The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-03-11
san Salvador.
80 er.
1ur savior and Its Romantic Sur.
F0undingS.


u- lay ; ride over the rough
..i ibertad, the first glimpse
... auual nestled deep in a green
IT'S. al4e walls gilded by the set
secuted like a peep into Para
t.rriu1 down the steep hilsides,
..-. Ioups of bare footed peasants
... 5,apeWard from their fields, and
.s.r cherry "Buenos dias," (good
..l -ne strangers. The odor of
..,.qr. orange flowers and ripening
.... the air, the music of vesper
..- ne on the breeze; and later,
uprl through the darkening
ulry band was calling prone
ay central plaza. Certainly
.uId Conquistadores showed
.,. -tt in locating their cities.
..> 1--WE been vein of romance
heir grim and greedy ma
-r to the picturesque as well
tAleHNt. W wy III NilC
beautifully situated than
Alyarado, the discoverer,
lj first yiceroy of Central
other of Cortez' friend and
unded it in the year 152S,
IN honor of our Savior The
ey is Itself mesa on table
.ct above the nearby Pacific,
rounded by hills, cultivat-
lmmts; while in the farther
ages of barren mountains fill
broken here and there by
n!e cones. Nearest to the city,
..u lowers Neutrality-suspicious.
NELLY called San Salvador-an
duo whose crater, l, 100 feet
Uns a small lake. On the east
uente, the Hottest volcano in
which lifts its bald head s,
the valley; and to the south
are Yzalco, San Miguel, Con
other Volcanoes some 'vivos'
hers slumbering, and a few
forever, Between the capital
icente lies Lake Llopongo,
Apectedly gave birth to a vol
ID years ago. Without warn
waters rose several feet above
... a level, and flowing into little
.r.. .1 mad formed its outlet con-
INTO a broad and raging river,
...u plowed for itself channel 40
ID. , water near the middle of the
very hot, and suddenly stony
.. up, $50 feet high by 800 in di-
ulrounded by smaller islands.
a..- STE of QuetzaItepeque, II miles
u.s. salvador, is the city of Santa
New san Salvador" which
.- soon after the destruction of
pital by the great earthquake of
the design of moving the seat
nent thereto. The transfer,
was never made. Old san Sal
a.H gradually rebuilt, government
. md all, and Santa Teola, with
sg straight streets, numerous parks
Ouses, has a population Of T.,
-reabouts, but will probably al
r. aaiu of secondary importance.
Ni~ rul has 10000 inhabitants, and
lies are connected by mule car.
4 .adolians pride themselves in
-.. ~ the rare possession OF d So
O. cru hotel, which as usual, is
-.. ed as 'the best in Central
BIZ May Heaven preserve us from
90" ~ the worst, This boosted inn
,.... w and rambling, with the in
utIal patio, and kitchen and
aa. ,use iuxtaposition in the rear.
we had to wait d few minutes
ie train of mules, laden with
md vegetables filed i'll at the
.a That is nothing unusual in
america, where the great casas
Ike forts, with only one entrance,
--.H passage, paved like the streets
aiding to the patio, into which
The rooms of the house. 1t is
Uncommon to see man leading
DE rom the street into shop OF
a .iud the counter and through a
4a INTO the court yard: and many
-ls lmbler houses are built without
Lii lge way, in which case, if the
-- wus a donkey, it has to be led
-il Tie parlor to its nightly corral in
Af. ON entering the dining room of
h iern hotel the first thing that
,ie.- LIE eye is a conspicuously posted
hal framed and printed in big Span
NJ 5..e,S, to the effect that, quests are
e lre'ei to sit at table with the greatest
'Ssoe decency''-as if entire decency
9ad aHt be expected! The enormous
2a. ale very scantily furnished, with
leaa. elonomy in the matter of toilet
D'+n noes. There is not such thing
-5 't'- lock in the whole establishment,
' 4"n is costly in Salvador, and steel
Npfiga hat way,) not to be thought of.
Wy. SCOOPS Of our sleeping apartments do
'.o'r' latch, and when privacy is desir-
*e secure it by making a barricade of
and washstand. The vast, bare
0 ing with odds and ends of wall
perfect razy-quilt collection of
~ different patterns in all the