Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-08-13

colored descriptions of Can
ton as a barbarous city. What
Nv the traveller finds within a
few yards of the landing
-lage, 80 miles up the Pearl river from
hong 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, it's hand
some International club, and it's 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, 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 a
part whence l could get good view
Of the Water-town. Here a vast popu-
lation lives in various kinds of craft
from small Sahtengs or sand-boats to
the gaily decorated Flower boats"
with their gold-fretted fronts stuck
bver with mirrors.
A Floating City.
Along a narrow wooden footway,
built upon piles. we walked for half a
mile till we seemed to be in the mid
die of a floating city; but away, farth.
Il on m ho oh 01rto
iron-roofed building, which. learned.
Is the terminus of the railway from
Samshin to Canton, and a pair of
sheerlegs, which marked the position
IF 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, l had pointed out to
me tall. gray stone building as a
pawnshop, an institution regarded in
China as a kind of bank.
| We now turned away from the creek
up narrow street where all the build
Ing were wholesale rice stores. Almost
every street is set apart for one trade
Or industry. In Sap-Pat-Po otherwise
Ward 1S), however. the chief business
street of Canton, the shops were filed
with general manufactured goods
German and Japanese clocks, Ameri-
can soaps, gramophones and sewing
machines. Here were strange articles
| u diet also-edible beetles, giant
| Shelks, bamboo shoots and dried cut
tie fish. There were bankers shak-
ing coins into trays till each of a hun
lred circular depressions was filed, as
a way Of counting. dealers in old pic
lures, lottery shop, where prizes
were being paid out for lottery late
ly drawn. and an ancestral hall or
meeting place for some particular clan
or guild Then came a whole street
of 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 l read the date
1872. and on another 1916. We fol-
lowed the top of the wall for some dis
lance to the great fve-storied pa
CODA, and began to climb it from floor
to floor. passing through the fiap
doors which shut down over the stairs
of each. On the fourth floor was the
official tea house. and on the upper.
most . 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.
Ills until they rejected that the second
spire neutraliEed the bad effect of the
drst
] Beyond tho 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 In.
nous City of the Dead where bodies
Of defunct Chinese wait In their cot.
fms, sometimes several years, before
| the priests are able To detarmina an