New Britain herald., 1924-11-14
IS A CITY
 WITHIN CITY WALL
Chinese and Tartar Towns h.
 termingled in Old Town

washington, D. O., Nov. It, Picking. where the Imperial palace Is reported to have been invaded by troops of the provisional govern ment, Is described in the following bulletin from the Washington, D. C., headquartersof the National Geo. graphic Society:
 Picking is a city within city,
 "As one passes within the walls he expects to find bannered signs of shopkeepers; instead he beholds broad avenues three miles long, making squares as regular as those of a checkerboard.
 Then the visitor begins to suspect that Picking is the one spacious Chi nese city because it is not a Chinese city at all, but city. built by adventurous barbarians of the north.
 Location of the Dragon Throne.
 The Chinese portion of the city, dating back to 1543, Is the commer- cial center. The Tatar city is about 300 years older, and it Is the Tatar city which includes the famous Forbidden City of which the Dra- gon Throne of the Son of Heaven, Emperor of the Middle Kingdom, is the center.
 The famous throne is of rare wood, exquisitely carved. Behind 1t Is a screen of golden lacquer so dainty in design that it seems a bit of f1lmy lace. Around this throne room are the palaces, shut in by purple walls.
 "The streets of Picking reflect the city's infinite variety Every thor oughfare is alive with beasts and vehicles and humans.
 A Medley of Traffic. Down >the smooth, tree-lined roads go automobiles, cabs, rick shaws, and bicycles, all speeding past the slower moving catafalques and wedding processions on the sides. Between sidewalks and trees, along 8 highway of turf, go mule mounted equestrians, soldiers on sturdy Manchurian ponies, triplets of donkeys hauling lumber. brick, coal and crockery. portly old gen tlemen straddling dimlnutive asses, blue-canopied Picking carts, and car- avans of camels out of thenorth. Imagine a city where camels go up and down the streets upon legiti- mate business, not in circus par ade! The visitor strolls along Hata- men Street after breakfast, and there they are, on their knees, blinking in the morning sun--fne, shaggy, brown beasts, an occasional white one--rather dirty white among them. chewing their cuds in leisure. The paveemnt before the shops whither they have carried merchandise has been their cara vansary for the night. There are dozens upon dozens of them lining the sidewalk, up the street and down.
 The Camels and Carts.
 By and by the drivers come forth, the humps of the animals. rouse them. and lead them off down the street, slowly and softly stepping, in single file, out beneath the great stone arches of the Hata Gate, then westward beside the frowning but tresses Of the city wall.
 Almost as fascinating as the camels are the carts of Peking, or rather the little beasts which pull them--ponies. donkeys, mules, and nondescript, elusive creatures that are neither horse. mule, nor ass, but subtle, indistinguishible mixtures. ; On first sight one is sure they are horses, on the second he is sure they are mules, on the third he is equal ] ly sure they are zcbras with the stripes worn off. One historian of I China speaks of the ancient Tatars as possessing horses, asses, mules, and other peculiar breeds of the . equine family These ancient other breeds still trot about the Tatar Critvp