Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-02-20
Trip To
South America
DELIGHTFUL LECTURE BY Or. VI.
9. TIGHT ON HIS EXPERT.
EncEs IN 4 LITTLE
KNOWN LAND.

a large and much interested All
dtsnce accompanied iii. II. q Tit IL
presldsns q tae University II New
Mexico. ri Till trip II South America
iast night. III journey was anely
illustrated With teFaopticon Yss
thrown l strong electric AghtThe
pictures I 81 distinct and life like
That one might almost imagine him
seif gazing q Yefy truth at the
strange people The quaint cities and
the gorgeous m~guntains thrown upon
fha eaasas III. Tight talked about
the pictures III an on hand converse.
tIenai manner. dealing with many IN
tefagtiag matters relating % his trip
and to the manners and ciIatomes of
the stranger people Waited. prof, RuF
pert Aspfund operated the lantern
The lecturer showed firss the big
steamer leaving New York City. An
interesting fact brought out wal that
starting from New Mexico for the
west coast Of South America. two
weeks was saved BY crossing the con.
tinent 70 New York and there taking q
steamer for tho isthmus. rather than
going to San Francisco and sailing
down the west coast, The next Genes
shown we're on the IstfAmng, where
tropical negotiations and portions 81
strange cities appeared on the can.
VAS Harbor scenes at Calico, the
methods Of landing. teeming streets,
magnificent cathedrala. oddly CARRIED
people. and the curious industries Oh
Lima ami other Peruvian towns and
villages Were illustrated In quick sue.
cession.
Then the company travelled til Bolt
Via where the most detailed excurt
sion lay. The trip III rail and Stage !
coach 70 the roek.btnlt bolivian eapi
tol--La Paz. sitting Oh two sides OF d
great canyon, was described both pic
AMI iinguistically. The native
Indians, forming the Iarge majority
q The three scofe thousand populs
The soldiers. the government
buildings ani many other points 81
interest of The skY city we're shown.
Before la Pax was reached the
my piercing, snow cap
ped c%ordiiiefaa came Into yiow from
Innny points. Enhancing glinspses of
sone of the highest mountains til the
were caught. Sights and
scenes about Lake Titleaca and the
curious Indian life Of the higher
plains were shown. Tho perilous ana
%lttienlt journey 81 III. Tight and par
X ~ their ascent OF more than sew
snteen thousand feet towards the sum
nit af LOFTY Sorata was Illustrated and
hen The travellers dropped stceply
Town from the region 81 Ice and snow
great glacier 10 tropical segeta.
Ion q mile OF two below-tile north
ole tranaplanted u the tropics.
iefore leaving the mountain country
D. Tight touched briefly upon the
scientific researches d his party and
he conclusions reached. The descrip
Ion Of the neckendangering four hun
lred mile stage coach ride to d chill
can town IN q scotchman's vehicle,
md the Ave dry walt for i train, was
sraphic and amusing, Five weeks
nd more was spent III quarantine and
be expedition reached New York
much belated. u Ii safe to assume
hat all present last night learned
many now things about South Anleri
=, her grand mountains, her unique
lfe. the odd villages and beautiful
'itiss, and found tho trip 10 this
Wonderland most enjoyable.