The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-04-14

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The New MISUNDERSTANDING
About the Hotels-A Tourist Re-
sort TO BE Opened BY the Canal.
Copyright, 1914, by Frank G. Car
LIMA, Peru.
Climb with me to the rocky top of
CanCristobal Mountain and tawe a
look over the city of Lima. We are
on the edge OF the Rimac Valley,
within eight miles of the Pacific
Ocean and about 1000 feet higher up
in the air. Sitting on this bleak des-
ert hill, the sea seems a wide streak
of silver, beyond which are noun
famous islands bordering the coast.
Right in front of US, on the edge OF
the water, is the port Of Callao with
it's mole reaching out into the ocean,
and opposite il are the islands OF San
Lorenzo which are to be joined to
the mainland to form n of the fin
est harbors of the eastern Pacific. At
our backs, lost in thee louds, lie the
high peaks of the weSternmoSt range
of the Andes; and right under us, so
near that we could throw a stone on
TO it's roofs. is the great low city or
Lima, spread out on the plain. That
winding stream which runs through
IT is the Rimac. IT springs forth from
the glaciers of the high Andes, n
gives life to the irrigated valleys be-
low. 1t alone makes Lima possible,
and it waters the and vine
yards and great fields of grain which
form the emerald setting for the yell
low city, between us and the sea.
Now let us take our glasses and took
n1orec losely at the Peruvian capital.
IL was originally named the City of
the Kings, and it was laid out by
Pizarro only forty-three years after
Columbus discovered America. There
was d great city here 100 years before
the ground on which Chicago and
cincinnati now stand had been trOd-
den by the feet of white men. The
city is one OF the oldest of the hemiS-
phere. 1t was born long before Ne"
York or Boston. II was the capita
of all South America when the United
States was subject to England, anC
today 1T is the q~uaintest and-most in
teresting town upon the two CONT
nents.
Look at il as ii lies there below us
rhe roofs are all flat and the house!
are mostly OF II n two stories
There is a vast eXpanSe of low build
ings with a great cathedral and mag
nificent churches rising here ant
there out of the whole. The cathe
oral is almost in the center, with it
great green plaza in front h
church was laid out by PiZZarro be
fore John Smith landed at jamestown
and its original cost was more thar
half million dollars. 1t has bee
thrown down again and again b
earthquakes: and altogether it wa
ninety years in it's building. 1T con
tains the bones OF PiZarro, which w
shall see later on.
As we look over Lima we can Sc
other churches and converts who's
spires extend high over the roofs. TIL
city was seventy churches in all, an
nearly every one will a visiting
Thee hurch and convent of a Fran
cisco is said to have cost $4,000 ,OOt
and the altar of Santa Rosa, h pa
iron saint of Lima, had in it, when /,
best 1.500 pounds of gold n sllVe
and jewels which embraced 1,400 dia
monds, 1900 emeralds, 100 fine pear
and 500 rubies.
If You look closely you can see bs
yond the cathedral the Plaza {
Armas. where stands the buildir
which is now the Peruvian senate.
was once the seat of the inquiSitio-
and on the space in front of it hui
dreds were executed and many WEI
burned to death the victims of II
autos de fc.
Sow let us turn from the sacr.
TO the secular parts of the town. The
is one just below Us. 1t is the gre
round Plaza de Toros, the immen
bull-rinG where fights are held eve
sunday, and where the Limenos con
by the thousands TO see their favo
tie matadors butcher the bulls. Son
of them are quite as %bloodthirsty
the Roman when they looked at Z
gladiators in the amphitreater
Rome. Only last Sunday, for instant
the bulls were not considered as fer
as they should be, and the Gro,
Missed the fighters and drove the
out of the ring. They even beg
10 tear up the seats, and set f
70 the building, and the soldiers h
70 rush in and put down the mob.
The building is on this side of I
Rimac. The main part of the city
over the river, and there we c
see the palace of the expositi,
which contains III museum. the Q,