The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-18

German. lie was NO. 4 IN lnternatlOna
law. and took "A high place in navigation
on the practice cruise. and stood well in
the department Of discipline. Cadet
Sandoz has left an enviable reputation
in the academy as the polished and
courteous gentleman
Cadet Sandoz is now on the cruiser
Minneapolis, said to be the fastest YES
sci Of her class at1oat-her speed is 90
miles an hour-which was ordered to
Turkish waters toward the end of No.
vember. On its way the Minneapolis
stopped ut Gibraltar, and writing from
there to his parents Il young friend,
under date Of Dec. 1S. says:
"In my last letter, written as we ar
rived here, | told you | would write
again when | had been ashore and seen
the place.
"Our object in stopping here was to
get coal, and as soon as we We're ANCHOR
ed we commenced negotiations sfor
1900 tons. Our coal is in a large hunk ,
out here in the bay, and every day 30
over there with eight men who keep
kets,Ina watch the scales to see that
everything is all right as the coal is
taken from the hulk and placed on the
lighters that come alongside the ship to
be emptied. The hulk once was a very
fine and large schooner; she is con-
demDed now, and as she caunot go to
sea is used for this purpose, but her Ca
BINS are still very comfortable. 1t is
there that spend most of my time when
on this duty. only going around occa-
sionally to keep my own men at their
duty and to be present simply as Il res
ponsible agent for the government.
"Saturday afternoon while the Pay
master and [ were in the city looking
after some business, we were invited by
a gentleman to 60 with him to his farm
out in Spain, u distance of about eleven
miles. We accepted and went ashore
Sunday morning about 1880. He was
waiting for us with horses all saddled,
and We set out on our ride. Oar passes
had already been secured by him /; later
you will see why passes are necessary.
We rode out of the city toward the
little neck of land that joins Gibraltar
to the Spanish mainland out through
scrupulously clean streets, be-
tween houses of two and three stories,
of brick, stone and sometimes wood
past the public square with long, high
barracks for the soldiers OF il particular
the soldiers in bright-red
uniforms, with their round, fat little
caps and short chin-straps, doing their
sentinel duty. Presently we came to the
wall that encircles the city, and there,
up on the top, at regular intervals, as
far as the eye could reach, were other
Their uniform was blue, with
gaudy white streak OF tape down the
and their caps were tightly
skulls with a bit OF ribbon hang
down from behind. They were pac-
.ng up and down their beats with that
,teadiness and regularity hat is so ad-
nirable in military organizations.
"On our right now was the grand rock
If Gibraltar. The city, you see, is built
around the base OF the rock, but princi-
)aIly on the north andWest sides, and ex-
ends we'll up on the edge; on the east
tide is a small fishing village. For about
wo miles around the rock, and scatter
ID everywhere about it from halfway
lp to the top, 1900 feet above the sea,
re large galleries where cannon of all
descriptions lie hid and ready to fire in
ny direction upon a hostile force. The
arge holes seem to yawn at one as you
'ass by close enough to distinguish
hem. No is allowed up there no.
'ody knows what is there only certain
'laces are strangers allowed to visit.
folders inside the Notifications who
ave been here for years have never
zen in certain places, and many British
Ulcers, as well, know nothing of places
5hich they have nothing to do with.
here are SO many different corps in the
lace, so many different departments,
hat while each knows a little very few
now it all. Walls here and walls there:
rawbridges here and moles there a
ate here that closes at a certain time,
n there that only opens at one
ertaln time it is a complication that
bsolutely precludes any strategic at
at u surprise from an nemy or
ven from a traitor on its own side, so
arefully and Systematically is every
hing guarded. 1t is wonderful No
but the British nation has any,
hing like it ; no other one could ever
and maintain anything to equal
Having passed out through two
ates, or Tor properly through two
lnnels in the high walls, we rode on to
lie neutral ground This is a strip Of
md n quarter of a mile wide and be- !
'ngs to neither England nor Spain. On
ne side, all the way across from water
water, about one mile, are the Eng
sentries on picket and on the other
de, at the other neutral line, are the
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