Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-09-05
TRtVEII.ISG IN ME\ICO.
Restaurants and High Prices All Along
the Route.

Mexico Letter to the Newark Advcrtiscr.l
rs 1t summer resort the City of Mexico
would be difficult to equal in point of
agreeable temperature You might easily
find more agreeable places of ,oiourn as
respects society, variety and quality of
amuocmcnts. gaycty of scene. beauty of
surroundings and number Of attractions
for the pleasure seeker: but it would
seem well nigh impossible tod,covcr an
other city possessing all Of the following
advantages \ circle Of the most bcauti-
full blue mountains surrounding the entire
city, 50 that when you stand at the june
tiun of any two streets and look success
sively toward each of the cardinal points
You see the street vista ending in Il tall
mountain capped with heecy white clouds
that resemble masses of smoke curling
up from their submits Il temperature
that never goes lower than G3 degrees nor
higher than - degrees in the shade. from
H. III. to I p. m, during the entire sum
mer band concerts given by excellent
military bands every Sunday noon. lust
after close of church services, and nearly
every evening in the week. 1t surprises
me that more of our wealthy Americans do
not come down here in the summer time.
1t would, of course, he too expensive IA trip
for those who must make 800
or so cover all the expenses Of their
annual "Outing,' but to that class who
freely spend every year $1,000 or 5000 for
Il six or eight weeks trip To Europe or the
American watering places. Il lesser amount
of money would cover all the expenses of
a trip of similar length through McNicO
10 the capital and return to New York or
Boston. The railway trip costs from
either of those cities to this point and re
turn, including palace car all the way and
meals about 800, provided the traveller
comes direct, not stopping over at any in
termediatc place on the route.
The journey is very pleasant one, when
taken there in parlor car; the scenery
of the most varied nature, including the
rich vegetation and busy towns and great
cities of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Missouri, the great prairieS and
grain fields of Kansas, the enormous
plains Of Colorado, where You see immense
herds of cattle being rounded up by the
much talkcd-Otf cowboys ON their mus
tangs and wearing CopiouS hats C'som-
brero' fashion, and IL Supcrtluty of pistols
and bowie knives stuck in their belts, the
gold and SilVer-bearing mountains of New
Mexico; and just here the traveller
begins to catch his first glimpscs of the
clusters of "adobc' huts and sluuchy
looking "greaSers' congregatrd about
each railroad station at which the train
stops. The food at the railway dining
saloons also begins to grow poorer, thus
showing hat YOU are getting still nearer
the land of the MOCtoZumaS for the in
StauU NOu cross the border and get fairly
started along the line of the Mexican Cen
trial, be prepared to resign yourself to
meals taken in freight cars that have been
converted into lmprONiSed dining ~a-
looms, and are switched of on u siding
alongside the railway station. In those
elegant saloons the urbdnc schooner
gives You the toughest tudiaruhbv.