The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-07

sea things, and are the most stubborn
creatures in the world They will throw
Iner stun into the sea before they viii
ia!l In their price.
All these cities have numbers OF coloref
"l-tlllcA Who carry people from shin 10
SAore and back. the shfps an anchorfne
OUT IN the bays. And they are like the
average hackman. inconscionable extor-
TONERS A traveller who does not know
lhe language has tough time with them.
ana found the same with the multitudi-
nous mack drivers i'm an these cities pro-
/ portionately more numerous than in The
cities of the United States. as there are
fewer livery stables here. and the hacks
take the place of livery stables You
NM hacks on every corner, and their
use Is universal, in spite Of the fact that
'tne s<reet car lines are innumerable
, and thread every part OF the city. and go
crowded.
Everybody rides in these countries. The
luxurious temperament of the South
American is shown in this. and the street
car fares are phenomenally cheap-9is
cents IN Rio Gin our money, / mean, 3i2
cents in MOntevideo, cents in Buenos
Ayres, and cents and 1le cents in Chile.
where the cars have seats on the top
Tor the poor who pay the smaller fare.
And IN Chile the conductors are women.
all ugly, and as old as possible. and so
picked that they VIII not tempt the gal
lantry of young men.
Pernambuco has a strikingly poetic feat
ure in its bay. In front OF the city stone
wall. rising a foot above the water. runs
along in front of the city between it
ana the ocean and the sea. rolling and
beating against this wall, creates a cease,
less line OF spray, silvery. SPARKLING
entrapping myriads of cvanescent rain
BOWS, tossing great showers of foam
into the air that throw out millions of
diamonds and pearls through the sun
shine.
one of the beautiful features of these
cities IN which, however, MonteVideo
beats ALL Is the arrangement OF the streets
and parks for festive occasions Down i'm
pOrtant streets for a half a mile and
through the squares, and on mein cross
streets are ron arches of gas jets, SPAN
ming the streets from house 20 house.
across the thoroughfare, the arches % feet
apart and the jets six inches apart, and in
public festivities these arches are lit at
oight and are a blaze of brilliance and
the houses are covered with streanlers
and banners. the sidewalks arc lined with
tropical flowers and plants, the street ears
are taken off and the glit;erlng rOadWGN-s
and plazas are filled with the merr.est
throngs of gay, chattcring, happy people
dressed in their best, walking, in carriages
and on horseback. forming a scene that one
can not forget Monteved.o has her jets
covered with glass globes of various col
ors, and at the corners has lamp posts
with pyramids and groups of the globes
that h!ghten the effect
| had the good fortune to see Rio de
Janeiro during the weeks jollifca t.on of
The Uruguayan war celebration and
Montevideo In the three days Of its car
niyal before Lent, two typical and wholly
different festivities, the one military and
the ether grotesque and fantastic. The
myTiads of indeScr. able maskers in Monte
.deo, the absurd ccstvnmes. the hideous
noses, the ingenious Giabler.c and also the
exquisite beauty Of some of the designs
and characters made a spectacle to be re
membered. The most attractive was a
procession Of about 100 in a costume in
describable, made of fluffy stuff of many
colors the gauzy material, airy and scin-
t.llant, fashioned IN exqu;s,tely graceful
style, the whole a procession of veritable
spirits of fantasy, masked with those
poetic black lace masks that bring to mind
the romance of Venice, and each had hung
around the neck by q say ribbon a guitar
and the dreamy file of phantoms giidad
along playing sweet music in accord, still
ing the noise and hushing and qu,et,ng the
mad hurly-burly for the minute Another
line Of maskers, in equally picturesque.
but wholly different garb of capr.cious
estheticism had flutes, and the clear notes
rose in delicious melody in the tropical
night.
OF Buencs Ayres there Is much 10 tell
1t is Ike an oriental city IN it's brilliant
magnihcence. 1t IS the progressive city
of South America. 1t is the Parts of this
continent. It has single features of royal
splendOr in which il looks as If men spent
money in pure wantonness of extrava-
gance. The water works of this city of
100000 people cost $4,000 600. and the water
tank that holds 100000 of gallons Of
water, is encased in a palace that cost
80 EG0 00n in GOLD ;1 ,rse.
and French taste has exhausted ingenuity
in deVis'ng this gorgeous palace to cover
water tank. The outside is a dream of
csthetic architecture, and the interior a
mass of ugly black iron framework to
support a massive tank to hold wa.er
The fitness of putting such beauty of art
and taste into a simple covering for a big
water vessel IS one of those whims of use
less luxury and msappl!ed wealth that
puts one to maryellng over the caprices
Of our humanity.
Buenos Ayres is a wonderful town, Won
derfully projected, and it has a great fut-
urc, a colossal future. in fact. Argentina,
of which it is the capital, has over $50
GOO of square miles of area, as rich
as there is in the world, and every bit Of
it is tributary to Buenos Ayres. Every
capital of every state is connected with
it by a good railway. Argentina has 12O,-
100000 of sheep with their vast Ginning
for it, with an imperial market house.
water and fire-proof. called a "Barrac-
cas-" that cost 100000 The trade of Ar
gentina. Uruguay and Paraguay, and
much of Brazil flows into it. 1t has a set
Of docks that cost $15,O00.000 in gold, and
that rank next to the Liverpool docks
Buenos Ayres has 7OC0 factories, and
makes the only pure wool cloth or hat
have seen in a decade. Its press is power
full. La Prensa," edited by DR..
Adolfo Davila. is the peer of any paper
in its news power and editorial ability
anywhere.
The thing that has impressed me above
all things in this remarkable city, that /
grew from 100000 population in 1880 20 |
eco 900 in 1894, an increase of 1000 inhabit-
ants in fourteen years, was the interior
general loneliness of its homes. The mild
uniform climate and the sweet atmos, /
qhere and delicious temperature that
gave it its name of Good Airs" in the |
musical Castilian, "Buenos Ayres," have /
under the innate sense of the beautiful /
in it's cultured people, developed a sys-
tenn of inner home architecture that can /
not be surpassed IN the world.
The interior of the houses are suites \
of marble or tiled courts, surrounded
by the living apartments, these courtat