The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-05

dfDdrCmen except through InlS SnOp, Out 10
traverse it is not so unpleasant for ladies as
going through a northern saloon might be;
for these extremely courteous people are
never boisterous or inebriated, and every
man of them rises to his feet and remains
standing, with the
UTMOST SHOW OF RESPECT,
as long as petticoat is in sight.
Beyond and Immediately adjoining is the
inevitable salon de blllares-a much more
noisy and frequented place, because the
gentle Tacnians. like all Spanish Ameri-
cans, are devoted to games of chance, and
the prime fayorite among them is the COM
paratively inexpensive advertisement OF
the billiard table. Beyond the billiard room
is an open court with the kitchens at one
side-whence emanate continual scent of
garlic and sound of sizzling grease; and the
other three sides are set closely around
with little wooden buildings that look like
so many toy houses. all precisely alike, with
their gable ends turned toward the court.
Each gable is penetrated by a door, and
over each door is a square window, hung on
pivot, la transom, which may be opened
and shut by pulling cord inside, and is the
only means of affording light and air to the
interior. Each Jiny playhouse is complete
sleeping apartment with floor of bare boards
well washed aid sanded; and is
of white painted iron, canopied and much
be-ruff1ed; small wooden table and smaller
washstand, one chair, a tall candlestick-
minus the candle, which you must pay extra
for-and conspicuous peg about half
yard long, on which you may hang your
habilimentS
But we must leave the rest of Tacna and
spare space enough to tell you the war news
as nearly as can be ascertained up to date.
Its extremely difficult to obtain any relia
bic information in the different parts OF
Chill, even so near as this to 1.-THE seat of
war; because the policy of the government
is to maintain the utmost secrecy. The
presidents sympathizers are instructed to
make light of existing troubles, and to de-
clare that the few meagre accounts which
have gone forth to the world were grossly
exaggerated. But that is by no means true.
So far from having been exaggerated, the
half has not been told, and probably never
will be. Soon as it became known that the
navy had declared itself
FOR THE OPPOSITION,
on the Sth of January last, the president
shut up all the telegraph and telephone Of
fees and all the newspaper establishments
IN Santiago except one, which Is under his
own immediate control, so that even the
citizens of the capital know little of what Is
During the last fortnight neither side seems
to have gained much advantage, and the
middle still remains in statu quo. All the
Gillian ports are in possession of the rebels
and In the most important of them block
AIDES have been established thus completely
paralyzing business OF every kind. Of
course, all foreign shipping had to leave at
once, or take the consequences; and the
same would be true of foreign residents
nd of hor 4
ment.
By order of the president, all the clubs of
Santiago are closed, and the saloons and
cafes must shut their doors at 10 pm. No
coaches or street cars are allowed to run
after midnight, and more than half
THE RAILROADS HAVE BEEN STOPPED,
because, owing to the blockage, Goals are
becoming scarce and scarcer. Unless some
arrangement can shortly be made, no trains
at all can run, and Santiago will soon be
without gas and in total darkness at night
nice state of affairs amid the dangers OF
war, with kerosene at S1.25 per gallon in
| the cheapest time and not much of it to be
had at any price!
A letter, received today from an English
! friend who is engaged in business in Chili's
capital, tells me that half of Santiago is in
hiding, and the prisons are crowded to over
| flowing, more than six hundred reputable
citizens being iucarcerated as suspected
abettors of rebellion. Day and night the
streets are patrolled by soldiers and armed
| policemen on horseback, and the trembling
and desolate city, under strict military law
is virtually in a state of seige. There is nc
telling how long the present trying condi-
ton of affairs may continue, as neither the
president nor the opposition know which
way the remainder of
TIVE d
The outcome of all this trouble practically
hinges on the will of few commissioned
officers, and that the president is somewhat
doubtful about their remaining with min
is shown in the extraordinary efforts he i:
making to raise new troops by force. Mail:
can no longer go northWard from Chill BY
the usual route-up the Pacific to Panama
thence across the Isthmus and to New York
via the Atlantic; but on account of thu
blockade they must be sent overland tx
Buenos Ayres, from Los Andes over tn
mountains and across the Argentine Repub
lie, requiring at least ten days more time il
transit from Santiago or Valparaiso to New
York.
My correspondent, who is the most quie
and fastidious of gentlemen, tells me how
he barely escaped spending night in jai
himself 1t happened in this way: TIL,
club being closed one evening after dinner
accompanied Dy TWO OIuef young EnglSl
gentlemen, he strolled into the Cafe Santi
ago to learn the latest war news. They re
manned perhaps half an hour,
CHATTING WITH AcQUAINTANCEs
and watching the crowd in the patio, wher
two or three hundred citizens were congre
gated, discussing-probably minus the frs
syllable of the word-the deplorable situa
} ton. When the English trio started TO
J home they were amazed to fnd the gate
: guarded by a squad of mounted policeme
with drawn swords, who had orders to a
; low no one to depart. Though it went muc
against the grain of loyal Britons, they wer
compelled to submit, and were kept Their
| until midnight, uncertain as to what thei
) fate might be; when, it having been prove
: that they were English subjects, who ha
, taken no part in Chili's political affair:
they were at last permitted to depart
peace, but with dire threats as to whs
would happen to them if they were agai
caught in a crowd.
As for the discussing citizens in the patio
5 they were all marched off en- masse to Sa
! Pablo, the common prison for the loves
class Of criminals, and kept there unit
: morning, as solemn worning not to do s
any more. FANNIE B. WARD.
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