The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-11-23

slept in one crowded tenement, went
by the same swift route to the Campo
Santo.
By this time people began to be
alarmed. DR.. Ricardo Jorg ian Eng
fish physician in Oporto, whose name
is properly Richard George,) made
meteorological analysis, and discov-
cred bacillus of Kitusato- Yersin in
the pus of suppuration. The Junta
Consultiva de Saude, of Lisbon-a
unique institution of Portugal, whose
business is to look after the public
health-sat in solemn conclave, dis
cussing quarantine regulations with
view to keeping the plague out of
the capital; but nobody thought of
fighting it in Oporto, with S6lphur
fumes and carbolic acid.
When it was given out that quar-
antine was to be established, upwards
of 10000 people fled from Oporto,
fearing not so much the plague as the
scarcity of food sure to follow, and
some of the refugees carried the
deadly bacillus along with. them to
other parts of the peninsula. Fac
tories and commercial establishments
were closed, and for three awful
months the only activity in the city
was among grave-diggers and dead
cart drivers.
With the approach of cold weather
the plague seems to have spent itself
in OportO, except in the poorest
quarter, known as LIE Sc, where every
house is cesspool, and the dark,
noisome alleys, reeking with the con-
tamination of centuries, are veritable
breeding places of disease. Strict
quarantine is maintained over this
section, in consequence of which as
many people are now dying of starva-
tion as from any other cause. 1t is
said that rats and fleas carry the
plague about, and that if any small
animal is pricked with a needle,
dipped in the blood of q plague pa
tient, it is Immediately seized with
the deadly chill and dies in convul-
sions.
| need not add that your CORE
spondent will give LIE Sc wide berth,
and that her hospital investigations
in Portugal will be confined to the
outside, from respectful distance. AL
though a great deal of bluster is
made ,ove1t quarantine, it is we'll
knowrr lac * s5i'; sfs,few dollars, judith
ously expended, will enable the for
eigner in apparent health to break
through its regulations anywhere in
Europe.
In spite of its cankered heart, where
death turks like the worm in the bud,
Oporto is a beautiful city, it's newer
portion, to which the traveller should
confine his explorations, being built
nearer to the principles of modern
science and, thanks to the English
residents, kept comparatively clean.
Public squares are as numerous as in
our national capital, a score of them
being adorned with statues and fount-
aims. The finest of these is the Praca
de Sac Ovidio, high up on the hill
side, surrounded by handsome resi-
dences. 1t is shaded by magnificent
oaks and faced by terrace, which
affords wide seaward views. Next
in popularity as a promenade is the
great Botanical Garden, which, how
ever, cannot compare in beauty with
its namesake in Rio de Janeiro, the
world famed Jardin Botanico, with
it's avenue of royal palms. In the
better portion of Oporto most of the
houses have gardens attached, in
which olives, figs, grapes and pome-
GRANTEES are growing amid carefully
tended. flower beds. But there is no
waterworks system, except the public
fountains, to which the servants 90
for all the household supplies. Hap
PLY, there are hundreds of fountains,
and each is work of art, its stone
basin and facade carved in arabesque
design.
The principal business thorough
fare is named Rue Nova das Ingleses
wNew Street of the English'), on ac-
count of the many British mercantile
firms established in it. The greater
part of the foreign trade of Oporto is
conducted by Englishmen, whose
warehouses line both sides of the
Douro.
The Rua Nova da Sac 10 C"New
street of st. John'D, being nearly ON
level, running parallel with the
shore, is the fashionable afternoon
driveway. 1t is lined with handsome
houses all faced with gaily painted
and gilded balconies. Many of the
front walls are covered with blue and
yellow tiles, inlaid in quaint devices,
precisely like those of the beautiful
Praca da Botafoa, of Rio, the finest
residence-street of that branch city
across the sea.
The Rue das Flores, "Street of the
Flowers''-probably so-called because
there are no flowers in it's interest
ing on account of its display of the
goldwork for which Oporto is famous.
1t appears not only in the windows of
every shop, but on the persons of the
brawny and bawling fish-women
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