Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-08-25


NU did distances, with a harbor
unprotected from storms, is
yet the terminus of four rail-
way lines and the third largest city of
India. It's Importance is less due to its
position as a trading center than to Its
being the capital of a presidency con-
siderably larger than Great Britain
and Ireland. 1t is the seat of a uni
versity and its observatory keeps the
| time for the whole of India.
! Many of the modern public and Off
| cial buildings in Madras are handsome
and imposing, but ever since Queen
! Elizabeth granted a charter to the
/ original East India company, the
| building most rich in historic memo
ries is st. Mary's church, within the
! precincts of the Madras fort, st.
George, writes A. Hugh Fisher in the
Illustrated London News. Standing one
| Sunday morning in the welcome cool
ness of the Secretariat buildings, was
upon the site of the earliest inner fort,
where divine service was held until st.
| Mary's church was built in 1878, to re-
main-subject to various additions and
alterations-the oldest British build
ing now existing in India. Among the
numerous old gravestones now placed
along the north and part of the east
and west sides of the church is one of
Aaron Baker, the first president and
governor of Fort st. George, with the
oldest British inscription in India,
p of hn irtn
colorS of numerous regiments, and so
many monuments and tablets to men
famous in the history of the British
occupation that the church is some
times called the Westminster abbey of
India. Nor are it's records associated
only with death and burial. In the
font of black granite in 1857 were bap-
tized the three daughters of Job Char
mock, whom he had by the Hindu
widow he had rescued from the funeral
pyre of her husband Robert Give was
married here in 1853, not far from the
writers Buildings" where, some
years previously he had twice snapped
q pistol at his own head; the name OF
Arthur Wellesley appears in the regis
ter as witness to another marriage
t in 1898. 1t is unfortunate that the
e3ifce was not designed in noblel
style than was understood by it's srchi
) tect, the master gunner of the time
} whose chief, and very reasonable, cart
was to make the walls thick and thu
roof rounded to resist artillery.
The Madras museum is especial,
rich in remains from the Buddhis
| tope at Amaravati, many of the sculp
1 lures from which are familiar to Lon
5 doners on the walls of the grand stair
4 case in Bloomsbury.
t Through the NiIgiri Hills.
I From Madras l went via Erod
e Junction to Mettupalaiyam, the ter
q minus of the broad-gauge railway, an
a there changed to the narrow gaug
i which climbs up the Nilgiri hills. TIL
engine was at the rear, and from
o seat or the extreme front of the trai
t l was able to watch the scenery to a(
S vantage while the lookout man ker
: his eyes on the metals for any signs G
+ landslip, such as we met in one dee
r cutting, where a piece of fallen roc
t hay across the line.
& We crossed over clefts and gorge
e by bridges, through the sleepers o
S which [ could see foaming torrents ia
: below my feet-and crept along ma
e row ledges with precipitous depths o
one side and a rocky height soaring o
the other.
= "Ooty" itself (7,2OO feet above Sc
- Ievell is not unlike Nuwara Eliya
- Ceylon, in its natural scenery as we
;, as from the social point of view. Sin
g liar arum lilies were growing near
similar lake, and both places al
= crowded during the hot weather t
jaced British seeking health and recr
alton. At the time of my visit, hoy
IS ever, Ootacamund was empty. 1:hel
2 were no happy bachelors under canvt
II On the golf links, there was no one
II ihe hotels, and st. Stephens churC
4 was almost as deserted as the crick
IS Eround. In small huts on the hillsi(
10 / saw some Todas, the men wearing
II mantle called the ''putkuli" throw
IS round the shoulders without any ia
e. cening. They are distinctly light