The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-10-03
.,curs AND SCENES AT GIBRALTAR.
odd types of Humanity from all parts of the
world. England's Power and Glory Osten-
.,tiousIy Displayed.

.,4 ,eraping only a slight acquaintance
nth Gibraltar, by going ashore for
,., hours at a time and returning to
lssu Oh the steamer which brought
~, the fact must not be permitted to
Nm yoW memory that the city gates
~. .Iused with the boom of the sun
.sr guns. and thereafter, until morning
,.prson can pass in or out on any pre-
.x Ahatsoever. The exact minute for
rg.frug is announced each day in the
,.tl oapers, and it is wise to allow ones
~. a Generous margin forpossible acct
;r--. difference in time pieces. This
ost, fortress, which appeals more
rniaIy than any other to the glory
.I ydty of England, is always main
Y.a. nj the point of the bayonet, so
. ,lE and controlled by strictest mill
w Ies. Thus the most inotfensive
.H ight-seer must obtain police
. son to stay over night in Gibral-
Hu, and renew the permit for
ur nv she stays; while to take up
.r here, for a week or a year,
s.rH he done without security from
.. au>ul concerning good behavior,
- nj recommendation from some
M -h in authority. The nightly
..uuv of closing the city gate is as
... and imposing i'll these peaceful
4, IS + hostile legions were encamp-
rl about. The salute is fired just
.. nae sergeant, key III hand and &C
..fled by military escort, clatters
MI. ION the Governors palace; and
lat a scampering there is, out
r-U. walls and in, to save the gate.'
r8-O tourists on the inside, whose
-t.u.gs Will depart before dawn, be-
--H -aiors ashore on leave, and resi-
-l.s adjacent towns who do bust
sy Gibraltar, are all in sorry plight
minute too late to get out: while
.U.t anxious to get in are British
..rr, who have tarried too long with
Up. sWeethearts, or at their ''cupS"
boon companions around water
.ars. and who will meet with con-
r wnishment if not in barracks at
uper time. But when once that
,.e shut, it could not be opened for
n- Edward himself without special
,.t 'arIiament. In earlier days Glib
ta. vas almost entirely Spanish in its
w ton and the cigar-box language
te present city directory shows
4t good many of their descendants
ulu. All who have homes within
.sl.ls. however, are now counted as
uaiZed Britons, for the iron-clad
.Yary regulations forbid a Spaniard
s.de on the Rock unless he takes
ath of allegiance to England.
sands who live in Linea or other
ueyond the Spanish border, have
ilItIlU III ollltl tfCIf
.Iug come trooping across the
-1'ldl Ground" into the gates, and
Jam at the sunset signal.
ge is no port i'll the world where
lauy ships call as at Gibraltar, con
coming and going through the
rs. Seen from the harbor the town
ted into comparative nothing
the Titantic pile under whose
V it neStles. 1t looks as if a
luft had slipped down the
lam side and settled at its base,
- tiny white patches here and
along the slope. Yet upwards of
thousand people live in it, not
mug the throngs from all parts of
who tarry a day or two in passing.
mding, you cross a drawbridge,
wide, deep moat filed with water,
nder stone archWay which has
Aine of a former Governor and the
r. IT his service engraved upon it
md Yourself at once on the main
..a- of the town. Close at hand is
q feakwater, and behind it looms
p q, black ironclad, ''Thunderer,
aar 70 Justify its name at moments
tc~. Your first and always strong
mpression at Gibraltar is of the
4p and circumstance of war. British
4g, and the cross of st. George are
er} Where, and strains of Rule Brit
ma, God save the Queen and
ilitish Grenadiers" fill the air. Pyra-
IDS of ancient cannon-balls are piled
Iu everybody's way. Sentry boxes
Nd glard- houses stand at every corner
ID. sentinels in white helmets and
2ret coats pace to and fro, along the
Iapets that face the sea, on barracks,
ttery and bastion, in the public
uares, at the gates, before the
l5enor's residence and all colonial
cts. Brass bands, bugles, drums,
IS echo all day long from the upper
gats, down the hill-sides and in the
Irow streets. Squads of soldiers
arch back and forth, as steadily as if
re had been declared that very after
.pa. and officers on horse back ride up
l iown, returning with the mechani-
regularity of automatons the salutes
the soldiers who pre-empt the two
ltWide sidewalks. Scarlet coats are
mpresent ind the brilliant uniforms