THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 4, 1909.
Call of the Mountains Lures the City Dweller to Cool Trout Lakes
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O WEPT, young man."
Gl This admonition, given years
I ago to the youth of the cities
u i me east, ii again applicable
In another way. No better ad
vice could b given to the bust-
i "v. man in search of a few weeks' vaca
tion and rest from the humdrum of a busy
ritv Ufa. What better advice could be
n than lo (to to the land of life, health,
'HPf and plenty to the land where cool
f nuntnln breezes abound and where the
mountain streams and lakes are filled with
bta-itlful trout, all ready and waiting to
bo caught?
S imoier months, with their accompany
Ii'r heat, ore at hand, and the weary toller
of the city begins to wonder where he can
I o and secure nbsnlute rest, where he may
fcrjrrt the carea of biislnr. and where he
ifcny be away from the everyday eights
,h.ch grow tiresome.
This is the erason of tho year when the
run l.fi;.i down on both sides of the cities'
rtrcpt, atn-.ot met the asphalt pave
ments and literally forces the city chap
to long for tome shnlrd brook where he
n-.iglit lounge In peace with the world and
feci sad for hs less fo; (unite brother who
Is force! by cures of business to remain
In the city and swelter.
YfcUuv Mm c i ei I; is one of the most pop
ular plucs, but no many of the Omaha
people have been to the park that they
IlKcly to take somo other mountain trip,
where they have to rough It a little, either
In camping parties or by stagecoach. Tel
lomstono park Is much more accessible to
the people of Omaha than formerly and a
trip through the park may be made with
much greater ease and In much less time,
because of the new entrances recently
opened. Formerly the only entrance to
the park was via the Northern Pacific at
Gardiner, but during the last few yean
three new entrances have been made pos
sible. One of these Is over the Burlington
to Oofly and thence via stage Into the park.
Another Is the new Union Paclflo lino to
the western gateway of the park, and an
other Is an automobile route north from
the Union Taclflo through Wyoming. These
entrances to the park make It possible to
enter one slilo and leave on the other, thus
saving much time by not having to double
back.
Mr. TTarrlman has spent millions and
millions of dollars perfecting a road which
runs direct from Omaha to the wilds of
tho mountains, where a few weeks may be
spent with nature In all its grandeur.
Alighting from the cars at any of the
many stopping places along the route, a
saddlo horse, wagon or automobile will
soon carry the pleasure-seeker tnto the
solitudes of the mountains. In a moment
the outer world la shut out. There Is
nothing to remind one of the rumble of
trains, the rattle of the pavements or the
turmoil of the city. One Is soon alone with
nature In all Its magnificence. At times
the Journey to the camping ground leads
along the banks of a foaming, tumultuous
Mrcam beating against rock-ribbed walls.
At times the road leads up the side of the
mountains among the tall trees and winds
nnd twists In and about cragged peaks and
then descends Into deep gulches and out
again and on and up to the snow-capped
summits of the mountain rangea.
Writing home to some friends from one
of theso trips, an Omaha traveler who was
Labors of Christian Missionaries Among the
(Copyright, 1909, by Frank G. Carpenter.)
EOl'L. (Special Correspondence
S of The Bee.) Jut before I left
I Washington last summer to
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Pacific one of our leading
bankers said to me:
"I understand you are going out to de
scribe the awakening of Asia. There is
one thing I wish you would Investigate have a cathedral in Seoul. It stands on a
In a practical way. That is the mission hill overlooking the rest of the city and
movement! There are tens of thousands 11 Is by far the largest church building in
of us buxlness men who are giving regu- Korea.
larly toward the introduction of ChrlH- The protestant missions are all working
ianlty among the heathen. We want to together. They have about 200 American
know what our money Is doing, and n(1 European men and women employed
whether It will pay us to continue giving nd tnelr stations cover the country. The
or not. You are an unprejudiced observer Protestants are divided Into Presbyterians,
and we would like to know what you Hthodlsts and1 Anglicans, the Presby-
think." terians represent both sections of the
This desire to know the truth about mis- cnurch n th United States, north and
slons is not confined to our business men. outh. there are also small branches
It Is a live question to the 22,000,000 who m denomination from Canada
belong to our various church organtsa- n4 Autralla. Our Methodist Episcopal
lions and to every Sunday school and ohurclie". north and south, are carrying
religious body throughout the whole United on ret wor. nd English have a
States. wel1 managed mission at the head of whloh
ft is a bishop. In addition there are the
Thoaaaada of Native Christiana. mission of the Russian Greek church in
I ara glad to bave this country as my 8oul. h Young Men's Christian assooia
flrst field for such Investigation. The Uon " Station Army, whose ad
Koreans are now doing more than any vanc U"A cama laMt ' AU the
other nation along such lines. Our mis- lttrr mlslons have schools and hospitals,
sionarlea went to the Japanese first, but nd 11 hava many nalv workers. As I
'Korea has tod.y more converts than Japan hav ld' th mov'ra'nt has so advanced
and pioportlonately many times mors than that thB moat ol lha signers are now
China, which has been exploited by the mPloyed ln directing native Christians,
churches for eeveral generations. who have bcom h chl lennt la the
The Christian movement Is one of the v"eatlon of the country.
vital elsmtnts of tho reorganisation of this
country. A great revival Is now taking
place among the people, and more than
30,000 converts have bm-n added to the
church within a year. There are about
1W.0OO native Chrlwtlar.s, and there will be
a tA k. f , , . .
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V POpU" lon of han N'000-000'
our ?!u , ,7 ,'V.7y 100 h" profeMe
our r llglon. If a similar success could be
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nave .wo,uue. and lr in India, 2,000,000 or
,
You remember the wonderful work which
nt,y E'Sr1 Evere,t lu,e' Plana
or Ten times one Is ten" the endless
chain principle In which every one en.-
cagrd to Intercut ten others In making
tho world better. The same thing, al
though not on a numerical scale. Is going
on In Korea. Tho converted natives are
different from us In that as soon as they
adopt Christianity they go out and try to
convert thtir friends and neighbors.
Indeed, the mission movement Is now
iH-ltig puh.d by the natives themselves
under the direction of our missionaries.
Native churches are bring built by native
contributions In all of the cltlee, and there
is a Korean congregation In every large
villase. The Pioteetsnt organisations al
ready number something like U0 Out ad
herents, while the Roman Catholics count
M.O00 Koreans. Tho Protestants have X
-uT preachers and 200 Sunday schools
iv.wu men. women and chil
dren as regular attendants. There are
more grown people than children In the
Sunday schools; and ail are anxious to
learn about the new religion and what It
con do for them. There are 100 self-supporting
day schools, run by the churches.
snd altogether .000 or T0.0OO gold dollars
were jnt upon such schools last year.
When it la remembered that the Koreans
are one of the poorest peoples on earth,
and that they live from hand to mouth,
these gifts are a surprising evidence of
their faith.
But first let m. tell you the foreign
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carried away by the grandeur of the sight
wrote: "Here, nature has combined lia
dignity, beauty and eloquence. Here, once
must have been marshaled all its rampant
forces; here, must bave been a seething
turmoil, when those masses of granite were
thrown pell-mell, some Into grotesque
heaps, others superbly chiseled Into ex
quisite design.
"Here' are the never disappearing snow
banks. For countless ages they have lain
among the peaks, filling the crevices, the
gulches and basins, and though the sum
mer sun beats hard on them, naught but a
tiny stream of water trickles forth from
their edge, but as tiny as It is, It comes
from so many banks so persistently, until
It gathers the volume that makes the
mountain torrent, and the placid valley
streams that meet in their course and form
the mighty rivers that flow some one way,
some another to the seas."
It is asserted there is no country on the
face of the globe which can offer as .many
inducements as the Jackson Lake country
for scenery, fishing, all kinds of birds,
duck and goose shooting, and it is with
out doubt the greatest big game country
in the world, not excepting the regions
now being tramped ever by Theodore
Kooseveit.
The Jackson Hole country lies south of
Tellowstone National park, and the south
ern boundary of the national park is the
northern boundary of the Jackson Hole
country. Three majestlo peaks rise almost
perpendicularly 7,275 feet above the level
of the lake. The three snow-capped peaks
of the range seem to stand guard over the
missions which are operating in Korea.
There are lour, each with a large staff of
American or European workers. The
1 Ionian Catholics are French Jesuits.
Ttl V h H VW hn ll.r. fl,T mi.,-. than
century and have a fully organised church.
At their head Is a bishop, who Is assisted
by a large staff of priests and nuns,
among whom are Koreans. The Catholics
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Koreans at Csmreh.
Tou religious drones of the United States
who stay at borne from church and prayer
meetings whenever it rains should oome
out to Korea to learn what live Chrls-
nmiy mwni, iui ii tor instance, a
natlv church hl 1 nded this week.
It was that of Dr. J. 8. Gale, belonging
to th. Presbyterian mission In Seoul. The
cnurcn ,tan1, on , hin not f trom ,b,
P"' ' an aov. th. big
technical school which the Japanese hav.
Ju,t founded. Its audience hall Is sixty
feet wide by eighty feet long and it seats
about vjoo. This church was built by
native contributions and its members gav.
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surrounding country, and rising as they
seem to do out of the lake, these moun
tains l.ave a plcturesquenesa impossible
to describe.
Times have been changing In the matter
of vacations for the olty folks. It was not
so very far back that business men made
trips to well known summer resorts whloh
are crowded at this time of the year, but
they have learned better in recent years.
The buslnees man has learned to his great
advantage that he can have more real
rest and freedom from business carea by
hiking to the mountains. The residents
of the mountain districts have learned this
and now, all over the west, ample ac
commodations may be had for a trip close
to nature. At all stations along the Union
Paclflo in Wyoming outfitting parties are
ready at a short notice to provide equip
ment and guides for a trip Into the prac
tically unexplored regions, where fish'
may be caught In abundanoe and where
the seeker after rest may travel day after
day In the cool mountain breeses with
snow In sight and where ail cares may be
forgotten.
What is more exhllerating than a day's
tramp up one of these famous mountain
streams in Wyoming in search of the
festive trout The charm of fishing in
such streams Is only known to those who
have had the unequalled experience. With
high boots It is the highest kind of sport
to glide from one vantage point to an
other and oast the fly ahead in search of
a strike. The real fisherman knows the
22,500 to its support last year. In con
nection with two other natve Presbyterian
congregations its members are supporting
two mission churches outside the city.
This churoh has a regular attendance of
1,200 and when I entered it last Sunday
there were more than that in the audience
room. Fully 600 of those present were men.
I doubt much if any United States city of
200,000 has a single church with 600 men
among its regular attendants. And more
than 600 of these Korean men had oome
to Sunday school as well as to church.
There were fully that many women.
But how do I know that the men and
women were equally divided T
That la easy in a Korean congregation.
The men all sit together on one-half the
church floor, while the women are squatted
on the other half, a wide canvas screen
being stretched from one end of the ohurch
to the other between them. The women
are supposed not to be seen by, any men
but their husbands. They some to the
church with green cloaks wrapped around
their beads and they put these on upon
going out
The church floor Is covered with white
matting. AU take off their shoes as ihey
oome In and lay them beside them on the
floor as they listen to the sermon. At
the front of the hall Is a ' rostrum sup
porting a pulpit, from the middle of which
the screen extends through the church, so
that both men and women can see the
pastor and he can see them. It was on
this rostrum I sat.
Qaeer CoBgrregratlea,
The oongregatlon comprised all classes
of Koreans. Among the men were cabi
net ministers, governors and princes, sit
ting side by side with common coolies and
others of the lower classes. The same dif
ferences of condition were observed among
th. women. The men all wore hats; and,
of the women, all were bareheaded. The
men had on gowns of white, roee-plnk or
sky-blue grass cloths or cotton, with white
cotton ' under trousers and white padded
stockings. Their hats were of black horse
hair, so braided together that their top
knots could be seen through the meshes.
The women wore Jackets and skirts of
white, lllao, pink and sea-green, and their
hair was carefully combed. Some of the
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enjoyment of sneaking up to a marked
spot and the battle which follows the
strike. What sport what enjoyment.
When the sun is receding behind the high
mountains the trout will come with a
dash, almost a savage rush, and leap from
the water to get the fly. Fish is the
prlnolple diet on one of these trips, for
fish may be had by anyone who la any
kind of a fisherman at all, and if he is
not the guide will see that enough are
caught to provide a good fish dinner.
A party of six men went from Lincoln,
Neb., last year accompanied by their wives
and a colored cook, who was secured from
the Union Pacific. A trip was made Into
the mountains from Laramie with a com
plete outfit, which wag secured at Laramie,
and a month spent In the mountains with
the members of the party, free to feast
or sleep, mountain climb or fish, as their
sweet wills dictated, and the entire ex
penses for this month of free life was
less than SCO a person.
The Laramie la a deep wide river, full
of trout and big trout are In all the rivers
of Wyoming. Trout were planted years
ago, and they have grown and Increased
until these streams are becoming known all
over the country as the fisherman's para
dise. July and August are the seasonable
months for a trip to the mountains, for
then the long imprisoned vegetation bursts
Into Ufa and during these months changes
are wrought which come earlier In the
lower states.
The Northwestern and the Burlington
take the traveler to frequented parts of the
woman had babies with them, and I heard
a slight squall now and then. Before the
sermon began one little girl stood up with
her baby sister tied to her back. The
little one was crying. The girl rose and
fell on her toes to quiet It
I have never seen such attention ln any
church. The faces of the people fairly
shone as one of the elders, nicknamed
the wisest man ln Korea, once a member
of the Korean legation in Washington, ad
dressed them. There was not a snore to
be heard, and of the whole 1,200 not one
went to sleep. The preacher held them
from start to close, now and then bringing
out slaughter. After this a hymn was sung,
the percentor standing ln his stocking feet,
big hat and long gown on the rostrum,
while a Korean girl played the organ, a
little affair so small that at the close
the sexton carried it out on his shoulder.
Hymn books were used by all, and every
one in that congregation is able to read.
Indeed, the church will not take in any
one who cannot read the Scriptures. Whsn
a man becomes converted he Is asked as
to his education and is told he must learn
to read before the church will admit him.
The Korean language is such that thla
can be accomplished In the space of one
month or so. Indeed, the spur of the desire
for church membership is one of the great
forces new working toward th. education
of the Koreans.
How Money Talks.
After this hymn was sung fifty men
and women were baptised and taken Into
the church. They were all full grown and
the sexes were about equally divided. They
sat on the floor during the oeremony, the
Rev. Dr. Gale touching the heads of each
with water from a glass bowl.
Before the dUmlsal, a collection was
taken up, and it seemed to me that every
one gave something, although most could
afford but a penny or so. One woman
brought ln 27. This was tha widow of a
honey merchant who had a church box,
in which he put his odd cents, and when
the accumulation amounted to something,
turned It in. His widow is doing the same,
and this was her gift for the month. No one
who docs not appreciate the poverty of
Korea can realise how the people are
giving. They say money talks. If It tells
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TROUT FISHING
Rocky Mountains and these routes are
becoming more and more popular. The
Northwestern, now extends to Lander, near
the Wind River reservation, from whloh
town the snow peaked summits of the
Rockies are visible, from Lander and other
towns It Is but a short drive to ideal camp
ing places, A party of twenty young men
from the east passed through Omaha last
week for Lander, to start on a sixty days
camping trip- Into the mountains. In and
out of Tellowstone park.
The Burlington runs through the Big
Horn country to Cody, and here are regu
lar outfitting companies, with all sorts of
rigs, ready for trips to the mountains.
Colonel Cbdy has established a line of
hotels between Cody and Tellowstone park,
and stops at any of these may be made
with big game and fish in abundance. Here
is just the kind of fishing to please most
people.
On the Laramie river, In southern Wyom
ing, the following flies take well with the
fish: Coaohman, light and dark royal,
brown and gray hackles, professor, queen
of the water, Jungle cock, abbey, black
gnat and cowdung. All the tributaries of
the Laramie afford good brook trout fish
ing, but the larger fish are found In the
larger streams.
Generally speaking, there Is good trout
fishing in all the streams of Wyoming.
The Snake, the Big Horn, the Green are
all stocked with trout of. a superior qual
ity. In the warmer portions of these
streams are also found the gamey Rocky
Mountain whlteflsh, which lives In lively
tho truth these people believe what they
profeBS.
Faith with Works.
Faith without work Is said to be dead.
If so, our American Christianity la ln a
bad state ln comparison with Korean
Christianity. There is a Methodist church
In Seoul, maintained by the natives which
is larger and quit, as earnest as the one
I have described, and there are a number
of other mission churches, most of which
receive little help outside Korea. There
are many places in which money could be
used to advantage, and I know of no
foreign country where It will meet with
such large returns as right here. Borne of
the native churches sre miserably poor.
Take that of Dr. Bunker, near the east
gate ln Seoul. It consists of one room of
about the slse of a parlor ln an American
flat, and so small that only 100 men can
be crowded down upon the floor. At all
the services ln that church the doors and
windows are full and many must stand
outside. It has three meetings every Sunday
morning. There Is one for boys, which lasts
from 2 to 10 o'clock; then one for men,
from 10 to 12 o'clock; and after that a
third service for the women. Dr. Bunker
tells me that his people all give, although
they are of the poorest class of Koreans,
and that many of them cut down their food
in order to give to the church. They will
eat a spoonful or so less rice at a meal, or
perhaps eat half the meal amount on on.
day .very week. The collections of the con
gregation amount to about $2 per Sunday,
and this is made up of coins worth from
one-forth of a cent to a nickel. The church
has already saved 2250 toward a new build
ing, and It Is now aiding mission churches
outside. Last Sunday Dr. Bunker baptised
one woman who was seventy-nine years
of age.
At Pyengyang there is a Presbyterian
church which has twenty-two hundred reg
ular attendants on Sundays and twelve
hundred at the prayer meetings during mid
week. One of Its members is a middle
aged woman who walks ten miles ln from
the country twice a week, rain or shine.
Think of walking forty miles a week to
preaching and prayer meeting. That Is
what she does.
Bible Study Classes.
An interesting feature of the Christian
movement her. is th. Bible study classes
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water and takes a fly even better than a
trout. A small fly must be used because
of the smallness of their mouths. The
most celebrated fishing grounds are the
head of Green river, the Wind river near
Lander and Bhoehonl and the many lakes.
There are large trout In Snake river and
still larger In the lake. Five and six-pound
trout are common above Snake River
canon, before entering Tellowstone park,
and In the lake speolmens have been
caught which weighed over ten pounds.
All the streams rising in the big
Horn mountains are filled with trout and
the lakes on the western slope should be
fished more to give the trout a ohance.
Trout in these cold waters are never less
than a pound In weight and often weigh
four or five pounds, and a few hours' fish
ing will give the fisherman all the fish his
heart could desire.
Moet of these fishing spots are away
from the railroad, and stages or private
conveyances will have to be used, but to
go into the mountain, establish a eamp
beside some beautiful mountain stream and
live to enjoy the cool and invigorating at
moephere and the pure mountain water,
the campflres and the solitude that re
lieves all business worry Is a vacation
whloh is being sought by thousands each
year in Increasing numbers.
One beauty of a trip to tho mountatna,
and especially to those who make a camp
ing trip, is the utter abeenoe of snakes.
The terror to women who camp In the
states In the lower altitudes is snakes,
which are liable to come prowling around
Natives
which are carried on regularly ln different
parts of the country at certain times of
the year. These people are anxious to
Btudy the scriptures and to have them ex
plained. Many of them ommtt parts of
the New Testament the Proverbs and
Psalms, and Dr. Gale tells me that he has
members of his ohurch whom he uses as
a concordance, asking them where certain
verses of the scriptures are instead of
looking at the books. At a Christmas cele
bration last winter an old woman or 83
was told to repeat some verses from the
Bible. She started in with Proverbs, and
rattled off three chapters before they were
able to stop her. She said she could give
six more If they wanted them. That
woman walks three miles every Sunday to
church.
The Bible study classes come In the win
ter and spring. The men hav. on. time
and the women another when they thus
meet together. They will walk for miles
to these classes, bringing their rloe or
enough money to pay their board while
they stay. Some come 200 miles and walk
all the way. These meetings last two weeks
and during this time the people read and
discuss the scriptures. Last year the men's
classes were held ln February, and those
for the women in March. At th. meetings
In Seoul there were 400 men, some of whom
came from near the Sea of Japan, some
from, the north and others from all over
the country. The meetings were led by
one of the foreign missionaries, who gave
an outline of the book of the New Testa
ment, which had been selected for study.
After this, the men read the book together,
asking questions and discussing eaoh
verse. They all took notes ln order to
carry their learning back to their villages.
At the woman's meeting the foreign ladles
presided and the exercises were similar.
Medical Missions.
I might write a chapter on th. medical
missions of Korea. American doctors have
done enormous good here. There are
twelve hospitals and dispensaries scat
tered over the country, In which 20,000
patients are annually treated, and there
are special corps of trained workers, in
cluding teachers, doctors and nurses, who
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the camp at night There are no snakes
to bother in tho mountains. There are no
stinging nor biting Insects to make life
miserable and to mar one's beauty. No
obnoxious animals come prowling around
the camp at night for should a stray ante
lope come around it la perfectly harm
leas. There are none of these things to
mar one's pleasure.
Ranchmen are scattered all over this
western country and It Is possible to pitch
a camp within reach of some ranch where
eggs and milk may be secured to make a
change from the trout meals of which,
however, the fisherman la not apt to be
come tired.
Colorado also share with Wyoming the
honors of being well supplied with moun
tain streams fuU of fish and also with
many well developed summer resorts,
' where a vacation may be spent In the
mountains with ail the comforts of an up-to-date
hotel. Estes park has been brought
closer to the seeker for rest by the estab
lishment of an automobile line to this
famous park. Stanley, the automobile man
ufacturer, has found that be can live much
better In Colorado than In any other state,
and he has acquired vast tracts of land
and has also built a huge modern hotel
In Estes park, which he has connected
with the railroad by an automobile line.
The Colorado & Southern has several
splendid rest spots along Its line and the
Denver fit Rio Grand trarenea a section
of the state whloh Is full of places to
suit many searchers torn rest and, recrea
tion. I I jit U i.lJiabiH 4 1 1
of Korea
are doing a great deal for Korean women
along such lines. The big Red Cross hos
pital which the Japanese have opened is
based upon work done by the missionaries,
and one of Its leading doctors is William
B. Scranton, who cams her. twenty-five
years ago as a medical missionary of the
Methodist church.
It was Dr. Horace N. Allen who sewed
up the body of Prince Mia Tung Ik when
he was cut aim oat to pieces In a revolt at
the palace. He thereby gained th. good
will of the king. This Insured to tho mis
sionaries tha ftiendafutp of the nobility and
enabled America for years to lead ln all
the advanced movements here. Dr. Allen
risked his life tn attempting that eure.l
When he arrived at the palace ho found
thirteen native physicians about to pour
boiling wax into the gaping wounds of the
prince; and It was only by tact that he
was able to make them stand back and
allow him to dress the wounds. As a
thank offering the king then started a gov
- ernment hospital with Allen In charge. It
had forty beds and it treated over 10,000
patients the first year.
The Methodists hav. now five hospitals,
ln which 20,000 cases ar. treated annually,
and the British Society for the Propaga
tion of the Gospel has four. Th. Presby
terians have a number of hospitals, one
of the largest of them being the Severance
hospital, situated outside the Nan-dal-mon
gate. This Is the gift of Louis M. Sever
ance, a well known Presbyterian business
man of Cleveland, O., who hag given a
great deal of money toward mission work
throughout the far east Mr. Severance
takes a business look at such undertakings.
He says he believes that money invested
ln missions in Korea pays bigger dividends
ln the way of results then the same money
so Invested anywhere else. The head of
this hospital is Dr. Avison, and the chief
assistant is Dr. J. W. Hirst of Philadel
phia. This hospital treated something Ilk.
11.000 patients last year, of whom more
than 2,000 came to the dispensary. The
hospital Is now practically self-supporting.
It receives only 2160 a year from America,
the rest of the expenses, amounting to
12,000 yen, coming from the work of the
physicians In charge. A large part of this
Is derived from Korean patients, and over
24,000 from medical services td foreigners
In Seoul. The hospital has a medical col
lego connected with It and it graduated
seven Korean doctors last year. It has
Korean nurses and a nurses, training
school, and also a cllnlo at which the bet
ter class Korean patients pay 1 yen per
visit.
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Te Korean Y. M. C. A.
One of the most striking of the new
buildings of Seoul, is a three-story brick
structure which has just been completed
near the old Bell Tower In the heart of
the city. This Is the home of the Young
Men's Christian association. It is the
gift of John Wanamaker, and, as far as
good is concerned, it will probably do
more, dollar for dollar, than any money
he has ever spent. The building has cest
less than 20,000. but . It oould not e
erected in the United States for tbre
times that, and, with the ground upon
which It stands, it is worth several hun
dred thousand dollars today. It covers,
I Judge, something like a quarter of an
ere and is thoroughly equipped as a
technical training school, and as a modtrn
educational institution similar to the Y.
M. C. A's of our country. It has a large
lecture hall, social rooms and lacks onjy
a modern gymnasium to make it com
plete. There Is room oa the lag. tttt this,
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