Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-13

Copyright, 1908, by Frank G. carpen-
ter)
~ AR rs sALAAM, May TO-
4 D Stand with me under the cocoa
y nut trees on the shores OF this
beautiful harbor and take n look
ai the chief city Of the kalser's colonial
empire. Germany has five times as
much territory on this continent as IN
Europe, and German East Africa Is the
best Of the whole. II IS twice as large
as Germany itsolf and BAR cs salaam
most beautiful Of all those I have yet
visited on the shores OF the ludian
ocean. 1t is as bright as a new pin and
It has every sign of prosperity and
trade. There are great warehouses
along the wharvos. a German man-of-
war lies in the harbor. and huge dry
dock, sufficiently large to hold any ship
of this part of the world, is on the edge
of the shore There are craft Of many
kinds in the bay and one OF the large
steamers of the German East Africa
line has just come in on its way down
the coast.
OAR ES SABAAM.
Turning to the city itself. one walks
through wide streets shaded by trees
and bordered with flowers. There are
great government buildings OF old-fash-
toned German architecture, which have
been erected within the past few years
away down here In the tropcis. The
government house is far superior 10
anything in British East Africa AMI |
the great white postoffice with its tiled |
floors makes one feel as though he Were
IN Europe rather than in the wilds of
the black continent. There is a large
German club. half dozen modern
churches and a first class hotel which
Is known as the Kaiserhof. There are
many stone villas. the residence OF
the officials, and there are some fairly
good business blocks. The buildings
are all new, clean and artistic Most
OF them were built by the German
government, after plans by German
architects, and the result is one Of tho
prettiest and most artistic little towns
of the world Indeed, | know of no
place which compares with this except
some of the cities of Java, and they
are by no means so fine,
The Germans have laid out the town
so that it seems to be a part of Il DO.
tanical garden. IL Is situated not far
from the equator and it's vegetation Is
surprisingly beautiful. The buildings
rise out of cocoanut palms and the fam
like leaves OF other palm trees whisper
a welcome as we walk through the
streets There are many acacias and
trees loaded with flowers of all kinds
The roads are well kept. Every blade
of grass and weed is pulled out, and a
chain gang of native women convicts
rain. These women have iron collars
about their necks and there are chains
which run from collar to collar, holding
the gang together They are barehead-
ed, bareshouldered and barefooted and |
they move along taking up the whole
width Of the road and pounding the
ground firm with wooden stamps, which
they raise and let fall in unison.
WHERE THE NATIVES LIVE.
The native section of Oar es Salaam
is back from the harbor. Neither Hin
docs nor Africans are allowed to have |
houses in the European settlement and
their huts are showed off in the woods
at the rear. The town has altogether
about $4,000 people The most of them
are natives of the different tribes which
live along the coast, and a large num-
Der who have come In as porters and
from back in the interior.
Many of the natives are Swahilis, noted
as the brightest of the East Africa