Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 21, 1909, Page 21

) ' ! i 'HE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE VOVEMBER 2 )9 ¢ 1 ¥ 1 UCHANG-T have jgerhenter.) afford to have the Russians own their Chinese residents of our country to start ! alk with a director of the great chief rallroad. The result was that China the subseriptions for the stock. He then .y ;: ‘\"\\n;”:,l”‘ & to be built upon hearing of the Belglan plans, de eame back here and raised the balance | from h o Canton. It will clared that it would have to annul the in these shares of $2.60 each. He imported | form the southern half of the concession or b k the road 100 Chinese laborers who had worked l . 4o BOSA H1ghtly called the iron back: Profits 000 Per Cent. et SCC IR SR i e et bone of the empire. The division from Han This fact was communicated to Wash him. He used them as overseers, and so kow to Peking is already In operation. I Ington and the American capitalists took constructed the line. As far as I can lea eame over It this week. The southern sec- advantage of the sit nt Mo he had neither mechanical nor cly { tion is that known fn America as the Can- gan, who was disgrunt h gineers. He did most of the raliroad i ton-Hankow railway. It will begin here at erous financlal transactions which King SINEAE . SRS, JEVEE- Worm - Wuehang, on the Yang-Tse-Kiang, oppo- Le0pold had had with him, forced the lat country for some vears as a railroad f to Hankow, and will go on south to the ter to sell his stock back to the American man and contractor. His road s equipped ighty city of Canton. Tk art of the company; and the Kking, not suspecting with locomotives and passenger cars inads ne is somewhat known to t United that the deal with China was possible, did in the United States. He has Baldw ates. It was surveyed by American en 80 for a low price. Then an arrangement engines, flat cars from Pennsylvania and gnicers under a concess that was by which the American rights were sold dump cars from San Franciseo. T granted to Calvin Brice and others of our back for 10,000,000 taels, or about $5,700,000 senger cars are fitted with automaile a famous ¢ alist it cleven years go. In gold, and this money was divided among brakes and screw and chain couplers and As fa in learn the Americans did the 4000 odd stockholders. How much buffers. At present this road bids fa little more than go over the line and be- hard cash the Americans put into the to pay 50 per cent and upward in dividend N uction. They shilly-shallied scheme I do not know, but that is what & and dilly-dallied | the Chinese grew thay drew out. What Ch got for all The Peking-Hanhow Trunk Li red and then buck their concession this money is only a little stretch of rafl- But let me tell you something al them at almost 1,000 per cent road, thirty miles long, running from Can- northern section of China's steel vertebr The Chinese are glad to again have hold ton to the town of Samshui, which could as 1 saw it this week. The Pekink-H f thels operty, and they expect to put not have cost, 1 should say, more than kow section was built by the Chiu i fne through. Mr. Teou, the railway $.000,00, or $83,000 a mile. It is a standard the Belgians. The distance between (I 1 h whom I talked, is a pusher. He guage road, laid with seventy-five pound two cities is 700 miles, and the expre is a live, up-to-date capitalist and is busi- ralls, and it has, altogether, only about trains make it in about thirty hours. The s from start to finish. 'He has been twelve miles of double track and eighteen engineers are Chinese, but the conductor icated along western lines and speaks miles of single track. A part of the road are English. The fare is $é4 in silver fluently a half dozen languages. Our con- 1s stone ballasted, and a part is ballasted about §25 in gold—that is, about 3} cents B ersation was in English. He said with sand. In addition to this the Chiness a mile. This includes the sloeping accom We have gone over the route and made have the surveys made by Barclay Par- modations. There are restaurant cars on new surveys, and we already have the sons and others, but they, in the words of the train, where one can get a breakfast hemes of organization and of raising Mr. Tsou, are not what the Chinese want, for 45 cents and dinner and lunch for W he money practically comple and could have been made at s cost of & cents each. The road has good depots a The road now planned is to consist ot few thousand dollars. I understand that Hankow and Peking; and it is fairly well four great divisions, one for each of the the Americans claim that they expended ballasted throughout. The cars are Euro ) provinces through which it runs. All told, on the enterprise, all told, about $3,000,000 pean In make. They are roughly furnished line will be about $00 miles long, and in gold; and that the additional amount of pocrly bullt and without adequate heating pass through the richest and most $3,700,000 was claimed for the loss of their arangements. The only fire on our train populous parts of the empire. The north- valuable rights. On this basis, supposing WiS I & littis Stove In & Sepstete com ‘ ern section begins here at Hankow, and that the stockholders originally pald par partment in the middle of the car, and we runs for 120 miles southward through the provinee of Hupeh. This is the section with which I am connected. Hupeh will control it. The money will be raised here and he road will be managed from ‘ Wuchang until the entire line is com< pleted. The next section goes south from " > Hupeh to Hunan, and the third through I‘Y:o L”“MM:‘ bl ool 1, Sorinen g By Tk to he Since the Chinese took hold of the Can- fourth, which runs south through southern D&Mes but little real money was neces- incomplets survey and then built about ton-Hankow system they have, as Mr. Kwangtung to Canton. Each of these S8fY. and the road could have been com- thirty miles of line and stopped. Later TS0U says, made new surveys. They have P brovinces will handle its own division, on credit. Altogether about 6,000 on they sold 1000 shares of the stock extended the little strip bullt by the / ust as Hupeh will do.* shares of stock were issued, and of these to a French banking house and a con- Americans, so that it 1s now about fifty Seoia over 4,000 were still In the hands of the trolling Interest to the Belglans., Much’ miles long, and they are running cars over had to go to this to get warm. The passenger coaches are divided into compartments, running at right angles to the track. Bach compartment has two sofas, and upon these beds are made up at night. Shelves are also let down to form upper berths, Our traln was ful. We had a numbes of high-class Chinese men and women and many forelgners, Thers were American and French tourists, commercial travelers representing English, German and French business houses, & high-up officlal of the Eritish East Indlan service and the rajah for their shares, which is doubtful, the 4,000 shares would have cost them $400,000; and they drew out, according to their own statement, $3,700,000, which equals over %0 per cent. Indeed For ways that are dark and tricks that are vain ENGINE AND CRANE, HANKOW RAILWAY SHOPS. - A y of Sikkim, who had been to school at Ox- ¥ A Costly Railroad. Americans when the road was turned back of the Belglan stock was taken by King that section. They are bullding on the - - £ “Will the line be easy to build? b e Leopold, who set about trying to gain other divisions, and the great steel works THE BNGINEBRS ARE CHINBSE. f:rd.u'fng:nt sad was takine o trip i B 2 & According to the conditions, the Amer- possession of the concession. His people 4t Han Yang are making rails to be used . e P 00 SN WEY. e Atiiiy i r;\n"'nu\r‘nl :‘n”x‘:l-rywlh\ (\::‘x:d..:al‘::;‘::: “:;f lcans were to survey the road at once and already owned uch of the Hankow- in the construction. Ofe; 0f \the maks TemMFRAIe (WALure oF mOte\BEn- hAlc: of EBRt 4, SIS DROBL . the ARMEIOAHE WORG 60 RIS OF uns oF oar 5 begin its construction. They were to Peking road, and, if he could have se- The road is being handled by Chinese en- F®lWay construction in this empire is a The road has a capital of less\ than §l- talking machine companies, a Standard ofl 4 %0, push it rapidly forward to a completion. cured the right to bulld into Canton, the gineers, and the Samshui branch is worked DeW road now being built southwest of 500,000, divided into shares of $50 each, man and the representative of a roof and or at something like $2.000 a mile. The 1; wag also the understanding that they Belglans would have controlled the chiet by & Chinese staff presided over by two Canton with Chinese capital, Chinese all owned by Chinese. paint house of San Francisco. d probabllity s that it will he twice that. \ere not to sell the control of that con trunk line of China. Worse than this, Americans. I understand that some diffi- Muscle and Chinese brains. It {s known This rallway originated in the mind of = We left Peking in the morning and ar- The country s either mountainous or roll- cession to other nations, nor to allow it is generally believed here that the Bel. culty has arisen as to securing Chinese 88 the Sunning rallroad, and thirty-six Mr. Chin Gee Hoe, its president. He was rived at Hankow the next afternoon. Our ing, and there will bo curves almost all the them to have much stock In it. They glans were merely tools in the hands of capital to finish the road and that money miles of it are already In operation. It in the United, States when he thought of way was across the Great Plain, which is way. Our route will be longer than that violated these conditions. They made an the Russians, and the Chinese could not may be borrowed from Germany, is now taking in about $300 a day, and it, and he persuaded some of the other gaid to support more people than the surveyed by the Americans. They fol- United States, We passed villages at i swed the custom of the United States as every few miles and walled towns and to such matters, forgetting that our coun- H Or e er’S 0 ec ion citles every half hour. The Great Plain try most of the big roads have been ploneer A d t S 1 t d f t h t S’ t is thickly settled, and every foot of it h lines. They have been lald out through umorous nec o es e ec e rom e is cultivated. Nearing Hankow the land ) the wilds, and the traffic has grown up to sald the for seats in the last row, behind a post DeCOmes rolling, and there are low moun- them. China is already developed. Weo $50.15 Che whiAie T h FOWAE AL tain ranges. The sides of the hills are have many large cities, and the road terraced in flelds of all shapes and sizes, gineers, the cost was put at about $20,000,000, Hard Target to Hit, who felt called upon to rebuke the jury. earth”” was the reply. “Some, Indeed, of the game with your mone; MEMBER of the cabinet was At last one old farmer arose. were kind enough to call be Saint Paul.” judge—Indianapolis Star. ahotld be- DUl to. $oin 2 thebe . SoretBan approached the other day in _‘“Jedge' said he, “weren't we to jedge “Well, this is @ piece of luck” cried e e Aol bbb OBIIOLE, ot the vallers are oht up fute gardeds of Your engineers planned the road without Washington by a disappointeq the law as well as the facts?™ Hodges. “Dern my skin, but ab'm plumb ARVOIR WILH: TRS LOEEE) SCan't help that Got to take 'em o WAlled patches, most of which contain 3 agird to fliase! Sittéar vudlchli. i xabel o0 and disgiuntied office seeker, “Certainly,” was the response; “but I told glad to ses yoh. Thohe's something ah've A lawyer camo into court drunk, when CE DOl TRRE € T0 0 M BT rice, e straight, We are bullding the: road who said: you not to judge the law unless you were been wanting tuh ask yoh fer a long time. the judge said to him: g In the north many of the huts are flat . clearly satistied that you knew 1 " PP g e e i RIS Lo 4a. Viously frritated. for the people and the traffic, and are Mr. Secretary, where is all o at you knew the law Mind, you don't have to amswer ef yoh sir, I am sorry to see you in a situa- VUPPR G L L L roofed, In the south the roofs are ridge — et g e ——t o ur = - diverging a little here and there to con- nect the great centers. The moment the road is completed we shall have an enor- mous business.” One Hundred Million Pe “Can you give me some idea of the population the road will tapT” “Not in actual figures” replied Mr. Tsou. *We are backward in statistics, and I can only estimate the possibilities. The {hree provinces through which the road runs have a population of about 100,000,000, There are many larger cities. Here at Hankow we have between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000, Canton is as big as Chicago and there are other large towns all along the way, The road will be the chief trunk line of interior China, connecting the capl- tal with Canton, and running from these to the port of Kowlooh, opposite Hong- kong. According to the estimates of Mr. Barclay Parsons, the average of the population numbers 200 to the square mile, but I venture It is more than this. The country is devoted to tea, silk and other industries. It is agriculturally rich, and X we )belteve that it contains extensive de- s posits of iron, copper and lead. There no doubt but that the road will payi” But can you manage it well in four ivisions, with four sets of officials di- rected by four different governments Yes," replied Mr. Tsou. ‘“The imperial government has required that the same gauge must be made throwghout, that the rolling stock must be standardized, and t ralls be of a certain pattern and weight. Most of the fron work is now being made here at Hankow, and the track will be of Chinese steel. As to the manage- ment, the probability is it will be con- solidated when the system is completed. The different divisions will be joined, and there may be one great government from Peking to Canton.” China’s New Railroad. How about the new rallroad movement? Is it to continue?” Nothing ean stop it. We Chinese are slow to begin, but when we really start we keep golng. No one now que s the value of railroads. Both the govern- ment and the people realize that they are un absolute necessity to our existence and progress. We shall keep on bullding just fa fast as we can ralse the money. We would like to construct our rallways as far as possible with our own funds. In our present condition we do mot wish to mortgage our country to other natio and this we do when we make heavy forelgn loans. The road from Wuchang to Canton is Row to be made with Chinese and by Chinese workmen. It will be a Chinese railr rroughout. mox ad Millions for Wooden Nutme 1 asked Mr. Tsou to tell me th inside story of the concession for this road to the Americans, and what they made out of It He was chary in speaking of the matter, but sald that China had mnot been falrly treated. From other sources I learn that the Americans played some- what the part of the Yankee who sold wooden nutmegs. They gave China a gold brick, and carried away millions I doubt not that our capitailsts acted in good faith in the beginning, and that had Calvin Brice lived their contracts would have been carried out. The conces- sion was granted by the imperial govern- ment to Brice and others, through Mar- quis Shens and Wu Ting-fans, on the ground that they would ralse $20.000,000 to bulld and equip the lne The Chinese government was to secure the loan by a mortgage on the road and an imperial rantee; and also by the issuing of gold bonds, to be sold at %0 per cent, and to bear § per cent interest. Calvin Brice had no trouble In getting men to #in with him. Among those who of- ered to join in ralsing the money, as it came due for bullding the road, were Plerpont Morgan, John D. Roekerfeller, E. H. Harriman, Russcll Sage, George Gould, Jim Hill and the Vanderblits With such that new republican prosperity that you Dbetter than I did." were going to give us?’ ‘“Why,” replled the secretary, a little plqued, “it is everywhere. Labor is belng employed; capital is becoming uctive; pros- perity s striking out In every direction.” “Well, it hasn't struck me yet,” snapped the disgruntled one testily. “You see,” replied the secretary, “it is pretty hard to hit nothing."—Judge. i They Charge This to Illino In Illinols there 1s an old law on the statute books to the effect that in oriminal cases the jury Is “judge of the law as well as of the facts.” Though not often quoted, once in a while a lawyer with a desperate case makes use of it. In one case the judge Instructed the jury that it was to judge of the law as well as the facts, but added that it was not to judge of the law unless 1t was fully satisfied that it knew more law than the judge. An outrageous verdict was brought in, contrary to all instructions of the court, *“Well, jedge,” answered the farmer, as he shifted his quid, “we considered that p'int. —San Francisco Argonaut. bt s Jake Hodges and St. Paul. Jake Hodges of Texas had tolied long and earnestly at a county convention in Lamar county, and the heat of the battle had got into his head. He staggered out into the cool night air and unknowingly wandered into the grounds of an insane asylum. mistaking & solemn, spectral figure for a tree, Jake leaned agalnst it. It moved and spoke, saying: “Peace be with you." “Well I'm derned.” said Jakg mopping his brow. “Thought you wuz & Fost. I shore begs yoh pahdon.” “You are forgiven,” sald the stranger. “My name's Hodges sald Jake, as he sought to collct his flittering wits and make the amende honorable, “What might youh's be?” “Mcn called me Paul when I was on don’ want tuh, but ah’'ve been curious to know ef yoh eveh goj an answer to that long letteh yoh wrote®o the Ephesians,’— National Magazine. s When the Judge Won Out. Wilbur B. Williams, as a speaker at the law enforcement convention held here recently, told a story on a gas belt police judge in explaining how men In such a position had better be careful as to the company they keep. He sald some gam- blers, who were brought Into this judge's court, were proven gullty. The judge frowned, the gamblers frowned and marched in funeral fashion out to pay their tines. They were “digging”’ when the judge passed them. He poked one of the men in the ribs. ‘Well, Bill," he said to the gambler, “‘this is not the first time I ever dealt with you." No judge,” smiled the keeper “But it Is the first time I ever came out tion which is a disgrace to yourself and family and the profession to which you be- long. This reproof elicited the following col- loquy: “Did your honor speak to me?” “I did sir. 1 sald sir, that in my opin- ion, you disgraced yourselt and family, the court, and the profession by your course of conduct.” “May i—i—it please been an attorney in- for fifteen years, and, per your honor, that this is the first correct opinion I ever knew you to give.”—Dundee Advertise your honor, I have n—in this c—court mit me to say Not Within His Rights, van I have two good seats, well down, not behind a post and on the alsle?" asked the quiet gentleman at the box office window. “Three dollars aplece,” replies the ticket seller, slamming out two tickets that call Mexican National Band Will Be a Corn Show Feature NE of the feature attractions at the National Corn show in Omaha will be the Mexican National band. This is the pet musical organization of Old Mexioo and special permission had to be given by President Diaz befors the trip to the states could be undertaken The famous coterie of musiclaus is now enroute to the United States. They pla an engagement during the United States Land and Irrigation congress In Chicago and then come direct to Omaha. The trip of the band to Chicago and to Omaha is considered a speclal tribute from President Diaz and 1is further indicative of the friendly feeling existing between the two republics engendered by the meetings of Presidents Taft and Diaz. D. E. Thompson, American ambassador to Mexico, specially requested the presence of the band in Chi- cago and Omaha during the expositions During the Corn show the band will give concerts every afternoon and evening. The national music of Mexico forms an attrac- tive part of thelr programa but many of the greatest musical selections of the great composers have been mastered by the visitors. Franeisco Durin, director of the famous Mexican tand, which will play at the Na- tional Corn exposition, has sent a lst of the music which the band will play during its engagement In Omaha Besides this list the band now has fifty pieces of music under study. AIR, NAME AND COMPOSER. March—San Francisco, N. N. March—23 de Linea, N. N March—23 de Jullo, Preza March—Lindas Mexic 3 March—Felix Diaz, Preza. Maroh—Dixie Girl, I. B. Lampe March—The Right of Line, 1. C. Heed March—American Medley No. 2, G. A. Carl Two-Step—Voltaire et Christian, L Perlat March—American Eagle, G. Bohem. March--Uncle S8ammy, Holzman. March—La Gloriosa Bandera, N. N Two-Step—Puerto Real, Juarranz. March—La Viuda Alegre (The Merry Widow), F. Lehar March—Tannhauser, R Wagner Two-Step—El 78 de Linea N Two-Step—Ke-8ou, P. Bi in March—Funebre (Funeral), Chopin Gavota—Oh, Ilusion Mia, Aranda Cujus Animar t ‘Mater, Rossini Introduction- Mater, Rossini Two-Step— Pachec: Hymn—Mexican National Anthem, Nuno. Hymn—La Marseillaise (French anthem), N. N Preza Hymn—Russian National Anthem, N. N Two-Step— Waltz Machaquito, Gascor pana, Waldeteufel Wedding of the Wi Valse—Aimee, N. N Ondas del Panuco, A. Perez Waltz—Quand I'Amour Meaurt, O feux. Waltz—Hermanos Alegres (Happy Rroth- ers), N. N. Walta—Recuerdo, V. Alvanado Walta—Hermosas Ta DPatias, Azzall Walts—La Barcarolle, Waldeteufel Waltz—Le Tourbilion, T. Matey Waltz—A la Gloria, A. Martines. Waltz—El Eco de las Olas, A. Martines. Waltz—Weber's Invitation & ia Vals, Weber. Walts—La Rose, E. Ascher. Waltz—Todo Paris, Waldoteufel. Waltz—Les Patineurs, Waldeteufel Fidele, Waldeteufel La Estudiatina, Waldeteufel Waltz—Manolo, Waldeteufel Waltzg—Dolores, Waldeteufel. Waltz—Arruvadora, Waldeteufel Walts—Antrofois, Waldeteufel Waliz—Angel de Amor, Waldeteufel Mazurka—Melancolia, C. Aguirre. Mazurka—Fellz Momento, G. Ortlz Mazurka—Gemidos del Alma, Navarro. Mazurka—Amar es Vivir, Navarro. Schottisch—Ester, R. Vergara. Schottisch—A la Sombra de un Sauz, Pe- ralta ldyl-The Mill in the Forest, Myrelies. Gavota—De Libron, Libron Polka—Amelia, Aguirre Overture—America, Theo Moses Fantasy—La Fille du Tambour Majo! fenbach. Selection—Erminle, Jacobouski Overture—Semiramis, Rossini Fantasy—Alda, J. Verd! Fantasy—Rigoletto, J. Verdl Fantasy—Lucia de Lammermoor, Donizettl Fantasy—Pagliaci, Leoncavallo Overture—William Tell, Rossini Fantasy—Carmen, Blzet Seleotion—Traviata, J. Verdi ection—Cavaileria Rusticana, Mascagni Overture—Rronze Horse, Auber Selection—Souvenir de Wagner, T. M. To- bani Fantasy—La Africana—Meverbeer Fantasy—Home, Sweet Home, Robinson. ot- & IR IR R i i NATIONAL BAND OF MEXICQ Fantasy—Samson et Dellla, Saint Saens Overture—Campanone, Maza Fantasy—La Glocanda, Pouchiellf Fantasy—Coppelis, Leo Delives Third Act—Bohemia, Pucelni. Descriptive—A Hunting Scene—Bucalossi Fantasy*-Scenes Napolitanes, Massenet Fantasy—Escenas Pintorescas, Mass Overture—Fra Diavolo, D. Auber. Preludio—Fraternidad, Marquez. Spanish Dance—La Dolores, Breton Sorenade—Titles Serenade, Meyr Serenade—De los Angeles, G. Braga Patrol—american, M am. Patrol—The Crack Regiment, Meacham Ecos of Mexico—Mexican National Alrs, Ttuarte. Overture—La Dame de Pique, Suppe Overture—Caballeria Ligera, Suppe Danza—La_Paloma, Yradler Danza—A Media Moche, Navarro. Danga—Cloe, Olague. Melody—Noche, A. Porez Melody—Aubade Printanierf, P. Lacombe. Melody—El Senor Joaquin, Caballero. March—Seventh Army Corps, Weldon Two-Step—Sangre Espanola, M. Diaz March—Bombasto, O. R. Farrar Two-Step—Happy Heinle, 1. B. Lampe March—Dixieland, Ch. Haines. March—Altamirano, C. Aguirre. March—16th of September, Segura Waltz—Fita, Pares. Fantasy—E| Trovador, Verd Overture—Der Freyschutz, Weber No. 2—Hungarian Rapsodies, Lisst Fantasy—Un Ballo in Meschera, Verdl. Fantasy—Lohengrin, R. Wagner Overture—Juvel, Weber Waltz—Idillo, G. Codina Romance—La Golondrina Waltz—Las Sonrisas, Waldeteufel to talk to peopls who come here to buy You talk as if you owned the appen to be the new owner.” ‘Then get away and to buy seats well you can get have a chance, in for noth- ing.""—Life. Blind Learn Almost to See (Continued from Page One) their hands and ol of thelr finer limbs as well museles and tac walk about alone, and They begin by holes on a square board; ¢ s just to get them in. ing mastered, they try sequence and finally terns with them and to count as the; is also the first step Braille point syst learning to put pegs into That trick be- to put them In reg make pat- mentally de ask of teaching them unsurmountable. as well as blind, the couragement, seem to give them this they give It to each the uptown year-old glrl who has v before and counting, reading and writing restless and cager seem able to acquire been to school but she does nest to her, later, is advan s progress time talking about arrived some time rapidly she is over and pushing him bright-eyed serve as an impetus to slugga keen concentration is not infrequ case that such names enrolled grade teachers who have blind chil dren in their classes report time have advanced from should do better work than ti handicapped seeing children interests into her life by little blind folk the sympathetic qualities n and to cultivate their n the other chlldr vie with one es,who can do the most for the considered & The crusity shaped and thatched with straw. They are made of stone or mud. The stations are of gray brick, roofed with red tiles Crowds met our train at every stop, and they were usually kept in order by native soldlers, who wore blus uniforms, with black caps and fat black boots. We took on and put off passengers at all the sta- tions. The most of these were Chinese, who rode second class. I understand that the slow trains, which have cheaper fares, are even more crowded, and that the passenger traffic pays well > The Yellow River Bridge. The most remarkable plece of englneer- ing on this raliroad is the Yellow river bridge, which we crossed during the night. Outside America it is the larg est of its kind In the world. It measures almost two miles from end to end and is constructed entirely of steel. There is no stream which shifts its bed more than the Yellow river. It is called China's Sor- row, and is sald to have changed iis course no less than nine times within the last twenty ceaturies, each time choosing & different mouth by which it enters the sea. At the last great flood, when the waters forsook thelr bed, many millions were drowned. The bed of the Yellow river is of quick sand, so deep that it was impossible to use auy masonry In constructing this bridge. Steel tubes were sunk in place of the ordinary concrete plllars and these were joined together by steel bands. There are elght of these steel tubes, each of which goes fifty-nine feet down into the bed of the river Other steels tubes ex tend down from thirty-thres to forty-five feet. The arches of the bridge have « span of sixty-five feet, where the current Is strongest, and of ninety-elght feet I other places. The steel plles, or tubes have been filled with cement to Eive themn strength, and rock and stones have been sunk around thelr bases to solldify their foundatlons. The stones were first opped down Into the river, without any upport, and were carried away by the quicksand. Later, mats made of the branches of trees, bound togeiher with wire, were let down around the piles, and the stones dropped upon them. In this Way tons of stone have besn moo ed on such rafts about each pile, and they have made the bridge as firm though the piles were bedded In concrete. This bridge was put up in & year and a half, and on the opening day & train bf twenty-one car carrlages passed over it without ocausing & perceptible vibration. Cheap Rallrond Building, The stesl for the Yellow river bridge came from Belglum and France, and the cost of its construction was $500,000, which is low considering Its character and length The whole road has been onomicall bullt, Its cost has been about $35.000 mile, the funds having been provided largely by the Belgians, who loaned $22 500,00 on it. Most of the rails were mac at the Hankow Iron works, and they weigh approximately eighty-five pounds to the vard, The rallway s well equipped with skops at Hankow and at the Yellow river, and, altogether, it is & trunk line to which China can point with pride, Since its completion branches have been bullt to Tal Yuen-Fu, the capital of the province of Shansi, and also to Kaifeng Fu, the capltal of Honan. It has connec tions with the road running frem Tientsin 1o Mukden, and thereby with the Trans siberlan road, so that one ean Bow go from Hankow to Hamburg by rail. Lines have also been projected whieh will con uect this road with another great trunk fallway pow belag bullt through eastern China, from Tientsin to the Yangtse, and 4 road i3 projected which will go west ward through the Chinese empire to the mountains of Thibet and eveatually reach Lhassa. A third road 1s to be built, con- necting Pukow, on the Yangtse, opposite Nanking, with the Hankow system. 8o that eventually this line will be about the aloud most Lnportant of all eastern Asla FRANK G. QCARPENTER.