Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-05-28

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construction of the bitches, rampant
and approaches, the great mass 0
stone In its solid walls. 1t required
the labor of hundreds of workmen 10,
many years, and besides the Indians
members of the garrison and convicI
labor from Mexico was brought tt
fort. 1t took n hundred guns fol
its armament and g garrison Of one
thousand men. 1t has never beer
taken though twice besieged and sev.
eral times attacked. Many legends
are connected with its dark chambers
and its vaults, chains, instruments of
torture and the skeletons walled in
its secret recesses. We were favored
in that the custodian, Sergeant G. NJ.
Brown, U. S. A, showed us the dun.
geon. which is several rooms in one,
and these have been the wonder of
thousands of people since they were
discovered in 1885. The dungeon is
entered through an aperture thirty
inches in height by three feet wide.
1t is said by those who have beer
through all the noted dungeons of the
old world that there are none there
to equal these rooms in Fort Marion.
Within these walls served some of
the best and bravest of Spanish no.
bility and at it's altar some Of its best
missionaries have celebrated mass
and preached the Word.
In the language of the gergeant it
has -four bast!ons, four curtains.
tw%enty-six easements, one magazine,
four dungeons and two small rooms
under the rampant leading to the ter ,
parapet and rampant, CORR
dor, banquet, superior slope, scarp
and counter scarp, and many other
The City Gates.
Another of the old relics is the city
rates. all that remains of the ancient
.'ntrance to st. Augustine. There
two solid square stone posts, not
ute high enough to be called tow
RS, and these are fianked by a few
get of the original conqufna (stone) !
Tall. These are at the end OF old st.
gorge street and were at one time +
most formidable land approach. (
18th q guard house Just within and {
draw bridge crossed the moat. 5
'hese gates were begun In 1743 and !
hey bear & bronze tablet dedicated {
Y the d. A. R. The masonry must t
ave appeared massive at II time as c
he pillars are about Thirty feet high. a
dense growth of Spanish bayonet c
n the parapet made a passage I'M J
ossible. S
The city has, however, outgrown 7
he narrow confines marked by this
me of Notifications. At the firing of
he sunset gun the gate was closed, q
he draw bridge raised, guards were I
tationed in sentry boxes inside the !,
ate and a late conner, no matter c
neither friend or foe, had to camp Y
ut until morning. The city gates !,
lark the northern end of St George ]
treet, one of the Oldest streets of
he city and said to be the quaintest /
treet in the country. It is made |
onspicuous by the many buildings i
nth oyerhanging balconies. remnants
/ old-world architecture, and which
re found in all the older streets OF
It. Augustine. j
The Pestoffice.
The present ~postofice building was
he administration building under
spanish rule and the residence of the
In those days 1t was called
The Palace This Is the oldest post
,fice building Uncle Sam has. The
architecture is unique and OF the
,tyle OF the seventeenth century, with
balconies supported by PAL
.ars. 1t once had q tower seventy
Teet high.
Treasury Street.
Treasury street, the narrowest
street in the United States, Is six feet
one inch wide. 1t gets its name from
the fact that the building on the south
side Of the intersection with ST
George street was the Spanish treas
ury. Treasury street was used in the
spanish period al a public highway
and one can stand IN the middle 81
II and reach the buildings on either
side of it.
Besides st. George street which ~
only twenty feet vide. there Is Eos
pitai street, Charlotte street q
others just as marrow.
The Cathedral.
since the first mass which was said
In 1866, the Roman Catholic church
has had regular services in 81. Aug.
ustine with very few Interruptions.
The cathedral was almost I'VE years
In building, being started In 1888 and