Seward daily gateway., 1925-03-31
ADELAIDE GREAT
 AUSTRALIAN CITY
Est 5lisI,ed At Time That United States Wrested
 Texas from Mexico

w NASHlNGION, D. ~, Mar. ol-- Adelaide, capital of South Australia, where workers, going beyond the governments white Australia" pol icy, recently staged a protest i'll criticism of the kind of white immi- grants who were arriving, is the sub- ject of the following bulletin from the National Geographic society.
 "Adelaide's pride in it's citizenry probably has been definite commit nifty feeling all along" says the bulle- tin, based on the fact that it was the first Australian colony to be started di- rectly from England with other than convicts. The selection of a site around the southeast corner of the continent from the existing settle ments and 600 miles westward along the southern coast save the new colo nists an isolation that produced marked individuality before railroads came along to bind them back again as neighbors to New South Wales and Victoria.
 Americans can gauge Adelaide's age by the fact that it was founded while our own pioneers were forging westward planting cities of their own. It had it's beginning in 1887, the year in which colonists in our southwest wrested Texas from Mexico. in which Arkansas became state, and during the period when St Louis was making it's first marked growth under Ameri- can influence. To British ears it's name, too, fixes it's birth date, for 1t was named for Queen Adelaide, con- sort of William ", whose death in 1887 placed Queen Victoria on the Bri- tish throne
 Adelaide is the only city in Aus tralia not directly On the cost. It was established six miles up the Torens river from St. Vincent gulf Almost simultaneously, however, Port Adel- aide was built some six miles from the city and seven or eight miles up the coast from the rivers mouth. Connect ed with the city, first by highways and later by rail, the port is now practice ally a part of Adelaide. The situation is not unlike that of Los Angeles, also established inland, which has built it's port on the nearest salt water; or like that of Lima, Peru, which has it's port Calao, eight miles distant.
 Many Parks.
 Adelaide is the third city in size in Australia, being surpassed only by Sydney and Melbourne. It's population of about 260,000 makes it comparable to Portland, Oregon, or Denver. It is well built and is particularly rich in parks. One unique feature is the ring ing round of the business district by 3 zone of park land beyond which lies the residential sections. Wide streets and substantial buildings, combined with the parks, give Adelaide at once the appearance of a thriving mart of trade and 3 substantial home city.
 Adelaide owes much to it's immedi- ate surroundings. It is set down in a vale of plenty. The plain of Adel- aide which surrounds the city and ex- tends up and down the coast, is a lev el and fertile region closely packed with farms and gardens Back of this fitteen-mile strip, about seven or eight miles from the city, rises the Mount Lofty range of hills, affording excel lent pasturage. The gentler slopes are used for fruit growing and wine production. In the rougher portions of the hills many prosperous Adelaide people have built summer homes.
 Parks do not stop with Adelaides municipal limits. Numerous national parks and reservation have been set apart in the hills. Good highways con meet them with the city and a Govern ment Tourist Bureau operates motor busses to these pleasure spots making them accessible for small fares. In the other direction Adelaide has a bevy of seaside resorts within easy reach. .