
song for 20 seconds and his next
door neighbor would chant for about
20 seconds when the first had quit;
then they would raise the stone about
is inches and let it drop. Thus 1t
went round and round the circle.
One man could have handled the
stone and have done three times the
work 1t took the six to do and in
the same length of time.
Manchuria, China, is country OF
large, grassy plains. Many beans are
raised. We saw many camels on
these plains. Japan does not own
this country-only the railroad. We
stayed at Mukden. Manchuria for
three days.
Siberia, contrary to the idea that
most people have, is the greenest and
prettiest country in the world. No
where have | seen such vast plains,
such big forests and fields, so vast in
extent. The Siberian railway is
double tracked, and 1t is my opinion,
that of all the passengers with whom
talked, that they are going to start
trouble with Japan. We stopped at
Irkvontsk two days. 1t has So, 900
population and over 10000 soldiers.
1t was very hot here, hotter than any
place l have yet struck, excepting
Africa.
Most of the inhabitants are des-
cendants of exiles. The Ural noun
tains are long narrow range of low
green hills and seem mammoth to
be the boundary between two conti-
nents. They are crossed in three
hours by the train-the train having
but one engine and never Stacking its
speed.
The track gauge of the Siberian
railway is five feet. The coaches are
slightly larger than ours and moth
ing but sleepers and diners are run.
They burn wood for a short part of
the trans Siberian trip and coal the
balance of the way, although the
switch engines burn wood all over the
line.
The track weighs only two-thirds
of ours, but they run little faster
than an average American train
about 0 per cent faster.
Freight and flat cars are short and
have no brakes, except on about ev-
cry tenth car. They have no air and
the working is entirely different, con-
sisting of double screw as on Euro
pean and Egyptian railways. In Co
rea there are American style railways
in every particular-gauge, freight,
flat cars, coaches, weight of track,
equipment, etc.
Russia is very similar to Siberia,
but has larger proportion of plains
than Siberia. Grain raising is con-
Quoted on an extremely large scale
here-more so than in America. But
little harvesting, machinery Is USED
as yet. The peasants lived in thatch-
ed, windowless huts.
Moscow has one and half million
inhabitants. 1t has 1000 churches
the domes of many being covered
with gold leaf. Moscow, no DOUBT
presents the prettiest birdseye view
of any city in the world. The hrem-
lin is walled enclosure contalning
churches and public buildings. IL
/ looks to be about half mile square.
Within its walls are arranged around
the court-like entrance over 4oo can
mons, captured from Napoleon on MS
| famous retreat, when the city was
burned. Among these cannons is one
/ that shoots a ball "a inches in diam
eter and Weighing 5000 pounds. Inc
second largest bell in the world Is
resting on the ground on top OF a
stone slab. 1t is about Is feet high
and is feet in diameter. There Is a
comparatively small fragment broken
from the rim of the same, put IL
weighs eleven tons. Little English
4 is spoken in Russia, German pelhs
the chief foreign language. ooo
i Breslan, Germany, with ool,oVv
people was the next city visited py
me. having left the party at MoscoS ~ y
they going on to st. Petersburg ana
Berlin. l.,
A national fair was in progress III
Breslan. There are practically nc
business buildings in Breslan more
nor less than five stories in height
II is the most American-like city
have vet seen since leaving nome
They use many American goous
Russia and Japan favor England IN
this respect. ,,uior
vienna contains nearly two minor
tneople. Saw several famous Napole'
mic battlefields here; also the houses
where Beethoven lived and composed
A large fair was also in progress here
Cafes with tables on the sidewalk art
a big feature here and restaurant !.
are extremely plentiful. This is II
direct contrast to Moscow. where 1t II
hard to find a restaurant. Also II
nontrast TO Russia. 'The people ar'
very polite and courteous and yo'
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