The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-16

and salutes as he goes into tho build.
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A walk THROUGH tho business sectios.
We cross the Plaza and go up the
Avenida dc San Francisco. Tho sun
has now set and tho electric lights
have sprung out. The street blazos 4
with the arc lamps. which. fastened
to posts about fifteen feet high, run
through it from one end to the othor. +
The lights are so arranged that each
cluster OF five Is not more than twenty
Ave feet distant from that on tho oppo- Y
ste side Of the way. The windows of
the shops are also Illuminated and tho
asphalt shines like polished glass under
the electric rays
Now stop a moment and notice the
people. There are representatives here
from all over Europe---Germansrs
Frenchmen. Englishmen and Spaniards.
and also many Americans. We see our s
goods in the stores, and hear the Eng
lish language often spoken as we walk
through the streets. There are many
rich Mexicans, and some OF them coma
in from the country with tho costumes
of the old haciendado. combating OF
All immense sombrero loaded with Sill
ver and suit of rich cloth decorated
with numerous buttons and braid.
There are many peon men wearing
! blankets over their shoulders and
Indian women with black rohoshs
wrapped round thoir heads There
are also girls or tho woll-to- do classes.
clad IN black with black shawls round
/ their heads, and others wearing high
; hcclcd shoes and Paris hats like those
/ OF our ladies at home. Most OF the
women have powder and paint upon
their dark faces. but not more, ven
turc. than YOU can see any day on the
girls VINO walk UP and down the great
white way in New York
Built by Americans.
When ! was in Mexico City twenty
years ago the new part of the capisel
lying on both sides Of the Paseo de Ia
Rcforma had just began to be- The
city then was only half the size 1t Is
now. ana the greater part of this
region covered with swamps Its
possibilities We're seen by American
dictate named the American Colony
Company and bought large tracts OF
land. which they laid out in lots. They
drained off the water and put in pave
ments and sewers. They also built
modern houses costing all tho way
from $4,000 to 100000 apiece and sold
them on time. The investment was ex-
ceedingly profitable, and q told that
they made something like 100 per cent
dividends on about S6,00o.1oo
This first district was known as tho
colonial, and now we have n half dozen
different colonials which have sprung
up in that region one is the Colonia
Roma. which named its streets after
the cities of Mexico, and which repre-
scented capital OF about $4,000, 900,
furnished by Americans Another CO.
lonal WAS laid out by Il Kansas City
man, and others by Mexican capitalists.
All OF these enterprises paid we'll,
and to-day these oolonals form tho
finest parts of the Mexican capital,
y They extend all the way fron the Ala
r media or little beyond 1t to Chapul-
4. tepec, and they have covered a large
Il part Of the ground to the north and
= south of the Paseo de In Reforma
c The streets OF one colony arc named
d after foreign cities, and YOU can walk
9 through Vienna. Liverpool, Berlin or
II London Another has streets named
$ after famous Mexican statesmen, ant
% another, near the Plaza de Toros
n ght be called the colony of doctors
u for every street bears a name with q
i DR.. before ii.
1t is here in this colony section thai
It our ambassador lives. the American
e nag dying over his mansion OF stone
o Copyright, 1913. by Frank G. Car.
d pcnter)