New-York tribune., 1909-01-31
Tale of a Uruguayan Woman
and a Trainload
cf Rivals.
By Lewis X. Freeman.

ON lie line of the FerrocarriI Genital de Uru-
quay, in the heart of the richest PASTORAL section
Of the Republico Banda Oriental IL =, considerable
district settled almost entirely br Italian Tyroese
The pioneers OF this district calie hom the Tyrol
many years ago and were mostly lnairied men with
their wives and children Anpty lLelu however,
were several young women or az approaching mar
Iiageab!e sRe These weT- aaId to hav,. i'e.-i OF
much charm aud beauty and before a r'..- mad gone
10y all Of M. I'D ,,I.its.trt -, 1ntageous and
hoHorabl. Unions with young Uguguayan asian
cieros ranchers OF the neghborhood between
whom there q competition Of warmth be
expected considering the feSness and fairness OF
the hands be and the number and ardor of
the aspirants.
These marriages were most successful from
eyerybodys point Of view, but notably that of the
young women when the was broken to
the iorn maids who had little but their goat hocks
to make love to back among the TyrOlean Alps
there naturally something more than a mild
excitement created And from that time on, stinu-
lated by the forces that lead girls who have
grown musty on the overstocked matrimonial
shelves of Eastern states to visit their married
sisters living in ''good-wornaness' Western mining
towns TO gain the advantage Of unglutted markets.
there began from the mountain meadows of the
Italian Tyrol TO the sunny valleys of Central Uru-
quay of The most remarkable emigration move
in history.
From the time, some four decades back when
the first glad Of the discovery eligible
this day the number women entering the port of
Montevideo from that country has been to the
number of men as 10 70 !. and subsequently 95 per
cent of them have married Uruguayan husbands.
As significant commentary the with
which this movement has been conducted may be
mentioned the fact that only per of these
women were over twenty-five years old, and while
I cannot substantiate il from government reports
I was assured by several disinterested and unim-
passioned Observation-Disclosures in fact-that most
Of them very good looking. How the aged.
the halt the blind and the generally incapaci-
tated'' were held back when the market fairly
opened up must always remain mystery: that
this miracle wrought. however, indicates the
undeniable existence of a system OF cooperation
between the promoters Of the movement at both
ends Of the line. Can you imagine of the new
ly happily married immigrants sending back
instructions. paralleling those Of foreign consul
reporting for the benefit of home shippers that
because of the fierce competition of home prod
ucts will be suicidal, regards future trade
send old damaged goods those I'm any way
below the charming, chaste and twenty-three'
standard of previous consignments"?
And all this has gone in spite Of the fact that
the honest matrimonial campaign Of the ordinary
woman in Uruguay would be met with about the
same is supposed TO await upon him
who takes coal to Newcastle. for the Uru-
guayienne is not hacking in beauty and charm Of
her own. But a Tyrolean maiden to have
in her something that strikes responsive chord
breast OF the Uruguayan estanciero that none
of his own countrywomen play upon hence
the movement in the home product languishes in |
the face of the unnatural and unreasonable de- |
mand for the chocely assorted and carefully cued
imported article
And right here is the pity OF #; for Uruguay. |
because of the destruction OF the flower Of its
manhood" in its countless revolutions, 10 second
snoong th. nations OF the world only 20 The sister
republic Paraguay. in the predomnance OF females
over males IN its population. In the latter country
tht. was as great twenty to one In lsS the year
of The ending of the destructive war waged against
:. ,v rrxztl Arxensfna ana Uruguay, and the bal
snos 20 stifl 70 fsy on the wrong side that the
-,.rnsn 6o prxctiosly ali of the work AID most OF
the wooinR.
rT-uguay IS not bessf ny conditions so aggravated
- .ho.. nr.vstlinR in Paraguay. but the excess OF
,,or,.p--eaily fine young women too some or
tnsr,-is very great. Which makes IL only natural
h., .as sex should fee! itself III treated IN
,.nr fsresd 10 ssxASsss "a sonal terms With spe-
,,,JIv selected. admitted 6uty free foreign girls