Yokohama, despite the entire former foreign settlement and the, Bluff being still in ruins, has proxressed more vitally" towards normality than has much-pampered Tokyo.
The best proof of this is the man-rer in which the port has recovered. The raison d'étre of Yokohama is ite port, and the port facilities are now working as effectively as before the earthquake threw. the city in the dust, To-day—Yokohama commenced celebrating the first step—and a big step too-—in the reconstruction of the city's port. The harbour works, the expensive and extensive breakwater and the canal system were all setally destroyed in September 1923. To-day, the breakwater is again in fine shape, new docks have been completed, and warehouses of steel, designed to repel fire, dot the waterfront.
The buzz of bissiness is the dominant note along the water front and in the Japanese section the city, while the population of Yokohama to-day is only about 5,000 less that the pre-earthquake figures, In strong contrast to this is the former foreign settlement and the Bluff. Here the ruins lie thick on every hand still, some places being. Just as they were on the afternoon of September 1, 1923, except that flowers grow wild on sites and incessant ruins have washed away mounds of ash-strewn earth,
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