Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-12-05
THE PRIDE OF SANTIAGO.
Four Mles>oi Natural Beauty-How the Chans Take
Their Morning Drink
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Special Correspondence.


Special Correspondence.
Santiago de Chill Nov 20.--A stranger
in this splendid capital hardly knows
where TO begin a systematic round Of
SIGHT seeing, so numeous and varied
are the points of interest An all
days excursion is but as a drop in the
bucket, and after a month of diigent
hunting he learns that there are III
ons" yet UNLISTED,
For ourselves. let us commence with
the famous Cerro de Santa Lucia. For
one dollar an hour we may secure as
handsome coach, coupe or landau as
the city contains. with smart jehu
and pair Of well-groomed horses; or,
II not particular about style and dis
posed TO be economical, one may get
a conveyance good enough for the pur-
pose for half that sum. our way lies
along Santiago's greatest glory--the
beautiful Alameda. and indeed, /
doubt II any city in the world can show
so fine public promenade.
II runs east and west through the
heart Of the city, from Santa Lucia to
the Exposition park. n distance of
little more than four miles Six hum
bred feet wide, Il IL shaded by four
rows Of enormous poplar trees, whose
roots are watered by noisy streams
dancing along each side, which are
confined In deep channels of brick and
cement, crossed by innumerable bridg-
es' There are paved streets on the
outer edges, driveway one hundred
feet wide, street car line, path for
pedestrians, and numerous stone bench
es under the ovcrarching trees while
down the middle a line of statues and
fountains are scattered at regular inter-
Vals all along the way interspersed
with ornamental platforms, wherein
military bands stationed perhaps half
a mile apart, play every afternoon from
three TO five o'clock. The music calls
Inc people out to walk or drive. and
during the summer months these pub
lle concerts are also given In the even
ing when the uptown portales are de-
serted for this more extensive prone
made, II is equally fashionable TO
come here at sunrise, hut never In the
middle Of the day as you value so
clal standing because then It Is given
over to los pobres.
Even before sunrise you may see
groups OF well-dressed gentry in every
direction, out for their morning const-
tutlonal and glass of milk one of
me oddities of the town is It's milk
Hatons, There are dozens of them
along the Alameda, where bare footed
women tether their COWS from till 0
o'clock every morning. Each four
WgRed mother Is accompanied by n
t,1lI' which Is effectually prevented
rom seeking It's natural substenance
Ny q leathern mtizzle over it's mouth.
aha is leased, dragged and driven by
we numerous progeny of the two-leg
sed mother. To these milk stations
oohe troups Of nurses with babies In
arms ladies'. gentlemen, and children
VI me aristOcracy, each to purchase a
urlhk' which they may be sure Is fresh
snd unadulterated by seeing II MIXED
petore their eyes, directly from the COW
mo The glass, "a foamlng goblet
~ uve cents "A COB" as an American
'acetiously put It,
but 1t is not strained" ! said in
uo'I9l To CHILEAN acquaintance. why
Iould II be strained was the aston
mneu reply. Would 1t really be made
sH cleaner by that process? Beside,
=, WOMB ruin the rich foam, which Is
w. W. cows milk what the bead Is to
'nehpagne or the cream To beer"
ny o'clock all traces OF the milk
nlg nave disappeared. leaving the
e.ouhds clean and sweet as ever. But
asalh az evening you meet the vendors
,olhs about the streets from house to
MUSE MUSE followed always by the muzzled
tau ana troop OF far less wellbe-
.."Nea human youngsters. On other
sJee's there are stationary depots,
mNere COW Is tied upon the platform
.Hu mllked To order whenever a GUS
,unler comes along; and when one COW
exhausted Il Is sent home
N.Y., u another Immediately takes its
on a table close by are measures
wv, ana glasses, and often raw eggs
M u bottle of brandy too. so that
"'ose VINO desire can brew themselves
:, punoh' But nobody in South Ameri-
,uIeams Of strainlng the milk. and II
Urelgner ventures to hint that such
"e custom az home, they stare at
navy W hma2emcnt not unmixed with
go as ono who would paint the
mss Piled under n tree in the Ala
m,n close by q beautiful bronze
,IN3lu. we saw vast but rapidly
mssaai,nlshlng heap OF watermelons. that
.sr. ous fnit being as highly relished
An az among plantation negroes
N lug the finest OF the 30 or
ho '.aVues IN the Alameda is that Of
,n,. '' Adde Norma. VINO by all ac-
g. 1s one OF the purest men that
" n'ed' But being set UP here in