Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-08
TO ENJOY GIBRALTAR.
Treat with scorn All Proners from Guides
 and Donkey BoyA.


 Treat with scorn All Pronera from Guides
 and Donkey Boys.
 The way to enjoy Glib is certainly to leave the faithful but too prosaic Mur- ray in your cabin. When you land treat with scorn all proffers from guide and driver and donkey boy. Cross thed bridges as if to the manner born; pass the semi-tropic garden that fills the corner space to the entrance to the town, noting as you pass on the right the dis used nook filled with graves whore some of the heroes of Trafalgar sleep, brought there to die of their wounds. Next ask the first soldier the way to the D. A. G.'s office, where a pass is courteously given admitting to the famous galleries. The summit is now tabu to all not em- ployed on the new works in progress there, but the lower of the three tiers of galleries will amply suffice us. This dates from the last century, and most of it was tunneled out during the great four years siege from 1TS9 to 1793.
 A leisurely stroll upward to the Moor ish castle takes us in a right direction for the entrance. We note the ascend ing alleys are named ramps, for we are in fortress. One is lettered Right Shoulders Forward" quaint word of command of the days of powder and pig tail and the maneuvers of Dundas. We reach an old world guard-room, with a large fig tree, leafioss now. for the time of figs is not yet. Just within the Moorish arch of the gateway we are arrested by the trim artillery sentry, with his Mar tini carbine on his arm. A white-gait- cred grenadier of Ligonier's were more in keeping with the scene.
 The corporal of the guard inspects our pass and we write our names in a book and are then handed over to warrant officer, a master gunner, who has the keys of the gallery doors. We ascend by . covered way deep trench sunk in the solid rock, so that our heads are we'll below the surface-a sur face liable to be swept in time of siege with fragments of shell and whistling mitraille, now carpeted with verdure among the jutting rocks. Here spring is already at work with her flower show. Already tall plants of some kind of allium are beautiful with spikes of reddish-white blossom, inno- cent of the scent of garlic, the badge of most of the tribe.
 purple saffron, with orange-colored center, nestles in clusters in the hooks, and shrub of genista is bursting out in golden bloom. We soon reach the mouth of the gloomy gallery, closed by strong palisaded door. The tunnel is some ten feet wide by twelve feet high, and aScends gently. We pass here under water drip, which in- creases to a shower bath after rain, and we notice the grim, black guns haun WnnIAn NNnttNpnptNhfS npOtnRt them. Glorious arc tine views that are given by successive embrasures. Far beneath as cardboard model, lies fort and casemate and the houses of the town, but beyond them the azure sea. No model is suggested by that.
 Anon we reached battery where cannon point to Spain. Beneath we see the raco course. worn bare with the tramp of marching men; for it is the drill ground of tho garrison. Here, with their backs to tho Mediterranean sea, are rows of targets painted with black figures, reduced by the distance down to | the size of dots These arc being fired at by squads of other black dots. Real live ones these, for the Kings Royal rifles arc at musketry practice. Faint comes the crack of the Martinis, and | tiny are the puffs of blue smoke. Be- l yond them stretches across the isthmus the narrow gray mound of sand, pierced at the center by the broad white road l that leads to Sprin.
 Wayfarers must keep to this, for on l that bank at intervals are nine sentry boxes. Between them by night and day, year in. year out, pace the British sentinels that watch tine neutral ground. l Neutral in tint also. a level plain and bare; for hore neither grows grass, nor tree, nor flower. We guess it to be about mile across to the Spanish lines and the white-walled houses of the little town which arises on the further verge | of this little descrt.-Pall Mall Gazette.