The evening world., 1914-01-26
Engineer Who Arrives From
?, HayH Declares 1t Is a
80 Regular Bear.
DIPS lNTHEALTOGETHER
Revolutions Are in Style and a
a. New One Breaks Out
>. -'- Every Day.

4 : Life IN . panther's cage wouldn't
BE- q circumstance to an existence
), among the merry. revolving Way
y tians, declared George Myers. a young
:, engineer who has been doing some
, brtdGe construction work in the
s'Dlack Republic" and who arrived
80 from Port Au Prince to-day on the
p Atias line steamer Albingia. when
- Mr.. Myers left there were seven revo-
~ iut1ons raging. CHE elections take
- place next month and the seven can.
: cdidates are doing their revolutlns
~ sayiy.
? y Mr.. Myers had no end Of trouble
keeping his gang Of workmen on the
-. Practically every navy in the
= gang had a separate candidate and
- tAey werS glad TO stop at any time
md. argue out their idols quaiinca-
ssssons for the Presidential Job. One
~ 1ay & section Of one Of the seven
: sUvoluting armies came marching up
: 10 the construction camp. They
Wanted to levy on Mr.. Myerss work.
Samsn a. recruits.
IA small circus had gone to pieces
so Port au Prince some time before
and the revolutionists had drawn
heavily on Its wardrobe. The four.
teen omcers of the detachment were
"a commanding three privates; but the
!, privates hadn't got any Of the matt,
-ahaad uniforms-no. not they.
PRivATEs WORE FADED aero
= DArIc TIGHTS.
49,, AN that had been dealt out to the
fv,priwates were two suits of faded
snpaeched cotton acrobat's tights
~TR9ey 1t the knees and a. full OF
..s+Aolss - porous plasters. The mos
: .ouitoss and 1ixgers stung the luck.
$500 ,pyivatss through these orihcei
-snd kspt than doing = Land Files
Rag" F,
But the generals all were resplen
dent with red coats and big. fuxx,
busbies, although the hot steamtnl
Jungle Temperature was about ninety.
two IN the shade. The commander
Of the force called himself LIEUT.. Gen
Domino. He told Mr.. Myers h
wanted some OF his men. Mr.. Myer,
was prepared to resist. but he wa
saved the trouble OF doing SO, for hi
sy6Nhough they were all black-fel
" upon the generals army with picl
Mhandles and sent the fourteen gen
=. erals and the three privates streak
,Sing through the jungle.
No After that, except for tho regula
M. o'clock night. things went smoothly
nDAa the construction camp and MI
q Meyers decided to return home t
rsBoston. The engineer said that tn
s.na1ayse down there have adopted
's-sort Of tango which might be Gale
Tho Serpent Slide. II In danced a
s.thS yotarics of serpent worship Ky
TSrats. before q huge boa -constricto
(which floated ashore not far frOT
Port au Prince on O drifting tre'
y5pPobably from Dme South or Cen
xtHal American town. AZ they wer
phort on serpents just them the WOO
Ssaoo Worshippers adopted his snake
x1hlp and invented the new dance.
ELApiES DISCARDED THE sLl
81 SKIRTS
@2lps freedom Of action In their genr
3ections the lady natives have dis
carded even slit skirts. It Is SON
dance, that serpent glide. said M
Myers, who secreted himself In
&ee-top one night and watched II
voodoo worshippers whirling at the
.Jardin de Snake.
=, Another passenger was DIR. II. Zoe
pell 0ueliinstein, who has been actin
a tho German Consul at Port-ai
Hyjnce. He was as glad to get ava
from there az DR.. Myers.
Down there" said the doctor, WI
- en- his way back to Germany. "or
1ossn't say What sort Of day 10 Y
VASn he gets up In the morning. I
inQuirss who's revoluting now2"