The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-27

TACT remains that there If absolutely no in
temperance compared with what may be
found IN our own country, where bad
whisky abounds and well-nearing organi-
cations have bestowed upon 1t the ticti-
tious allurement of forbidden fruit. On
ordinary days drunken men are seldom
met on the streets of Montevideo: the eX-
ceptions-by no means-may be found on
the evenings of patriotic or religious
hestas, when cana flows more freely. And
sometimes, on such momentous occasions
as the birthday to the Queen or the Prince
OF Wales, the midnight tranquility is dis
turbed by loyal Britons, winding, rall-fence
fashion, home from their club, making the
Wlkln ring with-songs of borrowed pat
rlotism, such as John Browns Body,'
and
MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA"
Paso del Molino. the aristocratic suburb,
is distant about half an hours ride by
tram ey from the central cathedral and
mas splendid avenue shirting the bay.
Here are the quintas, or country homes of
Montevideo's wealthiest merchants and
officials, amid display of luxurious ex-
travagance akin to that of the Roman
villas of the golden age, as described by
Horace. The casas are mostly One-storied. of
quaintest architecture with gaudiest paint
each appearing to out-herod its neighbors
IN grotesque effects. The styles of archi-
lecture include the severest Moorish and
horld Gothic Chinese, Indian, Hindoo and
some present rare combinations of all
known styles, with good deal of origin
atty thrown in. AL are surrounded by
statues, fountains, gravel paths and
marble benches, empowered amid flowers
and fruit trees, and so genial is the climate
that the flowers preserve their color and
fragrance from year to year, making the
Haso continuous garden of perpetual
spring. BY the way, one of the hand
sumest OF these ideal houses is owned by
former Philadelphia, Mr.. W. D. Evans.
whose romantic story is worth telling
the United States on board a sail
ing vessel bound for Uruguay, Just
above Montevldeo. He was wrecked
by pampero, as many another seaman has
been before and since, and cast ashore
pennlless, stranger in a strange land.
whose language even he did not under
stand. His whole earthly possessions
were the water-soaked clothes upon his
oack and battered boat which he had
managed to save from the wreck. But he
was rich In Drawn and courage and having
patched up the boat, began life anew az a
cargaoor, conveying passengers and their
luggage TO and from vessels IN the harbor
He got on famously for about week,
when another evu-disposea pampero
caught him outside the harbor, overturned
the boat, and
LEFT HIN FOR DROWNED.
For hours he floated around, clinginp tn the
keel, till rescued by the crew on passing
steamer. The officers on the vessel,
pleased with the mans evident pluck. of,
fered him good place in their employ: but,
he respectfully declined it, asking only for
assistance to right his boat, that he might
sail back to town. They told him the old
tub was good for nothing and would better
be left to drift; but he replied with tears
in his eyes that while she was not pretty to
look at, she was very dear to him, having
twice saved his life and being all he owned
in the world. So they helped him to gel
her right end up again, and he sail
to Montevideo and to fortune. In the
centre of his private park. which is said to
be the finest in all South America. is
magnificent bronze fountain, and in the
basin thereof, among gold fish and specified