New Britain herald., 1929-08-24

| the left and Monrovia Point, high and rocky. on the right Between the Cape and the Point is the oval background of sandy beach and ma jcstic palms.
 "Because of the bar steamers are forced to anchor a mile or more from the shore while passeng IS and freight are landed in surfboats. Often this landing Is an exciting ex- perieHce, and the passenger always marvels at the canny judgment of the native 'hcadman' in choosing the wave that will be the longest and safest to ride in on.'
 "The landing is disappointing. The wharf is small and untidy and the main business street along he Waterfront-Water street--is none too wide, none too straight. none too well paved, and none too clean.
 The business premises. most of the more prctcutious kept by Brit ish French and Dutch firms. 2~e poor, with the first floor usua iy built of cement and the roof cf corrugated iron. Water street could. however. easily be made 10 compare more favorably with the main busi- ness crnters of Frectown or Daka.
 "Climbing the hill, two or three blocks. one comes to Ashman street, the chief residential thoroughfare which is very pleasing in aspect The Executive Mansion, the foreign legations and consulates, the War Department building. and the Rep sentatives Hall lend to it's inn portance. On this street are also several of the best residences, we'll constructed of brick. after the fash ion of American houses of the Colonial days with columns along the front.
 Libcrian "Nhitc House" has East
 Room
 "The Executive Mansion is a large, white, three story structure and it has it's East Room
 "Liberia occupies that corner of West Africa which juts out into the Atlantic as if in an cndeavor 10 reach across 10 the Brazilian shol Q, on the South American Continent. Only a few years ago the maps showed it to comprise a large area, extending northeastward almost to themselves were unable to place definite heavy lines for Liberia's in tcrior frontiers.
 "Then came the dreams of Afri- can empires by European nations, and little by little the area acretl- ! ted by the mapmakers to the weak | little Republic has dWindled un.il 1 today it's coastline is only SG0 miles ] in length and it's frontier farthcst | in the interior is only 200 miles ! from the aeacoast. Its present area about equal to that of the State of Ohio. is one-third what the Libe'i- | ans originally claimed, and thc'r | claims were probably as good as those of many of the powers which undertook the colonizing of the | bark Continent
 Here and there along the coast the original settlcrs-negro freed men from the United StateS-found ed little towns and settlements. They were sent from America back to the lands of their ancestors by the American Colonization Society, 1T which such men as President Mon roe, Henry Clay, and others were | interested, This movement began ir 1876, and the first vessels, sailrg schooucrs chartered by the Ameri- can Government, set forth from New York in 1S2O-3O.
 "Alany of the first settlers sue Cumbcd to African levers; others were killed by hostile natives. In deed. the early efforts of these civ, ilizcd America -Liberians to estab. fish themselves on the African coast were not unlike those of the early colonists at Jamestown and the seekers of new homes wht landed at Plymouth Rock. Finally | they acquired right to certain lands ! by purchase from native chiefs"
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