The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-10-05

handsome market-house cost fifty
thousand dollars, and it's first stone
was laid in '76 by King Edward, then
the Prince Of Wales, during the fort
nights visit he made here on his return
from India.
But the most interesting sights in Gil
braltar are the people-a regular Mid
way Plaisance the year around, First
and foremost in every crowd comes
Tommy Atkins" every mothers son of
the six or seven thousand stationed
here appearing to consider himself the
very brightest ornament of the crack
regiment, He is always a wellbuilt,
carefully groomed and Immediately
neat fellow, the beau ideal of British
soldier as he strides along in his hob
nailed shoes, his ridiculous little cap
set at an angle of exactly one inch
from his right eyebrow. Except at AL
exandria, Alden or Singapore, there is
no place on the globe where so many
nationalities constantly meet and min
| gle In the space of one short block
you may see types of every civilization
under the sun, from the negro Of the
Soudan to the Jew Of Tangiers, from
the Chinese mandarin and Lasear SOL
der to the Yankee trader and Hawaii
an half-breed. Every island and port
in the Levant sends its contingent to
swell the Babel of strange tongues; Pc
| ninsula and Oriental steamers are con-
| tinually bringing visitors from the far
| thest corners of the east and west, and
of course all the tribes of northern At
RIGA are well represented. From Fee,
A1piaro Vrip Porhnrc
| Kahbayles Moors, Arabs, Bedouins of
the desert, to jostle the picturesque
peasant Of southern Europe in blouse
and sabots the queer water-side folk of
| Naples, Genoa, Cadiz and Corsica; sail
ors from far-aWay ports in their blue
flannel suits flat caps and black silk
cravats with flying ends; Spanish con-
trabandistas, fresh from the hills. each
Don QuiXote on donkey wonderful
ly caparisoned with wooden tassels,
shining brass and tinkling bells. There
are bull-fghters, too, in embroidered
Jackets and trufpery tinery, the tightly
braided pig-tail of course betokening
their profession. The most imposing
figures in every throng are the Moors
and Arabs, in their voluminous white
They may be dirty ragged or even dis
eased, but nobody ever saw a ridiculous
son of the desert. Dignity clothes him
as with garment, and the unap-
proachable reserve and solemnity of his
mien BELTS his origin. along with the
Sphinx and Pyramids and other mystic
ries of the morning twilight of time.
Next in dignif1ed reserve are the Jewish |
traders, in short Jackets, baggy trous-
ers and with garbarlines outside of !
business, they have nothing to do with |
any other race, and in each stern, me-
dallic countenance is written the tragic |
history of the Hebrews. Turks, with |
tarboosh head coverings and little, !
Misunderstanding curved swords, fig
ure in the Kaleidoscope procession; be-
side black-robed friars under shovel
hats, gray-cowled, bare-footed monks,
and sailors in their Sunday best, en-
joying a days liberty from men Of war
in the harbor, lurching along with the
approved gait of sad sea dogs" the
names of strange ships worked on their
caps and elaborate monograms in India
ink on their sunburnt hands. There
are titled Englishmen, too, in conven
tional clothes and with features appa-
rently modelled on an oyster, so
wrapped in their own Importance and
Oblivious of all surroundings that one
thinks of the Scriptural queery. who
lid sin. this man or his parents. that
ne was born blind
AS to the other sex, they are scarcely
ess numerous, though few female ORR
entails are seen in the streets. British
women In piebald frocks and
heat white kerchiefs, and smart maids
n caps and beruffled aprons, abound;
md hard after them in numbers come
he Spanish Senoras and Senoritas,
dressed in the morning as for an opera,
odding painfully on their little high
leeled shoes They are all Of the high .
breasted, pouter pigeon contour, with |
swelling hips and bepowdered faces,
glorious eyes and the becoming lace
nantilla draped upon high combs over ,,
heir abundant black hair Spanish
ervant girls, on the contrary, are no
oriously slip-shod, uncorseted and un-
Idly, but each has always a flower in
Ter frowsy hair and is as prone to hirt
With Tommy Atkins as the spark to fly
pwards In world wide contrast to T
hese are the low-voiced, gentleman
cred English maidens, with the will
)wy figures that Du Maurier used to
raw, sparkling blue eyes and sugges- O
Ions Of sweet lavender and rue about +
hem They wear flat soled, common p
ense" shoes Of stout calf-skin short t
l1irted gowns of bluish-gray wool and n
tile stilor hats, under which fluff of S
olled- back hair projects all around the s
ace like the caves of a house. The n
winging stride of these healthy girls o
nd the fresh glow in their faces tell of
nipple living and no end of outdoor tt
yerclse. Each is invariably accompa- Il
led by TERROR or two, as well as one u
: more scarlet coated sons of Mars n
nd if you listen bit to her conversa- 81
on you learn that it smacks of horses A
olo, cricket and tennis. English wo- te
zen of middle age are to be envied for m
leir fine figures, rosy cheeks and clear 81
but most of those found II
a military post are as full of horsey 81
ang as a westerner Of the "Goddle- al
itey'' stripe. English buses rattle u
crowd, packed with pas re
myers, inside and out. There are W
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