Milford chronicle., 1888-03-16


broad verandas, closed in with stats t
keep out the light For this reason the
houses appear larger than they are
Dormer windows abound. The house
colors are stone, light yellow, cream; the
blinds are brown or green. High stone
walls, with broken glass bottles cementcd
into the ridges, inclose the houses and
gardens; ornamented openwork gate
ways afford a glimpse within.
The cocoanut, the royal the palmetto
and the silver leaf palms abound The
giant Cuba, or silk cotton tree, oleanders
of large size, enormous amaryEids, with
the many species Of the citrus family.
hang up their yellow fIlit against the
sun. Therusset japodilla Just coming into
fullness adds a special charm to its back
ground Of dark green waxy leaves The
vegetation seems rather sub-tropical than
thoroughly tropical. This results not
from want Of heat, may be, but need Of
soil
The city Of Nassau is extremely pict-
uresque with the quaint narrow streets.
white, deep cutters cut from living rock.
large dwellings, with the lower or street
story, for warehouse or shop, the outside
stairways and balconies? Every building
has some special individuality about it
which adds much to the SIM total Of the
charm one finds in quietly roaming round
the streets.
Here it is literally always afternoon.
No one works. Ask a question and ii
will be answered the day after to-mor-
row. The few shops open about break
fast time, and are then shut up during
that meal, and breakfast time is not
early. went into wholesale store at
noon time. The one clerk was fast
asleep in his chair, and left him mdis-
turbed. The blacks, seemingly twenty
to one Of the whites, sit lounging, CAB
bling, chatting, talking loud and laugh
ing, but have not seen one at work.
The English majesty Of law is thor
oughly respected here. The principal
crimes-profanity, jawing and SANDER
are among the colored races, and they
enjoy defending themselves at law.
Shops close at ) p. IN. Saturday is
half holiday and Sunday a Puritanical
one.
Back of Nassau proper, over the ridge |
and down on to lower levels swarm tie |
colored people. Their small garden |
pieces are walled in with the loose pieces |
of coral rock Their cabins are small. !
with one or may be two rooms, of rock |
or coral. palmetto thatched. The gar
dens are bare, honeycombed coral rock.
where with a crowbar the banana, the
cocoauut on maize is planted. They are
ankempt, unthrifty, dirty; but every
where kind mother nature covers the
tt-a1fa Will, 4fa1,sr,- ~.,y1 d..
vOlvulus, and the great lobed leaves Of
The bread fruit, the alumna and the
palms give to the eye an ever varying,
ln ever entirely satisfying picture.
These cabins Of the colorcd people (our
Inheritance from Spanish cruelty liter
lily swarm with children. The ira
iuonal stair of from five to twelve little
3ickaninnies is found in every cabin.
5iassa, glib me copper for breadln They
ire inveterate beggars. They say thcv
ant get work, or if they do get any but
title is paid-twenty-fve to fifty cents q
lay. The truth is, there is no desire. [
'erhaps no incentive, to work, no ambi- {
ion to satisfy. Hunger is easily satisfied
~ fruit, sweet potato, vans and fish. I
But little fruit is exported, and that from /
he outlying islands, not from here. {
'ponge fishing is the one industry which {
ere is active. a
For the climate, I would judge we had {
n the United States no spot equal to this c
or unending summer. For people ad- c
anced in life who desire to avoid our L
-inters. for tired brain workers, for q
ases Of low vitality, for the begiuningo Of O
lroat and lung troubles, 1 should say a
'assau is the place.-Fred Stearns in S
Detroir Free Press. t.