New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 24, 1929, Page 2

the rafts house the skippers’ fam- ilies, their peultry, and dogs. The city spreads out on a bread plain which is not more than four feet above the set at high tide. solid row of low buildings lines the quay. Their first floors are hidden in the shadows or arcades, while the |t ‘| balconfed ‘upper fioors ‘are shielded 'u)lmu. D. C, May za—l-:cn- ador' WA display all it¥ goodf. Wares and merchandise at the’ antual ex: Mhlllon to be held at-Guayaquil in ’ f o 4 u;m 1918, Guayaquil was handi- . happed by frequent epidemics. says @ a bulletin from the Washington, D. & C. headquarters of the ional 1 Geographic seciety. Yellow ~fever ragdTthefe and’ marinefs “avoided % the port, Today, thanks tei Am & can amd Japanese scientists, Gua % quil is a city,of more than 100,000 ¢ healthy mhauun!g, and its trade nnh with the orts on the ‘ western coastof Sowth America. Nearer New York Than Frisco Although Guayaquil lies: ‘but 46 4 miles up the Guayas river from th % Pacific ocean, it is nearer New York $ than San Francisco. The Panama + canal cut the former sailing distance between the Eeuador port and Ncw ¢ York by 9,000 siles. - 3 The Guayas'is-a®stenic approach * to Guayaquil. . As fhe large coasal ¥ vessels swing to the Gulf of Guay- ¥ aquil, they pass “Puna Island, 30 ¢ miles wide, which, like a huge cork, « could close the mouth of the river. & The island acts as = natural buffer { betwegn the currents of the ocean and river, so;that the Guayas is often « as spipoth s g liké. " Along the ¢ river side; & tropical -eun ‘nurturcs ' thick' forests. now.and tifen plerced by the fanlike leaves of tewering % paime.’ And. Thase “Marble” Buildings Gusyaquit harbor is a perpetual parade of boats of all sixes, from ) thercrudest mative dugouts to the ) Buge-tunnelled ocean-going. craft, which are foaded and unloaded as they Re at”anchor offshore. Native caness, rude, but swift as American r.hoats which resemble Chindp -.ul, and bamboo and + cant ratis} carry cocod. beans, - t sator pesrs, melons, bananas, man- acsepeaqeve Many of these .trom remote regions touched t”mu tributaries. Bam- boo lu(‘ the. center of some of 3 - As sketched... from the sun by reed awnings. Most of the buildings are white, but here and there a pale pink or blue one adds color to a row, These appear to be substantial, but close ‘observation reveals that many have bamboo frames, covered with plas. ter or stucco, and,- in.some cases,’ painted to resemble marble. - Find Homemado Merchandise ‘Throughout the city improved ttreets run at right angles. There are also shaded parks and aquares. The fine residences of Guayaquil are as attractive as their flimay bamboo construction can make them. Often the verandas of Guayaquil® hous'y have a larger floor area than the floors inside. In the business streets the ground floors_of bordering -buildings are us- ‘ually oceupied by open front. shoj In these shops an English, Fren or American woman may buy pe fum cosmetics and other *‘ne sities” almost as readily as in a atore of her home town. There are numerous sweet shops, and open cafes where little tables are set out on the sidewalk in the shade of the arcades. Conversation must be carried on in a loud tone on nc. count of the street noises. The tin ware salesman, with his pots, pans and buckets ofd various sizes an shapes, dangling from a long po'e, sounds like the approach of an un- cient flivver. Then there are ven- ders of iced drinks and sweet-meats, and newsboys and street mercharts o rious other types whose refrain is almost deafening. g The street resounds with the clat- ter of hoofs for, in Guayaquil, the donkey and horse have not been wholly displaced by the auiomobite. The grocery boy straddles the runip of one of these animals. In frort of him his deliveries are packed in crates which hang over both sides of his mount. The donkey also is the Guayaquil “ice wagon” apd, -vhile the city has electric trams, the don- key-drawn vehicle is still patronized by a people who appear unhurried. One of the most ridiculous sights in the Guayaquil streets is gn elon; ed native riding a donkey so smsll that the rider's feet, it extended, would drag the ground. There are few spots in Guayaquil where the traveler is out of (he range of the odor of cocoa beans. .in cool summer shades of blue—lavender—green or suntan, match: o Y Kid trim and heel to High or Baby Louis heel. " |on Martha's" Vineyard. JLONELY HEATH H IS LAST OF BREED Bird OF- lmchws Shore Believed Unique Specimen Boston, May 24. UP—On an island off ‘the Massachusetis .coast dwells perhaps the [oneliest creature in the world. It is a heath hen, the last of its species, sole survivor ef a variety of grouse that is all™ but extinet notwithstanding expenditure of more than $100,000 by the state of Massachusetts to preserve -this reli¢ of colonial days. Three centuries ago the ‘heath, hen was'a numerous $pecies In the vast flocks of North American wild fowl. A few yesrs ago the ™ last known celony made its final stand Ognitholos gists joined in the effort to save them, and have participated for perhaps the first time in watching. the extinction of a species. Even with cheir watching, only little of the tragedy is'revealed. Their final annals are reported by Dr. Alfred O. Gross, professor of biology at Bowdoin college, who since 1923 has studied the rapidly thinning colony, working under su- pervision ‘of the state division of fisheries and game. n ° the spting of 1927 only 13 birds, of which but two were fe- males, were counted. By autumn the flock dwindled to seven. In the ensuing winter one by one the flock dropped, until 1928 opened with three males. One of these was definitely 1den- titied as lost last summer. Since December § last enly one bird has been seen. Allan Keniston, supertintendent of the heath hen - reservation, and Dr. Gro- h ’e patroled the haunts without finding more uum one uull this spring. Thorn- ton W. Burgess, the naturalist, and others offered rewards for reports of other heath hens, but none was found. . “It is reasonable,to infer,” says Dr. Gross, ‘“that the lone bird at ‘Weat Tisbury is the very last of his kind. e “How long this bird will continue to live, whether a day or a year or longer, only time can.answer. It is ‘the intention of the Massachu- setts state division of fisheries and game to allow the last heath hen to live its remaining days in a nor- nial ‘way afnong the scrub oaks plains @ its ancestrak. home.on Martha's;Vineyard. As:dong as it lives it will be carefully ohserved and protected. ever.in tke history of ornithol- ogy has a species been watched in its normal eavironment down to the very last individual.” AVERAGE HONE LASTS 50 VEARS One Family House Does Not Re- main as Long, However Chicage, May 24 (M—A two-year study of American buildings, spon- sored by the Nationkl Association of Real Estate Boards, ‘has disclosed that the ‘average life of a wooden one-family dwelling 1n the United States is only 33 1-3 years, One-family houses of other con- struction, such as ateel, concrete or masonry, says the special ‘commit: tee's report, last for 50 years. 'l‘hn average drops down for houses b “in rows” to from 30 to 45 mrl. depending on the materoals used in constriction. Two, three and four family houses appear to last ‘even less time. . The average for houses in gen- eral is about 50 years. -5 The lowest ‘life-span. 6r 4 .‘ny build- ings included in the' survey is at- tributed to_theaters constructed of woad. Their average * existence is approximately 20 years. Theaters of all types of construction show a gen- eral average life less than recorded for any other buildings. The committee attributes this fact chiefly to the fickleness of the pub- lic in changing its taste for amuse- ment with great frequency. Warehouses live longer than any other buildings. Their average ex- istence is 55 years for steel and re- inforced concrete construction and 35 years for those built of wooed. The best types of garages and store buildings last about 60 years. Hotels and elevator apartments have an unusually low average, ranging from 22 to 35 years. The. survey covers the country. 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