Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-12-06

that the city authorities abandoned
the idea of its removal and simply
piled it into the streets and laid new
concrete thereon. Therefore, as one
walks along, for blocks the steps go
down from the street into the houses
mute but eloquent reminder of the
extent of the damage
Trolleys and Buses.
The transportation problem in Val
paraiso is not as acute as in most
cities. The heavy hauling is done on
streets near the water front, and there
Is little use for carriages or autOmo-
biles In the business district. The
streets, therefore, are almost com.
pletely given over to trolley cars and
buses. Most Of the conductors on the
cars are women, and serious-minded,
not-too-prepossessing lot they are.
Most Of the trolley cars are double
deck vehicles. The fare on top is 10
centavos, the equivalent Of IL cents
In United States currency, and the
fare below is 20 centavos. Both men
and women, outside the lower classes,
will stand damned like sardines in a
box below, rather than go up to the
top where vacant seats are plentiful
There are great many buses, and
one wonders how the trolley lines can
live at the rate Of fare the Municipality
fixes and with the competition they
have to meet.
On the streets which parallel the
main thoroughfare on the shoreward
side, one sees much OF native trans
portation. Trains Of donkeys, with
their slim bodies hung about with al
most every conceivable article, come
and go. Some are loaded with wine
casks, others with sacks of -four or
cement, and still Others with long
pieces Of iron, with furniture. and
even perambulators. Boards 16 to
20 feet long are slung over the sides
of the animals, sticking out many feet
both fore and aft. The Chileans have
a way of making almost anything &C.
commodate itself to packsadd1e trans
portation..
Sharing the streets with the pack
saddle donkeys are the. strings of
carts, drawn in. the fashion of the
country-One horse hitched between
the shafts, and at It's left a second
attached to the cart by means of q
breast collar and single rope trace,
This second horse carries a saddle,
and the free cid of the breast strap
is fastened thereto. It's main duty
is to carry the man who drives the
cart. The single trace enables 1t to
help out the horse IN the shafts Oh
steep grades or in heavy mud.
Lovely Vina del Mar.
The life which GIBBS and flows down
town and on the heights of Val
paraiso may be picturesque and dis,
tinctive, but the real thrills are re-
served foi those who go to It's Vina
del Mar in summer. Playing the dual
role Of an Atlantic City and a fash.
ionable suburb, this ct immunity Ia one
vast flower garden Eve miles long.
climbing from the seashore to the
heights. villas powered in roses,
wistaria, peoples, pansies, blooming
trees, and rich shrubs; cbalets stand
ing on terraces clad In all the gay
colors of Chile's floral wealth; high
walled gardens, formal in treatment
but warm and beautiful in aspect-ali
these join with blue sky, gray rocks
and ultramarine sea to make set.
ting for the gay summer life for which
the great seaport has long been IA
nous.
VIVA del Mar at the height of the
summer social season Is the very In
carnation Of quiet, dignifled smart.
ness. The magnifcently matched
horses drawing the finest examples of
the coach builders art, the dogcarts,
and other types Of bGrse-drawn vehi-
cles share the boulevards with the
latest European and American custom.
built motor cars.
When the inland weather becomes
hot and dusty, all Of the socially elect
Of Santiago and of the other cities
and towns of central Chile come down
and take villas or chalets here.
Horse racing Is a passion with the
Chileans, and the summer racing sea.
son at the vina del Mar Jockey club
brings 20 its tracks the best stables
Of the whole country.