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Show JAP REPRESENTATIVE VISITIKSALT LAKE Imperial Commissioner of the Mikado Is On An Extended Tour. Toflhino Watanabo of Kioto, Jupan, Imperial Im-perial Commissioner to Europe and tho United States, Is at the "VYItoon. having coma to Salt Lako to look into tho methods meth-ods of the University of Utah on metallurgical metal-lurgical matters. Speaking of his commission, ho said; "I am assistant profossor of sclonco and engineering ln the lraporlal university at Kioto, aud wa3 comrnlmlonod to visit Germany, Franco, England and America, to Inspect colleges wnoro metallurgy is taught, with a vlow of recommending the best methods to our Govornmeut. 1 havo found tho German to bo very much given to the Ideal, scientinc learning learn-ing Is vory great ln Germany. I havo found Frcnchmon given to land aggrandizement, aggran-dizement, and Englishmen, to tho dominion domin-ion of tho uod. "I have visited New York, Philadelphia, Chicago. Denver and Colorado Springs, and was ln your Utah University today. I am Impressed with tho ability to con-contrato con-contrato that Is ho prevalent In America. I made a sketch today of a gentloman who sat ln a barber's clialr being shaved, and tho man blacked his shoos, tho harbor har-bor shavod him, and he, himself, read a newspaper and smoked a cigar. It modo mo to laugh violently, Xor wo do not this way In Japan. Only to Amorica. "For years wo sent our students only to Gcrrnany; then, only to England; now. wo send them only to America, and Ehall continue to do 60. "I am amazed at tho power of concentration concen-tration I find ln America. It Is so vory different from anything 1 ovor saw before. ... "Gen. Kurokl? Yes. I heard ho had Interceded In-terceded for Gen. Stoessol of Russia, and I honor him for it. "We Japanese know Gen. Stoessol could not holp surrendering Port Arthur. It was a very good act of Gen. Kurokl. 'I am going to Butte. Mont., and around to th'o several centera where I may learn anything about metallurgy, and shall leave San Francisco in September Septem-ber for homo. I Hko your city and think it Is ns clean as onr Tokio, and we keop our cltlos very clean." Commissioner Watanabo possesses a beautiful embossed commission, on vellum, vel-lum, In Japaneso nnd English, sotting forth his business, and thf great seal of Japan looms up on It like a painted sun. it ls slgnod and countersigned In a remarkable re-markable manner, and would bo difficult to counterfeit. |
