The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-11-02
IN OLD MENDOZA.
cpHEAvALS, NATURAL AND POLITI-
tAI. HORRIBLE EFFECTS OF THE
Asst EARTHQUAKE.
SPECIAL Correspondence of The Journal

lred during the last great earth
is the Alemada or public prone
with its rows of fine Old poplars
ag the principal walk, beside
lows clearcold stream, brought
from the near by mountains.
red about under the trees are
quantity carved benches, which
,cupied at all hours by lounging
ozians, male and female. Near
trance to the Alemada is a much.
iZed Institutional little mud hut
IA an enterprising Gillian is
NJ fortune by the manufacture
rream, with the aid of snow-ice
down from the Andes. AL
a greater amount of confection-
consumed i'll Spanish-America,
PORTION to the population, than
re else III the world, ices as we
hem are very rare delicacieS and
lefore the more highly appreci-
Ii Is customary to end every
nth sWeet-meats i'll some form
:. as they are called here,
Hg preserved or candied fruit,
coufections and a hundred dain-
Iusubstantial tritles that require
are and skill III the preparation.
them are made IN the converts
nuns, and are sold to the public
III the confectionery stores or by
application. The South Ameri-
lseWife does not vex her soul
aoll her beauty by toiling in the
a during all the fruit season,
raWberries to grapes, putting
= annual 250 cans the village
I'd of good housekeeping in the
nor does she adopt the Northern
31man's way of sending to her
an order for a liberal supply of
ellies, pickles and preserves; but
aJronizes the nuns from day to
tccording to the quantity and
required, and gets a better ar
flr less money, always fresh and
3. with no risk Or bother about it,
emile Sisters are very ingenious
work and prepare many forms of
lies which are wholly unknown
2 North. For example: perhaps
ur first swell dinner party in Ar
"a you are surprised to see a tray,
a with hard boiled eggs, brought
desert, and may feel inclined to
p your nose at them, tiguratively
ng- especially when the hostess,
z served each guest with a couple
IS, pours over them d syrup of
sugar. But, having sensibly
uled to do as the Romans when
ne" you discover that the white
Vt these bogus eggs is composed
.clouS blanc mango, and the yOlk
IN orange Jelly, egg shells having
Sed for moulds.
seadful thing to which Mendoza
5iect, i'll common with all the
ia regions from Colombia to Cape
IS the terrem0tO, or earthquake,
every day or two threatens dis
ny slight tremblings of the earth,
.aslonally fulflls its evil promises
-Neral shaking-up. One soon be-
accustomed, but never inditfer-
the sound OF dishes gathering
shelves. the sight Of doors mys-
sly sWaying and the feeling of
and leaving beneath ones feet,
The sleeping giant below were
over III his bed The people
We here and know from sad ex-
..- what an earthquake means
lch more frightened by these
STATIONS than are unsophisti-
strangers, and they make a grand
.o the plaza at the first alarm; and
nstant the trembling is over the
auad cathedral bells toll a solemn
giving for danger past. There
II been any great earthquake here
that of about forty years ago,
shook down the entire town and
nine tenths of its population in
MS. Few traces of that devasta-
re now visible, for the Mendoza
~ is new city, built little to
>tWard of its former site, mostly
Inc tumbled-down materials of
aomplete was the destruction,
hen a new Governor was APP
1t. a year later, and the work of
,tructiOn began, the government
not find single heir, or claimant,
alf of four-tifths of the families
i Mendoza. In order to realize
such a calamity means, which
9ccur again at any moment, |
heen interviewing some of the
cltlZenS who survived the earth
of forty years ago. Senior AL
IN, WelI-knoWn Mendozian, says
the great terremote occurred
$50 in the evening of Ash
esday. His wife and children had
70 vesper in the church of Santa
ugo, and he sat in the patio of
use conversing with a friend,
suddenly rumbling noise was
and in less than one minute, in
mixing of an eye, the whole city
18th a deafening crash. How long
insensible under the ruins
home he does not know. On re-
lg consciousness he found that
his legs was broken and that a
beam, fallen across his chest,
ri him to the ground and caused
eeivable pain. Through crevice
= broken walls he could see the
5 that ragged within short dis
steadily creeping toward him,
re was too weak to free himself
ardly cared to live believing that
Is family had persisted (Which
VI to be the case, and that he was
MY survivor in the doomed city;
Ie prayed to die quickly, before
gracious rats and vermln of all
that infest the place should find
at entombed among thousands of
victims under six feet of adobe.
he sank into insensibility and
he revived again the sun was
g brightly and the contiagratlon
oated-but an awful stiffness re-
ID, the stiffness of death. Even
TX of dog would have been wei
81 the wall of anguish from some
, sufferer: but not a sound broke
ence, except now and then a low
ing Of the earth, always followed
fresh shower of falling bricks
he shocks continued at frequent