The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-24
DIR. CLARK WRITES.
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er part of the city is called The sight
is especially fine in the evening. At /
Durham we found our American Con-
sui Masterson, whom some of us had
met before in Turkey. The Consul and
Mrs. Masterson invited us to their
home in the Berea several times for
lunch or afternoon tea. The people
of the city from the time of our arriv-
al were unceasing in their. efforts to
make the time pass pleasantly welcom-
ing groups of us at their homes and IN
viting us to concerts and other enter
tainments.
In Durham there is municipal own
ership and operation of electric lights,
telegraph, telephone, tramway, etc,
and these give excellent service. Here
for the first time we found, in the
street what is called the "Jinrik
isha,' two wheeled vehicle drawn
! by Zulu. These Jinrikisha men are
| splendidly developed, and in general
the Zulu is said to be physically the
| finest specimen of the human race. 1t
glides along very easily drawing two
men in his vehicle.
Our boat waited at Durham for II
days and we had opportunity to see
something of the mission schools in
this region, especially those of the
American Board of Missions, and
found that these schools were held in
the highest esteem by the Government
Board of Education. We saw too, the
native in his home, and his houses
built of bamboo and thatch. As there
is no cold weather here, the native
huts are very frail. The dress too of
the native Zulu would seem to the un-
initiated somewhat immodest, as often
the women as well as the men have
only narrow belt about the waist
with a monkey S skin hanging down in
front
From Durham a delegation of our
party were asked by the Mayor of
Johannesburg to ceme there to investi-
gate an epidemic of infantile paraly-
sis prevailing in the city at the time.
We found that the epidemic was over
by the time we reached johannesburg,
but we had an opportunity to get the
view point of the johannesburg ply
sicians and TO tell them something of
the work which is being done in Amer
lea to control this scourge. The Mayor
and some of the American and other
friends of the city took the opportuni-
ty to show us something of the attrac-
tions and the splendid products of this
the hub of South Africa. The city s
history goes back only about % years
and our fellow countrymen were the
leaders in laying out the city The
| % 10 4
and today 40 per cent of the world 5
gold comes from the Rand. f" The
mines extend out eastward from the
city for thirty miles. ! may say il
? passing that 80 per cent of the dia-
monds of the world come from South
Africa, about 90 per cent being OBJ
I tanned at the Kimberley Mines.
The evening of our arrival in Johan
nesburg, we were invited by the Mayor
81 uliAiSAa
Council. There is a meeting everJ
three weeks and this happened to b.
the evening for a session. We fount
a most interesting, and an extremely
democratic body OF the 80 members
five are women and of those presen
+ all except three took an active part il
:, the debate on the various questions
brought forward Women have a linn
tied franchise here
A few nights later we were invited
by the American contingent of TIL
- Athletic club to a banquet at thei
7 grounds, and here members of our par
tv had an opportunity to express some
thing of the spirit in which our countr,
, is entering the war, and our determi
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power in bringing about a true worl
5 democracy These friends drank i
" our words most eagerly and espresso
, the utmost pleasure in being able t
get directly from our lips these sent
u ments which had seemed to them bt
4 fore almost TOO good to be believed
T. for before America s declaration Q
H. war, they had waited month afte
month, almost unable in the midst @
- British sentiment to comprehend Anne
T. ca s attitude
u; While in Johannesburg, we we1
~ able to visit one of the gold mines, til
% Crown mine,. and to see the whole pr,
cess from drilling into and blastin
out the gold bearing strata of rock ;
n a depth of 1000 feet beneath the SUI
face of the earth, to the scraping O
= of the gold and mercury amalgam fro
copper plates, and saw too the beaut
full blocks of solid gold about one 70,
long and five inches square weighir
seventy-five pounds and worth abol
100000. The machinery for raisir
the fragments, sorting, powderlr
them, etc, is run by huge electric e.
gines and the six foot drills operat,
in the dppfhs of thp mines are mr.
PEELED by compressed air, which is fu
nished to all the mines by speci
company.
The General Electric Co. has a nj
office and supply station in the cit
We were able to visit this, and throu,
its manager we obtained here for o
! Palestine work machine for the ma
fracture of chlorine gas, and this w