Evening star., 1901-05-25
1t is the Commercial Capital Of Aus
traias
POSSESSES 4 WONDERFUL HARBOR
An Up-to-Date Town in Every
Sense Of the Term.
P f OP LIE ARE WE ALT II Y

Copyright, 1901, by Frank G. Carpenter)

NopSiiSHl, iSul, Dy raHh IT, NaFleHter.y
SYDNEY, Australia.
Keep your eye on Sydney! 1t is the
growing city of the 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. Situated in
about the same relative latitude as
Louisiana, it lies in the center of the most
populous part of the continent, just where
goods can most easily come in for distri-
button over vast territory. 1t is the cap
ital of New South Wales, a state big
as Texas and Indiana combined, which has
sheep and pasture lands as large as
New York. New South Wales has a
population Of 100000. and Sydney sup
plies them. These 100000 are among the
richest people of this continent, who are
the richest people of the globe
we pride ourselves on having money to
bufn. The Australians make more the
average than we do, and their living ex-
penses are higher than ours. They are by
far the richest people of the world. ac-
cord1ng to Mulhalfs statistics. About ten
years ago their average wealth was eSti-
mated at $l,620 per person, or, at five to
the family, at $500 per family.
Many of them are very rich. | know one
man who has a million acres in land and
ness part of Sydney without striking one
who owns 5000 acres and upward. There
are men here who own million sheep,
and many who have flocks of tens of
thousands
The Big Cities Below the Line.
I have been in all the big cities south of
the equator and 1 like Sydney best. Bue-
nos Aires is the largest; 1t has 100000 peo-
pie, but it is succotash of Italian, Por-
md
mixture of Indian, English German and
French. Rio de Janero has 100000 inhab-
itants, so much sprinkled with African
blood that you can't tell where the white
ends and the black begins The other cit
les of South America are streaked with
Indian blood and the majority of the peo-
pie are very, very poor
The Australians are Anglo-Saxons of the
Anglo-SaXons. The crowds on Sydney
street are like those of Chicago 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 Austria
lians finer looking than the people of
Great Britain. They are taller, straighter
and better formed. Six feet is not an un-
common height for either men women.
This population and Sydney's magnificent
harbor has made 1t the New York Of Aus
tralia. The city does business with all the
world. 1t is the terminus of a dozen great
steamship lines connecting the continent
with Europe, Asia. Africa and North and
South America. There are ships in the
harbor from Cape Town. ships from China
and Japan big 10, ,00O-ton steamers from
Germany fast vessels from France, and a
half dozen lines from England. There are
coasting ships which call at the different
cities of this continent, and which connect
it with all the islands of the South seas.
Commerce here is enormous. The wool
shipments alone have value something
like $ioODo.EO year. and there Is a large
export of grain, coal and manufactured
goods. The imports are very heavy. con-
sidering the population New South Wales,
all told, has not more people than Phila-
delphia, but it buys s15o,0o0,o0o worth of
goods annually from foreign countries, and
this comes in through Sydney.
The Sidney HnrbOr.
I wish I could show you the Sydney har-
in beauty and commercial advantages. It's
entrance is not over a mile wide with
great rocks rising up each side of 1t to
about three-fifths the height of the Wash
ington monument, forming a natural gate
way. No matter how stormy the ocean is
outside. when you pass through this gate
you find quiet waters. You enter a wind
ing lake or stream, with hundreds of bays,
inlets or creeks, with islands which seem
to float. and with wooded hills which in
places rise straight up from the shore. The
water is so deep that the biggest ocean
the coast line is great that all the ships
of all the world could anchor here and
have room to spare. The harbor proper
has an area of nine square miles. One of
it's arms contains three square miles, while
the good anchorageS within ten miles Of
the city post office are numbered by so
many hundred miles that l do not dare to
mention the exact figures. Sydney lies on
both sides of this harbor. The ships come
right into the town, that you can step
off walk three minutes and be in the chief
business section.
The natural beauty of the harbor is as
great as that of any harbor of the world.
1t is as beautiful as the Bay of Naples as
the harbor of Rio de JaneirO or as the IA
nous waters about COnStantinople on the
BoSphOrus. At side of 1T are the bo-
tancal gardens, park filed with all sorts
of Australian and Semi-tropical trees. The
governors palace, a caStle-like structure
of rose-colored stucco. is on one edge of
the garden, and further back is another
great park, known The Domain the
playground of Sydney, corresponding to
Central Park in New York or Hyde Park
in London.
Birds Eye View.
During my stay in Sydney have climbed
to the top of the public works building for
a bird's-eye view of the city. This building
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