The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-01-20

| TI1roUgllout the World il Strun..
| CoUntrfes-In africa. South Amer
| lea. in the Islands Of the Indic:>
Ocean. i'll Frcncr and i.Y Russi,
They Are to- &c Found as Pictur.
c;gucl: L:ccted as Is ca: City.
| Low few Of us know CT tie many curl
| GUS Places on this eart!ls surface tina
| bear the same rare as our own CITY
The same spirit that brought the name
! Cf that good CID saint to our own city
| has gone t.. the most out-of-the-way
| spots, Where the tiCe Of travel seldom
| SEES, en- all continents and all oceans. ant
:est the imprint CT the name there AZ.
N,any OF these places. these other s.
PaUls, are interesting to see, Interesting
70 tell about
Tie largest CT these other St. Pauls is
that in the province CT Angola. on tlt
vest coast Of Africa. 1t is a Portuguese
go - - Sunoo thirt~' tEo"~o1a :,',o ~ ant.
and is the capital of the District of Loan
da. The Bay of Naples is beautiful but
If tourists and the guide book writer's
visited st. Paul of Loanda as much as
they do Naples the Bay of st. Paurs
would be even more celebrated. And
justly so, for the bay is one of the most
beautiful, the most picturesque, that the
eyes Of the occasional visitor there may
have ever seen. 1t owns no peer The
bay is shaped somewhat like a crescent
with low cliffs Of red and white sand
stone coming down close to the waters
edge, while in the back huge mountains
rear their green and rocky sides. At
one end of this crescent is the pictur-
esque old fort of San Miguel and at the
other the ruins of the mission Of Dolores.
Enhancing by daylight, a view of this
bay under the magic touch of the African
moon is one of the most beautiful sights
in the world
st. Paul proper lies along the harrow
shore line at the base of the cliffs, while
the government offices and villas of the
officers are situated on the cliffs above
The houses are all built of white sand
stone with red tile roofs. They are
usually not more than one story in height
and the ensemble of the town is pref
ty, with the red and white of the houses
cleaning in the arms of the surrounding
greenery. The streets are all paved with
yellow stone, and on market days pre-
sent a most Kaleidoscope appearance
when the natives come in from the ad-
jacent country to do their trading The
Portuguese in snoW-wl1ite Clothes the
town native In curious mixture Of ma
tive and European dress, the native from
the Wllds OF the province clad in but lit
tie more than an expansive smile, the
Mussulman from mn the coast in his gor-
geous red and yelIow-striped robes
the brown-clad monk and the Jes-
nit in' the black gown of his order, the
Portuguese soldier in brilliant uniform
and the Portuguese women in the latest
fashions from Lisbon and Paris ,ningle
together and form an ever-changing mass
of color. continual array of stratling
contrasts.
On the cliffs above the town are the
finer buildings, of course This is dis
tinctively the European quarter Here
are the governors palace, a magnifi-
cent structure that would do credit to any
European capital and prove a source of
pride to any crowned head, and which is
said to have cost several millions of dol
lars, the palace of the bishop Of Angola
another superb building, the government
offices and the government hospital the
finest on the entire west coast The
houses OF the European residents are
nearly all fine, large Villas surrounded in
most cases by beautiful and extensive
grounds.
ST. Paul was at one time the center of
the slave trade, and during this period
reached the zenith of it's power and glory
When that was suppressed it waned
somewhat, but in recent years the growth
of its legitimate trade has been gradually
restoring 1T to it's pristine glory.
Over in South America is another st.
Paul, almost as large as the one we have
just left and many years older, in fact
it is probably the Oldest of all the existing
towns and cities of that name. Situated
about three hundred miles south of Rio
Janeiro in the Sierra de Mar mountains,
it is the capital of an extensive province
of the same name. The Tiete river flows
near it and carries it's products into the
far interior. The town has about twenty
five thousand inhabitants and is built on
low plateau. It's position is command
ing and beautiful. The town itself is pic
turesque. The streets have not been laid
out in a regular manner and wind in and
out among the houses and stores with
apparently no beginning or end. The
jokes that have been manufactured time
and again about the streets of Boston
| could be applied to St. Pau1~with good
effect. Some of the streets are paved,
but these are in very small minority.
The houses, for the most part, are built
of earth, plentifully intermixed with peb
bles, and plastered over with peculiar
kind of yellow stucco.
The town is well supplied with public
schools, rare and curious thing in the
average South American community, has
numerous handsome government build
ings, a public library containing nearly
seventy thousand volumes and housed m
a splendid structure, a college and ca
thedra1. A large botanical and geological
garden is another ornament of this pretty
little town. .-.. .s....
The capital of the French Island of Re-
union, one of the Mascarene group, in the
Indian ocean east Of Madagascar. bears
the name of St. Paul. It was the frs:
settlement on the island and has popu-
lation to-day of about twenty-five thou
sand The climate is very unhealt1lful and
fn E,1rnr nc VIII nf-
fetal duties compel their residence. re-
side here. The town is well BUILT, how
ever, and the public health has been pro-
NOTED so far as human science will avail.
| Earthquakes are very frequent, and for
| that reason most of the houses are but
| one story high. The population OF the
| town comprises principally negroes. East
!, Indians, Chinese and Malays. This cos
mopolitan population gives the streets
quite picturesque an appearance as
| those of that other st. Paul around on the
west coast.
| In the suburbs are to be found tee Gov
| ernor's residence, large and handsome
| building, a college and several hosnti1s
! st. Paul is the port of entry for the is
| land and the narbor is usually crowded
with vessels from all parts of the Indiar
! ocean and African ports.
| The scenery around ST Paul is grandly
beautiful The island is very mountain
Gus. There are few plains and all the
cultivated land is found in narrow valleys
Stream are plentiful but almost entirely
unravigable. Scarcely any of them flow
half d. mile without falling over rocks
Or tumbling down precipice. Several of
the mountain peaks around ST. Paul reach
a height, of nearly 10000 feet. About
twenty-five miles from the town an ac-
tive volcano rears its ugly head, head
| that IS ever crowned with fire, and which
frequently makes the streets Of st. Paul
as bright as monday at midnight.
Far out in the Indian ocean, midway
isoetWsel Australia and Africa, and about