The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-02-27
COL. RILEY
DESCRIBES
PAC|F! !C TRIP
Accidental TravelOgue Comes
in Letter Mailed Friends
From Y0kohoma

Writing aboard the Steamship Cold
en- state while crossing the Pacific,
Colonel Walter j. Riley, Of East Chi
cago. in a letter from Yokohama, tells
Of his ocean experience. For two weeks
his boat did not pass a single ship on
the lonely Pacific. The letter says IN
part:
we sailed from San Francisco at
100 y. m. Saturday. Jan. "a The
weather was clear and warm, the sea
as smooth as glass. our boat the
United states steamship Golden State
carried about 1000 tons OF freight for
the orient and approximately 150 pas
sengers for Japan, China and Manila
In my stateroom I found an abundance
Of flowers. books. cigars, telegrams and
letters from my many friends. with
their best wishes for a safe and happy
voyage.
on L. :. BOAT.
The Golden State is vessel Of
=. 600 tons belonging TO the United
states shipping board and operated IN
this trade BY the Pacific Mail Steam
ship company of san Francisco. Its
officers and crew are from American
citizens and Filipinos. The cooks, wait
ers, room boys crew, etc, are Chinese.
The Chinese crew numbering about
$50, the other crew about 1oo- While
the furnishings of the Ship are very
costly. yet thev vessel presents many
evidences OF the mistakes and haste
OF its wartime emergency construc-
tion.
The food is clean, wholesome and
wen prepared and the boat is kept
fairly clean or the passengers. very
small per cent are tourists, most OF
them being men and women employed
in the orient from American corpora
tons We have many American aboard.
who are going to the interior OF Chi
ma and Japan on the customary three
year contraet--that is Euaranteering
10 remain out there for at least three
years. These men have been trained
for three or four months in the schools
of the various oil and silk companies
and importing and exporting concerns
in America and are being sent out 20
fill minor positions u various lines.
THE MODERN MISSIONARY.
I'VE also have many male and fe-
male missionaries aboard They travel
with their wives and families, dress
the best. and occupy the best state
seen so .ar the missionaries life in the
orient is entirely different from what
one would naturally expect. We have
also on board Americans. who have
been in the Philippines, China and
Japan for many years but who occa-
sionally return to the states for short
vacation. AS a general rule these men
prefer the orient, realizing full well
fa ha
they have experienced for so long
time has disqualified them for similar
service in the states. man on $500
salary has four servants and works
about half as many hours as We do and
takes his good time az that. You should
realize that the salary of tn. average
Chinese house servant Is two or three
dollars a week and that their hours
are about six hours a day.
DIVERSIONS on THE BOAT.
we sailed from san Francisco 10
Honolulu without any incident on the
aft deck were operated day and night
eight or ten popular gambling games
Fan-tan and Chinese game OF domi-
noes being the most popular games
The Chinese are born gamblers. They
gamble morning. noon and night. We
age and they gamble as well as the
crew
1--WE also have a full stocked bar. \
beautiful smoking room is in conjunc-
tion with the bar, where a poker game.
stud or draw. is almost constantly in
opei alton.
"One thing that ! have also learned
Is that the eighteenth amendment does
not prevail in the Philippines How
ever, il does prevail in Honolulu The
distinction being that the Philippines
arc q possession and Hawaii is 4 terri
tory.
THE LEPFR CoLoNY
our first sight Of Hawaii was the
island of Molol<ai. the home of the
lepers where the Catholic church. in
conjunction with the government,
maintains a leper colony of about 5000
persons. In an hours time we were
entering the hsrbor OF Honolulu with
the flying fish and the sharks scatter
ing before us.
Honolulu is garden spot. beautiful
and clean. In this respect il differs
from tho island of MADEIRA, which is
also q garden spot but dirty In Homo
lulu YOU see on the streets and in the
business houses. people Of every rare
in the world with the japanese by far
in majority. There are being over
100000 Japanese on the islands and less
than $4,000 Hawaiians, yet all OF these
races live and work in perfect har-
mony, each having a section of the
city for their home districts The
stores. shops, theatres. hotels. etc. are
as good and up-to- date a g YOU Will find
in any American city. The Monana
is par with amy hotel n Los
Angeles or Palm Beach. The bathing
beach at WAIKIKI is the most wonder
full in the world. and the way The TIA
waiians ride the surf is most pictures
que. Rhe natives are natural-horp
swimmers. holding the championship
of the world.
over s5c.ooo.ooo OF sugar ana pine |
apple were exported during the wear
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