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son OF prominence has his own box that
costs $500 or $500 in gold. On such FASH
ionable occasions full dress is always
worn and the ladies are respondent with
diamonds. The men keep their heads
bare during the acting and as soon as
the curtain falls every man puts on his
hat He may stand up in his seat and
sweep the house with his opera glass.
staring at such OF the ladies as interest
him. There is a great deal of visiting
among the friends in the boxes during
the intermissions and the opera is more
Of a social occasion than a musical one.
Races on sunday.
Another social feature is the races,
which arc usually held upon Sundays.
Santiago has one of the finest race tracks
in the world. 1t Is outside the city on
a plain surrounded by mountains which
rise up against the horizon like walls of
snow. Above these white walls Is
stretched a sky of the bluest blue, and
in winter, when the best races take place.
the weather is as mild as June in Vir-
Ginia. The ladies come out in their sum
mer dresses and they walk about through
tho parks and gardens not far from tho
grandstand The race track is owned by
the Club Hipico de Santiago. This club
has done much TO improve the breeding
OF horses in Chile and has made the
Chilean horse one of the best in the
world. The Chilean horse is r cross be-
tween the Flammand and the Arabian
horse brought here by the Spanish con-
querors, which through the temperate eli
mate and the cold snow has grown into
what is an entirely new type. 1t has
great staying qualities, with an extraordi-
nary courage and spirit. Like the Ara
ban horse. it eats but little, and 1t has
all the endurance of the Arab and the
strength of the Flammand.
Lottery Receipts TO. Charity.
A part of the race track receipts and
also of the lottery receipts of Chile are
given to charity. The charities are
under an organization known as the
Junte de Beneficencia. which is one of
the richest institutions of Chile. IL
gets it's income not only from private
charity. but also from its own proper
ties and from funds donated by the
state. It has nnety-seven boards of
management, and altogether 100 charit-
able institutions. Here in Santiago it
has a home for children that accommo-
dates a thousand inmates and also a chill
drens eating house that supplies meals
at regular hours to poor mothers and
children 20 the number of 1000 daily. It
has orphan asylums, associations for Civ
ing cheap homes TO working people, tu-
berculosis hospitals and founding asyI-
ums.
Under the care OF the Junta de Bene-
ficencia is the cemetery of Santiago,
which is one Of the most beautiful OF
the world. 1t was founded by General
OHiggns. when he was president OF the
republic along about the time that John
Quincy Adams was in the White House
Before that the Catholics had their own
cemetery and there was no place for the
poor nor for the heretics. General O'Hig-
gins believed that death 'makes all men
OF one size" and he established this great
burial ground
City of the Dead.
The cemetery is an enormous enclosure
filled with old cypress trees that extend
for seventy-five to a hundred feet above
the paved sidewalks and courts. It IS a
real city of the dead, with many vaults
and monuments, the coftins being stored
away above the ground in houses OF
marble, granite or sandstone. One Of
the finest monuments is the bronze figure
OF A woman who stands on a pedestal
with her arms outstretehed toward
heaven. This Is to commemorate the
1000 women who were burned to death
when the church OF the Jesuits took fire
and was completely destroyed. That was
In December, 1853. Santiago had then no
fire brigade aud the inmates crowded 20
the doors, which opened inward, and
forced them shut so that they could not
get out. One Of the men who did the
most 10 save the women was the Amer
lean minister a man named Wilson. He
1 Jscsiysd a testimonial from tho city for