The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14

Copyright, 1908, by Frank G. Carpenter.)
 Oar Els Salaam. ~TAND with me under the cocoanut
 trees on the shores of this beautiful Olarbor and take look at the chler city of the Kaiser's colonial empire. Ger many has five times as much territory on this continent as in Europe, and Ger man East Africa is the best of the whole. It is twice as large Germany itself and Darwes Saaam is it's capital. The town is by far the most beautiful or all those I have yet visitel on the shores of the Indian Ocean. It is as lfight as new pin and it has every sign of pros perity and trade. There are great ware houses along the wharves, d German man-of-war lies in the harbor, and large dry-dock. sufficient 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 Afrl- ca line has just come in on it's way down the coast.
 Oar Els SaIaam.
 Turning to the city itself, one walks through wide streets, shaded by trees and bordered with flowers. There are great government buildings of old-fashioned German architecture, which have been erected within the past few years, away down here in the tropics. The govern hent house is far superior to anything Tn British East Africa, and the great Whlto postoffice with it's 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, a half doz- en modem churches and first-class ho- tel which is known as the 'kalserho1. There are many stone villas, the resi- dence of the officials, and there are some fairly good business blocks. The buiio- ings are all new clean and artistic. Most of them were built by the German gov ernment after plans by German archt- tects and the result is one of the pret- tiest 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 part of a botanical garden. It is situated not far from the equator and it's vegetation is surpassing- 1y beautiful. The buildings rise out of cocoanut palms and the fan-like leaves Of ether palm trees whisper a welcome as we walk through the streets. There are many acacias and trees loaded with flow CTS of all kinds The roads are well kept. Every blade of grass and weed is pulled out, and chain gang of native women convicts pounds hard the road bed after eac.l rain These women have iron col lars about their necks and there arc - chains which run from collar to collar, holding the gang together. They are bareheaded. bareshouldered and bare footed and they move along, taking up 7 the whole width of the road and pound ing 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 2 back from the harbor. Neither Hindoos nor Africans are allowed to have houses in are showed off in the rear. The town has alto yether about 25,000 people. The most {. of t,,em are natives of the different tribes which live along the coast, and a large nuplber who have come in as porters and Many of the natives are swahilis, noted as the brightest of the East Africa ne- er ,es: and there are also large number retail trade.
 These people all dress in cottons and hey are more clad than those I saw Tn British East Africa, Uganda or around :.ake victoria. Some of the native wo- men are fine looking, but they all mutil- nte their ears and many scar their bodies SO that the flesh stands up in great welts. The women comp their hair in such way that they seem to wear hoods. They shave nartinos at intervals of about one Inch all