The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-22
GARDENS OF BORDA
Many Beauties in This Frag-
ment of Paradise
IN CITY OF CUERNAVACA
Vic Murdock's Delightful Trip
With Bishop Hennessey

Bishop Hennessey of Wichita, we have
accompanied party of American tourists
as the Campbell Tourist association and
consists of five or six splendid cars mare
into apartments The last car is an open
observation car. Early in the morning
this special began the climb over the
mountains to Cuernavoca, such a delight
full spot that Cortez built palace here,
although he had to travel several rays
to reach 1t. When Macmillan scamehhe
also sought rest and recreation, here. As
you climb to the top OF the mountain,
the yhole of the valley Of Mexico in
which lies the City Of Mexico, appears
with its fine great lakes and its complete
circling wall Of mountains. To the east
of you Popocatepet1 (Which, by the way,
natives pronounce Popocat-ay-petD 10 ms
up conical, sharp and covered with snow.
Near it lays Ixtaccihuatl, the White
Lady a mountain with three bumps,
which by use Of imagination you can
make into a lady in a white sh ouJ,
laid out. You pass on your way up the
mountains great pulque plantations These
are vast fields of century plants. set out
in rows. Among the richest peope IN
Mexico are 1nagney Century plant)
planters. When the century plant is
about ten years old it IS dy to shoot
up its long center stalk which puts out
a flower. But just then this stalk is
wrenched out leaving a big rol'ow in the
middle Of the plant in which the sap
which would have produced the stalk and
flower, accumulates A man with a long
necked gourd then siphons it out. Each
produces, was told, hundreds of gal
Ions. The liquor is then fermented one
day, and long special trains carry it into
the city in sheepskins. The consumption
of this all over Mexico is something eaor-
nous. 1t costs about one cent (Ameri-
can money! a glass After twelve hours
this puIque spells and has to be thrown
away.
Up on the divide, frost covers every
huts are shivering around. Only few
minutes after leaving the view CT the
Valley of HMexico, you come in sight
Of the city of Cuernavaca. It is not very
far away, but you travel an hour or two
to reach It, following the most down hill,
torterous route I have ever seen.
It is easily noticeable that the Mex,cans
of this city which lies south of Mexico
City, are of a superior class and with a
greater prosperity than those we have
seen hitherto. They are fat and well
dressed. AS soon as we arrived here, we
visited the vast gardens Of Barda In
100, Senior Barda Of France came to
Mexico, made s40,OO0,O0O out of mines at
Zacetecas and put one million dollars in
this garden. 1t is full of fountains, lakes.
brooks, strange trees, among them ba-
mana trees with the punches growing on
them, orchids clinging everywhere to the
trunks. Many of the trees bear strange
fruits, most of them sickingly M et
Coffee bushes are also growing here, with
green, pink and brown berries Throu h
this fragment of paradise we stall5d wi h
Bishop Hennessey, Bishop Ieanihan OF
nearly all armed with kodaks and enjoy
ing themselves greatly. Then re visited
Cortez' palace, now the state house. and
then up and down the streets of the
little city, the roofs Of the houses in red
tile, glinting at you through the heavy
foliage at every hand. Hibiscus and OLE
anders nod their blossoms at you on ev-
cry hand and the warm breeze is vel V
and drowsy. This must be one Of the
most delightful spots on the globe !
In the evening the whole party sat in |
the observation car and Bishop Hennes-
sey told me many amusing episodes of /
his trip. At one church a party came
across him and one of the Americ rs /
said: ASK that priest if we may come /
in. a gentleman approached and said /
laboriously: Padre, permisso en-
trance?" Bishop Hennessey answered to |
all his question, Isl, Senior" and the /
party went in and surveyed the church. /
Later outside the same party accosted |
him in poor Spanish and he said solemn |
ly: Il am not very good in Spanish: |
try me in English" Then they all broke |
out laughing and became friends.
Later in the evening. the Americans
broke out into song. What song? John |
Browns body. Down the valley which |
had echoed with the song of the home |
sick Castillian. in red velvet doublet.
guitar obligato; where later the tan. long
coated Hapsburg had caroled a German 1
air; where group Of Mexicars sent /
their national anthem quivering through
the trees, there now rang out from fifty
throats the song Of the man whose soul
IS marching on, one word being dropped |
from the first line of the chorus at each
repetition. in a manner we all know
John Browns body lies a Wondering IN
-he--." Louder and louder the song
echoed out over the old civilization. a
few natives glided BY the cars ana lis
tened in wonder at the abbreviated mel
ldy, John Browns body lies moulder-