Evening star., 1914-04-19

the sheets to typewriter and in Span
ish, with one finger of one hand. click
ed Off the items. He then took the
typewriter copy to an old fashioned
copying press and sponged the leaves
until they were dripping with nois-
ture. He copied the bill I'm the book
and handed it to with my chit.
looked over the latter and found that
one of nine dollars belonged to some
one else. This was deducted. ] then
knew the sum I was to pay. but IL
took me quarter of an hour more
before | could get back my change.
Altogether. the whole proceeding con-
Sumed fifty four minutes by my watch
ind that for an account which would
have been rendered at the Willard in
Washington or The La Sale in Chicago
or the Waldorf in New York In the wink
of an eye.
There is no reason why a chain OF
American hotels at good prices would
not have large custom. They would
be patronized by foreigners and by
Peruvians and the expenses of run
ming them would be far less than in
our larger cities. There are no mar
kets in the world that are better tnan
those of Peru. We have the fruits
here of the tropics and temperate zones.
and that throughout the year.
I spent yesterday morning in going
through the city market. 1t covers
square, the chief stalls being in =
great court rooted with galvanized
iron and surrounded by stores. There
were grapes white and red. There
were apples as yellow as gold. peaches
the color of snow and pomegranates
and guavas, chirrimoyas and tunas. the
fruit of the cactus. There were oranges
and lemons and pineapples. bananas
and bushels of paltas or alligator pears.
The latter cost five cents or ten cents.
Notwithstanding / had to pay so cents
for the one / ordered extra at the
hotel for my dinner today.
And then the vegetables What
would you think of string beans az
long as your arm, of potatoes as vel
low as gold and of yuccas which have
flesh like potato. but consist of roots
as big around a ball club and often
two feet in length. l saw roasting ears
at nearly every vegetable stand. Some
of these We're bright yellow and others
as black your boots. L saw grains
of hominy OF about twice the size OF
the largest of lima beans. They came
from a corn grown here which Is SO
mealy you can make -four of it by
pounding ii with stone. There were
many tomatoes and great heads OF
caulifiower and CO abbage. muskmellons
and waterrlelons and other fruits the
names of which | do not know. A
large part of the market is devoted TO
meats and game. | saw lamb flesh and
kid flesh and great cages of guinea
pigs which taste like squad pigeons
or tender young squirrels. There Were
large fish stalls full of corbina and
other fine fish from the ocean and some
fish which are especially delicious when
served raw with the Juice of lemon.
The acid seems to have the same effect
on the flesh as boiling and 1T is even
better than the raw FISH Of Japan.
There are also many kinds of she'll
fish and among others a little Clam
like creature called the senorita or
little girl. This is clam whose
flesh is as white as snow, but which
has also a morsel of meat of the col
or of the brightest red pepper which
forms a part of the fish. 1t tastes de-
licious.
, In connection with the markets of the
, west coast l look for a large fruit
business to grow up in shipping Peru
, Wan and Chilean fruits to New York
and New Orleans as soon as the canal
is completed. We are now only ten
days from the mouth of the Mis-
sissippi river and within two weeks OF
, New York. This distance can be greatly
< shortened by the canal. and the day
will come when eight or nine days Will
be all that is needed for the fast cold
coast to our principal ports They can
raise here fruits equal to any in Cali
fornia and southern Europe, and that
: in the midst of our winter, when all
fruits bring a high price in the states
Peru has Malaga grapes equal to
those of Spain and something like
8 twenty million dollars worth of such
5 grapes are now annually raised in the
! valleys of this desert coast and turned
= into wine. Such grapes could be ship
1 ped to New York and bring 20 to % cents
e a poupd In fact. have just heard of an
t Argentine vineyardist who has thousands
4 of acres near the eastern slope of the
Andes. He decided to try shipping fruit to
Q New York last winter and sent two or
: three cold-storage cars from there clear
: across the pampas to the Atlantic
4 ocean. They were taken by one Of the
I Lamport and Holt steamers to New
; York and were sold out in two or
( three days They brought him -
t cents a pound and Notwithstanding
/ this long haul paid very well Similar
: fruit can be raised on this west coast
a and the day will come when much of
e our winter fruit and vegetables will be
! produced here on the Pacific side of the
< Andes FRANK e. CARPEN1Eh-