San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-01
SCENES IN MEXICO.
Sights in Monterey-Looking Out
for the Poor-Mines and
Miners.

| Miners.
| MONTEREY, Mexico, April 81, 1891.
To the LIGHT.
Tourists who contemplate coming to
| Monterey this summer, should SO arrange
| their time and business that they could
spend the Sabbath IN the city. Sundays
are always gala days in Mexico. On this
| day the Mexican people are at their best.
From early morning until noon, all classes
of people are seen going to and from
church; while from 10 a. M, military
| band is stationed on the Main plaza, in
| front of the cathedral.
The elite of the city attend the ten
o'clock mass, and hundreds OF the hand
soonest women on the continentcan be Seen
at that time going to and coming from
church, all dressed i'm rich and handsome
| dresses. After mass many of the ladies
tarry on the plaza TO listen to the music,
| inhale the sweet odOr of the roses and sip
| from the sparkling fountain. At 4 p. m.
| is the childrens time on the plaza. Hun
dreds of them are their, most gaudily
dressed running around the plaza and
| through the walks and keeping time to
| the music. They remain there until
| p. m. when the band retires and all go
home for supper.
tsp. m; two military bands furnish
music until 1l:30 For three and a half
hours the plaza is crowded with ladies
and gentlemen, the ladies march
| ing to the left and the gentlemen NOV
the opposite direction. The scene is
one that will never be forgotten by the
tourists. The plaza is lit up Sunday
night by electric lights and Chinese Ian
| terms.
There are every Sunday afternoon bull
fights, cooking mains and other enter
tainments which attract large crowds.
The bull fights always draw full house.
The people come i'm from the adjoining
towns and ranches to attend them. Then
there are three churches in the city that
are well worth visiting, The doors are
| always open, so that strangers can go in
and take a look at the affairs, etc,
There are three lines of street cars that
| traverse the principal streets, and will
take persons to the principle places, OF in
not be seen in one day. 1t will take from
four to six days TO visit all places of in
/ tereSt in Monterey. As you correSpon-
dent is preparing tourists guide Of this
| and surrounding country, we will not
make any further reference TO themaat
| this time.
| LOOKING OUT FOR THE POOR.
| Sunday night the citizens gave an enter
tainment at the "Trivoli Renerto," for
grand success. The garden was il
Illuminated with electric lights
and Chinese lanterns. Four military
bands furnished the music. All kinds of
| refreshments were furnished by the la
dies. and right well did they wait on the
gentlemen, and gather in the dollars One
gentleman paid fifty dollars for two
drinks bran dy, while another paid ONE
| HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR TWO DRINKS. The
| ladies netted over $4,000. The governor,
state officials, the mayor and municipal
officers, as well as all the prominent citiA
i Zens were present and contributed to-
wards its success. Major Jules A. Ran
| de as usual co ntri buted literally towards
| it, for. lie kept his street cars running all
| night and carried the people TO and
from the garden free of charge.
| For the past week the city has been full
of miners and prOspectors. There are
| here now. men from st. Louis, Chicago,
| Kansas City, Denver, New Mexico, Cali
fOrnia, Arizona, New York and Texas
| who are interested in mines and minerals.
| Monterey is destined, in the near future,
to eclipse Denver Colorado, in the hand
| ling of ores.
| There are men here who are sending
| out proSpectOrS to hunt fer ore in the sur
| rounding mountains. Many valuable
mines have been lately discovered in the
| Monterey district
| Drs. Glazebrook and Scott, of New
York, spent few days in the city
last week. They came here for
the purpose of finding out what
| inducement Monterey offered for the
| erection of cotton mill. After making
| a thorough examination. they came to the
| conclusion that this was the most faVora-
| BILE point that they had seen since they
left New York. When they reach New
| York they will report to their associates,
and NOR ey against marbles that the place
| will be Monterey.
Capt. w. 5. CarotherS and A. Alice, of
| PearSall; DR.. J. ID. Carothers, Saltillo,
| and James Mcdonald. of San Antonio,
| have spent several days in the city for
| the purpose Of organizing stock compa-
ny and erecting cold storage buildings in
| the city. 1t is understood that the organ
| ization will be perfected this week, and
| that they will go to work at once to
| build.
PERSONAL.
Conductor J. T.. Eddy and wife, Ben.
M. Hammond, James Mcdonald, G. K.
| Brown, ). c. Bee, San Antonio: ThOS.
| Caden and son, Ed. Fisher, Ed. Dinke, j.
| {. Seymore, p. Flyod, A. q. Suffered. "A.
| J. .Estetter. Laredo; g. G. Potter, Fort
Worth: w. Il. Plath, &. Landman. Hons-
| ton; {. NJ. Nichols, Victoria; G. w. Will
son, +. O.. jackson, Mexico: II. X. Nose
| ly and wife, DR., J. ID. CaroJherS, Saltillo;
| K. A. Vaughn, Mexican National Ry.;
| Ben. Levy, H. Sachs, Galveston; VIM.
| Headen, Corpus Christi, are registered at
| the hotels. EDMOND.