Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-14

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call my boy chamber man to make up my
bed by clapping my hands. 1t has no win
dows, and it looks out on little garden full
Of most beautiful flowers.
The hotel is built around this garden. 1t
is of one-story, and it makes me think of a
hotel at which L stopped in one of the ma
tive States of Hindoostan, Jeypore, save
that there I had to have my own servant
and he slept all night in front of my door.
Aguas CalienJes contains about 40, 900 peo-
pie, and nine-tenths of the houses are of
one-story. They all have fat roofs, and the
water is drained off through pipes of clay
which jut out about foot from the edge of
the walls.
All the Co1ors of the Rainbow.
These walls are very thick. They are
built of stone or sun-dried brick, and are
succeed where they face the street, and
this plastering-hke stucco has been painted
in delicate blues or pinks or yellows, max
ing the whole town one mass of rainbow
colors which, strange to say, does not look
out of place under this bright Mexican sun.
None of these houses have gardens in front
Of them. They are built close up to the
cobble-stone sidewalks, so that, in going
through the town, you seem to be passing
between walls Of gaily-colored bill boards
ready for the posters, each of which has
hole in its center for door.
The poorer houses have doors very rough
" made, and in the galloping-mule street
car that takes you from the depot to the
center of the town, you see few houses with
windows, and many of these doors are filled
with queer-looking, dark-fsoed people. The
men in their red and gaily-colored blankets
look picturesque, and the women, with their
dark, mahogony faces, their long, black
hair streaming down their backs, freshly
wet from their last bath in the hot waters,
are in some cases very pretty, and in others
as ugly as the Witch of Endor after an at
tack of smallpox
A Country of Big Prices.
As you leave the station you pass the
public bath houses-low Spanish buildings,
where you can get for from 20 to 80 cents a
bath of any kind you want-and go on up a
long, dusty thoroughfare under widespread
ing green trees into the business part of the
city. The business of this city of 40, 600
people is q fair sample of that of the in
terror Mexican town. 1t is big only in the
prices asked for the articles sold. Mexico
is not a great business country. The most
of the firms are run on small capital, and
there are hundreds of stores which have not
more than 5000 worth of stock.
Many of these here have even less, and
the storekeeper, in the majority of instances,
has a little cave of a store without any win
dows opening out on the street, and he
stands behind a counter which runs right
across the store in front of the door and
offers his goods for sale for three times what
he expects to get. In the case of the smaller
businesses, the trader is generally Mexi-
can, and there are more peddlers in one city
in this country than you will find in ten
cities of the same size in the United States.
Red, White and Blue at Market.
I have Just come from the market. I'm
agine long tier of stalls around two hol-
low squares which cover the area of a city
block. These stalls are occupied by the
butchers, bakers and candle-stick max
ers who have the biggest stocks, and the
squares are filed with big-hatted men in
white cotton clothes, and by red-skirted
women in white waists who sit under white
umbrellas as big as the top of small camp
ing tent, with little piles of vegetables and
fruit around them. 1 asked as to prices