The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-03-20
LII street cars in Mexico are run
by mule power and all car
\ lines in the City of Mexico


~ lines in the City Of Mexico
start from the Zocalo. From
here one may take pleasant trip to
the interesting suburban places. Tacu-
baya, San Angel, Viga, Belem, Nino,
Guadalupe or Chapultepec, the beauti-
full home of the president. All cars
make fast time, as the mules are not
permitted to walk or trot, but are made
to gallop as fast as whip and other
persuasive powers of a Mexican driver
can make them go.
Chapultepec is the summer home of
President Diaz and is just outside the
city, or three miles from the center of
the city. 1t is also reached by the drive
way of the Paseo de la Reforma, the
Spanish name of the beautiful wide
boulevard extending from the city to
the presidents front gate. The City OF
Mexico proper is as level as Minneapo-
lis or Chicago, but Chapultepec is on
wooded hill with driveway of about
one mile encircling it. This mile drive
is for the most part through dense
grove OF eucalyptus trees which grow
very tall and as straight as an arrow
Some of these are the largest trees in
Mexico and are very nearly if notquite
as large as the famous Zig trees of the
Yosemite Valley in California. Along
this driveway may still be seen land
marks of the battle waged by the Mexi-
cans against the American forces un-
der General Scott and Lieutenant u.
S. Grant. The names of most of the
streets in the city change every one or
two blocks, but the most important and
incest business street is generally called
and known its entire length as San
Francisco street, altho it has other
Names
Every afternoon and evening from 5
to 8 o'clock, from the east end of San
Francisco street at the Zocalo, west
through the city, past the Alameda to
the intersection of the Paseo (the
boulevard) and thence to Chapultepec,
is an unbroken procession of carriages
going both ways In these drives are
represented all the wealth and splendor
of Mexico. Carriages, horses, harnesses
and coachmen are imported from. Chi
cagO, st. Louis, New York, Washing
ton, London and Paris, and the anto-
mobile and bicycle are there also. In
these professions one may see every
day the president, all the members of
his cabinet and other important per-
sonages of Mexico, together with their
families, and the ambassadors and min
listers of the United States, Great
Britain, Spain, Japan, and other coun-
tries and their families.
There are three grades or classes of
horses and carriages (hacks) for hire in
the city: The first is a fairly nice and
comfortable carriage with blue trim
mings and horses that are above the
average; the second is an older and
cheaper carriage trimmed with red and
horses not so good as those of the first
class; the thlrd-class carriage has yell
low stripes around the hubs and other
places, a rather dilapidated looking
affair and wOrn-out horses to corre-
spond Herewith. The rate of hire is
IS cents per hour for the blue, so cents
for the red and % cents for the yellow
This third-class rig is not permitted to
drive on San Francisco street or the
boulevard unless it has an occupant, in
which case the driver may 60 wherever
directed by the man who pays for it.
There are moro than two thousand
policemen in the city, and instead of
walking beats they stand inSthe middle
). of the street or streets at all crossings
and keep lookout in four directions.
There being no alleyways in Mexican
cities, q policeman standing in the