The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-08


so have not seen it. The burro or DON
key is the favorite animal of the poems.
Everything imaginable is carried on his
back, all kinds Of vegetables fruits, chick
ems, charcoal, earthenware, rock, brick,
adobies, lumber, milk ETC., in fact, it seems
to be about the only mode of tronsporta-
ton between the country and the city, and
in some instances the poor brute Is terribly
loaded.
The Mexican appears to have perfect
craze for gambling and lotteries. Gam
bling is carried on openly and to very
great extent. Roulette and monte are the
only games played. Of an evening the
gambling halls are visited by thousands Of
men of all classes. They have lotteries Of
different kinds, daily, weekly and monthly
drawings and there are at least ten thou
sand people
PEDDLING LOTTERY TICKETS on THE STREETS.
The city contains some very fine buildings,
but no such business blocks as you would
see in an American town of the same size.
| The buildings that attract the attention of
the stranger the most are the churches.
There are l26 Catholic churches and chapels.
The most celebrated are st. Domingo, of
| inquisition fame; San Hipolito, site of the
slaughter, July l, 1920, the dismal night;
Vera Cruz, Cortez's Hermitage, the arts
tocratic Santa Brigida, and the churches
San Fernando, Santa Teresa and Professa.
There are alse several other churches,
church, Union Evangelical and Con-
gregational. All these protestant churches
are established in part of the
chapels and buildings of the ancient con-
vent of San Francisco the Oldest of new
Spain which was begun shortly after the
conquest, before the middle of the six
teenth century. In the above churches
SERVICES ARE HELD EVERY SUNDAY MORNING
in English. The cathedral is a magnificent
building, it was begun in 1913, on the site
of the greatest Aztec Teocalli; cost s., 000,
900, is $50 feet long, 200 feet wide and 175
| feet high; magnificent view is had from
the belfries. The church contains five
navas, six affairs and fourteen chapels, and
the metropolitan chapel Ell Sagranio. The
altar was formally the richest in the world.
1t had at one time a lamp worth $75, 900 an
a statue of the Assumption that cost
81 100000.
SAN CARLOS ACADEMY.
This art gallery contains many fine paint
ings and specimens of statuary. Among
the former are the remarkable paintings OF
"Padre Las Casasr and 1.-THE Deluge" by
Suan Urruchi; "Abraham's Sacrifice by
Santiago Rebrell, ''Cortez's First Visit to
Montezuma," by Juan Ortega and Murillo's
Dan d udu u6 DlOS' anu 1u0 LOSG Su06p.'
In the fourth and fifth salons are the
paintings of the Mexican modern school,
and medallions of famous men. This in
stitution was founded in 1881.
NATIONAL MUSEUM.
This is the most interesting place to visit
in the city; it contains curious Aztec an
tiquities; picture-writing; Montezuma's
shield, the statue Of HuitZilopochtli, the
god Of war, the calendar of stone. This is
a huge round stone seven and half feet in
diameter covered with numerous hyero-
glyphic characters. The Mexicans claim
that there is only one man who can de-
ciphers them. lula monoliths, Palemke
cross, Chacmol, and the sacriicial stone.
The latter is large round stone twelve
feet in diameter and four feet thick. The
sides are covered with different characters
carved in the rock; it has a fiat top and in
the center there is hole, about the size of
small washbasin, and from the hole to
the outside is small gutter. The victim
who was to be sacrificed, would be placed
over this hole, killed and the blood would
run down the gutter to the side Of the
stone. Other relics from the time of the
conquest are to be seen. Portraits
of the Viceroy and of Cortez,
objects pertaining to modern history, as
MAxIMILIAN's GALA COACH,
Ills SlINtI SeENlC6. tUC. Liz 1OTIu0E Is bllG
most gorgeous affair | ever saw. 1t is made
of gold and wood; the wood is painted red
which with the gold gives it very rich
appearance. 1t is locked up now, and you
can only see it through iron bars. The
door was formerly kept open, but some en-
terprising American knocked off some of
the gold ornaments and carried them away.
The natural history and meteorological de-
partments are also very interesting.
There are fine thoatraS ruOOiOp avoT,y
night but they are small. There is one
circus also, of not much Importance The |
great attraction here in the way of amuse-
ments is bull fighting. Bull fights are
held on Sunday afternoons at three grand |
rings within the city; also during the win |
ter months at Toluca and Tlalnepantla, |
towns ashort distance from the city. Last |
Sunday, saw for the first time
A GENUINE BULL FIGHT.
1t was at the Colon ring, the largest ring in |
the city. 1t is huge place with three gal |
leries, and will seat 10000 people; and it is |
needless to say that it was crowded nearly |
to sutfocation. The ticket Office is at the |
ring and does not open until about two |
hours before the performance begins, and |
the crowding, yelling and pulling prepare
tory to obtaining ticket is something in
describable. 1t became so bad at one time |
that the soldiers, about two hundred of |
whom are kept on hand all the time during |
bull fight, had to take their muskets and |
club the men over their heads in order to |
keep them back, and from crushing women |
and children to death. The performance
commenced at 3 40 pm, and for two hours,
or little more, the assembled populace !
was treated to spectacle of the most
wildly exciting nature.
Six bulls were to be killed. There were
seven bull-fghters and two picadors.
A. !
have long poles with prongs of steel in the
end with which they prick the bulls to ag-
gravate them, and make them fight better
The bull fighters are on foot, and have red
capas, or flags. They scatter all over the
ring and the bull runs after first one, then
another, but they dodge out of his way
They keep that up for while, then one of
the fighters takes two sticks about two and
a half feet long, with a sharp point and
beard similar to fish hook, and
STANDS IN FRONT OF THE BULL.
The animal runs at the man, and when the
beast is close to him he thrusts these sticks
into the bulls shoulders and they stay
there. This is repeated three times, until
the bull becomes perfectly wild with rage
and pain. After that one of the fighters
takes long sword in one hand and red
flag in the other; the bull runs at him, and |
he stabs it in the shoulder; it drops down |
dead and is hauled out of the ring, and an
other bull is entered. The first bull las
indeed were the entire six was an animal
of splendid appearance, and spotless black. !
1t was evident that the rosette planted in
his back by the man at the gate aroused his |
latent fury, but he did not come into the |
ring snorting and putting
CALMLY AND sERENELY
he surveyed the scene for few seconds;
then he went to work. One of the men |
down on his knees with outsnread cana