Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-07-31

serves to be called the New York OF
SOUTH America, Buenos Ayres de.
serves to be called the Chicago or
The Plaza Mayo is the
principal street, and is very similar
to the Avenida Central in Rio. In
TACT everything Is very similar TO
Rio. that is of course, In general APP
pearanoe, but not so much so In
detail, All the buildings here are
very modern and pretty, and the ar
have combined architectural
skill and completeness with beauty
and picturesqueness, and the result
is a very modern and up-to-date
building, without the hard lines of
the New York buildings. The
principal streets are always crowded,
but that snap and hustle so char
acteristic on Broadway is lacking
here. Every body is more leisurely.
All the people here, especially the
naval men, are leaving no stone I'M
turned to give us good time, and
must say they have succeeded we'll.
There are quite a few Americans
here, and consequently there is an
American church. The minister had
arranged for special song service on
the first night we were here, which
happened to be Sunday. About 200
blue jackets attended, and we heard a
good American sermon, and sang
good old American songs, which GER
tainly did our hearts good, it's been
SO long, or rather seems so long,
since be had heard any. They had
several pretty solos, and after the
service we adjourned to large
lecture hall, where tea and cakes
we're served, and we had little in
formal musical and chat with the
congregation.
On the second night we were given
a theatre party by the Argentine
sailors, and enjoyed it very much.
1t was something on the order of
Keith o. Proctor's, and was all in
Spanish, but they had arranged for
several English productions for our
benefit and they were all loudly Gu
cored 1 heard "My Irish Molly. !"
80 Bill BaiIy," and several other
popular songs sung in Spanish, and
they certainly sounded ridiculous
All the actors and actresses were
French and English except one Span
ish ventrIloquist, and an American
doing a dare devil high dive stunt on
a bicycle. l met him outside the
theatre and had a long chat with
him. He had just come over from
Paris, where he had been playing a
month. lie had one of the French
condolences with him and introduced
me to her, but she didn't speak Eng
lish and | didn't parle vous la
France, so we didn't say much to
each other. The finest ventrIlnquist
ever heard was this Spaniard. OF
course everything he said in Spanish,
but he had some Of the most perfect
wax figures | ever saw, and handled
them eXcellently.
On the next night (Tuesday} we
we're given dinner over in the navy
yard. Although we couldn't thank
them with words very we'll, l think
the way everybody went at it was a
very eloquent "Thank you, we enjoy
ed it very much. {" After dinner we
had dance. They had fine Marine
band, which played during the dinner
and during the dance. l met several
nice Americans here, one of whom
had nice touring cal, and he did his
best to wear the tires off of it show
ing me around. There was no speed
limit and we would get out III the
country and "burn the wind" for
about twenty miles at stretch.
There are excellent roads here all out
through the country and we certainly
made good use of them. The street
cars here are all English build and
are "double deckers'' and it only
costs half as much to ride on top as
on the bottom.
On Tnurd asy the American Athletic
Association had planned a field day.
and the men of the tlotilla played a
game of ball, ran foot races, and lad
a tug -ofwar against teams of the
association, we being the victors in
every contest. The Botanical Gardens
here are also very fine, but won't
compare with those at Rio, although
the Geological Gardens are much
liner.
At O:3O O. m. january 3Oth. the