Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-04
JUDGE BOTK|N
At PORT LOUIS.
Writes Interestingly OF the PEG.
pie Of the Island OF
Nautilus.
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THEY RESPECT AMERICA.
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THEY RESPECT AMERICA.
The Judge says lie Hopes the scnsi-
bic People Of salt Lake VIII Get
Together and Boost.

Judge Theodosius Botkin, L. 4. consul
at Port Louis Island Of Madrltius, pas
written an interesting letter 10 atate
Ststjstlcian Fred Price or THIS city, IN
which he says My health Is, and mas
becn good At Port Louis, as well as
along the coast. the atmosphere Is op,
pressiye with ita constant heat ana
great burden Of moisture, and the
whites long ago quit trying 70 live any
where on the coast, but have estab@
lished their houses III country along
tho railroad, and go back and forth. 10
and from their daily business IN Port
Louis. Trains run down about every
honr to an hour and half IN the Tore
noon, and back 10 country at frequent
Intervals I'm the afternoon.
~ established my own residence az
Curappe Road--l2 miles from Port
Louis, where ! am writing this letter
The altitude is 1880 feet above sea
level. and the air h always pure and
the nights cooh Except perhaps seven
or eight nights, I have slept Under D
sheet and three thicknesses OF blankets
every night since I arrived, | was adj
Wired by every one not 10 undertake
10 sleep at Port Louis. so | came up
here. and al once wrote 10 the state de.
parlment telling them the situation aud
tho conditions, and received permission
n reside here--a kindness which |
fully appreciate.
so Car, my work has been light, but
! nave been making efforts through the
state department 10 have our ADeri-
can goods-supply depot and store put
IN at Port Louis. with retail branches
at Rose Hill, Phoenix and Curaplpe.
and hope by the middle " next sum
mer, to have some American ships com
ing here with occasional cargoes OF
American goods No American ship has
come this way for oyer three years,
except one little 3S5-ton wlfiler which
year ago. after loading up with
bubber and bone far TO the south, came
here for mail and for fresh supplies TO
go home on.
81 am In good favor With every one
here. from the governor, Sir Cavendish
Boyle, down to the soldiers and the
everyday citizen My office Is on the
ground floor fronting the walk along
which everyone must pass TO and from
the central railway station--we, you
and !, would say union depot. Just
inside my door | have suspended on
the wall new and bright United States
flag. and on the wall opposite the door.
TWO Olntt HUGE, piit On tHtn sue Oh
the large book case, and all In plain
view from outside The door. IL would
do you good, as Il does me, 10 sec
the numbers Of people who daily, IN
passing, stop TO gaze at Old Glory and
jabber TO each other about IL and that
far away land OF which they have heard
so mrlch-'America,' which they call
The United States. have sent 10 tn,
department for wall pictures of Wash.
ington. Jefferson. Jackson. Lincoln
Garfield Grant and Mckinley. and for
an outfit OF decent office furniture. AND
when Il comes will let these people
see a real American consular Office
with some Of the faces OF the men who
did things.
Everybody has the highest respect
and consideration for the United States
and they all seem TO think that ouI
country can. II II will, decide the fat,
Of the rest of the world for veal or Voc
They think our navy Is a most won
derful force, and | often have heart
the expression, II that American navy
takes hand, the European trouble,
viii soon be over And there Is no dis
gnsing the fact, that everybody know
they have TO respect US They ais,
know that we are not hunting for trou
BILE, but that we VIII never run ava,
from IL.
I'VE get very meager news here. IN,
often none at ALL as the whole Is dali,
papers published at Port Louis hav,
not enterprise enough TO club togethe
and get cable news from Europe, Al
we get are the dispatches In ciphn
which come daily 20 the colonial secre
tary's office. They arc literally trans
lated and given to the papers. but neve
spread out So We never know thei
full meaning
II saw not long ago In an Englis
magazine, n reprint OF one of Ana
Lovey's cartoons about the president q
the New York Mutual. and the policy
holder The former is represented a
AN old woman with a loaf OF brea
marked 'Surplus, and the latter as
large covetous dog, whose mouth wa
watering as II stopped her and bega
begging for a piece. IL was all yer
good and ] WAS greatly pleased {
know that my old friend Lovey's fam
had crossed the ocean,
III hope all the sensible people {
Salt Lake city are pulling together {
stop that everlasting row, and bull
up the manufacturing industries. Ther
is not much sense IN boosting for
Greater Salt Lake City unless IN
property owners and bushes men mn
capitalists viii do something 10 max
II greater They can't do that on wine
They can work M feyerish boom thu
viii soon collapse to the shame an
chagtin of visitors. They should how
ever. build n boom on the solid eniul
Ing foundation OF mills. factories, wor
shops, etc. whore constant and lucrf
tive employment may be had by the IL
dustrial classes
In closing the Judge observes somi
what umIdly, II took ny the study ,
real French soon after my arrival. m
am making such progress thar even
one commeuds H. The Judge write
also that hc receives and reads careful
~ the seml-weeslv neseret News, ~
Is very much interested IN cverythh
going on IN Salt Lake.