The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-24
Improving Port au Prince.

The announcement that the Havtian
Government OF President ANTOINE
SIMON has made a contract with New
York capitalists 10 RECONSTRUCT tho
streets OF Port al Prince reminds vs.
OF what the natives used TO saw when
they were asked why they did not re-
pair their streets Con spoilt them,
and GoD will mend them
Port au Prince il now said 20 be a
city OF 10000 peopl" II has som"
creditable modern buildings -tom
house. a central market a national bank
n seminary, and a really imposing cath"-
dral not quite completed But AZ last
accounts the streets were in dcplor-
able condition OF neglect and filth.
FR0CDE ia his BOOK Tie EngTl-u m ~"
West Indies isSS saws Of a visit 70 the
Haytian capital:
Ioug be'or. We ram. 20 shore there -a-r- -
whl-, not ~ trsln. - ~ Havana hur ~ a.'. .
dirt fermentlng IN ne s.aHgh' ra#rs o.-
hsntk-rohIsf' 70 or help and In"-.us o., ".-
feet carefully Ne stepped NJ rran ne q.ar 1a4
va zed for~ari 80 'gtir.1Gs.ys .. W. r1.r u...
where rotten H,a. Icse,abiss ant Other s-I.. e.
were wing about prom .sr-ols.y. AMI 900 .,--
upon what al day f,r grand parade Ne
were IN . Parts ~ the gutter vI'H boplevarIs ani
places nArres AMI Grim son parsspl' tn. bo.le
wards Uttered with The refuse Of ~ ao 49,
and were fori - pizsue, AMI ne ladies' under
the psrssoIs we're piczlnE 'h~lr way along them
IN Partisan boots and six dresses sava "ar--
broken down IN black rool OF . which =
b.Aeser ladysh.u Vas sorarbilrg
In 1871 when SIR SPENsFR IT ions.
the British Minister. landed. ha found
the streets heap"d mp with fifth. and
still had in making his way about the
streets n perform IN N" shade a series
II gynnastiC exercises exceedingly in
convenient IN "A tropical "lmat" He
records tho fact that Prrr an Prince
may bear the palm away Of bong the
most foul smelling dirty. and c,rSe-
quentlv fever stricken cltv o N" world ~
Both FROUDE and IT ions may haze
suffered from prejudice IN des,rIb. NJ
the streets Of Porr an Prince Il wa
FRoCDE's conclusion that while tho
West Indies were very beautiful th.v
did not repay a visit. beoau-" man was
vile. ST JOIN remembered Havti with
loathing. on the TIL" page # his book
on the country he inscribed tho ter.
comment - NAPOLEON III Hair.
Haiti, paws do barbares. and IT. JOHS
supplied the evid"n"e 10 support a iudg-
urh In 81 l.
We have never known u Favorable"
opinion by anv traveller II IN" -tr.-.t-
and boul"vardS 81 IN" capital Nut
even J. y. LEGER. tho Minister To- tho
United States. who wrot" an elaborate
book on Hayri 20 onnfouud her dctra,-
tors, submitted a brief for ~" cornell
ness and SAVIOR of Port au Primo"
So IL il refreshing ~ hear thar tho
'horoughfar"S are 10 h. -rccou-trrl,ted
Let III hope that Pr"rI'leu' SnrON who
se"rns - b" a prngre--Iv" ruler. viii or
ganize an efficient stre"t cleaning de-
partm"nt 10 keep III" town fair and
wholo-Om" and "A board 81 health %
Danish infectlon The Havtlan4 arc
not A. -hiftl'-~s. illlt"rat" and barharDIa
a. visitors offended bv IN" sights and
smells ~ Port au Prince have de-
-Crib1 them and th"v have hal mon"
cNc,Ise for n"gl"ctlng th"lr capiial
than IN" SpanIard- had for allowing
Havana 20 b" a SYNONYM for yellow
fever during three C"ntrIrl's FROM all
We can learn, Port au Prince ha- caught
M least IN" right Infection that dc.irn
for Improvement which j. sweeping
over the whole West Indies outside ~
cuba m emulation 81 the sanitary con-
dltion- that III" Americans introduced
into Havana and Santiago
Port Az Primo" ~ not necessarily I'M
healthful Set ~ ma icstic hills clothed
withtrOpical growth. IL heat j. t"mrar,I
by brcclcS from IA" Gulf Of Gonai,".
natiy" Haussmann could make n an
attractive city 10 IN" .'vr bv a comuarl-
lively small outlay Of moury " p
tIonyil" and Fur"y ~ the ncighbortrg
hills are sanotuaTI"- Of coolnos- and
brauty 10 which an 49, siI,r ,nr b"uiIrkly
mad" from IN" capital NJ Ercv
which has an altIuId" Of I.5tp meters
th"r" are sad 10 b" no opprr,,Iynr ghf-
tho t"fnp"r1iur" after nId-uum"r fall
ing sometimes - ~ d"grr"- Fahrenheit
4 now water system has recently b..u
constructed AZ Port an Prince bv Amer
leans, who have also installed an cleo