Show KOBE OSAKA AND YOKOHAMA eastern questions mill ill bere hereafter after become for many members of congress more realistic lind and understandable and therefore sympathetically treated since their visit to the commercial cities of japan during their trip through the lie orient kobe osaka und and yokohama proudly displayed tor for american observation their busy factories ith their alic ir later inter estling products and bustling docks where here junks plying inland alters liters und and foreign bound steamers steamy rs tire gorging ant anil ing the busy city of kobe may lie ell entered after a charming trip through the inland sea that nue landlocked basin ith fill four channels to the outer sea a fali iland of islands covered with temples find and trees arc 1111 IM 14 famous Is IB JaPa japanese song and story one writer ha has called it the gem of abe certainly ll it is olle of tile mot mo t beautiful sea routes in ill tit tin norbil nolle kolio etli alth Us its 2711 acres dicres of 0 excellent harbor which in mod modem in ul up to to date fashion lias has been divided s ste mati cally into sections for junks merchant vessels and for dread of the japanese navy Is the must most attractive of the file treaty ports and has within the last few bears cars shot ahead of yokohama in tile the volume of its commerce its total trade being about 40 per cent of the whole trade of the country it strips ships copper rice straw hemp chip braids for hats hattings mat tings camphor tea and cotton yarn and yearly enough passengers land on its docks to make a city the size of seattle kansas city or providence this port which Is now so attract lively situated on the hill bill slopes running down to the sea was merely a group ot of fishing huts about fifty years ago whet when it was first opened to foreign corn commerce merce osaka which has been sty styled led because of its numerous canals and bridges the venice of the east 14 I 1 one of 0 tile the three imperial cities and lifts hns a kopul population atlon of a million here Is located the japanese mint coer ing 40 acres a shipyard haling a 1 foot frontage and important factories which make cotton cloth glass iron null and steel products boots ant and shoes matches and tobacco products I 1 most lost N of I 1 the lie of osaka box however ever since ince the harbor Is for large vessels Is with the interior japans other important port yokohama koh arna was where inhere commodore perry first entered the country in 1854 A As the ship st steams earris out from the flie city all and the picturesque little towns about the harbor fade into the lie haze laze the majestic form of ruji fujiyama yarna the sacred mountain still towers in the distance for those thoe who have climbed its rugged height in the dark before dann dan to free tile the sun min rise in splendor over its rim tin and linvs peered into inlo the file crater of the old volcano the picture Is one they nil be glad to bring home with with them in their hearts |