The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-30
TWO CITIES OF PERU.
Some Graphic Pen Pictures Of
Southern Character.
THE STREET CARS WITH SAILS.
A Place Where There Are No Cemeteries
Blooming Maidens One Hundred Years
0ld-Iife on Shipboard.

OK sHIPBoARD, August 30, 1S90.-TSpe-
cial correspondence of THE HERALD. j
Life on board one of these great English
steamers that ply the Southern Pacific, has
its peculiar features, but is by no means
unpleasant. The three-story habitatlon
aioat on waste OF waters with its crowd
of passengers, its living cargo of horses,
cattle, sheep and fowls, and its tons of fruit
and other freight, is a miniature village
separated from the rest Of the world, and
forced to rely upon its own resources for
sustenapce and amusement. There is no
better place for the study of human nature,
because the frailties and inconsistencies
with which our common humanity is af
fiicted, as well as the occasional CLEANS Of
Goodness that redeem the poorest speci-
mems from utter unworthiness, are more
plainly apparent where there is so little
Glance for privacy or concealment.
Like other small communities whose
ways Of life are narrow and monotonous,
GOOD DEAL OF GOSSIP is RIFE,
but generally not of the ervenomed sort
that taints the atmosphere of many other
wise delightful country places, as the slime
OF toads and serpents would poison the
purest spring. People on long voyage are
inclined to pair off at once into small cliques,
drawn together by those mysterious laws
Of mental attraction which every body feels
but none can explain, remaining always
grouped together at the table, on the shady
side of the deck, singing songs in the moon
light, playing games of chess, whist and
EochdmbeGu, or going ashore at the various
ports. Each little party secretly considers
Itself as the criterion by which TO Judge OF
all things worthy of emulation and is dis
posed to be- extremely critical concerning
the manners and motives of outsiders and
more difficult would it be for one 10 cut
loose from one clique and establish himself
permanently in another than for an un.
known plebeian, without money or in
fuence, TO gain admjttance to the exclusive
circles of Murray Hill.
Yet outwardly all is serene as a summer
morning. Everybody greets every body else
wherever met, with smiling recognition
and if one is i'll the entire community vies
with each other in kind attentions. Amons
other noticeable characters in our dali,
orGmatiS persOnde is
BEvY OF YOUNG LADIES
who came on board an Puma, the Cape MAJ
of Ecuador. They are evidently sisters anc
the daughters of wealth. However cold tn,
winds blow, they appear every day il
thirnest dresses of white null with sky
blue sashes and breast knots, their shining
black hair braided down their backs anS
tied at the ends with blue ribbon. ScorninI
wraps of any sort, with bare heads an,
siippered feet, how they stare at tn
flannel gowns, thick boots, gloves, hats an,
Jackets of las -4mericdnds with looks tina
plainly say From what part of the Tn
civilized world do these heather Gomez
And when the ouenna is mercifully sea
sick, with what grsto DO they engage j.
desperate fiirtations with the young ship
doctor and couple Of handsome bull
fighters, the latter being wonderful
bedecled with diamonds, each wearing hi
hair braided into the bobbing pig tail whic
betokens his profession.
Besides the daily slaughter of pigs
poultry and sheep to supply the lardel
every second or third day COW is killed o
the lower deck, which the animals shar
nth the freight and steerage passengers