October 18, 1917 - (continued) Peking is an exceptionally clean Chinese City, free from offensive odors as far as the Tartar City and its enclosing cities, the Imperial and the Forbidden. The Chinese City is said to be smelly, but our visit there was in no way annoying and there was no evidence of filth, such as is seen in Amoy, Fuchow or Canton. Here I saw one rude boy about ten years old. Although the weather is chilly now, several good size dogs were stalking about. We ascended to the top of the Wall and walked along its top. It is made of huge gray bricks and the top is 30 feet wide and covered by a rank growth of weeds and thorny ______ brushes. At the corners of the Wall are great pagoda gates built in several stories. The Wall itself is immense, being 50 feet high, 40 feet wide, and a four foot wall of masonry on its outer surface, notched for guns or rifle fire. From the southern wall, we could see all over the native Chinese city and down into the R.R. which borders the southern edge of the Wall. Soldiers of all nations are seen doing guard duty in the Legation section of Peking near the Wagon-Lits Hotel. I dined with Bumstead and several Americans at the Hotel. There was Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins of Peking; Mr. Seitz or Sites of U.S. Steel Co; Mr. Rory, the Bureau of Commerce and Labor, and a member of the Cosmos Club; Mr. A.W. Ferrin, who is investigating financial conditions for the U.S. Government; and 2 other men. Mr. F.R. Rhead, a Cosmos Club member is investigating R.R. in China for the U.S.A. Another member of the party was H. Foster Bain, a mining engineer from California.