Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-09-01
GUATEMALA MUSIC
Played by FULL looded Indians
at the Fair.
DELIGHTFUL TIME IN THE PATIO,

Newspaper Men Given IL Reception by the
Guatemala commissioners to the Wuria.s
Columbian Exposition -Cunada's Dis.
play of Fish in tho Fisheries Building
Other Exhibits Made by the Dominion.
WORLDS FAIR, Aug. 26. - Especial -
CARBOHYDRATES so much pleased with her
general experience at the fair that she ar.
ranged Il little festival for her particular
friends, including all the newspaper men
who have dropped III from time to time to
rest i'll her pleasant patio and take cot
fee with her polite officials. With some
200 others l received an elegant card, the
plain English of which ran thus:
The Guatemala commission of tho
Worlds Columbian Exposition has the
honor to invite you to listen to the Ma
rimba and partake of the native coffee
Thursday ut 4 p. NJ"
The building is in the general style of II
well-to-do Guatemala gentleman's resi-
dence-that is. large and airy rooms are
arranged around Il court which is open to
the sky, and or the four sides of that
are broad, interior porches. In Mexico I
heard this interior called the plazito or
little plaza, but this the G~uatemalans call
the patio. All the ground of this central
square is beautifully set in native
plants and flowers, and in the CEN
ter is a natural looking rockery and
on its summit a spring where
the crystal waters gush from the rock and
thence it pours down over the miniature
precipices in truly happy imitation of a
mountain stream. Above red and green
parrots swing on little twigs rs natural as
life, and below the water drips upon and
rustles among long and trailing vines
and plants which the ladies called maiden
hair ferns-the combination making a
scene which these dark children of the
tropics call homelike and we northerners
find delightfully."- cooling and restful.
Around the walls We're curious remind
ers of the forests and mountains of the re-
public. Among them were immense plas-
ter slabs with reproductions of the ancient
carving and lettering in the ruins of Sas-
tanquiqui, department of Peten. There
were also interesting maps, masses of
orchids and assortments of minerals-in
! short, it was a section of Guatemala. The
building being closed to the general pull
! lie, the tables were arranged around the
inner porch and her followed orange
sherbet, Guatemala wine, cake of many
kinds, ice cream and so on to coffee, with
| music, laughter and animated conversa-
ton in three languages. The Marimba
seems to lie a sort of combination of piano
and xylophone, and the notes are struck
with hardwood knobs on elastic stems, as
a dulcimer is played.
But the musicians We're most interest
ing. They were four full blooded Indians
of the most ancient race in Guatemala.
All played at once and the music was in
deed delightful. In addition to their ma
tive melodies they played the leading airs of
the nations represented by the guests, and
our own patriotic tunes We're given with a
soft and delicate sweetness which showed
me I had hitherto failed to realize their
complete charm. The names of the musi-
clans are Antonio Chavez, Pedro Chavez,
! Samuel Chavez and Lucio Castellanos and
they are the star Indian quartette OF
Guatemala. The Indians there are said
to show special aptitude for music, espe-
ctally of the soft and plaintive sort, most
Of their airs being in the minor key.
Having decided to give two DAYS exclu-
sively to our neighbors on the north I
went to the official headquarters of the
Dominion of Canada for a start and was
surprised to find that almost every prov
ince is we'll represented by resident COM
~missioners. besides a goodly array for the
Dominion at large, these making quite an
exhibit in themselves as they seem to have
been selected as representatives of the
ruddy and sturdy men of the north.
Among Canada's men here are Hon.
George r. Cockburn, Senator Joseph
Tasse of Montreal, Executive Commission
er John S. Larke, Nicholas Aury, for On
tario; Hon. John H. Mcintosh, for Quebec;
Senator Perley, for the northwest terri
tories; w. D. Dimmock, secretary of the
commission, and many others, call proper,
p%ersonable and horse-riding men," as Eze-
kiel said of the Chaldeans. Among them
is one Polander, Sir Cashier Gzowski,
who is aide-de-camp to Her Majesty in
Canada.
Dominion day was July 1, anniversary
of the confederation Of the provinces in
1867, and the orator of the occasion was
Hon. George A. Kirkpatrick, lieutenant
governor of Ontario.
Lieutenant governor in Canada, you
know, means governor, as in contempla-
ton of law he is held to be merely the
lieutenant of the governor general,
Canada having adopted substantially that
framework Of government proposed for us
by Alexander Hamilton. There is, there
fore, a disarrangement of titles in crossing
the border which makes the American re-
porter wary Tor should), as instance the
case of Mr.. Mcintosh, who is a cabinet
minister without a portfolio-in Canada
slang "ticket-of-leave minister" Charles
F. Laws is here for British Columbia and
r. 3. Voak for Nova Scotia, but Hon.
James Smart, commissioner for Manitoba,
has got the grand bounce, though no one
can tell me why. New Brunswick and
Prince Edwards island have no commits
s%ioners, though their exhibits areimmense.
especially in the Fisheries building.
There / was cordially received by Mr..
Philip Veale, superintendent for the Do
minion, and for hours we walked among
Canada fish of every kind known to science
and commerce, and birds Of all the kinds
which prey on fish. A curious complica-
ton has risen here. All the other exhib-
itors have given only plaster casts of their
chief fish, but Canada has the real fsh's
skin stuffed and mounted to make it look