The Republican journal., 1903-11-19
1HE PRIDE OF SANTIAGO.
rouR MILES OF NATURAL BEAUTY.
HOW THE CHILIANS TAKE THEIR
MORNING DRINK.

,ANTIAGO DE CHILL, Oct. s, 1908.
,tranger in this splendid capital hard
knows where to begin systematic
md of sightseeing, so numerous and
red are the points of interest. An
days excursion is but as a drop in
bucket, and after a month of dill
IT hunting he learns that there are
ous' yet unvisited.
OF ourselves, let us commence with
tamous Cerro de Santa Lucia. For
. dollar IN hour we may secure as
ljsome coach, coupe or landau as
tity contains, with a smart Jehu
pair of well-groomed horses; or, if
rarticular about style and disposed
economical, one may get convey
good enough for the purpose for
nat sum. Our way lies along San
greatest glory-the beautiful
leda; and indeed, | doubt if any
III the world can show so fine a
fc promenade. 1t runs east and
5, through the heart of the city,
.u santa Lucia to the Exposition
A distance of a little more than
miles. Six hundred feet wide, it
g lded by four rows of enormous
half trees, whose roots are Watered
aalsy streams dancing along each
. which are confined in deep chan
S. IF brick and cement, crossed by
merable bridges. There are paved
lets on the outer edges, driveway
undred feet wide, street-car line,
for pedestrians, and numerous
e benches under the overarching
as while down the middle a line of
ties and fountains is scattered at
ar intervals all along the way, in
-aersed with ornamental platforms,
leon military bands, stationed per-
alf mile apart, play every after
l from three to five o'clock. The
calls the people out to walk or
e- and during the summer months
50 public concerts are also given in
-yening, when the uptown portales
tSerted for this more extensive
tuade. 1t is equally fashionable
me here at sunrise, but never in
fiddle of the day as you value
standing, because then it is given
10 los pobres. Even before sun
on may see groups of well-dressed
y III every direction, out for their
ug constitutional and glass OF
one of the oddities of the town
milk-stations. There are dozens
rm along the Alameda, where
1oted women tether their cows
we till nine O'Clock every morn
Zach four-legged mother is ac-
MED by calf, which is etfectual-
vented from seeking its natural
auce by leathern muZzle over
1th, and is leased, dragged and
ny the numerous progeny of the
L.ed mother TO these milk sta
e0me troups of nurses with babies
$, and ladies. gentlemen and chill
the aristOcracy, each to pun
drink, which they may be sure
- and unauthorized by seeing it
before their eyes, directly from
" into the glass. "a foaming
at five cents a gob,' as an Ameri-
etiously put it.
{ it is not strained, | said in hor-
a a CHILEAN acquaintance. "Why
it be strained?" was the aston
eply. Would it really be made
eaner by that process? Beside it
ruin the rich foam, which is to
milk what the bead is to cham
..e or the cream to lager"
nine o'clock all traces of the
ng have disappeared, leaving the
IDS clean and sweet as ever. But
A at evening you meet the vendors
4r about the streets from house to
se, followed always by the muzzled
and a troop of far less well-behaved
nam youngsters. On other streets
e are stationary depots, where
tied upon the platform and milk
order whenever a customer comes
tg and when one COW is exhausted
s sent home and another immediate
axes its place.
to table close by are measures,
is and glasses, and often raw eggs,
bottle of brandy, too, so that
se who desire can brew themselves
uuch. But nobody in South Ameri
geams of straining the milk, and if
Qreigner ventures to hint that such
Vie custom at home, they stare at
III amazement, not unmixed with
n. as one who would paint the
's Piled under tree in the Ala
-.a close by beautiful bronze foun-
D. We saw a vast but rapidly dimin-
ng heap of watermelons, that lus-
as fruit being as highly relished here
dnong plantation negroes. Among
NEST of the thirty or forty statues
Tie Alameda is that of the good Adde
MIA, who by all accounts, was one
'4e purest men that ever lived But
ag set up here in bronze or marble
ao proof of that. Says one: Chill
assassinated or sent into exile some