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- . ; IT'S NOW UP TO YOU J I If 1 wT I 1" WW j GET IN THE HABIT j ToMtcrib (or Th. Rtvltw. S J 1 A W J M. A. M " J JL MLmd T T X Of dtU!nt In TTw Review J AH.then.w.whH.ltUn.w.U J ' T - 2 nd you'll never rtrtl It Be- 5 oar aotto. Cad In and enroll 4 ki t once and keep right at It i I J i Devoted to (he lntereti of (he Peninsula, (he Manufacturing Center of the Northwest VOI,. 4 ST. JOHNS, OREGON, FRIDAY, DKCKMBKR 6. 1907. NO. 4 INTERESTING TRIP ABROAD Anton H. Edlefsen Gives An Entertaining Account A RAMBLE ABOUT THE TOWN AN AFTERNOON WALK of His Travels in Various Foreign Countries- (Continued from last week.) The passengers were landed in small steamboats and as it is cus tomary for the hotel porter to look after the baggage and bring it through the customs, 1 simply turned over my keys and stepped into a little cart drawn by a coolie, commonly called rickshiman. On my way to the hotel I enjoyed the pretty sight offered by the Bund aud the water front; but at the same time I did not fail to notice the peculiar foot wear of pedestrians, which in some cases consisted of different shaped sandals and iu others of a sort of moccasin. These moccasins had a special encasing for the big toe, the same as all Japanese stock ings or socks, so that a sandal may be 'fastened properly. Shoes arc worn very little, but high toned girls, called "highhccllcrs" arc some times wont to wear them along with a dress, which seems to be a com promise between modern aud Japanese style. For several days I stayed at Yokohama, going also to Tokio, where had just been opened an exposition gotten up by some provinces around the capitol. After spending two weeks in traveling through the coun try, taking iu the festivals of the cherry blossom season at the old cap ital Kioto, I bourdid u boat ut Kobe, which traveled through the inland Ye Editor Visits a Number of the Leading Business Houses of the City and Gathers Some Interesting Information. Last week wc were "rung off" as wc poked our nose into the tepee of the htti tyhecs of the tribe o the apostles. Here Hizoner, Mayor Couch sedately sits, sedulously seeking with seductive smiles to segrc gate senile and stibvcrtive sentiment from the strivings of citizens strenuously seeking sanitary situations for the city and secundum artcm, to stabhsh sound, safe, sedative legislation through the solous sitting in sump tttotts state before him. These saccs of bt. Johns seriously strive to serve their constituents so as to secure superabundantly superior sanitary, scientific, social aud financial success, nt least part of them. Hut serious ly, iu a financial way our city council has done wonders. They took charge of the city hall when the nffairs were in a most deplorable state, not through any wrong doing of the previous council, so far as we hav been able to Icaru, but through the dishonesty of the contractors doing the work, aud they have succeeded in finishing a structure of which a city many times lnrgcr than St. Joints might welt be proud. It is true that the financial end of the string has not yet been broken off, but wc are informed that there are sufficient resources in the hands of the building committee to do this, and that the work of winding up these city hall matters are progressing as rapidly as the legal phase of the matter will permit, and along perfectly safe lines. This is something the council may well feel comfortable over. It is something our people should give them great credit for, for it has been a most strenuous proposition and one which our cittr.cus can have no conception of who have not been iu attendance at the meetings of the council. Our city laws were iu a more or less cbnntlc Ktntc. ton. when tttcv received the heritage from their tiredeccssors. This code has sea of Japan, with its 1000 pretty islands, heading for Shanghai. China, been revised and greatly improved, and while it docs not iu some instances yet suit our, perhaps, too fas by way of Mugi and bhimonoscki, where the bunkers were filled with j Udious taste, wc believe with some additions, such as arc being made from time to time ns the occasion cheap coal. This coaling is very rapidly done and iu u fashion dis- .demands .will give our city a most salutary city government. It is the inalienable right of man to be tinctly oriental. A sort of stairway is made in the sides of Lie Mea ner ' fcrninst" that which he deems is wrong nnd we claim this rights There arc some things the council has with lumber and ropes and the coal is passed fioin hand to hand in done which we think arc wrong. Wc have never found a body of men, not even one man, since we reached til t. f . -.!. lllt. - . . . . 0 . . . . . . smau uuhKeis; ninny women worn in mc gangs, wimc uicir smaii names, tlic age of observation, who has not done so. Wc wish to extend the same charity toward them that we arc waiting 011 the deck, sometimes looked alter by the grown children who assist by dragging the empty buckets into the barges, just where they arc to be filled again. In Japan I made the acquaintance of a good many. Kurocaii busi ness men and from those I learned that the Japanese people are today living in about the same fashion us they did fifty years ngo. As far as government and public institutions aic concerned, our modern western would have shown us if wc were iu their position. We believe that to be the only truly humane and decent way to consider the public and private life of others. Hy that, wc do not mean to condone specific lawless acts, if there be any, for wc would not ask that from others for oursclf, but wc do not believe 111 denouncing them for their honest decisions in matters where their views differed from ours. Directly across the street from the old city hall building, is located the livery and feed stable of the Cochran Bros. These gentlemen arc ready aud serve the public iu a most acceptable manner and are deserv Ini? of their natronaire. Then on the corner of Ivanhoe aud Burlini!ton is the New St. Tohns hotel, the ideas and methods have been adopted, but the mode of life, with all its only brick hotel in the city and where wc are told the public is given service equal to that found anywhere peculiarities, has with few exceptions, remained the same; so that old the hostelrlcs of the city. Nice clean rooms, well ventilated and cared for, the best the earth affords for residents ore unable to sec any marked change iu that respect. How-, t,c tnbtc with courteous treatment from till those connected with the hotel. A pleasant parlor for guests ever, this is not true with respect to tnc utiiituie ot tne Japanese towuru nd iu the front, a fine line of cigars aud tobaccos nud on up-to-date barber shop over which rules as pre the white man since the Russian war. i siding genius the affable and nimble fingered tonsorial artist, J. B. Hall, and his assistant, during his Where the Japanese used to be polite and rtspcctrtil towards the absence. All things considered, this makes the New St. Johns a most desirable place to stop either for foreign settler before, he, after the war, has become almost impolite Sunday dinner or for a week's visit if you arc a stranger in the land. nnd disrcspcctlul; so that the white man notices with disgust his self-. Coming across the street to the other corner of Ivanhoe and Burlington we find located the clothing conscious, proud bearing. Modern manufacturing, commerce and emporium operated by Mrs. Zapora Homer, who is 0 most genial and accommodating saleswoman nnd oincr enterprises, mini nn over 111c country wuu lorcign cnpmii, cuii- carries a good stock of nil kinds of clothing and furnishings, and you will make o mistake, to pass her up nuuctcu uiiucr loreigu supervision, unvc occii iukcii over y cnumy wjicn you are looking for something to wear. When wc went down the line on the other side of the street, Japanese management, partly ns me result ot legislative ami otner com- jlcr S0I, iad clothes cleaning and pressing department in the rear of his mother's store, but between two bined action, making it impossible for the foreigner to rcmuin in the 0r three days Mr. Hamcr has moved his establishment across the street directly opposite the clothing house once promising looking field. The large twu...ie insuronce companies nnd next door east of the Home Hiikerv. where he will serve his old natrons even better thnn before. Mr. used to force the Japanese to keep Kuropcnn captains on the boats ( Hamer will place an ad iu the paticr ngniu this week or next, as soon us he is fully settled iu his new quar- llisurcu oy llicill, Ulll nnicc 111c war nil ui 111c jiiiiiucc uumn nuvc J"'-lcrS OIK! yOU Will UO WC1I 10 WOtCII for It. oucsc commanders. '1 he tonnage of the commercial licet has increased , Then up the hue towards Jersey wc went into 'Hendricks Jlnrduure-xomnauy's fine store. Here wonderfully and the Nippon Uson Katsha the Imperial Japanese mall .Ugnin wc find on up-to-date hardware establishment where one may find n full line of everything they can line is a very important and reliable steamship company. wj8h for iu the matter of household utensils, mechanical tools. They also carry a Hue of wall paper, lining The soil is intensely cultivated, every available patch being mode paver, mouldings, glass, sash, oils, paints, stoves, ranges, doors, screens, shelf hardware of nil kinds and to produce, oftimes several crops each season nnd iu newly established descriptions. You will be met, too, by one of the most genial, pleasant gentlemen iu the person of Mr. ngricuituiui scnoois me neeas 01 111c sou, anu especially uic nuvnninge Hendricks we have in the city. It is worth the trip to the store if you don't cure to buy just simply to pass a pleasant moment iu conversation with Mr. Hendricks. The others employed in the establishment, wc have not met so often, but have at all times met a cordial reception there and will vouch for the same treatment to any other citizen. The next hole the carpenters left 111 the wall leads into the office of the St. Johns Land company, which is most ably represented by Charles Bailey, with the assistance of Miss Og den. and it is a busv nlnce almost nnv time vott mav hanncn in. This conmanv has nil kinds of lnnds on, especially for the rice fields, and improvement districts have been nnd houses for sale nnd rent nnd vou will be hard to tilease If von cannot be suited here. I. li. Wllilnins formed, taking In certain localities situated in perhaps several provinces; 00us after the interests of the Kast St. Johns end of the business. but all sharing in the costs and benefits of certain works. The country Next to the real estate office is the popular meat market of T. P. Wurd. There arc few jK-ople who is comparatively small and everything in it setms to conform thereto, have nrssed through exnerlences ns varied nnd strenuous as has Mr. Ward. Times when he had hundreds Not only ore the fields small, but so arc the hills with the crippled trees' f thousands of dollars to handle, other times when the dollars were like angel's visits; other times when thereon, the rivers, the horses, the dogs, in fact everything, ns the race ,, the plains it took all his sand and a couple of good guns to make things go and at other times the days of applying artificial fertilizers are explained to the growing generations As a result of the character of the laud few horses or cattle are kept and for this reason has Japan become o great importer of fertilizer. Many of the hillsides are graded into terraces both on the mainland aud on the many small, rocky islands. A great deal of irrigation Is carried had to adjust itself to these conditions, by building small houses along narrow streets, by constructing narrow guage railways with small curs, like our old street cars nnd so on. The employes of the railways appear like mere boys, but their service is as efficient as that of the police force. No one is inclined to cause a conflict with the latter aud lOOOOOl THE TROLLEY WAY Is the only way to secure immediate delivery of your goods at the most reasonable of transportation rates. Therefore ring up the PORTLAND & SUBURBAN EXPRESS GO. Operating electric freight cars between St. Johns and Fortland. We call for and check your trunks direct to destination. Turu your trunk checks and shipping receipts over to us and your goods will receive prompt attention We have teams connecting with cars at St. Johns and Portland. Get our rates before shipping. Special rates on car load lots. Experienced and courteous employes. Phone Main 358, Portland office. Phone Main A 3358. First and Flanders Streets. C. W. STEARNS Phone Woodlawn 818. Agent at St Johns. Office 105 G. Burlington street. ooo WE POSITIVELY MAKE THE BEST $25 Suit or Overcoat Ladies' and Gents' Suits Cleaned, Pressed and Repaired Steam Cleaning and Dyeing. Ptron & lMoc, Tailors. t to roatomcc. j would go by as smilingly as a dimpled baby iu her go-cart. With this kind of schooling Mr. Ward has learned to "Let the world jog along as it will, he'll be gay and happy still." Aud when it comes to serving the public with nice, juicy steaks, delicious prepared meats of all kinds. Brother Ward does not take a back seat for anybody this side of New Jerusalem. He is a jolly, good uaturcd, entertaining gentleman with a smile and a pleasant salutation for everyone he meets, and it is always a pleasure to cuter his neatly kept, well arranged shop. the scope of its power may le tin dcrsiood, when it is kuowu that at certain intervals all houses have to be emptied, so that the police may disinfect them and iu that way labor to preserve the general well being. The Japanese, above all else, are a military people and while their religion and tradition makes them fanatical and fearless, they feel absolutely confident in their organ ized strength. Competition is very keen, making wages low, and although long working hours are in vogue, no day of rest or Sunday is known. At times of legal holidays, however, most all work stops and when spring time festivals come, the people go out into the parks and forests and have a good time. I had the pleasure of seeing the cherry blossom dance at Kioto and I must say the geishas were mov ing about very gracefully. How ever, I could not get at the deeper meaning of the music that accom panied their movements. It seems that the Caucasian has no sense of appreciation for music of the orien tal genre. On such occasions, as also at the theater, the Japanese view the performance while sitting on the floor in a sort of box occu pied by a party. In the middle stands a bronze heater in which a little charcoal is gleaming, provid ing heat as well as means for light ing the small silver pipes. Both men and women indulge in smok ing these small pipes, which con tain tobacco sufficient for a few puffs and which are carried in cases, along with the fan, iu the belt with which the kimonas are tied. It is claimed that the Jap anese language is too poor for the demands of the educated mind and when one is witnessing a perform ance at the theater this condition seems to be demonstrated. Never theless, the people get very enthus iastic over their favorites and when these are going to nud from the stage on walks placed over the heads of the audience many things are handed to them, like fans, pipes, etc., which are to be re deemed later on at the theater office by gifts that one may intend to present to the actor or actress. By some Japanese merchants, who had been iu Kurope I was told that it is very hard to keep up expenses at this time where west ern ideas are introduced, while the Japanese customs must also still be recognized. Some of the, people with European or American educa tions are wont to dress iu modem clothing, but if these persons go calling on certain of their Japanese friends, they must appear iu Jap anese dress, aud in these homes they require modern rooms with furniture along with Japanese rooms, with nothing but a fan aud floors with heavy carpets to sit on. Iu some cases the husband is living a la-Uuropean aud the wife a-la-Japanese. Under the old method the sou usually takes his young wife to the home of his parents aud there she must obey the orders of her mother-in-law, which both in Japan aud China sometimes leads to a terrible misuse of power and in some cases causes the powerless victim to commit suicide. Because of a lower moral standard the wo man is not treated with as much respect as is the case with the white races. On account of this custom of living the orient does not appear to have more houses to a given area than European countries, although it is the most densely populated region of the globe, Before enter ing a Japauese home or hotel one must remove the shoes, at the lat ter meals are served iu the rooms, to be eaten with sticks instead of knife and fork. The bill at the hotel is small but the tea money one is expected to present as a sort of a tip is exacted to be nbout twice and three times as much as the amount of the bill. 1 Japan with its quaint customs, 1 picturesque towns, and iu patches t like a garden, cultivated agricul tural districts, is most interesting to visit; but I do not care for the ' jK'ople and would not like to live there; for I agree with the settler, ( thut they are insincere and treach erous. The country is poor but ( the people understand how to get along with little, and iu their sober, self-denying and enterprising way, they are manufacturing almost everything of modern industry; but many of the products although J of good appearance turn out to be , of faulty make when put to use. It is harder to travel in China, because the Chinese coolies often! 'do not understand a hit of Kuglish, ' and because of that it is dimctilt to get around. More poverty and uiicleanliness is noticed iu China but the Chinese of education and tne mcrcliaiits ot standing arc, as a rule, people of fine appearance and good manners. Here, as in Japan, all foreign business is done through a so-called compradeur or banco, who guarantees the bills. The foreign merchant finds the Chinese to be very conservative and much more reliable than the Japanese. It is most interesting to watch the traffic about the har bor. The big cargoes of flour and lumber from Portland are carried away by an army of coolies, who especially at night, seem like busy uuts, surging about under the pow erful arc lamps, always singing a sort of litany, iu order to keep step aud give warning to people iu their road. Heavy pieces of ma chiuf.ry are tied to long timbers and in that way carried through the narrow streets in which no telephone or light poles arc noticed like everywhere in Japan. (Continued uext week.) Leads a Quartet of Congenial Spirits to the Site of the Swift Packing Company's Plant The afternoon Sunday was so delightfully bright and fine that it was impossible for us to stay indoors, nnd when one of the boys sug gested a walk over to the packing plant we just fell over ourselves get ting into line. A quartet, Harry Mansfield, A. linger, A. W. Marklc and the writer started for the Swift packing plant on the Oregon slough. Wc enjoyed the walk exceedingly. It was like a day in May. The birds were flitting from tree to tree with twittering aud billing until otic would almost imagine they were preparing to make for themselves homes again, but remembering the time of the year, wc imagined they were organizing for n line of march to the sunny south. This, we feel sure, was the case with the crows. Wc saw great flocks of these sable scavengers congregating iu the woods along the sloughs. Of course they will put .off the evil day ns long as they can, for they like to stay iu Oregon as well us the rest of the inhabitants; but when the first snow covers the ground and feed begins to get scarce they will flit. That, at least was our observation up the river, but here, where there is 110 snow wc do not know, perhaps they will hold camp meeting all winter. We got along nicely until we reached the bridge ncross the slough at the east cud of the big canal of the North Bank road ncross the jKMiinstila. Here Brother linger balked. Iu fact he laid down. Noth ing would induce him to proceed. No amount of flagellation or coax ing. Wc could not tole hint along with salt, oatsk hay nor anything we have used iu days gone by to move a balky horse. Wc do not be lieve even the old darkey's remedy would have moved Brother linger across that bridge. The bridge was 50 feet high and the ties were far enough apart for him to pass through between them. Therefore, feel ing the responsibility of the occasion the Keview wished to sec our friends safely home. We, therefore divided our forces and Mr. Marklc returned with Brother linger while our Happy Hurry, the celebrated whisker sham conducted the writer throunh the mazes of the different sloughs which traverse the territory between the bridge iu question and the packing plant proper. The nice thing about our guide was that like all newspaper men wc were "busted" nud the guide hud his "pock ets stuffed" witli the coin of the realm. This is a tip to our impecun ious friends, if you ever go out from home, try nud go with Happy Harry. Wc arrived nt the packinghouse site iu good shape aud found the big dredger digging up the bottom of the Oregon slough to beat the baud, even If it was Sunday, for there are no holidays for the Swifts. The bottom of the slough is being pumped out on the west hank and the surface there is being built up to the level suitable for their build ings. There is also being shlpcd iu nud piled up iu regular lumber yard style big piles of lumber for building purjiose.s. They have cleared about 75 or 80 acres of land from trees nud brush where the main buildings are to be erected and the trees nave been made into wood. This wood has been hauled to the hank of the slough nud cord ed up ready for use 011 the boats 011 the slough or to be hauled where it will be sold for fuel as the company may elect. Wc do not think thai the .V.vilts could have selected a more suitable place for their plant if they had hunted a century. They are far enough away from the densely populated portion of the surrounding cities to avoid any olfcusivc legislation hy reason of their occupation nud yet nre near enough thnt their employes who may live iu these cities may reach the works iu u few moments hy trolley lines. They are fur enough from the Columbia to be out of the disturbing element of its currents and the passing tra flic, yet near enough to he easily accessible from the river through the slough, which is us large us the Willamette river at St. Johns nud the wnter is a dead calm, This will make, there fore, the finest kind of a harbor for the vessels which will serve the big limit when iu ojicratiou. I here is an immense amount of labor yet to c performed to change the uneven surface of the ground for yards nud pens into a condition fit for use. Our only disappointment wo met when trying to hire n man to ferry us ncross the Oregon slough. Hulling iu tills, we took thecnr for home, where we arrived huppy, hungry nud tired tit $ M. L. IIOI.IlkOOK C. I:. UAIIEYS St. Johns Land Co. The Largest and Oldest Real Estate Firm in St. Johns. East St. Johns The center of the great development now taking J place on the Peninsula. We have only a few business lots left on Columbia J Hottlevard, which for a short time only will be sold at ;j present prices. Some fine residence lots still on sale. Choice manufacturing sites adjoining the O. U. & ;J N. railroad for sale on reasonable terms. Holbrook's Addition i 3 We have some choice lots in the vicinity of the new $20,000 school building now iu course of construe- $ turn, Call at our office for prices and terms for either of J these desirable tracts. i z St. JohllS PI'one Union 3104 Oregon Clark & Wilson Lumber Co. UNNTON, OREGON Lumber Manufacturers PRICKS QUOTI-D ON APPLICATION I