The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-04-18

csc custom so ! desisted. The garb o
the rickshaw men is interesting, seem
ingly they have adopted as their cloth
ing every form Of American under
clothing. We were there when one o.
the young princes had birthday. W.
saw boy in his birthday clothes, bu
were informed that he was not th,
prince We had TO learn 10 take of oul
shoes before entering store, shop
restaurant, temple, etc We missec
seeing much Of interest because one oi
the young ladies refused under any
circumstances TO remove her shoes
One evening we were invited TO q
Csnabe, a stylish dinner at a restaur-
ant We checked our shoes at the
door, went into beautiful room open
ing onto a more beautiful garden. We
seated ourselves on cushions ON the
matted floor around tables about foo,
high. The food was brought in raw
and we cooked il on charcoal braisers
about the height of the tables. We
took food from these common dishes
to our bowls with chop sticks.
We continued our route by rail and
rejoined our boat at Kobe. This gave
US an opportunity of visiting number
of places, large and small We saw
life in the city and in the country.
We saw weddings ard funerals and
temples and theatres and exhibitions.
The people are all tiny. Our size often
attracted a crowd. All of their doors
are uniformly five feet six inches.
Perhaps this does not bump a six-foot-
er! The trains are tiny throughout
the Orient A night on Japanese
sleeper is thing to be ltng remem-
bered.
From Kobe we continued our voyage
through the beautiful Inland Sea,
touched at Nagacaki, Shanghai, and on
Nov. 10, one month from the date we
left San Francisco, we sailed into the
beautiful harbor of Hong Kong. This
is fine modern European city, and a
splendid example of what English rule
is doing in the East. We had to wait
here for ten days and this gave us
nr.tlt {, tn y,ctt Nn,tnv, nirwhtt
miles up the river. Canton is said TO
be the most interesting city in the
world, and ] do not doubt it. A city
Of from one to two millions population,
without as yet g trolley car or an au-
tomobile, without one horse and car
riage, without one truck wagon of any
sort. In fact they would be useless if
imported because as yet streets have
not been built. Buildings have been
built anywhere and everywhere with
out any sort of order You wind in
and out without any sort of order. You
wind in and out between buildings,
going up and down steps, seldom going
a hundred yards straight and hardly
able to go two abreast. All transpor-
tation is accomplished on mems shoul-
ders. If you wish to go distance
greater than you can walk, there is
but one way, the sedan chair, one of
the most cruel inventions. 1t is awful
to see the men suffer as they carry it.
One street, the Bun, two and three
quarters miles long, has recently been
built and on this rickshaws operate, so
that wheels have been introduced
There is no sewer system, but fifty
or more thousand women each with
two buckets strung from the end of
stick serve the purpose. Lumber IS
sawed from logs by hand and all in
dustry is on this scale And the city
cannot develop at present because the
is not strong enough to
protect invested capital. A man is not
able to go into business unless he is
able to build building like a stone
fortress and hire men to protect it.
Most of the business places have many
big stones on the top Of the walls
TO hurl down when gangs of desper-
ADDE'S try to break in. | saw six po-
icemen try TO arrest a man on the
street The crowd took the thief away
rom them They were powerless
They had a pretty good chief Of police
/ couple Of years ago, but a few I
months before we were there, the pet
y ruler of the province invited him
md twenty-six Of his men TO big din
Ter. During the dinner this rulers +:
men came in and killed the whole
wenty-seven. My doctor friend, from
.cross the street in the Christian hos |
,ital, was called In and dressed the !
Wounds Of the surviving party at the {
anne table with its half eaten dinner {
round which the dead were lying. {
Two Of our best friends in New York I
vent to Canton year before we were ,
here. They have already had TO fee $
or their lives once Our boat de-
eending the river was strongly guard i
d by heavily armed soldiers. We /