A BLESSING IN DISGUISE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 18, 20 July 1907, Page 15

A BLESSING IN DISGUISE.

«. Tho Times apparently does not regard tho destruction of the capital of Jamaica as by any means an unmixed evil. It says : Kingston, as it wae, was in truth a very unlovely city. If it wcro not for tho deplorable I 0&3 of life acd the paralysing destruction of property, no ono need greatly regret its disappearance. There were parts of it which were already in ruins long bofore the earthquake came, and other parts which must, needs havo stunk in the nostrils of the veriest Bnmble in tho world. Tho opportunity now offers of rebuilding it on comehcV and much nioro sanitary lines. We cro glad to note that this opportunity is not likely to be lost. With raro exceptions, tho eoa-front was obstrilcted by all sorts of tatterdemalion buildings, and tho water's edge could j only be reached at tho wharvsti of the shipping companies, whoso landing-si-agss, ndith°r very clean nor Very commodious, jutted out at right angles to the shore like thc-30 at New York. Tho j water-front of N<;w York is not exactly j a thing of beauty, except perhaps at I Battery Purli ; bvit, compared with that of Kings-ton as it was, it is almost a work of art. Ac ib appears that the ! m destructive effects of "the oarthqu'iice wero felt in tho lowest parta of tho city between Harbour-street and tho shore, it would seem that the opportunity now offero' of endowing Kingston with a water-front, not unworthy of ibi spkndid harbour and its commanding position. Let us hope that it will not be lest.