The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-01-28
Concerning The Land OF The
MOntezumas- "A mother Let
ter From Mexico.
The Travels of a Party of Well
Known SedaIians What They
See i'm a Charming Cline

ofVera Cruz. Republic of Mexico
Jan. II 1890. Correspondence OF
The BAzoo. Our first letter ended
as we entered the City of Mexico, and
we will now attempt description oil
this ancient and curious city and our
rambles In and around Ii. The first
day was spent in visiting the pubic
buildings and the Cathedral. 1t would
be next TO impossible to describe the
interior of the Cathedral, as 1t is alb
solutely beyond the powers of
description. The affairs and deco
rations are gorgeous, rich
and elegant, upon which millions
of money have bees spent in gold,
bronze work and onyx. The two
grand organs, chancel and choir are
larger and grander than anything of
the kind any of us had ever seen. A
visit to these places is the only posi-.
BILE way for anybody TO know or even
understand tleir beauty and grandeur,
After visiting the Cathedral, our whole
party took carriages and visited the
museum, called at the postOffice and
Hotel Jardin (Hardine), and other
places of interest, including the opera
house, where Patti is giving her grand
entertainments to the Mexicans. We
happened to stroll into the theatre al
rehearsal time, a"d had the pleasure
of hearing Albine and SignOr Del
Puente singing with full orchestra
the opera of 'Otello.' On leaving the
theatre, we entered very important
place for hungry crowd, nee. Mex
lean cafe, and, after thoroughly salts
flying ourselves with a good dinner
and enjoying the peculiar fruits OF
Mexico (the names of which you
must excuse me from spelling or pro-
nouncing, as we can neither under
stand them, or even remember them
for more than a few minutes), we
again entered eur carriages and drove
to the castle of Chapultepec (pro-
nounced as spelled with accent on the
last three letters, sha-pOol.te-peck),
the halls of MonteZuma. Again we
must refrain from attempting de-
scription of the magnificence of this
castle. Our ladies were in
tensely interested iu the gorgeous
apartments of the castle every room
wss elegantly fitted up in gold, silver
and em0roideries, the curtains and
furniture being mostly imported from
Paris. the fresco work en- the ceilings
of the parlors, bed rooms, sewing
room, dining room and smoking
and card room was of the finest
workmans hip. The walls being
covered with the finest silk and deli
cate pink plush; the gardens around
the castle are beautiful and attended
to bv some dozen Mexicans who kept
everything we'll trimmed and watered.
Chapultepee was once the favorIte
Park of Montezuma: later the palace
built there by one of the viceroys of
Spain, was used by Macmillan and
is now the residence of the president
of the Republic of Mexico, the Mexi-
can White House.
The park and hill was the scene OF
a conflict between the United States
troops and Mexicans in 1S47, when
the hill was carried by assault. Be-
sides the presidential residence. the
National Military Academy is also
located here. A pass to the buildings
may be had from the governor of the
national palace in the city. The
views from the galleries of the palace
are magnificent, on one side are the
VOLCANOES and from the front the
grand view of the city, lakes and
plain, with towns and villages every
where. La the foreground are seen
the great expresses of the park,
Montezuma's bath and the old aque'
duct of the city's water supply. 1t j:
q good plan to start to Chapnltepec
abont noon, reaching the Pasco on
the return in time to join the pro
cession and see Mexico's upper ten or
wheels. Page after page could bt
written about the many interesting
sights to be seen in Mexico, there
fore, as we are on pleasure Dent and
see something to attract our attention
every minute of our time, we Cal
not begin to give full
account of our doings and movement
as IT would fill book : SO We must b'
content by simply outlining onr visit
to the principal places, reserving tn
details for the ladies Of cur party t
talk about after our return home. Th
street car service of Mexico is per
feet. All the car lines starting from tn
"Plaza" Mayors. Green cars are SEE
ond's class, yellow cars first class /; tn
fare, in the city, is sun medic (6
cepts) to the suburbs, Gun real" II