New-York tribune., 1902-12-28
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speaking colony have no fixed residential quarter
they are to be found within close touch of one
another In the business hours of the day. Soutn
Of Wall-st. and between Pearl-st and Broadway
are their business Offices and cafes. The big South
and Central American commission houses are all
in the neighborhood of Hanover Square, and the
Spanish cigar factories and wholesale tobacco
stores are chiefly In Pearl-st.
One need only walk hundred feet south from
Wall-st. to feel himself it were, transported 10
Madrid or the City of Mexico. or Caracas. or any
other Spanish Spanish-American city that his
ina gination may take fancy to- BY simply en-
tering the door of Spanish restaurant, such as
may find. for instance. at Beaver and fearl
SITS. and taking a seat at table the visitor VIII
find himself amid groups of men whose swarthy
faces black mustaches, straight black hair. black
eyes and heavy watch chains tell plainly that they
hail from torrid cline
Here tie walters call "sopas" for soup, pc
cados" for fish. "assadoe' for roasts. 'potres for
dessert "quesos' for cheese and they dignity
common pie. with the euphonous ''pasteles." Oc-
casionallY patron will give such an order as
''Bacalao a la Vrcaina carerola, which translated
means simply Goldfish, 'Picadillo a la griola,
which is nothing else than beef hash. But the
victuals despite how they may seem to he humpled
by the translation Of their into English
have all the fire and pepper Of which the Spaniard
is so fond Here it IS that the Chilian. and the
Brazilian, the Spaniard and the Mexican meet,
shake hands over a common board. drink the
latest news from Venezuela. Then they go their
several ways and let the German. British, Ameri-
can and Venezuelan statesmen figure things out as
best they can.
Another feature OF the business colony Of Span
ish speaking New-Yorkers is the great number
of consuls which also grouped closely together
in this part of the city. There are eighteen of
these officials Thus E. Gonzales Esteves, consul
for Venezuela Henry Wolf, consul for Bolivia; A
F. Xavier, consul for Brazil; Arturo de Brigad,
sui for Colombia, all have Offices az No II State
st. Adolf D. Straus, for Nicaragua: Ernesto
Schernkow for Salvador, and Mariana Fabregas
Sotelo, for Spain, at No IS Broadway while
the Argentine Republic has John C. Zmmermann,
in Room No 124 of the Produce Exchange: Costa
Rica has Juan j. Uioa, at No Sc Beaver-st.: Ecua-
dor. Victor NJ. Paymin, at No. 20 Broadway; Qua
temala. joaquin Yela. at No Stone-st Honduras,
NJ Boiet-Perazza, st. Nc. 81 Newest; Mexico, Juan
N Navarro, at No. 80 Broadway; Peru, Evaldo
Tirado, at No. 10 Whitehall-st; Uruguay. Thomas
C. Eddy, at No. so Broad-st; Cuba, jose de Perig-
nat at No. S6 Wall-st. and Paraguay, Felix Au-
caigne. at No 9O9 Broadway Chilis represen-
tative who is the only uptown, is FREDERICK
A. Beelen at No. 135 West Eleventh-st
The favorite hotels and boarding houses for
transient Spaniards and Spanish-Americans in this
city are in Irving Place. between Fourteenth and
Seventeenth sts.. where the Hotel America and the
Westminster Hotel cater chiefly to these patrons
In these hotels South American papers are to be
found South American stocks find plenty of pro-
moters and some buyers. and here evenings the
lobbies and reading filled with groups
talking about Castro and Venezuela.