| Show r Il Ifni I I r limn I de I f etll Il 11 1 1 II l r i III I 4 i n allrylt r ell f r + I II I I l r + 111111 I lift I h ll r 1 III I I hII I I I Ij I ill em p Ir I j I jl jI ll 1 1 I if I I 1 1 I 1 I I r 111 Y I i j I j IjMYI I I 1 I I oil I I II pp I I i I n I I I I yj l a I e JiI I I II j II I AIM l IIIIJII I 111 l I I a JI I I n II t lll I a l I ii I 4 t I I ul I I III ltl i i IJ I Ipp al I II I iI I III 4111 r Y I i I III It I I II an IA1 ill I I iNI h I I I I uu I I I I D fft The Oriental Octopus Which Under the r Inspiration of the Dowager Empress Has Entangled Many Statesmen In Its Strong Tentacles I copyright IIKI The railway It I to rieentlal I A part of our ra VII ll station that It It difficult I It on den apt why the CMnwe to wlit In matt rtfprcti 1 have MM M bitiHly 0 PHd P-Hd la In Introduction Into their country The lift that was built there was In lire It WM constructed between Hbanihal and Wasting by a llrltlih firm and was U mica long l It did a peen did business and paid about II Mr tent per annum but It netted n math antipathy I an-tipathy anl tendency toward rioting I that the Chlneee government bought It j up from III owners sent the rolllnit i Hock Into storage and allowed tht mob I e a i II t r 1 Ir l Ilk tn attack the roadbed burn tht tlea and liold a celebration over the downfall uf Hit foreign delft fire water hone i In the eighties Immoral Liu Ming Chang governor of Formoia a Chinese soldier with the Statesmanship rare among men of hit clan built a road on that island running from Keluug a coal port on the north to Twalatal Iht capital and theme ta Kwaleng ting on the toulh altogether CO mile a For till rolling Hock he took that which had been confiscated at Shanghai and Imported additional locomotive and iran i-ran from abroad It made A tremens doe icnmllon on the Chinese mind And did an enormous bulnes It suffered severely from a trouble which could on ly I occur In China When the native tanned that railway In iun > p and America paid damage for Injurlei Inflicted In-flicted iifon iieople 1 by the rolling Hock they concluded the lAm principle would apply In Funmia 1 Helpleai old Join and women would bid there famine for tbre and four melioration n long tali well and then en on therailway track and throw themselves under the who < u I of tho first train that came alone Th > family would preient a claim for dm rgm and at tint the government would pay the bill The first death brought II ll Mid 1 OM deaths the nit COO the next MO and then the claim began tu come In 10 rat Idly Hut Llu Ming Chang Inued probably the moil eitraordlnary law ever framed It snake A felony ot committing tulcldo on a railway track or of an attempt at > ulrlde or of Self 1 Inr 1tllnll or renotninenting uh ulclde und to > trll < t a blow at Hit root vt lilt evil It conncntei all Hit properly of Hit Suicide and lilt acM oorivo 101Th The pew law I topped the tulcldt bull tiers entirely Plate I the Japanrio look the Island In 1131 the road hat been extended outhward and li I expected la reich Hie mouth cap 1 before the end of the century At the ireetnl moment the Chlneee menu to hate rvognlied the error nf their ways and to have determined tu enter the ranks 01 rlvlll1 nllon The government hat created a bureau or department de-partment know ai the Chinese Im pedal refiner administration of whl h the head or director rrncral 1s I Taulal Bheng who is I known to the outside aotld as the clamant Inll of the treat premier LI Hung Chung lit opened Ml work In September IM7 by Im rra + Ing the force upon what It I known ni the Shan Hal Kwan railway whhh 1 runt from Tltnnln northward two Manchuria and of which he hits dnlhrd the iurte > i lo the capital fellY ot Klrln 1 I ant partially Mimpleletl them to Til Tel liar f Title latter part of Iht work how ever will now be I don by IlueUi under one ot the new concessions He hem given permission la rebuilt Hi old BhanihalW uiung road which will tit l in operation this fall lie hits ales ben the active agent behind the nrlotm I railway rail-way concessions granted thus far and In him official proclamation which Was approved 1 by the louncll of elate he announced I an-nounced that the Chinese government Y noulil build or bate built three great trunk llneione from skills M Otnti n I MO jnlei long one from Shanghai up the valley of the Ynngt river lo Tibet 1100 mile long and on from Canton 0 r Kowloon westward alone the Mkl nf 1U0 miles In I tht Iiurrne Inn and thereto northward Into FiettiiHh The first work has begun upon the Canltnfekinir line and It 14 I fair It insole thai all these will lit I under construction In the neat li monlht lost any adrmturaui Amerl can thinks the Chi nt railways art a i good Held for him In enter the price Mid to railway employees are append I c1 They art at follows In coil per month tialliiay telegraph operators I 110 linemen H locomotive Insert til tiilitanti II brakemen II firemen fire-men IS laborer and section hands II yardmaetcra llti machinist 110 mirhlnlili aeilitnnK II I How many Concessions Ituiila has I oli lalned or extorted from Chin U I unknown un-known iuc ct > > vtti statesmen have tht oriental irenlut for keeping n secret and their nchlkvemenlii In Peking art knows only In port lo the oulilde world Count IIm II great lluitlan tra I GERtyvy ri t S tnaador who Is now at Wllhlnlon obtained a reties 1 01 valuable cones alone two yearn tau Among these were the rlihla lo build and lo control rail way running through Manchuria and pant of Mongolia to II lo connect the Trantilhtrlan railway with teklng with Klrln Moukden and Tort Arthur and ia tol Irl from Til Til liar la Kirin and Vlidl TOIk At the Siberian road It I now advanced I Ityond Lake llalkaland and U I constructed northward from VladiVostok Vladi-Vostok 10 the h1 or Steamboat nul gallon on the 011111 river the value of the grants and the MM with which lluula willi h t ahl la control the des tlnlet of Manchuria and northern China Chi-na proper may lo easily eitlmal < l No mailer what attitude Chin may take at the Initlrallon fll arm Britain II cannot undo much of what ties been Jon If at tht furthest It gives Irral llrltiln nil 1 tht railroad conrnuimi outh of IVklng or even mulh < > r Iht great wajl f and Hit great > aliMd It bus tied MinchurlA and MMrn Munmil UP forever They are 01 moI aa touch IInIn pruvlnnt tudiyai It IhtCrlme or Clrnmta Then U I Stormily A railway rail-way running from Tlentln northeastward north-eastward Into IJao Tug which last No Walter wag 211 miles long and < li I nnw ant l 1 to U ITO Hi terminus that lime wee the clly of Chung lion Ho while now It 1 li I near to Hit famoui military lie wli Nor r r Srj el b r i r U R D 1S 0 U A rest of KloniChoo at the very flood of Ili r It of n lanrrene which It I o n ntiltd by A fair road with MouUilen tnt ancient Manchurian capital Tim place I also on the toad which 11111 will build to fort Arthur Time the cur will have Iht mom uf Chinas own progressive action as well ai of the Abort of Hi diplomat and engineers Iluw much work has been don by the lIulan In the pail year hat nut ret been made public Itueilan light draft seamen now run from Amur Into the Rungarl reaching Tel T > l liar on one branch of that great river And Khoion on the other There art nlro Home IaA garrinn4 or to called engineering camp at all of the clllei named In Manchuria 10 that Ihli part of Itunelaa programme hat been carried out lo the letter In 1M1 the Tran lbcrlin rood will be finished and at or before that I time It 1 will undoubtedly be pomlblf to top Into A train at HI Ieliriburg and step out at IVklng The llankowleklng railway river which the Hear and the Hull art now growling to vlgorouilrprvienta no se tloua dimculllea to the engineer I It r 1 t M w1 1 ly a yl sOf IS r fflit r a I 1 I I ref re-f I 1 I I 0y r t g r I1 e I run i aim ill north and South Hi length being about iou DnglUh mllet Tlie land It I of modern formation ud 1 consists of the d Iran uf the YangUt the 6M and new than fin and the IVIllo A line drawn from ont terminus to the other ear ounlrr no mountains and meeli low HIM at only one point Ilockt are icant jlong the mule the native bulldlnc material ma-terial i lng brick and tern cotta If Inilend of pursuing a etralght line It follow tin ancient Inuwlil putt Mad the distance will bt tai miles and just ai Hal txre t ling In I tile list 4 41 r hood of Kalfongfu I on the HoanEiIlo where there U I a lint of halal urns hills Hut It the road bull leri will have III He or no work In deep 1 excavation high euioinkmenti And costly t4duriilicy will have any amount ot annoyanc In cramming dllchet ureaim and tlrrri I hewwn I Hankow and YunJng in Ho nan proving art ill rivers and 90 email llreami Iieluten Yunlng mil Kai fongfu are twice at many The delta nf the Ielllo ii a mat of avatar iurxa Runs dry I In tanner and uu iimn hihlneN torrent In Ibo opting The C hlneN Mho an lolling If not mi ni > ui have dtvlee J l a Special II form of rids 1 for ilreama of thin clam aomi f HI n could be uillli d for a railway They build strong piers of cut granite dovetailed and often Iron bolted from 20 tow reel apart and two fret higher than the highest freehet The roadbed li then uperlmpwl la huge monolllho ne to tin feet thick III to ten wide and A i long at the dlitanr between l pier ccn ten The enormoiu WORM of them blacks hold the piers In place 1 no mutter mut-ter how powerful milling flood At Polar Ii I the moot famous bridge of this class 1 The blacks art m feet long and 6 feet square In crom tecllon It has been In one rive crnturlee AI trait and erne ai strong today ai when II was nt bull S T + 7tr > n jnur Y 8 r L r l 0 i 0I ajl J n N NSI r MPRESS rvJ The HankowWklnc road will tart at the former city and run north thniuuh Temgan Pintang HintIn and We 1 ale tu Hal fongtu Here It 1 metti the lloangllo more than o milt wide and a bridge longer than that at HI Louis will be nneneary There will he an engineering en-gineering dUd < IIIIln Kctllng good faun datlont for the pleas ThU i is I Silo rial la meat depth Artesian will fall 10 allow harden until MO feet Mow he surface The river may rte iii and It U I Mil 10 feet above Ill ordinary level xi that the Hruclur will have lo Do very high and lining Biraleglcally the lInk wPeklng road will ho I of the treat t talus It till carry a large army from one place 1 I o another till bin 41 hours and will con lecl Peking und Tlenttln with the outer out-er world during the winter season when III prevent they art Icebound and pens llcnlly Isolated It will ben counter balance to the Shunholkwan railway which when tilended will milk Pe king two da > i distant from like Ituialin roll across Siberia If It be controlled by Itunla II will hen he-n perpetual l menace ta llrHlh Interests In the Yangtie alley the rlcheat und moil valuable twirl ot the Chinese empire em-pire If controlled by Lngland It will I many nt tit ± rr ° fr MiXaS Trough rThn tmg or by Iturrla mouth ward from Siberia rs WIN iII oll M uol l value com mcrclany II will irmie muklo In Italian Hhangtuag Chlh11 and < 8hlnl It Mill deal a fatal blow 10 1 the IIkln en Chinese octroi which Ms almost IAn gled trade In many part of IM em lire 1 It will weaken It nol ruin the power of the unllfori t r > mandarlni of l llonun Jill the While Lily nJ 1Idr Mother todellee of the river province II will make the northern winter of Peking and III urnunjlnc dllUlctl oni fnrorahto to IraJi ai U Ia I now un favorable While Hit Iirlilih government proOf pro-Of i I I Serves m dlncretl silence In regard In the progress of its railways In llurnu travelers report that th engineer ire untiring and that the roads are crawlIng crawl-Ing both northward and eastward from Jlandalay treat Britain hal a treaty with China which permits tree Inter course between llurma amt the great province if Yunnan and II a neighbor Htcchuen Trine Henry of Orleans report re-port that the lirltlih railway li I rap Idly approaching I Mogaung on the upper up-per part of the lrnwnil and that a branch It I being built eastward from llhama and U I clot la the Chlneie frmtler lrom here It li I but a few miles la I I Yunll Chang 110 Shunning Poo and Yunnan FoG the capital of tht province prov-ince From Yunnan Kuo a railroad can IK iiulll alunc the valley of the upper Yanglie to Mom Chao Poo one of the Important title of HiKhucn which li I about 200 miles bon the great com merclal port nf Chung King Foo Chung King Foes la I now MilIM by light draft Ilrillih Steamers running from Hankow and Ichang I Tht English art working I ien Y y I I lr f r hard upon this route In order to fore tall the French who now hav e a ion cession from their territory of Tunquln up Into Yunnan and also 1 Into the prov Inc of KHAUK HI A branch road from the Ilrltlih lint at Yunnan Too could be built la Hit hcadnateri of the West rlvtr scarcely 110 miles away and thence alone the 1 1 1 I toll Af f f valley ot that el cream to Canton and lo Iowloon tile suburb ot Honrkong TM lingllah have displayed remarkable energy en-ergy and forethought and have corn pltte sorrey fora rod from 1I0nkon la Canton and partially complete ours > ei for III continuation from Canton to Woo Chats and sketch turveyi from Woo ChII Sin Ch1I 10 1IIln and lo Nine lllen which lies south of Tun nnn boo and nearly 000 mile most ot I Hongkong It this road li I finished It will revolullonlie the immense trade between India and Chin Tito running time from Calcutta la Hongkong at 19 miles an hour would be but three dan whereas the lime consumed by the mall steamers U I two week Thin part ot China at which bath Finland and Franc are dlre ling their political ant commercial eyes Is I remarkably Ih and also undeveloped In Mineral and lumber lum-ber Yunnan and Freeborn are undoubtedly undoubt-edly the richest portion of the empire Un ler the Chinee System It li I lmpoil tie to exploit their resources eo that they are no further advanced today than they were In the time of Marco Polo If at much but It la I known that I they poetess vast deposits ot coal tin liver gold Iron copper ruble and Jade Many ot the tribes of Yunnan appear ap-pear to W the remnant of facts which were conquered by the Illndont to the west ant by the Chinese to the nand n-and east and I driven at a last resort Into these Inaccenlble mountain ills Irlrtn They are strong rigorous ant InclIIIloll men and under proper ad nlnletraton are efficient workmen From llurma nn the wet lo Hong items on the test Iha Sentiment 01 the people It I much more friendly toward Ureat Ilrttaln than toward France The j lya i 1 i r 1 tear i r t 01 Cad M J RP r former country exhibit I greater tot and whvlom than the latter In Rovers Inc oriental Hongkong and K < mW are ai life ai London and New Ynra for the people of our race while In lte French territory of Ton < iuln It Is I nee eaiiiry ta maintain large gnrriMtii 1 every Important l faint I to prevent i s1 lurrectlon on the one Mo and Ihlor t Ins and l killing of Kuropeani tn the other olhIII III It only short dm AltO that thlon 1 mans Seized I KlaoChou nn the 111 Coast of Hhangtuna They hv ltl6sy i every hour to hO Imtwnans of their new poenlon tVhlle a j diplomat have ecuml n rnlluar e cession from their port lo Chlniiin the capital of the protlnce and tMt 1 Ichang their engineer have del rniiM I out Purveyed otUfaclory rauti fe both llnei Tho western road ninik Kinml thence to Weihilen and Inn to Chlnanfon or Telnanfoo about 1 to mites In total length The aoulhwcilin line run 10 1IIhln and Itho at I thence It li I Mid to Chlnklang llolh of theta roads hare doter value Hit western line would contm the province of Hhangtung and refa the value of the Iltlllih itrtmcrioil I WelIlalVel lit terminus TI run u Inn A i-nn rlty of nearly UOOOO lnhailtn on the eaitern bank of the Hoani IK It wan a famous capital 100 It c and I has complete records fir more that N ccnlurlct The Hoangllo li I natltiMi for light draft steamers iu that the city could he md Naval I base a nay far the cen lrol of the river up 10 TunaChant ix I the province ot BblIOl and prnlby much farther The southwestern jig would connect central Xhaniluni with the Yanglie Valley and prove a for mlJable rival to the Hankow Ptkit ChlnklangTlentiln rn uses and to the trend canal Itself The > o salted HhinihalPeklng railway ronresnpa Should U I Styled the Chlnklani loin aa III termini are these law and not the former cities Tlentiln hewer er li I already connected by rail with Peking II miles away and Chlnkltti la I the tint treaty port on the Yant tie alone Hhanglial and connected with II by many line of steamers Th con cenlon for this railway was obtained by I a ChlneneAmerlcan of rare ability Yungwing of Hartford 110 U a Yale man and li I also n titular tantil It China Ile obtained his conceiilnn but January and In the framing of the rr minion he displayed the tethnln skill an 1 knowledge of the civil rnnnecr ml the proverbial acumen of hit rair I Inroad In-road rum parallel with the brand canal ca-nal and In fact use the bank of that famous water count to A greater it less I extent This gives him a model roadbed at 1 moot ready for uit while the canal enable en-able him lo transport hit supplies and 1lfnlnl equipment al A minimum expense Iurlher thin this the pcpula lion along the line li I familiar with foreigner for-eigner and friendly to commerce 11 will not manifest the lame fierce antipathy an-tipathy to the Iron hone ai will I mol ot the Inland districts of CMaa The length of the road will t bolA IM 1 and < M miles letWILUASt WILL iAt tS B FAUt |
