Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-18
souTH AMERIokN LETTERS.

In another column this morning we
present the first of series of letters to
date from South America, which we an
ticipate will prove of exceeding great in
terest. These letters are to be by Fannie
B. Ward, the accomplished correspondent
and traveller, who has written for the
RECORD UNION for FIVE years pastmost
acceptably. Her graphic letters from
Mexico, which ran for nearly two years,
and her equally interesting descriptions of
the manners, customs, laws and institu-
tions Of the States of Central America,
which continued in the RECORD UNION
for year, will be remembered with pleas
ure by all readers of this Journal.
Mrs. Ward has entered upon a South
American tour that will be Of the most
thorough character, and include every
political division of the South American
continent. She will be accompanied by
her daughter Fannie, also an accom-
plished writer, and by a stenographer.
She will not adhere merely to descrip-
tions of scenery, customs and social condi-
tions, but will make diligent inquiry into
the trade, commerce and material indus
tries of the States of the continent. Espec-
tally will she consider the questions of
more intimate relations between North
and South American States, opportunities
for American capital, energy and enter
prise, and similar topics. Political affairs
will have due attention, and she will
especially write of the leading men and
women, and the notable institutions of
South American countries.
Mrs. Ward is fuently conversant with
the languages spoken in the Southern
Continent; she has letters to the first COM
mercial and society people, and is well
read in South American history. Among
her credentials is letter from the State
Department commencing her to all our
Ministers and Consuls in South America.
She reached Aspinwall, crossed to Panama
and sailed for Guayaquil, from which city
she viii proceed in time to Quito, the
capital of Ecuador, travelling on horse
back among the grandest volcanoes of the
Andean Range. Peru will come next in
course, then Bolivia and Chile. She will
then probably cross the mountains near
Santiago, and enter the Argentine Repub-
lie by the new railway. She will go to
Buenos Ayres via Smiths Sound and Terra
del Fuego. After the Argentine Republic
is Travelled over she will proceed to Monte
video, to Uruagay, Brazil and up the
Amazon and complete the tour with Ven
zuela and the three Guianas. The trip |
will absorb more than year of time and
viii be prosecuted with every advantage
of ample means, official protection and the
aid and assistance of some of the leading
men and women of the South American
Continent.
The series of letters which this accom-
plished observer and practiced writer will
contribute to the columns OF the RECORD
UNION, we can confidently assure our
readers, viii be quick with interest and
abound in valuable information and graphic
description. The long service of this
praeticed observer and correspondent upon
this paper, warrants us in saying that her
viii be reliable, and in no
respect fanciful, exaggerated or speculative.
Things will be presented as seen by the
eyes of keen-witted, broad-minded, cul-
tivated American woman, and judged by
trained reasoning powers. The great in
terest manifest in South America at this
time, and which the meeting of the Pam
American Congress intensifes, gives especial
value to such matter as we expect to receive
rom Mrs. Ward.