Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-18

without the drawbacks of winter.
where poultry of all kinds commands
a bigger price in the San Juan mar
kets than in either Boston or New
York When you consider too that all
poultry is sold alive at so much per
head according to size, you will see
eliminated a large item in the cost or
putting the stock on the market. -
From Porto Rico l went to SAINT"
Domingo, or as they prefer you to CALI
it the Dominican Republic, very rich
and fertile country but little known
and scantily developed. Santo Do
mingo city, the capital is the Oldest
settlement of European foundation ia
all America and is an exceedingly in
teresting place filled with relics of the
time of the great Columbus and of his
son Don Diego Columbus. 1t is stu
ated at the mouth of the Ozama river
and is surrounded by a wall built ia
the 10th century which is in good
preservation today and all Corners have
to pass through the needles eye" or
city gate to reach the town proper.
The great cathedral. the Oldest
church edifice in America, is worth go
ing thousands of miles to see. It's
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completed in 1888. 1t is an immense
structure and its interior is rich in old
paintings and works of art, the accu-
mutations of 400 years. The remains
of Christopher Columbus are supposed
to be buried beneath the tiled floor
and beautiful and artistics monu-
ment has been erected over the spot
in the centre of the cathedral The
decorations of the great altar are al
most entirely of solid ancient silver
and very beautiful.
Another object of great interest Is
the ruins of a huge palace built for
Diego Columbus 400 years ago. Across
the little river is another ruin where
Nicolas Ovando. the governor general
sent from Spain, stood at its door ana
proclaimed Columbus a traitor to the
Spanish crown.
Near the docks and close to the
river stands an immense Saba tree to
which, tradition says. Columbus fas-
tened his boats when he discovered
the island in 1892. It certainly has
every mark of old age and its size de-
notes hundreds of years of life, the
base of the three with it's huge roots
is as large as an ordinary room ana
the spread of its branches Is sorne-
thing immense. l have piece OF It
here and also photograph.
There are two large sun towers IN
the city which record with great ac-
curacy the meridian time by the suns
rays and the whole city Is filled with
objects of great interest
| also visited San Pedro de Macoris'
large commercial town with beau
tiful land locked harbor from when
much sugar is exported to this coun-
try Also Aqua de Campostela
another town on the south side OF the
island. Here one of my travelling
companions left me to start life anew
among total strangers in this wild
mountainous country. Doing what!
Raising honey. He had thoroughly in
vestigated the subject and I think ne
will do well. Think of his advantages
over the apiarist of the north. for his
bees will work for him the entire
twelve months instead of five and on
the riches of nectar.
From Aqua I entered Haiti, the
Black Republic, SO little known to the
average traveller and q wild weird
country 1t is / first landed at Jack
mel on the south side. The language
lis French as It always has been and
the people are very very black and as
rule not favorably disposed towards
foreigners. The products are mainly
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