Show KOBE OSAKA AND YOKOHAMA Eastern questions wilt will hereafter become become become be be- come for many members of congress more realistic and understandable and therefore sympathetically tr treated ted since their visit to the commercial cities cit cit- cities lt ies leg of Japan during their trip through the Orient Kobe Osaka and Yokohama proudly displayed played for Cor American observation their busy factories 8 with their InterestIng Interesting Inter Inter- esting esling products products and and bust bustling docks where junks plying Inland waters and torel foreign bound bound n-bound steamers are gorging gorgin and disgorging freight The busy city of t Kobe may be entered entered entered en en- after a charming trip through the Inland sea sell that picturesque landlocked landlocked landlocked land land- locked basin with four channels to the outer sea a n tah fairyland land of Islands covered with temples and trees I li is famous it I. Japanese song ant and story One writer ha tins has called It ft the Gem Gena of Clr the Worl World Certainly It Is s one lne of the most beautiful sea routes In the world Kobe Kohe with rUh Its 2741 acres of excellent excellent excellent excel excel- lent harbor which In modern od elI up up-to- date elate fashion has been divided systematically s systematically ste Into sections for junks merchant merchant merchant mer mer- chant vessels and for dreadnoughts of ot the Japanese J navy is the most at attractive attractive attractive at- at of the treaty ports and has within the last few years shot ahead of ot Yokohama J In the volume of Its commerce com com- merce Its total trade being about 40 per cent of the whole trade of the country It ships copper rice straw hemp bemp chip braids for tor hats camphor tea and cotton yarn and yearly enough passengers land on Its docks to make a city the size of Seattle Seattle Se Se- Seattle attle Kansas City or Providence This port which Is now so situated on the hill hm elopes running running running run run- ning down to the sea as as merely a n I group of fishing huts buts about fifty years ears ago when It was first opened to foreign for for- foreign eign commerce Osaka which has been styled because because be be- cause of ot Its numerous canals and bridges the V Venice of the East Is Isone Isone isone i one of the three Imperial cities and has a population of a million Here ere ereIs Is located the Japanese mint covering covering cover coyer ing 40 acres a n shipyard having a 1 foot frontage and Important factories factories factories fac fac- tories which make cotton cloth glass Iron and steel products boots and shoes matches and tobacco products Most of the trade of ot Osaka however since the harbor Is unsuited for large v vessels Is with the Interior Japans Japan's other Important port Yokohama Yokohama Yokohama Yo Yo- kohama was where Commodore Perry first entered the country In 1854 As the ship steams out from from- the from the city and the tIle picturesque little towns about the harbor fade nde Into the haze the majestic tic form of ot Fujiyama ama the sacred mountain tow rs In the distance For those who have ha climbed Its rugged heIght In do the dark before dawn to see seethe seethe seethe the sun rise In splendor over oyer Its rim and have hn-e peered Into the crater of ot the theold theold theold old volcano the picture Is one they will be glad to bring home with them In their hearts |