Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-10-28

about a mile distant Two street CO
lines connect the two towns. | ha
never set foot on foreign soil and was
little anxious TO see how 10 seemed q
breathe the air under the ri coiorel
standard OF Mexico, 30 ] took ca
labelled "Ciudad dc llufsz and rod
over 20 make the aCquy risuce OF oU
neighbors oi ihe rattlr.Haec and eagle
The street car fare IS 1--WE cents In Amer
lean money. then YOU have 10 pay tht
bridge COMPANY five cents more for The
privilege OF fldirg over DE bridge.
AS you enter the town you see q num
Der of houses on the Mexican plan will
heavy iron gIatngs over the window.
and doors. Az FIRST You wonder u tncl
are the city prisons. but us you wander
about the town you see that almost all
of the residences OF the better class are
protected IN that manner. ] could &C..
count for Il only that few years ago
revolutions were Of periodic occurrence
and il was advisable for every man TO
make his house his castle. on your
right as YOU enter the town Won see q
large brick building stanCIng within "a
walled enclosure. This is the Mexican
custom house. II YOU have a valse
along II Is advisable TO caI at thc Office.
II not YOU can pass on TO inc main street
% little way beyond. And now your in.
tcrcst increases. The si,h, about YOU
Is a strange one The people YOU meet
are not your couutrymeu. The language
YOU hear you cannot understand. The
signs over the shop doors you cannot
read. over the meat market you read
"Iuan MARTINEZ, Carmcero." On one
window read 10 Banco nc McIIcano
and something about American money
being compracvcndc. Then there was
the old familiar sign Of the book beet
but the words were beyond my ability 10
translate.
AS wandered abcut the town came
70 very ancignrlookinE church that
stood on n little hill nCai fse west end
Of the town. In from, of 70 was a little
plaza with It's trees, grass. and seats for
the loungeB. IN Mexico the church and
The plaza are one and insoparahlc. The
plaza would not be complete without a
church, and the church would be lone
some without plaza. A. ! strallcd up
the hill noticed that the open space
about the church was covered with slabs
Of marble and granite. ON which were
engraved something in the Spanish
language which ] made out TO be an
cpiiaph, recording the birth, death, and
deeds Of some good monk who had
died way back In the olden time, for the
lettering on many Of the slabs had be.
come entirely obliterated by the tramp.
ing Of the many feet upon them and by
the action OF the elements. Others
were badly worn, but dates going back
more than two hundred years could be
Il 81 D
church there was n placard IN English
requesting that due difference be- shown
the place as a house OF worship, and
that visitors remember the contribution
box This church Is much older than
the one that l visited nj Tucson, but o.
Interior decorations are very inferior.
The images are very crude Affairs. Some
OF them were hard enough looking 10
elicit the sympathy OF the toughest sin
ngr, The church was named after the
patron. saint Guadeloupe, and Is very
perhaps than any building in
the United States, having been built be
lore the church NJ Santa Fc which IS
considered the oldest Ia tire country.
The adobe walls are worn and irayCd
by time and the elements. Here and
there are great cracks m them as though
~ some time In the long ago they had
been treated 20 a dose OF earthquake.
The wood posts that support the roof
and the ceiling ioists were all carved by
hand, and when we consider the time.
and the tools then used, the worl, must
nave been an exceedingly difficult oLr
IN The plaza there Is "a well which / was
told was as old as the church, and to
which TACT ] eau testify, for tasted the
water
After leaving the plaza ! wished to so
10 TIC Mexican Central depot and in.
CURED oil the first man I met the al.
.eeuon. said Where Is 81 depot de
NJlcano Central icrro-carriR That was
plain enough for any man that under
food the language lie didn't under |
iland, for he shook his head aud walked |
)n' After a while ] met a negro and |
.ald Habla V. espinolr' lie said Isl. Do
said; SHOW me nj chimcnca de IN |
ocomouvat' Tie said. "What locomo.
i've do you want 10 seen Then we both !
aughed, and be told me where to find
me depot of the Mexican Central.
The first time visited Iaurcz could |
not help but notice the large number OF
people that We're crossing from one city
10 the other AZ FIRST / thought likely
mat some celebration OF something OF
interest was bringing the people
luI but IN subsequent days ! noticed
Inc crowd was not diminished. After
wards ] referred to the fact Ia the pres.
Cnce Of several gentlemen and was told |
mat the tariff wasresponsihle Tor 10; that
over ON the Mexican side a large number
li articles, such as cigars, silk handker.
chiefs, eic.iea be bought for about hall
what they can on the American side
~ consequence, when the residents of
III faso want anything OF the articles
they stroll over 10 laurel aud
go them, returning with their pockets
filled.
The frst time / crossed the Rio
Gmnle ] was very much disappointed
with hat noble stream. on our maps
u Is laid down as one OF the continental
n'ers, anu ] hall expected 10 see stcam-
boats running on b. Imagine my sur.
Prise when crossing h TO sec only q !
SHALLOW little stream over which ] could !
step almost amy place, and which would |
not hll an average irrigation ditch. A |
week later Che same stream had iu-
creased 100 volume until Il could have |
Heated the largest steamer Ihergason |
was that the rainy season had corn-
meuced and the floods were coming |
down itom the mountains.
IuCL RlCEs.