The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-10-05
SCENES |Ar GIBRALTAR.
TYPES OF HUMANITY FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE WORLD.
EngIand's Power and Glory Ostenta-
tiously Displayed.
Especial Correspondence of the Journal
and Courier.)

Especial Correspondence of the Journal
and Courier)
Gibraltar, Sept. 5.--If you are scrap
ing only slight acquaintance with Gil
braltar, by going ashore for a few
hours at a time and returning to sleep
on the steamer which brought you, the
fact must not be permitted to slip your
memory that the city gates are closed
with the boom of the sunset guns, and
thereafter, until morning, no person
can pass in or out on any pretext what
soever. The exact minute for gun-fir-
ing is announced each day in the local
papers, and it is wise to allow ones
self a generous margin for possible ac-
cidents or difference in time pieces
This mighty fortress, which appeals
more strongly than any other to the
glory and vanity Of England, is always
maintained at the point of the bayo-
net so to say, and controlled by strict
est military rules. Thus the most in
offensive female sight-seer must obtain
police permission to stay over night in
Gibraltar town, and renew the permit
for every day she stays; while to take
up residence here, for week or year,
cannot be done without security from
your consul concerning good behavior,
or special recommendation from some
body in high authority. The nightly
ceremony of closing the city gate is as
solemn and imposing in these peaceful
days as If hostile legions were en-
campea round about. Thesa lutte is
fired just when the sergeant, key in
hand and accompanied by a military
escort, clatters away from the COVER
nor's palace; and then what scamper-
ing there Is, outside the walls and in,
to Save the gate!" Dilatory tourists
on the inside, whose steamers will de-
part before dawn, belated sailors ashore
on leave, and residents of adjacent
towns who do business in Gibraltar,
are all in sorry plight if a minute too
late to get out; while equally anxious
to get in are British soldiers who have
tarried too long with rural sweet
hearts, or at their cups with boon
companions around water-side bars,
and who will meet with condign pun
ishment if not in barracks at the pro-
per time. But when once that gate is
shut, it could not be opened for King
Edward himself without special act Of
parliament. In earlier days Gibraltar
was almost entirely Spanish in its pop
ula ton, and the cigar-box language Of
the present city directory shows that
a good many of their descendants re-
main. All who have homes within the
walls, however. are now counted as
naturaized Britons, for the iron-clad |
military regulationsforb i'd Spaniard |
an oath of allegiance to England. |
Thousands who live in Lines, or other |
places beyond the Spanish border, have
in Gibraltar, and every
come trooping across the
''Neutral Ground" into the gates, and
out again at the sunset signal.
There is no port in the world where
no many ships call as at Gibraltar, con-
stantly coming and going through the
Straits Seen from the harbor the town
Is dwarfed into comparative nothing
ness by the Titanic pile under whose
shadow it nestles. 1t looks as if a
snow drift had slipped down the noun
tain side and settled at its base, leav-
ing tiny white patches here and there
along the slope. Yet upwards of thirty
thousand people live in It, not counting
he throngs from all parts of the earth
who tarry a day or two in passing. On
anding you cross a drawbridge, over
wide, deep moat filled with water
BASS under a stone archway which has
hen anne of former governor and the