Show Gen Kitchener lUll begun to make n transformation In Khartoum before ho went to South Africa The city had been laid out on modern lines rime I river front along the Blue Nile is three I miles long and the depth Inland Is I I nearly ono and onehalf miles Parallel Par-allel with the river front run long avenues ave-nues Sirdar avenue VictorIa avenue and Cromer avenue crossed regularly by streets ninety fool wide The blocks thus formed are further intersected by diagonals In such a way that four Maxims Max-ims placed at a central point can control I con-trol the whole interior 0 the city The Gordon Memorial college Is nearly completed com-pleted and covers three sides of a red brick structure square I Is 1 largo lure with shady galleries and porticos looking ont on the Uluo Nile Tho Governors palace stands on the site of Gordons palace I is a handsome roe brick edifice fronting toward tho The court flanked by two river open < fnnleed cIL toward wings looks out over the city spacious gardens where still nourish I somo of the old palms and lime trees other Government oC Cordons day There are ernment buildings and shops and mosqups and English churches while the desert Is south oC tho city toward I defensible bar oC redoubts and a line at censlhla racks which will Blrotch from Nile toNI to-NI The railway Is completed from Cairo Ilolfayo which Is Just aqross A bridge will carry It the Blue Nile wI I Into the city The only trouble about ihe want of inhabi die hew city Is l wan tants but It Is believed that they will I gradually come from Omdurman |