Pueblo chieftain., 1922-02-12
]MCLELLAND IN
ORIENT TELLS
OF JOURNEY
Pueblo Man Visits India,
and Studies People
and Land

1t took three days, three hours ana
thirty minutes from Rangoon to Call
cutta, $50 miles. but We anchored
twelve hours in the lower HooEhley
to have the tide and daylight to enter
the city. 1t Is tho governmental. So
cial. intellectual and financial center
of Bengal. Whenever I came in con-
tact with Indian or British govern
mental folk I found them obliginE
and helpful but when l went to the
representative of my own land, his
Augustness Alexander Washington
Wendell of Richmond. Va. he refus-
cd to even see me, though they did
not claim he was busy and 1t all came
about because I wanted to be identffi-
cd at n bank for 100 pounds drAfe
on London. Cooks man had said
must have some one they knew be-
cause 1 had only tho original and
should have duplicate ALSO The In.
ternational Banking Corporation to
whom his .AuEustness clerk sent mo
said, Your banker should have told
you you could not get this draft
cashcd." 1 next applied to my hotel
proprietor who was an Australian and
showed him my credentials from Gov
crnor Adams, Charley Saxton. Miss
Streng. the post cards of tho Library
and Orphanage. my passport and the
stationery OF tho Andrew McCielland
Merca ntilc company and he WAS well
told him II the signature Of the CASH
ier of the bank should be forged or
IL the bank in London should fall and
N dozen more IFS amongst them II
the duplicate should be paid first.
they would lose the hundred pounds:
then his great Australian heart failed.
BY this time things looked a bit seri-
Gus but l said there ought to be An
American in Calcutta whom ] could
make believe l was Andrew. CcClel-
land so applied to the standard on
company and whilc they might not
help me took mo to the American
Express company who were JUST
opening up an office. there found
a red bloodcd American. Mr.. j. F.
Beard who was willing to assume tho
awful risk with tits attendant calam,-
ties Here I want to pay my respects
to that great international nsnks
corporation. In Sourabaya and Rata-
via, in Singapore and Calcutta
found them to bc tho least accommo-
dating. the narrowcst. the most con-
temptiblc, tho most bigoted ana want
tho most for what they were WILING
10 do. found tho Japs. nlh ,
Dutch. Indo China and Asia banking
people decent, accommodating ana
willing to pay the days quotations IL
exchange. SO here let me assert the
International Banking Corporation 10
international only in name ana 20
warn my tFRNeIHk 1ticuuS suSy "''
&c. loss for their exchange that At any
other bank. Maybe all of them nre
not like tho four have had TO do
with I hope not for tho sake or the
name of tho land ! love.
Social Calcutta know nothing OF.
intellectually / found those whom
met tho peers of any land. The great
and an attendant but tho gentlernanly.
scholarly librarian himself put HIM
self at my service. Like all big men
intellectually no had a hobby ana MS
was Thibetan lore. An ex-monk VINO
had spent most of his life In the
hundreds of pounds of books that ne
had copied with tho assistance OF
tho resident monks. He called the
monk that might SEQ him who snow
cd mo a few of the sheets ABOUT four
inches wide. rs inches long printed
on both sides In what looked like
Chinese characters. Some OF these
writings of which he had made copies
arc thousands OF years old. This
librarian has commercial bent A.
we'll for he had them in triplicate.
ono for himself. one for tho Calcutta
1Uopc America gets ~ hoping As he
said thereby to tighten the expense
to himself for he had undertaken it
all on his own.
Indian guido books say HoEE street
market Is the greatest in the world.
! walked through It twice and having
but just come from Mandaley am
quite willing to say II is not rs large
in area nor did I find It to show on
tho surface more wealth. The fruit
and vegetables were abundant aud
wero varied but the other things not
SO.
Amos, every EnElishmsn have
met in India who is compelled TO live
here is hoping his next billet will be
in Calcutta. hut my personal expert
-rces make. II least attractive. At
tho Spence Hotel I paid is rupees
day to tho hotel mud 1 rupee for tho
boy who looked after my room. when
I asked the. lsndloard about IT he
said. '1r you did not engage him
don't pay him" Rut I said the man
got a carriage. brought me here. got
the key and has been In attendance
from a. IN. to T.50 p. IA. these four
DAYS why should he not be paid
But tho Great Australian Democracy
docs not include tho man with tho
dark skin.
4 Visit to the bathing and Burning
CHATS
Tho Calcutta bathing chats are the
busiest in India. for bathing is re-
II sious duty as well as an urgent
necessity and although the Hooghiy
river is very dirty and its banks
sea of soft mud hundreds rather
carly In the morning and the ubiQuit-