The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-26


suppose yourself walking down Broad
way; you might believe that either
the stir of the Boulevard Capuchin or
the life of Oxford street surged about
you It would require but small exer-
else of fancy to think that some cloak
of Fortunatus had transported you to
the heart Of dog-infested Constantine
pie, or the suburbs of Athens, or the
yharves of ancient Joppa, or the levees
of New Orleans.
You have it all in MarseiIles. No
city on earth but finds some represent
tation in the people, or the customs, or
the streets, or the shops of this most
cosmopolitan of towns. Even San
Francisco is not in this respect its
equal. I saw this afternoon "a malig-
nant and a turbaned Turk" swart ans
ssuave, clad in flowing robes and COW
cred with scarlet turban, sauntering
1eisureIy up the street, and jostled by
men in black coats and stovepipe hats.
IN sinuous Greek, with chest and arms
which might have served Phidias for q
model, and a curly-headed Roman with
a port like OIymptan Jove, were load
ing upon a dray huge cask of wine,
while the SNUG, portly, middle-aged
man who was experimenting the oper-
alton, did not need the sign of O'Far-
rel over his shop to give evidence as to
mis- nativity In the harbor and fasten-
ed to the quay, you shall behold the
1ateen sails of the A1gerine, and
the square-rigged sturdy bark of the
northman. mixed with the huge iron
propellers of the Peninsular and ORR
entail Company, and the delicate trace
ny of the Boston clipper.
Marseilles is probably the busiest and
most cosmopolitan city in the world
of it's size Manufactures has she none,
and outside of foreign commerce her
resources are comparatively insignifi-
cant; but the products of the antipodes
are exchanged upon her wharves. The
wines of Southern France are sent from
here to Brazil and Central America,
California and New York The olive
oil of France and all of Italy that lies
between Ventemiglia and Genoa, comes
here to seek a foreign market. Figs
from Smyrna, and raisins from Mala-
ga, and rice from Egypt, and cotton
from India, and wheat from the Cas-
plan. and lumber from the Baltic,
crowd the quay and basins of Mar
settles.
A portion of the wealth which usual
ly follows commercial pursuits has been
expended by the merchant princes OF
Marseilies in the erection and adorn-
rnent of the beautiful villas which fair
ly environ the city. From the hill of
Notre Dame de la Garde-so called
from a curious old fortified chapel on
its summit place of worship OF the
Prince of Peace protected from the
sons of BeIisarius by bastions and
cannon-you look down upon a busy
ard beautiful scene. The vine-clac
hills which partially encircle the white
city are dotted with costly villas, and
far away to the South the blue waters
of the Mediterranean toss their white
caps around clusters of little Islands,
from one of which frown the black
walls of the Chateau diff, where Mira
beau was imprisoned, and where the
Count of Monte Cristo is reported-oy
Alexander Dumas-to have passed
fourteen years of his valuable time.
Down through the myrtles and pop
ed Grand Cours to the hill of Long
champs, and we are in front or the
Chateau Deau. the most beautiful
building I have ever seen. The three
parts are Joined by collonades in the
shane of a crescent, and in the Dorlc
Sstyle of architecture. In the center, un-
der a triumphal arch. a huge pile OF
rocks is crowned, and surrounded, and
filled I'D with marble Bulls and Tritons;
and down these rocks there foams ana
spIashes and tumbles a glittering ana
copious cascade. When the Dale min
ing properties, in which 1 am inter-
ested, shall pay dividends, L intend 10
build a duplicate of the Chateau D'eau
at Rancho La Vista, near San Bernar-
,dino-one of the beauty spots of earth
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From near Marseilles to old Massella'
from modern France to ancient Greece
from broad streets to crowded alleys
from elegant edifices to crumbling,
crooked rookeries it is but step. In
Paris the old streets have been widened
and Strengthened, and, in some in
stances almost obliterated by the I'M
provements which were aided by Napo- !
leon the Third. In Marseilles, however,
they have elected to leave the filthy old
town undisturbed. and build the new
town alongside and outside of it. If
you have taste to know how the in |
habitants of the seaport cities of France |
lived half a century ago. if you desire /
to investigate the Marseilles which /,
Charles Dickens described so WILDLY, /
and which has linked its name TO a !
wild anthem that is shouted wherever ]
man has struggled for freedom-I say |
if you would know more of that Mar J
settles. 1 must refer you to a guide
book or a cyclopedia. I have neither a
cast-iron stomach, nor a gutta percha |
nose. nor entire confidence in the effica-
cy of VACCINE ton. and I did not remain
long enough in old MarseiIies to be able
to describe it further.
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