The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-10-02

very r.eA. eus there are today wcrnsc 81
Shils who are richer than she ever waA
Sc has. however. hsea q heavy sosncev.
Il Paris few months ago i row being
seized 81 Gps VII NOT aggregate, am tod.
sIsseaa SEE MAS nevertheless = r.
modern. Nocul was one Of her best farms
Il coSsasrez. aso.1s Eas acres. and c7ss
was1 Senior Cosasaszo hoagAt I. $Sss.cs.
venture 10 say more than that asysoart
Ted & over million. Upon Il are go OF
ihe mast hseo5esf horses the cho'gsss Of
ssassp an1 200 u ;ee best OF cattle bred
iron imported Durham stock. Il has a
Vineyard wascs contains hundreds 81
S.2S,1san1s q vines and which produce
sslaesas Of bottles OF wine = year Amer
lean pscws and ether machinery Are used
uns1 &, and i takes regiment az poems
70 90 t9s wGTk. The estate IS kent Ike a
prize farm. ana 'ines of TAI poplsrs mark
Ire water rents for Mccul cost aoou,
$3.50 year The ground is very rch
sna 81 Inlngs GROW lnxaEiantly. Along
tniTty feet high. They were wfia black
berries and had grown np between the
gepl.rs The Park ef Moeal Is enc OF the
doubt whether in some respects there
y a ns.er IN ne world II has long ave.
Of which meet over head and Torn, arb,vs
reaching almost as far as YOU can Sec.
AT places other avenues meet these and
THESE p
6crs In four different slrecs!cas There
are groves OF acres Of great trees planted
50 regularly that every way YOU look
your eye rms along the straight lines OK
one 81 tie rows. There are tAgooas which
wind in and out among messy rocks and
beds Of flowers. Swans ard other water
FOWL swim upon the iaxoons and over
their dark waters orange trees palms and
weeping willows hang. Here you pass
over what seems a natural bridge In Ia.
center of which there is a rustic table
under canopy Of bark. and there a water
fsu splashes over the rocks and as you
lock upward yoa see bronze statues OF
Neptune and his wife where the sslvery
drops are spraying before they iow on
cave and there lemon grove laden with
yellow fruit. There are hedges OF roses
ard other flowers, great green houses fili-
rfesy OF beautiful things that might All
a column in mentioning them. IL takes
thirty Men TO care for the gardens Of
Mocui alone and $50 Men are employed in
its vineyards
One OF these big farms always has It's
manager or major domo. II has its sub
overreers and Its army Of IaSor.ng men
or retos. TIE farm hands OF Chile are
called rosos. They are the cross formed
by the union OF the Indians and Spaniartix
They are the lsboring class Of the coun-
!y and CORRESPOND to the essns Of rer
from the Peruvian laborers. although
fully a. drunken and shlf,less as 10
money-making and money-sAving. They
are brave I'd excess and viii not tolerate
abuse nor insult You can kick Peru
Wan peon and he will emile: the Bolivian
servant Is afraid that his master 10 angry
with him II he does no thrash HIM once
or twice q month. but the Chilean would
be likely 70 resent such treatment with
a stab or a blow. These men all carry
knives. and they do not hesitate to use
them They care little fer life. and. / am
told. many OF them would kill man for
a dollar On the other hand. thsy are
fond OF the men they work for, and II 10
hard 10 get them away from the estates
where ihty were born. Most Of them are
in debt 10 their masters. They live on the
estate, getting hut and a couple OF acres
Of ground for themselves and being paid
from % TO CO. cents a day for their work.
This is in Chilean silver, so that their
wages are really from IL 70 ~ cents day.
They receive food IN addition to their
wages. but this is onit for themselves.
Their first meal is usually 4 double hand
ful of toasted wheat -four. which they NJ
with water TO fern mush or bake IN
cake. Az noon they have a bowl of hot
beans, and for supper. or dinner, a. they
call II here, they get second bowl OF
beans. with. perhaps, some moro toasted
meal added. The last two meals they eat
in the fields, with what extras their wives
bring from home. They sit down on the
ground TO eat. ard their only eating uten-
sill is an iron spoon or. what Is more COM
they viii work from sunrise 10 sunset and