The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-24
Journeyings Of the American Indus
trial Deprivation.
MAGNIFICENT SCENERY
A Cordial Reception at the Next
can Capital.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.
CITY OF MEXICO, Jan. 10.
Via BROWNSVILLE Texas Jan. %, 1879.

The progress of the American Industrial Deputa-
ton from New Orleans to Mexico via Vera Cruz. has
been one of uninterrupted success. Leaving New
Orleans on the morning Of the 10th by the steamer
City of Mexico. under Captain Macintosh the voyage
was made direct to Vera Cruz in eighty-two hours.
severe norther prevailed toward the close of the
trip. necessitating stay over night at sacriicios
Island The party landed on Monday morning, the
18TH in excellent condition, and Hospitality re-
ceved by the Commercial Club and the city authorities
Of Vera Cruz Fatigues incident to the voyage were
forgotten. After enjoying luxurious bath and
elegant breakfast at the veracruzana Hotel the
early forenoon spent in viewing the city.
A TOUR OF INSPECTION.
The HERALD correspondent called on Governor
General Tooran and was conducted by him through
all the asylums and hospitals Of the city. These
institutions are models of cleanliness and
good ventilation. They contain many hundreds of
patients mostly Of the poorer classes of native whites
and Indians. They comfortably accommodated
and attended by skillfu physicians and nurses. and
supplied with clothing medicine and other neces
sares by the municipality. In the Military Hospital
of yellow fever under treatment;
but the disease Of a mild type. and the
patients did not look seriously ILL., Among the chill
dren at the asylums for orphans and the Juvenile
hospitals several bore marked evidences Of foreign
parentage, and their bright blue eyes and
fair faces strangely contrasted with the swarthy
black features of their little companions.
General Tooran had smile or friendly greeting for
every one, patting the youngsters on the head and
shaking hands with aged cripples All seemed to take
this condescension as a matter of course showing
that to them it must be a common experience.
Breakfast at Vera Cruz brought the American party
face to face with many new dishes. The Tortillas
and frijoles of the country were of course. to be
looked for, but the sight OF dishes OF fat
snais made the appettes of rather unpleasantly
dull. After recent experiences in the Gulf and dared
to do so by an incredulous excursonist who could
scarcely look at the dish. your correspondent ate
some snais and found them delicious. notwith-
standing the general prejudice against them
article Of diet which we Of the North entertain The
type Of slowness became Of rapdity for Of each
snail made good swallow.
A GIGANTIC ENGINE.
Toward four o'clock in the afternoon all assembled
at the railroad station and took the train for Orzaba
ON the Mexican Railroad. This was to be our first
resting place route to the capital. The i'm
mense double-ended engine that to haul
over the plains Of the TERRA Caente attracted much
attention It is Of English build and especially con-
structed for the heavy grades of the mountain
division of the road Regular American cars made
up the train. which in special charge OF Mr..
natured sunburned, Irish genteman-who left moth
ing undono for the comfort of his charge.
noMANTIc TRAVELLING.
leaving the city Of the True Cross. rolled away
inland over country varying in aspect from sandy
barrenness to bewildering stretches Of tropical
vegetation. The scenery will long haunt the mem
DRY Of the excursionists Desert wastes, bosky
ravnes dense chapparal rich meadows all passed in
review the train sped on. Feeling that the picture
was too magnificent to be seen from the narrow
opening of a car window, took seat on the big
locomotive and received from Mr.. Simpson. the
engineer. many interesting accounts Of his adven-
lures on tho road during the stirring times Of
revolution, enjoying the while the rare beauties
of this strange land. Later when the sun began to
sink behind the mountains and the air grew cooler.
two spirited young American ladies Joined me
ON the iron horse, and with q group of ex-
cursionsts perched the cowcatcher,
dashed ahead through groves of orange and
banana and all the wild luxuriance of tropical vegeta
tion inhaling the odors of flowers that bloom only
where summer is eternal. Here . deep issure
in the plain or mountain side Is crossed by
nm iron bridge, whose parts looked like cobwebs
spanning an abyss. Below the river noisily,
perhaps, but to us in silence We rush the appa-
rcnty frai structure and seem to be flying through
the air. and cannot the rails or columns that sup
port lis. In another moment we are whirling down
steep grade at such speed that the monster engine
fairly jumps on the rails. We have gone the last
seventeen miles in twenty-five minutes-a pace fast
enough satisfy the most enterprisng American in
the world. Running around curves less than
thousand feet radius. creeping up cxtrsor-
binary grades cut out of the mountain slopes,
overlooking profound valleys whose depths lost in
the growing darkness. rush furiously along.
Coz x,rfoc no .ofap 1s<N.,
of Cordova. Then again into the deep gorges and
dense woods until we finally into the station at
orizaba where party halts for the night
PICTURESQUE TOWN.
A wash and o good supper prepares us for new
excitements in q curious old town, nesting under
the great peak to which IL gives or whence it
ceives name. Wandering through the streets
VIC ind ourselves in large square or
plaza filed with people. The air is
resonant with strange sounds; on every side
are booths for gambling. cooking and the sale Of
pulaue coffee and other delcacies. Tables covered
with gambling apparatus and piles of silver coins
tempt passers-by to try their luck. largo
enclosure filled with people seated or stand
inp around tables on which game cards
are displayed shows that this is a
wholesale establishment Every head is bent over
the boards which the mystic numbers of keno are
displayed. A sonorous voice calls out figures. Hun
dreds of corn grains moved the cards. and here
and there tho rpplcs In the sea
of black heads where lucky individuals have filed
their combinations and won their pots. Tho whole
scene is exceedingly picturesque but the performers
do not look clean. II nm opcratic manager wants TO
study the groupings of gypsy brigands villsger
classes for reproduction the stage he will not and
in any other place such good opportunity as in the
plaza Of Orizaba at night.
REMARKABLE MOUNTAIN.
During the hours Of rest the lofty peak by
was covered with clouds, but at dawn on Tuesday
these were completely dissipatcd. and Orzaba pierced
the pale blue sky with his bright pinnacle of eternal
snow. Viewed from tho station tho scene was mag
ninccnt. In the foreground the valley in which
the city rests 'lay smiling before u.s." presenting
to the eye the most delicious contrast of color
cathedral tower and palm-roofcd hut. sugar patch
and coffee grove, rich foliage and glowing flowers.
aiiad I'm with their details "A harmouv that mo-