section y Peking near the Wagon-Lite Hotel, 19] The days are clear & dry, the weather bracing but not cold even at night, only comfortable. At 10 A.m. we left started from the Wagon-Lite with a Cabbie in Rickshaw for the Forbidden City. First we went to the Winter Palace which is open by Special Pass to visitors. Here Yuan Shih Kai held his court recently. The way led along wide streets, 60 feet wide which are now the rule in Peking. The Winter Palace is situated on a high hill in the Tartar City just on the border of the Forbidden City, a hundred yards from Coal Hill a higher hill topped by a Temple reserved to the use of Emperors. The Winter Palace is reached by a series of marble stairways up the steep hill three lengths. At the top a large pagoda with a golden