The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-09-15
AN AFRICAN BOOM CITY.
Bulawayo, Which Eight Years Ago Was
the place of Killing"

AN AFRICAN BOOM CITY.
Bulawayo, Which Eight Years Ago Was
the "Place of Killing"
! The camp is a collection of long white
huts, situated on rise three miles from
/ BulaWayo. Here are tie Bushinan from
New South Wales, from Western Aus
tralia, from Victoria, from Queensland
and southern Australia and Tasmania,
/ They have finished their trek, and the
/ Beira railway is Only an unpleasant rec
ollection-a bad dream of pungent
smells, dead horses, and yelow-skinned
shivering comrades. The Bushmen are
sim marvelling at BulaWayo. 1t - no
new sight, the mushroom city; the men
have mostly lived their lives making
such; supplying the leaven with their
own stout thews and sineWs-but a
town like Bulawayo they have never
seen. The seven-year-ofd township they
wot of is a square laid collection of
tin shanties, with a brick prison, and
perhaps, a stone built band.
| dined the other evening with one
of the Australian officers at the Grand.
The dining hall may have been its
equal west OF temple bul, Dul II 10
doubtful whether its superior could be
very easily found. A band, somewhere
in the outer darkness, was playing the
opening bars \ of Gounod's Faust !;
there was a ripple of laughter and talk
from the dozen or so whte-clothed
tables. Silver and flowers, glittering on
the tables, and the flash OF snowy Shout
ders and spottess shirt-fronts in the
glow of the soft-shaded electric lamps.
Many white unbranded walters moved
silently to and fro, and there was the
Glitter chatter of knife and dish, the
popping of coqks-and the band.
The Australian looked around, and
took it all in.
is seven years old?"
Eight years ago it was the Place
of Killing. =" / answered.
He could only say, simply, 1T is
wonderful"
Bulawayo is just that. 1t is wonder
tul You have to walk through its
streets; inspect it's shops; take in it's
splendid buildings; notice its public
monuments and penetrate to its SUI
burbs-suburbs that maintain their own
police forces-to Thoroughly grasp the
measure of its wonderfuness. 1t is a
town with a people of its own, a folk
Indigenous to BulaWayo 1t is a people
that does not walk, because such a town
can neither be made nor maintained at
the slow march Everybody who doesn't
ride a horse rides bicycle, and the
business man comes in to breakfast in
his shirtsleeves.-Lon Daily Mail.
.
BROOK TROUT FROM THE SEA
Every salmon fisherman is, / pre-
sumo, more or less annoyed by trout
taking the fly when casting for salmon.
/ think that trout under these circum-
stances have been characterized by one
writer as 'vermln," The salmon fish
erman makes no effort to hook the
trout that rise to his salmon fly, but Of
ten they will hook themselves, and they
then have to be taken In and removed
from the hook. This year | was trou-
bled less with trout taking the salmon
fly than in former years; but one day
the conversation at luncheon turned to
the subject of sea trout fishing late in
the season and in the afternoon the ca
noemen said that the run Of trout from
the sea was just beginning in the Resti-
gouche, and that all the trout went
down to salt water and came into the
river again when the smelts ran up
from the ocean to spawn, as they fol-
lowed the smelts and fed upon them.
had caught trout that We're very sill
very, showing that they certainly had
been In salt water to acquire the prefix
10
I had also caught trout that showed no
signs of having been to salt water.
Every evening when returning to the
house from up or down river the shore
opposite the farms would show a num-
Der of children and older folk fishing
from the bank for trout, and one even
ing | left the canoe and walked the last
half mile and examined q number of
string trout caught by the children.
Some of the fish We're Enthusiastically
sea-run trout. but each string had fish
that had not been to sea to acquire the
silvery coaing which is an indication of
this journey, and from what the set
tiers told me the trout had not been up
from the sea long enough to lose the
sea livery, / noticing that all the small
trout, which | should call yearlings,
had not a suspicion of cooring to indi-
cate the influence of sea water and
food, and that many of the two-year-
old fish q am assuming their age from
them with trout in confine-
ment in hatchery ponds) also lacked
the silver over the spots. So / was led
to believe that yearling trout do not go
to sea, and that all two-year-old trout
do not remain in fresh water all the
year. In fact, / did not see any trout
that / thought had been regularly 10
sea. They had been down probably to
the tital portion of the river in braclS-
lsh water, and the run of larger trout,
which comes later in the season, may
be fish that are regular old salts; but | !
am satisfied In my own mind that it is |
a mistake to say that all trout in the |
Restigouche go to sea. for l cannot be- |
ieve that any of them go until they are
Of a size that l would call two years |
and Stream.
You don't seem to be able to stand |
lot weather." remarked the doctor.
mo" said the pessimistic patient at |
always worries me to think about how
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