Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-10-30

F. r. Guerrseys Mexican Litter in Boston Herald
Rains, floods and wash-outs have greatly de
layed correspondence between this capital and
the United states. 1t has become customary 10
prefix letter with the remark that, If there is
any unusual delay i'm its reception, it is due to
the water which has submerged the railways.
The National railway has had its share of
trouble with water, but no one has noticed ii
much because our mail communication with
the United States does not depend on that
road being open to travel. The Central has
now had nearly three weeks of the most dis
cOuraging sort of weather. The officials of the
o, peraIing departments have had a big strain
put on them, and no force OF railway men
could have done better work than they have
Time after time they have seen
their carefully made repairs washed away by
the devastating floods. Snow blockades are
bad enough, as railway men in the north well
Know, but snow does not destroy road bed
and necessitate costly repairs. The rainy sea-
floods 1t began raining in April i'm a very
previous fashion, and then in the month of
May the rains ceased as suddenly as they had
begun, and again, after a short time, they began
once more. Senior Francisco Garay, the famous
Mexican engineer, said to me i'm April: Look
out for prolonged rains in the tall, and he was
1t is now over a fortnight since we have had
regular mail communication. Occasionally a
batch of delayed and ancient correspondence
has reached US from the states, and to-day the
Herald is five days behind time generally ar
irving here in eight days from Boston. This
sort of thing gives one sense of far away isola-
ton, and one realizes that he is not in the
United States, but sitting right under the white
cone OF POpOcatapetl. When the mails come
in every morning from the states, the Common
and Young's hotel seem about as far away
is Boston from Newton. Boston has a rain
generally once year, the september .'line
gale" when the rain comes down in sheets
and some of the lower streets are flooded
tor a few hours. But here We have been
every other night we have had TO go
about in cabs with the water up to the hubs
even on San Francisco street. The Streets
after an hours rain, became canals, and big
cargadores street porters) turned an honest
medic by toting people on their backs across
the flooded pavernents. Cabmen grew sud
denly extortiOnate and demanded three times
the regular fare, and only got il out Of
the uninitiated. 'Senor un pesto "a dollar,
because my horses worn out with SWIM
appeal. Some lady friends out shopping had
a curious adventure. They were up I'm the
grand plaza, when the rain began to tumble
down bucketSIul out OF the tropical sky.
rising waters came into the cab, and compelled
the ladies to get up on the seats. The body OF
the cab began TO float, and the driver, fearing
for his horses, had to make q desperate break
for q higher street. Going along in q cab, the
spray from the wheels Of passing carriages
in a storm. Every morning OF late the clouds
Of the previous night have fingered In the sky
until 10 or IL O'Clock in the most unorthodox
fashion for Mexican clouds, which are supposed
to be put away with the other weather rubbish
at 8 or b a. m. True, 1t has not rained In the
morning, but the masses Of cold clouds have
given a most untropical chill to the morning
air. The rains have had q had effect on busi-
ness, for interior freighting has been impossible,
and the railways have had all they could do TO
daily looking for drying up OF the fountains OF
Heaven.