Evening star., 1914-10-25

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SRHGS beats fast or slow.
&I. 1t contains all Of
I the statesmen and
most of the money. 1t is the center of
all great movements. and, in fact, it
might be called Chile itself. The San
5iago of 1914 contains fully one-sixth
of all the people inside the republic.
II has population of over 100000 and
has doubled in size in the past fifteen
years. 1t has grown in beauty and
modern improvements. 1t has widened
its streets and paved them with as
phalt. The Alameda has become a
grand boulevard, with a garden run
ming through the center and driveways
on each side. The Cousino Park. the
gift of the millionaire family that
owns the coal mines, has sprung up on
one side of the city and a forest park
has been created, Skirting both of the
banks of Mapocho river. The Quinta
Normal has been greatly improved and
Santa Lucia. the table mountain that
rises straight up out of the heart of
the city, has developed into a creation
more wonderful than the Hanging Gar
dens of Babylon.
wish I could show you Santa Lucia!
No city of the world has a public park
to compare with it. II you could drop
down into the very center Of Philadel-
phia. Baltimore or Boston a mighty
rock with almost precipi.ous walls 300
feet high and with base of 100 acres
or more you might have the park as
it was at the beginning. To make it
what it is now you would have to
cover the walls with vines. plants and
trees until the whole became one mass
of green. This mass would include
eucalyptus and palms. oak trees and
pines and semi-tropical plants and
flowers of every description. The rock
is so rough that natural grottoes are
formed in its walls. and as you climb
your way up you go past fountain after
fountain and waterfall after waterfall.
You walk through paths shaded by gi-
Eantic fern trees and flowers OF many
colors, the names OF which are uE-
known in North America. Every step
upward gives different view of the
city, and at the top beautiful little
nat overhangs the capital of the
Chilean republic. In the center of this
park, right on the top. is a level space
foored with tiles, where the city band
plays of an evening. and there on a
curtain stretched across the rock is an
open-air moving picture show, where
the people sit out under the clear sky
OF the Andes. as the doings of other
parts of the world pass before them.
The view from Santa Lucia shows the
magnificent location of Santiago. The
town lies in fiat basin or valley sur
rounded by ragged blue mountains. It
is i,70O feet above the Pacific ocean and
in plain sight of the Andes. Around
one side of 1t flows the Mapocho river.
further down is the Maipo. and beyond
thcu are the rich farms. orchards and
vineyards of the great central valley.
The city is right under and all around
yoU. 1t is vast expanse OF gray
roofs, cut here and there by wide
streets that cross one another at right
angles. In its center is the Plaza dos
krmas. on which stand the cathedral.
1ne city hall and other great buildings.
and q little further over. taking up q
whole square, Is the Chilean capitol or
House. OF Congress-. one of the finest