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Asalca Asahi. The type comprises 5,000 characters. Two of his
pressess were built in his shop after French models. He is
Member of Parliment for Osaka, and says there are 25,000
voters out of 1,200,000 population. At 5:00 called on Miss
Holland, an English mission-worker in the factories, and
at 6:30 had dinner with Dr. and Mrs. A.D. Hail, 33 Kawaguchi-
cho, Presbyterian missionary workers and most charming people,
originally from Illinois.

October 6th.

Went early to the Osaka City Office, where Mr. Hiroyama
again devoted himself wholly to my welfare. After briefly
interviewing the Mayor, we went to call on Mr. T. Nakahashi,
President of the Osaka Chosen Kaisha (one of the great steam-
ship lines) and one of the greatest and most far-seeing indus-
trial leaders in Japan. An hour's interview and more was ex-
ceedingly interesting. Catching a train at 12:00 I landed at
the Tor Hotel, Kobe, where I lunched with Mr. Robert Young,
Editor of the Chronicle, and the ablest newspaper man I have
found, as his paper shows. Later called on American Consul and
on Mr. E. H. Hunter of E. H. Hunter & Co., to whom Dr. S. A.
Knapp has given me a letter of introduction. Mr Hunter has
been in Kobe since 1867, and employs about 5,000 Japanese la-
borers in his ship-building and other lines of industry. Met
Dr. Moore, of Virginia, (who spoke to me because he recogniz-
ed my Southern accent) and he urged precautions against chol-
era: eat no fruit, no raw or poorly-cooked vegetables, eat