The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-06-28

IuOSe oI San Juan de DlCS, slOr m2leS, anu
of San Francisco de Borjas. for females,
many other hospitals scattered all over
Chilli, in every town and city, are
under the care OF the Sisters of
Saint Vincent de Paulo, who have
their central convent in Santiago.
They are aided by the government, but
have also considerable revenues Of their
own, derived from gifts and legacies. In
the capital city there are asylums also for
the blind, the insane, widows, orphans, and
the sick and homeless of all classes. The
insane asylum has over six hundred
inmates. An official report states that dur
ing the last year 3l7,S59 invalids were
treated in all the hospitals and dispensaries
of the republic. The asylums for
charge Of the Sisters de- la
Providencia, from the Dominion Of
Canada. During the last forty years they
have established and nobly sustained SIX
convents-iR Santiago, Valparaiso, Concep-
ton, Serena and Limache-and have given
shelter to thousands Of unfortunates. In
good women have shown the most heroic
devotion.
Speaking of Gillian generosity, it is as
serted that the owners OF Santlago's
marble palaces are SO free with their
wealth that Irish and American tramps
easily make from $40 to $50 day BY beg
ging at their doors This careless giving,
however. SHOULD not be called charity, but
rather weak indulgence in the luxury OF
spending money which can scarcely be
counted among the saving virtues.
In noting Santiago's public institutions
we must not omit the theatres. Besides
the Teatro Politeama, the Teatro Santiago,
the French theatre on Santa Lucia, and
few other third rate temples OF music and
dron IL c.7tA N m
opera house, known as the Teatro Munich
pal. which is the finest structure OF the
kind in South America, and for size, gor-
geousness and arrangement surpasses any
thing we have in the United States. a
description in the cold black and white OF
print can convey but faint idea of how it
looks at its best, brilliantly lighted and
filled with the creme de Ia creme of the
Gillian capital-when the blaze Of jewels is
not more dazzling than
THE CHANCES THAT FLASH FROM SOUTHERN
EYEs,
nor the music sweeter than beauty's smile
when Partisan toilets, bare arms, Hut
tering fans and a thousand opera glass
fiirtations bewilder the spectator. The
building is constructed in horse shoe form,
and its internal arrangement is on the
European plan, with four balconies, three
of which are divided into boxes, tier above
tier in semi circle shape, all luxuriously
upholstered with crimson brocade and dec
GRATED in white and gold. The balconies
have have no pillars to obstruct the view,
but are supported upon brackets, each
bracket being beautiful female figure
with uplifted arms.
Formerly none but men, and those not
of the upper classes, ever sat in the body
of the house. though in reality it is quite
as comfortable as the boxes; but the Eng
lish residents. with the natural indepen-
dence of loyal Britons-and who are
known TO stand as high, socially and finan-
cially as anybody in the Chillen manor"
born-succeeding in time in elevating the
character Of the pit by persisting in &C.
cudying ii, with their
wELL-DREssED LADIES.
Now, though perhaps not so fashionable as
the show places above, the floor of the
of 81 a seat, even when the boxes are
comparatively empty. But memorable Gus
tom, which in Spanish America must not
be departed from, DEGREES that ladies in
the pit must wear their bonnets, or some
other light covering for the head. while
never bonnet appears above. all the ladies
in the boxes being dressed for the simplest
farce (or rather half undressed SO far as
the bodice is concerned), as for the grand
opera in Paris or London.
THE TEATRo MUNICIPAL,
as its name implies, is controlled by the
city authorities, and every year its boxes are
sold at auction for the season, under the
direction OF the mayor, and the receipts
given, in whole or in part as g subsidy to
the opera management. The fashionable
evenings are Thursdays, Saturdays and
especial Sundays, the attendance on
other nights being very slim, unless
some fiesta is in progress. The liRhtest
of operettas are the rule-such as
Dona Juanita, the ballet of Drama, and
Orfeo in los Inferhos; but / have seen
Bccaccio, Rigoletto and the ancient but al
ways acceptable Chimes of Normandy rem
dered better here than is usual in the
United States. Like ali Latin peoples the
Santiagoans are judges Of music, and would
hiss an Indifferent company of the stage.
In this theatre everything bears the mono
gram ''T. NJ. S." (Teatro Municipal de San
tlago), on chair-beck, music-racks and
wherever a monogram can be placed. The
Spanish characters L and happen to look
about alike, and in a snarl OF letters NJ and
II are not dissimilar; SO that the remark of
young English tourist, which / could not
help hearing in an adjoining box, was not
SO uncalled for as might otherwise appear.
SCREENING his glass in his eye, he gazed
around the house with a shocked and puz-
zled air, and finally gave vent to his disap
proval by calculating, law. say, you know
How beastly queer for these Chilians to put
4. II. S. on their theatre furniturew
THE ORCHESTRA
numbers seventy-fve pieces, the stage
furniture is faultless, and there is q
splendid proscepium box especially re-
served for the president. But he will not
be likely to occupy it at present, for by his
order the municipal theatre remains closed
this winter. 1t seems ODD to be writing of
June, July aud August as winter, but on
this side of the equator, you know. the al
manac with which we are familiar is all
out of Joint and the coolest season occurs
while northern people are suffering most
from heat The closing OF the opera house
is grief TO Santiago society, and CON-
plants are more bitter than ever against
Director Balmaceda-" Owing TO war
troubles, foreign performers cannot be i'm
ported, and the harrassed government has
neither thought nor money to bestow
upon the drama. Thus the rebellion of a
few cranky congressman is felt in every
circle of Chilian society, but to the presi-
dent is rtributed the blame.
From time TO time Baimsceda-who is
more anxious for peace than any other man
in the couniry-has offered the olive branch
to his enemies, of course with conditions.
But the handful of greedy politicians who
lead the revolt will accept no conditions
they want the earth, or all of it that Chill
claims, demanding nothing more than that
Baimaceda shall resign his power alto
gether into their hands ard let them run
the government after their own fashion.
The other day
MR. PATRICK EAGAN,
the United States minister. late from Dub
lin, undertook to negotiate terms between
the president and the rebels. A man more
unlikely to succeed on such mission could