The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-24
THE WONDERFUL HARBOR.

a manufacturing center is of the first
magnitude.
THE WONDERFUL HARBOR.
The city occupies the southern por-
ton of the island and fronts upon a
harbor which has no peer the world
over, not excepting the famed Bay of
Naples, the harbors of Rio Janeiro or
of New York. Il was this harbor which
caused the East India company to
change its base, and the wisdom of
the move has been abundantly proven.
Approaching the city from the sea
on the western city. on the left is Nal
abar Point, a high ridge running out
into the sea and terraced to the top
by many splendid villas, which com
mand a magnificent view Southwark
is kolaba Point, and across the inter
veninS waters, known as Black bay.
rises the city.
Rounding KOlaba Point is the Won
derful harbOr. studded with craggy is
lands, great and small, and crowded
with shipping, the water space being
IA miles in length by five in breadth.
Some distance across the harbor is the
island of Elephanta. with many strange
and uncannv caves.
The most curious port of the city is
that section called THE Fort" which
is not strictly speaking, a fortified
place at all, and its area is now occu-
ped chiefly by government buildings
and mercantile offices. In this neign-
borhood are the town hall, the mint.
the cathedral and the custom house.
A $1,5OO.OOO DEPOT.
Just outside the fort is the Victoria
terminus of the Great Indian Peninsula
railway, said to be one of the finest. if
not the actually the finest, structures
OF the kind in the world, its erection
having cost upward of 81 SOC. O00
Passing up the harbor there is an ex-
tenslve system of quays and docks. one
of which, Princes dock, is reputed to
have cost over $50OO.OOO Next comes
Mazagon bay, which commands the har-
Dor, and is'the chief center of the shin
ping interest. Everywhere are the sails
OF numerous native craft, while in the
docks themselves are the steamers of
a dozen steamship lines that ply be-
tween Britain and the east. to say
nothing of foreign vessels And here il
may be mentioned that Bombay is the
central oostoffice for the whole of
India, letters being dispatched from il
by rail TO all parts of the continent -
as India proper is called by the natives.
On the other side of the island. on
what used to be called the esplanade.
are some of the chief edifices of the
city. Among these are the Secretariat.
a pile of buildings devoted to the
services of the presidency of Bombay.
a province which comprises "a British
districts and 10 native vassal states.
The last-named states occupy about
one-third of the whole territory.
THE FASHIONABLE QUARTER.
Most of the private residences of
Europeans are at some distance both
from the native and commercial quar-
tiers of the city. AS a general thing
each residence stands in a large gar
den The fashionable suburbs are
Malabar hill and Beach Candy. the
latter built on the beach on the west
ern side of the island
This seclusion of the Europeans ex-
plains in large measure their escape
from the ravages of the plague and
even when attacked by the bubonic
fever the mortality rate is compare
lively light. Cleanliness is the great
enemy of the scourge, especially when
supported by a well-nourished body.
The natives for the most part live I'M
der filthy conditions, and, moreover.
are under-fed. 1t is the weak and the
dirty whom the plague makes short
work of.
In the business portion of the city
there are several spacious streets lined
with splendid buildings devoted to
European commerce. Some of the ho-
tells and the great mercantile ware