Evening star., 1924-05-31
u. S. WORLD FLYERS
IN HISTORIC CITY
Kagoshima Scene of Landing of
First Christian Missionaries in
Japan 800 Years Ago.
pRIMITIvs METHODS USED
Nagasaki Offers Continual Novelty
to Tourists.

aviators leave Japan they will fly
away from Kagoshima. the city
where Christian missionaries first
landed in Nippon nearly three CEN
turtles ago,'s says a bulletin from the
headquarters in this city of the Ma
tional Geographic Society.
The arrival of the missionaries
followed close upon the accidental
discovery of Japan by Portuguese
sailors, who drifted too far eastward
and landed on. a small island south
of kyushu, which is the southern
most of the five central islands of
the Japanese group.
These events later made Nagasaki,
kyushu city which the aviators are
using as supply base, the only com
munication port with the outside
world during the centuries that
Japan preserved her hermitage. When
all other nationalities were rigidly
excluded from NagaSaki the Dutch
were allowed to remain. though they
were under strict surveillance.
Primitive COaling Method.
To-day Nagasak is the San Fran
cisco of the oriental Pacific It's
dockyard is the oldest in Japan. his
torfcally, and the most modern in its
equipment. Along a waterfront Of
a mile and a half ships come and
go. electrically driven cranes busily
load and unload; only the coaling re-
minds one he is in land of cheap
labor and no labor unions. Above
the clatter of machinery, the putting
of the engines and the shrieks of
whistles sound the shrill cries of men
and women who pass baskets along
an endless human chain from barge
to steamer hold. The visitor is sur
pr1sed to see women at manual labor
and shocked when he espies some
with children strapped to their backs.
one American writes, The sight
reminds me of the passage in the
Aeneid where the poet speaks of the
ants as tiny toilers of giant industry
and describes them carrying crumbs
in their mouths to the common store
mouse in a seemingly never-ending
line
"Nagasaki rises upon terrace after
terrace to the quiet beauty of the
mountains on which it is built. Her
residential sections partake Of the
eternal calm and poise of the older
orient
City of Speciality Shops.
Since the orient is famed for it's
bazaar-and' there are some extern
sive ones in Nagasaki-our flying
visitors may be surprised to find as
they stroll through her streets spe-
cialty shops which outspecialize those
on 9Th avenue. There are con-
fectionery establishments, featuring
sponge cake; fruit stores where
loquats and oranges only are sold
umbrella shops, washing powder
dealers and a fish store wholly given
over to dried fish roe.
another surprise awaits them if
they attend Nagasaki theater The
orchestra seats are missing, the main
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boxes which make it look like
cross-sectfon of a honeycomb. But
cutting through these boxes and run
ming the entire leng 9Th of the theater
tecturally, Is precisely like the run
way affected by Broadway revue
productions.
Statue Erected to Grant.
In suwa Koen Park. famous for
us camphor trees and pines and its
ne new ~, Year ar, day cherry trees named
statue OF Gen. Grant, in memory of
his visit there in 1879. Another
statue memorializes DR.. Siebold an
austrian, who, only about fifty years
farl,er, faE1tr brought to Japan the first
The city's best monument to him.
however Is the extensive hospital he
founded, which now has forty eight
shipbuilding and heavy hauling Naga,
sakl preserves her quaint festivals.
Curiously, the outstanding celebra-
ton, Just concluded. is an aerial event
"a kite-hying fete. Every spring the
cniidren, and many of their older
folk. throng the parks and streets
and outlying hillsides, each erasping
Kite string. These strings are coat.
ed with ground glass or emery pow
DER and the object is to cut your
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your cord against his.
Where the Graveyards Glow.
I'm July is the feast of lanterns,
an occasion upon which ancestors
are supposed to revisit their homes.
50 lights are hung at their graves to
help them find the way. Since the
hills, rising amphitheater-like from
the harbor, are strewn with grave
yards, the city becomes a vast il
Illuminated bowl.
another aeronautical coincidence
Is the legend concerning the found
which is to say Rice-Ears Of Ruddy
Plenty. was delegated by the gods to
govern Japan. The ancient chronicles
relate that he made his journey from
his celestial abode. to his earthly
mandate by descending shut up in
the floating bridge of Heaven
THE area Of Kyushu Is about that
of Maryland and Delaware; its popu-
1atton Is 100000. Nagasaki has some
lTb.000 people: Kagoshima has $4,000.
The island is an exceedingly produc-
tive area, raising tobacco. sugar
cane and sweet potatoes, and an I'M
portant use of the latter is for MAX
ing a sort of distilled liquor
From this island comes the IA
NOUS Satsuma porcelain, made main
1y in a suburb of Kagoshima, and also
the Satsuma horses, a highly priced
breed in Japan
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