Young Japan

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. THE YOKOHAMA RACE CLUB.?ASCENT OF Fl'SIYAMA. THE DUC n'ALENCON. THE ITALIAN TREATY.?LOCAL INCIDENT. RICE RIOTS.?THE COMPRADORES AND THE ' UNCURRENT' DOLLAR DIFFICULTY.?PUBLIC MEETING. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FIRST MASONIC LODGE IN YOKOHAMA. The 4th July, 1866, was rendered locally memorable by the formation of " The Yokohama Race Club." For some time, whatever sports there were, had been inaugurated by the military; and although gentlemen of the community were invited to take part in them they were announced as " Garrison" sports. But now a change was to be made. Since 1862, the old Race Committee had not provided any meeting, for want of a course; and those got up by the military officers were run, first on the garrison parade-ground on the Bluff, and, latterly on the Rifle Range; both sorry make-shifts for flat racing; though the hills surrounding the latter offered excellent ground for steeple-chasing. The site proposed for the new Race Course, on the Mississippi Road, has been already mentioned. The Committee now received a definite assurance from the officials of Kanagawa, that the construction of it should ASCENT OP FUSI-YAMA. 11 be proceeded with, on receiving the assent of the community to pay a rental of $10 per 100 tsubos? which, as the land appropriated would occupy 16,000 tsubos, would amount to $1,600 per annum. To raise the necessary funds for rent and incidental expenses, the "officers of the Diplomatic service, the Army and Navy of all nations, and members of the Yokohama, Yokohama United, and German Clubs," were invited to form the nucleus of a proposed Race Club. An ample number did so enrol themselves and the Course was proceeded with, and handed over to the Club a few months later. The ascent, by foreigners, of Fusi-ya...

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