The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-25
ny FRANK G. CARPENTER.

fact, It might be called Chile itself.
The Santiago of 1914 contains fully
one -siNth of all the people inside the
republic. 1t has population of over
100000, and has doubled in size in the
past fifteen years. IT has grown in
beauty and modern improvements. It
2 has widened it's streets and paved them
with asphalt. The Alameda has be-
come n grand boulevard. with gar
- den running through the centre and
driveways on each side. The Cousino
Park, the gift of the millionaire fam
lily that owns the coal mines, has
sprung up on one side of the city and
. a forest park has been created, skirt
,!inE both of the banks of Mapocho
River. The Qufnta Normal has been
2 greatly improved, and Santa Lucia, the
table mountain that rises straight up
out OF the heart of the city. has de-
full than the Hanging Gardens of
Babylon.
- l wish l could show you Santa Lucia,
!. No city OF the world has public park
: ito compare with it. If you could drop
down into the very centre of Phila-
.delphia, Baltimore or Boston a mighty
rock with almost precipitous walls go
feet high and with n base of 100 acres
!. or more, you might have the park as
y 1t was at the beginning. To make it
/. what 1t Is now, you would have to
4 cover the walls with vines, plants and
s trees until the whole became one mass
). of green. This mass would include
= eucalyptus ana palms. oak trees and
!. pines and semitropical plants and
]. flowers OF every description. The rock
: is SO rough that natural grottoes are
: formed in its walls, and as you climb
z your way up you go past fountain af-
!. ter fountain and waterfall after water
!. fall. You walk through paths shaded
= by gigantic fern trees and flowers of
y many colors. the names Of which are
= unknown in North America. Every
= step upward gives different view of
!. the city. and at the top a beautiful
!. little park, at the height of Il thirty
{. story flat, ovcrhangs the capital of
i, the Chilean republic. In the centre of
!, this park, right OH the top. is level
{. space fioorcd with tiles. where the city
Z. band plays of an evening, and there
!. on 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
y OF other parts OF the world pass be-
7 fore them.
= The view frocs Santa Lucia shows
4. the magnificent location OF Santiago.
& The town lies in fiat basin or valley
: surrounded by ragged blue mountains.
= IL Is LOO feet above the Pacific Ocean
y and in plain sight of, the Andes
( Around one side OF ii flows the
{ Mapocho River, further down is the
e Maipo, and beyond them the rich
K farms, orchards and vineyards OF the
\ great central valley. The city is right
I under and all around YOU. 1t is a vast
Z cXpansc of gray roofs, cut here and
3 there by wide streets that cross one
I, another at right angles In its centre
!. is tho Plaza dcs Armas, on which stand
: tho cathedral. the City Hall and other
J great buildings, and a little further
7 over, taking up whole square, is the
!, Chilean Capitol or House of Congress.
1. one of the finest buildings of all South
3 America. The Capitol building is sur
/, rounded by gardens filled with tropical
( trees. Including great palms. the
!. trunks OF which are rs large around
!. rs hogshead, although they are not
I more than thirty feet high.
]. Now look down over your feet!
i Right under you begins the Alameda,
|; the PENNSYLVANIA Avenue or Common
!. wealth Avenue of Santiago, 1t is lined
i with magnificent buildings and here
!, and there over the, whole city YOU can
!. sec the spires OF churches rising above
= the roofs of the buildings. You can
(, also see trees apparently growing right
I: the patios. Many OF the buildings are
'.of Spanish style, running about gar
: dens filed with roses and palms and
!. other tropical trees.
!, Blu; let us so down from Santa Lucia
: There are plenty of street cars with
-.woman conductors, who will give us
IA seat on the roof for or cents, or
!, We can get an automobile quite as
+ cheap IS In any town III North America.
I'VE choose the motor car, and fly this
= way and that through the town. How
'.biG the houses are and how low. The
= Older ones cover acres, and but few
,,of them have more than two stories.
They are made of brick, plastered
-.
.est OF colors. In the best parts OF
- the city the architecture is: Greek.
..Thc doors are upheld by pillars, and
- venture there are more Corinthian
!. and Doric columns in Santiago than
Elm Athens. Others of the residences
< are like Italian palaces. and not a
= few have each cost 100000 and up
!. ward. Nearly every great house has
!. some legend connected W h 1t. There
ais a magnificent one on the Alameda,
= whose plans were drawn In Paris and
-sscnt out to the builders. In some way
.-they got the plans mixed and put the
= back OF the house to the street. and
:. 80 II is TO this day.
a Now are in the business part Of
Santiago. Here there are many fine
!. buildings that have grown up within
), the past few years. There are mag
:. nificent stores with the goods OF the
:. latest patterns from Europe. The town
..is noted for Its fine window displays
:. and it's many arcades. The business
;. blocks are large. and the fact that
a. they are not skyscrapers makes It
- possible TO cut these covered massage
"a ways through them. roofing the ar
e cades with glass. Often a block con-
- tanning several acres will have arcades
- that cross one another at right angles
y Each IS favorite promenade, for the
r. opaque roof shuts out the heat OF the
I. sun and at the same time gives plenty
.-of light. The stores In the arcades
l. bring good rents.
]. find great difference In the stores
s.>of Santiago over those that / saw here
= about fifteen years ago. At that time
=. there was no attempt at display. The
:. prices were not marked on the goods,
s. and nearly all dealing was a matter Of
81 bargain and sale. Now every large
X store has it's plate glass windows and
:. the price marks are changed from day
4 to day. This revolution was caused
/. about four years ago by the Inaugural