The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-06

oanks uccllno 70 handle bolivian coin. SO q man
must look we'll to the character ofthe coin In
his pocket whom he goes away from home.
ANOTHER fact at which we marvcllcd every
traordinary endurance Of the human burden
bearoys-.the ~cdrGateros. They are .Quichinos,
footsteps OF n long limo of ancestral cdr0ddcr0s.
Mihilo we americans wero putting along with
diiilcglty wo have seen a dozen caraddc'os come
merchandise on their shoulders. Mules. dom
Keys and Indians do the frcighting from the
miles away. rho strange thing about those
human. burden bearers is that:thcy arc far from
ore usually about feet Z inches tall aud weigh
about ITO ponnds. They have thin legs. round
strong cigarettes anu liberal drinking of mescal.
They have, like all the people in these high alti.
many Indian ear0adcros back up to a platform
and while pulling corn husk cigarettes shoulder
and trot of with. them for half a mile to tho
smelter. Every day In the ynar there are some
%G milees to TsN TnS go up d,t the n s;TSSd 1 b tSn and q di msr,
chandise Of from 200 to $50 pounds on his back.
we heard OF some of these mon who frequently
carry $50 pounds several miles up o mountain
road for about 10 cents. 1t is wonderfully
cheap transportation for the man who shortens
Is most expensive for a mining company. That
is another reason why Americans cant mine In
methods Of transportation. and IFS s ali thew SF eSS
get down there.
Money seems to be no object to the Peru.
yians In. tho interior of the country. While
they will work in beaten paths as they have
been brought up to. do, they will shirk any and
ular hours of work. No appeal, no money will
induce Pcruvians TO work when not In the mood.
fsbbe e { Eno when thu they ny,t wish to TO s smok a,S Or s slesp;
alternately in the shade Of n tree or building
for several days at q time, occasionally eating
of our comrades was i'll with fever, I offered q
great strrappiing young native the equivalent of
miles to a village with a message to an Gmeri.
can. DO you know, he just yawned and said he
T sies1s. s9 THAT t. l f TSS,d w wsit su 1al he ah had pa hSd his
when he was in the mood for labor. On an.
of Henry Meiggs's Andenn railroad. We want
ed to get our tent, provisions and outfit twenty
hundred ranchmen in the locality and many
mules and horses. Some Of the ranchmen were
very G s,% an and ragged; but our Offer Of 20 and
twenty miles had no effect. II we had offered
800 it would have been just the'same. Finally.
daily offered money in vain and made eloquent
entreaties for the transportation Of our goods.
come out to the town. He was a progressive
young Peruvian from Lima and he took pity on
1 Nan Near nee h t6e s stasioPn n and Ti be- s a Tsf fES4 t Gbe rSmss.
man loaded our goods in n rickety wagon and
hauled them ten miles oyer in the country. We
manning ten miles, but the old fellow was deaf
to us. BY luck we CHANGED to find n local car
his back, to the mining town ten miles. further
on for about SO cents. If it had not been for
t We!d p ppobaSlR be e wsftins there in t still s fr franst
portation. while our good money would be ig.
norcd. Once we saw some inviting loaves Of
barley bread In the window of a poor miners
home. One Of us offered the housewife more
money for a loaf of the bread than her husband
cause she had never sold bread and had not the
least bit of commercial instinct she shook her
head AS II dazed at our proposition.
1.-THE average Pcruvians are the most improv-
ident civilized people | have ever heard OF. At
inns in the interior of Peru, where the hustle
tered. we seldom had meals at the same hour
on any two days in a week. There was no
dinner would be anywhere from 6 to $40 p. vi.
No matter how hungry we Americans were the
IF Iti 10 = Common , %a,t thing Imif for a N wb sas fa uSfG oeT PRE-.
vians to go to q bull fight and spend all the saw
ings Of a month and come home to an empty
cattle and f1ocks OF sheep. and yet there is sell
dom milk in his house or butter or meat on the
black coffee. fruits and soup and jerkcd beef
for a week or two at a time. because 1t is not in
their sTh line r, f. bnish ;n P lailS c9~s n or ssq Dn1,n,rv
of the kind elsewhere in the world. We Ameri:
cans. especially We Californians; hear a good
up the Andes. No doubt 1t is q great piece OF
engineering. but it seems to me that the most
wonderful part of the railroad is the fact that
the Peruvians ever let any one outside of their
country make a fortune or achieve any result
in Peru. The management of tine Anlean Rail.
road is unique. There are no time cards that
we could ever discover. We were simply told
that the train would go north or south In tho
morning or afternoon Of a certain day and we
had to wait for it. The natives stretched them;
selves out on the railroad station platform and
slept until the little train came in. with a loco
motive twenty years behind the times and cars
that we used to see in the United States along
in war times. There is always all the delibera-
ton in the world about starting the train from
Inc station. No one cares for time among Peru
Wan railroad men. The engineer Jokes with
the ~loafcrs about the station ana deliberately
oils and looks over the locomotive. Stops Of
twenty minutes at ordinary stations are COM
mon. Nearly all so-called accommodation
trains are run three times a week. The trains
rattle along at twelve miles an hour and will
stop for the night at a station. Then the next
morning the engineer will stoke up his locomo-
tive and the train will joRgle on again. stop
ping for rest when night comes on. I don't be-
licvc there is a train run in the night on Henry
Meiggs's railroad in Peru. A man at Lima told
me mat n few years ago a locomotive ran Off
the track and rolled down a thirty-foot embank-
ncnt and that IL was ten days before the loco
motive was put on tho track. The workmen
worked leisurely along in the daytime and quit
at each nightfall. Meanwhile traffic on that
branch of the road was suspended"
THE MOST FABRICATED WARD.