ISAAC

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• ISAAC JOGUES (2607-2646)

JOGUES (2607-2646)  , French missionary in North offices, a handsome block of buildings with a facade 200 ft. long and a tower 106 ft. high . The square itself, a quarter of a mile long, is the la gest in South Africa . The offices of the Witwatersrand chamber of mines face the market buildings . The stock exchange is in Marshall Square . The telephone exchange is in the centre of the city, in Von Brandis Square . The law courts are in the centre of Government Square . The Transvaal university college is in Plein Square, a little south of Park station . In the vicinity is St Mary's (Anglican) parish hall (2905-1907), the first portion of a large building planned to take the place of " Old " St Mary's Church, the " mother " church of the Rand, built in 1887 . The chief Jewish synagogue is in the same neighbourhood . In Kerk Street, on the outskirts of central Johannes-burg, is the Roman Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception, the headquarters of the vicar apostolic of the Transvaal . North of Joubert's Park is the general hospital, and beyond, near the crest of the hills, commanding the town and the road to Pretoria, is a fort built by the Boer government and now used as a gaol . On the hills, some 3 M .

E.N.E. of the town, is the

observatory, built in 1903 . Johannesburg has several theatres and buildings adapted for public meetings . There is a race-course 2 M. south of the town under the control of the Johannesburg Turf Club . The Suburbs.—North, east and west of the city proper are suburbs, laid out on the same rectangular plan . The most fashionable are to the east and north—Jeppestown, Belgravia, Doornfontein, the Berea, Hillbrow, Parktown, Yeoville and Bellevue . Braamfontein (with a large cemetery) lies north-west and Fordsburg due west of the city . At Fordsburg are the gas and electric light and power works, and north of Doornfontein there is a large reservoir . There are also on the Rand, and dependent on the gold-mining, three towns possessing separate municipalities—Germiston and Boksburg (q.v.), respectively 9 m. and 15 M . E. of Johannesburg, and Krugersdorp (q.v.), 22 m . W . The Mines and other Industries.—South, east and west of the city are the gold mines, indicated by tall chimneys, battery houses and the compounds of the labourers . The bare veld is dotted with these unsightly buildings for a distance of over fifty miles .

The mines are worked on the most scientific lines . Characteristic of the Rand is the

fine white dust arising from the crushing of the ore, and, close to the batteries, the incessant din caused by the stamps employed in that operation . The compounds in general, especially those originally made for Chinese labourers, are well built, comfortable, and fulfil every hygienic requirement . Besides the buildings, the compounds include wide stretches of veld . To enter and remain in the district, Kaffirs require a monthly pass for which the employer pays 2s . (For details of gold-mining, see GOLD.) A railway traverses the Rand, going westward past Krugersdorp to Klerksdorp and thence to Kimberley, and eastward past Springs to Delagoa Bay . From Springs, 25 M . E. of Johannesburg, is obtained much of the coal used in the Rand mines . The mines within the municipal area produce nearly half the total gold output of the Transvaal . The other industries of Johannesburg include brewing; printing and bookbinding, timber sawing, flour milling, iron and brass founding, brick making and the manufacture of tobacco . Health, Education and Social Conditions.—The elevation of Johannesburg makes it, despite its nearness to the tropics, a healthy place for European habitation . Built on open undulating ground, the town is, however, subject to frequent dust storms and to considerable variations in the temperature .

The nights in

winter are frosty and snow falls occasionally . The average day temperature in winter is 53° F., in summer 75°; the average annual rainfall is 28 in . The death-rate among white inhabitants averages about 17 per thousand . The principal causes of death, both among the white and coloured inhabitants, are diseases of the lungs—including miners' phthisis and pneumonia—diarrhoea, dysentery and enteric . The death-rate among young children is very high . Education is provided in primary and secondary schools maintained by the state . In the primary schools education is America, was born at Orleans on the loth of January 2607 . He entered the Society of Jesus at Rouen in 1624, and in 1636 was ordained and sent, by his own wish, to the Huron mission . In 2639 he went among the Tobacco Nation, and in 1642 journeyed to Sault Sainte Marie, where he preached to the Algonquins . Returning from an expedition to Three Rivers he was captured by Mohawks, who tortured him and kept him as a slave until the summer of 1643, when, aided by some Dutchmen, he escaped to the manor of Rensselaerwyck and thence to New Amsterdam . After a brief visit to France, where he was treated with high honour, he returned to the Mohawk country in May 1646 and ratified a treaty between that tribe and the Canadian government . Working among them as the founder of the Mission of the Martyrs, he incurred their enmity, was tortured as a sorcerer, and finally killed at Ossernenon, near Auriesville, N.Y .

See

Parkman, The Jesuits in North America (1898) .