Sword and Pen, or a Young War Correspondent's Adventures (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Sword and Pen, or a Young War Correspondent's AdventuresAs yet I had not studied my written instructions very carefully. While the train was waiting in the station at Chicago I glanced over the important document given me by Mr. Burnett.It is not necessary to quote it in detail. It included a carefully prepared cipher code for cabling, and also letters of introduction to certain bankers and prominent American business men in Yokohama and Shanghai.The latter were to identify me in my disguise as a gilded youth in search of adventure, and were written by several well-known New Yorkers, directors of the Press Association. Everything had been foreseen and at tended to by the able president, Mr. Parker. Even a typewritten list of the most common words in the Japan ese, Chinese, and Corean languages had been added.This I intended to study on board the steamer while en route to Japan, but I must confess I had little hope of mastering the intricate sentences. Presently, finding the delay growing monotonous, I left the car and began to walk up and down outside.In the Union Depot at Chicago the tracks are laid at a level with the ¿oor, there being no raised platforms between them as in the majority of stations. Passing from one train to another is a process not unaccompanied by danger, as the arrivals and departures are frequent.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.