The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-03-21
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MOORISH GLORIES.
iFriesland Passenger Sends
Another Delightful Let
ter About the Trip.
VISITS THE FAMOUS ALEXANDRA
Queer Railroad Travel in Spain
= Cruelty to Children
in Grenada.
VISITS THE FAMOUS ALEXANDRA

Mr.. Lewis Parker, whose letters from
the Friesland have attracted such at
t~ention, contributes another to 1.-The Jer
sey City News which is as follows
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 20, 1895.
We were up this morning on deck wher
the bells said $780,. Think of it! 1t il
our intention to visit Grenada and TIL,
Alhambra today. and 1t is necessary t.
make an early start. We are distant one
hundred and twenty miles from Grenads
and the cars don't run a mile a minute
In fact, it takes nearly eight hours t.
make the trip. We piled into the lighters
where we were packed as thick as sar
dimes, so thick that we each one helped
TO keep the other up when we got into
the swell of the sea. AS soon as these
lighters were filled a rope was thrown
from the tugboat. made fast and we were
pulled ashore 1t was a merry party
1t took some six or seven loads to empty
our ship. Now we are pulled up the steps
at the quay of Malaga, and take up the
line to the cars. These trains are made
up of compartments, of three classes.
Each will accommodate twelve passen-
GERS. six of whom ride forward and six
SdN oClOSo IlSlCdO
# lengthwlse. They are wide and very
comfortable. A door is at each end,
which is securely fastened when the train
5 ready to move. There is a ndo in
he door, which can be let down, and
hen you can reach the bolt and shoot it,
out there is no attachment to the lock or
)olt on the inside. An oval window, OF
.shich the glass in the door makes a part,
5 in each end. In The middle Of the tor
) a small, sickly oil laL9p, and when you
slnt to reduce the too brilliant ilumina-
.on, you have a green SIX screen to draw
'Ver it,, and thus shut it off. Along the
iGes, just above your head, are ham
aoeks OF netting into which you can tum-
lie your traps. You a no conveniences
8 you enjoy in our>commonest cars at
iorne. There is no drinking water for
ne thirsty traveller and no toilet rooms
ngine contains the latter. The con-
,okes his head and hand through the
Window of the door. OF course, a mar
CIV platform about ten inches wide runs
dong the car on the outside. The three
slasses are distinguished by the uphol-
nd not quite so good and the third none
It all
CRUELTY TO CHILDREN.
And now ! shall probably have said
on. Let me next tell 0 something
cbout the country and the people. We
assed through a wild. mountainous sec
ION that reminded me somewhat of Col
,rado. At every station the natives
urned out in force and kept up an in
essant jargon. soliciting aims, l was
old. At last we ran into the old city Of
3renada. It has a population of oyer
! hundred thousand, and l should judge
nat about half of taem are beggars.
'ou never saw anything Ike it. Old and
warns. All kinds of Geformitses are eN-
.ib.ted TO awaken your sympathy and to
zen vol 'pGcaetbook. ! am getting
3ositively hard hearted / am sure my
equation for ~benevoience Will suffer on
ny return. n woman was carrying
n her arms a dead baby and scores of
ghere. Children with the sight of one
sye destroyed were common. Some of
hese are probably really unfortunate by
birth or accident. but some are the VIC
'ancy. Many OF these miserable people
deliberately make their babes partially
md sometimes wholly bird by dropping
ato their eyes q preparation that RUNS
ion With a good subject for charity.
once in a while you see ladies and
f humanity they are too. The ladies'
re beautiful and the gentlemen give
whence of refinement and education;
The city is dirty and filthy, and the
i We v ksfs eha The &C Cathedral. beneath
hich the remains of Ferc1nand and lsa-
lila are said to repose; 1t IS a soila,
.ately structure. OF rather a pleaslnS
lyle of architecture.
We now take a carriage and drive two
ailes 10 the Alham ndTd As 4 we We aseend ea
he tops of the ~sierras IN the distance.
V4 entered the old gate and drove among
Re tall trees that line the passage 4g go,, wa IS
pom which the ancient buildings are 10
ated. -
Tba;r. o,,for u-a1lc Shnu tho raU1ppS of
me. The color IS a dirty yellow and
ink, and where the stuceo plaster has
aaken or you see the Marcy eT a prieHS
III, walls are tumbling down, the ROOFS
{ many. of the structures are off de-
" fairly stsrees yo 9Sba n the fa rsmem nnsT
on are now looking on work, OF men
no houfisEed more 4 a thousana
ides and ceilings of the rooms. The
arVings are beautiful. i~nterspersed ire
s q ,,,, with da9,, = eirea The1 rev yo9 81 a ree in mgol
uced to the hall of the ambassadors,
here you are told Queen Isabella re-
e'ved Golnmbns Just e ge yd ne W Wander
long the court OF lions and take. delight
n inspecting the magnificent alabaster
Z, oiu faa b 5aa5 ds eSapef, RI RECEPTION 700 ICONS !.
nilet rooms, towers all with their elabor-
tie decorations and you wonder at the
aste and luxury lines oia Mo ~ WI"
sl1osep MaoDEKN vANpAIIsM 6
II was disappointed, however, IN cer-
ain p~articulars. There is 50 naeh re-
@ayages of time, you hardly know which
vas the WORK. the Moorsf and which is;
he artistic imitation Ct today. THIS =,
coloring thing. You may make ", your,
about. evenly divide the old and
the new. -