When the train arrived every car} window flew open and the third class passengers began hurling their dunnage on to the platform and! following it through the windows. My stalwart stood this fire for an natant only, then picked up one of my bags and rammed it with terrfe force into the face of a pompous fun athletic looking worthy, who just about to climb out of the wit dow. He disappeared leaving a ood breach into which my three age were thrust with lighting speed. Before I knew what had happened 1 had also shot through the open window head first and was sprawling on top of my effects. My porter had taken me by one arm Jand some part of my nether cloth-ug and simply thrown me through the window, this requires doing when one and one's clothes weigh! 110 Ib.
At any ate there T vas, and had barely gathered myself together, arranged my baggage and sat down before the coach was packer a few persons have seen a coach packed. "Chickens in wicker baskets fre the only living things that are shipped in sich close space. The train that was due in Tangku a 1.10, then left Tientsin at 1.20 and arrived at Tangku at 245, The Rood nature and courtesy of the traveller's fellow victims case the discomforts and make such rather an amusing adventure, but they' do not make such conditions a leredit to China. And like everything else such conditions are getting steadily and rapidly worse. Tt when one comes to Manchuria and ces a Japanese railway handling exe trafic so differently, giving every one service and comfort, pay-{ng liberal dividends, and" then devoting rear excess profits to pub-tic works and new industries that the muddling of the Chinese railways [seems more tragic than comic—and the est one has been able to say of its railways in North China for years past, the most charitable thing, has been that they are funny.
In m Japanese Steamer The trip from Tangku to Dairen scarcely first class, but the anese steamers are a relief after the Chinese railways, perhaps be-iso they seem so quiet. And that is characteristic of all Japanese enterprise in Manchuria, Like a well geared and well oiled engine it runs without the rattle and bang that we are all so used to astociating with anything that flourished in Chit:
The steamer which "the writer took from Tangku was cramped, the food w sd and the furnish-cheap, but the run is only-18 hours and it was done very exactly fon time table. Whatever the discomforts of the one night are—and they are really no more than too many companions who must have the windows and doors hermetically sealed in too amall a compartment '—the approach along a bronze coast rising out of an azure sea the early morning light makes it all worth while. First there is fine rugged headland, then various.
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