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AINOS, THE HAIRY ABORIGINES OF JAPAN.
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by Frank O. Carpenter.) world In a Japanese steamer. There 18 a juie ironi muia, eFuan, ju.c
. ' .' . I. Una nf lvn erpat uhlos from Yokohama the Japanese rugs, which are sold sc
cnc.lirlni to London by the Sue. nal. and th.re are cheaply in our American store.. Indeed.
I Correspondence of The Bee.-The frQm th UnUed g(ates he JapaneBe flag ,8 more common In the
to Japan. The Toyo Kisen Kalsha has ports of the world than the American Bag,
three steamers of 6.000 tons which sail and In the far east It Is safe to say that
regularly from San Francisco to Yokohama there are twenty Japanese vessels to
by way of Honolulu, and thence on to America's one.
ch.nohnl anrl Ilnnir Knnz. The Nlooon
ment at Toklo and branch offices In Ixn- Yusen KalBha nM 6i0oo-ton steamers from JPn Cores.
Japanese are about to establish a
bureau of foreign commerce.
Parliament has already discussed
the question and the plan has been out
lined. There will be a central depart-
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Seattle, and other Japanese steamers call
MR. CARPENTER AND THE RUGMAKERS A
OF JAPAN.
The Japanese have put up telegraph foreigners. The most of the Inhabitants
rrk. Diinalnnii , n A lha IunnniBA n ro tnh
at Portland and Tacoma. It Is now pro- graBpng after Corea. The relations of the lines connecting Fusan witn an pans oi . ,h ' v 1 k .t otf.r
posed to establish a line to the west coast fw0 Pafong are ,trainC(1 by the gtruggl the country, and from Fusan there is a Formosa Is sma ler than Yezo but of far
of South America, and a. soon a. the lsth-.a lt may eventually bring about a war cable to Japan. The big Toklo banks more value from Its wonderful "-
mlan canal U opened there will be a regular "twceo Jhem. Were it not for Russia the have branch offices In Seoul and at some sources. The Is and is 260 miles long and
Japanese service from Japan to the United ,m own the whole country, of the Corean ports, and there are Japa- about seven y miles wide in It. broadest part
It is lull oi minerals, but owing to us wna
don, Parle, Berlin, New York, Boston, Chi
cago and other places. The buslnena of
the bureau will be to look up openings for
Japanese trade and Inform Japanese mer
chants. It will be somewhat like our
bureau of commerce of the State depart
ment. Which Is said to be the beat Of Its c,nn. r.n nn .Tananenn . . . , ,ini i nn.tntnxoa ha nrlnrlnnl cities.
kind In the world. vegBeIlI come ,nto our ports for cargoes ,Phat lh m!ght have the Corean Japanese money Is the currency of the nature ha not been carefully prospected.
The Japanese government Is straining to of raw cotton and ,roni an(1 tne day Is not trade an1 today tney are aolng the m08t country and the Japanese have been Coal mines are already worked and gold is
capture the trade of the Pacific. It hopes fap a,8,ant when steamers from Yokohama of ,he lmDort and export business of tha granted concessions for mines and other found in many of the streams,
to make Japan the workshop of the Orient. may be seen all along our coast. peninsula. We are shipping Corea somethings. ."".k""'"'! If",' " TTlt Jr
and has commercial and Industrial train- ' , K, iano ,M.ni, 'lng through It from one end to the other,
Ing schools under way for the purpose. It In l-ht.l,.lne. and Au.lr.ll.. co JJ" t0 " ' J","n"e ln Cl"na- ome of the peaks being over two miles
Is also subsidising the steamship lines, glv- Th. Japane,9 ar, reaching out after our they have the most of the trade In other The Japanese have been crowded out of In height. Along the west slope of these
Ing Industrial exhibition and encouraging rhuipptne trade. They aend ships regularly nnes Manchuria by Russia, and the powers have mountains there are many rich, fertile
foreign trade In other ways. ,nd tnenC(S on t0 AuBtralla vla 1 not permitted them to take possession of valleys which lead to a large rolling plain
The government I. Instituting commercial nit, iand. In that line there are six ca,, ,f varlou8 L". are Japanese and W 1-art of China. Nevertheless, they are settled by the Chinese. On these lands Is
museums at the ports of the far east. I iteamer,7 ot ,,000 ton. each, comprising th. f!" w bulIdlM railroads wh?ch shall P""0' their trade throughout the Chinese raised some of the finest tea of the world,
found on. In Singapore under the manage- tnat can' at tne phlppllle.. "e tSltom n to, ii part. "mPtr wll have thetr "hare of Ch,na'8 PrdUCe mre tba 20-000-000 Pounds
Vl XT? V Ph a,pMa "";" with Siberia. The ve.sel. start at Kobe ralIroad which some of our Denver men Oolng a regular carrying trade on some of to the Un ted St ates rndeed China and the
save that It. good. ar. .11 Japanese There tf at NagasaUli KuBan and GeMn. t from chemu)pho t0 Seoul. and they 'he Chinese rivers. You can have your United State, are the chief customers for
:n!V i.Trt,,bTn,,'M'BdbTI,M; ea' on their way to Vl.dlvostock. It a"e ow Tt work constructing a line from houseboat towed through the canal, of f0 P" k" b
all mad. In Japan. There are sample, of wa8 on on8 of tnP8e ,h ,hat x went to Fugan Th,g ra,lroad , be 3no Kinnsu by Japanese launches and can go ""le. Our tea is sent across the strait to
Japanese rug.. .tatlonery. umbrellas. 01K... . oK,f ,lm . ThA . .,. , n... k. ,. . , un the Yanatse Klang or the Pelho on Amy anl "hipped from there to San Fran-
iiu.tn. n.iti DaitiiciB, am wru hi ui Blin,
Siberia a short time ago. The captain miles lona. Fu;an has already a
was an Englishman and the engineer a Japanese colony and It is but a short dls- 'cnmrs owned by Japanese.
linen and cotton goods. There are carts Swede but the reBt of tn9 0mcers were tance from the Japanese ccast. Goods can The Japanese have conce
.h J'nr'Kan""' ,ne la"er .;,rmlnK on of Japanefe. and also the sailors. There are be almost ferried across from one country of thi open ports. At Shan
Blons at many
Cisco and New York. The moat of the te:i
leave, are dried In the .un and the packing
1. done by tramping them down with the
the- chief export, to the different center. otner ,ln'ei wnlch go from Japan ,0 Man. t0 (he other nd fcy means of thg rB. Bulate g n one of the flneBt bulldlngl and bare feet.
I . if'T? l'n.rn"ha ar churla. and almo.t dally vessel. to road sent direct to the Japanese capital, there Is much Japanese money invested In JPee In Formosa,
used in Pekln, Shanghai, Hong Kong, c . a .. v.n,. . . . . . .... ,v, ... ,... . ... . v. . . .
Saigon and Singapore. There ha. been an
attempt to Introduce them Into the Philip
pine., but .o far our government has
frowned on using man a. a cab horse and
th. attempt ha. not been .ucceisful.
Singapore I. an excellent place for such a
museum. It la the half-way atatlon on
th. trip around the world, and it Ic where
the water highway, to dfferent part, of
the Orient cross. There are ships from
India, Slam. th. Philippines. Australia,
China and Europe always at anchor In Its
harbor. Fifty-five thousand vessel, come
Into It every year, and it. annual trade
amount, to $385,000,000. The Japanese
catch the trader, a. they go back and forth,
work log not only (he Slngspore trade, but
th. countries which Import through Singa
pore. To Singapore alone the Japanese
export, already amount to about I3.000.00o
gold.
Carrier, of the rarllle.
Th. Japanea. hop. to be the carrier, of
the Pacific. They are among the best sail
or, of th. world. Tbey take to water like
duck. Their country consist, ot about
4,000 mountainous Islands, running through
th. Paolflo In th. form of a crescent as long
a. from New York City to Salt Lake. The
most of the Islands ar. .mall and th. bulk
of th. population Uvea near th. sea. The
re.ult 1. that every man of them can
bandl. a boat, and in paat generation, they
have been noted for their junk, and war
ve.sel. They have always don. a great
freight business with China and Corea.
Today they ar. levying toll on all th. world
In freight and expres. charge. They have
a. good hlp as you will find anywhere,
and they ar. building om. of 1,000 tons
each in their own shipyards. These ship
yards are at Nagaaakl and are under sub
sidy from th. government. The Japanese
hav. been al.o buying modern .teamen of
England and the United State. They are
continually bringing in new vessel from
th. .htpyard. of th. Clyde.
They hav. today 1,100 modern steamer.
In their merchant marine and about 1.000
ailing vessels of European type. They
hav. 10,000 native vessel and Innumerable
mall boat. Tou caa now go around the
Shanghai and the Yangtse Klang. A regu- Corea furnishes Japan a great deal of rice the port. Thtv have a concession for a
lar line connects Yokohama and Kobe with and fish and the Coreans buy all sorts of cotton mill there, but have concluded that do much with Formosa. They remitted
Calcutta and Itonibay, bringing cotton and Japanese goods.
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THI3 DOOR OF RICE BAGS WAS THE ENTRANCE TO THE TOKIO FESTIVAL.
it Is cheaper to make cotton cloth at Osaka taxe. for one year after they took posses
and rhlp it to China. Indeed, tbt. I. so .Ion, but are now attempting to make it
with all sort, of goods. The people hope self-supporting. The population Is largely
to make Japan the workshop of the Orient. Chinese, there being about 3,000.000 on the
In an interview which I had with Marquis island. The chief towns are Tamsul and
Ito he .aid that foreign capital should put Kelung in the north and Tainan and Takow
up factories ln Japan to supply the Chi- in the south. Talpeh i. the capital,
nese nrarkets. He assured me that such The Japanese are now building railroads
capital would be safe and that Japanese In the northern part of Formosa and one Is
labor could be more easily handled than to go from Kelung on the south to Talnanfu.
Chinese labor. This will pass through the most thickly
I do not doubt that this Is correct. The populated portion of the Island, including
Japanese are not ao thoroughly organized the richest of the sugar and rice regions.
Into trade, unions a. the Chinese. Their 11 is at Tamsul that our consul lives. This
labor I. good and exceedingly cheap. Both Place has a club, several banks and num-
women and men work In the factories and ber of merchants and exporters. One of
among the most skillful of the hands are the great products ot Formosa Is camphor
children. I went through some of the finest txade from the camphor tree. It is shipped
rug factories of this empire and had myself to all part, ot the world,
photographed with one of the employes The Japanese have had considerable
standing In front of me. This was a little trouble with the Formosan savages, who
girl of ten year.. She only reached to my "ve ,n village, scattered throughout the
waist, but she was weaving a rug for the mountains. These peop'e are much like our
American market when she went out to be w,ld men oI the Philippines They live by
photographed. hunting and fishing and a little agrlcul-
The Japanese government is thoroughly ture Some village, have .mall farms
awake to the possibilities of foreign trade. ,DOUt them. A few acres ar. enough for
It I. encouraging manufactories and I. even 100 PeoP,e each family having it own plot,
now considering th. building of steel work. The men are head hunter, not unlike those
at Kure at an initial cost of more than ' Borneo and It Is said that a man cannot
8,000,000 yen. These works will make steel marrr unt11 he has brought In at least one
plate and other shlpbul'ding materials. head-
, The Chinese are the game of the head
Japan and It. Colonic. hunter. He sneak up on them while they
I don't know that one can rightly apeak re ' WOrk ,n tbe fields and "P08" thpro
of Japan as having colonies. It has how- l dea,h- After thU he ru,B 0,r ,he hea'1
ever, two great island at the opposite ends Dd.1g0f, home rejoicing. The tribes are
of the empire which are undeveloped and contlnuaI'y warring with one another and
which will add much to It. wealth and Its Japanese soldiers have to conquer thein
position In tbe Pacific. These ar. Yeio and !,rlbe by trlbe- So far no gr6at Prsress has
Formosa. Yeso la about a. big a Indiana , 1 mad ,n clv,llzlDB the people,
and it population 1 about as great aa that am toll that Formosa has rich minerals
of St. Louis. It ha an excellent rllmat Coal U '"""d ,0 different parts and there
and Its soli raises the flne.t ot grass. The r evllellces of petroleum. Not long ago
government colonization department is try- ,ome Chinese employed two Pennsylvanians
Ing to develop th. country. to test certain oil field.. They sank a shaft,
Yezo has excellent coal. There are three but lnelr orll,s broke at 300 feet from the
large mines now in operation and railroads ,ur,ace an(t so far the work has not been
connect these with the coast. There are e"ume1-
no large towns except Hakodate, which has The JaPane8e are by no means a poverty
75,000 people, of whom only about 100 ar. (Continued on Eleventh Page.)
