Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-08-13
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EN ton as a barbarous city. What |
H the traveller finds within a
few yards of the landing |
Lage, 80 miles up the Pearl river from
long Kong. is a solid row of European
buildings, public gardens leading to
series Of tennis courts, and British
consulate. The appearance of the
| Shameen, the narrow island of the con-
cession, with it's churches, its lofty
blocks of merchants Offices, its spa
cious tree-shaded boulevards, its hand
some International club, and its nu-
merous official buildings, gives an i'm
mediate feeling of confidence to any
Western stranger, writes A. H. Fisher
In Illustrated London News.
After had secured a room at the
Victoria hotel, 1 crossed the creek
by the British bridge with two resi-
dent acquaintances, and entered Chi
nese territory. Tall brick-built go
downs, with shops on the ground floor,
seemed pushing out into the thronged
roadway along which we walked to
part whence l could get a good view
Of the Water-town. Here vast popu-
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from small Sahtengs or sand-boats to
the gaily decorated Flower boats"
with their gold-fretted fronts stuck
over with mirrors.
A Floating City.
Along a narrow wooden footway,
built upon piles. we walked for half
mile till we seemed to be in the mid
% ia
er to the west l could make out an
lron-roofed building, which, learned,
Is the terminus of the railway from
Samshin to Canton, and a pair of
sheerlegs, which marked the position
Of the Canton-Hankow railway, con-
nected with the other by a ferry-boat
service and likely. ere long. to become
the regular route for reaching the
Trans-Siberian line Looking back to-
wards the town, | had pointed out to
me tall, gray stone building as a
pawnshop, an institution regarded in
China as kind of bank.
We now turned away from the creek
lup a narrow street where all the build
ing were Wholesale rice stores. Almost
every street is set apart for one trade
DIT industry. In Sap-Pat-Po otherwise
Ward lSl, however, the chief business
street of Canton. the shops were filled
with general manufactured goods
ierman and Japanese clocks. Ameri-
can soaps. gramophones and sewing
machines. Here were strange articles
diet also-edible beetles, giant
helks bamboo shoots and dried cut
tie fish. There were bankers shak-
ng coins into trays till each of hun
ired circular depressions was filled, as
a way of counting. dealers in old pic
lures, a lottery shop, where prizes
we're being paid out for a lottery late
ly drawn. and an ancestral hall or
meeting place for some particular clan
or guild Then came a whole street
Il the makers of "Old-Age Clothes"
as the Chinese call their collins, and a
street of pewter workers. and a street
Of smiths-and all this time we had
only reached a gateway of the outer
wall of Canton Inside this, after
passing a small island of shops. we
went under the semi-circular arch Of
the Great West Gateway, where the
wall was II yards thick.
We climbed from within on to the
top of the wall. and above there was a
sudden peace and quietness. Here and
there about the bastions were old
British muzzle-loading guns on wood
en- carriages. On one | read the date
; 1912, and on another 1916. We fol-
. lowed the top of the wall for some dis
lance to the great five-storied pa
CODA, and began to climb it from floor
to floor, passing through the flap
doors which shut down over the stairs
of each. On the fourth floor was the
official tea house. and on the upper
most a group of figures of Chinese
deities. From the balcony a number
OF people were enjoying the view over
the city. In the distance rose the twin
spires of the French cathedral, which
the Chinese thought would attract dew
lis until they reelected that the second
spire neutralized the bad effect OF the
FIRST
Beyond the city we could see the
Pearl river, and near 1t the Normal
college for training Chinese teachers
which stands upon the site of the old
examination cells. BY the lower
slopes OF the hill called Queen OF
Heaven Mountain, we found the IA
nous City of the Dead, where bodies
of defunct Chinese wait in their cot
fms. sometimes several years, before
the priests are able 10 determine an