THE OMAIIA DAILY BKKt SUNDAY, MAY 20, 190.
Young Men's Christian Association in China
Interesting Letter from Former Secretary of the Local Organization
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roader f The H will womtor
wlit !,.ia bccorao of me arid why
. .i.i m lung lima has elapaed elnce my
last communication to Tha Bee. I was
krt no busy In my trips through China,
I Ml la and to Manila, visiting and helping
the Young Mtn's Christian association
work, and otlwr Christian work closely
related to It, that 1 had no spar time
for. anything -lj. It also deprived me
of much interesting slgiit-scolng In these
very old and wonderful countries.
' In vlsw of the low moral condition of
the young men where I have gone I do
not regret what I have done. It was
splendid opportunity to afford direct help
to tha young men of the two most popu
lous nations of tha oarth, China and India,
and to the young men of our own puasus
flons In the Philippines. -
In my trip through China I visited tha
itles of filia Hut Kwan, Tien Tsln, Chee
foo, Poklnr, lian Kow. Han Yang, Wu
Chang, Nanking, Shutighal. Canton and
Hong Kong, In the order given.
Famous Chinese Wall.
Shan. Ho Kwan Is a large walled city
on tho Gulf of Liau Tung, directly east of
l'lklng. At this plate the great Chineso
the mountain close by. At the top of
tin- m ountaln close by. At the top of
I lie mountain it Joins a high rock cliff, or
l utural wall, beyond which are impassable
high cliffs and dorp ravines. The groat
Well forms the eastern wall of the city.
I walked a long distance on tha top of
the wall, which was both high and broad.
It Is now fast going to ruin. I am quito
sure that the picture of the great wall
which I first saw when I was a boy was
xnken from this section of the wall. (
trienTsin, tha seaport of Peking, is an
twVfWtant city. It figured largely In the
Itoxtr war. It Is a commercial city and
does a great deal of shipping when the
Pel Ho river (h open, which usually
freezes up In November, While this large
Chlmse city seems to go on In its Usual
' way there are silent but potent Intluenoes
at work which will Insure great changes
for the better, I visited & free reading
'room with much good literature, a large
Ircture hall where practical, up-to-date
knowledge whs almost dally disseminated.
1 also vlw.ted an educational exhibit In a
remodeled tcirple, one of the best I have
ever seen. A gnat reform work Is being
done In the Hrge prison.
Several of the high city walls were torn
down and the spans they occupied were
turned Into broad avenues for all kinds of
trivet and traffic Including tha electrlo
street cnr. This has been a great benefit
to the city. The foreign nations possessing
concessions outsidu of the city were mak
ing wonderful Improvements, especially the
Japanese. Perhaps the most valuable tract
fit land nearest the great Chinese city and
close to the canal was available to the
I'nltcd States for a concession. I was de
lighted that our country would not take It.
Thesa concessions will necessitate as many
, governments within the limits of the city
as there are concessions, which Is bound
sooner or later to beget trouble that will
' without fall Involve many nations of Bu
' rope.
of China, it looked as though the glory of
the city had very materially waned, It It
had not altogether departed. The noted
examination halls once thronged with Com
peting Ptudents were now deserted and
crumbling.
I went outside of the great wall to eo
the Ming tombs, or tomb, as It is rather
one tomb. Uesldes the great wall about
the city and Ita gates, this Is tha greatest
relle of the past greatness of the city. Tho
outside approach to the great tomb waa
once between two rows of polished granite
figures or statues of men and animals about
double of life slxe. Four warriors, two on
each side of the opproaeh; four priests, two
on each side; four camels, four Hons and
four hippopotami, two of each of these ani
mals on each side, one standing up and one
crouching down in quiet repose. There Is
much good Christian work done in this
city.
I.I fa fit hanarhal.
Shanghai la a live commejrial city on
the direct line of ocean travel and trafllc.
It has no marked natural attractions; It
is full of business and Is perhaps tha llvll
est city In the empire. Much good Chris
tian work is accomplished In Shanghai.
Several foreign nations have concessions
In this city. This Is particularly the case
with the English. Heeau!e of this and tha
boycott there was an antagonistic spirit
on the part of the Chinese against tha
English and the Americans, chiefly against
the English, at this time.
I was in Shanghai Monday, December IS,
1906, the day of the riot. Coming downtown
In the morning with the American secre
tary of the Young Men's Christian associa
tion, we were told that the stores were
closed and found most of them closed. We
were also told that tha market was looted
and cleaned out In about ten minutes by
riotous Chinese. While there were many
excited Chinese In the streets on our way,
we reached the Chinese association building
without molestation. Soon a report came
that a Chinaman had been shot In the
streets near our building. Then the excite
ment became Intense nnd the town streets
were densely crowded. Th British marines
were landed and all available police were
put on duty. H was soon reported that
many Chinamen were wounded and killed.
Several Europeans and Americans had
made Ineffectual attempts to get to their
homes in the residence part of the city.
There were at that time the wives of four
or five American secretaries downtown and
It was very desirable that they get to their
homes and children.
lights and loenrs In Peking;.
Peking, the capital, Is a very large double
city, a sort of a north and south city, w(th
r dividing wall between them. Largs ave
' nues run from east to' west and from north
to south. The north and south avenues
re open from the north gates of the north
, city, pass through the large gates of the
. dividing wall and run to the southern ex
tremity of the south city.
' The" south city is exclusively Chinese and
: contains the Temple of Heaven, one of tha
, most remarkable temples In the far east
and, unlike any others I have ever seen,
The north city contains the forbidden city,
where the emperor, the empress dowager
' and the royal family live, several noted
temples, the I.lnma temple, the Temple of
Confucius and the Hall of the Classics,
' In which Jhe writings of Confucius are en
" graved upon a large number of stone tab
lets, standing erect as slab tombstones
In a graveyard, and the, legations of the
different nations represented at Peking.
The legations are making great Improve
ments upon their premises. When I was
thero the representatives of China and
Japan were perfecting a treaty between
these nations. Peking has had a rallrcad
connection with Tien Tsln for some time.
A railroad was just completed when I was
there from Peking to Han Kow on the
Yangnte river, which, will shortly be con.
Untied to Shanghai, a, veritable China
Center railroad.
flrivoarde Are Bstenalve.
One very noticeable thing all over north
China, at least, and particularly In and
about the suburbs of Tien Tsln and Peking,
is yie multitude of Chinese graves, fining
whole tracts of the best farm lands, as
hsycocks in a meadow. They range In rise
from a mere raise la the land to twenty
feet high.. Thty are so close as to touch
each other and so many that they extend
for miles In different ways. These grave
yards take up the best farm lands Instead
of the broken lands, hills and mountains
used la other countries,
Chefoo and Haa Kow,
Chefoo Is a small but good commercial
city, with a fine sea bench. It Is probably
the nearest shipping pqrt to Port Arthur
' outside of the IJau Tung peninsula,
Han Kow Is Duo milts up the Tangate
river, at the mouth of the Han river. Han
Kow means Han mouth, and Is sometimes
called the Chicago of China. It is quite
' In tha center of the Yangste valley and
. doubtless In the best part of China. It has
. Just been connected with Peking by rail
road and soon will be with Shanghai and
the ocean. It has large manufactories,
among which Is a very large tea plant.
There Is much and very good Christian
work accomplished there.
Han Kow haa one of the finest river
fronts I have ever seen, both In kind and
extent. This, however, is under the control
' of the foreign concessions, who have made
a most unjustifiable rule, If I was rightly
Informed, that no Chinaman be allowed
to walk on the beautiful cement walk,
which extends miles along the front of
the river, along the bank of the Chinese's
own river. With such a rule I had an
aversion to walking upon v It myself. I
trust I was misinformed about this. -
Close to Han Kow are two other Chinese
Cities which will be affected by all the
' prosperity at Han Kow. At Han Yang, Just
aurvss the Han river, and Wu Chang, Just
acrors the Yangste river, good Christian
work Is being done in both of these cities.
Raaklaa; m Urlae rapilal.
Nanking, tha old southern capital of the
Chinese empire, about SuJ miles up the
. Yangste river. Is but the skeleton of ufcat
It opce was. It has a splendid location on
the Groat river and In tha empire. The
great wall Is yet around It, but after you
enter the Urge gate you must go from four
to Ave miles to And the remnant of he
elty In the far side of the enclosure. Vast
farms could be cultivated within th wails,
' without touching tha present resident part
of the city, where once was a busy, throb,
blng and. I might nay, proyd and domineer
Ing population. While many of Ita Chinese
eniicoe claim to be the real aristocracy
On the Street Marina; Riot.
Contrary to the warning of several parties
who had failed to get to their homes, It
was agreed upon that I go with the women
In a carriage to thoir homes. We avoided
the main streets, but all of the streets
were flanked on both sides with excited
Chinese and the building behind them
were full of faces peering at us.
Such an array of faces staring at us I
do not care to see again. One injudicious
word or action would have provoked
trouble, possibly riot, anywhere along our
way home. We all tried to conduct our
selves as If there was no danger antici
pated. I am sure none of these Chinese
could discern any trace of fear or anxiety
in our party. I staid with the carriage
until all the women had reanhed their
homes in safety, when I went to my place.
Tha parties with whom I staid were out
side of the police limits. We were told that
the women and children, at least, must go
Inside of the police limits during the night
to Insure their safety. After a council of
war, It was determined to stay In our own
premises, tha women and children remain
In the house nnd the men watch and do
p:itrol duty during the night At length
the morning came and we were all safe.
The morning papers declared that all was
quiet and that everything was under con
trol of the authorities.
Life Its'. Ca to.
Canton Is one of the largest. If not the
largest, city of the Chinese empire. It is
quite different from other Chineso cities.
Tho streets as a general thing are too
narrow for any two-wheeled conveyances,
even the Jlnrikshas. Chairs carried by
coolies form the principal mode of Inter
urban transportation. The small streets
are generally cleaner than In other Chinese
cities and are paved with broad flagstones.
In company' with an American missionary
I went through most of Canton. It was
very Interesting.
One of tho peculiarities about Canton
that oompels tho attention of foreigners
Is the multitude of persons or families that
live In small boats for pasaengors or traffic,
called sampans. These boats are almost
wholly controlled and propelled by women
and girls. It Is amaslng how skilfully
they mannge these boats and how bright
and cheerful the women and girls are on
their occupations. The whole family Uvea
In theae boats, and with the exception of
the men, who are possibly otherwise em
ployed, they scarcely ever spend any time
away from these boats, day or night, for
the whole year. Many thousands of por
sons are so engaged. I am afraid to
specify the number for fear I would be
charged with exaggeration by those whd
have not seen this traffic, and by too low
a figure by those who have studied It bet
ter than I. Quite extensive and good
Christian work Is done In Canton. There
la here considerable enmity, If I may use
that expression, against Europeans, and
occasional outbreaks of a serious character
have occurred,
Hour Konyt Is English,
Hong Kong Is wholly In the hands of
"the English government, while there Is a
large Chinese population within Its limits.
It is largely built upon the Bteepfoot hills
of the mountain range In the rear of It.
Many of the largest and best business
and government buildings have been built
upon land recovered from the harbor. Fins
buildings, public and private, are to be
seen on almost every part of the high
mountain faolng the harbor, even to Its
top, where there Is an observation station
and high flag staff, from which It gets Its
name. Flag Staff. From this point you
can look upon the city and harbor far
beneath you, upon the channel outside of
the harbor, as well as upon the many
mountain ranges and peaks that enclose
the harbor. It Is one of the most beautiful
and romantic natural pictures I have ever
Bryn. Hong Kong Is also on the direct
line of ocean travel and trsfflo. If I am
not mistaken It claims the greatest ton
nage of ocean trafflo of any city in the
world. Much Christian work of various
kinds is done la Hong Kong.
It was my privilege to do much effective
service for the Young Mon's Christian as
sociations in city, college and university
work In all the cities I have mentioned but
two, Chefou and Han Yang, I have been
privileged to meet with many influential
Christians, business men, merchants, man
agers of large government ' enterprises,
physicians, i one next the viceroy of his
province; all treated me most kindly. Like
Japanese, they phowed me great respect
and consideration because of my age.
I wish I could have stayed longer and
done more for the betterment of the great
multitude of young men In the great em
pire pf China." KOBERT WEIDENSALG.
Trip to the Vesuvius Country
Little Omaha Girl Describes What She Saw
J" IOME. April 80.-(Speclal Corre
IJ 1 spondence of The Bee.) We took
I the train at Naples for Pompeii.
TjE- Arriving there we had. lunoh and
ii then went to see the ruins. The
first building we saw was the Temple of
Jupiter, which is near the entrance. A
baker's shop, In which some loaves of bread
were found, had some mortars, which are
almost perfectly kept. In the amphitheater
you can see Just how the tiers rose and
the places where the wild beasts were kept,
also the many different entrances. The
baths Interested us greatly, for the guide
Showed us the different rooms In which the
different baths were taken. The rooms
were warmed through lead pipes which
were In the walls, We also saw the house
of Qlaucus, whose dog on the tiling still
looks very fierce, and the warning, "Be
ware, of the dog," which la below him, Is
oertainly needed.
Oolng down the Avenue of Tombs we
came to the house of Diomed. which Is
probably the largest in the city. In the
wine cellar was found the body of Julia,
and though they say you can see the shape
of her body In the clay we could not on ac
count of the sand and ashes which had
drifted In.
The house of Vetls, which Is the best
preserved house In Pompeii, has a great
many beautiful frescoes on its walls. The
fountains In the court are still Just as they
were. They are little figures holding a rod
or a flower, and out of these flowers and
rods once spouted the water. This fell Into
basins which are a few feet from the
statues.
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Ob th Read to Vesuvine.
Leaving the ruins and wishing to sea
what the latest eruption had done we took
a carriage for San Oulseppe. The first mile
or two had no ashes or cinders on It, but
after that the fields and roads were cov
ered in thin layers. It gradually became
worse until the pilee of cinders and ashes
which had been shoveled from the middle
of the road rose to two and three feet In
height. The flelde were so covered us to
make It Impossible for anything to grow.
The trees also were dried and scorched
and the doorways of the houses were be
low the level of the road. At last the roads
became so bad. notwithstanding the shov
eling, we could not move. We now made
the acquaintance of the moola, which Is
the Italian for "and her name was Maud."
The driver, with the combined help of the
village, seeing we were stuck for good, got
the owner, or "Maud's father," as we
called hlin, who was a regular Fra Dlavulo,
to give him the use of Maud. It took the
whole family to get her ready.
As soon as she was Axed, the "eldest"
son. who walked beside her, began to whip
her and the men of the village began to
push and all of them began to grunt, but
the moola woudn't budge. She only turii.4
around and said, "He Haw." Finally,
after some more whipping and some more
pushing and lots more grunting, she
started off on a run, but this did not last
lung, for who should we see goteg up the
road on a nice run all by hrraeit but our
dear Maud. Then .began a race between
the "eldest" son and "Maud's Fsther."
Bbe was caught and brought back artel
nearly kicking a small carriage ever.
,
to pass any one. At one point we met a
small carriage and, as we could not pass,
the people In tho other one had to climb a
cinder pile. They then lifted the carriage
so It was half on, half off the pile. We
then tried to pass them, which we did
after breaking the lamps off their carriage.
Later we nearly had our wheel smashed
by a big lumbering farmer's cart, which
passed us.
At San Oulseppe , and Fellpoppo th
greater part of the villages had been de-
strogd, for half of the houses had had
some falling In or out. Most had their
windows smashed and parts of their
porches or roofs gone.
Several companies of soldiers were camp
ing In tents on the roadside to protect the
people and to feed them, as they have no
means of support with their fields In their
present condition.
The church of San Oulseppe, bad its roof
fall In, killing 200 people, who were In
there praying. These were all that were
killed, though a great many have been
hurt. They have two Red Cross hospital
tents. Our wheels being stuck every few
moments, we got out of the carriage and
scrambled up the cinders. One house had
the ashes and cinders up to the seoond
story snd by climbing up another heap we
could see over Us roof.
Going farther down what had once been
a street we came to a house among the
group which was on both sides, which
had had Its roof fall through by the weight
of the cinders on It and all the floors had
gone down In their turn.
More Troable with Maid.
Qolng back we thought we wouldn't need
the moola, so we let the "eldest son" ride
her back. But we found to our sorrow
that we did need her, and, of course, she
wasn't there. We waited ten minutes for
her. It seemed an age and when she
finally did come she kicked up her heels
In a most unludylike way, for she evidently
didn't like us. After she had helped us
out we thought we could get along without
her, so the driver paid "Maud's Father."
We thought there would be a tight soon,
afer the payment, for such squabbling you
never heard.
It finally ended In "Maud's Father." al
most In tears (a very easy thing for mut
Italluns) and wanting to throw the money
back at the driver, only he was afruld If
he did it the children, always numerous
(I counted twenty-three In one group), would
get It and that would be the last he would
see of his pay. So we left our dear Maud
and her "father" and drove back to Poin
pell without any further mishaps.
NELLIE ELGUTTEIt.
Wonderful
Trovel i laaaoad.
The piles of ashes and cinders were now
six feet high and U was next to impossible
The modern Sherlock had been hastily
summoned to discover why so little work
was done in the big office while the boss
waa out.
"I observe," said Sherlock, looking around
the room, "that Mr. Hones, your tall book
keeper, has been klastng your pretty sten
ographer during your absence."
"lluw In the world did you find that
out?" gasped the boss.
"Why, she has a blot of Ink on, her noee.
He forgot to remove the pea from behind
his ear." Chicago News.
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