Arizona republican., 1910-02-28


 are rorreatial and without cessa- tion far days a5 . time. Truly. that is not conducive to the well being of a consumtive. However. some people Ep there and get well. the lower country. a,ong the coast is very unhealthy. and natives broken in health, many of them suffering from consumption. go there to recuperate. and do recuperate. even as thousands go from the coast cities of the United States n the western and southwestern states and recuperate so rapidly as to astonish friends and medical advisors. The natives of this country. too. ga to their mountain town, and many get well. but by no means all Of them. But the writer would advise Americans who have consumption to stay in the United States. This advice is not given on heresay. nor in a fit ef the blues. The writer has visited Quito and found il to be not what he was seeking, and certainly not what he was led to believe. Ambato. a town Of about eight or ten thousand in- 1 habitants. some seventy miles nearer i .he Pacific coast than Quito. has q | climate very favorable Still, not ! 50 good as can he found in Arizona | or New Mexico, with the additional i drawback of filth and poor cooking. | Riobamba. about midway between the ! coast aha Quito. is also better than Quito, but not so good as Ambato | Both of these towns have an elevation ! of between eight and nine thousand !
 
 towns in the mountains, where peo- rle go to recuperate and where some ! improve. Hut everywhere the cooking {, is frighttul and the sanitary condi ! tionS are-well. there aren't any. The ! writer has tried Quito. Ambato and Riobanba and is satisfied with the 1 United states. and particularly Ari ! zona and New Mexico. A number of | Americans have come here recently. 1 seeking relief from consumption. ana 1 all are disappointed and most of them l have gone back. some having been ! helped on their way by Americans here. AIr Fox. tho American min iSter at Quito. has taken the matter up and will do what he can to coun- tsract the effect of the articles pub llshed in the United States adver- tiSing Quito as a place where con sumptlycs are sure of absolute cure.
 ThosS who have written of Ecua- dor as beautiful country, cannont he accused of congregation. To ex agscratc in that respect one would require a wonderful command of Ian guage. When Ecuador becomes Suf- ficientiy modernized as to have good lG will he paradise for tourists. Everything is naturally clean and beautiful. except where polluted by human beings. The towns are iilthy. the water bad and the cooking worse Even in the mountain towns where good W3rer k easily obtainable. 1t is distributed in such dirty vessels that it Is polluted before it reaches the consumer and tropical dysentery k the result. With proper sanitary conditions these towns would he clean and healthy. instead oi being the pest holes they now are. In nearly all the towns along the coast and between the coast and the higher mountain towns. bubonic plague is ever present and the same may be said of yellow fever along the coast. Americans and Europeans seldom sui fer from either of these scourges, be- cause they keep clean and keep their premises clean. But some of the towns will soon have water plants. as Americans and Europeans are now figuring on such enterprises. and that will do away withN the dis tribution of drinking water in 'slop barrels" The much needed sewer will follow. But those improvements cannot come all at once. These peo- pie are very far behind the times. Ecuador is as far behind Mexico as | Mexico is behind the United States. It is said that Quito, the capital of Ecuador. was a center of civiliza- ton even at the time of the great tragedy which brought down upon the head of the -helpelss Hebrew the Eternal Curse. It may be so. but, with the exception of the last few years they have advanced but little since that time. In fact, they have retrograded, and the retrogression seems to date from the time that the swineherd. Pizzaro. with his Span 1 ish riffraff. came and saw and con- auered. The Spauiards crushed the | people down to the lowest possible | level, then fell down with them. The | work of regeneration must be accom- | plished by other races. One needs | but to see the country to know that | nature intended Ecuador to be the ! home of happy, wealthy and pros | porous people, and insured all that by giving the country the richest ! soil in the world. with an abundance 1 of water and each agricultural sea | son twelve months long. Lord Lyt- 1 tons hot air prince, Claude Mol notte. whose tongue built palace on |