The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-28

and finest toilets (mostly imported), show
lug all the latest qulrks and freaks of tickle
fashion. It is the 'beauty snow of the
section, patroniZed by all the ladies, old
and young, and therefore, as a matter of
course, diligently ATTENDED by all the men.
The senoritas, guarded by their mothers
and duennas, slowly promenade up and
| down the paths, or rather they toddle, with
more or less grace, on their extremely high
| heeled shoes, the marketable female with
| downcast eyes and coquettish mein, their
chaperons marching with bold front, like
soldiers, glazing severely at the double row
OF ogllng men whose atten ton they have
come out on purpose to attract; while the
latter, unabashed, stare into the faces OF
the girls with audible comments on their
beauty and style, after the accepted fashion
OF Spanish-America.
Here and there in the crowd one sees an
Ind1an face, but the native Guarani type
is more rare than the negro; and dashing
mulattoes and negresses are common-the
latter generally extravagantly dressed in
the extreme style, almost invariably wear
ing white or pale blue those most insult
able colors which the race everywhere
seem to affect Sit awhile on one Of the
| benches and
LISTEN TO THE BUZZ
of conversation as the brilliant throng files
| ny. anu you Will near as uuCu EenCu,
Italian, English and German spoken as
Spanish, for Montevidee is cosmopolitan
town, and fully one third of it's population
are foreigners; and you will readily COM
prehend that the social life of the aristoc-
racy is very gay, that high deree of edu-
cation is the rule, that money is plenty
easily gained AID freely expended; in
short, that society here is fully up to that
of any European city Of It's size.
Just outside the plaza groups of hackney
coaches stand, waiting for customers who
seldom come; we will have none Of them,
for in MoDtevideo it is eminently the fash
Ion to ride in train cars. street railways
gridiron the the city in every direction, and
in their clean though crowded coaches one
can study Uruguay life and character to
much better advantage than when shut up
by ones-self in private carriage. There
are fifty five miles of tramWay in Monte
video, and that every body patronizes them
is proved by the fact that they carry some
thing over nine million passengers year
high average for city of only l20, goo.
The tariff is from two to seven cents, ac-
cOrdiDg to the length of your trip; and the
spick and span new cars (all made in New
York;, are certainly safer and pleasanter
than the iolting, doubtful-springed, bug
infested hacks. There is but one draw
back to the frames viz, that their
/ Jolly drivers, one and all, carry cows
'
, executing shrill, prolonged trills with
might and main, and out of pure factetious-
ness making din that is almost deafen-
ing.
1t does not take long in our peregrina-
lions to discover that Uuruguay's capital
is city of stucco and tiles and gorgeous
coloring, Of fine shops and handsome
houses. of magnificent
; WEALTH AND LUXURY,
of noise and Gathering hoofs-though no.
, body bustles and hurries as in the north
| of cheerful faces and good clothes and q
t contented people, who have no acquaint-
ance with the wolf called poverty that
= prowls about the doors of many of their
2 cousins ou 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 tele
graph and telephone wires over head and
t double rows of tramway lines below
o Owing to its situation on a granite promin
: tory, almost surrounded by water, Monte
: video is admirably drained, well ventilated
g and constantly washed clean by the rains
Q that fall about seyenty-hve days out OF The
: 365. The buildings are all tiat-reofed, o
: two or at most three stories, the material!
that enter into their composition bains
: mostly brick and 5tucco, tiles, marble, iroI
o and very little timber.
! The general plan of the private houses il
? the Andalusian vestibule, with floor o
q marble and dadoes Of alabaster or blue ant
If white Talarera tiles; double front door O
;, massive iron or carved wood, always wild
|, open by day, disclosing tall inner gate o
e open-wrought iron or steel, through which
If one can plainly see the fiowery patio, en-
If bellished with palms and statuary an
:" fragrant shrubs growing in boxes, an
If often second and even third patio be
4 yond, making a charming vista. The frai
ID looking gate with its lace-like patterr
r though it affords no obstruction to ID
re view, is firmly fastened inside, and to gal
admission one
MUST RING A BELL,
&c similar to those on our doors at homt
- which summons the servant to unlock
lv The facades of the better houses al
"a adorned with much marble and stucco an
10 before every window are iron bars-gildet
n perhaps, and highly ornamented, b.
- nevertheless as secure as those OF the con
o. mon Jail. In Mon tevideo il seems that I'll
- wealthier man is, the more does his ca
.. run to fanciful establishment in the wa
al OF thing and stucco, the more elaborated
- lace-like is his homework, the thicker Il
ad gliding upon his gate and window bar
~ the softer the tintS of rose and purple al
81 blue and yellow upon his outer wall
An Many Of the tenement houses have the
no yestlbules and patios paved WITH II
~ knuckle- bones of sheep, arranged lii
-, mosaic work in fantastic designs; and it
~ stale old joke to tell astonished stranger
"a that those are human bones, of people wi
ID, y, were killed in the hundred years war. I
~ any rate the effect is gruesome in the g,
nh IRENE. and in walking upon them one fee
ne as if entering charnel-house. The city
tb lighted by gas brackets attached to IL
% ~ walls OF the houses, and ali
y, by electricity in many of Il
= shops and streets, furnished by tv
aS enormous establishments. In several
81 ~ the streets-uotably in that long and sple
so did boulevard called Gale is de JUL
81 (s'eighteenth of July street'') -one i
no stantly notices rows of gas jets, in sem
a g circular pipes, arching the way from hou
to house at frequent intervals, most of u
lets provided with vari.colored gla
"a globes. These pipes were put up to ASST
ne in Illuminating the city on occasions
he great fiestas, more especially ON the AM
ia yersary of the greatest national hol;da
ON duly Is, 1890, corresponding to Of
n Fourth of July-as upon that date the r
re- public of Uruguay sprang into being. {
ordinary festivals the illumination is pa
se for by equal assessments on the hous
SO thus Joined; but on special political Gel
sls brations, the government pays the bill