Evening Star Newspaper, October 6, 1926, Page 18

- e VERACRUZEASY *PREY FOR STORMS Ancient Mexican City in Low- Lying Section, Where Wind & Rages Freely. Tnteresting facts. concerning Vera Cruz. Mexico, struck by a West In.| dian hurricane hard on the hesls of that which devastated Miami. are dis r‘lr-s‘ed by the National Geographic S ety “The immediate coast country near Vera Cruz. like that at Miami. is low. offering no physical resistance to the sweep of the wind.” it says. “And as at Miami. there is little to prevent the water being driven inland with the rush of air Vera Cruz is Mexico's front_deor, and has been such ever since Cortez landed thers in 1519 10 march on to the West and conquer Mexica for Spain. But the city does not consti tute a very attractive portal in so far a® its immediate surroundings are con- cerned. To hoth sides and even he. hind it are sand dunes; it seems set down in A very desolate country. Rich Farm Land Near. “Thix 1s true only superficially, for A few miles hack hegins one of Mex feo's richest agricultural sections. Rice fields and hanana and cocoanut groves occupy the Jowlands hevond the <and dunes A< the ground rises rapldly, first into foothills, then into true moun- tains. the crops and natural vegeta- tion run the gamut from tropieal to Arctic. One needs to advance inland harely & miles in order fo see sue- coarively the plants of the hot plains, then pine apples, oranges, vanilla beans, cacao, sugar cane, coffes, corn and small grain. The tangled mass of vine-tied tropical trees gives way at the same time to onks and contfers, and soon one passes the timberline ftself. Northward of Vera (ruz there are no breaks in the coast for a con- siderable distance, and at about 40 miles in this direction the inland hills draw very close to the ward after a few miles, leading to lagoons lying he) sandy coastal ridge, which receive the flow of rivers from the hills, Here are situated some very large sugar mills-—ene the largest in Mexico— that may have the storm. Mest of Homes One-Storled. “Iike its aite, Vera Cruz is A low lving tewn. A few government huild- inge and churches rise for several stories, but most of the houses are one.storied atructurex of adobe or stuceo, many of them with tinted walls. “A generation ago Vera Cruz had An unsavory reputation as a pest hole; everv year there were hundreds of deaths from yellow fever. boats landed, travelers rushed out of town as rapidly as possible, seeking to reach the high, healthful country inland. Thanks to efficient modern enginesring and =anitation, however, the city i= today a safe place of resi- dence for people of the temperate zone. There 1is a filtered water supply brought from a considerable distance mlnna AN up-to-date sewer system and fany of the streets have héen paved. suffered from Burzards Once Thick. “In the old days of unimproved #trests and ‘open sewers, the only Scavengers wera buzzards. Huhdreds of these ugly birds were constantly busy hopping about in search of mor- =els of food. Thers 18 A garbage col- lection system now, but the ‘involun. | tary soavenger brigade’ has not heen entirely disbanded: the binis are still 10 be sean perched on the roofs of the market bullding and at other promis- ing Incations ready to claim any mor #els of food that may be tossed aside. | “The grim old fortr San Juan de Tua, which dominates the harbor of Vera Cruz, epitomizes the past of the port, and the past. too. of Mexico. l It is a great, rambling medieval atronghold bullt on a rockyv island about a mile from shore. This mas- alve pile, at once fort and prison, has brooded over Vera Cruz for four cen- turies, for it was hegun approximately & hundred years before the Mayflower landed at Plymouth. “The 18-foot-thick walls of San Juan have hidden cruel and ghastly incl dents from tha davs yghen Spanish treaasure ships assembled there down 1o recent times. Dolitical prisoners were confined thare, the little parade ground has heen the site for many & firing squad. and parsonages whose existence proved an embarrassment for soma one or other in power have dinappeared mysteriously —probably $1).00 Round Trip Pittsburgh | The Timid Soul " \weLL, S1R, 'LL BET Yoo Two MILLION |Commerce Body Directors An- i - .. ... THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. G, ] -—BY WEBSTER. 1RARE NUPnAL SERV|CE Knights of Mount St. Sepulchre, an HARVAR D vYALE THIS into the shark-infested waters that 1ap against the sheer outer walls. “When American silors and Marines captured San Juan in April, 1914, the place receivad its first clean Ing +in nearly 400 years. Prisoners, little more than human skeletons. were found and liberatad. who had not been exposed to sunlight and the open air for nearly a quarter of a century® Since thie time the ol4 dungeons below mea leve! have been Aealed up., windowr have haen opened 10 other rooms. and San Juan's hor rors seem at an end." “FATHER AN[; SON* NIGHT PLANNED BY CHAMBER | nounce Epeeial Program to Inter- est Young People of City. The next general meeting of the Washington Chamber of (ommerce was Assignated as “Father and Son' | night by the diractors of tha chamber At a meeting last night. Thiz is in line with the chamber's efforts to get the young people. of the city inter ested In clvic affajrs. The meeting will be held Octoher 19 Leo B. Abernathy, chairman of the membership committee, announced that an effort would be made next month to obtain more members. Martin A. Leese, president of the chamber. said it would be some time before the successor to Arthur E. 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