The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-12-08

work In the shops until noon. After dinner,
when they get soup and @ and bread,
they nave a little rest and then work again
until about S in the afternoon.
Then supper and after that the cells. when
they may 90 to bed as soon IA they like.
II gives a notion OF the discipline to know
that the warden and seventeen guards take
all the care Of 500 convicts.
cHoLuLA's se5 CHURCHES.
The second day Of the Puebla stay was
devoted TO a side excursion TO SEQ the new
cotton mill about to begin operations at
Metepec, some thirty miles from the city.
Here some enterprising Mexicans have
turned aside a little stream that flowed
| across the high table land back OF Popo-
| catepetl, and brought 1t down over the
mountain into a wheel pit where they have
set turbines and wrested from the tur-
| bulent stream 5000 horse power. Here
| every process OF the manufacture OF cotton
goods will be carried on on a large scale,
and the village Is already springing up where
the two or three thousand hands will live.
This trip took the excursionists through
the interesting old town OF Cholula There
years before the Conquest the old Aztecs
had built a great pyramid Of adobes on the
summit of which they sacrificed their VIC
Tins alive to their gods.
The Spaniards partly destroyed the pyra-
mid and on what was left built a church.
Scattered about in the town there are S65
other churches and chapels, one for every
day In the year.
Cholula turned out to greet the delegates
in even greater u%nanimity than did Puehla.
The entire population was at the station
when the train rolled in and six or eight
bands were playing as IL life itself were
the stake.
II seems to he as easy to get up a band
among the Mexicans as IL is among the
Filipinos. and they play about as well. There
was one band Of four pieces Of entirely
native construction and IL sounded like n
collection of ~hagpipes and wheezy bass
fddles with a Chinese tomtom or two thrown
In for good measure.
fLowERY WELCOME.
Everybody in Cholula had brought at
least one bouquet or loose bunch OF wild
flowers to the train. They were growing
in the greatest profusion all about, but
from the quantities given to the excursion
lists the whole population must have been
out early in the morning gathering this
highly appreciated tribute to their dis
tinguished guests. They were arranged
about the cars, in the luggage racks and
in the shades over the windows until they
filled the train with their and fragrance.
As the train rolled on from Cholula and
occasionally passed n little village there
was always sure TO he a crowd waiting
for its arrival with az least one band and
great punches of flowers. II seemed 10 be
a spontaneous demonstration on the part
Of the common people, but the representa-
tives Of Puebla and the members Of the
Mexican delegation in the conference on
the train took no particular notice Of II.
II was suggested 10y some Of the Ameri-
cans tina such exhibition Of good will was
worthy of recognition by the excursionists
but the Mcxicans took il as a matter Of
course. The train made no stops after
leaving Cholula until II reached Atlixco,
where il was 10 take the siding for the cotton
mill at Metepec.
Several times Il whizzed past a little group
cheering enthusiastically or firing fire =
cracker salutes. Sometimes they had guns
for their %salutes. Inc once. in the middle
OF a 6sha .fs. from sny i;sm'@t. there were
three or four men with a small cannon,
WHICH lnfN Hfd m io' ~ 'h'' N'''' oNf
kept il up as long a. the train was any
where near them.
The route 10 Metepec took the train very
near the great volcanoes. and the view 81
them continually improved. The factory
itself IL almost under the hood OF old Popo-
catepetl, and from one point q! view it
looks as IL. should there he an avalanche,
il would envelope the mill.
But there seems never 10 have been
such a slide. and there certainly is no fear
II a disaster to the plant from such a cause
Half the e~Ncur-iouists had little cameras
and there were dozens Of films and plates
exposed a, the great snow-capp"d peaks
SPEECH nv An AMERICAN.
On the return trip from the mill there
was a stop at AtliNco long enough 10 per
nit the eycur-ionis's TO go UP into the
town and look about a little tn" bands
followed from the station. and tho bells
u the church were kept ringing fun force
nearly all the time 81 the top
Il Was here that IN" lack - attention
20 tho people finally ~ took hold Of one
II the Americans that he made them a
little spe--'h on HE own account They
gatherd about him In y great crowd that
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filled one q the Mehicahs With q great
fear thai -om"thing unfortunate Vas about
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other AurnoAns and told th"m ctotei.y
hus their fellow 'uuuiryman vac sur
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