The Detroit times., 1910-02-25
ROOSEVELT SOON
Be IN KHARTOUM
FORMER President Is Travelling Down
Il Nile To City Famous for
Its Scenery.

KIIARTOUM, Feb. 25.-When Col.
Roosevelt reaches Khartoum, capital
city OF the Soudan desert, it means
that he will be back in civilization
after nearly a year Of African jungle,
the widest and savagest in the world
His arrival viii also mean the end
OF his great hunting trip. which has
aroused the interest OF the civilized
world.
At Khartoum is the telegraph. the
railroad. the telephone. shaded ave
nues, cafes, cooling drinks, automo-
biles, bouleyards. churches, banks
schools, a zoo, a university, a race
track, golf links, tennis courts. gar
dens-everything that makes modern
city-strangely included with Moham
medan mosques. bazars. camel mar
kets. gum arabic markets. silver mar
kets. and all the characteristics or
oriental Africa.
Robt. Iiichins has described tha
people OF the desert-the native girls.
innocent of clothing save for the
girdle OF fringed rhinoceros skin about
their waists, descending 10 the Nile ro
I'LL the graceful earthen ewers they
carry on their naked shoulders
Let il be the province or a cartoon
ist TO depict the bronzed face OF Roose-
welt when he sees one OF these poetic
water carriers al Khartoum. For on
her shoulder as she ascends from the
river briin the Khartoum girl bears
not the earthen jar of ANTIQUITY, but
A Standard oil can.
The earthen jar Is made OF sun
baked Nile mud and sand. Besides
being leaky II bursts every time II is
dropped. and even the native girl will
now and then cast a glance over bare
shoulder at some stalwart native boy.
But an empty Standard oil can costs
hut a few pence, il doesn't leak and
the Soudanese girl can rubber az the
fellows all she wants. and If the can
drops IL only gets deuted
Coming down the White Nile in the
launch r. K Will know khartoum is
near when on the right bank OF the
river he will glimpse the grandstand |
at the race track Just south OF the
city Adjoining are the golf links !
the martyred Gen. Chas. Geo Cor !
don 8 Chinese" Gordon's ~ ineffec- (
tive ramparts forming some OF the
bunkers
A mile further down the launch will
chug up to the massive masonry land
ing where Col Roosevelt will be met
with an auto. whisked up the hill
thence east two blocks on khedive-
ave, thence north to the magnificent
Riverside drive tmodeled something
after the famous New York river boule-
vard). then east one mile to the mu-
diria house-the governors palace.
If T. X. gets a front room over.
looking the river he will gaze out into
the grounds and see the four liveliest
hottest tennis courts in all Africa
The colonel will be reminded OF
home also because Khartoum is built
like Washington. II has square blocks,
with long diagonal avenues. heavily
shaded trees. converging at a central
point on the north river front-the
sirdar's palace
These diagonal avenues make for
beauty. but there is a tactical reason
for them. A few guns at the palace
commanding these avenues. command
the entire city.
When T. r. is sightseeing they viii
show him the great new Mohamme-
dan mosque with it's domes and min
arets dazzling white in the African
sunshine. where. If he goes inside. he
must first remove his shoes. And 4
T. r. asks what the mosque is bull,
OF tand he will ask the answer will !
be:
"Ohio sandstone"
Knartoum is built on the left bank !
OF the Blue Nile. near where il flows |
into the White Nile. down which the |
Roosevelt launch Is coming They |
call IL the Blue Nile because It's |
waters are iron gray. and the White |
Nile white because its waters are vel /
low After they have flowed together
the gray and yellow waters don't mix /
right away. For miles they keep 10
their own sides of the stream.