The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-11-06
Railway Journey IN South
America.

1t was an agreeable surprise with
which | beheld the railway train that
was waiting for us at Ilalllal when
we steamed in from Los Andes in
comparatively antiquated cars. 1t
J was a regular American train, with
! locomotive and rolling stock Of the
most approved model, including a
fine saloon chair car, called here a
Spooncr car, from the name of the
American gentleman, Mr. John A.
Spooner, who has introduced these
blessings into Chilli | entered this
Spooner car with establishment.
What a civilized country this is ! [
thought to myself. Saloon cars in
Europe are still rare. In country
towns in Europe you do not find ho-
tells with statuary in the front patio
and swimming baths in the back
yard. Even in big towns in the
United States you will look in vain
for a pretty plaza or promenade,
such as they have at Los Andes,
and, as far as my experience goes, in
every Chilian village. And yet here
have | been living in the vague. be
lief that Chill is a semi barbarous
country, Inhabited by rastac0uereS
with blue black boards, who wear
gigantic diamonds and Cypress the
poor Indian In fact, | knew moth
ing about Chill beyond its geograph-
ical position, and that. too, only APP
proximately. Bat here l was actu-
ally in Chill, in a saloon car running
between Santiago and Valparaiso.
At the door are brown-faCed news
boys, with good deal of Indian
blood in their veins, but just as noisy
and enterprising as young men in
in the same profession in more
northern ATTITUDES. "FI Ferr0carr1l,
La Union, La Eb0ca teng0I they cry
Ell Aercur1o! FL Herald0 !' "Dia-
rios, senior; newspapers Buy some
papers to read on the road, sir y
There is a ringing of bells and
blowing of whistles, and we are off.
Half the passengers are talking Eng
fish and the others are SO cosmo-
poltan and correct in aspect and
manners that am inclined to wish
for little local color and little
more character. One blonde Eng
lishman is reading a railway novel
another has bundle of illustrated
papers from the old country; third
is reading to his friend a Spanish
journal, Ell Herald0, which prints its
Geographic news in English. The
ladies in the car are English or
American as we'll as Gillian, and
their costume would not attract at
tention in Broadway or Regent
street, except for its good taste. The
conductors, with their white kepis
and silk dust coats, are as Cosmopol-
itan and polite as the passengers.
All this, especially the predominant
ing Anglo Saxon element, is rather
surpris ng to the newcomer, who
has yet to learn that Valparaiso is an
English town, and who does not re-
member that. commercially speaking,
Chilli has for years been more or less
an English province. At Limache
we are to get out, our object being to
visit the vineyards known as "Lo
Urmeneta," situated in a charming
valley hemmed in with brown hills,
about twenty miles from Valparaiso
AS the Westinghouse brake grips
the wheels, and the train slows into
the station, we see bevies of ladies
promenading on the platforms,
dressed in the gayest of summer
costumes and the most coquettish
hats that Paris invented-a year ago.
Outside the station a score of boys
and girls on horseback inspect the
new arrivals; for in LimaChe, as in all
Gillian towns, whether they be sum-
mer resorts or not, one of the great
distractions is to ride or walk down
to the station to see the trains come
in. The variety Of types is great.
The olive skinned creole; the flaxen
haired Anglo Saxon; the black-eyed
CHILEAN maidens, with oval faces and
full, puffy cheeks; the blue-eyed
English girls, who chatter at one
moment in the familiar tongue, and
the next moment in stately Spanish:
the swarms of little boys and girls.
happy families of ten or fifteen
young people, all correctly dressed,
we'll behaved, and radiant with health
and felicity-present a picture of
singular animation, and an aspect of
complete civilization, which the Eu-
ropean traveller contemplates at first
sight with objectionable, but none
the less real astonishment.-- From
agricultural Chilli" by Theodore
Child, in Harper's Magazine for
October.
The New Discovery.
Yon have heard your friends and neigh