The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-12
A JOURNEY TO MEXICO.
District Attorney Winfield Leads
an Audience Tbither.


A number Of fortunate ladies and gen
tlemen were personally conducted by
District Attorney Winfield last evening,
on a rample through Mexico The ram
Bile consisted OF picturesque and hui
morops talk upon cur sister Republic, at
the Carteret clubhouse Mr. Winfield
was IN his happiest vein, and held the
anbounded attention of his audience
Throughout his entire discourse. His
eloquent description OF the magnificent
scenery through which he passed, and his
witty comments on varions phazes of
Mexican life and superstition alternately
held the audience spell bound or con
yplsed them with laughter
When the Democratic order Of Spell
binders is founded Mr. Winfield is my
candidate for Chief high binder
In his talk the District Attorney used
two maps of the country surrounding the
by an architect, the other by an AgCec.
LOOK AT THE MAPS.
"As you will see by the maps before
you, ladies and gentlemen. he began, Il
am not going to bore you this evening
with weary discourse on a philosophi-
cal subject, but 60 chat with you by the
way If you viii accompany me through
western border. / have approached
Mexico twice; once like a yandal from
the North, and once like q wise man from
the East. 1t is on the latter occasion !
invite you to accompany me.
We left Havana and cast anchor one
mile from the shore of YucAtan We
went to the only hotel d Progresso. from
which would advise you to keep away
There we partook OF the great national
dish, which consists of black beans as
round as shot and every Bit as hard aud
pan cakes made of Indian meal The
meal was ground by a woman, as the
grinding seems 60 have been done in all
ages. We read in the Scriptures. you re-
member, that two shall be grinding at
other left. 1t is a pity that the woman
who ground the meal efwhich those cakes
were made had not been taken.
"Ehe beans are too tough for a fork
and too round to put on knife, so the
natives make little spoon Of the cakes
into which Uhey roll the beans and bolt
the combination whole
IRELAND AHEAD.
I'VE approached a beautiful plantation
of hemp through sort OF triumphal arch
bearing the name of the owner, Senior
Don Patrueio O'Hara. Ireland to the
front as eyerywherel Here was this man
raising hemp down there to hang his fell
low man somewhere.
We visited city where they don't put
ND signs bearing the names of the streets
as we do here. But they place an effigy
of the object for which the street is named
at its head, For example, at the head OF
Flamingo street is an image of a iianingo,
at Elephant street an elephant and SO on
In Yncatan the Indians are the most
magnificent specimens OF manhood |
think | ever saw, and all are pious Chris
fI1nS Chnrp1 a org
II EMBARRASSED HIM.
"On the eleventh day from New York
we landed at Vera Cruz. The city tHfned
out to be clean and attractive; SO clean in
fact, that /, as a Jersey City man, felt en-
barrassed. The city is SO low that the
sewers are built Oh top. The streets are
concave in the centre and through them
the sewerage flows. But they lave ex-
cellent street commissioners there. The
turkey huzZards wade through these
sewers and clean up everything. Unlike
our commissions, when they get through
their work they go 10 church and sit un-
der the shadow OF the caves until morn
ing.
There is q good hotel at Vera Cruz
and they entertain YOU we'll.
1--WE left there at a quarter of five
o'clock in the morning for the City of
Mexico. We were accompanied by a car
load of soldiers to meet the lootpads, cut
thfoats and other pleasant characters
along the route Ii we nad met any foot
pads | would have bet on the footballs
every time Those were the meanest lot
of soldiers ever saw. They were Of all
coiors and wore all kinds Of uniform.
The only difference between the regular
ard volunteer was that the former wore
sandals and the latter did not.
WILD MOUNTAIN SCENERY.
Mr.. Winfield then described the wild
mountain scenery through which he
passed, and said lie thought it was the
most magnificent he ever saw. In speak
ing of the precipitous mountains the
train climbed he said there was one place
where they stopped and bought refresh
ments from Mexican women and then
forty-ive minutes afterward they made
another stop and there were the same
women to sell them more refreshments.
The women had walked up the mountain
SIDE while the train had been creeping by
a series of inclined planes
"At o'clock we reached the City of
Mexico" Mr. Winfield continued, sand
at the station we saw carriages drawn up
in q manner which [ would recommend
to the authorities of Jersey City. Each
carriage had flag denoting that it was
for hire, A white nag meant the carriage
was to hire for fifty cents, a red flag for
seventy five cents, a blue for 81, and the
green nag, here You see the prevalence
OF the green again. II. so. 1t was above
the red as usual, and also the red, white
and blue. | did not wish to arouse ma
tional feeling, SO | took a white flag at
fifty cents
Mr. Winfield then went back and told
the story of Mexico from the first CON
BY Scott, and closed with a beautiful
arOstrQYlhe To Mexico