THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 29, 1909.
Tientsin, the New York of North China, and the New Chinese Growth
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STREET SCENE IN THE BRITISH CONCESSION, TIENTSIN.
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teaohrr, chon fnr a crtnin arhool, k
about the book! and character of teach
ing required, ah ta referred to the erlu-
very one of these poweri baa Ita own aomewhat different from the French club,
little city her on the banks of th Pel- known aa the Circle d'Eecrlme.
Ho. Each concession haa Ita police, Ita Vo China, at sk-hool.
consular court, Ita town hall and Ita own As to churchea, these foreign aettle- caional museum and ahe attends som
l" troops. One aees companies of Japanese, ments have congregations, both Protestant tln) tnert jn preparation Near this ther
1 German and French soldlera marchlnR and Catholic, and there are missionary u a commcfal mu8(!um and nIso ftn ,n.
here and there through the streets. The stations, as wen as a live, up-io-aan
British ' have a regiment of Highlanders branch of the American Y. M. C. A.
who show their bare knees and flirt their Th foreign coneetslons are only an ap.
short skirts In the faces of the native, preclatlon of the great movements which
and Russian Cossacks, with great fur are going on amonjr the Chinese. The
caps, gallop through the city on horse- real progress Is In the native city, and In
back.
dustrial museum which Are largely used
by both teachers and pupils.
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DR. TAMEI KIN, HEAD OP CHINA'S FIRST MEDICAL, SCHOOL FOR WOMEN.
Military l-laelnn.
TlentBln has long had Its military acad
emics: and It has today large schools
the vast suburbs, which ware growing foP training soldlera. There wer army
Ther are altogether ten different set- up on th opposite side of the river. Dur- and naval academies her before th
tlements in the combined city, so that one Ing the last four years there has been a Japan-China war. They were organised
TEACHING CHINESE GIRLS TO SEW.
(Copyrighted. 1909, by Frank G. Carpenter.) are also bridges over
IF.NT81N, 5pclM Corre- which crosses the Pel
TT I SDondence of The Be.l-The nd ,uch Improvements
I awakening of China! without regard to the unions.
l am in the, midst of It here .,, .1, ".
in Tientsin. The Yellow Giant B' Tr"U,c t'Bt"-
ha. hi imt.j nn Tientsin Is the New York of North China.
Yea, he has sprung from his bed 11 tne chlef Port for th8 Qreat plaln'
and Is fast drawing on the clothes of our "a the thlcklv settled regions north and
tli Grand canal may vlslt balf Co6n natlon ,n lh fn f"'" aucat!onal development in Tlent- by LI Hung Chang whll be was viceroy. f a 8choo, of eomfllU! PConornv, wher Inquiry, I found that they had been
Ho at this place, rlkl8ha rlde of a mornlnB- Th' foreign sin than almost anywhere else In th LI had already seen th need of a reor- ,earn cooklng ,ewls ,nd hoUBe. uttfi for more tllan on, hundred and sUiy
s ara now mad ""sslones "ave magnificent buildings, world. This Is a broad ststemnnt, but ganiiatlon of th Chinese army, a need,8plng years as a Chinese orphan asylum. Th
many or wnicn wouia d consiaerea una tne facts Justify it. wnicn ne came to appreciate more ana asylum was founded by an emperor who
in London or Paris. The hotel structure gince the Boxer rebellion millions of dol- more during the China-Japan war and Medical College lor Women. reigned more than thirty years befoia
In which I am stopping would bo good lara have bvrn nvtsted In school build- the Boier rebellion. In the first he lost The only medical college for women In our Declaration of Independence was algned
in New York or Chicago, and there Is an ,ngs nd choolg of ull klnd, have been his yellow jacket, and th strain of th China la in Tientsin. It was established and the institution haa been kept up with
English clubhouse adjoining it Which e9tabll,n.d t took a flHve yesterday, go- pcona w" 80 rcal lnat n alea ,oon by Yuan Shlh Kal. and is supported out money furnished by the Chinese govern
must hace cost several hundred thousand
civilisation. The ruts and filth of the old
city are rtlsapjtarlng and macadamised
roads, electric trolley and Iron bridges
r taking their places. Th old wall,
forty feet high aid twenty feet wide,
gray with ni:e, Iish been torn down, and
a I: rood avenue, as smooth as the rVrlve
west of Peking. Tributary to it Is a popu
latlon of 100,000.000, or more than all the
people of the United States, and Its con
nection with this vast mass of consumers
Ing past structure after structure of brick
after,
of th salt revenue. Salt Is
govern- ment fronl tnM1 untn now. j)r. Kin tolls
dollars to build. There are magnificent ; . '...,. BCr, A , After u left th vloeroyalty other pro- ,ent monopoly and one of the chief mo tnat there ar, Bim ona hundred and
bank buildings here, representing million or ""e covering acres, ah are ae gresslve officers wer appointed for source from which the government funds eKhty -rig u and that It admlls about
of dollars of capital, and there are stores votfd to fchoola and in them aro beings chlhll, and among them was Yu-i Shlh come. This medical school Is an academy cno hundred orphans per year,
with plate glass windows filled with all taupht the science r.f our civilisation. Kal. who acted as such until a short rather than a college. It Is to train ,
a mA Am-lonn ThptA ar U I ndelff n.rt imis And lirlmnrv time an Tnsn Hhlh Tfal mmm th tiithnr . . .A .. in a 1 . . . .
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Is rapidly being opened up by railroad. I . .!,.,, ,..,. a- ,i.i. r,r ti,. nrr...i. f h. n. in- u,. ... k. ....ki..., "
.,.,v..t, . " - .uiuuh., - ... atuuuia nui.ii c iv u nvmu.ir.., .., Durinsr our atav Dr. liin iook us over
came here from Manchuria on the Im
perial Chinese railway, going through the
great Chinese wall at Rhan-hal-k wan, and
British Home Comforts. manual training schools and technical stltutlons of Tientsin, and under him fit girls aa matrons for the new hospitals the institution, saying that the orphan
In the British concession where I live academies, as well as high schools and a not ""' the military but every form of and as aids In the new sanitary work asvlum had been moved to buildings on
In Rock Creek Psrk in Washington, now V ....7 ... . - ' .:. Is a larire nubile nark where the mill- larce university. Tientsin has now twenty rauu",on Pu- iouV which is to be carneo o mrougout uie th opposite side of the river, and that
run around the great city. There la a reklng. A road from there Is now build- tary bands given open-air concerts, and night schools, attended by those who can-
are a medical college for the education empire.
thefco buildings were to be devoted from
car upn It. and its motormen have Ing whlch taUe, one Ilorthward through " '-o grounds tennis court, p?t KO during the day. It ha. a number t, of f'or th. army and k;; 'cines, woman of twenty-f.v. or I?!, ?B '1,!:.
driven th passenger wheelbarrow coolies the great wall to Kalgan, Monsrolla, and aml Park for foot ba" a,11 cricket. To- f half-day schools and eighteen lecture
quite out of business.
dance, and
ii-.- , , . . . in k n v nic iiiiu in Hiving, m.,v-, h ii ! I a whr men fHIk n ' i? n T nrter n irhl i . . -n, -w. i ... .ti u. .... - . . . - .
wiutn win evriiiunnj uf t-uiiiii'uit:u wmi . - , alQ Anaigucu iu ui in inc uuja in nn ii i nitea otates. one spent a part ol nor ,,., .mi.
m.. . m .... .. ... - . Dy turmna- orr me electric nsni in niy w .. ..i . . . . ... !
""in uown oi mat wan was on in 1 rans-silierian rauroaa. Anotner roaa . , . . uujcji inu Ul n; iu.i.u.- scnoois ana acaaemies; ana xounsi wnum jife in Washington, and came her with t-
rnnm i can sea liiv uare iivcnv kiiu biioi h ... . . . m. . . . . . . ,
navy. More than this, military officials thirty years, who was educated In the p,lg ui(hnjgh, so far, only twsnty-flv
Said Dr. Yamst
of the ruJe blow which made Tlentsl.i has been projected from here south . " . " , .7 . . " , . 'ty extension courses.
rouse up and take notice. It was done through the most thickly populated part, b'ceves ,l"e 1 " '"T' . h-om
k .h e.,.i . .v.- .. . .v.. , ... .. wno are wnirung aooui in mo i"
i vi3i,ii vi uub cbi 1.110 iiiiiv oi me os vnum uunn iu ins laiiKiK, uu in iiuio their partners over
mrv . vuDiiiuti. nuu liibl iiuiwiiiiMiHriniiir a. luiiiniii will iib ,a iiulkb i twiiniiiiK iiu u . . . ...
" . , , - sna American settlement nu a jiuuuu - .....
th nrotestfl anil nrnvrri nf fha (,,.. her as Olir roadS do from ChlCaKO. ThiS . . . ... ... .... . nmv miH.n cnVArnniaiit an A nnnsirltii. UJ
r- - - - - - - - - school lor its ooys ana gins ana aiao a - -
Th Chinese became greatly excited and cl,y na" now Perhaps i a million people. -w.lmmn b,h Th. French concession tlonal reform. There are four such halls
:in.
"Women doctors ar greatly needed In
The lectures last now learns to handle the musket be- a strong Indorsement from Fresldent
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the way. Th. BriU,h ub" comPrl8e graphy, history and drill !n uniform. tlW tod f the medical college of the New York Bot propw t0 cftU , m,n to attand W0B.a
lement ha. a public tra an" al cla P"'ca' '"- ",Ury UCtlC nd " e"rc,"ed erjr Infirmary for Women and Children, the and , most of our cities ther ar. n.lth.
educational pari o wnicn inuiuuUn nn femaI(J doctor(J nor traned nurses. Th
Imha kun mBMail InM that niBAlnfll Anl.
Girls' Schools. " " " - - few Chinese women who have reoelved
aid that, destroying the wall, would ruin What wl nave ln th 'utur 1 da,e nof has a cathedral! a town hall and a park. In Tientsin where lectures are held every j flnd many ichooIg her. , Tlent. Jf",0' j:0" Wl"'lt?- 81
their city. "A town without wall.." said Pred'ct- and the Russians are building up a city night for nix days of the week, and then, gi. Woman1, education has never been E"'1""" nuen;ly' . f .
She speaks
most in-
thay, "Is like a woman without a koo'.u
that la, without pantaloons. It is dis
graceful and it cannot succeed."
Nevertheless, the power, took the pant,
ff of Tientsin, and since then th old
.lum now u-ii." i uu i. vn ....... over tne river the Btore8 f which are are l.'iO other lecture ' halls of a similar encouraged by the Chinee, and today
The low price of silver and the flnan- marked wlth Grk slgn,. nature, which are in constant use In other almost ho Chlneee girl., taking the va.t
clal distress which has prevailed through- 0ne of the larfc-fllt of these foreign cities cUies of thlg provlnoe population Into consideration are going
terestlng talk with her today concern
ing the school and it. possibilities.
It was In company with Mr. Williams,
medical eduoatton abroad bave all and
more than they can do. Those trained It
the mission sohools ar largely employed;
In the mission hospitals, and It Is almost
out th world have Bloppea the progress belongs to the Japanese. It la several
the City was making up until about two mllt., j circumference, and Is being rap
our consul general to Tientsin, that I "-possible for us to get Chines women
Educations! Associations
to school. . In the new schooja of the teacher, for thl. In.tructlon. As It I.
ij.uvi.ito ui -"i'i i. .t-ro . iiincij-iiiiiB , .,,, .,.., i,.f now, w uo not ciatm to De a college, we
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iientsin nas a large nunioer 01 eauca- am roi-iv.iin .i.ou uhl,,,, . . . u are. rather, a medical academy, and w
n on the boom. illBS ait put up since the Boxer rebellion, tlonal associations. In the Drovlnce of GlrlB1 schools, however, are being started. ' "TT .. iv. such an ed.in.tlon .a Is common In
, western world There are many Japanese merchants who .,.,. ... , ... In B,AI,lnn ,hlr. and the center of the movement Is here, carts ana j.nr.Risnas .,.. Am.Ho fnr .,..rinl ,u,Hn-
ice of this city. hve enme here to enrniKe In trade with " . . . . T nnrlerstanfl that about 10 ner cent of y a tnI" a low aoor' wo . . "
..... -. .. iy local Doaras or enucation. 1 ne city nas - "... " . "., . irtn . comoound filled with many one- nurses, une insutuuon 1. supported Dy
'en .in l,a rhlnuA nn lhrA BfB some lAt-fire i in. tVi TlBint mr irhnnl ehllrlren fin nnv irio a conipouim ll.icu "nil ..lon.y vnw ww m
vaarB a tin TV,I. f. nnlv fmnnrapv anil a . . i . . ...v... n..l.l V..I.1. V. . . 1 1 ..
Tnunlnln.l !.! I... ho.r, lrr,ll)n. .l. .. ' ' " - ,niy cover i... -u.l.iw
Tientsin will soon be agal
.:.-. .P...V r.... i... ....ua, ,ru roaa Tn, powerl of the
on me sue or me wan. na. Deen coplea fullv r.alll. ,ne imrK,rtar
all over the place, and there are clean .,- , u. h,.iu renrexeniuiK
street, everywhere. The city ha. grown the ground. Ther. Is a lurge territory porting firms with Japanese capital. " , m 7 , 7 . i, M an1 that thlr 'mbrac a 'J br,WlnK' dimes, rcnut.ire. ?''":m'"""'a T
Jar beond the old walls and a great new ou.de th natlve settlement which has The German, have a fine concession. f teaching and all school appll- rradp, from klnd.r(rart,n to th. hltth The roofs were ttie shape of a bow and tirely free Our students wlU enter tlv.
town has sprung up, with factorlo. and bMn taken by them. Much of this was Including a magnificent building .Just ancM f he various foreign countrle. are cnool- Tn.re ar alao normaI gcnooI, they overhung brick wall, in whicu government rvlo a. .oon a. they
foundrle. and modern .ohool. of every de- seised just sfter the Boxer rebellion, when erected for the German Asiatic bank. -hown. These are classified according to Chinese girls are being trained for w"e lattice-work windows, backed with graduate and they will work for the gov-
scrlptlon. The Chinese nabobs have built China was forced to submit. As It Is now. They have a club called the Concord.a, schools, as well as to subjects. When a teaching the primary schools, and there whit paper. They seemed old, and. upon rnment for a fixed number o years. For
magnificent residences, .om. of which ar thlSth7. Ti nd
na.uB, il i.ivy wibii iimumoj blb ynysi-
cluns, they will always have more than
can do."
of two or three stories, and they now
ride about In their carriage, with coach
men and footmen In livery.
T
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The Bridges of the Pet-no.
Tientsin He. on the Pel-Ho at about
Mnety mile. from the sea. In a straight
line the distance la not more than half
that, but the river winds ln and out
Ilk th colls of a snake all th way. It
I. winding tn th city Itself and canals
ar now. to be cut to shorten its course, and a gun a part of
When I was last In Tientsin the railroad fantry. Before this,
New Army Rapid Fire Gun Sows Sudden Death Over Wide Range
Profession for Widows.
gunner and commence firing ln the space the canvas strip Is fitted Into the groove and the cartridge Is pushed in from the t . . n -i..,.
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machine guns Into the regular The eighteen men Include one man to . " "l"" " . "" a "7 v. . k'-V . ..i.V . .hi h"X w ,, e.n f,. . toc her 't"" cam8- 8h
flold equipment of the ITnlted care for each mule and eight who do the cou... i... iu,. ..." .... 7 7. 1 . 7J v. From every grad of Chinese society.
Introduction of rapid fire be fed Into It that fast.
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Statea army is not a hew de- trenching and man the gun. They are sucn a way as to oe very easily put to- -.-. wnue um. a ...... u ... . "" "- We have the daughters of merchants, nd
partuie. but recent orders have armed only with pistols, on the theory gemcr. i u..r -..u .... " also of some high officials. On of our
made a squad of men and mules that with small arm. they will not be The gun Itself consists of a barrel about It is not difficult to .ee that the speed from each "P'o.lon . utl aed In such a UOHnU a 8laye gM We nave minjr
r every battalion of In- tempted to abandon the machine and look six incnes in aiameter ana tnree icei ion, oi m- .u.. w..... .v.lu...y i...... -uu.i. " - . w,dow and x Iook for meatone t0 b.
.h. .... f .h. noieu out for themselves, when action la brisk set upon a metal tripod. On this tripod count for much unless It could be rapidly notch further, the. empty shell ejected and nm . r,, m.,.u ..,u
station was outside of th wall, on th flrer. was rather In th nature of experl- and the enemy, fire 1. being directed at is a .eat ror me gunner, wno can no.a ni. . a .or i,,,. pur.a ft....- - -.4 "'-"" " women In the future. Th condition of
north .Id. of th river, far away from ment. Now there Is no more doubt as to their particular vicinity. The enemy's fire, position at the breach while the discharge filling machine which is ln Itself an in- Thl. take, place about twenty limes a the CnlneBe wldow , not ba), ,nat
th. town, and LI Hung Chang had vainly their value and they will be considered however, 1. not likely to hold out against Is being made. The caliber of the gun Is genlou. contrivance. The cartrldgea ar. second when the gun is working at Its of th- w(dow of Jnd,a b(jt u Js Qften un
attempted to have a bridge built right tioeasary. Th Third battalion of the Six- them very long, unless they are opposed the same as that of the ordinary army fitted Into a brass slide, which lets them maximum speed. happy. She must llv with her parent.-
Into Tientsin. He had erected .tone pier, teenth Infantry, stationed at Fbrt Crook, by another .Imllar piece of artillery. .Inc. rifle, but the actual barrel I. encased ln a drop down one by one In front of a rod The.e machine guns have been ln the ,n.,aw and ,f they ara not k,n, ,he may
and was ready to lay down th girders has on of these new guns, and during in actual work their single gun can throw jacket of water to keep It cool. This water moving back and forth like a piston. The service only three years and have never fce ft drU(Jg8 or fc B,aya goma nf our
when th unions of boatman annd cartmen practice early ln the summer at the Ash- 260 bullets in twenty-six seconds, which jacket haa to b refilled frequently and spaces in the belt ar opened by a little had a chance to be used ln actual warfare, wldows ar, verjr young. ' and Bom, nav
objected on the ground that a bridge land rifle range encampment tried It in would make a good many holes ln a com- water Is always carried a. a part of th metal .trip that 1. pushed In flat and but th testa have all been very favorable famllleB at nome With a medical educa-
Would ruin their bu.lne.s. The result action. Pnr of men who stood up against It. outfit, ao that a hotbox will not lncapacl- tlfen turned so that It comes out' in such a and the men are proud of their evident . ' n....
wa. LI had to aubmlt. and
was left far out ln th
the .tatlon Lieutenant O. E. Mlchaells wa. ln com- The .hooting even at thl. rapid rate can tat the gun.
way as to extend the holes ln the belt fighting power.
Had Cause for Complaint
country. The lln, him ha ihru nnn. be done with considerable accuracy. In a The sighting apparatu. I. at on .Id
olty ha. grown up to It and there are eommisloned officer, and eighteen men. recent te.t by th Third battalion .quad, and th tight, and range finder, are even
big business houses on every side. There The run outflt j, carried by ten mules. h funner wa. abl. to rake a row of more complicated than they are on th.
la also an Iron drawbridge which crosses The begt mu,e n th- gquadron , a whllt Hfe-slsed silhouette, flv yard, apart clos ordinary rifle. Two miles Is the farthest
h it a 7 frnt th dePOt "d "n ml "Pete." whose ability to gallop enough to make seventy-four hits out of distance at which the gun Is useful, but
nlaa RM? 7 i""Vh d,fferent at a break-neck speed while loaded with on loading of J&0 cartridges. A. th fig- by mean, of the apparatus accurate aim
day I observed a i ia P"ck of """hlnery Is famous, The out- ure. were lying and kneeling and the dls- may be taken at Ufe-sise figures that far
oof-en feme at each en ' W ' fit the mules carry consists of the gun. w m Wit. or more than a away. The range finders used for this
.,. - I ,i whv .h. " . .SU! a loading machine and tools for keeping "" he showing is considered very good. )ong distance work are separate machines
; He replied that the bridge had just U ,n order and water to cool the barrel, The training of the men ln the han- and are carried in a different pack from Knockln" orf poor Widder Bnagg's parish ter I. any concern of yours T"
l.n completed, but the people most a ' which Is piled on the back of "Pete." dllng of the gun Is largely a matter of the gun, along with the signal flags and pay She's a 'onest. "ard workln' woman. 'Concern of mine!" the r
beni flted by it on the oDnosii- m. nf n the olh"" nln are water, epados and speed. With Pete tn the best of condition, water boxes. whose nose Is ln the wsshtub all dav. an' "Well. I ahnuM rther thtni
th. river refused to pay their share renchlnK o1" an 160,10 pounds of am- th squad can start, with the mule packed, The cartridges are fed Into the gun by if. a wicked sham to rob 'er of -er lorful If you stops the ole lady', pay you stop, their feet, end I believ that this will be
A. w visited th classroom. I .aw
Chinese professor teaching th anatomy
of th brain, with a human akull on hi.
table, and wa. shown a whit skeleton In
a ess at the back of the room. I hap-
A big. able bodied man of about mlddl ' "Mrs. Snagg has married agftn," h pened to glance at the feet of th stu-
age shuffled Into the poor law guardian's said, "and the guardians have deolded that dents, and remarked that they wer un-
office and curtly bad th clerk good ah is no longer entitled to outdoor relief; bound. The doctor replied:
morning. and. In any event, my man," he addjd, "None of our girl, are allowed to corn-
Wot d yer mean," he began, "by .narpiy. I .houid ilk to know if the mat- press her feet. Theytake their bandages
off when they are admitted, and ar re
man repeated, jolced at their freedom. Many of the more
whose nose Is In the washtub all day, an' "Well, I should rather think so, cuv'nor. advanced of them have never bound up
for macadamising the road leadlnv tn munition. oiijr.. uiuuunu rounus or am- run to tne rinng point, yaras away, un- a canvas, belt which run. through a
It. and th authoritte. wer keeping th munition would last th machine gun just pack the gun and put It together, dig a groove behind the barrel and 150 rounds
bridge shut to bring them to time. Ther tn't.n. and one-third minutes U it could trench deep enough to shelter it and the are carried in a belt. When the end of
"iKhts." my dally ounoe o' shag an' quart o' beer, the case with all Chines alrl. ln th not
The clerk took down a big ledger and tool I'm 'er noo . 'ueband!" London far distant future."
silently consulted It. Answers. FRANK Q. CARPENTER.
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