The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-02


furnishing was with regard TO comfort more
than to the extravaganza Of show, which
you see ia all OF the Chilean city homes,
and we at once were made to feel that we
were IN Liberty HAIL. and were free to
20 and come and do as we pleased. There
were about thirty children ard grandchi-
dren Of Madame De Toro visiting her. as
well as several other guests We were duly
introduced and later in the day drove with
senor Santiago de Toro. who is the chief
manager OF the estate under his mother,
over the great farm in quite royal style.
IN THE CARRIAGE OF A KING.
Our carriage was a three-seated drag
which once belonged to King Louis Phil
llppe and Of which the counterpart or mate
il now the property Of Queen Victoria, and
IS kept in the Windsor stables Senior De
Toro bought the vehicle in Paris after the
deposition of Louis Philippe. and it has
been so kept that it looks as well to-day as
when King was its owner. We had six
horses managed by three postillions In liv-
cry and outriders and thus drove for mile
after mile through wide avenues of Lom-
hardy poplars by the two lakes which sup
ply the family with fish, frightening the
ducks and swans which were there floating,
on TO the rose garden. which contains more
than a hundred varieties of roses. past
meadows upon which grazed great hocks Of
sheep and by many irrigated fields being
made ready for next years crops. Here
was a forest of eucalyptus trees planted
for their lumber, there an orange grove,
the trees still bearing their yellow fruit,
and further on vineyard of well-kept
vines The most Of the fields were sur
rounded by well-made stone walls, and ev-
cry part of the estate seemed carefully and
economically managed. 1 noticed in one
place a Chicago windmill, and Senior De
Toro told me he used American plows and
other American machinery This estate is.
to large extent. a dairy farm. It has about
two thousand cattle and three hundred
milk cows. The cows, I understand pro-
duce something like 5000 worth of milk
and 5000 worth of butter a year.
Upon the estate are two hundred horses,
although all the farm work is done by oxen,
which are the only draught and farm ami
mails of Chile. These are chiefly for breed
ing and the uses of the family and guests.
II is necessary to Eave very large num-
Der Of horses for family use, for often par
ties of fifteen or twenty go horseback rid
ing at the same time, and the Aguila estate
is managed more for the comfort of the
family than for profit, although, in a finan-
cial way, it is a very profitable farm.
HOW SHE TREATS HER FRIENDS.
Madame Emilia is fond of giving presents.
For instance she has one man busy all the
year round making baskets to be used in
sending presents to her friends and to be
given to guests with fruit when they leave.
She raises for sale 100000 oranges year,
but 5000 are always left on the trees for
IL.
the mutton eaten on her estate is of her
own raising, and the eight hundred sheep
she keeps are chiefly for herself and friends.
She raises great quantities of onions
squashes and other vegetables to give away
and seHds them to the Santiago hospitals
and her friends by the ox-cart load. l saw
piles of such vegetables stacked up for this
purpose back of the house. There was
enough to have fed a good-sized American
town for a year. Mountains of pumpkins,
great piles of squashes, bags of walnuts
and carloads of corn, all awaiting their
shipment as gifts. She delights in the old
ways of doing things, and the table is chief
~ supplied from the estate, the ice cream
being made by means of snow brought from
the mountains in bags on the backs of her
poems. 1t takes them several days to make
the journey, and she could import ice more
cheaply by train from Santiago, but she
prefers the old way rather than the new,
and her estate is kept as much as possible
as 1t was in the days of her girlhood Each
OF her many grandchildren has his own
pony, and / saw q lot of the little boys and
girls between the ages of four and four
teen galloping about the place and holding
their seats like men and women. The meals
on such an estate are, of course, excellent.
You get up when you feel like it and have
your coffee or tea and toast in your room.
At II or u o'clock all of the household meet
at breakfast. This is what we would cali
a course dinner, beginning with soup and
ending with coffee Then, at o'clock, there
is dinner. with. perhaps, d lunch or tea at
O'Clock and supper late in the evening
The Chilean families. as a rule, keep very
late hours, and there are usually some at
Aguila who stay up chatting till long after
midnight
MADAME COUSINOSS RANCH.
I also paid a visit during my stay at San
tiago to the famous estate of the late
Madame Cousino, known as Mocul You
have heard of Madame Cousino She has
been much written about in the news
papers as the richest woman of the world,
the Chilean woman who had millions of
acres of lands, mines of copper, silver and
coal, towns and factories, and an income
of millions a year. These, statements were
much exaggerated. Madame Cousino was
very rich, but there are to-day women in
Chile who are richer than she ever was
She has, however been heavy spender
and her estate. which through her death
in Paris few months ago is now being
settled up, will not aggregate, 1 am told
ten millions of dollars. She was neverthe-
less a remarkable woman and fond of all
things modern. Mocul was one of her best
farms. It contains about five thousand acres
and cost when Senior Cousino bought it
100000. venture to say more than that
amount has been spent upon it, and it is
now valued at over a million Upon it are
hundred Of the finest blooded horses. the
choicest sheep and two hundred of the best
Of cattle bred from imported Durham stock.
1t has vineyard which contains hundreds
of thousands of vines and which produces
millions Of bottles of wine year American
plows and other machinery are used upon
II. and 1t takes a regiment of poems to do
the work. The estate is kept like prize
farm, and lines of tall poplars mark out
the course of each irrigation ditch The
wster rents for Mocul cost about 5000 a
year. The ground is very rich and all things
gk2w lnxariantly. Along the poplar hedges