The San Francisco call., 1908-10-04
ACalifOrnia Writer Pene-
traresUruguayan
the Real Cause of the Most
'iI.errible Railroad Wreck
South America Has Ever
Known :. :.
BY Lewis R. Freeman

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cream Of the many rich pas
toral sections of Uruguay. is a
CO.'S .eerabie district settled almost en-
trciy bv Italan Tvrolese. The pioneers
of thfs district came from the Tyrol
many years ago and were mostly mar
cried men with their wives and children
Dut amoaS them were several young
wome2 OF or approaching marriage
sfle agc. These were said to have
been Of much charm and beauty and be-
fore a year had gone by all Of them
had contracted the most advantageous
and honorable unions with young es-
tancieros or Iaachers Of the neighbor-
hood, between whom there was a com
petition of q warmth to be expected
considering the fewness and fairness of
the hands to be won and the number
aad ardor Of the aspirants.
These marriages were successful
from everybody's standpoint but not
ably that Of the young women. and
when th1 news was broken TO the lorn
maids who had nothing but .heir goat
nocks 70 make love TO back among the
TXroiean Alps there was very naturally
something more thaa q mild excite
ment created And fro.a mat time.
stimulated BY the same forces that led
girls who have grown inusty on the
4overstocked matrimonial shelves Of our
eastern states 10 visit thei- married
2 sisters living in a good womanless"
western mining town in order to gain
advantage % al uGglutted market.
there began FROM the mountain
meadows Of the Italian Tyrol to the
sunny valleys OF central Uruguay one
ef the most unique emigration move
f-seats IN history.
From the time. some four decades
tdcl when tho first glad news of the
discovery Of men" in Uruguay cleo
:ti-fed the Tyrol down 10 this day, the
number OF women entering The port Of
Aontevideo from that country has been
10 the number of men as 10 to !. and
Subsequently 95 per cent Of them have
E7arried Uruguayan husbands.
As a significant circumstance bearing
q OF. the care with which this movement
. has been conducted may be mentioned
the fact that only per cent Of these
= wo1hen were over 25 years old. and,
while I can not substantiate it from
government reports. I was assured by
several disinterested and unimpassioned
bservers-Eng glishmen, in fact-that
they: We're all beautiful How the aged,
she halt. the blind and the generally
incspacitated" were held back when
the Anarioet was fairly opened up must
always remain a mystery to me; that
thIs miracle has been wrought, how
ever, indicates the undeniable existence
or 4. system Of cooperation between the
promoters of the movement at both
ends OF the line. Can you imagine one
OF the newly and happily married emil
EranIes sending back instructions, par
,allcling those Of a foreign consul re-
porting for the benefit OF home ship
pers to the effect that because of the
fierce competition of home products il
e wisl- be suicidal as regards future trade
"a send old or damaged goods or those
IN any way below the charming.
-cnaste and twenty-three" standard of
previous. .consignments?
~Aa1 all this has gone on in spite of
the fact that the honest matrimonial
campaign Of the ordinary women in
Uruguay would be met with about the
same success as that which is supposed
70 await upon him who takes coal to
p Newcs stle-the -Uruguayienne is not
lacking in a beauty and charm of her
CO own. But Tyrolean maiden seems 10
have in her something that strikes a
responsive chord in the breast of the
Urugusyan estanciero that none of his