The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-16

about from place to place like q theatrical
troupe. They have regular circuit for the
season, appearing somewhere each sun
day. The fights at our city are held IN
very large Enclosure, which has seats for
at least 1000 people. The managers hire
the grounds of the owner and the tickets
are $50 and 81 apiece. Immense crowds
are the rule. My mother and / went every
Sunday for a number of months last year.
and enjoyed Il immensely quite often
bullhghter gets killed, but we never saw
anything as serious as that. At one fight
we attended three men were seriously
wounded Previous to the fight the bulls
are almost starved two or three days. They
are fed just previous to the fight and then
placed for certain length OF time in a
very dark room and tortured. The effect OF
all this is to make them mad
There are always five bulls, which are
led into the Enclosure one after the other,
each in turn being killed. There are SIX
bull fighters. They wear gorgeous red cos
tunes made Of silk or velvet. Each carries
a large red shawl, or cape which Is thrown
in front Of the bull to exasperate the ami
NAL. When the bull has got tired out ana
used up, the matadOr, or captain, staDS
him If he stabs him In such way as to
Kill him instantly the spectators shout ana
applaud, and the killing IS called a Dig
success II not a quick killing, the peo-
pie hiss and groan. II the bull talls on
it's knees at once and the stabbing is
highly successful, the matador is usually
presented with the bull, and he goes and
sells him for meat for SO or S2O.
THE matador is paid 800 Sunday, the
bull fighters 500 a Sunday. Some Of them
are native Mexican and some have come
over from Spain. The Spaniards save their
money, while the Mexicans are great
gamblers and sports. Gambling Is allowed
to exist by the authorities, the game play
ed being mote 1t is something like the
wheel of fortune There Is no gambling
or betting in connection with bull fight
ing, which is the national sport, ike pase-
ball in this country.
'oThe governors attend the bull fights,
and the first scene in the ring is the en-
trance Of the fighters, who march up to
the governor and salute him by taking
Off their caps In a most polite way. / have
noticed that after the first two bulls were
killed the others led in were more fero-
cious. They could, OF course, smell the
blood of those killed before them
Miss Stevens was asked in regard to 9TH
er sports in Mexico
you would be surprised 10 learn that
women are great lovers Of rooster
fights" said Miss Stevens. These fights
are between very large-szed roosters,
and one of them Is always killed. These
are held in a small ampitheatre, in a tent.
They strap steel gans on the ROSTERS
legs The ROSTERS are spelling for
fight, and the first thing they do in the
Dit Is to draw them up close but not so
close that one can touch the other. They
are drawn back and forth and naturally
get very much irritated. The fight IS a
bloody one These events are always at
tended by a big crowd, and IL Is often
hard to get standing room. The women
get crazy over this sport, and bet large
sums Of money, as well as small amounts,
on one or the other of the birds.
1--WE have no prize fighting. 1t is not
allowed, and the same is true of boxing.
Gambling is very common among all
classes, the aristocratic element of the
city having a place of their own. At this
place one night one man put $1,000 on the
table with the statement that it was all
he had and he was going to stake 1t. He
lost IL in very short order"
Counting In San Luis Potosi Is done on
a plan similar to doorway flirting. Miss
stevens told how courtships are conduct
ed.
when a gentleman sees a lady he
likes" she said, 'he gets a bouquet of
1owers and goes to the park where he
thinks he can find her. She is a stranger
TO him. of course. When he finds her he
holds the bouquet in front Of her and
chances at her If she accepts the bOu-
duet and she generally does, she sig
nifes her willingness to do so by drop
ping her hand at her side. The presenta-
ton of this bouquet is an Introduction,
and she takes his arm. During courtship
the lover is never allowed to come into
the lady's house. He must stand outside
the window and talk with her. The Span
iards try this bouquet Irritation with the
Americans, but il doesn't GO"
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