The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-12-03

Especial Correspondence of the Journal
and Courier)
Santiago de Chilli, Nov. 8, 1903.
We journeyed due south one hundred
miles-mostly by rail-to visit a model
hacienda, for the express purpose of be-
ing able to tell you how the typical
Gillian farm is conducted. The estate
in question is owned by gentleman
formerly from New England, who, as
his name will show, belongs to nu-
merous and highly respectable family Of
the United States-Mr. William Henry
Smith; but, being married to a Chiliana,
it is here rendered Senior Don Guillerno
Henrique Ferretio. Speaking of no.
nlenclature, the most common and pro-
sale Of our northern names becomes pos
itively mellifious when translated into
this poetic language. For example, our
neighbor over the way-in Pennsylva-
| mia, where he hailed from, Mr.. John
James Tinker-is here addressed as
Senior Don Juan Santiago Latinero.
! Plebeian William becomes Guillerno;
Henry, Henrique; Charles, Carlos; Ned,
Eduardo; Jim, Santiago; Peter, Pedro;
Dick, Ricardo, and SO on to the end of
the chapter.
| On the other hand. the native cogno-
mems, when rendered in English, are Of
ten comical if not absolutely shocking.
Not only people, but saloons, streets,
factories and work shops are named in
1 honor of the Savior, the Blessed Virgin,
the Holy Trinity and all the Saints in
the calendar. There is the Crown of
Thorns street, and the Body of Christ
street. I have seen a saloon dedicated
to the Mother of Jesus; another to San
! tissima Trinidad (the Sacred Trinity,
and another to the Love Of Jesus. In
| Chilli, as in other Spanish Catholic
| countries, every child is named in hon
] or of the saint whose anniversary
comes nearest to the day on which he
or she happens to be born, and that is
the reason why SO many men have
girls names and vice versa I know a
number of ladies named Guillermina,
female, for William; Juanita, little
john" Antonio, etc; while Maria, lisa
! bel and other feminine names are equal
" common, among men. The name
+ Vaca .(cow) occurs as often in Santiago
as Smith in the United States. A
young lawyer Of my acquaintance, who
was probably born near Christmas day,
Il is called Jesus, Christie Vaca, and his
beautiful sister is Benedicta Rafaela-.
Cow. We lived in a hotel where the
bare-footed errand boy was Jesus Ma
ria Goyenechera-and how wicked we
/ felt whenever obliged to shout his name
down the passagei Luckily for sensi-
tive feelings, the word is pronounced
/ Hay-soos, which makes it seem a little
i less like blasphemy A former govern
or of the province Of Valparaiso is
named Domingo Torro Sunday Bull;
and the belle Of Cotiapo was christened
II Dolares Digereis--SorroWfu Stomach!
There are wee toddlers in the neighbor-
hood who are weighted with names
longer than themselves. What would
you think of calling a girl-baby Ubal-
dina Eduviers Cisdenpes, or Echever-
! ria Isidra Yazaza Cusicanqui, and a
knee-high little gentleman Hitpolito
| Leoncico Osvaldo Zanpartu, or Edupi-
ljes Gonzales Lopez Luz
4 But to return from this long digres-
sion to the model farm. Senior Smith
estate comprises five hundred acres, all
enclosed within one fence, and so pom
derous is the latter-being ten feet high
three feet thick and rooted like house
that it reminds one of the great wall
Of China. BY the way, barbed wire has
never been patented in Chill, though the
government is fencing its railways with
that commodity, brought from the Uni
ted States; and If some enterprisins
| Yankee would come down here and Sc.
cure a patent on it, his fortune would
be made. Rails are never used in this
country for fencing, except in the fal
south where timber is plenty. Stones
are sometimes piled up into walls, but
always in combination with lime an6
sand, making them solid. Those thai
are universal in Chilli look strong
enough to defy old Father Time for cen
turtles, and are as picturesque as inde
structible. This fence of our FRIEND
Ferreiro is fair sample. 1t is made o
mud which has been nodded into hugh
squares and dried in the sun. Tit
great adobes are then piled into place
and while yet moist, earthenware tilint
| is imbedded in the top-of a rusty ret
color, like that which roofs the houses
The object of roofing the wall is to pre-
, vent the long continued, heavy rains o
winter from soaking into the adobe AM
reducing them to their original mud.
| Like most gentlemen farmers of Chill
Don William Henry does not live on hi
country estate, but in the city, comm!
out once or twice month to see hov
, things are going, and in the summe
time bringing his family for a. stay o
several weeks. But there is residen
, administrator de hacienda, sub-"ad
ministrator," several overseers and up
wards of a hundred poems. Farming i
| carried on in Chill much as it was il
Europe in feudal times, or as in Irelan
to-day, each estate having it's retainer
: who are provided with tenements
? which they pay for by a stipulate
number of days labor every year. A
= there is hardly any middle class in thi
) country-only the rich and the poor, tn
Landlord and the tenant-the hacienda
are generally very large, and are owne
by nabobs who seldom visit then
h Each has it's big, rambling casa, where
IL, +ba ad,,,inistra fars and their familie