Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-09-17

cost Of living is not so great as one
would imagine. I remember going in
to a restaurant and glancing over the
menu, ordered a subtanttal meal
which 1 thought would cost at least
IS cents. Instead 1t was only rs cents.
The cost Of other necessities Of life Is
in proportion.
Mr.. McDill spoke of his four-day
trip through the Yellowstone Nation
al Park. Although the scenery was
wonderful, he was not SO much I'm
pressed with the place as with the
Canadian National Park which he
said was kept in such better condi-
ticn. His tour Of Yellowstone included
a scope Of country about 80 miles
long; but this did not include all OF
the territory Of the great national
preserve by any means, since tours
Of the park requiring eight days time
can be made.
While on his long trip, Mr.. McDill
took occasion to go into Mexico, a
country which Generals CarranZa,
Villa and other patriots" and bandit
ii of more or less note, are keeping
in the lime-light. Mr.. McDill was en-
phatic in his opinion that there was
much room fer improvement In con-
ditions there-morally, socially,
spiritually, in an educational way,
and in fact in every way. The party
with whom he was travelling visited
the Mexican town Of Tijuana In Low
err California which, 1t Is well known,
belongs to Mexico.
From the n in which Mr..
McDill described the town 1t was
typicallY Mexican-a wide-open, God
forsaken, survival Of the fittest kind
Of den with a population made up OF
all castles and classes. whose people
spoke no language save a Spanish
lingo. The streets, MI. McDill said.
were lined with gambling houses and
saloons. A carnival, much the kind
that visit South Carolina (though
without re~strictions) vas playing In
Tijuana, and the Mexicans were IN
Toying themselves immensely.
Tijuana, by the way, Is governed
by the adherents Of General Francis
CO Villa, and Mr.. McDill said that the
fort in the town was Communicated
by a Villa garrison. None Of the mem
bers Of his party, however, were al
lowed to approach anywhere near the
fort and he, therefore knows nothing
Of the military strength, etc., OF the
Senior Villa.
AS is baseball the national sport
Of the United States, bullfghting Is
the national sport Of Mexico and Mr.,
McDill witnessed a bull-fght while
visiting the domains of our neighbor
to the south. He said the other day
that he did not ever want to see
another such spectacle. The price OF
admission was $3.50 and the arena
where the show was staged was filled
with spectators. Four bulls were kill
ed during the show and one Of the
bull fighters was nearly killed when
he was knocked down and gored by
a bull. Had the bull been n Of the
close horned kind such as we have In
York county instead of a fellow with
wide horns, Mr.. McDill said the Mexi-
can would most surely have been kill
ed. AS 1t was he was badly injured.
The Mexicans, Mr.. McDill said, are
a quarrelsome people and fighting
in the town Of Tijuana was a COM
mon thing. The Mexican police never
go about singly but always In groups
-four or five together.
Mr.. McDill was greatly impressed
with the great west and all the
country he saw and said that II II
were not for several obstacles he
would like to become a westernei
himself.