The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-09-03
J0TTINGS FROM
WORLD JOURNEY
"aIay Peninsula Increases in Size As
one Approaches and Visit Re-
veals It's Importance.
cocoANUT TRADE GOOD INCOME
Large Fields Of Pepper, Whose Yearly
output Bring No Small Re-
turn to the Owners.

IL one looks at the Malay Peninsula
~ lis connection Win the rest of Asia
!; appears as though the waters of
me faclflc and Indian oceans, or per.
maps more stricrly speaking, the wa.
ters of the China sea of Bay of Ben.
sai would sweep it's entire territory
win every rising tide. A near ap-
proach increases it's size and visit
reveals its Importance. Here is mined
more than one-half the tin used in
- me world, and large quantity of the
ruoper. This latter industry is grow
ing rapidly. Great forests are being
ourned away to make room for the
young rubber trees After the fifth
year they begin to produce and there
IS no cessation of their giving forth
until death claims them. Each day
ior SIX months the scab is opened on
the one half side, then the order is re-
Versed. 1t is said a good plantation
VIII produce twelve hundred pounds
10 the acre annually, and this is worth
$4,000. A hundred acre rubber plan
tation would not be bad thing to
own.
The cocoanut trade has long been
a lucrative business. Immense trees
centuries old, with their hard brown
heads clinging close to the mother
plant like native children at the ap.
4 "rpaeh of the foreigner, line the
shores and form great groves.
Not the least among the products
OF this narrow strip of country, are
the large fields of pepper whose year.
ly output bring no small returns to
the owners. Here is found hill after
mill OF solid marble, enough to supply
the worlds demand, and yet an indus
try touched only in very limited and
crude fashion. During the run of five
hundred miles from Panang 10 Sing
apore there is seen beauty of foil
age, and variety of industries
scarcely found elsewhere in the same
area.
And then there is Singapore stu
ated on the island that bears the same
name, the capital of the Starts Set
Elements, seventy-six miles from the
equator, with it's cosmopolitan popu-
lation of 100000 people, occupying
|, }nla.
CAS- it is said all roads lead to Rome
so all ships in oriental waters proceed
to Singapore" This statement seems
to be true when the records show that
over 10000 ocean steamers come and
90 in a single twelve months
When purchased by the British in
1924 from the Sultan of Johore, Sing
apore was overrun by a band of pi-
rates who found safe retreat in the
y sc. forests of the island. Now all
Afe I'd. Piracy is no more, fine
iasNask - have replaced the swampy
]. 5ashS, beautiful gardens delight
the eye fine museums instruct the
mind, large hotels accommodate the
hundreds of visitors and the sixty
nine different languages makes it pos
sible for every newcomer to find his
own.
at rains three hundred and seventy
days in the year, because some
times it rains at night" and this con-
\ slant wetting down produces lux.
uriant vegetation that is perpetual
delight.
It does not stop with producing
beauty. Tropical fruits of large
variety are found on the island,
among which is the peculiar DURAN.
Mix all the foul gas ever produced In
, chemical laboratory and then mul
tiply that by ten and you have some
what the odor of the DURAN. 1t is
the kind of fruit once smelled. never
forgotten, once liked, never enough.
The shipping to and from this city is
immense. Fourteen million tons load
and unload at her docks each year and
|the harbor is large enough to accom-
lmodate all the ships afloat
A very curious sight are the many
k.hinese sanpons that ply from shore
to' vessels within the harbor carrying
passengers and baggage. Each little
boat is supplied with two eyes. "How
could the boat see to 60 without eyes"
Dis the answer to your question. why"
Another most interesting feature Of
Singapore life are the 1900 rickshaw