Show OF SANTIAGO HOURS at first sight coming up the bay santiago is disappointing to the new arrival its population are hidden beneath acres of low loir flat fiat red tiled filed roofs and the houses themselves built of sunbaked adobe or native stone are usually but one story in height the streets are narrow crooked alleys aller rambling up hill and down many of them so narrow that two velli vehicles cles cannot pass in them and were before the american occupation totally without paying paving of any kind except the narrow ragging flagging next to the buildings unprepossessing na as the houses appear from the outside in their dauby colors colon of blue chrome yellow and muddy red within the better ones are an almost palaces of beauty their main feature is an inner court with stately palms flowers and fountains ranked flanked on the four sides by covered piazzas containing handsomely tiled floors and these verandas an answer the purpose of dinin dining rooms lounging louzgine gine places a comfortable retreat for the noonday siesta or for any other general purple e the family famil y may desire hammocks are swung in congeni convenient ent places rocking mcking chaws chairs and lazy sofas invite one from various noo nooks and corners comers birds fly by at will from place to place and no inner inne court would be complete without its pair of chattering parrots window glass and chimneys are u unknown n k n wn M in santiago the windows are heavily barred with iron and pou ponderous demin wooden shutters dose close out the heat of the midday sun at night everything is thrown open to ventilation and A as an for kitchens and fuel a separate inner inin court with a braider answers avers for or the former and carbon is in the only combustible used for culinary purposes the plaza is the great evening resort and hue here gather a la in tardie tarde the belles and beaus beans of the town this is a fine fim large square lighted by baij electricity with enormous orna oma mental a lamps pa whitewashed statues and broad pavements em of marble tales on oil one side ade towers the huge cathedral with jtb ita twin VMS spires reaching deachin g sw far into the air and opposite reclines the ac low roofed palace where no now as formerly the f I 1 functions of ortho province are ara ail transacted on the east af aide C san carita ixil sow casa ca grande ili the ale vest the coh cafe pa the I 1 dofita 0 JL t Ns U 1 9 |