Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 14, 1888, Page 9

) I<l( HTEE P —— 'l}[ YEAR. j:pm uj THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. OXN TAH \. SUNDAY .\1()1( NIN G. OCTO]EER 14, 1888, --SIXTEl PAGES -16 N ]‘;\GES. NUMBER 122 Immense Moquettes, $1 r city at $10,00, our price of fine Lace Curtai roller at 43¢ cach. priu'c‘ Our 53¢ Ing STANDARD PRINTS| P b cas Mong e Fall Standard Dress Prints, /, de yard, PINK MIXED FLANNELS, German Pink Mixed Flannels. cheap at 25e, Our price Mon- day only 19¢ a yard. Bennison Bros sale on Carpets and Curtains, 5 yard, best n.‘nlu S, is ¢5.50. ns at €4.00, ¢5.00, 5,50 and $6.50, less than importer's cost, Also 1000 fine (P[uu]m Shades, beautiful dados, all made ready for \Hlll' window at soc each. Take Elevator—3rd floor. Makier klannel. cas ains still on sale, E Best Body Iv)\l\sv Is, $1.c0 Lxtra large Portier Curtains a gant Tapestry Carpe LADlES‘ (l\O 100 Ladies' Seal Plush Lined Chamois Skin Pockets; this beautiful garment and never was ol less than 15, For one week $10 each, Mail orders filled. Jackets S tm Scarlet Blankets 100 pair Monday $2. ll wool Searlet 5 a pair, worth § Bennison Bros Blankets; 00, Ve are not workin ..ln . t $3.50. ts at 65¢, worth ¢1.00. 1 case White Shaker Flanne be cheap at 15e. On sale tl 7 bales Snow Cotton ever offered at pric 10¢ a roll. Would Monday, 6ic @ AUl Batting. Best On sale Monday, Bennison Bros 5-4 Oil Cloth Pattern INFANTS' inl Sale commencing Mond Oct. 15, of Infants’ Long and Cloaks, in Long Cashmere Cloaks, broidered collar and cuffs, in white tan, gobelin blue, mahogany, at# 1 worth $4.00, Spe = | Only 12 pieces laft. The value in Velvet éver offered in Omiha Come Bennison Bros Monday we shall These are simply immense bar, hmere Cloaks Short, em- ure the best 1 get thew Monday at 83¢ yard. NNISON BROTHERS=— for a profit, but ttend to make this department’one of our leading specialties, and we propose to advertise it by selling goods at ruinous prices. Best brands Oil Cloths, 35¢ yard. Lace Curtains at 2,00 that no other house in Omaha will sell less than €3 We make and lay old and new carpets, , 65¢C. 6-4 Oil Cloth 1 50, our pric 1000 Cur lins, offer Lloves % 75 dozen Ladies Kud iloves handsone embroidered backs. They are worth from &1 00; they ar lot closed ont low pi You can get them Monday, only 68¢ a p.ur “atterns, 85¢. in Shades with handsome Don't place an order on curtains or carpe (~ until you sce our line and Hemp € arpet, 15¢ yi e, §2.00 a pair, and «\u('nn poles TOWELS. TOWELS. Uie 300 dozen Towels, in fine Bleach, Hucks with faney border, and in same lot are alot of extra large size Turkish Bath Towels tha choice Monday e worth d0c, D FLANNEL |Beaver Shawls, Z 400 fine Beaver Shawls in brown and ase heavy Red Twill Flanuoels, all |mx< wool; Monday 26¢ a yard, worth 40c. Bennison Bros Igreys reversible. They are cheap at $.00. You can get them Monday and all next weck at $3.00 cach. Bennison Bros dado, all mad Your Hear thems Fine Portier Curtains, sold in this llnu\\ n in free of charge, A lot ¢ and mounted on best spring el Blank 100 pair 11-4 Searlet Blankets, just fog fun, Monday, $1.50 pair, INFANTS Plush Cloaks, Cloaks, in 1, 2, iobelin Blue, Card Brown, Copper, ‘ment re full gretehen skirt this price ave a great bargain, Bennison Bros nts’ ek wnd at FROM OCCIDENT TO ORIEN] The First of “Carp's” Asiatic Letters. Serles of LIFE ON A PACIFIC STEAMER. Fifteen Days With the Chinese—How They Eat, Drink, Sleep, Smoke and Gamble — Necessity of Good Clothes. Land of the Mikado. ‘0K10, Japan, September 2 [Special Correspondence of Tng Bee. |- With this letter 1 begin the description of a tour which 1 am taking in the interest of the readers of Tie Bre in the out-of th -way districts of the eastern world. Leaving New York I crossed the continent by way of Omaha, and sailea from San ¥rancisco on the good steamship Gaclic. 1 arrived in Yokohuma, I8 Japan, fifteen days after leaving America, and I am now writing in the Sei Yo Ken hotel in Tokio. I shall spend several months in Japan, and will then go to China, From China I expeet to drift through the islands of the western Pacific to Siam,and_thence move round by way of the Straits of Malacca and ‘eylon to India. From India I shall work into Palestine and Turkey, and will then give some letters on Egypt and the XKhedive. 1shall possibly make a tour iuto the Caucassus and southern Russia if Mr Kennan has not by his_articles on Siberia prevented the coming of an American news paper mau iuto the couutry. 1 was told at the state department that such a thing was probable, and when 1 asked why ! the reply was thut correspondents could hardly expect to be much favored in Russia for fiv atleast. After Russia 1 will visit and 1 will seck everywhere out-of-the-way sights, It will be interesting to know something about the preparations one makes for a trip mround the world. The journey to Asin has more requirements than that to Europe and fow of the travelers who understand where they are going confine themselves to a valise The heathen conntries have all large foreig colonies, These are maude up of elegantly dressed ladies and gentlemen and I find as finely dressed men and women here at Yoko- hawma as you have on Fifth avenue, Now York. They do not keep their good clothes for only Sunday wear, and they spend money freely. Rut let me give you THE NECESSITIES FOR A TRID to Asia. In the first place you want a good sized letter of credit which you can get in New York and which will authorize you to draw from banks all over the world to the smount specified upon it. You deposit with your New York banker, say for instance £10,000, and he gives you a letter for this amount, The New York banker will also tako several copies of your signature whieh he will wail to his different bank ing houses and you will also sign your letter of eredit. When you wish to draw money all you have todo is to make out a draft in any of the branches of this bank in the different countries and to sign your name in the presence of the cashier. He com. pares the signature to your draft with that of your letter of credit and this forms your l identification. It is on such credentials that all traveling is done and millions of dollars arepmd out in this way at foreign banks every month, Next, you need A PASSPORT, and this is especially necessary in Asia. You an get this by applying at the state depart- ment at Washington, and it costs you $1 in- stead of § as formerly. This is signed by retary of state and gives a deseription you, the character of which can be well understood by the following extract from my own passport which lies before me. Age thirty-three years; stature five feet cight inches; foreiead high: eyes grey; nose promment; mouth medium; complexion fair; face oval; chin short; hair auburn; red.) This passport i gest of Allen G. handkerchiefs. (it is as large as one of the big Thurman’s red bandanna 1t is made on parchment, which contains in water lines a gigantic American cagle and seal of the department of state, AS TO DAGGAGE, 1 carry three trunks, and two valises and it is s necessary for a traveler here to have his evening suit and swallow tail coat as it is at Washington. [earry also a cheap §2.50 nickle watch in addition to my gold one for the differences of time in traveling necessi- tutes so many changes that it would ruin any fine picce of machinery. This watch has twenty-four fect of spring and it takes one a long time to wind 1t though it is a stem winder. By holding the serew on the wheel of a jinriksha it winds itself in no tiw it does not scem to hurt the watch clothing, one necas a good supply of shirts and neckwear, and if you wish any books of referenve you had better bring them with you, as books are very high abroad. Hats and underwear you can get d 1 find that clothing is mueh cheaper here than in America In aadition to clothes one should take a supply of simple medicines with him and if he is fastidious in the useof soaps and per. fumery he had betterlay ina good stock of articles of the toilet 1ts by all odds a steamer chair and w: as welias a heavy overcoat for s A pocket aind s to One n rug A voyages. filter and an_ alcohol stove are among the requisites, and in this countey 1 boil all wmy v before drinking it. T have also a com plete photographing apparatus, aud I w illustrate some of my future letters with views taken on the spot, of the strange characters and 8 which are all around me. 10 uot us y d my baggage cum bersowe, and would not dispense with a e trunk SOME LADY TRAVELEKS are apt to think thut they cun go arouna the world in a black dress and a linen duster, and the foreign residents here tell strange stories of some characters, One girl from Boston who came out here to act as a mis 1who Tam told hus done very good mission work, t0o, wept tears of sorrow with her friends before she came out to labor among the heathen. She packea away all her party dresses and left her jew. elry at nome. She expected to find noue but the Japanese to associate with, and she evi dently thought that the Japanese in culture nked with the inhabitants of the Congo. She found at Yokohama, as I did, some of the best dressed women in the world, aud upon being invited to several of the s of the foreign scttlement concluded that her Dest dresses and her finest jewels would be of as much use to her here as at home. It is in traveling as at a hotel. The nobby suit gets the bridal chamber and the rags go to the attic. Letters of introduction and good clotlies are'more of @ uecessity here than nywhere else, In the meantime Japan gets along wilk loss sion some clothes than any other nation 1 se have ever u, and its picturesque characters will en able my camera to give you some good repre- Ations of the anatomy of the human frame as it exists among this nation of the Mongolians, THE PACIFIC OCEAN Ts virtually different from the Atlantic, and Pacitic ocean travel offers almost new thin When y as many g5 as one of the conatrics of Europe. 1stepon the deck of an Atlantic England. . 2 in the state r ifle steamer you arc in China, are manned entircly by Chinamen exception of the chief officers, and you drop into the land of the celestials the moment you lose sight of San Francisco. ‘The steer: passengers are all Chmnese. Your food is cooked by Chinese cooks and your rooms are cared for by white-gowned, almond-eyed men in pigtails. The waiters, the sailors and the conl heavers are Chinamen, and on the Gaclic the European ofticers did not numb over a dozen. [ watched the sailors closely and Captain Pearne, who is one of the oldest captans on the Pacitie ocean, tells me they make better scamen than the English or the American, They are conscientious in their work and do not shirk. They never tali back and if they swear it is in_their own lan guage. They never get drunk and the only time they grumble is when their rice is not of the best qualit an The ships with the re cniNesg wear a dress which is across between that of the American Chinese washerwoman and the pure celestial. 1t is extremely light and con- two garments, These like gown and a pair of are as full as those of a flap loosely about their Sowe of them wear shoes and some of them do not, and the skin of their feet is of the dark, rich bronze of their faces. They have s caps, which fit closely down above the nond eyes, and ch one knife, which Le carries in acase attached to the center of the back of his waist-band and resting, as it were, on the small of bis back. Their cnief food is rice sarLons sists as a rule of but are a wide, shirt which : and which yellow-skinued legs. as a and they use chop-sticks in eating it. Thoy £et 50 cents a duy and consider themselves well paid. It costs about TEN CENTS A DAY to feed a Chinese steerage passenger and it costs a Chinaman $25 to pay his passage from i Francisco to Hong Koug. Notwith stunding the immigration laws more return to merica t go v from it, and this ship rried over a thousand during its last voy age. The companies which ship them to America engage to detiver them dead or alive back into China, and the result is that if a Chinaman dies on_ship-board his body is never sewed up and cast into the sea, except in cases of small pox or_cholera, but it must be embalmed and carried on to China, We had two deaths before we reached Yoho- hama, and the doctor who embalmed the bodies got $12 apiece for doing so. This 18 the regular charge on all the Pacific steam ers, aud the embalming fees amount to quite an item when you have a thousand or so Chi namen on board, LIFE ON A STBAMER, The Pacific must carry lal v supplies than the Atlintic. When' a steauier starts out from San Francisco to Yokoham:a it has 1,300 tons of coal, and it is provisioned for six months' voyage. Our ship carricd live sheep for mutton, and the Chinese butehers killed these from tiwe to time. It carried also fifty-four cows 10 a dawy in Hong Kong, and thesé supplied us ! with fresh milk. Two calves were born on l the trip, and the daily excuisious to see the steamers much i { some of cows were one of the excitements of the voy- age. The steerage was altogether made Asiatics. In it were 30 Chincse men, cighteen Chinese women ang twenty-six Chinese children. They were going from America back home to China, and the men were of all classes, from the Chinese mer chant to the coolic. Istood for lours look ing down upon them from the upper deck. They were rather dirty than clean. but thew slant eyes, their long cues and their half Chinese, half-Amcrican dress made a quee conglomeration of the picturesque and the ridiculous. Not afew of them had on soft American Lats and some wore American clothes, but the majority were Chinese throughout. The women were and the yoses shone out the orange skins of the younger among them. They were kept by themselves, and it orders for o man to enter their apartments. Accompanicd by the Chinese steward T man- aged, however,to get u look atthem. I found the whole twentysix in two small cabins, each no larger than Iy A MALL BED ROOM, “The walls of these cabins were lined with berths one HCPINE Cil of othier berths made by gether and stretching canvas over them. “The bed that cach woman had wi yard wide and these Chinese ma lying on these in every conceivable Ientered. Some of their dresses w slightly decollette. They grinned as we went tirough and jabbered Chinese, I afterwards visited the men’s quarters and found thew housed in much the sume wa spent most of their time in bed duriy the voyaze and many of them had not their clothes off during the trip. The Chi nese ¢ INVETERATE GAMBLERS and parties of half a gambling together, haunches about straw played with dominoes. might be seen a4 on ts on which they Their ne seemed dozen sui to be a kind of poker wid they used lozenge like buttons as chips. At some times the loser would grow so excited that he would pick up the whole game and throw it ove board, and instances often occer where Chi namen thus gamble away while going home all they have made in America, We had two opium joints on board, for the Chinamen cin not get along without opium. These were made by curtainin art of the ship’s deck with canvas, and in them at almost any bowr of the day could be seen dozens of Chinamen lighting the pipes and blowing the smoke out their nostrils, ‘The Chinese suilors SELL his opium through oy to these men, and the greatest amount of ing done on the Pacific coast is in the duty is 10 & pound. Opium is heavy, and one can take, it is said, enough to make a nice profit, along with hi valise We had two Joss houses in the ship before which the fires of incer continually burned, and the Chinese and then opium uoa now threw a kind of brown paper known as Joss paper into the sea top tiate the Gods of the storm. They are very super- stitious, and I attempted to piuotograph some of them, but the women turucd their heads and ran away, and the men scowled and moved off whenever they saw my camera, A QUICK VOYAGE. Pifteen daysis a short time in which to go over five tnousand mujes of water, but the Oriental and Oceidental is the best line of Pacific steamers aficat, and our captain has al up of of all ages is against « anothier like the shelves of and between these were tiers fastening poles to- about a dens were attitude their oft made the fastest time on record, which is fiftecn days and twenty-two hours. As to accommodations, our steamer was fully as good as any steamer of the Atlantic and the cooking of the Chinamen was fully up to that of a French chef. The service was ex- cellent, and though for fourteen days we did not sce a ship nor anything save tae broad expanse of water bounded by the horizon, we felt as safe as though we were riding up the Hudson. During this fifteen days' voy age not one of the passen, became sick or missy ameal. We had oue ol the storms of the Atlantic nor the frosty winds of the wfoundland, THE UTIL banks of Ne cosTUMES, The moment Tarrived at the G in Yokohama I was called upon by Al Shing was his name. He brought alot of samples with him, and took my measure on the spot. He made me suits of the best white flannel serge for 9 a suit, d the fit was a good one. He was hardly out of the door before another tailor of Yokohama, Mr. Chang Chow, came in and took my order for a suit of blue flanncl at §, white suit of pyjumas at $. Py the nignt clothes of the st. They are composed of a pair of loose and hotel a Chinese tailor, drawers and a jacket, whieh buttons up tthe neck, and which is held at the wist by a draw string, They are made of flannel, silk or cotton, according to the taste of the we and itis all right here to ap- pear in them from after dinner in the even ing until breakfast time in the mornmg. Ladies wear them as well as gentlemen, but they add a wrapper to the suit, and qui uumber of the foreign men here add a Kimona or Japanese gown. As Chang Chow weasured me for my Pyjama he jabbercd to me in Pigeon English about IS AMERICAN CUSTOMERS, He was & plump, almond-eyed, yellow skinned young fellow, with a cue which reached to his hec id a lavender silk gown which would have mude a White House re ception dress. His cue fairly shook while he tried to describe the big frame of Govern. * Hubbard, our Minister Plenipotentiary to apan. Governor Hubbard is almost as heavy as George Barnes of Georgia, who re. joices in the title of being the fattest man in He makes a silbouctie something congress, like that of Ben Butler, and he is as big around the waist as Sum Cox 18 tall. Goyv- ernor Hubbard is by no means a short man and s frame cats up cloth as a corn sheller chews coen. Fatness in the east is a sign of wealth, and Chang Chow could hardly ex press his admiration and wonder at our min- ister's shape, “Hubbard velly t man,” said he; come to Yokohama to have him clothes made. He takee muchee goods! Muchee ods ! *You ought to charge him more, Chang,” said I, urse,” replied the celestial. “Havee argee more! One man makee vest, costec dollar and half. Makee Hubbard vest two dollar a half. Costee one pstee suit man chenty (twenty) dollar, chargee Hubbard forty dollar. He so bigee lound takee allee cloth, Hubbard belly great man! Belly great man!” And with that the Chinese tailor spread out his yellow hands and opened his e In the mean time I find that Governor Hubbard has made many friends here, but heis now up in the country at Nikko, and I have not met him Fiuasg G — Attempted Suicide at Crete, CRETE, b, Oct, 13.—Arthur Lord, & young man of thirty, cut his throat horribly With @ pocket knife with the intention of committing suicide. He has been sick for several months and become despondent. He is sl alive but can bhardly recover, CARPENTER, - MRS. CLEVELAND IN A BOX, She Witnesses ‘“Les Surprises Divorce" at New York. NEw York, Oct. 13.— pecial Telegram to Tue Be) In Mr. Abbey’s box at Palmer's theater last night was a party t tracted quite as much attention as the performa itself, It consisted of Mrs. Cleveland, who is on her way from Saranac Innto Washing ton. her mother, Mrs Folsom, and Mr. and Mrs. Wiilard P. Ward and Mr. and Mrs, Daniel Lord, jr, of this city. Mrs, Clev land, accompanied by Mrs. Foisom and Mr. and Mrs, Ward, arrived in New York only yesterday morning and were driven to Mr. Ward’s residence. Mrs. Cleveland did not £0 out durine the day. She will resume her trip this morning, At Palmer’s theate night she scemed much interested in S rises du Divoree’, and the great French du comedian, Coquelin. ~ She wore a mouse-colored velvet short skirt, in laid in panels, with plaits of 'white silk and trimmed with silver ssementerie. ‘The bodice was high, with i white surah vest. At her corsage and in lier hand were boquets of pink roses. She cutered the theatre in a short scal wrap, but wore no hat. She wore no jewels the little gola clasp pin which ‘she w most constantly Mrs, Folsom was dressed in black velvet, with point lace. Mrs. Lord worea black lace over s t, red and black bonnet, and Mrs. Ward an ecru lack and Persian brocade, with silve pink roses rs. Cleveland clossly followed the per- which she evidently understood and was scemingly igno dozens of opera Elusscs wi Mrs. Ward went to Mill Equitable building for 4 only to be tola |lm all wel passawenterie, diamonds and a Upon and wished to at Abbey graciously tendered the use of his private box. Married the Count for Love. W York, Oct. 13.—|Special Telegram to Tue Bee |--The ‘ount and Countess Dr. Montercole, who were married in Pittsburg by the mayor of that city, afterwards by I Samuel Maxwell, and lastly Rev "ather Graham, at th Nor mandie-Bi La Norw The countess was Miss Virgimia Knox, of PPats burg, and an heiress, and the count is saul to own a beautiful castle in Italy on the Adriatic sea, whither the happy couple wiil at once procecd. The countess was inter viewed yesterday at her hotel by a reporter, d stated that her marriage was a love match and stories to the effect that her hus. band and herself conld not converse with each other were ridiculous, as they both conversed fluently in French, and that the count w ralty in his own right, The ge was a social sensation in itts. She is a ng and exceedingly pretty woman and dresses remarkably well Sl Not 1 ) the Bills, New Youk, Oct. Sy al Telegr: to Tne Bee.]--The people gathered at Pal- s theater last night to see Coquelin were 110 a little sensation not down in the arrest of one of their number he unf inate was Charles O'Brien and his captor was a detective from the Thirtieth street police station. His offense was mitted Wednesday night, when, it is char he broke a bottle of bay rum o the he by Hotel inswick, and sml on the stean: ndie for Havre this morning. are s 13 com od, of Claud M. Goodwin, secretary for Hoyt & Thomas, of “A HBrass Monkey” and “Tin Soldier” fame. The assault is said to Lave committed while Goodwin sat in a bur- chiair at the Coleman house, unde; the sprucing up process, and not only bead was damaged but Lis toilet ruined. iy J s and Gas. Yok, Oct. 13.—[Special Telegram to Tne Bee. | —A bell-boy atthe International oing his botel in Park Row smelled gas outside of room 55 at 6 o'clock last night and found the dogr logked, He pounded oo the door and nes S, Bower, twenty-six years old, tha upant of the room, lot him in. Gas was escaping in a volume from one burner, but it 1 not been wasting more than five mins utes. Bower erawled back into bed, whera hie had been since e registered at the hotel on Thursd from Baltimore. An ambus nee came and took him to Bellevue hose pital. The surgeon said it was a case of des lirium tremens. His hip pockets contained o letter addressed to Jumes S, Bower, 1503 Jighty sixth str letter bogua Astor ‘house stationery ' to Jawes A, v C. C. trafic department, *‘caste trunk line commission, and 4 '‘cents, Sl A VERY CLOS on Porche bound” CALL, Persons 1 sted New Yok, Oct. 13, |—A thrilling incident of Williamsburg oil fire came to light Policeman Edwards, of the Bedford avenne ‘our Saved From Being Alive, cial Telegram to the Sy big station, was among the first to reach the dock where the oil was blazing and saw @ barge lying on the north side. He ran to the street and procured h he threw at the cabin then enveloping the menuts a femaule by an old, and two young uien. I'hey were Owen Flanne: owner und captain of the barge, and bis Wife and two sons. “Run for your iife!” cried Edwards, and eral stones, w flames we In a few The e evem mo. man the, 1y res Captain Flannery said cre asleep when they heard the rattie on the cabin, and they owed their lives to Edwards, The tug Green Point, which finally puiled barge out of dar filed # libel the e day for §) ards Liolds se 500 for salv eral meda; e Good News From Yoni, Oct. 1 When ( Policeman fe-saving. for New ¥ N Tur B hairman Qua his mail at the republican headquarters yes- terday he found check for 311 from eleven workingmen in Baltimore. They said in the letter that was all they could spare, but that they sent it wholly of theiv own accord, and wanted it to be used in paying the expenses of the campaign that had for its object, the protection of American woi industries of this count ngmen and the orts from Indiany, Connecticnt, New Jersey and the interi is state continue most flattering and ven York ists @ good, round u A Cheerless 1 seratie Outlook, New Youk, Oct, 15— |Special Telegram 1@ Tur Bee, | —The democrats are much frights ened over the local situation, because it looks much as if Joel B. Erhard, who was nomi- nated by the republicaus, would be elected mayor. The press of New York are united msaying heis a good man, thongh none of the papers that support Cleveland have de- red for him. What frightens the demo- ats is the foar that the republican vote will gosolidly for Mr. Erhardt, and that, with the loss Hewitt and Grant are certuin to sus- tain on account of defections to th labor candidate, the republican nom Wi slipin. The situation is indeed inost choerless one for the democrats, and the out- look seems even worse for Hewitt than Grant, — The Situation at Zanzibar, 13.—[Special Cablegram to The =1 as lent out the ser- vices of General Matthews to the k company for six months. The German ad- 1 yesterday sent the band of the flags 0 serenado consul at the British This is u unprecedented dent, showing that an eutente cordiaie exis between Germany and England. Wild ihish residency neis rumors are current, emanating from (e mun merchants and _othiers, alleging hostilg inteutions oa the part of Germany,