The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-12

Now let lis turn from the sacred to the secular parts of the town. There is one Just below us. It is the great round Plaza de Toros, the immense bull-ring where fights are held every Sunday, and where the Limenos come by the thousands to see their favorite matadors butcher the bulls. Some of them are quite as blood thirsty as the Romans when they looked at the gladiators in the amphitheatre at Rome. Only last Sunday, for instance, the bulls were not considered as fierce as they should be. and the crowd hissed the fighters and drove them out of the ring. They even began to tear mp the seats, and set fire to the building and the soldiers had to rush fin and put down the mob"
 The bullring Is on this side of the Rimac The main part of the city is over the river, and there we can see the palace of the exposition, which contains the museum, the government palace near the cathedral, the great university, the oldest in the new world, and the vast numbers of low yellow houses which are the stores and the homes.
 But let us go down from the mountains and make our way over the Rimac and wander about through the streets. There is no city in Europe that compares with Lima in quaintness, and but few in his toric interest The streets are narrow, and they cross one another at right angles. There are many great plazas or squares which have fountains and gar dens, and. extending out from these, run narrow thoroughfares walled with low t1.,IfA
 the street, and in the residence section the ground floor windows are covered with great iron bars. Where the houses consist of two or three stories, there are balconies that extend out above the street and some of these are so wonderfully carved that they make you think of the harem quarters of Cairo. or those of old Spain. In the business parts of the city, most of the people live over the stores and long lines of these balconies, each house having its own peculiar architec- ture stretching from one end of the street to the other The main business streets are not more than 30 feet wide. They are So narrow that the single street car line is close to the sidewalk, and enc must be careful lest he lose a leg as he walks through the streets
 The stores are far different from ours Only the newest of them have plate glass windows, and there are no fancy fronts with gorgeous window displays, which may be looked at Sundays and evenings. The most of the stores have no windows at all. They are shut off from the street by great doors that are taken away dur ing business hours, The shops are sepa- rated by thin walls. and going along them is like walking through museum or an oriental bazaar. The sidewalks are nar- row and the goods are displayed close 10 the streets. Many of the dry goods stores hang fancy patterns of cloth from the ceiling, and the larger establishments will have piles of goods put on the floors and stacked up near the street. Notions of all kinds are hung from strings stretched across from wall to wall high up, and all sorts of queer ways of display arc oon- triyed. The light of the stores comes in through the doors or from the roofs Many of the business establishments ore large, with stocks of fine goods. The prices are high The best from all over the world Is brought here for safe, and