The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-09-04

for hire in Valparaiso, and one chooses
between them according to his destina-
ton. If his excursion is confined to the
lower town, he takes an ordinary carri-
aye with two horses attached, but If the
hills are to be assembled, he must pay
nearly double the price for heavier
vehicle to which three horses are har-
messed abreast-the law forbidding any
others to go up. The hap-hazzard paths
that were originally laid out by the goats
that fed upon the mountain sides,
meander about in the most confusing
manner, but are now abandoned except
by pedestrians, for all wheels 90 by the
splendid new road, winding around the
hills, hich has lately been completed
distance of about nine miles.
Viewed from the bay, especially of an
evening, Valparaiso presents a fine APP
pearance, with long lines of lights one
above another making it look, as Mr..
Curtiss says, like "a city turned up on
end" Electric lights placed upon the
creSts of the cliffs throw their rays and
intensified shadows upon the streets and
terraces and gardens below with the
effect of moonlight.
Mr.. Vincent likes Valparaiso to vast
amphitheatre, regarding the ridges of the
hills as aisles, and is reminded of Hong
Kong by It's sloping position and OF Que
bee by its spurs, which terminate in
bluffs at the waters edge. At any rate,
despite it's natural disadvantages, Chill
ian enterprise, assisted by English,
French and German capital, have made
here a splendid city-the finest port in
i South America, in fact the only one on
the southern continents which can show
all modern improvements. 1t resembles
city of France or Germany, or even
of the United States, more nearly
than it does any other in this country
But our northern Republic has no city
with only Valparaiso's population 125,-
COO, which contains SO many fine shops
and such ii display of costly and luxur-
ious articles. The foreign element is
large and wealthy, the natives proud and
prosperous, and, like the nearby Capt.
tai, the place is famous for the extrava-
gance of it's citizens. Many of the pri-
vate residences are palaces in their pro-
portions and adornments, and million
aires are as common here as ten-thousand
dollar people at home.
The principal commercial street, call
ed the Gale Victoria, stretches around
the entire harbor and presents some
splendid architecture, there having been
| considerable rivalry in the matter OF
| deliberately carved facades and other
| adornments. Many of the best public
and private houses are found in the
street which was named in honor Of
| Englaud's Queen, as well as most of the
banks hotels, counting houses of whole
sale firms, and shops Of the heaviest re-
tailers. A recent traveller writes: GAS
| walked past the elegant bronze statue
| of Lord Cochrane-the Englishman who
commanded the feet of Chill from 1918
to 1S22-with the postoffice and fire en-
| CINE to the left land the municipal palace
before me; and turned down street to
the right, to the Grand Central Hotel
with its long flight of marble steps,
was struck by the very civilized look o.
the famous CHILEAN port. The people
who were rustling about in the eager
ness of business activity, did not seem tC
be South Americans, but Germans
french, English and Yankees. When
came to enter some of the great foreign
mercantile houses, extending from stree
to street and fitted with perfect moder1
appointments; and when at night
sauntered through the long GALES wher,
most of the retail business is done, will
brilliantly-lighted shops flied with
gorgeous variety Of goods from ever
country, cc2ld hardly believe mysel
on the southern continent"
FANNY 3. WARD.
8 TO be Continued.)