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Show IMANCHUS AT 'PEKING STILL j Court of Old Rulers of Chinese Empire Continue Con-tinue Residence at Capital New Republic Repub-lic Is Rapidly Forging to the Front Peking. July 12 Contrary to declarations decla-rations made at the time the thmn abdicated In favor of the republic, sixteen six-teen months ago, the court ol the nld Manchu rulers of the Chinese empire still remains at Peking The terms of the final agreement with the representatives of the new republican re-publican government provided thai th'.-Manchu th'.-Manchu nobles, including all the members mem-bers of the reigning family, should re-tain re-tain their hereditary' titles and be liberally lib-erally pensioned, and that the young emperor, after his abdication. Should be accorded In China the honors given giv-en a visiting foreign sovereign These stipulations have been carried out. At the same time It was declared the court would eventually move away from the Forbidden City, but no stops In this direction yet have been taken There has not even been an exodus to tho summer palace or to the ancient palaces at Jehol. which were mentioned men-tioned at the time 'of abdication as places of possible retlraent Some minor Manchu princes and officials have deserted their residences In Peking Pe-king and moved away, generally to or to Manchuna. where they can obtain ob-tain Japanese or Russian protection if occasion alses. But the ex-prim regent and Pa-Yl, the boy emperor, now seven years old, still reside In the palaces occupied by the reigning family for 268 years, and Imperial guards still forbid entrance to their palace compounds. Th Manchu troops continue In arms and obey the Instructions of President Yuan Shlh'k at In all ma: ters that do not affect the safety of the court. Should there be a conflict con-flict of authority between the Prcsi dent and the court It Is believed they I would stand by the Manchus; but the Interests of the Republican president and those of the Forbidden City nave not conflicted. Indeed. It Is believed in the legation quarter that they are closely allied It is thought among for eign observers that the court depends on Yuan Sblh k'al for a regular pay ment of lis pension from the repub lic, and. on the other hand, that nan may be compelled at any moment to reestablish the dynasty and proclaim himself regent in order to give his orders the height of imperial authority. au-thority. At present with a hostile parliament, presidential orders which are essential to the maintenance of the government, do not receive th" sanction of any organized body of lawmakers. law-makers. A question Interesting to old observers observ-ers who knew China under tho dynasty dy-nasty 16 whether the empress dowager dow-ager who recently died, will be the last empress of China. If the republic repub-lic succeeds th?re will probably be no other Two striking changes have taken place In the appearance of Peking as a result of the revolution One Is considered con-sidered a disfigurement; the other an Improvement, and a great advantage. advan-tage. The disfigurement is the d Is-appearance Is-appearance of the Manchu cart, which an American lady of literary gifts once characterized as "Portia's Casket Cas-ket on Wheels." The brilliantly colored col-ored Sedan chair, borne high on tV shoulders of four or eight coolies, dls appeared to a large extent after tho Boxer rising of 1900, and has since been used only at funerals and weddings, wed-dings, and by a few ultra smart foreign for-eign legation ladies, who adopted th" old when the Chinese began adopting the new Now the Peking cart is being rapidly rapid-ly displaced by the Kuropean carriage Only the poorer classes are still riding In these little blue covered springb-ss carts with huge brass studded wheels Along with the adoption of the brougham brough-am the Chinese outriders of . lis new official vehicle are adopting European saddles for their ponies in place of the gay caparisons In use under the dynasty; and Instf-ad of flowing dress es of white or light blue, with red streamers to their hats, the sombre, garb of the west Is being affected by these outriders in imitation of their republican masters On the other hand the Peking of the people has been made much more beautiful by the opening up of several sev-eral roadways through the Forbidden City, and also by the breaking of se eral new galea In the wall of the Im perlal City. Ab Is known to all Americans Ameri-cans who have visited Peking, the city Is a place of walls within walls The Forbidden Cit, where the court resides, re-sides, Is within the Imperial City, which In turn 16 within the Tartar City, surrounded by the great Peking wall. Again the legation quarter, the Southern City and the winter palace, where the groat empress dowager lived, and which Yuan Shlhkal. tho president, now occupies, are enclosed within their own piles of masonry. Cnder th Manchu regime the eutiro extent of the Forbidden City and that of the winter palace were guarded hv Imperial troops, who refused passage to all but privileged officials and for clgn diplomatists when they were honored hon-ored with audiences at court As thes-extensive thes-extensive palace enclosures lay dlreot ly across tho center of Peking, traffic was badly Impeded and had to make long detours round them But now two main gates have been cut In the walls of the Imperial City, and the great wide park In front ol I the Forbidden City, together with thj roadway behind It. which runs along side the moat, covered with water III-iai III-iai at this summer season, have been 1 opened to traffic The camel driver. the rickshaw eoolle. and the foreign tourist may now pass through theao hitherto reserved places, getting near i Ik. 111 ill A.. rt and the massive 6tone lions that stand beside the front gate of the palace; and anyone may cross the famous marble bridge ovr the lake in the winter palace, and get a close view of the empress dowager s pagoda and the wonderful cluster of yellow-roofed yellow-roofed palace structures |