Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24

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good graces of the
natives, and is regarded as a man OF hne
judgment. 1t is greater weakness with
the Australians than the GLORIOUS climate"
is to Californians, and though the same set
form Of praise is always taught to the stran-
ger il. advance. the natives appear to accept
it in good faith as newly-formed impression
and as proper tribute TO the really beauti-
full sea entrance to their city. From this it
is not to be inferred that the people are
gullible. They are so proud of its scenic
beauties and its size that they consider 1t
the most natural thing in the world that q
we'll disposed visitor should mention it at
once. But best of all, it is worthy all the
admiration they bestow upon it.
A PICTURESQUE HARBoR.
As the steamer approaches the channel,
Wooloomooloo, a precipItous rock, some
800 or 400 feet high, rises with striking
abruptness in its course and seems to shut
out further progress. AS the vessel nears it
gap is gradually opened and the vessel
sails in between two jutting heads about a
mile apart and known as the North and
South Heads. The distance from the city is
about four miles, and the whole course Is
bordered by pretty wooded highlands and
dotted with verdure-clothed little islands.
! Little inlets cut and carve the shores. And
| constantly varying picturesque and ro-
mantle scenes charm the eye. The waters
of the port are deep enough for the largest
ships ahoat and vessels drawing 27 feet can
| enter the Heads at low water with perfect
J L., l,r Of
square miles, the middle harbor has
square miles and the coast line of the whole
| is "a miles. The average breadth of the
navigable waters is three-quarters of a mile,
though at some points they widen to over
two. In the shallowest part the sound
ings show % feet at low tide.
AN ATTRACTIVE CITY.
The capital of New South Wales is a
very handsome city, with many large and
imposing structures. The banks and busi-
ness houses are mostly built of sandstone
and are very ornate and substantial archi-
tecturally. The retail stores are large and
spacious, and devote exceeding attention
and taste in the display of their wares. A
notable feature of many buildings, different
from anything in the United States, is the
Arcades. They are large courts built in
ways extending from street to street. The
apartments on the ground floor are used as
stores and ranged as they in circle round
the court, they have an extremity pretty
and inviting effect. Though having
population of less than 100000, the large
number ofhurrying, active people seen on
the street gives one the impression of a
much larger city. This is notably the case
on Saturday night. So ogreat is the throng
on the main streets that line of prone
naders is formed in the middle of the
thoroughfare, and it looks, far all the world,
like some prominent street in New York on
the occasion of big parade during an
election campaign.
PRETTY SUBURBS.
The city is exceedingly attractive in the
number of its art galleries, museums Hbra-
ries, botanical gardens, and especially In
its numerous pretty parks or public do
mains. The streets are all macadamized or
have Nicholson pavements, which makes
the driving about in the cabs not un-
pleasant experience. Next to their harbor,
the citizens seem to take the greatest pride |
in their pretty suburbs. They literally en-
circle the city. All these suburban towns,
or rather villages, have municipalities of |
their own. The houses are extremely hand |
some, and invariably have broad terraces built |
on the upper stories, feature also charac- !
teristic Of the dwelling houses in the city.
As rule they are gable rooted, and much |
of the attractiveness is doubtless due to the |
absence of any considerable number of ;.
squatty, fat-roofed houses. Every suburb I
boasts of its race track and wicket ground.
Sydney is extremely poor in the matter Of
adequate street conveyances. The steam
trains pass through one of the main streets
and then branch off in different directions to
the suburbs, leaving the major part of the
citv untraversed. This want is in a measure
supplied by the numerous cabs and stages,
but the former are expensive, the "oabbies''
having as little conscience as their proto-
types in other parts of the world, and the
stages are cumbersome, inconvenient affairs.
The trans have not an inviting appearance,
while the "double deckers' are homely
enough to scare locomotive from the track.
SYDNEY HOTELS.
The hotels, Judging by the one where the
Chicago team stopped, have q vast field for
improvement ahead of them in learning
how to make life pleasant for travellers. It
is not that the manager is not anxious to
please, but they lack accommodations. I'm
agine an American returning to his hotel at
II O'Clock at night, finding the entrance
closed and having to ring a night bell to /
gain admittsnee! Inside it is lively enough,
the reason for the front door being closed
being to evade the law, which requires the
barrooms to be closed at II. There are no
real barrooms such as flourish all too numer-
ously in the United States. They are all
hotels. no license being granted unless there
are so beds in the house for the use of
guests.
The barmaid fourishes here. In the ho-
tells they appear to be well-behaved girls. |
and in most places they resent familiarities
from strangers. They are ehatty enough, |
but as it exists the world over, those whose
personal appearance is inviting are too
ousily occupied with liberal patronage to
nave time to talk in business hours. They
know nothing of mixed drinks, and are in
10 sense as desirable as the expert white
lproned young men who make drinking 50
,alatable and attractive in the States.
THE COCKTAIL.
Though it is summer here the weather is
pleasant, very much like early
September weather in America. There is
10 marked peculiarity in the attire of the
men to indicate that the dog days have
ome. There is very little of the utterly
English about the people one meets on the
treets, and if a Judgment formed in a five
ays' visit is entitled to any weight, they
re more like Americans than the "blarsted
,ritishers" and eye-glassed gentlemen so
met in New York. This is not
urprising when one considers that the
australians admire A3ericans inordihately
nd copy them in many things. Their par
ality in this respect NAV serve to bring the
reat American Cocktail" to their land
efore many days. They as yet know moth