The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-15

school and into grown-up clothes. that
excuse is valid for the Parse maiden.
In the panorama of street life there
is every variety Of dress known to man,
from the absolute nakedness of the ma
tive children to the triple cOwled swath-
ings of the Arabian bedouin. There are
MOhammedans with their nantes knot
ted over the left shoulder, and Hindus
with their nantes kn0tted over the
right shoulder in opposition There are
fierce Afghans with peaked caps of gold
and red cloth surrounded by a white
turban, martial Rajputs with the ends
OF their forked boards caught behind
their ears in the folds of voluminous
/ turbans, dappeT Turks and Egyptians
with frOck coats and black-tasselled red
fezes, and native Mohammedans with
tiny pill-box caps.
Not the least among the races which
attract the eye of the visitor is the
queer elan OF Bombay Jews. These arc
! descendants of Jews who fed to India
centuries ago at the time of the great
dispersion, who lived here in poverty
and misery for ages and who found re-
lief only when the British came. There
are but a few thousand OF them, and
they are divided into two classes by
that sharpest of dividing lines-color.
One class is fair and its people are ex-
aCtly like the jews OF the Occident- The
people of the other class. although
claiming the purest blood, and although
possessed Of unmistakable Jewish fea-
lures, have skins of much darker hue.
/ The younger generation have adopted
European costumes, but many of the
older men wear a long robe and a huge
| turban, the gaTb of their ancestors.
These Jews have been very successful
in business and in public affairs, ono
family having earned a British baron
etcy. They vie with the Parsees in the
establishment Of public benefactions.
Thriftiness is a striking characters
tic OF the man of Bombay, if one may
judge from the system of newspaper
circulation. The price of the leading
morning paper, delivered by mail, is 2
rUpees-56 cents-a month But if
subscriber will take it from carrier.
who delivers it at Z O'Clock, and viii
read and return it when the carrier
calls again at II o'clock, the price is
only 11a rupees. If he is willing TO wait
until 4 O'Clock in the afternoon for his
morning news, he may have the paper
delivered at that hour and return 1T to
the carrier next morning, all for
rupee d month. Or, if he likes to keep
his old papers he may wait until the
next morning after publication and
have his paper for I rupee a month and
be under no obligation to return it at
all This complicated system is not un-
deTtaken by the newspapers directly.
but is managed by firm which con-
tracts with the newspapers for daily
supplies Of fresh papers. The late de-
livery papers, of course. are the ones
collected from the early morning sub
scribers. Thus one copy of d newspaper
may be circulated in three different
households and the total revenue there
from will amount TO 81 rupees. giving
a neat margin over the regular price of
rupees.
Adding to the picturesqueness Of the
harbor scene Is the feet of the Bombay
Yacht club. That institution has a
house and grounds at the waters edge.
and from its wide terraces the members
witness the maneuvers Of its smart
trim craft. Membership in the club is
priced next 70 patent Of English no.
bility in Anglo-Indian society. All
through the year Bombay is a city
given over to sport. The races take the
lead in brilliance and popularity. but
every clerk carries a tennis racquet.
every school boy a cricket bat. and
there is polo and hockey and football 10
fiji up the vacant days.
The greater part Of the municipal
magnihcence Of Bombay is due TO the
American civil war When the war in
the united states had cut of the SUD
ply of cotton from the Lanca shire mills
England turned to India in hope of re-
lief But the Parsee merchants and
bankers Of Bombay were not Sd blind
that they overlooked the golden oDpor-
tUnity. The Psrsee community pooled
its capital and ran corner on the
whole supply of Indian raw cotton
They bought from the growers at 10 and
- and % cents q pound; they sold in
Manchester at a dollar a pound II
was one Of the most successful opera
lions in finance recorded in all history
and it made Bombay a city Of million
aires.
The newly rich Parsees competed with
each other in erecting building and
monuments. and the great flood of cant
tai released brought into being mills
railroad systems and all sorts of public
and industrial Improvements. The cot
ton glory was short lived. Of course b,7f
il gave the impetus to a movement
which would have been advancing ever
today, had Il not been for the despised
rat. Twelve years ago the bubonic
plague came to Bombay. and since thar
time has ragged continually. Heroic ef
forts have been made 20 stop its raw