The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-04-03
LIFE in BUENOS AYRES.
STREET SCENES IN ARaENTINE's
CAPITAL CITY.
Car Drivers and Their Horns--Ani-
mated Milk Wagons-Rnttcr in


prepared for callers, than to take your
stand in the early hours some morning
upon a city's busy street and watch the
various types as they 60 filing by.
Stationing ourselves, then, at one of
these points, in the city of Buenos Ayres,
sheltered little by projecting door
way, let us note for time the changing
scene. Bucnos Ayres is not sleepy
city; it retires late and gets up early in
the morning, and already is showing a
good many signs of life and toll. In the
narrow street before US are number OF
early street cars, not very heavily laden
as yet, and whose drivers, therefore, send
their teams galloping down the smooth
track and around the sharpest of sharp
turns at a speed even more reckless than
usual. The South American cardriver,
like every patriotic citizen of his country,
is fond of excitement. When he comes
to hill he opens the brake and whips up
.-a- hnrses: away 20 car and contents, and
you are apt to think, rs you s,o,a >.> aud
wait for the crash, that in comparison
with this ride on a toboggan slide is a
very tame affair indeed. There are no
bells on the horses which pull these
cars, nor does the driver ring one as he
approaches the corner of q street. In
stead he carries large cows horn fitted
on the inside with reed, the whole
forming u wind instrument whose sound,
heard in every key and at all hours of
the night and day, excels in absolute
hideousness all other noises yet made or
conceived. For this reason they are, "a
warning, very effective The streets
themselves are too narrow for double
track, and cars are obliged to return to
their points of starting by a different
route. There are eight street car COM
panies In Buenos Ayres, with total of
216 miles of track.
Jumping nimbly on and off these cars
and running back and forth from house
to house are scores of Italian newsboys,
this profession is not restrIcscu oJ ssr,
whiIe on vnc- O~vnsra are their compsh-
ions, the bootblacks open eyed, all ready
to capture the early riser. One of these
latter accosted me few days ago, and
then, discerning i'm some subtle boot
black way that l was from the United
States, he sputtered forth his entire
stock of English in one overwhelming
sentence, without pause or break, "Shir
boots oh yes do all right" Ilet hin
shine them.
Out in the roadway now, is n strang,
panorama of morning labor. Here arr
thick-wheeled carts loaded with solid
bales Of wool, and drawn by tw,
or three horses hitched tandem to accom-
modate these narrow streets; aud mild.
eyed cows, natures own milk wagons
being led about from door to door
These men on horseback, wish such ar
array of cups and cans hung pannier-lik,
on either side, are butter peddiers.
Buenos Ayres butter is delivered in
with cream then, but the notion Or -,,e
!ough-and-tumble trot to which tj,
morse is trained has churped /;
into fresh sweet butter now HI,
up among his load, with his feet dane
nng along the horses neck. sits t5,
oairyman, bounding up and down all tb,
"le, ana his internal condition at IN,
end OF the ride has never been accurateI,
determined. Here is man who ouav
at this early hour, will sell YOU q s,;ce ~ -,
not tortillo, the South American boe
CAKE from tin which he carries unon
MS head. Aud there, on the onnns;ta
slde OF the street, is another novaIt,,
NUE. white-haired, wrlnkled faced old
t woman with great pile of papers upon
ner nead and another under her arm
Her dress is ragged and her ewes are
uln with age, but she keeps movino
aiong at such queer semi-trot, and calls
La Naclon!' "La Nacionw over and
over again in such cracked, lusterIes,
RessnRs wsHaif, wsfsaif 50 attiaAs one ta,iSSsSshag
smiling s,;,inag at the droll figure, while he
I P:.ies ner' too, from the bottom ~
nis neart. But she moves cheer;in ~
~ WIN ner load, and so 90 the re:t W %
eohem-poor . poems with canvas sboos
nat caps Of red or blue, peddlers with @
nuge baske of vegetables. and 49,
armies OF Italian street cleaners hromn
'rawny sons of toll. Each one br..;u
y as though he were trying to ovortaIs
ne one ahead of him. '"he
AL, save only tho Leg yars. Ah the
essars' They never 60. The creat,,rs
ues y not exist which "sticketh closer tban
oeggar. They greet you wherever vou
iay De- and are with you wberever w.. ~
;ay n.y. They are of all ages, sizes you
mus. Some of them are old men
'.H5iea l15 and tottering, who hold ont tst
req mats with muttered story Of wao ..
men has been so many times told t,., 80 10
's lost meaning even to the sneans. % 8
Iad1e d hes "a onnoWed together into confused
ne q. ...,iu. So1iu. -,.o-.- Soniused q
! % : h,a s sorrowful. looking senora - -
s.a. 1aoy which drowses all da, hold- 2
'th.l 'sn.ly with its body resting my, my, ap. p;
on n1, h sap and its little head reclin; Gn a.S
yn .ant her breast. the pavement. ,n,ng or mn n,
thosa ,dms space. The torpid good nat Upon +, r.
'iese ";j infants is amazing, and its nature
'n''ae large bottle of sootb; % s9Gres ~ ~
p, = diS, which is the dirty little cbs,nh,s th'
y ~ 1,et. ne And just beyond this fan,;, XII
a,r ,p 81 10: ppGggars you may come acroaa '' wh
s;c d,y chlld' logged and sullen ''s 81 nif
~ 1,op, ana wearing such an sir % e1. ]
"a Luna. snat you wonder if the Door "l ,b; OF plo
dnows daoi now to smile. OF couraa "s t,fy
,n"I "i vi this sadness is of the 49,. tati
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