Now the fact of the matter is, that temple or palace was never worth
over $5,000,000 all furnished with guards hired and servants paid. $5,000,000 would have been about
$4,000,000 too much. The boat, a haywire contraption, with stone rudders and side wheels and capstan,
never cost over $5,000 all furnished. (It is now used as a tea pavilion.) What happened to the rest of the
money? She fooled the taxpayers, and they then fooled her courtiers, and put the rest of the money in her
jeans.
The palace is very spacious but very cheap as to workmanship. It has been pretty well looted by the Japanese and it is now unkempt and forlorn. It outlasted its mistress a bare 20 years.
3. Temple of Heaven.
A series of smaller temples denoting the progress of man after death. Very gaudy and more or less crudely done.
4. The Forbidden City.
There are four parts to this. One is the old royal court which is a series of buildings increasing in importance as they decrease in size. These were the reception places of generals when they came to see the Emperor every morning. Three of them are the residence of royalty. They appear to have been very stiff and uncomfortable.
Another part is the residence of the young imprisoned Emperor who was considered a menace to the Republic. The young man is now living with the Japanese at Tientsin. He is 21 years of age. His quarters in Peking were very trashy looking though they must have cost a great deal. They were infested with clocks. Every series of buildings had a couple of dozen clocks within. The young Emperor took a wife in 1925 and they still share their exile.
The other two parts are not worth mentioning, as they are merely more quarters of the royalty.
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