| Show mum r P l Most Important Port n All South Africa Grossy Mis Mismanaged mann managed ed by Principal Articles I of 01 Diet Are Arc Quinine and Whisky Merchandise for lor I Johannesburg and Other Inland Points Ruined by Handling and Exposure n It made the heart henrt ot of an enterprising Yankee ache to look In at Delagoa Delago Day Bay and see te how hol a swarm aann ot of little mUe ginger colored officials were wasting the opportunities which n a caprice of Providence had placed In their path sn says on an American writer Delagoa Do Day owes Its great commer and just now strategic Import anco to two important facts It I is the nearest port Ort to the Transvaal Second Secondly ly It la ii for far and away avay the bet best natural port In nil all South Africa these are neutralized d dby by reason of PortuGUese domination so 10 that lUIa as a mUter matter of tact fact man many men mer chants chanta prefer to send their Go by bythe the longer through Natal via Durban merely because the DelagoA route offered much risk b by reason ot of rapacious or at lent least very ery management ement nt at the otherwise more fa a ored harbor rs NOT WANTED On arrival lit at that beautiful port we e anchored In midstream and were ere talc tak taken en ashore la in rowboats rowboat Private corn com had over and over oer again begged permission to erect at their own ex cx expense pence pense wharves where ve vessels eJa mIght load and unload with facility but this eminently practical If not philan philanthropic request had bad been invarIably reo me fused b because It might deprive the rov gov government of one more mON means ot of extrAct ID tug bribes from merchants A I tay way the landing 0 stage tage to the town tt it was through an ac accumulation of which reo re reminded minded me mae ot of goods rescue rescued 11 In haste halite from morn a rent great fire or some other ter Boxes were smashed and stuff of the most incongruous mI d lay r as 18 though dropped from Ctorn some mammoth grab bal bag Imagine the army and 1111 navy ator stores lifted In mIdair and plumped upside down un on the swampy sandy shores oC o a tropical port there you rou have hae the custom house houle of 01 Day under Portuguese rule Distracted merchants or r agents wandered amidst ruins of what had been valuable ships cargo carro hunting for the goods good for which they waved the bills billa of lading In their weary fingers liens Here lar la a beg bag ot of lime beneath was a sack Mck of rice Their contents contente were making n a blend whIch eVen an ostrich might han bare regarded as discouraging Delicate electrical plant for a lay scattered In the open while In the h heavy avy sand and were WeN countless nuts bolts boltl and other parts of machinery all rendered valueless to the men of capital and brain waiting In vain aln for lor t them m at the en t of the nil mil milway way Barnes Darre of tr ache aele were leaking Into goods good marked To be kept sewing machines machine church organs clothing blankets furniture and were ere knock knocking ing about In the open air not at the mercy of rain but of In Inand inand and outsIde of the lines hi ea eaNO NO NEWSPAPER THERE There Is no newspaper In thIs beau beautiful place vliet and Ind for reasons reason It If It told the truth the governor would the editor dito to JaIl U U It dId t cuss the scandalous state ot of things It Would have no support among amonI tile the only people likely to give It subscriptions and ammO advertisements There is b ot of course a Portuguese GOV GOVernor croon at Delagoa Day Bay a 11 fort an army of petty pett about as big bigas bigas as Filipinos rind nd with ancestry about as ambiguous I was ns shown maps of the colony which Indicated splendid harks avenues embankments and other adjuncts ot of a metropolis one ot of these things J existed except tn th on officIal paper Intended for the pUblic of Lisbon There were dirty streets and shabby houses housea Jo Iwo or three vile lIe hot hotels and an a drinking booth near b the military tand made music on this was wal called calle the promenade There wall wae no such luch thing as a public conveyance to be had hadnot hadnot not even enn a The fhe con rotate stood In on the top tOl of fl a bluff overlooking the river rIer and fut fact that building represented represented to mime me the one hopeful element In the nel There Thore Will was once a noble nobl and dye alve governor governo at Day Bay who was wall chocked by the number of tf to ships shillS entering the port He lucce succeeded ed In securing a lightship to mark the channel This was so 80 and so Violent a reform for tor n a guy gov governor that some lome suspected his sanity Duton But on the contrary ha proved to be a aen very en sane une and businesslike manfor Q a Portuguese Indeed so businesslike was 81 he that he em lo d this lightship during the day In carrying bricks and In that way ay earned II a considerable addi tim to his hili salary JAlar So Ignorant also were those thole In charge that the th lI lightship ht was 1118 ea eath h night In a t part pant of the bay coon came ame to dread this erratic lightship m j more than th they did the peril ot of the I deep and It Wilt was the cause of more oc ac d thAn were ever eer known before It was U invented It us however that no now and then Portugal produces produce a governor who ho means welt well though he may have bars eccentric ways AS ot of showing It The principal article of diet in Dela loa gos Day when I 1 knew It Will was whisky and Quinine man I met had the coast cout fever or wu was In the Int Interval ra be teen tween two Of course courle I too caught the complaInt and It serves even now to remind me ot of that place piaN |
