Show t D f ll INI WU l I IMI ll ll I l l gIr MII f RD HARDING DAVISt C Colliers lIi rs Var Correspondent in dapar u Tokio March 21 1 ItCH NEW XE YORK the writer was as one of tire the m mistaken few why prophesied Ix there would be no War In Teklo oKIO he bo is If Inclined to go o further and protest that th there re lp ita no wan 11 He wh Jn he waS in New York there wags n a war Hr War ar tilled Ute the front page of an ail tte morning papers In the afternoon it its three letters In sanguinary a pink Ink were writ large larg from to margin Storks were affected Insurance became prohibitive Pack Packing ing hou houses 5 were working the mule loomed Into a national ast et Every than man you met was waa ali as intimately familiar with the number of guns in the secondary conda batteries baUeries pf of the l and the as with ith the nm nurn her bel of oC its his own on telephone r you saw two men talking it was as safe to wag wager r one was IS toying They Th are a wonderful little people and that the other othel was as rf Yes but but dont fOl forget t that In ht 64 04 the ne fleet Sidled sailed right up the lo lower er bay and saved ved the Union There in New York war was as the on only I topic People akeel you J u ff y u were ere going to the front as as though th the front were re hel between n und ond street and Grants Tomb when we crossed the continent cowboys rodo 1000 tout of o an alkali de ert to ask what wa was the latest from the war wal At water I tanks In A Arizona lIzona and nd at eer every one of Fred Fre Harveys eating houses from Santa Fe to the PaCI Pacific c coast the proprietor kindly warned us against I cruisers J nr ju t outside of the Golden Gate War Var continued Ith us right I into the h heart arl of Francisco where the Bohemian club nave gave the war ar eor a noble farewell dinner and where we proudly displayed our war ar arI kits to tot tW In the Pua Palace e hotel When h n the China unloaded jot ton tone or of I d of war and Japanese crowded the wharf to wave wae farewells to their theil fellow countrymen men who were off orr to fight and the San o band plays Plan for tor them The Girl 1 Left Behind ale I we all alI tried to look cu cheerful erful II an and as though we liked it hell this h is the real thing at last But somewhere between n Honolulu and somewhere In the deep I PSt eat patk of the c we I lost t the war overboard and we have hac neither seen it nor heart of It d I do not mean to say NAY that if you go to the war ounce office here you wilt trot see the t sentry entry nor do I den deny that If you ou go inside you OU will see two ori orderlies rJ You also will be received l b by Various officials grave Courteous genera lenela e each h appi apparently nU doing nothing by himself lC in n a lan large e bare room hang wit artan or two 10 He apparently has pl plenty of leisure certainly enough of it to enable him biro to M lw be polite But he be has no time to discuss the probability t Continued on Iak 4 Section 2 r F B i Continued from Page 1 S fl 1 of Japan and Russia being at var r He D says 55 there ma be a column whIch some Orne day m may y leave some piece for tor somewhere where and do and it Ie you are pAtient maybe you OU toO can cango cango go to that place But that is the only definite information he be has to give you OU this morning anti and so If Ie you yau really must be going I wish you OU goodday Nor ordo do I sa say that in the chief street you will not see e colored prInts of bat batties ties and people looking at them ap apparently as artistic productions and with interest That itt 15 all we who are bottled up I J JIn In Tokio know of the Japanese var Rr 1 This morning we thought that at al last We had caught them In the act Ye We woke soke to nod find the streets fined filled with ju jubilant bilant each waving a flag the thc hotel windows were hidden With tia flags 5 they theO from every jinrikisha Ye We rushed out to ask eagerly If Port Arthur had fallen fRUen to learn what great battle had been won on the Yalu The Th interpreter regarded us with gentle reproof Too Today a Is 15 the Ule spring festi estl festival val lie be said That means meaDS that tod today in Tokio eve every one is 15 rejoicing because at the Temple of KawasakI a plum tree line has given birth to a number ot of bIos Hems But then why should the Japan Jap Japanese ese kno know anything or of this war They live so far from rom New York CopyrIght 1904 b by Colliers Weekly |