Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 9, 1900, Page 13

EXPLORING THE SACRED CITY Palace of Ohinese Monarchs a Dissppoint- | ment to Foreiguers, SOME BEAUTIES IN SHABBY SETTINGS Trenwures of Oriental Art Flank with Modern Furniture—Detal ney Thr Forbidden City. The sacred or forbidden clty, the residenco ©f Chinese rulers within the ot Pekin, proved a distinct disappointment the Americans who had the K rtune of exploring it. For iries past this home of the monarchs of China has been the most exclusive of royal tenements, only in recent years have the rej tives of forelgn powers been favored an audience within its Its siveness invested it with ery, Amaginative writers leture greatest of Oriental nders. When officers of the allle and the corre- spondents penetr sacred clty and zealously rubbered the wonders did mot come up to expe Enough was obscrved, Lowever chapter of Orlental history Ralph D, Palue, DITeapC eago Record, describes b the sacred city as follows When it be- came known that General J. H. Wilson ‘was to escort the Jap: generals on this pllgrimage of rarest privilege there was a rush of ap; ations by American officers for temporary staff duty But General Wil son was allowed only one personal Lieutenant Reeves of his staff, and two other American officers were mitted to accompany the party Webb Hayes and Lieutonant Colonel Coolldge of the Ninth infantry. The Japa- Dese generals, on the other hand, were ac compani - pall g It goe to nta exclu and hav army the about ations dent of the Chl Journey through only per- Major ard of Infantrymen without saying that no cards of Invitation we t to correspondents, and the expedition was enshrouded in a notable air of secrecy. It happencd, however, t two American correspondents w at the north gate of the forbidden city at the hour appolnted for the entrance of the ofictal cavalcade. When General Wilson rede through, with Generals Osaka and Yamaguichi, followed by their truin of offi- cors, the correspondents fell in line, passod within the sacred and mystery-laden in- closure and—well, they stayed there and Accompanied the generals through a fore- noon's tour of unique sight-seeing, General Wilson observing: ‘‘Remember, I aid not grant you permission, but now you are in here 1 won't put you out.” First Impressions. In many ways the forbidden city 18 a @istinct and impressive disappointment. This ehould be recorded at the outset. Ex- pected grandeur, gorgeousnoss. vast achi- tectural magnificence, were wanting, as a rule, while dilapidation and long-continued neglect marred many Impressive structures. Chi @ palaces, even in the sacred city, the throno rooms of the emperor and em- press, aro of only one story, alike in out- 1ine as peas in the same pod, so that there 18 small variety of architecsire. After all 18 sald, imagination has been worked over- timo in pleturing the glories of the sacred eity. Yet thero is much to wonder at, much that is beautiful, grotesque and of in- calculable valve. Across the city, from north to south, the distance s more than a mile. It 18 a suc- cession of bulldings, marble terraces, huge marble stairways, along the whole route, with dnnumerabla labyrintha of courts, gar- dens and edifices stretching away to either side, so that without a guide the stranger would be lost at an average rate of once yer minute. There scemed to be only a handful of the tmperial servants and eunuchs left behind to guard the palaces and temples, although thousands of them could have been tucked away In the mazes of the sacred city and the visitors would have been nono the wiser A dozen of the eunuchs t the party at the entrance to the first throns foom, the first bullding inside the north gate. 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The first really impressive feature of tha sacred city architecture was the style of | approach to the throne rooms, which are all | set on artificlal terraced hills in a long line. Marble steps lead up these slopes and | they flank huge monoliths or slabs of marble set into the stairways and flush with them. These noble stones are from twelve to twenty feet long, covered with the sprawling imperial dragons, but in high rellef. This amazingly grotesque and sacred monster 18 sculptured everywhere on stalrways, terraces and pavements or grins in bronze from every nook and | corner of the throne rooms. These bulldings, five in all, were curi- ously dirty and neglected. Everything movable or of any value had been carried away, raving the great gilt and silk- canopled chairs in solitary and melancholy grandeur. Flocks of plgeons had been roosting on the arms of these symbols of sovereignty of heaven and earth. The won- derful carpets were covered with refuse and dust The rooms suggested tawdry and fantastic poultry sheds. It seemed as It all the imperial pigeons had made new headquarters of the imperial throne rooms. | Between the first and second of these | bulldings there 1s a large courtyard. The grass-grown enclosure is planted thickly, in regular rows, with fan-shaped bronzo tab- lets. This was the audience place of the | princes and mandarins when received by the emperor or empress dowager in these latter days. Each suppliant bad his par- ticular tablet b de which he knelt and his relative position in the assemblage was thus marked according to his rank. The | pointed out the tablet of Li| Hung Chang, where that aged statesman was wont to kneel until his old bones ached and then to totter away, grumbling and halt dead with fatigue, according to Pekin storfes. The mperor's Own Home. Tt was not until the emperor's temple and private house of worship was reached that the effect of bare walls and dilapida tion was counteracted. The temple was med with wonderful gods, with mag- ntly ornate altars and priceless art treasures in jade and clofsonne. In the ep shadows beyond the heavy silken angings & great gold Buddha sat and looked at the impious, scoMng forelgners. There was a throne room in the temple. With s0 many thrones the luckless em- peror, Kwang Hsu, could not keep a hold on even one. Near this temple throne stood a huge bronze caldron filled with water. This was used in the solemn ceremonies when the cmperor prayed for rain in time of drouth. One of the treasures of this room was a bronze water clock towering to the roof. One would bo afraid to eay how many cen- turles ago this ponderous meohanism was fashioned by cunning Chinese workmen. Beyond the last throne room of the em- poror was the state apartment of the em- press, when there was a real empress of China. This was resplendent in gilt work, but sadly obscured in dust and mold. A half dozen of the vases in this room would briug revenue sufficient to enable the aver- ugo man to live in comfort for the rest of his days. Servants Are Shocked. The visitors were led through long strotches of arbors, summer houses, shaded walks and gardens, where the eunuchs brought more tea, fruit and cakes, sick- 1shly sweet. Thoy seemed to think the pllgsimage ended, but General Wilson held otherwise. He had been shown no more of Interest than if he had marched through the forbldden city with the allled armles, save in the matter of quantity. He de- manded through his interpreter to be shown the private or living apartments of the emperor and empress dowager. The eunuchs turned a pale green and chattered shrill protest and alarm. No forelgner had ever entered these most sacred of all bulldings. They foresaw certaln decapita- tion s thelr fate. Thero was a prodiglous scurrying about, while General Wilson grew the more emphatic and fn- sistent. At last the eunuchs appeared to consent. Hero is where a reasonable doubt must inserted. It seems probable that the visitors were shown through the residencos of the emperor and empress dowager, but If the cunuchs should have palmed off a counterfeit, who of the visitors would hay been the wiser? The writer believes, and | will malntain, that he was privileged to enter the {mperfal bedchamber and sitting | room, yet it cannot be denled that the| eunuchs held all the cards. Certain it s that they were thoroughly frightened, par- ticularly when they had to break the seals on the doors which had not been violated since the fiight of the imperlal household. Wealth of Art Treasures. In the emperor's apartments none of the ornaments or bric-a-brac had been taken away. The rooms were completely fur- nished and fitted for occupancy, while in all the bulldings previously visited there had been a wholesale sweep of everything re- movable. As a matter of fact, it {s be- lteved that Emperor Kwang Hsu had been for two years a prisoner, exiled to another and distant part of the sacred city, but it may be that these apartmens were kept | as‘he left them, or agalnst a possible re- occupation There was one spacious salon furnished | with massive carved tables and chalrs after | Furopean fashion, and many wonderful old cabluets in lacquer and carving. Elaborately bound Chinese books, writing materiels, fans and smoking outfits were strewn about | kept in perfect order. | little Crystal palace. | pos: THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9, sales of loot in Pekin it {s hard for the Jayman to keep his moral vision clear Where the Empress Dowager Lived. It was when General Wilson demanded, as his final order, that the rooms of the em press dowager be opened for his inspection that the eunuchs showed symptoms of col- lapee. They could mot find the keys; there was great confusion, imcessant argument | for ten minutes before tho gates of the enclosure wore reluctantly ewung open. There was first a courtyard, some flower beds and a long tree-shaded walk. The place seemed to be a separate compound surrrounded by a massive wall fifteen feet high. The two main buildiogs were connected by a covered bridge. They were of one story, with the unvarying loog and sloping tiled roof curving upward at the lower edges. One buflding was the throne room of the empress dowager, and hers was a throne worth seeing. No pigeons circulated in this august apartment, which had been The eluborate gilded throne glittered as it it were rubbed and polished dally. The visitors felt a vague uneasiness, as It perchance that imperious and masterful old beldame, the bugbear and phenomenon of modern affairs, might sud- denly appear and resent the invaston of her sanctum sanctorum. Her living rooms were in a bullding whose exterfor suggested an American jew- elry or art store. It was a sort of pavilion, | whose walls were of French plate glass, huge panes set in around three sides, a There were so many | bewutiful and elaborately ornamented for- elgn clocks ranged around the inside walls, cabinets and tables, such a profusion of jade, porcelain, bronze and ivory bric-a- brac, that Yhis art-store effect became a seoming imitation of what Li Hung Chang may have seen In his globe trotting through | Burlington arcade in London or along upper Broadway in New York. Yet while this living In a glass house seemed to lack any qualities of privacy, the impression was not well founded. For the buflding was in a walled fnclosure, which nons might enter without permission or muthority, and you may be sure thero was no idle curlosity or unwelcome intrusion circulating within the imperial compound of the empress dowager | when gho was ruling China from the for- bidden city. Uncomfortable Chinese Heds, Tho room which the eunuchs declared was her sleeping chamber opened ftrom the | glittering plate glass pavilion. The bed- stead of the foreigner I8 unknown amonsx the Chinese, and in the rooms both of the emperor and empress dowager the royal couches were no more than richly canopled bunks. The woven-wire cots of a flela hospital would be more comfortable for the pleasures of slumber than the springless boxes on which royalty stretched ftself in the palaces of the emperor of China. The word “palace” is a misnomer, from Furopean standards, in any reference to the buildings of the sacred city. The imperial bulldings are 8o many squat pavilions ot from one to three rooms each. The private apartments were not even imposing in the area of them. They were no larger than # small cottage bungalow or two adjoining rooms of a fair-sized country house. The astonishing number of thesc pavilions and connecting courts, square miles of them in the aggregate, 18 a colossal picture of the Chinese way of bullding and living. The serles of throne rooms and the other bulld- ings explored by General Wilson and party were chosen because of interesting associa- tion. Yet the extent of them, although mile from morth to south, was as only a corner of the sacred city. By far the greater part of it {s laid out in parks and grotesque examples of Chinese landscape gardening and dotted with temples and pagodas, Bridge of White Marble, The whito marblo bridge which spans the lotus-covered lake in the grounds of the sacred city is famed in song and story. From a distance it has been admired for centuries, and from the overhanging hills where profane eyes were wont to seek birds- eyo views its length strotched like a white ribbon of lacework lald across the vivid green of the lotus-carpeted lake, General Wilson and party crossed this bridge in leaving the home of the son of heaven, but at such close rango the general and im- pressive effect was lost, although the wonderful delicacy and intricacy of the marble carving of the balustrades could be examined fn detail The forbldden city is about six centurfes old. Its buildings, gardens and temples | date from the time of the Mongols, and suffered small change when they came lnto cssion of the Ming and Manchu em- perors, nor does it seem likely that much money has been expended in repairs and mafntenance through this trififng handful of centurfes. The universal air of dilaplda- tion and decay was astonishing. Crumbling walls in the shadow of the imperlal resi- dences, grass and weed-grown pavements and courts, rotting woodwork, the dirt and dust of ages seemed with melancholy em- phasts to typify the fate of China as a nation and & government. After all, the tower of this walled and monted sacred clty was vastly impressive, not for what it was as & spectacle, but for what it rep- resented. The seat of a ruling power which has in its own strange fashion held sway over 400,000,000 subjects, whose fate 18 now trembling in the balance and whose capital 18 in possession of the armies of the newer and more vigorous eclvilization gathered from all around the world, and also becauso the forbidden city had been | perhaps the greatest mystery of modern | time, it was & day made memorable for | the Record correspondent when he passed within its gates S0 TO SLIDE ON, as It the place had wholly escaped the cyclone of fiight and panic which must have surged through the forbidden city when the | guns of the allles were booming along the | rond to Pekin It an to be noticed American and English nously in eviden that French, | nade clocks were | ar the walls were at least of them, all pdingly costly, and some of great art value. The foreigners’ clock has made a eful conquest of China, and later it was found in the rooms of the e ess dowa r that her imposi array of clocks would suffice to stock a Broudway jewcler's shop. | The ¥ dehamber, It was in the bedchamber of the em peror that the clock of all royal clock It was a superb exhibit in it 1. The loot fever, held sternly in check ¥y be & gold charfot high, to which phants. Upon chariot or cart | mperor's i ter, The article was ng wearly three feet were harnessed two gold e the 1s and body of th ie clock. The face of it was set | round with a ring of rubles and the cas- | tellated top was thickly studded with jew- | harness of the elephants wa The whole fabric looked like a plaything by pressing a iug a key the elephant would solemnly across the floor, dragging charlot and the recplendent clock. Whether this tréasure was overlooked in tho hasty packing of the agitated imperial family or whether all was not gold that dazzlingly could not be de cided offhand. The treasures which one was sure of as being genuine were the great stores of jade ornaments and porcelains, The watchful eunuchs let no man flock by | Thelr vigllance was palntul was nothing at all to do In the nir line and the American off) ' wore themselves as anxious that nothing | should be taken away. But it seemed a when one's pockets would hold so The | loot fever is both contaglous and demoraliz- whee we we spr nee rtul or w as re {ug, and so long ag misslenzrios hold s | Tons Required fo Grease a Warship | comparatively Into Water, The launching of a little torpedo boat 18 and the cost i not over a few hundred ‘doliars, including flow- ra and souvenirs and even the bott'e of champagne used In the christening, But When it comes to & big armored cruiser or first-cluss battleship. says the New Or- leans Times. the acti pense weldom falls below § T $5.00 hullding of the wiys for the ship Wwn over Iy the main ftem. and th the ereas- ing. Rvery inch of which th os m1st sredicnts of r of be and fuken ne v half t 1 t a move ship. The tallow fs to the depth of ahout thre the workmen use big flat trowels' to moke the surfa “maoth as possible. T they pour over the oft soap, which fa jus thick enough to Tun. or aboit the consist- ency of tar. As a general thing this doy \nswers the Imirably s ship glides Ir batt end ¢ koly to spri idents of that | 1t nothing s spared ver, sailors are very inchings, and, if any- thing goes wron, Ship 18 regarded ne | un'ucky, hing greatly dreaded by all | officers al years nzo . Chicago pack ing house t up o 1l preparatic for Eronsing ships' wave and sent a auantit of It to a firm in Maine to demonstrate its merlts. 1t was made from the refuse of the rendering house and had an odor that sremed strong enough (0 11ft & man-of-war * off its bearings. The firm trimd it on a small merchant ship which it had ready to launch, but Instead of showing any the qualities of a lubricant It acted more Wike a glue. The vessel stuck fast on the wave pu oft with Jacks. ™ heard of the ago fo'ks dra What s left of the sonu launching is carefully some Kkind to avert them superstitioas about epis the & Company Irectors have & offic Stadler; vice president, Ivear of Buffalo; treasurer ra Charles W | tton to o | depressions. CLOUDS AND AIR CURRENTS cts Developed by Systematic Study and Trained Observation, CURIOSITIES OF UPPER AIR MOVEMENTS Heights and D Atmospheric United States—High and Low Meteorologists have long been convinced, says the New York Tribune, that a syste- matic study of the clouds would afford in- formation regarding the movements of the upper alr which would possess great prac- tical o5 well as theoretical value. Balloons and kites have rendered more or less serv- lce of this kind. Bu® balloons are costly and likely to be lost, it unaccompanied, and It 1s almost out of the question for man to cend higher than five or six miles, be- cause of lack of air to breathe, And thus far it has been impracticable to send a kite up more than two or three miles, Yet cirrus clouds report on the conditions at an ele- vation of from six to ten miles. Influenced by that fact and other considerations the in- ternational conference of meteorology 1n 1891 approved a scheme for co-operative observations of clouds for a whole year in sevoral of the countries of the northern emisphere. The plan was not carried fnto execution untfl 189 and the report ot the Amerfcan observations, with an elabo- rate discussion by Prof. Frank H. Bigelow, has fust been issued by the Weather burean The task was committed to good hands and bas been admirably performed. Meteorolo- glsts cannot read the document without feeling satisfaction over the results se- cured and the broad, progressive way in which the facts are handled A uniform classification agreed upon by th of clouds was iuternational eonfere Ten typos were adopted as the basis of ob- servation. The observers were carefully in- structed how to distingulsh them and a month's preliminary practice was under- taken before officlal records were made. The work was carried on at fifteen stations fu the United States, all but one of which were east of the Rockles. At each station an {nstrument called & nephescope was used. This s a round mirror fixed in a horlzontal position and having the degroos of a circle and points of the compass in- scribed on fts edge. Through a sultably adjusted peephole the observer noted the direction of the cloud movement, and with a chronometer ascertained the apparent spoed. The real velocity, though, was de- termined enly after supplementary observa- tions had been made with a palr of surveying fnstruments, to find the helght of the cloud under scrutiny. Observations were made soveral times a day when the weather per- mitted. Helghts of Clouds. The reevits of this work, having been tabulated and digested, it appears that in this country, east of the Rocky mountains, the lowermost type of cloud, the stratus, floats at an average neight of 2,700 feet in winter and 3,600 feet in summer. Both in winter and summer the basts of cumulus clouds keep at a mean elevation of 3,900 feet, but the domes sometimes reach a helght of 9,000 or 10,000 feet. The nim- bus, or storm cloud, varles from 5,900 to 6,200 foet. The average height of the cfr- rus in summer {8 33,000 feet and {n winter 31,000. But this is occasfonally exceeded by three or four miles. In Scptember, 1896, cirrus clouds were seen at an elevation of 68,000 feet, or over ten miles. Nearly every class of clouds attaln a loftfer ut- titude between the hours of 4 and § p. m. than at any other part of the day, wherers between noon and 4 o'clock they fall a trifie below the average. In veloc'ty conspleuous variations are attributable to a change of season. Stratus, for instance, floats along at a moan of thirteen miles an hour In warm weather, but accelerates its speed to twenty-four miles an hour in cold. The tops of cumull travel thirty-four miles and hour in sum- mer and forty-seven miles an hour in wie- ter. The average for cirrus in the former season 1s slxty-seven miles and in the lat- ter seventy-elght. But in March, 1897, the maximum velocity observed was 187 miles. while in the previous December cirrus was seen moving at a rate of over 200 miles an hour. Nice weather to got caught in with a fylng machine. Prof. Bigelow remarks that from this one year's data it looks as it the greatest speeds were realized at an ele- vation of seven or seven and a half miles, and that from that level up to ten miles there was a slight falling off. But further observation s required to verify that In- ference before it can be accepted as final. A fact that has been brought out more clearly by these cloud studies than ever before i that the movement of the air above the nimbus level, say, 6,000 feot, 1s practl- cally independent of the lower strata. In the reglon covered by thoss records there was a steady eastward motion at all times and year, the velocity varying considerably (as already findicated) with the altityde and season. The gvratory wind systema pecullar to areas of high and low barometer gradually disappear with ele- vation, and then merge with the general flow. Therc aro at times trifling southerly and northerly elements In the direction, but these nearly balance each other, and keep the nverage motion almost due eastward. Precise calculations, limited to observations over only a part of the United States, leave & very small excess of northward movement, but, of course, this is compensated for in some other part of the globe, Hixh and Low Pressure. No part of Prof. Bigelow's report will at- tract wider attention than his constderation of tho causes of areas of high and low ba- rometric pressure. Fspy, Loomls, Abbe, Ferrell and other moteorologists have ar- gued with force that local heating from sunshine, and the liberation of hrat In the center of a depression by the condensatlon of vapor Into rain, caused the uprising of atmosphere in a orm, and the con nt lowertng of tho ure. The overflow of the ascending air was thought to be largely tnstrumental in producing the higher pres- suro through a simple heaping up process Davis and some other modern me glsta have lately come to discredit ast to limit fts applica- san born troplcal cyclones. Blge- low, too, now rejects the notion. He holds that mechanical forces, and not therma! are mainly responsible for the formation of He says that there I1s a more or less regular successlon of alr currents sweeping over this country the southwest and from the northwest; and 1o belleves that friction developes eddics be tween them. The late William Ferrell held that the poleward flow of hot air from the equatorial region occurred mostly at a con- siderable elevation. Bigelow thinks that it now proved that very little air moves northward at any great height. Most of It keeps down close to the ground. The other current, the one from the northwest, 1s recognized by Ferrell, who is everywhere re- garded as one of the highest authorities on atmospheric circulation that this or any other country has produced. But for his disagreement with other meteorologlsts Prof. Bigelow gives forcible reasons, and ex- perts cannot fail to see that he has made out a strong case for the dynamical theory of storms. Some of his findings are scarcely | less than revolutionary Not merely for the purpose of completing the study of the conditions existing perma- nently in the upper air, but also for their L Stnton; egralary, George value in forecasting the weather from day to day, Prof. Bigelow urges that cloud ob- Iternately from | 1900. Are you getting thin? Cure. be. body and increase the weight. J. C. 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One 18 indeed grateful when they have suffered for yessrs and been cured by na- ture's remedy. If you cannot get it, send Take no substitute. ¢ CRAMER CHEMICAL CO. DeWITT’S Witch Hazel SALVE A well known cure for Piles Thissalve cannot be equalled wherever asoothingand healing antisepticappli- cation 18 needed. 1t quickly cures sores, cuts, burns and scalds without leaving ascar. Kor piles, eczema and all skin diseases it is considered infallible. Beware of Counterfelts | Unscrupulous persons may offer you | worthless imitations. Take only the or {ginal DEWITT'S WrtcH HAZEL SALVE Prepared by E. C. DeWITT & CO., Chicago, o : EGETABIE GOMPOUND. Bolawhl Fangih nt bt end ot an i fofltne’ eau ¢ suvadon Wl portions o (e 5 ro! r trom netralgin, sick headueis Tiess and 'Zfiu"'r‘x“mr erght yoars 1 found o eliat ntil ¥ Begafl thd treatmont of Wi ope, b now el ed. &,V HICKS! o by all druggists. 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He specifies certain situa- tions where information of this kind woull be particularly serviceablo in forecasting raln, and he expresses the Lopo that by this means meteorology may be changed from an empirical to an exact sclence, and that much greater accuracy iu prediction will thus be made possible | Chicago Pollce Scandal. CHICAGO, Dee. 8.-Mayor Harrlson to- day accepted the resignation of Civil Sery- ice Commissioner John W. Ludwig and ap- pointed Joseph Powell to succeed him. Re- Cently the scan r the clvil service examination of police lleutenants, the de- velopments showing the influence money lenders had in the police department, and Commissioner Ludwig's defense of the money | 8 have made Mr. Ludwig's withdrawal from the board a foregone con- cluslon. It was stated today that In fu- ture the mayor intends to place the entire | responsibllity for the enforcement of the | merit law upon the commission. 1 In time of Storm and Stress SURPLUS $.51.000.000. 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