Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-02-27


girls, with audible comments on their beauty an
style after the accepted fashion Of Spanish
/ America.
Here and there in the crowd one sees an In
! dian face, but the native Guarani type is NOR
| rare than the negro; and dashing mulattoe
| and negresses are common-the latter general.
| eXtrayagantly dressed i'll the extreme OF style
| almost invariably wearing white or pale blue
| those most unsuitable colors which the rac'
| everywhere seem to affect. Sit awhile on one
| of the benches and listen to the buzz o.
| conversation as the brilliant throng niles Dy
| and you will hear as much French, itaIlan
English and German spoken as Spanish. iol
| Montevideo is a cosmopolitan town ana Iuly
one-third of its population are foreigners; anI
you will readily comprehend that the soclai
| life Of the aristocracy Is very gay; tnat nIs
degree OF education is the rule: that money =
short, that society here is fully up 10 tnA' VI
any European city of equal size.
STUDY OF LIFE IN A STREET CAR.
just outside the plaza groups OF nacAney
coaches stand waiting for customers, VINO sei-
dom come. We will have none OF them, Tor In
Monteyideo il is eminently the fashion to ride
in tram cars Street railways grldiron the city
in every direction, and IN their cream thougn
crowded coaches one can study Uruguay me
and character to much better advantage tnan
when shut ND by ones self in private car
riaoe. There are ffty-five miles of tramway
in Nonteyideo. and that everybody patronizes
them ia proyed BY the fact that they carry
something over 1000, 600 passengers a year-a
high average for a city Of only 120, 1000. The
tariff is from to cents, according to the
length of YOUR trip. and the spick-and-span
new cars ali made in New York. are certainly
safer and pleasanter than the jolting, doubtful
springed, bug-infested hacks. There is but
one drawback to the tram cars, viz, that their
Jolly drivers, one and all, carry cows horns
and foot TO one another continually, executing
shrilI. prolonged trills with might and main,
and out of pure facetiousness making q din
that is almost deafening.
1t does not take long in our peregrinations
to discover that Uruguays capital is city of
stucco and tiles and gorgeous coloring, of fine
shops and handsome houses, of magnifcence,
wealth and luxury. of noise and Gathering
hoofs-though nobody bustles and hurries as
in the north-of cheerful faces and good clothes
and a contented people, who have no acquaint-
ance with the wolf called poverty that prowls
about the doors of many Of their cousins on the
other side of the continent. The town is laid
out on the usual chess-board plan. with long,
broad streets that run up one hill and down
another, straight as lines can be drawn, with
clusters of telegraph and telephone wires over
head and double rows of tramway lines below.
Owing to its situation on granite promontory,
almost surrounded by water, Montevideo is adj
mirably drained. well ventilated and constantly
washed clean by the rains that fall about IS
days out of the sos. The buildings are all fat
rooted, of two or at most three stories, the
that enter into their composition
being mostly brick and stucco, tiles, marble,
iron and very little timber.
PLAN OF fHE PRIVATE HOUSES
The general plan of the private houses is the
Andalusian vestibule, with floor of marble and
dadoes of alabaster or blue and white Tslerers