Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 13, 1910, Page 16

UNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 13 SIR FREDERICK D. LUGARD, THE GOV. OF HONGKONG® “I CAN RIDE ABOUT ALL DAY AT 10GTS PER hOUl}" (Copyright, 1910, by Frank G. Carpenter.) island lies close to the mainland, and chances for big bargains. The same Is ONGKONG—(Special Correspond- ence of The Bee.)—The booming world are now of the Pacific. awakening of Asia is bringing Surope and the whole continent Prung iato life, Yokohama has doubled since ! ast saw it, Tokio is Osaka will rank Is ahead Hongkong, w down here at the southern eng u';‘cm:u): 400,000 and it prom. 1ses to be one of the greatest cljles of the It belongs to the British. cities of the this side in capital from United States, ana seems to have s the now bigger than Chicago, With Philadelphia) and Shanghal of Boston or St. Louis, has now a population of world. only 2000 CMnese fishermen {n they took hold of it set 1s now one of the great tonnage than Liverpool or London. Within the last year started at the suburb of Ko mainland, and it wil rallway. llne running north to Hankow, cession for which was given to icans but sold back to China. are now bullding that road, and passenger service from Pekin, k tributary to.this port. Canton its sister trunk uther nect with it and this eity southe well as by sea. the S—— Hongkong of Today, It 18 a question whether nOL 500N surpass the + Wotld in the now handles frelght a year, of goods o every twelve months, rled upon about 50,000 aj most of them are Chinese, wlso great steame: other about @ rallroad has been owloon on the This {s being bullt to Canton, &lve Hongkong rail connec- tlons with that city and all interior C} '-Tlm road Is known as the C Hongkong will ports of the amount of fts shipping. It $300,000,000 worth Aand more than 11,000,000 tons ome in and go out of its harbor This freight is car- ifferent vessels. The but there are rs from Europe ana the on The It had it when venty years ago. It ports of the world and the people here claim that it has more hina, nton-Kowloon At Canton it joins the trunk the con- the Amer- The Chinese and when it is completed there will be a through freight & to Hong- ong and the whole of the empire will be itselt hag & population of over 3,000,00. Hankow and clties are still larger, and that road will tap a population fully as Great as that of the United States. Several rallroad systems now buflding will will then be gateway to China by rail, as ot with the peninsula of Kowloon it has a harbor of ten square miles, filled with shipping and craft of all kinds. The boat population numbers 45,0000, and you come to the island through a swarm of sam- pans, worked by women, who stand up and skull their boats much like the gon- doliers of Venice. Some of them have bables fastened to their backs, and the little cnes bob up and down as theh mothers bend to their oars.. The babies are held on by squares of cloth tied, on by straps around the walsts and necks o1 the mothers. The bare legs of the little ones stick out in front. S g City of Pigeon Holes, Coming into Hongkong the mountainous island towers high above you, the upward slopes covered with green, The shores are lined with bulldings five ‘or six Stories high, with 'galleries running along their fronts story above story. These galleries are divided into, sections,-and the shores seem to be walled with white pigeon-holes rising from the edge of the water. At the foot are.the warehouses and exporting es- tablishments, which take care of the ship- ping. Above them are offices and mercan- tile parts of the city, and still further back, climbing the hill, the many white, cream and rose colored pigeon-holed structures which form, the residences. The bulldings extend from the sea up the mountain for a distance of a thousand feet or more at an angle of almost 4 degrees. Streets have been cut out around the hill, making the whole a series of terraces, and these are Disected at right angles by other highways and by a cog raiiroad which leads to the hotels on the peak. ‘The business parts of Hongkong wotild be fine anywhere. The Hongkong club cost $350,000, and the Hongkong and Shanghai bank has as fine offices as any financial institution of the United States. A new * postoffice is now going up, and there are great buildings rising on that part of the harbor whi.a has been reclaimed from the <ea. The material is granite and the mortar s cav.ied to the masons by women who are paid about 10 cents a day. Brick and stone and all sorts of building materials are frelghted about in the same way. Each woman has on her shoulders a.pole with @ basket fastened to elther end- of it, and the baskets are tilled with bricks or stones, HONGKONGS POLO GLUB. FOUR GHAMPION PLAYERS are baby carrigges on wheels, with bare- legged, bare-headed coolles as horse: They will carry you anywhere in Hong- Lotk for .about 3 cents of our money a trip, and for 10 cents they will go on the trot for an_ hour., You may hire one for a half day for a querter, and twelve hours for a' dollar in silver, which means about 15 cents gold.” Some vf the streets are so steep that the jinrikishas cannot go up them. In some places sedan chairs, car- ried on the shoulders of the men, are for hire. The Hongkong chalr of this kind is.made of wicker. Tt is a box with a chair Inside it, and & soft wicker back, agalnst which one leans as he rides. It has arms for the elbows, and to these elastic poles about as big around as your ‘wrist amd cighteen feet long are fastened. Inside the poles, in front and bekind, stand the two beerers, bareheaded, yellow-skinned cool- ies with their pig-tails tled around their heads. They rest the two poles on thelr shoulders and trot along single file. The passengers are often heavy Britishers or fleshy Chinese, and the poles rub the skin of the shoulders, or make it callous so that It grows as thick as your heel, The usual rate for these chairs is about 4 cents a trip, and I can ride about all day In one for 10 cents an hour. The men are anxious to work, and when I ralse my hand three or four sets of bearers come the trot and fight for my custom. up on Hongkong at Night. 1 took a tramp about Hongkong last night to see how the city looks after dark. It it not as wide oven as Chicago, New York. light to watch the night crowd as it passed. It was a cosmopolitan one such as you will see nowhere except in Hongkong. There were red-turbaned, black-bearded Bikh po- licemen guarding the traffic, British sol diers {n uniform who belong to the garr son, and satlors In different dress of a half- dozen nations. The navies, of the world come to Hongkong and their cadets and marines may be seen any night on the streets. There were many East Indians clad in their calicoes, brown-skinned Ma- lays from the Philippines and. Borneo Japanese just off the vessels, and Huro- ans from ail parts of the west. Sampan women in wide calico trousers and ca chemises moved along here and there on bare feet, and rich Chinese merchants took up the greater part of the sidewalk with their silk gowns and cloth boots. The mid-streets were filled with coolies, and over the roadway passed an endless proces- slon of rickashas and chalvs. One long line of the latter was filled with English young ‘men and women going to a dance of the Centipede club. This club has fifty members; and ‘hence 100 legs all of which delight to trip along in the barn dance and waltzes. Then there also Parsee girls witl® white shawls over their faces, riding about with thelr and black- skinned Klings lhalf clad in white cotton. By und by it began to rain and the water came down in sheets. It drenched the Sam- pan girls #o that thelr chemises clung to their skins, outlining their pe; The sailors ran for shelter and the et po- licemen put on raincoats and their. turba; The rickasha men were lovers sons str caps over and beautiful goods of the orlent. There are many East Indians who sell embroideries, silver and carpets, and Chinese who dis- play all the wealth of Canton. The sil- verware Is beautiful and cheap. It is made of coin silver and. is decorated . with dragons and other exquisite carvings. I bought a solid tea set the other day the metal of which alone weighed $i0, that many coins being placed in one bowl of the scales, while the pitcher, sugar bowl and teapot were on the other. The price of the set was $100 in silver, the extra 850 representing the workmanship. . Fifty dollars in silver is less than $2 gold, and out of that came the profit of the dealer the wages of the artist, who had spent a month or more in the carving. The same tea set would sell for twice as much in the United States, Among the other are beautiful things sold blackwod furniture, richly ladies' dresses of grass cloth, dec- witly the ‘most exquisite embroid- ery; chalrs and sofas of wicker work cov- ered with linen fiber, as well as rare por- celains and bamboo ware. Table linens are specially cheap, and embroidered center- pieces and dollles of, grass cloth.are not t all costly. Much fine jewelry is sold including some set with pearls and precious stones. Articles in jade are a specialty of China, and the best of them bring high prices. Al gold jewelry is made twenty- two or more carats fine. It Is s0 soft that it wears easily, but It Is always worth its weight in gold here carved; orated ca away Cloaks of Peking. true of furs of all kinds, from sables to squirrel, the prices in most cases being fax below of the United State This is especially true at the present time, on account of the deaths in the imperial family, by which the officials have had to dispense with the wearing of all furs not of the white or mourning color. - Hongkong Sports. I happen to be here at.the time of the The chief stores and business of- fices are all closed, and the banks have not been opened for three days. There is no chance to get money on saints' days, race days or any other holidays. When there 1s a cricket or foot ball match every financial Institution shuts its doors and the clerks go out to play or look on These Britishers of the far east are fond of amusements, and they belleve in the college boy's motto: “When fun and duty clash, let duty go to smash.” They have their clubs at every port. I found them in all the leading Japanese cities, and also in Tientsin, Peking and at the other places in China where for- elgners stay. Shanghal is a city of clubs, and its British and German club houses are among the finest of the far east. The races of that place are national events which bring crowds from the countr about. They are participated in by gen- tleman jockeys who train their own ponies Hongkong vies with-Shanghal as a club center. It has a dozen or more of such institutions. The Hongkong club house is § situated down by the sea. It is a magni- races. ficent building, which co mpar well with similar houses In New York and Chicago. The Germans have a club here. The Portuguese meet together in Shelley street, and the Japanese ciub has a buflde ing on the lce House road. There are a nun of recreation clubs, One is made up of the government clerks, another is the Ladies' Tennis club and others are devoted cket, foot ball and golf. There are chess clubs, polo clubs and yacht clubs, the latter holding regattas every December, The Jockey clubs have their biggest races in February, and in addition to these there are annual ath= letic meets between the residents and the soldiers of the garrison, as well as swim- ming matches and boat races. Hongkong has a Philharmonic soclety and an ama- teur dramatio club. It has also large Chi- nese theaters which are open day and night. to ¢ Intellectual Center. Hongkong s psychieally allve, English and Chinese dailles and 1t has colleges and schools and churches galore. There {s an Episcopal catherdal which was built in 1842, a chureh known as ‘St. Peter's, erected long ago for the seamen at West Point, and Protestant and Roman Catholioc churches and chapels. The Catholics have also a cathedral. The Jews have a synagogue, the Mohamm dans have two mosques and the Bikhs a temple, where they worship their gods. There are also convents, orphanages and foundling asylums, as well as hospitals and other charitable institutions of vari- ous kinds. Alfogether, the town. is aliye. FRANK G. CARPENTER.. It has weeklies. = Switching the RINCIPAL W. D. HATHAWAY of the Clark school, Seventh ward, Washington, Pa., is b lieved to be the champion boy trouncer of the world. His rec ord: Boys trounced, 100; boy untrounced, one; time consumed, two hours and thirty minutes; switches wprn out, twenty-two. School, hibition of switch wielding in the history of corporal punishment was on, Some of the boys were inclinéd to take the matter as a joke, but when Principal Hathaway's switches cleaved the alr, es- pecially in the earlier minutes of his rec- ord-breaking go, the amusement in the situation diminished with each succeeding cleave, A good lusty girl will carry 100 pounds at one load, and bare-armed and bare-legged she grunts as she tolls her way up the hill. There are children carrying smaller bur- dens who do similar work and who are still more meanly p Paris or London, although I am told that all sorts of wickedness goes on in the narrow alleys which climb up the hilis Last night everything was quiet. The great buildings were as dark, &8 & pocket and the pigeon-hole balconies appeared to be dead eyes in the rays of the electric lamps. A gloom covered the mountains back of the town, the green woods turning to blue in the darkness and the house lights shining like stars below the clouds chair-bearers dragged out coats of palm leaves and covered thelr heads with hats of rattan as big as umbrellas. The latter were painted bright blue, the palm leaves looked like feathers, and as they trotted along Inside the shafts they seemed to be vellow-legged birds, with blue topknots harnessed to the chairs and carriages, United States. There are five different lines Which connect Hongkong with America 4nd more than that which go to Japan. You can get a ship here any day for Iurope by way of Suez canal, and there @are regular services to the Philippine Australia, the Dutch East Indies and al. most every point In the Pacific and Indian oceans. The port is fres and an enormous amount of freight is transhipped to the This Beats 'Em Al Josiah Brown, a farmer a mile north of, Chinchilla, Pa., relates a pecullar expers fence. Mr. Brown owned a cow with a spotted calf. The calf was so peculiarly marked that Mrs. Brown asked for the skin to be made into a rug. Mr. Brown complied with her request and the calfskin rug was placed in front of the fireplace, A few nights afterward the cow became ancholy at the continued absence of calf and broke oyt of the barn in ch for her lost offspring. She wan- dered up the front walk and saw, through the window, the skin of her calf lylng in front of the fireplac She quietly unfastened the door with her horns and In the morning Mrs. Brown found her lying beside the rug In the front parlor, All that prevented from having a clear was the fact that one hundred and trouncefest he was and the subject, a 1 of playfulness, Imbroidered coats, like those used for op cloaks at home, are sold here, but the best place to buy 'such things is in Peking, and that from the palaces. The supplies furnished free to the imperial family and court are enormous, and the eunuchs sell the surplus to merchants and peddlars, that one has a chance now and then to buy for a songa cloak which has been worn by a princess, Such garments are brought in bales to the for- Principal record, Hathaway 50 to speak, when he reached the first subject of the almost tuckered out, year-old husky, in a threw the principal and sat upon him, in the week Principal Hathaway notitied the puplls there must be no more snowballlng on the school premises, When $ Chinese Cheap Labor. Indeed, everything fs cheap in Hong- keng. The city is governed by the Brit- ish and public transportation is regulated other countries and islands nearby, by law, The town is so steep that it is which enveloped the peak. dealers and elgn hotels of Peking and displayed there the order was disregarded he supplied him- The passenger service by way of Hong. A!most impossible to get about except I walked along Queen's road to the Clock the east have for sale. Some of the coats may be @ bit self with a bundle of switches and assem- kong 1 also Important. By changing !N chairs or jinrikishas. The jlnrikishas Tower and stopped there under the electric opened stores here and they offer the most soiled, but many are new, and there are bled the snowballers, and the greatest ex- s0 Shopping in Hongkong. This is.a good place to shop. The that from travel other m her se 15 great merchants so curio all over boats you can reach almost any point from this place. There are vessels which leave nightly for Canton and almost every day for Shanghal. The fare to Canton is 38 and to Shanghal $60. It costs $70 w0 Singapore, and the time is five days. A like amour whl take you to Bangkok, and for $76 you may go to Salgon in Cochin-China. It ts-only two days and $0 1o Manila, while one may have a passage to Melbourne, Australia, for $170. There Sleamers once or twice ' week for An THe time Is less than a eost 1s $225 in gold San Francisco 13 ove and Mngapore about 1,300, It is 800 miles fr n liere to Shang- 1,400 o Kobe, less than 1,600 to Yok bama and sbout 100 il » 10 Viadi vostok, ut the casters the ‘frans- Siberfan rallroad Hongkon ceded 10 € It has grown s now u tiestecluss Importanc ks of about Ana (he Dog Came Back. Dandy, a Newfoundland dog belonging te Nathaniel Wheelen of Clinton, N. J,, re- turned to his today & wallet gon- taining $107 and ble papers that had been from Wheeler's bedroom f{en days ago. The wallet had not been opened. It was belleved the wallet had been stolen by a thief. Mr. Wheeler says he now thinks that Dandy stole it for spite, having recelved a beating about the time the wallet disappeared “This morning 1 played with Dandy quite a little,” sald Mr. Wheeler today, “‘and I remarked: ‘If you had been wround, Dandy, the thief would nob have got my wallet, he? Almost instantly the dog ran out of the house and in about an hour he returned and placed the wallet at my feet,” ster or nerican continent month, and_ the The distance to 6,000 valy stolen more end of I8 a crown It was by China in 1841 sinee and it statlon of adil then, al is the would Hiltury and readqu the Ciina Ixty i erlal wod squadron 1 in all surrison of by & governcr of England, und the man now is Sir Frederick D. Lugard, Llmself tamous as governor Frederick receives u 100 w year, and has a cabinet leglslative council to help him, Whamn are Chinese. comprising and it troops appointed by ves has Battle with Quicksan an Rut fon the Skiliful use of a lariat by Deputy Sheritf Tremble of San Bernardino, Cal, Thomas Peppin, his wife and thres ehlidren would be lying dead under the quicksands of the Meadow valley wash, The Peppins in driving to their ranch at- tempted to ford a harmless-looking stream. 2 1 & moment, the two horses drawing the ) vehicle were caught in the drift of quick- t et take & leok at the human sands. The struggling beasts were quickly of the island. This little block of SPEAKERS swallowed, and the wagon and its human occupants were following rapidly when and is surrounded by water. It Is only a o - I of basalt, schist and granite washed TABLE... 10 —= 3,600 is the n who of Ni- ot and o two of w B ary How Hongkons Looks. us side VIEW OF THE Tremble rode up. He uncolled his 1asso, threw it to Peppon, who fastened the rops about his wife's walst. She was drawn to safely and the others quickly followed. Peppin was the last to leave, and a8 he jumped from the seat of the wehicle disappeared benoath the sands, by the sea. If & glant could stund Wt on . it might be whirled around like a top. l‘un-e I8 50 small that a rvallroad train COUld run around it in less than an hour, and 1t ends In @ peak 1,800 foet high. The e b TLASH-LICHT PHOTOGRAPHS, MADE AT FOUNDERS DAY AND ALUMNI] BANGUET BY CREICHTON FACULTY AT ROME HOTEL ON MONDAY, FEBR. 7, 1910.~". ..