The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1913-01-18
ROYAL Is PALACE

WISH to describe if can one OF
the most interesting features OF
lie In Madrid, feature peculiar
to Madrid among all the cities of
the world as far as am inform.
ed. 1t is long way in life albeit
short In distance from Prado to the
hostrado. The extension of the Prado
into the Paxeo de Castellana leads one
TO the part Of the city where fats give
place to detached dwellings and where
mansions are seen that match in
grandeur almost anything seen along
Riverside Drive in New York, writes
George w. Burton In the Los Angeles
Times.
Not only the houses in this part of
Madrid are grand, but the euuipages
are as fine as may be seen anywhere,
and the horses exceed anything ever
oeheld In horse flesh, The teams
are well matched, and the animals
stand IA to Is hands high, each hand
! representing nearly 100 pounds of
hnely-put-up horse flesh and gone.
Ihey are, taking them all in all, the
hnest, rangiest animals in the world.
The heads and ears are small the
neck long and arched, holding. the
head high without painful hitching.
The fore shoulders are high and so
are the launches, the back straight.
The fore legs are straight as a whip
stalk, the chest is deep, the haunch.
es and thighs are powerfully muscled,
and the bodies are round as bar
rel.
Seen on Sunday.
The Rastro is not along the Prado
and no splendid turnouts are seen
there. The street is in the center of
the city, a short walk from the Puerta
del Sol. 1t is narrow street Sis
rounded with old houses, begins in
an alley and ends in two which fork
Into still narrower alleys farther on.
The English name for the peculiar
institution that has its home there Is
the Rag Market. Sunday is the day
20 see It, The people who carry on
their trade in the Rastro are there
every day in the week in small num-
bers, but Sunday the whole place
1000 feet long, by SO feet wide. is
packed so densely that one makes his
way through the throng slowly and
with much difficulty To present a
general view of this motley gather.
Ing In words or in picture is limos
slble, 1t must be taken bit by bit.
any analysed carefully. As one en-
ters the long, narrow street n mass
OF humanity, men, women, boys, girls,
decrepit age and tenderest youth.
moves about in an interminable maze
beginning nowhere or everywhere as
you may please to see 1t. The ground
space is encountered with big bas.
tets filled with all kinds of what we
'all In America garden truck" and
fruits. In and out ply women. each
with half a dozen to dozen fat
'hickens hung around their necks
.uckat under their arms, and held
In any way convenient for the mo-
ment. Eggs, game, anything the poor
nay have to sell, is here, and here the
poor come to buy. If one gets there
about noon there may be seen peas |
ant woman who has sold out her has.
ket OF cabbage, cauliflower and let |
tuce, and has turned the debris out
on the ground. At once this is bounced !
upon by some poor wretch of a wom
an who has not centimo to get a lit.
tie something to eat She bends down
and rakes about the leaves Of the
and picks out every bit
that is in any way possible of cook.
Ing Each scrap is put in bit of a
basket, in her apron or In a leaf Of
an old paper, or in an old box One is
rresistibly reminded of hen in the
yard scratching for a tid-bit from
he kitchen.
Just beyond the vegetable market
he booths are reached where other
wares are on sale. The first NAV be
/ shoe store. If you please. But it Is
something that no one who reads this
etter ever saw or heard of. All DAYS
n the week men, women and chill
lren range the streets and pick an
.nything that promises cent of gain
70 old shoe is too poor to be passed
". These are taken to the Rastro in
trings. in baskets, in ones, twos and |
ems, according to the wealth of the
hoe merchant of the Rastro. Here {
he lot is sold for a few cents To a +
to family of cob |
lers. This family sits on the ground q
n the Rastro from early till late daily ,
as busily as ants There NAV G
e an old man and an old woman or 9
wo, couple of young people, and 7
wo to six children on the cobble S
tones of the street, on bit of mat '
ng or board, If the circumstances g
the firm will permit such extrava- s