The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-20

barnlike building of coral rock cement
In which there are two large compart-
ments. one for the men and one fOf the
women. There IL a small -o-ciled beach
/ al one corner of the island. uf which the
| bottom IL n gravel of disin'egruIsd rock
Thora Is nothing like a surf there. The
rowboa.s ply back and forth in tn. morn
ing.
Why. | could never foat before
exclaimed woman from Syracuse, who
was lying comfortably on the surface
Of tn. tepid water.
This water will almost b.slr up an egg.
IL * so heavy with salt. said a man who
had been there before,
A young woman who enjoys the surf
Al the beaches around New York came
TO the hotel after her first and only sea
bath AT Hamilton this fall sank down
in q chair m their suite OF rooms and
gasped
oh. pop. draw me tub Of cool water:
I'm parboiled, couldn't get under
water except by swimming down and
I'm all out Of breath.
Bermuda is perhaps the only place
in the world where for purposcs of small
traffic "A shilling ~ twenty-four cents
IL rs one Of ths few strictly resort places
where as o rule the tradesmen do not
bleed tourists. Their charges are reason
able and they take II for granted that
every tourist IL honest man i'm q aunt
fit for fall wear in the States" goes issfo
a store in Hamilton to get a linen suit
and hat The proprietor gets his meas
urs and says he will rend TO the hotel
half n dozen suits from which hc may
make his selections. Deposit? Oh. no:
hs may drop in and pay for what he
has selected and the store will send around
for the rest
There ia a one armed boy in Bermuda
and visitors spend part OF their time
specializing IA 20 how he lost the miss
ing arm. They usually sottle down
ON ,he conclusion that he is AN importa-
ton or that his arm was bitten on by
n shark There are stories of sharks,
hut there are no sharks there.
Theonly power machinery in the islands
Is that which brings the steamships 70 tho
docks and that which makes the electric
current. There are no trolley cars and
no horse cars. and unless some winter
resident brings down his auto no ben
zine barrows To main pedestrians,
The horses in Bermuda furnish trans
portation. They are slender creatures
and not heavy on the scales They can
go all day in temperature OF % in the
shade and not show signs Of distress.
said Long Island woman who is devoted To
riding and driving ana pettins her horses
when they are not in service-this was
when she saw a Bermuda horse pulling
a carriage UP steep incline with four
women In il:
Il could take the horse under my arm
and bring him up the hill. but couloln'e
carry the four women az the same time.
There is talk of trolley car service
in Bermuda, a sort u belt line to he in
stalled by Northern capital. and the Ber-
mudian Parliament may decide as to
it this winter. Conservative sentiment
10 decidedly against it. The tracks
would require room on the fine bridges
that connect tho principal islands and
the service would do away with the occu-
patton Of the native owners OF the carriage
outfits. BY the time the Bermudians
got the trick Of lodging trolley cars
the one armed boys would have COM
pany.
Bermuda 10 an old country. About
all that In interesting in its uneyentful
history can be found in any cycIopedia.
II IL was part OF the continent Of Atlantis
pictured by the imagination OF Ignatius
Donnelly and according to his theory
submerged in the globes greatest cata-
clysm. it tells no tales of the human
scramble for high ground. There are
no fossil remains Of mankind in the super
structure OF the islands. Apparently
haze havtlf A,tr
years by the same sorts Of coral insects
that are working there now.
Evidence that Bermuda Is an old country
in point OF occupation is seen mainly in
the bridges that connect the larger II
the islands. A myriad of smaller islands
stand apart. Some Of them have homes
on them and communication with neigh
boring larger island Is by rowboat. But
the principal bridges look like those
OF England and the continent Of Eu-
rope. They are Of pleasing architecture
and have the solid look that their con-
ssruotion out Of the rock Of she islands
imparts.
The building material used in the islands
is mostly this rock or a cement made from
IL. Imposing columns Ira front of the
larger structures are built UP around "A
core Of wood by putting box after box
OF cement one OH top Of another until
the columns are finished. When they
harden they are as # cut out OF rock
This material is used freely. IL il MT
unusual to see a man finishing on "A hand
some stone fence by evening up the face
OF 10 with handsaw
Numerically the population 81 Bermuda
is negro. They seem 20 he about The
happiest people Of the world They have
accomplished one great thing: they have
taken obediently and gladly the com
pulsory school training prescribed hy
the British Government. They invariably
speak with the accent OF well brought up
Britons. They are active, alert and
cheerful. They are OF various shades
OF blackness. tapering on gradually 10
fair skins. blue eyes and wavy blond hair
az they approach the region wher. "A
British garrison has been maintained
for a few hundred years. The color line
socially ~ definitely drawn. The negroes
haya th.s,r u.pay ufo sshaols nnd fr,,p