The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-04-01
articulate distinctly and thus get on tolera-
bly, well for an antediluvian beginner.
CARNIVAL GLORIES.
A Glance at Uraguay's Glittering Pa
geant i'm MontevidcO.


Rarbadoes, West Indies, March 15-(Spc-
cial Correspondence.)-I drop you line OF
two from here, a midway point between
MontevideO and Caracas, a voyage of from
twenty-five TO twenty-four days steady
sailing. with longer time IL one fails to
make close connection with the two lines
of steamers.
Twenty-four days is a long time to be
closed up in a ship. Sometimes we go days
without seeing a vessel A ship is a little
kingdom and the captain is its monarch.
Many things interest a curious man like
myself. The sailor is an isolated nomad
and has OF Ger ways. He is social, too. An
Italian sailor on board is a curiosity. He
is the incarnation of economy. He has
pair of trousers with thirteen big patches
of different colors and sizes. with about
one-twentieth of the original garment, and
ii is sort of perpetuated garment with
no end to it's existence. The Italian has a
pair of rawhide shoes that will weigh ten
pounds, with soles an inch thick, that were
bought from economy and will last him for
ever.
The firemen interest me-great brawny
men. half nude. encased i'm coal dust, toling
night and day in the indescribably hot oven,
yet Jolly and seeming 10 revel in their tor
rid labor for small pay. The captain is the
most wonderful man of ALL He goes to see
his wife and children about seven days ev-
cry year and a half. When he married he
was with his bride a week, and then was
gone three and half years. He has spent
about eight months altogether with his
family in eleven years.
The captain, after he has been out on a
voyage ten days under a penalty of 500
has to give his sailors lime juice every day
TO keep of scurvy, and the sailor must take
ii or pay his own expenses if he gets sick.
This is the English law.
The Nontevideo Carnival.
What an understandable thing was that
three-day carnival in Montevideo, before
Lent, beginning Sunday, and what use of a
Sabbath, the holy Lords day!
Montevdeo is royalty equipped for car
nivalS, or any other street frolic. Those
Spanish folks make a science of jollihca-
tious. They DO il TO perfection. Montevdeo
IS the best equipped city for illumination
and general festiyity i'm South America. 1t
is "a beautiful city, cosmopolitan in appear
ance, with wide streets Splenddly paved,
broad sidewalks, handsome buildings, more
modem than in any other South American
city; beautiful residences, magnificent pub
lie buildings, artistic and complete
scheme of house numbering and street NAM
ing, aesthetic looking stores, exquisite
parks, perfectly kept, with shade trees and
flowers in lovely beds, filled with chairs.
But the lighting arrangements are on an
imperial scale. Through the parks and
down the full lengths of many streets are
arches Of gas jets, each covered with
glass globe of a different color. At the
corners and all the turning points are
-lamppOsts with symmetrical groups of the
colored globes.
This city of 225,OOO pleasure-loving ,lks
was turned loose three days TO frolic and
such iroliching 1 never before saw. Every
BODY turned out Masks and harlequin cos
tunes OF every conceivable description were
innumerabe. The grotcsque prevailed, but
there Were enchanting characters and
groups in poetic costumes that could have
Ca Ia
wonders OF hideOuSneSS and enchantment.
To be unknown allows every room for the
display OF FRANKS. The merry, disguised
females out We're myriads, and some of
lheir antics were audacious. The
Srotesquerie The special feature of the
masks was the appalling noses, and the
Enthusiastically hideOus wagons were filled
with still more Enthusiastically horrible noses,
making unearthly dlscords with every kind
OF noisy contrapton.
on the Illuminated streets at night the
street cars were not allowed TO run, but
carriages Were permitted, and the streets
were packed with throngs, surging under
brilliant glitter as bright day.
one procession OF about one hundred
struck me very much. The costume was
the same for all. II was the most aesthetic,
fluffy thing / ever saw, of gauzy stuff in
pillows Of evanescent and coored rolls,
beautifully fashioned, and giving a fOamy
appearance 10 the figures. looking like a
visitation from fairy land. Numbers had
guitars hanging from their shoulders by
along playing delicious music in perfect
accord.
But the most beautiful Of all was a pro-
cesson of "A dozen flute players, decked
with poetic picturesqueness simply I'M
tellable. The players wore those charm
ing black lace masks. famous in the days
of old rcvelry. These sauntered leisurely
along, sileucing the din and quclling the
hurry burly as they passed, with their
magical melody.
They have down here rolls of narrow
paper of different col0rS The air and the
streets gliStcn with the showers of the
paper sparks while thousands are tossing
the colurcd paper in every direction. 1t
mingles and intcrweaVes and hangs every
where-from housetops and balconies across
streets, through trees and around lamp
posts. making a beautiful effect with the
graceful curls and loops and many colors
These things give bright coloring to
everything. permeate the air and make
beautiful feature Of the scene.
The Exposition.
The exposition matter is in this fix: The
six republics that have been allotted TO rue
contain threc-fourths of the people of South