| Show A CITY the ca ri ous asyl d where two eions live by side cor advertiser are all familiar with the great titles of europe either by actual observation or through the columns of current literature but less is known perhaps about the great cities of asia and it is about the city bf tokio the capital of japan that I 1 wish to write to day it is larger than any city on the american continent with the ex caption of new york it contains fully people and extends over an area nine miles long by eight broad it is a city of im mence for instance to go from the station as you come in from yokohama to ago station you leave to go into the country I 1 u croes a of six 0 r about twice as far from the to the central depot in new batte ct ly is curiously laid out I 1 in the very eutre is a large roun i tract of lad containing the castle and other public buildings this is by a in oat or rather a canal which is in the form of a spiral it goes around the cas tie two and a quarter times within the second are the houses of many of the noblemen an I 1 som e out aid of all this is the city which is intersected by canals never was there seen a city in which it was easier to lose ones sef than in tokio this spiral canal and the many heavy stone fro quest turnings make one lose his bearings bea ringi even oil a kunn v day th e history h ts be en called a history of firs und earth quakes perhaps no one city can i th this in the bunth r of its disastrous dita was volla inic but it little fishing vil lage bajit wais al that bilue hobde lite capital if this section un arni time its wro th waa extremely lipid gs cabi bo froni the iha JW 1667 a great fire cal td tile ati 11 ki de decorti ortI muff oveat away too an ions vf itie birott 4 aher bohle oles will 0 t r e t a lt tin 1 1 1 1 C 78 4 tily elev e n e u r 0 itt t e r ji i i tl t talt whole city was burned in 1701 an carried awa y 0 it pe lilen ce aid its hand on the city find took the incon number of bouls in 1816 bui by and p eople perished abose ara y th greater calamities that have be fallen this city and it is a terrible record I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 q A t 1 1 1 I 1 J 1 1 I 1 4 L I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 0 at was in I 1 that the eseo made the change of his residence from aoto to this city since tatt time the two cities have grown apart to that it is hard to brieve that they belong 0 the pame nation kioto is old japan tolio is w jagau through the cent re of to klo runs a laag street er braal 6 way and on either ode are fie bt ings in the L urn pearl a architecture everything that a foreigner would wah to use in furl bishing a house or rePlenish iLIg his wardrobe can be found on all he signs are it E al though often by the dative language A thorough ys i tern of III 1 g we ruge tion audly h rt amr transportation rna ke more E ili some cities in europe U f CAU arte rte I 1 went through the bazari and atin ale anti parks all of which e one curio in be museum is worth mentioning mention inz it was a stuffed spectre cire lb oi a native domestic fowl now almost extinct the peculiarity ilits tail which b rement is thirteen egli feet long the body of the bita is about the normal size |
