Show china makes first payment to morgan new york N Y sept 8 in the office of J P morgan co sir cheng tung cheng chinese minister to the united states made the first payment of the which his government has to eive to reimburse the stock holders in the cinton bankow railway none of those interested would make known tire exact size of the first installment three months hence the final payment will be made and then the concession and the thirty allea of railway built will revert to the chinese who it Is stated on good authority intend to complete the railway which traversing the most thickly settled part of the chinese empire is to bo miles in length sir cheng tung liang chang came to this city from amherst on wednesday evening and after the business wag completed yesterday he at once to hia summer home with ibe chinese minister was john W foster former secretary of state who represents china in the and in the office of mr morgan wag george L ingraham Ingra bam representing the financier and gen charles A whittier the president of the canton aau kow railway company it must not be understood said mr foster in discussing the matter that china exhibits any feeling of opposition to americans the purchase of the concession or rather the reimbursement of the stockholders only expresses le desire of the chinese government to build this railway which is to be located in one of the moat important parts of empire there Is capital amold the merchants of that country to finance the undertaking and it is extremely probable that foreign engineers will be called into superintend the construction within a few years there has ben a revulsion of feeling in regard to railroads in china formerly alie people did not want them and regarded them as the product of the foreign davils but now this has changed like the japanese the chinese have awakened to the fact that such methods of transportation are for their best interests te rests and that in the wako of the railroad will come other equally beneficial innovations |