The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-08

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nelght OF several thousand feet, and all
are OF picturesque outlines The winding
! uoro between them, known as Smyth's
Suaunel, was scooped out so biologists say,
ny the action of ice during the glacial period
ana IS SO narrow in places that two steam
ers could not possibly pass between the
| rocks and cliffs that crowd to the water 8
eoge: Being thus protected from all the
winds that rage outside upon the open
ocean, the passage is perfectly smooth; yet
IL is avoided by navigators because of the
powerful currents and the frequency of
snow storms that prevail here at all times
OF the year. The few vessels that take this
course are compelled to anchor every night
and also to ''tle up'' whenever snow is tall
ing, because OF the great danger of collision
with lcebergs in some of the circuItous
turing. Sailors prefer 10 take their chances
on the open sea, where there is plenty of
room and they can keep going by night as
well as by day rather than linger in a region
Wnere the sun sets at o'clock in the after
noon. Winter is eternal so far south of the
| equator, water freezes every night in the
year, and the line Of perpetual snow begins
at an elevation of only 2, 900 feet. OF course
no other than the channel route would
satisfy US, especially after reading what
that interchangeable traveller, Vincent, who
lately made the same Journey, has to say
ABOUT 1t. Among other good things, he
writes.
WHAT VINCENT TELLS Us.
we had continual view of a range of
magnificent, snow covered mountains be-
longing TO the same great chain of Andes
that extends, almost unbroken, from the
lsthmus of Panama to Cape Horn. The
Chlllan mountains are of the most fantastic
description. Their contour is Infinite
lhey are peaked, jagged, dome and pyramid
shaped, and the amount of snow that ad :
neres to their almost perpendicular sides is
astonishing. There are scores of glaciers,
TOO, as splendid as any in Switzerland
How can L give you an idea of the varying
colors, the Wlerdness, and the utter savage
ness oil this Antarctic scenery! An artist
would rave, poet would rhyme. AT first
l thought OF Norway, then of Switzerland
tnen OF Bolivia, aud then of India; but the
unobstructed view of these mountains on
clear day-a very unusual thing in these
parts-ls much grander than anything in
Norway, quite equal to anything in Swift
erland. aud only surpassed by the ranges
OF BOLIVIA and India. Glaciers so numer-
Gus and vast, snow fields so measureless,
have never seen in any other part of the
giooe. And to think that all these beauti-
Iul ana majestic scenes are altogether un-
known to the general tourist and all but
unknown to even world wide travellers !
mere are no American steamers in the
Southern Pacific, and those of the French
and English lines pass only through the
stralG OF Magellan or around tn Horn; SO
we chose the kosmos REORGANIZATION
alone SENDS vessels regularly through
Smyth's channel on their way between
Hamburg and South Americas western
ports. Our particular steamer-the new
est and largest of feet of fifteen-all re-
lolclng under Egyptian names-is called
the Osiris. These neat little German boats
are remarkably long and slender, being
built on the narrov-gauge plan so to speak,
for passages of the tiords. About twenty
hve hrst class passengers just comfortably
Nil the tables and all the cabins, and the
only ladies on board are those of our own
party. Though the diversity of languages
spoken on board is almost as great as that
which confused the builders of Babel a
pleasanter company never found them
selves cooped together in closer quarters
Tor long and dangerous journey in the
strangest corner of creation. There are
authors and artists and merchants and
mine owners and curio hunters, from Ger
many, France, Russia, England, Denmark
Peru, Chile, Brazil, Argentine, Cuba, Spain
but the United States is only represented
by our unassuming selves.
Indeed, it would appear nowadays as If
the nephew and nieces of Uncle Sam
HAVE NO BUSINESS DOWN THIS WAY,
and there are those to the manor born and
to the manor adopted who are not backward
about expressing themselves to that effect.
Having to wait some days in Valparaiso for
the steamers departure, we had number
less opportunities for observing how greatly
pubic sentiment against Americans has
increased in bitterness within the last few
weeks. And yet there is not Gillian
among them who could give any reason for
the hate that is within him. Americans
how NOV dow
cept a lew mongrel American Chileno
politicians who were head and front OF the
late revolution and are just now in high
favor. Jealousy is the moving cause of
Chlleno hatred-an evil passion, cruel as
the grave, which is being industriously
fostered against the United States by GER
tain English capitalists, who have long been
making too good a thing out of Chill to
wish to spare any of its commerce. Eng
llshmen have had things all their own way
here so long that they have come to consid-
er the undivided loaves and fishes theirs by
right. The recent Pan-American congress
startled them out of their fancied security,
and led them to realize that Americans
must some how be held at bay, or their days
OF monopoly are over. Among such com
bustible material as the Gillian masses, it
requires but the tiniest spark to create a
cont1agration; and it sometimes happens
that tire, once started, leaps beyond the
control of those who ignited it. The time
is likely to come In the near future when
the United States government, for the
maintenance of its own dignity and the
protection of its wandering sons, will be
compelled to teach these conceited Chilians
wholesome lesson. And what shall we
say of those Americans who call themselves
citizens Of Chill aud are now figuring
prominently In the politics of that country!
AS rule, they are the worst enemies to
their own countrymen that can be found in
this mlsnamed republic. BY the way, why
is it | wonder that some of you at home
persist in calling these apostate Americans
by names that never belonged to them!
Why, for example, should that enterprising
New Highlander, Mr. Richard Trumbull, be
dubbed Ricardo in his own country, or those
Pennsylvanian-born Months, Peter and
George, be called Pedro and Jorge by their
old neighbors or plain Edward and Julius
be transformed by Yankee mouths into
Eduardo and Juliol No doubt the Spanish
rendering of their cognomens is best for the
advancement of their own ambitious
schemes in Chill, but we Americans have
no reason TO re-christen them.
FANNIE B. WARD
SPORTING SPLTNTERS