The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-20

| to lighter and then call tug to pull the
lighter alongside the steamer.
| While at anchor in the roads a lighter
! came alongside with four oxen and guam
| tiy of fowls and fresh vegetables. The
| destiny Ct the turkeys and vegetables was
| quickly settled.
What are they going to do with those
! cattle? ?" asked.
Make beefsteaks for your breakfast"
| was the laconc reply.
Yes; but how are you going TO get them
! aboard2"
"Oh. itch the tackle TO their 'orns and
'oist them huD with the crane"
A hall hour later a coil Of rope was
adjusted about the horns of one animal pre-
paratory to "oisting hup." And hoist him
up they did. The poor beast beloved with
fright and struggled convulsively when he
found himself swiftly jerked off his feet
into space. He doubtless was in condition
to state authorltatively, in the language of
diplomacy, that the relations between his
head and the balance of his body were
"strained;" indeed, he appeared to regard
it likely that relations might be broken off
level of the deck and fifteen feet above it.
Then with a swing the crane poised above
the deck waiting a single moment for the
order to clover awayW when
The rope parted and the poor brute
dropped fifteen feet A volley of oaths at
more care with the other oxen.
"Oh it doesn't hurt Them" the British
seamen protest. 1.-The oxen out here are
all hitehed to the carts by the horns, and
do all other work by pushing with their
heads"
No American steamers go farther south
than Rio de Janeir0, and at that point we
are obliged TO take an English vessel. At
home the traveller purchases ticket which
takes him to the place named on IL, but the
city limits of BuenOs Ayres are sixteen
miles out at sea. This is probably for the
bene ft OF the English, who own this coun-
try and loan it 70 the Argentine Republic
TO play with.
The traveller, therefore, transfers himself
with his luggage to tender TO discover
very shortly that the tender anchors two
miles from the city, when a ramshackle
cross between dory and mud-seow,
with Tapping sail, pulls up alongside and
the passengers are bundled into that. A
protest ELECTS the information that any
passenger is at liberty to take one of the
arming rowboats-and pay for it. If
the tide is low and the wind strong the row.
boat cts you at last, however, and in turn
delivers you over to Satan and the water
cart.
Improvement is the order of the day at
Buenos AyTes. Formerly travellers mad only
the choice of rolling up their pantaloons
and wadlng ashore, or of being carried
ashore on the back of peon, who was sure
to halt half way between boat and shore and
vow that unless his fee We're doubled he
would drop his burden.
The water-cart supplanted the peon, but
Its day Is about over. The great dock, to
which have already alluded, is about
mile away, and even now the sea-wall is
creeping out along line just breasting the
fleet shown in the background of the picture
below. A part of the space Enclosed will
form great basin to be used as harbOr of
refuge when the ''pampero" blows off the
plains like cyclone. But much of the in
closed river-bed will be reclaimed and will
quickly be covered with massive ware
houses. In the entire world there are only
one or two dock-wOrks more important than
those now being constructed at Buenos
AyreS.
An idea can be formed Of their extent
when ii is known that more than 5000 men
have been employed III on them for years,
and that basins deep enough to accommo-