The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-18
CHILE IS CELEBRATING
 1O2nd ANNIVERSARY OF INDEFEzNDENCE

Chile the long republic which Stretches along the west coast o1 it's national holiday. the anniversary of the declaration Of indep p:ndence. II was on Sept. IS. 1S10 that the flames Of revolt against SpaEish rule broke out in Chile. inaugurating a revolu- tioI1ary movement that was to spread over the entire continent The first to rise in rebellion. Chile has continu- ed ever since to@be among the most progressive of South American na- tisns. It was the first state to build raS fro aGs4s-Sx1d- telez5Eapa lines, and to- days 'celebratfon of it's natal day finds Chile still in the van of South Amerl- cah progress.
 Santiago, the capitol of Chile, are Beautiful cities, although not st @nagnifcent or pOpuious as elthef eBuenos Ayres, Argentina, or Rio de an6 ear rthquakes on land have often -destroyed large sections Of Valpra1so, shia saaz sarzse trio pnphant. from the asEes. From the waters edge the city rises upward on the slopes of terraeed hills. with elevators all along the line In Vina del Mar, the residential sec tion, the visitor sees equipages quite as fine and people quite as styllShty dressed as in I1oneor9 or New Yori5, or even Paris The street cars in Val paraisb arc of both. the ordinary and the doubIe-deck variety The former are run with. trailers in order to pro gers for ChfIel is not democratIc- even in it's ztralr "a alparals so E a commercial elty while Sant1ago the capitoL has about it an atm osphere. of elegant leisure. There may be poor people in Santiago de Chile, but they are kept we'll out of sight of the casual
 Since a certain incident some years ago. in which Fighting Bob's Evans threatened to popElate .GeheDua with America have looked with suspicion on the United States, to the great detriment of trade relations between of it's manufactured goods, well as it's fashions art, literature and army officers, from Europe The Chilean army is no barefooted brigade, but a well trained aggregation of men of ficered principally by Germans, who have taught them everything of Ger man military tactics down to the goosestep
 Litchheld. the birthplace of pr; Johnson. will celebrate today the 203rd annfveESary of the birth of it's most il1ustri6Hs son. For nearly a century Johnson's birthday has been observed in that ancient city by a gathering of .Jof1nsonian scholars and admirers from all ever the United Kingdom At the celebration year ago the old house in St MarysS Square where Johnson uaS born was inaugurated as a memorial library the nucleus of the collection of .Johnsonia being over thousand NOlGfneS DeQOGdIHeu tO I.itchfe1d by the late Rev Peter Hay Hunter of Edinburgh. and which in cIudes rare copies of the dictionary, the .Adventurers Rambler Ras- selas. and political tracts and peeti- cal works. It also includes nearly forty different editions of Boswell s famous ..IsJfe.'' The annual Johnson supper will be held as usual in the old george inn. and the menu will in clude the .'coarse'' fare favored by pr. Jct rson-beefstea& pudding kidneys oysters. ha1nch Of mutton apple pie with cream and toasted cheese, wash ed down with literal quantities of ale and punch and followed by a church warden pipe7 filled with very strong fobacco.