Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-19
Correspondents Of the Dcsec Nc BY Franz Cafefcr)

tcopyright. 1907. by Frank G. carpen-
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,--yr-- ANGLER, Morocco--Come win
me this bright sunday mornins
ana take a look at some Of tho o GA,
th,nes in this land OF otheiio'
The sonhcr-feced Moors are gong ="
.oa FRO through the streets ana we
snalt meet with many scowl we
shall not zee the faces OF their pesue-
,nonas, and we shall have to move care
f,nv for fear OF giving offense we
sn,il arst take q birds-eye view OF
Targ,er before we start 70 walk
through it. The city lies ON the edge
Of the Atlantic ocean in hollow or
neat IN these wild African hills, IL mas
biz wall around It and It's blue anu
white houses remind me Of tot OF
gigantic store boxes jumbled together
In ali sorts of shapes. The higheSt
mari is the citadel where the governor
lives. There he holds court and there
Is his prison. where scores of half
naked miserable beings are shut up
with chains around their legs Az night
they sleep on the stones, all tied to-
gether by one chain which binds the
necks of the whole criminal crowd.
They do their own cooking, and their
friends must furnish the food or they
starye on short rations of dry bread
and water There is no habeas corpus
act here, and 1t is not hard for man
of influence TO get poorer brother III
jail.
TANGIER FROM THE CITADEL.
Let us stand together near the gov
ernor's palace and take look over me
city What q strange town II thls
within almost rifle shot or Europe mere
Mt the beginning Of the twentieth cen
fury, The roofs are fiat and there Is
not chimney in sight. There are no
smolsestacks and no smoke. There arc
so 900 people living In that tumble OF
houses below us, and they eat at least
three meals day. Their cooking ls
done upon fires OF charcoal MADE IN
clay basins. half the size OF q WASH
bowl with hole at the side for the
draft. some OF the larger establish
n,ents have little brick ovens built into
the walls OF their kitchens, hut the
cooking there ia done the same way.
r,he land sbout here is useless and the
fuel Is costly, an armful of faggots as
big as a broom handle costing dollar
charcoal is proportionately high
About all the washing is done IN colo
water. We can see the clothes drying
on the roofs OF the houses. There are
but few yards and the laundresses
often dry their clothes near the
streams outside the city, where they
wash, pounding the garments on the
stones.
THE WATER WORKS OF THE
MOORS.
There is q scarcity OF water in almost
every Moroccan city Tangler has no
waterworks, and II is short on sewers
and other modern improvements. the
streets are sprlnlsled by men who go
through them with goatslSin bags on
their backs, bending half double rs
they scatter the drops here and there:
Each bag holds about 10 gallons ana
the sprinkliug water comes from the
sea. other carriers go from house TO
house. with fresh water, which they
bring from the wells or the streams
outside the city. They ring bells as
fhey 90; and have little brass cups IN
which they will give You all you can
drink for less than cent. / should,
however. as soon think of drinking a
cup of pure typhoid bacteria as OF tast-
ing such water, although ! stopped one
OF these ragged old water beggars to-
day and bought cup while my guide,
Mohammed, snapped my camera Such
men receive about four cents per skin