The Republican journal., 1906-03-29
4 little England on the
American Continent.
--..st Customs in British Guiana. Tit
City of Demerara.


...,. walls of massive masonry and
LINZ guns, guards the northern end
capital OF British Guiana, flank
.. A tan lound lighthouse, a mill
-, .,sptal and a big barrack full of
...r, The handsome group of build
~. st beyond is the terminus of a
-.,af line which runs eastward along
.l.st to the only other town of
..,,apuce. Berbice, some sixty miles
.. From this railway station to
-ttreme southern end of the city
ever bank is lined with wharves
.... altb great warehouses built of
... ..d galvanized iron. a surpriS-
uDrr of ships and small steamers
al> loading and unloading at
1iryeS: while the larger vessels,
5l more of them, lie in long
lu the middle of the river.
shore. YOU are amazed to find
m- as thoroughly English as
.....r Nd England. There are Eng
AVS of doing business, English
and dispatch in lieu of the
method of the southern
trt to which we have so long
STONED, not to mention Eng
.veuleuceS and even IuXurles.
tie faces are few among the un-
rNAg,omeTatiOn of races and
..l conditions of men, and
~, If tongues to which that of
.uNer would be mild comparl-
here are negroes, Chinese, POr-
.. lludOOS, ParseeS, CreoleS, and
mixtures impossible to elias
lice books of the United States
.}e state that less than 10, 000
rlayauas are left in the coun-
sequently when slavery was
labOrerS had to be supplied
cation, and that now fully l00,-
grant are employed as agri-
Workmen alone. OF this mum
Mt $4,000 are from India, 5000
-Hua 5000 from Africa, 1000
" deria, the Azores and Canary
and the rest from the nearby
lies.
road macadamized streets of
own, the sidewalks made of
. from Trinidad's pitch lake, are
l orderly. though thronged
Zach molly crowds. The streets
s.j at right angles, and most of
ave canals running down the
communicating with each
nd with the river crossed by a
lie of bridges. The canals,
serve a useful purpose during
NY season by helping to carry
of the surplus surface water,
81 -jc of the Dutch, who built the
md called it Itabrock.
If the buildings, too, both pub
private, are faithful copies of
rtecture of Holland, with their
lable roofs and Warty towers
-tJes ends turned toward the
.Ys The houses. which are gen
nj wood and galvanized iron, two
e stories in height, with steep
i roofs of slate or shingles, are
mes as straight as line and plum
Wd draw them, and all perched
5rdWood posts or brick pillars
% them three or four feet above
AVS wet ground. Every resi-
surrounded by d beautiful gar
4 literally embuWered amid the
mt foliage and bloom of the
Water street, which faces the
nd is the only one exclusively
..j by Europeans, is entirely
p by the merchants and their
hose warehouses and WharveS
- into the stream, The great
some of these stores, the ele-
Nth which they are fitted up and
pmous stocks they carry, (ot
conceivable commodity from
ne to groceries, from millinery
and saddles. are genuine eye
TO new corners.
are met at the landing by neat
.ackney coaches, such as are used
a]ou, and are Whirled away to an
t English hotel named the
House" because it has a queer
over in the middle, which con-
winding staircase connecting
'ut stories, A typical English inn,
art of the world, is luxury to
It the most of by garlic-wearied,
rassed wanderers. The Tower
as large, many windowed sleep
artments, deep verandas, shaded
Sc atian blinds and furnished as
g rooms with rugs and sofas,
easy chairs and bookcases.
re airy dining rooms, public and
alley gentlemen's reading rooms,
parlor baths, billiard rooms,
mt a menu that almost persuadeS
'o the belief that you are back in
rk, the only place in the world
rs somewhere the fine art of
hotel has attained absolute
IN.
9%ot e general idea of Georgetown,
-pld better walk to the post office,
5 centrally situated on Water
and there take a street car.
Runway lines run from that
r.g point; one to the Botanlco
H.as a trip we'll worth making;
other to the railway station, near
r. -edrick William, and the third a
t " toward the west to planta-
allied LA Penitence." There are
800, plenty of them, their tariff
ed hy municipal law at four shillings
hour; and at the same stands are
Sees carts and mule wagons at lesser
rs for the unambitious. Among
poInts of interest" are the impos-
! .Wn Hall, built of stone, which
!as the offices of the Colonial Gov
H-uJ, and the open market-plac
wug, surrounded by elegant shops.
---at Protestant Episcopal Cathe-.
also built of stone, and many of
'-uer public buildings are equally