The St. Louis Republic., 1901-09-22
THE COOKING is DONE OUTSIDE THE HOUSES
andong and Its Luxurious Foresnerote Which Give Free
Cocktails-A Look Javanese VlageA Visit to One of
the MOsques-The Native Regent and His Poor Rela-
tives-The Finest Roads of the World and
How They Are Managed

Special Correspondence of The Sunday Republic.
Bandong, Java. Aug. Ill am delighted!
with Java. It shows what We might do
in the Philippines and Porto Rico. The
Dutch have made this island a very Garden
Of Eden. 1t is a paradise of the tropics,
and fs. believe. the most beautiful spot
on Gods green earth. It is of the same
character as many of the Philippine Is
lands. and its mountains are not unlike
: those of Porto Rico. although they ars
grander and higher
Java Is nearer the equator than any of
. our colonial possessions, but a great part
OF IT has a good climate. and the Holland
ers there thrive. 1t is not true that amer,-
cans cannot live I'm the tropics. The high
lands Of the Philippines are healthy: and
Bandong. from where date this letter.
would be a health resort II it could be
dropped down upon the United States
N THE MOUNTAINS OF JAVA.
This country Is a land Of mountains.
1nere Is range running through It from
one end to the other: and Il has more vol.
canoes to the square mile than almost any
land on the globe. 1 wish could show YOU
the mountains through which l rode com.
ing here. On all sides of me were extinct
volcanoes covered with green almost TO
their tops. The lower slopes were terraced
with rice fields, and above them pines and
fereSts extending on and on until lost in
the clouds. Now We crossed plains as fer
tue as the Nile Valley, upon which water
hu9aloes and fat cattle fed: now We shot
through groves of cocoanut trees and
wound our way about through banana
plantations. Now the engine pufred and
UulKed rs It draGRed ,,s nm fbr,o,,o,, ,h,- It,,
I IN piaces the rice was flooded and
me trees which bordered. the fields we're
ocoo'eo. making other trees turned upside
u~A ...,,H :" ene "steF. we passed hundreds Of
c1 nuts made OF plated bamboo.
49,. 1 .ea pssntanons ana cohee pianta-
80. eao On pas. forests OF Qufnine trees.
-, ..~ e.ne 10 TINS town. on q beauti-
~. pseteeu. twenty-five miles In width sur
rounded BY mountains.
THE HEART OF JAVA.
Asnoong has about 5000 people, and of
these l.eO are Europeans. The remainder
are Javanese. with a sprinklinc of Chimes
and half-castes. The city is a verv bot,n.
ieai garden. The homes Of the foreigners
are shaded by the graudest Trees Of m,
tropics They are surrounded nv IaHns as
veivety and - well kept as thos. OF old
England. and the wide drives which lad
up to the more pretentious home. AZ. ~
tween rows Of royal palms, some NOR. tb.n
n hundred feet high. The foreigner, N,,o d,
VILLAS. with walls and porticos Of snov
white. rooted with red tiles, MANY Of .b.
houses are large. They are all Of one.sto,v
and exceedinsly comfortable.
Even the stores are villas, Thev ~. a..
back from the streets Nth vards IN sro..
OF them and uaIms ANA tron,ce, &C.,
.ornamentiue their verand,. Th.r. .. -.
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