The Newtown bee., 1890-03-28
The City of Mexico,

Thinking you might be pleased to know how your excellent paper is read and ap- preciated, will say that, during the past two months, have read it with much interest at my rooms at the Palace in San Francisco, among the orange groves of Los Angeles, also by the Pacific ocean as we travelled on to San Diego and again, this morning, in this ancient city of Mex ico and l expect next weeks issue at New Orleans. So you can see that yourpaper is circulating far and wide over this con- tinent. My time is much taken up with sight seeing. A strange blending of the old and new is the Mexico of to-day. The Spanish civilization of the 16th century, side by side with the energy and progress of the 10th. Far more picturesque is the old than the new.
 The grand cathedral, hoary with age; the narrow streets; the quaint construct ion of buildings, with walls as thick as a fortress; the universal balcony and close ly barred windows; the fanciful side boards; curious costumes go to make it difficult for one to comprehend that we have at our very doors land more pie turesque than Switzerland, more inter- esting from it's romantic and varied his- tory than Spain or Egypt and richer far in agricultural and mineral possibilities than any country of which we have known.
 Under wise and liberal administration, a If raj ilrnado iS s9paaIinu the country. The first to reach this way was the Mexican Central railroad com pany, largely owned by Boston capital ists, with it's broad guage and we'll bal lasted road. We'll equipped for railroad service, we'll managed by it's superintend- ents, employing American engineers and doing large and increasing business yearly. It runs through the large cities of this country, is growing rapidly and doing much to advance the growth of this natios
 The electric light is almost universally used in the larger cities; street cars are we'll patronized institution and have come to stay. The city of Mexico can be reached now in five days from New York, with but two changes of sleeping cars on the journey. This country about the city of Mexico has wonderful agricultur- al resources and possibilities.
 The city of Mexico is city of $50, ,000 people. It has well paved streets, sever al very beautiful parks, many neat plazas, good hotels and restaurants, marvellous climate, with an altitude of 7500 feet. The mean average temperature is only | 30, Summer and Winter. This city has great historic interest to Americans, for here were the battle fields where General Scott and the American army carried the heights about the city; also the palace of Maximilian, which is grand in it's fittings, excelling many of the palaces of Europe, now the residence of President Diaz, who, through letters of introduction, the writ CT was permitted to visit and shown through it's extensive rooms and grounds. | A grandeur not elsewhere found on the l American continent. From the palace, the view in all directions is beyond de- scription, as the eye can take in 40 miles ill every direction. The City of Mexico lies in a basin of mountains and has beau tiful groves of old trees, all of which add sI greatly to the ancient city. At the even ing hour, the show of fine horses and carriages would do credit to any large
 city in the United States, for here the
 people, in a large measure, are given to
 recreation after business hours and horse
 back exercise is largely indulged in.- q I'M. c. II.
 sl Hotel Iturbide, City of Mexico, March
 I2, 1890,