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VOL. TES.
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS. TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1902.
NUMBER 254
CONSOLIDATED IN JULY 1 SIKJ, WITH THIS DAI L.Y COSMOPOLITAN, WHICH WAS PUBLISHED HISRI3 FOIt SIXTEEN YEA Its
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CITY OP ST. PIERRE.
Intarortloir Description By ISx-
Cotisnl Jnlitk; C?. Tucker.
WasUtogtott Poet.
Colonel Jnlins U. Tneker, who1
was United States Consul to Mnr-
tiuiqne from 1S95 to S99,.bnvin:
tfeen appointed to the position by
President Cleveland, is in Wash-
inton on personal business and is
6toppiKt the Ifibbttt House. Col-
crtiel Tucker declared last night that
he was much surprised at theerup-
tiou of Alt. Pelee, as the volcano
wu oonsidT&red absolutely extinct,
The crattr lies about 12 milas
to the north and west of St. Pierre,"
he said, 'and could belimbed uf-
tor hard work. It ivns very steep,
with nreainitous sides iind roneh
rocks and lava beds. The crater
r
nroner was about 200 vards in din-
meter aud SO feet deep. At the
bottom was a bmntifnl lake, eon-
tninuig olesr, limpid wster. The
water was sltebtlv snlnhiirolis m
taste, but otherwise good. The
strange part about the lake, how-
ever, was its unfathomable depth.
All kiuds of sounding? were tried,
but no on ovrr ucceeded in reiieh-
iiitr t'e bottom.
"Between Ml. Pelee aud St.
Pierre lay the btvBful little town
of Morn!Ronge, which was a fuv-
orite sniuiuer resort of the better
class of people of St. Pierre.
"We uever thought of an erup-
tiou proceeding from the volcano.
It seemed entirely extinct, and the
fact that the little luke lay at the!
bottom of the erutor lent strength i
to this supposition. Not mauy
tourists uscen ted the mountain, it,
being entirely too hard elimbiug.
The view from the top was magni
ficent, and the crater made u most
interesting sight.
'St. Pierre itself was a quaint
city, with quaint people aud quaint
customs. It was irregular, nearly
every street beiug ou a different
grade from its fellows. The city
was bnilt ou the sidtof a mouulnin
lying drreclly behind it, and there
wu hunlly a level place in it.
" Whilw I was Consul 1 secured
u pleasant itltle place on top of the
muuiitfiiti behind the city itself,
where it was cooler. The city was
excessively hot, there beiug little
breeze ou the Caribbean Sea, aud
the breeae from the Atlantic Oceau
being cut off entirely by the high
mountain behind the city to which
I reffer. When you got to the top
of the mountain, however, aud
within the pooling winds of the
Atlantic, the climatt became de
lightful and the nights were very
comfortable.
"inore J oh iv nn iiKlutrv on
thu island fhij of si;ar nti.sinfr
Surprising ut tite, no sujrur w ex
-i t . . ... i
poriou. n !shu ittrueii tntu mm
and than .ltfnl to Fntnee.
iSverytlHiifr -i5-Hrv tn nie life
of tl,e inbsbmims us nt from the
United Stittes, but uothnijr is ex-
ported to this country. All the
exports p,'o to France, mid, a.? I have
said, consist nuly of rniu.
Uesptte ttio tact that the niau-
wiaetnre ut rum the principal
industry, the luhaUitautt were
"-vi drunk. J novrr saw a drunk-
en tivu on tbe island during my
entire stuy. Ihe oy liitnxieated
persons I ever saw were foreign-
erS
"The iuhubitauis of the island
ro uomplexioned. They ure
not negroes, however, but the re-
suit ot a blending ot the original
Indiau stock with fiYencii Porlti-
Ks and other foreign natioha
ities. I Ills intermtxinri of raes
"xs proanc'i emu t ur handsom
est types ot people to be funnel
uuywhere in the entire world,
'Xh women an? lWh- formed, and
tu lnen tlwrl and strong.
enehis iheouh langnagc spoken
JLue lwr clssse spek n peculiar
pUois, or dm feet French, that is
""intelligible to one speaking good
French. There were very few
Americans on the islnud, aud not
single berman. All countries
nru there represented except Ger
iny, many having both Consuls
lu,d Vice-Consuls.
"The inhabitants of St. Pierre
were' very surperstitious aud ex
citable. I remember that during
iy stay that two earthquakes oc
cur red, but they lasted several
seconds. Everything rattled and
shook, and the people ran out into
the streets aud began praying nnd
crying. The women screamed and
fainted, and altogether excite raeut
reigned supreme. I cite this to
give an idea of what must have
occurred wheu the disaster over
took the people that destroyed
their city and their lives.
"No one who bus ever been inSt.
Pierre will ever forget the fnuny
little streets aud sidewalks hardly
wide euough to nllow persons to
walk single file. In some places
it would be necessary to step down
into the roadway in order to puss
uny one going in the opposite
direction.
'Through these narrow streets
ran open sewers. Water was plenti
ful in St. Pierre, and had it not
been, the city would have become
so unsanitary ns to preclude liviug
in it. The water supply was secur
ed from the unmerous mountain
streams that forced their way down
through the city to the sea. It was
supplied to the inhabitants through
pipes, the same as in this country,
only the pipes were never shut off.
The water company notified every
body to let the wnter run free,
otherwise tin pressure that would
have resulted from stopping the
outlet would have burt the pipes.
This same force of water flowed
down through the open sewers and
all thp inhabitants had to do to get
rid of any garbage or undesired
muterrul was to simply dump it in
to the sewer in front of the house
and it would travel swiftly down
through the street and into the
open sea. To illustrate the degree
of swiftne3s with which these
streams ran, if you dropped u sil
ver dollar into one of them it would
be whisked out of sight before yon
could stoop to pick it up.
"The principal buildings of St.
Pierre were two cathedrals, two
hospitals and a number of fine
schools. The houses on the average
were none too elegant, and the
city, ns n whole, presented none
too progressive an uppearanee.
There was one little car line.
It rambled along through the street
parallel wih the sea from one end
of the city to the other. The pe
culiar part of it, however, was that
besides the man who drove the
horse drawing the car, there were
two female conductors. One wo
man sold tickets aud the other col-
ected them.
"The moral of the inhabitants
of St. Pierre were very bad. and
good women were, the exception. I
can not picture the vice and im
morality of the city vividly.'enough.
It had in be spen to be understood.
My first thought when 1 read the
account uf the destruction of the
city was that it was simply the his
tory of Sodom and Gomorrah re
peated. "It is my belief that Fort-de-France
also suffered from theerup
tiou. The city is but 20 miles south
or St. Pierre. It has 20,000 inhab
itants, uud I fear must have been
caught, too, in the terrible storm
o fire. It may possibly be wonder
ed at why the people did no es
cape in timo. When it is consider
ed, howevor, that n one side lay
the volcano, to another a steep
mouutaiu, and in front the sea,
while the only avenue of escape
toward Fort-de-France, was within
the radius of the volcano's power,
the true situation may be seen.
The people were simply like rats
in a trap, aud had no way to turn.
"It is my fear that Consul Pren-
tis has lost his life. He resided
in the city itself. I think, and not
back on the mountain. I cannot
conceive, therefore, how he could
hayo managed to escape."
Colonel Tuoker is a native of
Texas, and owns a large ranch
aloug the Rio Grande. He speaktt
several languages fluently, and is
un author of n number of magazine
articles.
A plumber who was arrested in
Rome for stealing jewelry confess
ed that he had swallowed diamonds
and other stones valued at $15,000
end sold the mountings.
An earthworm twenty-three feet
ong was drawn up with an old
pile by the water tide at Wey
mouth, England. It had the color,
and thickness of an ordinary worn,