The Detroit times., 1910-02-25
ROOSEVELT SOON
TO BE|N KHARTOUM
Former President Is Travelling Down
Nile To City Famous for
Its Scenery.

KHARTOUM, Feb. 25.-When Col.
Roosevelt reaches khartoum. capital
city OF the Soudan desert, II means
that he will be back in civilization
after nearly q year of African jungle.
the widest and sayagest in the world
His arrival will 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-
Dilcs, bouleyards. churches, banks.
schools, zoo, a university, race
track, golf links, tennis courts, gar
dens-everything that makes a modern
city-strangely included with Moham-
medan mosques, baZars camel mar
kets, gum arabic markets. silver mar
kets, and all the characteristics OF
oriental Africa.
Robt Hichins has described the
people OF the desert-the native girls.
innocent of clothing save for the
girdle Of fringed rhinoceros skin about
their waists, descending to the Nile 10
fill the graceful earthen ewers they
carry on their naked shoulders.
Let II be the province of a cartoon
list to depict the bronZed face of Roosc-
Welt when he sees one OF these poetic
water carriers at Khartoum For on
her shoulder as she ascends from the
river brim the Khartoum girl bears
not the earthen jar of antiquity, but
A Standard Oil can,
L.,
baked Nile mud and sand. Besides
being leaky ii bursts every time II is
dropped and even the native girl viii
now and then cast a glance over bare
shoulder at some stalwart native boy.
But an empty Standard Oil can costs
but a few pence. it doesn't leak and
the Soudanese girl can rubber at the
fellows all she wants, and il the can
drops 1t only gets dented.
Coming down the White Nile in the
launch T. r 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's 80 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 10 the magnificent
Riverside drive (modeled something
after the famous New York river boul,,-
vardJ. then east one mile to the NIL
diria house-the governors palace
III i. 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.
these avenues, command
the entire city.
When r. r. is sightseeing they viii
show him the great new Mohammc.
wan Hip9p"V' Win It's uoHieS ana inlH-
arcts dazzling white IN the African
whore. II he goes inside. he
must first remove his shoes And II
7. r. asks what the mosque is built
Of (and he will ask the answer will
be:
ohio sandstone"
Khartoum is built on the left bank
OF the Blue Nile. near where II flows
into the White Nile. down which the
Roosevelt launch Is coming. They
call il the Blue Nile because ITS
waters are iron gray. and the White
Nile white because It's waters are vel.