Show A I fV N How One Island hhand the th Size of ot New York Supports L D U t cas h t aV t l n d e s Empire J People A Its Look Clubs Club at the tho and Capital Schools of ot the tho A Concert Dutch at the Uie the Dutch Fat Kat 1 and a Sample Luncheon of ot One of Their Maidens laI From Australia Australla to Java Through the tho Malay laby pad and 11 nIl Something About the Vast Possessions of the Some Object ICI nl for Uncle Sam as to the Philip Philippines tiers ders in the far For East fast pines l w AV J S AA i fRANK WANK G CARPENTER 1 VY v W V WW HAVn IrA I como come from Australia t to Java Javo to 10 t till 11 you rou how th the Dutch are arc r managing their colonial empire I Their possessions ea att of or a vm vest 1 archipelago lust just I south of ot the Ih Pull Islands J It l ilea II on both Bides of the equator and amt IH Is by b peoples people 11 and civil ted ltd who have nit nil the characteristic of ot our Some Home of ur the Islands Inlands I have been b ell governed by lW Dutch 1 for ur centuries They fhe rave been the 1 sixties scenes of lit nil sorts aorta of or colonial rJ E mends mentH and they cannot but furnish I I valuable lessons 16 to ua us In hi the manage management 2 i mont ment of ot our Philippine HOLLANDS COLONIAL B k hut Dut first let me give five you Ou some Idea j of at the Iho Dutch East Baal l alt Indies You know tho the little country countr of ot Holland It Is he hardly more than Ihan n a pimple on tho the broad tale fare of ot 1 The rho Dutch 4 t hun hero are lire sixty times as urge large na as as their r s lit In Europe They E lire one the Ille of ot the s thole holo J ole Unit United United ed id States Including Alaska A In ka and oM so eo o large largo that you jou OU put our Atlantic states slates and also olMO Ohio Indiana Kentucky Tennessee and Mississippi In them and andi i halo hato room to spare These territories contain people or seven neven limes times the tho population of ot Holland They have h half us many mallY people as ns tho the whole Unit United United UnitI I 4 ed States Sillies had In hr 1590 18 O and on all Borne of 1 the Ithe Islands there are arc more people to tod d the square mile than In any other part of ot the world DIG BIG ISLANDS OWNED BY Tim TU DUTCH r I had no idea Ilea of at tho the size of ot tho the Dutch colonial empire until I J ClIme here They have Islands which art am ar principalities f Inn In themselves es Take Sumatra tho the soil soli n of which Is III ns as fat tot as II that thol of the Nile C Wand which has petroleum and I loped mineral minerai resources That Island Is longer than from Now New York to Chi Chicago Chicago cago cage and ua WI wide wille as 08 from Boston to Washington lolI It Is h larger than any of ithe thu United States StatE except Texas and cord It lies right next to Singapore one of oC the tho chief trade routes of the tho world Take Borneo DOf fo which Is le also od ed The Dutch own more lend land there thero than all New NI England added mIlled to New Jersey Jer e Pennsylvania is and Ohio They The have Inc more mor territory In Now New Guinea than California and In the th Celebes there Is IH twice ns IH much land ns nH In lu In Indiana diana dIona r The J Jh he r Timor fl archipelago through I which my steamer wound Its way wa from Crom Torres strut strait to Batavia hits has an nn area twice that of Massachusetts and In that Journey which lasted two weeks It seemed to mo me I could nut not get Iet out of oC fight of Islands owned by IW the e Dutch There Thero were Islands all the way wOY and amt If It you YOl will 11 look at lit tine the map you will r sec ree e that hint they spot till the Indian ocean like stepping stones on an n a straight path t nth alto V I ns as long no nH s from New Nu York city city to 10 Salt alt Lake nil all h the tho way from Crom southern Asia Ala Alato to beyond Australia I THE TIlE Or OJ COLONIAL POS rOS f All 11 of ot thee thees Islands of ot which I have havo haver r ii I spoken are undeveloped 1 They ore are Inhabited chiefly by lIy savages el and no one knows just what they the are worth north It Is III different with Java from tram 1 where this letter leller Is II written This Is I t the tho capital of Asiatic unhand Holland nod It II has been ben the Ihl place Ince where the Dutch have made their colonial experiments They hind possession of It when hen Shaken pears earll was Willi yet jet ct living and yet jet et they have havo been ruling It ever since until they have hac now monde made It the th garden of oC the till tropics tho the Switzerland of at the Pacific and the tho wonder of or the world nil as to col colonial colonial onial management ii Think of or an III Island only ns as largo large as nl i the state slate of New Nl York which Is la sup porting comfortably more mon than Z I people That Is 18 Java Jovn It H is le less lean r than jOO miles long and from 06 60 6 to mlles mile wide but It Il hits more mare people that nil all the rest of ot the tho archipelago of oC which It II forms a part It H is about ns nil big as ns Luzon or Mindanao and Its lI soil li Is of much the name character I 1 lave have already traveled through parts of ot It and I 1 have yet jit et to III meet n native who Phu look inks hungry The rho country Is III feeding Itself lUelf IM and In addition Is sending away CI worth of goods goode every ery year jeor 11 It Is not nol only feeding the tho natives but It Is making fortunes fortum for Cor Dutch Dutrh capital lets It u Is la covered with plantations of ot sugar coffee co tYPe and nail I am nm told that thit the Ihl Dutch In It already amount to more Inure than 12 roo In future rulure letters I shall Ahall show rl i HI I IH j j j r 1 Y 1 j J I th r t 1 f 0 J it r 1 i 1 I 1 i 1 l i r rI I I r t i iW OJ j 0 I 1 1 9 1 5 j y yh t h t rI f i p 4 T Tr J y y y T 1 l Y t f f T I r 4 f X T y t 14 1 r It I t 1 1 1 A JAVA MAIDEN I r Prolog aph d 1 for tor tho the News by Frank 0 O Carpenter f t I iI 1 H jj where the tho money mOlley Is placed and all 1 tell you jou OU something us as to tile profits A LAND OP OF 01 OADS THLE AND ANU SCHOOLS The Java of today shows how Us what the Philippines may bo lio future It 11 is 18 already a 0 land hand of railroads tele telegraphs telegraphs graphs gra hs and schools You can get asgood as ns good an on education here hero Ir lo as all In Inho inthe ho the average American city I can cnn tele telephone phone hone I Irvin from the hotel where I am stop etch ping to cities and villages all over the tine country and on the long can cnn bo be connected with on theother the tho other side sillo of the Island which Is IA as asar astar tar ar away from here mere as liS Washington to Cleveland I expect to 10 travel tra el nil all over oer his this Island on railroads and I could go o on a 1 bicycle or an nn automobile through every very part of oC it It The Dutch built here lIere tho the best besl wacon roads rand randor of or the world arid and that notwithstanding tine the he troph Hoods floods and anti other water Waler that we have in the Iho Philip 1 ln Ines 8 It Is as cheap to la telegraph tele c here hire herens ns ne In the tho United l I to c 1 States State and In fact hero are nil sorts of modern Improve Improvements ments U IN Hut let mo me tell you something about Batavia the city from which this let letter letter ter cr IK in tinted dated It 11 i s next to the tho largest city ell or of Asiatic Holland and Is the cupl tal lal nl of or Java The Tho town was wall founded hen ss Peregrine White the tho baby boby horn torn In the United States Slates was M making nuking its Ids squall In hit his cradle at lit Ply 11 Plymouth mouth and It Il Is now a n city of or people with n a vast list population of oC na naive tires ive In the country about It Batavia Is pi tun led at nt the till eastern end en 1 of f the tile island at ot the mouth of ot the TJUI wong ong w rives rive and not lOt fire far from the liar bar harbor bor or of with which itIs It Its Is IA s connected by hy railroad and Inti canal I 1 vended at nt the harbor on my m ship from Crom Thursday Inland bland 1 and was quickly passed through the customs and came cameto to 10 Batavia In about half un an hour lour by hy rail The fhe town ton consuls consist of two parts a lower and an on upper The Th lower h his Is III Batavia proper roper comprises the till government offices tho the chief exporting and Importing houses and all the old buildings It Is I not unlike a 0 city ctt of oC Holland A wide canal runs ru through the Ihl principal streets street and rud the houses along this thin have white walls and sharp overhanging roofs of red tile 1111 They are lust Just like the Iho buildings In parts of Rotterdam anti and The which their Dutch and Dutch Dutrh merchants would not be bo out of ot place if tt lifted up bodily und and dropped down In tho the Netherlands Nether Netherlands lands The town has hns many man natives and ninny many man Chinese It Is ls surrounded by small houses rouses and It Is le ver very en unhealthy IN From I rom a 1 wide road rum runs for Cor tour four miles along the tho canal the canal HI H HT and road being lined with houses on both hOlh sides aides until It reaches the city of or which Is the Ow great resi real residence resilience dence city of the tho Dutch In the Hast East l Indies This Is one of the most urost beautiful beautiful ful cities In tho tiro world It Is III a gigan Igan gigantic tic park In which riot not only the homes homell of ot the people but even the stores and the lire business rouses houses have gardens and tropical trees about them There are public containing hundreds of at acres there are great reut avenues of ot palms and vast n 1 collections of et orchids and beautiful lowers and antI all the tM surround In Inns its of fairyland Take the Kings Plain for tor Instance This Is 18 n 1 park n a mile square almost In la lathe Inthe Inthe the center of ot the city elt It contains more than MO tOO acres and It Is III one vast stretch of oC velvety lawn There are roads reads run running running ning around It which are ns as smooth as 08 those thORO of Central Cent rot Park and am back of ot these looking out Jut through the trees are the villas of the nabobs of oC the Dutch capital capitol Each Kach of oC them has lias rounds grounds about It with so AO many man curious s plants within them that It would be bo a II avery avery very botanical garden anywhere else Ise Here the driveway up tip to the house Is between he tween two rows row of royal palms ant and there It Is IH between an nn arbor of oC shade trees so 80 gigantic that you ou will not see their like outside of ot Java JQ The Fite houses are all alt of ot classic Greek nr ar architecture married to the red rell tiles of ot the tine Dutch roots They Tine The are painted white while to represent marble mil and each carh of them has hus n a 1 great veranda upheld by Ionic Doric Dorle or Corinthian columns The Tire leo peo people leopie pie sit lilt on the tine verandas but the rooms roomi within are ore so large ant and airy air that they seem quite ns nA cool Tho The most niost of the houses ore floored with stone Alone Many fan have hae tables of Italian marble or mos mosaic mosaic ole Very Vcr few ew of tho the residences are of more than one story but they the cover n a great rent space Some Rome houses have 1111 smaller Im lh r houses away from tha th main mala building reached by b coveted cove ways These ore are guest houses ant and so 10 made that lint thin the guests may ma inn have n a little house hOlse to themselves and be he Independent of their hosts If It they thoy wish excepting nt at meals LUXURIOUS TOMES HO mS OP OF THE TIIE DUTCH I 1 wish I 1 could show you how some of ot these Dutch live Ito away down here among the line savages on the edge of at the equator I venture If It you ou could see ee their homes many of you youw oU would w go O to the Philippines and build others like them Their gardens are butter better than those of at nay millionaire In Inthe Inthe Inthe the United Stales and antI President lie Me with his iris White House conserva conservatories conservatories tories line has no lowers for tor his receptions like those I see here There Is no lack of ot furniture The stores of are supplied by bythe bythe bythe the best establishments of Holland and you OU can cnn buy lIu every er luxury haur In the way woy of oC books paintings notions and furniture All sorts of or foods made mad In me 1110 sold salt and the country raises mt eR vegetable and fruits of every Uon tion flue pl p Is one where you et lota lot for or your money marol hut hilt where here never It II costs lots to 10 Use hive I very er on am lives 11 up to hU iris Income and a little IH IK beyond yond It II The Tile Dutch gentlemen drem drew better on Lin In the tho average go than our people ut They Tire are kiers for or eti etiquette quette and one ona dare daro not accept an on In Invitation to tn without he has hOB a aHW 1 HW swallowtail allow tall suit A NIGHT AT Al TilE CO I 1 put on an my store a clothes donee d the tire other night and went Vent to a II concert at the Con Cam on chili Batavia hues hall two swell Sell clubs club each of witch which has Iran several hun iron hundred tired dred members Holh have club houses house which would be hI considered hire flue In ht New N NewYork w York or Washington and the Concord Concordia In has hils a n great garden rarden about It where cv ev every C COry cry Ory Saturday night Its III members give ht n concert to 10 their families and friends The Tire music mu lc Is furnished by b one of ot the military bands and RII It Is III as good as ns n urn tiny you will hear In the dire great gardens garden of ur Un 1 Europe rope Last Saturday night the band land sat sal In Inn ina n II stand In the Iho open air while the wro seated prated tl on chairs about the tables In Irr the tho nt garden In roc of or the club house houw The light was wall fur furr bv by hundreds of ot globe giobel I limps lamps which hiring hun train from rom the trees nn an also by the lire mrs sot of ot the tire full moon Ill III tend through the lire greenn palms There Thero were werl I judge at nt least a n thousand ant and Indies and gentleman present and as nun we wo sat there chatting charting ant and drinking stately elute I native walters waiters In turbans rind un livery 1111 trotted trolled about In la their bare haro feet ret and waited upon UK urn The fhe people nt tit the table 10 ble were as ns well welt dressed as ally nil Euro European Penn crowd crow and ns as fashionably dressed us liS the average overage audience of oC our con concerts concerts nt at home With the exception of the military officers who were clad clat In white while duck with gold lace Inre runt brass buttons the men wore black clothes clothe and the lire women wore bonnets anti ant well fitting dresses In the tile Intervals I walked through the club house It was floored with Italian marble und and an parts of ot It II were walled with great rent mirrors It has n a library and newspaper room a large billiard l room unit and halls for tor dancing and card playing and amI all the tho of ot the Ih best clubs all nil the world over An Another Another other night I spent at al the Harmonic Harmonie club where the concert was equally equall good QUEER QUEEn HOTELS THESE I am nm slopping stopping nt at the Hotel des lies Ind one of the tho largest In the far fill east cast and by all nil odds ends the largest In la the tho Dutch Last East I ast Indies It Is III situated on o n the right side of tho tiro canal on tho the edge edle of It ns as you come como up UI from Cram Batavia It has Iron something like ten n of ot gardens ns about It all shaded by y magnificent trees tree There rh re Is in a II banyan tree cover rover coverIng covering Ing a n L good city elt lot In iq front frunt of the ve veranda veranda randa und sad there |