Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1908-11-06

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children that have never seen the inside
of school house.
Later the penitentiary for the Fed
eral District, was visited. There were
660 prisoners. all found to he well. |
had heard such frghtful tales of Mexi-
can prisons that was very agreeably
surprised to find everything kept clean
and bright, special attention being Civ
en- to seeing that each man has his bath
every day, something the greater mum
ter outside of the prison know very
little about. Many of the men are EN-
ployed in the shoe factory where very
good article is turned OUT. The in
mates of the factory looked to be better
fed, cleaner, brighter aud IN every way
1000 above the dirty miserable peons
seen the day before, that it would seem
blessing for more of them to serve
term in the pen. ] understand that the
common city jails are most horrible af-
fairs--so much sothat We did not care
to examine one.
The shrine of Gaudulape three OF
four miles FROM the City was visited.
This corresponds to st. Anne de Beaupre
in Quebec. One thing of interest was
the silver railing around the altar, made
of 81 tons of solid silver. A short dis
tance away up on the hill is the ceme-
terry where the rich of Mexico City are
buried. From this point grand view
OF the extinct volcanoes Popocatepetll
and lztacchuatl, (you can pronounce the
latter to suit yourself can be had. Re-
turning to the city we strolled down
San Francisco street very narrow
thoroughfare where from seven to nine
in the evening the wealthy class with
their fine horses and carriages but more
particularly the bonitas senoritas -
pretty women-drive up and down to be
admired. Why they choose this little
narrow street do not know, because
there are many wide pase"s or drives,
one being the road out to Chapultepec
castle, the residence of President Diaz,
but they are not out for the good of
the drive alone, and can be seen and
admired better down town in the crowd
ed street.
will conclude by saying that all
who can should take trip to Mexico.
You no doubt have heard things about
this country that you did not believe
and it is only by seeing that the coun-
try and people can be appreciated.
There are only two classes in Mexico,
the miserably poor and very wealthy.
The climate is delightful, ranging from
30 to 20 during our stay, no rain except
| for two or three months in the summer.
days warm and nights cool. If had a
good position would not mind living
in this country, but the wages are not
equal to those in the States. in other
words they figure on giving you a little
better than twice what you receive in
our country. | consider you should re-
ceive three or four times as much.
Schools are few and | met number of
Americans who wanted to get back to
the States to educate their children.
Churches are numerous. sometimes thir-
ty or forty in town of about as many
thousand inhabitants, but they seem to
be making little headway in reforming
the people, the lower class being noted
as the greatest thieves and robbers in
the world, so much so that all the houses
are barricaded with iron bars to keep
the thieves from stealing everything,
Anything peon can get on his back he
will carry off,
| left Mexico City, Friday night for
Ell Paso via the Mexican Central; Texas
& Pacific to Texarkana, Ark, and Iron
Mountain from there to st. Louis, max,
ing about 1900 miles on this trip and
a little over 5000 since September lst
having lived in Canada, United States
and Mexico-under three fags--in las,
three weeks. Buenos noches,
f. j. CLEUGH.
FL Paso, Texas, October 19.