Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-05-06
PROMINENT MEN
Z. OF IAPANGREET
PROF..M. N. SCOTT
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from Japan TO Russia, en- route TO
his post. At that time he sought out
Professor Scott and visited him.
Two distinguished Japanese called
on Professor Scott at thu hotel this
afternoon. One was J. Soyeda, the
other S. Isawa, Of the house Of peers.
Soyeda was formerly minister Of fl
nance and both are among the lead
ers in Japan today. And both were
taught by Professor Scott Instances
like this might be multiplied almost
indefinitely.
To Professor Scott the return to ia
pan after an absence of 80 years has
been at once a deep pleasure and a
source of some regret. Pleasure at
seeing the great strides the nation has
made in those years, at visiting fa-
miliar spots, at seeing old friends
And regret because so little that is
familiar is now left, SO few of the
many friends still remain.
In Toxic this. morning Professor
and Mrs. Scott took rikshas and start
ed out to visit some of the familiar
scenes of their former residence.
They returned two hours later with.
out having been able to find more
than a very few of the loved spots of
long ago..
II cannot even find where my child
rem were born" said Mrs Scott. OF
their former home no trace remains.
The growth and changes of the city
have swept away everything but such
Interchangeable landmarks as the ire
mendous castle moats. Professor
Scott said today that only a few Of
the legations remain to tell him the
story of the past And It would seem
that both he and Mrs. Scott find the
Toxic Of today less picturesque, less
typical, less beautiful and less com.
Portable for residence than the Toxic
of 40 years ago.
They were married, here in 1875, at
the residence of General Williams,
who. was then connected with the
Japanese government. Prof SCOTS
best man was D. w. Stevens, assas'
sinated by Koreans in San Francisco
some years ago. Their honeymoon
trip was taken by jinriksha to Nikko, !
where the Hawaii party visited a few
days ago. For Prof. and Mrs. Scott,
Nikko has CHANGED less THAN the
great city of Toxic. Then Toxic had
a population of some 100000, now at
least a million more have ben added
Then it was a great, sprawling me-
diaeval village, now it curious
combination Of the medieval and the
modern. Here you see electric lights,
paved streets, automobiles, and you
also see the quaint shops and quainter
folk of Japan. Toxic makes me think
Of raw western town suddenly
sprung up by virtue, Of a. boom, for the
principal streets and buildings have
an undeniabie air or newness, but off
these streets one still finds plenty of
the picturesque and the typical. And
everywhere as in Yokohama, the jap
anese are swarming in that restless,
busy, aggressive way that seems to be
characteristic in their cities here.
The Hawaii party will be kept busy
for the next few days. Several func.
tons, have been planned that will be
quite formal even though officially
all big affairs have been called off be
cause of the national mourning. The
party will also do a great deal of
sightseeing, and the ladies have
been getting ready to shop in Toxic
ever since we landed from the steam
err The shops have powerful lure
for feminine eyes and tomorrow there
will be a friendly invasion of the Gin
"a, or principal retail mercantile
street. Today being Sunday shopping
was not INDUCED in, even though mer.
camille Toxic does not apparently OBJ
serve the Sabbath in any way. The
shops are all open as usual and doing j,
a brisk business.
Tomorrow morning most of the Ha-
waii party will visit the Woman's Uni
versity here, the only institution of it's
kind in Japan. 1t will interest Homo
lulans to know that a former resident
of the Crossroads of the Pacific is
in charge of one of the departments at
this university. Miss Full Koka, who
was once a Bible woman in Honolulu.
called at the hotel this morning and
greeted Rev. and Mrs. w. D. Wester.
welt friends of some years ago. Miss
Koka is an aunt of Mr.. Sheba, pro-
moter of the Hawaii excursion, and
Is a teacher at the Woman's Univer.
sity. She extended the invitation to
visit the university, where brief talks
will be given by several members of
the Hawaii party. /
The present plans call for a five
days stay in Toxic and a departure
ON Thursday for Miyanoshita, sum-
mer mountain resort 40 miles south.
east of Yokohama !