The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-04-27
SOUTH AMERICA.
INTERESTING FROM MONTEVIDEO.
CARNIVAL FESTIVITIES on THE PLATE.
Visit to the Largest Beef Slaughter
ing and Packing Establishment
in South America.
G1HE PROCESS OF PREPARING JERKED BEEF.
Prosperous Condition Of the Free
Negroes Of South America.
American Stock Raisers and
Wool Growers.
Victor Emanuel Forming the Nucleus Of an
Italian Colony in Uruguay.
Emigration from the United States
DC. &c. DC.
Prosperous Condition Of the Free
Negroes Of South America.
American Stock Raisers and
Wool GrOwers.
Victor Emanuel Forming the Nucleus Of an
Italian Colony in Uruguay.
Emigration from the United States
to Brazil.
&c. &C. DC.

10 0TdZ0s
Our Montevideo Correspondence.
MONrEvIoEo, s. A., Feb a. 1906
CARNIVAL SEASON.
Last night this morning rather closed the feast of
carnival The OPERA the theatre the circus the
cert hail. the arena, the cockpit and every oer
and place of public amusement conceivable all in
full blast during the carnival and balls and masquerades
public and private, were very numerous
At this heavy business is done in perfumcrcs,
Cologno Florida and other scented being spirited
around with perfect recklessness Everybody is armed
with small vial OF tnfo much resembling the tubes
which an artist purchases his paints. These are filed
with such waters small opening at the top elects,
in to little pressure. fine stream which is
aimed the passes by usually OF the opposite
che weeks of carnival these sprnklng machines
gradually increase in size and power until the fourth day
before the Close when large guta percha bottles, each
holding about pint and having ivory nozzle of pro-
portionatc size, most in vogue. Every conceivable
contrvance is resored to for duckipg everybody and
this ducing is truly democratic affair All level
here except those at the upper story windows and
tho bousetops, from which heights every passer by
douscd. Pals and tubs brought into requisition
70 keep up the supply. Immense waterproof paper
bags, strongly made holding about two Quarts each,
are filed required, and thrown 10
burst the head against the back the feet OF
pedestrians, making report not unlike a mountain
howtzer and drcnching completely the unfortunate
victims The is blown egg Shells the shells
filled with WATER the ends closed up with talow, and
these thrown by thousands everywhere, by every
body, aud at everybody. Bruised limbs, bloody noses
and black eyes given and taken good jokes and
matters OF Men go along the streets having boys
servants following with boxes of these eggs
which thrown numerousy and furiously into every
window from which bevies Of beauties challenge to
Nbat by throwing bags Of water like water eggs The
whole city liz given up to this from twelve O'Clock
each day until sunset and the limits Of the frolc
marked by the firing Of guns for the purpose by the
authorities One has his choice during these three days
either 10 keep hidden he can or don bis WORKOUT duds
9gy forth and pitch In What presidential thing that
4 rained last week There had not been hours rain
here for three months and fresh water selling
throughout tho city for sixteen cents pail or two cents
quart
carnival season. Few people in the world have
beautiful young ladies' than are found on the banks Of
che RIO do la Plata their ngures Dress gait, hair and
eyes beng their strong points Their eyes usually
described N stunnng and II must be confessed they
have much Of the electric fir, But to them sparkle
chem In carnival time.
In some Spanish countries especially the Island of
Cuba, this Is embraced by both men and women
for less innocent purposes Where rivals meet who
Jealous OF each other aqua FORTS, aqua rcga green
stued for these innocent perfumed waters andsprted
upon the face Of the rival to destroy beauty Some.
times others hired TO do this devish work,
conceal both motive and actor; and where o
woman is spirited upon more times within
few minutes IL Is, OF course difficult to identify
the foe.
In the heart OF the city is a fine plaza, where band
little inferior to Dodworth's, dscourses sweet music
every evening when the weather will permit This
plaza brill antly lighted drawing room. and
here you may in the evening, from nine to eleven
O'Clock, the beauty. grace and elegance OF the city. lit
Gle distance from this go out the principal thorough
faro through old gates (a LETT Of the walls
limiting and defending the town. we ind ourselves in
the midst Of large Market well supplied with beef
'equai 70 Fultcn Markets bcs, a. hve cents pound
proporiionaie rates Fruit musk melons and water
vsr,ssy cur own. are ncyerEeicss abundant and 70 be
had NJ moderate prices, though not corresponding 70
tho<o Of meats and poultry. The soil, climate and
everything in nature iavors the cultivation OF the vino
here and thus would seem 10 promise TO be one OF the
gveatrs' wine countries in the western world A wine
resembling the rim ordnaiye of the province Of Cham
payne IN France, Is manufactured In the Interior and
brousht hundreds OF miles on mules, TO be sold at
twenty cents per bottle here.
The dry weather and the couds Of dust swept the
plans by the pampcros have injured materially the crop
this year orn raised In quantities sufficient for homo
consumption but has not yet been cultivated any
great extent II is, nevertheless, moderate in price
Time was not long since, when large quantities OF -four
were imported from the United States. Now market
~ entirety Supplied from The country around and Hour u
becoming quite an article Of export Indeed II has be-
Of the staples OF the country and IL quality is
inicrQr 10 none unless be our own Genesee Brandy
wine Mills, and other extra and fancy brands
What remarked Of the markets Of tins city Is true OF
those OF ucpos Ayres only on scale proportonaie TO
che are OF the city, having population Of a. least
100000
In Bucuos Ayres we end many Americans in business
benentng at once both tho country and thcmse. e.
Among them Is family % iiyngsons, the head Of II
being nephew OF Thoulas Iiyin gsfon, OF the i'm
mortal sgners OF the D,caFai on ID independence
sxED os usHeoR rAutrAs AZ NJ nos ArHEs AND MOVIE
Ills great pity that neither o, these has good
harbor Al Busnos Ayres vessels o. only moderate craft
must lie in the open from four to six out,
suffering much there In time OF rampcfo tprare
breczel 40 gradually does the bed OF the liver decline
that lighters Of four Zee, drat cannot approach whn
half mile Of the beacb aud 10 ana from these carts
with immensely high wheels constantly passing An
American company In contemplation the ntroduc
sion Of light draft Cat botomcd lighters by the
present system, or want OF system raher vessels are
somelmcs detained here many weeks, months even,
an dischargne and taking in cargo While Montevideo
does not suffer from want OF water In her harbor ne
harbor itself opens directly 10 the most violent wind.
thai sweep aoss from the Bucnos Ayres plains, and
moro than forty vessels been sometimes piled upon
thc beach BY single pampero For these reasons
Rosario some two hundred miles further up the river,
promise 70 become tho great Of the hide wool
and nour trade Of all this Rosario has splendid
and well sheltered harbor, with railroad already open
ing up the INTERIOR the head Of which Is enter
prising American capitalist One American has, about
y from - sss 40 o. one huo
fcd thousand sheep and ten thousand head Of cattle
Other many times larger are numerous Inere
being no stones or timber these plains related AZ
matter Of fact that formerly, after the sheep were
Sheared they wsre driven into brick kns shut 70 ~
kinding wocd are applied, and brick 50 burned Tor
visrr TO 4 scsrnvmso rrxr nArcHrnro Asp PACKING
WrARrfsBMKyf.
The sslsdesa u truly feature OF TINS county 10y
me give you picture Of the largest - south am nca
n that Of senior La Fonde across the cove OF inner
hasbor FROM Monssvidso The strong odor from the ta
ao~ boilers snd the bone kilhs can be smeleh wnile
simost league from the place. Over the pains oe-
4bsp me, a. rounded the head Of the cove saw an
pncosurs perhaps Of thirty acres In which were nro.a
30u black lookthg room, covering large ARA, IN VIZ
s.irs Of which sood Ai brick chimney, from which
vSfs1 me foul tlAck smeks q Ne bone kins
rxn cArIS rU
esysn orouiar sess u swe tArss screA sureunosa