El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-04

hours of meals the two answered in
correct and if I wanted hot water they
started on the dead run 20 get it, In
deed, 1 have been much in the same pO-
sition as the man who was adopted by
a dog, except that [ was adopted by
two dogs, and both stuck to me- I have
settled the matter by paying Nund Lal
a dollar: and by appointing Wall Mo-
manned my valet.
From Burma to India.
1 came here from Rangoon on a Brit
ish India steamer. The ship was one of
1900 tons, with English officers and
HindOo sailors and walters. The cabin
stewards were dark faced, heavy beard
ed men of 20, who wore black velvet
caps. white gowns which reached to
their knees and tight white cotton
draw ers below which their black bare
feet showed. The dinner walters wore
white engalese hats with bands OF
blue ribbon. and their gowns were belt
ed IN a the waist with blue ropes as thick
as my waist. 1t was hot all the way I'D
the bay of Bengal, and the air of the
salon was kept cool by a punkah, a
long screen so hung from the ceiling
that it could be drawn back and forth
y black Malay did the work jerking the
rope y pulls with one hand and then
changing and making u pulls with the
other The dishes were washed in a
bucket on deck, the plates being swab-
bed off with a brush on the end of a
stick, and wiped by Malay as dirty
as the indian. who did the cooking
We were several days on the bay of
Bengal The water was indigo until we
reached the mouths of the GangeS
These extend for a hundred miles I'D
and down the coast and they vOmit so
much silt that IL turns the ocean to
Cruel took a bath when we reached
the pilot brig, about a hundred miles
from Calcutta, and upon draining the
tuP of footprints were as plain in the
mud as those which frightened Robin
son Crusoe on his desert island.
The silt of the Ganges Is as great az
that Of the Nile It is said to be five
times as much as that of the Mississip-
pi-Missouri. amounting to hundreds of
millions of tons every year. 1t builds
UP great bars along the shore, and
makes the work of plotting the ships
dangerous to an extreme.
A High Paid Monopoly.
The pilots of Calcutta are a close
corporation There are only 80 of
them, and they monOpOlize the Gauges,
or. rather, the HoOghly, for ii is on the
Hooghly branch of the delta that the
ships so up TO the city. The trade of
the river amounts to more than a hun
dred million dollars year, and there
Is procession of boats always going
up and coming down. The men receive
various wages. the best getting as much
as $500 per month. To belong to this
association one must have a first mates
certificate and must have passed
through his apprenticeship He spends
five years at low wages learning the
river, and then graduates in the full
rank Of pilot. The Hooghly cannot be
navigated at night and the ships go in
with the tides. As the latter rise there
is often a bore which reaches as much
as seven feet, so that the risks are
great.
Millions IN Jute
AS we cOasted the shores of the
HOoghly we passed jungles infested with
tigers The land is low and malarious
and wild beSts roam in it at will. A
little farther up the houses begin, and
palm trees are frequent. The population
grows more and more dense, and then
comes a region of mighty jute mills
On each side of the stream tall smoke
stacks vomit black volumes into the
sky and near them are enormous brick
structures where the rough bagging
for all mankind is made. Calcutta ships
vast quantities of jute to the United
States. and much of our cotton crop Is
baled in cloth made here on the banks
of the Hooghly. a few years ago we
were taking more than so percent of the