The Cordova daily times., 1920-05-14

G T IS very easy to enter Java. says
 a writer in the New York Sun. N Tourists are welcomed cordially
 and the customs officials are ef- fcient about it, so that the first im- pression of Java is pleasant Some say that it is just as easy to get out of as into Java, limiting that the Dutch resent misbehaviOr and unfair cr1ti- ciSm and that undesirable visitors are sometimes requested to leave forth with.
 Most visitors land at TandjOng Pri- ok, the harbor for Batavia. about sev- en miles from the city. This harbOr was built between 1877 and 1886, and was considered one of the finest CO., f0nial harbors in the world until some of the British harbOrs excelled, and now the Dutch are re-establishing their claim for this distinction with the harbor construction at Soerabaya. De- spite the fact that there are two har- bors, outer and inner, the commerce of Batavia has really outgrown the facilities offered by the present har- Dor works.
 The outer harbor has a depth of 26 feet, and is protected by two break waters, each 5000 feet in length. The inner harbor is some $500 feet long and over 800 feet wide, with quays on each side. The east quay has coaling sheds. The piers are of concrete con- struction, with spur tracks from the railway. The cost of this harbOr was over s1O,5OO,O00. ~
 Protected From CrocodiIes.
 About a quarter of an hours drive from Tand1ong, in one of those funny antiquated hacks drawn by ponies, is Petit Trouville," where sea bathing may be enjoyed. The bathing pool is incloSed to keen out crOcOdiles and is probably perfectly safe, but l have seen fences on land give way before a rushing bull and a convenient tree provided the protection which the fence failed to give. So. refrained from enjoying the security of the fenced-in pool A crocodile is fully as powerful and as fast as an infuriated bull, and he is just as immune to req son. The Dutch have not provided convenient trees as an extra safe guard, but most of them know the crocodiles by name and do not seem afraid of them. It is different with strangers.
 The drive from TandiOng Prick to Batavia is a fitting prelude to tour of Java. In this short drive, seven miles or sO is found the happy com binatiOn of good roads, an unsurpassed luxuriance of tropical vegetation and a Kaleidoscope whirligig of peoples, native and foreign, dressed in their own peculiar manners. and going about their business in their individual ways.
 All the way to Batavia the road runs along the canal, and along the canal are rice fields, cOcOnut groves, nativy settlements and new surprise at eV- cry turn of the way. Tall cOcOnut palms reach out over the canal from the great groves along the banks. Nestled among them are the pictur- esque native houses with their bamboo woven sides and thatched roofs; over head is the turquoise blue sky so pe- peculiar to the tropics, and to intensity it's blueness are the cotton clouds as as the palms
 The Goat an Institution.
 All this beauty is shown both above and below, for there in the canal IS tbe reflection of the whole scene, even to the cattle, the sleek bumped kind, 4be buffalo and the goats. We must not forget the goats. They are as 1n- evftable as they are nnumerable. Goats are to Java what dogs are to America. They run at Will-are ev- erybody's friend.
 If. there is a fight or fire, they scamper about on the edge ot the crowd. If a tire blows out, there they are, eagerly awaiting any scraps or ruhber or cloth which may be thrown away. They are the comedians or metropolitan Java. In the provinces there the monkeys are as funny as at the zoo.
 We'll, this finds us in Java-and what of this land to which we have comef Was it Stubbs who said something to the effect that we must know what the past was if we are to appreciate the present? Java contains so many relics of the past that even drive through Batavia indicates past cen Euries.
 For hundreds of years before Co.,