Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-06
Carriage Is Health Resort;
Noted for Beautiful Girls

| Cartago, the old Spanish capital, is
situated about ten miles from San Jose,
| the present capital Of the republic of
Costa Rica. It is small town. Of square.
low building of the old Spanish type.
| Carriage is the health resort Of Central
! America, being situated In the heights OF
| the Andes mountains, about 5000 feet
above sea level. Here the residents OF
San Jose come in summer to enjoy the
| fine cool air of the mountains, and those
who can leave the busy industries OF
Port Limon and Punta Arenas also make
| for Carriage during the suitry discomfort
of the summer months.
trail America what Simla is to India. II
lacks the beautiful buildings. the hustle.
the pomp and the ceremony OF san Jose'
which reminds one Of miniature Euro
pean capital, but On the other hand Is all
| that can be desired for those seeking
peace and rest.
The railroad which winds its tortuous
way beside the beautiful. swift and de-
structive ReventasOn river, up and up
from the coast of Port Linen, passes
gently and slowly through the Old mar
|, row 'grass-grown streets Of Cartago.
The Peace Temple.
Here. in grand simplicity. has stood the
Temple Of Peace donated by Mr.. Car
negie to the hoped-fOr unifcation or the
republics of Central America, to the
peace congress, which met for the first
time within the last few years, presided
over by Luis Anderson. special minister
to the United States from Costa Rica,
and which was to have held Its future
meetings in this new temple at Carriage.
The building had only just been COM
pleted 1t is at the top of everything at
Carriage. which is the roof of Central
America From Carriage. gazing In any
pnY1If Inc l.
sides, green with pasture lands. whereon
Craze the cattle brought from Nicaragua
to fatten on the splendid pastures of
Costa Rica.
The Carnegie Temple stood among the
/ old classical outlines of it's ancient neigh
DOrs In complete harmony, but towering
above them. although low building
when compared with the modern stored
| structures Of our own land.
In CartagO one may md artists. worn
out capitalists noyelists-in short, those
| from every land who have learned of this
quiet, beautiful old-wori0 city, where the
twentieth century is a fiction and all the
j old tales of brigands and guitar-playing
gallants come true
It's Girls Beautiful.
The girls OF Carriage are the beauties of
| the western hemisphere, according to
the authorities of Central America, and
especially of Costa RIGA. Brown eyed,
| Indian blooded, barefooted, barelegged.
/ short skirted, rounded, straight haired
| and beautiful with the pure beauty of
| unruffied nature, untrobuled by fashions.
! aches, pains, problem plays or divorce
| suits. they tread the unkept roads of their
/ native mountain city and country with
| spring of step and natural grace
| which would be the despair of corset
| prisoned beauties OF the sO-calied civil
| hzed communities.
| To pass through Carriage on the little
train OF the United Fruit Company and
| gaze from it's platform down the strag-
! Cling lanes of squat houses, built OF
| brick, covered with mortar, and painted
| pink, white, light blue. brown and yell
! low. like the Italian villages along the
| Mediterranean, is to be back In the years
| of long ago.
The streets are of dirt, with some at
tempt at macadanizine; the buildings are
1 for the most part very near to the
ground, one-story affairs, and small
| story at best 1t would seem TO be the
best sort OF town for an earthquake to
| strike and miss.
| The Carnegie Temple Of Peace would
seem to be the one shining mark for such
| a disturbance. But even the temple it.
! SELF being built partly upon the classical
| outlines OF Greece and Rome. and to
| some extent resembling the mission style
of buildings of California, would seem to
| have been built on lines to Withstand
such assaults.
Vulnerable to Earthquake.
| In San Jose the main buildings vulner.
able to assault by earthquake. and the
pride OF the city and country, are the Ca
lthedral upon the main central park space
of the town. and the National Theater
iCTeatro NaciOnaD.
The latter II the embodiment OF the
civic and national patriotism of Costa
Rica They have called II their folly
because they have spent upward OF S,
600 900 upon its building. and the interior
decorations are painted by the hands OF
modern masters from Spain and Italy
imported regardless OF expense to make
THE social functions OF their nation sec.
ond to none.
/ Carriage was founded I'm 1863 by Don
Juan Tarquez de Coronado. 1t is sit
luated in the beautiful Carriage valley at
the foot OF the volcano lraxu, which is
IA $50 feet above the level OF the sea-
| 1t has an estimated population OF TO-
1000.
| Carriage was the capital Of the country
until 1873. 1t has suffered frequently
from earthquakes, and was partially or
in greater part destroyed I'm 172S, 1903,
1926 1S41. 1851 and 1884.
! April ID last a series of earthquakes,
varying In intensity, swept over Costa
tRica doing considerable material dam
lagc, but practically without loss OF life.
San Jose suffered most severely. while
both Carriage and Port LimOn felt the
force of the Disturbances.