Evening star., 1898-05-21

,$0I. was III us
n clothes, when Phila-
delphla was a baby
and all to the west and south of it an un-
broken wilderness. l can show YOU houses;
here which are two hundred years older
than Chicago or Cincinnati, and 1 can even
introduce You to one of the oldest citizens
the founder of the town. who. dried and
picked by this pure Peruvian air has for
over three centuries stayed here with his
property. i refer to the Spanish free
booter. Indian robber and butcher Pizar-
10, who laid out Lima in 1888. He was as
saSslnated on the spot where the president
of Peru row lives, and his skeleton and
his brains corked up in a bottle are kent
In a glass case in the cathedral across the
way. The skin is dried and it sticks to the
bones. but with the exception of a patch
which has been cut of here and there for
relic hunters the hide is intact. though de-
cidedly leathery and worse for wear.
A City of Mud.
Everything but money lasts long in Lima.
Where else In the world will you find city
built of mud three hundred years old?
Lima has more than one hundred thou
sand people. and it is built of mud 1t is
about six miles around it and two miles
from one side of il to the other. 1t has a
Het"oIh OF narrow streets, winch cross one
o,++ - - LIS WIN spaces cippeh
The houses are alI of one or tv,o storias
flush with the sidewalks, and in the busi-
- SIctiots cage-hke balconies hang out
from me second stories. 50 that you are
Shielded from the sun as you pass through
TIE city. Lima looks wonderfully substan-
tidI ana You would imagine it to be made
VI IslN,e MASSIVE stone winch here and there is
%oIl"TrLuiy carved Some of the walls
marble nr
anu me houses OF all the colors of the rain
DO" me the streets like substantial walls.
Af'ul the chlef square there are incIoseJ
..I0iI,tS rom the second story walled
WIN glass. and under these what look
hNt MASSIVE stone pillars forming an ar
cane or cIoster around two sides of the
Sqtare IN front of the stores. These pill
lar" are OF mud, the polished walls of the
hDGSts are made of sun-dried brick coated
"lth plaster of paris. and the second stories
aFt combination of mud and bamboo
caile- mink OF a great city built of mud
AM fishing rOdsi That is Lima There
are some of the finest churches bera or,
the continent made of mud The ereat
cathedral Of Lima, which cost nniIIions is
mud structure and could yo,, taLe a
sharpeued rail and shove n aqsins. 80 %
its massive towers IL wonId 90 thrn,,,.t y,
the wall like a bird cage Ns"
' 'he housetops.
But let us get up on the roof of our hote,
and take a birds eve vie,v Of +ho -.
flrs. W., Ia,-i, ~' ~
- W eApioie IT, we are now In
and ,ba-a -,.o ~, - '''0 "iieh mere
great churches fo- -, VI 'ne
At the back of nc .. - io'eu-
are the b1aaL roothiu. -. - - ,t''' heiu'
and forblddinc their tons IN a. gray
and with white clouds rushing bars anS
'here on their sides On the. edges of the
s is We see tne green crops of the valley of
tbraa h-tG,,.s ,,,hi>,1 s'Na 1--we over there are the
flows through Lima 7 - t.iS I 80 cam M as II
roofs all about ,oI, IT, ~ opoii uiie
garden haIs M IL ,it+':. are more IKE
You NOV abG,rt rrba 80 oi "alh . heaFlly as
Us and with little effort wa cl',iiH ui1der
feet through r-be e,,,,,l,rt S |SuIu ~. push our
roofs are merely cane poIes on wbilb III dirt ,he e
spread ON the poles soma ,,a,,i,r, =. e., - -. 20
and tben 1ater 80 aar, , 10 iiiSt pug
I, is s1r,noseJ 10 49, - ~ ~Ssaiiu or dshes.
wears end to vaar,s I'D 7 ~ au rom
shower WaterDronfs arr. ,,nLc r,s'n i'o' d
the umbrella rnender's crx, is rat-er hs'n, an,
II is on this account that tbesa. r,,,d ~ u
stand throughout the trenerations 80 - it' i
indeed through Iack ~ rair tba, 80 49, ~ 10
iets 4 bie, sbou,ey ,,C,,id S @ .t,ihI Inn eA @
IN a mud hen 1rbiIa = 80, ,. tne to"H M
would vfDe IL oIIt Of existenca E,.a, ha
however nat,ra sCrnetinnas - -
course Last wear the neonIa ,vera ho,rstia5
by hearing the raipdrons n,ttaripo| ~ ~ -
roofs The water which faII u,o,7,d ba,.e
hardly been called n sprinkle In son,a ,,ar,s
of tbs. world but IL did more dau,ag. bara
than an earthquake