| Show 0 off x c s 7 Java Youths Selling Bamboo Musical Instruments Prepared by the the tho National Geographic Society Washington D D. D C. C buying has hns Invaded In tn I varied Java according to United States trade reports The Javanese Jav Jav- Javanese anese onese like made American products American Americ ln exp exports ts i-ts to the Island ani an annually an an- i. i nt fally amount to more than 30 Picturesque horse-drawn horse carts carts carts' with wheels from Crom s six to seven feet In n diameter now must compete with speeding American made auto trucks and una native wheeled two-wheeled pas pas' passenger passenger carts once the only passenger ger vehicles In 10 Java cities are beIng being be be- ing crowded ort oft the streets b by shiny new made American American cars The Island which Is th the size and shape o 0 of Cuba Is tra traversed by a network of good roads and railroads While tra traveling on either the American tourist Is seldom out of eyeshot of American products or products of American machinery A traveler may engage an Italian British Spanish or French automobile automobile auto auto- automobile mobile for a n tour but a n portion of the road he traverses Is apt to he be bethe hethe hethe the product of American road road build building build build- ing machinery Should a blowout occur on the highway It Is likely that the thousands of Am made American rIca made tires that are shipped to the Island annually annually an nn would he be as readily n available as one of foreign n make male And the new tire may contain some sonic of the rubber which a short time before flowed from one of the trees on a avest avest vest yest rubber plantation nearby The traveler who prefers to seethe see seethe the Island from a train window Is unaware that machinery and tools bearing familiar trademarks trade help belp to keep his train running on schedule Rice farmers whose watery farms rise like a series of t silvery lakes up the sides of ot the Java Jaya hills cling cUng to antiquated wood Implements but here hero and there the blades of ot plows and harrows from American factories factories factories facto- facto ries and waterworks In ag agricultural regions reveal made American machinery ma ma- chinery With sore more than Inhabitants to the square mile th the natives must be efficient farmers to feed the lation American fertilizer Is the farmers' farmers crop Insurance and when crops contract disease American chemists furnish the medicine to bring them back to a n healthful state Situated but a few tew hundred miles below the Equator Java Is hot but the traveler often finds his hotel room room made comfortable by an on Amerlean American Amer ican lean electric fan The power power that runs the fan may come from one of the many electric generators Imported Imported Imported Im Im- Im- Im ported from America Hotels Are Comfortable As a rule the hotels In Java are arc clean and well designed to meet the needs of a tropical climate Usually Usually ally they consist of a main buildIng build Ing openly constructed so that there Is no hindrance to the sll slightest breeze The service complete In every ery detail Is enjoyed by foreign foreign- era ers One takes his seat In n a spacious spa spacious cious clous pavilion and Is brol brought ht soup by an army array of Malays Then large deep plates are brou brought bt on each ench of which Is a fl supply of rice one of ot the favored foods of th the e Island On top of the rice two Inches deep the diner Is expected 0 to place a variety of s. s curries curries cur cur- ries dried fish eggs fowls Cowls and meat flavored with peppery condiments After eight of the dishes are deposited deposited de posited on the rice the diners diner's app appe Ute tite If be he Is fa a novice notice usually calla calls call s a halt and the remaining half halt o othe of f the sixteen varieties of rice coverIngs coverings cover covet Ings are atlo allowed ed to pass untouched No wonder the great majority o othe of f the resident Hollanders are Inclined d to corpulence when one takes a glance clance at the Java a festive board hoard The streets of ot the la larger J Jai Jav n 1 cities clUes that are often otten filled flied with Witt t American automobiles and bicycles here hare their oriental bazaars where e a n y v array army of goods ranging from fran t cheap trinkets to fine One e V and anti fabrics are on sale but there they e are al also o modern shops In which American cement machinery had a Constructional part There too American made made flashlights batteries bat bat- teries Li spark plugs and other auto mobile accessories nn are ure displayed y ed vi under U the rn rays s 's of AmerIcan made American made electric lights bulbs What Batavia Is Like Java ranks among the richest regions regions re re- gions glens of ot the Dutch East Indies There are more than native naive na na- na t tive ive Inhabitants with n a sprinkling of ot Europeans and Chinese and other oth er This population requires requires re re- quires systematic cultivation of the soil When the Dutch settled Batavia the largest city on the Island they brought their love loe for the lowlands ds and built bunt their city of European type closed houses bouses on canals which coursed a broad swampy area Buts Butas But Butas as a as s trading men and soldiers died bythe b by bythe the thousands ds from malaria malarin and other diseases aggravated b by the swamp vapors surround them them the settlers eventually learned that t tropical Java Jam was not a temperate Netherlands European Batavia la now on higher ground is a healthy city a great reat emporium of trade and the metropolis oils ells of the Island sprawling over o a wide area The old town Is almost entirely given over oyer to the Ja Javanese Chinese Indians Arabs and Malays The new new city has spacious parks made c colorful l by myriad riad flowers and the luxuriant growth of the Tropics Near one of the parks rises the Imposing facade of ot the Museum of the Society of Arts and Sciences with a 0 copper elephant the gift of the king of ot Slam Siam In the foreground The Ba Ra Batavia ta tavia via museum has one of the finest ethnological collections of any Institution In the Far East and its pub publications rank well among the learned societies of Europe and America i iA I A sail san of slightly lIghtly more than 3 30 0 hours from Batavia brings the traveler tray trav eler eIer to n the most Important Important Important tant seaport In Java Although th the e busy landing stage and hustling crowds in the streets Impress the th e traveler of the city's commercial Importance it Is s for the most part hot and presents few attractions A k few hours hours' ride from the city's city s back door howe however er brings th the he e traveler to where h hmay he e may get the real flavor of Javas Java's s Interior where the dos a Javas Java's curious little wheeled high covered d wagons rumble over the roads b behind behInd be be- e hind sturdy white b bullocks a Pleasant Resort Nearby but reached only after hours of roughing climbing on don donkeys donkeys don keys and afoot Is the delightful resort resort resort re re- re- re e- e sort of A A walk along th the e villages village's single street reveals th the e mode of life of Javanese moun mountaineers who are quite different t from their neighbors In the lower Lowe r nl valleys eys Here Jere are the homes of tit the e T reng eng erese a hardy tribe which ri at nt atthe t the time of the Moslem invasion o of Java Jaa retreated to the mountains mountain s and successfully def defended n d themselves themselves themselves them them- selves against the Invaders I Is perched on a flank of the Tong Tent ger gel massif feet above sea level eve 1 where Invigorating air all makes mountain mountaIn moun moon tain tamn climbing much more pleasant t than In the torrid regions In th the e Javanese foothills Situated In the midst of the greatE great E East st Indian volcano region Java Jav L has Ihas Its share of active and extinct t craters In n fact the Island Is vol cano rn cano made It Is estimated that tha t there are more than craters o othe on the Island Ever Everywhere where In Java t In Inthe Inthe the huge crater lakes Inkes In fissure fissures s that now are river beds even In ancient an on dent clent temples half finished when In in I by some fiery convulsion are evidences of cataclysmic forces R The treacherous Klot as the na nn lives tives call It all but wiped out th the e town of in 1010 1019 More ore recently re re- Mount situated n at atthe at atthe t the extreme eastern tip of f the Island Is Is- land boiled balled over and tools took the lives live s of 90 00 natives I A volcano Is not always always' d' d erect ered a calamity In Java lava In fa tact fact ct most of the larger towns and cities s of the Island nestle around the has base e of active ve craters although the thousands thousands thou thou- sands of Inhabitants have been heen to losIn lost los lostIn st In n violent eruptions Most of ot tit the Es prosperity of ot the Island Is due to the constant enriching of Its soil soli by material coughed from these great smokestacks and from the medicinal value of the hot mineral sprIn springs s and highland resorts along the slopes |
