The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28


know what it ought to bring by the quart
or pint.
You would hardlyope able to guess where
some OF the COWS are kept that furnish the
milk of the city, not all of them, but few.
Nowhere else than
ON THE TOPS OF SUBURBAN HOUSES!
AS the roofs are perfectly fiat, the common
people utilize them for all manner of pur-
poses, notably for memories. pig syes, dog
Kennels, gardens, where flowers and yeget-
ables grow in boxes; laundrles, and even
barn yards. A recent writer on this subject
says In many cases Lima COW spends
all her days on the roof of her owners res
idence, having been taken up when calf
and brought down at the end of her life as
fresh beef. In the meantime she is fed on
alfalfa, tropical clover, and the Stops from
the kitchen. Chicken coops are still more
common on the roofs of dwellings. and IN
the thickly populated portions of the town,
your neighbours cocks waken you at day
light with reminders of Saint Peter"
Going to the central market, we lind 1T IS
as spacious and convenient as any in New
Y ork or any other northern city. The
squares of Lima are very large and this
market covers whole one, including part
of the old convent of Conception, which
was forcibly appropriated by the govern
ment and the nuns elected in the year 1851,
at the imminent risk of revolution.
THE MARKET HOUSE PROPER
is built around great open court yard,
with exterior shops and an inner corridor,
and is traversed by well-paved pathways
radlatiDg from big fountain in the centre.
This arrangement forms series of small
courts, and each IS appropriated to especial
products. The principal dealers have stalls,
but the mass of vendors, who are women
OF lowest degree, squat all day upon the
pavement at the edge of the galleries, or on
the ground in the open spaces, with their
fruit, or fish, or vegetables or whatever it
may be. heaped up in fat baskets, or on
mats spread before them, in small piles
called montons.
Each monitor has fixed price, which
never varies, whatever the fluctuations of
the market; but the rise and fall of the
commodity is marked by the size of the
mont0n, little more or less, as the case
may be, for the same amount of money.
AS do their confreres in other parts of
the world, they chatter like magpies with
one another and with their customers, per-
haps nursing their babies the WHILE or per-
forming other less pleasing maternal duties
The children of the market, begotten, born
and reared on the spot, begin to tumble and
ner as soon as they have gained
sufficient strength; and in due course
of time take to the vocation of
their parents, as naturally as ducks
to water. Many of these market people
spend their lives here and know no other
home, eating and sleeping on the ground.
THERE ARE FOUR DAILY PAPERS
published in Lima, besides several periodic
ais devoted to society matters and general
literature. Most prominent among the lat
ter is a finely illustrated and well conducted
weekly, called Ell Peru Illustrate, owned and
published by Mr.. Peter Bacigalupi, who is
by all odds the most enterprising North
American 1t has ever been my fortune to
meet. As hels very prominent character
| in Lima, and his career illustrates what
foreign brains and energy may accomplish
among these slow-going Peruvians, [ went
one day to interview him. So busy man
is Mr.. Bacigalupi, flying here, there, every
where, attending to his dozens of ''irons'
| that are all in the fire at once, it is no easy
matter to find him; or when found, to pir
him down to conversation. But persever
ance accomplishes it, and here is the result
He was born in New York city in 1855, anG
consequently is now thirty-five years old
Though he never went to school after the
age of thirteen, he speaks French, Spanish
German, Italian and English equally well
When thirteen years old he was employed
by the New York Equitable Life Insurance
company in some humble capacity wher,
he remained six years. Then he drifted t.
California and at the age of twenty two
married young lady in Oakland. Les
than year later, after breezy tiff will
his mother-in-law, he left in haste anC
sailed for South America. Landing at Cal
lao early in April, 1873, he had exactly foul
dollars left in his pocket; and that wa
stolen before night. He found employ
ment Immediately and before many months
became the confidential clerk of Mr.. E. d
Adams, prominent merchant of Lima
formerly from the United States. Mr.
Adams was so accommodating as to di
soon afterwards, leaving Mr.. Bacigalupi il
charge of the business; and within the yea
he married his late employers widow,
Peruvian lady who then had five children
They now have beautiful home; and tn
number of olive branches has increased
nine.
In 1884 the old place of business was de
stroyed by fire, but, nowise disheartened
Mr.. Bacigalupi set up again in a better 10
cation and since then the amount of hi
sales has been something phenomenal. Hi
goods are mostly from the United State
and comprise
THE GREATEST CoNGLoMERATIoN
ever collected under one roof For instance
he has large stock of books and station
cry, drugs, soaps, lamps, clocks, silver
ware, jewellery, sewing machines, type
writers, Photographic outfits, agriculture
, implements; in short, almost everythin