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week, the money going to charity. The garden is beyond the wide Boulevard of General Artigas In what might be called the villa section of Montevideo' IL covers perhaps 10 or l5 acres which is cut up into wide walks along which the quaint houses and cages of the animals stand At the entrance are bronze statues of animals and there are lions, tigers and wolves in metal scat tered about here and there among the real beasts. Here d stone sheep appar- entity feeds upon the green grass neal lambs that bleat at them and there stone dog sits on rock In the bed or 6 lake while stone and iron birds are scattered around among their live fel- lows of the animal kind The Zoo has many ostriches brought from the pam pas and African ostriches in cases be- side them. IL has lions and tigers and elephants and also COWS goats sheep and dogs.
 The live animals are however. com paratively few in number for a large city institution of this kind. But there is one respect in which thls zoo is diff ferent from any others of the world This is in It's cemetery for dead ani- mals The owner is so much in love with his beasts that when a favorite one dies he puts up a monument to il and he has one part of the garden shut off from the rest by wrought iron fence inside of which lie his fa- Norite dead. Each beast has it's own baskets of flowers and wreaths of flowers lying upon them. Over some of the graves are monuments of the dear departed. One. for instance represents two monkeys cut out of stone. They are dressed in the clothes of men and omen and they stand upon a granite pedestal, apparently discussing the fu- ture. At the foot of this monument Is a wreath of immortelles and 1t rises out of a garden of roses. Behind 1t on another pedestal of white marble is the bronze statue of a poodle dog. with it's name, Ali. and the date of its death carved in the stone. little further over Is the grave of a parrot whose name was evidently Pedro, for that is tho inscription on the stone pedestal. likeness of the bird is shown by q stone parrot. which stands on the top.
 Among other monuments l noticed those of tiger, of a lion and of deer, bears and wolves. There are many monuments to the favorite dogs of the owner. One of these represents q bulldog and the oilers were the stone images of two little black and tan terriers. Their grave was surmounted by a pedestal of bronze and marble column broken in half stood at the rear. On the pedestal read the words; "To our Perita Mgnon, Novem- Der l. 1900" and under the inscription saw five baskets of flowers Nearby was hound which died in 1908, and nexi
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summer resort. The hot season Is in the midst of our winter and during it the great hotels are thronged with a fashionable crowd from interior Uru- quay and Brazil and even from Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires and other cities of Argentina. The living here Is somewhat cheaper than Mar del Plata, the Atlantic seaside resort of the Argentines. and Montevideo is also nearer Buenos Aires a comfortable ride on the steamer taking you from one place to the other. The beach here Is better. although the company, I judge, is not quite so exclusive.
 wish I could show you these Mont evideo seaside resorts. They are noth- ing like a large as those of our coun- try at Cape May. Asbury Park or Att iantic City. but the improvements are far more substantial and where We walk upon boards, these people have well decorated promenades of cement. The hotels are right on the sea without ragged boarding houses surrounding them and there are no merry-go- rounds. candy eriers and noisy ped diers to offend the man who wants peace. Indeed, everything Is quietly done and that in a style that would hardly suit North American crowd.
 At Poeitos the dressing and undress- ing are done in little bathhouses on wheels. These stand in rows on the edge of the pier. and the bathers enter them and there change their clothes. There is a house for each person. You walk up steps at the back to get In; and when you have your bathing suit on, you signal the attendant. He thereupon hitches two mules to your house and drags 1t down into the water so that you may step in the most proper way right into the sea. The house is then dragged back. to return again when you are through with your swim. These houses are about three feet wide, six feet long and six feet nigh They look like gigantic dog ken nels on wheels. There are hundreds or them aor hire. and you can get bath ing suit and the service for something like 25 cents
 There is very little bathing together of the sexes at Montevideo. Families go in and sport about in the water. but the young lover does not dare to pro- pose taking his sweetheart out for a swim, nor do the girls and boys He about on the sand and make love. In- deed, the summer girl here flocks by herself. and the summer boy walks along on the opposite side of the es- plansde. The two have to be satis- fled with making goo-goo eyes at one another. and if they do more there Is straightway a scandal They have other queer customs and queer ideas as to propriety and etiquette in love mak-
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UP AND DOWN BROADWAY--By Allen Griffin Johnson

But now and then visitor does get off little things that are at least odd. if not embarrassing. For instance: Do you know anything about Murrays? We'll 1t is a very swagger restaurant and cab aret on Forty-second street, just east or Seventh avenue. The friend from home I had in tow on that occasion wanted 10 see New York Life from sev- eral different angles, so we visited Mur- ray s-as well as ''The Garden and other more swiftly moving dance palaces. The dea was to give Just a small order and remain long enough to give the cabaret the ''once over" My friend was one of those coelS-sure individuals and during lul in the music when conversation was very audible, the waiter came for our order. Then, in voice less soft than the average southerner uses. he de- manded: Bring me a bologna sandwich and glass of buttermilk."
 However. maybe you don't see anything funny in that-it all depends, you know.
 THE STRENGTH OF COURAGE. Sometimes, you know, when skill meets
 equal skill
 And blow for blow the lockers -on may
 scan,
 The greatest power. then. lies in the will The courage to "outgame the other
 man.
 When labored breath comes hard and feet
 are slow,
 When anything for rests sake, seems
 worth while,
 Then call on courage to outgame the foe Let labored breath find exit through a
 smile.
 This is no coward s policy I write.
 No yellow streak such purpose en-
 ters In;
 And whether in the race or in the fight, It is the hero's method--and twill win. No fight is won with courage ebbing low. Nor race by him who like coward ran;
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sparkle with diamonds. It is n com mon thing for the men td rise in ther seats between the acts, and. during their opera glasses, to stare at the women. The latter do not seem to object. The people are fond of the theatre. At the several houses of amusement over 20o0 shows are held every year and these are attended by 100000 spectators.
 Among the other fine buildings ars the new penitentiary, which is a model of It's kind; new legislative palace. which is now going up: the great sta- ton of the Central Uruguay railroad and some business buildings, including the market and hospitals well ths great university. which Is national institution The stock exchange Is an old building but it is good of It's kind. having cost about half as much as ths Soils theatre There are also large banking buildings most of them be- longing to the great financial institu- tons of Europe. which do a large part of the business of the South American continent In addition to these Is the Bank of the Republic. which belongs en- tirely to the state It has a capital of oyer $20.000o00 authorized and moro than st1,0oo.000 paid up It has tho right to issue notes and It's currency now out amounts to about 5000. 900.
 This bank has branches in all tho leading towns of the republic. It's president and directors are appointed by the government and if is to cer- tain extent a government institution. Nevertheless it is run at a profit it's net gain last year being over s2.- 0oo 900
 Among the great private banks there are four belonging to the British. one belonging to the French, another to the Germans and one each to the Span- ish and Italians. In addition to these there are new banks known as the French Bank of the River Plate and the Bank of Galicia.
 Some of these banks have consider able Uruguayan capital Among ths British banks the London and River Plate bank Is the oldest It's chief of- fees are in London, but 1t has branchea throughout ths part of the world. n has a capital of about sl4,000,0oo, and in 1912 it paid a dividend of 20 per cent and special bonus The British bank ot South America Is another of these hla institutions which gets fat off of out sister continent. Ii has a capital oi slo.000,000 and a reserve fund of s5,o0o.oN more. If pays dividend of t2 per cent and bonus And then there is tho London and Brazilian bank. whose ne, profits in 1912 were more than s2,5o00M and that on capital of about Sl2,ooNe0a and last Is the Anglo-Sonth American bank whose capital Is sea.00000a and which has branches throughout Latln America
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our nearby beaches and observe-many things. For instance, here sits pretty lassie on the sand To be admired? If you will. of course. but she is well enter tained, likewise, for. pillowed upon her abbreviated bathing suit is the heavy head of a brown burned lad, and her fingers roam caressingly through his hair. Gn- usual? Not at all: they attract no atten- tion unless the maid be exceptionally pretty. And there is another, lying at full length upon the sand by the side of her bistering escort Their arms fall across each other and no doubt he Is whispering sweet nothings' into her ''shel-lke ear." They would have the rest of us believe them a happy welded pair, no doubt. but, ah, New York knows that the really welded indulge in no such tendernesses- those are relics of the sweeter days of counting.
 Then, too, there is little dancing here and there along the beaches, and why on earth should any modern maid go into the cold water when she can remain upon the warm beach and dance? But whether one toys with the waves or sits and digs bis toes into the dry sands, the sun gets in his work When the heated spell be- gan there was grand rush for the beaches and now that some relief has come we, all of us, are rejoicing, but burned to a crimson crisp. And that re- minds me-have you any young men down there proudly displaying newly acquired tan by wearing those wide. open-neck sport shirt" collars? You know the kind of fellows I mean--when you meet one of them you don't know whether to say Hello Bill or Good morning. Nary We'll, we did have a lot of those fellows parading along Broadway and the ave- nue. but one of our daily column writers recently decreased the number very ma terially by announcing that only boys with plump. pretty necks' should appear thus attired However, as we said in the be- ginning, New York Is certainly sunburned.
 MaAe . llttls Aiscovsrx rseently that
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off at the right. Over the way is the street called Sarandi. that runs along the roof of the tongue of rock down to the ocean and on the opposite side of the square is the Boulevard Eight eenth of July, that follows the roof of the tongue in the other direction. divid- Ing the business part of the city al- most in half. This boulevard is one Of the finest in the city and 1t has many large stores. 1t is named after the date on which the constitution of the republic was adopted. and 1t is des- tined to be the chief business street of the capital.
 Today there is more trade upon the upper part of the Sarandi than in any other section of the city. I refer es- pecially to the narrow extension of that street which joints the Plaza Inde- pendenca to the Plaza Constitdcion. This is the fashionable street and a fashionable shopping crowd walks through it every afternoon from 5 o'clock until dark. Tn this respect it corresponds with the Calle Florida of Buenos Aires, although the crowds are much fewer and the promenade consists of a very few blocks. Never theless, here are the fine jewelry shops, the great millinery establishments, the art stores and other places having beautiful goods. The price marks are on the articles and I can see that most of them are far above their cost in our country.
 look at the crowd on the streets will show you the reason. The people are rich and they have money to spend. They are quite as well dressed as those who parade F street In Washington about o'clock every afternoon and al most as gay as those of Fifth avenue in New York. Indeed, the men are more so. They look as though they had just come out of bandbox and as for the women, they trot along on high heels, many of them clad in costumes from Paris The Montevideans are very polite. There is a great tipping of hats and of lowing and the etiquette of the street Is strictly preserved. The men always walk next the curb and the higher the rank the nearer the per son to the walls of the store.
 Among the other fine streets of Montevideo are the Avenida de Brazil that leads out to Pocitos. the wide boulevard of General Artigas, which is divided by beautiful gardens from one end to the other and the great drive that skirts the sea near the Park Urbano and about the Rambla de los Pocitos.
 The latter places are the great sea side resorts of the city. They have magnificent hotels looking out on the ocean and people come here from all parts of the River Plate basin as theil
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we are getting back to that good old cus- tom rather rapidly, and a few years should witness some very interesting elim- nations. May you be spared. my brothers, to enjoy the revelations that are yet sure to be.
 But, in spite of the fact that we yearned for coolness, we declined to re- main long enveloped in Neptune's watery embrace. In fact. to my certain knowl- edge many of the prettiest bathing cos tunes remained upon the burning sands and were later packed back into their cases as dry as when they were taken therefrom And this was the case not only at one bathing place. nor yet at two, but all along the almost endless miles of beaches that are within "45 minutes of Broadway" And many a quondam snow white cheek and neck and many one- time alabaster arm now glows with a crimson that even the makeup box can't conquer.
 TOn every stage, in every cabaret. there is scarlet evidence of hours spent by the sad sea waves" The littIe ''broiler" does not dance with her accustomed ease and grace, the acrobat's face wears an express sion of pain as he goes through with his performance. and even the heroine moves with new caution, nor does she yield herself so freely to the embrace of the hero Friends no longer dare to slap each other familiarly upon the shoulders. and never before has New York as whole so fully obeyed the uniquitous warning to Watch your step" Sunburn-that's what it is, and New York has 1t in It's most violent form.
 But in this world we pay for everything, and a dip in the ocean Is almost worth the agony of the sunburn that invariably follows, for those who attire themselves for such dip. yet remain upon the beach. can only say that they must find there in an even greater pleasure, else would they 60 in the water.
 'sNo, 1t is not vanity alone that keeps the fascinatngly clad maidens from en- toriue the water. You should visit one of
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ing. but of those I will write in the fu- ture.
 Ramirez, which is the bathing place adjoining Urbano park, is more demo- cratic than Poeitos. and 1t is frequented during the day and up to midnight in the height of the season. There is an other bathing place at Capurro on ths west of the town, about which they have beautiful park that Is converted in the winter into skating rink, where social Montevideo takes part. The view here is fine one can see the port and whole town from over the sea. The fash ionable days are Mondays and Fridays, and also Sunday afternoons, when there i; always a concert
 Outside Pocitos, the biggest resort is the Parque Urbando. where are the Paroue hotel and also the Casino. The latter Is a gambling resort after some what the same plan as that of Monte Carlo. It runs It's regular tables through out the summer, and the majority of the men who reside at the hotels may be found betting upon the roll of the mar bles in the roulette wheel or upon the croupier's turn-up of the cards. large proportion of the visitors are rich estan- cieros from the River Platte basin. and the amounts won and lost are enormous. The bank gets profit which is perhaps
 
 ble, and within month and a half it's gains were more than $1S6.00o. If l am right in my 10 per cent conjecture this would mean that almost s2,00o.000 were played on the tables during that time. The gambling house Is licensed by law and the owners receive only 50 per cent of the profits, while the balance goes 10 the city and to certain charities. The city gets 30 per cent and the charities 1b per cent In other words, of that s1S6,- GOO the share of the hotel was s93. 00o while that of the city was about S6o,0o and $28,o0o went to charity. Indeed, these people seem to be trying to tickle the Lord Almighty into pardoning them by giving a profit of their gambling business to benevolent work
 They do the same with the lottery which is another public institution backed by the government. It is known as the lottery of the hospital of charity and its receipts are enormous. Within 3 years, from 1878 to 1909. it brought ir more than N4,000 GOO to charity, and this represents 70 per cent of the earnings. Oi the balance, % per cent goes to the ad ministration and the pay of the commis sion of charity. in 1909 the receipts wert $500 900.
 But I must not leave the pleasur, parks of Montevideo without de scription of its geological gardens, Thi' Is called the Villa Dolores, and 1t be longs to, rich citizen who charges ad mission except on certain days of tn
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you dizzy. The reel genuine all wool and yard wide expurt goes into details He not contint with gturing gennerallities-he hands the fggers to you and you can't get around them. He'll stun you with statisticks and in remarkabull graffick he will convinse you that the cannot possibuy last ovver three munths-hell prove to you that it must to an end in that time becawse of the moddern equipmint and deeth-deeng engines which have newer before been employed in the destrucsion of man. Aftur the has been running six munths and no sign of cumming to end, is he dismayed by his proffesy that it would end in three? Not you would notse it. He's just good expurt evyer. and he'll bring forward anuther long TOW of fggers to show you why it didn't to end, and how 1T is going to last foreteen yeers munths thurteen days and six and half mnnits, cumming to an end abruptly the 14th of August. 1929, at sevven minnits aftur three o'clock in the afturnoon If you don't becum impasent and bend a chair ovver his solid ivory dome of thought he'll also prove this assurson to you by actual statistcks.
 This is the talking expurt-he flourishes in all sectsops of the country-he is far moor expurt as rule the than he is in teesng nature to bring forth cotton crop, and aftur nature has dun so in
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FEW YORK, August 7.--(Special) New York is sunburned.
 Almost every integral member
 of it's entire permanent popula-

II
 Almost every integral member of it's entire permanent popula-
 tion of near 6,000O00 seems either to be brown as . berry or burned to blister. If 1t were not so painful 1t would be amusing. but this salt water sunburn contains every variety of agony and discomfort known to eastern civili- ration, nor do I speak from observation only, since from my own corpus have put recently pried, pulled and peeled suf- hcient parchment to supply the next graduating class of Columbia university with durable diplomas.
 It's all on account of the recent humid ity. You see. this weather has undertaken to prove that I know not whereof l spsak, for no sooner had begun to sing the praises of this city as a summer re- sort than along comes a hunk of humidi ty heavy enough to crush comfort at one fell swoop. Fell swoop'' may not be exactly what want right there but you get the idea) Yes. sir, everything was running along as smoothly as could be before this humidity thing hit us, and right then and there all our calculations were upset. We began perspiring. some of us-human beings and animals alike toppIed over here and there, but those of us who had strength enough. and money enough, hied us hurriedly to the beaches and leaped straight into the wav(e)ing arms of Neptune. Of course, 1t was Glori- ous-the cool comfort of tho waves, the pounding surf, and the relief of near nudity.
 And, come to think of it, what a pity it is that we ever acquired the habit of wearing clothes, anyhow. How much happier and healthier we would be with out them. and how much less Of false modegty would be in evidence if we adopted the style of dress that was in vogue when Adam went occurring. How sver. the bsaches around here show th6t
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If you are weak, then worn, as well, tho
 foe
 And he will win who can outgame his
 man.
 New York Is looking forward to tho early appearance of Mime. Bernhardt in repertoire The divine Sarah is said rd have acquired great skill in the use of her new leg and expects to be able to so carry herself that those who know nothing of her misfortune will not be able Go de- tect that one of her legs Is the product of an artificial limb factory.
 Weber and Fields open at the Palace theatre in vaudeville next week. at { salary said to be the highest ever paid for any vaudeville act
 And now you will please excuse me. haven't bought an extra for 10 minutst and am getting terribly behind on my wal news.
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may be of value to a prospective visitor. If you chance to be in New York on Sun day and need something to wear, like a collar, tie or any article of clothing, you will not be able to buy it--in any of the stores But despair not. If you are staying at a first-class hotel as of course you win be, just ask for the valet and within the space of 10 minutes from the time you push the button for him, you will have in your possession anything in reason that you could possibly desire or need, and are able to pay for. In other words, you can do your shopping even on the Sabbath day and without ever leaving your room in the modern hostery.
 TIMES PROTEST. am the friend of every man, alike I { treat them all:
 To each I bring a blessing in his turn; Though oft accused of heartiessness, or
 bitterness and gall,
 No man, who rightly uses me, spurn. My touch Is always gentle, for the years
 that have known
 Have taught me much, but more than
 all the rest, This lesson has impressed me, in my
 heart its truth has grown That, always, love and gentleness are best.
 never rush. nor hurry. moving steadily
 along
 I find has always brought me to my
 goal,
 And oft ahead of many who have far out
 stripped the thrcng,
 By casting off the burden Of a soul. Pm a healer of diseases. and a softener
 of woes:
 Dull c,r before my onslaught ger has
 hown;
 With m comes opportunity-and with me
 often goes
 Thought that Is fault of man. and not
 my own.