Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-09

Montevldeo II is eminently the fashion
TO ride In tram cars Street railways
srldiron the city Criss-crosslng i'm ey-
cry direction, and In their clean though
crowded coaches one can study Uru-
guayan life and character to much bet
ter advantage than when shut up by
oneself I'm "a private carriage. There
are upwards of 60 miles OF tramway In
MonteVideo, and that everybody pat
ronizes them Is proved by the fact that
they carry something over 10000, 900
passengers a year--a high average for
city Of only 10000. The tariff Is
from 2 to cents according to the
length Of your trip and the spick-and-
span new cars, all made I'm New York,
are certainly safer and pleasanter than
the joltlng, bug infested hacks. There
is but one drawback to the tram cars
viz, that their jolly drivers, one and all,
carry cows horns and foot to one an
other continually, executing shrill pro-
longed trills with might and main, and
out of pure Righteousness making a din
that Is almost deafening.
a GORGEOUS COLoRED CITY.
II does not take long IN our peregrin-
ations to discover that U1lguay's cap
gorgeous cOlorng Of fine shops and
handsome houses, Of magnlhcence.
wealth and luxury Of noise and CHATTER
Ing hoofs-though nobody bustles and
hurries as I'm the north, Of cheerful
faces and good clothes and contented
people who have no acquaintance with
the wolf called poverty that prowls
about the doors of many OF their
cousins on the Pacific side OF the con-
tlnent. The town Is laid out on the
usual chess-board plan, with long
broad streets that run up one hin and
down another, as straight lines can be
drawn, with clusters Of telegraph and
telephone wires overhead and double
rows OF tramway lines below. Owing
10 its situation ON "a granite promon-
tory, almost surrounded by water
Montevideo Is admirably drained. well
ventilated and constantly washed clean
b1 rains that fan about rs days out of
the 365, The buildings are all fiat
rooted. Of two or nj most three stories
the materials that enter into their COM
position being mostly brick and stucco,
tiles, marble iron and very little TIM
her.
The general plan Of the private
houses Is the Audalusian ycstibulc,
with floor Of marble and dadoes Of ala
haster or blue ana white Talevera tiles.
double doors Of massive iron or carved
wood, always Wide open by day dis
closing n tall inner gate Of open work
wrought iron or steel through which
ono can sec the nowery patio. embel-
lished with palms and statuary and
fragrant shrubs growing IN boxes, and
often a second, and even a third patio
beyond making a charming vista,
MUST RING TO ENTER.
The frail-looklnR gate with It's lace
like pattern, though II affords no OBJ
struction to the view Is securely fas-
tened inside, and TO gain admission one
must ring "A bell, similar 20 those on
our doors at home which summons the
servant TO unlock H. The facades of
the better houses are adorned with
much marble aud stucco, and before
every window are iron bars, gided per-
haps and highly ornamented. but new
erthelcss as secure as those OF the COM
mon jail. In Monteydeo II seems that
the Weather a man Is the more does
his casa run 10 fanciful establishment
In the way Of thing and stucco. the
more deliberately lace-ilke Is his iron
work the thicker the gliding upon his
gate and window bars, the softer the
tnts Of rose and purple and blue and
yellow upon his outer walls, Many OF
the tenement houses have their vestl-
bules and patlos paved with the knuck.
lc bones Of sheep, arranged like mosaic
work In fantastic designs; and II is a
stale old joke TO tell astonished strang-