The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-26
part of their relatives and favorites.
Though these women are generally

Iuougn InSSe women are generally
YOUNG AND OFTEN EXTREMELY PRETTY,
it should be mentioned to the credit of the
| Chilians that they are seldom insulted or
| otherwise annoyed in the discharge of their
| daily and nightly tasks. When they are
disturbed the rule is to call on the nearest
policeman. The latter gentry stand on
every corner and would not hesitate to
| eject a troublesome passenger, without lis
tening to his side of the story, or to march
him off to Jail under suspicion of drunken
ness.
No more spacious or beautiful harbor can
be found on either side of the hemisphere
than this of Valparaiso, and throughout
| most of the year it is safe for shipping--eX-
! cept during the two months when northern
| gales prevail. Then vessels are sometimes
driven from their anchorage and compelled
to cruise about, to avoid being dashed in
| pieces upon the rocks on which the city is
built. One day from our hotel window we
watched the progress of a fierce ''norther''
that set all the ships a rocking till their
mast-tips nearly touched the water, and
sent mountain high pillows
ROLLING OVER THE ESPLANADE,
away up to the doors of business houses on
the Gale Victoria. Several pedestrians
were washed off into the bowling sea- and
huge steamer was driven on the rocks,
where she yet remains.
| The harbor is circular in form, with a
mile wide entrance facing the north. Could
breakwater be built across the entrance,
it would give perfect protection to shipping
throughout the entire year, whatever storms
might rage outside; but here the sea is SO
deep, lover one hundred fathoms), that
such work is not considered practicable.
According to local regulations, the vessels
in Valparaiso harbor are drawn up in lines,
with the precision of men of-War ready for
review; and very beautiful they look either
from the esplanade or the hill-tGps, ali
swaying to and fro with their uniform mo-
ton as the pillows rise and fall. In times
| of peace the flags of all nations may be seen
here, perhaps the rarest of any being that
| of the United States. Since trade in these
parts is practically
CONTROLLED BY ESGLISHMBN,
most commercial transactions are calcu-
lated in pounds sterling, and in business
circles the English language prevails. The
great banking firm Of which ex-Mayor w.
r. Grace, of New York, IS the head, has a
branch house here, also in Lima, (Peru)
and Santiago, the capital of Chill; and a
great deal of business they do.
Yet English goods are almost exclusively
sold; an English newspaper is published
there are an English church, an English hos
pital, English doctors and dentists galore;
in fact Valparaiso is little more than a
great English colony, with liberal sprink
ling of Germans and Frenchmen, a few
Chilians and fewer Americans. The latter
infinitesima community is just now con
graduating itself on the possession OF ar
excellent consul-a rather rare blessing il
this part of the world, am extremely sorrJ
to say. Colonel McCreery, the Valparaiso
consul, comes from Flint, Michigan, and i!
a Grand Army man, whose name will b'
readily recognized as among the honore(
veterans of
OUR OWN "oNPLEAsANTNEss."
He is very Jealous in all good works for tn
benefit of his countrymen, and is ably as
sisted by his son, young man of twenty
FIVE years, or thereabouts. For the credi
of our national character, it is a pity tina
such judioious appointments were not NOR
numerous. There have been times, NO
long past-even in Valparaiso, as in othe
important cities of South America, wher
every wanderer from the land of the Star
and Stripes felt like denying his national
ity, being so ashamed of the conduct o
some Of the disrcputable rowdies who hav
been sent down here to mis- -represent tn
, home government.
The American minister, Mr.. Patric