The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1897-03-04
GUADALAJARA.
A Very Interesting Description
of this Famous Mex
lean City.
1t Reveals Many Features of Interest,
Which will Well Repay
Close Perusal.

My esteemed friend Harvey D. Myers,
of the Bureau of Information of Mexican
Central Railway, City of Mexico, has
furnished me the following fascinating
description of the famous city of Guda.
lajara, which 80 many of our people
have visited. As Myers is a graceful
writer I give his words:
"Far away to the eastern edge of the
Cordillera, near the center of rolling
valley enclosed by brown and barren
hills, is the site Cristobal de Onate, Sc.
lected in 1885 for the the Capital of
Nueva Biscanya, the second province of
New Spain.
"Guadalajara, the second city in Mex.
leo, is ''sui generis"; the architecture,
the climate and the physique of her
people are peculiar to herself. Great
fertility of soil, constant ripening of
crops and succession of Indian Summer
days the year round have, in the course
of centuries, developed and intensified
characteristics unique and delightful.
"Here is the home of the Dolce far
niente' but, at the same time, of a pro-
gressive and wealth gathering people.
They have learned to think without
fidgeting, to make haste slowly. Ell
Tapatia is type by himself picturesque
in dress, courtly in manner, hospitable
and free handed a warm friend and
bitter enemy. La Tapatia, that love,iest
product of brilliant skies and dusky
races. The glorious blood of CASTLE
shows through the olive skin of Toltec
bronze; a peachy cheek, glowing eye,
round features framed by an ebon coil
of wavy hair twisted round the brow; /;
form graceful and erect. Such she is
and such may she ever be. The Moor,
the Goth and the Toltec mingled in one
enhancing, seductive, tantalizing woman,
the loveliest and most dangerous of our
Western World. Even in his industry,
his charities, his punishments, the Tapa.
ito copies no one.
Factories surrounded by little parks,
orphan asylums like ducal residences,
penitentiaries built and furnished like
, colleges, clean streets and clean people.
The Temperate and Torrid Zones are in
his door yard. Cattle raising, cotton
spinning, corn and coffee, bananas and
, beans, grow and flourish in the regions
, tributary to the "Perla del Occidente.' u
!. Beautiful lakes and placid rivers, rolling
: plains and fertile vegas, mineral depos.
its and rugged mountains, all contribute
to the wealth and comfort of the inhabi.
tants of this favored region.
Here the Aztecs made their final
!. stand against the power of Spain, and
Alvarado met his fate in the last desper.
ate battle. At La Monjonera Ell Indio
Lozada, the modern champion of an an.
cient race, saw his dreams of empire
vanish in defeat"
Now, after this glowing description
, don't all start for Guadalajara. l may
add that saw at Jalapa and Guanajato
several of the same conditions existing
= Having asked Mr.. Myers about Tampico
!. (my own observation of the Tropics hav
ing been in the Vera Cruz, Orizaha and
. Cordoba regions with the vicinity oi
Jalapa and Coatepec) he kindly gave me
the following:
!, TAMPICo.
!. "The Pilgrims made great mistake
when they landed at Plymouth Rock
They had all America to choose from
and their selection of the historic boul
der shows that religious fervor and horse
9 sense sometimes part company.
Suppose the storm that caught ths
May Flower in mid.Atlantic had driver
her ashore where May flowers always
bloom at the mouth of the Panuct
- whereTampico now stands; what changes
, in history, politics and social life there
q might have been.
! "Vespucius showed better taste in hi
selection of place to first see the Amer
ican Continent. A broad and waveles
;. river, green and fertile plains, a baci
ground of rolling hills and saw. likt
peaks was the scene presented to hi
view.
, "The Panuco, Mexico's greatest river
q on whose banks is situated Tampico
> her best sea port, would have made oul
: Pilgrim fathers forget their persecutionl
in the opportunities for gathering wealth
for, though stern upholders of the mora
4 law, they had quick eye for the 'mair
chance
> Rivers and sea full of fish, forests
|, teeming with game, evergreen foot hilll
: where the Temperate and Torrid Zones
meet and miDgle in picturesque confus
n ion. To the westward, mountains with
, their veins of silver, copper, gold ant