The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-07-01
AVERY IN CARACAS.
VENEZUELA PREPARING HER En-
HIBIT FOR THE EXPOSITION.
Manners and Customs OF the People-Colo-
mel Livingston to Have IA Fine Reeep-
tion-A Fine Hotel for Caracas.


pretty This is the new hotel here not fully
completed. but filled to it's capacity. 1t re-
minds me of our Aragon, in Atlanta, ana
the pleasant proprietor, Senior Franco, told
me he would make it the Aragon of Car
acas. The Spanish minister is in It, ana
Senior Rolando, the president of the state
OF Bermudez, Is also here.
This hotel would be a novelty among us.
1t completely surrounds a long and wide
square court, running up three stories, with
glass roofs over walks across on the
first floor. Interior balconies clear around
each story overlook the ground. whose floor
is beautifully tiled and hled with tropical
flowers and plants, elevated on legs a foot
high, fountain in the middle and every
thing picturesque and attractive.
The walls are fresCoed with typical groups
of tropical flowers, tropically brilliant The
entire walls of the eating room have beau
tifully painted Venezuelan scenes that give
an appetizing flavor to the food.
The hotel fronts on the finest park in
Caracas, the Plaza Bolivar, pronounced Bo-
leevar, accent ON the lee. 1t is an exquisite
public piazza pattern of beauty finish
and good keeping. The entire ground except
where the trees and flowers are growing,
Is beautifully tiled. The vegetation is all
tropical and as the rainy season has be-
gun and we have Il daily shower OF an
hour or two, the trees and grass and flow
ers are fresh ana brilliant and the effect
Is aesthetic enough. There are four fouu-
tains In the plaza ana in the center the
finest statue l have seen in South America
IAN equestrian statue of General simon
Bolivar, the great South American Wash
ington or lberator. who led and achieved
the independence of these countries from
Spanish dominion i'm the twenties
The statue is a very fine one and repre-
sents the liberator in his uniform upon his
plunging horse In this square in the after
Moons and evenings in the cool shade the
people sit and chat, and Il large pile OF
chairs is kept for their convenience that
are stacked mp and covered from the wealth
er when not in use.
on Sunday and Thursday evenings from
TO 10 o'clock the government band DIS
courses exquisite music and the plaza and
streets are thronged with people.
But this beautiful hotel and plaza have
some drawbacks. The newsboys are the
most vocifcroUs and irrepressible that l
have ever heard or seen. They are mostly
little colored fellows with "A vigor of lung
and a screechy, piercing resonance oil
sharp voice that never tires or holds up,
ana this plaza is their grand gathering
place. From morning until late at night
they ply their noisy vending of papers IN
their shrll Spanish jarson, uhIntelhGIble
to the American ear.
Another curious custom that one from
our country finds il difficult to get used 70
is the use made of the church bells on sun
days and the many feast days. Instead OF
our soft, regular gentle Ginning, IT seems
an old practice, and universal here, to keep
up at regular short intervals a rapid tom
tom" beating of the bells that sounds queer
~ to the hearing unaccustomed to it.
The Marrying Custom.
An interesting and novel place TO the
American is the marrying place On the
corner Of the Plaza Bolivar lisa handsome
large han, finely furnished and with oil
paintings of distinguished men. Brilliantly
lighted ana with flowers and plants lastly
arranged, it is very charming room. W ell,
hero all the marrying lis done on certain
REGULAR evenings By the civil authorities,
pi4a the rirn and the poor. Lile eleSdut ana
che noble ME 60 take their lutH l+ lecelN-
ing the civil ordinance that uEiteS them
in wedlocl 1t is as democratic "A practice as
can be conceived The evenings for this
prcmiscuous martial tying AZ are Saturday
and Wednesday. Last time an elegant
coucourse of fashionably dressed people
came. There were dozen fine carriages
filled with the best people. The scene was
poetic enough. Next a couple Of the labor
ing folks in their simple attire and uucouth
Nyavs arrived This is the law The civil
marriage is required, but sometimes parties
add to the civil ceremony the church we'd
ding.
The United states Legation.
The American legation is very hastily
fixed The present quarters have been used
for some years. The large, deep court
has plats of Egyptian papyrus that present
a unique appearance. They grow up with
novel sort Of foliage and are capped with
green sprays with seed on them. In the
back part are many beautiful flowers, bul
the young charge de afIaires, Mr. Bartleman
is a connoisseur in birds and had made q
large aviary in which he has fully a hun
bred of the tropical birds and their varied
plumage and sweet notes constitute a very
poetic attraction for diplomatic environ
ment.
President CrespO and our Exposition.
President CrcspO gave mo an interview
in which Mi. Bartleman accompanied me
ana Senior Lucio Pulido, the delightful MN
lister of foreign relations, introduced me-
President Crespo told me that Venezuela
would make just as good an exhibit as
could be arranged in the time, ANA in a sub
sequeut interview with Senior Pulido, that
gentleman told me that they had written
to the presidents of the states about their
cooperation and had me present plan OF
cooperation. A letter 10 myself from Gen
pral Audrade the president of Miranda,
saws his state will do it's part and that the
president of the state of Carobobo VIII 10
The same, while Minister Audrade, the ihih-
lister i'm Washington. writes me that the
president OF the state OF Hula mas written
him of his cooperation. The club AGIicoIa
OF Caracas and the chamber OF commerce
here have promised their active support.
The German railroad Company, when
owns the largest road in Venezuela, from
Caracas 10 Valencia, has assufeu ms ~
it's active participation, ana the president
of the state of Bermudez, General Nicolas
Rolando, is in the city, and IN am iuJeiNleW
with him he stated that MS state would
do its part This is the present condition
Of the exposition matter.
The governors Of the states, nine In num-
her nfe cuIed presidents, ANA under their
system they are more subject 10 federal
authority than in our republic.
Colonel Livingston Here.
one Of the two leading papers, III TEMPO,
copies from The Constitution the interview
with Colonel Livingston on the Monroe doe
trEe with hearty commentator. / find the
colonel well known here. and his action
on the boundary question has made him
very popular. El TEMPO reports that he
will be here next Tuesday. and has the fol-
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