The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-12

Keep your eye on Sydney. 1t is the
growing city of New Australia, des-
tined to be the commercial metropolis
of this part of the world 1t has now
about 100000 population, and almost
twice as much business as any town Of
the same size in the United States. Sit
uated in about the same relative lati-
tude as Louisiana, it lies in the center
OF the most populous part of the con-
tinent, just where goods can most cas-
lily come in for distribution over vast
territory. 1t is the capital of New
South Wales a State as big as Texas
and Indiana combined, which has sheep
and pasture lands as large as New
York. New South Wales has a popula-
ton of 100000, and Sydney supplies
| them. These 100000 are among the
richest people of this continent, who
are the richest people of the globe.
| We pride ourseIes. on having smoney
to burn. The Australians make more
on the average than we do, and their
living expenses are higher than ours
They are by far the richest people of
the world. according to Mulhall's stat
istics. About ten years ago their av-
erage wealth was estimated at 81, 62C
per person. or. at five to the family, at
$500 per family.
Many OF them are very rich. l know
one man who has a million acres in
land. and you can hardly throw stone
in the business part of Sydney without
striking one who owns 5000 acres and
upward. There are men here who own
million sheep, and many who have
fiocks of tens of thousands.
THE BIG CITIES BELOW TIE
LINE.
/ have been in all the big cities south
of the equator, and I like Sydney best.
Bueno Ayres is the largest; it has $780,
600 people, but it is a succotash of Ital-
ian, Portuguese and Spanish ingredi-
ents, with a mixture of Indian. English,
German and French. Rio de Janeiro
has 600, 600 inhabitants, so much sprink-
ed with African blood that you can't
tell where the white ends and the
black begins. The other cities of South
America are streaked with Indian
blood, and the majority of the people
are very, very poor.
he Aus tIIS -hoeiAOiA' "a
the Anglo Saxons The crowds on a
Sydney street are like those of Chicago
or New York, save that the German,
Swedish and Italian faces are absent.
Here the faces are all English, Irish
and Scotch, or, what is better, pure
Australian. The Australians are finer
looking than the people of Great Brit
ain They are taller. straighter and
common height for either men or wo-
men.
This population and sydney's magifi-
cent harbor has made ii the New York
of Australia. The city does business
with all the world 1t is the terminus
of a dozen great steamship lines con-
Meeting the continent with Europe,
Asia. Africa and North and South Am
erica. There are ships in the harbor
from Cape Town, ships from China and
Japan, big 10,000-ton steamers from
Germany. fast vessels from France.
and half dozen lines from England.
There are coasting ships which call at
the different cities of this continent,
and which connect 1t with ali the ISL
ands of the South seas.
Commerce here is enormous. The wool
shipments alone have a value something
like $4,000 900 a year. and there is a
large export of grain. coal and manu-
featured goods The imports are very
heavy, considering the population. New
South Wales. all told, has not more
people than Philadelphia. but it buys
$3.50. OO0. 600 worth of goods annually
| from foreign countries. and this comes
| in through Sydney.
THE SYDNEY HARBOR.
| I wish / could show you the Sydney
harbor. There is nothing like ii in the
world for beauty and commercial ad
vantages. Its entrance is not over {
mile wide, with great rocks rising III
! on each side of it to about three
| ffths the height of the Washington
monument, forming a natural gateway
| No matter how stormy the ocean is out
side, when you pass through this gate
YOU find quiet waters. You enter {
winding lake or stream with hun
dreds OF bays inlets or creeks, will
| islands WHICH seem to float. and will
wooded Ellis which in places ris'
straight W from the shore. The water
is so deep that the biggest ocean steam
ers can sail right up to the land, anc
|
ships of all the world could anchor here
and have room to spare. The harbo
proper has an area of nine squar'
miles One of lis arms contains three
square miles. while the good anchorage
within ten miles of the city postoffic'
are numbered by so many hundred
miles that I do not dare to mention tn
exact figures. Sydney lies on both side
of this harbor. The ships come RICH
| into the town, 50 that YOU can stel
off, walk three minutes, and be in tn
chief business section.
The natural beauty of the harbor i
as great as that of any harbor in tn
world It is as beautiful as the Ba,
of Naples, as the harbor of Rio de Jan
GIRO. or as the famous waters abou
| Constantinople on the Bosphorus. A
one sde of it are the botanical gardens
a park filled with all sorts of Australian
and semi tropical trees. The Governor
lpalace, a castle-like structure of rose
colored stucco. is on the edge of tn
garden, and further back is anothe
great park, known as The Domain, tn
playground of Sydney, corresponding {
Central Park in New York or Hyd