The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-10-07
ON TOP OF GEBEL TAREK.
WHAT THE ENGLISH HAZE DONE
ON THE GREAT ROCK.
The AIemada-yieyy From tho Signal
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Especial Correspondence of the Journal
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Gibraltar Sept. T. 1901.
Soon as your feet touch the narrow
strip of beach on the western edge of
v this tremendous rock, where nestes the
port, an impulse to mount the topmost
peak Is born within you and, Ike Ban
quo's ghost, will not down till graft
fed 1t takes q veteran mountain
climber at least two hours to scale that
sharp incline, including the dignified
delay required in the issuing of per-
NIT by the military secretary, whose
office is in Gunners Lane. It is the lit
eral truth, as often stated, that you
a cannot turn around in Gibraltar with
out asking military permission, and the
most inoffensive visitor is made to feel,
during every minute Of his stay, that
he Is regarded with suspicion and his
presence tolerated only so long as he
walks the straightest kind of an Eng
lish chalk line.
The pass secured, up and up you toll,
through the steep and narrow streets
VI of the town that are often mere flights
OF stone stairs past tile-roofed cot
II tages and gardens gorgeous with tropi-
cal color; every gateway and arbor
covered with purple masses of India
flowers and walls hidden under scarlet
blossomed creepers; hedges Of cacti
and aloes, clumps of acacias and feath-
cry palms, rose trees with trunks thick
~, baIntrnna
and frangipani pertaining the air, and
4 Immense geranium bushes on which
washwomen hang their clothes to dry;
peach-trees trained against sunny
wallis, yew and cypress trees cut into
fantastic shapes and ancient castles
11lantled with ivy green, all as Eng
h lfsh" as the latitude will allow.
Your path leads through the Aema-
da, which is shining example of what
Anglo-Saxo enterprise can do in the
desert The level acre or two, away up
on the treeless hillside exposed to the
full blaze of the troplc sun. was for
rnerly burning waste of bare rock
and red sand; until some tasty English
" governor bethought himself to turn it
Into 9 garden. Soil was brought from
U affair and laid deep upon the rock, flow
& ers and trees We're planted, and to-day
it As an Eden of beauty and shadowy
! GOODNESS. At the entrance is drill
ground, where the regimental bands
play afternoons and evenings. SO the
Alemada has become the fashionable
promenade of Gibraltar, the rendezvous
of whatever beauty and style the place
possesses, at all times swarming with
the brilliant uniforms of British Off
GERS, and a medly Of curious costumes
from every corner of the earth. Fami-
~ carriages, filled with plump, rosy
checked matrons and angular daugh-
tiers move sedately along the shaded
drives; and young Englishmen, in
cycling, cricket and football toys, on
polo poles or wearing the pink coat of
~ hunter proclaim that in the line of
by Es, as in everything else, the spirit
, 81 the step mother country prevails in
ancient Gibraltar.
Leaving the Alemada, you hear
strains Of martial music rising clear
and sweet above the rumble of wheels
ana the murmur of voices. Away up
a yonder. over the heads of the people, a
siittering mass of FURNISHED steel ap-
:.sesss to be sliding down the steep
Rdl1t INGdIcl anu Cl II tOiiiCSi ntiit
aapresently long line Of white coated
dark killed, bare-kneed Highlanders
Ale proudly by to the wall of bag
pipes and the roll of drums. Again
climbing the steep face of the hill, you
come to the four enormous reservoirs
capable of holding five million gallons
u OF water, which have been cut into the
side Of Gebel-Tarek. Each tank is
made mosquito proof by means of
gauze wire, thus preventing that pest,
so prevalent here in hot weather from
fntroducing any germs of disease. In
the event of siege this great water
supply would prove invaluable, and in
times of peace benefits the troops and
the poor alike.
AZ AIT last you reach the highest point
and stand beside Ell Hecho, the signal
tower, from which it is said the Bay |
of Biscay can be discerned through a
powerful glass. Tt requires an equal |
Iy powerful Imagination to make that !
discovery; but two continents and three |
Kingdoms are within the limits of vi !
sion To the southwark Africa appears |
but as a step across a shimmering pool,
and dimly through clouds of sand you
zee the white walls Of Fee and the des-
ert oasis in which the capital of Moroc-
go is built On the east stretches the
vast and tranquil Mediterranean, its !
two thousand mile reach dotted with
STORED islands and the ships of the
world Fastening to the Occident and
the Orient The spot upon which you
stand was one of the mystical Pillars of
Hercules, the other Pillar towering just
across the Strait. Away down below,
almost at your feet, is Europa Point,
the very spot where, according to clas
steal history, the divine bull rested
from his flight with Europa, to whom
the continent owes it's name, That
point now holds one of the far-famed
sGibraltar Twins'-a hundred-ton can
non, which shoots ball. weighing two
Thousand pounds, distance of eight
miles So big is that missile of de-
etruction that the puny strength of
man cannot lift it, and machinery pro-
PEELED by steam hoists 1t to the can
mons mouth.
Among innumerable nearby points of
interest Cabrita, on it's high bluff Near
the entrance to the Atlantic the
bright little city of Algecerias, on the
other side of Gibraltar bay; score of
pink anu white villages on the Span
ish mainland; and Ceuta, the terrible
he A ft.jn