Show CURACAO GETS TASTE OF OLD PIRATE DAYS dutch island raided by band from mainland washington in becoming the scene of a surprise attack by a hand band of looters footers lo oters curacao small dutch island of the caribbean forsook her slow existence as one of the quietest and most peaceful WADS ton us 0 of f the west indies and flashed back to the rol licking roar roaring fing bloody 4 days of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when milen this SA spanish anIsh kuln was a freebooters bo oters paradise says a bulletin from the washington headquarters of 0 tile the national geographic sit lety the chief city of the island sand atad also called curacao a town of nearly wa was attacked during file alie night of june 8 by 0 band of rh NO men from the shuib american mainland the fort and police headquarters were solved a supply simply of arms find and ammunition was stolen an american ship wits was corn com mande pred find and the adventurer ter set dilill for venezuela with curacao Curn cao and its chief of police as hostages aas As astounding as this exploit tip ap pears to ti the ilie twentieth century oh ob server continues the bulletin it Is only a repetition with slight altern tion alons 3 of 0 experiences from the islands past enst cornean hns a fine harbor one of the I 1 he finest in lie west indies this fact wait recognized from flip iny day unit a spanish SI bilth explorer oledn oieda a friend of ill minered the island in 1499 and at intervals tile the groat great naval annval powers anve tried 0 0 claim the harbor settled by spanish it was given by the spanish em to lie governor of venezuela iela try in 1522 and some time lime afterward a span isil was on it the dutch captured it in ID 1634 and it served a decade later laier as political ruining ground for peter stuyvesant who alio afterward was P arnde nde governor of new amsterdam Amster dani predecessor of new york city Cur curacao neno suffered attacks in 1673 and 50 years rears later both times from the french on the second occasion the french were driven out by the british who remained in possession or of the island for two years after the dutch regained control curacao experienced perien ced other attacks from english and the island was under british control from 1805 to since tile the latter date the dutch have been undisputed owners owner of the barren little isle but auf there was at least a threat from an entirely different quarter in 1903 when ger german man men of war put into curacao during their famous debt collection demonstration Bt against venezuela it was rumored that germany dreamed of making aking the harbor a base tor for control of the west indies in spite of a population more than half made up of negroes and mulattoes and with considerable numbers of jews spaniards tin and south amerl anns curacao or Will willemstad emstad if one chooses is intensely dutch in appear fince aiice hutch dutch cleanliness tin lins been successfully cess fully transplanted planted to this trop tropical leal slie sire and the main in ain streets gutters sidewalks and wall walls are gilck find span linn only in some of the narrow beys of the be negro quarter Is a lack of cleanliness to lie noted Is 40 miles along llong long by three to sern seen miles wide and lies 41 miles tilt the const coast of i venezuela the island Is quite dr wid produce little nil fill food fond Is imported nid allot even drinking enfer flier la Is brought from tile mainland for those who jhc can afford it others dilnik rain water front from tile roofs and stored in craterm 4 valuable is as trading station the islands clil f value Is us its n tinkling brinling trin ling station stathin a relue to which beti aits its location anti its harbor contribute aing I 1 ing just off the flip flor northern thern const coast of Am america prica and controlled hv by a country famous for its peaceful and eHi elli clent political and cornin pi caal I 1 methods it makes an ideal trig ing and transfer point betuel n its potentially wealthy but loni eilmes turbulent neighbors of or the oil one blind and europe and north america on of the other Will willemstad emstad harbor Is shaped like a banjo with vath a narrow nek for or nn an entrance and a lame el clr vidar nilar basin for fm anchorage fini locations the town Is ib hullt built on oll both sides of the narrow entrance channel chi innel and R long along the flanks of 0 the baslo A poti pontoon toon bridge crosses the channel clinn nel and Is swung aside to permit flip PH pas a sage ot of A sidelight on t the he to towns As population Is furnished hy by ill tin tells foils charged 06 oo 00 this firl dge per sons wearing shops shoes pay 4 45 5 ot of one cent per persona snits she bhones es 2 zal 0 one cent for aitch cm h pris passage saie I 1 tile the well todo dutch of curacao make the gesture gestore or of coun try places on the harreil piret clie cheb outside the city but bill few plant I 1 other than cacal and kioes ell ano tie coaxed into growing throughout most of th islona the several ostrich ranches inches ri fit bt hetter better into the picture the famous diqui tir caracal car nn acao it Is still distilled in g q or on I 1 the island front from the small hi ter orni oranges oges grown totally locally hut but t alie it e in austry in the main has been taken over by amsterdam petroleum Is the greatest singia factor in Cura caos present hay day actie ity and one of the refineries in n the world Is maintained on the island the crude Petro leuin is brought over in tank barges from the rich venezuelan field around lake maracallo Mara blara calbo the numerous refined products eire are shipper from roro curacao to various parts parta of the world |