The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-10

heures,' then in process of construc
 ton. This was in the year 1869. Haedo
 a Spaniard in Algiers, carefully record ed the exact spot and added We hope
 that Gods grace may one day extri
 cate Geronimo from the place and re.
 unite his body with those of other holy
 martyrs of Christ whose happy deaths
 have consecrated this country" To the
 unregenerate mind. it seems as If il ] would have been much more to the
 purpose, so far as Geronimo was con-
 cerned, had Gods grace been invoked l to save him from the martyrdom
 However, less than fifty years ago.
 Haedo's pious prayers were answered
 It was found necessary to destroy this l fort Gin 1S53): and in the very spot 1 specified in the ee-century old rec
 ord, was found the young Arabs skee- ton, enclosed in a block of beten, as he sometimes find a petrified leaf, or liz
 gard inside of stone. The bones were carefully removed and inferred
 with great pomp in the Roman Catho-
 lie cathedral, St. Philippe, which occu-
 pies the site of the ancient Mosque of
 Hassen, in Algiers. Liquid plaster of
 Paris was run into the mold left by his body, and a perfe- model of it ob-
 tained, showing not only his features, but the cords which bound him, and even the texture of his clothing. This is true, and the interesting cast of the martyr made exactly two hundred and eighty-four years after his death, may to-day be seen in the Government Li- brary and Museum, in the Rue de PFtat- t-Major, of Algiers.
 The Boulevard de la Republique Is built lon series of arches at the head of the cliff and extends all along the front of the town, about two miles. It is bordered on one side by handsome buildings; and on the other runs a wide promenade, overlooking the bay, harbor and shipping. The Quay and railway station are forty feet below, reached by two inclined roads running from the Boulevard. This work is the property of an English company and cost some fifteen million of dollars. It was constructed by Sir Morton Peto, to whom the town transferred the con- cession for ninety-nine years which had been granted to it by the Imperial concession of 1S60 The Emperor him. self laid the first stone, and the work was pronounced complete in the au- tumn of '66. It consists of two tiers of vaults, forming $50 spacious ware houses, the whole occupying an area of eleven acres, with a frontage of 3,700 feet. The French have spent enormous sums of money in improving this port. It has now two docks, capable of con- taining the largest vessels, light houses with revolving lights, and all other up-to-date appurtenances. The harbor is entirely artiticial, and when the great rock that yet obstructed it, called Roche Sans Nom ("Rock with out a name'), has been removed, there will be none better in the whole circuit of the Mediterranean. Many other re- forms have also been irtoduced by the new masters. There are conduits in every part of the city, theares, educa- tional establishments, public baths, sev- eral banking houses, courts of Justice, a chamber of commerce, bazaar, for the perpetual exhibition of native in- dustry; there are restaurants and cof- fee houses and clubs galore, hotels | without number, omnibuses, livery sta-