| Show 0 N oN I ITHE THE I MITSUI I MILLIONS ILLIC 1 LY AND ITS TS VAST VAST UNDERTAKINGS 1 1 V o u J jI II TT T TJ II t z T J 1 r 11 1 f tt h e r iL A 4 j art c c 0 1 I A Ai i hJ 2 1 ui 7 5 The e 7 T Te e rf 19 1 f o w wOOD i e Jt J J I y rw 6 r I a ar r uKIO Japan JUt Jan you OU T h ard of If the It ItI I I th the of aU Japas J and ani anif of f the richest In an tbS ibe world Wh I I Ih h are re to and k I i to th the United tl Ih Are aro to Japan They mIL may mayalL alL 1 he with the tho and YaI and their m h all as have hae made the fortunes t r Krupp Field Stephen II H 1111 an and John ana maker TJ They are ani ae II men harts miner minere and finan kit Ie Th TI y have a hh inn th thu tens of oe stun of doUar and they h du a of hundreds l f a y year r In n some years year the tb tr trade of the family le III equal of the whole i ad d r Japan Jarn 1 lie coal min mines produce wit hul ot of all 11 the enal 1 mined n the 1 II 11 n and they supply a great greatt t r that u used 1 In the of set The ThO own gret t mule nd about of the of cotton yarn Un They arc ether unit hi tilt the empire and I Iua ua nt and are aue In Mil all the he hill big lit This Thill family lots baa ala aua t tn m n the leai nt U of China and In lIong ILIma If and Bom Bombay y yIt I It ha In and Java and 1101 it I n can o N New York old L let III Wort olUf years 1 It gs rush iI I bales Ie ot of raw ral Milk ellk to the I ante 1 anti and It Il hu hat a fleet uL of JM i which h Ich carry IT IU IUn n ham Ilse to and flom ha hal II H lIk ng II the tilt the and India Th There w r 1111 riser thriving corporation In the worM world today Iday and Ind jut just a at thie time times s h hell 1 Amerman cars n talking of the Ibo all as being Inc on theo the edge of bank roMI pt y It le to rome come into loto whit 11 h an like WI A or OF Through Ih the ot of Mr fr J Yam toad t at of oC Us tore t I bAl own ail t to peed th the greater part JIlin of r odIL I iri going through th the big W of th the Bl Kaila tee u II kin which r I thu wale a Ind 1 the hf exporting and d its nr the and I Iv urn v also III I Its I le I r Ih the nay Aa hll has must Dads Ird maul elly dry ry Pont II or of the two far teal t t Ii h of r n II IIi i 1 b II a airy it I 1 It I r Iii j Is I Ir r r I 1 it J 1 sail lu I 1 11 Oy 1 u visit rm remarkable Th tit I tr Is I at a L Lf tn f I 11 I ee or nr win who wini i t II I iu III Jaunt I 1 fl I the s I 1111 f liability The tank bank for which has hall a e capital of yen n a of In 1 a ment to bI aW aU of Ida Ita banking w that It owned by the member of the Mitsui family and that they as partners me en unlimited r tUll bitty blUt for tor all ka K debts All As a result the Ibe people know that thaI all the wealth of th the family le II back of the bank and It h ha the cle credit It its tho t are aren arenow n now bout about yen or almost 10 a aThe The acme rule All as to all the of the It 11 families TIle The are aU all held In common al ai although though each family ma may have Inde Independent pendent of It own In the however there la ao particular property to which any OM oa can enter bI he claim he ft are aroe mana managed by th the family round n ll jo rutH rues lAid down b by one ot of the heads of the family who lived more than 01 y years alp Thill mating Inc the family and not the tit the head AI of an I In accordance with the octal organ Illation of Japan He Here th the IndIvidual I III t the family and the ther r and of tilt the outweigh t those of any of Its Ita members This of at the Mitsui baa haa now lasted for tor about years Thu family famil has haa been D in bual business than that Its dati dating back to a feudal lord who lived at al the time of Columbus It w was some somewhere me where along alone during the days ot of hau I err ctr and In that a descendant ot of thu lewd begun to engage ne In trade He opened a store In Kyoto and established l a dry aOCK goods here n 11 lie sold for tor and also or ft a system for forthe forthe the and of momy Y Yand and It was Willi bl hie lIOn eon who wrote out the family rules ruin which have bave made nWe the for tor fortune tune of the house He also organised the Aral faintly fInlly In this II Arst five brothers en Pd to 10 work with their and this system has continued down to the it 11 or partap eon uon ute the Of at today TilE Ol TIn THE NW NEW JAPAN The be frequently volume to the assistance ot of the great govern corn menu menta of Europe Their fortune WU wag founded In fact Oft on money loaned to toone toone one ot of the German Berman rulers ruen who applied to the old bOil hours at al helped Sam km out during the CIvil war and R Roosevelt was glad atad I 1 have the he assurance of H at the te of Ua the last t panic rh rb have bave d even more II I Inal I lit position In regard to the II II 1 When UM to emperor wa wah oe h h Ii 1 f bl at Kyoto Koto old II I I L c are ara of western I I ih ii hd met lit t ii d I n Ihu II th the new Kl 1 I enabled Japan Japu I ti hg r till the elite I 1111 J r Bh Which hid Pool PI Their Thi Cpi Capital and n w work ki in Th Mii Bank B k 1 I I And How it Financed the Bankers and the About the Mitsui Coal Cotton Mills and Engine W orka Their Enor Enormous moue Foreign Trade and Their Bi Bid Department Remarkable Story of a Busi Business ness Family Which Has Lasted Over Years and Today Leads Lead the New Japan I which then threatened the empire both buth from within and without and their were so 10 valuable that Its Be ron Mitsui the head of f the house hou wa a made mad a prey end nd all 11 the other were we given titles In acknowledgement of it II The Thu house today lad very verr close to the govern government ment and It h has great In In matters matte 1 TilE AND TilE GOl GO Indeed Idd the are the rat moM Important element In the Japan J sae situation too today a It IA ii through them and the abe other banker and alId or oC note such as of Ih the dank of Japan Takahashi of the Yokohama bank and nd llalon Sh a that the new poIl policy of retrenchment economy and nd reform lI III lInow Until within a afew no now being introduced few months the country ha hall been man managed aged ed by a vies ot of last 11 who knew but little of modern bulI methods meth method od The leading were at allt to look down dow un on trade and to consider themselves a as rather superior to those who were ert engaged OId In It This wu was H ea sit 10 up to the th time of the war wa between Russia and Japan Then n the country countr needed a great artt deal dea ot of money and It had to 10 go abroad to 10 borrow It It had not nol done don mush as in 10 the th placing of enormous loan and It called ailed In the financier among amon tM the business mn men to 10 advise It how to 10 proceed p their counsel the loans were vre negotiated which supplied ICu pUd It a lal large part of oe Ike Ibe funds fur for th the war ar Agents wr were sent to Paris Pari London and New York Tork snit and there ther wa was little trouble In the dla disposal 1 of bond A the war continued other loan bans II WI were negotiated and up III to the time of It its d close thre P seemed lemed to be no trouble In sight The Th business bpi busi n ness men were now lees 1 regarded ded and the government went ent on with th it ex es esp p not doubting ft 1 could pet t tall all the money It needed Then a loan war proposed for the Manchurian rail railroads roads To the te of the govern covern government ment it wu warn on only I half lak taken u There seemed to 10 be but little demand for fort t those bonds In n Landon or New York and the Ibe were u at a loss what to todo todo do In the th meantime the lives U v ot of the 18 large Ire banking I institutions u In Inot ot of Paris Parl Loudon and New York had bad come here 1 to to mat mattire tf tire for They TIle were not shafted ti with nure and d a alone They MIt wanted anted to look at t the hooks and to know lust cabal t tM lb re w were anti and of f the government whether 1 It multi beyond doubt m meet t iii II It its obligations when they sue 11 They wanted to tn know n II was II for them to 10 la lanew II new bonds and Id like Ilk lb the man from fromM M Slue they Ihy had to 0 bf be shown hoWn with their rt re lu In I II I was a r rI t that Japan round found In InI I I Ill further Inane Mn and on nn this Ihla a aI ac III I the who represent the banking and Industrial MI or of today Indy ht have taken a hand n M 1 to government In n putting Japan did bins This III polk y I been UltI r 1 and 1101 through the advice If f such men all as the theM M It will lit he carried out to Ii a su conclusion IN A BIG BG HANK BANK No one can go 10 through th the big ble bank bankIn banking ing In of bo being ln Mau pt the and andt t tM great t wa of f W of th the Mitsui is surrounded by trot turea which would not nol seem out of plan in New NewYork NewYork York or hlo O The Th Bank of Japan an building of gray granIte is I Just over th the way The Y Stevie hank III I next door and aU all about are other large modern build buildings The Mitsui building l le of r four stories built round around Ih the lh three of a cover lug more mono than an acre It ta Is of red redbrick brick and white hll stone lItone and Iu its interior u furnished Ilk like one ot of the beet t ce buildings or of the IbA UnIted Staten It t 1 here he heare are wide wId halls big bI rooms many win window III dow and an abundance of M lc lights take one on from story tor torto to story and there a are I for tor the directors and nd all modern The Th main room ot of the hatch It Is larger 1 than that of MY any bank In ton and nd u as well ell furnished s that list of an anIn any In Nw New York Att As I 1 stood in I I Ike pl gal Iy hwy and rid looked down upon u the lessee ot of clerks ehrk working away I 1 war U Int im with the h enormous business being done don Mont Honey wu was coming In suit going out and 1 could see where the bank gets pi lI us deposits which now amt amount to about aut yen YD A Aa I went on through Ih the I seemed ed to be In 1 a government department dment There were t room rams tilled with clerk everywhere and aud In on one J I w a doses d Japanese girl 1111 who were oft off I their notes noell on Japans lapean typewriter TUX TICK COT UN An of the etah estah u Ih the mining 1 nt In Inthis this are an shown hown of the roll a lOP silver and aad other 01 ore bel being mined b by Ihl this grist corporation Then he are re al also o models ot of the machin machinery cry ery used tD m the min miles how each of th the larger u pru 10 vided frith till the most Improved type or of machinery her 1 1 haulage e mind nd and that everything I is done don donto to protect the tb of the miner mla MIld and to tn maintain I i uniform output at tb low lowest e espouse I Mw 11 mod model of aunt of the cost mines near r Tilt They are as tb Mi min minus alum line lit of the I I t of such ant Vl tw a to In the Ie There Thereal al now OW ho worKings and the annual Ia over tons The Th ba au area of It II III I ac acres quid Ih the cal oal vein average about aboul eight feet In thickness This 1 Is and 4 a Is used for tor coking It II I Ii regarded as a stand land standard ard Id coal oal In Ih the market Another An Another other property la I th the wa coal 11 mill which produce tin llIto Wet t 1 r Japan and not largely supply 1 th the nay navy and the th railroads And an another n other ix IH the Yama iu coal noted f its its and I its high 1 In addition to th these cat miner mine mineth th the Mitsui ha hsu silver ani lead which are a turning out cone enable are UrE and they have hae two large larte sulphur mines THEY MAZE lAD A KJ Poop The Tb MIu have big works here in n T k where 1 engines and boiler are made and ad where they are ar also turning out electrical ma which I noted throughout the UI Far Eat East They are making steel chimneys anti and ralI bridge material Their steel chimney are said to be This u Ia a lilt portent Item Japan has baa on th the aver average ver af age an earthquake a 4 day throughout the year yar and ard every evry no now and then u a big one A At I such times th the brick chimneys aid lItI are the first to fall They often call cause great reat damage through the roots roof below When I 1 was In Japan ii H years a ego about of the house household hold hoh department of the duce Mc which I 1 was WI at t the time Will war thrown down and the chimneys flew tar far and wide I na narrowly I escaped with my the life In that same earthquake boos chimneys chimney on the parliament tumbled making a hole In the rout rouf ele el though the biggest a large as II pliant had drop dropped d through from th the skies kl This same m engineering world Ie I now making pumps sawmills mining ma machinery chinery dynamos electric motors mo antI and electric of e Ip tiou liun TK THE AND FOREIGN TRADE It 11 would plAy pay come ome ot of our big bla tx ex Aims a to go co through the foreign trade rooms room of the Mitsui bow TIt They have a oom commercial me museum which enables their clerks and to study all 1101 sorts Of raw material and manufactured good Th These rooms room are those of our oar somewhat ao me bat similar to 10 Philadelphia Commercial Museum and use ull hardly Imagine such aub a being gotten together by 1 a private rh company Connected with the museum lot is a large library of dale dal hon bOOkS on textile ores mini mining and Ind and ad the clerk are well educated The Th Mitsui family ha haIta haIts Its Ita own system of education f for r it II It hll horn set et apart a fund tuDd of thirty yen n annually to send its It II to and aDd other countries to le enable them to acquire Ih the languages and education 11 Bury for their business It u Ia now n n ea porting all of goods to the amount of ninety million yen or more mole every Ury year u It 11 h his a Ir large Import trade and brings Into Japan Jail loconte II Ives v hied and electrical ma m It Mr and amid ii nerve for hp rn and n elan railway equipment nl and mat It largely in III t 1 ton and ad wool and handles hand I mu meats wheat sour lour and other such lIch thing The company also alo acta It act a II Insurance agents representing some of the largest of the American and the Insurance companies and that not only In Japan but In India Idla the Settlements Settlement and as 88 well JAPANS Leaving the Mitsui Bun Kalab I crossed th the street and went through the big depart t store belonging to 10 th the MIt Mitsui family Thu Is Ia by far the largest WillI And most moat complete tore store In the Japa Japanese empire It baa a capital ot of yen en and It does so a dally daIb Mul of bout about yen It I nothing else I to In aed u one or of orth the th best example of bow the western u Ie capturing the and alp 1110 or of the solidity of the new w unit It u fa known a the dry good stoic eto Marshall Field WIll who At the Urn time he died worth shout bout 1 made as a storekeeper newel liked the words ord department atom t tIe lie Ie called ailed bill hl big r t In CIlI go a dry goods store The follow the fume 0 rule amid that perba n the tort fortunes or of the family falI were w founded us HI dry gouda As Aa I 1 bate baft said the wu warn begun during durin the sixteenth a hundred hun hundred dred years y before ore J w was founded and nd It w was ealy a few W year yean later that the tore store was WAIl opened tight here her heron on an the ot of this big nt elf today loday Alter After the combination of the Jive Mitsui brothers In 1131 this tore store steadily grew and It covered ored 1 a large area about aboul of which Is Isnow I Inow now ity 11 the Mitsui fen as Ih the store to I is caned called today The Th In the put at started tI loo cash business In Japan and lid this new store tor has h fixed marked on the good It has h crib ab carriers to 10 take tab the themon mon money from one part or th the store 0 to the other and nd also a hi big mall order de department d through which good at are sent 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