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+Title: The Log of the Empire State
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+The Log of the Empire State
+by Geneve L. A. Shaffer
+
+
+
+
+Dedicated to My Mother and Your Mother
+
+
+
+To My Mother
+
+Your little hands are folded,
+   Your tired breast is still.
+But your valiant heart beats on and on,
+   And so forever will.
+In the lives of those who knew you,
+Each gentle beat will bring
+   An echo sweet and tender,
+To linger there and sing.
+
+By C. T. S.
+
+
+
+The Log of the Empire State
+
+
+
+Introduction
+
+
+
+As Miss Shaffer was appointed the special representative of the San
+Francisco Examiner on the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, Commercial
+Relationship Tour of the Orient, as well as being a member of the San
+Francisco Chamber of Commerce, she was requested to write this little
+book covering the three months' trip, and she wishes to thank all the
+members of the party for their kindly interest and cooperation in
+helping her secure much of the information contained herein.
+
+
+
+Chapter I
+
+
+
+Before we had reached the Golden Gate we acted like some great happy
+family, eager to enjoy every minute. After we stopped waving our tired
+arms to the crowds of friends on the docks and the last bouquet aimed at
+the Mayor's tug had landed in the bay, small groups, with radiant faces,
+discussed what do you suppose? No, not the crossing of the Bar, but the
+opening of the ship's bar. As you know, Uncle Sam seems to consider the
+dry law impossible on the water.
+
+We were all saying that San Francisco's farewell made us proud to belong
+to such a city, when M. A. Gale told us that he wanted to add a word of
+praise for one of San Francisco's traffic officers, who let him by when
+he made a speedy trip for some valuables left behind, which had just
+been missed at the last moment. But, do you remember who was the last
+passenger? She was nervous and fidgety ever since she came on board,
+too. None other than Bulah, the handsome mare bound for Yokohama. It was
+worth going through the steerage to watch her enjoy one of our "eleven
+o'clock" apples.
+
+When the lunch gong sounded, we all went below (doesn't that sound real
+nautical?) to try and get settled in our home for the next three months.
+Apparently there was no place left for even our hats, thoughtful gifts,
+fruits, candy and flowers, filled every inch of ordinary space.
+Christmas time was tame by comparison.
+
+Many were down to lunch, fortified by a highball, but at dinner, mal de
+mer had claimed its victims, and there were only a few brave spirits on
+deck to indulge in dancing the first night.
+
+The second day out everybody was trying to remember everyone else by
+name. One positive lady insisted that A. I. Esberg was Dr. Morton, but
+little mistakes were forgotten, and many of the committee were soon
+calling each other by their first names.
+
+While most of us were getting comfortably settled in our deck chairs,
+someone noticed that Louis Glass, George Vranizan, C. W. Hinchcliffe,
+Carl Westerfeld, C. A. Thayer, C. H. James, William Symon, F. S.
+Ballinger, P. H. Lyon, S. L. Schwartz and Henry Mattlage had disappeared
+below. And it is said by one who trailed them to their lair, that the
+Fantan and Pie-gow games, going on in the steerage, were the magnet.
+
+There were other discoveries in the steerage. A Servian girl, Alma
+Karlin, who speaks ten languages fluently, but could not afford a
+first-class passage (although once well-to-do) on account of the low
+exchange value of her country's money. She is on a three-year tour to
+study conditions in the Pacific Islands, to learn if her countrymen can
+successfully immigrate to this region.
+
+A young American married to a Chinaman, a group of Orientals devouring
+an odd-looking concoction with chop sticks, a motley group of Hindus
+with their fezzes, made the picturesque gathering, that gladly received
+the surplus fruits distributed by the belles of the ship.
+
+We struck a squall that surprised many of us enjoying the salt sea
+breeze in our stuffy state rooms, by washing the spray over our neatly
+put-out dinner clothes. That night it took real sea legs to dance while
+the ship rocked. But it was great sport, and Sidney Kahn's University
+Orchestra "jazzed" on as if they were on solid ground.
+
+The third day all of the officers appeared in white. White duck curtains
+replaced the wooden doors. The women blossomed out in the daintiest of
+summer frocks, the men in white flannels, and although most of us found
+our shoes difficult to put on (in spite of the fact that we all had
+shoes a half a size larger) deck games were in full swing and sea
+sickness was a thing of the past.
+
+Commissioner Krull was the first to jump into the open-air swimming
+tank, some of the ladies following. But it took deck tennis and the
+tropics to make the tank popular.
+
+Captain Nelson took us on a tour of inspection, and as eating was the
+principal occupation, we asked to see the electrically operated galley
+first, for, next to the bar, it was the chief attraction. We all have
+heard of electric dish washers, potato peelers, knife sharpeners, bread
+bakers, cake mixers, etc., but what a guarantee for matrimonial bliss
+there would be if every young bride could be as sure as this ship was to
+please the most particular of husbands. How? By using an automatic,
+electric egg boiler that can be set for any time, and when the desired
+number of minutes is reached, presto! up comes the egg out of the
+boiling water! Not a second overdone, or underdone. In China some of us
+were given, as a great delicacy, a "twenty-year-old egg" and toward the
+end of the trip many of us had lost interest in all eggs, no matter how
+cooked.
+
+The stoves burn oil, and although the day was hot, and the noon meal was
+in preparation, there was no excessive heat and no fumes. The white-clad
+Chinese waiters did their appointed tasks with the smoothness and lack
+of confusion of clockwork.
+
+Our smiling waiters greeted us every morning in long blue kimonos. Ours
+answered to the name of Arling, and after one had ordered an abnormal
+breakfast, he suggested that the griddle cakes were "veery goo-wd."
+Everyone ate more than they ever thought they could, and when at eleven
+o'clock, the deck boy came along with broth, few there were that had the
+courage to say, "No." The tang of the sea caused groups to invade the
+charming tea-room, with its yellow curtains and painted wicker
+furniture, at tiffin time. And if chicken, a-la-King, was served after
+the nightly dancing party, - well, everyone said, "We don't make a trip
+like this every day, so, why not?"
+
+There was a weighing machine on the lower deck, but, we all believed
+that it must have been out of order. If we had not gained any more
+pounds than we had spent for oriental souvenirs, we would have been
+lucky.
+
+Some of the older members of the party welcomed the Sunday evening
+movies instead of the strenuous dancing, but we were all glad to go to
+bed after the movie villain had been killed.
+
+
+
+Chapter II
+
+
+
+The servants were so attentive and the beds so soft that many of the
+ladies fell into the custom of having breakfast in the staterooms.
+
+After lunch one sunny day we mounted the steep little stairs to the
+captain's quarters. His spacious combination living and bedroom with
+private bath was a miracle to those of us who had to have the room boy
+move the luggage in order to have space enough to open the quaint little
+bureau drawers. On his center table was one of those strange dwarf
+Japanese trees, that are not permitted to be imported. These odd plants
+seem to thrive in spite of their diet of whiskey and the binding of
+their branches with tiny wires - perhaps, if they must be fed
+exclusively on whiskey, there is another reason besides the possibility
+of their bringing into our country a foreign insect that excludes them.
+
+We were told that the captain's and officers' quarters were certified
+and not counted when the capacity of the ship was figured, so the ship
+seemed bigger than ever to us. Next we invaded the chart room, saw the
+device that tells the whereabouts of a coming typhoon, listened to the
+telephonic arrangement that proclaims the proximity of the buoy bells,
+watched the little indicator that makes a red line depicting the exact
+course of the ship on a circular chart, tried out the fire alarm system
+that instantly rings a bell if a high temperature is registered any
+place on the ship, from the bridal suite to the darkest corner of the
+hold. We set the fog whistle to blow at regular intervals. We were told
+that the searchlight could enable the pilot to discover objects about
+five miles out, and by the time the gyro compass and numerous other
+devices had been explained to us, we were ready to believe that the ship
+cost seven million dollars, and that five thousand dollars was the daily
+operating expense (two thousand dollars of which was spent for the one
+thousand gallons of oil).
+
+The mock trial was one of the features of the trip. Nearly everyone was
+arrested, sentenced or fined. Mrs. F. Panter's and Captain Ruben
+Robinson's trials were the most sensational. In spite of Carl
+Westerfeld's efforts to save Captain Robinson from being convicted of
+fox trotting with a certain charming widow, he was heavily sentenced.
+Louis C. Brown was released upon the hearing of the eloquent pleadings
+of his attorney, Louis H. Mooser. At the close of the session,
+Commissioner Francis Krull imposed a fine upon himself for his merciful
+tendencies as the judge.
+
+When a crowd of us piled into the wireless room and asked the whys and
+wherefores, the poor operator gave up trying to explain why the messages
+were all sent at night, and settled the matter by telling us that the
+atmospheric conditions were better then, and that the ship was equipped
+with two systems, the spark and the arc, but that the arc was given the
+preference. The Empire State kept its apparatus tuned to the one at
+Sloat Boulevard, so if any of those at home missed us, just all they had
+to do was to drive past that station any night, and, perhaps, at that
+very moment, a message was being received from us.
+
+When we saw land, the women immediately planned a meeting to discuss
+what to wear and do when we arrived in Honolulu on the following day. A.
+I. Esberg gave an address the evening before on the meaning of our
+Commercial Relationship tour and the good-will that he believed San
+Francisco would establish by this mission. Afterward we danced, then
+followed a Chinese supper. Yes, we were eating again.
+
+No alarm clock that was ever invented smote the ears with greater
+animosity than did the ship's gong at 6:30 the morning we arrived at
+Honolulu. If it had not been for the fact that the committee was there
+(just outside our portholes, in yachts loaded with leis to welcome us)
+it would have taken even more than that disturber of the peace to arouse
+us, for sleep seemed the most desired thing after the Chinese dinner
+dance that had lasted until the wee hours.
+
+We were all at the luncheon given to us by the Honolulu Commercial Club.
+Faxton Bishop told us of the seriousness of the labor situation and
+asked our aid. We all remember how eloquently our much lamented
+spokesman, A. F. Morrison, answered the address and said that
+California's prosperity depended in many ways upon Hawaiian prosperity
+and their problems were our problems.
+
+Wallace R. Farrington, Governor of the Territory of Hawaii, said that
+the labor situation must be solved to insure the prosperity of the
+islands.
+
+We were next whizzed to the Outrigger Club, and if everyone had seen how
+hard Warren Shannon paddled to reach the crest of a wave before it
+broke, they would all be convinced that he was the hardest working
+supervisor we have.
+
+John H. Wilson, the mayor of Honolulu, motored our party around the
+island and gave us a luncheon at a hotel near one of the beaches. We
+will remember this day as one of our happiest.
+
+
+
+Chapter III
+
+
+
+The first day out of Honolulu we were all discussing our impressions.
+Most of us had passed the Honolulu schools at recess time and had noted
+only one or two white-skinned children. It was, as Dr. A. W. Morton
+expressed it, "Looks like a little Japan." Of course, everyone knows of
+the vividness and great variety of the coloring of the foliage in sharp
+contrast to the brilliant pink soil, but we could not stop talking about
+it. Some of us noted the beauty of a little plant, which at home we
+carefully water and cherish in some tiny pot, only to learn that on the
+Island it grows in such abundance that it is considered nearly as great
+a pest as the Mediterranean fly - so it would seem that beauty in the
+vegetable kingdom does not always mean desirability, any more than it
+does in the human family.
+
+Many of us had been taken over the sugar-cane plantations, seen the
+young plants pushing through the paper (put over them to keep out the
+weeds), gone through the refineries, seeing the cane stalks ground in
+the huge rollers and had been allowed to taste the sickeningly sweet
+molasses. Along the roads were Hawaiian huts with octopi drying on the
+porches, beside the reclining figures of the strong providers of the
+family, resting up, no doubt, from the task of catching and killing the
+octopi by hitting the squid's heads.
+
+Some of the party waxed eloquent about the wonderful leprosy cures,
+recently accomplished in the Islands, through the discoveries of the
+chemist Dr. Dean, who took the chalmoogra oil used in India over a
+thousand years ago as a cure (but according to tradition, the sufferers
+considered the cure worse than the disease) and made it possible to
+take.
+
+Some of us stopped to investigate the powerful wireless station with the
+instruments capable of receiving messages at a distance of 5000 miles.
+Still others told of the island at the Pearl Harbor Naval station being
+purchased for ten thousand dollars and then being sold to our government
+for 400,000 dollars.
+
+Many had not only received the leis, but a new native name as well, for,
+as you know, it is the Hawaiian way of labeling everyone with some name
+that to the Islander expresses their predominant characteristic.
+
+We were gazing at the magnificent sunset, when someone who seemed to
+have inside information, repeated the old adage, "A red sky at night is
+the sailor's delight, but if followed by a red sky in the morning, it's
+the sailor's warning." We had all found the tranquil waters of the
+Pacific so refreshing after the rush and excitement of Honolulu
+sightseeing, and did not know that the worst storm the Empire State had
+experienced was before us.
+
+Most of us rolled out of bed the next morning, and the only reason some
+of us did not fall to the floor was because the bureaus stopped us half
+way, with many a resounding thud. Many of the party did not attempt to
+get up or out of the staterooms. Will we ever forget the dining tables
+equipped with metal railings, divided into sections to hold in the
+dishes? Even then, the eggs and cream rolled over the cloth or into our
+unreceptive laps, and the way the waiters moistened the cloth in the
+spots where they set the water glasses in an attempt to make them stay
+put. But they would not any more than our tummies would "stay put."
+
+We then appreciated the necessity of the railings all over the ship,
+especially when we commenced to hit each side of the passage way in
+trying to step forward. Edward C. Wagner was jestingly remarking to
+Louis Glass that if he should fall, there would be broken "Glass." It
+was but a short while afterward when an unexpected lurch of the ship
+threw him to the deck, breaking his glasses.
+
+We all remember that the deck chairs had an unpleasant way of sliding
+until they hit the opposite wall, bouncing out the sea-sick occupants.
+Even in getting out of the chairs (tied to the railings) many of us
+fell. The upper deck looked like the ward of an emergency hospital. Mrs.
+A. F. Morrison had fallen, breaking a bone in her wrist, Mrs. E.
+Dinkelspiel had her head injured, Louis Glass had a bandage over his cut
+face, and scarcely anyone escaped without black and blue marks.
+
+To see one of our capitalists being led weakly by a strong attendant,
+while grasping his mal de mer tin firmly, was a sight unnoticed, in the
+tumult of rushing waves. Of course, all portholes were closed, two of
+the crew narrowly escaped being washed overboard. Their spotless uniform
+of white had long since been discarded for rain coats and high boots.
+Some of us slept out on deck rather than negotiate the treacherous
+stairs to the uncertain joys of a stateroom in which the trunks had to
+be lashed to the walls to avoid painful contact (you see, many of us had
+the vivid recollection of the crashes that woke us). In most cases the
+dainty bureau scarfs upon which reposed the Cologne bottle, mirror,
+powder, hairpins, etc., etc., had dashed into one conglomerate, broken
+mass on the floor.
+
+M. A. Gale and Warren Shannon (usually the life of the party) were seen
+in dejected heaps, with only half-closed eyes visible above the steamer
+robes.
+
+Mrs. Carrie Schwabacher gathered about the piano those well enough to be
+about (after the storm had been raging for two days and nights), playing
+old-fashioned songs, to try to raise the drooping spirits.
+
+Chanticleer never greeted the morning with gayer spirits than this
+party, when we saw the clouds had rolled away, and when someone
+repeated, "On the road to Mandilay, where the flying fishes play" (while
+we watched the flying fishes play), all the old familiar quotations took
+on a new significance of realty.
+
+
+
+Chapter IV
+
+
+
+On  October 10, Dorothy Gee, the Chinese girl banker of San Francisco,
+presided over the ceremony celebrating the tenth anniversary of the
+Chinese independence Day, held in the steerage. Besides giving a clever
+address, she acted as interpreter for the speeches delivered by F. R.
+Eldridge, chief of the Far Eastern Division for the Bureau of Foreign
+and Domestic Commerce, A. F. Morrison and A. I. Esberg.
+
+Many of us felt a great curiosity to see the engine that had pushed us
+through the storm, so we descended countless iron stairs, down to the
+very bottom of the ship; above us towered a bewildering assortment of
+ladders, levers, pipes and valves. The heat was over-powering, so we
+rushed to the ventilator and cooled off quickly. The deafening noise
+prevented us from hearing all the engineer's explanations. Next we were
+taken singly (as the space between the two massive doors will not permit
+of more) through the two massive doors separating the boilers from the
+rest of the ship. In case of an accident all the doors of the ship,
+including these, could be automatically closed from the deck, dividing
+the ship into three compartments.
+
+We saw how the thirty-seven cakes of ice, consumed daily, were made,
+inspected the laundry and peeked in where the precious, rapidly
+diminishing liquors were stored, and we all felt satisfied that we knew
+"What made the wheels go around."
+
+With the regular meetings of the Executive committee, with Herbert
+Hoover's Trade Investigation committee (consisting of Lansing Hoyt, C.
+J. Mayer, Gordon Enders, E. Kehich, Paul Steindorff and headed by F. R.
+Eldridge), mingling with the party to assist in establishing friendly
+commercial relationship; with all those identified with certain
+businesses and professions divided into groups, and even with the women
+organized, we felt ready to meet any Oriental dignitaries, or
+delegations.
+
+We remember well how often Warren Shannon, with his unfailing humor,
+sent us into gales of laughter, auctioning off the numbers that
+represented the possible run of the ship on the following day. Louis
+Mooser bid the first one hundred dollars on the number that won the
+pool. C. H. Matlage, William Muir, F. H. Speich, Louis Brown, Mrs. S.
+Schwartz and Mrs. Carrie Schwabacher were also heavy bidders.
+
+Everyone started borrowing clothes from everyone else, right after
+breakfast, the day of the masquerade. P. J. Lyon made a very gay girl,
+C. R. Reed went as Woodrow Wilson, A. I. Esberg as a Chinese, C. B.
+Lastrete as a bandit, Margarete Rice as Cleopatra, Mrs. Bruce Foulkes as
+a beautiful Spanish senorita, Constant Meese, W. Levintritt, F. W. Boole
+and C. H. Matlage as "Four Dainty Kewpies," Edward C. Wagner as an
+oiler, and Carl Westerfeld was a regular devil.
+
+Of course, Mrs. A. Gee, Mrs. A. B. Luther, Mrs. Washburn, Mrs. Wheeler,
+Mrs. Boole, Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Shannon and Mrs. Grady looked charming, as
+usual. The Misses Bridge, Miss Kinslow, Miss Neff and Miss Bell also
+looked attractive. Dr. Gates, Dr. Judell, Miss Simon, Mrs. Rothenberg,
+Mrs. Denson, Mrs. Dunn, Mrs. Yates, the Misses Hunter, Mrs. Barnard,
+Miss James, Mrs. Ross, A. W. Morton, Jr., and Mrs. Krull went to such a
+lot of trouble to get up their interesting costumes. Henry S. Bridge
+had, "a fine make-up" and looked like a real Southern Negro. Pretty Miss
+Howlett and Miss Wood always made one think of the posters of "Sweet
+Sixteen."
+
+Warren Shannon's Entertainment committee, assisted by Miss Moore, Miss
+Craig, Mrs. Bercovich and Mrs. Panter, certainly discovered the talent
+on board and we will always be grateful for the sweet singing of
+charming Mrs. Gale, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Schwartz and Miss Reed and the
+playing of Miss Moore, Mrs. Alexander and of our talented "Mary."
+
+If anyone felt a bit out of sorts all they had to do was to think of the
+courage and sweet, uncomplaining manner of Mrs. Morrison or what good
+sailors Mrs. Anna R. Luther and Miss Louise Elliott were trying to be.
+
+-
+
+Columbus never strained his eyes more eagerly to see land than the San
+Francisco Chamber of Commerce representatives did, when someone said
+that the dim outline of Fujiyama might be visible above the hazy shore
+that looked as much like clouds as land.
+
+All the men of the party were so busy with their field glasses, admiring
+Yokohoma Harbor's wonderful fortifications, that they did not even hear
+the women question what sort of a dress would be suitable for the coming
+grand reception, and yet, at the same time withstand sight-seeing in the
+dust of the streets. Even Mary Garden on her opening night did not
+receive such rapt attention as did this harbor.
+
+As we looked down over the huge side of the Empire State upon the
+turmoil of humanity, baggage and freight and the uneven street beyond,
+we gave thanks to the Baptist missionary, who is credited with making an
+old baby carriage into the first rickshaw, for the convenience of his
+sick wife. When we saw the little brown men actually run away with our
+most corpulent representatives, without any apparent effort, we forgot
+all about "Man's inhumanity to man" and no baby ever enjoyed its first
+perambulator outing more than our party.
+
+First, we swooped down upon the banks to change our money, but the yen
+and sen counted out to us seemed as valueless as stage money. However,
+we grew to respect it, after visiting Benton Dori and departing with
+elaborate kimonos that the shrewd businessmen and women of the party
+would have passed by as being too expensive, at home.
+
+It was great fun after being extravagant to figure out that a yen is
+only a little over half as much as one of our dollars and that one had
+only spent half as much as one thought.
+
+Our party met the ladies (some of them American college graduates) and
+gentlemen of the Yokohama Chamber of Commerce at a big reception in a
+theatre. The governor, through his interpreter, said that our arrival
+was on the first sunny day they had had in some time, that the
+chrysanthemums were just blooming, and that this was a good omen, for
+the war clouds had vanished. Geisha girls danced while singing a
+specially composed chant of welcome, and an elaborate luncheon was
+served in an adjoining hall. A. I. Esberg and F. R. Eldridge answered
+the welcome saying, "That we hoped to establish much more friendly and
+permanent relationship with the people of Japan."
+
+Most of the party had the inevitable tea in the foreign settlement,
+known as the Bluff. Most of these houses are of the vintage of fifty
+years ago and range in rental from $125 to $150, unfurnished, the tenant
+having to install his own plumbing if he wishes such a luxury. We wanted
+to know why some better arrangement was not made and were reminded of
+the law that does not permit of any foreign ownership of land.
+
+Louis Mooser, former head of the San Francisco Real Estate Board, was
+much interested in the situation. It seems that about one-seventh of the
+small area available for foreigners was under perpetual lease to the
+Germans and we were told that when war broke out it was taken over by
+the Japanese, who only allowed their own race to buy, and all rents were
+immediately raised.
+
+It was said that instead of complaining about how little land Japan was
+allowed in the United States, it would be fairer to give Americans in
+Japan the same privileges that she enjoys in some of our states.
+
+Americans in Yokohoma say that the Japanese law drafted to relieve this
+situation and often proudly referred to by Japanese diplomats, has never
+really been passed and therefore has no value. They add that if old
+Marquis Okuma had more peace-craving followers and the lawmakers were
+responsible to the people instead of the Emperor, for whom they are said
+to act, differences between the United States and Japan could be more
+quickly and completely settled.
+
+
+
+Chapter V
+
+
+
+To board a train after our long sea-trip was a delightful change. After
+passing through quaint villages, rice fields, and interesting garden
+patches we arrived at Tokyo in time for the ambassador's reception. The
+moment one talks to Charles Warren, in charge of our American Embassy in
+Japan, one feels that our Japanese problems are in very conservative and
+capable hands.
+
+Between receptions, we visited many quaint and beautiful temples. At one
+we were so hospitably received, served with tea and dainty rice cakes
+made with a special emblem upon them for the occasion that we forgot to
+grumble about being made to remove our shoes. Only a few of the party
+remembered the Japanese custom of removing the outer foot-gear, when
+entering their temples, and came prepared with easily removed pumps.
+They had a good laugh at the row of dignified, badge-bedecked
+representatives, solemnly lacing up their shoes, while sitting on the
+stoop about a foot from the ground, with the blazing sun upon them.
+
+When we talked to some of the American residents in Japan, they all got
+on the old familiar subject, the high cost of living, but they seem to
+agree that it cost just twice as much to live in Japan as any other
+place in the world. It seems that without considering the high rent, an
+amah (a sort of maid who will do only certain duties), a house boy (who
+is anywhere from twelve to sixty years old), and a cook (who gets a
+commission on everything you buy) must be kept, even in the simplest of
+homes. Those accustomed to one servant in America usually find it
+necessary to have from three to six in Japan. Of course their wages are
+less than in the United States, but food is very high. Rice, for
+instance, was twenty percent higher than in America. Inferior coal was
+twenty-two fifty a ton, and the high ceilinged, furnace less houses
+require a great deal of coal and wood in winter. Very few Americans use
+the jammed street cars. Automobiles are very expensive to maintain, not
+only on account of the rough streets, but the licenses are very high.
+One of our party hired a rick-shaw for twenty minutes and paid a yen
+(about fifty cents), so residents usually find it more economical to
+keep their own rick-shaws and coolies.
+
+Certainly the Japanese are past masters in entertaining. No wonder it is
+said that some of our former diplomats were so much influenced by their
+lavish entertainment's that they lost their heads. The Chamber of
+Commerce of Tokyo greeted our Chamber of Commerce representatives at an
+elaborate theatre party. An especially staged Japanese drama, followed
+by a comedy, with a sumptuous dinner between the acts, was only a part
+of the entertainment. A. I. Esberg and Byron Mauzy answered the banzis,
+of the oldest merchant in Japan, Baron Okura, with three rousing cheers
+for the Japanese, after the formal addresses had been made.
+
+Everywhere we were met with politeness and courtesy. To the casual
+observer the military element is not noticeable in the home life of the
+common people, as they are rapt in their work, very industrious and get
+their pleasure talking to their ever present babies, or tending some
+little plants, even if squalor surrounds them. But the word of the ones
+higher up is absolute law to them. Discipline is supreme from the time
+the small boy is taught the "Goose Step," preparatory to his military
+training, until he obediently marries the girl his parents have selected
+for him. He does what he is told without a murmur, as does his wife who
+is his absolute slave.
+
+One understands why some call Japan the Germany of the East, which
+country, some of our delegates were told by foreign residents, Japan
+greatly admires. It is said that her people were more than surprised and
+disappointed when the armistice was signed; as the Japanese press was so
+well censored it gave no indication that Germany could be defeated.
+
+After a day of sight-seeing, and investigating various trade conditions,
+our party found the rickshaw ride back to the hotel, at dusk, most
+interesting and quite exciting, if one has not become accustomed to the
+rule of turning to the left instead of the right, as we do at home.
+Packed street cars, automobiles, carts piled high with incredible loads
+pulled by coolies, a girder being dragged by a scrawny horse led by a
+seemingly tireless, whip-equipped native, all apparently were about to
+collide with our rick-shaw party. We seemed to be always in the way and
+always on the wrong side of the street. We remembered with a shudder,
+that the Japanese believe it noble to die, and seemingly, they were
+going to drag us to destruction with them. We tried to get them to go
+slower but could not think of the Japanese words, so we might just as
+well have tried to stop the North wind, as to have changed the orders
+given by our interpreter to the coolies.
+
+
+
+Chapter VI
+
+
+
+We did not know that when we boarded the special train chartered by the
+Tokyo Chamber of Commerce to take the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
+representatives to inspect the silk filatures, that a delightful
+luncheon, or as it is called there, "Tiffin," was awaiting us under the
+trees.
+
+Although the heat was oppressive, it was surprising to see how
+ceaselessly, and apparently without pain, little girls from twelve years
+up, kept five cocoons unrolling at once, in boiling water, in order to
+make a single thread of silk. We were told that these girls worked from
+twelve to fourteen hours a day, for which they receive forty cents a day
+and food, getting a bonus at the end of the year, which amounts to
+approximately one months' salary. Sundays are not holidays in Japan, but
+workers have two days off a month.
+
+We saw the whole process, from the sorting of the yellow and white
+cocoons to the huge bolts ready for the market, while one of our smiling
+hosts significantly remarked, "The yellow and white blend very nicely
+together."
+
+We were interested in learning that the principal owner of this huge
+plant has adopted his wife's family name in order to follow the custom
+of not allowing a family name to die out, in case there are no sons and
+none have been adopted.
+
+As over one-third of Japan's trade is with the United States, and a
+large portion of that is in silk, our clever hosts had printed on the
+cover of the booklet presented to us, "Silk is the shining cord that
+binds United States and Japan."
+
+The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce representatives had been given the
+year book of Japan, all sorts of pamphlets containing figures and facts
+concerning various enterprises, and so a day at Nikko, away from
+statistics, was most welcome.
+
+Nikko's sacred grove of Cryptomerie trees said to be over three hundred
+years old, never looked more impressive than in the first rain we had
+had while in Japan. One of the party who had traveled extensively in the
+Orient previously, advised us to forget our trade commercial mission
+long enough to see Nikko and then we could afford to overlook all the
+other temples. Certainly nature and man's art achieved a double triumph
+here, and this advice must have piqued the curiosity of most of the
+stolid businessmen of the party; for yellow strips of rubber and paper
+umbrellas were rented, and in spite of the downpour, the great stairs
+were mounted. Even comfy shoes were parted with in order to tread upon
+the cold marble floors of the ancient temples. We now know, shoes have
+to be checked with umbrellas at the outer doors in Japan.
+
+We were not the only ones seeing Nikko at eight A. M. in the storm.
+Besides the groups of soldiers and the crowds of pilgrims from all over
+Japan, there was the ceaseless click-click of the wooden shoes of
+thousands of children on the stone steps.
+
+When we left the cozy dining-room of the hotel with its charming outlook
+upon a mossy bank, where quaint shrubs were flourishing, we felt quite
+proud of ourselves for braving the weather, until we asked our guide why
+so many children were there that day. He said, "You see, it is such a
+fine day for an excursion, not too hot or cold, no one notices the
+rain."
+
+On the way to the train we saw a queer old pawn shop, filled with
+wonderful antiques. Some of the party claim that the shop was bought
+out, so some of our San Francisco relatives will get an inkling from
+this where Santa Claus may have gotten some of their Christmas presents.
+
+Most of us did not mind being scolded for over-paying our sweating
+rick-shaw coolies, but we all felt rather uncomfortable when we were
+told that we should never have paid the first price asked in any of the
+shops, and that our prize purchases could probably have been bought for
+half the price by a clever bargainer.
+
+-
+
+In a corner of the car, that was taking the San Francisco Chamber of
+Commerce party to Kyoto, the heart of Japan, sat a little Japanese girl
+in true Buddha style with her little toes crossed, filling her pipe from
+her purse and taking the usual three puffs (that is about all these
+pipes hold). She looked about fifteen, but must have been nineteen,
+because, in Japan no one is allowed to smoke until that age has been
+attained, and no native would think of breaking a rule.
+
+We arrived in time for the Jidai Festival, which is held only once a
+year. We saw a procession showing all the phantastic costumes worn by
+the old-time tribal warriors, and it proved so interesting that we
+decided not to mourn the fact that the cherry blossom celebration was
+out of season. We felt much better, too, when we were reminded that all
+the pilgrims, coming to feast their eyes, never get a taste of the
+luscious fruit, the Japanese cherries being uneatable.
+
+We were told that all prices were raised by the storekeepers when any
+convention arrived in town. Some of us successfully resisted purchasing
+cloissone, and satsuma ware, although we saw it being made and were
+served with tea and coaxed to buy - "Justa leetle souvenir." But the
+kimonos were too much for Mrs. Carrie Schwabacher and Louis Mooser, who,
+in spite of the fact that Mrs. Rockefeller was in Kyoto bidding on some
+of the same garments (which of course raised the prices even higher)
+carried away the prettiest garments in the shops.
+
+Our party could not help noticing, how much the Japanese people, even of
+the lowest class, appreciate their temples and statues.
+
+One of the party asked if anyone knew a person in San Francisco, with
+the possible exception of some scholarly teacher, who could describe
+even imperfectly the statues in Golden Gate Park. Here the Japanese
+journey miles to see a statue. The old scholars always preached the
+potency of something half concealed to stimulate the imagination, but it
+took a Japanese sage to conceive the idea of building a fine statue of a
+favorite war hero and then to bury it. And now thousands come to Kyoto
+to the very spot where the statue is buried, imagining its proportions,
+and praying for strength and success in their encounters.
+
+We were told that the belief that the Emperor is a God-like being is
+strengthened by the fact that he is never seen and therefore his
+people's glorified imagery of him is never shattered. We were told that
+the Emperor is seen only by a carefully selected group twice a year,
+once at the Cherry Blossom season and once at the Chrysanthemum
+Festival, and if it rains on these days the reception is put off for
+another year.
+
+Why, the mystery of the Orient was even found in our menus, and it did
+not take long for the Pandoras of our party to find out that "Bubble and
+Squeak" was good old ham and eggs and "Angels under Cover" were oysters
+wrapped in bacon.
+
+After official business was over for the day, the party "did" Theatre
+Street, where our own movie queens reigned beside some poster depicting
+a Japanese soldier fighting a dragon. Byron Mauzy told us that our jazz
+music is often called for and that pianos with a specially made case to
+withstand the dampness, were in demand.
+
+Our party found out why someone said, "There is as much red-tape
+necessary to go through a Japanese palace as there is to get married,"
+for we faced the grim-armed soldiers at the outer gates, but were not
+allowed to enter until our credentials had been carefully inspected.
+Then we were permitted to go into a small outer room where we wrote our
+names, addresses, etc., in a large book. After a scrutiny of this and a
+long wait, giving them sufficient time to telephone and see if our
+passes were authentic, we were formally escorted through beautifully
+carved portals, past endless, handsomely decorated, empty rooms, over
+the squeaky door sill (that is supposed to warn the inmates of someone's
+approach) and finally to the canopied gold-mounted throne itself.
+
+We began to feel a little easier, when we got out in the sun of the
+garden, but even there we felt formal, for in these sacred gardens no
+gay flower or dashing stream is permitted. Nature, too, must be subdued,
+and even the little trickle of water circling the buildings, was there
+for the sole purpose of suggesting purity, we were informed.
+
+After the reception and investigation tour of Kobe, forty of the party
+boarded a train for Peking, under the direction of Hoover's
+representative, F. R. Eldridge.
+
+We had enjoyed Fujiyama by moonlight, but did not know that we were also
+to glide by the Inland Sea at sunset. Korea's roads, built of course, by
+the Japanese soldiers, and the guarded stations of Manchuria, were of
+much interest to the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce investigators.
+
+Every evening impromptu speeches on conditions were held in the dining
+car. M. A. Gale, Henry S. Bridge, and Louis Mooser also vied with each
+other telling funny stories, Carl Westerfeld contributing to the
+entertainment by organizing a group of the party into "The South
+Manchurian Quartet." Dave and Resse Lewellyn started to sing "Annie
+Rooney" and "Mother McCree" whenever things were too quiet.
+
+We stopped long enough at Seoul, Korea, to talk to representatives of
+trade and commerce and to chat with the "Grand Old Man of Korea," before
+arriving in Peking.
+
+
+
+Chapter VII
+
+
+
+Our stay in three-thousand year-old Peking was too short, for besides
+investigating conditions, attending our Minister Shurman's reception,
+visiting the country home of the former Prime Minister Hsuing Hsi-Ling,
+we would have enjoyed spending more time seeing The Summer Palace, The
+Jade Fountain and the Temple of Heaven to say nothing of studying
+conditions.
+
+About one-thirty, when the gay dance had ended at Hotel de Peking, which
+by the way, would be a credit to London or New York, we took an hour's
+rickshaw ride in the moonlight to the Forbidden City. The solemn
+pom-pom-pom of the funeral dirge for the Mother of the heir to the
+Chinese Throne, was indescribably impressive. About eighty men bore the
+casket from the dwelling to its canopied hearse. One of the mourner's
+told us that the fourteen-year-old heir to the throne, had not cared
+much, when all his playthings were taken from him, or even when his
+throne was taken, but that now he was inconsolable over the loss of his
+mother.
+
+After seeing this weird funeral procession of the last of the Ming
+Dynasty in the gray of early dawn, seeing a Buddha with eyes of pure
+gold, and also riding the Hodzu rapids, it took an aeroplane ride to
+create any real excitement in our party.
+
+Six of the Chamber of Commerce Representatives decided to see the Great
+Wall of China and the Ming Tombs, regardless of the lack of time; so
+Carl Westerfeld, Mrs. Bruce Foulkes, David and Reese Lewellyn, Miss Mary
+Moynihan and M. Hazlett, Jr., chartered a Vickers Vimmy Biplane. The
+air-riders felt much less perturbation after being informed that this
+machine cost the Chinese government fifty thousand dollars, weighed over
+five tons, and had comfortable wicker seats in a pretty little cabin for
+nine people. They were so proud to accomplish in an hour and a half, a
+trip which usually takes two days, that we will tell some of them that
+they have not come down to earth yet, if they keep on telling us what we
+missed by not going.
+
+We had no sooner gotten accustomed to the Japanese money and were able
+to say, "Ohio," (good-morning), and a few other Japanese words glibly,
+when we had to learn "Pidgin English" and use the "Mex" dollar in China,
+and next we were told to exchange our money from Peking notes to
+Shanghai currency.
+
+The approach to Shanghai, the Paris of the East, along its beautiful row
+of buildings on the waterfront, and called The Bund, surprised even the
+muchly thrilled Chamber of Commerce Party.
+
+The American Consul, C. T. Cunningham, was very ill, but his wife gave
+us a reception. A dinner by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and an
+examination of trade exhibits followed.
+
+The six physicians of the party received their biggest surprise at the
+Chinese Theatre when, in the middle of the performance, a large towel
+that had evidently been dipped in warm water, was passed around to the
+audience so that the theatre-goers might wipe off the perspiration or
+beads of excitement from their faces and hands. The towel was a rich
+shade of brown by the time it reached our party. Germs? Why they never
+thought of such a thing and seem to feel, "Where ignorance is bliss,
+'tis folly to be wise."
+
+If Shanghai thrilled us, Hongkong fascinated us, when we ascended in a
+railroad something like our Tamalpais cars to the peak. To reach the
+very top, cozy wicker chairs, mounted on bamboo poles, carried by two
+coolies, are necessary. The movement of the chair while descending
+reminds one of a ride on a rather old, single-gaited horse.
+
+Our party will always associate Macao, China, with "Dante's Inferno." To
+see the half-clothed Chinese bending over their open fires in the opium
+factory, to see children soldering the covers of the little boxes their
+brothers have just finished mixing and filling, will always be an awful,
+vivid picture in our memories.
+
+The cigar factory also seemed a fine sample of what some good people
+wish us to believe awaits the wicked. Babies, not able to walk, are busy
+working beside their mothers stripping the tobacco leaf from the stems.
+
+If the cigar and opium factories shocked us, the firecracker factory
+appalled us. A crowd of youngsters huddled in a tiny, filthy room filled
+with powder, were working with wonderful dexterity, ceaselessly putting
+fuses in firecrackers. No one seemed to notice or care if a visitor
+might carelessly let a light fall from a cigar or drop a match. Many of
+us decided that perhaps the proverb: "If you want to make a Chinese
+happy, just buy him a coffin," is not so far off, because death to many
+of them looks much more attractive than life. We were told that if a
+Chinese falls off his sampan, his neighbor does not try to save him.
+That would be a "Bad Joss" as they say and would incur the wrath of the
+River God, who pulled him in. Then, too, the rescuer would have to
+support him for the rest of his days.
+
+
+
+The Homeward Trip
+Chapter VIII
+
+
+
+The Stop at Singapore
+
+
+
+They say that anticipation is half of enjoyment, but the Chamber of
+Commerce Party never could have imagined the pleasure we were to have in
+Singapore, although the expected palms waved greetings from the shore as
+an indication of the tropical scenes we were to see.
+
+We had heard it said that, "He who tries to hurry the Orient shall come
+to a speedy grave," and we thought there must be some truth in it, when
+at the junction of two busy streets we saw a lazy native peacefully
+reposing, on his cot bed, in the middle of two lines of traffic. Nice
+quiet spot for a nap, while the sun was beating down with such force
+that the men of the party drew their new helmets well down over their
+heads. Stanley, exploring darkest Africa, could not have heard more
+precautions and sunstroke warnings, than the men of this party. But the
+guide-book authors do not seem to care whether the sun strikes the women
+or not. Guess they believe that the women's hair will protect them, or,
+perhaps, it is reasoned, that as the ships usually touch China first,
+(one of the greatest hair markets of the world), the women cheated by
+nature, are supposed to have gotten a goodly supply before they reach
+Singapore.
+
+But do not let this give our friends the idea that the women were
+neglected in Singapore. They say there are only three unmarried white
+girls left in that city and that these are taking their time about
+deciding upon which of the army of males they will select. One fine
+looking chap told a group of ladies of our party that it was two months
+before he learned that in order to secure dances with the popular
+matrons, it was necessary to phone the week before the dance to find out
+whether he was to be favored with the sixth or seventh or ninth dance.
+
+Now before any girl who chances to read the foregoing and packs her
+trunks for this tropical spot, let me warn her that it is so hot that
+the powder stays on about as well as water on a duck's back, and a
+lizard is liable to drop in her lap at any time. At least that is what
+happened to the smallest debutante of our party, Miss Sallie Glide, at
+one of the dances given in honor of the San Francisco Delegates. And
+while some of the young couples of our party were strolling through the
+wonderful botanical gardens admiring the Travelers Palm, whose
+fan-shaped branches are said to be the compass of the desert, as their
+branches always point east and West, a family of wild monkeys (with the
+baby monkeys clinging to the mothers' breasts) crossed the path. And a
+little further on a snake charmer giving his cobras an airing, was
+encountered. If the element of danger appeals to her, then this is the
+place for her, for she may expect to see one of these big snakes
+unaccompanied by its master at any time if she ventures in the thicket.
+And just a short trip out of the city is the tiger in his native jungle.
+Phil Lyon and Carl Westerfeld went on a hunt, but H. J. Judell came
+nearest to killing one. He shot between the eyes, as the guide directed,
+but missed the brute.
+
+The variety and brilliancy of the clothing of the cosmopolitan
+inhabitants rivals the scarlets and greens of the botanical gardens. The
+natives, perhaps, try to make up in vivid coloring what they lack in
+quantity. Others are entirely unadorned and most of the children are
+also naked.
+
+Alfred Esberg, C. B. Lastrete, Dwight Grady and J. Parker-Currier were
+given a dinner at the executive mansion of the English governor, Sir
+Laurence Guillemard. This was the first time that American travelers
+were so honored.
+
+The Chinese Chamber of Commerce gave a beautiful reception to our party.
+As we entered the banquet hall, the band played the "Star Spangled
+Banner" and the moving picture machine recorded our activities. Speeches
+were made and conditions discussed, while the champagne flowed freely.
+The ladies were given orchids.
+
+Someone remarked that the white people in Singapore seem bent on
+checking the over-powering heat with internal irrigation. At eleven A.
+M. all assemble at a special resort for the morning "eye-openers,"
+between twelve and two, business stops in order to give the thirsty
+inhabitants time for tiffin accompanied by a half dozen whiskeys and
+sodas or "gin-rickeys"; after four all business ceases for tea, and, if
+the tea cup appears it is usually accompanied by a substantial stick in
+it, to rouse drooping spirits. Of course during dinner and the evening
+Bacchus reigns. Now, I suppose some of you understand why there are so
+many apparently contented men in Singapore, in spite of the climate.
+
+All the lovers that were accustomed to haunt the top deck, called the
+"Honey-moon Deck of the Empire State," took rides through the jungle.
+The tropical moonlight reflecting the palms in the rippling water and
+the trip through the Gap (a break in the hills disclosing the sea far
+beyond, as one of the justly famous sunsets was in progress), are said
+to have done their work, and four couples, the gossips say, are expected
+to announce their engagements. One of the ship's wits said, "Again the
+dashing widows have proven far more attractive than some of their
+unmarried sisters." Mrs. Carrie Schwabacher, offered a linen shower to
+the first couple that were married on board, but they all seemed
+bashful. Louis Mooser suggested that the name of the ship be changed
+from Empire State to "Vampire State."
+
+Some of our party visited homes in Singapore and found one solution of
+the "servant problem." In many cases, the mistress of the house pays a
+No. 1 boy, or upper servant, as you know they call them there, a fixed
+sum to purchase so many meals and to take the entire responsibility of
+the buying and running of the house, while she comes and goes and
+entertains as a guest at a hotel. There are no unexpected huge bills at
+the end of the month; if the cook leaves, why should she worry, No. 1
+boy just gets another.
+
+
+
+Chapter IX
+
+
+
+Java
+
+
+
+Some of the Chamber of Commerce party were frank enough to admit that
+their most vivid recollections of hearing about Java were, in connection
+with Moca, together with eggs and toast and the usual accompaniments of
+the breakfast table, but we were all in for a revelation. The
+cultivation of the hillsides in Japan is child's play in comparison with
+the miles upon miles of hills, plateaus and even mountains, all in
+flourishing rice fields, coffee plantations and sugarcane.
+
+One can now realize what the late Premier Hara of Japan meant, when he
+is said to have admitted to some intimates that there was no
+over-population in Japan if only fifteen percent of the vast tracts (61
+percent of all Japan) were utilized (as it is in Java), enough space for
+Japan's growing population could easily be found. It is said that the
+Japanese Emperor and his advisers will never dispose of this land or
+allow it to be used.
+
+Our party separated over the land of Java, like the forty tribes of
+Biblical history. Some went to the famous ruins of Bora Badur erected
+ages ago, some to Djorka to see the native dances and to see the strange
+old walled city, where the Sultan, his wives and the fifteen thousand
+natives, said to be related to him, live. While the Sultan and his harem
+are seated, cross-legged on the floor, with the Dutch Queen's pictures
+looking sternly down upon them, the ever waiting counselors of the
+Sultan squat outside the sacred precincts. These wise-looking old
+counselors of the Sultan also have their retinue of servants waiting on
+them - one with a pipe, another with a pillow, still another with a fan,
+etc., etc. Our delegation was especially honored in being permitted to
+go in the sacred place where the ancient bedroom is situated. We even
+spied some harem beauties in the distance.
+
+Those of the party desiring a complete change from the sea, went to the
+picturesque resort of Garot, perched high up near a volcano. Many of the
+businessmen stayed right in Batavia to study business conditions. Still
+others went to the Botanical gardens of Boetenzorg and to see wonderful
+scenery near Bandoeng, but all attended the ball given for us the night
+we departed at Batavia.
+
+In starting out in any vehicle in the tropics we were all taken miles
+out of our way. The drivers never attempted to find out where one wished
+to go, or listened to one if one tried to make them understand. They
+start off with a flourish, usually in the wrong direction, before they
+can be stopped. It makes no difference to them. They know they are hired
+and that is all they care about. Perhaps this is one reason why Charles
+Yates unfortunately missed the ship. Constant Meese found the streets
+apparently deserted one night when our party wished transportation back
+to the ships but by clapping his hands together, half a dozen rick-shaws
+came tumbling over each other to get there first. Sometimes the clapping
+of the hands is not enough to attract the native's attention, as he
+rarely listens to orders; some of the party say they have found the
+typical tourist's cane most effective and think they have discovered a
+real reason for a cane at last.
+
+At Batavia the well-known Captain Edward Salisbury left his
+world-touring yacht "Wisdom," to join our party. He entertained us in
+the evenings with weird tales of his adventures in the South Seas, where
+pigs are exchanged for wives and the wives thus acquired are then put to
+work to raise more pigs to get new wives.
+
+
+
+Saigon
+
+
+
+Good students of geography will doubtless recall that the approach to
+Saigon is through the crookedest river in the world. As I usually "just
+passed" in this subject, cannot speak with authority, but I will
+guarantee that it has many more curves than our Tamalpais railroad,
+advertised all over as being "The crookedest railway on the globe."
+
+So the members of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce tour were busy
+speculating on just how many turns and twists the Empire State had made
+before she finally docked at Saigon, when some members of the Saigon
+Reception committee told us that we were the largest American steamship
+that ever had landed in port.
+
+Two large busses were placed at the disposal of our delegation. The
+Cercle Sportivo gave a dance at their club in our honor and two tea
+dansants were held at the Continental Hotel. Some of the ladies got
+quite accustomed to the bags of mosquito netting that one slips one's
+feet in, to evade the pests while dining, but most of us forget to step
+out, and, for a moment, thought we were in a sack race.
+
+The elephant at the beautiful botanical gardens, that would go and buy
+himself food when given the proper amount of money was interesting, but
+he was not the real attraction at Saigon. Our party had been entertained
+by the Geisha girls, sung almost to distraction (you know it is impolite
+for the sing-song girls of China to stop singing until requested to
+stop). We had watched the dancing of the Javanese and Philippine
+Ballerinas, but, we had to come here to see the real French girls. We
+now understand why many of our soldiers came home with French wives -
+"vamp" is the only word we could think of in describing every one of
+them. Never before had we seen so many picture hats.
+
+What fun we all had airing our moth-eaten French. (Here I am not
+referring to the few of our party that speak French fluently.) And it
+was several days before some of us stopped calling the Chinese
+cabin-boys "Garcon."
+
+Perhaps, to show that the San Francisco committee appreciated the
+distinction of being on board a ship fifteen feet longer than any other
+American steamer to make that port, we broke off part of the propeller
+as a souvenir in departing.
+
+
+
+Chapter X
+
+
+
+Manila
+
+
+
+Never were more elaborate preparations made to receive our big
+delegation. Some said it was a wise precaution to have the day the
+Philippine Chamber of Commerce were to entertain us before the
+publishing of the "Wood-Forbes Report;" but after the report had been
+made public we found the laughter and shouts of "Viva" (long life) from
+the children and the heartfelt greetings of their elders, were
+cordiality and good-fellowship personified.
+
+We were told that there were three times the number of people in Java as
+in the Philippines, but that the Philippines could easily support a
+population of 50,000,000. We were so glad to hear this, as there are
+more babies there than any other place in the Orient, with the exception
+of Japan, but the Philippine babies seem to be free from the awful sores
+we noted on many of the Japanese children. However, it seems that infant
+mortality is great in the Philippines, on account of the improper diet
+of the mothers and many of the babies die, we were told, as their
+mother's milk does not agree with them. One of the first orders of
+Governor-General Leonard Wood was to call a meeting to check the infant
+mortality.
+
+In an interview, just after the "Wood-Forbes Report" had been published,
+Governor Leonard Wood said, "I look for great things from the women of
+the Philippines; the quicker they form a part of the Government, the
+better for the Islands." He seems to feel that they are the most
+important factor in the islands and considers them more dependable than
+the men. He told with great satisfaction how he had arranged for Miss
+Hartlee Emprey (the research worker from the Rockefeller Hospital at
+Peking, who succeeded in perfecting a four-cent-a-day diet for the
+famine-stricken in China) to eliminate the malnutrition in the food for
+the young Philippine mothers and to discover a better diet for the
+lepers. Governor Wood added, "I want doctors, lots of them, modern
+equipment' and nurses to make more sanitary conditions. I also wish the
+diseases destructive to cattle studied." There are only 930 nurses in
+the islands and funds and equipment are needed badly. More doctors are
+needed in curing the lepers. In speaking of the present condition of the
+islands, he said, "The Philippines are not ready to cut loose from the
+United States."
+
+Everything was done in Manila to make us feel at home, from the moment
+the Reception Committee landed on board and Mayor Fernandez handed over
+the keys of the city. After being entertained by the Chinese,
+Philippine, Spanish and American Chambers of Commerce and being told
+that there were countless dialects and language mixtures, we were not
+surprised that a telephone operator must speak at least nine languages.
+
+The Montalban Falls trip, as guests of the Philippine Chamber of
+Commerce, made us recall the days of 1915, for there the same leader of
+the Philippine Orchestra at the Exposition, greeted us. We passed
+through a flower-decorated arch and then beneath a specially constructed
+bower under which were the charmingly set tables for our "tiffin."
+
+The second day in Manila we were taken to the Pampanga Sugar Refinery.
+Here the men of the party had lengthy talks with the officials, while
+the women of the party were being entertained at a luncheon. The ladies
+were told that the American factory girl who spends the best part of her
+week's wages for silk stockings has her equal in the Philippines. It
+seems that the natives (yes, the men too) are so fond of showy clothing
+that they will go buy some fancy trifle, when they are in need of food.
+Very often the employer has to feed them so as to be sure they will have
+strength enough to do their work properly. It seems that many Filipinos
+regard the United States as a child regards a benevolent uncle - they
+want their independence knowing that the United States will get them out
+of any difficulty and protect them from all harm, at the same time,
+letting them have their own way.
+
+They are so quick to learn it is no wonder that many of our soldiers
+turned into teachers, just as the soldiers in Russia today are repeating
+history in this respect.
+
+Members of the local Chamber of Commerce told us that on account of the
+soil and climate, the sugar matured in seven months instead of eighteen
+months necessary in the Hawaiian Islands, and that in one day, the
+refinery (we inspected) could turn out 20,000 tons of sugar, enough to
+supply San Francisco for one year (the help working on two ten-hour
+shifts and receiving one and a half pesos a day a piece).
+
+Although the pineapples have been imported from the Hawaiian Islands to
+the Philippines, they are not subject to the blight that affects them
+there; they have a wonderfully sweet flavor. An increase of a million
+dollars in the industry has recently been reported, our party was told.
+
+The third day we were taken to Pagsanjan Rapids, where the party left in
+small canoes through a scenic gorge. Mrs. Francis Krull, George Vranizan
+and Mrs. Vranizan, Mrs. Bruce Foulkes, S. Swartz and Mrs. Swartz, Harry
+Dana, Frank Howlett, A. I. Esberg and his wife were all thrown out of
+the boats and into the swift current, but all were rescued in time. Dr.
+F. E. Orella introduced the first woman lawyer in Manila, and she
+addressed us in the observation car, on the way back from the Falls.
+
+We passed miles of beautiful groves and were told on the way back to
+Manila, that each tree averaged about fifty cocoanuts a year, but that
+one tree has been known to yield three hundred nuts, and that a new
+breakfast food, made from them, is about to revolutionize the morning
+meal. Also we heard that no longer will it be necessary to go to the
+tropics to enjoy the mango, for a new process has at last been
+discovered that will permit of their being canned. We were told that the
+natives carry long knives and often use them and that someone said,
+"Although they may be dressed in the latest style from toes to head,
+they are still savages from the waist up." This seems difficult to
+believe, in spite of the numerous scars one sees, as one could not but
+feel friendly toward the Filipinos. Their courtesy is typified in their
+road signs that we passed, "Slow please," and after the curve was
+rounded, "Thank you."
+
+We all noticed how clean and neat their appearance was. You know it is
+said that the Japanese keep their bodies clean, but not their clothes,
+while the Koreans keep their clothes clean (perhaps because they are
+white and the dirt is so evident), and not their bodies, that the
+Chinese keep neither their clothes nor their bodies clean, but the
+Filipinos keep both, their bodies and their clothes, immaculate.
+
+One of our party asked one of our hosts. "Why he never said, 'right' and
+'left', in directing the chauffeur." The answer was that in the old days
+the footman's seat was on the left horse, hence 'cella' for left, while
+the driver held his reins in his right hand, therefore 'mono' (or hand)
+means right to the Filipinos.
+
+Reese Lewellyn said, as did most of the Americans in the Islands, "That
+the United States should never give up the Philippine Islands, as they
+are a necessary base for America's importing and exporting." He said,
+"Although, before I made this trip, I was not in favor of the United
+States holding outside territory, I now realize that we must keep the
+Philippines as an outlet for our supplies. In a diplomatic way the
+Filipinos will have to be made to realize that, in spite of the fact
+that they have been told they would be independent of United States,
+conditions warrant our keeping them as a part of the United States."
+
+Our first impression of the native women was that they were all going to
+some ball or had put on their low-necked, transparent evening dresses by
+mistake. But, before any reader gets the impression from this that they
+are immodest, let me hasten to add that we found that they were
+exceptionally sweet and charming and are the souls of propriety. Why,
+even the man engaged to a girl cannot so much as walk with her on the
+streets in the broad daylight, and to take her arm - Oh, horrors! If a
+girl should permit two different beaus to call upon her, even if well
+chaperoned, it would eliminate her matrimonial prospects, as she would
+then be branded as a hopeless flirt, so we were told.
+
+But, needless to say, the few American girls in Manila do not follow
+these rules, for we heard that an engagement for tea with one masculine
+admirer and to watch the oily seola nuts burn at dinner with another
+friend, and to attend an evening dance with a third, is not considered
+unusual. After the Philippine women get the suffrage, Governor Leonard
+Wood seems to want them to have, some of the ladies of our party wonder
+if things will not be a little different for the native women?
+
+We were escorted through cigar factories, hemp works, and to Bilibid
+Prison, where from a central reviewing stand, the avenue of cells with
+the drilling space between, radiate like a great pinwheel. A very
+elaborate drill was given by the prisoners, who were dressed according
+to their conduct - white for the best behavior, blue, fairly good,
+stripes for bad behavior.
+
+Besides the tea dance at the beautiful Spanish Club, the Governor's
+Reception at the Palace (as it is called here), and the numerous dances,
+there was a luncheon given to our party at the delightful Manila Hotel
+by the Rotary Club.
+
+At this function the cablegram to us from Mayor Rolph was read and
+applauded, as were the messages from former Manager Wood of the St.
+Francis, and Manager Manwaring of the Palace. After speeches by A. I.
+Esberg, Byron Mauzy, C. B. Lastreto, Ex-Senator James Phelan, who had
+just arrived in Manila, made a very interesting and humorous address.
+
+He referred to the time when the war over the Philippines was going on,
+at which time he was Mayor of San Francisco. He said, "Then we hardly
+knew where the Philippines were." He dwelt upon the marvelous resources
+of the Islands and warned us not to be like the old miner, who before
+the "Days of '49" said that he saw a sign advertising the village that
+is now San Francisco, for sale for five dollars. When asked, "Why he
+didn't buy it," he said, "He didn't' have the five dollars, and anyway
+he didn't want it then."
+
+Governor Wood finished the speeches with a stirring address. "Capital is
+safe in the Philippines. Take an interest in them," he said. "They are
+big, there are wonderful resources and there is big work to do here. The
+American Flag is still at the top of the pole. The progress of the
+Philippine people in the last twenty-three years cannot be paralleled,
+it could not have been accomplished without their cooperation and
+without our aid." He referred to the so-called laws of discouragement
+that are said to impede business. "I want to get hold of them and
+correct them, but they cannot be changed in a hurry. The United States
+stands for the development of trade and the open-door in the Pacific.
+One of the best piers in the world will be built; the harbor rivals
+Seattle, and Manila will be a great port and a distributor of the
+products of the Far East. There is room for expansion, labor is cheap.
+Germany, the beaten nation, has learned to live without import or export
+and understands cheap living. Competition will be keen. They are out to
+gobble up South American trade. We must get busy. The war talk is
+tommy-rot. Of course there will be wars in the future, but only
+irresponsible people think of war at present."
+
+Manuel Queson, in a long interview, after the "Wood-Forbes" report was
+out, said, "I do not agree with the report as the Islands are ready for
+independence."
+
+Sergio Osmena, referred to as a great power and known as the "Sphinx of
+the Philippines," was reticent at first, but later he talked freely
+about the marvelous resources of the Islands and stated that he, too,
+believed the Islands ready for independence.
+
+
+
+Chapter XI
+
+
+
+Hongkong
+
+
+
+Returning from Manila we stopped once more at "The City of Mist,"
+Hongkong, and were entertained all over again. While some of the Chamber
+of Commerce party were motoring to a dance given in honor of the San
+Francisco delegates, a coolie was hit and nearly run over. Our host told
+the coolie to get out of the way, while assuring us that it would not
+have caused much trouble had he been severely injured. He said, "Labor
+is so cheap here, some coolies try to get hit to get something out of
+you, and if I had really run over him, I would have given him fifty
+cents, or so. You know there is a law that if a Chinese accepts any
+amount of money after being injured, he has no redress." He went on to
+tell a story about using Chinese women to retrieve instead of dogs in
+snipe shooting. If these coolie women happen to stand up and get a stray
+shot, a few cents is given them, and it is called "square." One of the
+husbands of these women retrievers needed money, so his wife stood up in
+order to get a lot of shots. She got seven shots and went away with her
+husband rejoicing upon receipt of five dollars.
+
+It was like meeting someone from home when Mrs. H. W. Thomas and Mrs.
+Cudahy joined our party again.
+
+Many of our party looked for the American flag at our consulate, and H.
+L. Judell said he could not buy one in all of British Hongkong.
+
+The feeling against the Germans in Hongkong, many of our party decided,
+must be very strong, as we saw cartoons showing a fierce-looking person
+killing everyone, and the same person in another pose, dressed as a
+traveling salesman, together with the warning, "Remember they are one
+and the same." We also noted sentiment against the Japanese in China,
+for instance, a Chinese gentleman told a group of our party that he and
+many of his countrymen taught their children that someday they would
+fight the Japanese. We were told that if a Chinese child is given a
+piece of candy and then told that the candy was made in Japan, the child
+refuses to eat it. This just typifies the attitude we found in China
+towards the Japanese. But as Dr. Kasper Pischel said at one of our
+evening meetings, "The spirit of China is not dead but is very much
+alive in Canton. Where the guidebooks discussed the narrow streets, to
+small even for rickshaws, I found twenty miles of broad streets. Where I
+anticipated hovels, a twelve-story skyscraper was seen, and it is my
+belief that unscrupulous outsiders are trying to keep the old political
+power in Peking."
+
+
+
+Canton
+
+
+
+Leaving Hongkong, we passed the typhoon shelter on the bay with its
+hundreds of floating homes. Next we noted the numerous curved graves
+(evil spirits, we were told, would not attack curved lines) and that all
+the graves faced the rice fields and the water for good luck. It seems
+that once a year, the relatives come with a big feast, and after waiting
+two hours for the spirits to eat, the mourners "fall to" and devour it
+themselves. The sacred mountain that resembles an amah and child, where
+the expectant Chinese mothers come to pray for male babies, was seen in
+the distance, as was the inlet of the bay, which, according to legend,
+was the original location of the Garden of Eden. Some members of the
+party considered this region much more beautiful than the Inland Sea of
+Japan.
+
+Many of the party could not understand what the tall buildings in all
+the small villages could be. The fluent-talking Chinese officials, sent
+to escort our party, informed us that they were the pawnshops, and the
+wealth of the villages is determined by the number of their pawnshops,
+it being quite an honorable business in China, and all the inhabitants
+put their winter clothes in pawn. If, when they redeem this clothing, an
+epidemic of disease occurs, no one seems to think it might be because
+the clothes of all are put together unfumigated.
+
+We were discussing the odd names on the official program when we were
+told that besides meeting a Mr. Looking For, a Mr. Jack Rabbitt was to
+follow the first speaker at the coming luncheon. We heard all about Ho
+Fook, with his fourteen wives and fifty-six children, and how Wang Chong
+Hin had just made a million in Java, raising sugar cane; that fat worms
+were considered a great treat, as were portions of rats, cats and dogs,
+all of these questionable delicacies being on display in the wayside
+markets.
+
+The Canton reception was by far the most spectacular the Chamber of
+Commerce party received in the Orient. After the gaily attired band
+(playing American airs) greeted us, we passed through a brilliantly
+decorated arch and drove past the business section of Canton to the
+Yamen of His Excellency, Chan Chuing Ming, the Governor of Kwangtung.
+Here a reception committee representing the Government of the Republic
+of China, at Canton, the Provincial Government of Kwangtung, the Canton
+Municipality, the General Chamber of Commerce at Canton and the American
+Association of South China gave us a never-to-be-forgotten welcome.
+
+An elaborate Chinese tiffin (yes, we ate a la chop sticks) was served.
+Governor Chan Chuing Ming, in his opening address, spoke of South
+China's plan for trade expansion and the development of this vast
+section. He referred to America's policy of fair play and the "Open
+Door" in the Orient and said that South China was rapidly becoming a
+progressive democracy and that the delegation showed its interest in
+South China by its presence there.
+
+Commissioner Francis Krull, in answering this speech, spoke of the
+"Heavenly Welcome." This reminded us that besides the bands, military
+escort, soldiers at salute throughout the streets, auto street sprinkler
+to keep down the dust in front of the procession, an aeroplane had
+soared over our heads dropping messages of greeting. Someone suggested
+that a book on Chinese etiquette should have been studied by all
+representatives, for, when Mayor Sun, the son of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, head
+of South China, gave one of the ladies of our party a choice morsel,
+fished out of the central platter with the spoon with which he as
+eating, she did not know that his is considered a special mark of favor
+and accepted it very reluctantly, thinking her host most forgetful.
+
+After eating our fill of bird's nest soup, sharks' fins and bamboo
+cells, we were taken in motors to see the five-storied Pagoda, the City
+of the Dead, and the monument to the Chinese revolutionary heroes
+(donated by the Chinese all over the world). When we saw one huge slab
+donated by some Chinese in San Francisco, we did feel toward the
+intelligent, kindly people just as our cultured host and hostess put it,
+"Right at home with them."
+
+The General Chamber of Commerce gave a dinner at the Asia Hotel to the
+businessmen of the party, while the Chinese ladies gave a twelve-course
+dinner on the top floor of one of their new skyscrapers. This is said to
+be the first time in Chinese history that the sheltered and seldom seen
+Chinese ladies of rank ever gave a dinner to any, traveling delegation.
+Their correctly spoken English, charming graciousness, and, in a few
+cases, rare beauty, would make any collection of American women look, to
+their laurels.
+
+Another typically Chinese dinner was given for us where James H. Henry,
+an American living in Canton, made the best speech we had heard in the
+Orient. He laid stress upon the fact that we need China more than she
+needs the United States. As other nations are studying her people and
+her resources we are letting things drift. He said, "United States is
+pursuing the same stupid psychology that originally caused England to
+lose her trade in China to the painstaking, persistent Germans. There
+are few Americans that can name readily six Chinese cities. China favors
+America because she stands for Liberty, Fraternity, Equality and Fair
+Play, but that her favoring the United States is more negative than
+positive as the United States is doing nothing to cultivate her trade
+and her favor is more on account of what Americans stand for but have
+not done as yet. Americans had better get busy and do something positive
+to develop her trade as do the other nations. The French are importing
+Chinese to study in France and in order to get to know the French and
+like them. The Germans come and live among the Chinese to learn their
+ways and to secure their friendship. China is going forward."
+
+
+
+Chapter XII
+
+
+
+Perhaps some would say several of our party should have heeded the
+warnings of the blind astrologers, so plentiful in China, or stopped
+joking when we received number thirteen for dinner cards, hat checks and
+auto drivers' checks, but, strange as it may seem, on the very day that
+we were joking about the prevalence of "number 13" we had a very narrow
+escape. At any rate the most beloved member of the party, Mrs. Carrie
+Schwabacker (affectionately known as "Mother McCree"), nearly lost her
+life. Harry Dana, Cleve T. Shaffer and the writer, were with her in the
+small motor boat, returning from an entertainment given at a Chinese
+banker's home on the Pearl River (we were sure they referred to a black
+pearl when they named it, as the water looked like ink) and the craft
+became stuck in the mud and the propeller was impeded. The big river
+steamer, which we were due to catch, waited twenty minutes for us and
+when we finally got alongside the steamer, the Chinese boatman tied us
+to it as it was starting, in spite of our protests. Naturally, the
+little boat was dragged underneath the large rapidly moving steamer. One
+of the boatmen was thrown overboard. By desperate efforts we were saved
+from capsizing and the little boat broke loose from the steamer bearing
+her down, so we did not catch up with the party until a day later.
+
+If Neptune Day was a huge success, then "Sanguinetti's Night" was a
+triumph. The old "Frisco Restaurant" reappeared on board ship, cartoons
+were on the walls (cleverly drawn by Miss Marion Doolan), the floor was
+sawdust covered. Red ties, stockings and skirts were in demand. Mrs.
+Evan's brilliant scarf made one costume for the borrower, everyone
+looked unbelievably tough in the costumes appropriate for this Italian
+affair. Candles gave a dim light. There were samples of "Apache
+Dancing." Spaghetti and ravioli were enjoyed along with the red wine
+that flowed freely, while the orchestra played only Italian and "Jazz"
+pieces. Will anyone ever forget Mrs. Schwartz's wonderful rendition of
+the "Lost Italian girl?" Miss Schlessinger won the prize for being the
+best "Vamp."
+
+In the smoking room and on deck, Mah Gongg, for awhile, vied with
+bridge, but the old standby (enlivened with prizes) proved more popular
+on the homeward trip. If noise was any indication, then the last few
+days, when the deck sport prizes were being played for, were hugely
+enjoyed by all. Capt. E. Salisbury, C. J. Okell, S. N. Haslett, Jr. and
+H. S. Dana were among the star players. Dr. Woolsey and J. F. Geise were
+also "fans."
+
+Christmas will always be another happy memory. The carols, the marching
+around the ship of the choristers Christmas Eve, the services and the
+story of Christmas by Mrs. Barton gave a contrast of seriousness that
+made us appreciate the frivolities all the more. How cheery the dining
+room was with its garlands of red berries and huge Christmas tree,
+swaying with the motion of the ship, and what fun when jovial and
+popular Captain Nelson, as Santa Claus gave a present to all. How
+surprised and happy the Captain, the officers and Mr. Grady were when
+Warren Shannon presented them with the beautiful gifts purchased by our
+party. Everyone was coaxed to display their "parlor tricks." Warren
+Shannon gave his masterpiece "Tiger Fat," Reese Lewellyn sang, followed
+by Mrs. Schwabacker's charming rendition of "What Irishmen Mean by
+McCree," Dr. Thomas Hill recited cleverly, Mrs. Brandeis read the
+farewell poem she had written, Mrs. Brown sang beautifully. Will we ever
+see a Korean costume without thinking of Louis Mooser and the excellent
+resolutions of thanks he drew and how he regretted the loss of his first
+diary? If it was half as clever as the second diary we can well
+understand his feelings. The laughter, singing and dancing kept up until
+way past midnight. No wonder everyone seemed in the best of health and
+spirits after this wonderful tour.
+
+
+
+Last Few Days of Trip
+
+
+
+The women of the party, led by Mrs. Frank Panter, gave a vote of thanks
+for being permitted to be a part of such an important tour penetrating
+an area where 900,000,000 souls are living, and wrote a resolution to
+the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce to that effect. It was up to the
+women to send "the last word" from the party, as Ou Wee of Canton, said,
+"The women of America are the real dictators,' 'and since the days of
+Eve, every man knows that women must have the "last word." But after
+seeing the treatment of the Oriental women, all the party of the
+feminine gender, were doubly glad to be Americans and to be going home.
+
+We all understand the meaning of the phrase, "The best part of going
+away is the coming back," and when we contemplated that the famous
+"Peace Ship" could only stand it for three days, we felt quite pleased
+with our three months' record of friendly relationship, not only with
+our associates on board ship, but also with all those of the Orient, on
+this, the First Commercial Relationship Tour that any Chamber of
+Commerce has ever attempted and successfully accomplished.
+
+
+
+Mrs. R. S. Atkins          Mr. D. K. Grady
+Mrs. George Alexander      Mrs. D. K. Grady
+Mr. F. S. Ballinger        Miss Elizabeth M. Graham
+Mrs. F. S. Ballinger       Mr. S. M. Haslett. Jr.
+Mrs. Florence Barnard      Mr. H. Hastings
+Mrs. Louise Barton         Dr. T. L. Hill
+Miss Lucille Bell          Mr. C. W. Hinchcliffe
+Mrs. M. S. Bercovich       Mr. Frank Howlett
+Mr. Fred W. Boole          Mrs. Frank Howlett
+Mrs. Fred W. Boole         Miss Elizabeth Howlett
+Mrs. Arthur Brandeis       Mr. Frank Howlett, Jr.
+Mr. Henry S. Bridge        Miss Flora Hunter
+Mrs. Henry S. Bridge       Miss Alena Hunter
+Miss Marjorie Bridge       Mr. Louis James
+Miss Barbara Bridge        Mrs. Louis James
+Mr. Louis C. Brown         Mr. Chas. H. James
+Mrs. Louis C. Brown        Mrs. Chas. H. James
+Mr. Roy J. Chapman         Miss Rosalie T. James
+Miss Jessie Craig          Dr. M. J. Judell
+Mr. J. Parker Currier      Mr. H. L. Judell
+Mrs. J. Parker Currier     Sidney P. Kahn
+Mrs. A. M. Cudahy          Miss R. Kinslow
+Mr. H. S. Dana             Mr. Francis KruIl
+Mrs. S. C. Denson          Mrs. Francis Krull
+Mrs. E. Dinkelspiel        Mr. C. B. Lastreto
+Miss Marian Doolan         Mrs. C. B. Lastreto
+Mrs. Jas. P. Dunne         Mrs. R. R. Livingston
+Miss Louise Elliott        Mr. D. L. Llewllyn
+Mr. A. I. Esberg           Mr. Reese Llewllyn
+Mrs. A. I. Esberg          Mr. A. B. Luther
+Miss Belle Espeset         Mrs. A. B. Luther
+Dr. C. W. Evans            Mrs. Anna B. Luther
+Mrs. C. W. Evans           Mr. P. L Lykins
+Mrs. Bruce Foulkes         Mrs. P. L. Lykens
+Mr. M. A. Gale             Mr. P. J. Lyon
+Mrs. M. A. Gale            Mr. C. H. Mattlage
+Dr. Amelia Gates           Mrs. C. H. Mattlage
+Mrs. Angeline Gee          Mr. Byron Mauzy
+Mrs. J. F. Geise           Mr. B. M. McCrory
+Mr. Louis Glass            Mr. Constant Meese
+Miss Sally Glide           Miss Charlotte Moore
+
+Mr. Louis H. Mooser        Mrs. S. L. Schwartz
+Dr. A. W. Morton           Miss G. A. Shaffer
+Mr. A. W. Morton, Jr.      Mr. Cleve Shaffer
+Miss Mary Moynihan         Mr. Warren Shannon
+Mr. Wm. Muir               Mrs. Warren Shannon
+Mr. A. T. Neff             Miss Alma Simon
+Mrs. A. T. Neff            Mr. F. H. Speich
+Miss Lucretia Neff         Mrs. F. H. Speich
+Mr. C. J. Okell            Mr. Wm. Symon
+Mrs. C. J. Okell           Mrs. Wm. Symon
+Dr. F. E. Orella           Miss May Slessinger
+Mrs. F. E. Orella          Mr. C. A. Thayer
+Mr. Frank Panter           Mrs. C. A. Thayer
+Mrs. Frank Panter          Mrs. H. W. Thomas
+Dr. Kaspar Pischel         Mr. Geo. Vranizan
+Mrs. Kaspar Pischel        Mrs. Geo. Vranizen
+Mr. Geo. Russell Reed      Mr. Edward C. Wagner
+Mrs. Geo. Russell Reed     Mrs. Edward C. Wagner
+Miss Frances Reed          Mrs. M. S. Washburn
+Miss Margaret Rice         Mr. Carl Westerfeld
+Captain R. Robinson        Mrs. J. D. Wheeler
+Mrs. L. Ross               Mr. Fred J. Wood
+Mr. Louis Rothenberg       Mrs. Fred J. Wood
+Mrs. Louis Rothenberg      Dr. C. H. Woolsey
+Mrs. Carrie Schwabacher    Mr. Chas. Yates
+Capt. E. Salisbury         Mrs. Violet Yates
+Mr. S. L. Schwartz
+
+
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