The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-19
4 72-MILE TRAM WAY.
Out of the Clouds and into the
Tropics.
LARGEST STREET CAR ON EARTH
A Look Of Jalaps and Its Beautiful Girls
Mexican Superstition and Other
Matters Of Interest.

VERA CRUz, Mexico, July Is, 1891
Especial correspondence of The HERALD. !
Seventy two miles on a street car.
a mad. wild race over hill and valley
down the Mexican mountains. A gallop
through great forests and dense Jungles. A
ride through orange groves and pine apple
beds. A jump from the regions where the
coffee grows, through myriads of trees load
ed with orchids, out into groves of palms
and on into the rank tropical vegetation of
the Mexican hot land. a ride with strange
drivers who remind you of Italian brigands
A ride throughs strange people who live in
strange houses and who look as queer as
though they came from the other side of the
world. Such is the may idea of the trip
] took yesterday morning in coming from
Jalapa TO the little village from whence you
take the railroad for Vera Cruz. 1t was a
ride over the longest street car line in the
world. IL was ride through some of the
most picturesque country of the American
continent, and it is ride which within a
month will have passed from tine possibili-
ties of travel.
JALAPA TIE BEAUTIFUL.
Away up IL tue Wllulu bikul
of sthe snow topped volcano, Orizaba, sur
rounded by the richest of lands, lies one of
the weaIthiest and most beautiful cities Of
Mexico This is the old, old town of Jalapa
There is no place in Switzerland more
beautifully located, and you viii find no
town on the continent more picturesque
IL lies right in the mountains. The clouds
nestle among the hills about it. and every
street climbs up and down, giving series
of beautiful views and yistas. The houses
are all of one or two stories. They are of
stucco, and they look as though they had all
been finished but a year or SO ago. They
have long, low, overhanging roofs OF red
tile, and these roofs iut out about yard
and half over the street. and the rafters
and the inside OF the roofs are painted q
delicate blue. Below this blue comes the
brown, drab or yellow of the wall of the
house. which goes down to dado of dark
red which to-cers the street The houses
have great windows covered with iron bars,
ard out of these look the beautiful girls for
which Jalapa is famous. They have blue
eyes, black hair and eyebrows, and their
compilations are of the richest of cream.
Not few of them have rosy cheeks, and
caught many beautiful picture with my
camera as / passed through tbs streets.
The ground floors of the houses are level
with the sidewalk and you can look through
these windows right into the houses and
see the red tiled floors, the walls frescoed
in gay colors and the garden of tropical
plants, which forms the court yard about
which The house is built. The people did
not seen to resent inspection, and the fair
sefioritas laughed when pointed the cam
era at them, and l found them kinder and
better looking than the people Of any part
of the Mexican republic. The Mexicans
themselves have q proverb concerning them
They say that Jalapa is part of heaven let
down TO earth and the proverb il s.Las
Jaldpcnas son hdla0uenas"-or
BEwITCHING AND ALLuRrNe
are the women Of Jalapa"
The town is in the centre of the richest
Ct the coffee regions Of Mexico. II has