Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-18

son and successor, Tai Tsung, who died
i'm 1914, just before the Manchus~ sup
planted the Ming dynasty and made
themselves masters of Peking. Nurhachu's
burial place is ten miles or more from
the hotel by road indescribabe when
the loose alluvial soil is dry. and inn
passable for wheels when it is wet. 1t
is matter Of a. good two and half
hours to reach it with all conditions
favorable.
You drive straight through Mukden
from the west and out into the country
side beyond. SO that you nave plenty o.
variety. There is an inner city. rectan-
gular and symmetrical confined WITHIN WIN.
high massive crenelated walls of brick,
in which the gates are still closed at
night though above only one or them
does the ancient gatehouse remain.
Covering a much larger area beyond It's
limits is the outer town, with IeeDis,
ruinous wall of crumbling mud. Both are
filled with the close-packed muiutu
dinous industrial activity and hubbup OF
Chinese life with loungers also not
few, and half-starved pigs innumeraole,
the only scavengers, IT Is no, IN, nee, se1
among the signs and shop fronts. some
that make their appeal direct to the
foreign -"Shoesbootsfactory :
democratic Hotel; Ming Tao, tailor
Every kingdom fashionable.
An hour or so after you nave leII tne
city you gradually. approach Hnely
wooded ridge with steep slope 10 tne
plain, and above its somher mrs STAND G 6.
in contrast the glowing roofs or the I'M
nerial mausoleum. A great rectangular
area. fully half a mile in length. inciosed
by walls, runs from south to north up
the face of the ridge. In the center OF
the bottom wall is richly Decorator
gateway, whence a broad avenue or p,o-
cess:onal road paved and fanked at the
lower end by sculptured anima1s-horss,S7'
camels and the like-ascends the mn,
bridging the gullies that intersect us
track Et-. -
Here and there the ascent is so steep
that it breaks into fight of steps. on
the more level plateau at the top IS
timber building gorgeously painted WIN
intricate designs in many coiors, doune
roofed the tiles of rich imperial yeiioW:
Within supported. on the back OF CORDS
sal tortoise of marble, magnihcentiy
sculbtured. is massive fat pillar or tap
let of great height. its face inscribed IN
the script of three ianguages-ManGhu
Monaghan and Chinese-with a record OF
the. reign. Covering 1t is a lovely ceihng
of square panels with a device of three
lotus leaves. gold, on deep-blue 2rouno-
Smaller buildings, for necessary omceS,
flank this one at a suitable distance SO
that its dignity is not impaired
Sacred Burial Place.
This is but the beginning of the ap-
prOacn TO the sacred Uuild kuetet. "a IL
tie beyond-higher UP the hills great
gateway, piercing centrally lofty wall
of immense thickness, built of cool gray
brick: and above the portal a gatehouse
with triple roof. tiled and decorated like
the building just below. Passing through.
underneath, you enter a large inner rec
tangular court. perhaps, to hazard a
guess, 60 yards broad by some 200
long. entirely enclosed by the same mas
sive wall through which you have just
entered it. In the center. near the far
Their end, approached by broad flight
of stone steps, is a temple, gorgeous like
the other buildings, in which the en-
perors of the Manchu line were wont to
do reverence to their ancestor. On the
top of the wall beyond it, corresponding
with the gateway at the lower end. is
another triple-roofed building, containing
a massive tablet, erect on plain stone
pedestal, bearing in the three languages
the names of the deceased. Immediately
behind is the actual tomb. an immense
dome-shaped mound. with a single tree
growing on the summit. 1t is of sun
dried earth, caked and smooth and al
most white. 1t stands in large cres-
cent-shaped area inclosed by walls SINH