Evening star., 1899-03-18

and the Protestants are only drop in the
bucket of Cruguaysn hfe. In Monievideo
alone there are $4,000 Catholics to about
l0oO0 Protestants and - coo others who are
of no special religion. ] understand that
Protestants are well treated. and that such
a thing religious intolerance is not
known anywhere i'm the cities.
Libraries and schools.
Montevideo is noted for its Intelligence.
1t is a city of newspapers libraries and
schools. There is n national library which
contains 22.o0O volumes. Ii has national
museum, in which there are 33.gD objects.
1t is the center OF intelligence for the
country, and the leading dailies week
lies and monthlies are published here.
Most of the dailes are in Spanish hut
there are two daily English newspapers and
French.
AS to the school system. this is steadily
improving. There are $40 more schools i'm
Uruguay now than there were In 1876, al
though as yet only per cent OF tn, popu-
lation attend them. and the majority Of the
common people cannot read and write.
There are now i'm the neighborhood of Opo
institutions Of learning public and private.
There are about 1000 school teachers of
whom more than two-thirds are women.
Teachers are well paid. the average being
about So month. Most of the teachers
are foreigners, there being only UiS native
teachers in the 1890 I'm service. Normal
schools have, however, been established.
anc there will be an increased number Of
native teachers I'm the future
Montevideo has university with ~ pro-
fessors and 3i9 students. The course in this
is very complete, law. medicine. engineering
and the ordinary college studies being
taught. II is supported by the government.
The government also supports an Industrial
school. which has 243 pupils and a military
college, which has forty-eight pupils.
The country has a good postal and tele-
graph system. Ii has over 1000 miles Of
telegraph lines and in the neighborhood OF
aJo.oO kilograms are annually sent. There
are GIG post Offices and last year the post
office handled in the neighborhood Of H.
oOO,O . letters and about 26,Oo0.on news
papers and packages.
street Scenes in Monteyidco.
But let us go through the city and look
at the people. We start at the wharf and
walk over the cobbestones up the hills in
the shsdow of three-story buildings We
stop to get our boots blacked on the corner
and are charged cents shine. =Newsboys
aceost us with the daily papers just as they
do in New York, and well-dressed women
and men pass this way and that
There are many odd sights. Men go by
US with loads on their heads or their backs.
Here comes a milk peddler. He is of the
same style as those you see in the smaller
cities of the Argentine Republic He sits on
his horse with his legs over the neck and
cts which contain his milk cans. There, he
has stopped and has gone into house
HIS horse stands still, although there is no
hitching post or iron ring In sight. He has
tied 1t by hobbling its front feet with the
whip.
Such men supply this city of more than a
quarter of a million with milk. They used
to supply the butter, which they made by
galloping their horses so that the joiting
did the churning. Then, / am told. when
You wanted butter the man dipped his
hands into one of the cans and pulled out a
chunk. Now It is not much different out
side Of the cities. although Montevideo Is
supplied with butter from dairies. There
is really no butter used by the common peo-
pie, and there are farmers with thousands
OF cows who eat their bread dry.
Street Cars and Electricity.
Listen to the horns. You hear them every
few moments you pass along the street
and you wonder whether It is the Uruguay
an Fourth OF July or Christmas or New
Year. and whether the boys are out for a .
holiday. You soon see that each horn is
held by street car driver. who thus nott-
fies all to keep out of his way. He blows
his horn at the corner of every street and
now and then gives a toot between times.
The cars are all drawn by horses. and so
far electricity a car motor has not ap-
peared. There are electric lights, however.
and at public celebrations the whole city
is ablaze with incandescent globes OF all
colors.
There are few cabs The numerous hills
and the cobblestone roads retard their use,
and the people rely upon the cars as their
chief mode of transit. The draying and
heavy hauling of Montevideo is done I'm
carts, to which two or three mules are har-
messed. one on the inside and the others
outside the shafts The driver usually rides
one OF the outside sules. These carts have
wheels from six to eight feet high. with
hubs as big around as a scrubbing bucket
and shafts the size OF telegraph poles. As
we go further see that nearly all vehicles
are two-wheeled. We wonder why. and
learn that taxes on such things are paid
by the wheel, and that two-wheeled We
hicle pays Just half as much as one with
four wheels.
FRANK G. CARPENTER. .