The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-05

the streets facing the Plaza ueS Arhies 10
| like going through an interesting museum
| At night, however, when the fronts OF the
stores have been closed, the streets are
| lined with blank walls. There are no dis
| play windows, and everything seems her
| medically sealed. Only here and there you
see cigar shop, store selling cooked eat
| ables or a drug store which is open. AS 1t
| grows dark the brd-cage-like balconies
above the stores shut upa and the city in
| some of it's parts seems almost city OF the
| dead. It is far from dead, however. There
| is lots of fun going on behind the closed
windows, and the people sit up late and
| delight in social enjoyment.
WILL THE AMERICANS GET IT?
Some of the best things now offered here
| in business way are of the electrical or
| DER. Lima is city of 100000 people. and IL
has a tramway upon which the cars are
| drawn by horses. The line of tracks reaches
all parts of the city. and the cars, although
| they are irreguarly run and poorly man
aged, are almost always full. 1 am told
| that the roads are now paying, although
could see that the conductors are cheating
! the company right along, and that they do
| nothing to increase their custom. II this.
| system could be replaced by an electric line
it would probably pay well, and might be
| as big bonanza as the Mexico City street
railways, which sold for $,0cO,OoO AT pres
| emf there are two or three American parties
| who are figuring on the proposition of buy
| inc tha horse-car lines and extending the
| system from here to Callao and Chorillos,
| the seaside resort of Lima. Callao has
| about twenty-five thousand people, and 1t is
| the port for Lima. There is a fiat road be-
tween the two cities and a line connecting
| them could be cheaply built. The power TOT
such roads during the most of the year
could be got from the River Rimac,
which flows through Lima, and when mas
7 am told a fall of thirty feet between that
CITY and these. Among the parties who are
investigating the matter is the South Amer
! lean Power and Traction Company. ms
company has been formed, L am told, to
build the road, and its agent. Mr.. Robert
S. Forbes, is now in the north making the
ARRANGEMENTS to build. l understand that
the President of Peru has given them GER
| tain time to complete their arrangements.
| The parties interested are said to be Mr..
| John Searles, of New York, the General
Electric Company, of America, and an cleo
| trio company of Berlin. The German COM
pany has sent an engineer out here to IN
vestigate the situation. The price asked for
| the tramway line, which belongs to two
men, is G65,000 sterling 1t could probably
| be bought for considerably less, and is VAL
| liable only on account of it's franchise COW
ering the streets of Lima and lasting for
number Of years. Another person who has
been here looking UP the street-railway
| proposition is Mr.. l. K. Person president
| of the gainesville and Cleveland Street-rail-
way Company He says the receipts of the
| present tramway line could be increased 500
a day by good management, and that large
| no hv
| tiers to prevent the conductors from cheat
| ing. In connection with the first company
an electric-light contract has been offered
| by the government of $4,000, silver, for
certain number of additional electric lights,
! and a good eectric-lght business, it is
| thought, can be added to that of the car
| lines. AT present Lima is lighted by gas
and electricity and it is one of the best
| lighted of the South American cities. The
! gas lamps are upheld by old-fashioned iron
! brackets, which extend out from the walls
! of the houses, and there is a lamp about
| every hundred feet. Gas costs here about
! So, gold thousand feet. The city has also
about twenty-five arc lights and number
| of incandescent lights of the Thompson
| Houston kind.
Other cities in Peru where electricity
| might be introduced are Arequipa, in the in
/ y,
and in the old city of Cuzco, where the
Incas had their capital Arequipa is one of
| the good business cities of Peru 1t con-
tains 5000 people, but is still lighted by gas,
and it's street cars are little affairs half as
long as ours and drawn by horses. Cuzco
has thirty thousand people, and relies upon
| gas lamps. The city of Lima pays $4,000
year for light. / am told that the gov
| eminent here protects foreign investors and
| that even in times of revolution foreign
| property is comparatively safe All foreign
! factories and plantations have signs up over
| the doors of their houses stating that the
| property is English, French or German, as
| the case may be.
THE LIMA PENITENTIARY.
| 1 will close this letter with note on the
Lima penitentiary. 1 visited it yesterday,
| and found it had been moleded after the
| penitentiary in Philadelphia. Over the door
to each workshop were the words, 'Silencio,
| Obediencia, Trabaio," meaning silence,
| obedience and work. There were three
| hundred prisoners, few in for murder but
| most of them for stealing and minor Of
lenses. AS far as l could see the prison is
| clean and well kept, but | judge some of
| the punishments are very severe, for the
director told me how he had recently had
/
| lowing stream of the thickness of your
| finger to fall for some time on a certain
| spot on the mans head. This was, think,
! one of the punishments of the Inquistion.
! 1t is done only with watch in hand as If
| continued long enough it causes insanity or
| death. L watched the prisoners at their
meals. They are better fed than the aver
age of this class outside the prison, but
| the way the meals are served is not pro-
vocatVe to appetite. Everything goes by
| whistles. The guards whistle and the men
| leave their work. They whistle again and
| they wash themselves Another whistle and
they are at the table, and a fourth whistle
brings in the bread and soup. Before eat
! ing mass was said, being introduced by
| whistle. and indeed, it was the magic
| whistle that brought forth everything.
FRANK G.. CARPENTER
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