Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-16
freight can be taken on board the ships al
most direct from the cars.
A Forty Million-Dollar Boulevard.

| A Forty Million-Dolla Boulevard.
Now turn your back to the sea, and take
| a look at the city as 1t climbs the hills all
about you. You must throw your head back
| and rest It well on your shoulders or you
| can't see 1t at all. The city begins with a
| wall about one hundred feet high; it con-
sists of vaults and warehouses. with one or
| the fine streets of the world over them.
| The pavement of the street forms the roofs
of these buildings. and back and above 1t
rises the rest of the city. The street is the
Boulevard de la Republique. With the
| warehouses below, its cost was more than
| $40. 100000 1t was constructed on a long
time concession by English company,
and l understand that it pays big dividends
today. 1t is a wide avenue facing the
busiest part of the harbor with stone bal
ustrade running along 1t. On the other
side of the boulevard there are build
ings which contain some of the chief
| banks. shops and business establishments OF
the city. The stores are on the ground
floor only; above them are apartments with
iron balconies along the front. The build
ings are of yellow stucco of the even height
of six stories, and they are so constructed
that the ground floors open upon an arcade,
like that of the Rue de Rivol in Paris.
Foot passengers climb to this boulevard
from the wharves by stone steps which
wind their way up, and at each end of it
are long inclined roadways, up and down
which a stream of wagons and carriages
steadily moves.
On the boulevard itself gayy dressed Eu-
ropeans mixed with stately Arabs in tur-
bans and gowns. walk to and fro. Street
cars filled with passengers are continually
passing, and for l cent a man may ride In
them and have a magnificent view of the
harbor and shipping.
Modern Algiers.
Beginning with the Boulevard de la Re
publique is the French quarter or what
might be called modern Algiers; the white
catacombs containing the Moors and Arabs
are on the hill higher up. Indeed, the
streets near the harbor would not be out OF
| place in Paris nor in any other city of
| France. They are smooth and paved with
| wood blocks. They are walled with French
| buildings, nearly all of which extend out
! over the sidewalks so that the shoppers are
| protected from the fierce rays of the Afri-
| can This is the case with the Rue
| Bab-Azoun. which runs just behind and
| parallel with the Boulevard de la Repub-
| lique. 1t is the fashionable promenade OF
| the business section, and from to
| o'clock every day 1t is filled with people
| buying and selling. The best shops are only
| along the north side of the street. They
! have plate-glass store windows, filled witt
/ beautiful goods and the avenue walled II
| by pillars, looks like a museum.
On the Rue Bab-Azoun.
| The promenaders are stranger than any
| to be found at any national exposition or
| earth. They comprise men and women OF
/ all classes from the islands and shores OF
| the Mediterranean sea, as well as the orien
| tai characters of the Desert of Sahara and
| the Atlas mountains. Europe is we'll rep
resented. There are French officers, in
! their gay uniforms jaunty French soldiers
| in high red caps. blue jackets and fai
| zouave pantaloons the color of brick dust
| and French ladies. wearing the latest cos
| tunes from Paris. The French dandy Is
| here, also the grizette.
The Mohammedan world walks along will
| the Christian. Yelled Mohammedan ladies
| who have Just left the .harem of some rich
| Arab pass by, wearing white pantaloons
| each leg of which is as big around as a
| -four barrel. Their pantaloons hang In
| folds. and / am told that it takes fourteen
yards of cloth to make ordinary pair
| They are tied in at the calves or the ankles
| and are sometimes loaded with shot to keep
| them in shape. Bare-faced Jewesses dressed
| in gay colors. with bright shawls. and with
| thin black handkerchiefs glued to their
! foreheads, walk along in couples, and Ka-
| byle women. bronZe-faced and tattooed,
| ragged and dirty-gowned, come close be-
| hind. As the hour of o'clock approaches
| the Rue Bab-Azoun is packed, and it then
| looks like a great cave, with stream OF
| all colors flowing through 1t.
| The stores here are like those of Europe,