New Britain herald., 1921-06-24

| the mountain we saw some Japanese | straw hats for sale so we stopped ana
 bought enough for our party. The | price was ten sen Give cents) each to 1 foreigners, but string with which to
 tie them on our heads cost ten sen | each, so the total cost was twenty sen | each, or ten cents.
 | On our return to Ono, We had to get | the consent of the police to do down the river the next morning, as the
 river was so swift and rough and
 swollen from recent heavy rains. Aft | CT the usual amount of talk we ob- | tained their permission to go down | the river so we retired for the night with visions in our heads of a most | delightful boat ride the next day down | the Fujikawa river. About a. m. | awoke to the sound of rain, and after | making sure I was lying in a dry spot, I went to sleep again.
 Much Rain.
 When we arose in the morning it
 rained. Yea, it poured down; rain
 was thing of tho past: it simply | came down in unbroken streams. So | we decided to cross the river at Ono. | and take the trair for home. Our
 boatman wanted the full contract | price, but we finally settled with him
 at half price-twenty yen ($10.0O)- | and he agreed to take us across the
 river. But we were toisted on to an- | other chap and into his boat along | with Japanese and a lady from Wash ington, D. C.. and her Japanese wom- | an guide. called a courier in English.
 The boat, after being loaded with it's | human freight which was ferried from | 0
 ry, was hauled well up stream and | then headed across the river which | was very rough and swift. There
 were six men to pole and work the | boat across the river, but they missed | the landing, and we had to swing
 into the bank of the river some dis | tance below, where we made @ land | ing without mishap.
 Cave In.
 After waiting at the railroad sta- | tion in Ono for about one hour after | the train was scheduled to start, we | were informed that the train could | only take us ten miles as there had | been a cave-in on the road, and we | would have to leave the train there | and walk four and one-half miles tO | the next station. Would wo do it? | Yes. I bought six Japanese umbrel- | las at one yen fifty sen CTS cents) l each, and leaving our baggage in the Ono station baggage room with in | structions to forward it to us when
 the line was again opened for traffic,
 we boarded the train and began our 1 journey home.
 l On leaving the train and hitting
 the ties on that four and one-half mile hike to the next station, we soon | came to a long tunnel through which | we passed, the water coming through | the roof of the tunnel in solid streams | that nearly wrecked our paper um-
 brellas the first thing. 1t was so dark | in the middle of the tunnel that VIC | could not see where we were going,
 so we had to feel our way along. l On leaving the tunnel we came to a cut through a high gravel bank,
 the only deposit of gravel I have seen | in Japan. The heavy downpour of rain caused stones weighing 50 to so | pounds to come rolling down the | steep sides of the cat onto the rail- road track, and there was stones of all sizes lying between the rails, anG
 they kept rolling down and falline | all around us. However, we go | through this cut after a while with
 out accident, though one stone abou | the size of a hens egg went through | my umbrella, but it did not hit @ne. | Presently we came to the cave-iI | which occurred in front Of anothe' | tunnel There were two men burfe | here though we did not know it | the time. The men on guard here
 would not allow us to go through thi tunnel. so we had to take path or
 the side of the mountain next to tn | river, and walk around the tunnel | which was about as dangerous passing through it. However, in tir-
 we came to the railroad again whi"
 we followed as the surest means z l reaching the station for which
 were headed. And rain? How it q
 rain! It rained so hard that I h& | to laugh at it.
 As we were now walking about d,'
 east. approaching the town of Sh''
 akawa, we had the wind on our back | Presently I saw Japanese comi'
 toward us bearing a very large par' | umbrella which he was holding | front of him so that the lower cd just escaped touching the ground | tween the rails. pushing his way alo; | against the wind. When he was abo'' | two paces from me I gave two lou6 | sharp, rapid limitations of a locom' | tive steam whistle Without raisin
 his umbrella an inch, he jumped sid
 ways into the ditch which was abou | knee deep with running water. AS I passed him I looked over my should
 at him. He looked up and grinne6
 and continued on his way.
 Arrives at Shibakawa.
 | When we arrived at Shibakaws | there was a railroad bridge at the
 west end of the railroad station, and