The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-03-19

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Frank g.. Carpenter.
with the Boulevard de la Republique.
1t is the fashionable prominade of the
business section. and from 1 10 L
O'Clock every day IL * filled NIL
fashionable people buying and selling
The best shops are only along The
north side Of the street. They have
plate glass store windows, oiled with
beautiful goods. and the avnue wallet
in by pillars. looks like a museum.
On the Rue Bah tzoun.
The prominaders are stranger than
any to be found at any national eX-
position On earth. They conpria"
men and women of all classes from
the islands and shores Of the Mediter~
ranean sea. as Well as the Oriental
characters OF the Desert Of Sahara
and the Atlas mountains. Europe l.
we'll represented. There are French
French soldiers Of high red caps.
blue jackets and fat Zouave pantd-
looms the color Of brick dust: ana
French ladies, wearing the latest cos
TUNES from Paris. The French dandy
is here. also the griZette.
The Mohammedan world walks along
with the Christian. Yelled Mohanl
fnedan 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 flour bar
rel. Their pantaloons hang in folds,
and am old that it takes fourteen
yards of cloth to make AN ordinary
pair. They are tied in at the calves
or the ankles, and are sometimes
loaded with shot TO keep them in
shane. Rare-faced JeWesseS dressed
in gay col0rs. with bright shawls n
with thin black handkerchiefs glued
to their ~foreheads, walk along II
couples and kabyle women
bronze-faced n tattooed, ragged
and dirty gowned, come close behind.
AS the hour of five O'Clock approaches
the Rue Bab-Azoun is packed. and IT
then looks like a great cave, with q
stream Of gay eolors flowing through
Like Europe.
The stores here are like those of
Europe. The windows are we'll dis
PLAYED and the goods are usually
French. Most of the wares have price
marks and as a rule they cost no more
than in France.
Another fine business street is the
Rue d'Isley. This is the main road
to Mustapha SUPERIOR the i'Sh hfdb
able villa center, on the hills hlEl
above the city. 1t has many new
buildings; the old structures have bteil
torn down, the fortified wall "h'cn
once girdled Algiers has been removed
and many ~provemen are now be-
in made. The city is rapidly grow
ing, and it has now, with It's suburbs,
about one hundred and fifty thousand
people.
Ten-Ccnt TcIcoraree and Thrcc-Cent
Telephones.
1t is down in the French quarter
that the city postDifice IS situated. ne
French have given their colony the
hae+ ,,ortor fnniljtiaS and at rates
much lower than we nave given Haw-
ali. porto Rico. the Philippines or even
ourselves. All kinds of goods can be
sent by mail at low rates, and there
is an enormous mall order business
with the mother m
The telegraph and telephone lines
are under the government and the
rates show the benefit Of government
management. They are as low as in
France and less than half of our
charges either at home or in our colo
MES. one can telegraph betWee any
two cities of Algeria, which is a coun- |
try more than five times as large as
the State Of Indiana. for one cent a ,
word, the minimum kilograms costing
ten cents. He can send n telegram /
to any part Of France from ana part
of Algeria at the same rate. Gables
to Great Britain and Germany cost |
only 5 cents Il word, to Italy. Austria. |
Spain. Portugal, switzerland Bel
GUM only 6 cents. and to Gibraltar
but Z. These are rates for from any |
part of Algeria to any part of the
countries mentioned. They are. / ven
ture. about the lowest telegraph rates |
of the world.
As to telephones. all the chief ALL
gerian cities. have them. The rate for
houses in Algiers is forty dol |
iars per year, and one can have a
conversation to any part
OF the city, or to anywhere fifteen |
miles outside it. for 3 cents. And all
this is in this black, far-behind-the-
times continent Of Africa,
Theaters. Libraries and Cheap Street |
Cars. :
Algiers Is a city Of amusement halls. |
libraries and schools. 1t has a city
theater, which is subsidized by the
government to the extent of 500 600 |
a year, a casino which is a kind Of
second class vaudeville. and regular
concerts by the military bands in the
ILace on government and at Musta-
pia ouperleur. 1t has many clubs and
IN the winter there are fashionable So
ciety gatherings. The governor gen
erai then gives balls and receptions.
anu lne French army dds to the CAV
ety, hustapha SUPERIOR has magnif-
.enI villas with tropical gardens Sit
ua.eo on n hills six hundred feet
above the harbor. which are occupied
lhat time by rich Europeans, and
1here are also large winter hotels
winch are then filled with Americans
and English.
Aigiers has street car lines, equip
ped with our " Thompson-Houstop
electric service, which go to all the
suburbs. l understand they pay divi-
although the fares are cent
upward per trip, according to the
Instance. In each a there are first.
sscoha n third class compartments, !
ne dlfference of price being regulated !,
Oy the part of the car in which one
ohe