Show ORIENTAL ENITA L mi N 0 T E S the journal correspondent writes from tha canal HISTORY SACRED afi rane sights aad ar d aceres acer es along the suez canal port said a coiling coaling station fir ar english steamers vr portail Purll Por taid laid as in honor of said pasha who granted ranted in 1830 1850 18 50 the concession for the construction a of the famous suez canal at whose mauth it stands is one of tile the I 1 greatest greatest coaling stations in tho the world the port is J just ISO miles east of alexanderia on the sandy delta and it cannot be very far from the old caravan route that joseph and mary took when according to st matthew they fled with tb the ein infant i jesus from the insane wrath of her herod od approaching the I 1 port ort at night 0 and by water one first rs catches the twinkle of the light ight if house when 25 miles away it looks 1001 8 then like a star down on the horihen and were it not for the fact it flashes and dies out every twenty seconds one would not be apt to notice it the nearer we come the larger and higher inthe heavens the star etar seems ems to get and when ihen tile the port is at last reached tb the e eye is charmed by the hall handsome deome watch tower feet high from whose electric lighted top the k good ship had bad been beaconed and safely lighted into barber port said of course sprang into existence with the suez canal before the latter was the former had no lived to tobe be and ami since a iid so 11 co me d d f altie of betru cn was completed and opened lor traffic a coaling station became necessary muc essary that vessels bound for australia or india and china could obtain a supply of coal en route the mouth of the canal was so situated as to make it a desirable place for steamers to replenish ret their coal supply and this was about the chief consideration that gave hirth birth to the since celebrated port at this little place a million tons of coal are unloaded from vessels that bring it from england 0 and loaded on oilier vessels as needed or as called for each year it is hard bard to realize just how much tons of coal is but if we imagine 0 that amount loa loaded dedon on to cars of an average z capacity of 15 tons each we will b be e surprised to find it takes cars to hold it and if we imagine M each of these cars to be 30 feet long we ave would have a coal train reaching from logan 0 past tile the northern boondry of arizona or a distance of about miles at cache county prices this coal would be worth twenty five cent pieces and this amount divided equally among D the inhabitants inhabitant 0 of utah would give 0 to every nian Av olivin and child about 2800 S 00 A which in these hard dinies would be quite qu I 1 te an item luus is 1 pounds if cacho cache county had these pounds of coal and a ready market for the same at mr Far parleys leys retail prices and if she was republican republic arx elou enough b to want to encourage home industry industry with proceeds thereof she could encourage riter broj ro in their clr ir manufacture of coconut cream for the hair by contracting for bottles of this celebrated hair restorer or his excellency C 1 I W fullmer clerk of cache county might 0 feel encouraged in his craft if given an all order fur for 1 marriage licenses no doubt john squires would consider business was wag 0 up a little with ft a contract on his hands to shave mugs at 25 cents each and dr stover would smile himself into an earthly paradise at the iho prospects of making 3 sets acts of teeth at per set 1 port said is beginning to bo be an attractive little place for ind and money seekers though its surroundings are arc anything b pleasing leasing a sand and water w vr ind and band is about all that the he gaze no matter which may look the city is built on a sand bar aba t was at one time covered with water and after spending 0 immense sums of money on oil improvements it is now begin ill ing to look more important arid and the shade trees that have at last been induced to shoot forth their branches make the town appear what it is gradually becoming an all oasis in the desert of shur all sea port cities are said to be coraly far below those inland and port said is not one whit behind the ret re t its population is only about 0 half of whom are native arabs and the rest are arc french with a sprinkling english and german wo we cou counted li ted but to churches in the city and the streets with few exceptions seemed to be avenues of beer and music halls through whose open doors scantly dressed girls call out to in a half a dozen different languages inviting them in to re regale reale ale themselves with a I 1 glass lass and cigarette C and converse light arid and killing the avenues them ire are crow crowded dod after lamplight lamp light nith ith frail and delicate sirens who I 1 live ive just around the coiner on the second floor and tile the book store windows are cro crowded ded with obscene pictures and highly sensational literature hot ant and I 1 damn damning 0 from the in paris G on n darker and less frequented streets old toothless hags D who could not toll four dozen doen years to save them thein stand with open clutch waiting for the approach of the half drunken sailor or lock dock hand whom they vulture like pounce upon and drag e into their diseased des eased hovels there the alie eyes of the world does not penetrate enet r ate and fco be we pass on oil towards our hotel greeted now by the ribald con song 9 of a few younger folks as the they emerge from 0 one lie devils den and pass 0 on it to the next and now the fc trains of an all old plantation son song with american bagno 0 accompaniment ament float out on the night air while on the other side of the narrow street a knot of and deep voiced germans lie lustily singing mein vater land one of their number dandle ing his fath knee a 1 plump anti and fruh h laced faced beer maid but enough let us take a parting 0 at the suez canal and then retire the canal was ten tell years in course of construction and cost the neat little sum of X or as uncle sam counts his gold ba iol 2 the frenchman frenchman of course gives the amount in francs and when written it look lik like C this thi 8 4 G fra ars tile the canal marries the blue waters of the ean with those of the red sea sealand n is just miles ion long CO miles ube being in artificial canal scooped out in in the thirsty sands of the deseret shur while the remaining 44 miles are farmed for the most part by three bitter lakes it is feet at the top and 72 at the bottom and ag feet deat deep permitting steamers of nearly all aff sizes to sail th rouell it owing owina to the country through h which it is cut being so sandy steamers have to go through ver very v carefully arid and slowly taking 0 from 20 to 24 2 t hours for the single voyage 0 this so as not to disturb the water any more than is necessary lor for with all their precautions the sandy banks keep washing back into the canal and enormous sums of lioney mono are annually spent in keeping 0 it ili in repair notwithstanding ot withstanding 0 the 1 greater part of the way of either bank is faced with maso nary taking all thin things into consideration the suez can canal al is one of the greatest all and most wonderful triumphs of engineering of the century it as planned and brought to a successful completion by bv ferdinand DeLess delesseps eDs of panama fame and must aver ever cast a lesture upon his hi career that tile the scandal connected with his american reverses can at the very most but alio slightly and temporarily dim foras for ns lonas long 0 as there are people to travel and admire the superior g genius aena arid and almost incomprehensible tenacity of durpos that such an enterprise as the constructing construction 0 of the suez canal certainly required delesseps namo name must continue to shino in spite spile of the mi tunes that befell his old age and france sunny france need feel no other oilier than proud 0 of f the i r genius ceniu th eliat it gave one world a short C cut lit to another that brought the cast with her gold and jewels so many many many miles nearer the west with lier her education and pluck DON clait |