Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 2, 1910, Page 19

Canton-Kowloon, Railway: Now Building 'I‘hisKV"/iew 18 at g\owloorz opposite HonKongp rains are guat : tegebrakenan o the feking-algan & (Copyright, 1800, by Frank G. Carpenter.) constructed in 1876 by a British company " HANGHATL, 1900 —(Special Corre- at a cost of §$100,000 and was operated but - Iitter and it took me three days. By this walled towns, and tho big walled clties R el b e Sk e Rt o - new road the journey can be made in six of Suchow, Chinklang and Naunking. Su ing the last few months I have opposed to railroads and they tried to keep . hours or less. chow has more than a half million peo- traveled over most of the new out this opening wedge. 'he story gocs g D ; 3 . The road starts from Peking, and, until ple, Chinkiang has almost as many and rallways of China. The empire they paid a coolie $190 to allow himself to L it nears the mountains, the country is Nanking is bigger. That country is a bee- . has on the fron boots of mod- be run over by the cars and killed. At any 5y . 3 . . . comparatively smooth. It then rises rap- hive of industry and the road is well ©ii acsress, and i s laying out roads rate, the man threw himself in front of Am f h% fl h f Of Ch idly, and the track ascends 1,800 feet in patronized in every direction. 1t has wiready more the cars and was taken out mangled and erican 1rex m the Near 1 ten ‘and one-half miles. At the pass itself Of late much trouble has occurred. The than 4,00 miles in operation and double dead. Upon this a mob tore up the road a tunnel about three-quarters of a mile Nanking-Shanghal rallway has been hav- that in course of projection and construc- and the officials decided it should be abol- benches, gnd it seemed to me they looked the full kernels, embedded in sugar. The inhabitants. It is the great center of the jong has been construeted, through which ing difficulty with the people along its tion. The systems already under way will {shed. very uncomfortable. The third class was conductors on this train were English caravan trads, & half milllon Or MoOre the trains pass under the great wall. This line, Several Chinese have been run over glve easy access to all the big citles, and. The rallway from Shanhailkwan to fllled with coolies, who were about as had camels passing it each year. The road will roaq js well built, although it has been and killed, and in each case the villagers with the additions which arc bound to Tientsin, or rather that part of it from Off as the cattle in our stock cars at home, i Rond to the Great Wall, have a considerable traffic In cuarrying planned by Chinese englneers and con- have stoned the train. Last week thirty- come, they will eventually gridivon the the Kaiping coal mines to Tlentsin, was They had boxcars, which were entered at While in Peking I learned mu about meat, furs and grain from Mogolla 0 gtrycteq entirely by Chinese labor. It will five windows in one of the passenger country constructed gbout ten years later, being the ends by doors so low that one had to fthe new rallroad, which is now bullding Peking. It will also take tea to (ho ot about $15,00,000 to extend-it to the trains were broken. and the week before Today the Chinese have the peorestrail- siarted as a tramway, with cars hauled Socp to get through them. The cars had :{\ruuxh the great \f.\ll on into Mongolia. Mongols. T||P.nl'e)l~nl plar is to extend giperian boundary. nineteen. The viceroy has warned the peo- way facllitics of all the great nations. by horses, and finally changed to steam MO Seats, and the passengers cither stood “his is a branch of the imperial rallway it across the Gobl desert to Lake Baikal, i PR ple that ‘this miust be stopped, and’that Thelr empire Is larger than the United rajlroad. This scheme was backed by Li OF £8t on their baggage. All the cars were system gnd it is being constructed out of where it will connect with the Trans- Chin; a Big Railroad Centers. stopped it will be, if the heads of the States, and it has four Lmes our popula- Jung Chang and Wu Ting-fang, and its Well filled, and the road is sald to be the profits of the Mukden-Peking line. It Siberian raflway, and form the shortest China has many cities, already Iarge, Lonbco, o Wil be If the heads of the tion. Nevertheless, its railways compare 1| was $200,00. The English Paving. begins at Peking and goes northward past route to Europe. It will put Peking within which are bound to Erow enormously g ains are guarded by soldlers and all dan- . OF{Fingloaptl) W, & 1 re br the Ming tombs to the Nankow pass. ‘©ne thirt r fourteen days of Lond nd ¢ pr with ours In the ratio of wbout one mile epgineer in charge was W. C. Kinder, During the trip lunches were brought in the Ming tombs to the Nankow pass e thirteen or fourteen days of London, and through the new ralilr now projected gorous characters are arrested; on sight. tor sikty. W -Dave" fbw falimast 0) . has nad the control of the !0 the first-class passcngers. These con- hundred and twenty-five miles are already the time to New York by fast express train and bullding. The chief of these are Pe- m Vebides: e Yikvs MR Ghes: with miles qf raflways. When China I in o, gniil i W ¢ Kalping and prac- Sisted of tea, cake and swoets, We had built, and a connection has been made with and steam will be about twenty days. king, Tientsin, Hankow, canton. Nanking xdbilagt maols arBilow. pilteks T give b fuil’ swing dne Wi Moo 018000 oiles, ‘arid “"‘ -“I‘ ";“:’ "‘l"“"x ;sn::lmlh\\an Mukden ¢andied citron In the shape of little green the Mongollan city of Kalgan on the other When I visited the Nankow pass a few guq Shanghal. Another railroad center some. itams Sromt i AL of fare 1 Had“op . vl bt b 'S, &L gically of the Peking- van- ¢ Silclous Bikg! v o g ; CalR 30,0 SArs BREC Aveldas ey and , . 0 i 4R her iron track milage will not $0D 4t ,.iway system. When Mr. Kinder changed balls and delicious English walnut meats, side of the great wall. Kalgan has 3000 years ago I traveled: by donkey and mule il he Chengtu, the capital of the provine my last telp over the ling: “Breakfast, 1,000,000, his horse road to steam he was afraid to D & of Szecheun, in western China, and an- cents; Juncheon, cents; hot or cold ordef xx;| engine from abroad, for fear that other will be Yunnan, the capital of the juing, 12 cents; sandwiches, 2 cents, and o\ et Lind the anti-progressive officlals would object . ® province of the same name, in the south- jo¢ toast, 1 cent. cup of coffee costs 6 bega rave hina o ; 4 ( h M d west. At all these places railroads are cents and tea 2 Lihagah Skl vel in China on g "y o' made up @ locomotive out of scrap New Presbytenan hurc at maen b bR atipRb s i brosotion apaho T ARIAR .S the chiet Manchurian system. I landea [0 AT GE L G mpts tocomotive s still r”.: ,“\‘ ;[:; 0 l“y"umfl Qisstion sod m.l Dalny and \\;-yvl north to Mukden. The 08 LXK " obe at Kaiping. It s labeled ; 2 HARVL e SRl AR ) L trip was over I;a:l xlwl'll built by the Rus- “Rocket of China,” and it should have a q!;.vr‘ nv“IH ‘h, : M‘.II<‘\ el 3‘ e . sians and remodeled by the Japanese, It place in any national museum which th ‘nu in i e ‘ On ‘.[ ¥ “y Rl ; 191540 helod S S KU DOV g Ha empire may bulld. Later on locomotives has already a mililon, and Is growing like ¢, ) ‘jave written of the trunk line from M:L “‘h'“‘v :‘ ""”“;""‘ with ”"‘v Trans- O re ordered from the United States, and ‘l‘l‘l;"":.“";‘ r"":;"":' y'v“‘l“ ‘”:‘ ";‘"‘ r‘ ‘80 Hankow to Conton for which the Ameri- T: L e it g gl r.;‘:'l“ after some years one was built at Kaiping L tor ot trade. fof north Ohink. ‘with _if. cans once had & concesslon, That I8 being road ‘:Jlnlt : 4 u[n;x ‘n wtnusv.(; ; DRl athtaa idsontalad the " siriakcs g . .'-ml. :a.r‘.u :'uu” .‘“ ‘u ““f .‘. n.‘- d # chang, which les opposite Nankow on the o vl ‘,'.,.u‘: vl ol - oy ‘ing Stack with two big eyes. Upon Mr. Kind from Oanton to Marepe, and is the cntec Clber sids of the Yangtes. Another road 9peTated by the Japences and is & lving Biaok WU IO AR OO rom Canton to Europe, and ix the chief ju o be bulll from Nankow along the evidance bt thetr abifity ss praction rail- beOK ' s port for the capital. It has a connection yjver west to Ichang, and thence on to way managers. Its tracks have been en- ¢ 7 with the Hankow-Peking line, and Is now (i ¢ This is the famous Szechuen - ? . No have eye 3 hengtu i tirely relaid, and that with American steel, i l:::'::r ’“:““"I’:‘:. ""uw e i & & bullding a road southward, through Shan- yo.d, in the loan of $27,000,000 of which our h o bos i > 7 . No can see, b " . \ v on the Yangtse Kiang. Ay capitalists are dem W New bridse bave besa pul up, using ma- 10 ca3 809 THo P e, BOE SR T e ¢ tung to Nanking. the Yar Kiang. American capitalists are demanding & terials ordered from the United States, 3 Another road, a little further eastward, sna It 'will be eventuslly extsnded to and the rolling stock is mostly American. Off the engine. b / Wil strike the river at Chinkiang, and the extreme western borders of China, and The express trains bave Pullman cars, fintons mufk a Bridge. o, s thie will eventuaily be continued ®outh o then, as & military line, to Lassa, Tibet lighted by elsotricity, end the travel ts . SRR OCC S IR 3 bty Canton, making a great trunk line through At present it ix only In a state of projec- s comfortable as anywhere in the world. ing to the Pel river, being used for car- ¥ “ eastern China. That railway will pass tion. A road is to be built from Pukou, The road is well financiered. The gross f)_mg it o the Taku ' 8t ‘Ahé : 0 through some of the richest lands of the on the Yangtse, westward to Hsinyans, receipts last year were about $3,600,000, and mouth of that stream, where it was aft- N s world, and it will have the traffic of mil- on the Hankow-Peking railroad, comnect ita net earnings were 16 per oent o the TIONER O LT LT T by 3 p . lions. It ought to pay almost us well as jng the Shanghal system with the great common #tock, Th.bchl:; otfleen‘o! 1‘:“’ e s S0 LA Musk TRAME & fine : ) tmuacn the ecarly days of the California :‘“ oot 'ém ":u .;:"‘m o . bridge of stone aud steel was constructed 5 r $oId Qiscoveriar. ;) | oAl g st d ordinate Posl- | "\ ing the tracks across the river into s et o g g tp‘rl‘ o.a“ ‘;:x’ miax tha the ‘clty. 'This waa just about eomplaiad p The raflway from Tientsin (o Nanl vl g gt ayd b when the trade unions of junk and boat ' 4 2 " 1s fast approaching the Yellow riy languagy of the country and de better in . ;" ected @nd raised such a fuss that % {LERE M SN a3 ; . babdilng the tratfla. 14 gave out an order that the bridge \ | ' ihy e be. running to that stream on q¢ ljes near the Poyang lake and e g sHould be destroyed. He gave up the ; § by the firat of the year. Its northern apoug eighty-five miles from the’ big ity e ARSI MAnin. praject of bringing the road Into the city i ¥ g N\ ¢ "“”":' will be built by German engince of Nanchang. The latter town contains and located his depot on the opposite i o 3 ‘;‘“ .N 'f""‘;""\ are supplying the n MEN. aver a minion inhabitants and is one of side of the river, That same depot stiil igh ¥ g eir part of that road is 30 miles long chief business places in eChina. A ral #tands. I landed there during my recent PR | i It gees from Tientsin to h % - boundary of Shaniun he stay at Tlen-tsin, but was able to cross . Shantung, ( on & bridge which had been made over the :‘3'.. claim as their sphere of Influence Petho. This old Kaiping-Tlen-sin road § e southern section of 240 miles will ex $ S ” end from Shantu ) the little town out v DANIEEC SErVeyors d the con is now a part of the Imperial rallways to 4 u it by Japan an h Japanese capltalista, and Japan 1s lending , .} Cpina. It has been extended to Pukou, opposite Nanking, on the truction will be exceedingly costly., There the money. The civil enginee: / b f the Yangtse. 1t will be b are three Japanese civil engineers, each o Xuogt pt - §lncers &¥e peying and forms one section of the HE TFirst Presbyterian church evening the celebration was opened by a features of the dedicatory ceremonies was ¥ are three J tvil ongineers, sach of taken from both nations, but the road Will ¢y jine to Hurope The road was St L g ol g gl ) ; syl 2 / . gy (o sl British, who claim the Yangise whom has a score of Japanese assistants be Chinese. bullt with capital borrowed from Great o of Minden, dedl- pips organ recital on tho now pipe an original poem by Rev A. Lonnauist (o ohjet fleld for thelr Investme In addition to this line, preparations are Britain, the original loans amounting > dipontindes iy =g n;lw organ. The dedication was charge of of the Swedish Luthern church near Axtell This rallway will be 0 miles y At present it takes, according t making for constructing a standard gauge (, ghout $12,00,00. The construction was v hitrohes (‘;r the '_l‘”, ’”d'(vwm Rev. Schaible of Burlingame, Kan. Funds This makes two modern church bufldings every bit of it through a richl the stage of the water, from twenty-four road to Antung, on the borders of Korea, ;nanaged by the Chinese government and £ their services for the occasion Were raised sufficiently that the church in the city of Minden. There are also & territor Its ordir passenge; traffic hours (o two dayk to go from Kiukiaug to and thers eonnecting with the Korean rall- tne entire cos. was only & little over SaToy g () SO OF e Saturday was dedicated In the evening. One of the large number of frame churches will be further added to by thousands of Nanchong. When the rond is finished th way system. There is already a two-foot g23000,000, or about §28,00 @« mile. Its v pilgrims, who will use it to visit the grave journcy can be made in less than three track running over this route. This will pet profits have aiready been $5000,000, — . x of Confuctus, near which it runs, The road hour be torn up, and where the new road Mne or about $9,00 gold per mile, and that e e g8 ARTOUEH (he gTeat states of Chil '8 lald, the Trans Siberian trains will be within & space of ttn years. The road has . . o ¢ Anhwel and Kiangsu. It will be the sh. In ¥a r China, shifted to It and will go directly to An- ap jmmense freight traffic, and it handles Curlous and Romafltlc ( apers of ( upld AL, 3IBb Betatun Rhandbal ACS 4 \ number of important rallway propect tung. There they will be ferried over the about half the trade of Tien-tsin. berian: rosdsand . will foem. & wre under way in southern China. The river then go on down the roads already —— o Peking. It 18 hoped that it chict of these just now s the short line b wrough Korea o 0od Passe: ccommodations. open to trattic from Hougkong to Canton. This is the e throusn Karea’lo Fuasn, within'a '\ Gegi Paseenser A Wedding in a Print Shop. know how a wedding might take place at on, workiug as a street pen atfic by 101 R faaa L LA night's ride of ~apan, This will bring 1 pove recently traveled over the most of MARRIAGE performea Sorgpns b A undreds diliek lons hdn e ug this rallway, and, as far as the Chinese the rattle of typewriters, the The reporter was sympathetic injury, when, allghtings from his car, she phaughali: Nig Railbens llagse Al the: WAy . Cabibn Ratiaie d end of It 1 concerned, I can recommend click of telegraph Instruments The ruse by which the bride g lipped and fell in front of a blg truck ffioSaL IRBPANC YOlIWRY, penter, Whiot: NI COD SR T SRR DARe B! From Mukdem (o Pekim, it. The first class cars are comfortable. and the steady grind of lino- on the train with her sweetheart he gave the young conductor.her card “)"” boom ’“’““‘" ,“.‘ e EARILIODS, chief ports of the world, and the road wil 1 stopped some time at Mukden, ana They 8re divided into compartments, open type machines in the St. Louls one fn f such affairs and Baron getting on his feet financially, 518 ity of Shanghai. It -is already . U AR b bean Yl ot s g ' Lo 44 " b . oon need double tracks to carry the thence went by express to Shanhalkwan, 1R UPon an aisle. The seats run a Republic office early Saturday folk: 3 : ‘ tradfic. . Ths (FuBk.:Une' from Oanthn’ L Y . @cross the car, and ons can lle down, Il brousu. (o a successful termination the she says, for fear that she would slip away life he had suved the aspects of a ‘Europea it It has Tien-tsin and Peking. The depot faclli- \ s iy s o g will be an enormous feeder fo tes of Mukden are Indescribably bag, It 18 Dot too crowded. In the middle Of courtship of Miss Elsie Barton and Harry with Hari Ho iuade gveat baadway in.hix suit, for DIE husiniew Dioeks. mighty faetaries ‘and SO, S R AIEETISIE SIOAE 10 " 25 & room, with tables Wrig . e e o with him g5 R sk B9 Toue h gnificent residences. Al he lne of P e line, and severs er road Ihore are mo arrangements for baggage °4CH 08Ch 18 8 drawing roor Wright of Shelbina, Mo. The event is Iiflday it was necessary f th him it was g ! i first WAk residen & the I already projegtedd will all ontribute to cl A ofas at the ends. a “beat.” " ok rom her hon A nall ily became so in- railroad comstruction it is moving mor y and passenger must stand out in. e S0 m-m;r:ngflvr :‘m:;u (% tho ends. featured by the Republic as a “beat \ke @ package from her ho ght, and fi Mg family became 5o 1 ai g m rain while walting for the trains. The LD ©A™ b Many raliways will be continually bul There was a copyboy for the ringbearer. of Ler brother, a jewele re that. Jast symmer they sent ) & DKLy than any’ other gity fn China. Tt 0 Fal o 0to 0, Maeg® Ll H:l g by steam, supplied by a o1 cted bridess see » be no one ke San Francisco ban A gl o i o uf g rs were crowded and I had difficulty tn U€Y are heated by P the tees The tsliphons oparstor soted as bride omked to be ne fa sni in 3 ban bound to be one of the world's chlef rai etting accomodations. There was boller in & freight car attached to the rear maiq and the staff photographer took the towrn has cast road oenters. < and the passengers for Tien-tay OF the traln. The waier for the boller 1s wedding picture. A “devil” from the com- Miss Elsie voluntcered to do the Peruglan title wished to m: ern China, ard a railroad is building from ¢ 8N umped I by hdnd. posing room conducted the couple to the herself. Ehe dropped in the of The facts gleancd from the bank in- th 10 the seacoast at Ningpo. Another and Peking were forced to sit up all night . Thiness copiial s To avold this I stopped off at Shanhaikwa During my journey to the Chinese capital corner where the ceremony took piace. girl chum and telephoned to tell- trusted with the investigation were such line is pr ed to Chinkiang, 1 the e the road goes through the great A WS much Interested in the passeugers. Printers, pressmen, reporters, editors, mes. ing him that she would b \teh that the cruples of Baron's family trains are now running over the trunk | and took the day train on the for. They comprised many high class officlals sengers and the miscellaneous human equip- the train, which usually arri Touls were overcome and arrangements quietly road which passes through Wwing morning. and other Chinese gentlemen, all of whom ment of a Dewspaper office made up the at 5 o'clock made for a were ease caded sllk gowns, bi uests, didn’t need any further detal L The ®he road from Mukden to Shanhalkwan °7¢ dressed in bro L4 K. Harry didn't need further detalls. He Th 0 18 well bulit and fairly well managed. The D/3¢k boots and skull caps of satin. .On Even the charivarl was arranged. All finished up tho business he had on hand the West Pacifie railway, and is well known | cAme over the Nanking-Shanghal road conductors and trainmen are Chinese, as ''° !Atler were blue buttons, in mourning the pleces of metal in the composing room and caught the traim. Elsic dropped (he throughout western rallwns ciroles this week. It is under the control of the ¥ ' re fOr the emperor. There were Chinese wo- were employed and furnished the noisiest package at her brother's and hurrie are also the station masters and laborers. . ‘The disgrict through which we went 1s in. ‘7™ Who. in the solitary grandeur of thelr noise imaginable. the station /ooy o h“m“a‘.' oy '. % soldlers PA/UL Powder and gorgeous silk clothes, “Oh, I'm so glad we are married at last,’ . - gttt Aaal ““"‘- “: .;": 5 }‘"_ sat with the toes of their little club fect sald the bride with & migh of relief 1 Por Queen Weds, get into communication with his relatives from one place to the other in about ThMte. At Sdashatbe i we were in 'CMIUS on the floor. There were a score was just afraid that something might hap- Miss Vergida Bogue, daughte Virgil had to g0 to work. When he R Slon. 'and From ":‘;“ ’" T Ben. Of forelgn men in Kuropean dress, and pen any minute to stop us. My folks have Bogue. the western o o - - R S, SN0 !‘I““‘;.“'"Nd suo. OF WO foreign women. There was alko o objected to our marriage on account of my crowned queen of the Golden state at the golng out and getting a job. He could speak time was two days. Riding over this rall- coasfully operated on Chi . Manchu girl, with her hair done up it two age, but I am old enough to know that I recent Portola festival in San Francisco English well and secured a ‘_““‘ - hiness sl great wings, on the back of her head, and love Harry, and that's enough. Isn't It New Railronds on the Yangtse. A number of new rallways are bullding along the Yangtse river. In another let Peking-Hankow trunk line, and another as 1 have said, is being built north to Tien-tsin, About half way up the Yangtse, flom Nanking to Wuchang, 1« the walled city o Kiukiang, a great center for porcelain and n v, and A branch of this Manchurian rallway is Kirin, which lles nporth of Mukden e\y or 100 miles to the eastward., Kerin s 100,00 population. It is surrounded by @« rich agricultural country and is a great lumber ocenter. The new road has been financed by a combination of Chinese and the southern y s now buliding between these two provinee whici jmportant trade centers. It should be com pleted and in operation by the time thi letter i published. ‘The road was laid and every assistant has a Jap or so as a car conductor p amid that hour, which was close to midnight. in San Franclsco, rescued Miss Bogue from Toklo Into rallroad communication with Burope ing her constantly, sbhort'y after, called upon the girl whose Faris of China, and it begins to take making ihquiries Into bas recently been connected with Hang The same I8 true of Yunnan, toward which the French are constructing a rond from Tongkong, and to which the Burmese railways will probably come. The roads are to be extended from Yunnan north to the Yangtse, passing through th town of Chunking, which 18 about 2,000 miles up the river, and other roads will be bullt tv open up the enormous -mineral deposits of that territory Suehow and he wedding inkiang to Nanking. Other projection bride's father is vice president of are planned north an south. fer it was while making a trip through the viceroy, and it 175 mites 1ong and cost United States a year ago that HBaron about $17000,000. The fares are low, ra In addition to all this are the German dropped from sight and being unable to INE from 38 to $3, and the fast trains go rallways, which have been constructe.l from Kiaochau bay westward through the German hinterland of Rhantung. These already comprise about 274 miles of track and when completed they wil¥ probably be position as road is like golng through Holland. The three times as long. They will cost, all 4nd Carlo L. Baron, the son of the Count. extra conductor on the San Francisco street country I8 cut up by canals and 1s even told, over $0,0000 The lines siready First Rath there was @ sleek halred yellow malden, dear? ess Cesarfe of Perugia, It were married rallway systen w Hed) . g re thickly settied than Holland, but bullt are dolng well, the stock yield ¥ ‘;m‘,fl": ,‘,’::: _:,:;.,:":, I. ‘l::.? ,‘“"‘:‘:: ';«: wore p:;n,lnlrmnf. ) Reaching St. Louls, almost strangers in December 15, at the New York home of It is waid Baron's family is weaithy, and You can visit almost every man's house In par ads SRS et .-......Ienlli:‘-‘ I‘v-1 o el By Bnsean, o Toimise, The secund-clase oara contalned wall-to- the town, the marriage license office closed the bride's parents, op Fifth avenue that the present’mateh Is not the bolster- & boat. The water is held back by dykes clude the right to all mineral deposits TN R I 0 Chinese, many of whom were clad tn and apparently no minister available, thy wedding 15 sald to be the culmination of Ing up of an impoverished title by the ac- here and there. It has many villages of lying within ten miles on each side of the ng, ang Clang. It was silks. They sat on stralght backed, réde young couple appealed to a reporter ¢ a romance, dating from last January, when quirement of American millions, ¥ gray mud buts, thatched or tiled, frequent tracks, FRANK G, CARPENTESR. 15 10 strait- seven hours. In the past the trip had to rallway mugnaie, ened circumstances he showed his pluck by be made by boat on the Yangtse, and the